212. Gorgan’s Rock
“I mean, you were suddenly sentenced to 20 years in prison for swearing at the Pope on the street?”
“Is that so?”
“Hey, you human. Are you asking us to believe that right now?”
Noisy pub.
The shabby-dressed man tilted his glass and chuckled.
I couldn’t believe it.
For Mine, time is rotten and overflowing, and how many people would agree if I said that it was a fleeting time for her to meditate alone looking at the wall after being tied up for about 20 years.
Thought so, the traveler bumped into glasses with the pointed-eared men sitting around.
“It’s a bit of a lie, but it’s a fun friend, yes. Unlike anyone else.”
“Who else?”
“Ah, there’s another guy who recently came on a trip from the west… Okay. I don’t want to talk about him much. Anyway, what’s an albino like you doing here?”
“Heh heh…”
Anyway, because of this fair skin and round ears, it seemed that it was accepted as coming from the west here in the desert.
The traveler tilted the freshly poured glass and tried to organize it in his head for a while.
Are you telling the truth?
Or make up excuses. It was a matter of choice.
However, I made up excuses while drunk and later got into trouble because my words didn’t match.
That’s why I decided to twist the facts very slightly.
“Hmm. I’m going around the continent.”
“Around the Continent? You don’t look rich, do you?”
“Money is earned locally.”
“hahahahaha! Then it would take 30 years to go around!”
“Ha ha ha ha…”
Wrong.
Although it’s already been over 100 years, it’s about halfway around now.
It wasn’t once or twice that I had the urge to rob a bank coolly by using the power of demons.
But each time the traveler persevered.
The moment I sensed the activation of the Authority, Tilpitz seemed to open its eyes and fly away.
‘The rivers and mountains change every time you move this circle, so is there any point in going around it?’
It was a trip that started with the idea that I wanted to capture all of this world through my eyes.
But surely the dense forest until the day before yesterday has become a dense village, and it is not uncommon for the splendid city to be submerged in water.
The scene I saw yesterday had changed after I turned my back, so there was no point in keeping it in my eyes.
So the traveler decided to finish this week in the desert.
Since I have work to do here soon, it wouldn’t be bad to sit down and live.
“So what are you trying to do here?”
“Well. I heard there is a job called an adventurer here? I heard that if you use your body, you can make a good amount of money.”
“Adventurer? Whoop! Whoop… Whoop hahahaha!”
“·······?”
At that time, laughter erupted from all directions.
As soon as they heard the word “Adventurer,” The other tables heard it and burst into laughter.
The traveler was puzzled as he looked at people’s reactions.
I knew that being an adventurer in the desert was a longed-for, romantic job.
“It seems that the nobles from the west have read a lot of novels again. Kuheuheup… What kind of job do you think an adventurer is?”
“Isn’t it a service to get rid of the monsters infesting the desert, carry out various requests, and receive money?”
“You understand very well.”
“So what’s wrong with that?”
“If there are any adventurers here, I’ll ask for your understanding in advance. Anyway, the family of adventurers is fundamentally no different from gangsters or thieves. It’s not a metaphor or something, it’s literally. Monsters are rampant. It’s the season when adventurers appear here and there and make money. But strangely, when the seed of the monster dries up, the adventurers disappear. As if they were transported all at once by a huge airship. Instead, thieves are infested… Is this really just a conspiracy theory?”
“hahahaha!”
It was only then that the traveler understood and nodded.
Anyway, the perception of adventurers here was not very good.
Whether or not that conspiracy is true.
And wherever you go, people who do dirty work tend to touch pretty good money.
“Then you’re an adventurer-“
Quang!
At that time, the door of the tavern was opened roughly.
While the wind blew and dust blew, the traveler tilted his head and looked at the man standing in front of the door.
At a glance, it looked like he wasn’t from here, and he was wearing clothes.
“That bastard…”
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“Little.”
“What’s going on here?”
People all clicked their tongues and showed hostility.
However, the man did not care and stood right in the middle of the bar.
“I’m looking for an adventurer to take me to Gorgan’s Rock. Does anyone know the way?”
“How many times do you say no, idiot!”
“Nobody’s crazy enough to go there!”
Her man was bombarded with junk and booing poured out.
Soon after looking around her, the man sighed and turned around behind her to walk away.
“Young fellow there!”
“·······?”
“I think I know the way. Shall I take you?”
“What…”
Gorgan’s Rock.
I knew that location well.
It was the demons who gave the name to the rock in the first place, so there was no way I didn’t know.
“He’s livin’ again…”
“The white boys put on a very raw show.”
The traveler put down her glass and faced me and her man.
Looking at it now, he was a very handsome guy.
It’s to the point that if you dress neatly and go around, you’d think that women would catch up to you.
“Aren’t you from the west?”
“Still, the geography of this place is clear. Didn’t you need a guide?”
“That’s right. What should I call it?”
“I haven’t decided on a name yet… Just call it Traveler.”
“Okay. My name is Heartlocker.”
“Heart Locker.”
As he shook hands with Hurt Locker, the traveler felt a strange sense of deja vu.
I felt as if I had met this guy somewhere.
It was the moment the traveler was staring at Hurt Locker’s face, tracing her memory.
“Hey! End of nonsense! You have to pay for your drinks!”
“Oops. Let’s run away.”
“Yes? The money is-“
“Isn’t that what I’m saying because I don’t have one!”
The traveler did not even look back and ran away.
Looking at the back of the head quickly moving away, Hurtlocker sighed in amazement.
