Chapter 375 – 369 Port City Praver
After leaving the flooded Rotan Mountains and passing through the Mirror Plain, the party was able to arrive at the edge of the plain, where Aleughel, the largest freshwater lake in Nionebres, could be seen without difficulty.
=Didn’t people just call it the sea for nothing?=
=It’s like the real sea. It is said that the deepest part of the water is 5 km.=
=Awesome.=
The size of Aleugel Lake, which he checked on the map, was estimated to be hundreds of times the size of Allzot, right next to the forest-type labyrinth he had tripped on, where the lake labyrinth was located.
If a river or anything is connected to the sea at least slightly, it is only natural that it be called the Aleugel Sea.
=…….=
Isilite, who had never seen the sea in her life, was unfamiliar with the far-out horizon of her lake, but she was not in a position to appreciate it properly.
Yesterday morning, one thing she learned through Three Mill Sangju was making her mind wander.
While looking at the beautiful scenery of Yurpa and Lake Aleughel, Anne glanced at Isilite and asked,
=Isul.=
=… Huh?=
=Are you okay?=
=What?=
= After hearing that story yesterday, I felt like I was in a daze……. Was it that shocking that the lady named Baek Ryogang died?
Was I so strange to Anne?
Isilite, who touched her cheek for no reason, gave her a small wry smile. Anne knows that she explored the Labyrinth of Wayford with her. Maybe that’s why she showed concern.
= It’s not like that. I know very well that human life is fleeting. It’s just that I’m a little concerned.=
What she cares about is the escort of Lady Baekryogang at the time, and Reshim, who hopes to be a first-class adventurer in the future.
= She learned basic swordsmanship from him, but she learned the formal swordsmanship of the noble family. She’s like a swordsman teacher to me…… She remembered that he adored her young lady, so she only thought for a moment if she would be okay. =
= Ah… I see. She can’t help but teach the basics of the family’s swordsmanship, so she’s definitely a benefactor. =
= Yes. Literally, it was just how to swing the sword, how to hold the sword, how to apply power to the sword, and how to distribute the weight in foot movements, but even that much helped a lot.
Although little remains of what she learned then, the fact that it is the foundation of her current swordsmanship remains unchanged.
= Still, something feels a little strange. Maybe it’s because she was the first person I had a relationship with after my life changed, and I don’t understand why she died even though she was the second daughter of a powerful family.
= It’s normal that you don’t understand. It’s common sense that if a member of a family level 5 or higher dies like that, even the city turns upside down.
“…….”
Hwanin thought of Prabur while listening to the conversation of her girlfriends at the window of the carriage.
Even if it is a thought, it is not a thought to calculate and deal with an unexpected situation paranoidly. It’s just a thought because I felt that there was something strange about Baek Ryeo-gang’s death.
‘Hubeia said Baekryogang died in some kind of accident…….’
There are two types of death: suicide and homicide.
Considering the character of Baek Ryogang that he had figured out, and the way she showed when he broke up with her, her suicide would be less than 5% likely.
If that’s the case, it’s a murder, but who would kill a son of a powerful family who is over the 5th grade?
Same clan?
If he had been assassinated due to someone’s conspiracy, he would have uncovered the evil beast long ago, as he is also a powerful family leading the city with its long tradition.
However, several months have passed and the culprit has not yet been identified. That means that the beast was meticulous and thorough enough to say nothing. If not…….
‘Didn’t he have a chest trick?’
Hubei said. She says she hunts down those involved and even catches and kills innocent citizens.
Is it just because of my mood that this sounds meaningful?
Both suicide and murder cannot be explained by the clues they have. It is more plausible that she ran away from the family because she hated having to marry for convenience.
It is more convincing that the lord is angry with her daughter who ran away and is hunting down and punishing those who helped her escape.
If so, wouldn’t it be that the arrow of Pravor Lord is also aimed at him, whom he met in Wayford?
Que~!
Cuckoo!
Doo doo doo-
To the right is the expansive sea with an extended horizon, and to the left is a vast meadow where the sky and land meet in a straight line. And a straight, flat road ahead.
