Chapter 359 – 353 Return
With a splash!
Cool water wraps around the body as if caressing it. In addition, the feeling of invading the inside of the nose, mouth and ears.
Bugrrrrr-
With the sound of intense water bubbles ringing in his ears, Hwanin immediately crouched down to check which direction the water was on, and then rose to the surface.
“Pooh!”
Hwan-in hurriedly groped for his chest as he spat out the water that had come into his nose and mouth.
「Pueek! Kellogg, kew…… Coke! Kuchuk!”
Hwan-yeon desperately coughs while clinging to Hwan-in’s hair, as if she drank the water properly.
Hwan-in looks around him, looking for his girlfriends and Bi-sang, but they are nowhere to be seen. The only thing that caught my eye was the warm sunlight of the bright sky, the blue lake and the green vegetation.
‘Where is this place?’
Chow ah- Chow ah-
At that moment, nearby, Isilite, Anne, and Yurpa took turns sticking their heads out of the water.
Three auras that spread out brilliantly with spray.
The moment they confirmed that they had returned to Nionebreath from the glow of light covering their bodies, the three hurriedly swam towards them and shouted.
= Doryeong?! Okay?!=
= Master! Master?!=
“I am fine. But where is the emergency?”
Hwanin looked around him and as soon as he said that, he clenched his fists in surprise at the feeling of something supporting and pushing up his feet…….
Kyup! Purr-
He put himself on his back and saw the flying fish floating on the water like a swan, shaking his head, and relaxed his hands.
Next, he looks at his bewildered girlfriends.
Everyone seems to be at a good level in swimming or not. Hwanin said while stroking Bisang’s neck.
“Let’s go out to the lake for now.”
=Yes.=
Cue out.
Hwanin looked around properly on the back of Bisangui, which had no webbing but skillfully moved with the wind.
The sun rose above his head. A deep green forest under a clear blue sky. And a wide lake shining with emerald light.
The dark-brown tree grows upright as much as it could not be more upright than this, and the branches stretching out in all directions are covered with fresh green leaves, forming heads.
The rippling waters of the lake are emerald-colored enough to hurt your eyes.
The deep water is opaque, but as you approach the shore, it becomes transparent and you can see the bottom.
The floor is full of pebbles and sand and feels clean. As I concentrated, I felt a small fish swimming in the water.
No matter how you look at it, it is not a labyrinth of spawning ponds, but it feels like a lake in a peaceful forest somewhere.
‘What happened? Is the return location random rather than designated?’
Chow ah-
Cue~
Hwanin, who came out to the lakeside, said thank you by touching the beak and head of Bisang, who had picked him up, and then checked the state of Hwanyeon first.
“Hwanyeon, are you okay?”
“Ugh, I drank the water properly through my nose……. It seems that the inside of the ear is also filled with water…….」
“The water will drain over time, so you won’t have to worry about it.”
Hwanin placed Hwanyeon on top of Bisang’s head and took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wrapped it around her. Next, she looked at his girlfriends.
Isilite wearing a light T-shirt and knee pants, Anne wearing a gray tank top and black dolphin pants, and Yurpa wearing a dark gray maxi dress.
“Is everyone okay with their bodies?”
=I’m fine.=
When Issilite answered by drinking water and stroking her loose hair, she replied that Anne and Yurpa were fine too.
Yurpa whimperingly took off her maxi dress, which was soaked in water and was heavy, and tried to wring the water out of it.
However, as if she lacked strength, she twisted her body to give her strength, and thanks to that, her elegant purple underwear, which did not reveal the line, stood out and attracted Hwanin’s attention.
= Give it to me I will weave.=
=Thank you, Miss Anne.=
The clothes of Anne, who wrings out the water by twisting it at once like laundry, are also dressed, but the clothes of Issilite, which is wet all over, are sensational.
The lightweight T-shirt absorbs water and becomes translucent, revealing the inner skin, contours of the chest, and bra.
Hwanin, who looked away from them, was relieved to know that everyone had returned safely.
Isilite, Anne, and Yurpa. All three are talents that cannot be easily replaced now. If one person is missing, it’s never easy to find someone to fill that position.
Hwanin next looked at the subspace pouch. She was fine when she took out her handkerchief earlier…….
After the nightmare of the forest labyrinth passed through his mind, Hwanin tightened his forehead and began to take out the contents of his pocket.
‘It’s fortunate.’
I sighed inwardly at the state of my laptop and smartphone. Only the corners of some of the clothes were slightly wet, but everything else was fine.
