Episode 29
“Did you say you’re going to tell me the properties now?”
Raon frowned as he looked at Limer’s messy hair and clothes. It looked like he couldn’t believe it at all.
“It’s the eyes of a cheater.”
Limer bent over and giggled.
“Even if I am a little lazy, education is sure.”
“… … .”
That’s right. His method may not take many children, but he is definitely responsible for the growth of a few.
“Stop doubting and come out.”
“Isn’t that what you’re doing here?”
“Of course not. Get ready and come along.”
“… All right.”
Raon went into the room and took out his coat.
– You’ve been running into pointed ears since dawn, so you’re out of luck today.
‘Every time we met, what?’
After putting on his coat, he left the annex.
“Where do you want to go?”
“Bukmangsan.”
Limer pointed to the mountain that soared behind the annex. It was a huge mountain that surrounded the entire Sieghart, and not only the annex, but also the main building.
“let’s go.”
“All right.”
Raon followed Limer up the mountain.
“This should be enough.”
Limer stopped after climbing the mountain for about 20 minutes. Although it was flat, there were no trees, so it was like an empty space.
“Why are you here?”
Raon’s voice was quiet, but inside, Limer was ready to react no matter how he moved.
“You don’t have to be so nervous. I just want to make you feel.”
“Do you feel it?”
“okay.”
A dark green wind blew with Limer’s laughter.
“Trust me and stand still.”
“Even if you tell me to believe… Well?”
The wind that blew softly like the scent of spring that erases winter shook her bangs.
After that, a cool breeze that could only be felt in a summer forest went up the mountain and calmed his heated body.
The third is winter. A cold wind that made my bones ache like a cold storm pressed down on my skin.
The wind changed again.
The dark green wind that captured the four seasons became a sharp blade and wrapped around Raon.
“I wanted the wind to make a blade to protect my master.”
In the tidal wave of green wind, Limer’s voice was heard.
Aww!
A storm of blades ripped through everything around him, but Raon did not retreat or move forward.
“This is the wish I have chosen.”
Raon stood still and felt the green storm.
Whoops!
The force of the harsh wind was extinguished, and a smirk appeared on Limer’s lips.
“Isn’t it scary?”
“Because the instructor did not intend to attack. And didn’t you tell me not to move?”
“After all, you are not 13 years old no matter how you look at it.”
Limer smiled and snapped her fingers. The wind that had been around had completely disappeared.
“The technique with attributes can be more powerful than other techniques, but it is not easy to learn.”
The wind rumbled like a dance at his gentle voice.
“I, an elf, has felt the wind since I was born, but you, a human, are different. The mana circuit is full of cold, so it will be harder.”
“you’re right.”
Leon nodded his head. There are some difficult things about being a manga artist, but it was even more difficult because I had to use the energy that was opposite to the coldness I had since I was born.
“There are different kinds of wind. warm, cold, or sharp. I wished for a sword of the wind that would pierce everything, and I made it.”
When he said that he had accomplished it in the past tense, Rimer’s expression was more confident than sad.
“You have to find it too. Think carefully about the image of fire you will have.”
“image… .”
“To create an image, the most important thing is to feel its properties.”
“But this is the north. It is difficult to see a proper flame unless a fire is set on the mountain.”
“If you do, you and I will have a good relationship.”
Rimer giggled and waved his hands. A green wind rose at his toes.
“Follow me.”
“Where are you going again?”
“Now that I feel the wind, I must go see the fire.”
* * *
Raon followed Limer and ran down the mountain. After running for about 20 minutes, Limer’s pace slowed down.
Whoops!
A thick haze rose from the cold forest as if a hot wind had passed by. The temperature was completely different from before, and my skin was itchy.
‘That’s it.’
A red brick house and a gray kiln were attached. The heat was flowing from inside the kiln.
‘It’s hot.’
This is the north Even though it was the coldest place on the continent, it was hot enough, so I could see how intense the heat that was blowing there.
“Hey, inspiration. I’m here!”
Limer strode forward as if it was her own house. followed him
The closer you get to the kiln, the stronger the heat. Your clothes are wet with the sweat that leaked out.
“Uh… .”
The cold air inside the mana circuit fluctuates due to the unfamiliar heat. He frowned at the growing pain and went home.
There was only one device in the house.
furnace. There was a furnace in the kiln that gave off an enormous amount of heat that made the whole house look distorted.
