Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 197 - Forest of Elves (4)

The elf, who was being held the entire time by Lee Sungmin at his neck like a ragdoll, let out a painful groan.

He was desperately gripping his hands around Lee Sungmin's wrists to prevent his neck bones from snapping on the spot.

Lee Sungmin glanced at the elf as he already registered with his fast senses, just where the arrows were coming from and their trajectories.

Just in case, he swung his arm that was holding the elf by the neck.

When Lee Sungmin dragged the elf around like a shield to block him from the arrows, the arrow's trajectory took a sharp turn and avoided the elf.

'Seems to be controlled by spiritual magic.'

However, just because it was spiritual magic did not mean it was troublesome for Lee Sungmin. He just wanted to confirm whether the trajectories of the arrows were changeable or not.

'So you don't want to kill your own people, do you?'

He could use this. Lee Sungmin formulated an easy workaround method to exploiting this weakness.

Lee Sungmin lept back quickly and landed on a branch with the elf in tow. As he turned his gaze up, several arrows were homing in on him quickly.

Lee Sungmin then lifted the elf's body who was in his hands, up without hesitation. As he did this, the arrows that were homing in on him, stopped mid-air, as if it were all a lie.

"First of all."

Lee Sungmin's voice was not that loud. However, all the elves who shot the arrows at Lee Sungmin could hear his deathly and calm voice, loud and clear.

The arrows that were all pointed at him started to writhe and shake slightly as Lee Sungmin started to lay the elf in his hands down on the ground.

The arrows flinched and moved forward a little, and Lee Sungmin immediately in response put his foot on the head of the fallen elf.

The fallen elf began to struggle, but Lee Sungmin took at his spear and twirled it quickly downwards.

Crack!

The deathly sharp speartip of Lee Sungmin's orchicalcum spear, stabbed right into the struggling elf's right thigh.

"AHH!"

The elf screamed. The arrowheads then completely halted in their tracks. Lee Sungmin's actions were blatantly obvious to them, and his intent was clear.

He was going to use a hostage.

Lee Sungmin did not feel shameless in the slightest about his actions. Who the hell had time for that when Wijihoyeon was suffering at this very minute?

Lee Sungmin did not know much about the elves' customs or traditions, but they were the ones who blatantly attacked and ambushed him in the first place.

Of course he wasn't ignorant to admit that he was the one stepping into their territory, but to not respond with words and rather just shoot arrows at him? Hilarious.

"Let's just talk face-to-face."

Lee Sungmin already knew the locations of all his assailants through his keen senses.

However, Lee Sungmin spoke while slowly grinding and twisting the blade of the spear in the poor elf's thigh that was laying on the ground.

Lee Sungmin put aside his thoughts of blatant and rouge methods of torture, like pulling out teeth in front of them, so he used a... slightly less barbaric method.