86. Reaper
Noah, whose face was full of fatigue, pounded his chest and handed the decree to Ian with a majestic voice.
“Ian Clark! Follow your name!”
“Okay, what’s the matter?”
“I don’t know either.”
Although he came as the emperor’s envoy, Noah himself did not know what the emperor had written in the decree.
It was impossible to secretly open the letter the emperor had written, so Noah went to Ian to see what the emperor had written, and checked the contents of the decree.
Ian, who received the edict, hardened his face and read the contents.
[Ian Clark, under the name of the Emperor, we guarantee unlimited support- Investigate and bury all the tunnels in all parts of the country.]
‘… How do I do all this?’
To be honest, it was an absurd story. Ian’s body was one, and the discovery of the tunnel was close to a coincidence.
Investigate and bury something that no one has ever found before? Is that a reasonable thing to say?
However, he could not refuse the orders issued by the emperor. Because in the time of the monarchy, that was really crazy.
Look, that unidentified woman who is still staring at her with her eyes wide open on a giant bird.
‘I’ll cut, I’ll cut.’
Tak, Ian, who folded the letter and put it in his bosom, gestured to the woman who looked down at him from the sky.
Then, a gigantic daebong (大鵬) that looked over several meters high came down to the ground.
“What’s going on?”
“That one, what’s your name?”
“… This is the court white, Korn Hartmann.”
“Count Khorne, I will conscript you from now on.”
“Yes? what is that… .”
“Ask your question to His Majesty the Emperor.”
Saying that, Ian took out the decree he had received from the emperor. An inscription, stamped with the Emperor’s seal, guarantees unlimited support under the Emperor’s name, catches her eye.
“- I will find out.”
“good.”
Seeing Korne bowing her head straight, Ian looked at Lancia with a friendly smile.
I’ve been working hard on it for the most part, but I have to leave in one day.
‘I can’t help it.’
A true angler usually sprinkles rice cakes here and there. If only one well was dug, the bottom would one day be visible.
“… Ian, are you going?”
“Yes. Well – I’ll see you next time I have a chance to see you.”
“I want to follow you like a chimney, but… .”
Not an academy cadet, the next duke, the deputy of the state, she couldn’t leave my estate.
Isn’t the 4 star summons she has right now the most fundamental reason to protect the territory?
If she follows Ian to another place, there is a gap.
“Lancia, protect this place. So that I don’t have to worry about my back.”
“Yeah, don’t worry.”
After a very brief conversation, Ian climbed onto Khorne’s summoned beast. Ian, who climbed over a dozen meters high, said to Khorne as it was.
“For now, let’s go over there.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Khorne immediately stroked my summoned beast lightly, and Ian, Noah, and the daebong carrying Khorne flew high into the sky.
Lancia, who was watching the scene from below the ground, looked at Ian disappearing with a faint gaze.
* * *
Whoi-ying-!
Like a creature in the legend that it flies 90,000 li in a day, the daebung that flew high into the sky arrived at the place Ian pointed out in an instant.
“here is?”
“This is where the tunnel was discovered.”
Looking at the collapsed mountain range, Khorne tilted his head, saying he couldn’t even guess what happened here.
Leaving her alone, Ian came down from the roof and set foot on the ground.
“Empress.”
—Summoner, can I speak now?
“Can I speak now?”
-You fell down. Because of us.
At that, Ian scratched his head. The reason they fell was right, but… Hopefully they themselves knew it too.
If I had known, I’d warn you right away, what is this?
“it’s fine now. And, you can use it sparingly.”
There was now emergency food brought from Ariel’s estate. rice balls. I wonder what kind of rice ball it is in a Western-style fantasy world, but a game made by Koreans isn’t like that.
“then… .”
Empress just showed up. Summoned immediately, she asked why Ian had called her quickly, wondering if Ian might fall again.
“What’s going on?”
“This tunnel. Can you find out how far it goes by researching it?”
“Well… It’s not impossible. If you follow along from above… .”
“Okay then.”
You can move anyway with Khorne’s summons. As Ian gave the order, Empress fired magic into the cave.
Then he followed Ian and climbed onto the top of the roof.
“Noah, do you know how to read a map?”
“uh? yes!”
“Now then, draw a straight line along the way we are going.”
“okay!”
Ian left Noah to draw the map, and ordered Khorne to fly as he commanded.
A supersonic creature capable of flying 90,000 miles a day, or about 35,000 kilometers, flew straight up.
If you fly at this speed, even the people on it will be swept away by strong air resistance and gravitational acceleration.
As a result of flying for nearly 12 hours in a safe place, Ian was able to roughly understand how far this tunnel continued.
