The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

When the day that was rising high in heaven began to lean slightly, the two of them were pulling something like a sleigh with their magically frozen prey on it. Ruth doesn't like magic, but the art of freezing what he touches is necessary for life, so Alec taught him to desperately enhance it. It's a world where there's no science, as in previous life, but there seems to be a lot of ingenuity in witchcraft, and life witchcraft has spread to people to live.

After a short walk, I saw the symbol of the highest church in the village. If we keep going down the mountain smoothly, we will be able to dismantle our prey at home during the day and take it to the orphanage as well.

"I wonder if my mother will make it a Boreal steak today. Looking forward to it."

"Oh. Fresh meat steaks are excellent. Ruth, don't eat too much."

"Father is the only one who can replace you by five cups……………"

"Hmm? Ruth, what's wrong?

Ruth's ears, who was walking in front in alarm of beasts and demons, heard a slight rush of men. The footsteps of an organism different from humans continue to follow its footsteps.

"Father, I hear something strange in the mountains on my right hand..."

"Huh? Is that true?

The two stopped moving and cleared their ears. Because of this, I can clearly hear things farther away in Ruth's ear. Footsteps walking while sinking a giant into the ground are not human. And the creature running ahead of it walked bipedally but with inconsistent footsteps.

"This, the big one, is a beast or a demon. Before that it was probably human...... but the way it runs is strange"

"Is someone being chased by a demon? …… I'll go."

Rossa speeds up her legs a little. The reason we don't rush out is because it could be intentional. If the opponent was an adventurer or something, he or she might do something to make him or her chase him or her deliberately. I was cautious because sometimes it pisses me off the other way when I break in at that time.

The two remained loaded for a while and deceived and turned to those who could hear the noise. And when the slope came to the slower side, I finally saw the figure.

"Dad, it's Bal. Bal's chasing people!

"Bal!? Bal has the 'demon roar', don't grab it, let's hurry!

It was bal to support a giant with two legs that was more than three meters long. Bal is a monster with a thick tail with thorns, long enough arms to reach the ground, and a mouth that occupies more than half of his face in the center of the third. It is a dangerous rank B organism that often lives in the back of the mountain and rarely comes down to people, but eats not only animals but even people. Arm and defense reinforced by magic are pushing through, but crusading seems easy because of the dull movement. But the moves to terrorize those who hear "The Devil's Roar" are vicious, and not just stop the movement, but powerful enough to faint some opponents.

When the two place their luggage on the spot, they run faster than earlier. Ruth's vision finally sees him running in front of Bal.

"Isn't that the knight of the king's capital? Why are you here?"

"Looks like you're injuring your leg, let's help. Dad, provoke me."

"Leave it to me -" Whoa, Baloo! I'm right here. Ooh!

Rossa commits a provocative act known as the 'Growl of the Forest'. Similar to the demonic roar, but you can't put your opponent in a situation of fear, it's just a provocative act that turns consciousness here. But if you do it with a voice as big as Rossa's, the majority of the opponents will be surprised, so it's usually effective.

(But you just turned around...)

But Bal only turned his back once, and soon turned to the knight running forward.

But thanks to his voice, the knight running forward seemed to find out that he had an ally, and there was a change in movement that was just running. Walked through the narrow trees, blunting Bal's movements, trying to get closer to the Ruth and the others. Thanks to this, Ruth is now able to see their movements.

"Dad, it seems impossible to attract him, so let's get rid of him."

"I told you to get rid of it..."

Ruth ran away a little when he told Rossa how to do it. Draw an arrow from your back to add the technique you were practicing. It's a smashed Boreal's head.

Just then, a knight running in front fell on the spot, and it was in his eyes that Bal waved his hand up, and Ruth immediately took the bow and pulled the arrow.

"Ha!"

Through the trees, an arrow released by Ruth cuts the wind and heads to Bal. And before his shaken hand hit the knight, he hit the bal.

Make a blunt noise with the buzzen, and the arrow strikes straight into your hand. Bal's hand was bounced by an explosion of arrows and jumped into space without hitting a man.

