Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 30 (Part 1):

“How about our rank 4 mercenary rookies, Helmut and Finn?”

They had now found enough leisure to tease.

“Both are safe. No one approached the carriage. Hey! You can come out now.”

Helmut had just emerged from under the carriage, standing up. However, Finn had no intention of coming out.

‘Did he faint underneath?’

As he thought this, a small cry came from below.

“Helmut!”

Looking inside, Finn, who had been crouching, reached out his hand with a pale face.

“Helmut, hey, I’ve got a cramp in my leg. Pull me out, quickly.”

“……”

Helmut did not bother to hide his disdain as Finn emerged from under the carriage, rubbing his leg.

“Ah, I thought my leg was paralyzed.”

Helmut was certain that if he had left and a beast had rushed under the carriage, Finn would have died clutching his leg instead of fighting.

Uter, with his arm bandaged, chuckled and spoke.

“Despite hiding comfortably under the carriage, your face looks as if you’ve been fighting for ten hours?”

“Ah, come on, stop teasing me!”

Finn shouted in irritation and then became disheartened and shut his mouth.

In the mercenary corps, he was amazed and demoralized to see the 3rd-rank mercenaries, who seemed to laze about, fighting against formidable beasts in perfect order.

Uter then turned his target to Helmut.

“Helmut, what about you? Do you think you can handle it? Want to try fighting?”

“I can fight too.”

Helmut stated calmly. Being a 4th-rank mercenary, it was right to follow Tanya’s orders, but he was certain the attack wasn’t over.

That monkey beast, a creature with intelligence, bears similar traits to humans. They have a sense of revenge and cannot withstand unilateral losses.

‘A single watch is enough.’

While he was wondering whether to step in or not, it ended.

“Ah, you’ll just become a burden if you get hurt. You’ve never faced a demonic beast before.”

Helmut, who was about to answer that he had faced more than Uter, shut his mouth before he carelessly responded.

‘That damned amnesia.’

“Still, the kid didn’t die. Right, a mercenary needs courage! You’ll get used to it eventually.”

Having overcome a crisis, Uter seemed to be in a good mood. Once everyone from the Pace Mercenary Corps gathered, Phien gave the order.

“Alright, everyone did well. Let’s inspect the carriage and collect the corpses. It’s going to be quite profitable.”

Helmut asked Finn.

“Collect the corpses? Is that profitable?”

“Demonic beast’s corpses are worth much more than regular game. Fortunately, we didn’t have any casualties on our side.”

The mercenaries drew their hatchets or daggers, leading the way to rummage through the fallen beasts’ bodies.

Leather or teeth collected would sell for money. They are used for mages’ experiments or in weapon crafting.

The harvest collected was taken by the Butan Trading Company, but about 70% of it went to the mercenaries.

Soon, the trading company’s people who had come down from the carriage were assessing the value of the corpses brought in by the mercenaries.

“Watch and learn.”

Maros, who had called Helmut and Finn over with a gesture, skillfully dissected a monster’s corpse, peeling off the intact parts of its skin.

He meticulously searched for any valuable parts, plucking out teeth and harvesting sharp claws. It wasn’t the beasts that were cruel.

“This one has unusual eye color. Could it be worth something?”

“It might have some value as a collectible, but it’s hard to preserve eyes. Just leave it.”

The mercenaries were particularly careful in collecting the monsters’ cores, what humans called the seed of darkness, and assembled them together. Helmut’s gaze slightly wavered.

“The priests might not like it, but this is where the money is.”

“There’s not a single intact core. I told you to stab off-center!”

“It’s hard enough as it is, who has time to pay attention to that.”

Finn looked on with a pale face, chatting away as the 3rd-rank mercenaries worked. Tanya signaled to Finn and Helmut with her chin.

“There’s one over there. Try working on it together.”

Finn moved towards the corpse Tanya had pointed out with an uneasy face. Helmut did the same. But as they got closer, a strange feeling struck Helmut.

“Finn.”

“What? Scared? It’s okay.”

Finn, pretending to be brave, reached out his hand confidently towards the corpse. At that moment, magical energy surged.

It was a creature that pretended to be dead. It revealed its true colors when they tried to touch it.

-Kyaaak!

Its teeth bared, it lunged at Finn, aiming for the throat. Tanya, who had been watching them, shouted in urgency.

“Finn!”

“Aaaah!”

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