I didn’t miss that subtle change.
After gaining extra sense, she was able to read other people’s facial expressions better, but she was especially unable to hide her emotions.
So I was half sure. That she knows the place I just said.
“I know.”
As she spoke again, she felt a slight flinch. I know too.
“Please. I want you to guide me there.”
“No, I don’t know.”
“If there is anything you want, I will repay you in the best possible way.”
She snorted and turned back.
“Well, don’t hold on to me with useless words. If you chase me, I’ll throw you back into the lake, so don’t chase after me.”
Then he jumped and disappeared into the forest in an instant.
I brushed my hair once more and stared at the forest.
I wasn’t worried about missing out.
It seemed to be settled here by the lake anyway.
‘How do you coax that?’
I’ll go back and try again later.
***
After returning to the carriage, drying myself and eating, I immediately took Ashel back to the place where I had met the woman.
I followed the trail she left.
Footprints on the floor, tread marks, etc., were enough to figure out where she was headed.
There were traces that would be difficult to find normally, but it wasn’t too difficult to raise the extra senses. This is also very useful for tracking.
The place I reached after chasing the trail was a cave located deep in the forest.
I saw two men standing at the entrance of the cave, chatting.
They looked like they were standing guard, and when they saw us, they stiffened their faces.
“······human?”
It seems to have come right.
One hurried into the cave, and the other shouted at us as we approached the cave.
“Stop it, human!”
I quietly stopped.
I felt the presence of others coming from inside, so I waited quietly.
Soon, dozens of Haerin tribes came out of the cave. Fortunately, this time they were all wearing clothes, so there was no place to put their eyes.
“······Hey you!”
One of them, a woman with a familiar face, saw me and pointed a finger at me and shouted.
“How did you know that I came to you!”
I answered calmly.
“I’ve been following the trail.”
“Then why did you chase me! This saved me at the best, really…!”
“What do you mean, Anne. You saved a human?”
The eyes of others who were looking at me with tense eyes shifted to her.
“Uh, no, that’s not it…”
She panicked and waved her hands.
The noise was getting louder and louder, but the sound was heard again from inside the cave.
“Everyone, be quiet!”
Suddenly silence fell upon him.
The man walking out of the cave was an old man with a strong build. With blue hair and a beard.
An old man who passed the others and walked forward met my eyes.
【Lv. 87]
·······How close to 90 level.
‘Are you the chieftain of this tribe?’
Although the Haerin tribe was born with a fairly strong affinity for magical powers, it was a great level even considering that.
I hid my surprise inside and exchanged glances quietly. The old man’s eyes were as deep as the sea.
The old man who was staring at me immediately burst out laughing and opened his mouth.
“Heh heh, this is true. I guess you’re not a normal person.”
“············”.
“Tell me why you came here. It looks like you’ve already had an affair with my granddaughter.”
Having said that, the old man glanced at the woman.
She let out a small sigh and scratched her head.
I looked at the two in turn and asked.
“Are you the chieftain of this tribe?”
When I said that, I felt awkward with myself.
Because it was the first honorific word used after possessing this world.
But, now, I have something to ask of you, so this is the one I came to all of a sudden, so I had to be polite.
The old man nodded at my question.
“That’s right.”
“I have no intention of harming you. I’m just here to ask that woman a favor.”
She caught my gaze and tried to shout again with an angry face.
“Hey-san, that’s what you did earlier!”
“Stop it, Anne.”
The chieftain dried her and spoke to me again.
“Would you like to come in first? If you want a conversation, I’ll offer you a cup of tea.”
I nodded.
The old man smiled and turned back into the cave as if to follow him.
I looked at the back and narrowed my brow.
‘······wound?’
Because it looked like he had a pretty big scar on his back.
The wounds were being treated, and herb-like grasses were glued together.
“Hey, if you’re coming in, come in quickly.”
The woman who was looking at me with a dissatisfied gaze gave her a chin.
Well, luckily, it seems like they are going to treat you like a guest, so let’s go inside.
***
As we entered the innermost part of the cave, a simple space appeared.
There was grass on the seat, and around the bonfire, things like fish bones were gathered and scattered.
“Just take a suitable seat and sit down.”
As me and Ashel hesitated about where to sit, the chieftain said.
As he said, someone came out of the car as we sat across from it.
The Haein, who gave it to the chief first and set down the teacup in front of me, glared at me and went out again.
The chief clenched his tongue and raised the teacup.
“Please understand. Because of what happened recently, everyone has a lot of hostility towards humans.”
Said the woman, who was crouching in the corner and looking at me as well.
