Chapter 276 – 270 Casted Village
After cruising for five days, the group arrived at Casted, a nondescript farming village between Bijalux and Helumen.
The way back was quite smooth. Either in a topographical sense or in an environmental or artificial sense.
True to its name, the Radsea Plain, the topography was at the level of the hill at the back of the mountain, and it was a peaceful field where the horizon and the sky were in contact, except for the large and small rivers that appear very occasionally.
Yellow bushes that grew to the waist stretched out to the horizon, and although the wild beasts hiding there rarely attacked, most of them were not damaged because Vizi, which flew in the sky and chased them, detected them in advance and warned them.
The beast, which avoided the sight of an emergency, caught the signs of an attack with Anne’s keen hearing and repulsed it.
It wasn’t just beasts to encounter on the road.
I also ran into people approaching from the opposite side of about one team a day, but there were various types of people coming and going.
Caravan lines large and small, well-equipped parties of up to 10 adventurers, caravans with hired escorts, and more.
What they had in common was that they misunderstood the Hwanin party as a procession of a very high status and stayed as far away as possible or stopped until the Hwanin party passed by.
= Whoa, what is that wagon? It looks very peculiar, but something is cool. =
=Hey, a coachman is being run by a 4th grade worker……. The face is also crazy.=
=Wagon roof, look at the roof. There is also a 6th grade.=
= I can’t see the sentence on the carriage. Where is the family name?=
If they had looked up, they would have spotted the green Que flying in the sky, and if they had, they would have guessed that the wagon was a group of high-ranking spiritists…….
=That wagon looks like a magic tool too.=
=How did you know?=
= If it was black, the dirt on it would be very conspicuous, but there is no such thing. It means the cleansing spell is in effect. Since the wagon did not shake even when three Que were pulling it, a vibration absorption spell was cast on the axles and wheels of the wagon.=
= Hey. It’s just a wagon that’s worth it. Will it be too expensive?=
=Because everything from the exterior material to the shaft must have been custom-made. Even if I can’t do it, it’s worth ten gold coins.=
The impact of the wagon was so strong that no one noticed the existence of the emergency.
As the situation was like this, the mercenaries encountered while moving in groups even turned into bandits.
At the same time, while the girlfriends entered the carriage, Hwanin was driving the carriage alone, and at that time, eight mercenaries who misunderstood that they were moving without an escort suddenly turned into bandits and attacked.
Worn armor, well-maintained but worn-out weapons, a cloak close to rags, and even one of the party members being a 3rd-class professional.
Pretending not to be Hwanin, who somehow felt like a human butcher from afar, he was paying attention to their movements…….
= Hit! Break the wheel first!=
Sure enough, the moment they passed by, they attacked the carriage.
3 of the wagon wheels, 3 of Hwanin, and the other 2 of the arrows from behind.
It looked quite skillful, but Hwanin was already preparing for the attack with his soul arrows loaded.
Sseukkuk- Chow!
=Kek.= =Kek!=
=Turn it off!=
First of all, as soon as I activated the sorcery-barrier, I made three panels into daggers and pierced the uvula of the three who were about to hit the wheel axle at once.
Pip-Pip-Pubbuck.
=ぅ.=, =Evil.=
He then fired a spirit arrow and hit the faces of the two women aiming the arrows from afar.
Two women collapse with a fist-sized hole in their face, spraying unidentified cortex. In a scene where five of his colleagues die in an instant, the three survivors hesitate with a foolish appearance.
=Uh, huh?=
Queueek-!!
At that moment, one person’s neck was bent at a bizarre angle by the emergency whirlwind kick that was rammed down like an eagle, and the other two were also blown away like elk hit by a car.
It is a kick with a weight of over 200 kg and a speed of over 100 km per hour.
The thief, who kicked her in the lower back, broke her spine and died instantly. The woman, who said she was dodging and then kicked her pelvis, fell to the ground with her lower body crushed.