(Oh, very little damage...)

The arrow that Ruth unleashed could crush Boreal's head, but could not crush Bal's hand. Bal's hands are red and rotten, but he can only do a level of damage that won't make his voice absurd to the pain.

"Uuuuu......"

But it was worth the attack, or he raised a low roar and pointed at Bal with Ruth. They finally noticed Ruth and the others' presence.

The knight didn't even seem to hit the hand attack, and takes down the distance while falling into that gap. Apparently, Ruth and the others understand their intentions.

(I can't put any more strong loads on the stone arrows...... I can't help it......)

Ruth pulled an arrow from her back and let it go without any surgery as she ran over to Bal.

"Uuuuuuuuuuu"

One arrow after another hits his head and body, and he waves it off like a bal. If you're human, you'll feel stoned. Thanks to this, Bal's target is perfectly suited to Ruth and he seems to have forgotten the existence of a knight. The knight, who is in the front of Ruth across the bal, sits in the shadow of a remote tree and sprinkles something on his leg. I'm guessing he's doing first aid.

"Knight there, if you go east like this for a while, there is a village. Is it possible to go that far alone!?

Ruth shouted at the knight as he turned to Bal. Bal would think he was yelling at himself because he couldn't understand the humanities. The man seemed to understand that Ruth's words had been directed at him, but shook his head wide. And they had it in their bodies. Make Ruth see something.

(Son of man......? That's for the kids in the village)

I don't know why, but if the knight has an unconscious child, Bal shouldn't be completely off-target. Anyone walking in the mountains knows that human children seem delicious to Bal.

"Ruth, we're ready!

Got it.

Rossa, who was traveling quietly, apparently finished getting ready while Bal was targeting Ruth. Man on Boulder Mountain, it's top notch to erase signs even when you're big.

Ruth, who had lost his arrow, pulled the knife out of his back and applied a stronger technique than earlier. This cast-iron knife from Wangdu, which my brother Clark received for his birthday, is much more loaded than a stone arrow. This would take the worst Bal blow.

With the missing arrows, Bal has launched an attack. Ruth moves the place while avoiding attacks on her arms and tail.

(Bal can't be defeated by me or my father...... then I just have to ask him to leave)

Fortunately, Bal is quite clever, so if he continues to resist to some extent, he may give up. If you think it's a bad time, you go home without doing anything. Among the bad terms of having kids, but I'm going to ask them out again this time.

Ruth picks up the rope that was on the ground while avoiding an arm-wielding attack. And Bal's consciousness unleashed a rope towards Rossa as he was on his way to attack Ruth.

"Now, Father!

"Whoa, whoa!

Reinforced by the technique of securing the opposite end with the trunk of the tree, Arakorn slipped through the upper body of the bal as Ruth kicked it up above the ground, pulled by Rossa, who predicted the timing, and tightened once and for all as she came to the neck, the weakness of the bal.

"Ooooo...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Bal, which was strangled by Oki and Rossa, broke out, and the soil around him splashed with rocks. But Arakorn, strangled, can't grab it with his two fingertips. On top of that, it is reinforced by surgery, so I cannot refuse it easily with my arm strength.

As Ruth turned back to Bal in an attempt to cut the rope, he intensified the knife to the fullest extent and rushed to his empty stomach.

"Haaaaaaaa!

Apply all of the force to the tip of the knife and run straight. - I sprinkled my whole body and stabbed it in its belly.

(Stabbed............ Huh!

The knife tip pierces its belly, breaking Bal's tactical armor, which does not take the power of a bow and arrow for granted. Blood spilled out, definite damage. Bal showed a different movement than earlier.

However, the knife stabbed to the pattern stops the movement on the spot, making it impossible to slash it or pull it out.

(What... can't I do more with my powers?!!)

I'd like to cut it up and do some damage, but Ruth's power seemed to limit it by just poking it. While doing so, Bal's gaze, which had forgotten me from bitterness, turned toward Ruth. The demon's unique cloudy eyes are peeled away and a nasty sweat flows down Ruth's back.

