I Don't Want To Work! - Chapter 91
CHAPTER 91
“Master!”
“Achel, don’t! Don’t collide with the wanderer right now!”
The voices of two men urging against it burst out.
But whether they said it or not, we collided.
“Are you okay, Wanderer?”
Kicking off the wall and twisting her body mid-air, a dark elf called Achel shouted.
“You don’t look well now!”
Thunk!
With a leap, she swung her dagger down where I had been standing.
Oh, if I had been just a little slower, it wouldn’t have been just my clothes torn.
“It’s kind of you to worry.”
I grinned.
“Save your worries!”
Simultaneously, the ground shot up at frightening speed.
“Guh!”
Achel quickly threw herself backward, but the rising ground grazed her arm and contorted her face.
“…Spirit? Were you contracted with the earth spirit?”
Achel, landing on the ground, grimaced.
Then she quickly got up.
Was she worried I would raise the ground again to attack?
Kicking off the ground, walls, and even the ceiling, she ran terrifyingly, minimizing the time she spent in contact.
‘Smart.’
Certainly, attacking using the ground would be difficult if she kept this up.
Even if I raised it sharply like before, she would escape quickly.
The place was too cramped to use the full range of earth attacks.
Smart, very smart.
‘But.’
Wasn’t using just the power of the earth enough?
As soon as Achel entered the attack range, I used the power of Ifrit.
Fwoosh!!
Flames spread precisely to where Achel’s face had been.
“….!”
Achel barely avoided the flames, dropping to the ground.
“Oh.”
I laughed at her like that.
“Your reaction is quick?”
Whether she knew I was teasing her or not, Achel’s face grimaced again.
‘Keep it up.’
This time, I pulled out two crystals.
They were the crystals of Elam and Ifrit.
And I used them simultaneously.
I’ll show off a little more of my tricks!
Boom!!
When the massive water and scorching fire met, the water evaporated instantly, filling the corridor with a hazy mist.
“Are you running away?”
Achel’s sharp shout echoed through the corridor.
“I won’t let you go just because you pull off these tricks!”
They’re tricks, but.
I’m not trying to run away, you know?
There was no sound of footsteps.
It didn’t even take a few seconds.
Yet Achel caught up behind me.
“I got you!”
She clenched her dagger, revealing it.
Words were unnecessary.
She quickly swung her dagger towards my neck.
But.
‘Did she hesitate?’
She must have had the previous fire attack in mind.
It was a natural reaction to the sudden burst of flames.
And that moment of hesitation.
It was enough for me.
Slash, slash!
“Argh!!”
The ground rose again as if it knew Achel would be here.
This time, it hit its mark precisely.
Achel, who took a direct blow to her abdomen, gasped for breath.
‘There’s still more to come!’
Before she could adjust her posture again, I clenched a crystal in my hand and exerted force.
Everyone, take note.
When you hold something in your hand and throw a punch, you can hit harder!
I swung my fist straight toward her chin.
“….!!”
It landed perfectly.
Achel’s eyes rolled back, and her body crumpled immediately.
Unable to regain her senses, she attempted to get up but only wobbled her arms and legs.
“Just taking a break, huh?”
I shook my reddened hand.
Just hitting once made my hand feel numb.
“Your head must be spinning, and your vision blurry, right?”
The jaw was a vulnerability of humanoid races.
Hitting the jaw with strong force can easily cause a concussion as the brain collides.
‘Actually, I hit intending to knock her out.’
Didn’t go that far.
Too bad.
But still, with her head ringing like that, it would be difficult for her to get up for a while.
“You, you…!”
Struggling to rise even to the point of digging her nails into the floor, Achel glared at me.
But she was stuck to the ground.
“Oh, how did you grab me from behind…?”
“Aha, that?”
I chuckled.
“Those who handle memorization like you guys seem to like grabbing from behind at crucial moments.”
So, I had already prepared a ground attack with Gnome’s force crystal behind me.
And my prediction was spot on.
“…The fire and mist were all distractions.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
I used a bit of force, though.
I should be satisfied with landing a proper effective blow on someone of this caliber.
“Now, what to do next-.”
