"... Phew! I finally got rid of him. I didn't expect this guy to have so many accomplices."
Hearing the shouts of killing outside slowly fade away, Yuri followed unknown townspeople to a blacksmith's room and wiped his forehead.
"It sounds so easy, it's obviously all your fault!"
Warrod, who was also observing here, heard Yuri's light words and couldn't help but reply.
"Haha, don't worry about such trivial things anymore. Thank you so much for this little brother!"
After suppressing his partner's anger with a grin, Yuri thanked him and turned his attention to the person leading the way.
"Hmph! It's not something worth thanking. I just don't want outsiders to become like us."
"..."
After finding a seat by the window and sitting down, the owner of the room picked up the wine bottle on the table and drank it by himself, looking lifeless.
"When the streets calm down, you should leave here quickly!"
With his face already a little tipsy, the young man looked out the window with hazy eyes, and then waved his hands impatiently.
"...We can't pretend we haven't heard this! Brother, can you tell us what exactly happened in this city?"
Obviously unable to accept such a result, Yuri walked up to the town citizen and proved with a serious expression that he was not joking.
"..."
"There's nothing to say! If you don't want to be implicated, just leave quickly!"
"This city is going to 'die' soon!"
Yuri's words seemed to have opened his scars. After slamming the wine bottle on the table, the young man shouted loudly.
This indifferent attitude made the three of them helpless. After all, the other party was their savior, so it was impossible to force him for such a reason.
Just when they were considering whether they should really leave and look elsewhere to ask questions, Mavis' reminder broke the deadlock.
"...Those people should be from the Dark Guild."
"...!"
The expressions of the few people who heard this changed. If this is the case, we can understand what this man is worried about.
The tragic situation in the city before her also reminded the brown-haired girl in the wheelchair of the unpleasant experience she had seven years ago.
"Mavis! Did you find something?!"
"Um……"
Glancing at Zella, the little guy nodded lightly with hesitation.
"...Because seven years ago, our home, 'Sirius Island', was destroyed by the dark guild 'Blue Skull'."
"——!!!!"
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and everyone opened their eyes wide, including the villager holding the wine bottle.
Speaking of which, Zera and the others have indeed not mentioned much about their past affairs.
"Really...your city is also..."
After lowering his hands in sympathy, the decadent young man finally slowly talked about what happened here.
"Just like the little girl said, those bastards suddenly came to our city half a month ago..."
...
From his subsequent narration, several people gradually came into contact with the reality of this city.
The one who occupies this place is a dark guild called "The Demon's Skeleton".
Although they seem to be a new dark guild with a low reputation, as a group of armed magicians, they are obviously not something that ordinary town guards and residents can deal with.
The resistance forces were completely suppressed within a few days, and many people were publicly executed in order to scare the monkeys.
After that, there was burning, killing, looting, and "Magnolia" shrouded in darkness entered the countdown to its demise.
"...What happened next is as you can see. Because if you just go out on the street, you will be targeted, so not many people dare to go out now."
"But after all, we can't hide at home all the time. As a result, those who go out to survive are treated as magic bullets by them!"
Covering his eyes in pain, those tragedies still appear vividly in the young man's mind.
"how so......"
What happened to the town residents made Mavis murmur sadly, and also made Yuri and the others grit their teeth.
"......hateful!"
He punched the wall, and it seemed that only the stinging pain on his arm could relieve the anger in his heart.
Warlord and Precht were also silent. To be honest, they had encountered many similar things in their adventures. Basically, they always helped if they could, and if they couldn't, there was nothing they could do.
They are just ordinary treasure hunters.
"...Sir, do you know where they come from? It's not like a dark guild with that kind of number and size can be formed in a day or two."
Opening her lips lightly, Zeira hoped to get some more valuable information about the unknown enemy.
It would be better if it could match her 'memory'. The dark church just now gave her a very bad feeling.
"...I'm sorry, I don't know anything more, but I heard that this guild attacked a town earlier for funds and robbed a place called the "Treasure House of the Sylph" there.
Many treasures.”
"--What?!"
Yuri suddenly rushed in front of the young man, and grabbed the young man's shoulders with a look of shock.
"Hey! Are you sure you heard it right?! It's the 'treasure house of the wind spirit'?"
"Uh-"
He shook the other person desperately, making the young man almost out of breath.
"Calm down Yuri! He can't speak at all if you're like this!"
After stopping his companion's movements, Precht also looked ugly.
"Shenjing...could it be...?!"
Remembering where Yuri and the others belonged, Mavis looked at Warrod uneasily.
"...Well, if he heard correctly, the "Treasure House of the Wind Spirit"... is the most important place in the "Labyrinth of the Wind Spirit", the guild of the old man and his friends. The C-level to super-S-level secret treasures in it are all taken by everyone.
Found it at the risk of his life.”
"So it turns out that it is because of those treasures that this dark guild has developed rapidly..."
Holding her chin, Zella was able to figure out some things.
News one after another stimulated everyone's nerves, and soon some people couldn't bear it any longer.
"...Where are you going! Yuri!"
Seeing someone rushing out of the door, Warlord hurriedly called out a warning.
"Do you still need to ask about that kind of thing?"
Yuri gestured fiercely and said with a stern expression.
"Of course I'm going to settle the score with those bastard bandits!"
After leaving this declaration, the people in the room had no choice but to follow his lead.
"That guy is really——!"
"Forget it! Zella and Mavis, you stay here!"
They picked up their luggage one after the other, and the two quickly followed.
Now they have forgotten the fact that there are dozens or hundreds of people on the opposite side.
They even 'forgot' who taught them their magic.
"Zera... we also..."
Watching the three people leaving uneasily, Mavis came to his friend's side.
"Well, let's go."
(If the magic reaction in that church is real...tsk...)
The brown-haired girl, who was particularly sensitive to a certain kind of magic, sighed and prepared to catch up with the feather-eared girl.
After all, we are now on the same team, and it is not in line with her style to just "see death without saving".
"Hey! What are you going to do?!"
The owner of the blacksmith shop, who seemed to have just recovered from the 'shock' and realized something was wrong, looked at the leaving girls in surprise.