I Became a Time-Stopper at the Academy

46 – Escort Quest (4)

You took the peddler Elessio to Enna Village.

Of course, it was a comfortable route because we killed all but two of the bandits who were the culprits of the monsters.

“Thank you so much! It’s not much, but I put a little more.”

He stamped the completion stamp on the quest paper and handed over ten gold coins.

Of course, as always, I gave it all to Landau, the poorest of these.

[The quest was successful.]

[Since you subjugated the forces behind it, the success reward is doubled.]

[Acquired 44 EXP points.]

I opened the status window and immediately put experience points into the [Time Stop] Skill.

[Experience points have been used.]

[Acquired 44 EXP for .]

[Remaining EXP required until : 185]

… [Time stop] It was comfortable because it was a one-tool, so I didn’t have to worry about the point distribution.

Now, as we talked about beforehand, we killed the two remaining members of the bandit’s hideout and went to rescue the people caught there.

Climbing up the mountain on a pitch-black night was certainly not an easy task.

I lit a torch only in the middle of the middle, where the slope was steep.

I was careful because the two remaining members could have noticed the situation and killed all the kidnapped people and escaped.

Benedetta spoke on the way up the mountain.

“In the end, we reaffirmed that thieves are born from the faults of rulers.”

Looks like he was thinking over the words of one of the bandit members he killed himself.

Unlike Elie Anne, who was her third daughter and therefore difficult to take over as her lord, she was one of the most influential heirs to the throne, so she seemed to feel a bit different.

Actually, Ellie Anne said, “I can reduce it, but I can’t get rid of all the bandits.” She responded a bit cynically.

“Still, wouldn’t it be right for all politicians to aim for a world without thieves?”

“If you chase your utopia, you forget reality. There are absurdities even in the Great Peace.”

The conversation between the duke of the empire and the daughter of the royal family continued while climbing the mountain.

… This part was similar in the game.

Benedetta has an idealistic side and Eliane has a realistic side.

It is also one of the reasons why the main character, Lando, is wandering between the two candidates.

Now that Elianne has become my woman, I will never see him like that.

Landau, who was in the lead, stopped.

“I can see the watchtower.”

“I will take it down.”

Backline dealers come in handy when the enemy hasn’t spotted us yet.

Therefore, as a rear-end dealer, I held the gun and raised the muzzle toward the watchtower.

There were no night vision goggles in the dark mountain, and of course I couldn’t see if there were people or not.

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I instructed Elianne to raise light magic.

Shortly, only for about 3 seconds.

“Do not read the direction of the magic shot.”

“Yes.”

Eli Anne swung her staff once.

A small lump of magical energy circled the watchtower and went backwards.

Instantly, it soared upward like a rocket.

As if it was launched from the other side of us.

Boom!

White light spread from the sky above the watchtower like fireworks.

I quickly checked who was in the watchtower.

‘What… ?’

There was a man.

With an arrow pierced through his neck.

Did the two remaining here fight?

Or did someone else rob the hideout first….

The possibility of being a rival bandit could not be ignored.

The bandits don’t stick together unconditionally.

“Lando, go slowly and carefully.”

“Yes.”

I leaned as far as I could and took one step at a time.

I’ve never experienced anything like this in a game, so I started to get nervous too.

I passed the watchtower.

There was a fairly large bonfire inside the hideout, and the view was secured to some extent.

I entered a shabby wooden building that seemed to be an inn.

There were over twenty naked women.

Among them was a woman with a bulging belly, possibly pregnant.

“Delia.”

“Okay, I’ll check on you and ask why you’re here.”

Confirmed from full-term pregnant women.

According to her, all the women in the inn were abducted by bandits, and each bandit is a s*x slave.

In other words, they were the victims.

Delia said after taking a quick look at the women.

“For the most part, everyone has no major health problems.”

Eliane responded in a low voice.

“He would have saved his toys from being damaged.”

Summarizing the stories of the s*x slaves in the dorm, it seems that the boss gave s*x slaves to the faithful members one by one as a reward.

Relieve stress and desire.

Even if she impregnated her, she didn’t seem to care about her birth control because if she sold the child into slavery again, she would stop.

First of all, I released all the chains that bound them.

I just urged you to stay here until safety is secured.

To reassure them, they revealed the identities of me, Benedetta, and Elianne.

“Then those who will be sold as slaves are further inside.”

“Yes, they say.”

I went out of the dorm and walked in the direction they said.

The iron cage in which the young man and woman were imprisoned caught her eye.

But not too far from the cage, a man was lying on the floor.

Similar to the man in the watchtower, his neck was pierced by an arrow.

In front of such a man, a woman with a cloth wrapped around her eyes, as if she had just been raped, was lying on the ground with her whole body trembling.

“It needs to be treated!”

Delia tried to approach the woman.

