The Ship of Theseus
Beyond the Mist Mountains, a land always covered with clouds and fog. Vampires live in those lands where sunlight cannot be reached by other mists.
Since it is blocked by tall mountains that surpass even the clouds and make you sweat profusely, the fog of the principality and the vampires living in it do not easily cross over to the nations. Moist air blowing from the sea of the sea is blocked by the natural barrier and collects.
But only one place. Claudia, a village of clouds with low hills, is different. Clouds flow down like waterfalls where mountains are pulled out. If you go through the waterfall of the cloud, you will see the primeval land where everything is covered in a veil.
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Mist Plains. A land that is now named the Mist Principality. The vampires who fled the light settled down there.
Vampires appear only in legends in quite a few other places, but to Claudia and the nations who lived nearby, vampires were like a nightmare that popped up every once in a while. It doesn’t come out very often, but once it came out, something happened that shook all of Claudia. So I have no choice but to feel more fear.
Tyr nodded when he heard the story.
“Claudia means Cloud Village. I know that place well. Once upon a time, while searching for a place to live, it was a small village found at the end of the wilderness. I remember tearing the cloud waterfall by hand.”
“… Ugh.”
“Why are you so frightened?”
Peru couldn’t even make eye contact with Tyr. It was even pitiful to see only his body trembling from the fear imprinted on his instincts.
Looking so frightened, Tyr said suspiciously.
“Are you a Celestial? Hmmm, you don’t have to be so afraid. I won’t kill you one by one as long as you don’t show off in front of me…. As long as it doesn’t offend me too much, I mean.”
“… Hee-ik.”
As much as Tyr has lived a long time, he has his own principles. If he believes in a heavenly god, he doesn’t kill it right away, but if he expresses his faith in front of him, he kills without remorse.
That doesn’t mean he always follows the rules, however, and if he’s wrong, he’ll just kill him. Well, if you draw a line too clearly, you will end up with a person who only talks about riding a line. Some flexibility is also required.
Instead of the frightened Peru, I told you.
“Tir. Stop being scared It is natural for a normal person to be afraid of vampires.”
It’s natural. What kind of human being can be calm in front of a vampire who sees my body as a walking food warehouse? Just as sheep and wolves cannot be best friends, it is difficult for vampires and humans to get along.
Tyr frowned at the inconvenient truth.
“Didn’t you fight back fearlessly from the start? Even knowing that I am a vampire, and that I am also the founder.”
“If you don’t suck my blood, you’re not a vampire. Even though I’m afraid of vampires, I’m not particularly afraid of humans. It’s the same human being.”
“Yes. You were weird When I opened my eyes after a long time, I was confused because you were the first person I met. That would be a normal reaction.”
Tyr smiled as if he was in a good mood even though his eyes were watering.
In fact, nothing has changed. As long as Tyr doesn’t covet someone’s blood, she’s still just a girl with beautiful white feet.
But Peru was still terrified. It would be impossible to get rid of the rooted fear with just a few words.
Well, what can I do? The price for not paying attention to public opinion. Shall we tease Peru a little while she’s shy?
“Come on. Is it time to eat soon? The bowl is mine, Mr. Shay. Please prepare three more, including Hilde’s. Oh, and Tyr doesn’t need a bowl. Peru just needs to be on her table.”
“… Hee-ik.”
“You are mean. Stop it Unlike other vampires, I don’t need to suck blood. I am the sea to which all blood flows. If someone bleeds, it permeates me naturally, even if nothing special happens. The blood shed when she snaps her finger is enough.”
“… Heh.”
I told you to take it easy, but Peru is even more frightened. I added one more word to my friend Kim.
“That was in the past, too. Are you not eating well right now? Don’t you need a special meal? Fresh woman’s blood?”
“… Ugh, I’ll bring you some food.”
Frightened, Peru headed for the warehouse as if running away. Peru, who left on the pretext of bringing food, hurriedly found a kind of meat. It seemed that he was thinking of feeding the vampire even animal blood. It’s useless.
Then the regressor called Peru.
