Chapter 321 – 315 the Road to Krabin, a Village Next to the Forest.
315 The road to Krabin, a village next to the forest.
Two days after adding magic techniques to Hwanin’s training items.
Perhaps as we traveled hundreds of kilometers northward from the southern hemisphere to the equator, the average temperature rose and the weather that could be called spring in full swing began to follow.
Sitting on the roof of her wagon as usual, Anne, who was on a surveillance mission, muttered as she raised her hand to block the sunlight.
= It’s noon, so the sun is a little stingy. If we go up to Praver, we will enter the summer weather in earnest.=
=If the skin is prickly, wear a cape. Continued exposure to sunlight is bad for the skin.=
= Ong. =
The next and final destination on the journey to Praber is a forest village near the East Rottings Jungle.
It is about 600km away from Helumen only in a straight line (if you consider the travel route, the distance increases more than three times), and about 300km away from Praver is Krabin, a village next to the forest.
=Are we on the right track right now?=
= It seems to be right, but…….=
And the party, who was advancing along a single path in a green meadow under a deep blue sky, was in trouble as the borderline of the road became increasingly blurry.
It was because there had been a lot of snow last week, and because it was the time when winter ended and spring began, plants were growing rapidly and invading the road.
“That’s strange.”
=What?=
“The main road to Prabur was clear. Even if it is the road that leads to the village. But the fact that the road leading to the village that is bigger than the village is so blurry…….”
This means that fewer people used this route last winter.
People came and went and did not step on it, so weeds grew and invaded the road.
‘Did something happen in the village?’
Otherwise, it could be because of his paranoid personality.
The villages and villages of Nionebreth are basically self-sufficient. After making products with labor, they set aside enough for their own use and sell the remaining surplus to buy other daily necessities.
In other words, it is not strange even if there is little or no communication with the outside world.
‘I’ve never had that tendency before, so it might feel strange.’
Anyway, on the way to Kravin, various troubles continued to happen.
= Ah! The sign is broken again.=
I met a fork in the road, and there was a time when a wooden sign was corroded and broken.
= Oh, Dew. The road is completely cut off from here?=
There were also places where the road suddenly disappeared and wide meadows spread out.
However, in this case, there was a good reason.
While the girlfriends got off the wagon and looked for the way, Hwanin approached the pile of vines, which seemed a little unnatural, and removed the messy vines from among the weeds.
Then, traces of the house and the site, which had been shattered by the wind and waves, were revealed.
“It is a sign of the destruction of the village.”
=Why did the village disappear?=
= It seems like more than 10 years have passed, but wouldn’t it be difficult to find out now? Anyway, the traces of people’s lives make me feel especially lonely…….=
“…….”
The group was speechless at the sadness created by Mother Nature that covered what was once a village, and then quietly left the place.
The reason the party was able to move on without getting lost was because they got information from the company or the company they met from time to time.
Of course, this was possible because Hwanin was a spirit master.
It is usually because they are wary of highwaymen and reject anyone who approaches them on the road. However, Hwanin has a skill that can easily attract the majority of people.
“Excuse me.”
=… Who are you?=
“It is said that the Hwanin continues the pilgrimage along the way.”
The vigilance of an unidentified group of people suddenly talking to you from a deserted roadside is resolved with a single wave of tranquility.
“This is not the road to Krabin.”
=Yes. You took the wrong way. If you go back from here for about half a day…….=
However, even if this information was obtained, the information on the nearby geographical singularity to find the destination was all, so a small wandering was unavoidable.
A forest that is not small blocks your way, a river appears that is too deep to cross, or you run into a situation where you have to turn back after encountering a cliff.
If it had been an ordinary group, they would have wandered around the forest, looking for a place shallow enough for a wagon to cross a river, or finding a way up a cliff.
“Emergency, let’s go.”
Quet~.
However, because Hwanin had an emergency that allowed him to fly with a person on board, the waste of time in finding the way could be minimized.
