Translator: AkazaTL
Pr/Ed: Sol IX
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Chapter 134 : The Blind Blacksmith
Clack clack clack!
All that Taygete, whose whole body was tied with rope, could move was its large head.
Taygete glared in the direction where the sound ca from while striking its snout, where teeth like saw blades had sprouted, against each other.
Snort!
A black-haired young man approaches while putting on gauntlets made of dark black iron.
The fellow shook its head violently over and over.
‘It seems even larger than what is written in the records?’
Finally having confronted the man-eating deer, I, Hein Reichart, slowly moved my steps while pulling the rest of the gauntlet's fasteners.
To be honest, this was the first ti I had t the fellow in person as well.
‘Taygete’.
A monster deer that wakes up from its sleep once every few decades and attacks nearby human houses to chew on human flesh.
Even up until this point, Taygete was only regarded as a vicious legend passed down in the eastern part of the Esper Kingdom.
But after a while, it will gain fa across the entire continent thanks to a certain insane blockhead of a king.
‘I should take action in advance before it becos too famous. That aside, where and how much should I carve out?’
Even with a monster deer of such an imnse stature before , no agitation beyond that of a chef with ingredients before him was visible on my face.
Taygete, which felt an instinctive hostility from the human approaching it, launched a preemptive strike toward .
It spat out saliva full of toxicity.
Ptui!
However, that lump of saliva fell to the ground without even getting near , rely withering the innocent clumps of grass until they turned yellow and died.
Snort!
Looking at Taygete, which was sticking out its tongue to spit at once more, I showed a smile.
Exactly at the mont the fellow stretched its neck as much as possible to use the recoil!
My right hand, having finished all preparations, went up.
Crunch!
A heavy noise.
Along with that, my ‘taming’ began.
Clang!
As the gauntlet made of steel struck Taygete’s skull, a grand noise echoed throughout the entire forest.
Whack! Whack! Whack!
Taygete’s skull was harder than steel.
But before my rciless punching, the fellow’s skull was gradually broken.
Flutter! Flutter!
Of course, it was not that its subordinates did not put in effort to save their boss in the anti.
The fellows who saw Taygete being beaten tried a simultaneous charge while thrusting their horns forward.
Slash!
But with a single stroke of my sword, the heads of the three fellows standing in the lead flew off.
The fellows who saw the chilling performance ran away just like that, leaving the boss behind.
The rciless punching toward the solitary Taygete was resud.
Crackle, crunch!
The beating I rained down toward Taygete, which was tied up tightly and could not move an inch, was truly ticulous and sincere.
I struck down on the crown of the head between the eyes, I hit it while holding its horns, I kicked it after letting go of the horns, and whenever it looked like it might swing its snout even once, I threw an uppercut at its fierce jaw, and so on.
Snort!
Eventually, only after the two legs of Taygete lost their strength and it collapsed, did I stop the punching.
Thump!
Confirming that the ribs were completely crushed, I recovered the rope that had been tying the fellow.
“Uugh…… But Master, why did you catch this deer…… no, this monster?”
“Did you not say you wanted to eat venison?”
“That deer is not this deer!”
I, ignoring Sherazade who was pointing out the error in communication while swinging her arms around, spoke.
“Around here, there is one crazy guy who dies of happiness if he just sees a monster-like creature like this, despite the fact that he does not even look after state affairs. A gift to give to that fellow.”
The blockhead who is scheduled to gift Taygete with continental-level fa in the future.
Thinking of the current king of Esper, ‘McPhein’, I smiled.
McPhein had an insane hobby of collecting monsters like Taygete to fill up the gardens of the royal palace.
He firmly believed that having such uncontrollable beasts gathered together to run and play was a symbol of his dignity as a king.
Soon, once the rumors about the monster deer that used to play in the eastern forest spread throughout the entire Esper Kingdom, it will also enter the ears of the king.
If that happens, McPhein will give an order to capture it alive and bring it in by any ans possible.
‘In that process, nurous soldiers will be stepped on by this fellow's hooves.’
Hummmm-
I reached out my hand toward Taygete’s torn snout, stained the tip of my finger with blood, and then began to draw a magic circle on the fellow’s chest.
The mind-control spell he intended to use now was the realm of the 8th Circle.
Gilmore, a 7th Circle user, would not be able to notice the existence of the gift I prepared even if he were to die and be born again.
Snort!
As red light began to leak from the magic circle that had started by emitting blue light, Taygete, which had been lying limp as if dead, began to shake its head while foaming at the mouth.
Two eyes bloodshot with red.
A heart that pulsated so violently that its movent was visible outside the skin.
As the red energy that had started from the magic circle wrapped around Taygete’s physical body once and soon seeped in…
The forced berserking spell ‘Berserk’ was completed.
Now, at the mont I present the trigger, Taygete has beco an existence like a ti bomb that loses its mind and runs wild.
‘Of course, this fellow will know nothing about what happened to it.’
I stroked Taygete’s ribs, which were completely crushed, and its skull, which was clearly depressed.
There are not a few wounds, but since it is a monster-like creature, the wounds will heal as ti passes.
Rather, the residents living in this vicinity will actually express their gratitude.
Because if this fellow’s body had been fine, nurous victims would have occurred until the soldiers who received McPhein’s command arrived.
But because it ended up in this state, Taygete will have to focus only on treatnt for the ti being, and at least during that ti, the residents will be safe.
“Which one should I do for you, rump steak or whole roasted leg?”
