Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga - Chapter 184

After returning to the Ogatorf Mansion, Asillie and I completed our simple preparations and moved to get out of the capital by borrowing a horse.

Since he was treated as a person going back to his hometown after taking a vacation, there was nothing special about the servants seeing him off normally. Without Cheryl, there were only a handful of handovers I could take over, so I was able to leave the mansion with a sense of peace.

“Five days’ food will be enough, right?”

“It’s leisurely. I’m not walking, I’m riding a horse.”

At a store that sells preserved foods for adventurers, we paid attention to nutritional balance and bought a few things, and we passed through the gate without any special checks and proceeded to the cold plains.

At first, I was just going to go normally, but I didn’t know what was so exciting.

True to the word of the knight family, those who were originally warhorses did not know how to get tired easily. The warhorses, carrying ordinary people who were not even wearing armor properly, galloped across the plain at a fast enough speed without showing any signs of getting tired.

Since they are filthy expensive guys, he originally declined and tried to find a place that lends a horse in moderation, but he couldn’t overcome Sir Ekaf’s firm will to just take it because he wouldn’t say to take responsibility even if the horse died.

The plain was empty. Although we could see adventurers and travelers walking along the road infrequently, we could only count on a handful of people we encountered that way, even though we ran fast and traveled considerable distances in a short amount of time.

In the past, I would have felt desolate from the scene, but I felt a strange refreshment, perhaps because Asilie’s heightened emotions had transferred.

“Eldy! Your riding skills have improved a lot!”

“I grew up doing this too!”

Even before coming to the capital, I often rode horses to go to Ogwen, but it was only at the level of leaving my body as a means of transportation. It was bound to be on a different level from learning horsemanship in the Ogatorv family on the premise of fighting on horseback. I still don’t feel that riding a horse is particularly enjoyable, but I’ve been able to ride to a level where I won’t regret it.

“I think it would be better to learn how to shoot an arrow from a horse soon!”

Asilie spoke with a joyful smile, but I stubbornly shook my head and stubbornly refused. I don’t have much to do on horseback, but I don’t have the energy to learn advanced skills that take a very long time to master.

After running for a while with Asilie, who dismissed my argument with a refreshing smile, we settled down in a suitable location and decided to start eating the lunch we had brought.

When I first came up to the capital, I was in no hurry to look around, and after that I didn’t have to go in the direction of Ogwen, so I was enjoying the unfamiliar scenery and eating a sandwich with lots of vegetables including ham and cheese. tilted her head.

When Asilie moves her ears like that, she usually hears unusual sounds around her.

Even though I wonder how long it’s been since I left the capital and I’m afraid I’ll get caught up in an accident again, I feel anxious and look at it.

“After we finish eating, let’s take a detour to the right and go.”

“…what sound did you hear?”

“The sound of fighting. Compared to the rumble, there are fewer clashes. So it might be that the minority is being chased by the majority?

The damn fantasy world is constantly fighting swords anytime, anywhere.

I didn’t have the hobby of getting involved in troublesome and troublesome work by example, so I hurriedly ate my sandwich and rode along with Asillie. I wanted to run in a hurry, but it was hard to pick up the speed because I ran so excitedly in front of me.

If I had known it would be like this, I would have moved a little later and distanced myself from the fight, but I would have gone on for another 30 minutes, feeling useless.

“It’s not good.”

Asilie opened her mouth with a slightly serious expression.

“Why? Come this way now?”

“It’s not just about coming. They’re suddenly starting to get closer.”

“suddenly?”

What could be the reason for that? As the question passed through my mind, Asilie explained it as if she had read my thoughts.

“Probably… they’re trying to force us into their own business.”

“…why?”

“To buy time because they’re a tough opponent to deal with? Or to confuse the enemy by mistaking us for their party? It’s clear that they’re not here to be considerate of us for whatever reason.”

Unlike Asilie, who spoke calmly, a bad Eldmia and a worse Eldmia began to have seizures inside me for the first time in a long time.

“So, you’re saying they’re trying to use us after all?”

“I don’t know how they figured out us, but they did. I think the wizard used an eagle’s eye-like visibility-enhancing magic to detect the surroundings.”

magic? Just in case, I raised my mana and looked around, but there was no particular movement. On the ground it is.

In a strange sense of discomfort, I raised my head and looked up at the sky, and I could see that a huge orb of condensed mana was floating around. Judging by the fact that you can’t see it without magic, I think that’s right.

It made people angry that it would be meaningless even if they borrowed Asilier’s bow and shot it with magical energy.

“Someone did that before.”

“huh?”

