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Soul Rest (5)
It was the night of the hooked moon, resembling the sickle of the reaper.
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Only the dark clouds were flowing, occasionally mocking the silver plate.
“Kuh-huh, whoops! Cool!”
The man had a dry cough for a long time.
Coarse sand intermittently spewed out of his mouth, and dust fell nonstop from his damp, pale purple hair.
It was covered in black dirt all over her body and to the tips of her nails.
Blood was constantly dripping from the cheeks and the nape of the neck that had been scratched by the gravel.
Because I had been crawling in the dark for so long, my whole body ached and stiffened.
In addition, the weather in winter nights was too cold.
Her lips trembled, and her hungry stomach screamed non-stop.
As if suffocated by the misery, it seemed as if he was going to collapse at any moment.
Tears filled with tears were clinging to his tears, unable to fall.
Werner grabbed the weeds in front of him with his trembling prosthetics.
– Kwok!
“Heo-eok, whoops…. Whoops, cool look!”
The only thing that dominated his mind now was one thought that was similar to each other.
‘You have to live.’
‘It survives.’
‘I want to live.’
– Koo! Koo! Koo!
Without a moment to catch his breath, there was the sound of something violently slamming beneath the ground.
The man looked up blankly at the sky.
-Wheewoo…
The moonlight was very faint. It was unpleasant.
“Hey! Hurry up!”
“I’m going to die, now! It’s all if you live alone?!”
But the silence was short-lived.
Below his waist, there were survivors still trapped in an underground tunnel.
They shouted whale whales at Guk-seo, who blocked the only exit.
Werner, who was listening quietly, frowned.
It was because someone crawled and grabbed his leg and began to poke him upwards.
In the end, the man dragged his uncomfortable right limb and semi-forced it to crawled on the dirt floor.
A deep moan of shame and displeasure flowed out. It was the first time in my life that I felt like this.
– Fluffy!
“Uhhh. Ugh…”
– Whoops!
As he was pushed forward, hundreds of survivors of the collapsed black market crawled out like swarms of ants.
Unlike Werner, they quickly became ecstatic as they looked at the moon in the sky.
“Heh heh heh! I’m here! Collark! Live, Kalak!”
“Hey, I’m alive! Lord, thank you! It’s depressing!”
“Heh heh heh, hehe! Cool cool!”
“Uh-huh, I really thought I was going to die! really······! color! I think I’m going to die…!”
Some of them were friends, some were acquaintances, and some were close colleagues.
Most of the servants were working in Madame Morhan’s mansion, but the number of lesser warlocks and mercenaries was also quite high.
But right now, nothing seemed to matter.
They all embraced each other and shed tears or laughed like madmen lying scattered like corpses.
He was in a position to be buried alive in that deep underground, so in a way, it was a natural reaction.
“Ha, ha, ha…”
Guk-seo stumbled upon the ground and stood up.
I stumbled once and almost fell, but managed to balance.
Even so, the robe, which was like a bulky bag, was now worse than a rag, and the clothes inside gave off the smell of dirt and stench.
Even the shabby shoes had all the soles torn off and could not be used.
But anyway, he was able to stand on two feet.
“Whoa….”
could live
“But where is this place? Kaaak, whoa! huh? Does anyone know where this is?”
“It must be near Lake Yeri, huh! Because we started digging into the ground in the mansion of Na-ri, which we didn’t know…”
“Yeah, I wouldn’t have come that far. It will be soon to Yeongjuseong! Cool look!”
“Are you leaving right now? Or are you going to take a break?”
“Oh, I can’t even move! I’d love to spend the night in a cave somewhere…”
“Don’t even talk about the cave! please!”
After a few dozen minutes passed, the survivors finally started discussing the future.
Werner made a sullen impression as he looked at the robe with the ragged hem at the bottom.
Some memories came to mind.
– Aww! Whoops!
‘······ Not here either. Where did you hide it?’
‘This is really, really difficult to see.’
That night at the black market, the gray-haired thug and Arno van Roy came over.
‘Isn’t that why you hid Guk-seo?’
