chapter 166
166 – Arba (1)
Llewellyn’s personnel selection was very carefully selected.
On the outside, it might seem like she was just outing with her mother (temporary) and older sister (real).
In fact, thorough calculations were made.
First of all, Ortemilia.
Llewelyn had no reason not to take her because of her knowledge of drugs and other things, and the knowledge she would have since it was the place where she did her work.
So there was no need to explain, but some people expressed dissatisfaction with Lucilla being taken away.
But it was inevitable.
This was because although she was a strong person that many mercenaries would recognize and be scared of, there were very few people who could clearly see her on the outside.
Wouldn’t it be impossible to take Valterok with you just because you need a ‘face madam’?
That’s similar to carrying a nuclear bag as a self-defense item.
In that sense, there were not many candidates.
Isla and Lorian are not very well known, and on the outside, they are just harmless-looking beautiful women, so taking them with them would not be helpful.
Before Isla wore a necklace made from her younger brother her, her her half her she was a shapeshifter who could not use her her magic her her her and because of that, she was not famous because she could not use any of her skills her her her her.
Lorian has her known name and appearance, but her armor has been shattered by Llewelyn, and her face and appearance have been permanently altered.
So all that’s left is Melody, Mourner, and Lucilla.
In that sense, the melody failed. Her face is well known and her reputation is considerable, but the problem is that she has lost her sense of sight.
She actually said that it had no effect on her fighting ability, but others might not think that way.
It becomes a nuisance if there is someone who sees Melody, who has lost sight, and sees it as an opportunity and rushes at it. In the end, all Melody could do was slump her shoulders due to her persuasion her her her.
So it was Lucilla.
Lucilla is a powerhouse whose face is known.
They were three people who were treated like legends in the Old Continent, and were widely known to be comparable to the Three Great Powers.
The Empire calls it Lucilla, Protector of the Nation.
But she is called by those who crossed her sword with her outside the empire, during the war of the empire.
Annihilation, Lucilla.
Llewelyn, who first heard the title, did not know whether it was Red Annihilation, or the destruction of the enemy.
Later, after seeing my sister’s unique skills of hers, I was easily convinced.
The Red Destruction side was right. The nuclear flame may look a bit red when viewed from the outside, from a harmless position.
So, there was a rational reason for taking Lucilla.
For mercenaries, prestige and notoriety are very intuitive, and the mere presence of a strong person makes many things easier.
What if his face was known and he was prominent as part of the three emerging powers in the Old Continent?
There is nothing better. So Llewellyn intentionally put his sister his first.
The entrance to the city was getting closer. Considering that cities like this usually close their entrances after dark, it wasn’t strange that no one was there.
Rather, there were many tents near the entrance. When the day comes and the door opens, people want to go inside.
None of them looked familiar to Llewelyn or Lucilla, but not to Ortemilia.
“I see people taking things from me.”
“Are you a business partner?”
“It’s not grand enough to be called a business partner. “I’d be like the drug dealer who sold my stuff a few bridges over.”
After listening to Orthemilia’s explanation, Llewellyn looked at her drug dealer.
The drug dealer was not the typical image of a drug dealer. Good or bad, he had the appearance of an ‘ordinary merchant’.
Their senses, which were far beyond those of humans, also increased their eyesight, and Llewelyn noticed that most of the items in the carriage they had brought and parked for a while were not drugs.
‘Are they selling drugs as a side dish?’
No, no. Llewelyn immediately changed her perception and put her thoughts into words.
“That makes sense. There is a possibility.”
And Ortemiglia lightly agreed with Llewelyn’s opinion her her her her. To be exact, it’s closer to ‘that could be true.’
Orthemilia felt that it was Llewellyn’s lack of intelligence that she deserved this answer.
She said as she patted the hem of her skirt at the place where her Llewelyn dropped her off her.
“There is a high possibility that Arba is currently cracking down on drugs.”
*
“Sister, is this really true?”
It was a shabby space. There were two prisoners inside.
One was a wolf beast. Although it looks like a wolf standing on two legs, it is already accepted as a branch of humanity even in the empire.
A beast in the shape of a beast. They exist not infrequently, and they were created that way because they were descendants of the shapeshifters after they were transformed.
Sometimes, they were born with a twisted lineage or something went wrong or something went right, so they were actually treated like humans.
It’s different in the mercenary industry. Although they are not shapeshifters, they are as strong as the shapeshifters after their transformation.
Physical strength, excellent vitality, and even the survival ability that comes from an animal-like sixth sense.
