Night Ranger - Full Series - 735 Chapters

by Dark Blue Coconut Milk

  …

  “Doing it like that was too dangerous!” Anna scolded Marvin, “I know you hated him. He killed Old Lord and deserved it. But what if the wizards look into it?”

  The half-elf butler was very worried. She personally brought Miro’s daughter back home this morning. As a result each major guild offered a bounty for Masked Twin Blades this afternoon. Who posted it was quite obvious.

  After experiencing this, the families of the city hall’s high officials were increased.

  “Unlikely.” Marvin faintly smiled.

  He didn’t explain much.

  The people in this era were still revering wizards.

  They were after all the group that was ruling this world in this era.

  This was why River Shore City had good public security. But that was already in the past.

  Marvin clearly remembered that all diviners lost their abilities six months before the Great Calamity.

  This was a sign, but the wizards did not pay attention. After all, divination had always been a bit tricky.

  The true reason was that the powerful god of time took a portion of the forbidden magic power in the Universe Magic Pool. That part just happened to be connected to divination.

  The gods have already started their move.

  It is because of this that Marvin could be so bold. He knew that diviners couldn’t find him.

  That was the reality.

  As for that city hall high official Miro, he wouldn’t personally appear to help identify Marvin. The patrols moved because of his handwritten warrant. He couldn’t appear as someone that neglected his duties.

  He would at most use some forces to secretly investigate and offer a bounty for Masked Twin Blades.

  It’s just that Marvin was somewhat surprised when he went looking for information in a tavern at noon. He actually heard that the patrols had grabbed a few evil cult followers at the docks.

  ‘Apparently they were secretly offering sacrifices to the [Plague God], and met with those patrols as a result. Those guys were really out of luck.’

  Of course, sending the patrols away to the docks was part of Marvin’s plan. But who would have thought that they actually caught some evil followers.

  But this also reminded Marvin.

  Whether it’s the [World-ending Twin Snakes] or the [Plague God] believers, both have already began to be active in the south.

  This meant that the most chaotic era was on the verge of starting!

  He couldn’t take a break now. He had to quickly recover White River Valley!

  But before that, he still had to act as the “victim” of the family.

  After all, following Miller’s death, Marvin was his only blood relative. This meant that he would inherit Miller’s possessions.

  But Marvin knew that even if the city hall sent him a notification, the great majority of his inheritance would have been plundered by them and he would only get the leftovers.

  ‘These guys didn’t overdo it. I thought they would casually find an excuse to say that Miller’s home was completely plundered by thieves, only leaving me a box of ashes.’

  …

  Late afternoon, Marvin switched his clothes for a noble set. Seemed like it was time to turn back into a weak and incompetent young noble.

  He went to the city hall with Anna.

  As expected, the official in charge of the inheritance formalities only gave Marvin a deed, the deed of the house Miller bought in the wealthy district 31 plot.

  The rest of the pearls, belongings and such things wasn’t there.

  “Sir Marvin, I’m sorry for your loss,” said the official insincerely.

  Marvin feigned to be weak and asked, “Now that my uncle also died, my only blood relative died. When can River Shore City send troops to help me clear that pack of gnolls? I need to get my territory back.”

  That official still insincerely said, “This is… Quite difficult. Sir Marvin, you see, evil cult followers have been roaming in River Shore City, along with savage killers such as the one that killed your uncle’s family, Masked Twin Blades… We are severely lacking manpower.I think waiting patiently inside for the city a little while longer should be quite good.”

  Marvin’s face showed his disappointment.

  He inwardly felt somewhat startled.

  It’s fair to say that after Miller’s death, the bribed officials should have no reasons to not send troops to clean up that gnoll pack.

  After all, River Shore City and White River Valley weren’t too far away from each other. To have a pack of gnoll occupying the territory like that was a threat to River Shore City.

  But these officials still avoided dealing with it.

  ‘Could it be that someone else was paying attention to White River Valley, and not only Miller?’

  Marvin was smart, and he was able to guess the possible causes behind that.

  But he didn’t plan on relying on the strength of the River Shore City patrols. Asking like this was firstly, the sensible thing to do and secondly, a way to probe.

  It seemed that there were still some people who had intentions on River Shore City.

  Marvin took a quick glance at the quest menu, and saw that the Main Quest hadn’t changed: it was still [Reclaim your territory].

  But he had 18 days remaining.

  …

  Leaving the city hall, Marvin immediately planned his next step.

  After yesterday’s murder and arson followed by looting, Marvin had harvested a quite generous amount of wealth from Miller’s home. The amount of riches was worth more than 100000 silvers!

  Marvin’s garrison left with almost a third of the easy to carry valuables.

  He sold the remainder to Bane of the Black Claw at low-cost using the identity of Masked Twin Blades.

  The old goblin was extremely crafty. He knew who to provoke and who to cooperate with.

  Marvin’s body emitted a kind of very scary killing intent, so when he got the money, he actually got a pretty good price.

  Moreover last night, he also understood that Marvin’s two subordinates were both powerful phantom assassins.