= Ugh. I didn’t expect to face the wagon’s flaws so quickly.=
= Still, the advantage is greater. You don’t have to be homeless and you can move around with a lot of luggage.=
=You can move on while resting, and at night you can wipe your body clean without worrying about prying eyes.=
However, even if they found the road, they had to climb a slope with an inclination angle of 30 degrees, so Issilite and Anne had to push the carriage from behind.
“Hwanyeon, I need to build a bridge. Summon the spirits of rock and earth.”
“Yes. What can I do?」
“You have to calculate the load on the bridge columns. It would be nice if there was a wide rock, but since there is no such thing, I drew an arch like this…… Cut down a tree nearby…….”
In a river that is deep but not fast, Hwan Yeon made a stone bridge with spirits.
“Looking at it from the sky, it seemed that the forest over there was about 400m wide. From the spirit’s point of view, it didn’t look like a place inhabited by beasts or monsters, so I think we’ll just have to go through it quickly.”
=Is it over there?=
“Okay.”
Since the forest was horizontally wide and long, they moved toward their destination diligently, breaking through the roads, such as finding a narrow place in the forest and passing through it.
Five days after leaving the third village like that, the party was able to find a place corresponding to the terrain information obtained from the last group of merchants they encountered.
= Dew. Over there, that mountain, right?=
= Yes. The distance is similar, and looking at the circle-shaped grove under the ridge of that mountain, it seems to match what they described.
= Hmm. I wonder how that looks like a woman lying on her side.=
“Does it look the same to me? Look, it’s the same Here is the chest, here is the side waist, and here is the pelvis.”
Hwan-yeon, who had been sitting on Isilite’s voluptuous chest, flew up in front of them and lay down on her side like her model, pointing at various parts of her body.
=Then keep following the road towards the mountain and Krabin will appear. Can you wash your body after a long time?=
=You washed your body by the river the day before yesterday.=
= Did you wash it? A beggar soaked in water. I want to dip my shoulders in hot water.=
“When I said I’d make a bath for you, you turned it down, but now you’re saying that.”
= Yay. Is it normal to bathe naked in the field without covering anything? What a crazy bitch!=
“No one but us is watching, so what’s the problem?”
=I don’t have much to say when I say that, but taking a bath in a bathtub made of dirt by myself, naked…… That’s not quite Yes.=
“Anne looks intimidating.”
=What!=
Hwanin listened to the women’s aung daung with one ear and looked around the surroundings, which gradually changed into a feeling similar to a tropical rain forest.
The height of the bushes along the road is gradually rising, and the trees are changing into thick and wide leaves.
‘And I’ve never run into any of the characters from Krabin.’
I thought that the closer I got, the more likely I would be to run into someone who could hear from Kravin.
However, Hwanin continued to worry about the fact that he had never seen a group coming from Krabin, even though he would meet a group coming from another village or heading to another village.
“…….”
Hwan-in, who moved Bi-sang to the edge of the road, tapped a large pile of weeds and bushes with his balance.
Chollarak- Dudu-du-du-
Water droplets like dew pour down noisily.
A lot of moisture. It hasn’t rained recently, so the fact that there is dew on the bushes means that moisture is regularly replenished to offset evaporation.
Hwanin, whose knowledge of the tropical rain forest was only a very common sense, could not tell whether his doubts and concerns were based on intuition or old age.
One thing is for sure, there is nothing wrong with being nervous and prepared for a situation like this.
“Isilite, Anne, fantasy. I continue to feel uneasy for no reason. You better be nervous from now on.”
“Uh? Yes”
=Yes.=
=What kind of annoyance do you feel?=
“It bothers me the most that no one comes out of there even though I am on my way to visit Krabin. It bothers me that the road is covered with weeds to the point where only the road to Krabin is unclear, and it feels strange that the bushes and weeds are covered with dew even though it is broad daylight. There is a possibility that he is an old woman, but I decided that there was nothing wrong with being careful.”
After hearing Hwanin’s doubts, Anne took off her gloves, exposed her skin, and lifted her up to look at her. She furrowed her thin, pretty silver eyebrows.