‘Is there any reason for that? I couldn’t even afford it.’
At that time, he was clearly hiding.
It had turned transparent as if it were just part of the background, holding her breath so no one could find her.
Thus, the two uninvited guests began to fight, and under the protection of the Lord, Berner was no different.
Indeed, he was destined to win without getting his hands dirty.
I did…
– Ha ha ha!
That little hoe was aiming straight at me and crying sharply.
It was unusual to see the snout spread out in a triangle shape with the tail fully inflated.
Guk-seo’s eyes fluttered wildly.
In the midst of the flames that spread hot like blood, under the roof of the mansion that is crumbling relentlessly.
‘··········.’
There was a sense of danger that it had been discovered. how?
– Why ah ah ah!
‘み! Yes man!’
The beast struck his robes with a swift leap.
‘Boo-wook!’ Then he ripped a piece of it apart and bit it into his snout.
The great Werner writhes, shaking his limbs…
“Then what happened to the black market, huh? How are we all doing!”
Startle. A hoarse voice pierced the air.
Guk-seo looked at the old man with his chocolate-colored eyes widening.
“How is it? It collapsed so much, can it be restored?”
“Forget the black market, Grandma. We have to go back to the city and look for other things.”
“Hey! If the earth had been so ruined, the castle wouldn’t be all right!”
Grandma wiped her bare feet and raised her throat.
Hundreds of people were as quiet as frozen at those words.
I thought it was ‘that old man’ for a moment, but it wasn’t.
Werner sighed as he washed his face with his left hand.
It seemed that he had become too sensitive as he passed the threshold of death. This look was not for me.
“still······. You have to go though! You’ve lived at the bottom of Lake Yeri all your life, so what else do you all have to do but go back there? Madame Morhan also cherished it. And now, some of us are injured and some are starving to death. We desperately need a legislator and a restaurant!”
“Hey. we take it out We are mercenaries who entered the eastern entrance.”
“Uh, we’re going back to the South Sea too. It’s not easy to earn money inland, so we’ll have to turn to the sea again.”
“······I beg your pardon?”
The face of the young man who had been hard at work encouraging people became blank.
Several warlocks looked at him and clicked their tongues.
“Ts. Look, young man. I just want them all to come out alive. What more do you want? We are not family, nor are we neighbors who pay taxes to the same lord. It’s a hundred times better for us to just go our separate ways.”
“Right! Madame must have gone to the other world too, but what’s good about us going together?”
“You’re right.”
“If you go to a castle, you don’t become Young Ji-min without moving. Then you have to pay taxes and go to war, so why do you do such stupid things?”
“okay. If you’re lucky, you could end up in jail for doing business underground.”
“·················ogue.”
Those who had been struggling with each other like a blooded family a while ago were quickly changing their faces.
The logic was that the whole could not sacrifice for the few in need.
As the sharp remarks continued, the young man clucked his mouth like a crucian carp.
The atmosphere was eerily noisy.
“No, but…”
“·················ogue.”
And Berner began to strategize looking at them.
Even in extreme conditions, his survival instinct and lust for power stimulated his brain like crazy.
He was Confucius, who was once called the jewel of the Duke of Sneijder.
He was always labeled as lacking political power, but he was confident enough to build his own power.
So I finally raised my voice.
“…and then I’ll give you an opinion.”
All the servants they were carrying died anyway. He needed a new limb.
“what?”
“why? What did he just say?”
“Isn’t that person blocking the exit earlier?”
“okay. And the first of us to deduce the existence of a secret passage inside the mansion.”
At Werner’s soft response, the faces of those who stood up were momentarily dazed.
Guk-seo did not miss the gap.
He was born with an incompetence, and his tone was like an angel.
He had a lot of rest now, but his gentle tone and kind words and actions were still there.
There was a time when people, regardless of age or s*x, had their foreheads clasped on the instep of his feet, as common as Gilsep’s gravel.
In short, it was as natural as breathing to him to captivate and win his heart.
“Some of you may remember. Did I mention that the mansion must be designed to dig a tunnel? He even suggested a few plausible directions.”
