Volume 2 Chapter 20: Milk That Brought Miracle

(Walson)

Forcibly breaking the collar on Barella will trigger a magic signal placed in the collar, and in turn, that would alert all of the assassins who are wandering around the city and making them rush to our location.

Although, I still can't confirm how many people there are.

Okay, now there are two ways I can approach this problem.

The first method only works for a while.

Just by touching it, I'm able to place Barella collar into my [Inventory].

I can also turn on the [Illusory Barrier] —fun fact, it turns out, this thing can actually cover a magic signal– and then break the collar.

However, that is only a temporary fix. In the future, there is a chance that Barella would still be killed by them should she be discovered all alone without her collar.

This method was too unreliable to help Barella.

So, I choose the other method.

Root out this espionage organization directly from the capital.

This method is very violent, very direct and has many consequences, bu,Sometimes, real men just have to follow their heart regardless of the consequences!

As for the certainty of this method working... to be honest, I'm 99% certain that it would work.

I really don't think those people will be able to beat Melon when she is equipped with her [Band of the Bold].

It's the early hours of the night, and I've just had some wine, and I'm a little tipsy.

Perhaps it is the wine that is giving me the courage to follow through this plan

I picked up the potted plant and walked out.

I will set the location a little far from the store?

Finally, I arrived at the main street that is some distance away from the [Dog House].

A deserted street at night... In the old gangster movies, this is a very suitable place for a gang member to give a poor sod the beating of their life.

To be honest, I have doubts about whether such an organization really exists. After all, sneaking into the capital of another country is no joke.

Forget it, let's prepare for battle.

"Grace, Melon, you wanna come along too?"

"...Yes, we are friends."

"I will follow Master whenever he goes."

It seems that there is no problem, and Grace's strength will not lose. For Merlin.

"Master, what do you want us to do?"

"Defeat the assassin, the more the better." I paused, "Finally, just use the [Band of the Bold] or the Dimension Leap if the opponent is too strong for you, kill if you have to but try to keep some alive but your safety comes first."

Melon and Grace were allowed to go all out

As long as there are no god-like beings among the Assassin, there should be no accident.

To be honest, I feel bad for those Assassins.

I bet Melon and Grace are going to give them nightmares

"Wait, what are you guys planning to do!?" Barella was still a little confused.

"Okay okay~ come closer, I'll let you make your worry disappear with this.." Speaking lines like a drug dealer, I walked to the side of Barrela

I took out the [Iron Cross] from the [Inventory] and pointed it at the lock of the collar.

"Wait, if that's the case I'll..."

Without waiting for her to finish her word, I touched the source of her worry with the iron cross, and immediately, Barella neck is free, and at the same time, I feel that there is an extra collar in my [Item Bar].

Bang!

That's the sound of Barella collar colliding with the ground.

"–Woo!" Barella held her neck with both hands, opened her mouth wide in pain, and his body fell limp.

I caught her.

The curse [Curse of Subordination] will be afflicted to her if the collar is forcibly removed, the curse cause difficulty in breathing and several other general weakness

I immediately took out [Milk Potion] and poured it into her mouth.

It removes all abnormal status effects on the body, it's a very magical item! No other item in this world has such an effect! Therefore, I have no intention of selling it, because if I do, the world will definitely fall into chaos.

—Grace, why are you staring at me with such scary intensity...

—This position is a bit awkward now, what's with me holding Barella that is about to fall.

"...Eh?"

I immediately helped Barella up with some embarrassment, but it seemed that I was the only one who felt embarrassed.

"Did you feel better?"

"What's... what's going on? The collar..." She touched her neck with an expression of disbelief.

# Master, there is a rapid viBraation happening in the northwest... Someone is approaching here fast, and I think they are malicious #

As if not wanting to interfere with the conversation, Melon chose to speak to me in the form of telepathy using the party chat.

#Several?#

There really are spies in the capital city.

#There is only one that is relatively close, and the others will arrive in about five minutes. #

# You know what to do right? go. #

I took a look at Barella, and Melon had already gone away.

I took out [Apollo] from the [Inventory].

The bow I made before is my favorite work.

Unfortunately, I rarely had the chance and opportunity to use this bow, so it has been dusting in my [Inventory], now, it seems [Apollo] would receive the chance to shine.