Seeing that, Isilite and Anne hurriedly checked their personal pockets.
= My clothes are all wet. How is dew?=
= Ah…… The notebook where I wrote down the cooking recipe is wet…….=
Isilite’s eyes widened as she opened her wet notebook in disappointment, and Anne’s eyes widened as well.
= What is it It was wet, but the writing didn’t smear at all?=
=I’m glad.=
Hwanin asked as Isilite, whose expression brightened, carefully wiped her water with her dry towel.
“Is Yurpa’s pocket okay?”
= Yes. My pocket is waterproof and the entrance is blocked, so things don’t spill out even if I turn it inside out.=
Even if you hold the blackened bag upside down and shake it, nothing will fall out.
Then the portable solar generator will be all right.
When all six units are combined, it weighs only 72 kg. For that reason, instead of a small person, I put it in the Yurpa’s subspace pocket, which greatly increased the weight reduction rate, but it was fortunate.
Seeing the girlfriends take off their wet clothes and underwear and return to their bodies naked, Hwan-in also took out a towel and started wiping off the rain-soaked feathers.
However, it may be because the plumage has become denser as it becomes an adult, and the inner and down feathers are intact without any bite. If you brush the outer feathers a few times and shake the body, it will dry quickly.
Coo~
However, Hwan-in smiled wryly at the fact that she seemed to enjoy wiping her body so much that she wiped her from head to toe meticulously.
“Done.”
Purr-!
When I brushed her off once, the tangled and swollen feathers from wiping off the water with a towel quickly find their place.
Hwanin smiled at the surprising cleanup method and put the saddle, breastplate, and feather helmet on again, and took off his wet clothes and changed into a court uniform and black coat.
The girlfriends who were dressed in the heavenly tent and the light of salvation next to them ask.
= By the way, Master. No matter how you look at it, this place doesn’t seem like a spawning pond labyrinth…… Where?=
=Isn’t it the forest-type labyrinth where Dolyeong fell?=
“First of all, it is not a forest labyrinth. The trees there were not so small and were densely packed to a height of several tens of meters. At the bottom of the forest, I was mistaken for a blue mist.”
The place outside the labyrinth was a hilly area mixed with rainforest and forest, not a flat forest that felt so cozy and soft.
Hwanin, who got on the back of the emergency room, said to her girlfriends.
“Look around from the sky and come. Rest.”
=Yes, Master.=
= Ong. =
“Let’s go.”
Quet!
At Hwanin’s signal, he puts his green tail feathers upright! Byeong-Ji, who exhaled a large nostril, soars into the sky.
Did moths get sore from being confined to a small garden and house for four days? The strong wind blows so much that it is hard to open your eyes.
‘I should have bought goggles.’
It wasn’t necessary, but I feel regret.
Hwanin, who stroked the head of Bisang, who had risen to an altitude of 100 meters while rotating in a spiral for himself, carefully observed the open forest and the foot of a small mountain rising near the horizon in the distance.
No, there is no need to observe.
It is the Krabin Forest, a geography that is quite familiar to the eyes thanks to the hunting of amphibian heteromorphic species while going back and forth in the forest for several days.
Cue~ Beep~
Hwan-in, who was about to tell him to go down again, let him enjoy the flight for a while after seeing Bisang flying so happily, he took off his wet clothes and asked Hwan-yeon, who was naked and wrapped in a handkerchief like a cape.
“Enjoyment. Do you feel monsters around you?”
“Anning. Clean. But where are you?」
Hwan-yeon, who had slipped into Hwan-in’s chest pocket, ate the water and made a snoring noise.
“It’s Krabin Forest.”
“This river? Is the forest very clean?」
“If you look at the terrain, it’s certain.”
“The labyrinth has had a considerable impact on the surroundings.”
Hwanin, who nodded his head, fell into thought while looking at the beautiful lake and the peaceful forest below.
‘If I go back to Earth, it would be nice to hide in a place like this.’
When you return to Earth after completing your journey in Nionebreth, emergencies become an issue. And Hwan Yeon-do, who rejects cement, which is not used anywhere in modern times.
What to do in an emergency
It would be close to impossible to grow freely in Korea……. Should I find an uninhabited island where I can live moderately and live there with my girlfriends? Or should I emigrate to a foreign country?
In Korea, there are tens of millions of people living in a cramped land mass, so there are people everywhere, but in foreign countries, there are many places where you can live together.