“It was a real state pensioner.”
The tunnels dug by the demons were spread over most of the human realm, like an ant’s den. It’s so surprising that I only now found out that there are oysters like this.
‘Looking at the size… It wasn’t made in a day or two.’
Ian remembered the land worms he had hunted before. Although it had a large size, it was too wide for a single land worm to make it.
It probably means that there are a lot of demons and demons similar to land worms.
‘Can you stop this?’
The earth is not the realm of mankind. In a different world without precision instruments in the first place, it is almost impossible to detect something passing under the ground.
For that to be possible, it required divine power, not human power.
‘… … It’s still too early.’
Ian looked at Noah. I don’t know if it’s okay to meet at this time, but if you don’t get help anyway, humanity is over.
“Noah.”
“Why are you calling me?”
“If the… If I had to risk my life for everyone. What are you going to do?”
“life-? suddenly?”
Noah tilted his head at the random question, but when he realized that he and Ian were included in all of them, he smiled softly.
“of course! If I can protect Ian, I can risk my life!”
“okay? Is that so?”
Upon hearing the answer, Ian smiled and looked at Korn. He even pointed to a point.
Korn tilted his head and asked Ian.
“… There is nothing there.”
“know.”
There are all sorts of strange people, too. With that in mind, Khorne gently moved the roof and headed towards the place Ian pointed out.
To the polar west of the continent, to the highest mountain range.
* * *
Since the emergence of the summoning system, all kinds of creatures and heroes living in the world have become summoned creatures.
The slightly stronger mutant beasts are 1 star.
The two-star heroes who left their names in history.
A hero born with a special lineage or accomplished a feat is 3 stars.
Spirit creatures that have surpassed humans, or half-dragons and spirits are 4 stars.
And the beings called gods became five stars.
“Listen, Noah, we are going to see God now.”
“… god?”
“Yes, God.”
Five-star summoned creatures, transcendent beings that can kill not only the highest-class demons, but also noble-class demons alone.
Of course, I can’t catch the Demon King alone, so I can’t say it’s really transcendent, but… In any case, they are powerful beings that can be called gods in the natural state.
Some of them rejected the yoke of the summoning system and were still living in the world.
“If it’s west… Are you Baekho?”
“Oh, you know?”
“It’s basic common sense.”
Khorne rolled his eyes as if it was normal for a court white man. Looking at her not so cute, Ian turned to Noah.
He seemed to feel very burdened by the fact that he met a god, but it all depended on her.
Because she is the main character of another world, and that is why she was loved by all kinds of divine beings.
‘In the game, there is a scene where the Shinigami helps.’
There was a scene to help the protagonist who suffered defeat due to the crisis of humanity and the defeat event. In that scene, the Shinigami were treated as five-star summoned creatures, and when that one scene was over, they returned to the Shinigami again.
The reason the event exists is simple. It must have been to get people to know the strength of 5-star pets and run the gacha.
In fact, the method worked quite well. Because Ian also fell for him, paid hundreds of thousands of won and shed tears of blood.
“Don’t be nervous.”
“That, but… It’s God!? I was so nervous when I met His Majesty the Emperor… What do you talk about when you meet God? .”
Whatever had happened, Noah thought of meeting the emperor as traumatic.
I was very sorry that I had sent her there. But what to do? Can’t we just ask her to investigate the tunnel?
“I… We have arrived, but where is the white tiger here?”
“Ttttttt, you are locked up in the court, so what do you not know?”
“… You speak as if you know.”
“Of course, Khorne, what do you need to call on God?”
“Isn’t that a prayer?”
“Wrong.”
There is no God who appears through prayer.
From ancient times, there were two ways to summon God.
sacrifice and anger.
Unfortunately, they were not carrying any sacrifices to summon the gods.
“Whoa- Empress?”
“… … Summoner, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“I have to say hello once in a while!”
“Ah, really- you crazy bastard-!”
Empress activated the original arts at Ian’s command. At the tip of her wand, intense magic began to gather.
“It’s okay, we have Noah.”
“What does it matter that he is!!”
“Noah? You’re cute.”
If I had to name it, ‘It was the slim woman who hit me in the back of the head!?’ It’s an operation.
Well, it wasn’t wrong to say that Noah would really feel like a slim woman to them.
“Shoot.”
“I don’t know!”
In the end, Empress sent the magical energy he had gathered in his staff into a single beam.
The light she had shot pierced the mountain range as it was, and awakened the sleeping god in it.
Deed de de de… … .
Between the perforated mountain ranges, huge eyes flashed.