Chapter 29 – 029 Twin Mountain
The soul of the land seal dwells in the body, and the head feels tingly as if it has entered cold carbonated water.
If I open my mouth, I feel like exclamations will flow out like ice water poured on me in the midsummer heat, so I close my mouth tightly and even stop breathing.
Quietly raising his staff, Hwanin aimed at the four sleeping vampires with their stomachs exposed.
Then eject two lesser soul orbs and two lesser soul orbs.
“Bang.”
Doo-Kwak-Kwak-!!
It caused four explosions.
Hee hee hee!!
Blue?!
Hee hee hee-!
The sudden sound of an explosion caused the vampires to jump up and look around as if they were surprised.
‘It’s amazing power.’
The spirit explosion of the lower and middle spirits enhanced by the Necromantic effect of the Earthseal was overwhelming.
All of the legs of two that were directly hit by the faint grayish-white color of the lower-middle soul explosion were shattered, and the one that was caught in the range had her left foreleg and left hind leg broken.
Two of them caught in the Lesser Soul Explosion were also severely injured with their legs broken one by one.
In an instant, half of the group was incapacitated, but the group of bloodsuckers did not lose their fighting spirit.
Rather, it radiated a sense of life that made the skin tingle.
Hee hee hee-!
Doo doo doo…… !!
A black and gray bloodsucking demon with a particularly large body found Hwanin, raised her front legs and burst into tears.
Judging by the glowing crimson eyes with the hideous fangs and teeth exposed, the state of anger has risen to the top of the head.
They are full of life-threatening intentions to bite and tear the Hwanin who attacked them to death.
Hwanin was willing to do that. It would have been more difficult this way if he had started hunting instead of charging with his mobility.
What’s more, it’s like you’re rushing without paying attention to what kind of attack you’re getting.
‘If he cared about that, he’d be a monster, not a beast.’
Hwanin, who was staring at the charge of the bloodsucking demons with their manes flying, raised his staff towards the very front.
“Good.”
With a small voice, the soul arrow made from the soul orb of the life-blood demon turns into a beam of light and rushes toward the target.
Pooh-!
The power of the strengthened middle and lower soul arrows was also amazing.
Leaving a faint grayish-white glow, the lower-middle-class spirit arrows flew faster than the arrows and pierced the lead gray vampire from the chest to the anus in a straight line.
‘Is this the difference between the lower and lower middle class?’
The gray bloodsucker, killed instantly, rolled on the ground raising dust, but the other four did not slow down as they jumped over the corpses of their own kind.
The remaining distance is 20m.
Hwanin calmly fired a lower soul arrow at the other two bloodsuckers.
See-
Fuheheheeng-?!
Purruk!
It was inferior to the lower-middle spirit arrows, but one shot was firmly lodged in the ocher-colored body of a bloodsucker, and the other grazed the side of another bloodsucker, inflicting a rib-baring wound.
The ocher bloodsuckers with soul arrows stuck in their bodies slowly slowed down and fell to their knees, but the other three speeded up even more.
After a while, the three reached Hwanin’s close range, but Hwanin was also ready to face the vampire.
“Hoo-wook!”
Flash-!
Hwan-in, who received the strengthening effect of the lower-middle-level necromancy, cuts through the thick neck of the blob-shaped lifestealer with a cold flash of spear.
A blob-like lifestealer that collapses with blood fountains spraying from its neck.
Right after that, a brown bloodsucker protruding from the side tried to bite Hwanin’s head with fang-like teeth, but the sound of rocks scraping echoed in the air and the bloodsucker’s bite went back to nothing.
Whoop!?
The brown bloodsucker, who suffered a rib-exposing wound, did not understand this situation.
Surely the enemy entered the attack range and attacked with the conviction that he could bite?
Hot!
Hee hee hee!
The brown bloodsucking horse raised its paws and screamed in agony as if burning its chest, and sat down as it felt its strength draining from its body.
And could see Seeing a creature less than half of himself poking a long skewer into his side.
Hwanin, who blocked the attack with his soul shield and pierced the heart of the brown bloodsucking horse with his spear, felt a chilling breath behind his back and immediately threw his body to the side, while raising his soul shield again.
Kwagak, Kwajajajak!
The translucent plate, large enough to cover the entire body, is shattered by the body ramming following the black-gray bloodsucking demon’s headbutt.
Hee hee hee-!!
The black-grey bloodsucking demon was enraged at the invisible wall blocking its path. If it wasn’t for that, I would have trampled that bug-like thing to death!
The black-gray bloodsucking horse whose rationality was eroded by anger began to run amok like a horse in a rodeo.
It jumps up and down, kicks its hind legs all over the place, and bites its teeth in all directions as if it would cut the bone if bitten.
It was enough to be frightened by that ferocious force, but Hwanin swung his spear like lightning, aiming for an opening with a dry expression.
The strength amplified by the Lifestealer’s necromantic effect creates a silver flash.
As the light, bent like a sickle of a death god, cut through the dark gray vampire’s neck, blood spurted out, and the frenzied action gradually slowed down.
