Chapter 41 – 040+ Twin Mountains
Quack. Quite a bit.
= Don’t run away. Because I’m just trying to clean my feathers.=
Kkoek!
= Ouch! Don’t bite, don’t bite!=
Cackle!
“…….”
Hearing the cries of emergency food in his sleep and the feeling of a cold wet towel rising up on his forehead, Hwanin woke up and stared blankly at the ceiling of the cave for a moment.
It is the ceiling of a dwelling place that I have become accustomed to after staying for dozens of days.
=Are you awake?=
Then a pitiful innocent beauty with her gray hair growing to her shoulders comes into her field of vision and she smiles kindly.
= You sweat a lot. Have some water.=
The wooden bottle that touched her mouth tilted slowly, and slightly lukewarm water flowed out. After taking two sips of it, Hwanin looked at his left arm.
None of the soul orbs that were attached to his left arm are missing.
“Kuhm……. How much time has passed.”
His voice cracked, but he had no trouble speaking.
=It has been one night since I arrived here yesterday. It’s a little past noon now.=
I arrived before sunset and the sun rose again, which means that I had been lying down for 18 hours.
He looked at Ryuhi’s breast. A lump of warmth the size of a fist visible there.
In the midst of her hazy mood and dreamy landscape, it comes to mind clearly that she absorbed the warmth seen in her belly as she made a physical connection with Ryuhi.
‘I thought it was a dream, but was it real?’
Absorbing some of the warmth, her condition improved considerably.
The chills and chills that had been bothering her as they took her body heat, as if causing her seizures, had almost disappeared, leaving only severe muscle and joint pain.
Cold sweat doesn’t flow, and I don’t even feel it.
If you see Ryuhi sitting on her knees next to her, and there is a wooden bowl filled with water and a piece of cloth next to her, she must have been nursing her all along.
“Thank you. I live thanks to you.”
= Ah……. What are you talking about? You did that to save us. We’re sorry we couldn’t help…….=
As she raises her upper body, Ryuhi is next to her and holds her shoulders.
Hwanin looked at the animal skin covering his lower body and sitting on it.
A futon made of animal skin. It was brought from Hob’s Cave.
‘Did the women sleep on the stone floor?’
Come to think of it, there is only Ennel, emergency food in her hand, and Ryuhi in the cave.
“Where are the other two?”
= Huini and Epnis are outside trimming the hides and meat of game. I should have started by saying this first, but I thought it would hurt if I left it as is……. I’m sorry.=
“No. Well done.”
As Hwanin puts away his skin and stands up, Ryuhi turns his gaze away from her, blushing. Enlil’s cheeks also turned slightly red, but Hwanin didn’t care and put on his clothes.
‘Even though the chills are gone, it’s much better.’
The amount of warmth flowing along the spine is very weak, but if you move for about half a day under the sunlight, it will recover considerably.
= Get some more rest…….=
“It’s okay. The rest of you will get better if you move.”
As he slowly walks out to the entrance of the cave, Ryuhi and Ennel carrying emergency food follow after him.
Paddak!
Quack!
=Ah.=
The emergency rations that escaped from Ennel’s arms landed on Hwanin’s right shoulder, and he rubbed her head against her cheek as if he was happy.
Hwanin silently patted the emergency food on the back and looked out of the cave.
Two naked girls were working in the gravel beneath the cave.
Epnis is squatting in front of a stove-type smoker and fanning a fan made of leaves.
Huini, with her ears pricked up, spread out the skin of a black cougar and couar on a wooden die-shaped workbench and was scraping something with a dagger. Seemed
Beside it, the skins of jaguars and hornless bucks were spread out and rolled.
The meat was all cut into finger-sized pieces and spread out in the shade.
=I saw a broken smoker, so I’m smoking meat after fixing it. Sorry for using without telling you.=
Did the word sorry stick to your lips? Thinking so, Hwanin shook his head as if he was okay. Then he looked at Ryuhi and Ennel who were naked and said.
“I don’t know anything about tanning. If it wasn’t for you, I would have thrown it away anyway, so it would be nice to tan it and make clothes for you guys to wear.”
= Go, thank you……. But since Quar’s leather sells at a high price, I’ll make clothes with the rest.
My body hasn’t improved enough to jump from a height of 5m, but as I climbed down the wall, Epnis and Huini stood up and looked at me.
Hwanin approached Epnis and asked.
“Is the smoking going well?”
=Yes, yes. It’s the first time I’ve seen a smoker like this, and it’s amazing. It was made so simply with only stones, soil, and wood…….=
I heard that smoked meat is made a lot in the village, but it is a way to smoke a large amount of meat by using an entire log cabin.
