72 – before and after (6)
“sorry. I was in charge of cooking, but it burned because I couldn’t control the fire… ”
Those were the words of Reina, who served the soup that smelled like burnt with an apologetic face.
Unlucky Raina indeed.
Maybe Tranuil sent his daughter to play tricks on us.
Maru stirred the sticky soup with a spoon a few times, then put the plate down and rummaged through the bag.
“For dinner, we eat the bread that Glomadina-sama gave us.”
distributed to all
The bread was very tasty.
It melted in your mouth even after a few hours of making it.
***
next day.
City of Fire Vast Melting Pot.
The city was very hot because it was built near a volcano.
Maru and his party, who were walking on the streets crowded with dwarves, were all lightly dressed.
“The city… It’s really noisy.”
Reina fanned with her hand and looked around.
Her pointy ears often twitched at the sound of a hammer hitting here and there.
There were so many blacksmiths in the bust melting pot.
“The buildings are all made of iron.”
Lucy tapped the building wall lightly with her cane.
Natalie was looking at her two-handed sword.
“Should I get some maintenance at this time?”
Kiera was bullying Maru.
“I’ve been watching you since morning. Why are you friendly with other girls? You don’t do that to me. Please don’t laugh and talk to other girls.”
Last night Kiera sneaked into Maru’s tent while he was sleeping and got kicked out.
Regardless of what Kiera said, Maru was grabbing a passerby and asking for directions.
“Ah, yes. thank you I’ll go over there.”
In order to destroy Grindia, they had to visit the owner of the city, Goular, the Iron King.
As the passer-by told us, we headed to where he lived.
At that time, Laura was watching from a distance as the back of the floor receded.
“Greendia… I will definitely get it.”
***
“Gular. A human named Han Maru came.”
“One floor? one floor Where did you hear that name… ?”
Sitting in his office, Goular thought deeply and remembered the news that the sixth hero had defeated the demon king not long ago.
“You came to destroy Green Diamond. Come on, let me in.”
“yes.”
So he sat down with the floor after a while.
Goular looked around at the Green Diamond handed over by Maru and put it down on the table.
“Amazing. I am amazed that the day will come when we will break this.”
Goulart leaned back comfortably in his chair.
“To be able to do in my generation what my father’s generation couldn’t do.”
“I don’t have time, so can you break it right away?”
“You can break it right away. However, to destroy it, you have to go to the Altar of the Anvil built on the Pilone Volcano, but a huge Jormungand is blocking the way.”
“What is Jormungand?”
“It is a huge snake. Since I hadn’t broken Green Diamond for over 300 years, I naturally stopped visiting the altar, and in the meantime, he crawled in and lived. It’s like a shameful guy.”
“Looks strong, right?”
“Aside from being strong, we don’t have time to gather manpower because we are so busy. At least 1,000 people should be mobilized, but when are you doing that? I’m busy hammering. It didn’t cause any particular damage to the city, so I just left it alone.”
While talking with Gular, Maru was already thinking about fighting Jormungandr in his head.
I just wanted to finish this job quickly and go back.
I miss Audrit.
“We will catch it.”
“You guys?”
A smile formed on Goular’s lips.
“It won’t be easy. Maybe it’s harder to deal with than the devil. If he thinks he’s at a disadvantage, he’ll go into a hole that’s hot enough to burn his entire body. He’s a dopey guy.”
can you still
I don’t have time. I have to try.
Maru shrugged.
“We’re leaving right away.”
***
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Jormungandr’s corpse fell helplessly to the floor.
The road to the Altar of the Anvil was finally open.
“As expected, the hero is strong!”
“Really awesome!”
“You’re so good!”
While the dwarves were delighted, Goular looked at Maru and the others in disbelief.
Maru flapping his wings in the sky.
Kiera, Lucy, Natalie, and the elves fought hard despite the heat.
In addition, even in the suffocating heat, a woman with a strange identity who helped them by flying a sword of light while wearing a hood.
Everyone worked together to defeat the ruthless monster.
‘You can’t compare to us Dwarven warriors. Strong.’
As Maru came down to the ground, Goular spoke.
“If you can even transform, you have risen to the ranks of transcendentalists, haven’t you?”
“No way.”
Maru laughed.
transcendent.
He pointed to a hero with power comparable to that of a demigod.
There are twelve people in the world.
They are all retired veterans.
Each of them are the ones who saved humanity in their respective eras.