Then, sitting down and watching him drop his head, Hwanin swung his spear wide, brushing off the blood from the blade and moving toward the five bloodsucking demons whose limbs were smashed and struggled.
Hwanin, who collected the souls of ten bloodsucking demons, plucked out only the long, sharp fangs with a black club.
I thought that the beasts I had met so far were enough to be caught by a skilled hunter, so I didn’t take any by-products, but the bloodsuckers were different.
The fangs are almost as long as the forearm, and their strength and sharpness are extraordinary for a bone. If this world was the kind of world he thought, he wondered if there would be a demand for it.
Hwanin, who was staring at the corpses of ten bloodsuckers scattered on the ground, left his regret behind and headed for the valley.
All of the bloodsuckers were large.
It is larger than the heavy stallions of the Earth, such as Belgian Draft, Dutch Draft, and Clydesdale.
It would be useful in many ways if the skin was removed, but it was only regrettable that there was no knowledge about tanning.
‘It’s time to see the sun little by little, but it’s strangely dark.’
Returning to the valley, Hwanin looked up at the gloomy dark gray sky and slightly furrowed his eyebrows at the thought passing through his mind.
“No way.”
It’s a shame to use the decree when it’s not even a battle, but consuming one soul orb isn’t a problem, as I guessed.
After forcing the soul of the bloodsucking horse, start running with full power without distributing stamina.
Hwanin, who had covered the 1-hour distance on foot in 9 minutes while listening to the sound of the wind hitting his ears, puts all the meat that had been out to dry outside in a suit coat and drives it into the cave.
Then he ran to the western Twin Mountains and arrived at a colony with large leaves growing to cover his body, raking leaves wherever he could find them.
Took, toduk. Dududuk…….
“Damn!”
Feeling the thick raindrops falling on his head, Hwanin cursed and cradled the leaves in his arms and slipped down the mountain and covered the smoker with large leaves.
‘Like stacking tiles to prevent water from flowing in…… !’
It was the moment when the smoker was covered with dozens of leaves.
Shoot aaaaa-
Quack? Quack. Quet!
When thick raindrops like showers start to fall, emergency food hurriedly hides in a cave.
In the rain, Hwanin brought the board of a hut-type smoker that he had randomly set on the edge of a cliff and started making it like a roof.
After tying the three wide boards alternately, they were set up at a slight slant, and raindrops began to flow down the boards.
Hwanin, who covered it with leaves and erected a roof to prevent the smoker from being directly hit by raindrops, turned off the bonfire and took out the meat that was being smoked.
It’s raining, so the smoke is a hundred percent failure due to the humidity. It’s better to just leave it out because it will spread bacteria and mold.
“It’s comforting that the smoke was going well…….”
Unlike the meat smoked for the first time, the meat smoked in a furnace-type smoker was drying evenly without any particularly soft spots.
The color system is also white, and there is no strange smell, and the smell of smoke is full.
Put about 1/3 of the smoked raw meat in your mouth and chew it.
‘Not bad.’
Is the sense of taste connected to the sense of smell to some extent? The smoky flavor brings out the smoky taste. The texture is like eating chewy meat.
The body was soaked in the rain.
Hwanin brought an ebony spear and started digging a drain to prevent water from entering the smoker.
Don’t forget to bring stones and build them up like an embankment.
He was a Hwanin who returned to the cave after doing everything he could, but Heaven did not help him.
Quack. Quet.
Hwanin, sitting at the entrance of the cave and playing with emergency food with a wooden stick as if playing tug with a dog, looked out of the cave.
Kurlrrr-
You can see the swollen valley water flowing rapidly with a roaring sound. It seems that the rain that is falling nearby gathers upstream of the river and flows here.
The fact that even vortices are forming here and there, it is a sight that seems difficult to save life if you fall into it.
“…….”
The furnace-type smoker had long since disappeared into the valley water.
All the hardships so far have been for nothing, but Hwanin’s personality was not hot enough to get angry over a natural disaster. Stop making it again after the rain stops.
Rather, I was surprised that it had been raining like a shower for five hours without stopping.
I would have understood it if there had been a sign that a typhoon was coming, but it was sunny until yesterday.
‘But how can you change like this in just one night? Is the rain in this world originally like this or is the current situation dangerous? Did the land seals move in anticipation of this?’
While thinking about this, Hwanin became concerned when he saw the overflowing river rising along the cliff.
Outside the cliff is a hilly terrain. The water level won’t rise endlessly, but I’m still worried that the cave might be filled with water.
After thinking for a moment, Hwanin decided to wait a little longer.
There was no place to hide even if you went out here, and only tens of kilograms of ‘raw’ meat were piled up in the cave. There is no way to move all of this.
‘Fortunately, there is enough food.’
There are dozens of kilograms of ‘raw’ meat, as well as scraps of meat that had been air-dried, as well as scraps of grass, berries, fruits, and wild crops that were occasionally gathered.
If you eat things that go bad early, you will be able to stay in the cave for 5 days, considering nuts and grass roots that have a long shelf life, and 10 days.
Couw?
