238 – Tongdan Continent (1)
“Such! Could you please be our sailor? At least that monkey!”
“Because I hate it.”
After a long voyage, the Chester family arrived on the continent of Tongdan, Senna’s hometown, and had to hurriedly move away from the captain and nobles who were catching Chester and Rex before they even felt that they had arrived on a new continent.
“Please don’t go! I’ll give you twice as much money as you get now!”
“Or at least sell that Anubis thing to us!”
The cause was a pirate he met during the voyage.
Everyone was afraid because the powerful pirates with two ships were targeting the ship, but when Rex threw a cannon ball and sank one ship and Chester sank the other with Anubis, the captain and nobles from that day on Chester He turned his eyes to have Rex under his command.
It was only natural that he showed such greatness, but it was just annoying to the Chester family.
“Let’s go! Hurry!”
So, as soon as they arrived on the continent of Tongdan, they couldn’t even see the port city properly and had to drive a wagon.
* * *
Tongdan Continent.
This is Sena’s home continent, and it is a continent with abundant natural resources, starting with high-quality wood, various herbs, and countless kinds of creatures.
Most of the continent’s area is occupied by dense jungles, and there are vast mineral resources underground.
These creatures are sold at high prices as expensive pets of nobles around the world, and at the same time, they are sold at high prices as bogus medicines with all sorts of nonsensical rumors added.
If the Matoto Continent became a land flowing with gold as it had a port where ships traveling around the world always stayed as a result of having the optimal sea route, the Tongdan Continent became a land where gold flowed, as long as trade was successful, anyone could extract huge amounts of money. It was a growing ground.
However, the Tongdan Continent was embroiled in various conflicts.
Disputes between groups originating from different countries or from different groups even in the same country.
Conflict between people from abroad and the natives of the Tongdan continent.
Tongdan Conflict between the natives of the continent and those who joined hands with outsiders.
Conflict between the civilized natives who are located on the outside of the continent and have access to a lot of external culture and the natives who are deep in the jungle and still retain the past.
This intricately tangled land is also a land of struggle, with as much blood shed as gold that grows.
This is entirely possible because there is no such thing as a ‘country’ on the continent of Tongdan.
Due to the existence of the jungle, communication between villages was difficult, and it was difficult to form a nation due to the nature of naturally small groups of people living apart from each other in villages.
“This, is it possible for a wagon to move around?”
“Hmm. There will be many difficult places. I guess I’ll just have to find a place where there’s a slightly wider road.”
At that, Chester suggested that after selling some of the wagon and luggage, it might be better for Senna to get a horse to ride.
“Let’s divide our burdens according to our immediate needs. Pick out what you don’t need right now, and what can be replaced with something else that you don’t need right now.”
After quickly sorting their luggage, the group headed back to the port city.
Fortunately, when they returned to the port city, the nobles didn’t catch them where they had gone.
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“Let’s deal with it quickly while the nobles are gone.”
I had to sell it at a fairly low price because I was hastily disposing of it, but fortunately, there was plenty of money that Monia had saved from reselling her art.
She uses the money to get a horse with good power when moving through the jungle. It was a horse with shorter legs than Jordi and Tiara, but with more muscular muscles.
“Sena, what do you want her name to be?”
“What would Monia build with?”
“Hmm. David?”
“I don’t want to ride a horse named after my friend… ….”
The name of Senna’s horse has been decided to be Hope II.
“Did you get it from the name of the sword?”
“Yes. After becoming a knight, I only received what the country gave me, but this was a gift from a friend who gave it to me with the money he earned. Because it has as much meaning as the sword that changed my life, Hope II.”
Senna looked at Rex next.
“Don’t you need to say anything about Rex?”
“Words are weak! I do not need!”
Rex tapped Hope II’s tail and said. Hope II was trembling as if he was afraid of Rex, and Senna understood what he meant and nodded.
Of course, there was a problem that Rex was simply too heavy to ride his horse for a long time, more than the horse was scared and didn’t ride Rex.
If Rex rides for a long time, his horse will die.
“It’s okay because I’m strong!”
In addition, no matter how hard he tried to find a suitable horse to move through the forest, he was slower than Rex.
Rex is the apex guy. He was born to be able to move as if he were flying in the forest.
