Let This Grieving Soul Retire: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 13] by Tsukikage

Author:Tsukikage
Language: eng
Format: epub

The ground rumbled as the caravan arrived. Rolling in were several wagons, each adorned with First Steps’s crest. These wagons were drawn by hefty armored horses, animals trained to remain calm even under the eerie aura of treasure vaults.

From the caravan, passengers—Steps hunters—disembarked. There was no uniformity among them save for the clan’s crest they each wore in one way or another. These hunters looked neither free-spirited nor happy-go-lucky as they usually were; their serious expressions and efficient movements appeared like a military battalion on a suicide mission.

The hunters who’d been exploring White Wolf’s Den, except for the members of Obsidian Cross, watched with flabbergasted expressions as the reinforcement arrived. They’d expected a grim march of hunters, but certainly not reinforcements of this multitude. Never had such a large team of hunters set foot in White Wolf’s Den simultaneously before.

Gein, who’d been cursing and grumbling as he waited for their arrival, was taken aback. “How many hunters did you call? What? Are they trying to bring the whole vault down?”

A treasure vault encompassed the entire area on which it stood. Therefore, destroying a vault’s structures—underground or otherwise—did not erase it from the map by any means. Tampering with the ley lines below a treasure vault could theoretically destroy it for good, but that wasn’t realistic. Despite that, these hunters emanated such powerful determination that the thought of them obliterating the entire vault had crossed Gein’s mind.

Lyle, a young man with deep features, jumped out of the leading wagon and ran up to Sven. He was a year younger and was lower in level than Sven, but members of First Steps were all of equal rank within the clan.

“Hey, Sven, how’s it?” asked Lyle.

“Nothing has happened yet,” said Sven, quickly looking over the newly arrived hunters. “Is anyone in charge? We could do our own thing, but desperate times...”

Meanwhile, the other hunters swiftly climbed off of the wagons and spread out in formation ready to defend the area.

A hunting party, by design, was supposed to be complete and balanced on its own. Hunters from multiple parties would never follow a common leader under normal circumstances. But in an operation of this magnitude, operating without at least a common direction could lead to unnecessary casualties.

Lyle curled his lips and said, “Crosses are top dogs. Your party’s the highest level here. Krai told us to follow your lead.”

“I know Krai never shows up for these things. But where’s Liz? I know she’d kill to be here,” asked Sven.

“Krai took her and Tino aside. He’s got another gig for them,” said Lyle with a bitter expression.

Sven decided not to ask how that had gone down, and he said, “That’s...fortunate.”

He was curious about what the gig Krai had in mind for Liz was, but he pushed that thought to the back of his mind. At any rate, he’d take the win that Liz—and her destructive lack of consideration for her clanmates—wouldn’t jeopardize the job at hand.

Sven had seen Liz as the crazed Thief who actively

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