  In their line of work, they were very clear on one point: they should never provoke an assassin.

  The old goblin expressed with enthusiasm that Sir Masked Twin Blades was the Black Claw’s important business partner. Even if there was a warrant with a large bounty on his head.

  Marvin currently had about 50 golds in total. Converted into silvers, it was about 50000 silvers

  That money was enough for him to hire a party of adventurers!

  “Here, 30000 silvers.”

  Marvin gave a pouch to Anna and solemnly said, “Go to the adventurer guild to pick some people. They must have an official class. Prioritize those with battle experience, those with leading experience, the fighters and those who have their own weapons and armor. Get around twenty. As for the monetary reward, do as you see fit.”

  The Half-elf nodded.

  He was quite confident in Anna’s abilities. She would do her job of recruiting the adventurers just fine.

  He wanted to take back White River Valley, so he needed troops. Relying on his garrison wasn’t enough.

  “Young Master Marvin, what about you?” Anna asked.

  “Me?” Marvin smiled, “I’ll go check White River Valley first. Don’t we need someone to scout?”

  …

  The setting sun was illuminating the the top of East Coast Holy Light Tower.

  On the highest platform, a corpse was calmly lying next to a stooped old man.

  Even if the legendary wizard was in poor health, he was still quite strong. Even if he suffered a hard to predict sneak attack and was close to death, he still managed to kill this disciple controlled by the Twin Snakes Cult.

  It’s just that, he was also was on the verge of dying.

  Even if the shadow prince was a weak god, he was a powerful legendary assassin before ascending to godhood.

  Anthony closed both
eyes, his face covered with bruises.

  The voices coming from the Eye of the Bright Sun were in a mess, as if something was interfering. He also tried to contact other legendary wizards in the region but an indescribable force field prevented it.

  This was a conspiracy.

  Anthony staggered his way to the edge of the platform. From this point of view, whether it was Sail Boat City in the north, or Jewel Bay in the South, it only took a glance to see them.

  ‘Such a beautiful scenery.’

  The old man calmly stood there and began to chant.

  30 seconds later, his body fell from the platform.

  And a pitch black cloud quickly formed in the sky.

  In a split second, all of the East Coast’s kind hearted living creatures suddenly felt an acute pain.

  A woman with weak willpower was also unable to restrain herself and cried.

  Everyone was looking toward the east, shock filling their eyes.

  A legend died!

  Chapter 29: Scouting

  Chapter 29: Scouting

  Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation

  Nighttime, on the main road outside River Shore City.

  Marvin was walking alone when he suddenly felt sorrowful.

  ‘I was also able to feel that grief…’

  ‘Even though Anthony died as I expected, how could I feel sorrowful?’

  Marvin stood motionless for a moment, slowly recovering.

  He was somewhat shocked. He wasn’t shocked because of the grief.

  Ordinary people may not know what that grief meant but he knew. As one of the few active legendary wizards alive, Anthony had always been the most active in suppressing evil powers and was also the strongest one.

  Regardless if it was the twin snakes cult or the lower planes evil spirits, they couldn’t do as they pleased because of Anthony’s Eye of the Bright Sun.

  That righteous legendary wizard was East Coast’s protector. He was also one of the highest members of the south wizard alliance.

  This kind of person couldn’t be described with a few words.

  His death definitely was a loss for Feinan Continent. And the good people would feel some kind of power and feel some kind of grief.

  This was just the first one.

  Because this was first legend’s death since the Great Calamity started brewing.

  Under the gods’ conspiracy, the deaths of mankind’s wizards would definitely not be just a few. From Marvin memories of those shocking events, everything would happen one by one.

  It wouldn’t be long before Anthony’s death spread around, and at that time, all evil powers would begin to gain ground.

  It was the eve of the rise of the [World-ending Twin Snakes], the [Plague God] cult, the [Living Puppets]… Everything was just beginning.

  All of Feinan would sink into chaos.

  Wizards would lose their strength and be reduced to monsters. The mortals in their suffering would start to pray to the gods.

  This was the goal of those high and mighty gods!

  Of course, there was still the 4th Fate Tablet.

  Everything couldn’t be stopped. The only thing Marvin could do was not to go against heaven but rather set up a relatively safe place in this chaotic world.

  That was quite difficult!

  But as a former legendary player, Marvin never backed down from a challenge.

  Fate made him come to this world. He had a deal with the body’s owner, so he had to acheive it

  This was Marvin’s pledge to the soul, and because of that, he needed to defend his territory with his life.

  …

  ‘Could it be that I’m also kind-hearted?’

  Marvin gazed at the black cloud floating in the east, somewhat laughing at himself.

  Heavy rain would fall from that blackness for several days, and rainfall would hit all of the East Coast.

  This was a warning to the Feinan’s people of the death of the legendary wizard Anthony. A disaster was approaching.

  Marvin adjusted his breath and took advantage of the darkness to accelerate.

  The main road was quite deserted. Very few people would walk alone at night. Also, this main road was actually built by the first lord of White River Valley, Marvin’s grandfather. Obviously, there weren’t many people taking that road.

