Chapter 13 – Baron Leon (5)

Gallop Gallop Gallop Gallop!

Without a carriage, everyone was riding their own individual horses as Belis’ group traversed the Great Forest.

With the sudden appearance of Jade’s group, their plans were completely foiled and had no choice but to move forward with the current people in their group.

Carlton felt like this was too much of a waste.

“There is no time for you to be angry. We must move as quickly as possible, so the two of them can’t follow us.”

“Yes father, but…..”

“Let’s talk about that later.”

“Okay.”

Noticing that Carlton had realized something, Belis shut Carlton’s mouth.

He believed there was no reason for this type of conversation to be talked about in front of so many people.

Furthermore, what was important now wasn’t Jade but his survival.

‘I’m certain they said they met in the Great Forest, so we must put as much of a distance between us as possible.’

Belis became solemn.

Everything had become chaotic.

As much as he couldn’t change what happened in the past, the only thing he could do now was to move forward with full force.

“Let’s move even quicker!”

“Yessir!”

As they had informed the Commanding Knight of their plans earlier, they were able to at least gather the little amount of people that were currently in the group.

However, they were unable to pack any of their family wealth.

“H, hey!”

“Agh!”

One of the knights that were sprinting forward on their horse suddenly freaked out and shouted.

And hearing his shout, Belis’ heart naturally began to pound.

For some reason, he began to feel an ominous feeling and his feeling wasn’t wrong.

“Mmm!”

Belis looked devastated as he saw Jade and Arelia’s figure tear through the sky.

Although he was hoping for something, it was as expected that his weak knights wouldn’t be able to hold the two of them behind.

“……..Father.”

“Let’s keep going. Nothing will change even if we were to stop right now.”

“Yes!”

Even his surprise was short lived as Belis pulled his reins with all his might.

Although Jade and Arelia had caught up to their group, it didn’t mean they were finished.

He believed he could leave them behind if he utilized the topography of the Great Forest, since he was the one that knew this forest the best.

Boom boom boom!

However, the Earth moved like waves as if to sneer at Belis’ thoughts.

The once hard ground was now moving around like a wave.

“Uhuh?!”

“Calm down! I said calm down!”

The horses began to freak out as the ground began to move beneath them.

They were shocked as this was something that had never happened before in their entire life.

However, the surprises didn’t stop there.

Rustle!

10-meter Earth walls began to form around the group as if to surround them.

“Mmm!”

Belis became gloomy as the Earth walls shot up from the ground out of nowhere.

As they were now completely blocked off, they couldn’t run away even if they wanted to.

“M, my lord!”

Even the knights who were barely able to calm the horses down, approached Belis with dark faces.

However, even he himself didn’t have any other methods left.

“To think you would even leave your wife behind just to run away. You’re even more of a trash than I expected.”

“Shut your mouth!”

“Don’t butt in. Someone like you doesn’t have the right to butt in.”

“Huk!”

As soon as Jade finished speaking, Noes appeared near Carlton and smacked him in the face with its tail.

However, even though it had lightly swung its tail, blood poured out from Carlton’s mouth as he flew five meters into the air.

“L, little lord!”

Seeing this, the knights became flustered and yelled, but none of them dared to move.

Seeing Noes standing in between them with a dignified manner made it impossible for them to move.

Not only did it have the figure of a huge rhinoceros, but its aura was also extraordinary, so none of the knights were able to reach for their swords.

“…….Do you really have to do this? At the end of the day, I’m still your father.”

“How laughable. Since when did you even give me any paternal love.”

“If you can just close your eyes for me just this once and pretend like nothing happened, I’ll disappear from you and never appear before you again. Additionally, I won’t ever come back to Paulstein. I promise.”

“Your fate has already been decided. It just got slightly extended thanks to me.”

“So, you really want to go….! Ugh!”

Belis groaned as he pulled his sword out.

He was directly hit by Hwid’s lightning breath and was electrocuted.

As he was a sword expert, he was able to endure the breath, but that was it.

As he was electrocuted, Belis wasn’t even able to speak properly.

“Uh?! Uh?!”

“P, please spare me! I was just doing what I was…..!”

Noes moved at the same time as it gradually began to pull the spectating knights into the ground.

“Ugh!”

“Why me! Why are you taking me as well! What the hell did I do wrong!”

And it was the same for Belis and Carlton.

The two began to sink into the ground as they received Jade’s cold stare.

“I, I will never……!”

“I’ll curse you! Even if I must become a ghost, I’ll curse you till the end!”

“Go ahead.”

The two nobles cursed with all their might, but the outcome was still the same.

Shortly after, both their figures completely disappeared into the ground.

“Do you feel refreshed?”

“I’m calm. Although it’s revenge, it’s not that big of a deal.”

“You’re right.”

Jade meekly nodded his head.

Although adults had told him to forgive his enemies and those who sinned, but he couldn’t as he wasn’t a saint.

He as just a normal person.

Bloop bloop.

The ground wriggled as Jade was casually staring at the spot where Belis had been swallowed into.

Then it suddenly began to spit out a few items.

-As expected! Noes has commons sense!

-The goods are innocent. The more there are the merrier.

-Of course, of course!

While the Earth walls that had risen high were sinking, all the goods that Belis and his people had rose to the ground.

Even though it wasn’t given any instructions, Noes used common sense to gather the items.

And seeing this, Jade began to laugh uncontrollably, but he did not refuse Noes’ hard work.

Pooheung! Pooheung!

Noes’ eyes sparkled as Jade approached it once it was done gathering the items.

It wanted Jade to praise it, so it began to blow air out through its nose.

“It seems like it wasn’t something you requested Jade?”

“Yeah, Noes did it himself.”

“It seems like the spirits really love you. It’s really rare for them to move on their own like this.”

Arelia couldn’t help but laugh as she could see that it wanted to be praised by Jade.

And, at the same time, she couldn’t but feel amazed.

Although elves were said to be the closest to nature, spirits didn’t act this way with them.

“Thanks.”

Poorururunngg!

Noes didn’t know what to do as it felt Jade’s gentle stroke.

It wagged its butt and lowered its head to the ground as Celestine and Elestra burst out in laughter.

This was a first for the two spirits as well.

Ggyyoo!

Only Hwid appeared to be displeased with the situation and looked to be jealous of Noes.

However, seeing that Hwid was getting jealous, Noes smiled as it walked over and rubbed its head on Hwid.

It was doing its best to comfort Hwid because it knew Hwid was still a baby.

“Such a nice thing to see.”

“I really believe I was fortunate enough to meet such nice kids.”

“It could also be that these nice kids appeared before you because you’re a good person.”

“I don’t think that’s true.”

“Is that so?”

Arelia made a strange smile on her face.

However, Jade was unable to see her expression because he was busily putting away the items Noes had gathered for him, into his subspace.

A few moments later, Jade and Arelia both rode Scylla back to the Baron’s land.