Chapter 58  

Chapter 58   . Playing as FishermanThe hunter does not play with its prey .

No matter whether it was a lion or a tiger, they would pierce the prey’s throats with their sharp teeth . Like they said, the lion uses its full strength for a rabbit .

Although animals like cats half-killed bugs and mice, that was just the ‘playing’ of the cat, not it’s hunting . Not only that, a cat was just a mere housepet .

As Kang Chul-in saw it, the Lords that had taken over Nidavellir weren’t predators, but cats .

“To explain, they think that your territory is out of action now, and won’t dare to try and take back Nidavellir again . ”

Kang Chul-in again spoke in a very convinced manner .

“If not for that, they would have brought their whole army here, to launch a full offensive against you guys . ”

The others nodded, agreeing with what Kang Chul-in, and showed their praise for his genius .

“But I still don’t understand . Our territory hasn’t been attacked yet, but what made them think like that? The fights only occurred at Nidavellir, after all . ”

Lee Chae-rin spoke in an unsure tone .

“Ok . Then for example . ”

“I’m not sure if you will understand this example, but imagine a woman fighting against you, and holding your hair .

“Okay . ” Lee Chae-rin scrunched her face against the enemy that did not exist .

“But at that moment, a dog appears near you guys . ”

“Then… I wouldn’t really care about it? I wouldn’t have time to pay attention to a dog while fighting against another person after all . ”

“Exactly . THey don’t think that you have threat towards them, so they’re just ignoring you . ”

Kang Chul-in continued speaking .

“Think about it . You guys spent nearly 2000 of your troops trying to take back Nidavellir, but failed each time . And not only that, how is the state of your territory? Even yesterday the land was full of tired slaves and was dirty . Even by looking at the state of your castle, they could tell what situation you guys were in . ”

“And because we lost, they think that we won’t send our troops again? Enough to ignore us . ”

“Yes, that’s right . If not for that, they wouldn’t have begun fighting for the ownership of Nidavellir . They would have probably also invaded this territory and splitten it in half too . ”

Listening to these words, Lee Chae-rin’s face got darker .

“They’re looking down on me . ”

“Yes, I can’t say you’re wrong . ”

“Really… I was seen as a woman without any ability then . ”

Lee Chae-rin spoke to herself .

‘It can be angering . ’

Anyone would be mad if they got ignored .

‘She lost everything in the past to those guys . But this time, it’s different . ’

Although Lee Chae-rin didn’t know, this was a kind of return match or a revenge match, against the ones that she had lost against in her past life .

It was the battle of the two lord that had defeated her in the past, against Lee Chae-rin, with a joker card, named Kang Chul-in .

‘You will win . ’Kang Chul-in definitely thought that she was going to win .

Her victory was also his victory . If the joker couldn’t do what the joker was supposed to do, then it wouldn’t be called the joker card, the ace in the hole . And with him, the strongest and cruelest Lord around, she would definitely not lose .

“Do you want to win?”

“Yes, Mr . Chul-in, I really want to win . I want to win, and prove to them that I am not a woman without ability, and that even I can become a proud Lord . ” Lee Chae-rin answered .

“And do you have the courage to command the army when we go into battle?”

“Of course!”

“Good, then you will follow me into battle . I will give you your orders . ”

“Just leave it to me!”

As Lee Chae-rin spoke courageously, Kang Chul-in smiled, as if he was satisfied with her . He thought this might be why people took in disciples .

“Milord, then shall we start making our strategy?”

“Not yet . ” Kang Chul-in shook his head .

“Although we are sure, we need to be absolutely certain on this . ”

Although you could trust yourself, you shouldn’t believe everything that you think and say is correct . This was the difference between the past Kang Chul-in, and the current Kang Chul-in .

Even Lee Chae-rin was moving forward in progress, how could he not do so? The current Kang Chul-in had something that his past self did not, and that was cautiousness .

‘Nidavellir, no odd things . And meanwhile the other lords… Yes, they really are fighting . ’

Looking at the photos coming out in the holograms, his theory was proven to be true . The two lords were fighting each other, giving them a massive chance .

“What an opportNilus laughed uproariously .

“How are you so good?”

“Umm… this game called chess… it’s basically just like mental maths . For a magician like me, it isn’t very hard . ”

“But this is too far . ”

Kang Chul-in knew how to play chess, and his ELO rating for chess was even around 1900, boasting a pretty high ELO .

But he had lost against Nilus, who hadn’t played chess for even two days .

‘They said that his potential rank was SS…’

Although he didn’t know when Nilus could become like that, Nilus would become a grand, Ark Magician when he grew to the age of 87, and would stop growing older and stronger from then on . It was normal for Kang Chul-in to lose against someone like that .

“One more . ”

But Kang Chul-in still didn’t give in . He hated losing, even in small things like these .

“Mr . Chul-in?”

Lee Chae-rin, who kept quiet the whole time, spoke up .

“Ah…”

And only then did Kang Chul-in turn towards Lee Chae-rin, and away from the chessboard .

“Yes, what is it?”

“The territory has become quite chaotic nowadays . There is a reason for this, right?”

“Oh, that… sorry about that . ”

Kang Chul-in apologized to her, something that he didn’t do often .

“Huh?”

“I should have told you earlier . ”

“Then why did you give such an…”

“It was to trick them . ”

“Trick them?”

“If they send the scouting hawks and see the state of the territory right now, they definitely won’t suspect us of attacking them, and go all in against each other . ”

“Oh, so it’s for making them relax their guards against us then?”

“Yes, we can backstab them and clean them up in one fell swoop if we do that . ”

“You must be so tired if you even plan things like this out…”

“Well to be honest, I don’t want to do these kind of things either . Well . . there might be someone that takes care of this soon though . ”

“Someone you can leave this things too?”

“Well, yeah . ”

Kang Chul-in thought of ‘Black Leopard’ Kwak-jung, who would probably be lying down in a hospital by now .

Although he secretly hoped that it wasn’t him, if Black Leopard really was Kwak-jung, then he had practically earned himself a tactician that he could use .

“Lee Chae-rin . ”

“Yes?”

“Just wait a bit . According to my predictions, they should fight soon, around… here . ”

Kang Chul-in pointed at a plain that was marked in the map .

“There?”

“Yes . ”

It was at this moment .

“Boss!”

The adventurers that were part of Team Slayers came into the room .

“What is it?”

“Vice Captain Billy and Podolski sent us some messengers here . ”

“Oh? What did they say?”

“They said that the two Lords are fighting each other with no care or thought about their own territory . According to them, the fight is already on . ”

Yes!

This was it .

“Is that it? If it was Podolski, I’m sure he would have gotten even more information . ”

“Yes, boss . According to him, the Lord that’s stationed in the North, Reginald, will bring all of his forces to strike against the Southern Territory .

‘Advantage of information… what an important resource . ’

Kang Chul-in sighed at the amazingness of ‘Cosmic Force’ . If he didn’t have this ability, he wouldn’t be able to look through them like the back of his fingers .

“It’s time . ”

Kang Chul-in stood up from his seat .

The war had finally begun .