269 – Back inside (4)
Luna had several conversations with an unknown Gigi(?).
She said that she, too, was captured by a giant bird, and that she is still alive thanks to the color of her hair.
No matter how huge the bird becomes, she still thinks it is a bird and looks at the yellow color and thinks it is her baby.
Even the other baby birds were puzzled with their eyes wide open at first, but now they treat them like their own brothers.
“What is your name?”
“My name is Duke. My baptismal name is Virgil.”
“You said you were a believer of Gaia, right? But why are you here?”
Putting other things aside, I wonder why the Duke is here.
The Forest of Chaos is officially off-limits, let alone inside. There is almost no way in.
If you’re a pilgrim traveling around the world, you wouldn’t know that. However, on the outside, he looked like a beggar rather than a pilgrim who had gone through all sorts of hardships.
“There are many circumstances. Wicked demons threw me here.”
“You must have had a hard time.”
“Of course. It’s been so hard to survive here… So bad.”
Duke shed tears, probably overcome with emotion. It seems like he really missed the human touch.
The funny thing is that when he cried, other baby birds came to him. He really seems to think his brother is crying.
Luna almost burst out laughing, but she suppressed it as best as she could. Her priority now is to escape from here.
“Have you ever thought about getting out of here?”
“I did it a lot. But every time I tried to escape, the mother bird flew over and picked me up. I guess she thought it was a baby bird escaping from the nest.”
“Umm…”
If that happens, it gets quite difficult. Luna let out a sigh.
Not only do we not know when the mother bird will return, but the cliff outside the nest is far away.
If it had been Shiva, he would have easily jumped and fallen. However, the moment you fall from here, you will suffer a serious injury or fracture.
‘I have no choice but to wait for Sivar to come.’
The situation became a bit frustrating. I have a compass, but it is useless here.
In the end, we have no choice but to wait until Sivar discovers this place. Or try to escape whenever you get the chance.
Luna let out a long sigh. She was caught off guard for a moment and the situation took a turn for the worse.
“Then how did you come here? The Forest of Chaos must have been officially off-limits.”
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Luna, who was looking outside her nest, heard the question and turned her head. And she couldn’t help but become stiff.
Duke is eating something. When you look at it, it looks like a bug and is so big that you have to lift it with one hand.
It even seemed to be alive as it wriggled a little. Luna asked in a shocked voice.
“Ji, what are you eating now?”
“Ah. You mean this? It’s a bug that lives in this nest here. If you look for it, there are a lot of them.”
“No. Why did you do that before…”
“If you want to live, don’t you have to eat something?”
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Eat to live. This is an answer that suddenly comes to someone’s mind.
Perhaps Sivar gradually adapted to the wild in this way.
The Forest of Chaos is a place rich in magic and food, apart from danger. If you have the skills, you will never starve to death.
“Would you like some?”
“No.”
I have no intention of adapting to the wild yet. Luna shook her head vigorously.
The funny thing here is the reactions of other baby birds. Normally, they would steal it, but everyone is quietly watching.
It looks like she was worried because her brother didn’t eat her food. It was a bird, but it was strange in terms of intelligence.
“Duke, were you a pilgrim? Looking at you, it looks like you went through a lot of trouble.”
“No? He was just an ordinary priest. He was a member of the academy sent to the academy just a week ago.”
“Huh? But your hair and beard… Were they always like that?”
It was safe to say that Duke’s current appearance was a mess. Also the king of beggars.
The hair, which was hard and stiff due to oil, was long enough to cover the body, and the beard also reached down to the chest like a immortal.
It feels like I’ve been living in the wild for 10 years, not just a week. Even Sivar wasn’t that bad when we first met him.
“That’s not true either. It was originally clean. It ended up looking like this because I stayed here.”
“You said you came a week ago, right? But why…”
“Well, I think it might be because it’s inside the Forest of Chaos. Most of the monsters that live here are highly intelligent and large, right? I think that has something to do with it.”
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It is a reasonable hypothesis. All animals living inside the Forest of Chaos are large.
Although it is a spirit creature, it ranges from a squirrel the size of a large dog to the huge bird that just kidnapped him.
When looking at the size of the bird, it was enough to call it a monster, but the appearance itself was a bird. A bird that has literally grown in size.
‘Is time passing quickly? Or is it simply because there is an abundance of magic power?’
The more magical power you have, the faster your growth will be. But the severity is very severe.
Luna looked at Duke closely. She was not peeking at his abilities, but observed him with his natural keen eye.
Aside from being like a beggar, its fur and fingernails are also quite long. Has the body itself adapted to the forest of chaos?