= It really is. The moisture in the atmosphere is just right, but there is a lot of dew in the shade.
After closing her eyes for a moment and concentrating, Hwanyeon opens her eyes and talks to her.
“I asked the kids if there was anything suspicious, but they said nothing?”
“I felt it while contacting the spirits, but the values and perceptions of the spirits are distinctly different from those of humans. Even though the way of thinking may be similar to some extent, the way of thinking is not the same.”
What I realized after gathering information about the surroundings a few times through fantasy is that people feel that this is dangerous or suspicious, but the spirits just recognize it as part of nature and think there is no danger.
Information comes in only when you specify a clearer purpose and target. If you ask if there is anything suspicious in a lump, the answer that comes back is probably ‘It’s the same as usual!’
“Uh…… Come to think of it, yes.”
“But there’s nothing wrong with caring. Hwanyeon, please keep an eye on who is not approaching the vicinity to the extent that it is not burdensome.”
“Leave it to me.”
Then, Hwan-in, who manipulated Bi-sang’s camouflage-colored necklace and changed the color to sky blue, quickly climbed onto the roof of the carriage and instructed Bi-sang to do what to do.
“Emergency. Climb up into the sky and watch your surroundings. If you feel anything suspicious, come and tell me.”
Quet!
As the sky-blue flight soared, it quickly assimilated into the clear sky and became unnoticeable unless you looked closely.
Hwanyeon, who was looking up at such an emergency, climbed onto Hwanin’s shoulder and asked.
“Can I give Bizang such an ambiguous order?”
“Vision has been acting with me since I tripped into this world. This is a guy who has adapted and got used to my judgment and value standards, so this level of instruction is enough.”
He’s smart enough to learn and understand himself.
At that time, the emergency flew down and flapped its wings. Q Pik Q It! Made a fuss over her.
As soon as he climbed up, Hwanin’s expression was rarely frowned at the turmoil of the emergency that came down, and Isilite and Anne, who witnessed his face, asked with anxiety.
=Master, what do you mean by emergency?=
=What did he say, did he frown?=
“… It seems that an open labyrinth has occurred nearby. Come on for a while.”
Hwanin climbed onto the back of the flight attendant and looked around him.
From a place high enough to make the party look small, they examine the ground where forests and jungles are moderately mixed, but they do not see any singularity that is considered a labyrinth.
“Emergency, either way.”
When asked, the emergency is kuku! Quet, he turned and pointed to one side. However, even there, Hwanin could not find any abnormality.
Aren’t you close by?
Knowing that Bisang’s eyesight is as good as that of a hawk or eagle, he ordered Bisang to fly there, and soon after flying, Hwanin also learned what Bisang saw and did.
The forest at the end of the ridge where a woman was lying on her side, at the entrance to the Roatings Jungle, was enveloped in a faint blue ghost.
“Well…….”
The concentration was much lighter, but it reminded me of the blue haze that covered the first level 6 forest labyrinth.
Coo? Quet! Queek!
Hwanin, who was about to examine the place a little more, turned around at the sudden loud scream of Bisang.
Something is moving fast in the forest near where the party was. Its direction was directly towards the party.
The forest swayed and something glimpsed through the thick leaves, and for a while, a small explosion began to be heard.
This is a sign that a battle has broken out.
“Emergency, let’s go back.”
Beep-!
With a sharp roar, Hwanin pulled out a scale from the back of the flight, gathered the lowest level spirits around him, loaded 7 soul arrows, and took out all the barrier panels.
Then, I looked back at the forest of blue aura that was becoming blurry as if it were disappearing in the mist.
‘At least 30 kilometers from there to here’
That is the labyrinth, and if the ones attacking the party are heterogeneous species, it would be safe to say that the heterogeneous species that came out of the labyrinth have already taken control of this area.
Then, Kravin Village…….
You begin to see something dark running in groups between the ever-growing forest and trees.
The number is estimated at 40 or more.
‘…… Toad?’