No matter how fast Chester runs through the forest with the movement method he learned from training hard from a young age, Rex can easily catch up and overtake it.
Senna watched as Rex leaped with his large body, lightly climbed to the top of the tree, and then fell down as if falling, clutching at the branch and running around.
“Wow….”
Rex’s movements were beyond Sena’s imagination.
Who can walk around the forest and trees so freely?
When Senna applauded and admired her without realizing it, Monia, who saw that, proudly spread her breasts and lifted her chin and boasted.
“Ahem! Huhu, isn’t my son amazing?!”
Sena, who got used to Monia’s bragging about her Rex, praised Rex, saying she was great while laughing. She actually was really great.
“Sometimes I can understand why people think Rex is the devil. When she saw the monsters in the kingdom of Jaim, she felt it. She laughs and throws monsters and rages.”
“Ah. Rex is a warrior by birth, so fighting a strong guy would be exciting.”
People at the top were a hunter-gatherer, but the meaning of hunting was to hunt strong beings and raise oneself to greatness.
They were more like warriors or knights who sought to find their own worth through fighting and to enhance their honor and existence rather than hunters.
In fact, Rex, who hadn’t shown off his physical abilities so far, showed off his true strength for the first time the moment he faced the monster.
“You were born a warrior?”
Sena, who had heard that Chester’s father and Chester were also hunters, looked at Monia.
‘No. Monia’s father heard that she was more of a general.’
A warrior or a knight can be a general, but a general cannot be a warrior or a knight. A general shouldn’t grasp the battlefield with the same eyes as a warrior or a knight.
When Senna was confused, Chester punched Senna on the back.
“Kyaaak?!”
“Now, let’s go.”
The three of them mounted the horse, and Rex carried his pack and Ant.
Ant was quietly placed in a basket-like space on one side of Rex’s luggage.
“Rex, be careful not to let Ant fall.”
“Yes! Okay!”
Rex climbed high in a tree and waved his arms saying it was okay. Ant locked himself in the basket with a pitiful look on top of Rex, but since he was behind Rex, people looking up at Rex from below couldn’t see Ant’s eyes.
Then, the Chester family’s trip to the continent began.
* * *
“…… Done. Jordi is dead.”
The kingdom of Beend, the secret storage of the ducal family.
Inside a specially locked warehouse that can only be opened by the lineage of the duke’s family, the duke was looking at the demon he had brought from the kingdom’s underworld.
Until now, the devil has not shown any reaction to anything the duke did. The reason is because the devil reacts to ‘the person with the strongest royal lineage’.
As long as Jordi exists, the devil will not react no matter how much the royal blood is mixed with the duke’s blood.
But now, the devil has reacted.
That means that Jordi, who had the thickest blood in the world, died, and at the same time, even after Jordi’s death, a new royal family with blood thicker than the duke had not been born, even after enough time had passed.
The Duke looked at the demon in front of him with his eyes shining.
Whether it would be okay to call it a ‘devil’, each person who observes its form will evaluate it differently.
It had a hard skin that looked like armor, and had two large arms and two small arms.
The two small arms were wrapped in hard skin and were shaped like blades, and the two large arms were shaped like a spear and a shield.
Its lower body was in the shape of a horse, and its lower body was wrapped in exceptionally sharp and hard skin, so it seemed like it would cut you just by touching it.
Some would call it the devil.
Some say it is the ‘knight itself’ created by the will of the warriors who died on the battlefield.
Some say it is a creature called a centaur from a legend.
However, anyone who has seen the being rampaging on the battlefield will surely say that it is a blood-crazed demon.
Enemies facing you, allies watching you, everyone.
“Can you hear my voice?”
Following the Duke’s words, the devil moved his head and looked at the Duke.
The Duke stretched out his hand, feeling Jordi’s face, the king’s face, and the former king’s face from the devil.
The duke stretched out his hand, and the demon carefully bent its horse-shaped forelimbs to bring him to his knees.
“Yes. It should be yes… !”
The Duke cheered with his fists clenched and looked outside the secret storage room with a smile.
Now, it was time to fly again.
“Call the Sky Knights. Everything! Hurry!”
“Oh, I see!”
The adjutant, shocked by the demon’s movement, rushed out to call the Sky Knights stationed nearby when the duke opened the door and ordered it.