172. A message of gratitude from the continent
Six months passed.
Shaa…
Do-yoon, wearing a deeply pressed robe, walked slowly down the street where the rainwater flowed.
No one passing by could guess his identity and the status he held on the continent. Do-yoon didn’t want to make a fuss, so he just pressed down on his robe.
He scratched the cloth on the left waistband, the handle of the sword soaked in rain.
At the southeast end of the continent, a port city that is in the ranks of large cities.
However, because of the salty rain, the city was quiet.
rain falling incessantly. The cool dampness that makes a child’s shoulders tremble.
Even though it is a port city, there are no sea men reminiscent of Vikings. There was not even a footstep on the pier where the ship could not float.
Do-yoon hoped that maybe today, he would be able to reach the meeting he had been looking for for the past few months.
‘Really… It’s my job to find it.’
I always feel it, but he was a really mysterious, really annoying old man.
Even after 100 years, it is a seed that is not even known to be alive. However, it would take several months to rise to the current position and mobilize all of the Alliance’s information power.
Certainly the genie was the genie.
‘Was it about this…’
Doyoon took out the wet map. According to the opening source, it was definitely around here.
He stood in the middle of a shallowly flooded street. The excitement spread throughout the city.
Only then, at the end of his senses, was he able to catch the sign he wanted, albeit weakly.
Laughter leaked out.
‘He was alive.’
Considering that even 100 years ago, he was on the verge of becoming a goal, it is an abnormal lifespan even considering that he is an elf. The rumor about being a high elf might be true.
Doyoon moved on. Despite the middle of the day, I walked through the alley where no light penetrated due to the weather.
He scratched the handle of his sword in a faint impatience.
‘Obviously the opportunity is said to come only once in a person’s lifetime. Will reincarnation be included?’
I think I would be very sad if I was barred from the door even though I went to visit you after such a hard time.
Fortunately, however, the old elf did not leave his seat even as the presence approached. The second visit was different from the old days when even Enoch was ostracized and disappeared like smoke.
Doyoon smiled and hurried his steps.
I crossed several main roads and damp alleys.
And finally, he stood in front of a beggar. The beggar sat dead on the wet street.
I looked around. As I headed towards this place, at some point, I became strangely weary. It was as if the whole world had disappeared.
Doyoon put his hand in his bosom and lowered his head.
He is an old man whose appearance is easily mistaken for an old goblin. Wrinkles all the way down to the scalp, skin that lacks luster, and a small stature that could have reached 100cm.
And no eyeballs, open eye sockets like a skull.
‘Because I’m going to cover my eyes…’
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Jijiri was an old man who didn’t even listen.
Doyoon took a small jewel from his bosom and dropped it into an old tin can in front of the old man. It was a precious jewel that had a special meaning among elves, given by Elroa.
Clink!
The old man’s elongated elf ears perked up at the noise from the rain.
The eyeless man fumbled around the jewels inside the can to check.
Soon the mouth opened, and a weak, hoarse sound leaked out.
“Nice to meet you. It looks like you came with an introduction from a special person…”
“What, don’t you recognize me?”
“…Yes?”
Doyoon sat down on the floor. Neither of them cared about rainwater on the floor.
“I thought I could see through the soul or something.”
The old man tilted at his words for a moment, but moved his bony arm in silence.
Place five cards on the floor. Despite the rain-soaked floor, the cards did not get wet or float away.
A slow, feeble hand turned the cards one by one. Then, stuttering, his wrinkled fingertips touched the unevenly engraved picture on the card.
As he touched the third card, the old man’s small body flinched.
“…”
After taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth again.
“…I don’t know… I’m sorry.”
“Long time no see, old man.”
“It’s been a while, Enoch…”
The small, wrinkled head bowed down, and Doyoon nodded as well.
“You were still alive.”
“Hehehehe…”
Doyoon glanced at the card.
“Did they say it was me?”
“Cards say a lot…”
The old man retrieved the cards one by one, his thin, slow hands trembling. Doyoon waited for this with an expressionless face.
“…”
It had to come eventually.
The future that the elf inspiration in front of me tells me never misses. Enoch also overheard death from him twice over and over again, but in the end he never escaped.
If so, what was Doyoon thinking when he came to the old man?
What if his wrinkled mouth were to pronounce predestined doom?
‘…what a thing.’
At the self-deprecating question he asked himself, he sneered.
‘No matter what I hear, nothing changes.’
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Just as always, the warrior only fulfills his mission. Even if the end is only failure, death, and destruction.
Maybe… the steps toward this place didn’t have much meaning.
Doyoon thought to himself.
The cards were all taken away, and the old man clumsily shuffled the cards.
Looking at this, Doyoon opened his mouth with a calm face as much as possible.