It is a structure that has no choice but to become a mercenary. So, half of the mercenaries in the Old Continent were beastmen in the form of complete beasts.
This ‘throne’ was like that, and ‘sister’ was also like that.
A woman who does not have a rich man, but looks like a lion.
She crossed her long legs and looked at her subordinate.
“Complaints are flooding in across the city. There are many mercenary groups that will leave the city if the medicine is not resupplied. Even now…”
“Let it go.”
“Sister.”
“If they get burned from outside, they will change their minds.”
She pretended to be relaxed, but in reality she wasn’t.
After much anxiety, reflection, and contemplation, she came to this conclusion.
Therefore, there was no wavering in her decision.
She got up from her seat, perhaps because she knew that her subordinate would also remain unwavering.
“About two months. Are you familiar with what happened in the meantime?”
The attendant was silent, and ‘sister’ walked around my office.
“The cannibal baron is dead. He was the only person who rallied the cannibals around here and stopped them from doing ‘vain things’, but when he died, the cannibals appeared in the city as well. Were the three people arrested this time also caught eating people?”
A cannibal is not just a cannibal. At first, they ate to survive, but at some point, if they were not cannibals, they ended up being unable to satisfy their hunger.
Those arrested this time were also like that. They were all hung, but they survived for a very long time.
The limbs were longer than those of a human, and the tongue was swimming languidly outside the mouth to suck up even the deeply buried marrow.
The hanging was carried out in secret.
“Ethan too… You changed your name. “May the stars punish that evil beast.”
Even though it was the death of the person she loved, she was unable to mourn deeply.
She wouldn’t say it had been a long time, but she had a lot on her shoulders.
She looked at her sister with concern, and she saw the weapon that the woman commonly called sister was hanging on the wall.
Her handle her her her was an especially long axe. The name was written on the blade of the axe.
Arba.
The woman’s name was Arba, the owner of the city.
“Is that all? Servan completely disappeared from the map, and Marsi became a lawless area. There is no order wherever you go, and monsters are taking advantage of that gap. Truly, this New World is becoming what we commonly think of in the Old World.”
It would have been fortunate if that were all, but it wasn’t.
The woman remembered many things she had not dared to say.
The arrival of the cradle, the spread of the black knights.
The existence of the beast that killed the star blade and the man-eating baron.
Even the mountain peak that was starting to move not far away.
That’s why the woman was confident.
Now is the time to be self-respecting, be cautious, and put safety first.
“Compared to what could happen… Prohibition of drugs is just a minor thing. So bear with it. “Kick out all those who can’t handle it.”
The woman was firm. The woman slightly opened the window in the wall and looked out.
There were many people walking around the city with only secondary weapons.
Most of them were mercenaries, some were assassins, and some were criminals who committed unspeakable crimes.
In this city, Arba, everyone was a resident. The woman put her back and looked down at her city with her tired eyes.
It would be great if there was a way to solve everything at once.
Why did he say he would take charge of a city like this?
The woman was about to swallow her sigh. A knocking sound spread to her office door.
The attendant glanced at the woman and glanced at the woman, and the woman, Arba, instantly became her deserter knight and nodded.
“Come in.”
When the wolf beastman got up from his seat, the door flew open.
“Ah, Arba!”
A man walked in, looking embarrassed, out of breath, and very shocked.
She was her subordinate. Memorizing the faces of all her subordinates, she remembered that he was a subordinate working at the castle gate.
“What’s going on? Who came in?”
Arba was a great boss. Her subordinates had no trouble reporting as she knew and asked all of her subordinates’ positions, names, and faces.
So the report was made immediately and quickly, and there should not have been any hesitation…
Suha rarely hesitated. Likewise, when Arba was wondering whether he should urge her on rare occasions, Suha showed clear signs of fear.
Fear?
Now?
Arba confirmed that there was no ax in his hand her her her her. So the reason to be afraid…
It was then.
Fireworks flashing and exploding from afar.
When the face of the lioness of Arba became recognizable as a beast in the same complete beast form, and her eyes turned to the open window.
The subordinate said.
“Hey, Jeokmyeol, Jeokmyeol has come!”
Annihilation. A being who, if anyone in the Old Continent hears it, will get irritated and show their faith by calling him Lord Protector.
However, for those who rebelled against the empire, failed in their rebellion, and were driven out to the New World, it was a name that was like the end.
And as everyone here knows, Arva, the wolf beastman, and the gatekeeper were all executives of the rebel army.
While Arba was frozen in his seat, his subordinate let out a sigh.
“Lucilla is here to end us!”
Arva grew and picked up the axe.