Chapter 127 – 124 Carton Village
Kantwi treated Hwanin so generously that he could use the expression “Excessive” To make up for his mistake.
Maybe that’s why, the evening went beyond a banquet and turned into a small banquet.
There were 7 participants including Hwanin, Isilite, Kantwy and 4 diners. The venue for the banquet is a pavilion on the lawn behind the mansion.
There is a small chef’s kitchen under the pavilion, and food that looks delicious is constantly being prepared, and servants go back and forth between the pavilion and the kitchen to prepare food for guests as soon as the table is empty.
As for alcohol, various high-end brews and distilled spirits were constantly filling the glasses, and at some point, a band played cheerful songs under the pavilion to liven up the atmosphere.
Upbeat songs, delicious food, and plenty of alcohol.
After the meal, a drinking party naturally broke out, and the diners shared a drink with each other and got drunk. Even for emergency food, Isilite took a clean bath and finished dressing up, and sat on one side of the lawn to enjoy the delicious food brought by the maids.
=Hwanin-nim, please take a drink. This is Baek Il-hyang, a local specialty of Carton Village. It is excellent to have a hangover and clean aftertaste with warmed rice wine.
Hwanin also joined them and enjoyed a drink quietly, watching them laugh and chatter while receiving a drink from Kantwy.
That was a bit of a strange illusion.
Kantwy personally took care of himself from the meal, but that action felt excessive in return for telling a proper story.
Kantwi’s kindness and consideration did not end there.
The annex provided to Hwanin was a nice wooden building with light yellow and white colors that reminded me of Korea’s modern hanok.
The interior was neatly organized without a speck of dust, and it was decorated with flower pots, orchids, and vases with a subtle scent of flowers, showing clear signs of attention to decoration.
After looking around her hanok, Isilite laid a soft rug on the floor of the three-tiered structure that connects her Hwanin’s bedroom, floor, and her own room, and called for emergency food.
= Emergency food. You can sleep here If you stay here, you can see the master’s room, so it’s okay?=
All right When you sit here, you can clearly see your friends through the open paper doors.
Que~.
Watching the emergency rations satisfy, Hwanin pondered over whether he had made a mistake while drinking.
‘I didn’t do anything or say anything that would reveal my identity.’
But why are you treating me so well? Do you really like people?
Hwanin approached Emergency Food, who was now settling down to sleep, and said while stroking his round soft hair.
“If a suspicious person approaches you in your sleep, punish him by crying or hitting him. Can you do it?”
Quet!
I didn’t feel bad intentions in Kantwi’s hospitality, but it would be better to be prepared.
After asking for emergency food, Hwanin washed himself in the bath water Isilite prepared and went to bed.
Next day.
After an uneventful night, Hwanin was invited by Kantwie and after breakfast with other guests, he and Isilite walked around the peaceful village of Carton.
=Carton is a very nice town.=
“Right.”
Trees are planted all over the town, and even the streets that might be a bit obscure are ordinary streets that are neatly organized.
Usually, poor or poor people gather in places like this and slums begin, but this is just a street with ordinary homes.
Isilite explained what she had learned at the Technical Institute that in places where slums had progressed like that, when the scale expanded from a village to a city, all of them were driven out of the walls and settled in the general area.
Her ghost knew, but she had no intention of embarrassing Isilite, so she listened with one ear and looked around her with tears in her eyes.
“Certainly very little soul.”
The reason why the soul wanders is the biggest reason. There is also resentment and revenge, but there are not many of them.
=Really? The people of this village seem to be faithful people. Mr. Kantwy is also kind.=
“Well. There is no need to unify hastily.”
= Unification…… What is ?=
“It is unification to think that all the residents of this village will be good like now.”
Even in a small village the size of a village, there are murder cases that coveted property, but what about a village with dozens of times more people than that?
After looking around the village, Hwanin visited the blacksmith shop with Isilite.
It was to leave Wayford and cut off the waists of dozens of beasts and beasts until they reached Carton Village, and to entrust the repair of the great sword that had been fought over 20 times with Hwanin.
= Some of the cores are slightly bent, and the blades are also very crushed. This saddle-stitched greatsword is made thick and strong in anticipation of wear, so I won’t dispose of it as scrap, but…… It will take some time to readjust. Also, you will have to accept that the core becomes a little thinner while setting the blade.=
“Please.”
=Daegeum is a five-year copper coin. You can visit us tonight or tomorrow morning.=
Isilite, who came out of the forge, muttered as if she was making a living.
=I wonder if it’s a scam to pay so much for repairs.=
“When have you ever repaired a weapon?”
=…… No.=
“Then it is better not to speculate. Because of its size, the greatsword will be more difficult to sharpen compared to his longsword.”
On Earth, it is ground with a mechanical whetstone, heated in a mechanical furnace, and pounded again, but in this world, all work is done manually. Since you have to tap the 2m blade again, the labor cost is naturally expensive.
The next place I visited was a leatherworking shop.
She visited a comprehensive leather workshop where she sorted animals and animal hides, bones, flesh, and internal organs, as well as polishing and crafting leather, and asked for Issilite’s training.
