Chapter 807 – #168_Overseas Travel (3)
#801
One.
Siu and his party briefly landed in Ulaanbaatar and took off for Hobd Airport.
If it was the cruising distance of the private plane used by the party, it would be possible to fly to Hopd Airport in a short time, but it was because they had to take over the jeep that had been waiting in advance and take it as air cargo.
It is the jeep full of bad-ass sensibility with wheels reaching to the waist, which I rode across the desert before being captured by Hexsenacht.
Mongolia was a very large country, and it was a necessary procedure because we had to drive two full days from Hobd to Tawang Bogd National Park.
After going through immigration at Hopd Airport, transfer directly to Master’s favorite jeep and move further west.
Western Mongolia, with the addition of being a landlocked country and highlands, was very dry, and even in November, it was incomparably colder than Korea.
Looking at the thermometer inside the car, the outside temperature was minus 11 degrees.
Even though the sun is still up, it is at this point, but when the sun goes down, it will go down even more.
The paved road disappeared quickly, and the unpaved road that made my butt shake was followed.
On both sides of the road, you can see the endlessly wide expanse of yellowing and dying unknown weeds and the relatively low-altitude rounded mountains.
A majestic primeval meadow that makes you question whether this is really the real world.
The wind blowing from the sky crookedly intertwined with the horizon drawn by grasslands and mountain ranges is like the sound of a giant breathing.
Perhaps because of the weather, white clouds puffed like breath over the blue sky.
If you close your eyes for a moment, the sound of horses hooves shaking the earth will hit your ears.
Eloah peeled a tangerine and put it in her mouth and asked Siwoo, who was behind the wheel, staring blankly at the endless car windows that made his sense of time blurred.
“What are you thinking?”
“I was thinking of a cyber burger.”
“……?”
I actually had no idea.
The environment seems to affect people’s thinking.
Even though the weather is a little hazy, I feel like all my thoughts disappear as I cross the majesty of Mother Nature.
Everyone was quiet, so I glanced behind me in the rearview mirror.
Amelia, Sharon, Lelye, Dorothy, and Linne lay side by side in the back seat with their heads leaning against each other.
No matter how spiritual it is, it seems that the fatigue of the trip is unavoidable.
They had sparse conversations until the middle, and they leaned their heads on each other’s shoulders and fell into a sound sleep.
2.
Sleep is not inevitable for the spiritual body.
But isn’t it a long-awaited trip?
In order to have a good trip, you need to be with good people, but you also need a proper rest.
Rather than hurriedly moving to their destination, they chose to park their car by the river and camp for the night.
They set up a tent on the cushion-like ground of entangled grass roots and sat around a campfire with a blanket wrapped around their shoulders.
As Amelia sipped her hot coffee, Dorothy poked her sensibly prepared marshmallows into chopsticks and seared them over her side fire.
“I had a hard time driving all day.”
“No big deal, I have to do what I can.”
“I’m a little sorry. If I had come in summer, I would have seen wildflowers in full bloom in the fields.”
According to Master’s words, it blooms from the feet to the end of the field of view on this wide plain.
As if the goddess of flowers breathed her breath into it.
“Do you want to see Siu flowers?”
Amelia looked around and then awkwardly helped out by the side.
“Can you use magic?”
“It is not very difficult.”
“… I will only accept your heart.”
Let Amelia, who must have suffered the most from motion sickness today, rest comfortably.
Seeing that she glanced towards the tent a little while ago, she seems to want to rest more.
“Hmm, this is another delicacy that can only be tasted on earth. One more Dorothy!”
“Yes~ yes~”
Leruhe eagerly ate the marshmallows Dorothy was roasting.
Even the slightly burnt marshmallow is floating on top of the cocoa in her hand.
Shiu has developed a fondness for sweet food since he was a slave, but if he eats it like that, he will feel sick to his stomach.
“…….”
Linnaeus was looking up at the sky with her hands wrapped around the iron mug of coffee.
I just chose a random riverside as my campsite, but the sky over the meadow was still very beautiful.
Stars flow as if a sack of silver coins were crushed and scattered on a mother-of-pearl ornament of a mysterious color.
Rinne’s black eyes gazing at the stars also shone like the night sky.
“Are you looking at the constellations?”
“I don’t know much about constellations.”
Rinne, who seemed like she would forever stop in that position and become a stone statue if no one touched her, met Siu’s gaze as soon as she spoke.
“But it is beautiful. It’s been hundreds of years since I’ve felt beautiful while looking at the night sky.”
It is not only silky pleasure that the curse of deficiency takes away.
It means that even if you look up at the night sky in an idyllic atmosphere, only perfect emotionlessness is conveyed.
“If I hadn’t met Nanggun, I wouldn’t have been able to feel this emotion.”
“Well…. What would I have done?”
“Thank you again.”
When receiving compliments or honest expressions of gratitude, Siwoo’s body twists for no reason.
Because of that, she almost said, ‘If it wasn’t for Rinne-sama, she wouldn’t have felt the emotion of Master’s rice bowl, so wouldn’t she be an equal exchange?’
