56. Return (2)
“Hmm…?”
I felt strange that there might be a bug in my ear, so I brushed it off once, but nothing came out.
The tickling thing seemed to have something attached to it…
Or did someone tell me the story?
“How long until that Richland or something…?”
Passing through the window was a very well-paved road with green grass.
For a while, I was worried that I might be surrounded by outlaws if I went outside the city, but it was a very pleasant journey.
Far from being raided, a refreshing wind just blows as a tailwind. What on earth did you mean by going through all sorts of hardships with random encounters in the game?
This kind of peace in a game where crazy routes such as kill the woman and rape the man exist if you’re unlucky.
“Well… If I run with this wagon, will it arrive in the next two or three hours?”
A three-headed wagon pulled by three horses trained as warhorses, not a common one or two wagon.
Endurance and other things were incomparable to others.
When the synergy between the well-polished roads and the war horses was demonstrated, the village that was said to be about a day’s distance came right in front of us in an instant.
The carriage is also not an ordinary one. The flag of the church hangs on the upper part and is waving, and the shock absorber is so good that I fell asleep leaning against the window instead of hurting my butt.
Lucky, who was hiding in the shadows, also came out and leaned on his back, so what should I say?
No, can the escort do this? I replied as I was sending a questioning gaze.
“There’s no way to attack a wagon with the church’s feather on it unless you’re crazy, and this wagon is quite well-fortified, right?”
Listening to the explanation, it seemed that even if the siege ballista was hit by a wagon, it would survive at least once.
What kind of carriage is this! A small moving fortress.
And while watching Rusalka handing over the fruit she didn’t know where she cut it, he hesitated for a moment whether it was really okay to do this, then accepted it with a sigh.
After running for a while, the pavement gradually narrowed and entered a single road.
“We will arrive at the village in another 30 minutes. Miss Rusalka.”
Raffy, who was riding in front with the coachman, informed me through a small window.
Then, the scenery outside began to change in an instant.
I wasn’t the only one who felt strange.
Everyone was looking out the window.
The reason was simple, because the entire forest, which should have been full of greenery, was filled with red.
It has been a long time since the noise of grass bugs that were chirping around has disappeared.
“It’s not even autumn, but it’s a red forest?”
It was a strange phenomenon.
It wasn’t autumn leaves or anything, and besides, the sound of the leaves being crushed by the horseshoes and wheels of the wagon was all dry and twisted, similar to the sound made when an old leaf bookmark is crushed.
The coachman, who slowly slowed down the carriage, introduced them as if it were nothing special.
“In fact, this phenomenon has been going on for a long time…”
He said that the forest started to turn red two years ago.
As a result of an investigation by the alchemist guild, which felt strange, the result was that the remaining poison of the hydra that had been subdued before had eroded the ground.
However, it was said that only the color was mutated by the erosion of the poison, and that touching it had no significant effect.
“Actually, what do people like us know? Ugh, I still get goosebumps when I think of that terrifying snake.”
It was said that the hydra that haunted the lakeside near the village was like a disaster.
An immortal shoe dragon with nine heads. Moreover, since they used the lakeside as their base, there was no point in subjugating ordinary people.
And an adventurer who ate such a monster in just 30 minutes.
Nagishingkungkotto.
I wanted to see her face at least once to see how she had become a bastard.
” It is said that they returned to the village with all nine heads cut off and woven together like a gulbi, dragging them on the floor.”
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A shocking respect for an adventurer who accomplished what everyone thought was impossible.
“Still, I should say it’s fortunate that the village survived thanks to that.”
Thanks to the alchemists who came to study the corpse of Hydra, not only the economy is revived, but also the number of tourists is increasing.
There was also a way to make a lot of money by selling the corpse directly to the magic tower or the alchemist guild, but they decided to preserve it for the continuation of the village and tourism.
Of course, many of the opinions of the adventurer who was the subjugator were reflected there.
It was said that the adventurer left immediately after the subjugation.
He wondered if the valuable corpse of a monster called Hydra was in a corner like this, so it might cause some anger, but he said that didn’t happen thanks to the alchemist’s guild branch just in time and managing it on condition of research.