The three elements that stimulated the excitement of the Queers combined, and the carriage sped down the road to Praver.
=Anne, is that Fraver?=
=… Uh, right! Dolyeong~! I can see Praver~!=
Praber, a city on the Mediterranean coast that looks like a painting, came close.
“…….”
Hwanin’s eyes deepen as he gazes at the white city, which looks like a white whale floating on the surface of the water.
The gray rainy season clouds hanging over Pravu felt like a sign of trouble…… It’s not an illusion.
Praber is a port city of Aleughel, known as the largest lake in Nionebres.
A medium-sized city with a population of 700,000 living on the mainland adjacent to the mainland and more than 740,000 satellite fishing villages on large and small islands near the mainland.
There are three cities bordering Aleugell: the lakeside city of Alsof in the north, the capital of Rasubitan in the south, and the port city of Praber in the west.
Despite the infrequent traffic due to the nature of Nionebres’ environment, due to its geographical features, a lot of merchants and travelers come and go, with the daily floating population reaching 20% of the total population.
Most of them serve as bridgeheads for the fishing villages and villages adjacent to the lake, and are often used as a triangular trading post between the northern city of Althof and the capital of Rasubitan.
Thanks to the outstanding natural scenery of Aleughel Lake, which is emerald-colored during the day and blue-sapphire-colored at night, it serves as a tourist city and accounts for 60% of the distribution of Radcea marine products using fish resources, thanks to the wide and fertile grain belt near the city The self-sufficiency rate of land, sea and air food is the largest in Radsea.
In addition to this rich environment, Aleughel Lake is in contact with the three major countries, Radsea-Hebült-Heathrond, so there are frequent exchanges of other races, and as a result, foreign specialties and culture flowed in, making it the melting pot of races next to the tribal union nation. Is being called…….
‘…… That was Hubei’s explanation.’
As it was said, there were a wide variety of races that could be seen in the queue to enter the gate of Pravor, which resembled a wolf’s head and the dazzling white walls.
‘The race with a childlike appearance is Giffla, and the one with the appearance of a forest tribe wrapped in grass stems and leaves is Amdrux.’
When he returned to Earth not too long ago, Hwan-in studied briefly about fantasy races.
It was because I felt implicitly that there was some kind of connection between Nionebreath and Earth, and that the fantasy novel elements of Earth were influenced in no small way.
What Hwanin focused on was the biological side.
Many of the races I saw there were conspicuous in the entry queue right now.
Most of them are Lukerang, but Radsea is a Lukerang nation, so there are many people like beasts, there are races similar to halflings, and races like dryads that live only in the forest stand out.
Among them, there was a race called Adsek that caught Hwanin’s attention as much as the Chungin tribe.
‘He really is a lizardman.’
A race of lizards whose limbs are elongated like humans and seem to stand up on two legs. It was the Xavi tribe of Veltical, one of the mainstream races of Nionebreth.
He is almost 2.5m tall, has bulging muscles like a bodybuilder, and his bizarre tattoos on his head, shoulders, and chest, and barbarian-like clothing reminds him of a barbarian.
In addition, there are members of the Join tribe, and there is also a unique person with three pairs of white wings like a crane, and an unusual woman who has fins on her ears and is barefoot but sprays water on her body from time to time.
While Hwanin was looking at the people in the queue at the checkpoint from the back of the emergency coat, which had changed its feather color to gray, Isilite and Anne, who were sitting in the coachman’s seat, were looking at the atmosphere.
= Um……. Is there a problem in the city? I don’t feel that way at all, like the people’s expressions.
At Isilite’s murmur, Anne nodded her head too.
= That’s right I don’t feel any different from the last time I came. I have no energy at all. Ah, the expressions on the soldiers’ faces are a little hardened.=
= Last time? When?=
=About 1 year ago based on Neonebreath?=
=A few months before we first met.=
In the meantime, the queue decreased smoothly, and soon it was Hwanin’s turn to check.
