Episode 101. new friend (2)
“Who can call each other friends if we are not friends who fought together at the risk of our lives? It’s embarrassing that Eunin is like this. Wake up.”
“I don’t mean that.”
“yes… … ?”
“I’m talking about the ‘night’ that’s coming.”
Carl’s voice was more serious than ever.
“If it’s ‘Night’… … ?”
A story that is not easily understood.
Then the Cretan inspiration came forward.
“Karl is talking about the Lich King.”
“The Lich King… … !”
The liberator’s expression hardened.
So did the other people gathered in the conference room.
“Two hundred years ago, a clan of humans and sea lizards joined forces to win the war against the Lich King. Maybe we should repeat that history.”
Everyone held their breath at Carl’s words.
“Everyone here has seen it. That the witch Helena has returned. The return of the ‘Night Attendant’, who disappeared for 200 years after the war, means only one thing.”
“Is that possible? Didn’t they say the Lich King was put to sleep by the Paladin of the Great Dawn?”
“I am… … No, the Paladin Carlos of the Dawn is nothing more than breaking the Life Vessel, the vessel containing the Lich King’s soul. Its evil spirit wandering the world will resurrect if it finds a suitable vessel. And that hour is drawing closer. Perhaps you have already found the bowl.”
“What do you mean by bowl?”
the liberator asked.
“I am human. Great wizards, witches, priests with pure souls, and so on. When they find a body born with talent, they drive out the original owner and take possession of the body. The Lich King has been repeating it for a long, long time. Now history is about to repeat itself.”
“ah… … .”
“So please. Like them in the legend 200 years ago, may the sea lizard clan be friends with humans once again. If danger looms over the continent, will you be able to fight alongside us?”
“… … .”
It’s something that’s hard to answer easily.
But Carl didn’t even say sweet words to attract them.
Rather, it conveyed the meaning more directly.
“The battle with the fish people that has been going on until recently has been terrifying. That’s clear. Because many warriors died. However, a war with the Lich King would do far more damage than that. Whether it be a human or a sea lizard.”
“… … .”
“But if… … What if the Lich King’s armies were victorious, even at the very least? If the armies of the night overwhelm the empire and the continent, then all living creatures will die. It only wages war for death itself.”
“… … !”
Several signs were already appearing.
Monsters appeared in groups all over the continent, and now even the witches in the story appeared.
In addition, priests who deal with divine power appeared in Meirium.
The fact that the forces symbolizing the day and night, the sun and the moon were increasing their respective powers clearly meant war.
A war to fight for the supremacy of the continent and the safety of all living things!
Carl was now asking the sea lizard clan to become allies in that war.
“What would you like to do? Will you fight with me?”
Carl’s question.
The liberator made eye contact with the clan’s generals one by one.
“Thank you for risking your life to help the clan.”
And slowly nodded.
“We will also pay with our lives.”
***
“It is sunlight! Wow!”
Tyra shouted at the coastal cliff exit.
It almost fell off the cliff, but the priests of the Noon Church nearby managed to catch it.
Tyra, who almost lost her life.
She continued waving her hand toward the sky while being held by the priest.
“That girl priest seems to be a very pure person.”
“It’s kind of like that. Sometimes a little too much.”
Carl nodded at the words of old Crete.
Cretan old man was with Carl and his party in the capacity of a messenger conveying the opinions of the sea lizard clan to Derdrang.
“Ugh… … I ate too much… … .”
“Shall I knock?”
Hanson said to Meisa, who seemed upset.
Meisa shook her head quickly when she saw Hanson’s ignorantly large hands.
“… … are you okay. I’ll take your heart.”
“… … .”
A festival that has been going on day and night for the past few days.
Carl quickly went to Derdrang to tell the story and insisted on returning to Meirium.
However, the sea lizard clan did not let Carl’s party go easily.
Eventually, after days and nights of eating, dancing, and drinking, they were able to escape the underground city.
With a grand escort ceremony.
Drooling, drooling-!
Behind the party, porters made up of the seal clan were pulling several large carts.
All of them were rewards obtained by Carl and his party.
Lord Greenwood, who saw that, said.
“Perhaps Meirium will become the richest city in the eastern part of the Empire.”
Incredible treasures given as a gift by the sea lizard clan!
Various jewelry and rare items that can only be obtained from the depths of the sea, plus accessories containing the history of knives.
If you put it on the market of the empire, rich people who are crazy about such a rare item will turn on the light in their eyes and rush at it.
Even Greenwood, who usually doesn’t have much interest in riches, even had things to be desired, so if he offered to sell them, it was clear that competition would follow like fireworks.
“It’s Derdrang!”
Tira was happy to see the sunlight after a long time.
As she said, a majestic city appeared on the coastal cliffs.
Old Crete, who was walking beside Carl, stopped for a moment.
“… … Are you okay?”