“If someone doesn’t like you for no reason, make it a reason for the chew.”

Don’t you think it’s fair to assume that he hates me because whoever he is is coming to do something I don’t like?

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A carriage was crossing the plain.

The chariot, driven by as many as four horses with a roaring tour, looked ordinary at first glance, but the wheels and other links were reinforced like a chariot. The coachman who rode the horse roughly was a heavily armed adventurer, and the person sitting in the passenger seat seemed to be showing off that they were not ordinary people by carrying two crossbows, each of which had only light armor and was obviously of high quality.

Following them was a group of 10 people who were suspicious to anyone. It was not easy to look friendly at them, who covered their faces with masks and pulled their swords and bows while running with their hoods tightly pressed so that they wouldn’t come off even while riding their horses violently.

The four of them, who seemed to have just changed position, pressed as close to the back of the wagon as possible, took out the javelin from the saddle and threw it at the wheel, but instead of breaking the spokes, the javelin shattered as if it had been caught in a crusher.

One of the masked assailants, who had almost used up the daggers they had already prepared, shouted, gnashing their teeth.

“Damn you bastards! You’ve converted it into a battle wagon!”

“If you know, get out of here!”

The man in the passenger seat responded nervously while leaving the crossbow between his legs to the coachman, and with the utmost care aimed at one of the assailants and fired the loaded crossbow. It was an action that had been repeated over and over again in the chase that had continued until now, and the assailant easily blocked it with his shield. Tuong! The man clicked his tongue as he looked at the bolt that had become one of the many bolts embedded in the shield.

“They also hit the shield with the fucking enchantment!

The coachman didn’t bother to understand the correlation between the enchantment on the shield and the poor. It was because I understood that it was just something I wanted to curse at by adding a random reason to it with overflowing irritation. Instead, he skillfully finished loading the crossbow and handed it over to the passenger seat.

“Merdella! Are you sure this way?!”

“It’s distracting, so stop asking and run! You’ll see it soon!”

The wizard Merdella struggled to answer, barely distinguishing between the vision from inside the swaying carriage and the vision from the magical eyes looking down from the sky to the ground.

“But can they help?”

“It will be better than our current situation!”

It was a pity to those who did not know the name or face, but this was also a life-threatening affair. One of the adventurers that the magic eyes showed was an elf, and he was carrying a bow, so it was clear that he would be of greater help than the group who were eagerly shooting crossbows that didn’t even hit right away.

“If it’s an elf’s spirit art, it’s nothing more than bypassing that shield and shooting a bow! Now we have to stick with that other side at all costs!”

The effect of the reinforcement he gave to the horses was not long. The pursuers know this fact, so rather than overdoing it, they just follow suit and slowly hunt. I would have rushed there immediately if Ithiel Kingdom Security Forces could be seen, but I was the only one in this area who was looking like a possible battle.

“I see! What now!”

“Pretend to be a group!”

“what?!”

“That way, even those damn things won’t panic thinking it’s an unexpected situation! Even if they run away, if they think they have something to do with us, we’ll at least send a detached team!”

“But then…”

“You idiot Carls!

Merdella, who released the magic eye that was no longer needed, spat out disgust and immediately cast attack magic.

Adventurers were originally like that. There are things like struggling to survive and doing bad things for the safety of your colleagues and yourself. All of them have endured in the bridle of reality for a long time to live with dreams and romance. Everyone in the party knew that Merdella wasn’t saying that because she was a psychopath lacking synesthesia.

And the man in the passenger seat, named Kals, was well aware of that fact, so he could not respond to Merdela’s cry.

“Hey! The plan went awry! Got caught by the tail!”

That’s why I acted as urgent as possible and shouted as if I were with the two adventurers far away. However, the response that came back was something he hadn’t expected at all.

“uh?”

The tall man got off his horse in a leisurely motion, and the elf next to him skilfully drove his horse and began to fall sideways.

“What is it? What’s wrong with that friend?”

“Damn it, we’ll collide at this rate…”

“I!”

The tall man shouted, not paying attention to the distance that was closing in an instant.

“Go to Eldmia!”

There was no time to question what the hell he was talking about or what he was doing.

Before they could understand the situation, the man approached the chariot at explosive speed, punching a horse in front of him in the forehead.

– Hee hee!

The horse that was slapped between the forehead died without even screaming. The resounding neighing of the horses was nothing more than the agony of the other horses as they tumbled over the corpses. And Carls was convinced as he looked at the other horses that were caught on a desperate horse and started to fall, as well as the carriage that was overturned after being caught in it.

“Fuck.”

that something was terribly wrong.