That truth did not change even if the man was in the form of a muddy beggar.
Some of the survivors, who had been focusing on him, expressed their expressions in an instant.
“Oh, I remember! He came as a distinguished guest of Madame Morhan, and he said that there could be no secret passage in a mansion like this…”
“Is that right, right. Oh man, it was dark at night, so I couldn’t see properly. That’s right!”
“Now I remember! He told me not to give up and dig a burrow, yes! There must be a way up!”
“You were the calmest among us. Admit it.”
The survivors murmured busily.
Werner rubbed his face roughly with his hands, making his beautiful face more visible.
Then he spoke vigorously. This was easier than eating Tom Puth.
“I have a good idea. It’s a good way for all of us to be content, while also protecting each other and getting through the winter.”
“·················ogue.”
this static. this expectation. He was a man addicted to the thrill of this very moment.
Soon after, a sentence that seemed to have been smeared with honey flowed out.
“In the northern part of the new kingdom, there is a nobleman who is loyal to me. Viscount Baarn, famous for being wealthy and generous.”
“Are you in the North?”
“Nari, in this weather, the northern part is a little….”
“I understand your feelings. It’s cold in the central part too, but I’d be worried that if I went north I would freeze to death. So do I. But the Viscount is never a disposition to overlook the disadvantaged.”
“·················ogue.”
“I will give you a house and money to settle down, and food and fur for winter days. If I lead you personally, it won’t be difficult to get a job as a soldier or servant in the lord’s castle.”
“…is that true?”
“Are you going to become a member of the lord’s castle? Oh my gosh!”
Those who received the tempting offer started discussing them head-to-head.
Werner raised the corners of his lips inconspicuously.
Any wanderer would agree, but nothing is more enticing than a stable settlement in the world.
The northern part of the new country was not very good for farming due to the mixture of hato and medium soil, but I heard that it is surrounded by the ‘Sea of Abundance’ to the east and that the royal family and lords support the settlement a lot.
However, that precious-looking person promises even food, clothing, and shelter…
“It’s not a bad condition.”
A word like that flew from somewhere. All eyes were focused on one place.
“you are······.”
A strange woman, pulling a three-wheeled cart, caught my eye.
It was a person who did not know where he suddenly appeared. Werner narrowed his brow as if he were wary.
However, the young man continued to speak with dazed eyes.
“If we go to the Yeri now, things will get complicated. It was completely occupied by the Imperial Army.”
“·······What?!”
“Is that true? Are you really saying that the enemy has come all the way there!?”
“exactly. The gods of the black market have been resurrected from the dead, and Lister is gathering more firmly in accordance with the will of the Lord.”
“Oh my God!”
The reaction was truly explosive. A quiet discussion quickly turned into a heated discussion.
Those who were out of breath opened their eyes and stood up, and those who groaned in pain now expressed their opinions more actively than anyone else.
In the darkness where no stars could be seen, the desolate land was filled with the cries of criminals.
“Then wouldn’t the North be better? If you go to Yeongju Fortress and get caught by the Imperial Army and be executed as an example!”
“I am definitely heading north. I have already decided.”
“Me too! As I win, I will settle my underground life and settle down!”
“Even if you freeze to death, you must die in a new country. You can’t get it out of the hands of savages, cancer!”
The flow quickly steered in Werner’s favor.
Guk-seo considered this to be natural and willing, but at the same time, he could not shake the anxiety rising from the depths of his heart.
He looked back at the young man pulling the cart with a wavering gaze.
“·················ogue.”
“Ugh······.”
But, without a word, she was approaching me all of a sudden.
For a moment, my heart pounded and I went goosebumps.
If there were no traces of the wheel that scratched the ground, he would probably have thought that his opponent was the messenger of the Lord.
Werner glanced at the survivors who had been swarming in a group, then swallowed dry saliva and looked at the woman.
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Our eyes met immediately.
There was only one thing he had to ask.
“Who the hell are you.”
Then the answer came back. Still with no emotion in his eyes.
“······Bozena (Божена).”