The Status Window Disappeared

Chasing and being chased (1)

While Chris and the others are accelerating their lagging steps.

Elgar was receiving an unexpected guest.

Having successfully improved the magic of sucking in Seidran Royal, she was looking for new test subjects in a secluded city.

But aren’t the ladies-in-waiting who seldom disturb the master whispering outside the wagon?

“master. Can I ask you a question for a moment?”

After talking with the ladies-in-waiting outside, the lady-in-waiting bowed her head deeply and asked Elgar.

Elgar responded briefly with a slight curiosity.

“what?”

“I found a strange human that smelled like him… … .”

“The man?”

At the lady-in-waiting’s polite words, Elgar narrowed her eyebrows and searched for memories.

Among the humans she deems insignificant, the one the ladies-in-waiting can call by the title of ‘that man’… … .

Thinking of something, Elgar’s brows widened and he parted his lips.

“You mean Chris? Who is it that smells like?”

“Sade is a wizard named Elesis Elgrain from the Royal Academy.”

“Is Sade royal? You haven’t killed him yet, have you? Bring the child here.”

The lady-in-waiting carried out the master’s order without questioning it.

Soon after, a girl who seemed to be in her early teens walked in front of Elgar with her whole body shaking.

As is often the case with Elgar’s arrival, this city is now a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Passing through such a place and arriving at this carriage, you must have guessed her identity by now.

Elgar questioned Illesis, who was younger than he thought.

“What was a student of the Royal Academy doing here?”

“Sah, I was looking for someone.”

Chris, who hid in Seidran’s royal family, is a witch’s collaborator.

Illesis heard about this from the dean and visited the witch to pursue him.

Traces of witches are always a matter of finding the most brutal scene on the continent.

It’s not that it’s difficult to find, it’s that life is at stake.

As the series of circumstances were explained in detail, Elgar began to think for a while.

Before long, Elgar, who had gathered her thoughts, asked the lady-in-waiting next to her without turning her head.

“This child is from the Royal Faculty of Magic, Seid?”

“yes. Since he is a talented person who has not missed his senior class throughout his school days, it seems suitable as a test subject for secret arts.”

“good night. I’ll help you with your work, so you should be my test subject. I will give you my secret so you can learn it.”

“Really? thank you!”

Illesis accepted the witch’s proposal without hesitation, even though he did not know what secret arts were.

The witch’s hand movements that gave her the secret arts were much more elaborate than usual.

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Meanwhile, Chris and his two companions were running south without rest.

After 2 or 3 days of running down the street, the peaceful scene ends and the remnants of the massacre begin to appear.

Farming did not work well in the land where the witches had passed, so the number of people rapidly decreased.

“From here on, we move a little cautiously. Colleagues from our church are also hurrying to assemble.”

When William said, Chris nodded slightly.

The three men replenished supplies and rested in the dying village.

Although the Black Flags are unaware of their coming, they cannot be caught off guard.

Their opponents are those who are good at hiding their identities and running away.

William, who was feeding the horses, admired the ghost horse, which was not at all tired unlike the others.

No matter how frugal a paladin is as a virtue, as long as he is a knight by name, words like this will inevitably be coveted.

When he tried to stroke the ghost horse’s neck, he subtly avoided his touch.

“Um… … .”

“sorry. Because he covers a lot of people.”

“no.”

Chris apologized to the embarrassed William.

Tyrone, who even played a card game with the ghost horse, seemed to want to say something to him, but he quietly shut his mouth after receiving Chris’ glare.

As the two looked away from the ghost horse, he gave Chris a small push on the back.

“Food good.”

“Hey, what’s wrong all of a sudden?”

“Purrule!”

As if the ghost horse had no time to relax like this, he kept stamping his feet and pushing his back, making gestures as if urging Chris.

Chris watched the guy’s movements for a while, then bit his tongue weakly.

‘Wait, if the priests of the Cadral Church gather here, won’t I be in danger?’

William hasn’t noticed the ghost horse’s true identity yet, but if high-ranking priests gather, this luck won’t last long.

The secret magic of sucking magic seemed to be safer than expected, but there was a concern that even a ghost horse would become annoyed if it caught the eye of a high-ranking priest.

Chris, who gets stabbed a lot, has to avoid running into them as much as possible.

The ghost horse, which continued to send signals, finally cried in satisfaction when Chris’ expression changed.

Chris approached Tyrone, who was resting under the shade of a tree.

“We’re almost there, right?”

“okay. If you go up the mountain road over there, there is an abandoned fort. No matter how long it is, it will be half a day’s distance.”

“Half a day? Then let’s go and scout first.”

“what? Reinforcements are coming in a little while, so is it necessary to rush that far?”

When Tyrone says something he doesn’t like, William, who was next to him, approaches with equipment.

Chris struggled to convince the two of them.

“There’s no way those guys as cautious as Black Flag would have left a village half a day away unattended. If I were them, I would have assigned an organization member to act as a guard.”

I came up with this as an excuse, but it surprisingly made sense.

As the two seriously considered his words, a village youth who had been secretly watching them suddenly rode off on horseback.

Noticing his unexpected behavior, Tyrone summoned one of his epic items.

“The Demon Palace of the Phoenix!”

In the blink of an eye, an arrow fired burst the busy horse and rider at once.

Chris saw it and pushed his opinion.

“Look at that. what did i say We need to move right now.

It was like catching a mouse while the cow was walking backwards, but I found it… … .

To plant guards in such a run-down town, they are, of course, annoyingly cautious.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, William and Tyrone immediately mounted their horses and headed for the fort.

Even if you defeat the guards hiding in the village, there is no time to relax.

Since the guard died and we lost contact, the guys at the secret lab will soon notice the change.

It is the basic of the basics to regularly rotate guards or keep in touch.