“In this lifetime.”
I took care of my complicated feelings and finally asked a question.
“…Can I kill the Demon King?”
The old man raised his head and looked at Doyoon. Doyoon also looked at his empty eye sockets.
Despite the empty eye sockets, he was clearly looking at something.
Shaa…
“…”
After a while, around the time the top of my head was tingling with the raindrops falling on the robe.
The old man silently laid down five cards.
Scrubbuck, buckwheat…
Doyoon’s gaze turned to the floor.
Only the back side of all five cards was visible.
The old man didn’t turn over the cards until the end.
The answer that came in the middle of the day was enough to take away Doyun’s strength.
“I can’t see… I can’t.”
“…that’s disappointing.”
“sorry…”
I can’t see the future.
It was the first time I had been looking for him for the third time in all episodes.
Doyoon, who had lost steam, stood up quietly. Since I didn’t hear the answer, there was still a chance to ask a rare once-in-a-lifetime question, but even that was just put down.
Because to him, only the question just now had meaning.
Chabak, Chabak.
Doyoon walked silently in the rain and walked away from the old man.
when he had walked about ten steps.
“Be careful.”
The old man’s chanting stopped Doyoon’s feet.
snap.
The words continued with the sound of a tin can being packed from behind.
“Even though this humble body… There is no place in the world that my eyes can’t reach. The only place I can’t see is the sky beyond the clouds… This old man’s eyes can’t reach the causation effected by the divine intervention.”
The old man stutters, stumbles. A sound is heard step by step in the opposite direction.
“Demon King, Lord Enoch. At least… Enoch is not a god. It must mean that the demon king of this generation will enter the ranks of gods in the future.”
“…”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t give you hope…”
Doyoon didn’t look back or open his mouth.
The sound of the thick rain hitting my ears was especially stinging.
“The day of decisive battle… the day of destruction. I will burn incense for Enoch.”
The old man’s voice stretched like a haze.
“Sorry Sorry…”
It sounded like mourning sobs.
When Doyoon turned around after a while, the old man was gone.
Shoot aa…
Doyoon stood there for a long time.
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Do-yoon skillfully drove the horse and headed for Muspelheim. It was the way to return to the heart of the union after finishing the business of meeting the old man.
All over, all over…
As he began to see a silhouette in the distance, he increased his eyesight with mana. The fort came into sight.
Since the walls are so huge, it can be seen that there are about three hours left at the speed of a horse.
A small checkpoint under a huge gate. There was a long line of people trying to cross the border in front of it.
Do-yoon removed the nerve from the castle wall and rummaged through the small luggage bag.
The Heavenly Geukrajibyeok (天上極砢至壁) boasts a gate as thick and large as the scale of the wall. And, of course, opening and closing it was not an ordinary task.
It takes a whopping two hours just to move that door, and a non-negligible amount of money is consumed for this. For this reason, the tightly closed gates were only occasionally opened when there were national-level operations and events.
The passage through which people and wagons come and go is a small gate on one side next to the main gate. It was the border checkpoint.
At the head of the long line in front of the checkpoint, a small upper carriage was stopped.
Sang Sangju, who was being interrogated, bent over and over again to the checkpoint chief with a very embarrassed face.
“Hmm…”
The head of the checkpoint looked over the documents he submitted with a serious face.
Sang Sang-joo, who was already soaked in cold sweat, wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. He spoke in a tone that was even servile, almost pleading.
“Now, please take care of me. If you can’t cross the border today, it’s true, the damage is not insignificant…”
However, when the checkpoint commander raised his palm without even looking at him, Sang Sangju had no choice but to shut his mouth.
The warden, who had been looking at the documents for a long time, made a cold sentence.
“I can’t.”
“Ahh…!”
“What kind of situation is it these days, and do you spill your seal? The war will start again soon. I can’t let you go like this.”
“Please…! If we don’t get to the capital today, we’re really broke! Ha, just once…!”
“…tsk.”
Finally, when Sang Sangju knelt down, the warden clicked his tongue.
After thinking about it for a while, he skillfully signed the documents with his hand and pressed them against the chest of the head of the company.
“I will send it to you so that the seal is reissued at City Hall within 6 hours. I know you’ll be wanted if you don’t.”
Only then did Sang Sangju jump up with a face that said he had lived, and bowed down to the warden.
“Oh, thank you, get better! I will never forget this grace!”
“I have a lot of passing records and a high registered reliability, so I’m going to turn a blind eye to it this time. You know there won’t be any soup next time.”
“Thank you, thank you!”
“Go. next!”
Unfortunately, the upper state, which had lost its seal, was able to get through only after preparing more than 20 replacement documents instead.
Muspelheim is a kingdom called the heart of the union, so the entry screening is very strict.