=You want me to teach this lady how to tan for two days today?=
A middle-aged woman with half-folded ears like a shepherd’s ears asked in a gruff voice.
“Yes. I will make a case.”
= Hmm. You look like a lady from a noble family, but you’re learning how to tan? It must be hard. =
She was a lady from a noble house, and Isilite was so embarrassed that she couldn’t even open her mouth. She didn’t know that it made her look even more like a lady.
“From my point of view, the class president seems like a formidable lady.”
= Ohhaha! This is a man who makes me speechless!=
If you look at the face of the class leader of the workshop with a big smile, there was no separate wife from the business world who was an actress.
However, she wears chain gloves on her chain apron, even her muscles are thick, and her face and body are covered in blood all over her body.
= You can’t even listen to good things and ignore them. I will take special care of the basics of tanning so that you can get rid of it!=
“Please.”
=I will study hard!=
After handing Isilite and 20 silver coins to the hard-boiled class president’s wife, Hwanin moved on to his next destination.
Next is the Katun Yurpa Magic Tool Shop.
I visited the only magic tool store in the village to buy a coin pouch with subspace secrets, but I had no choice but to leave the magic tool store without achieving my goal.
She had no choice but to turn around because the lady with cat ears said that she couldn’t sell products, and it was not until the doorstep.
‘Do I need qualifications to buy magic tools? Or is there another reason?’
There were four smithies in the village, and there were two or three leather workshops or tanning workshops, but there was only one magic tool store.
If you can’t live here, you have to go to the next town or city.
Later, after deciding to ask Kantwi about the situation, Hwanin started walking around the village leisurely.
There are many trees and shrubs, flower gardens and parks here and there, so it has a theme feeling like a German village in Namhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, the streets are clean, and the people are kind like a village.
The shopping street in the town square is crowded with travelers on the way to Farkhist, and the townspeople are busy soliciting customers for such travelers.
Hwanin, who had been counting souls while wandering around Carton Village, which was as wide as Wayford’s main street, realized that there was no confusion here either.
‘It must have been bad luck to meet Honjae twice in a row.’
It’s a bit disappointing though. I want to investigate the phenomenon that Abet, who was attached to Isilite, showed.
Hwanin, who had wandered around the village in search of his soul all morning, returned to the 20m-wide riverside that runs through the village to take a break.
The river was very clear. As if paying a lot of attention to management, a place where you can access the river was created separately, and a stone wall was made to prevent anyone else from accessing the river.
You can also see patrols going to and from the riverside, and high-ranking groups of village vigilantes.
‘Suwon should be cherished. It’s a world where it’s a problem to draw water through civil works.’
Unlike Earth, it is a world where monsters roam. If you make a noise about construction, you don’t know what kind of monster will appear.
I heard a lot of rumors related to wild monsters in Wayford, but among them, the one that made the Hwan-in absurd was the story of a giant annelid-type monster that reached 100m in length.
Such a huge insect lives in the ground in a remote area where people do not reach, and swallows passers-by in one bite.
In addition, there was a story of a giant living in a hurricane that raged in the fields, a story of an eye that easily surpassed a sailboat swimming in the sea, a forest where fairies lived, a flying whale, a skeleton warhorse that shook the ground, There was also a story of a walking tree and so on.
It is common for people trying to build a village to be eaten by a monster and lose news, or for a peddler trying to break through the sales network into a remote area to be attacked and annihilated by a mysterious monster.
While sitting on a bench watching the villagers scooping up the river, Hwanin suddenly remembered something strange.
‘Suwon is essential for the formation of a village…….’
Wayford had no rivers. I hadn’t even heard of a lake or reservoir nearby.
Can a city of that size exist without a water source? Water and sewage were not perfectly prepared.
I heard that among magician-type professions, a magician who handles water can create water with phase power, but using such a magician to secure a water source is itself a waste.
6 out of 10 Awakeners awaken as warriors or fighters. And 1 out of the remaining 4 people is of the Holy Sorcerer type, and 3 people awaken as a Sorcerer, Mystic, or Sorcerer.
And awakening as a magician doesn’t mean dealing with all attributes. Red, blue, green, yellow, neck, brain, white, and black, it is common to get 1 to 3 of the 8 attributes.
A profession that 1 out of hundreds of people will awaken. How low is the probability of becoming a magician who handles water among such professions?
To put it bluntly, the probability of a magician appearing in Wayford, with a population of 200,000, is only 0.002%.
To make and distribute water with such a precious magician. It makes no sense.
‘Even if it were supplied, only the nobles and nobles would use it. The bottom line means there are other factors.’
Could it have something to do with the labyrinth right next to it?
As Hwanin gazed at the flowing river reflecting the sunlight, he saw an emergency ration that was hanging out with the children in the village.
Hwanin, who is sitting on a bench, is playing hide and seek with the children, probably bored.
Did they notice that they could pluck their feathers if they got caught in the hands of children? It looks like they are having a lot of fun playing while running away as if they are going to get caught by the children.
After a while, it was lunchtime, and while watching the children go home, Hwanin also called for emergency food and headed to Kantwi’s mansion.
