213 – The Identity of Eden (3)
Chapter 213 – The Identity of Eden (3)
“I don’t want to see anything worse. Still, isn’t it our hero who once fought together? I can still see you standing in the vanguard crushing the Lizardmen army of the Pandemonium.”
“…What did you do?”
“The point of being selfish is still the same. The mountain will tell you if you tell me where the ingots come from?”
The very moment when the special team formed in Eden was dispatched. In Naria’s hometown, the violent turmoil has subsided and a creepy silence has returned.
The villagers were terrified and confined to their homes by Nofen, who did not spare the use of force, citing punishment for treason.
And in the meantime, Naria, who was determined to clean up everyone by herself, was defeated and captured by the guards and warrior Kroon.
‘You scumbags. In the end, the real purpose was their own self-interest.’
Naria, who was chained and hung, gnashed her teeth.
Ignoring her procedures and common sense, and even though her eyes were turned over and her actions were treason, the reason why she did not arrest her and interrogated her deceased father instead was to eventually find out the source of the aluminum ingot and monopolize it. .
When she realized that the cause of this situation was the selfish desire of a single official, she was enraged. She would rather fight, claiming that she was wrong if she was for a great cause, but if the reason was pure greed, she wasn’t worth fighting for.
“Chehehehe…”
“Hmm, it’s hard because it hasn’t lost its strength yet. But since I have a lot of means, is there anything wrong with giving me a present?”
At that time, Kroon saw Nari glaring at him and laughed silently at her, then clenched her fist and swung it around to hit her hanging belly.
The size of a sturdy human male, his fists are hard and massive, and the blow causes her body to fold in half with a shockwave-like drumming sound.
But even though Naria opened her eyes wide and she couldn’t breathe, he smirked, saying that the taste was not good.
Hanging her like this and leaving her unattended is also to take her strength out of her body. When she was completely exhausted and her body, a strong warrior, was no different from that of a normal person.
From then on, I meant to torture you properly.
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“After the war, I learned that the power traditionally passed down to us dwarves has limits. I don’t know of anyone who has gone to the frontier like you, but the king knew that and gathered several masters and gave them special instructions. It is to accept the power of the different races and transform our power!”
He just started telling Na Leah, who was coughing up her blood, how he was able to win because she was weaker than her.
“Combining the mental methods of different races with ours? How could that be…? Don’t you have any pride?”
“Surviving is a matter of pride. At least I decided to think so. And the result is this. You lost, I won.”
He grabbed Lia by the hair as she gasped and laughed at her, then turned and left her. Of course, the new modification method he learned had side effects as much as explosive power, but he had no reason to say that.
‘I’m really stupid too.’
Naria suddenly thought of Ren, who came to her to learn how to fight a dwarf even though she was an elf, and Naria sighed as she felt her strength gradually draining away. Now that she’s been like this, she intends to keep her mouth shut and not tell her the truth about her Eden.
“How is it? Did you say you would speak soon?”
“I need more time. Four days to subdue such a warrior? Nonsense.”
“Poem, not much time! If time drags on, you will cause needless misunderstandings!”
Today too, Nofen, who had been anxiously waiting for Kroon, came running to Kroon, who had left behind Naria, who was hanging on without having a sip of water. Nofen was more urgent than Kroon.
“You already did something useless and killed the district manager. He was senile and had an excuse. All the villagers know we captured Naria, so he’s going to do worse? It’s right to quietly dig up information and take it to the center.”
Kroon glared at Nofen’s brush. He meant not to ruin things further by being in a hurry when the district manager was already dead.
“Nopen. Right now, mysterious people with unknown identities appear and say they want to see Nofen.”
“What?”
But at that moment. A piece of news has arrived. Suspicious people appeared outside the village and asked to talk to them.
Nofen was speechless for a moment. Who dares to disturb them in the execution of their sacred duties?
“We don’t know either. I tried to arrest them, but I couldn’t catch them because they were clever and agile.”
“Well, then, no way.”
Hearing the words of the soldier who delivered the news, Nofen was startled. Intuitively, the source of the aluminum ingot they were looking for so much. He noticed that it had come.