‘Or is it because you are a believer in Gaia? ‘I’m not sure.’
No matter what, there is nothing good about staying inside. The priority is to escape as soon as possible.
I also happened to meet a helper at the right time, so it won’t be difficult. First, it starts with getting out of the nest.
“Mr. Duke, do you know when the mother bird is coming?”
“He’s probably gone looking for food by now. But he’s a pretty strong guy, so he’ll be back soon.”
“Um… Then did you think of a way to escape?”
“I’m worried about that too… Actually, it hasn’t been long since I was captured here. I was on the ground not long ago.”
Duke listed the hardships he had experienced so far.
After being interrogated by demons, which was not an interrogation, I opened my eyes and found myself inside a forest of chaos.
At first, I tried to escape somehow, but I ended up spinning around in circles like a maze, and eventually I got used to it.
“I almost died when I met the saber-toothed tiger. Fortunately, he used his wits and ran away.”
“It’s a base, right?”
“It took the cub hostage and ran away. I had no choice but to chase it until the end and kill the cub… In a situation like this, conscience is a luxury.”
The Duke responded with the nuance that there was nothing he could do. Luna didn’t really refute that.
Shouldn’t we live and see first? In the wild, there is no need for conscience or laziness.
Eating ultimately harms life. As the Duke said, conscience is a luxury.
“In the end, you have no choice but to worry.”
“Yes. Did you come alone?”
“There is one person in the group, but they probably won’t be able to find it. I have the compass.”
“Compass?”
“It’s a long explanation…”
Luna did not tell us the whole situation. Strangely enough, she felt a bit reluctant to tell the Duke everything.
I don’t know if I should call it intuition. But I felt that way instinctively.
“Is that so? Then the rescue team could come soon…”
“We’ll have to get out of here before that. No one will find us if we stay here.”
The rescue team, including Rize, will arrive in about two days from now. Until then, we will have to hold on somehow.
Getting out of the nest is a priority before enduring. As Luna pondered over her concerns, she looked around at the baby birds.
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Unlike before, the baby birds were very quiet. It seems that the reason I cried so hard earlier was because of Luna.
The brother(?) Who was thought to be dead has returned, so it is natural to welcome him with great enthusiasm. As Luna watched them, a good idea occurred to her.
“Ah! A good idea occurred to me.”
“What is that?”
“When birds grow up, they have to go out of the nest, right? That’s when you jump on their backs. How about that?”
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The Duke looked dumbfounded at the unusual method. The response is that it was unexpected.
Afterwards, he looked around at the quiet baby birds and opened his mouth in a defeated voice.
“It will take a few weeks for those birds to grow up… Didn’t you say a rescue team was coming?”
“Ah.”
“Your thoughts are a bit short.”
Luna scratched her head at her shyness. She thought it was a groundbreaking method, but it wasn’t.
She finally thought that she had no choice but to stay here.
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Kyaaa!!
The sound of an animal echoing from the sky. Luna and Duke raised their heads at the sound.
Not only people but also baby birds raised their heads. It was an instinctive move.
Soon, I looked up at the sky and saw something very familiar flying. Besides, it’s coming this way.
“It looks like the mother bird has returned.”
“Okay. Can I just stay still?”
“I think it would be better to be among the baby birds, just in case.”
Luna listened to Duke’s words and she stepped among the baby birds.
As she huddled together like this, she was able to realize that her hair and the color of the baby birds were similar.
Flutter! Flap!
The mother bird that was flying above quickly came down this way. It looks like he went hunting and came back.
But it’s strange. It was okay to descend quickly, but even at that speed, it was too fast.
The size of the mother bird, which was a small dot, suddenly became huge. Luna saw the speed and realized her strangeness.
“That’s too fast…”
Wouldn’t that cause a collision with the nest? At the same time I had that thought.
Quad deuk! Quad Deuk! Quad!
The mother bird fell at high speed and collided with the nest. The huge body slid as if it were sliding.
All the trees that had been tangled here and there to make nests were destroyed, and the baby birds were startled and cried out loud.
This applies not only to baby birds but also to people. Luna looked at the mother bird who had fallen with surprise on her face.
She didn’t know when she fell, but now she sees that there was someone on top of the mother bird. She is a very familiar person.
“Tsk tsk.”
Tsk!
A man with all his clothes torn pulled out an axe. An ax stuck directly in the mother bird’s head.
It seemed like he was hit by an ax while flying in the sky and fell straight down. Maybe her brain was mush.
Sivar, the man who flew on the bird, retrieved the ax and turned his head. And he said to the people, including the baby bird.
“Hello.”
It was an ordinary greeting in contrast to the flashy appearance.
Poor baby birds