The dark gray toad, the size of a person, jumps and jumps at the speed of an ordinary person with its characteristic thick and short hind legs.
A disgusting yellow eyeball that was split crosswise. Short, blunt snout. Black-grey back leather with bumps.
And a bunch of thick tentacles that linger on the buttocks.
Koo-Goo-Gung, Boom! Perbung!
As we get closer, the scene of the girlfriends sweeping away the tentacle toad comes into view.
Isilite and Anne are in the process of reducing the number of toads as tall as a person and bursting them with ease.
Hwan Yeon is protecting Que by covering them with a wind shield.
In a moment, more than ten tentacle toads were lying dead around the carriage, and more tentacle toads were pushing in front of the girlfriends.
The girlfriends who discovered that Hwanin had returned shouted.
= Master! Monsters suddenly came!=
= Doryeong! Are all these heterogeneous species?!=
“I can not know. Let’s get everything sorted out first.”
After seeing how helplessly they were crushed and sliced away by their girlfriends’ attacks, Hwanin, who judged that the tentacle toads were roughly level 2, converted the loaded soul arrow into a soul explosion orb and sprayed it towards the flocking tentacle toads.
Perverted- Doo-Dung, Ku-Kwang!
The Soul Explosion Orb that lands on the ground explodes, creating an intangible explosion.
Weeds and bushes caught in the soul explosion are torn apart and scattered everywhere, while the tentacle toads also suffer extreme damage, with their skins ripped and their eyeballs bursting.
Gureuk?!
Gerruk, kkugg.
The tentacle toads, which suffered great damage from the sudden bombardment, seemed to be taken aback and hesitantly withdrew while licking their wounds with their forelimbs leaking bodily fluids and torn tongues.
“You won’t die from a minor soul blast.”
Rather than using the low-level spirits loaded in the gauntlet of light, Hwanin attracted the souls of the tentacle toads his girlfriends had killed, converted them into soul explosion beads, and sprayed them again.
The monster’s soul level is low. It is also level 2.
Kkugugugung-!! Kkwagwang, Beopbeobung-!!!
However, perhaps because it was the spirit of a lower-level monster, an explosion that was different from the one made by the lowest-level spirit covered the ground.
As the ground overturned and the trees were broken and smashed and sprayed everywhere, the tentacled toads began to rip apart as if they had been caught in directional mines, spraying bodily fluids all over the place.
More Tentacle Toads die than the number you sow. Hwan-in continues to attract the soul of the tentacle toad flowing out of the dead, converts it into a soul explosion, and sprinkles it restlessly.
Kkwagwagwang-!! Kwa-gwang, hot-du-du-du-du-!!
Hwanin’s girlfriends opened their mouths as they watched the sight of the tentacle toad being swept away by the bombing before they had time to come this way.
= Whoa. Heterogeneous species with a lower level than Doryeong are no match no matter how much they gather.=
= Oh my god…… It is difficult even for a 6th grade magician to spray an attack with the power of 3rd to 4th grade without rest. ….=
=Is that enough?=
= Yes. Military doesn’t mean anything to you. Since it flies in flight, it can only attack from a distance, but there are barriers, phase currents, and Grimoam’s perfect ring. Is there no way to attack? But when he kills an enemy, he collects souls and converts them into skills for bombardment. The bombardment consumes almost no resources, so it’s infinite as long as there are enemies. Even if you bring an army without a job, it will just melt in front of you like snow on a spring day.=
The women who substituted the situation in front of them for Yurpa’s description trembled slightly in fear.
Soul explosion orbs falling from the sky like meteors, and people being torn apart by the soul explosion.
Isilite asks.
=Then the master must mean that he is invincible unless he has a job of level 7 or higher.=
= Ugh. Right?=
=…… I want to get stronger soon. So that I can protect my master.=
=I should also become a stronger shield for Doryong…….=
The two women made a promise as they charged towards the few remaining tentacled toads that had almost been swept away before they knew it.
I will become stronger than now and will protect Master/Doryeong myself.