“As expected, do you mobilize more soldiers to chase them away?”
“No, I will go see you myself.”
He was both happy and worried at the same time, and he declared that he would go directly with a strange expression, neither smiling nor angry.
It wasn’t too far away from where the suspicious people proposed to meet. In the mountains near the village. To be precise, it was the hut where Naria once lived.
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“They are coming.”
“Looking at you coming right away, you must have noticed. Is the fine hair a good guy?”
In the forest, a few people wearing black hoods gathered and watched the village entrance.
They were dispatched from Eden to negotiate. As they contacted and reported, a group of dwarves, including Nofen, were coming to the promised place.
“Is that the boss? I guess I have no fear. Or blinded by greed.”
“Let us also settle down. Because it’s important.”
One of them, Liam, took her companions and retreated back to the meeting place, the cabin.
Before negotiating, Liam checked the crates full of aluminum ingots. It is just a mere metal without any power, but the rare value it possesses has created monsters of greed.
‘Foolish bastards who believe that this is everything.’
Actually, Liam didn’t think much of it even after seeing them. It was because what he saw and heard relatively early in Eden was a real miracle that could not be compared to anything like this precious metal.
The glitter of the minerals rolling on the ground was child’s play compared to the miracle of the sky god shining above it against the backdrop of the whole sky.
“It’s you guys. Where do you belong A lot of people have been disappearing around here lately, are you one of those traitors!”
At that time, the central dwarves led by Nofen arrived at the meeting place. Nofen, who had changed his voice to that of a strict official, sternly shouted at the envoys of Eden, who were covered in hoods and cloaks, hiding behind the heavily armored Kroon.
“Treason. Feel free to think We just left where we lived to live.”
“What? Rather than that, tell me now.”
“That’s not what’s important right now. You don’t have to speak at length. You, mere investigators, release the district manager who punished you for violating the established procedures and Naria who stormed in to save him. If you do, I will give you this.”
Liam tensed up and showed them a crate full of aluminum ingots. Everyone’s eyes widened at the sight of aluminum rolling around like relatively common silver, and they froze.
“Is it worth worrying about? If you just leave like this, all of this will be yours?”
“Kuh, is that all you really want?”
Liam snorted at their reaction, picked up an ingot, and twirled it in his hand. Nofen, who had been rolling his eyes in line with the movement, suddenly came to his senses and quickly began to roll his head.
‘Should I kill them all? If it’s a Kroon that even beat Naria in the battle against the Dwarf, those guys are at least.’
Nopen quickly scanned the surroundings. Eden’s envoys covering their faces looked like all dwarves given his height.
Since he has Kroon that can give him an edge against the Dwarves, he thought he could kill them all.
“How in the world did outcasts like you, who left their homes and kingdoms, obtain such precious things?”
“Are you curious about that? Don’t worry. Even if someone like you dares to join them, they will be punished with divine punishment.”
As Nofen giggled as he brushed his beard for a rough look, Liam shrugged him off and hit him back.
‘If you get that, it’s all over. If I dispose of it well, I will become the richest man. But, but, should I just end it here? Can’t I get something more?’
Aluminium still shimmered in his eyes. He was thinking about what would never happen again in his life at the ingots made of foil that Seonghyeon roughly tore up and crumpled up and tossed.
“Good. Accept it.”
“Good. But until she brings her back, we won’t give her a thing.”
Contrary to what others expected, Nopen did not get angry at Liam’s sarcasm, but accepted the offer with a smile.
Of course he couldn’t trust him, so Liam asked for Naria to be brought in first.
Then he obediently sent his soldiers to bring Naria, who was hanging in a completely exhausted state.
“I don’t understand. Are the soldiers really going to send those suspicious guys like this, when they witnessed this scene? Seeing that they are trying to get Naria back at such a huge price, there must be something hidden.”
“It is not difficult to crack down on soldiers. And of course I want something bigger.”
Kroon whispered to him if he really wanted to finish things like this. However, Nofen has an idea, so he covered Kroon’s mouth with a face telling him not to worry.