I wonder if it came close to the village, and eventually I slowly slowed down to the same speed as a person walking.
Floren, who had been staring out of her window, got off the wagon and put her hand on the nearest tree.
Then she closed her eyes and waited for a moment before bending over to the floor, furrowing her eyebrows.
When I applied some force to the leaf I picked up, it shattered into pieces.
“This, hydra, impact?”
It felt more like sand than leaves, and debris flowed through my fingers.
“Grass, trees, death, the majority, the sound of trees, the sound of life, inaudible, weak.”
Floren, who brought her wreckage, tilted her head and handed it to me.
The words of an elf, also called a forest fairy, can’t be wrong. When everyone was questioning what the Hydra’s poison had done to the forest, the alarm window came up.
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Holy sh*t.
It was the same phenomenon as then.
The same phenomenon as when you eat Raditol and radioactive chocolate.
She gave Floren’s puzzled look as she hurriedly shook her hand that had been handed her the leaf.
“Is this… The result of the poison of the hydra?”
It couldn’t have been.
Something that cannot happen unless Hydra becomes a radioactive mass.
The red forest came into sight again.
Hydra, Poison, Alchemist Guild, and Radiation.
It wasn’t long before I fell into contemplation, and the coachman spoke to me through a small window in front of me.
“…Arrived in the village.”
And when we arrived…
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It was more hell than I thought.
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Contrary to my serious mind, the village was extremely peaceful.
Along with running children, travelers who seem to have come from out of town, and wagons wandering around, there is even a large exhibition hall in the middle of the town.
After getting off the carriage and moving closer to the exhibition hall, it was only then that I began to see it properly.
“Wow… Einheri! That’s really amazing!”
Yerica, with a surprised expression, pointed her finger at the exhibition hall.
That’s also true, because what I thought were the pillars of the building was the body, and what I thought was the roof was actually the head.
A 20m long stuffed hydra, a bizarre figure comparable in size to the carriage it was riding on.
With nine such heads, it was truly a monster among monsters.
A sense of intimidation that is incomparable to what I saw in the game, even though I was dead, I could not even imagine what it would be like when I was alive.
In addition to the magic circle, the surrounding drugs kept the corpse cold.
[Undying Hydra Stuffed ]
-Nine-headed hydra, a symbol of immortality that grows again even after cutting off its head, and possesses a deadly venom that can kill even gods. But for some reason, someone lost her immortality and died.
– It is not yet fully grown. (Child adult)
The alarm window appeared when I was still looking at it.
You said you caught this in the previous episode…? And I have to catch it…?
What’s more, the subadult? Aren’t you all grown up?
If this is a sub-adult, what the hell does an adult look like, or even if there are offspring, can I catch them?
Don’t f*ck, don’t f*ck.
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The renewed exposure effect was a bonus.
“f*cking god bastards really…”
Even the radiation alone is enough to split my head, and seeing with my own eyes that such a monster exists, I felt like I was going to die even more.
Rusalka groaned as well, clutching her head.
However, Ye Rika was looking around in all directions to see what was so exciting about her.
” But this town is much cleaner than I thought! Surprisingly, you must have a lot of money! Or is it that he made a lot of money from tourism…”
“What do you mean by that?”
“The magic stone lanterns that are said to be installed only in the center of Jedo Island are scattered all over the village, right?”
Yerica pointed her finger at the place where she was so used to it that she had passed by it. There were street lights about 5m tall installed at regular intervals throughout the village ..
Something meaningless and passed by from the point of view of modern people.
“I never thought there would be so many permanent magic stone lanterns that glow even in the dark…! There is a saying that if you add up the cost of the magic circle engraved on the magic stone, it is almost the price of a mansion in the center of town…”
Street lights in a world without electricity.
“Oh, it’s easy to confuse that, but it’s not a magic stone.”
As soon as she sensed her strangeness, a man standing next to the stuffed hydra shook her head and corrected Yerica’s words.
“This is an incandescent light bulb installed on a trial basis in the village with the support of the guild.”
“Incandescent?”
As everyone was tilting their heads, he pulled out a business card from his left chest pocket and handed it to him.
“My name is Blati Otto, chief researcher of the Pripyat Power Plant, Richland Hanford Branch of the Alchemists Guild.”
