Chapter 16: Hagane Mercenary Group
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Clang!
The weapon dropped to the ground, stirring up some dust.
As the drops of blood dripped faster and faster, a stream of blood started to form.
The mercenary leader lowered his head and looked at the bloody hole in his chest with surprise.
Wasn’t he holding a wooden stick in his hand?
Since when could a wooden stick stab a person to death?
The mercenary leader couldn’t understand it. How could an ordinary wooden stick have such power?
“T-T-This is impossible…”
The mercenary leader muttered to himself in disbelief as he fell into the pool of blood.
“This…”
“Our boss is dead?”
The remaining mercenaries were all dumbfounded. Their leader was a Dou Master—the same level as the person in front of them.
He should have at least be able to last for quite some time.
How could he be killed within seconds?!
This did not make sense!
“Now… It’s your turn.”
Shu Ke swung the wooden stick that was covered in blood and raised his head to look at them.
He had a killer instinct, just like a hungry wolf in the midst of hunting. It made all of them tremble, and they retreated in fear.
“Run!”
Someone shouted.
The mercenaries who had no will to fight scattered immediately and fled in panic.
“You want to run?”
Shu Ke couldn’t help but smile as he saw that scene.
Wolves were quick at chasing their prey, especially with the new and improved pace of the Wolf Sword Technique.
If these people stood in formation to confront him as they did before, they might be able to delay him for a while.
But now, they would only become his prey!
“Wolf Sword Technique: Wolf Run.”
In the blink of an eye, Shu Ke had already run more than ten meters and appeared behind a mercenary. He was like a black wolf that was chasing its prey.
The wooden stick in his hand was not inferior to a sharp arrow. It actually pierced through the mercenary’s armor and body. The powerful Dou Qi flowed wildly in the mercenary’s body. Like a sharp knife, it had destroyed his heart.
The remaining mercenaries were terrified when they saw this.
They immediately ran as fast as they could. The only regret they had was that they did not have one more pair of legs to run.
But no matter how fast they were, they could not be faster than Shu Ke’s Wolf Run.
In less than ten minutes, all of them were dead. Shu Ke even got a decent sword from the massacre.
It looked like someone had spent a lot of savings on that sword, but now the sword was Shu Ke’s.
‘There is an ax-like design on their badges. They should be from the Hagane Mercenary Group. It looks like someone in the Vincent family wants me dead.’
Shu Ke sneered in disdain.
No one in the entire Vincent family wanted him alive. Shu Ke knew that every one of them wanted him dead as soon as possible.
Therefore, Shu Ke did not let any of the mercenary members live to ask for more information.
He could guess who hired them anyway. Moreover, these small fries would not know that much, so it was useless to get information from them.
It was better to just kill them to avoid any unwanted troubles.
‘It is said that the Hagane Mercenary Group has a total of eight smaller teams. Each team has a leader, and they are all Dou Masters. The group’s leader—Rhode Weiss, the Perserverer—is a famous Dou Grandmaster. He is good at using double-edged axe, and is quite powerful.’
Shu Ke roughly recalled what he knew about the Hagane Mercenary Group.
This was a classic mercenary group and was quite famous in the Nova Province.
The mercenary group had a total of 800 members and was divided into eight teams. All of them were Dou practitioners.
It was believed that their leader—Rhode Weiss—was already a Dou Grandmaster before he was born.
His accumulation of strength and experience was definitely quite powerful.
He had led the Hagane Mercenary Group to battles between the kingdom and other countries many times, and he survived them every time. This alone was enough to show how powerful this person was.
‘This is troublesome.’
Shu Ke smacked his forehead a few times as he had a slight headache. It was not an easy task to deal with this guy.
Not only was Rhode Weiss experienced and cautious with his actions, but he was tremendously strong. It would be very difficult for Shu Ke to defeat him right now.
‘Since I can’t beat him, I can only run.’
Shu Ke thought for a moment, then turned around and walked towards the outskirts of the forest. As long as he could return to the city before the Hagane Mercenary Group discovered him, they would not be able to do anything to him unless they wanted to go against law and order of the entire Nova Province and the Vincent family.
2
The nobler the family, the more important their family name. Shu Ke was still a member of the Vincent family. If the Hagane Mercenary Group were to do anything to Shu Ke, the only consequence would be death.
Moreover, the kingdom had a law: no one could fight in the city unless they were stronger than the royal family.
It was obvious that the Hagane Mercenary Group’s strength was yet to reach that level.
…
In the base of the Hagane Mercenary Group
A strong man who was at least three meters tall had his arms around two skimpy dancers.
Beside him was a flashy four to five-meter-long, wheel-sized double-edged axe.
This person was the leader of the Hagane Mercenary Group—Rhode Weiss. He was a mixed-blood human with the bloodline of a giant.
The two dancers were like two pendants hanging on his body. The size of the dancers was very disproportionate to his.
The team leaders of the mercenary group surrounded them. There were exactly eight people—six men and two women. They also had their arms around the female and male dancers. All of them were drinking and touching the dancers inappropriately.
It could be said that they were extremely comfortable in that situation.
Suddenly, Rhode opened his mouth and asked the people beside him, “Is the guy who has just advanced to a Dou Master and wanted to become a team leader dead? I’ve let him go kill someone and there hasn’t been any news for a few days.”
“It seems like it. Since it is a job offered by the Vincent family, I think that the task to kill that person isn’t as easy as we thought. The information provided to us could likely be wrong.”
The first team leader waved his hand as if the death of the Dou Master was nothing to them.
“Then let’s have someone else do it. Since we have already accepted the offer, we must do it well. We can not destroy the reputation of the Hagane Mercenary Group!”
As soon as those words were said, two team leaders immediately stood forward.
“Rest assured sir. We have already been here for many years. We are far better than those newbies who just had their breakthrough!”
“Alright then, Seventh Brother and Eighth Brother will go. We must chop off this kid’s head!”
“Yes Sir!”
The two of them nodded, then turned around and left as they prepared to set off.
After the two of them left the base, the bustling atmosphere immediately returned to normal. It was obvious that the group had confidence in the two.