"- Both of you, get away from the bal!

To the words that echoed from behind, Ruth took his hand off the knife aggressively, and Rossa also took a distance. As if foreseen, a thundercloud rises over the bal.

"Take my word for thunder - Lightning Bolt!

A great pillar of light falls on the bal, making a sound that cleaves the heavens apart. In an instant the area became brighter, the sound played, and the shadows disappeared.

"Tugo, woo, ooo, ooo!

Bal trembles and screams all over his body. It seems that a knife stabbed in the belly is acting as a lightning rod or that magic has reached the inside.

The light dispersed around me was sparking, telling the story of its intensity even if it hadn't touched it.

(Ko...... isn't this advanced art or something?...... wow)

I've seen magic many times, but Alec didn't use it either because he said it was dangerous to be too big, so I've never seen Ruth so powerful.

"Tu……………………………."

Eventually, when the light healed, Bal, who dyed his whole body black, stood up like a blur. Of course, the rope had burned off for a long time, and now there was nothing to stop Bal from moving, but I still don't see any signs of moving.

"Ya did it? And, ooh!

Rossa tried to get close as she put up a hammer. But as soon as that happens, Bal's tail moves, leaving Rossa close. And in a blunt motion, he turned his back on Ruth and the others and walked out toward the mountain.

"Better not go deep."

"You're still staring at my father."

With Rossa exhausted by tightening the bal and Ruth, who even lost her knife, it would be difficult to chase her and stab Todome, no matter how dangerous it is to leave her alone. Sometimes the beast of the hand is troublesome, and Ruth and the others decided to drop off the back of Bal, who was making noise with Dosdos and leaving.

"But you didn't scare me to look at Bal."

"Because I confronted Alec once before, and that's right. More than that, Mr. Knight!

"Ha, confrontation!? No, knight, it was!

Rosa seemed surprised by Ruth's words, but she went with him to the knight who was being chased in contemplation of the status quo.

The man, hidden in the shadow of a tree, stood up, helped, keeping the child in Rossa's arms.

The man is lower than Rossa like a bear, but he was taller than Ruth, and he was so accomplished that he looked good in the armor of a knight. He's like a warrior with pale brown, shorter hair and seemingly honest black eyes, a deep carved face on his thick brow, and seriousness from the whole thing. Of course he is as sophisticated and handsome as you wouldn't see him in the village.

"Thank you for your help. Thanks to you, I didn't get hurt. You're amazing. You're amazing."

"No, I was able to release you both because I made time for you. This is where we need help with the danger…………………………………."

The man I was talking to Rossa hardened when Ruth and I met each other for some reason. Then dye your cheeks slightly and loosen your serious face slightly.

"Goddess…… Zenobia…………"

"What?"

When Ruth muttered bewildered, the man made his eyes shine more and more black.

"Ruth, there's blood on your face."

"Oh, really?

Apparently, blood was flying in his face when he stabbed a knife in Bal. I thought you might have seen the look on the knight's face. But...

"Thank you very much for your help and that of your father. My name is Maxim Calaferty. I will never forget this grace."

"Huh? Ah, yes?

"…… Father?

The knight, named Maxim, for some reason took his hand softly when he reached one knee in front of Ruth and narrowed his eyes to stare at the dazzling thing. Ruth, who grew up in the country, can't hide his confusion in his actions as if he were a nobleman applying for a dance to a courtier. So much so that I wonder if this could be the style to thank the city for the way it is.

"... If you don't mind, could you please tell us your name?

"Ru, it's Ruth…………"

"You are talking to Lord Ruth… a noble and beautiful name that suits your way of fighting in the sky."

… ha. "

With his sparkling black eyes pointed at him as he moved with a big gesture as if he were an opera, Ruth turns her gaze to Rossa on the side even as she was bewildered. When Rossa looked like she was pulling her cheeks and biting off a bitter bug, she told me with her gaze, 'It sucks.' Ruth knew Rosa was thinking the same thing, and she was sure it wasn't a mistake.

"Oh, um... Mr. Callafferty?

