Chapter 670
-Save us! Save us!-
When the poachers screamed, Yi-Han opened the stable door and checked.
"Did you eat any? Hmm. I guess not."
Niffirg protested by scratching the wall discontentedly.
As if it was some wyvern that couldn't control its appetite!
"Yeah, yeah. I believed in you. They were screaming so much. Everyone be quiet."
"Sa-save us! Please!"
"I already saved you. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll let the basilisk loose too."
The remaining poachers looked at each other.
...What's this about a basilisk?
BANG!
Yi-Han closed the door and went out again.
Outside, Seoriegor was looking at a wanted poster.
Yi-Han felt a sense of closeness and spoke to him.
"Are you looking at Professor Bentozol's wanted poster? I have one too."
"Ah. No. I was looking at a poacher's wanted poster. I thought he looked familiar, and it turns out this Julban fellow is quite a famous poacher. There's a bounty on him."
"What?"
Yi-Han looked with an expression that said, 'A bounty on someone who acted stupidly and took a lightning spell head-on?'
"Hahaha. He let his guard down, but that guy is quite notorious."
"My. Poachers seem to let their guard down a lot."
It wasn't something to be said by someone who had launched a surprise attack without even casting a detection spell, but Yi-Han said it shamelessly.
'I wish they'd all let their guard down more.'
If more poachers with bounties like that Julban came, he could make a hefty sum before the break ended.
"Will more poachers come?"
"Hmm. That's a difficult question. They might come, but... I think they probably won't."
Seoriegor took out a long brass telescope artifact and checked the surroundings.
Sure enough, the presences that had been annoyingly lurking around until just now had all disappeared.
"Poachers aren't fanatics, they're just weak-willed thieves. They must have realized after the magic exploded just now and Julban's group was annihilated."
Julban's group had only probed because they thought there was a weakness.
But now that Julban's group had been shattered like this, the poachers must have realized these mages were no ordinary ones.
"Did they flee outside the mountains?"
Yi-Han asked, sounding slightly disappointed. Seoriegor didn't notice the emotion in Yi-Han's words.
"Not that. Poachers are persistent. They probably hurried in to find the unicorn first rather than checking us."
Gainando, who was listening nearby, was surprised at those words.
"Then shouldn't we hurry in too?"
"You don't need to worry. A unicorn isn't a monster that can be caught by rushing."
At Seoriegor's words, Gainando whispered to Yi-Han.
"Yi-Han. This person seems to be wrong quite often, can we trust what he says?"
"...Let's not be too hard on him for not immediately recognizing the poachers earlier."
***
Unlike Julban, the poacher Akga was closer to a solitary hunter.
If forced to compare, he had a character similar to the Shadow Patrol (though the Shadow Patrol would never admit it).
In the empire, there were people who felt ecstasy and a sense of achievement from taking down difficult and strong prey.
Hunters now said such people were blessed by Jarmis, the god of hunters.
Those who abandoned the ordinary happiness they should have enjoyed and chose a lonely and dangerous life.
And the poacher Akga was one of these people.
'I'll catch the unicorn.'
Akga took out a censer compass from his clothes.
This censer compass containing a single strand of unicorn mane hair was a treasure that any hunter chasing unicorns would drool over.
The smoke rising from the censer indicated the direction of the unicorn.
While others were wandering at the entrance of the mountain range, Akga planned to approach and take down the unicorn alone.
"!"
Akga blinked at the white and beautiful creature visible in the distance.
As a hunter, he had never lost his senses at the sight of prey, but the unicorn made it possible.
'Found it!'
Akga carefully and slowly took out his crossbow.
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