Shadow of Life
I didn’t expect anything, but
The North Pole was right before our eyes.
‘I really think there must have been a gate leading directly to the North Pole.’
The truth is that I have been worried about it for a long time. It was because it took a lot of time that I hadn’t thought of when I set out on my first journey as I got entangled with the beasts of the Eastern Plains.
I am willing to stay here because my focus is on helping the one person in front of me rather than looking at the macro future. But nevertheless, I had a lot of trouble in my mind whether the remaining time was enough for me to tolerate such consumption.
Indeed, the Lord has given me the answer to my worries. Even if I had just passed by them, the two weeks I had spent on the battle would have only been spent passing through the Kalcamir Mountains.
‘Beyond that, there must be that demon king.’
However, I still had other concerns, and this time I had to find the answer myself. On the way back from the gate, I was in deep thought.
How should I prepare for the second encounter with the Demon King? Who should I go over there with? I thought it was a good thing to think about a little later, but now that I know it’s not, I had to make a decision now.
“I cherish the High King. I have a report that needs to be uploaded urgently, so I came here.”
Of course, I wasn’t the only one with a lot of trouble. Now, the tired child had an expression that he just wanted to go back to sleep, but he grabbed him from all sides and did not let him sit still.
“Currently, the national treasury is empty and the country is not operating properly due to insufficient tax revenue. Please, I hope that the High King will give you a wise judgment.”
Anyway, the order of the Beast Kingdom, which had been held tight by Epirna’s existence, started to go back to chaos after Epirna self-destructed. There was no way that Roca, who had not received any special education for the king, could run the kingdom well, and in fact, there seemed to be no will to do so.
“I don’t. No, I can’t! How do you do this!”
Others called me king, but I tried for just three days to try to be king. Then the crane was removed and the scepter was thrown. The princess looked at Roca like that and spoke to her quietly.
“It’s hard being a king, isn’t it?”
“There isn’t one thing that’s done right, but I have to keep hitting it. No, then, what to do! do they pay Am I not the water king?”
Contrary to the state where training increases as much as practiced, the king position does not necessarily return a reward for putting in effort. Even Princess Ardein, the enemy of the royal family and learned a lot from her childhood, felt that she lacked ability, and eventually gave up on her position.
Still, trying to do something, the child finally gave up. The next day, Roca called for Mr. Leon and forced him to take the position of king of kings. Leon doesn’t readily accept it and just shakes his head.
“A water king is not something anyone can do.”
“Isn’t that something anyone can do?”
“The reason everyone acknowledged and accepted you is because you defeated Epirna in a one-on-one fair manner. You have proven your strength to everyone, so everyone accepted you as a great warrior. That’s the qualification of a water king. As a loser, I don’t deserve that.”
Clearly, the beauin people’s attitude toward Roca changed after winning the battle of the beauties. Before, he looked at Roca with doubts and doubts, but after winning, he treated him with utmost respect wherever he went.
that he proved his power in a fair confrontation. This seemed to be a very big deal for the beast people. Even the gray wolf clan, who had been displeased with Roca from the first meeting, now bowed their heads to show respect when Roca passed by.
“Certainly, for us, Suwangjeon is a really big ceremony…”
“Just because you want to do good to someone else doesn’t mean that the position is transferred. Unless you open another battle and find a warrior who can defeat you…”
“Or, unless you challenge someone and defeat you, it will be difficult.”
The words of Mr. Robo and Mr. Urban were the same. I was greedy, but I never said that I would get it. Their common opinion was that no one would accept the throne if they didn’t open another water battle and show everyone how to defeat Roca.
“Actually, the beast kingdom has already almost collapsed. Fortunately, the central point of being the winner of the Suwang Battle is what holds the kingdom together. If you renounce the throne, even the remaining façades will be completely destroyed.”
“Then just tell me to break down. What is the meaning of a kingdom falling apart without me?”
“What do you mean! It is the home where we all live. How can you destroy a country with such a long history!”
It was mainly Urban Uncle who vomited, but I could feel it. It means that all the beauties, including Kisea-san, support Urban-san’s words.
It’s really a big deal for a country to collapse. If you think that the empire will be destroyed tomorrow, the meaning becomes clearer.
Even if it’s just an illusion, the difference between a state being maintained and not being maintained is huge. The area occupied by the demons, where several kings scrambled to create a crucible of chaos, was a dangerous place until I traveled there. It was so dangerous that there were few adventurers wandering around there.
Eastern Plains. It is still a difficult land. A choice that will make it even more difficult for people in this difficult place is not something that can be recommended with empty words. So I left Roca’s work to Roka for a while, and in the meantime, I was having various discussions with others.
However, the opinions of the two sides were so different that the debate over the years ran almost parallel. Rocca, who has not lived here, did not die, and did not care about the rise and fall of the kingdom, was unable to compromise with those who lived here and there.
But in fact, we didn’t have any options. Maybe it was from the beginning.
I looked up there. I looked north over there. Since when have you been there Why didn’t you know until now?
Ever since Epirna fell, strange things keep happening over there in the north. At first I thought it was just an illusion. But as we go further, we only have a strong feeling that this will be true.
A very large, high, vitality that even a dragon cannot follow. It is so strong that it is barely visible even from so far away. It was certain that there was something big and old out there in the north, which made no sense for a human being.
I’ve never felt this way before. The one that felt the most similar was the monster, but even that was not so vivid. Even the Hydra and Cockatrice I saw a few days ago did not have this level of vitality.
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Maybe that’s the vitality that the Demon King has? At that time, it was impossible to compare because I did not open the eyes of the apostles, but I had a gut feeling that it probably wasn’t.
In the meantime, the speculation that Epirna emits is obscuring its existence, so maybe I didn’t notice it? If it wasn’t, she might have been absorbing all of the life force that was expelling this way.
‘It would be good to check it at least once. If possible, with a wizard.’
In such a case, it would be nice to have a skilled wizard, but unfortunately it is difficult to find a wizard in the beast kingdom. Since Epirna was running the country in such a closed way, there is no common branch of the tower to be found here.
However, it is of course impossible to invite the Wizard of the Tower to this place now. Distance, time, and cost are also important issues, but even more importantly, due to the arrival of the reaper at this point, the magic tower has no spirit.
According to the information I heard from the princess, the magicians in the tower were able to get out safely without any major casualties. However, they are conscripted into the system with few exceptions. In preparation for a decisive battle with the Shinigami, the Empire ordered conscription, and Matop accepted it without complaint.
For them, the reaper is a common enemy and an invader occupying their hometown, Orphiel. No, even leaving all those things behind, if even the empire loses to the Shinigami, there is no way those smart wizards don’t know that there is no future after that.
‘Even if you ask the Empire to bring in a wizard, it will take a lot of time to come back to this town we came from. There is no guarantee that he will come alive.’
There are people who are talented in magic here too, but there is no place to learn them, so of course there are no wizards. In addition, the Beasts originally worshiped warriors and scorned wizards.
There are some who call magic a human skill and despise it. In the end, the person who will take you from the beginning is decided.
The dragon doesn’t know what he’s doing because there hasn’t been any news for a while.
I’m going to persuade the dragon to tour the north together.
“Aww! Look at me and tell me what more to do! I don’t like it because I give it, I can’t because I throw it away.
…let’s take Rocca along the way.
It looked like he needed some time to cool off.