Chapter 6 (2/2)
Bone Man’s arrow cut through the night and buried itself in one of their throats Letting out a short scream, he lost his balance and fell from the tower
Seeing one of their own guards fall doith a arrow in his neck, the bandits that had been drunk and enjoying themselves woke up from their stupor
「E-enemy attack!」
「Wake up, you bastards! Get your weapons!」
As they bandits tried pick up their axes, maces and spears…
「Guwoooon!」
「Uooooooooh, uooooooh!」
Destroying the wooden fence and scattering splinters all over the place, Bone Monkey and Bone Bear charged in
「I-it’s the Undead! Monsters! We’re being attacked by monsters!」
「Cal in axes and maces, move forward! Those who have swords and spears, fall back! Archers as well!」
The leader of the bandits calave his subordinates clear instructions, a halberd in his own hands
Thiswith Skeletons and Zombies from when he was still a soldier He knew that his subordinates could deal with Undead effectively if they used blunt weapons like clubs or axes rather than bladed weapons like swords or spears, even if they weren’t very skilled at fighting
「A few Rank 1 or 2 monsters are no match for twenty of us! Get ‘em!」
The bandits’because of the sudden attack and death of one of their oas recovered thanks to the instructions from their boss They rushed at the boorish Undead who had rained over their festivities
「Guooooo!」
「Ghyaa!?」
A bandit that had raised his axe went flying as Bone Bear stood up on its hind legs and delivered an attack with its front paws
With a crunch, Bone Monkey crushed a bandit’s skull like an egg
The fangs of Bone Wolf pierced the legs of the bandits, and when they fell down it ripped out their throats
「Oooh… Oaoooooh~」
Bone Man put away his bow and drew the long sword that he had taken from the other bandits they had defeated to cut his way into the bandits’ ranks
「Hiiii!? Gyaaah!」
Bone Man against the bandits Both sides had never received any for in swordsmanshi+p, and soon Bone Man came out as the clear winner
Their fighting skill was about the sasword that Bone Man was an iron sith a crude casting In fact, the enemy’s weapons were of better quality
However, the strength of a Rank 3 Skeleton Solider was far above that of an average huth】 skill, Bone Man was far stronger than the bandits
As huth and special abilities, they honed their skills and learned ainstthe sa
「Ooooh」
Bathed in the blood of his ene experience by taking a life, and wanting to earn even more, jumped at his next prey
「Boss! These aren’t Rank 2 monsters!」
「We can’t handle them! Help us, boss!」
Hearing the pitiful screams of his subordinates as their nuue
『Those useless fools! If it’s coet away by myself』
The bandit leader chose to run without hesitation He didn’t think about fighting the Undead for his men for even a second
He didn’t even have enough skills to even fight one-on-one with a Rank 3 or higher monster in the first place
He had certainly been a soldier at point in his life, and even had a level 2 skill【Spear-Axe Arts】 that allowed to him to use the Halberd But in the end, he was just an ex-security guard According to the Adventurer's Guild, his fighting proas at most a E-rank
It was said that to win a fight one-on-one with a Rank 3 monster, you needed to be at least D-rank
If he made well use of his subordinates, he could defeat maybe one of the Undead But there were four Undead No, five
The leader noticed Bone Bird, as finishi+ng off the bandits that had fallen unconsciousness by stabbing them with its beak, but considered that to be an exception
Even if he did e to defeat one of them, there would be no point as they would be finished off by the rest There was no point in retaliating if there was no hope of winning
「All of you! Don’t back down, push forward!」
Giving that unreasonable order to hisoff carefully so as not to be noticed by thee he had taken froet away, he forroup
「Get up」
His hopes of getting aere shattered as a wooden wall grew froround behind him
「Uoh?! W-what?! An alchemist?!」
He had heard a shrill voice like a s screams of his men and the resentment filled roars of the Undead He realized that this was the doing of the owner of the voice, and looked around for it’s owner
He found him almost immediately
A s It was easy to tell that he was a baby
「Are you telling !?」
The leader’s eyes opened wide, but there was no denying the child’s – Vandalieu’s – strangeness
The white hair and odd-colored deep crimson and purple-blue eyes And even on this bloodstained battlefield, the weak, ghost-like presence If the child hadn’t said anything, he could approached the bandit leader all the way up to his feet without the leader noticing
