The Branded Female Fencer

In Beginner's Labyrinth (Dungeon), Part 11 - Mercenary Meaning

Rhine and Kazas on the other hand. Rhine's call for Kazas was well thought out. Sometimes empirical in instantaneous thinking abilities, the line rotates more quickly than Kazas.

"Mr. Rhine, what are you thinking with an explosive? It doesn't work on stone doors, because it's reinforced by magic. I couldn't do magic."

"The teacher can't turn his head more than I thought! You don't have to go after the door, do you?

"Then what?

"The wall is coming down. Just for that matter, don't you think the walls up there are thinner? Especially when it hits a joint or something."

"I see, that might be a good idea. You're still a good driver."

"Thank you for the compliment, but you'll do it after it goes well. So, you said you had a degree in physics or something? I thought you knew the most efficient way to plant a bomb."

"I'm not a specialist, but let's do it right"

"Do that!

That's how he saw the line running. Kazas further reviewed the line, while thanking him for his intuition was right. And immediately plant a bomb and evacuate the people around you. And ignite,

Don!

and I didn't want it to collapse completely, despite the noise of a violent explosion that rocked the room. But...

"I saw the stairs!

The stone door did not fall, but the part above the door collapses and there is enough clearance that one human being seems to manage to get through.

"All right! We're getting out of here now, but let him get away from the young, the injured in turn, okay?

When I say this, the mercenaries unite quickly. We know about losing each other's lives if we make unwanted arguments or something on the battlefield, and the line is a common perception of mercenaries all over the continent.

"Let the young escape when they are about to be wiped out -" that was the rule and pride of mercenaries without common discipline, unlike the military. Besides that, there was something about the tone of the line that didn't make me say yes or no. Here, Nia and Miranda, who have battlefield experience, think the same thing inside.

"(That guy doesn't seem like he's just a mercenary. Wasn't he originally some military man?

If he was calm, Alphilis would have thought the same thing, but when it comes to the line, he gets frustrated first. That would have been largely due to Rhine's actions so far rather than what Alphilis did.

Together, by pushing each other up near the door, they manage to escape through a small gap, but the gap is narrow and one inside doesn't pass. Besides, there are still nearly 80 survivors. It will take nearly a quarter of an hour for everyone to escape. Rhine had such calculations in mind. Needless to say, similar calculations were beginning to be considered by other mercenaries. The work does not proceed as late. For a moment.

"Hey, Dark Elf's sister. How much more of that magic do you have?

"I thought it was time to start collapsing. There is no guarantee as to how long it will last"

"Right. Look, you guys get out of here first. You've done enough stalking for me."

"Tell that to Alphilis. Our leader is Alphilis."

"That would try to stay until the end because it's oddly righteous. Drag him, but take him away."

"What about you?

"I don't like this, but I did something like a leader. If you get away with it the first time, it'll be perfect."

Would another 10 have fled during such an exchange? There are still 10 of them, maybe. Kazas left early because of non-combatants and is now pushing out the injured. Next will be the order of the weak, such as monks and sisters. but at that time,

"Whoa whoa!?

Suddenly I heard screams from behind the mercenaries. Mercenaries looking back. When everyone looked back, there was a small soldier man there who was being attacked by something like black slime. If you look closely at it, at some point the slime lays a siege net to surround the humans who are currently arriving at the exit. And the same thing is happening one after the other on the outermost side of that population.

"What the fuck is this guy!?

I can't help but be surprised by the line. It doesn't seem like the mercenaries being attacked are going to do anything about their lives right now, but they won't even get away with it once they get caught. Seeing where the slime comes from, it's flowing like a dovodobe and a fountain from the tail that Alphilis broke into two earlier. Blood, it doesn't look like it. Too much for blood.

The identity is obsession. It was a man-eater obsession with food that never stopped moving as much.

"Damn, I'm gonna help!

"The guy with his hands open, come here!

Many mercenaries pop up when they hear that voice. Alphilis tries to pop out as well, but Rhine and Miranda grabbed Alphilis' arm at the same time to stop it.

"How do you stop it? We have to help!"

"No."

"Was it the line? I'm putting up a defensive junction to protect the staircase now. Gather whoever still looks okay inside this junction."

"Okay."

"What's wrong with you both? We have to help those people!

"... unfortunately, I can't, Alfi. Take a good look around."

Lisa points around. What you see there are mercenaries who say to help their people and get tangled up in one slime after another. Slime is snapping at the mercenaries' faces and stifling them. No matter how long the mercenaries rise, there is no indication that they can take it at all.

"That's not just slime... it's like evil spirits. You will only be able to exorcise it with the magic of the sacred system. And Miranda is the only user of divine sorcery who can exorcise that one now. You know what this means?

"... I know, but!