= Huh! Are you saying Mr. Isilite is learning to tan?=
“Yes. He wanted to learn. I actually skinned the animals I caught on the way.”
After lunch, Kant Wie, who had asked Isilite out of sight, exclaimed at the story that her neat and slender young lady was learning to tan.
Tanning is something that even women can do, but to think that someone from a high family would do such a tough job.
Munder, the gray mole-haired man in her bowler-like hat, nodded her head appropriately.
=If there’s someone in the party who can tan, it’s a small profit. That lady, unlike her appearance, her vitality is strong. =
Different from what it looks like Hwanin laughed inwardly. Looking at Isilite from 3 months ago, she wouldn’t have said that.
= Hwanin ball. What’s your schedule for the afternoon?=
At that time, Luarda, who has an aura that spreads out gently and has an aura concentration of at least level 4, remained silent and then asked Hwanin in a polite tone.
“I don’t have any special plans.”
= That’s right. If you don’t mind, I’d like to exchange weapons once. Will you join me?=
“Are you applying for Dalian?”
= Yes. I tried to put up with it because it’s not polite to challenge a person with taste, but…… I can’t stand it. I really want to see your skills in teaching emergency food and Miss Isilite, and your skills in safely escaping the level 6 forest labyrinth, even though it was outside.=
“It is difficult. As you can see, I cannot fly.”
Hwanin did not say such a thing without reason.
Luarda introduced herself as a member of the lake gull family.
As the saying goes, Luarda’s head is that of a white and yellow seagull, and her body is said to have limbs attached to a human body, but she is a new human with white feathers covering her entire body.
Moreover, on his back, wings large enough to wrap his body several times were folded, and although fingers exist on his hands, they were more like claws of birds of prey rather than hands. Same goes for feet, of course.
In other words, it means that it is a body that is more suitable for air combat than ground combat.
At the reason Hwanin gave, Luarda laughed out loud inwardly. The man in front of me is a true talent.
He didn’t reject it by claiming that he was unemployed, but by citing his physical characteristics.
Doesn’t that mean he has great confidence in his own abilities?
Haha. Of course, the ability to fly must be sealed. Of course, I intend to suppress the phasic power and adapt to your physical abilities. However, since your awakening form is to strengthen your body in the field of defense and recovery, keep that in mind.=
Hwanin naturally recognized Luarda’s fighting power.
A flying creature’s most powerful attack is the fall attack. A bird is a creature that plunges down as if falling from a high altitude and snatches its prey with the acceleration.
And such attacks are so dangerous that if they collide with their prey, they may seriously injure themselves.
However, Luarda has awakened as a melee job that increases body durability and regenerative ability.
That means you can do any terrifying attack without any burden.
“Awesome.”
Luarda’s eyes widened. He noticed that Hwanin had evaluated his fighting ability.
“All right. Cantwy, if you have a stick, would you lend it to me?”
=Of course. Please wait.=
Kantwyi likes stories about travelers and adventurers, but he also really likes battles between outstanding warriors.
Of course, there were various weapons made by artisans in the house, and among them, there was a stick with special durability enhancement techniques.
Hwanin, who received the stick, swung it a few times before nodding his head.
It’s not as good as Harlan’s black wood used for his own black spear, but it has adequate elasticity and strength.
=I’m really looking forward to Hwanin’s spearmanship.=
Luarda, who watched it, muttered and began to warm up, and the Hwanindo Join tribe had a little anticipation of what kind of fighting method they would show. Even though they don’t fight with their lives on the line, Luarda’s aura is a level 4 intensity. Because there is also a fighter.
“It’s not a swordsman’s spear, but an apostle’s spear, so if you expect it, you might be disappointed.”
Luarda smiled pleasantly when he said that it was not formally learned spearmanship.
= Isn’t it a spearmanship that incorporates the senses of the wild? Rather, I expect more. Ah, as I said beforehand, my weapons are these two fists and legs. It means the projection of each system.=
Luarda asks as he warms up by moving his limbs like a pro kickboxer in earnest.
=What about the sparring rules?=
“Why don’t you leave it to the judgment of the four of you gathered? The end of Dalian, too.”
= Good Lord Kantwy and the other three, please take good care of me.
The four of them nodded as if they couldn’t miss this spectacle, and opened up the distance.
Hwanin and Luarda started focusing on each other without anyone saying anything.
In the eyes of others, the odds of winning were overwhelming for Luarda. It’s because the penalty for the unemployed is big.
But the reality was different.
‘Only the hands and feet are rakes, but the muscles and skeleton of the body are no different from those of humans.’
In Luarda’s warming-up motion, Hwanin grasped all of Luarda’s joint range of motion.
You can predict 70% of your opponent’s attacks if you only know the joint range and attack range.
Furthermore, the reaction speed and level of reflexes of Hwanin, who even trains his senses by giving Issilite and emergency food sparring, are several times different from his own when he arrived in Yulkam.
Luarda, who was staring at Hwanin, who lowered his posture like a leopard and stretched his staff moderately, laughed.
= This is embarrassing. There are so many gaps, but I’m afraid to go in for some reason.=
“Then I will go in.”
The moment she spoke and stepped forward, Luarda pounced on her like a leopard.
