Black Online-Chapter 129: Escaping With Marbles
"All of you... Lower your weapons now... And don’t you even dare to bring out that grimoire of yours."
Rickard said with a sickening smile.
With gritted teeth, everyone did as they were told and put their weapons back in their inventories.
"...What do you plan to do now, Rickard?"
Della asked.
"Hehe, I will win this war single-handedly for Monsieur Rascals, that’s what. With you captured, Della, the war will be over!"
Rickard said with a smirk.
And at that moment, he pushed his sword through Miranda’s chest, and she gasped in shock.
"MIRANDA!"
Della screamed, and she started running towards Rickard, and he tossed Mirande aside and pulled out his shield from the inventory.
Everyone else also moved.
Swoosh!
But in that moment.
A small—almost invisible-looking—dart flew across the air and stabbed into Della’s neck.
"Ah?!"
Della’s eyes shook.
In that moment, her entire body was paralyzed, and she collapsed onto the ground with a thud.
"...Della?"
"...Guild Master?"
Everyone looked confused about what was happening.
"Della!"
Rock screamed and tried running towards her, but in that moment, someone stepped in front of him and kicked at him.
"What the hell?!"
Rock crossed his arms and blocked the kick, but it still sent him sliding backwards across the floor, and his back collided with the back wall.
He looked at the person who kicked at him with a shocked expression.
"...You too? Why?"
"...Ah."
Della, lying on the ground, looked at the person who had just kicked her grandfather, and her eyes turned wet with tears.
"Owen... Why?"
Owen looked down at her, eyes looking cold, and in his right hand, he was holding a blowgun, which he used to fire the poison dart.
’Another spy?’
Rickard thought in surprise.
He didn’t know there was somebody else, so he realized that Owen must be Grinding Grief’s spy.
"What are you doing, Rickard? Take her already away from here. She won’t be moving for a while. I used quite powerful paralyzing poison on her."
Owen said.
"Hmph, I know!"
Rickard grabbed Della, who was tearing up, and she wanted to fight him off, but she just couldn’t move.
In that moment, Rickard reached out to his inventory and pulled out an Escape Marble. He held it in his fist.
’Escape Marble?!’
Rock’s eyes widened.
When Escape Marble was used, it would transfer the player back to the Safe Zone, and in this case, they were already inside the Safe Zone.
However, it would usually send the player to a designated area in the Safe Zone, and in this case, it would be the village square.
The village square was quite close to the front entrance.
Thus, if Rickard used the Escape Marble to teleport both him and Della over there, they wouldn’t be able to catch up to him before he delivered her to Monsieur Rascal.
"Goodbye!"
Rickard laughed, and at that moment, he cracked the Escape Marble, and around them, a shroud of dark mist enveloped them.
"Stop him!"
Rock shouted.
With anger flashing across their faces, Waylen and Adam tried stopping Rickard, but they were stopped by Owen.
"I am not letting you~"
Owen said with a smile.
"You traitor!"
Waylen pulled out his sword and fiercely fought against Owen, and he quickly took the upper hand in the fight.
’He is a much better fighter than me... Unfortunately, it is already too late for you fools, haha.’
Owen thought to himself with a smile on his face.
The mist was about to vanish, but in that moment, someone jumped into the mist and grabbed Rickard’s arm.
"Not letting you!"
Fang Raon shouted.
’...This bastard?’
Rickard’s eyes shook as he looked at the young man, as he had completely forgotten about him.
Even Owen had completely forgotten about Fang Raon, as he was only team leader of the Fourth Line.
They didn’t think anything about him.
Thus, with his lack of presence in Rickard’s and Owen’s minds, it allowed him to sneak in to grab Rickard’s arm.
With that, the mist disappeared, and Rickard, Della, and Fang Raon vanished from the room as all of them were teleported.
"That doesn’t matter."
Owen said with a chuckle.
In that moment, he pulled out Escape Marble and cracked it. It quickly enveloped him, and he also disappeared from the room.
"Waylen, Adam, go!"
Rock screamed.
They didn’t need to be ordered, as Waylen and Adam were already running out of the room and headed straight for the village.
They were also sending messages to the guards of the Snowberry Village walls to not let anyone past.
"...Miranda."
Rock crouched before Miranda, whose health had dropped to red, and he gave her some healing potion.
"...Della... Save her... Please..."
Miranda looked up at Rock with tears in her eyes, her voice barely a whisper.
"Put pressure on the wound. Your health has dropped to red. The bleeding can cause you to lose more health, so just keep drinking health potions until your wound is closed."
Rock said with a serious expression, and then he summoned his large hound and hopped onto its back.
CRASH!
In that moment, the hound jumped out of the window, and its loud bark echoed throughout the night like a wolf’s howl.
...
Swoosh!
"...Eh?"
Owen opened his eyes in the middle of the village square and looked around him, but something was amiss.
He used the Escape Marble as soon as Rickard and them disappeared, so they shouldn’t have been able to leave this quickly.
Yet, when he looked around the village square, there was nobody in sight.
Not locals... Not players... Literally nobody.
’They didn’t get teleported to the village square? What the hell? This is the designated spot, so what the hell happened...’
In that moment, Owen’s expression turned dark.
He remembered when he got his Escape Marble from Derrick, and he said to be very careful with it.
It could teleport one person without any trouble. It can even teleport two people at the same time. But then it starts acting nastily with three people.
It wasn’t designated for more than one person to use it, so the game’s code started acting funnily when more than one person used it at the same time.
’Because that bastard Fang Raon grabbed Rickard’s arm, he was also teleported alongside them. Where the hell did they end up?!’
