The Status Window Disappeared

Epic Items (3)

The red dragon’s armor was an epic item with many small functions rather than a large one.

Normally, the lack of great skills would have been very disappointing, but in the current situation, that is rather better.

However, the opposing player did not change his mind despite the threat of the enemy.

No, rather, he braced himself for battle as if he were welcoming the commander of the Red Dragon Knights.

‘The cooldown of the skill to use for escape must have returned?’

From Chris’ point of view, the opponent could have escaped right now.

But it doesn’t.

It was then that he realized the man’s intentions.

‘Could it be that he covets the armor of the red dragon?’

In the first place, it was strange that a player like that participated in the supply route raid operation.

What if the opponent expected the Red Dragon Knights to participate, or even induced them?

Having reached that point, Chris charged the ghost horse without hesitation.

If a guy moved with that level of planning, there was a high possibility that his nemesis would be behind him.

I couldn’t hand over epic items to those guys.

Here, you have to stop him, even if it means revealing a little bit of your bottom line.

As Chris expected, the opposing players began to overwhelm the red armor at once.

Enormous mana surged like mad, and a storm-like offensive hit him.

It wasn’t just a flurry of skills.

He generously displayed his skilled swordsmanship and excitedly pounded the red dragon’s armor.

The owner of the red armor fought against it with all his might, but unfortunately he was in a difficult position to receive the opponent’s attack.

Moreover, the opponent seemed to have learned information about the red dragon’s armor in advance, easily anticipating and avoiding the functions that were activated in succession.

When the opponent’s longsword looks like it’s about to cut him apart.

Chris hurriedly approached the knight commander’s back.

And Chris, who quickly led him to the top of the ghost horse, used the horse’s stride to check the attack distance.

His longsword relentlessly followed them, but when the ghost horse kicked the ground once, the longsword only cut through the air.

Chris completed his realignment, experiencing a graying of his surroundings.

This must be the emergency escape to the sound dimension that Elgar was talking about.

An evasion device that nullifies even weapons containing magic.

This is really worth writing about.

“Yes? you… … .”

Rescued by his hands, the player gasped for breath and struggled to brace himself.

Chris sent him back and tried to pressure him with the other Templars.

It must be because this side was flustered by the actions of the opposing player, so they had already won the battle.

If you keep your spirits up and fight, you can definitely win.

However, he immediately gave up his tail at the appearance of an unimaginable enemy.

“Flash of light!”

After using a big technique once and clearing the way, he starts to run away.

The knights, overwhelmed by their opponent’s inaction, do not even dare to stop him.

The skill’s cooldown was fully restored, so it was obvious that if we pursued it, we would see blood on this side as well.

It was only then that Chris took a closer look at his allies’ damage.

Almost all of the opposing light cavalry were killed or captured except for one player.

On the other hand, the damage on this side was a few skirmishers and several knights.

It is a great victory to the extent that a simple head count cannot be properly compared.

But from those who survived, there were no shouts of victory, no songs of triumph.

Everyone in this place would not dare to bring up the idea that they had won.

If I didn’t do it, the player on this side would have been beaten again, so it was understandable.

* * *

Returning to the camp after the fight, Chris received a call from the headquarters before putting his horse in the stable.

The person waiting for him at the headquarters, where he arrived with a tired body, is none other than the Red Dragon Knight Commander.

A middle-aged man with a lively appearance held out his hand and asked for a handshake.

“Thank you before. It would have been dangerous without you.”

“Hey, I haven’t done much.”

In fact, the ghost horse was very active this time.

If it wasn’t for him, Chris would have had a hard time too.

Carrying a load in one arm, shaking off the sword of such a powerful person was not an easy task.

The captain of the knights slaps him on the back with a gruff voice, and tries to repay the debt without hesitation.

“Not much was done! The technique you showed me is very strange. The public official is doing this. Do you have anything you want?”

Aha, this man was this type.

He also has the same personality as he did.

Chris admired it all over again, pondered for a while, and then made a very unexpected request.

I have enough travel funds and magic tools, so I want to get something more special from him.

“Do you have any chance to meet other people from Benicia Kingdom? Like getting close enough to talk on the battlefield.”

“hmm? Why did they suddenly… … .”

The atmosphere suddenly becomes heavy because the content of the question is the content.

Not only the leader of the Red Dragon Knights, but also the people who worked around him draw attention.

Chris was in a position where he had to come up with an explanation immediately.

“As you know, almost all otherworlders have lost their powers. But they are using it just fine.”

“So, are you asking for the secret?”

“Similar. But I won’t ask outright.”

After a moment of thought, Chris quietly began to unravel his plan in front of them.

At first, the headquarters doubted his thoughts.

However, when the player, the captain of the knights, showed a favorable response, they also changed their minds a little.

Chris was able to gain their trust by releasing some of the information he had secured.

As much as the situation in front and back fits perfectly, no matter how much you doubt it, you are bound to nod in the end.

After hearing the adjutant’s story, the knight commander immediately gave an answer.