= Um…….=
A white-bellied sea eagle-headed soldier strides forward and examines Isilite and Anne, who are sitting in the carriage and driver’s seat, and Hwanin in flight.
=Who is in charge?=
In response to that question, Hwanin knocked on the door of the carriage, and Yurpa, who had lightly pressed down on the hood, opened the door and got out of the carriage.
=I am in charge.=
A soldier who glanced at the aura of a 6th-level mystic took out a list board and a portable small crystal ball and asked.
=Please submit your identification card and tell us your name and purpose of visit.=
=Yurpa Extina. I came from Carton Village for a pilgrimage to Yeongdo. These three are mercenaries I personally hired.=
=…… I checked. Doesn’t he have an identity card? No……. Mr. Ixtina has an ID card, but since he is not registered for travel in the region, an additional fee for entry and exit is 40 Dong, and the three of them do not have an ID card, so 7 silver coins for three people, 25 coins each for four Que, 1 silver coin, wagon The road fee is 60 dong, so it is 9 silver coins.=
Unclear identification and deposit for adventurers. In addition, there was a ridiculous toll fee attached to the responsibility fee, but without saying anything, Yurpa took out a silver coin for the first row, put it in the hand of the soldier, and went inside the carriage.
It was rude, but the tip was a whopping 1 silver coin.
The soldier who took 1/5 of his salary in an instant shrugged his shoulders without complaint and stood aside and shouted pass.
Wherever you go, bribes are a means of free entry.
For a single silver coin, the party was able to bypass the tedious identification process and enter the city through a magnificent 10-meter-high gate.
The moment you pass through the thick walls and enter the city, you will be greeted with the noise of busy and noisy life.
The bustle of the city center created by the bustle of people dressed in various outfits amidst the noise of countless wagons and wagons going and coming and going on the wide boulevards.
Along with it, the smell of water and the hustle and bustle of the big city.
Entering the lively city, Isilite looked around for a while and raised her voice a little because of the noise and called out to Hwanin.
=Master, where shall we go? There are kids guiding the city over there. Shall I bring one?=
“No. Anne, you said you’d been to Pravor before. Does she remember the location of the accommodation she stayed at then?”
= Uh The stables were large and there were carriage accommodations. The facilities are a bit inferior to the hotel we briefly stayed in Helumen. Shall we go there?=
“Okay.”
=Okay. Dew, do you see the white stone statue at the end of this road?
=Looks like a small stone statue of the Join tribe over there?=
= Yes. Go over there and turn right. If you turn right, there are several roads. If you follow the main road, you will come to the commercial district. At there…….=
Hwanin followed the carriage driven by Isilite and inspected the surroundings with keen eyes.
The wind is blowing in the moisture of the lake, but perhaps it is because the wind is not salty, and the buildings are all bright and glaring.
‘Most of them were painted white.’
There are also traces of painting several times, but is it because of the atmosphere of the city and the culture of the people who live in it?
However, everyone’s taste is different, but painting them all white can only be seen as someone else’s will intervening.
That other person is most likely the lord’s hobby or preference.
“…….”
A person who imposes his or her tastes on the city will most likely have a bad personality.
Whatever happened to Leshim and Baek Ryeo-gang, I definitely want to eat candy for the injustice of the Communications Revision Management Department and the depravity of the Sky Knights…….
‘It’s unwise to touch a wounded bastard.’
It wouldn’t be bad to visit Yeongdo and see the reaction there and spread the ugliness of Lord Praber. The spread of filth in Yeongdo would terribly damage the honor of the lord.
Hwanin’s gaze, which had been meaninglessly scanning the streets while thinking about the course of action in Prabur, was fixed on one spot.
A naked girl and a boy stand in the shadows of a dark alleyway.
They are the souls of siblings.
“…… !”
Hwanin habitually tried to communicate with the soul, but felt that his vision suddenly stretched and the edges turned hazy like fog.
Moreover, the sights seen by the eyes also change.
A daily life in which her brother and sister lived happily with the man and woman who seemed to be her parents.
