Chapter 273: A Beautiful Night (2)
Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
Cale stood on top of a roof and looked down. He could hear Choi Han’s voice.
“As expected, the Mercenaries Guild building is bright even during the night.”
The location of today's safe looting was vibrant.
Leeb-An City’s Mercenaries Guild building was located a bit away from the eastern pleasure district. The current situation made its location very fitting.
The building was still full of light even though it was night time, and didn't look as if they were going to sleep anytime soon. The reason was obvious.
“It's a pretty intolerable situation. The Mercenaries Guild people have to work.”
The Leeb-An City’s Mercenaries Guild was able to influence the underworld by partnering with Mostue.
The Merchant Alliance and the Mercenaries Guild shared control of Leeb-An City. The Mercenaries Guild was much stronger than the Merchant Alliance, however, they lacked funds.
The way to resolve this issue was to protect Mostue's organization and receiver some dirty money from the underworld through them.
But Arm appeared and started to eat away at the underworld. The Mercenaries Guild was angry at this, however, it was difficult to do anything to Arm who moved very slowly and cautiously.
Arm was the Eastern continent's underworld’s strongest player. That was why the Mercenaries Guild had to be wary of Arm as well.
However, Arm moved completely openly this time.
In that case, the Mercenaries Guild now had the justification to act in order to protect their pride and their money.
That was why they would have started to move, however, it had only been one day since the incident.
“There is a good chance that the Mercenaries Guild has not decided how they should react to Arm just yet.”
A large monster like the Mercenaries Guild was going to get involved in the small Leeb-An City’s underworld matter, so they probably had to think hard about how grand of a reaction they would have.
Thanks to that, it was likely that Arm would not have noticed the atmosphere around the mercenaries right now.
“Furthermore, Mostue’s faction is guaranteed to be busy looking for that internal spy.”
“What do you need me to do?”
Cale did not look back at Choi Han, who was looking at him, and put the map in his hand back in his pocket.
This was a new map based on the map the former bandit leader gave to him but filled with information that Ron had gathered.
He pointed down with his now empty hands.
He was pointing at the entrance of the Mercenaries Guild building, which still had a lot of people going in and out.
Cale turned toward Choi Han and gave the order.
“Turn it into a mess.”
Choi Han took out his sword and slightly bowed.
“I will do as you commanded.”
Choi Han’s pupils were cloudy as he raised his head back up. He should have understood what Cale meant.
Cale opened his arms after seeing Choi Han’s reaction.
“Meeeeeow.”
“Meeow.”
He continued to speak once On and Hong were both in his arms.
“Raon.”
- I understand, human!
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-
Cale, On, and Hong all slowly turned invisible. Choi Han jumped off of the building as soon as they were completely invisible.
Shaaaaaaaaaaa-
The early spring wind brushed past his cheeks.
“Huh?”
“What, what is that?”
The guards outside the guild building entrance noticed the suddenly falling individual wearing black clothes and clenched their weapons. Even the people who were going in and out of the building with serious expressions on their faces flinched and looked at the unknown assailant who had suddenly appeared.
Choi Han, that unknown assailant, looked around before raising his sword up.
"A, aura!”
“I, it's those bastards!”
Someone who knew about the Arm and Mostue incident shouted that they were the same people. It was at that moment.
The black aura that violently shot up contrary to the calm night covered the area underneath the magic lights with a black shadow.
Baaaaaang!
The black aura struck down on the wall surrounding the guild building.
A curved boomerang-like attack cut the wall into two.
“Gasp.”
“S, son of a! Go tell the guild leader-nim!”
“He really was a s, sword master. I didn’t know the Mostue bastards were telling the truth!”
The shouts of different mercenaries in the area could be heard.
Clack. Clack. Clack.
The closed windows of the Mercenaries Guild building started to open. The people who were trying to determine the source of the loud noises by sticking their heads out the windows could see the unknown assailant wearing black outside the guild entrance.
