CH 241

Tauro and his party jumped out of the building and quickly made their way to the west wall.

There is a small gate here, but it is already slightly open.

As Tauro climbed the wall, he found that a battle was being fought in the forest nearby.

The enemy was not caught by Tauro’s “presence detection.”

They must have some kind of inhibition ability.

However, I can detect the presence of the adventurers and territorial soldiers fighting against them.

From their location, Tauro predicted the area where the sorcerer was.

“Aeris, please cast a five-meter radius warding spell around the perimeter under that big tree right now!”

Tauro immediately told Aeris where he was and instructed her to use her warding magic.

“Understood!”

A few moments after Aeris cast the spell, a black mist appeared.

A black haze blew out from the area around the tree Tauro had indicated and filled the ward Aeris had set up.

The trees within the ward withered as soon as they were seen.

Unfortunately, the three territorial soldiers and the two vanguards of the adventurers’ team who were inside the magical ward were taken with them.

Still, Tauro thought the worst was averted.

The situation was not as bad as he had feared, for there were dozens of soldiers and three teams of adventurers deployed around him.

If they had been in the wrong, many of their allies might have been caught in the middle of it.

Aeris’s warding magic was now working at its best.

With Tauro and his team having minimized the damage, the enemy, who had been hiding in a remote area with sensitive information and was watching the situation, must have decided that it was impossible to break through, and they turned back to the gate where Tauro and his team were.

The enemy, who had returned through the small gate, met Tauro and his team.

The enemy must have grasped the situation in an instant.

With a classified document in one hand, he pulled out the sword at his waist and readied it.

“Hey, hey, you can’t protect those documents from us all by yourself, you know?”

Ankh held his greatsword at the ready and called for the enemy to surrender.

“…… No. Not really. Salk! Take this and run!”

The enemy said and threw the rolled up documents behind Tauro and the others.

Tauro and the others were unexpectedly distracted by the papers going over their heads.

The enemy did not miss that moment and slashed at Ankh.

Ankh, who had been caught in the moment, still just barely caught the sword with his great magic sword.

After confirming that, Tauro followed the whereabouts of the confidential document with his gaze.

There, was a startled salk catching the documents.

It seemed that he was trying to escape from the prison.

Tauro readied his bow.

“Put the document on the ground and step back.”

Tauro warned.

“I don’t know …… what it is, but it looks like I can harass you if I run away with it.”

Salk grins as he says this and blurs out of Tauro and the other’s vision.

With his “escape” ability, Salk blends into the background like an alien from a certain movie and disappears.

“He disappeared!?”

Aeris is startled by that.

Tauro did not panic, and without hesitation, he fired an arrow in the direction he thought salk had disappeared and fled.

“Gyaa!”

Salk screamed.

The arrow Tauro shot only grazed Sauk’s arm, but Salk dropped the papers he was holding and reappeared on the spot for a moment, but soon disappeared and ran away again.

Tauro quickly turned his arrow and, anticipating the movement of the unseen Salk, fired another arrow.

This time, it pierced the ground without hitting.

Only then did Tauro stop firing his bow.

Behind him, Ankh and Ragune were defeating the enemy.

The enemy seemed to be strong enough to be defeated by two people.

“……This took us longer than we expected, but are you okay there, Leader?”

Ankh asked Tauro, sweating coldly at the unexpected skillfulness of the enemy.

“He got away, but it looks like we managed to get the confidential documents back.”

Tauro picked up the confidential documents that Salk had dropped and waved them at Ankh and the others.

The Assassin’s Guild’s stronghold capture was completed an hour later.

The enemy leader was killed by the A-ranked adventurer team “the Golden Mane” after a fierce battle.

“The Golden Mane” is literally a top-notch adventurer team, although the leader is short-sighted.

The enemy leader who fought fiercely with that team was said to be incredibly strong.

Tauro now wonders if he and his team could have been annihilated if they had given priority to pursuing the enemy leader.