The daily life ends with the parents being dragged away by the soldiers who invaded.
Her father had her head cut off and she was hung in the plaza, and her mother returned with the marks of torture all over her body and died in front of her children.
Her brother and sister are kicked out of the house by someone, and after wandering in the back alleys of her for several days, unable to overcome her hunger, her older sister tries to steal, and her adult catches her and beats her.
After tens of minutes of assault, the sister, who had been maimed and limped back to her younger brother, suffered from a high fever all night and died.
Even my 5-year-old brother, who doesn’t know anything, trembles from the cold and hunger in the pouring rain in the arms of his cold older sister Her verb.
Hwan-in, whose vision returned to normal, frowned.
What is this? Why was the subject’s memory read?
I couldn’t touch the soul, and I didn’t spill aura. The memory of the subject’s life was so intense that it was not even engraved in the soul.
And yet, you see it so clearly.
At that moment, Hwanin felt a slight heat emanating from his chest.
“…….”
Hwanin was impressed that the scene of her brother and sister’s death kept lingering in her head and causing unknown emotions, and then summoned the soul of her brother and sister.
‘Come here.’
Thanks to the spirit art that has grown so far, even if the distance is hundreds of meters, the force is exerted and attracts the two little souls.
“…….”
“…….”
The souls of siblings who don’t know why they had to die, and who don’t get angry, angry, or sad about the fact that they died, just exist in a daze.
Ordinary people would have felt that the appearance was not threatening, but Hwanin, whose accident was missing somewhere, felt that these children were just as dangerous as the mixture in their empty eyes.
It’s like unstable nitroglycerin right before you get shocked.
Hwanin, who retrieved the souls of the two children by turning them into marbles, turned his head at the street scene passing by him.
“Isilite, go over there.”
= Yes? Yes.=
“I will lead, so follow me.”
=Four.=
Hwanin traced back the street scene he had just read in the children’s memories.
His women were bewildered by the sudden change in Hwanin’s mood, but they followed him down the alleyway, thinking that there was a reason.
After a while, Hwanin arrived at the railing plaza at the end of the street with a view of the horizon.
In the middle of the plaza, about the size of a small park, bloodstains were still visible…….
“…….”
…… Around the plaza, nine souls were scattered here and there. There was a difference in density, but everything was stained red.
It is in a state before turning into a mixture.
The moment when Hwanin, who briefly thought it was an asshole, stopped the girlfriends who were trying to get closer, got off the back of the emergency room, and took a step toward the prospective mixed people.
The world was distorted like a film of oil, and all the memories and emotions of the mixed nine poured out at once.
“…… !”
Anger, despair, regret, resentment, hatred, rage, resentment, fear, anxiety.
All kinds of negative emotions are mixed, and nine lives forcefully squeeze into Hwanin’s heart.
Dangerous. My chest is hot like burning. Your senses become confused, and you don’t even know where you are up and where you are down, and you don’t even know if you are standing properly.
=…… Sign… Nim!=
= C… Fuck you…… Ryo…… Yes… !!=
While the world is shaking and turning upside down, Hwanin, sensing that his personality could be bleached or contaminated, grabbed his hot chest and fired a wave of tranquility with all his might.
Go away… !!
——…… !!!
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On that day, people who continued their daily lives and livelihoods in Prabur experienced a sudden graying in front of their eyes.
It wasn’t hard to realize that it was a kind, warm grayish-white light, and he was just bewildered that this wasn’t just a phenomenon that happened to him, but a little farther from the city, it was a commotion.
He witnessed that a grayish-white pillar of light enveloped the entire Pravu and soared to the end of the sky.
As if the rainy season is coming again, the light pillar seems to warmly embrace the gloomy world.
Those who witnessed the scene spoke in unison.
It is said to be a pillar of light sent by God to punish or scold the lord who has gone mad due to the loss of his daughter.
“…… Ring… In, sir… ?」
And in that pillar of light, there was a blue-haired woman slowly opening her eyes at the top of the tallest spire in the city.
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