“Do you know where this is? Attacking the Mercenaries Guild is an act that will turn every mercenary on the continent into your enemies!”
One of the mercenaries walked through the darkness and shouted out loud.
He was looking at Choi Han, the unknown assailant covered in black.
Choi Han heard a young Dragon's voice in his head at that moment.
- Choi Han, we’ll be back! See you soon!
It was now time for the invisible Cale and children to sneak into the Mercenaries Guild building.
He heard the mercenary's voice again.
“Hurry up and drop your sword! Do you want to see the scariness of the mercenaries?”
Choi Han clenched the handle of his sword. He then answered back to the mercenaries who were looking at him.
“I'm not sure if you really are that scary.”
He really meant it.
The only thing Choi Han feared in this world was his surroundings being destroyed.
Ooooooong-
The black aura rumbled as Choi Han lightly stomped his foot. His body was heading toward the Mercenaries Guild.
‘No killing. Buy us time.’
Cale's orders were always easy to complete.
The black aura cut through the night.
Baaaaaang! Baaaaang!
The walls surrounding the guild fell and the front yard was turning into a mess. A real monster appeared in front of the Mercenaries Guild that the Leeb-An City’s underworld feared.
While all of that was going on, Cale started to think after hearing the noises coming from behind him.
‘Looks like Choi Han is doing things properly.’
He was usually good at doing things like this well.
- Human! Choi Han seems to want to destroy everything! Choi Han is really good at destroying buildings!
Cale ignored Raon whom he couldn’t tell whether he was praising or badmouthing Choi Han as he quickly started to move.
“Arm really showed up?”
“Crazy! The sword master came on his own? Why would a sword master come to a place like this?”
“Son of a bitch, am I going to die?”
The entire guild building was in a mess.
A sword master had appeared and was causing a mess. How many people could remain calm in such a situation?
Fear and despair filled their hearts as they all quickly started to move.
The only common action was that they were all heading down the building.
However, Cale watched them leave as he headed up. His quick movements were stealthy thanks to Raon's flight magic and the Sound of the Wind.
‘Looks like I can quietly take care of them.’
Cale was drawing up a future beyond the mayor election in two months. This was something he could use at that moment.
The safe was completely emptied while he was thinking about that.
Raon, who had been shocked at the gold bar that Cale had offered, quickly used his magic to store everything away because he was worried that Cale would give them away if he didn’t do it quickly.
Cale picked up the gold bar that the children averaging nine-years-old were ignoring on purpose. He put it in a different small spatial pocket bag as he started to speak.
“I’ll keep this here, so let me know if you need it. I’ll give it to you then.”
“I don’t need it!”
“I agree with her!”
“I have not lost my mind!”
‘They throw a fit when I give them too much too.’
Cale could not understand these children averaging nine-years-old. That was why he looked around the empty safe and asked Raon.
“Is there anybody upstairs or downstairs?”
“No! They are all on the ground floor!”
“Is that so?”
Cale was relieved as he pointed to the safe and nonchalantly added on.
“Just blow this place up then.”
The fireworks to start the true chaos were about to begin.
“Aaaaaah!”
One of the mercenaries grabbed onto his leg and fell to the ground. The guild leader peeked toward that mercenary and raised his voice.
“Everybody gather together! Don’t wander off! We will first prevent him from getting any closer!”
The mercenaries gathered together under the guild leader’s orders and pointed their swords at the unknown assailant in a black outfit with a red star on it.
There were bloodied and fainted mercenaries all around them. They would see that none of the injuries were severe if they went up to look, however, that was not something that these people could do while in a state of chaos.
The mercenaries could not do anything because Choi Han was acting as if he was walking forward without any concerns.
“Do you really want to become the Mercenaries Guild's eternal enemy?!”
The guild leader’s eyes were filled with rage.
As a high-grade expert, he could not even leave a scratch on a sword master. It was worse for the other mercenaries.
The unknown assailant wearing the shabby black Arm outfit calmly started to speak to them.
