“And it’s not just humans who stopped the demon invasion. What brazen voice are you talking about.”
“…that finally sealed the Demon King.”
“Yeah, you’re a hero. But is that what you guys did? It’s just a human achievement, not a hero of the Empire, alone.”
“That hero is the guardian of our Saintea.”
“A guardian of the Empire who hunts and slaughters innocent races here. You know that too, don’t you? A warrior despises your emperor and imperial family.”
There was only one reason why the hero had left the imperial family’s secret evil deeds until now, no, they had no choice but to leave them alone.
Because she is a hero who truly cares only about the peace of the continent.
And the mouse-like emperor used his children as a shield to ride the line.
I stopped the guy who was about to react with an angry look and said.
“Stop it now. If you run into me again, I will kill you no matter what the circumstances.”
Gwangrang, who had his arms crossed with a sullen face, gestured his chin.
“Go. I paid off the debt with this, so I’ll kill you again if you stumble around in Calderik.”
It flew into the air, biting its lips, and in an instant it crossed the air and disappeared to the other side.
So the situation was settled.
Gwangrang, who was looking at the sky, shifted his gaze to me. Then he asked, cutting his neck.
“Are you really going to kill me?”
“············”.
“If you kill each other, you don’t know how the overlord will come out? Well, it seems like you’re like me who doesn’t even care about that…”
“What were you doing here?”
She answered my question by tapping her sword.
“It wasn’t what I was doing, it was the way back after leaving some swords with Agor.”
·······The 1st monarch is retiring?
Apparently, she appeared here by coincidence.
“So, what were you doing in this lake. What are those other things?”
“I don’t know.”
Gwangrang giggled and turned around.
“It’s terribly chilly. There’s nothing else to do, so I’m leaving. See you at the next meeting.”
Seeing her back disappearing through the bushes again, I let out a small sigh as I was exhausted for nothing.
“······theory.”
Anne, who was holding the crystal blankly, looked at me and called my name.
There were no words to follow.
Several members of the tribe stood up and wrapped their arms around her shoulders.
I looked down at the chieftain’s corpse and prayed for a brief repose inwardly.
Although he died, everyone else survived, so his death would not have been meaningless.
***
I stayed by their side until dawn.
They buried the chieftain in the back of the cave where they were staying and held a ceremony for a long time. It looked like a tribal funeral.
They left the cave only after dawn and lined up in front of the lake.
Anne stepped forward and released the crystal in her hand into the lake.
The crystal then emitted a bright light and slowly dissolved in the water and began to disappear.
The magical crystals of the Haerin tribe are uniquely dissolved and disappear when they come in contact with water. It was a fact I already knew.
And, as you can see now, it was also the way the Haerin people honored the dead.
When all the crystals were dissolved in the water, Anne stood up and said:
“Grandpa said. This decision is made with the magic we’ve absorbed from the water all our lives. We’ll release it back into the water to keep the cycle going.”
“············”.
“Thanks, Ron. Thanks to you, at least the last funeral was done properly.”
I asked her as she looked at the lake with a little blank eyes.
“Are you planning to leave right away?”
“Oh, so it should be. Now I’m going to the sea without stopping.”
A river that originates in Lake Gaitan and runs to the North Sea of the continent.
They seemed to plan to ride it straight to their hometown.
with a splash!
They thanked me and said goodbye, and one by one they started jumping towards the lake.
I said to Anne, who remained until the last to make sure her feet did not fall off.
“Someday, after I’ve finished all my work, I’ll go back to your hometown.”
“······uh?”
“When we meet again, I hope we can see you with a smile. Goodbye.”
She glanced at me blankly, raised the corners of her lips, and jumped straight into the lake.
I stood still for a while, staring at the surface of the lake, then turned around.
Hallumenta (1)
A new species is running, leaping over the peaks of the mountain range.
With each leap, the ground cracked and cracked. It was a sight that anyone would have doubted their eyes if they saw it.
The 5th lord Gwangrang had already left Gaitan Lake and was crossing the mountain range to the southeast.
She stopped in front of a peak for a moment, not breathing a single breath.
“······flaw.”
Gwangrang, who had been quietly staring into the air, burst out laughing out of nowhere.
It was because the thrill I had felt before had not yet completely gone away.
‘Then I’ll have to kill you too.’
It was so feeble, but it was a life so eerie that for a moment I had goosebumps on my back.
The 7th lord at the moment when he spoke those words really wanted to kill himself. she was sure of it
However, one bastard, who was dying right away, intervened and got over it.
“Should I have put it all away and got one?”
With great regret, she licked her lips with her tongue.
The battle to kill and kill each other was the only and most intense bliss she felt in her life.
Who would have survived if the iron rules and everything had been beaten and the battle was properly fought?
She was confident that she could kill all other monarchs except for the overlord, but for some reason, the 7th lord was not so sure about that human.
The 7th Prince is never under his own. Even with a brief friction, she instinctively sensed it.
“Ha, Mr. I can’t get the excitement down.”
Aww!
Gwangrang, who clenched and opened his hand, clenched his fist. The huge peak in front collapsed completely.
She slammed the ground and flew high into the air again, continuing her movement.
I’m getting tired of hunting monsters again, and I’ll have to go to the eastern border to hunt demons.
***
Finding the mystery of space leap, the Haerin people left for their hometown.
All work to be done on the Gaitan has been completed.
After paying the commission promised to Heibel, who enchanted him with apnea magic while staying at the lake, he broke up and left for the next destination.
“Are you talking about the Sorcerer Chief of the Seintea Imperial Family…?”