“There are truce talks in a few days. It’s a proposal from our side, and the other party probably won’t accept it. You should be able to talk to them there, though.”

The two kingdoms have always accompanied the player as an escort when holding talks.

It may not be the Rosehook kingdom, but the opponent who has the full power of the players will proceed in the same way this time.

The knight commander promised to accompany Chris during the meeting.

Thanks to that, Chris was able to leave the headquarters with a satisfied feeling.

Originally, he had to investigate on his own, but now he can get cooperation from the command.

After that, for several days, boring routines such as grooming weapons and making the body continued.

However, his mercenary allowance had already been met for a long time, and it was not a shameful situation.

So, the day of the meeting finally arrived.

As one of the escorts, Chris was assigned to guard the barracks at the conference hall.

A request for a ceasefire was proposed, which could not be accepted in the barracks in the middle of the battlefield.

The escorts face each other outside the barracks, squinting and gnashing their teeth.

After timing for a while, Chris greeted the woman standing in front of him.

“Isilante-sama, long time no see. In the past, I really owed a lot.”

Needless to say, the woman was one of the opposing players.

She flirted around, obviously embarrassed, when Chris showed signs of friendliness.

“Yes? that, yes To meet enemies like this now… … .”

“I can’t help it. All mercenaries like me are like bats.”

“Small talk then.”

The Red Dragon Knight Commander glared at Chris with a stern expression and spat out.

However, Chris could see the slightest hint of a smile on his lips.

After the talks ended in failure, as everyone expected, Chris had to go back to headquarters and report the progress to the others.

As if asking for confirmation, the Knight Commander asked back what he had explained before.

“You really haven’t even met her, have you?”

“That’s right. But the other person roughly answered my words.”

Maybe the players on the other side aren’t the same people as before.

Chris tried this job with that hypothesis.

Krisya knows they stole the status screen, but the others don’t.

This time’s work was to confirm that.

Chris was actually unfamiliar with the player Isilante.

However, she fell into Chris’s trap because she was wary of her identity being questioned.

If he hadn’t been stabbed, he would have openly ignored the greetings of the other mercenaries.

“The player over there is most likely not you. Perhaps someone with similar powers as the player is pretending to be the player.”

Chris babbles a story that command can roughly understand, and in his mind he plots his next plan.

I’m still not sure if they’re related to the previous status window thief.

However, it seems that they are using a similar technique.

The signal pointed by Elgar’s tracking spell is still far away.

So it seemed like Chris didn’t need to hang on to this little clue.

However, just as there is the armor of the red dragon in Rosehook, there was a very desirable epic item in the other camp.

When he remembered that, an unhealthy desire welled up in Chris’ chest.

However, this is a battlefield, and as far as Chris knows, there are as many as five players active over there.

There is a chance of winning against one person, but if you fight against two people, from then on you will lose.

Moreover, the person who actually has ownership of the epic item is the player who is under the curse.

So what I remembered was Elgar’s advice.

According to her, even if a player’s status window is stolen by a curse, the original owner of the power is still the player.

The curse sorcerer is only using the player’s power.

Because of this, when the cursed player dies, the caster of the curse also loses the status window.

Chris decided to aim for just that.

It is not to fight head-on against fakes who have status windows, but to hunt real ones who have lost their powers due to being cursed.

If the original owners of the status window die anyway, the fakes will also lose their status window.

‘It’s relatively recent that they’ve been active here. That’s why the cursed players are still nearby.’

Logistics and human access are strictly controlled during wartime.

So transporting cursed players will be difficult.

Of course, if the person behind the curse uses some strength, there’s nothing they can’t do… … .

Chris was locked up in the dungeon of Pochinki Kingdom without being transported for quite a long time.

The same goes for Louis, who was later summoned and cursed.

Maybe they don’t have a proper home base.

Chris decided to put some hope on that guess.

While command squabbles over new information.

He quietly took on a scouting mission and headed to the Kingdom of Benicia.

However, the wartime city was not formidable enough for him to hide easily.

Chris has already been active in Rosehook, so it is dangerous to enter as a mercenary.

While looking down at the castle, he pondered on how to infiltrate until late at night.

His steed watched Chris, bending its hind legs.

“huh? what’s the matter?”

Once on the guy’s back as he was told, Chris was stunned by the actions that followed.

Isn’t the ghost horse that carried him start galloping toward the wall?

Chris was about to jump off his back, but the momentum was so frightening that he hesitated for a moment.

In the meantime, the guy entered the sound dimension and dyed Chris’ vision gray.

The ghost horse carrying him passed through the thick and strong walls without any resistance.

Chris belatedly realized his true intentions and stroked his mane.

I knew this guy would be useful, but was it this much?

Going in and out of the walls of a mighty kingdom as if it were their own home.

This is really beyond imagination.

but. Since he was created by the supreme master of necromancy, in a way, this level can be taken for granted.

Even while Chris was delighted with the unexpected ease, his horse moved silently away from the eyes of the city guards.