Even the high-ranking aristocrats of their own country had to prepare to sweat just like the common people in order to pass through this place.
For this reason, Do-yoon, who was aware of this in advance, began to collect documents to be submitted in advance.
Do-yoon took both hands off the reins and rummaged through the papers while driving the horse skillfully. The horse got closer and closer to the wall.
And soon, he was found by a guard who was vigilant across the border with a celestial mirror on a skyscraper on top of the Celestial Extreme Raji Wall.
“…yes?”
He narrowed his eyes to the lens and studied it carefully.
The motive standing guard together was curious about that appearance and asked.
“what’s the matter? Anything wrong?”
“Wait a minute. A familiar face… huh?”
It didn’t take long for the man holding the clairvoyant to recognize the identity of the person in the lens.
“uh? Gee, really…? uh?”
Six months ago, which will go down in history, in just a few weeks, the news spread across the continent, and the face was clearly imprinted in everyone’s brain.
Undoubtedly. He was the greatest John in the world.
The guard opened his mouth wide.
“Mi-crazy… oh my gosh…!”
“why? What? Is it an emergency?”
“Rain, an emergency is an emergency… No, why is he going to the border alone?”
“Oh, what are you? Say something straight!”
As he was fooling around for a moment, his motive urged him on in frustration.
The guards came to their senses and shouted.
“Oh, you are here!”
“What?”
He tossed away even the expensive clairvoyant and hurriedly ran down into the checkpoint.
“emergency! emergency! You are here! He has come!!”
Soon after, it was delivered to the checkpoint commander, and the checkpoint became louder than ever.
After a while, Doyoon, who was taking care of the paperwork, felt something and raised his head.
‘Well?’
He looked at the wall again in doubt.
Soon, Doyoon’s eyebrows furrowed in embarrassment, and he sighed and touched his forehead.
‘…this.’
I raised my head again to check. It must have been.
The gates of the heavenly extreme wall, which was several tens of meters high, were opening.
Goo Goo Goo Goo…
The vibration of the large and thick gate scratching the floor, and the rising dust were clearly visible even from a distance.
Do-yoon frowned as if he was dumbfounded and kept the documents in his arms.
I needed time to organize my thoughts because of the old man’s words. So I tried to cross the border by land instead of using the warp portal, but I never thought they would make a fuss like that from afar.
‘…Yes, it was my mistake.’
What are the innocent allies guilty of? It’s all because of my carelessness. Doyoon blamed himself.
Now, as a location is a location, there was an awareness that you have to pay attention to each and every behavior. But I still made a few mistakes.
Of course, this is Enoch, who had been living as the highest tier of the alliance for several rounds 100 years ago. He was very accustomed to being treated as an aristocrat or a general.
However, there was a reason why even such Enoch could not help but panic, unable to adapt to the reactions around him.
After three hours, Doyoon’s words reached the gate.
At that time, all the city’s guards, knights, and even the Margrave himself, equivalent to the Count, had already lined up in front of the walls, except for the minimum resident troops. The sharp-edged soldiers and the wide open gates were awe-inspiring.
Citizens also gathered inside the gate and crowded with excited expressions. It was a small wish to meet the great person in person, even from afar.
As the horse slowed down and approached, the captain of the guard shouted with mana in his throat.
“Huh-! Return the warrior-!!!”
Doyoon touched his forehead at the sound of cheering.
As soon as he got off his horse, the count and knights rushed at him. The fancy ceremonial armor looked very heavy, but their movements were swift.
It wasn’t like this even 100 years ago. He was in fact the leader of the coalition, but he didn’t make a fuss about it.
And, of course, Doyoon thought that there would be no difference between now and before. However…
“”insect!! castle!!””
“We meet the mighty warrior! I am the Marshal of the Privils Territory on the southern border of Muspelheim…”
A man the size of a count recited nervously in front of him. The noise that made me tired just by hearing it shook Doyoon’s head.
He had the wrong idea of where he was.
100 years ago, Enoch Roosevolnik was a warrior who would ‘defeat’ the demon king. But now it was different.
The captain of the knights and the count babbled endlessly with sparkling eyes.
“Loyalty! It is said that the small man is the captain of the knights who protect Privils, Baron Bill Clanton! Please, give me the honor of serving the hero…”
“Let’s go to the Countess! Prepare a very grand welcome banquet…”
“Whoa…”
Doyoon sighed. I felt more tired at this moment than on the last trip.
Six months ago, Do-yoon, who announced his return to the continent, was misestimating his status on the continent.
Again, 100 years ago, he was a warrior who would ‘defeat’ the demon king.
But now, the continent looks at him as the hero who ‘defeated’ the demon king. living salvation.
Indeed, it was sacrosanct in itself.