Volume 21 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Translations and Edits; Jzar, Enlightened End

In just a few hours three tracking teams, made up of Hermes Guild Thieves and assassins, were completely wiped out

“We’ve lost touch with the attacked by a very strong warrior who is with Weed”

“They have to be nearby We’ll send troops to guard the Thieves and assassins so stop the search until they can reinforce those teams”

Drinfeld was sure he was only a few days away fro his objective, He made sure his neizards and paladins, the Herht with his other troops

The Navy, plus their assassin’s and Thieves Then the Pirates, ere ether as a group Normally the navy and pirates are sworn ene their mutual enemy and the Guild’s power to influence the teaion but the track was hard to read because of the previous fights in the area

“Look at these fresh footprints, It hasn’t been long since they passed through here”

“Whose covering the other end of that passage?”

“Rutiel-nim and the others have sealed off that section”

“Those guys won’t be beaten back so easily”

Rutiel, a Navy Knight of the Kingdoroup of the ah and crushed a huge nueons, he should be able to quickly chase them down no matter how far they run”

In the first wave the Thieves had run ahead of the Knights They have a high level agility, lots of speed, the drawback being they have a low endurance They were no longer in a place to care about that now

Seo Yoon

Three assassin’s and one Thief had died by her hand

If you include the escorting troops sent to guard the tracking teahtered

This was all done by just a single person

Roa: Stay sharp This wo it’s scary

Travis: Don’t worry about asking after Weed’s location, just kill her on sight

Alawin: Just hold out until the main troops arrive to support you

The Herolaths filled the private chat channels with endless talk

The Guild users still back in Heaven found the reading exciting, the hunt was a popular hot topic

Gochem: It’s a fox hunt

Strauss: She’s quite the ferocious fox

Jaigeo: It’s too bad the Jigolaths is so far away, I’one

Seo Yoon’s once pristine are cracks and dents Her vitality and strength was very low but she couldn’t afford to stopeverywhere as they narrowed their search net and gathered to build their siege

Attack Force

Berserkers fight until their very last thread of vitality is left

The way they gain even small amounts of levels and skills is different froain less experience when hunting with a grouped party

You can rest as needed within a party hunt, this ain some experience

If however, you place yourself in a dangerous rooe aht until you feel your very life is danger…you will gain more experience You will also see your associated battle stats and skills increase significantly

It’s a hunting style of constantly overco until you’re down to your last drop of blood This is the Berserker class style of coer than other classes

Frons Berserker Seo Yoon is in a very bad state

‘To hold on er will be hard’

Up until now, Seo Yoon had defeated all of the ene her Berserker skills alone However more assassin’s and Thieves were on their way and this tihts with them

Various types of assassin’s poison were currently coursing through Seo Yoon’s body, her ability to resist the it’s limit

“It’s her!”

“Get her!”

Seo Yoon didn’t know if she could afford the ti her hesitate the eneht’

In the end, Seo Yoon, doing her best to dodge the attacks,out these eneh the floor For any other class the state of the injuries would have left theht let alone survive

After the battle Seo Yoon was able to rest for while

For a Berserker the aftermath of combat carries a terrible price, their whole body aches with impairments that leave them nearly crippled

A day earlier, before the enemy trackers had appeared, Seo Yoon sent Weed a whisper

He had sent back a reply

-I’ood luck to have such ti with the eneain sent a whisper

– We’re delayed, the loads very heavy Should be there in 1 hour –

Another 5 hours passed

– We’re almost there –

2 more hours

– Just a matter of seconds now –

‘We need to lure them away We’ll have toinside the Helium mines For the sake of Weed’s safety, Seo Yoon decided to leave Holding her sword Seo Yoon stared at the entrance of theto at last see Weed

‘Will we soon see each other again?’

Her feelings about Weed were not clear, showing her emotions was difficult and Weed hi so at ease with Weed, Seo Yoon felt she wanted to tell hiot in the way

Seo Yoon knew that Weed worked as hard as he did because he couldn’t stand seeing other people die

‘We can’t wait any longer We’ve got to go The pursuers et any closer’

Seo Yoon turned and started to walk away…

Rattle…clatter…rattle

Sounds could be heard coether, pulling a cart, ca up as part of the load was the sculpture, ‘The Advent of Seven Angels’

Seo Yoon’s face is full of dirt and sweat, yet like a sun breaking through the clouds a piercing shts up her face Seo Yoon was completely unaware of it

‘Weed you’re here’

In spite of her fears and current condition, Seo Yoon, at that htness filled up her heart low

Weed’s heart was ehtly in a neon red glow is her naain been sentenced

Just howin shreds like moth eaten clothes Even her thin leather worn under her ar much of her slim form be exposed

“We have to leave”

Thanks to Seo Yoon’s killing off the tracking teauild was still unable to pinpoint their exact location and as they were still soave theht be able to escape if they could use an opposite direction fro tearoup of the Herh, it would only take a single encounter for them to be quickly found and overwhelure told you that it had reached it’s lio!

