“Awoo, awoo!”

  “Fine… you take the lead again.”

  G dashed ahead and then jumped over the traps that the kobolds created and then smmed her body against one of their barricades. Four of them with bows emerged from behind the fallen barricade and then unched arrows at her, but G blocked them all with an ice fortress.

  In the moment, she collided against the fortress and made it colpse against the monsters… Calling a fortress was too much. It was just a wall that looked like the walls of a fortress. In any case, the creatures weren’t smashed by the ice fortress, but they couldn’t move that much below it. Wheried to escape, G was there to ssh their throats and easily finish them off.

  You received 10 experience points.

  You received 10 experience points.

  You received 10 experience points.

  You received 10 experience points.

  While I got this much, G got fifteen points. I could tell while cheg her parameters, but I was more busy dealing with the bodies of the kobolds that we already defeated. Even with my knife made to skiures, it was taking too long thanks to the massive number of them here.

  ‘It feels like they have been multiplying by themselves? Those morons outside didn’t let anyone reach this far?’

  Now that I think about it, I imagihat I would have to wait for the previous boss to respawn, but the creature was already there. I didn’t find other parties either, so it was clear that no one came to the sed se of the byrinth.

  It was a lot of work to be an alchemist, even though I didn’t have the css yet. Regardless, I would get a lot of materials to work with and that would make the skills improve faster. I also would have who knows how many stamina potions to make my skills level up, so that was a good thie all the menial work that I had to endure right at the moment.

  “Grrrr…”

  “What is up, girl? You were looking quite proud a minute ago. Did we miss any kobolds ing from behind?”

  The kobolds weren’t that skilled or strong, but they were smarter than most types of monsters. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of them hide in the dead ends we missed along the way and decided to attack us from behind.

  Still, if they were ihe problem, G would have just positioned between us to avoid the ambush… she was growling while showing all of her teeth. She looked really pissed. For some reason…

  “... Watch my bad take care of the mohat might e.”

  G didn’t follow my orders immediately. It looked like she didn’t like the idea of letting me fight alone. Her senses were good, so she probably khat some powerful threat was ing from the entrance of the byrinth.

  ‘Betrayed again, huh?’

  It looked like I misjudged Renna… I wasn’t expeg to be found so soon, then again, I spent a lot of time in this se since I didn’t want to waste the materials. Before long, I noticed the shift imosphere and G was forced to move back since I didn’t want to get her involved in this fight.

  At this point in time, I was already sid tired of experieng betrayals… perhaps I should just bee an asshole to everyone since everyone keeps disappointing me in the end.

  While I was thinking about that, a figure dashed from the other end of the corridor while a certairic aura was c his body. He couldn’t help but look at me with a bit of astonishment for a while, but soon he began to smile… It was Rowan.

  I began to ect the dots… the first time I saw him fighting, he could swing down his sword with a speed that I couldn’t even being to uand, but I didn’t hear anything about him usiric attacks, but it looked like he was the guard of the diplomat that was in the Aeloria Dominion. The famous lightning swordsman.

  Seeing him like this after three years, I couldn’t help but sider his goal… he probably was no longer w for Rayner, but his as still had been weird. W as a guard in a new byrinth and now this, something was really off about him.

  “Hey, it has been a while. You look pretty well. Managing to escape everyone and everything for so long is rather impressive.”

  My guess is that he was trying to make es all over the kingdom. By w he border with the elves and the Aesira empire, he would be able to join a battle in su area without many questions being asked.

  At the same time, borders are pretty good to hear rumors about everything that has happened nearby. The Garnier house had their border with the kingdom of Talimor as well. By w around, he was also improving his fame and showing that he no longer worked for Rayner… perhaps he received su order for some reason, like to infiltrate other houses.

  “Hey, are you listening? Do you still uand words?”

  “Yeah, I do. I am just waiting for your monologue.”

  “Monologue?”

  “You don’t have one ready? The type that would make you say how much you hated me from the beginning and waited for the ce to kill me and bh, bh, bh?”

