The Count’s Youngest Son Is A Player - Chapter 53

Episode 53

“Catch it! “Don’t miss a single one!”

Clink.

Craddangtangtang!

“Damn, am I wrong here too? Everyone jump out! It’s plan B. “Let’s meet again alive!”

A man with a bushy beard took out two hunting knives as long as his forearms and shouted.

“What are you going to do, Captain?”

“Is now the time for you to worry about me? Hide well on your own. “I’ll call you again when the situation is resolved.”

Several young men who were looking at him with worried eyes reluctantly nodded and left the room through a secret door installed in the floor.

“You damn bastards…”

While the man was muttering, the sound of swords clashing and furniture being smashed could be heard from outside.

“Kaaak.”

“Shit!”

It was clear that the temporarily hired mercenaries were of little help.

Before I knew it, the sound had died down and the sound of someone’s footsteps was getting louder.

The man gripped the knife backwards and clenched his teeth.

‘What on earth are these guys?’

* * *

Information Guild [Wings of Freedom].

It was an information guild that was fairly well known in Turium, the capital of the Kingdom of Ruben.

Although it was founded not long ago, it was small in scale but was evaluated as having excellent quality and reliability of information.

The man, ‘Kane’, was the guild leader leading the Wings of Freedom.

He was also a famous figure in the industry who started with his bare hands and built the kingdom’s top 10 information guilds in just three years.

However, few people actually knew his identity.

He was also the head of the Information Guild, but he was not only the leader but also the most talented person in the guild.

He was the one who trained the guild members in the first place, and he was the most important information collector.

In addition to its outstanding skills, it also has a mysterious feel that its identity is unknown, resulting in the code name ‘Faceless’.

In other words, it was the nickname ‘the faceless one’.

It was only six months ago that Kane, who was enjoying such success, detected a strange energy.

Strange groups began to operate in the orderly underworld of Turium.

At first, I didn’t feel anything strange.

It was a daily routine for gangster organizations to appear and disappear several times a day.

However, it was not normal to take control of half of a gang of back alley thugs in just one month.

The problem was that it was impossible to know the identity of the executives or members of their organization.

The situation was resolved so quickly that the victim did not even know who the other party was.

In the end, the gangster organizations of the underworld were unified, except for a few major organizations that received the protection of noble families.

However, the integration process and subsequent actions were so secret that no one other than Kane and a few intelligence organizations could catch that fact.

It was from then on that a serious problem arose.

Various guilds in Turium began to be attacked.

In the underworld, there was the gangster organization, the lowest level organization, and above that there were the Thieves Guild, Intelligence Guild, and Assassin Guild.

Naturally, the guild’s military power and organizational power were nothing compared to that of a gangster organization.

However, a reversal of the food chain occurred that ignored such hierarchy.

Unlike the unification of gangster organizations where there were no significant casualties, in the guild attack, many people died and disappeared without a word.

It often happened that a small guild evaporated overnight.

At first, those who only targeted small guilds gradually began targeting larger guilds, and eventually even attacked guild branches with nobles behind them or nationwide.

Only then did the guilds that were on fire begin to respond.

But everything was useless.

In general, there was a clear reason and purpose for the underworld wars.

So, even if a fight takes place that puts the life and death of the guild on the line, after it is over, the remnants of the defeated troops are collected and the territory is taken over.

But those currently attacking the guild had no such purpose.

No, the purpose was simple. The disappearance of the guild itself.

There was no negotiation, no compromise.

The guilds asked for help from noble families or even guards, but there was no way to help without knowing the identity of the other party in the first place.

Over the past six months, dozens of guilds have disappeared.

The only ones that survived were a few branches of large guilds that even the kingdom couldn’t touch, and a few small guilds that didn’t seem worth worrying about.

However, this fact was not known to the public.

That’s what the underworld is anyway.

A place where if someone disappears, someone will one day take their place again.

The problem was the chaos of the underworld and the mixing of information that inevitably followed that period of absence.

‘Maybe that was their goal from the beginning.’

Kane was able to sense the purpose of the unknown men the moment a gate appeared in the night sky of the capital.

And he could sense that a huge conspiracy was beginning without him knowing.

Anyway, whatever it was, the important thing right now was to face the enemies in front of us.

We have been avoiding their attacks as much as possible by using about a dozen safe houses (secret houses) that we had prepared in advance over the past six months.

However, despite this, 1/5 of the guild members had already lost their lives and the remaining members had fled out of the capital.

Those who remained here were the last members who organized the previous data and tried to somehow figure out the identity of the enemies.

‘I never thought the hunt would continue even after the gate appeared.’

In fact, I wanted to fight the enemies together with the elites, but after seeing the enemies’ cruel actions, I decided to give up direct confrontation.

Now, if even this place was lost, there would be no place for him to shelter in the capital.

It was a moment when I had to choose whether to die while being chased by them like a dog, or to somehow escape out of the capital and wait for the future.

However, his pride did not allow him to run away after being so helpless.

‘Let’s buy some time for the crew to escape and check out their skills.’

Dark green sword energy protruded from the two hunting knives held by ‘Faceless’, an expert-level fighter.

bang!

