Chapter 80 - Routed (2/2)

He was staring at the incoming messages with surprise.

-Dururu: Guild Master, something big happened!

Dururu, he was one of the guild members on a mission with the Copine Corps. The reason for his surprise was because of the messages after it.

-Dururu: The mercenary we have to capture is Soo Hyuk!

-Dururu: Right now, Oneshot was killed and only me and Haha are left.

-Dururu: I don’t think just us two can capture him. What should we do?

Baal couldn’t immediately reply to Dururu’s quest.

‘Why again? F*ck.’

Why was Soo Hyuk involved again?

‘Aoh.’

Baal sent a reply while scrunching his temples.

-Baal: Give up.

The answer was decided from the beginning. Subduing Soo Hyuk? And with only three guild members? The mission was impossible from the beginning.

-Dururu: Then should we first return to the guild?

-Baal: Yes, return immediately. Don’t do anything.

-Dururu: But Heron’s right in front of us, so what should we do?

-Baal: Just ignore him. No, first notify him. Just so he doesn’t throw a tantrum at us.

-Dururu: I understand. We’ll retreat immediately.

After ending his chat with Baal, Dururu looked at Haha, who had been staring at him so far.

“He said to retreat.”

“What? Just like that?”

Haha asked back in surprise at Dururu’s answer. He then stared at the locked door and asked,

“What about Heron?”

Currently, Heron was waiting right outside the door. What were they supposed to do about him?

“He said to talk nicely and immediately return.

Dururu answered Haha and approached the door.

Clank! Creak…

A few seconds later, he managed to open the door.

“Did it end…?”

Did he think that the task ended well because of the promised signal? Heron had been waiting with a bright smile, before he faltered as he realised that something was wrong.

Heron stared at Dururu and Haha, his eyes seemingly demanding an explanation. Noticing his gaze, Haha stared at Dururu while Dururu opened his mouth.

“I have to apologise.”

“What do you…”

“The mission wasn’t what we expected. If we touch the mercenary from earlier, than bad things will happen.”

Of course, even attempting to touch him would do it. Didn’t he come to the Demon Guild because the corps had no strength anyway?

“I apologise once again.”

Dururu apologised with a deep bow, then ignoring Heron, ran away at full speed. Haha followed him behind.

Meanwhile, Heron speechlessly stared after Dururu and Haha’s fading backs. When they disappeared from his sight, Heron finally came to himself.

‘Wait, what?’

He couldn’t understand what had just happened.

‘A mission they didn’t expect?’

What did they mean by that?

‘Bad things will happen?’

That was a threat, right? But then, Heron realised something about the Demon Guild members from before.

‘Two?’

There had been definitely three people he had hired, but only two had come out from the building. In other words, one had been killed.

Heron turned around and stared cautiously inside the building.

‘Sh*t!’

Heron cursed in his mind when he checked inside the building. He could see a corpse, and it wasn’t the mercenary who had come to deliver a letter. It was one of the people he had hired, and from the reactions of the previous two people, he had been killed.

Heron kept on looking inside in a flustered manner. Originally, his plan was to capture the mercenary and take the letter himself.

But, the mercenary had been stronger than he had expected. No, he was strong enough to trivialise three members from the Demon Guild he had trusted so much. What if the mercenary harboured ill feelings from this incident? No, he would harbour ill feelings.

Of course, no matter how much the mercenary hated him, he wouldn’t make trouble inside the corps headquarters. If he did? The Heron would be able to use the full strength of the Copine Corps.

No matter how strong he was, a mercenary was a mercenary. If he utilised the strength of the corps, then one mercenary should be easily subdued.

‘No, this isn’t the time for that.’

Heron, who had been absentmindedly staring at the building, turned around as he planned to escape from here for now.

‘Why…’

While walking to his room, Heron wondered about how things had turned out this way. But there was only one answer. The fact that the mercenary was strong.

‘…Hmph.’

Heron frowned as he harrumphed in his mind.

‘Romian will probably escape.’

In this situation, Romian wouldn’t just sit still after receiving the letter. He would definitely use the mercenary’s strength to help him escape.

‘What should I do?’

Heron couldn’t think of any way to capture Romian again.

‘Hmm, I could mobilise the commanders.’

Heron thought of one way he could use to capture Romian. It was to use the comanders’ strengths.

‘But they would just welcome it.’

However, he knew that the commanders wouldn’t move. They would instead rejoice at Romian escaping.

‘Even though I manipulated the situation like that. Those bastards.’

Heron frowned once again as he recalled a past event. It had been a perfect trap. He had successfully made Romian into a criminal sex offender.

But the commanders’ reactions hadn’t been up to par. It was to the point where he received backlash when Romian was imprisoned.

‘No.’

Heron changed his way of thinking.

‘It’s actually a good thing.’

From another perspective, Romian escaping wasn’t such a bad thing.

‘I can slowly search for the cave, since I already have the key.’

Heron already possessed the most important key.

‘Then I can use that to pressure the other commanders.’

‘I have to quickly take over the corps.’