I asked Sherazade while approaching the corpse of the deer whose head had been cut off while pouncing on a mont ago.
Before I knew it, a sharply shining dagger was held in that hand.
“Ugh, Master, is this sothing you can eat? It’s not a deer, it’s completely a monster.”
Toward Sherazade, who was shaking her head with an appearance unlike her usual self, I let out a snort.
“Do you not know how good the quality of their at is? It’s not even sothing ordinary venison can be compared to.”
“Even so…… ugh, if you look at those teeth……”
I, ignoring Sherazade who was turning her head from side to side, gripped the well-sharpened dagger and went into the disassembly work.
And that evening.
Before the campfire where the two people stayed.
“Master, one more bowl for ! No, give three more bowls!”
The urgent voice of Sherazade, who sought the special venison, echoed energetically.
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“…….”
The day after returning from the business trip.
I fell into thought while looking at a single invitation placed on the desk.
The one who delivered this invitation to was a boy nad ‘Leon Denhart’ who possessed my naplate.
‘Leon Denhart? Why did Eos send a letter specifically?’
Thinking of the fact that Leon Denhart was Eos’s pseudonym, I tilted my head.
If she had sothing to say to , she could just co in person without needing to send sothing like this?
-My love whom I want to see. Have you been doing well in the anti?
I would like to visit you in person if it were up to my heart, but since I think that is not the way to serve Your Excellency, I pick up the pen like this and convey my heart.
I want to see you. If you have not forgotten our promise, please co to et .
From your own ‘Ea’.
I, having read the letter where I felt as if it were full of pheromones that could bewitch a man just by reading the letters, closed my eyes.
‘A promise is a promise, even for a request.’
Currently, Ea is staying near Abysin after leaving Mystic to et .
Surely she did not co here simply because she wanted to see as she wrote in the invitation…….
‘It must an she has found the whereabouts of Belfodil.’
‘Belfodil’.
The last disciple taken in by the master craftsman of the century, ‘Gunnar Pabarov’, and an unprecedented genius who was excommunicated imdiately after he passed away.
I could guarantee it.
If I can just win Belfodil’s heart, the national power of Zodiac will easily rise by one or two levels with just that.
‘Yes. Since you have co with such happy news, I should go visit.’
I lit the lamp and burned the letter after finishing the confirmation.
And I closed my eyes while waiting for the approaching ‘night’.
***
“It’s been a long ti. Your Excellency! You seem to have beco even more handso in the anti!”
Does she think of it as a substitute for a greeting? As soon as I entered, Ea hung onto my arm while twisting her waist as flexible as a mollusk as much as she could.
“……Yes, have you been doing well too?”
“Have I been doing well? Is that all?”
“…….”
“I complinted you saying you beca even more handso. Then there is sothing Your Excellency should do for too.”
“I am not very good at those kinds of things.”
I, after pushing Ea away with a polite but firm movent of my hands, sat in the seat.
And I sank into the exceptionally fluffy chair prepared in advance.
“I think I kept you waiting long, I am sorry. There was so business recently.”
“It’s okay. I heard from Eos, that child, that Your Excellency was away on official business. Of course I should wait.”
“I am rely thankful that you say so. But……”
I let out a faint sigh while looking at her in a dress that revealed her voluminous upper body and her smooth lower body without any filtering.
“What?”
“Even though you are sisters, it seems there is a difference between you and Miss Eos regarding fashion sense.”
“My! That is because that child still does not know anything. If you have innate talent, is it not polite to utilize that talent?”
As she crossed her legs, her thighs, which were insanely voluptuous, were clearly revealed through the deeply cut slit.
Certainly, her talent ‘in this direction’ seed truly outstanding.
“You have many other talents as well, do you not?”
“Of course that is true. It is true, but……”
Ea, who had moved to the seat next to mine before I knew it, spoke while hanging onto my arm once again.
“In front of a man who makes a woman go crazy like Your Excellency, I only want to show this kind of talent.”
“If you want, I can properly show you what truly making a person go crazy is like.”
I showed a smile while hearing Ea’s breathing, which reached my ear vividly.
“You are like a penny-pincher.”
“That’s right. That’s why I also lack patience. I would like to get into the main point slowly now.”
“Shall we, then?”
“Where is Belfodil now?”
“According to what I confird most recently, that is, this afternoon, it seed he was staying in a small coastal city in the Ballerom region.”
Having heard Ea’s answer, my eyes narrowed a bit more.
“Most recently? Does that an Belfodil is not staying in one place but is moving around here and there?”
“That’s right. Since being excommunicated from the Asentic Workshop, Belfodil has lived while moving his residence every few months. There are also quite a few cases where he used a pseudonym in between.”
Was there a reason he had to hide his identity?
At Belfodil’s unexpected tracks, I asked a question while harboring an even stronger curiosity.
“If he wandered around the continent while even using pseudonyms, it must not have been an easy task even for you to track his whereabouts.”
“I thought so at first too. But once I caught the first clue, the work proceeded more smoothly than I expected. Because the people who were in the places Belfodil passed through rembered him quite vividly.”
I, having heard Ea’s explanation, nodded.
Certainly, he had physical features that would remain vividly in a person’s mory.
A burly stature, a stiff beard covering the entire face, and even a booming voice.
But that was not the only reason why people rembered Belfodil clearly.
And my eyes could not help but grow wide as I heard that reason from Ea.
“They have no choice but to have vivid mories. Because the Belfodil they rember was a ‘blind blacksmith’ whose eyes were blind.”
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