“I know you can’t take anyo…there is another place we can hide”

Drinfeld along with Herhts and the crack troops all had finally arrived at the Heliu teaineer, an Excavator and one Thief who had survived The Thief looking at the footprints left behind reported to Drinfeld

“So far, the traces look like Weed’s prints Just keep inthese tracks”

Seo Yoon had been left in charge of hts and troops Drinfeld knew this and felt he was prepared for that fight

It was clearly a Helium mine, there was no doubt it was the correct location However the fact that Weed had returned to the hly suspicious

“Somehow this bothers me, I certainly wouldn’t have come back here… is he really still in there?”

“I don’t know, theytheotten too far away…still withtrails that cover the marks it won’t be easy to track them even with the wheel marks to follow”

Since they don’t have a perfect eon it would be ie and trap the passes it would be very likely that he could slip past them

“like a rat in a trap…but the trap itself is too da the eons and they were near to creating a full es in their pursuit But once the e of their search and even send soldiers ahead to barricade important pathways

“As you chase your quarries, they will often panic and even be willing to jump into the jaws of death just to avoid the trap ‘You never know’, they think, ‘there ht be another way to escape”

There was also this, soendary Heliu to call it, ‘the Sculptor’s treasure’

“Coroup will stay back and cover us… just in case”

Drinfeld together with half of his forces, entered It was just as Weed predicted The easy target was too teo of the chase

After struggling with being lost for a while they finally reached the end of the trail, the place with railway tracks andthis the only way to keep going forward?”

Carefully four users climbed up and boarded the mine cart”

Unknown to them was the fact that Weed had completely covered the mine cart wheels with sesame seed oil

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The traps you installed have killed Three people and seriously injured One person

Notoriety increased by 29!

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Weed and Seo Yoon used the time it took their pursuers to enter the Helium mine to create asthemselves into their Avian humanoid forms, Gold Bird and Silver Bird were able to help Yellowy h so he didn’t fall behind

“What happens next?”

Due to the aftereffects of Seo Yoon’s Berserker mode, all of her current stats and skill levels were continuing to decrease

Even walking was difficult for her right now

Recovering fro swar, Seo Yoon didn’t allow any of her pain to show on her face

“ We’ve gotten everything we caolaths”

Moooooo!

Yellowy let out a good loud cry as it helped hi the heavy cart took everything his legs could ht he was going to dieto hell and back, hearing they were finally going to leave made him flatten his ears with the news!

He just wanted to graze on the early rew on the Versailles Continent The kind hearted Yellowy alsoand the other sculptural lifefor to be surrounded by our ene to have to kill them all”

Weed Often felt like he was just like some character who appeared in a roet thrown together as they are forced to run for their lives As they are chased, they have all kinds of bad things happen to them Their situation was now safely passed that point in the movie, thus Weed was in a calm state of mind

Still, it was never easy to be on a quest and have to do battle with a guild Moreover, when Haven Kingdom’s fleet had arrived Weed and his aruard was doell Weed basically a the eneuys to experience only the kind of hell Weed can teach theo out alone You need to wait for me in here and stay hidden”

“…Be… careful”

Seo Yoon and Yelloill rest, stay hidden and leave it up to Weed

Once they were away froeon, Weed had no worries about being seen by any of the groups froolaths he did have to worry about hunting plus keeping the Angel statue safe, really if you think about it, it’s obvious that there’s plenty to get nervous about!

Weed was nervous and couldn’t keep fro aloud, of course it was spoken in such a small and soft mutter that only Weed could hear any of it

“Shouldn’t rite up a will before we go out there?”

“No, I should just get et out of here“

“Of course I was hoping to go to the Versailles Continent to sell off ht I don’t think Yellowy can h “

Fhu fhu, I am not that much of a doubtful and narrow s had ended on a better and higher note, they had started dark and ended with a positive spin Weed had lots of practice cheering hi in a factory

“Still the sooner we get back the sooner I’ll get paid”

He grabbed a block of black stone that was lying about and started to sculpt a crow

“The art of sculpture transfored into a crow

Weed spoke hispers to Golden Bird and Silver bird, ere resting quietly on Yellowy’s broad pack laden back

-You two guys, why don’t you coot it Master-

-You can’t go like you are, you guys stand out toosome coal powder Golden Bird and Silver Bird uise they had used once before… the ‘crow’ look

Once they looked black enough, Weed directed therab backpacks froo-

The two birds, Weed and with the backpacks in all their beaks, flew quickly down the dungeon passageway al they needed

Kayu!

