When Ark appeared, the thieves flinched and turned their heads.
“Huk, t-that guy is…..?”
“Racard, Blood Lane!”
“Ohhhh, the blood curse!”
Now was the opportunity to rescue Buksil! Ark sprinted forward and made Racard use Blood Lane. Then Racard emerged from the coffin and spouted blood from his mouth. It wasn’t so strange when it was a bat, but the sight of a boy spouting blood was oddly weird. But despite being a boy or a bat, the effect of Blood Lane was amazing. It flowed up and covered a range of 10 metres like a rain shower. The descent of the cursed blood caused a large number of unusual states. Furthermore, this place the skill was used wasn’t a wide swamp like before. The thieves were gathered in a small passage. The odds of Blood Lane causing an abnormal state were 50%. Among the ten people, six of them were caught by ‘Despair’ or ‘Helplessness.’ Among them, two were also caught by ‘Confusion’ and attacked their colleagues.
‘I’m lucky that Blood Lane is a skill that doesn’t consume mana. Anyway, there are 6 fellows with abnormal states. I need to deal with the remaining four…..’
Ark was very cool-headed and calmly judged the situation. Obviously, dealing with four thieves wasn’t difficult for him. However, that was the usual him…..Ark had recovered some mana but he was still in a bad shape. There were 20 thieves who had entered the horror castle to chase Buksil. Even if he took care of these guys, there were still 10 remaining. Ark wouldn’t be able to endure it if they joined.
‘It is imperative that we escape from Bosaga!’
“Razak, skill off! Sword!”
Ark decided on a course of action and shouted to Razak. Razak then changed into the Saw blade. Ark swung the Saw Blade like a whip and dealt chain damage to the thieves before shouting.
“Now! Buksil, Baekgu, run!”
“Hehehe, I’m a King! Everybody kneel down!”
But Buksil just smirked and started rattling nonsense. The range of Blood Lane was 10 metres so Buksil was also caught by its effects. Fortunately, Baekgu was able to resist and wasn’t caught by the abnormal states.
“That stupid bastard! Baekgu, bite Buksil and run with him to the opposite side!”
“Yes, Ark-nim!”
Baekgu bit the back of Buksil’s collar and quickly escaped. The thieves who weren’t caught hurriedly lifted their bow. After Ark swung the Saw Blade and blocked their attacks, he ran after Buksil using Sprint. At that moment, Racard who had been lying on the ground as a side effect of Blood Lane groaned.
“Awooooo, blood…..blood…… Master…….you are abandoning me…… I…….help……”
“Go to your house. Summon release!”
Racard disappeared as Ark commanded without even looking back.
“Stand up!”
The four thieves shouted as they wildly shot arrows. However, they had already made it quite a distance thanks to Ark’s fast judgement of the situation. Arrows flying from a distance place wasn’t a problem. Ark hit the arrow with his Saw Blade and ran to an exit.
“To the right, this time it is the left side!”
Ark checked the map as he ran and soon the exit appeared. When he saw the dim light of the fireworks outside, Ark sighed with relief. When Baekgu ran through the exit, he immediately slammed on the brakes and stopped.
“What are you doing?”
“Ah, Ark-nim, there…..!”
When Ark shouted angrily, Baekgu indicated in front of him and stuttered. Ark followed Baekgu’s finger and stiffened. He had barely found Buksil and came to an exit. When the 20 thieves entered the horror castle, they wanted to block the exit to the village. So they contacted the chasing thieves scattered about the village using ‘Feather of Whispering’ and made them gather at the exit.
‘Dammit…..I came all the way here……!’
Ark’s face darkened. He had no mana left. Racard had also returned to his vampire castle. In such a situation he encountered 10 thieves. With the four thieves behind him, he couldn’t escape back into the horror castle. The situation couldn’t be worse than this.
‘But……!’
The only lucky thing was that this was a village. Furthermore, Ark’s current exit wasn’t far from the central square. If the 10 people caused a scuffle here than the guards would gather. Once the guards gathered than the thieves couldn’t attack Ark anymore. In addition, the four thieves had killed NPCs in the horror castle so they were chaotic. He had to run away before the situation became larger. The problem was whether he could endure and protect Buksil at the same time……
‘But there is no other way! I have to hang in there!’
Ark made a firm resolution and clenched his sword. Then one of the ridiculous thieves wearing a mask of Sailor Moon said.
“Heh, did you want the guards to come?”
“Even with all of you, it will be hard to catch for you to take care of me. Do you want to confirm it?”
“No, that’s not necessary. We’ve already confirmed your skills in the swamp. I even admired your skills which took care of Jepeteu hyung-nim. In other words……”
The Sailor Moon’s voice suddenly became cold.
“I honestly want to step on you. But you’re not our purpose right now. We’ll take care of your later once the pig is caught.”
“Then try to kill me before the guards come.”
“Ah Ark-nim, to go that far…..!”
Baekgu looked at Ark with impressed eyes at his resolution for death. The dog was still unaware of the situation. It was natural since his owner Buksil didn’t know anything either. Anyway, Baekgu had some unexpected misunderstandings but Ark had no choice but to protect Buksil.
“Let’s see? Is it really like that?”
At that time the Sailor Moon took out a strange scroll from his bag. It was a scroll with gold letters on it. He wasn’t familiar with the scroll. However, he thought he had seen it somewhere. After staring at the eye-catching scroll for a while, Ark realized what it was too late.
‘That’s impossible…..no, there’s no doubt! That is the [Banish] scroll Buksil previously used!’
Yes, it was the rare [Banish] scroll Buksil used in Seutandal on the Red Man. It was a scroll which sent the designated person to a place 10 km away! And the Sailor Moon was planning to use the [Banish] scroll on Ark! It wasn’t necessary to say but the effect of the scroll was absolute. Didn’t the [Banish] scroll exert tremendous havoc on the Red Man? There was no way for Ark to stop the effect of the scroll. If Ark was blown away 10 km then the situation would be over. Without Ark there to sabotage it, the thieves would seize Buksil and rob him of the memory crystal!
‘Oh my god, this is……!’
While Ark was sighing with despair, the Sailor Moon used the [Penetration] scroll on Ark. They needed his name in order to use the [Banish] scroll. Ark used footwork to try to avoid it but he couldn’t avoid the absolute power of the scroll. Once the Sailor Moon figured out Ark’s name, he was convinced of victory and lifted the [Banish] scroll.
“His name is Ark? I’ll remember that. But today you have to disappear. Target Ark, [Banish]!”
The red light from the scroll impacted with Ark. It was an attack he couldn’t avoid! Once it touched Ark, a red warning message appeared.
-The [Banish] scroll had been activated.
‘Ah, no-!’
At the same time, there was an enormous sucking force and he was propelled into the air. Ark would be blown away 10 km in a blink of an eye.
‘It’s over. The memory crystal……’