Episode 77 – Gust from the North (7)
“Huh, huh!”
It came suddenly. At that moment when I wasn’t even expecting anything, there was no time to resist.
Varun, who was talking normally with the tribesmen, widened his eyes at the power that seemed to sweep over his body. But that strange sensation only lasted for a moment, and soon his head started pounding strongly and his vision began to shake.
“Chief!”
“Why are you doing that!?”
Others were shocked to see Varun staggering around holding his head. They quickly rushed in and helped the falling body, but the reaction only became more violent.
“uuu!!”
Varun began to scream, twitching and desperately rubbing his eyes. However, the letters that began to appear before his eyes did not disappear and instead only burrowed deeper into his head, as if they were eating away at him.
‘This is a revelation from God!’
I once felt something similar to this. When they realized their name given by their guardian spirit through none other than letters floating in the sky.
Even then, Varun, who received the power of the program, was able to read letters he did not know and understand their meaning. It was still the same now. It’s just that now there are too many letters, unlike before, when they were only one word at most.
“I’m fine. “God is giving me a revelation!”
“Well, is that really true?”
The tribe members, who were worried about Varun, were shocked and upset when he mentioned God. Varun, with a frown on his face, felt like his head was about to explode, and in pain, he started writing something on the dirt with the druid’s staff he was holding in his hand.
‘It is also His grace.’
The letters written on the floor were his name. A name written in sacred script that only he can now read. Although it was extremely painful as the information was forcibly injected into his brain, Varun smiled with the corners of his mouth raised.
‘We take this one step further…’
“Chief!”
However, apart from Varun’s mind, his body reached its limits. The brain, which had suddenly and forcibly accepted a large amount of information, could no longer hold on and declared a strike of its own.
Those around him were shouting and holding on to him as he collapsed with foam at his mouth. The last thing Varun saw as he was losing consciousness was a blue sky with the word [Sky] written on it.
And at the time Varun collapsed, Riena, who was in the village doing personal training while waiting for a call, also complained of similar symptoms and fainted.
“I can’t believe you were in the same situation. “If you couldn’t endure it, there’s no way I could.”
“It was the first time I had experienced such a shock…it was impossible to bear it.”
“There must be a reason why he gave us a revelation.”
It was that afternoon that the two came to their senses. Knowing that they were in the same situation, the father and daughter laughed and simultaneously recalled the knowledge that had been instilled in their heads.
‘writing. We got the text. A text given by God.’
Varun was able to write about every object he could see. It was also possible to speak beautiful sentences by following the rules.
It was like a dream. To begin with, writing is something very rare and rare to them, like a castle. Those who could read and write learned the writings of those who lived beyond the wall.
There were certainly those who thought that such things were not necessary and that the only important thing was to fight well and hunt well, but at least Varun was convinced that if there was something called writing that made the act of recording possible, ruling would be easier.
“I guess I should teach it to others too.”
Varun even wanted to share this special knowledge given to them with other tribe members. As a tribal leader, Varun could have monopolized the information by informing only certain classes, but he had no intention of doing so.
Because this is not something they developed or acquired, but is entirely a gift from God. It was common knowledge beyond doubt that if you monopolized the gift given by God, you would be punished.
“I will do the teaching. “You must be busy.”
“I’m not that busy unless he calls me.”
“In that case, it would be better to empty your body and mind and rest during that time.”
Varun offered to teach. Riena said she would help, but Varun decided that it would be better for them to focus on their own work now that they had some free time.
“You are a knight. A person who fights against the enemy. Just think about that. “Only then can you be safe.”
“…”
She couldn’t refute her father’s words. Because it wasn’t wrong.
“It seems he didn’t give us a revelation for nothing.”
“yes?”
And soon after, when Maureen, who had been learning some construction methods in the game world, handed him a wad of paper and a pen, Varun took it and raised an eyebrow.
They had an intuition that this wad of paper could create something that could fill their inner self with their growing power.
“It’s an emergency!”
“hmm?!”
But soon after, they faced a new danger again.
“Oh, oh oh oh!”
“What’s going on!?”
When dinner is over. Tensions began to flow in the once peaceful town. Some people who were armed and standing guard were taken up into the sky.
Exactly where they were going was unknown, other than that they were going west.
“It looks like something happened to the west.”
Of course, except for those who were new, it was also a familiar experience. It’s just that the being who sees what they don’t see discovers something and takes them to it.
“Liena!”