Monsters did see them on their way out and waved their clubs about frantically but the ‘crows’ fast flight skills let them slip by easily

All three of the completely fake croere able to reach a seon exit!

For Weed it had been a long time since he had been able to see such a cool and crystal clear blue sky Clear except for the s lava, which extended in snaking trails out to the distant snow covered fields You could see all the way to the Jigolaths snow line froave you a real sense of freedom to be able to see soconfined for so long!

The bad feelings left over froeon completely disappeared With all the force he could e cry

Cra! Kria!!

-That was a very evil cry you justbad-

-I’ry-

These co critics of Weed’s roar were, of course, fro rather full of himself didn’t even notice

Weed’s beady black crow eyes were scouring the landscape of the Jigolaths

‘Well, you have all that too’

Frodo for them on the land

The Here force Weed is going to have to deal with both Drinfeld and the new reinforceh the sailors do lack co river came into view scores of warshi+ps and pirate shi+ps could be seen at anchor Weed’s current advantage is that he alone can use the sculpture transfor he plans to exploit

‘ItYurin’s Picture Teleportation’

Although one thing to kept in h level Wizards with skills that could easily overwhel that idea a very risky one to use

Therefore getting rescued by Yurin er

Moreover there was no way to know if the teleport could el statue He didn’t like the idea of taking risks that e

One way or another, getting a shi+p to take everything and everyone was the only good solution

-Follow h the sky Weed passed over the warshi+ps anchored there Once they had passed the shi+ps they then fle over the river following it toward the ocean The temperature difference between the river and the air created turbulence at the higher elevations so flying low, close to the river, was far easier than being higher up

They took a brief rest on a rock outcropping and then flew on, they repeated this patternriver met the sea was a beach, they headed toward it

“Cancel Sculptural Transfor to his hulass bottles, filling the backpack to the brim Snake Wine, Whiskey, herbs and more, Weed had many bottles filled with several different types of alcohol he had worked hard to prepare

They would have to be du money ahat a waste!”

Weed put slass bottle If you’ve ever watched a movie about castaways on a deserted island you’ll know that the one thing they all do is send out a note in a glass bottle Weed was justuse of a clear and established procedure

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To all Undead,

Ye are hereby summoned

Attend on me at once

We will stain the world in shadow, the living will be forced to accept our invitation of death

Heed my call my comrades

– The Immortal Lich Warrior, Weed

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As a final touch he added a coal blackened sta a personal seal for the note

“Just in case…”

Weed got to work looking for wood that he could cut up and use He stumbled across wood from his old Ghost shi+p that had washed up on the beach Soe section of the main mast

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Old Reeking Mast : Durability 4/49

Made fro tree

Steeped in salt water after having spent a long ti in the sea as a phanto bad luck Inappropriatewith

Options:

Luck: -15

Will make you constantly thirsty

Reduces the chance for successful attacks on targets while at sea

The longer it is kept close the ain a minor curse, like an itchy rash or boils

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With this oldsmall skeletons and a small sculpture of a Phantom shi+p

“Just like my old wooden sculptures that I used to sell”

Hundreds of bottles were filled like cookie jars with a skeleton sculpture and a note each, they were then tossed into the water so that they would drift far out to sea

His tiny Phantoht down to the black sails, once it was placed in the waves it sailed away quickly

“Tied both his hands into the seawater

“Sculpture Material Co!

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Unnamed Coastal Seawater

The seawater has a very strong life force, it’s nature is very tolerant

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Between Weed’s cupped hands the seawater began to glow and shi+ne like it had been so the natural ing anything for a change”

Collecting seawater without destroying it, as it was collected it still contained the power of it’s original essence and could be !”

Fro into the air, Weed hadn’t intended that to happen, the water see water swirled and beco sphere, silent and serene in it’s watery colors of green-blue

Weed let the water rise to the height where Yellowy could have taken a bath in it, he then took out Zahab’s sculpting knife and started to triood sculpture”

He could have left it rough, but Weed wanted to perfect this technique

Shown standing on the deck of his Ghost shi+p looking off into the far distant unknoith a patch over his eye and a hook for a hand it’s Weed’s Lich for!

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A sculpture of a Phantom shi+p

A phantom shi+p is captained by a Lich Pirate on the Open Sea!

Can safely be called a poorly done and quite evil sculpture by any standard Carved using natural seawater