“… … Of course, I will see the end of what I have done.”
A Cretan inspiration who decided to return to his hometown after decades.
There is her mother, Godmother Crenna.
And there are the citizens of Derdrang who gave him despair.
Creta intended to go to Derdrang and talk about everything and put an end to it.
-If I’m fine even after paying the price, can I follow you?
These were the words the Cretan old man said to Carl last night.
He wanted to go to Derdrang and apologize, not to stay there.
The Cretan old man wanted to follow Carl and find a new settlement.
A quiet, new place where no one hates and no one gets tangled up.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
The party headed to Derdrang.
***
“Here they come.”
Bailey standing on top of the Derdrang Castle Gate.
He said to his godmother Krenna, who was with him.
Bailey came in a day earlier than the other priests and informed them of the situation and that Carl and his party would return.
Of course, he hadn’t said anything about the old man in Crete at his own request.
“They are really great people. Defeating the legendary witch Helena… … .”
“I felt like I had entered a legend. Especially that guy named Carl was really great. Godmother, do you remember what I said?”
“Are you suggesting that the authors be implied?”
“Yes, it has collapsed now, but there was a Temple of Dawn in the past in Derdrang as well. It’s a law to rebuild a building, so please give it a try. If such great priests remain in Derdrang, it will be a great help.”
“I will follow your advice.”
The first time Carl and Meisa came.
Godmother Krenna treated them coldly.
However, as time went on, I became more and more in love with their performance.
After hearing Bailey’s amazing performance, I couldn’t help but admire it.
Soon after, Carl and his party arrived at the gates of Derdrang.
“Open the city gates and welcome the benefactors of Derdrang.”
Whoops-!
The gates of Derdrang were opened.
***
“You have made an invaluable contribution to resolving the conflict between us, Derdrang, and the sea lizard clan. I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of all citizens of Derdrang.”
A welcome ceremony stage set up in front of Derdrang City Hall.
In the midst of a huge crowd that seemed to have gathered all the citizens of Derdrang, Godmother Crena spoke to Carl.
“This is a small gift from us.”
Drooling, drooling.
Soldiers pulled several large wagons.
On top of it, there were large wooden boxes and a huge amount of silk and valuables piled up.
Inside the box are crones and jewels.
He had already received a great gift from the underground city, and it was a knife that had brought treasures comparable to that.
‘Meirium Temple of Dawn became rich in an instant… … .’
It was Greenwood’s idea as he was looking over the cart.
“thank you. I will accept Derdrang’s sincerity. I will use it in a useful place.”
“Please do. but… … .”
Crena smiled happily.
She looked at the stooped man draped in a robe from behind Carl.
“Who is the author? It’s like seeing someone for the first time.”
“Godmother is someone you know well. It’s been a while, but you’ll find out.”
“I… … ?”
Krenna tilted her head.
“Then let me introduce you.”
At Carl’s signal, the hunched man took a few steps forward.
Arriving in front of Krenna, he pulled back the robe he was wearing.
“Have you been well?”
Unfocused eyes on a wrinkled face.
Too many years have passed.
However, Krenna immediately recognized the face that emerged from under her robes.
“you… … you… … ?!”
“I will see you in a long time. mother.”
“Crete… … !”
The godmother’s body trembled.
A sad past intertwined between the two of them, Derdrang, and the Dawn Bridge.
However, the fact that her son was alive came to the godmother even more than those things.
No matter how badly we got apart, it was because we were mother and son.
The godmother touched Crete’s face with a trembling hand.
“I-really… … ? Are you really my son, Creta? … ?”
A huge crowd gathered in front of City Hall.
Everyone in Derdrang is watching.
The godmother was barely breathing and trying to keep her body steady.
However, I couldn’t hide my breathing.
Her gaze met Creta’s unfocused eyes.
“Lord Crete lost his sight while exploring an undersea passage much deeper than the underground city. It is a place where there is no light at all, so the longer you stay, the less your eyesight. Right now, I can only see the light of divine power from the sun god.”
“Ahhh… … !”
The son whom he expelled in anger at his terrible past.
He returned as an old man, wrinkled and blind.
At last, tears flowed from the godmother’s eyes.
“sorry… … This mother was wrong… … please forgive me… … .”
Crete slowly raised her hand and cupped her mother’s hot teary face.
Then, he pulled out something wrapped in silk from his backpack.
It was a mysterious coral reef that I found by going with Carl.
“I know that I have committed an irreparable sin against my mother and the people of Derdrang. Please forgive me.”
A mysterious coral reef that the son who was kicked out of his hometown found while going blind.
Godmother Krenna shook her head.
“Ahh… … .”
The eldest son whom she cherished enough to name her after herself, who gave Crenna full joy as a mother.
Krenna couldn’t stand it any longer and hugged him tightly.
Tears welled up in the eyes of Derd and the citizens who saw it.