Carrying the screams of the villagers on their backs, the three of them entered the mountain road and soon found a small mountain fortress.

There was a huge cobweb at the head of the stone bastion protruding in front of the castle wall, and ruins covered with moss all over the place.

However, there are traces of subtly repaired parts where the damage is too severe.

Chris found a person standing guard on the wall and hurriedly pulled his teammates.

“Looks like you’ve come to the right place.”

“It would be better to go up to a higher place and observe.”

Chris and Tyrone accepted William’s suggestion and climbed a tall, thick tree.

Since it was a fortress, I couldn’t clearly see the inside, but I was able to see about half of it.

Originally, the trees around these forts were regularly cut down, but the trees have grown very tall because the place has been abandoned for so long.

The black flag that occupied the fortress must have never been cut down because it was disguised as abandoned.

Unlike the old and unsightly exterior, the interior of the fort was well maintained.

Robed wizards, as well as many soldiers and workers, roamed around.

Chris was slightly taken aback by the scale of the lab, which was larger than expected.

“Is this a bit too many? Can you figure out which of them is the spy?”

“It’s hard to pick up here. But do you really need to find out?”

When Tyrone, who came down from the tree, asked, Chris clicked his tongue slightly.

Whoever the spy of the Breton Empire was, he would not have been able to find out the Black Flag’s stronghold.

If that was the case, the Breton Empire would have already finished them off.

The role of spy ended when Chris and his party arrived here.

Next, they will have to directly capture and interrogate the boss inside the fort.

While the three of them were trying to continue reconnaissance.

The door of the fortress, which had been firmly closed, opened and a man jumped out.

Wearing plain clothes and riding a horse, the man had a similar appearance to the previous gang members.

William whispered urgently as he saw the man heading towards the village.

“It looks like he’s going to change with the village guard.”

“this.”

Chris, who shot him with the saddle-mounted crossbow, made a quick decision.

If I stay still like this, they’ll notice something strange.

So it seemed better to attack from this side first.

Chris took out the rope and caltrops from the Ghost Horse’s backpack and handed them to William.

“You know how to make traps, right?”

“All right.”

William was also a veteran in his own way, so he was quick to grasp the situation.

The three of them moved busily and began to set up a lot of traps around the fort.

I couldn’t prepare anything but simple things because I didn’t have enough time, but it should be enough to catch the ankles of those who run away.

Finally, when the guards inside the fort began to show agitation, Tyrone gulped nervously.

The number of people inside the fort was about 30, the two of them confirmed at first glance.

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Moreover, since that facility is a secret laboratory of the Black Flag, there is a very high possibility that the player is included among them.

Since it’s only three people trying to hit a place like that, I can’t help but feel nervous.

Chris calmed him down with a light slap on the back.

“don’t worry. It’s not like we’re going to storm right through the front door… … .”

“Well, then what are you going to do?”

“What are you doing with the good epic items?”

When Chris unties the cloth wrapped around the phoenix’s palace, Tyrone’s expression becomes subtle.

“Did you have that too? Do you have any other epic items?”

“I only have the mirror ring and this.”

“You only ate the special A grade.”

It was the same with Chris.

The items he owns are luxury goods that occupy the upper ranks among a wide variety of epic items.

Tyrone, who grumbled a little at the sight of the phoenix’s palace, soon regained his confidence.

If there are two shooters with these epic items, it will be no problem to prepare for emergencies.

The two soon settled down on the side of the clearing in the forest and pulled the first protest at the same time.

Before Chris puts it down, he asks Tyrone, who was next to him, abruptly.

“Hey, you wrote that before. But can I overdo it like this?”

The Demon Palace of the Phoenix is a demon that eats magic.

Therefore, it is somewhat burdensome for Tyrone, who does not have a status window, to write.

Tyrone snorts at his words and responds right away.

“I have over ten epic items. In order to use them properly, it is impossible to have only the magical power of the status window. I don’t know about anything else, but the amount of magical power must be much higher than that of most players.”

It wasn’t as much as Chris who had a status window, but Tyrone also seemed to have accumulated a lot of magic as a holder of an epic item.

The two soon got in sync and put a protest together.

Then, arrows filled with magical energy flew silently and landed in the middle of the fortress.

Explosive sounds and flames were emitted, signaling the start of the battle.

“What!”

“Attack! All the guards come out!”

The people of the black flag who were caught in the bombing out of nowhere tried to find the culprit and launch a counterattack.

However, the two men, who were located far from the mountain, fired arrows in succession whether they did or not.

Realizing that the sniper is farther away than expected, the men scatter and hide.

The black flags, tucked under the walls, soon knew that their choice was wrong.

The phoenix demon bow used by Chris and Tyrone is not something that can be avoided by avoiding it.

Arrows that descended straight from the sky were bent at odd angles and pierced the gang members hidden inside the fortress.

The core personnel with the status window were not hit that much, but the workers and guards had no choice but to pray.

“How the hell did you find our lab?”

“This is the Demon Palace of the Phoenix… … .”

“Damn it, everyone dies if they shut themselves up like this. We have to open the gates and escape right now!”

One of Black Flag’s fake players made the right decision in the confusion.

If you hide under the wall, you will die.

If you go down to the cellar of the fort, you will be bombarded and buried alive.

However, if you stay still like this, the limited power will gradually decrease.

I don’t know how strong the opponent will be, but now I have to prepare for death and escape.

The members of the Black Flag quickly lined up under the command of the fake players.

Chris, who confirmed the appearance of the alter ego left on the tree, inserted the bow and climbed on top of the ghost horse.

Although the opponent’s response is very quick and appropriate, it is still within the expected range.

The ghost horse carrying Chris accelerated as hard as it could, and arrived in front of the fortress in the blink of an eye.