In front of the furnace sat an old man full of wrinkles with his hair dyed white. He was sweating so much that his clothes were all wet, but he didn’t take his eyes off the furnace.
‘Is this the flame I knew?’
Raon swallowed dry saliva. I have seen many fires in my past life. From your own bonfires to high-level fire magic from the wizard’s hand.
But nothing seemed to be able to keep up with the heat of the flames rising from the furnace.
oh oh oh!
The cold air of the mana circuit screamed, and the mana around it moved along with the flow of the cartoonist who had not yet mastered it.
The sound of fire pounded my ears, and my heart pounded at the rush of heat. As if possessed by a demon, he couldn’t take his eyes off the furnace.
“Inspiration. The concentration is still there.”
Rimer shook his hands, cooling the heat with the rust wind.
“Doesn’t the heat die because of you?”
“Looking at the way it looks, it’s a failure today anyway.”
“Okay… .”
The old man looked at Limer, sighed, and put an unknown gray lump into the furnace.
Whoops.
The heat that seemed to melt even the earth subsided, and the flames became warm enough.
“ah… .”
A sigh escaped Leon’s mouth. As soon as the flame went out, the flow of the cartoonist who was running through the mana circuit was scattered. My fingertips trembled in regret.
“What else did you bring this time? What is that?”
The old man looked at Raon and frowned. Looking down at the drooping lips and raised eyebrows, I could tell that he was stubborn.
“Uh-huh! That’s it! What nonsense to the Lord’s grandson!”
Rimer himself was saying that he would be polite and polite as well.
“Heh, I’m just a retired old man. Unless the headmaster personally comes… Well?”
He looked at Raon’s eyes and hair, stood up and stopped.
“Are you blonde? There’s that face… .”
“Isn’t it similar to the Lord? Although Raon was much more handsome.”
“Well.”
The old man nodded his head in agreement.
“It’s Balkan. If you want to be polite, go somewhere else.”
‘Balkan!’
Raon closed his mouth as he looked at the old man’s hazy eyes, as if he was looking at burnt charcoal.
‘This man was here.’
master. He was a man with the title of a continental craftsman who made his name known to the world, and was a man famous for making Glenn Sighardt’s Jincheon Sword.
However, his last activity was 30 years ago, and after Jincheongeom, he could not make a sword that could be called a famous sword.
“My name is Raon Sieghard.”
Raon bowed his head, not paying attention to Balkan’s half-talking words. It was a courtesy to a giant who had reached the end of a road.
“Well… .”
At the polite greeting, Balkan’s wrinkled expression was relieved a little.
“What you told me about me… .”
“Not at all.”
Limer shook her head and turned around.
“This inspiration is the craftsman of Sieghard.”
“Retired.”
“okay. retired craftsman. After all, it’s been more than 10 years since this inspiration started burning here.”
Limer turned around, pointing to the furnace that had been turned off.
“This is where you can feel the hottest, most passionate fire in the north.”
* * *
“It’s a fire-attributed technique… .”
Balkan frowned upon hearing Limer’s explanation.
“That’s why you brought me here?”
“Inspiration only ignites the fire here all year round. There is no other place where you can feel the real fire other than here.”
“Is there a workshop for field managers?”
“It’s so conspicuous there. I don’t think it’s good to show it until I learn that technique.”
“Not good?”
“Because Raon is Sylvia’s child.”
At the words of Sylvia’s child, Balkan’s gaze glanced down at Raon once again.
“after… .”
He turned around to see a burning scarlet embers.
“I will not interfere. Just let me feel the fire.”
Raon bowed his head to Balkan.
‘I want to see you again.’
When Balkan burned the embers, his heart raced, and his mana circuit flew wildly. I wanted to feel the breath of that flame again.
“I am just making charcoal.”
“What about charcoal?”
“Gold coal that can create much more intense heat than white coal or black coal. It doesn’t matter what you do as long as it doesn’t interfere with the work of making gold coal.”
“thank you.”
“Hmm… .”
Raon bowed his head again. At the more politeness than before, Balkan turned his head in embarrassment.
“It’s okay because I gave you permission. Laon. You come here in the early morning hours and train your manga artist. There’s no one around, and this inspiration doesn’t even know how to practice. No need to worry.”
“All right.”
Leon nodded his head. As Rimer said, Balkan did not feel even a little mana.
“For inspiration, look at me for a second.”
Limer clap her hands saying it’s good and takes Balkan out of the house.
“The inspiration is still good.”