“Jannok Hoeju. Is the food from the nations?”
“… Huh. However?”
“Don’t take it out. I will use mine.”
The regressor said that and opened the pocket. When I saw it, each one was a high-quality food ingredient that an emperor of a country would have to eat. Wine, meat, rice and flour that couldn’t be compared to the cheap rum that Peru was trying to bring. Luxurious food ingredients were piled up on the table.
“Doggy! Rice! Baaab!”
It is a luxury that brings admiration mixed with saliva just by looking at it. Aji, who smelled her and returned like a ghost to her, put her paws on the table and her eyes lit up. Her tail turns to dust.
But none of the humans were impressed. Except for Tyr, who was not interested in food, Peru was more interested in what the regressor said than in food.
“… I am from the nations?”
The regressor answered indifferently.
“Yes. Can’t we eat that?”
“… What do you mean?”
Peru’s question contained more than words.
If it was that, Peru would have nodded in sympathy. Because it’s true.
But no matter how you look at it, the tone of the regressor wasn’t like that. As if the nations were cursed…. Because it seemed like they were discussing something that couldn’t be eaten in the first place.
Of course, it wasn’t because the regressor ignored the nations or had ill feelings.
Just because it was true.
“It’s better not to eat food from different countries. All crops created by the Golden Circle are homunculus.”
“….”
The secret secrets of the nations leaked out from the mouth of the regressor. Peru couldn’t even attempt to shut the regressor’s mouth.
Of course I will. You can’t imagine that even we, who are in the same company, don’t know.
“Due to the dilemma of the homunculus, we couldn’t create humans ourselves. However, since everything in the nations is an artifact created by the golden mirror, don’t the bodies of the nations exposed to it develop deformities? It doesn’t matter if you eat a little, but I don’t want to touch it as much as possible before I meet the golden mirror.”
‘If a part of my body is filled with the works of the golden mirror, I don’t know what will happen when I meet him in person.’
No, a regressor. Isn’t that the greatest secret of the nations? Why are you talking like common sense? Don’t think that everyone knows all the secrets like you do. You’re surprised
A shocked Peru turned to us all and asked.
“… The military knows that far… ?”
No, I don’t know. It’s the first time that Hilde and I didn’t know.
Even the owner, Peru, didn’t know that the crop was also a homunculus!
“Well~? Because it’s confidential.”
Hilde pretended to know. Even as she smiled dubiously, she called me with a wink.
‘I didn’t know at all? It’s unexpected. Why the hell is taboo popping up here? Father, do you know?’
No, I didn’t know either. To be exact, I hadn’t read that thought until the regressor spoke today. I read the thoughts of Peru and knew roughly the contents of the Golden Sutra and the Homunculus, but….
I told you that even Peru didn’t know! The deformity of the nations is because of the homunculus crops created by the golden mirror?! Think about something so important in advance. Read ahead and be prepared!
But anyway, the regressor replied casually, as if he was used to this kind of reaction.
“Why? It’s a fact that everyone knows, right? It wouldn’t be strange if I knew.”
“… What, the hoeju… Such disgrace, to outsiders.”
“I can’t tell you that.”
‘I heard from Claudia’s Lord of Thunder in the previous episode. It’s not something I heard in this episode, so I can’t reveal it.’
If it’s Lord of Thunder, isn’t it Claudia’s de facto ruler and greatest Lord? Chi, what are you doing if you read the thoughts of Jannokhoeju with mind reading? That person has learned a lot of far greater secrets from previous episodes!
I had forgotten about it because I was only in the military. A regressor, this woman put a lot of effort into the military, but…. In fact, even the militarized state is just a process for the regressor to go through.
The military is the first stage. As a regressor, the first cornerstone to be raised. It is necessary to do it perfectly for smooth progress in the future, but it is the easiest step to simply build up.
The road to reach the king of sin is far and arduous. Obstacles that are different from those encountered in the military are blocking the way. From demons, taboos, and even the holy hwangcheong and the lord of all things.
And probably most of them… would overlap with me
Peru, who learned the unexpected fact, spoke even more nervously.
