Vol 3 Chapter 10 (1/1)

ly on EC… After successfully breaking into the fort, they confronted the original quest giver Bell, Rick and Till finally gets to meet the Princess who endured the devastation of an illness to ensure that the Royalists who are ruining the country will die with her with a faux-rebellion Bell and Till tries to diagnose the illness with no success until Rick ely made sense The trio immediately calls upon Kun for a solution As a side note, there were so much parts where I wanted to add unnecessary translator notes, but I held back since they needlessly ruin the reading experience I will have to learn to code theeventually, but I’m lazy as fuck and there’s still the other side project that I was supposed to do… and the help I got, well, he got dragged to Taiwan for a feeeks orz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The attendant jumps a few decimeters into the air as she enters the door, surprised by Kun’s shout Seeing that everyone else reacts hopefully towards his exclaive her a sense of reliability despite not knoho he is Bell and Till both gather around Kun, waiting for his input “Since Till told me she’s weakened, but seems to have a sound mind, then why don’t we…” Kun’s voice drops as he whispers to the two Bell’s face goes through a range of e aardly “This is what they call ‘can't see the forest for the trees’, isn’t it?” She shakes her head in self- a bashful s back to Kun as they refine the final y “Thanks~” Till leaves the two as she heads over to the attendant and retrieves the stack of items She puts the materials and instruments next to the duo as the attendant nods her head aardly, ues “Okay! Let’s do this!” “I’h…” “Don’t worry, ill both do it, one of us is bound to get it right!” The felinoid brings her left paw up and clenches it in a fist, detere Kun at the sarab a sheet of vellum that has been handed to them by Till and start to carefully draw on them with sticks of charcoal “Pardon ?” The elf woman behind Rick asks, unable to contain her curiosity and hopefulness “Cut that out already, just call me Rick” The blond youth scratches his cheek uncoed neck “And I’m not too sure, but if Bell, eh… the catwo dude there, then it probably has to do with Magic, Cooking or so” shi+ shi+ shi+ shi+ shi+ shi+ Everyone watches the two drawing on the floor, beads of sweat can be seen on the young man’s forehead Sih slightly wet One sheet of velluet tossed to the side after they inspect their handy work, a fresh piece of velluirl assisting theant, swirling lines, written in one stroke save for the aard breaks toward the end where the lines turn irregular, shohere the drawing failed It looks like no language nor art any of the non-users have ever seen, but it’s obvious that that single continuous line holds deep, profound s as they watch the two draw them with deep concentration “Aha! Got it!” The felinoid finally stands up cheerfully, practically leaping onto her feet “What do you think, Kun?” She presents the piece of velluets up and brushes his knees a little before taking a closer look “H at the drawing each tiht! You! Come here and read this!” Bell orders the saht “Do it” The leader of the guards didn’t even wait and follows right after Bell, with a glint in her eyes The attendant sloalks forward, afraid of the consequence as she knows she doesn’t understanding what’s on the vellum The other attendants look at her with a complicated expression as well “Look at this and memorize it, just focus on it in your mind once you do and don’t open your eyes until we tell you” The felinoid thrusts the stretched open vellum in her hand towards the attendant’s face “What… is this?” “Stop asking questions and just do it!” “R-right” The attendant faithfully concentrates on the i Bell a terrified nod before closing her eyes One second… Two seconds… Three seconds… Five seconds… Ten seconds… Thirty seconds… A dull circle of light suddenly appears underneath the attendant’s clothing where her boso “What… what is happening?” “Shut up and focus!” Bell repriain on the radually increases until specks of light starts floating about in front of her chest, adding to the luives Kun a tight hug and gives hi deeply about actually treating the Princess despite the fact that she knows that this is htly aard -but happy- face, giving her a pat on the back, which causes her to let go kiho Kun gives off a polite cough before looking at Rick “Let’s go” Rick points at hi if it was really him Kun wants To which Kun tilts his head to the door before heading out hiht behind Kun “Alright, now that the boys are out of the room, undress the Princess” “““Eh?””” “To start the treatment~” The elf woman, who rely useless attendants and walks toward the bed herself “Pardon hness” She lifts the silk drapes that fell back down and helps the Princess undress … … … “Good, keep it up Don’t worry about thethe condensed mana” Bell instructs the Princess in a cal display of light shi+nes out froiant, dancing, and utterly beautiful lantern in the stone chamber [T/N: This kind of lantern The attendants are carefully wiping the Princess’ forehead with a cloth to get rid of the beads of sweat S felt by them as Till steadily wraps warht surround the Princess, so while still othersup, Till?” “This is no problem~ I did duhest Dungeon~” “Eh?!” Bell raises her voice unexpectedly “Shouldn’t Mage-types focus on Intelligence?” Even though the sharing of vital infored trends and theories still dominate the boards, otherwise there’d be few topics to talk about in the forue-type users should focus on the Intelligence stat to increase their firepower For Till to focus on Wisdoeneral consensus and convention, since a Wind Mage is still infae capabilities despite the steadily growing nueon] This was spread as a result of [Dawn’s Moonlight]’s and [Monochro to undereon On the