“I will go and take a look.”
Riena, who quickly put on her armor with an expression of realization and took up her sword, was strong enough to be called the number one sword in the tribe and was also lifted into the sky.
She calmly responded to the surprised people and turned her gaze to the west. Since I couldn’t see it all at once, it didn’t mean that something had happened at close range.
“Monsters…!”
Soon she landed on the ground. They moved to a point where mouse control was possible, and were surprised to see a group of enemies approaching in front of them.
Now familiar enemies were crawling across the ground targeting them.
[lv 3 glitch]
These monsters, the size of tigers and shaped like centipedes, spotted them and of course attacked them.
Liena, with her sword drawn, stood at the forefront and cut off the head of the enemy who was attacking her with a single sword.
“It’s poison…!”
She cried out as she saw the venom falling from the centipede’s fangs reach the grass and dry it up instantly. At the same time, the golden light that burst from her body purified the poison contained in the glitches.
“I killed them all. Fortunately, I don’t think the leader is in sight.”
“There’s an injured person here!”
The others also gritted their teeth and engaged in a desperate fight, eliminating the majority of the glitches one by one. Even experienced soldiers can easily defeat the lvl 3 glitch through a coordinated attack.
However, there were also injuries. As Riena ran, there was a soldier who had been hit by a centipede’s fangs, groaning and clutching his blackened leg.
“Use this.”
Riena took out a small bottle from her arms. A potion obtained from the game world that you always carry with you.
When I poured this panacea, which heals both external and internal injuries, on the wound, the poison was purified and disappeared and the bleeding stopped.
“Okay, thank you.”
The injured young soldier saw her treating him with a potion and expressed his gratitude with a blank expression on his face. In fact, from a soldier’s perspective, Riena was quite an amazing person.
He heals himself generously using potions, which are obviously extremely valuable items, and purifies the poison of evil monsters with divine power.
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After receiving the Light of Heavenly Protection and Judgment, her mana changed to a golden color imbued with divinity, and this image further improved.
A saint who is favored by her guardian deity. It’s so white and beautiful that you can’t help but change your perspective.
‘These guys come from further away.’
But now Riena’s attention was elsewhere.
The direction she is looking at is the west direction where the centipedes crawled. A little further from here, there is a village where Ornn’s tribe once lived.
Perhaps because it was such a remote place, she had fundamental questions.
What happens if bugs and glitches also exist in other regions? It was such an obvious question.
The bugs and glitches she knew were creepy, unidentifiable monsters that could not be compared to existing monsters.
‘The immediate west is the territory ruled by Warchief Garhan. Did the monsters go there?’
There is no way such monsters would behave differently towards marauders. Monsters that see even rough marauders as prey will inevitably clash with them. However, having lost her family and hometown to the marauders, she now had the intuition that bugs were a more dangerous enemy than the marauders.
“You are right. “As soon as the sun rises, I will send out a reconnaissance mission to find out.”
She was lifted again by the mouse and returned to the village, where she shared her thoughts with Varun. Varun, who listened to the story slowly, agreed with her thoughts and decided to find out.
‘It might be worth looking into.’
And Riena’s questions soon became concerns, and the off-screen being who was able to read her concerns decided to find out the source of the bugs that appeared in the west.
***
‘All bugs that have appeared so far have only appeared on screens within 2 spaces.’
The next morning. I woke up early and moved the mouse, thinking about what I experienced last night.
When I thought about it last night, it was even weirder than I thought. First of all, it appeared in a place that was too far away from the places where bugs and glitches had appeared so far.
Unlike in the past, even though a considerable amount of territory was revealed, they appeared from further away. I saw it with my own eyes and took the residents to the corner of the street.
‘I still don’t know much about them.’
It is said that they gather because the land where the village is located is a passage to the reality where I am, but that does not mean that they cannot go to other lands.
There are people living elsewhere, and they could be preying on those people.
“—?!”
I made Riena my scout leader to check it out. I was planning on taking the strongest person, just in case.
With her in the lead, I dragged dozens of scouts and dropped them off at the most remote location, and watched them realize my intention and cross the border into an unknown land.
I planned to continue watching them scout while playing games with others.
[Garhan’s Realm (Contamination)]
“pollution?”
Soon the screen changed and the name of the area came to mind. My eyes twitched at the word pollution. At the same time, in the exact opposite direction to the right of the screen where Riena is. I saw a huge nest wriggling there.