=Kuyaaaaak-!=
=What is it, what a fuss?=
=Master, are you a thief?=
Belatedly, the carriage window opened and the women of Hwanin looked out and narrowed their eyes when they found the dead body.
“Okay. It’s all sorted out, so there’s no need to come out.”
= No. We need to capture the raiders’ belongings. Anne, let’s go.=
= Ong. =
= Turn off, squeak. Buy… Save…….=
As women rushed down from the carriage, the professional woman who collapsed in a grotesque shape trembled and stretched out her hand, but Hwanin showed a handful of mercy and ended her life with a single arrow of the soul.
But she quickly learned that it was not at her mercy.
The souls of the thieves who died from being cut off by the panel rose up from their corpses intact, but the souls that died from the spirit arrows fluttered like a haze with a hole in the area hit by the soul arrow and then disappeared.
“…….”
Hwanin gave strength to his eyes and saw the place where the soul had disappeared.
Weird. Previously, soul arrows did not have this effect.
The last person to be hit by the soul arrow was Gilles=Vexle. There’s a big difference between then and now, but…….
‘Did my soul arrow change as I grew up?’
Anyway, thanks to that, I learned that Staeta’s disappearance was due to soul magic, but Hwanin didn’t care at all.
He is said to have developed feelings little by little due to the existence of his girlfriends, but he was still a ruthless Hwanin towards his enemies.
Casted, where they arrived, was a small village with quite idyllic scenery, unlike Ouling or Carton villages they had visited so far.
The main product of the village seems to be grain, and while the number of households is about 200, the farmland is several tens of times the size of the village.
Most of the houses have walls made of baked mud and roofs made of straw. It is an ordinary small village where livestock roam all over the village and people work hard in the fields.
Wouldn’t it be like this if Yulkam Village grew into a village?
Arriving at the entrance of the village where the end of the log was sharpened, Hwanin saw the guard looking up at him with a bewildered look, and then got out of the carriage and said hello.
“Hello.”
= Uh, huh? Ah hello Welcome to Casted Village… Please come =
“There are four people in the party, and there are four Kudou. What about the toll tax?”
When Hwanin asked about paying the toll after showing his ID card, the cat-eared female guard spoke cautiously, feeling intimidated by Hwanin’s outfit and carriage, which looked expensive at first glance.
=Uh, ho, are you a member of the family…… ?=
“I am not a baron.”
You say you’re so luxurious even though you’re not a member of the royal family? After exclaiming in surprise, the guard suddenly saw three women coming out of the carriage, and her eyes widened.
Even if it’s not possible, there are two workers who are level 5 or higher, and one person who seems to have a slightly lower aura concentration than that. Furthermore…….
‘A gray cloak? Oh, no way.’
It was the guard who remembered a rumor that was making a lot of noise these days that all three of them were wearing gray cloaks, but there was no talk of such a grand carriage in that rumor.
It won’t be. Thinking so, the guard cautiously opened his mouth.
= Over there…… I’m sorry to say this. Our village is truly rural, so there is absolutely nothing to see or do. More than the only tavern and inn in town…… Your carriage will be more luxurious.=
Hwanin said that he was not a powerful family, but it was hard to believe, so he smiled and replied to the guard who suggested that he go to Helumen, a city on the plains, just a few days away.
“It’s okay. Helumen is our destination, but there are things to see in this town for a while.”
= Oh, then…… This, first of all, 4 people 80 Dong, 3 horses 30 Dong, since the wagon is large, 40 Dong, so 1 silver coin is 50 Dong.=
“Since there are four Que, here are 1 silver coin and 6 fairy tales. I’m going to take a break for two days in town, but is there a place to rest? The inn you just mentioned…….”
Four Que? The guard, who was about to turn around for a moment to inspect the carriage, responded quickly by accepting the toll offered by Hwanin.
= Yes? Oh, that’s it Then, I will guide you to the village apostle’s house first. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think an inn with rats will suit you…….=
“Then please.”