“I hated humans from the beginning, Grandpa.”
“It’s noisy, boy.”
“No, look at that brazen thing. I was the one who saved you a fish that could have been eaten in the lake earlier? But even though I told you not to follow me, you kept chasing me all the way here. Without knowing grace.”
The chief tilted his head at him and asked as if he did not understand.
“You said you saved that man?”
“That’s right!”
“Did you really get help from my granddaughter?”
He looked away and asked me again.
I shook my head.
“It was just a pointless meddle.”
“Well then.”
“No, wow! What a shameless…!”
The old man ignored it and continued.
“Your granddaughter seems to have misunderstood something, so please pass on it. Although he has a rough mouth, he has a good heart, so it’s probably not something he did with bad intentions.”
How much did this old man already know about me?
I nodded my head as I looked at the woman screaming with a face about to die from unfairness.
“Anyway, as I said, I have a favor to ask of your granddaughter…”
“Hey, are you going to ask me to show you the place you asked me earlier?”
“okay.”
she said, sticking her tongue out.
“You’re not going to teach a brazen bastard like you, are you?”
“Thank you so much for saving me earlier. I’m late to thank you.”
“········ Who do you think is a fool?! I will never teach you, so fuck it!”
It’s not that simple.
I shook my head and turned my gaze back to the chieftain.
Mystery was a mystery, but I also had a question for him.
“By the way, I knew that the Haerin people lived on the seashore, but have they been living in this lake from the beginning?”
At that question, their faces darkened slightly in an instant.
The chief shook his head.
“No. Right now, I’m just staying for a while for some reason.”
I intuitively seemed to know what the situation was.
“Is it because of the wound on the back?”
“That’s right. It’s been quite a while, but recovery is slow, so it’s still like this.”
“Can I ask how it happened?”
Considering his level, he wasn’t weak enough to be attacked by anyone.
The chief replied with a bitter smile.
“I had a conflict with a human like you.”
“If it’s a human….”
“He was a very powerful wizard. He called himself the chief wizard of the Imperial Family of Seintea.”
······what?
A completely unexpected person popped out, so I widened my eyes.
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The sorcerer of the Seintea Imperial family.
One of the Archmages belonging to Seintea, and a strong man on the same level as the Five Stars.
It was not known how they came into conflict with such a strong man.
But soon a guess flashed through my mind.
‘······Hundred races?’
In the Imperial House of Seintea, hunting of non-human races is carried out in secret. Just like the hundred lunar tribes of Ashel were slaughtered.
It was the emperor’s twisted beliefs, and it was a setting that occupies a fairly large part in Lhasa’s main story.
‘And if it’s a Haerin tribe, obviously….’
One setting about the Haerin people also came to mind.
The reason they are a special race is that it is very difficult to see them, but there is one more reason.
‘Magic Crystal.’
Perhaps it was called by that name.
It is said that when the Haerin people almost reach their set lifespan and die, they create a ‘Magic Crystal’ just before they die.
It was like the inner altar of a spirit creature in any martial arts paper.
Manastones with extremely high purity compared to ordinary manastones, for wizards, they were nothing less than heavenly treasures.
‘Then you can understand roughly.’
I wanted to ask more details, but I decided not to mention the magic crystal.
That would be a very sensitive issue for them as well, so I wouldn’t have anything to mention as an outsider.
“How did you come across such a person?”
To my question, the chief drank tea and answered.
“I happened to meet you on the way back to my hometown of the sea.”
“Did he attack your clan for no reason?”
“It’s not that… it’s just the result of greed, heh heh. There were various circumstances.”
It didn’t seem like he was going to explain any more by saying that with a smirk.
The result of greed.
Again, I was convinced that the problem with the magic crystal was correct.
“Hey, stop biting yourself.”
The woman who had been listening to the conversation with dissatisfied eyes intervened.
“What is Grandpa saying so uselessly? What if he goes and talks about it?”
“tt, did the person who cares about that show up to humans and bring him all the way here?”
“·······No, when did I bring you here! He was just chasing after him!”
I wanted to tease him if he didn’t think of being pursued, but he resisted.
It’s a pity that it’s on my side, so there was nothing good about scratching my nerves.
The chief patted his beard and continued.
“Anyway, that’s why I got hurt like this. All the tribes escaped into the water and barely managed to save their lives.”
The situation was roughly reminiscent of
The chieftain comes forward to buy time for other members of the tribe to escape, but eventually gets attacked.
If you are the magician of the Seintea Imperial Family, you have to be at his level to be able to compete with him at all.