other hand, [Atonee that was absolutely indispensable in their clearing of the dungeon “I can just send theuys if I can’t kill theht” The felinoid turns back toward the struggling Princess, whose coht are gradually slowing down, norht would accuets crowded, but they uess credence The guard leader for her lips with soh none of them are sure if these emissaries can really treat the Princess, they are still the first ones to actually be able to do anything Others would probably not have noticed, but she can tell the tension within the Princess has faded significantly Her breathing has becohtly deeper, the occasional pain spas that suffering, the elf worateful in her heart, to the point that she vows to serve this unknown God should they survive this ordeal konkon The woman frowns as two soft, rapid knocks cohtly to the two re the attendant a cold glance to re the stone cha herself, the wo the door The guard’s eyes widens slightly as the burst of light fro her wonder what’s happening inside with a distant look “Report” The guard immediately snaps back to reality “Yes, ma’am! The entrance has been breached, there was one casualty due to blood loss Since the corridors are narroe can still wear down the attackers, but… it seems like ill eventually lose the battle of attrition” Theat the attackers for disturbing her princess’s treatment Of course, she has absolutely no idea that the attacks were instigated by none other than the “emissaries” in the first place “Open the secondary entrance to the 3rd barracks, fortify its pri so that we can attack them from two directions and outnumber them at that juncture Do the sahness and see what should be done” “Yes, uard runs off immediately, back to the absolute line of which no one else er’s inforain, calling upon her vast knowledge of warfare to offer the best options to her Mistress Two shadows are resting on so quietly as they keep an eye out on the surroundings as they wait patiently for their allies They exited from the hole that was bored into the tunnel via a knotted rope Kun used when he was going down “So why did we have to leave, Kun? Don’t they still need us? Well, you at least” Rick asks while nibbling on a strip of jerky, resting his entire body comfortably on his branch “We need to keep the escape route secure just in case” Kun pauses for a moment “And she needed to be naked” “Eh? Makes sense then” The blond youth agrees nonchalantly, shi+fting the jerky that’s sticking out of his ure out what that disease was?” Kun heard the entire situation froard to illnesses “My uncle had it when I was a kid, I don’t remember all the details, but I do re rich food and that people who have it tend to get a big luo fro no ht? And didn’t that book that focused on et sick, that would be impossible since she is well-nourished than any of them Thatfro any better, Kun just nods in agreement as he too re to Of course, anyone else with common sense would question further At the saht not have been able to solve the probleh! I can’t decide if I should be mad at the Princess or pity the Princess On one hand, she’s the reason we had to go through that shi+t On another, she’s in that sort of situation and it’s not like she is the one that dragged us in personally” “‘Just being alive is an evil to another’, that being said, just do whatever feels right” The youth pauses over those words “I didn’t take you to be the philosophical sort, Kun” “I a Every living thing has to kill to survive, be it plants or anis you can really control is how you kill and why you kill” Rick stays silent at the answer, absent the jerky in his mouth as he sith the branch “Can I have one too?” A quiet, bodiless voice appears fro the youth to drop the piece of jerky in surprise Reacting purely on instinct, he grabs it with an outreached hand, causing hies to grip onto another branch at a lower level with his other hand, dangling like a swingingback and forth, up and doith the branch like a bobbing penduluht “How the hell can you even do that, Gui?! There’s silent , and then there’s you, were you a fox in your previous life or so? Geez” He stuffs the jerky back into hishis hand and then proceeds to pull hiray fox tilts its head at the youth, before looking at Kun “I tapped the branches, right?” The young h two s one of theives Gui an oval-shaped jerky as the fox stalks over froroup of dehtly “Are you guys alright?” “No problem, Kun-sensei, everyone is fine Mr Gui tracked down another group soon after we left, we ran past them and had theolden eyes replies, acting as the leader of the group “Good work, rest a bit, we ht” Kun tosses the untied pouch in his hand toward the leader, who immediately took the hint The demihumans make short work of the contents inside the pouch before returning it to Kun Inside it were carefully crafted thin, flat strips of slightly fermented jerky made with fruit juices and soy The fruit juice acts as a short terested y later on It is a , intensive hunt with no tiued that warfare is just another for, so Kun prepared it ahead of time at the campsite before hand kan kan kan pyu pyu pyu The sounds of battle drifts toward the as everyone else is trying to reach the Princess The first group that breached the staircase was a Republican force They couldn’t breakthrough the defensive line inside the underground fort in one push, thus causing a battle of endurance Not long after, a group led by the Royalist faction breached the rearguard of the Republican group, sandwiching them between the fort’s defenders and the now blocked staircase Before the first group could co as a result of Gui and the de a battle royale Noticing the sudden change, the various other groups that were fighting each other soain advantage in that position That’s why fighting in the jungle at night is often viewed as a battle of last resort by those in the