Invaders Part 4
Translators: Frostfire10
While the teams each chose a route at the crossroads, Eruya Uzruth chose what he thought to be the most direct path to the interior.
There were multiple stone doors and countless turns, but he was walking the most suitable route. There was nothing and it was extremely boring. There were no traps or monsters.
Was this path a miss. Thinking that, Eruya clicked his tongue.
“Idiot. Hurry up.”
Eruya fiercely ordered the elf slave who stopped ten metres in front. The elf slave shivered for a second and slowly walked forward. Since she entered this tomb, she was not allowed to stop and only could walk forward.
This was of course, an extremely dangerous action.
She was fortunately continuing without harm, but if she encountered a trap, the chance of losing her life was high.
Having that elf slave investigate and walk, was something like bringing a canary into a coal mine. It was not like she did not have the ability. Eruya’s team was comprised of Eruya himself and three elf slaves. They were elves with Ranger, Priest and Druid abilities.
Even with the ranger skill, using the investigation skill like this was an extremely wasteful order.
However, he had a reason for this.
He was simply tired of the elf walking in front.
Those who would hear it would be surprised. This was not due to moral reasons, but a financial one.
Deals with the slave shops in the Slane Theocracy were not cheap. The price jumped up depending on the elf’s appearance and skills they had. In most cases, female elves had prices that would cause one’s eyes to pop out of their head, and was something that a normal person could never reach.
Even an elf without skills would have the same price as a magic item with a special effect. Even Eruya could not easily spend such money.
However [Tenbu]’s rewards were monopolised by Eruya, and so if things went well, he earned quite a bit. That was why he felt that it was fine if one of the ones he was bored of died.
–-I should get one with a better chest next time.
Eruya thought as he walked the elf trembling and walking in front.
-–It will be fun to get her to scream when I squeeze her chest hard.
Since this request was working with other teams, he was not able to sleep with the elves at all for several days. While sleeping with them would not cause any complaints, it would create some unhappiness. Eruya had at least a grasp of the common sense of workers and knew how that would be non-beneficial.
So his stored up lust dominated his thoughts.
“Next, should I hope for a woman like that?”
Who Eruya imagined was someone from [Foresight]. The half elf that was glaring at him unhappily.
She was an extremely unpleasant woman. There was a woman that could be called a girl who was next to her, but Eruya felt that it could not be helped that she viewed him with unhappy eyes. However, it could not be permitted that an animal that was below humans could look at them with such eyes.
Just remembering it caused Eruya’s face to show flames of rage. Following it, the two elves walking next to him trembled in fear.
They feared that anger would be directed at them. This was as Eruya was the type of man to beat them in this dungeon with no qualms whatsoever.
In addition they felt sad that another existence like them would increase. By increase, it meant that one of them might die.
“I want to hit her unhappy face until she stops resisting….”
It was an impossible request. Before elf slaves reached their owners, their hearts were completely broken by various methods. There was no way that elf slaves could resist.
Due to him imagining himself hitting Imina’s face several times, he momentarily did not notice that the elf walking in front had stopped.
“Why, are you stopping? Walk.”
“Hii….I, I can hear a sound.”
“A sound?”
As the elf mustered the courage and then shrank away, Eruya focused all of his senses on his ears. The surroundings were silent, and he could only hear nothing.
“….I can’t hear it.”
However, the hearing of elves was much better than humans. Even if Eruya could not hear, the possibility of elves hearing it was high. He asked the two next to him to confirm.
“What about you guys?”
“Y, yes, I can hear something.”
“It is the sound of metal hitting metal.”
“Hou….I see.”
There was no way metalic sounds could be naturally made.
Then someone was making it. Basically it might be the first fight he could get into ever since he entered this tomb. As he thought that, he felt excited at the prospects.
“Let’s go to the origin of the sound.”
“Y, yes.”
He made the elf go in front, towards the sound. Following after her, Eruya could slowly hear it.
It was truly the sound of metal.
The sound of something hard smashing fiercely into another hard object. And the sounds of something slicing through something. It was the sound of a fight.
“A different team?”
Eruya sighed as if his previous sense of enjoyment had water poured over it.
“Well, it’s fine. If they are then I’ll fight and say it was reinforcements.”
Gradually approaching the desitnation, Eruya felt a sense of discomfort. This was weird for a fight. It was as if—
Eruya’s doubts were cleared after he turned the corner.
It was quite a large room. The height to the ceiling was more than six metres. The width was enough such that several tens of people could run around with no problem. Inside were ten lizardmen with sturdy armour. There was one with a large tower shield, with armour that seemed to have blood vessels inscribed on it, and one more person—
Eruya found something about that man that interested him.
He was probably a warrior. He had a medium build and did not leave a strong impression.
On top of his well made clothes, was a chain shirt that reflected a dull light.
Since his hair was cut roughly, its length was not consistent. So it spread out in all directions. His red eyes were sharp. However, since he was surprised they were rounded slightly.
His appearance did not make a strong impression. At most it was young and with rare red eyes.
However, what attracted Eruya was the sword on his waist, and the balance of his body.
The lizardmen fought the black knight, stopped, and while panting looked at Eruya’s group with a strange expression. The man was watching their fight from a distance.
The answer to Eruya’s question.
It was a mock battle. The lizardmen were fighting the black knight, and the man standing a distance away was their instructor. Then it was not strange to mistake this for a battle.
“Invaders….Even up to here?”