My name is Phasis.
An Iron-class Adventurer.
Former member of the “Surface” Party.
The party rank is also Iron-class.
We aimed for a higher rank as a party.
We were on a mission to gather materials in the frontier.
The material was called the “King’s Mane.”
Near the frontier city of Gallons Pay, a village reported a large number of missing orphans.
The women in our party urged the leader to search for the orphans, so we were hastily delayed.
But that became the turning point of my life…
Due to the women’s impatience, my skills as a scout—gathering information—weren’t utilized.
We ventured deep into the forest, lacking information, to search for the missing orphans.
There, we were attacked by the monster McGillis, who I now travel with.
A pitfall, branches, and vines came at us.
It happened in an instant.
The women screamed.
Our leader had all the moisture in his body drained by a gigantic tree.
Seeing this, the women froze in fear. I trembled, knowing I was next.
But McGillis spared me, instead commanding me with vines and branches to assault the women and the orphan girls.
I obeyed, thrusting myself into the women’s cunts until my balls were empty. I thought I’d be killed if I collapsed too soon, so my body kept producing seed beyond reason.
Even after I couldn’t go on, I continued to assault the women over the days.
Then one of the orphan girls suddenly swelled in her belly and got pregnant.
She screamed in pain and gave birth to McGillis (a human).
At the same time, the now-useless girls were devoured.
This monster ate them alive.
It became even more terrifying as McGillis began to speak.
He continued to assault and devour the remaining women, and we set out toward the frontier city of Gallons Pay.
We climbed mountain paths and descended slopes.
We encountered a rough group of adventurers.
Because there were other adventurers around, McGillis made it look like an unfortunate accident and took care of them.
We collected their equipment and money, scattering coins to the witnesses as hush money.
In the frontier city, McGillis frequented brothels, while I searched for poison effective against monsters… something that could kill him.
I looked for an information broker but couldn’t find one.
Meanwhile, McGillis and I took on a quest from the Adventurer’s Referral Office.
McGillis’s physical abilities were beyond extraordinary.
He looked like a tall child, yet he could easily take down a medium-sized monster.
It would take me time and effort to handle a medium-sized monster with my years of skill, but McGillis, who had just been born into this world, managed it effortlessly.
I felt disheartened, thinking of all the struggles I’d gone through.
News arrived that a special individual called “The King” was amassing an army in the frontier.
We were dragged into a forced subjugation force.
We failed to defeat The King and fled back.
The soldiers who had been left behind in the frontier city organized a counterattack and annihilated The King and his army.
Behind the scenes of the subjugation force’s penalty dispute, the soldiers and guards achieved a great victory.
By chance, McGillis overheard that the Merchant Guild had caused a commotion over selling materials, including those from The King.
After that, McGillis resumed his brothel visits with the leftover money from the penalty dispute, while I kept watch on the merchants’ movements.
From morning till evening, I hid in the shadows of buildings, waiting to see what the merchants were doing near the soldiers’ barracks. It was exhausting. The gazes of the passersby… it was unbearable.
I informed McGillis about the merchants’ movements.
Taking advantage of a banquet they hosted, McGillis announced he would steal a knight (golem).
As we approached the barracks, I grew more certain it would fail.
But most of the soldiers were at the banquet, and we encountered no patrols.
We arrived at the warehouse where the knight (golem) was stored.
It was locked, but McGillis picked the lock with ease.
The mechanics were absent. McGillis boarded the knight (golem) without issue.
I thought I couldn’t be surprised anymore… but then he was grabbed by the knight and made a huge leap from the barracks.
Using the knight’s magical assistance, we glided through the night sky, crossed the outer wall of the frontier city, and successfully stole the knight (golem).
We couldn’t return to the frontier city.
Staying at an inn would leave a trail. Our actions would undoubtedly be suspicious.
Unless others had also suddenly disappeared from the frontier city, we’d be hunted as the culprits.
That night, my mind was filled with these thoughts.
McGillis drove the knight, aiming for a light source outside the frontier city.
Before dawn, the knight’s joints wore out, and we came to an abrupt stop.
McGillis manipulated the trees to hide the knight.
“There’s a light ahead that’s not from a town.”
McGillis gathered nuts and tree sap from the trees.
Though I felt uneasy, I ate and we set off.
“Pipi!”
We were attacked by pitch-black creatures. I was done.
McGillis killed these pitch-black beings I’d never seen or heard of before.
I nervously stripped their clothes. Their skin, nails, and even blood were black except for their eyes and tongues, which were blood red.
McGillis took the valuables from the pitch-black creatures, splitting them equally, and we walked toward our destination.
Mentally exhausted, I repeatedly asked McGillis for breaks.
As our destination came into view, we were attacked again by the pitch-black creatures.
It seemed the destination was their village.
McGillis left me behind in the forest, saying I’d be a burden. If I died, I’d haunt him.
“Hey, Fei.”
“Wha—”
McGillis suddenly dropped down from a tree. I thought it was one of the pitch-black creatures.
“You’re too startled.”
“No, no, no, anyone would be startled by that!”
McGillis had scouted the pitch-black creatures’ village.
When I asked how it was, he said,
“They were silently doing indoor work.”
“Well, it’s good we haven’t been noticed.”
If we were discovered, I hoped it would be McGillis, not me. I wanted nothing to do with these pitch-black beings.
“For now, I attacked a lone person’s house.”
“…………”
Please, avoid anything that would get us caught.
We quietly approached the village of the pitch-black creatures.
McGillis entered a sturdy log house he’d incapacitated.
“This is…”
McGillis assaults women and kills men. The exceptions are studs or subordinates like me, his accomplice. The first target, a lone man, had been brutally beaten to death, his head caved in. The weapon… a pickling stone.
“We’ll leave the baggage here. Now, let’s suppress the remaining houses together. It’ll be easy with two of us.”
“What’s the plan?”
I’d knock on the door to distract the residents, while McGillis would incapacitate them from the roof.
Yeah, I knew I’d be the one in the most danger… damn it.
