180 – Great Wind (3)
‘It gave me goosebumps.’
After talking with Chester, Urgo, who agreed to cooperate, started slicing the villagers again.
At the same time, Urgo broke into a cold sweat, remembering the time he met Chester a moment ago.
During their conversation, when Chester moved in an instant and slashed an enemy who approached Urgo from behind, Urgo was unresponsive.
Urgo moved by piercing the momentary gap that Urgo could not see and react to, the gap where faint psychological relaxation and physical relaxation occurred at the same time.
Sometimes, that happens.
A situation in which something is happening in front of you and you think you need to avoid it, but your body doesn’t react and doesn’t move.
The gap between the body and the mind that one feels very rarely in one’s life. The gap that cannot be felt unless the timing of events and the momentary gap in which the body and mind are relaxed and separated are exquisitely overlapped. I could feel it in Chester’s body movements.
To be precise, Chester must have felt and moved.
‘My senses have become sharper.’
When he had to fight again after defeating Chester once, Chester fought Urgo using his body movements as well as his sharper senses as weapons.
And when he stood up again after being shot by Rottin, he could clearly see that he was moving while looking at something different from before he collapsed.
What would happen if he, who overpowered Rottin at the point where his life reached the limit due to shedding blood, had a sense of a different dimension with a normal body? Perhaps, he thought that if he fought again, his life might be in danger.
And even now, Chester was flying around like he was flying around, slicing through enemies.
Urgo could see that his subordinate warriors continued to react in surprise, as if he couldn’t read the movements even though he was watching them all.
Urgo is still missing his movements, so what about the other warriors? Chester, who kept disappearing and reappearing from view using a building as a shield, would look like a teleporting monster.
Of course, Urgo, who was swinging an ax with one hand to destroy a person and a house pillar at the same time, causing the building to collapse, was not to be called a monster.
Urgo and his men, who were already overwhelming, were able to kill their enemies much more easily with Chester’s participation in the battle.
“They were troublesome guys.”
After defeating all the enemies, Chester, riding on Urgo’s lizard, was on his way to pick up Monia and her children with the warriors.
“They are a cannibal tribe that lived near the beach, and they were making trouble by raiding the upper ranks that interacted with us every time.”
“Right.”
‘Was the boat I saw on the island belonged to those from that village?’
Urgo continued as he sharpened his axe.
“It is said that they live with the help of the sea, but the barren life remains unchanged. So they wanted to have a big oasis. So there was a lot of conflict with us.”
“Are you living in a big oasis?”
“It depends.”
“what?”
“I have only experienced it once, but in the land of immortality, large and irregular tectonic shifts occur due to huge creatures living underground. The location of the oasis keeps changing every time.”
“Huh. You mean that?”
Originally, a desert is a place where the topography changes easily. When the wind blows a little stronger, it is not uncommon for the sand dune in front to move behind you.
It can be seen that the change of the topography of the Immortal Golden Land is much more extreme and occurs from deep underground.
“I’ve only heard of it, but there are cases where a perfectly fine village was caught in quicksand that suddenly appeared and disappeared underground.”
“There are strangers who come to your village to interact with you. What if the location of the village changes?”
“Since we started interacting after I became a warrior commander, we have to gradually resolve those issues.”
“A short exchange. Can I trust you?”
“ha ha ha.”
Urgo laughed at Chester’s words, saying that he was saying something funny.
“Chester, we don’t have to believe them. They must believe in our goodness.”
At Urgo’s words, Chester looked at the ax blade he was slowly sharpening.
‘Well. Right.’
It looks like they’re going to turn around and break everything if they’re squeamish. According to Rotin’s diary, when the tribes of the grassland were slaughtered, they went blind and tore the army to pieces.
‘Oh, did you read the name in the journal? yes.’
After reading the journal once, I put it in the corner of the warehouse and didn’t read it, so my memory was blurry.
‘Now that I’ve brought it, I’ll have to read it.’
It is a journal written by a person who traveled around the world for a long time. A lot of good knowledge will be written.
‘Still, it wouldn’t be polite to take out the journal and read it in front of Urgo, so I’ll have to read it after leaving the desert.’