“You bastards. “You can’t even run away until now!”

Kane’s dagger cut off the two men who came in fearlessly.

“He’s a talented person!”

“Take your time! “It’s just one guy anyway!”

Even though the two guys fell, the other guys didn’t look embarrassed at all.

As if they were familiar with this situation, the guys in the back came in and put pressure on Kane, covering themselves with kite shields made of iron.

‘joy. ‘Do you think you can stop me with that shield?’

Kane jumped a good three meters, kicked the ceiling, climbed over the shield wall, and aimed at the guys behind.

The guys in the back didn’t have shields, so it looked like they could be defeated at any moment.

Empty!

However, a translucent film blocked Kane’s hunting knife.

“shield?”

Why does shield magic suddenly pop out here?

But there was no time to think.

Kane quickly lowered his posture and rotated his body.

Shirrick!

“Ahh!”

A few people who reacted late cut his calf, creating an opening, and Kane quickly escaped the enemy’s siege.

But the crisis is not over.

Whirling! Chajaeng!!

The enemies behind him threw daggers and hatchets, and while Kane was hitting them, a terrifying energy was flying in.

Grumble!

A fierce stream of fire attacked Kane like a flamethrower.

Bubble bubbling!

When Kane hurriedly rotated the two hunting knives together, a light green sword screen was formed in front of his body, blocking the flames.

‘Even fire blast! ‘Ugh.’

We learned that the enemy includes at least Circle 5 wizards.

Whirling.

After the stream of fire ended, Kane was glaring at the enemies, looking fine except for his slightly scorched head.

Clap clap clap!

“You really deserve to be called a powerful person in the underworld. Originally, I was going to kill them all, but it was a waste of my skills. How do you feel? “If you surrender, I will spare your life.”

The person who appeared applauding suggested with a smile on his face.

‘Brass mask?’

The man was wearing a brass mask that covered his nose.

The mask had a ferocious appearance reminiscent of Cerberus, the watchdog of hell.

“Stop talking nonsense! Are you their leader?”

When Kane asked, holding out his slightly heated dagger, the man burst into laughter.

“then?”

“This is your grave!!”

Kane quickly ran towards the masked man.

His dagger was radiating a ferocious force like a serrated green sword that looked like it could tear through anything.

But his attempt was blocked by a black shadow blocking his path.

Drurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

His saw blade sword was sparking and gnawing at something.

But Kane’s expression was distorted as he looked at it.

“Power armor!! “What on earth is this?”

Kane shouted as he stepped back to avoid the longsword slashing at his waist, but there was no answer.

“Now you see that there is no use in resisting, right? Just ask one last time. Will you surrender?”

Kane bit his lip and glared at the power armor without breaking his guard posture.

‘I got a scratch on my forearm where I blocked the black energy. It’s clear that it’s an entry-level model, but where is it from?’

The appearance of the power armor was customizable, so it was difficult to tell the model name just by looking at the outside.

However, he is the head of the information guild.

Kane tried his best to think of the characteristics of each power armor known on the market and compared it to the power armor in front of him.

And within a few seconds, Kane, who remembered something, opened his mouth with a slightly nervous expression.

“you. “Are they from the Empire?”

“…!”

Although no one showed it, it felt like the atmosphere in the hall was suddenly disturbed.

Kane’s hand holding the dagger tightened.

“The Ho-Oh Empire? Isn’t this quite a novel inference? “What did you see that made you say such funny things?”

The man in the brass mask asked, but Kane’s tightly closed mouth did not open again.

‘Of course. It was during the era of war, but it was said that there was an espionage organization run by the empire. And I heard that a remnant of the Empire appeared in the Free Cities not long ago, but I forgot about that!’

Brass Mask looked at Kane, who was not losing his momentum at all, clicked his tongue as if he was not amused, and gave an order.

“Kill me.”

Grumbling. Sigh!!

Various magic and sword energy poured out towards Kane.

Even if you were an expert, it seemed difficult to block all those attacks.

Kwakwang!!!

And where all the attacks had passed, there was nothing left.

“…!!”

“What a rat you are!! How dare you run away from my sight? Chase!! “Even if it means going all the way to hell, chase him and get his head!!”

The Brass Mask’s expression, which had been quite relaxed until just now, was distorted grimly.

“let’s go!”

“I wouldn’t have gotten far. “Because the effect of the artifact is greatly reduced within the capital.”

“damn. “How does Naboorang, the leader of the barely-informed guild, have the artifact?”

People wearing hoods spread out around the mansion, checking people’s faces one by one.

Because it was a mansion near a slum, their behavior was rough.

“Why don’t you look straight in the face!?”

“Get out of my way, you bastard!”

“Get away from me, old bastards!”

After checking their faces, the people rolled around on the ground roughly.

“Oh my god, please save me!”

People were lying face down on the floor, shocked by the bloody force.

They didn’t move for a while even as the men in the hood were out of sight.

After a while.

An old hunchbacked man, wearing tattered clothes and completely bent over, limped away.

That day, agents of the Imperial Intelligence Department, Imperial Hound, failed to catch Kane.

(Continued in the next part)