On the business card I handed over, there was something drawn with a cloud shape along with the name.
“I heard that about three people from the church are coming today, but there are surprisingly many attendants.”
“Yes? In the church? That’s not us… Alas!”
Rusal Ka poked the side of Yerika out of her own way, at an angle invisible to her researcher, before stepping forward to her.
As I met Rusalka’s eyes, I nodded slightly.
Apparently, there were people from the denomination that were scheduled to come instead of us.
The only thing that made me confused was that I, Rusalkado, and Rapido, who was in charge of the escort, were wearing the uniforms of the Church.
As for the people of the Order related to the Alchemist Guild, after all… Are they from the Western Church?
“My name is Rusalka Dvořák. In the central church, she holds the title of lowly, but lowly, saintess.”
“Yes…? I heard that the person who said he was coming was from the Western Church…”
“Ah, he couldn’t come due to personal circumstances, so I came instead. There is a lot of interest not only in the Western Church, but also in the Central Church.”
Not at all- I just laughed when I saw him skillfully spouting lies despite not being applicable.
I whispered from behind her and asked, ‘Is it okay for a saint to tell lies like this?’, And the answer came back, ‘What do you think, I’ll forgive my sins?’
“May I know what the schedule for today is?”
“Ah, today we have a special experiment planned for the evening along with a simple field trip to the power plant.”
“A power plant…?”
When Yerica questioned her researcher, she nodded in response.
“It is a place that produces electricity. Conventional electricity was a property that could only be extracted from mana… But after Dr. Louis Debjerne’s research, we were able to extract electricity in another way. It has not been publicly announced yet, but along with radium, it is one of the great inventions that will change this continent.”
Then he looked at us with a proud expression and told us about the results of his research.
“It boils water and turns a turbine.”
“…?”
No one seemed to understand.
Except for me.
Power plants, electricity, turbines.
It was a level of technology that should never come out.
It was a technology that would change the foundations of not only simple life, but perhaps the entire continent.
On the way to the carriage prepared by the guild in advance, while chatting with researcher Blatti Otto, a story about Louis Debjorn also came out.
The man who discovered radium, and the bastard who applied it to all sorts of things.
And it was a story about a guy who might have something to do with the radiation exposure that’s happening to my body right now.
”Sometimes not only me but also other researchers think, but Dr. Louis Deviène’s research seems to be something… Different.”
“Change the ark…?”
“Should we say that we skip the beginning and cause of the experiment and only present the results… It’s unlikely, but it’s like unpacking a bundle of knowledge from another world. I thought I was pretty good, but I didn’t even have a chin. That’s what a true genius looks like. The image of him waving his hands in the empty air, conducting all the research in his head, and throwing the results out…”
What I could get from the researcher’s words was the fact that Louis Deviène was a great genius.
“Just looking at this power plant, it boils water and turns the turbine… I have also devised a device similar to a turbine, but at best I thought of boiling water with coal or oil to turn a mechanical device. I mean. However, both coal and oil were not profitable, so I ended up just thinking about it. hahahaha.”
No, that alone would be great, damn it.
“Atomic power generation? A theory like mine is just too hard to follow. And the excitement when that theory actually works…!”
“Atomic Power…”
Why does something feel familiar?
Atomic Power…Power… Atomic…..Power?
“To think that a small stone can generate the same power as the sun, and to think about boiling water with that heat, I guess I am still far behind.”
Memories of the past that pass through my mind in an instant.
The data that Maria Salomea had previously pulled out from the alchemist’s guild, and the words there, flowed out of my mouth without my knowledge.
“Uranium? Yellow cake?”
“Oh, you know? It looks like you got it in advance.”
The shy expression went on for a while, and the face instantly turned into a frown.
Ait sitphal.
A new bastard, do you want to work like this?
“And originally, the experiment was supposed to be a month later… But for some reason, they said it was pushed back to today. This evening, you will be able to attend the experiments under the auspices of Deputy Director Anatoly in the closest environment. The subject of the experiment is…”
I couldn’t bear to spit in Blatti Otto’s face as he spoke with an interesting face.
“How long can the electricity generated by the inertial turbine provide power? No see.”