Solo Swordmaster

#279. was that the reason?

A watermelon that fell off a building.

Or like a fishbowl hit by a hammer.

Drawing white and red flowers on the ground, Li Qingyu slowly pulled his feet out of the crushed ‘something’.

swipe swipe

As if you’ve been waiting

Zixuan kneeled respectfully.

Leaving her to carefully wipe the filth from her feet and legs.

For a moment, look at Gula’s body, which twitched like a frog whose head was crushed by a car and eventually drooped.

Li Qingyu suddenly muttered.

“…Is that eight?”

what does that mean

Zixuan didn’t bother to ask.

He only devoted himself to wiping the jade body of the princess whom he admired, but more than that.

And Li Qingyu also had no intention of explaining the meaning to her.

I was just immersed in the feeling of defeating the monarch so easily.

‘Maybe I was lucky?’

If he was in the Liberation Brigade.

If the trump card was 『Constellation Descent』.

And if you used it.

Li Qingyu may have had to risk his life too.

The difference between 1 and 0 is small, but there is a gap close to infinite and finite.

A ruler who reached level 100’s [Descent] had an effect that was different from that used by players below level 99.

‘Or was it just a joke?’

However, Li Qingyu was not optimistic about the situation.

Gula was clearly a mean person.

However, it is difficult to see that he was the specter of the Liberation Brigade.

It’s not particularly strange that someone who suddenly gained great power acts greedily while looking down on others.

It would have been more so if it was Gula, who was originally treated as an incompetent pig as an errand boy for a small and medium-sized gang.

In that respect, Gula was an ordinary and average monarch.

Just because I was from a gang.

And to annihilate those who know about their past.

Because he started his first steps as a player through crime, he only became more blatantly greedy.

‘Well, either way would matter.’

Whether it’s the ghost of the liberation brigade or not.

The future predicted by Ainsha would not change to the extent of killing just one lord.

Fate is not something that can be changed so easily.

‘This is all I can do.’

Knowing this fact better than anyone else, Li Qingyu smiled bitterly.

And beyond the distant sky.

He opened his mouth quietly, looking at the direction in which there would be an event that would determine the future of this country and the only person who could change that fate.

“I’ll ask you for the later work, Swordsman.”

* * *

Tak-tak-tak.

Uncharacteristically for the strongest Green Dragon Princess in the Seven Dragons, she embraced her light and soft body.

Limon was worried.

Watching the bonfire slowly go out.

Should I go get some new firewood right now?

Or should I just stay up all night hugging Maia?

If you choose the former, the master will wake up, and if you choose the latter, it will be bad for the master’s body.

But fortunately or unfortunately

He did not become a disloyal slave by choosing either side.

“hmm?”

Limon raised one eyebrow.

It was because he felt a frightful aura outside the cave.

The moment he tried to wake Maia, his tongue clenched at the presence of an uninvited guest who came in the middle of the night.

“Let’s see if there are any uninvited guests.”

“…were you not sleeping?”

“There’s no way you can sleep peacefully when the atmosphere around you is so vicious.”

Maia was cynical.

No matter how bad her physical condition is, she is the best master of the green dragon clan.

Because there was no way I couldn’t feel this blatant energy.

“What are you going to do?”

“Even if it is an uninvited guest, since the guest has arrived, we should go out to meet him.”

“Then I will go with you.”

“It can be dangerous.”

“It’s not safe here anyway.”

“Well, that’s how it is.”

Limon shook his head.

I wonder if it’s the spirit’s nest.

It would have been a headache in its own way if it collapsed after leaving Maia in such a shabby cave.

“You are the one who said you would protect me above all else.”

“…makes me speechless.”

To the subject who swore to protect.

Are you saying that you’re weak because you don’t have the confidence to protect a woman as delicate as yourself?

Take a moment to scratch your cheeks as you watch Maia say absurd things in many ways.

Limon finally laughed and got up.

“Can I help you? Or…”

“Are you going to make the patient walk?”

“You can’t do this without asking, can you?”

“I must be so shameless.”

While answering smirkingly, Limon calmly embraced Maia.

As if she was used to it anyway, she naturally wrapped her arms around his neck.

While holding Maia like that.

Limon left the cave.

jerk jerk.

Is it really like the Amazon rain forest?

The jungle, devoid of any artificial light, was so dark that it was difficult to see even an inch ahead.

I only glanced at white butterflies flying in the soft moonlight.

But Limon was not at a loss.

After taking a quick glance at one side of the thick forest, he kept his eyes fixed on the butterfly and opened his mouth.

“Are you coming soon? You didn’t come all the way here just to play hide and seek.”

random nonsense.

But the answer came back immediately.

“Excuse me…. It would be too rude to make a fuss in the middle of the night, so I’m trying to serve you quietly

.

A change has happened.

Butterflies that had been flying all of a sudden seemed to gather in one place, and suddenly they formed a human shape.

wrinkled face.

A skinny body like an old tree.