I mean, they're telling me to give up. Whatever it takes, Miranda. There's too much to deal with on her own. Alpha Reese, with the dying humans in front of him. Before this request began, he said that if he had to sacrifice the mercenaries around him, but he still couldn't efficiently abandon others for his own people in Alphilis, where his heart was gentle. Lisa can be said to be traveling with us because that's the kind of alphilis she is. Lisa couldn't find a word to say to the alphilis that bites and bears her teeth, but instead uttered a word that the line could be said to hold.

"Alphilis, take a good look. If we don't have the power, we'll see this kind of ending over and over again, okay? If you're as righteous as you are, it's superfluous. If you don't like it, throw away the futile sense of justice, or you'll have to be strong enough to help everyone."

"... so you escaped, you coward!

"Alfi, that's too much. The line is judged right here. Even if you're not convinced."

Near accidentally goes in to stop Alphilis. Turning irritation into words, Alphilis hit the line, so he accidentally threw up a terrible line. Alphilis figured that Rhine would say something back, as usual, but Rhine just looked lonely.

"... oh, you're right. I'm a coward. I don't have enough power..."

"What the..."

To the line I honestly admitted, Alphilis thought I wasn't the bad guy with this, but that's why I couldn't even be willing to apologize. I always hesitate to bow my head to the line for some reason. To avoid useless strife, it was a relatively honest alphilis to apologize for, but only with him was the argument constant.

"(I wonder why...?

It is long before Alphilis realizes why. Miranda finishes her bond while she makes that statement, but there was not one person outside who was already likely to be helped.

"Well... now you can't come in with a slime, but when that body can move, it's a flash of this kind of junction. We're getting out of here now."

"Okay. Hey, how many people just went through!?

"Just 22!

"Shit, there's only 22 of you"

"You still have more than 40 left..."

"The main unit will be moving soon"

"Are you ready?"

Outside the junction was a terrible situation. Slime is massively stupid right outside trying to get into the junction. And eventually the slime, which took the form of the first child, grew one... two... three... one after the other, and finally began to bang and hand tap the junction in numbers exceeding 20.

"Open up."

"I'm hungry. Hey."

"Let me take a bite. Ooh."

"What a sight... you're going to dream about it for a while"

Words that whined with no one, but the number of child-type slimes is still increasing. That was an unusual sight that if you were human, you would have to have fear. When all the Alphilis and the others tried to take their weapons, the oldest person in the mercenary shouted out loud.

"Hey, hey! Get this lady and the kid out of here first!

"Grandpa, what are you talking about?

"How dare you talk like a little girl! Kid go home and get some sleep!!

"I can't do that... muggy!

The face-by-face line eagles the mouth of the alphilis trying to say it back further, replying instead.

"Thank you for your kindness! Is there anything I can do?

"Then let me have this just in case"

The older mercenary hands his guild class chapter to the line. Mercenaries around you become that too. In the case of mercenaries, only the names are easily carved behind the class chapter, although in the case of soldiers, they all possess identification to identify themselves at the time of death. That will confirm the general death. Just unlike the military, they rarely returned safely to their families and guilds.

"Can you give it back later?

"Oh... must"

"Heh."

That we all know, that there is no longer anyone who can help. However, without the line with the Alphilis, the mercenaries would have been wiped out. They thought it was your word just to help some of them. When fighting again, the Alphilis and the others were in the lead, directing and fighting. Many mercenaries were ashamed to let their sister, a woman as old as their daughter, take the lead if they were bad. Though they also fled to the task of undertaking anything depending on the money called mercenaries, few even abandoned their pride as human beings.

In addition, everyone here watched that Alphilis tried to go help mercenaries who were not his buddies or anything later. When mercenaries are hired by the military to wage war, many are treated as abandoned pawns. That's why the mercenaries are so companion. But it is rare for anyone like Alpha Reese to turn to his own people for help without any reward.

Some mercenaries, as long as they receive the money, force them to do so, kidnap them, and even assassinate them. Put it in there. She doesn't know that Alphilis' behavior was a very mind-blowing kind of behavior. Even if the line had somehow been imagined. But without a series of actions by Alphilis, the mercenaries would not have given up their order.

In doing so, the Alphilis and the others escaped from the door, where the line was about to continue,

"Bu-o-o-on!"

The junction was broken with the absence of the man-eater body. Rhine escapes and grabs the hand of the next mercenary he tries to come out, but the mercenary is pulled back from behind, even into the slime, with a scream.

The line decides you can't help, or you run up the stairs at full speed right away. Rhine looked slightly behind him about 50 steps up while serving as his lord, but the slime had already come in this way through the stone door.

"Shit, can you let me get away with this easily!

I can no longer afford to look back. Following the Alphilis and the others, the line runs up the stairs at full speed. And from behind, I could hear a man-eater hitting my body on a stone door.

Continued