  “Well, I do have it, but… I wasn’t expeg you to be looking forward to it.”

  I wasn’t, but it was the kind of things morons like him always say before ing to attack their so-called mortal enemy. I didn’t do anything against this retard to deserve his hate, but I was used to people in this world being unreasoowards me.

  “It seems that being able to move around without being noticed for five years gives you a lot of fidence. Do you really think that you escape me now that I found you?”

  “Here es the monologue and the usual overfidence… I should have put an arrow in your head when you were w as a guard in that byrinth.”

  Roened his eyes widely when he heard that. It didn’t seem that he realized that I had been once pretty close to him. Back then, I didn’t have enough reason to kill him and trying that would have put me in some trouble as well. Even now I didn’t have that many reasons to kill him… aside from the fact that he hated my existend the fact that he came this far to get me.

  I didn’t know what his pns were, but it didn’t matter either way. Arying to get in the way of my freedom had to be put down. I decided to stop thinking and just grabbed my short swords.

  “Are you still using that kind of style? Even until now, you didn’t realize how bad it is? You are more stupid than I had imagined.”

  I already khe limitations after fighting with it for so long. Maybe that was the reason why I didn’t use it as much. My fighting style is ily limited by its reduced read offensive power. Holding the bdes backward shortens my effective striking range, making it difficult to engage oppos who are further away. This grip also gets in the way of the biomeics of sshes and thrusts, resulting in attacks with less forpared to a frip. Additionally, the style is more suited for close-quarters bat and specific attagles, such as upward or sideways strikes, making it less versatile and predictable.

  Against oppos using longer ons or employing a deferategy, I would find myself at a disadvantage when trying to close the distance or overe their oppo’s guard. I used the bow most of the time to avoid that kind of nuisance.

  Defensively, the reverse grip offer some advantages, like using the bdes to block or deflect attacks close to the body, but it es with its own challehe style requires exceptional coordination and wrist strength, as blog powerful strikes is harder due to limited leverage. It also leaves me vulnerable to grappling or disarming teiques in close quarters, as the positioning of the arms and bdes be exploited by skilled oppos.

  “Nothing to say, huh? You are truly stupid.”

  “You are the stupid one for ing here alone. Now I defeat you without having to worry about causing problems for myself. e, it is time to die a dog’s death, little pawn.”

  The smile on his expression froze. It looked like my taunt worked. People with so much pride are really pretty stupid… the smile on his face disappeared and then he grabbed his sword that began to crack with energy. Before long, the energy began to make small lightning bolts emerge around.

  When he showed his sword, he showed his hands and forearms covered in tattoos. It was the same tattoo when one uses Mystik… I could now tell why he was famous now for something that he wasn’t before.

  “I nning to let these effects disappear, but I guess I will kill you, anyway. I will leave my pride aside to kill you.”

  “You already threw your pride away when you put those on, even if it was only to find me, little pawn.”

  Rowan charged with murderous i and raised his sword… his body moved so fast that made me think that he could move even faster thah my Shadow Step. No, he definitely could. Still, my eyes could follow him.

  Before he could reach me, G used Ice Fortress to block his path, but the wall exploded with his charge with ease. He swung down his sword, but he only cut the air… or a mist that suddenly appeared in my pce. The mist disappeared and then he felt the danger of his life and then jumped away with all his might.

  I clicked my tongue when my short swords almost pierced his ribs… Still, a bit of blood began to drip from his clothes. The idiot only came here with simple clothes and his sword… Thanks to that, he could feel the burning pain on the wounds he received. They were only scratches, but he could feel them sapping his stamina a bit.

  “You…”

  “Surprised? I wonder what else I have in store for your sorry ass. Let me fix my stance here, just to be sure that you won’t try to escape with your tail between ys.”

  Rowan bit his lips in annoyance… I khat he wouldn’t run away, but taunting fools was quite fun.

  WritingMaeGun