“Hey! You’re the one who commissioned him! Instead of me!”
“Yes?”
“He drank over 10 bottles! Hey! Hey! Stop there!”
At some point, Hurt Locker was also running at full speed.
Just as he barely shook off the pursuit and hid in the crowd, someone tapped him on the shoulder next to him.
The traveler who had just run away and disappeared in an instant was standing there.
“You… If you are in a hurry, please show me the way.”
“Let’s start now? Then we’ll have to camp in the middle.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Is there a thermal sleeping bag?”
“Why do you need that? It’s a hot desert here.”
“·······.”
The traveler was at a loss for words.
Anyway, it seemed that today was the first day in the desert for this kid.
The traveler scratched the back of his head and let out a sigh.
“You’ll need to calm down a bit. You’d better come prepared.”
“Is Gorgan’s Rock such a dangerous place? Why is everyone reluctant to go there?”
“Is it dangerous? There? Why?”
“·······?”
A traveler tilting his head.
The Hurt Locker is starting to look a little suspicious of this thin man.
Come to think of it, didn’t a drunken man just call this man a liar?
I wondered if they could really guide me to the right destination.
With him, only the suppressed complaints started to boil again.
‘There’s no saying that it’s such a difficult place to get to… A child like a dog.’
The Heartlocker was dispatched to trace Asylum’s roots.
Since there were too many people to follow Schluse himself, the Hurtlocker had no choice but to come.
But just before leaving, Schluss suddenly advised me to visit a place called Gorgan’s Rock.
Then Schluss disappeared without giving me a chance to ask.
The Hurtlocker had no choice but to find what was in Gorgan’s Rock, and ended up constantly looking for it.
‘Just do something trivial.’
When I thought about it again, my fever rose again and I gnashed my teeth.
Schlus spoke at the time as if he were patronizing.
As if a treasure chest was hidden in Gorgan’s rock…
But the strange thing was, he had never even been to the desert.
The locals don’t even come close to Gorgan’s Rock, so how could a guy living in the empire know what’s in Gorgan’s Rock?
He was suspicious no matter how much he thought about it, but he had no choice but to go.
That’s because it was Schluss’ advice.
Until now, as he said, nothing happened that did not happen according to his intention.
If you go and have something really important, that’s good, and even if you don’t have one, isn’t it like having a weapon that can attack Schluse?
Hurt Locker took so much comfort and barely swallowed his displeasure.
“Let’s pack our sleeping bags and get ready-“
“Please guide me right away. This is urgent.”
“Haa… It’s this way.”
“Thank you.”
As the Heartlocker continued to urge, the traveler sighed and pointed in the exact direction where the Gorgan Rock was located.
The place he pointed to was a rugged desert where a sandstorm blew and feet were sunk into the sand.
But the Hurt Locker didn’t care and put his foot towards it.
“Ha! This was no ordinary lunatic!”
“If it’s a distance that ordinary people can cover in a day, you’ll be able to do it in half a day.”
“You’re a confident young man. Have you been on a trip?”
“If it’s a march, I tried to make it boring.”
Was he from a military background?
The traveler touched his chin when his elegant appearance revealed an unexpected identity.
Soon a gust of wind blew in, blowing sand all around.
While the Hurtlocker lost its direction and panicked, the Traveler was already far ahead.
With doubts about whether he was going in the right direction, Hurtlocker continued to pursue him.
“Come to think of it, I don’t think I heard the reason for going to Gorgan’s Rock!”
“Ah, that’s what you mean…”
I can’t answer that I don’t know either.
It was the moment Hurt Locker pursed his lips, not knowing how to answer.
Koo-gu-gu-gu······!
“·······?”
The ground began to shake.
A startled Hurtrocker immediately fell to the ground and pressed his ears together.
The period of oscillation was gradually getting shorter.
It meant that something was heading this way from under the ground.
‘Oops.’
Sandworm.
It was a monster that moved quickly through the sand and ate whatever living thing it could find.
It has no eyes and no nose, but it has ears that sense vibrations.
So, as long as you stay still, you won’t be attacked.
It was the moment the traveler quietly brought his finger to his mouth.
“Is it a monster?”
“·······!”
Hurlocker was running out with a dagger.
The traveler froze on the spot and closed his eyes tightly.
In order to save that human here, I must inevitably use my authority.
But if that happened, the 100 years of powerless use challenge would be in vain.
At the moment of constant conflict over whether to save that child or not, a sand fountain soared in front of my eyes with a huge vibration.
“Keeek!”
“Damn it! Dodge it! I-“
A huge mouth protruded from the ground and rushed at the Heart Locker.
A worse traveler broke through the speed of sound and jumped out.
However, Hurt Locker did not move at all while watching the mouth.
‘Your legs are stiff with fear!’
The traveler intuited the boy’s death.
Even if it crashes into a sandworm at this speed, the heart locker will be ground to pieces by its numerous teeth.
It’s already too late.
Quang! Bang!
At that moment, sand flew here and there with a roar.
Visibility was blocked, but the traveler stopped and coughed.
After the dust finally cleared, a sandy beach covered in green blood was revealed in front of me.
And in front of it, the body of a huge sandworm was pierced by black pillars rising from the ground, and it was immobilized.
“I want to come back before sunset. I walk diligently.”
“·······.”
Passes The black pillars that break and disappear.
Heartlocker stepped over the sandworm’s corpse and started walking again as if nothing had happened.
The traveler, who had been staring at it in awe, parted his lips.
“It’s in the opposite direction…”
“Oh.”