"Hey, Barella."

"Huh?"

"You said you used to be an archer, right? Take this, from now on, this is going to be your new Elf Weapon." I put [Apollo] in her hand with a smile.

"What? My [Elvenisation] is no longer usable! An Elf can only use it once in a lifetime!" Barella looked at me with wide eyes, then looked down at the [Apollo] in her hand, "And... This bow feels very...strong, for you to be giving me something like this..."

"Don't overthink about it, just use your [Elvenisation] skill, your curse has been lifted." I ignored Barella words and retorted softly.

"But..."

"Hurry up."

"Hmm... Okay… OOOOO─────!?" Barella hesitated for a while, and then spoke a chant that I couldn't understand at all.

Is this the unique magic of the elves?

I saw [Apollo] in the hand of Barella glowing with her chant, and its appearance began to change.

When Barella just drank the milk, it wasn't just the state of [Curse of Subordination] that was eliminated.

The status of [Elvenized] was also cleared.

"OOOO──OOOO─Enter into a contract with me, Elvenisation!"

With the end of the chanting, the original feather decorations on [Apollo] turned into metal feathers, and the whole bow was wrapped in a faint golden luster , which formed a strong contrast with the pitch-black bow.

This is [Elvenisation].

The performance of the weapon has been greatly improved. According to the standards of this world, [Apollo] is at the level of an artifact, and now it has been improved to a higher level.

"This... this is..."

"I will explain to you when it's over, and now I will teach you how to use this bow."

After saying that, i pull out an arrow from my [Inventory]

"This arrow, remember its appearance, remember it clearly!" I waved an arrow in front of Barella, and then threw the arrow back into my [Inventory]. As I did that, I also pulled out a bottle.

"Now, pretend that there is an arrow on the bow. You have to imagine it clearly! Then shoot it at the bottle."

"Eh?" Barella wondered.

"Stop asking, just do it," I said.

"Oh, um, is that so?" Barella readied to aim up the empty [Apollo] toward the bottle, after some short hesitation, she let it launch.

Crackle!

A huge crackle sounded, and an arrow suddenly pierced through the bottle and blasted a small fire pit on the ground. The arrow turned into a light spot and disappeared.

"Whoa..."

"Now, again." I took out a bottle again and set it on the ground.

"Huh? There's not only one arrow..."

"Hurry up!"

Crackle!

"What–What is this!?"

"The arrows of this bow will never run out, so you can shoot arrows with confidence."

One of the enchantments on [Apollo], [Infinity].

As long as there is still an arrow in the archer [Inventory], you will never run out of ammunition.

In addition, this bow also has [Power IV] and [Flame II], which increase the power of the arrow and add flame side effects to the arrows. These effects should be magnified and more obvious after being transformed into an elf weapon.

"If you encounter a situation later, drink these. If you are poisoned and have other abnormal conditions, drink the white one, and if you are injured, drink the orange one." I took MPOH(β) and [Milk Potion] were put into Barella [Inventory]

Bam!

"Ugh!"

At this moment, Melon fell from the sky and threw a man in black to the ground at the same time.

Barella was also taken aback, but Grace's expression remained unchanged.

"Master, this is one of the enemies."

"Good job." I patted Melon on the shoulder and walked to the side of the man in black.

The mask of the man in black had been roughly ripped off by Melon

"Hey, you should have a base camp, right? Where is it?" I didn't have much time, so I asked directly.

"I will not tell you anything—Long live the Empire—!"

As a result, the man in black just said such a sentence, and then began to foam from the mouth and his whole body began to tremble, he then died a few seconds later.

Did this man just kill himself via poison that he attached to some capsule under his tongue or something?

Forget it, this will save me some trouble.

I took the potted plant to the side of the corpse.

"Hey, read his mind." I said softly to the plant.

Echoing my words, the potted plant grew vines and began to grow, and then lightly touched the forehead of the corpse.

After a few seconds, a lot of information flowed into my mind.

If the target consciously refuses the plant mental probing, then the plant can't read their minds, but when it tries to read the mind of a corpse, it would succeed, since the corpse can't resist the plant mind reading at all.

"With that taken care of, let's destroy the enemy's lair."