Lazy Dungeon Master - Chapter 313

Chapter 313: 313
En Route (3)



​ Leading along our escort target and his four wagons, we made our way out of the River Town of Donsama and set off for Corky . We found a wagon with a broken axel stuck in the middle of a meadow next to some large rocks .

​ It was still somewhere around a kilometer ahead of us… but it was positioned in such a way that we wouldn’t be able to pass along its side, nor could we take a detour . Also, there was a man standing next to it with crossed arms looking troubled .

​ Seeing that, Gozoh immediately went to checking that his equipment was all in place .

​ “Kehma, that’ll be the thieves . Be ready fer a fight . ”

​ “Ah, so I guess they popped up after all?”

​ ” ‘Course they did . ”
​ Gozoh popped his neck in preparation .

​ Yeah… the wagon’s just too suspicious .

​ “Alright, so it’s at least eighty percent suspicious that they’d get stuck right in the middle of the road like that . The proper etiquette is to either dismantle the wagon or at least move your luggage off it . So someone just standing there like that man is either an idiot or a thief . ”

​ “There aren’t any horses either . Just an obviously broken wagon’s a bit… eh, we just gotta deal with them, it’s a profit for us~”
​ Hearing Ichika’s supplement, Meat also stood up in the wagon .

​ “We borrowed this wagon an’ I don’t be feeling like riskin’ the crest to them . Let’s stop here and walk the rest… who’s up fer lookin’ after the wagons?”

​ Gozoh gestured toward the wagon’s crest as he spoke .

​ “Ah, we’ll stay back then . All you in Team Bacchus should be enough to deal with the thieves . Take Shikina along, she’s a nuisance . ”

​ “I—I am a nuisance!?”

​ Yep, for my beauty sleep .
​ “It’s a good chance for you to fight some thieves, hopefully it doesn’t turn out like it did with that orc . ”

​ “I-I’ll be fine!”

​ “Hmm . Alright then, guess Kehma’s party’s gonna be lookin’ after the wagons . We’ll not be needin’ te worry about that then . Oi Wataru, hear that?”

​ “Yep . Loud and clear . ”

​ Sitting next to the merchant in the furthest back wagon in the coachman’s seat, Wataru responded .



​ “Good, let’s go . ”

​ “Rokuko-chan and everyone, be careful . ”
​ “I’ll put up an [Air Barricade], so you should be safe from arrows… but please be careful . ”

​ Stopping the leading wagon around four hundred meters from the thief’s position, Gozoh, Roppu, and Wataru got off the carriage . Then, doing their best to look defenseless, they called out to ask what happened and if they needed help .

​ They were probably going for a surprise attack .

​ Guess I’ll just leisurely see what happens while I watch over the wagonssit back and relax .
​ Just as I started to lay down, Ichika unsheathed her kitchen knife—her weapon .

​ “Man am I ready, Goshujin-sama!”

​ “Huh? What’re you doing, Ichika? We’re just watching over the wagons, we don’t really need to do anything?”

​ “What’re ya talkin’ about? It’s our job to defend the horses, coachmen, and wagons from the thieves layin’ in wait? A chance to show off . Right, Meat-senpai?”

​ “Yeah . Goshujin-sama, I will show you, my good points . ”

​ “There’re four wagons, so we got lots to defend . I never thought ya’d actually volunteer us for the harder job, Goshujin-sama?”
​ Eh—?

​ Seeing Meat also pull out her knife golem and prepare to fight, I started to ask if she was sure—but just as I was about to, Gozoh and the others’ fight began .

​ Simultaneously with that, arrows flew toward the wagon, but Wataru’s [Air Barricade] caused them to miss their mark .

​ “… Oh, so watching the wagons was the more involved choice?”

​ “One of those arrows just now was aimin’ straight for the coachman~ . They’ve got an archer with a pretty great aim . Alright, guess it’s our turn?”

​ “Leave the support role to me!”

​ Rokuko, you sit down . And if you have a bow gun, isn’t the rapier at your waist not needed?

*

​ Seeing that arrows were ineffective, the thieves that had been hiding came shuffling out . There was a handful of them—no, more than ten . This is bad . How could three of us hold off against that!?

​ “Oh, we’re pretty outnumbered . ”



​ However, my prided magic can make up for our lack of manpower… it’d be troublesome to get the materials and magic stones for using [Create Golem] ready, so let’s go with [Summon Gargoyle] .

​ “… … [Summon Gargoyle]—[Summon Gargoyle]—[Summon Gargoyle]… geh that’s annoying, come here times ten, [Summon Gargoyle x10] . ”

​ Reciting the magic’s name each time was annoying, so I skipped over them and caused magic formations to appear around the wagons one after another . A gargoyle burst forth out of each one of them .

​ “Gargoyles, defend the wagons!”

​ Although the merchant and coachmen were surprised at suddenly seeing so many monsters, they looked like they realized they were support after hearing me tell them to protect the wagons .