“Wait. You’re not going to die right now.”

“Yeah, that’s right, but why are you like that… ?”

“Something is strange.”

We killed 20 bandits on the way to Endo Village.

When I heard the information that I had left two members behind at the hideout, both of them were already dead from arrows.

Especially when you look at the body of the man you just found, he has been dead for a while.

If a rival bandit had killed two members and left, the slaves would not have remained.

Because it’s something to sell.

But the slaves remain as they are now.

‘There is someone.’

Someone who is good at bows.

One person or few.

Hiding out of sight of us.

“Four weeks boundary.”

“”Yes.””

A situation in which we cannot see the enemy, but the enemy sees us clearly.

Unlike monsters, humans are not fooled by tankers’ provocation skills.

So I’d try to get rid of the healer Deliana or the delporter Elian first.

I grabbed Delia and Elianne’s shoulders and brought them closer to me.

If there is a tanker holding a shield, you can hide behind it, but it is useless to find one that is not there.

I have to protect these two somehow.

“Cast the power shield magic.”

“”Yes.””

An arrow using a powerful skill or magic will break the shield magic, but….

I took a defensive posture for about 5 minutes.

Then Lando spoke to me cautiously.

“Isn’t it already gone?”

“No, stay focused!”

You can aim for the moment when your concentration is lost for a moment.

Because even 5 minutes of concentration is tiring in situations of extreme tension.

Phishun—.

As expected.

The enemy was looking for when we lost our concentration.

“Kyaaah!”

An arrow flew straight into Delia’s forehead.

She quickly threw herself at her.

I grabbed her leg and tripped her.

I don’t want to keep her close, otherwise her head would have been pierced.

“Eliane!”

“Yes!”

She threw a light spell in the direction her arrow had come from.

In the brightly lit mountains.

There was a person on top of a tree.

I grabbed the horse gun and immediately fired a single shot.

But it jumped out of a tree right after being fired.

It looked like a monkey.

“Sir Joel, I will burn this mountain! I will take responsibility!!”

Benedetta shouted as if declaring, randomly shooting fire magic at the mountain.

Since this is the territory of the kingdom, it is an area that the princess can take responsibility for….

The fire on the tree quickly spread to other trees.

This prevented the enemy from shooting us with arrows from the trees.

There were forest fires.

“These crazy bastards!!”

A guy appeared in front of Lando.

With a one-handed sword, not a bow.

“Lando!”

“Yes!”

Kang—!

His one-handed sword collided with Lando’s two-handed sword.

I widened my eyes at the identity of the enemy.

Pointy ears.

A beautiful woman.

Blue hair.

It was a female character from .

“Mrs. Clava! We are not your enemies!”

“How can you believe that when you see me!”

“I am Joel, the eldest son of the Margrave of the Jahe Empire. Elianne, the third daughter of the Imperial Chablis duchy, and Princess Benedetta, the second princess of the kingdom, are also there!”

“What?”

She stopped swinging her sword.

Lando, defending herself, exhaled heavily.

With his level right now, he can’t beat Clava.

I’ll probably be able to kill her only if I use her [Stop her time] Skill.

But you shouldn’t kill this person carelessly.

“Benedetta, Eliane, come out and introduce yourself.”

“”Yes.””

Two people standing in front of the clava.

Each family seal was floated like a hologram with magic.

… The possessed me had never learned such magic from the Margrave of Jahe, so I couldn’t do it.

Clava’s eyes widened.

After a while, he asked us.

“Then why were you robbing thieves’ hideouts… ?”

Benedetta sighed and explained.

We didn’t come to rob the hideout, we came to subdue the remnants and rescue the kidnapped people.

“Huh? How did you know there were bandits here? I saw it by chance a few days ago.”

That was also explained.

While carrying out the quest to escort the peddler, he encountered a bandit trying to rob the peddler’s luggage.

“Then it was all my misunderstanding?”

Benedetta nodded her head.

Clava is one of the few S-class mercenaries in .

The mercenary guild internally grants ranks only to skilled mercenaries.

B, A, S.

If you are an S-class mercenary, your skills are superior to that of most knights.

“Mrs. Clava, we almost lost a precious healer.”

“Ah, that…. Sorry!”

“”… ….””

She’s apologizing with a deaf look on her face.

That’s right, she’s a little hairy.

If you had looked carefully at our cadet uniforms, you would have noticed right away that we weren’t one group robbing the hideout.

Clava continued, pointing her hand at the trees.

“Wouldn’t it be better to start with that wildfire first?”

The fire was slowly creeping towards us.

… At this rate, it looks like it will be browned in a barrel like the victims here.

I turned her head towards Benedetta and said.

“I think it’s time to take responsibility.”

“… I’m sorry.”

Since I brought a lot of magic potions, I urged the princess to put out the fire with water magic.