“Uh? Is it a shooting star?”
At that time.
Sharon jumped up next to her and stood up pointing at the night sky.
“Wait a minute.”
Eloa, suddenly aware of something, used a simple spell to extinguish her bonfire without leaving any embers behind.
“Aww! What are you doing! Jim’s marshmallow oven is so ruthless… !”
“Look at the sky Miss Rruye.”
There was a reason.
Western Mongolia in November is the best place to observe the Leo meteor shower.
Wildflowers could not be seen unfortunately, but the capricious Leo meteor group is decorating the sky wonderfully today.
The traces of the stars that drew slashes across the endless sky flowed ceaselessly like fireworks.
“Pretty….”
Everyone looked up at the beautiful scenery with their heads up.
“Wish, let’s make a wish!”
A hugely excited Sharon jumped in her place and held her hands in her prayers with her eyes closed.
Does a witch who touches the mysteries of the world believe in superstition?
The other personnel also close their eyes for a moment.
Siwoo closed his eyes as he looked around at the couples who were each praying.
Not all of them gathered here, but each and every one of them is a precious relationship.
Even if a long time has passed and the look of the world is different from now.
A harmonious peace that I want to protect even at the risk of my life.
It seems to be a thought I always have, but this time, I hope this peace will last for a long time without being broken.
It seems that I begged so much.
3.
As soon as I got up from the tent, I put the gas I had brought in and climbed into the jeep.
As we continued driving for 12 hours without oncoming vehicles or people, we began to see five tall mountain peaks covered with ice caps.
‘Tawang Bogd’ in Tawang Bogd National Park means five peaks, so you have reached the approximate destination.
“I’ll have to walk from here.”
Eloah, who was looking at the map from the passenger seat in his spare time, said.
It is 200km in a straight line from the present location to the studio.
If the people in this jeep were ordinary people, it would be quite a long journey.
However, if we talk about the simple hierarchy, even Sharon, who occupies the lowest place, is a great witch.
Even considering the fuel consumption of magic power consumption, it was possible to reach it by running in two hours.
As we continued to run west, the dry grass disappeared, replaced by frozen soil and gravel roads that looked like dry bones.
At this point, even if I was an outcast, I immediately thought, ‘Can I really live in a place like this?’
Feeling the refreshing wind brushing their ears, the running party stopped abruptly.
“Looks over there.”
On the frozen soil where there is not even a trace of trees or grass.
This is because a dense larch forest appeared out of nowhere.
Looking at the GPS coordinates and the circumstances, it was clear that there was a “Soul witch” Workshop in there.
“Will I run away? I’m a little worried.”
Since there was already a situation in which he was kidnapped from the present world to Hexsenacht, he mobilized as much manpower as possible.
However, looking at the members, it is a great power as if they are about to wage a war.
Moreover, there is even Rinne, who is feared by Master and all witches, who is a symbol of fear among the outcasts and the public.
In the worst case, the frightened spirit witch may disappear.
However, if you leave some of them behind, you will lose the value of making every effort to ensure safety.
“Why don’t you leave the letter of introduction open? If you’re watching, you’ll find out.”
“That’s a good idea, too.”
As suggested by the master, in order to avoid unnecessary vigilance, the weapon was inserted and the use of magical power was limited as much as possible.
With Yebin’s letter of introduction wide open for full visibility, she stepped into the woods.
The cold, which had been appropriately described as severe cold just a moment ago, became as cozy as a lie as soon as you set foot on the forest path.
Because it was such a dense primeval forest, it was dark, and it was complicated like a maze because there was no way at all.
“I came here through the introduction of Yebin Smyrna! There are no battle doctors! I want to be treated! I will reward you!”
Siu lit up several decorative lights and pushed the letter of introduction here and there, shouting like a tofu vendor.
How long did it take?
There is no voice returning.
The bushes that quietly crouched over her body swallowed up all sounds without an echo.
“Are you here!!!”
-Basrock
The car that made my throat hurt.
The eyes of the party, who were not lowering their guard, were focused on the presence of people that came just in time.
“Well?”
But it wasn’t wild beasts or witches there.
“Honey?”
It’s a pig
It’s not just a pig.
It had wings like a pegasus and a horn in the middle of its forehead like a unicorn.
It is a pig with charm like a mascot on the packaging of processed pork products.
Of course, it was not a living organism that existed naturally.
“Homunculus… ?”
All the homunculus I’ve encountered so far have been monsters, but this one is kind of cute.
It seems that you can take it as a pet because it has mild eyes.
“Cow?”
The pig tilted its head again and soon smiled with a friendly smile, like a pig’s head on a gong.
It’s hard to believe that a pig is smiling, even if it’s a homunculus.
“Kuwool!!!”
A pure white glow appears on the pig’s body, which jumps up as if to be hugged by the party.
Only Eloa memorized the DB of the major ‘named’ homunculus that belatedly recalled his identity.
“All spirit… !”
Before she muttered something of her own.
The white light emitted from the pig enveloped the party like a flash grenade.