“There are people here!!!”
Whack!
I was startled and looked into the distance.
And the same was true for Achel and the other dark elf.
Where our gaze ended.
There, a knight was roaring while looking in the other direction.
“Commander! We have enemies here!”
What? Even Gerol is coming?
“Master.”
I felt a shiver down my spine.
“For now, let’s get out of here.”
“Achel!”
And the same was true on the other side.
The dark elf man supported Achel, who still couldn’t get up.
“We’ll get out of here for now.”
“I, I-.”
And they disappeared across the corridor at a rapid pace.
“Darn it.”
I gritted my teeth over Lionel’s shoulder.
Even if I couldn’t kill them, I should have firmly secured my position this time!
So that next time, they wouldn’t bend over backward.
I ground my teeth.
“Where are those bastards!”
“I’ll catch them first!!”
To top it off, Gerol and Stella’s voices were getting closer.
Yeah, there’s no way Stella wouldn’t come.
“Master.”
Lionel called me soothingly.
“Alright, let’s go.”
There was no reason for us to stay here when those bastards had already fled.
The Shaun guy would smooth things over with the knights.
“Is it them?!”
Before Stella’s thick golden hair caught my sight, a black cloak blocked my view.
“….!!”
“….!!”
The voices of people shouting quickly faded away.
“We’ve arrived, Master.”
When my sight was restored, we were already outside the auction house.
Must be a short-distance teleport.
I felt less nauseous than before.
“Hah.”
Carefully descending, I heaved a deep sigh.
“It’s all over now.”
Too bad, too bad.
Just one more hit would have done it.
“But haven’t you accomplished your initial goal?”
Lionel, now back to his original golden hair, asked.
“That’s right.”
I nodded.
I had completed everything I planned while meeting Ringo.
And I had thrown the golden button as well.
Stella would take care of the Marquis’ neck.
It’s a bit disappointing that I couldn’t break that arrogant Achel’s nose.
‘There was unexpected profit too.’
And also, didn’t I find out that the “Nameless God” who flapped his wings in my first life had now become a demon?
‘Come to think of it, they said he got a name.’
I narrowed my eyes.
It was absolute for beings like gods, as well as other entities.
Especially for gods, a name was everything.
‘Because the power of a god comes from their believers.’
Their faith, prayers, and how many people knew about the god.
Depending on that, the god’s power could weaken or strengthen.
But what if a god didn’t have a name?
It meant there was no place where those prayers, faith, and awareness could gather.
Even if it somehow reached, it would scatter in an instant.
And without accumulating power for a long time, the god would naturally be forgotten by everyone.
And then it would vanish.
That was the death of a god.
‘So I heard that the god took away the name of this evil god.’
So that the demon’s power could scatter and eventually be destroyed.
Until the existence of the demon itself became blurred and forgotten by everyone.
He took away the name.
“Hmm…”
I need more detailed information.
The events of it happened before I was born.
So I only heard about it.
‘I want to know more.’
But I had no one to tell me.
Several gods showed favor to me, including Detmé.
But they wouldn’t tell me about the flaws of the divine realm.
Shameful history, dirty stains on the divine realm, Kyres’ mistakes.
I murmured the words he shouted before he was dragged underground.
‘Are there any other intelligent beings besides the gods?’
Could any intelligent beings witnessed that disturbance firsthand?
The Spirit Kings had no interest in the divine realm.
They only stayed in the spirit realm at the time, so they might not know.
Then who else?
‘…Ah, there is one.’
Just one, no, just one creature.
That would be the Dragon Lord.
‘Last time, Pendrade mentioned that he’s over a thousand years old.’
He was an intelligent being who lived longer than all those creatures in the human realm and acquired all wisdom.
‘…I’ll ask if I can meet Pendrade when he wakes up.’
Alright.
“But what is it?”
I furrowed my brow.
I had completed everything I planned.
I had obtained unexpected information.
I had organized what needed to be done in the future.
But why do I feel so strangely uneasy?
“Master, shall we return to the mansion for now?”
“Yes, let’s do that.”
While nodding, I couldn’t shake off the feeling of unease.
Yes, it feels like I forgot something very important.