“… Then. Got it. Why was the owner of the heat blast desperate?”
“Huh?”
“… The nations want a land where the Golden Sutra does not set foot. Like Claudia, I can settle down.”
Claudia, created in the Mist Mountains, is out of reach of the golden mirror. Therefore, it is safe from the Golden Jing’s pension, and it is one of the few lands in which people can settle down.
Therefore, Claudia is the most important land among the nations. Because the Golden Palace is not a land, but rather a kind of phenomenon. Claudia, the most prosperous city, is the heart of the nations.
“… The bottomless pit is a hole that swallows everything. Golden Lord won’t go there. So, if you get the land. Be the second Claudia. Able to raise a child….”
Still lacking an explanation. Tyr, who was not satisfied with the Peruvian language, showed curiosity and asked me.
“Are you able to raise children? Are you saying that in this country there are also places where children can be raised?”
“That’s not true, but when people from all over the world have children, they are entitled to live in Claudia until they turn 10. At Claudia, you don’t make much money, but you can live a stable life. That’s why Seung-nyang says that the first thing people who have been seriously injured in their lives is to find a spouse. If you have children, you can rest until they grow up.”
“What if I don’t want to take a vacation?”
“Then they say they sell it to people who want a vacation. Perhaps that is why the sale of newborn babies is openly conducted.”
This isn’t a secret or anything, it’s something you learn even in military history classes. Except for the tendency to disparage other countries, except for military ones, as incurable countries, where it is difficult to live a day, I used to say that it is generally true, and I am conscientious in my own way.
“This is a well-known fact, but when I think of what Shay said a while ago. The reason Claudia’s Uraehoeju actively accepts the child is….”
That’s probably because it’s taboo.
As I expected, the regressor nodded.
“Right. If you grow up eating the food created by the golden mirror from a young age, your body will become a homunculus. The Lord of Thunder created such a rule so that all the nations would not fall into his homunculus. Claudia’s food is normal, not homunculus.”
The four taboos that humans must never do.
Gluttony. Grafting. Copulation. Society.
Here, the nations, if classified, are countries that seem to reproduce two types of taboos.
Class 2 contraindication, grafting. A taboo to substitute something else for the weak human body. These nations, whose entire nation is a by-product of the Golden Sutra, are in direct violation of the second kind of taboo. In countries where the deformity is not at all strange, alchemy must be used to make up for the body that is lacking. In addition, the homunculus can be said to be the crystal of the second type of taboo.
There is no way Seonghwangcheong will leave this unattended, but the Golden Jing is a living demon. I thought I couldn’t get my hands on it…. Hmm.
Were the rules set by the Lord of Urea an instinctive wisdom, or what was Seonghwangcheong doing? I’ll have to check it out sometime.
Sheesh. If that’s the case, it looks like you’re going to follow the regressor without moving. He was going to stop and get off at the right timing….
When the clutter was sorted out, Peru spoke on behalf of the nations.
“… The nations need the land. I will not give up easily.”
“Hey. You know that’s ridiculous, right? It’s not ‘my’ business to know what’s going on with you, right?”
After the speeches of the nations were over, Hilde, the spokesperson for the military, spoke in a fit of rage.
“If you wanted to, would you try to get rid of the abyss by exchanging money, time, manpower and resources like ‘our’ military? You didn’t even approach for fear of losing things, but now you’re going to come and put a spoon on them? It makes no sense!”
“… Admit it.”
“Yes?”
“… So, I am guiding you. To the golden palace.”
When Peru nodded, Hilde was speechless. Hilde sat down again and mumbled.
“What if I openly admit that? Only ‘me’ who was hot-tempered for no reason became a narrow-minded person!”
“Hilde seems to be narrow-minded.”
“Father checked it?! Did you check it!”
I know I need to check. You can see it if you pretend.
While Hilde shouted again in a huff, Peru looked into the distance and murmured.
“… Even if I admit The Golden Palace might be different….”
So Golden alchemist is an hazard that have to be taken down, got it.