Price of Management

Hundreds of Earth Spears! A hundred giant spears of dirt aiming at themselves from the sky would be catastrophe itself.

I told you.

“I advise you again. Surrender if you want to live. Lay down your weapons and I'll spare your life. You don't have to worry about being buried alive. Those who surrendered before have been confined in a space created in the ground. ”

The mercenaries look desperate. If you look at the spears of 100 earths, you'll have no choice but to believe I'm a higher spirit.

“Ha, I surrender. ”

“I'll do as you say. Please don't kill me." ”

Several mercenaries drop their weapons and begin to fall to the ground. Starting with that, close to half of the mercenaries surrender. I pushed those who surrendered into the space beneath the ground.

But there are those who still do not surrender.

No, they didn't exactly trust me.

“Liar! It's an easy way to kill us! ”

“Don't be fooled! Caroc Ligand is rumored to be very good at dirty tricks! ”

When did that rumor start? When did I come up with such a mean plan? The will and testament is...

On the other hand, there were those who were not shaken at all. The group of ten that I initially saw as professional assassins and their men did not have a slight flutter.

The seemingly unusual calmness suggests that they are a specially trained assassination group.

That's it.

43 mercenaries surrendered and trapped underground. That was the only number I could save.

I've done enough.

I bit my lower lip. You have to be fierce.

“Noum.”

- Yeah!

Norm launched 100 Earth spheres. It was literally a rainstorm.

Kwak-Kwak-Kwam! Kwa-nung! Boom!

This is what thunder sounds like. Or is this the sound of the sky and the earth flipping over?

Every time Earth Sphere strikes the ground, a blaring sound echoes. The noise was enough to bury the screams of the mercenaries.

The attack continued for about 60 seconds without rest. It was enough to determine victory or defeat.

The attack is over.

The ground is surrounded by ugly pits. The corpses that have been torn to pieces are lying around. I landed on the ground, watching the terrible tragedy I created.

But at that moment,

“Die, you monster! ”

A mercenary rises from the dead and swings a long sword at me. There is an error in the Long Sword. I used to be a mercenary for Oregon Expert. It survived, but it was meaningless.

The sand rises to form a shield.

Kuang!

The orb slaps you over the Sand Shield. The sand shield is only slightly cracked.

“…… damn. ”

The mercenary, whose final blow was falsely blocked, gave his last will and testament.

I used Wounded's power to make a blade of water and swing it.

Aah!

His throat was slit clean. The mercenary arrives and dies without a moment's pain.

I looked around and said to myself,

“Come out? No matter how well you hide your wits, you can't fool my senses. ”

Aaaaah!

Then the wretch jumped out of the ground and swung the short sword at me. I made a shield of sand in no time.

Ka 'ang!

There was an error in the Short Sword, but I was unable to penetrate my sand shield. Even if I want to, I can make even the blade to come hard enough for once.

The man who hid like a mole in the ground and then jumped out and ambushed him is the assassin.

He was the professional assassin I first saw.

“I knew you'd be alive. ”

“It was an ambush of repentance, but it didn't even work for the Grand Spirit. ”

The assassin kicks his tongue at me.

However, his eyes remained cool. Unusual calm. An assassin, too.

But this assassin was a little strange.

There was an error in the Hall of Orders within the body.

But there was Mana in his heart. I've never seen Orr and Mana together before.

Did I just hear that...?

“The Mage?”

“Yes. Errors and magic, both could be useful in their professions, so I learned them. They're both useful, as I thought. ”

“Marvellous. I hear the Mage is a talent comparable to the skill of a master of error. ”

“A compliment.”

“But that kind of talent is hardly a hitman. ”

“What about the assassin? ”

“Do you think there's any point in a life where you kill for money? Don't do that. Surrender. Surrender and I'll spare your life. It may allow you to use that ability to do the right thing. ”

The assassin laughed at my words.