  Ever since the fall of White River valley, no caravan would go there. After all, who would do business with gnolls?

  Marvin’s dark vision was quite poor but luckily, the moon was out tonight. He was able to see quite far because of Mark of the Moon.

  He sped up his lonely journey and because he didn’t want to leave any traces, he decided to rest during the day and move out during the night.

  In the evening, two days later, he finally arrived at the border of White River Valley.

  ……

  Northern Mine.

  Strong winds blew on the grove of beech trees while the heavy rain was approaching. The main road ended here, splitting up in many narrow paths.

  Marvin used stealth to travel through the grove.

  He arrived in front of a crossroad and noticed a road sign.

  Marvin was quite familiar with this sign. It showed the way to the northern mine and the castle in the south.

  But right now, something was painted in green on top of it!

  A series of ugly looking words replaced the original words.

  ‘Gnoll language! Fuck! These beasts!’

  Marvin clenched his teeth.

  Even if he wasn’t very proficient in the language, he could still more or less guess that the words on the road sign meant Gnoll Territory.

  Move one step further and you would end up on the gnolls’ property!

  That’s right, the attack on Marvin’s castle was definitely from a gnoll tribe or else, considering the castle’s defense, it wouldn’t have fallen so quickly.

  It’s just that, from that time of the night, with so much confusion, the innocent youth wasn’t able to leave Marvin too much useful information.

  He had to personally investigate.

  But he already encountered a troublesome situation no further than the crossroad.

  There were gnolls sentinels.

  They were common sentinels. Two fighters and two archers, carrying very rough weapons. One look was enough to figure out that they crafted them themselves. Skillful human weaponsmiths were able to make slingshot more powerful than gnoll bows.

  He wasn’t worried about those gnoll sentinels. The important thing were those six tall shadows behind them.

  Marvin used Inspect and his pupils couldn’t help but constrict.

  Mutated Aardwolf¹!

  A level 4 beast with hp reaching 200 and melee fighting ability comparable to fierce tigers.

  These mutated aardwolves were the main force in the previous the attack on the castle. The castle’s defensive army, tried to defend themselves with their shields but those were easily ripped apart.

  Marvin himself was almost bitten to death by a mutated aardwolf!

  If not for Anna saving him…

  …

  Marvin knew that gnolls could tame aardwolves.

  But this kind of mutated aardwolf wasn’t the kind that gnolls could usually tame.

  ‘Could that pack of gnolls have a rare beast tamer?’ Marvin guessed.

  He was now facing a difficult problem.

  The road in front was blocked and if he wanted to move ahead, he had to get rid of those sentinels.

  But he had come to scout this time and not to alert his enemies.

  He needed to know the ins and outs of the gnoll tribe, their fighting forces, their leader’s level and so on.

  This needed to be done quietly.

  These sentinels and aardwolves were hindering his path.

  This was quite troublesome.

  Marvin hesitated, and then finally crouched behind a beech tree and used stealth.

  ‘Time to be patient.’


  …

  Marvin waited in the cold wind for two hours.

  The rainstorm started wildly falling from the sky.

  This was a spell cast by the legendary wizard Anthony before his death, using his own life, to admonish Feinan’s evil creatures.

  And as pointed out by Marvin, gnolls were very scared of rainwater. If their fur was drenched, it would be very difficult to dry it and would rot under the action of parasites.

  As a result, they would generally hide in any cavity they could find.

  And as expected, once it began to rain, those sentinels began to shriek and escaped to a cavity in the hill not too far from there.

  They were also followed by those six mutated aardwolves.

  Marvin was delighted. He used stealth and under the cover of the rain, silently walked forward.

  …

  After going through the first checkpoint, the rest of the road was smooth.

  Marvin stealthily went to the northern mine.

  He discovered that those gnolls were totally clueless about mining. After Marvin evacuated the miners, their defense only had around twenty fighter gnolls and two aardwolves One of them seemed to be a Level 3 Officer.

  ‘Seems like their leader put the main defensive forces at my castle. To have so many aardwolves, this is definitely a medium sized tribe with three hundred gnolls or more. No wonder that we were defeated that night. The destructive power of that kind of mutated aardwolf is too high. It would take 2nd rank human experts to be able to deal with them.’

  Marvin put a reminder in his heart: he needed to deal with these aardwolves if he wanted to take back his territory.

  After all, they could just surround and cut ordinary the gnoll fighters into pieces.

  But right now he was more interested in the one that bred those mutated aardwolves.

  Ordinary aardwolves were level 2 beasts, and normally one aardwolf would appear in community of ten or more gnolls. To be able to train aardwolves to level 4, their master must be quite extraordinary.

  ‘It might be a ranger advanced class – Tamer?’

  Marvin wasn’t sure. But those mutated aardwolves’ master was most likely the leader.

  That kind of powerful guy had no reason to not be the leader.

  He had been thinking for a long time, and the shadow of the castle in the valley could already been seen in the distance.