​ However, it seems like that also caused the thieves to put their marks on me .

​ “They’re summons, they disappear if that Summoner-dono dies! He’s in the first wagon!”

​ Looks like they know how to deal with summons . I don’t know if that meant they’re knowledgeable or not since it could be common knowledge… but I guess it’d be bad to just stay here?

​ “Leave it to me . ”

​ “I’m gonna head out too~”

​ Meat and Ichika stood in the way of the thieves that had started making a move toward where I was .

​ “It’s a woman! Her body’s great, she’ll make a great pet slave, let’s grab her!”

​ “Refused! My chastity’s Goshujin-sama’s!”

​ Ichika . What?

​ “Ei!”

​ The two of them easily cut down the thieves . Oi, Meat was even having an easy time beheading human opponents… what a scary girl .

​ “They’re strong!”

​ “Underlings, rush them! We’ll overwhelm them with our numbers!”

​ With that, the underlings… the ones with slave collars on them rushed toward Meat and Ichika who were defending me .

​ “Hey, don’t forget about me! Teei!”

​ Rokuko shot her bow gun… and shot a gargoyle in the head .

​ Yeah, friendly fire . Sit down .

​ “The girl’s an aristocrat! She’ll sell for a ton, don’t hurt her to much and capture her alive!”

​ “We’ll make back our losses even if all the slaves die!”

​ Whoops, looks like more and more of the thieves are concentrating on our wagon . I won’t let them, though .

​ “Chase them, [Summon Gargoyle]—”

​ I mean, I had enough gargoyles to make a small fighting unit . I just had to have them stop the thieves…

​ “Tch! You f*cking slaves, rush in and—”

​ “Alright, that’s enough . ”

​ Wataru pinned down the thieves’ boss . Checkmate . That was pretty quick .

​ By the way, Shikina was on the ground and twitching, so I guess she was bad against thieves too .

*

​ With the fight over, we decided to restrain each of the thieves . I left that to Team Bacchus and Shikina .

​ They’d turn into a decent amount of pocket change since we could sell them as slaves if we kept them alive . If we sold them at a good place, we could expect around five silver each since none of them had physical defects . Even if we sold them at an inn town, we could expect three silver each… crime slaves are cheap . But it’s a principle of mine to pick up whatever change I see, so long as I have the time to .

​ “Good work, Goshujin-sama . ”

​ “You too, Meat . Not many of them died, huh . ”

​ “Yeah, thanks to you, Goshujin-sama . I would have had to slice through all of their necks if it weren’t for the gargoyles . ”

​ Ah, so she would have been able to handle it . I mean seriously, this girl’s way of thinking is dangerous . She is reliable, though .

​ “That was an awesome strategy . But are ya fine showing it off? The gargoyles, I mean . ”

​ “Don’t worry about it . I mean, now that I’ve shown them off I can just say this is my limit from here on . ”

​ “Okay, I guess . Using summons as decoys or things to do things for ya is super convenient… but the amount ya used was stupid… no, super stupid . ”

​ The thieves called me Summoner-dono earlier, but did I end up using too many?

​ “Haah, I wanted to at least kill one of them . ”

​ “Rokuko, you’re pretty disturbed . I mean, you’ve been like that for a long time now, but still…”

​ “No, it’s that . I wanted to see if I would get DP if I killed someone outside of the dungeon . I wasn’t wanting to do it for the sake of killing someone, you know?”

​ … I see . I hadn’t thought about that . There isn’t a disadvantage for us in finding out if we can obtain more DP even outside of the dungeon . Let’s see if the one Meat killed gave anything… nope . Alright .

​ But it’d be weird for her to kill one of them now that we’ve got them restrained, so let’s give that a shot next chance we get .

​ Just then, Wataru walked up .

​ “Good job . Did any of the thieves escape?”

​ “I have gargoyles holding them all down . Should I have let some escape?”

​ “Nah, it’s fine . They’ll tell us what we want with a bit of force . ”

​ Wataru answered with that when I asked him the question with the nuance of [Should we use that to find their hideout?] .

​ “But man, Kehma-san, you’re amazing . You can control that many gargoyle summons…? You’re like a one man army . ”

​ “There’s a trick to it . I give them a simple order and leave them with some autonomy . ”

​ “Still though, there’s so many of them . Ordinary summoners would have trouble with three, ones at the level of court mages would have trouble getting to double digits . ”

​ … Yeeeeeeah, I summoned somewhere around twenty .

​ Ummm, let’s unsummon the ones that aren’t doing anything . Go back, go back—good job .

​ By the way, we went with Wataru to the thieves’ hideout afterward .

​ I thought that their hideout might’ve been a dungeon, but it was nothing like that . Just an abandoned village .

​ Guess bandits and the like don’t usually take dungeons as their bases .

​ Their remnants were easily dealt with by Wataru . I’d expect nothing less .