"Feel free to call me Maxim."

"Ah, Mr. Maxim... I was wondering if I might be making a mistake..."

"What is a mistake -"

"- Callafferty Knights Leader!

As Ruth tried to point out Maxim's mistake early, a louder voice echoed the woods sooner than that.

"Ooh! You guys!

Maxim waves as he turns to his voice. It was five knights and six horses who appeared more balanced in their offense, wearing less quality (and still more sophisticated) armor than Maxim.

"Everyone, you're safe!

"That's my line! I don't know what to do when I throw my horse off the road and start chasing Bal."

"I'm sorry. I saw a child being chased..."

Apparently, Maxim, who spotted the child Rossa was holding being chased by Bal, went through the squad she was walking with and went down the cliff on her own. With the horses and their luggage, they couldn't even get down together, and it seemed like they were hurrying around. As a knight who protects his people, it's great behavior, but his men, run by the Knights Commander, won't be a hoarding one. You look serious and loose around here and there.

As soon as one of the knights found out there was an injury to Maxim's leg, he began treatment. They're also bringing in the boulder knights, magicians who can handle healing techniques properly.

"... come on, knighthood leader in the back of the mountain like this..."

"Father could these people..."

"Yeah…… I guess."

To Rossa's whining, Ruth laughed bitterly, recognising this anomaly once again.

If it is not a mistake, they are undoubtedly demonic crusaders to the village, that Alec asked the noblemen to drop by. I don't know why the Knights Chief class has come, but otherwise there can't be an elite unit of Wang Du behind such a lonely mountain.

"Lord Ruth, Father, I'd like to introduce you. They are my fellow knights. We are from Wang Du to participate in the forthcoming crusade of demons in Hashi village."

Ruth and Rossa looked like they knew it. I don't realize that. Maxim can shake his men this time.

"Guys, you two were being chased by Bal. You're the benefactor who helped me, be polite."

"Not just the big one in the back...... but the lady over there too?

"Yeah, she's a woman strong enough to avoid Bal's attacks like she runs through heaven and stick a knife up Bal's belly with those thin arms, it was really great"

"Knife in the belly of that bal...... amazing"

Making a slightly pulled face, the knights praised Ruth, but Maxim, who didn't understand how it looked, gave a lukewarm expression.

"Oh, it was as beautiful as the goddess Xenobia……"

"... so it is, the captain's Goddess Disease"

It was the expression of my men, who seemed a little frightened, but they didn't have any feelings of contempt. Despite chasing Bal more than that, I could barely have the respect and trust for Maxim as usual. Maxim, my boss, is stiffer enough for words, but he seems to be allowed to do so. They may be highly cohesive members of the Knights.

"Oh, speaking of which, Lord Ruth said earlier that I had a mistake..."

"Huh... ah..."

Ruth felt everyone's gaze gather in Maxim's voice. Ruth saw Rosa asking for help, but he called out to wake the child in his arms to escape his gaze and pretended not to know.

(Father, you ran away...)

Apparently, there's no help.

I knew perfectly well in their words earlier that Maxim's mistake was not Ruth's mistake, but a certainty.

(In this situation, I'm not a woman... I can't say...)

Maxim thinks of Ruth as a woman. That was certain even considering what had been communicated as a 'woman' in the conversation.

Because Ruth is also similar to her mother, she often gets her gender wrong by people who come from outside the village, so I don't really care, but I know it will be a hassle later if I don't correct her. So I really think we should correct it immediately - but I couldn't tell Maxim where everyone was looking. I know they're very close, but Maxim will also have something called majesty as his boss, he shouldn't want to see a young man in a small village like himself pointing out his mistakes.

Ruth smiled and smiled at the sales smile.

"… As a matter of fact, we are all staying at the inn you are planning to stay in. I was wondering if I could show you to the lodging."

"Oh, that's reliable. Lord Ruth, I'd like you to show me around."

In the end, after being told "Miss Ruth," Ruth was unable to correct them. Ruth led them to the village, mixing them up with a conversation between the Knights.