The World of Masks

A few minutes before Vik and Creed found out that Jack's group had split in two. Jack's party falls into a mild panic. The fear of being chased reveals an unseen horror on the faces of mercenaries.

"You're being chased?"

"Yes. I think we'd better hurry."

Jack picks up his pace. But even the mercenaries were anxious. I don't know when the invisible attack is going to start, but how can I just relax and walk?

"Wouldn't you rather run?"

"You should have some stamina just in case." even if you run until you run out of stamina, there's no guarantee you'll be able to outrun them. Above all………………………… "

Jack points to Callie, who is barely catching up, sweating with low stamina.

"Callie can't keep up."

Jack gives me a little relief from Callie. Perhaps he thought it was dangerous to speed up any longer because of his health. But the mercenaries seemed different. Callie's eyes turn blatantly into her eyes. Callie notices that he's shrugged his shoulders.

How many minutes did he walk like that? A mercenary exclaims as if he can't take it anymore.

"Dammit! What if they just walk around like this and they come running?" I'm gonna run a little bit. You can run some distance just before your health runs out. "

"That's why Callie can't do it."

Jack says the mercenary looks at Callie. It was so cold.

"I can't help it. We can't all die just to save one."

The robe that Callie is wearing gradually moves her arms. I saw occasional tremors. I thought I was scared of the atmosphere of abandoning myself. Other mercenaries wear tongues, but no one speaks the opposite. The mercenary said, "What are you gonna do? 'I looked at Jack.

"I don't want to."

The mercenary nods in exaggeration.

"Well, you're a traveler, so you might say. But I have to hurry."

The mercenary starts running, saying so. Afterwards, the other mercenaries who were staring at you suddenly started running together. Jack sighs. Callie next to you is now trembling profoundly as if she were sitting in a vibrating chair. Jack taps Callie on the shoulder.

"Just a moment, please. I'll try to convince him somehow. I'll be back in at least five minutes. If I'm not back by then, and I don't feel comfortable staying here, you can go by yourself."

After finishing his speech, Jack starts running toward the smaller and smaller mercenaries. Callie rolls her feet. I wanted to go with him right away. However, the Wizard's poor physical strength shouted that hard physical labor was impossible.

Can I trust him? ’

Other players have to be absolutely vigilant. But he has already been saved by him many times. If he had a different mind, he would have let him die a long time ago. Above all, his situation was the worst. If he had abandoned himself, he would have been killed by snipers and artillery.

Five minutes. Five minutes. '

Callie sat down with five minutes of elongation in her mind.

'Why, it's like this.'

Suddenly, my eyes turned red with grief. Despite trying hard to live, the world was betraying itself thoroughly. I even wondered what I had done wrong in my previous life.

In the unlikely event that a bullet might suddenly fly, Callie hides behind a tree, trembling, hoping that five minutes would pass quickly.

Jack catches up with the mercenaries who ran first. Jack invested heavily in strength, but agility was also not bad. At least not enough to keep up with the mercenaries. It was only a matter of time before Jack was able to surpass current mercenary status.

The three mercenaries gathered and ran hard through the trees. The mercenaries turn their heads to see if they heard Jack's footsteps. Your face brightens. It seems that walking with someone as talented as Jack has many advantages over your survival. The mercenaries greet Jack brightly.

"There you are! Yeah, that's good thinking. No matter how close you are, your life is on the line!"

Phew!

Jack picks out a short card without saying anything and stabs the mercenary in the neck at the same rate. I can see the face of the mercenary deformed by horror and pain. The tail of the mouth dries up uncontrollably.

Fight!

You twist the short sword around your neck, and then release the short sword and blow the other mercenary's head off. The human neck floats through the air like magic. Of course, unless it's real magic, that neck won't come back to the body.

"Knuckles!!"

The only surviving mercenary has suffered a slight malfunction. No, I tried to throw it out. But then Jack's hand tightens the mercenary's throat and pushes him hard. Jack grabs the mercenary by the neck and stabs him in the tree behind him.

Bang!