Older but still living legends.
For example, mother Alexia.
It is called ‘Mercury (human beast) of light and conquest’ as a transcendental name.
After retiring as a warrior, he started a war of conquest so much that he was called that.
In the end, thanks to that, he became the crown prince with a mother with a huge land mass, but anyway, the name of the transcendental person is attached to the name of the transcendental person, which is the same as the move after retirement as a warrior.
Some are glorious, some are dishonorable.
However, transcendentalists did not dwell on such things.
It can be seen that they put all the warriors down after retiring.
They are people who live their lives without caring about the world, enjoying only what they are interested in and living their own way.
Their curiosity sometimes harms the world, and sometimes it helps.
“Grindia is gone!”
“What!?”
While fighting Jormungandr, Grindia, entrusted to the dwarves, disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The dwarves who guarded Grindia laughed as if they had lost their minds.
“Hehehe… ”
“Hi-Hi… ”
Goular shouted.
“I was beaten by the devil! There must be demons around!”
Maru instantly transformed and flew up into the sky.
Mt. Philone is an active volcano.
Thanks to the ground boiling, there were no trees or grass, so there was no difficulty in finding the thief from above.
Down there, black smoke was descending rapidly.
A technique that turns the body into smoke.
Luciella often used it.
I got used to it and noticed it right away.
‘Hey there!’
The floor descended quickly.
I quickly snatched up the black smoke that had been running close to the ground with my forepaw.
Then the thief’s transformation was released and he appeared.
Laura, who had been caught and missed earlier, was struggling in her hand.
“Leave this! Let go!”
“Oh, it was you. Nice to see you again.”
After recovering Grindia, with the help of Lucy, he tied her up with a magic rope and put her to sleep with sleep magic.
“Aren’t you going to die?”
Kiera drew her sword to kill him, but Maru shook his head.
“It’s a gift from my secretary.”
After a brief happening, the party headed straight to the altar of the anvil.
As they climbed the mountain, where smoke billowed from all sides, Lucy exchanged conversations with Natalie.
“If you destroy Green Diamond, the party will end.”
“I know… ”
Natalie was already weak.
“Do you think Maru will ask to break up again?”
“Perhaps.”
Lucy’s lips pouted.
“Why don’t you understand my heart… ”
“Are you still a slave? When I go back to Basilite, I hardly ever see her in the palace.”
“That’s medicine. There are kids who are worse than you.”
Lucy pointed to Kiera, who was bothering Maru.
“He is banned from entering Basilite Kingdom at all.”
***
Eventually, when they reached the altar, they saw a majestic anvil.
A legendary anvil that is said to have been built thousands of years ago by the god of the dwarves.
Goular took out his favorite golden hammer and handed it to Maru.
“Destroy it yourself.”
“yes.”
Maru headed for the anvil with a hammer and a green diamond in each hand.
At that time, Reina hurriedly followed.
She hesitated as if she had something to say, then spoke carefully.
“When my father breaks Grindia, I want you to swing the hammer as well… It’s historically meaningful, so I’d like to do it too… ”
“okay? Then hit me once.”
Maru said insignificantly and stood in front of the anvil.
wait.
Unlucky Raina.
I don’t know what will happen.
What if the hammer breaks or the anvil breaks?
There’s no way that would be the case, but what might have happened was the bondage written on her.
misfortune.
Maru decided to hit with her just in case.
“Let’s go.”
“Yep.”
I put the green diamond on top of the anvil and held the hammer together with Reina in an attitude like hugging Reina from behind and raised it above my head.
“One, two, three! Hit it!”
“yes!”
kang!
“yet again!”
kang!
“Once again!”
Kwajik!
Chow!
As the green jewel shattered, the protruding specters of darkness flew through the air and screamed.
The sword goddess, Hergantia, who had been watching quietly, stretched out her hand and fired several times with divine energy.
The ghosts of darkness turned to ashes and disappeared, and laughter bloomed on everyone’s lips.
“Finally, the darkness has been completely dispelled!”
A shout of joy from Goular.
Maru got away from Reina and made a light expression.
The role of a warrior who was not in the middle of the day is really over.
It was now time to go home.
to Narundra.
Then to Basilite.
Finally, to Raiskan Daria.
And to Audrey.
“Everyone has suffered. Let’s go home!”
Maru smiled brightly.
On the other hand, the three women couldn’t laugh.