Chester, arriving near the place where Monia was hiding, called for Monia.
“Monia. You can come out.”
Monia quickly wakes up from her hiding place when she is called softly.
She must have been covered in cloth and sand. When she stood up, the sand spread in all directions.
“I’m here? Have you met the warrior of the steppe?”
“yes. here.”
When Chester pointed at Urgo in front of him, Monia put on a slightly embarrassed expression.
Even though he almost died, Chester didn’t care much because Monia was never hurt, but Chester, who had been driven to the brink of death twice, remained in Monia’s eyes.
“Um, well, okay. The nobles who ordered war are guilty, and the soldiers who followed them were guilty.”
Feelings of embarrassment remain, but that one word sorted out her emotions, and after saying hello to Urgo, Monia followed Chester and sat on the lizard.
“… … oh oh lizard. Will it taste good too?”
“If you’re this big, your muscles will be strong, so you won’t be tough… … .”
“Broad feet are not for eating! A family living together in the desert!”
Because its feet are larger than those of other lizards and are capacious, this giant lizard is called a wide-footed lizard in the desert and a flat-footed giant lizard outside the desert.
While Monia is surprised by the lizard, the desert people are surprised by Chester and Rex.
“Did you see that warrior?”
“No, it was so fast I couldn’t see it.”
“I couldn’t react to anything moving.”
“What is that strange knife? It was just shining.”
Chester did an amazing job on the battlefield, so it was natural, and Rex was because of his appearance that could not be seen in the desert.
“Is that a human?”
“It must be a beast.”
“Aren’t you human? Two arms and two legs.”
“Isn’t it a beast? You have hair all over your body.”
“I have hair on my chest, hair on my arms, and hair on my legs.”
“Is that the same as that?”
“I mean, aren’t you a seriously hairy person?”
“Ummm, is that so?”
“Awesome… … .”
“There are many strange things outside the desert, yes.”
When others hear it, they will say what qualifications do you living in the Land of Immortal Gold have to be strange to other creatures, but unfortunately, there were only desert warriors besides the Chester family, and Urgo was not very interested in what the desert warriors said. There was no
“Go back.”
Having found Monia and taking care of things in the village, Urgo decided to lead the warriors back to the village.
* * *
“So, what are your plans for the future?”
After arriving in town and renting a house for the night, Chester reunited with Urgo.
In a tribe where the power of the elders and tribal chiefs all shifted to Urgo, and Urgo dominated the tribe, the Chester family was treated according to Urgo’s decision, so no one disputed the Chester family.
Urgo was too scared to fight.
“I was supposed to get out of the desert.”
“If you are going out of the desert, the most recommended route is to stay in our village.”
Urgo spoke while burying the cut snake meat under the sand and cooking it over heat.
“Are you staying here?”
“Didn’t you hear that we interact with the outside world?”
“yes. I heard you.”
“When they come here to trade, get them on their way up. It will be a much more comfortable, safe and sure way than walking through the desert alone.”
Chester nodded at Urgo’s words.
They don’t know the desert well. It must be a harsh environment to survive with only the shallow knowledge learned from reading travelogues.
“I think I’m fine.”
Monia readily accepted Urgo’s opinion.
“I think so. Well, Urgo. Can’t we learn some of the language around here?”
“Speak?”
“It’s comfortable when you can talk at least a little bit. So, I want to learn the language of the people who interact with you.”
Chester didn’t have the confidence to become like his father, who traveled the world making friends with gestures, gestures, and facial expressions.
For Chester, the greatest thing about his father wasn’t his hunting skills, but the fact that he didn’t speak the language and the culture was different, and he made friends, not enemies or enemies, wherever he went.
“Ah, I want to learn the culture too.”
“Then let me introduce you to someone. There is a guy who acts as an interpreter when we usually interact. learn to talk to him If it’s a desert horse, I’ll teach you, so learn the desert horse from me first.”
“yes. do that.”
“thanks.”
“thanks! Someone like my dad!”
“… … ?”
Urgo, who thought Rex was a top man’s baby,’s eyes fluttered when Rex spoke fluently.
‘What the hell is that?’