Achel’s expression hardened.
When I told her about what had happened to her curious, it was her reaction.
Because it was such a huge collision, she felt her presence from afar, but after thinking about what to do with the order to keep her seat, she said that she was still in the wagon. It was a good thing as it wouldn’t have helped much if I had to come anyway.
“The chief died during the battle, and the rest of the Haerin people went home safely.”
“······okay.”
After hearing all the stories, Ashel looked like a mixture of sadness and anger.
Perhaps it was his past that overlapped.
Because she, too, was annihilated by Seinthea’s forces and by Changseong, one of the five castles.
“············”.
I stared at Ashel with sullen eyes.
To be honest, I felt sorry for her.
Because, having played the game, I already knew that there was no one surviving White Wol clan other than her.
Of course, there was no way she could tacitly believe what she said, and there was no way to prove how she knew it.
But anyway, I knew the truth and needed her, so I was using it as a bait.
Her purpose in life is to find survivors of her clan. And to take revenge on Saintea.
When she finds out that there are no survivors in her clan, the only meaning of her life left is revenge.
In the game, I had already made valuable friends before I knew it, so I no longer wanted to get involved in revenge, but I didn’t know what would happen here.
The image of Anne screaming desperately in front of the chieftain’s corpse flashes through her mind.
If possible, I wanted to hold on to Ashel so that he would not go astray even after learning the truth, but this was a matter of emotion, not something that game knowledge could solve.
I think I’ve broken down quite a few barriers in the journey so far, but the intimacy she has with me right now isn’t that deep.
“Are you sure you want to get revenge on Saintea?”
Asher looked at me, startled at my question.
Soon she answered with a complicated face.
“Honestly, I don’t know. Right now, I’m just concentrating on finding a clan.”
······Right.
I nodded and looked out the window.
Originally, I had planned to procrastinate as much as possible, but I decided to change my mind a bit.
Whatever the outcome, if the opportunity arises, I will take Ashel to her as soon as possible.
‘Anyway, now there is one place left.’
The search for the mystery was now the last one left.
However, I had a foreboding that finding this mystery would be the most difficult road on the journey so far.
Because the hidden place was none other than the magic scene. So it was the last thing I decided on.
If I didn’t get either the blood magic or the floating curtain, I might have postponed the search for this mystery altogether.
‘Magyeong Hallumenta.’
As the name suggests, the term “Magyeong” refers to an area where ordinary creatures cannot live.
A land of death where all kinds of bizarre terrain, environments, meteorological phenomena, and monsters beyond common sense exist.
On this continent, there were a total of five Magyeong.
And now the place I’m going to go to is a place called Hallumenta, which is very close to Calderik, a long way to the northwest of here.
‘There are a lot of monsters, but it’s an area where there’s nothing to be careful about the environment…’
Anyway, as long as you have blood magic and a floating curtain, no matter how powerful a monster you face, there’s no big risk.
And since I got a space leap, I didn’t have to worry about the terrain with many obstacles even if I didn’t have Ashel. I’ll take it though.
No matter how much magic you have, unless you are a named boss, you can deal with almost any monster, even Ashhel.
I suddenly got curious and asked.
“Have you ever been to the Magic Kingdom?”
Ashel answered with a puzzled look.
“There is not.”
“Then I’ll be able to experience it for the first time this time.”
“······Yes?”
“The next destination is the Magyeong Hallumenta.”
Ashel blinked at my words.
***
The wagon traveled a long way and came to a city located on the western frontier of the First Monarchy.
From there, Baros decided to just let him stay in the city.
He wasn’t at a low level either, but to be honest, it seemed like it would be a burden to go with him in the Demon Gyeonggi.
However, it was a bit like that when he left me alone in the middle and told me to keep the carriage and wait.
The magnificence was so terribly wide that it was impossible to know how long it would take to find this mystery.
Of course, due to the nature of Baros, he insisted on following him as far as possible, but he simply broke it with his authority.
“Then go.”
Baros saw us off at the entrance to the city gates.
I left the city on horseback with Ashel.
Riding a horse was practiced while I was staying in the city for a few days.
It was the first horse I ever rode in my life, but I was able to quickly learn it thanks to my super sense.
As his senses developed, his motor nerves seemed to have improved that much.
When I moved for a few days, it had reached a level where I could run without holding the reins.
While riding my horse, I opened the map and looked at the road.
It was a map that roughly marked the topography of the northwestern part of Calderik, which was obtained at an expensive price, and even the topography of Magyeong.
The magician couldn’t find a guide to guide them, so this mystery search had to be done completely on his own.
‘Well······.’
To be honest, I don’t know much just by looking at the map.
These are the areas where I used to come and go as if eating rice while playing games.
However, as you have already felt enough through the journey so far, the game and this real world have different standards, so geographic knowledge in the game is meaningless.
It would have been better to just put aside the expectation of going comfortably in the first place and decide to roll properly.
A long time passed by riding a horse like that.
Gradually, as the magic landscape drew closer, changes occurred in the surrounding environment and topography.
Dark clouds in the sky blocked the sunlight even during the day, and the bushes gradually disappeared, making it difficult to find green light any more.
Instead, the barren land and dark red rocks often came into view.
Perhaps the horses also felt the ominous energy floating in the air, and the more they moved, the more they stopped chattering.
“Take a break and go.”
“Yes.”
We sat down and had lunch.
It was a landscape I didn’t really like to eat, but I had to fill my stomach.
It was always Baros’s job to prepare the meal, but now Ashel is taking his place.
What was surprising was that, although not quite as good as Baros, she was also very good at cooking.