“So weak.”
Grind.
The guild leader ground his teeth. He could not attack nor run away. The guild leader could not hide his anger toward this enemy that was damaging his pride.
“What did-”
‘What did you say?’
That was what he had wanted to say.
However, he could not say it.
Boooooooom!
A loud explosion came from behind him.
The guild leader turned around.
“...Huh-”
His office had exploded. The beautiful fire shot up and decorated the night sky. However, this was a disaster for someone like him.
His office with the safe had exploded.
Someone leisurely walked out from that fire.
He had the same black outfit and mask, as well as a single red star on his chest. That person went and stood next to the sword master. The guild leader then recalled Mostue’s report.
‘The sword master supposedly has a master that he follows. That person was at the core of it. Although we cannot tell if the intruders are actually from Arm, this person is supposedly a high-grade mage.’
The guild leader started to speak.
“...You, you son of a bitch! Get them! I told you to get them! Get them now!”
The two masked individuals quickly started to run.
His office and the safe inside.
The guild leader thought about the document inside the safe. It was the agreement he had made when he became the guild leader five years ago. They had profited quite a bit thanks to that agreement, however, it was a secret that nobody could find out about.
Those bastards had come out from that location.
“Make sure to catch them! Catch them as our pride is on the line!”
“Aaaaaaah!”
The mercenaries started to shout as they chased after the two escaping masked individuals.
A late-night run had started.
“Where are we running to?”
Choi Han controlled his speed while looking at the guild leader and the mercenaries who were chasing them with bloodshot eyes.
The two of them were running quickly, however, still at a pace that could be chased.
In other words, they were purposefully running away while allowing the mercenaries to chase them.
This was Cale's order.
Choi Han looked at Cale as Cale recalled the path he saw on the map earlier and started to speak.
“Leeb-An City's Arm base.”
As Choi Han flinched after thinking about something. Cale had become the Pied Piper and was leading the mercenaries somewhere.
Arm's branch location that was only known to people involved in the underworld.
Cale was heading over there.
As the Mercenaries Guild was located at the entrance of the underworld, it was not too far until they reached Arm’s Leeb-An City branch.
Arm’s building was an average-looking five-story building.
Cale looked at the building that was as bright as the Mercenaries Guild as well as at the people who were rushing out of the building and diligently rushing toward them.
“What the...? Why are the mercenaries invading us?”
“W, who the hell are they?!”
The people rushing out of Arm’s building had to face the two people running toward them, as well as the angry mercenaries chasing them.
The branch manager of the Leeb-An City branch started to frown after seeing the two people.
“Are they perhaps the people who ambushed Mostue yesterday?!”
There was no way that Arm’s branch manager would not know about yesterday's incident.
Although he did not know the details, he knew that someone had invaded Mostue’s branch and that the mercenaries started to move. This was because they noticed the mercenaries rushing toward Mostue’s branch.
That was why they had been lying low all day while debating how to proceed from here on.
Arm’s branch manager started to fall into a state of panic.
“But why are they wearing outfits that look like ours?!”
He noticed that the people being chased by the mercenaries had similar outfits as his own.
They even had red stars on their chests.
Mostue’s faction had remained quiet until they found their internal spy.
The Mercenaries Guild had quietly moved because of their pride.
Thanks to that, there was only a small amount of information Arm’s branch manager was able to find out.
Arm’s branch manager made eye contact with the man with reddish-brown eyes. The man wearing the shabby outfit opened his arms as he looked toward the branch manager.
“Oh! You came to greet us! Thanks!”
‘What? Thanks?’
It was the moment Arm’s branch manager was shocked.
“Aaaaaaah!”
He could hear the angry shouts of the mercenaries. He could also hear the reddish brown-eyed man’s loud laughter.
“Hahahaha! I'm so happy to see you!”
He really meant it.
Cale, who was running with the mercenaries on his tail, really was happy to see Arm’s branch manager.
It really was fun to hit someone from the back.