One example is Sweden. A country with a land mass 4.5 times larger than that of Korea, but a country with less than 1/5 the population.
Most of the country is covered in forests, so there are many places to hide.
‘Norway isn’t bad either.’
A place where most of the country is adjacent to the sea and consists of mountains. In addition, the land area is 3.8 times that of Korea, but the population is about 5 million, about 1/10.
Even if you move only a few tens of kilometers from Oslo, the capital, there are places that are no different from Gangwon-do, so you can easily find a place to hide.
Even if you are in a remote forest, you can enjoy cultural life through satellite connection, and self-sufficiency is possible if you have your own ability and the help of your girlfriends.
If you have a problem and need to go to the city, you can fly to the city in an emergency, and it is about 10 minutes away by tens of kilometers.
If you live in seclusion, you will not have contact with unknown people, and you will be able to live a healthy life because you are in nature with no emergency or fantasy.
…….
At some point, the imagination of Hwanin building a house with a perfect self-sufficiency system in a remote area of the primeval forest and spending a leisurely and leisurely secluded life with his girlfriends was running through his mind.
Hwanin stopped imagining that he felt comfortable just thinking about it, and said while stroking Bisang’s neck.
“At least this would have relieved my frustration. Let’s go down.”
Coo~
I want to fly a little more. Bisang, slightly whining, landed on the shore of the lake with a snort of regret.
=Doryeong, are you here? How was it?=
“Looking at the location, the location of the spawning pond in Krabin Forest is correct.”
=…… Huh, did the appearance of the forest change as the labyrinth disappeared?
“I guess so. It was early spring when we attacked the spawning pond. The weather right now is around mid-July……. Since about four months have passed, it is safe to say that the labyrinth disappeared and the forest was purified and returned to its original form.”
Isilite, who had become a beautiful woman wearing all the heavenly veils, looked around her and told a story that exuded her girlish sensibility.
=I came back from resting in another world, and the world has changed……. It’s like a dream.=
= Um……. Then, if you break through the next labyrinth, will you go to Earth at that time as well?=
=If you think about what happened in the Labyrinth of the Spawning Pool, wouldn’t it?=
=…….=
Glancingly, Hwanin, who read what Anne’s behavior meant by looking at her, said with a small smile.
“It feels like it would be a loss to stay on Earth for only a few days as a wishing stone in the labyrinth. It’s a wishing stone that can make things like Grimoam’s relics.”
= Huh? No, not to that extent…… So…….=
I want to express it in words, but I don’t know if the words don’t come to mind. Instead of her, Yurpa spoke her words.
=Since the core was level 6, the spawning pond labyrinth would also be level 6. Do you think it is a bit inefficient that the reward for breaking through each level 6 labyrinth is only a few days of rest?=
= Oh! That’s it!=
Yu Lepa smiles as she nods her head, saying that’s exactly what it is.
=But there are many more things we don’t know about Sowonseok, so I don’t think there is a need to make hasty judgments just yet. Artifacts are truly incredible equipment, aren’t they? Dimensional shifting is absolutely not an ordinary thing. Compared to that, breaking through a level 6 labyrinth…… It’s hard, but I feel like it’s not that hard.
After thinking for a moment, Anne agreed.
= Certainly, Grimoam is a hero famous for breaking through the labyrinth many times. It would make sense to say that the relics of Grimoam were created one by one each time the labyrinth was breached. As Do-ryeong said, you have to break through the labyrinth several times depending on the weight of your wish.=
“The rest of the story is going to go back to the village and rest. I want to check what happened to Kravin Village and see if the wagon and Que are all right, so let’s leave.”
= Oh, over there… Master.=
“Well.”
= Well, what happened to the pattern? I’m curious about that…….=
“…….”
Thought he was back, he didn’t care about the pattern, so Hwanin unbuttoned the front button of his black shirt again and checked his chest.
Women come closer and blink their eyes at the figure of a fist-sized pattern that looks like a picture of a fire still emitting bright light.
= What happened? The pattern and light are the same.=
=No, it’s not the same thing, but the color is a little different. It used to be pale golden on Earth, but now it’s almost gray? White? That’s how it feels.=
=If you go to Earth again like this…….=
=…….=
=…….=
As Isilite stealthily grabs Hwanin’s arm, Anne and Yu Lepa sneakily place their hands on Hwanin’s hand and waist.
Leaving them like that, Hwan-in briefly recalled the situation before the dimension shift.
