Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 98: Kidnapping Incident?

In the sudden rain, how fast did the carriage travel?

Unhappy.

But the forest was too close, and in that short time, they had already entered the entrance to the 'Shadow'.

The sticky darkness in the rain.

The wind brought discordant "sounds".

Allen looked out at the rain.

Then the rain stopped.

It stopped in the literal sense.

The raindrops, falling one after another, seemed to freeze in the air at a slow pace.

It froze in the deep gray pupils.

It was frozen in the "Sensory Flow" that Allen had fully activated with his Dragon Saint Battle Aura!

The carriage curtains swayed slowly in the wind! In the candlelight filtering through the curtains, countless water droplets 'slowly' fell before his eyes, shimmering and reflecting orange arcs of light that struck Allen's eyeballs!

With his brain overloaded and his thoughts extremely active, Allen couldn't help but compare this scene with a movie scene from his past life while processing information. It was a visual effect of using lighting effects to "freeze" raindrops.

Allen truly achieved this in the other world of swords and magic.

Amidst the heavy raindrops, the underlying tone of the environment is reflected through the "fluid" sensation!

The rain has stopped! The gale has ceased! The forest leaves no longer sway and cast shadows!

The air rising from the forest was filled with the cold gleam of weapons, their sharp edges flashing as they were drawn from their sheaths.

Above the rain curtain.

Arrows crawled through the raindrops!

This was not the "contest" from Gilead as imagined, but a meticulously planned "assassination"!!

Allen blinked, freeing himself from the oppressive flow of spiritual energy.

The curtains swung wildly in front of him in the wind and rain!

He heard the sound of footsteps beside him, and Alice, who had broken free from the "restraints" of the cat-eared maid, was in front of Allen's face in two steps.

"Hey! Is Gilead out the window? Why are you looking out the window? Could it be her?"

Before she could finish speaking, Allen's hand was placed in front of her face.

The back of his hand was facing Alice, while his palm was facing out the window, thus blocking Alice's face.

You want me to see it, but you won't let me, is that it?

Where has the little lion ever been provoked like this?

The drowsiness vanished instantly, his fiery red, inverted V-shaped eyebrows shot up high, and his lips parted as if to speak!

In that instant!

An arrow fell from the sky, piercing the rain, weaving through the window railings, and struck Allen squarely in the palm of his hand!

The arrow trembled and hissed before Allen's palm due to the inertia of its fall from the sky, and was almost blurred by the constant changes in direction caused by the Flowing Secret Technique.

In the sudden turn of events, Alice instinctively took a step back, but her competitive nature made her stop immediately. Her dynamic vision and swordsmanship talent as a beginner swordsman were brought into play at this moment. With her red pupils dilated, she caught a glimpse of the trajectory of the arrow between Allen's fingers.

then.

With a loud bang, the arrow shattered into countless splinters, scattering across the carriage!

As the commotion occurred, several arrows flew erratically through the air and landed on the roof of the carriage.

The carriage had already entered the forest, and figures emerged from the trees through the rain.

"Rufi! Earth Fortress Magic, protect Alice and yourselves!!"

Allen scooped up Alice, who was still staring blankly at his hand, and tossed her into Sylphie's arms.

"good!!"

The latter reacted quickly. The day and night of monster battles that took her to the snow valley last winter had given her and Allen a strong understanding of each other. Even though she couldn't figure out the situation at all, she subconsciously did as Allen said.

In Ellen's peripheral vision, magic surged from her palm, forming an encircling "barrier" around the corners of the carriage.

The magic trick—an earthen fortress, leaving only one entrance for observation.

In this sudden turn of events, Alice averted her gaze from Allen's hand, looking at the scattered arrow fragments on the ground. Her red eyes, instead of flashing with fear, shone with excitement!

The young lady is a tough person who can still stand up and curse the thieves even when she is kidnapped and tied up. How could this little change scare her?

Hilfi glanced at the arrow fragments on the ground and, listening to the sound of people running through the mud outside the carriage, quickly realized that they had been ambushed. When she looked at Allen's face, which was faintly filled with anger, she looked puzzled.

"Alan mentioned Alice first? Could it be that...Alan has already deduced that this sudden attack is aimed at Alice?"

Thinking of this, Alice in her arms began to struggle.

"Sylphie, let me go! I need to go outside and see!"

Hilfi used a breath magic trick to pull Alice into his arms, his voice soft and gentle, but he spoke very quickly.

"Don't do that. Since Allen asked me to protect you, it must be because he feels it's dangerous. I also know you're very interested in Allen's swordsmanship, so I opened a 'window' for you. Can you just watch like this?"

"I!"

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have taught you swordsmanship if he got angry."

Alice's mouth, which was about to retort, suddenly froze. She pursed her lips into a "(" and snorted with considerable disdain.

"Who needs him to teach them!"

Her body, true to her word, went limp in Hilfi's arms, her eyes fixed on Allen without blinking.

Hilfi smiled gently, pursing her lips, and looked up.

In that instant!

A knife was thrust into the carriage from outside, aimed directly at Allen's face!

Both Hilfi and Alice's pupils contracted simultaneously. Alice instinctively tried to move again, but this time it was Hilfi beneath her who was in a hurry and moved her body.

next moment.

At the same time, they felt that the candlelight in the carriage was somewhat dazzling, and that a sharp buzzing sound, or perhaps many sounds combined, was pouring into their ears!

"Buzz!!!"

With a buzzing sound, the blades, gleaming with a cold light, fell like raindrops from the tip of the blade to Allen's feet in a horizontal line.

The tip! The blade! The hilt!

Fingers! Wrists! Arms!

Torn clothes! Gushing blood!

Outside the carriage, the person who handed over the knife, probing into the carriage by inertia, had his entire arm, along with the blade, sliced ​​into thin slices.

Pieces fell one by one in front of Allen.

Blood gushed out from the man's severed upper arm!

And this scene only took one second!

Almost simultaneously! A heart-wrenching scream rang out from outside the window!

The screams stopped a moment later.

A head fell onto the windowsill, bounced down the carriage wall, and rolled down in front of Hilfi and Alice's earthen castle.

Blood was still gushing out.

The head's expression was vivid and inexplicable, as if it still clung to life.

Alice and Silphie stared dumbfounded at the unshaven, blood-covered stranger's head on the ground.

Hilfi's legs went weak and she plopped down in the earthen fortress, only then realizing what had happened.

What does Allen mean by "earthen castle"?

That was not intended for Sylphie to build a defensive fortress to protect the two of them.

Rather, it was to prevent the two of them from being sprayed with blood.

That's all.

(End of this chapter)