A few branches fell from the tree, shaking vigorously.

"No, you can't. If you make a loud noise. Callie can hear you?"

The mouth revealed outside the mask was smiling in horror. The mercenary struggles desperately as his fingers tighten his neck. However, a poor mercenary's fist cannot hurt Jack's body protected by solid armor.

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I can't breathe. I can't speak or breathe because my throat is blocked. Jack surpasses the strength of a normal adult. The grip made no difference. The mercenary hangs with his neck in his hands. His consciousness began to fade.

"Tsk, tsk. So it would have been nice to move in together. then you could have lived a little longer. You're the ones who cut off their existence entirely?"

If you hadn't told me you were leaving Callie behind, you wouldn't have even bothered to deal with the two coming after you.

'Well, I was going to kill them all later.'

It's just an idea. Perhaps, very perhaps, such an opportunity did not come. Dying like this was entirely the fault of these mercenaries who insisted on their own survival. Jack genuinely thought so.

"Yikes! Now is not the time to waste."

The last time Jack jokingly smiled at the mercenary. A slight rise in the tail of the mouth that was revealed outside the mask made the white teeth glow. But a mercenary who had already begun to turn his eyes.

"Bye-bye!"

Win.

The mercenary's head turns cold with the sound of a gruesome bone fracture. It was disgusting to see a corpse with its tongue long and peeing. No matter how generous he was, he did not look good.

"Filthy."

Jack throws his corpse away in disgust, as if touching a smelly food dump. A certain amount of flying corpse is lodged in the ground. Jack plucks out the beads of life with his bare hands.

'But they're a little strong, so they'll come out stronger than normal people, right?'

Jack brings the orb to the corpses. Not enough, but more vitality than the average person. Jack, who invested roughly his life into the stat, stored the dried twisted corpse in a bracelet.

The blood from the throat pierced and the throat flew was soaking the surrounding trees. The droplets formed along the grain of the tree were also reflected like a frightening night dew. But Jack turns away as if he wasn't impressed.

'We're done here. Let's go back.'

We've already done most of our characterization of Callie. Women are extremely shy and alert. However, in a life-threatening battle, he seems to slowly open his heart to Jack, thanking him for taking care of him.

'I'm sure he'll stay there just like I told him.'

That's why Jack came to deal with the mercenaries without hesitation. But just in case, Jack hurriedly starts running back to where he left off.

'If they were any stronger, they would have killed Callie and moved in with them.'

Jack's mercenary status is low. His skill level was much higher, but he did not want to reveal the character and identity of a career-focused mercenary, so he did not get a high grade for Jack's actions as a mercenary. Mercenaries doing the same thing as Jack couldn't have been of high grade. Besides, those mercenaries were just low-level enough to get that grade. If the men who killed him were stronger than they are now, Jack would have killed Callie and moved with these mercenaries. Unfortunately, these mercenaries were not caught by Jack.

'It's better to keep the Wizard company, even if it's rubbish than fighting with these guys.'

Moreover, all those who are most likely to fight now specialize in ranged attacks. There was a much higher Merit among our allies who were able to attack at the same distance as them. And Callie is just like the last Main Dish, where Jack is beating the crap out of her. Somehow, Callie had to put on extra weight.

Jack arrives at the place where Callie and I broke up. Unlikely. Callie sits in the middle of the forest as a cover. Jack hurried away.

"Hic!"

Callie, who was terrified, suddenly shows up and takes a wild breath. But soon after I found out it was Jack, I relaxed.

Jack said in a sad tone.

"I guess they don't want to come with us. I'm afraid you'll have no choice but to go alone with me."

Jack reached out his hand. Callie squirms and reaches out. Cali's body is lightly attached as she empowers herself. Jack raises Callie and opens his mouth to draw a good man curve.

"We'd better go in a different direction than them. We broke up anyway. You'd better give the pursuers a little distraction."

And then you steer Callie in a completely different direction from where the mercenaries went. In order not to show you the scene of a bloodbath, so naturally, you don't even notice.