“It’s not certain, but it’s unlikely that it will move right away without signs or symptoms.”
The light on his left arm, the warmth and cold that flowed into the pattern, and a bit of pain that he had seen before crossing over from Earth to Nionebreth.
When I told her all about it, Anne revealed her concerns.
= What? You mean your heart hurt?=
“I didn’t say it hurt.”
=But it means that electrical stimulation came. That’s dangerous…….=
Her concerns are justified. The fact that electrical stimulation shocks are applied to the heart is a story that may cause a heart attack.
“Okay. If I have to push my power into the pattern to activate it, it means I can control it. Then there is no problem. All you have to do is heal it with potions or sex magic.”
=…… Then why not try it right now?=
“You mean now?”
= Yes. I think it would be better to check everything before moving here.=
Hwanin, who understood what Yurpa was saying, moved the warm and cold energy and sent them toward the pattern on the chest, but the two energies were not absorbed by the pattern and hovered around the chest before returning to the two streams on the spine.
Here, Hwanin could establish two hypotheses.
One is that if you just pass the time, the pattern on your chest will turn golden and then you will be able to move to another dimension.
Another one is that it stays gray all the time, and if you break another core of the labyrinth, it turns golden and the dimension shifts.
“Either way, there’s no way to check right now, so let’s move on. And…… If someone asks, tell them you don’t know what you experienced after breaking the core. Still, if you ask me any questions, hand it over to me.”
= You are saying that the high-ranking people will try to block our mouths, right? I’ll do that.=
“Okay.”
=Yes, I will be careful.=
Seeing that his girlfriends understood his concerns well, Hwanin also gave up his worries.
Maybe it’s because we’ve been together for more than half a year. They are now easily aware of their intentions. If it were them, they wouldn’t spill nonsense in front of others.
“Then let’s go. Krabin Village is over there.”
Hwan-in, riding on the back of an emergency medical kit, takes the lead and starts running, and the girlfriends follow and talk.
=It was evening over there, but it’s midday here.=
= It’s hot for me too. It was spring when we attacked the spawning pond, but now it’s summer. I can feel that the flow of time is different.=
=All the rescued people must have returned safely, right?=
= Since there was a rom party, I must have returned safely. Didn’t Doryeong wipe out all the heterogeneous species around him?=
= How did the village manage well? Since we rescued 120 people, it must have been difficult to deal with them.=
=…… I don’t like Kravin Village.=
= Huh? For what?=
= You chewed slyly behind her sister. =
= Oh, that. I hate those people too.=
=Don’t worry too much about it. It’s not like there are only bad people. In the case of Miss Raviola, she was really kind.
=That’s true.=
= Whoops. Because Dew is worried about the lady, she feels like she’s going to blow up. =
Hearing their conversation, Hwan-in, who remembered the scheming he had done to Krabin Village, recalled her previous memories in the rapidly passing scenery with his sunken eyes.
The original plan was to go back after breaking through the labyrinth of the spawning pool, pick out the humans who gossip and gossip about Yurpa, and put a curse on their souls.
If you curse an opponent with a spirit orb, you will get debuffs on various conditions, but he was planning to use this.
A person who was cursed by the Spirit Master for gossip and gossiping to the Spirit Knight.
Even though it was just over an hour, there was no way the villagers would leave a person with all sorts of pathological symptoms alone. They will shun and reject you as a cursed and ominous human being.
The ground rice for him was all sprinkled through raviola.
It is not a job to sow fear and fear in people by using the profession of a soul worker and the position of a savior of the village.
I tried to induce the villagers’ exclusion and bullying, and the social killing of the people who spoke gossip, resulting in voluntary self-killing, but the time passed more than 4 months and close to 5 months…….
Considering the influence and propagation power of the fire he had instigated Raviola, it wouldn’t be strange if the entire village of Krabin was burned down.
However, considering the composure shown by Raviola’s mother, Yu Mi-an, it’s highly likely that they sorted it out on their own…
‘I’ll have to check the situation in Krabin Village and decide what to do next.’
It’s been 4 months or so. If the village is safe, the matter must have been sealed somehow.
It feels like a new thing to hold and shake again, but if you think of it as common sense in this world, you have to use your hands even for the sake of authority.
= Ugh. That…….=
=… Yuri unnie, are those people right?=
= Uh… Yes…….=
And at the village of Krabin, Hwanin shut his mouth after seeing that something more happened than he thought.
Twenty-one decapitated heads were strung on skewers in a row in the town square.