Even the old cane in my hand.

The old man, who would have looked like an ordinary poor man if it weren’t for this jungle, spoke politely.

“Introduce yourself. I’m an old man who came to take Princess Diego…”

“Are you in the Forest Guild?”

“I’m humble, but I’m lucky enough to have a name in the bottom of the forest guild…”

An aide to Gula who led the search for Maia.

Diego said in a low voice after coughing several times.

“I’ll tell you in advance, but it’s better to stop using useless resistance… Then you’ll only hurt the princess.”

“Hmm?”

Squint your eyes and look at Diego for a moment.

Limon glanced back at Maia and asked casually.

“What do you want, Master?”

“Do you need an answer?”

“First of all, the important thing is the master’s will.”

“A competent slave should know his master’s will without having to speak.”

“I’m sorry for being an incompetent slave.”

It’s time to laugh.

Limon shrugged and looked at Diego.

“As you can see, my master has no desire to accept your invitation. I have to go back today. Inspiration?”

“That’s a foolish choice…”

“Because I can’t entrust my precious master to an unknown old man like you.”

“You should have already introduced me…?”

“Ah, that Forest Guild’s bottom stone? If it was a joke, I’ll call it a success.”

It sounds like you heard something really funny.

Limon chuckled.

Then he suddenly stopped laughing and looked at Diego with cold eyes.

“The Ghost of the Liberation Brigade.”

right after that.

What came was silence.

Even the sound of the bushes shaking.

Even the chirping of insects.

In the stillness where all noise had disappeared, a low voice returned.

“…how did you know?”

“It’s been strange since I saved the master.”

He seemed to realize that denying it would be useless.

Looking at Diego, who meekly admitted his identity, Limon said coldly.

“Why did the forest guild’s tracking team miss the master?”

Maia, who was running away in a drowsy state, was not in a state where she could erase her traces even with empty words.

It’s good that only footprints are left.

Because she couldn’t control the miasma, there were traces left where even the blind could chase after her.

But did you miss such a clear trace?

A forest guild with many monster-type players with developed five senses?

It was unbelievable.

…unless someone intentionally interfered with their pursuit.

“Including why something like a butterfly is hovering around the place where Master fell.”

Mya was the one who made even beasts flee because of her strong miasma.

Even a mere insect like a butterfly hovering around her was unusual.

Someone interrupted the chase.

It has a strange tail attached to it.

By adding these two abnormal situations, Limon drew one conclusion.

That someone was trying to steal Maia away from Gula.

At least it was clear that it was not something a proper Forest Guild member would do.

“How did you know I was part of the Liberation Brigade with that alone? Maybe he was trying to help the princess…?”

“If you want to help, you should have helped. It’s not for nothing that the saying, “I am not good, I am not good.”

Limon snorted.

If they had the ability and authority to interfere with the Forest Guild’s pursuit, they would have been able to contact them long ago.

It was clear that Maia didn’t do anything with good intentions, just because she didn’t do anything until she fell into a trap and was incapacitated.

Not allegiance to the teen guild.

Rather, the one who uses that power to aim for the princess of the Seven Dragons.

As far as Limon knew, the only ones who could commit such an absurd act were the ghosts of the Liberation Brigade.

Above all, there was one reason why I had no choice but to doubt the Liberation Brigade.

“Besides, you’re the only ones who have a reason to bring in that man, even if no one else knows.”

“…You have good eyesight.”

rustle.

Did he realize that hiding any longer would be useless?

The bush behind Diego parted.

Looking at the opponent who slowly walked away, Limon let out a sigh.

“No matter how chaotic it was, I wanted it to disappear so suddenly.”

“Is it?”

“Yeah, I didn’t know it would be like this.”

While the green dragon clan was retreating, they went through all the hardships to find him who suddenly disappeared.

It’s as if it’s absurd that it was all in vain.

Limon, who had muttered quietly to himself, scratched his head and opened his mouth.

“I only ask you one thing.”

“What do you mean?”

“Since when?”

“…you won’t ask why?”

“Well, the reason for this is because it is trivial. I just wonder since when you were thinking of stabbing me in the back.”

Is it indifference?

Or is it boldness?

He stared at Limon, who was not particularly agitated, and opened his mouth quietly after a while.

“It wasn’t from the beginning.”

It was natural.

The Liberation Brigade is a player crime syndicate.

There was no way he belonged to the Liberation Brigade because he was not even a player.

“I thought about it until the end.”

But no one was a player from the start.

Players are beings who have received the power of the Constellation through a contract.

It also meant that even an ordinary human could become a player as long as he signed a contract with the Constellation.

Or become a player criminal.

“Until you find out that I don’t have the talent to pass this carving knife’s test.”

“…Is that really the reason you became a traitor?”

Limon narrowed his eyes.

And the opponent who stood in the dark.

Hanging the shadow of a constellation with eight arms on its back.

He called the opponent holding a platinum carving knife in one hand in a cold voice.

“Sculptor man.”