89: Death of Kvass

At this moment, Roen cautiously approached the edge of the explosion site.

The open ground, once clear, was now scorched black.

And due to the Blast Bomb's explosion, a deep pit about five meters in diameter had formed.

The center of the pit, where the Blast Bomb was buried, reached a depth of nearly two meters.

"..."

Roen observed his surroundings calmly, his expression unreadable.

Gevas and the two others who had been standing there were now gone.

Gesi and Geluni, being of lower cultivation, were instantly blown to pieces, reduced to a pile of minced meat.

Only Gevas, a Just Knight, perhaps because he was at the edge of the explosion, or because he reacted quickly and took precautions during the blast, was merely blown off his legs and right arm, leaving half of his body behind.

"..."

Seeing this, Roen narrowed his eyes and cautiously walked towards Gevas's corpse.

As he got closer and closer to Gevas, almost reaching a three-meter distance, Roen suddenly stopped.

Then, he silently pulled out a flintlock pistol from his lower back and aimed it at Gevas's head.

Just as Roen's finger was about to pull the trigger, the next second, in a flash of lightning, Gevas's incomplete and charred corpse suddenly sprang up.

"Die!" Gevas roared, his expression ferocious and his face covered in blood.

At the same time, he reached his left hand to his waist, drew out his alchemical soft sword in reverse, and fiercely stabbed at Roen.

At such a close distance, and it being the final, desperate strike of a Just Knight before his death, even another Just Knight would find it difficult to dodge at a normal speed.

At this moment, Roen remained calm, as if he couldn't react, standing there woodenly.

Whoosh!

In an instant, Gevas's sword plunged into Roen's chest, making a rustling sound.

"What?" Gevas was stunned, seeing the Roen in front of him shatter like a mirror.

At the same time, a gunshot rang out.

Gevas, who was exhausted after delivering that sword strike, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left wrist.

Immediately, a severed hand, still holding the longsword, flew away.

"Ah ah ah ah!" Gevas fell to the ground, screaming madly.

Having lost his limbs, he twisted his head like a maggot towards the direction of the gunshot.

Roen, who had appeared in front of Gevas, had somehow moved ten meters away.

"You, who exactly are you? Why are you killing me?" Gevas cried out, tears and snot streaming down his face, completely broken.

Five minutes ago, he was a high and mighty hunter.

Now, in the blink of an eye, he had become a bloody mess, like a human pig.

This transformation filled Gevas with despair and a sense of utter hopelessness.

However, in response to Gevas's questions, Roen remained silent.

As the saying goes, villains die from talking too much.

Roen wasn't a villain, but he also didn't want to talk much; he simply pulled out another flintlock pistol.

Seeing this, Gevas's expression instantly froze, and his eyes revealed intense unwillingness and indignation.

However, the next second, Roen aimed at Gevas's chest and pulled the trigger.

With another roar, a large hole instantly appeared in Gevas's chest.

This time, Gevas's eyes dimmed, his breath ceased, and he truly died.

"Hoo..." Roen put away both flintlock pistols and let out a long breath.

Before, he was solely focused on killing Gevas, so his attention was highly concentrated, and he didn't care about anything else.

But now, as he looked at Gevas's incomplete corpse and smelled the lingering gunpowder and blood in the air, his throat churned, and he gagged.

"So... this is what it feels like to kill someone?" Roen's face was pale, and he quickly took out a bottle of potion from his storage space and drank it.

Then, after a minute or two, his condition improved, and he slowly recovered.

"When I killed Mirar before, it wasn't this gruesome."

"So, at that time, I didn't even feel much, but now..."

Roen shook his head, calming his emotions.

Then, he went to another spot fifty meters away.

Using a dagger, he dug into the ground and retrieved another Blast Bomb.

After repeating this three times, he had recovered all the bombs.

Previously, according to his plan, he had deliberately leaked the news of his departure.

As expected, Gevas took the bait, wanting to take advantage of his absence to kidnap someone.

Of course, Roen wasn't sure if Gevas would personally lead the group.

Therefore, he had specifically prepared several backup plans.

However, that evening, the intelligence updated, revealing that Gevas intended to act personally.

So, Roen felt relieved, and then proceeded to set up traps in the wilderness.

Especially along the several essential paths to the stone house, he set up Blast Bombs and buried special, silent, and smokeless fuses after ignition.

In addition, Roen made other preparations.

For example, he hung several Incendiary Bottle mechanisms in the treetops.

He buried Poison Gas Bombs inside the stone house.

He placed poisoned barbs on the escape route... Of course, this also included a magical device.

It was the mirror that Gevas had just broken with his stab.

In reality, this was one of the twelve apprentice-level spells Roen had learned.

It was called Mirror Image, which could use pre-set mirrors and spiritual powder to create a magical pathway.

It would reflect the caster's figure using the mirror, forming a phantom image.

Moreover, this phantom image would appear lifelike and vivid.

Unless the two sides were very close, or if one possessed powerful Mental Energy, it would be difficult to discern the true from the false image.

Just now, after Roen left the hidden pit, he secretly cast Mirror Image midway, deliberately going to test.

However, he himself had actually circled around to Gevas's left side.

"Originally, I thought I would need to use every trick in the book to kill Gevas."

"But it turns out, besides the Blast Bomb and Mirror Image, none of my other preparations were needed..." Roen thought to himself, as he also retrieved all the other trap devices one by one.

At this moment, when he returned to Gevas's corpse, he squatted down and placed his hand over Gevas's dark yet relatively well-preserved face.

Then, he silently chanted a spell.

Moistening Spell!

The next moment, water elements condensed in Roen's hand, forming a puddle of clear water that wet Gevas's face.

During the explosion, although Gevas's mind reacted, he could no longer escape the blast radius.

Therefore, he could only instinctively protect his internal organs with one hand and his head with the other.

As a result, although his legs and right arm were blown off, his heart and brain were not significantly harmed.