The guard told his colleague, who was watching this from his wooden watchtower, that he was coming for a while, and then he started leading the group to the village apostle’s house.
They are above average people. Wouldn’t it be better to take him to the apostle first than to send him into the village to take care of himself? When a high or baron visits, it’s my job to take them to the apostle…….
The more the more the more the duck-
Then, startled by the sound of a huge torch raining down from above his head, the guard retreated, clutching his spear with both hands, and a moment later found a green quoe landing next to a heavy, black carriage and was struck in the head with a wooden mallet.
= Rain, rain, rain…….=
=Rain?=
When Anne, who was walking by the guard, tilts her head, she shouts the guard out of breath.
=Are you the Green Saint of Visalux!?=
What else is the green saint? It looks like he’s talking about the doryeong under the circumstances, but he’s not a soul master, but a saint? Anne checked, she asked.
=A saint, what do you mean?=
= Yes? Ah, the high-ranking soul priest who purged the catastrophic mixture in Bijalux over there without damage…… Are you not? He and his spirit knights wear gray cloaks and ride on that, green Que, and I heard that the saint has no radiance…… But.=
= Ah. That’s our Dolyeong story. He’s the one sitting on the left of the driver’s seat over there.
Did you already have a name attached to it? The green saint is a name that seems very common.
When Anne giggled and admitted, the brown cat-eared woman guard turned her complexion white, and she hurriedly returned her just received toll with her two hands to her phantom politely.
=Yeah, the spirit priest is free of toll! And sleep, hold on!=
And ran to the village children who were watching the wagon near her with their mouths open, grabbed her, and shouted.
= Guys. Run to the apostle’s house right now and inform them that the spirit master has arrived! Just say green saint!=
= Huh? Uh? Are you a real saint?=
= Yes! So hurry up!=
=Yup!=
“…….”
Hwanin, who was sitting in the driver’s seat with Isilite and watching the scene, felt that his name spread faster than expected.
Perhaps because of the emergency, he got a title with the noun green, and the fact that even the guards in such a small town know him can be interpreted as saying that his name is spreading far beyond his imagination.
‘It’s okay.’
I think it will be a good insurance if you continue to spread your name and inform your destination while heading to Yeongdo.
Sado, the resident manager of Casted Village, dispatched from Helumen, was shocked to the point of jumping barefoot at the news of the visit of his party.
Rumors that a concoction has appeared in Bijalux and that a high-ranking spiritist has cleansed it is a hot topic in town right now.
And before the rumors came out, there were rumors that even the head of a planeswalker who ran rampant in the plains was circulating, so now the status of Hwanin in Casted Village is on par with that of modern idols.
It was right next to the village, so I thought you would come to our village, but I didn’t think that would really come true!
Sado greatly welcomed the Hwanin and his party, gave Hwanin a private stone house that was open only for visiting VIPs as if it were natural, and provided all kinds of convenience and kindness.
A young and beautiful girl from the village was selected and sent in to serve on Hwanin, generously provided meals and food, and went around busily preparing all sorts of items so that Hwanin and his party did not have to lift a finger.
Kindness to the point of being extreme did not stop until Hwanin asked for restraint.
Sado wanted to do more, but he couldn’t, so he returned to his restless state, and the village girls who had been waiting for him went home, feeling very sorry for not being able to attend Hwanin.
Anne, who watched all of this, muttered as if she was a bit scared, as she clung to Isilite, who was preparing dinner with the ingredients provided by the villagers.
= I’m a little scared because I’m so welcomed……. Does Dew look like you’re okay?=
= I had several experiences like this while accompanying the master. Rather, Anne, disperse the people gathered around the house. Master doesn’t like this kind of attention.=
=Uhh.=
Since it was a small town, it took an hour long for the rumor that the spirit priest had visited to spread throughout the town.