Limer put her arm on Balkan’s shoulder and smiled.
“If you take good care of Raon, I’ll come back later with good drinks. Do you like fruit juice?”
“It’s not because of you.”
“yes?”
“When that child came, the fire in the furnace blazed even louder. The sudden heat will destroy the charcoal.”
Balkan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the yellow burnt charcoal.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a color like this.”
“I also felt inspired.”
“I am a craftsman. The sparks I’ve seen all my life flickered, can’t you tell?”
Balkan’s gray eyes that seemed to have turned to ashes twitched.
“That child’s breath has little power to move the flames.”
* * *
the next morning.
Raon ran to the Balkan charcoal kiln before sunrise. It was not difficult to find a charcoal kiln in the red heat from the dark mountains.
Whoops!
Although Balkan heard the footsteps, he did not look at Raon, but only looked at the furnace of the furnace.
The way he did not take his eyes off the furnace while sweating profusely showed that he was not given the title of continental craftsman for nothing.
‘This open… .’
Raon went to the place where the heat was burning the most and stood there.
His clothes were curled up in the intense heat, and his skin heated up. The chill pierced the mana circuit as if it were stinging.
“Suck… .”
There was pain in the teeth clenching. Gray breath comes out of his mouth.
It was painful enough that I wanted to run away right away, but my heart was pounding with excitement from feeling the flames.
There is joy in my heart Following the breath of the flame transmitted through pain, I memorized the phrase of a cartoonist.
Hot breath was contained in the mana he inhaled, and the turbid energy escaped in the air he exhaled.
Leon closed his eyes. He rotated the ring of fire and operated a cartoon ball.
oh oh oh
When the concentration reached the peak, the pain disappeared and only the joy that came from the heat filled my heart.
“… … .”
Balkan turned around. Watching Raon breathe with his eyes closed, his gestures became a little softer.
tap.
In front of the furnace where there were two people, only the sound of burning firewood rang quietly.
* * *
It has been three months since Raon started training to come to the Balkan charcoal kiln.
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Now that I am used to the mountain road, I was able to reach the charcoal kiln in 10 minutes.
Whoops!
The charcoal kiln pressed the space with more intense fire power than it had seen at first. The kiln was filled with a haze the size of a finger.
‘You still do.’
Balkan knew he was coming, but he didn’t look back and didn’t open his mouth. I’m just concentrating on looking at the furnace.
Raon stepped forward without making a sound of footsteps.
The hotter air wrapped around her body as she approached the furnace step by step.
My breath was choked, and the back of my back was wet with sweat. The coldness of the mana circuit roared like the jaws of a beast.
“Whew… .”
It was an unfamiliar pain, but Raon laughed. Now, just looking at the flames made my heart pound.
‘Fire… .’
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Now I know.
After spending time with fire, as Limer said, he learned what fire was.
People say that fire is the most fearful and powerful attribute, but if handled properly, it is more stable than any other attribute.
Feeling the heat that burned my skin, I took one step closer.
Whoops!
The energy of the cartoonist, which he had not yet mastered, awakened by itself, drawing in the heat that warmed the earth.
As if reacting to that mana, the flame of the furnace soared bright red like the tongue of a demon.
“after… .”
Raon exhaled the remaining breath in his lungs and accepted the ripe mana.
Mana boiling like lava led to the mana circuit. The cold air, which had escaped from the heat, was dragged to the danjeon by the flow of the cartoonist.
‘image.’
When Yeongong was on track, Raon considered Limer’s advice. He said that you should paint the image you want.
‘The fire I need… .’
thought of the goal.
The goal is to raise Sylvia as a direct line and cut the throat of Derus Robert. It will be as difficult as walking in darkness where you can’t see an inch ahead.
Sometimes they needed a fire that could be a torch to light the way, and sometimes a sword to defeat the wild beasts.
Even if it snows or rains, the fire should not go out. A fire that never goes out. That was the spark I chose.
Whoa!
When a clear image of fire was captured, a thunderbolt struck my brain and my heart pounded.
The mana circuit repeats expansion and contraction, stimulating the frozen cold.
The heat that spread like lava that melted the glacier penetrated the mana circuit and eventually reached the danjeon.
oh oh oh!
The moment the cartoonist’s energy was condensed and he was about to make the Auror’s marble, an eerie voice resounded in his mind.
-Now it’s the king’s turn.
A creepy goose swelled up behind Raon, who was in a state of trance.