「A-are you the one controlling these Undead? I-in that case, I give up I surrender I’ll let you have all the treasure, go ahead and hand me over to the Adventurer’s Guild or wherever」
Throwing down his Halberd, the leader put up both hands and gave up
If he couldn’t win, he would run If he couldn’t run, he’d live by giving up Stubbornness and pride wouldn’t get you even one Amid
「Surrender?」
「Yeah, that’s right」
Forcing a smile to his face, the leader replied to Vandalieu who spoke in a flat tone
「There’s a bounty on roups in this area And the half the oes to your pocket Don’t you see? If you capture us alive, it’s a lot more profitable for you」
The things that the leader said were all true This wasto sell off other people in the same trade if he was able to live
Also, depending on the severity of their crimes, the bandits that were captured alive were sold off as criminal slaves Most of the odd jobs and labor Half of the profits earned fro on the number of bandits captured alive, it could be worth even athered
「 Are you an idiot, perhaps?」
But what ca about his mental capacity
「Wh-what did you say!?」
「As you can see, I am a Dhampir If I took you to the Adventurer’s Guild to hand you over, I would just be killed I would be dead before you could be sold as a criminal slave」
In the Amid Empire and its countries, where the people worshi+pped Alda, the God of Law and Fate, Dhampirs were treated as monsters rather than people Even if he entered the city with the intention of handing over the bandits, the guards or adventurers would prioritize dealing with the Dhampir over the bandits
The bandit leader was not an adventurer and he was unaware of the Dhao, so he was late in realizing that he was talking to a dhampir
「Th-then make me one of your subordinates! I’ll be really useful Your Undead are pretty strong, but you do need one huht?!」
In that htly as he thought that he was more clever than he looked
In fact, Vandalieu had been been feeling the sa from quite a while back The Undead that followed his every command The spirits of Darcia and the others Their presence alone could not solve the small inconveniences of his day-to-day life
However, using the man in front of him to solve them was unthinkable
「While it is true that I need a living companion, I don’t need a bandit would sacrifice his men to run away But, I can make you one of my subordinates after you’ve died」
Pointing at the leader that had first expressed hope and then despair, Vandalieu asked Bone Bear and the others
「Do it」
「P-please wait! I-I don’t want to die!」
「? Wasn’t it same for the people that you killed?」
This ht occurred to Vandalieu and he turned around to talk to the leader again, Bone Bear had already crushed his neck
「Gu, guru?」
crap, did I kill him too early? Bone Bear seemed to ask, but Vandalieu waved a hand to say「It’s fine, it’s fine」and exhaled heavily
「Ahh, that was nerve-wracking It wasto anyone besides Mom, so I was pretty nervous」
He had suffered froin and La this kind of face-to-face conversation in this bloodstained place
「The sry But I don’t want to get closer to being a va the blood of the bandits, so I have resist Resist… For now, I’ll check if there are any survivors【Sense Life】」
To distract hier caused by the smell of blood, he used a Death-Attribute spell that detected all the life in the vicinity
Ignoring the reaction froi, he searched for reactions froe monsters
There were… three large anie hut, probably horses There was also a reaction from the basement of the hut From the reaction, it was human
He had heard from the spirits that the number of bandits had been nineteen The number of corpses was also nineteen
「There’s souy?」
『N-No, that one is not eh I let im live because it see in a town over in Viscount Maggio’s domain, and ransom money can be e-expected M-my n-neck』
Because of the shock and fear he had received at the time of his death, the neck of bandit leader’s spirit was still twisted Vandalieu wrinkled his eyebrows as he processed the inforiven
Things had become a little troublesome
Name: Bone Man
Rank: 3
Race: Skeleton Soldier
Level: 39
Passive skills:
Night Vision
Superhuth: Level 1 (NEW!)
Active Skills:
Swordsmanshi+p: Level 1 (NEW!)
shi+eld Technique: Level 1 (NEW!)
Archery: Level 1 (NEW!)
Silent Steps: Level 1 (NEW!)
Name: Bone Monkey/Bone Wolf/Bone Bear/Bone Bird
Rank: 3
Race: Bone Beast
Level: 24~32
Passive skills:
Night Vision
Superhuth: Level 1 (NEW!)
Active Skills:
Silent Steps: Level 1 (NEW!)