When Hwanin’s hand shaking the tree branch stopped, Emergency Food tilted its head as if to say, ‘Are you not playing with me anymore?’
When Hwanin shakes the branch again, the emergency food with its tail feathers upright grabs the tip of the branch and pulls it excitedly.
Then, when he suddenly tickled his stomach and sides, he stumbled over like a cat and wiggled his wings and legs, which made him feel like he was raising a pet.
After playing with emergency food for a while, Hwanin went inside the cave and sat down holding a pearl-colored stone in his left hand and a deer antlers staff in his right hand, concentrating his mind.
I don’t know if it’s because of my mood or if it’s really, but it was a visionary who felt like a little more cool energy and warm energy flowed into her body this way.
It is assumed that if the cold energy is strong, the power of the technique becomes stronger, and if there is a lot of heat, the technique can be used a lot.
It means that the more you accept the two energies, the stronger you become.
There’s nothing to do anyway, so there’s no reason not to try.
While the rain was pouring down, Hwanin often observed the condition of the meat and did meditation training and physical training at the same time.
The meal time is not set, and when the meat starts to spoil in the soul’s vision, make a small fire with the firewood piled inside the cave and eat the meat right away. After taking a break for about 30 minutes, he trains his body until his stomach goes out.
It is a squat, burpee, and plank, which can be called bare-handed whole body exercises, and spear stabbing practice.
After physical training, meditate after wiping the body with rainwater from outside in a wooden bowl prepared in advance.
After repeating this routine for 2 days, only naturally dried meat remained.
Grass stem & vine screen at the entrance. Thanks to the secondary shield made with a coat and suitable leaves in the middle, moisture does not penetrate into the cave.
Maybe that’s why naturally dried meat lasts surprisingly long.
Maybe it was because he ate dozens of kilograms of meat for two days and worked hard on his physical training, but Hwanin thought while touching his noticeable muscles and his six-pack that was slowly growing.
‘What happened to this body?’
According to common sense, it is impossible to build muscle in two days.
If you spend all your time literally building muscle with the help of a professional, and manage everything from eating, packing, sleeping, and moving, you will be able to temporarily pump up muscle fibers and look like you have built up muscle.
However, this body was not a balloon muscle that looked like that.
There is no feeling of tightness in any part of the body, and the balance and senses of the body are intact enough to do push-ups while standing on one’s hands.
Although curious, Hwan-in, who thought that the result came out because there was a cause (such as bare-handed full-body exercise and excessive protein intake), changed the training method a little.
The raw meat, which spoils easily, has run out. The rain is still pouring like a hole in the sky, so it’s time to start controlling food.
Instead of focusing on physical training, I invest more in meditation.
I didn’t think it was possible, but it really rained for 5 days.
Raindrops the size of a finger fell for five days as if a curtain had been drawn over the world.
I don’t know, but wouldn’t the basin side be a sea of water? If I had left the cave on the first rainy day, I would have run into an absurd situation.
It’s been 2 hours since the rain stopped.
Quarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…… !
When I put my head out of the cave where the rain stopped, the sound of the valley water flowing like a torrent is deafening.
Looking down the cliff, the water level, which had risen about 3 meters, was rapidly decreasing.
‘In three or four hours, I’ll be back to the previous level.’
When I look up at the sky, I can see the blue sky between dark clouds. It is a dark cloud that recedes as quickly as it descended.
‘I’ll have to go out and hunt when the water in the valley calms down.’
I am worried about whether there will be any animals or beasts left.
I ate all the meat this morning, even the ones I had dried naturally. Even the fruits that started to spoil because they couldn’t ripen.
What was left was something similar to the long shelf life of guhwang crops, pieces of bitter-tasting grass, and a bit of nuts.
Since the materials for making a fire are running out, they have to eat everything raw.
‘No, since there are twin mountains, there must be animals that escaped to the mountains to escape the flood.’
Although there are no soul orbs left, the body trained for 5 days has reached a level similar to that of the lowest level soul.
This should be fine for a small beast. Or you can gather edible plants.
Hwanin, who spent time preparing his weapons for hunting and meditating while holding a pearl-colored stone, felt that the sound of flowing water had subsided and looked out of the cave.
Sunlight, seen for the first time in five days, illuminates the valley where muddy streams flow.
“What a mess.”
The valley was a mess of broken trees, splintered rocks and pebbles, and mud carried by torrential waters.
The water level is slightly higher than before the rain.
The whole valley was examined in detail.
‘…… Is there any danger?’
There are puddles of water here and there, but dangerous creatures such as poisonous insects or poisonous snakes are nowhere to be seen.
Hwanin, who came down from the cave with his weapons and emergency food, moved toward the basin while smelling the thick pearl.
First of all, I was thinking of checking the situation in the basin.
“…….”
Then, before taking ten steps, he stopped and furrowed his eyebrows.
It was because I found a naked woman’s body hanging from the trunk of a bent tree in front of me, with its roots exposed as if half-bent in the torrent.
Of course, he didn’t frown in surprise at the female corpse.
“Tail?”
It was because he saw a wolf tail that seemed to have grown from his hip bone, and a beast’s ears on the top of his head.
