Summoning the Holy Sword

“Still too inexperienced.”

Looking at Joey, who was beleaguered, Rhode shook his head. He was very clear that this time, it was Joey’s mistake. The reason was not because his skill was lacking, but because he lacked experience. Comparing their skills, his and Hubert’s were almost equal to each other, but as for experience, even ten Joeys couldn’t match Hubert. After all, Hubert was a mercenary group leader; certainly, he had experienced more things than Joey. The fact that their mercenary group had survived until now meant that Hubert was not someone to be trifled with. Did Joey really think that just because he had the upper hand he could have won?

However, Rhode wasn’t really disappointed in him. It was a warm-up match, after all. The main point wasn’t to showcase their strength to other mercenaries, but to analyze the problem that they encountered in this warm-up match. The reason that Marlene and Lize had performed perfectly was related to their psychological and adventurous experience. But now, it was time for Joey the rookie to come up to the stage, and it immediately exposed his problem in lack of experience.

However, for Rhode, this was something that he was happy to see. If he discovered this problem during the Midsummer Festival, it would really be a big problem.

Currently, Joey had fallen into the most troublesome situation for a Thief: being surrounded.

A Thief’s lurking skill was not invincible; he needed the space and time to do that. Although advanced level thieves could easily erase their own sense of existence, Joey had obviously not reached that level yet. That was why he needed to rely on equipment, time, and space to do so.

Unfortunately, because he was surrounded by four people, he had lost space and time.

What would Joey do?

That was what Rhode wanted to see.

At any rate, Rhode couldn’t do anything besides remaining silent.

It was not his battle, after all.

“Haa!!”

Dodging the attack one more time, Joey had begun to feel tired. At first, he was hoping to escape from the gap between the four of them. If he succeeded, he would be able to once again lurk in the terrain and make up for his mistakes.

However, Hubert obviously did not intend to give Joey such a chance. Joey attempted it several times, finally realizing that if he forced his way out, he would eventually be stopped by them and lose his speed. After that, the outcome could be expected.

Then, what should I do?

There was no point regretting the choice he had made. Now, the only thing he could do was look for opportunities… look for opportunities…

Thinking until here, Joey was suddenly surprised.

Did opportunity have to be something he had to find?

Wrong! Opportunity was something he should create by himself! It was impossible to have any results by just blindly waiting!

Thinking until here, Joey’s eyes shone. He was no longer as unprepared as before, when facing those attacks. To the contrary, he seemed to have found something. He stretched out his hand and swung his dagger to block Hubert’s sword.

“Clang!!”

Their weapons collided with each other and a crisp sound echoed. Although Hubert’s attack had been stopped, Joey’s body also staggered. Naturally, the other three didn’t plan to let go of this opportunity and attacked Joey once again. At this moment, Joey finally made his move.

He lowered his arm and abruptly deflected Hubert’s sword. This made Hubert lose his balance for a moment. At the same, Joey stood up and escaped the Thief who was going to launch a sneak attack on him. Unfortunately, the remaining two mercenaries seized this opportunity and attacked Joey. Although he tried his best to dodge, he still became heavily wounded.

Got him!!

Feeling their swords come in contact with something, the two mercenaries felt joy, but soon, they fell into panic because they found out that Hubert, who had lost his balance, and the Thief who had failed his attack were falling towards them!!

For a while, the two men immediately rushed back, trying to distance themselves from them. Hubert also didn’t expect that after his sword was deflected, a long sword was pointing towards him. He couldn’t help but retreat to dodge it. The group turned into chaos, and Joey’s eyes shone.

Now!!

His body shook, and he jumped out of their encirclement like a ghost. At the same time, Joey once again waved his dagger.

Thump!!

The Thief who passed by him lost his consciousness, unable to see the threat before him, and fell towards the other two mercenaries. Seeing this scene, the other two retreated in order to avoid the tragedy of killing one of their own. In this chaotic situation, they lost their focus and consciousness all of sudden, falling to the ground.

“Calm down!! Everyone, calm down!!”

Even though Hubert finally noticed Joey’s intention, before he managed to finish his words, Joey had already passed by him and once again disappeared.

To Hubert, this was the worst possible outcome.