In addition, it is the time when the villagers who went out to the fields at the end of the day return. Thanks to this, villagers who wanted to see the Spirit Temple at least once flocked and wandered around the house, and the number seemed to be the entire population of the village.
Anne was a little worried about what would happen if people ran amok, but she was literally just a fool.
When they asked for the understanding of the people gathered, surprisingly, they dispersed on their own without needing to speak at length.
However…….
= Ugh. You’re not coming out of the house at all this time, are you? What’s so extreme? =
When Hwanin said he was uncomfortable, this time all the villagers shut themselves in their homes and no one came out.
= It’s because the villagers are naive. If it was a rather large village and the houses were bigger, it would be okay because there would be a buffer zone, but beyond that thin wall is the space for the villagers’ activities…….=
=Uh.=
Was this the reason why Doryeong hid his identity? Certainly, people with sensitive nerves would be quite concerned if those around them reacted like this.
Wait, the other spiritists can’t even hide their identities because of the aura, but do they go through this every time they visit the village?
Wow~ Just thinking about it makes me feel bitter water coming up from inside!
Anne, who had been screaming inwardly, answered the voice of Hwanin, who was looking for her, as she quickly left the living room.
= Oh, Dolyeong. Did you call me?
“Okay. I intend to visit the apostle’s house, so please follow me.”
=Yeah, wait a minute.=
What are you going to see the apostle for?
Dressed in her brief battle gear and wearing a gray hooded cloak, Anne stepped out into the twilight with her phantom as she felt her throat itch at the sights flying from all directions.
The gaze looking this way through the window in the house. A hot look in which curiosity, reverence, and respect coexist.
Anne glanced at Hwanin, who was walking in front of her. Doryeong must be more sensitive than me, but is it okay?
“It’s not like nothing happened. It’s meaningless to care, so I’m just ignoring it.”
= Be surprised Do you still have eyes on the back?=
Anne smiled shyly at the sound of Hwanin’s small laugh and stood next to him.
=So, why are you going to meet the apostle?=
“We are going to have a sex misfortune tonight. Wandering around the village in the middle of the night would be quite an annoyance from the apostle’s point of view, so I’m trying to ask permission in advance.”
She wondered if that would be something to ask permission for, but it didn’t make any sense from the point of view of etiquette, so she silently agreed and followed Hwanin.
At the Sado’s house, which arrived shortly after, the Sado gave an answer, saying, “Please do what you want comfortably.”
At the same time, to the apostle who revealed his will to practice, Hwanin replied that it was not necessary to do so, but if he wanted to, he attached an apostle of a human race who seemed to be 100 years old behind him and went around the village while dinner was being prepared to find out the number and location of the souls. Figured out etc.
“Come to think of it, there aren’t many cemeteries in villages or villages other than cities. It’s not too big.”
=It’s because burial customs don’t spread in Radsea. It’s because the wealthy nobles and nobles make family tombs because they are influenced by Merianole.
“Is it because it is a country that believes in the land god?”
= Yes. Being buried in the ground and becoming one with the ground is a blessing to those of us who believe in the earth god.
Hwanin, who grasped the situation of the village’s soul through her sparse conversations with Anne, returned to the house that smelled of delicious food and had a prepared dinner and told her girlfriends about Casted’s situation.
“Casted Village seems well-maintained and the number and condition of the souls are good. The number was about 15, the size of the emotions they had were small, and there were only minor lingering feelings, so it should be possible to finish the sex misfortune tonight or tomorrow morning.”
=Then are you leaving tomorrow?=
“I will have to take a day off tomorrow to check the condition of the wagon and replenish the consumed food materials. I heard from the village chief that starch and frying powder are specialties, so it would be a good idea to buy some.”
=Yes.=
After the meal, Hwanin, who had the madogi barrier checked by Yurpa, groomed Bisang and Que’s feathers, waited for her girlfriends to prepare, and went around the village collecting souls to attain Buddhahood.
It took 4 hours to achieve the Buddhahood of 15 souls.