Norive away their positions At the saht the shadows in front of theht each other accidentally when they didn’t have an extensive system to identify friend or foe within the dark They had used this ainst outside forces in the past successfully, but this ti si friends or foe, thus it becoh the respective coave explicit instructions not to cause needless slaughter, it’s inevitable when the soldier can barely see their outstretched hands in the dark Thus, the various commanders curse the fool who initiated the first assault in the first place while they try to gain advance toward the princess with minimal casualties … … … “Kun! Get Sammy! We have to evacuate the Princess, she has chosen to flee! I’e fro him to turn his head toward Rick “Let’s clear the hole, looks like we are going to be doing a little kidnapping” He then turns his head to Gui and the de ready to cliourururu Gui unexpectedly starts growling with a gravelly voice, causing everyone to turn their head, their hands on their weapons A few u kero kero “Did Gui just… You knohat, I’m not even surprised anymore” Rick just shakes his head as he drops down onto the forest floor, causing everyone else to chuckle silently Kun and the de the bushes that were used to hide the hole into the corridor within the fort Bright illuht rays peek out froust of wind rushes out fro can be faintly heard from within the corridor “Watch out~ clear the way, clear the way~” “Wait, what is happ-aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!” A terrified screa shadow that flies out of the hole and flops uncere up~!” “Give me a-eeeeeek!” “And the last one~” “…” Two of the attendants landed haphazardly while the last one seemed to be mentally prepared Save for the filth from the mud and leaf litter, none of them are worse for wear As they are well aware that they are running for their lives and they are actually being helped by emissaries of an unknown God, they knew to shut their ed elf’s presence to re up, Rick sticks his head out to peer into the hole “What’s the hold up?” “We are trying to figure how to get the Princess out without jostling her~” Kun sticks his head over the hole as well “There’s a knotted rope anchored into the side of the hole, can she reach it?” “Ah~! I see it, okay, they are co up~!” As soon as her voice disappears, a constellation of light shi+ning brightly approaches The hole is soon filled with a pillar of light, causing the two to pull their heads back, temporarily blinded by the sudden contrast Fro the Princess on her back with sheets and strips of silk and satin securing the Princess, similar to the carrier Kun made for her when she carried Till back to Liliheim while poisoned The two bodies hover near the botto, half a meter above that, the end of a rope nailed -with a wooden pin- into the side of the hole can be seen “damn it, I can’t climb like this, the hole is too small” “Don’t worry about it Bell, just hold onto the rope Hold tight Till,on the floor, as though he’s untying so “Give me a hand here” He indicates to the de the rope, holds onto it tightly shi+ Kun cuts the end of the rope that was tied to a sturdy underbrush, causing the deround One of the the rope The tn below had a sudden jerk and a sense of weightless before so a slack in the line Moh the hole The dazzling light shi+nes, with rays of it peeking through the canopy Although it didn’t get to spread far, the brightness and intensity es to draw the attention of everyone else outside of the fort The different forces on the surface slon their battles as each of theate The intensity of the light within close proximity can only be described as aHoly, now help us up” Bell grumbles at Rick as the rest of the demihumans continue to step back with the rope in hand, careful not to have sudden movements “You knohat I mean you fat ass! This wouldn’t be so hard if you would stop scarfing down all the food all the tis the felinoid’s ar the two ladies onto the forest floor DAN DAN DAN rururururu Dull explosions and ru on?!” Rick falls onto the ground from the sudden impacts, the demihumans likewise are on the floor “And where the hell is Kun and Gui?!” Bell, who is on all fours, asks, while absorbing as irl on her back “Clear the way, clear the way~” Till’s voice carries out fro up the shaft, she had ran off to assist the guards After hearing the two arguing, Till figured that they uards to retreat before blasting the walls and ceiling with hera cave-in With the only entrance now limited to the hole in the corridor, she starts to safely evacuate everyone tata tata … tata Unlike the attendants, the guards all land on their feet, twisting their bodies uards would help the next one,the process very quick and efficient It has obviously been planned out below, as the landing site rotates methodically between two spots The demihumans and the attendants join in the effort until everyone’s out The Princess is quiet the entire ti script fervently as the nuht speckles continues to increase “Is everyone accounted for?!” The elven wouards immediately line up into 3 rows, in their own individual spot Through taps and light touches, the verification is done within five breaths “Everyone is accounted for, uard notices the pairs of eyes staring at the for their weapons They were too focused on the ones that were following them such that they didn’t notice that they were helped by deiven off by their Mistress already confused theree, but they didn’t expect help frouards stares at the dehost The deh hearing so “Zelara?!” He breathes out the na his co even further as they spot her face, lit up by the ht off of Bell’s back “Wait, you know theet going” Rick interrupts theroups of people within the trees, running away fro at them “Now you knohere they are, Bell” He can only look on with a wry s when he said he couldn’t be surprised anymore