“Only humans kill their own kind in this world. Even monster killings are rare. My very existence is proof that we are human. My life has that much meaning. ”

“It's sad to be worth living for. ”

“Life itself is meaningless, isn't it? What will perish if you die anyway. If I want to feel any meaning in my life, I have to protect the way I've lived until the end. No surrender. I'm a professional assassin until the day I die. Besides... ”

The assassin pulls out another short sword and grabs it in his left hand. The assassin with two short blades grins.

“It's a little early to say I've still lost. ”

Wounded's senses sense a strange component in his two short sword blades.

Poison.

If the assassin had poison, it would be lethal even if touched. Maybe he believed the poison. Are you confident you'll win even if you touch it?

I won't let you touch it.

I have controlled the sand.

The sand clumps together into a mass and becomes a human form.

Soon it became the same shape as me.

Sand Golem!

The sand golems developed for the Great Era Master were finally used in practice.

I made sand golems, and I safely hid underground.

Surprisingly, though, the assassin is also chasing me into the ground.

It was a series of surprises.

The assassin followed me, swimming freely through the earth. I'm the one who does this with animosity.But what's he doing?

The assassin has been pursued at a pace that never slows down, even compared to me. If both are underground, the Sand Golems will be useless. You can't.

I gave up hiding underground and went to the ground.

Then the assassin came out of the ground.

“You have an amazing gift. ”

“A magical application. They make their bodies slippery with Greece, and dig with Dig, and they travel freely in the ground. ”

Greece and Dig were three circles and one circle magic, respectively. But using both magic at the same time meant that it was at least 5 circles.

The Wizard of the Five Circles, to come to Expert.

It was too much power to rot as an assassin. I felt sorry for why I had such abilities but did not live properly.

“I've seen great abilities. The joke's over. ”

I said that and covered myself with sand. I wrapped it up without any gaps and made it hard to endure the blow with an error blade.

My vision was blacked out, but my vision was unnecessary to me sharing my senses with spirits.

The assassin kicked his tongue at that day.

“How unfriendly. ”

“I'm sorry. I didn't have the slightest care to assassinate you. ”

And I began to control the sand golems.

The sand golem lunges for the assassin and swings its right arm. His right arm turned into a 3-meter-long blade and slit the assassin's throat.

Shuang!

The assassin bends his whole body back like a bow and dodges. However, from now on, sand golems are the specialty.

The right arm of the sand golem has become dozens of blades and is scattered to all sides.

Papa-pot!

“Hehe!”

The assassin was pierced through the right shoulder and left thigh.

Attack on free materials that disregard the laws of physics. My sand golem attack was a tactic developed for a great error master. No matter how good an assassin I am, I can't help it.

“Hehehe, damn it. ”

The assassin staggers and barely balances his body, smiling helplessly.

Then I unsealed the shield surrounded by sand and came out.

“Last chance. Surrender. All you have to do is testify that your client is Earl Lindell. ”

“I told you, I'm a professional assassin until the end. It may seem like it to you, but to me it means something forever. Now, will you kill me? Or am I gonna die on my own? ”

“Suicide, poison? ”

The assassin nods at my question.

“Yes. Blood vessels burst all over my body. I haven't experienced it myself, but it's quite painful. ”

“I'll kill you. It's better that way. ”

“You're a good man. ”

The assassin said with a smile on his face.

“Actually, someone like you makes the world a better place than someone like Earl Lindell. ”

“ ……. ”

“I lived believing that there was no good or evil in all the world, but I will admit that you are more right than I am. ”

“Your name?”

“I don't know what my parents named me, but I've been called Kronel for a long time. ”

“Farewell, Kronelly. ”

I flew a blade of water and slashed Kronelly's throat in a single blow.

He falls to the ground, smiling bitterly.

It was a smile like that, like I knew this day would come.

“Phew... ”

I sighed.

It's time to go back.

I need to go back to Earl Ranzhel and get my wives. I have to borrow a wagon to carry these mercenaries underground.

It's my turn now, Earl Lindell.