Then, I approached Huini and watched her work process.
Huini’s tanning was a very labor-intensive task.
Originally, the tanning work involved not only scraping off all the flesh and fat attached to the inside of the leather, but also having to boil it several times and shave all the fur, and then sprinkle the secret powder and beat it with a bat for several days to make the leather soft.
=But, but I can’t soften because I don’t have that powder! It’ll get a little stiff! But Koar’s leather is so soft, I think I’ll have to soften it later!=
“Please. There is plenty of meat, and there are hardly any beasts or monsters around here, so let’s warm up enough and set off for your village.”
=Yes~!=
=Yes.=
=Yes.=
Hwanin generously ate the meat.
The jaguar meat soaked in ice water was slightly watered on the outside and swollen, and when that part was cut off, the bright red flesh was revealed and was good to eat.
The problem was the two gray male deer that had been hung on the tree for the second day.
Although the flies were boiled, there is no problem with the color system of the meat. However, I wondered if women would eat meat that was boiling with flies…….
= Wow, unnie Ryuhi! The meat melts easily!=
=This is deer meat……. It’s really delicious.=
Ennel and Epnis didn’t talk much, perhaps because they had shy and shy personalities, but they ate meat diligently and bowed their heads whenever they met Hwanin’s eyes.
“It will be more delicious if you eat it with a dip or spread it and bake it.”
The eyes of the women all widen when the reddish-brown deodeok sauce is served to the taste of eating without seasoning or salt.
= Huh? Isn’t this spicy? =
= A bit of bitterness at the end of the spicy taste…… It’s so delicious. =
= I hadn’t heard of such a crop…….=
= F sister. This is a labyrinth.=
=Ah.=
After each person ate enough 1kg, the sauce was taken out, but the women ate another 1kg and lay down on the gravel, complaining of breathing difficulties.
With the feeling that Hwanin would recover by eating, he ate up to 5 kg of deer meat. Even after eating more emergency food than he was, his body became heavy and he ran across the ground flapping.
After eating her fill, Hwanin sat down in the shade created by her cliff and listened to her story in Hob Village.
After inheriting thick Inrang blood, Ini has her hearing four times that of an ordinary Luke Lang. Thanks to the explanation she gave, saying thatheheard all the sounds outside, Hwanin was able to roughly infer the situation right after he fought the greatsword monster.
She said she heard ‘a loud bang, then dozens of weapon clashes, and then a lot of thunder.’
By that description, it makes sense that she was struck by lightning after she fainted herself.
I was a little surprised that he used lightning, but nothing strange. If you take the soul of a bloodsucking horse, it will even absorb blood through your skin, but you can also use lightning.
So, after he lost his mind, lightning ran rampant, and the greatsword monster turned into a lump of charcoal and died in that runaway.
She herself fired dozens of bolts of lightning, consuming her entire body to the floor, and her physical condition was at an all-time high.
‘I almost died.’
The wild boar with blades was also a lightning bolt that took time to shoot, but to fire it wildly can only be said to have been followed by heavenly luck.
And thanks to that, his ability to handle spirits has also grown, and now he can give orders to spirits without a staff, so should I call it a blessing in disguise?
= Eun-in. What is the name of this queue?=
“Emergency food.”
=…… ?=
The women who were playing with the emergency rations, which jumped and jumped like chickens when their stomachs were full, were taken aback when they heard the name of the emergency rations.
However, I did not express it outwardly, and after a while, I accepted it naturally.
It is the mind of the owner how to name the animal being bred.
Hwanin showed interest in the species of emergency food.
“It looks like the emergency food is a species called Que. What creature is it?”
Epnis blinked a few times as if taken aback by Hwanin’s question before answering.
= Uh……. It is a strong creature. When they grow up, they can pull a carriage and ride like a horse, a rhinoceros, or a lizard. There are many colors, but straw color is the most common, and sunset and green are the rarest. Rumor has it that the sunset color can summon and drop burning rocks, and the green color can fly through the sky and cross the sea.=
Hwanin was a little confused. A bird this small grows to be able to ride? Besides, summoning a burning rock…….
Quack?
The emergency food that was resting on his lap looked up as if it felt Hwanin’s gaze.
‘…… Did I come up with the name too insincerely?’
When the time was right, he gave me a pat on the back of my emergency rations, thinking I should change my name. I hope you grow up soon.
Epnis checked the smoker, and while Ryuhi, Huini, and Ennel spent the afternoon tanning, Hwanin also looked at the remaining black spears.
“…….”
There are many blades brought from Hob’s cave, but most of them have an integrated handle and blade, so there is no blade that can be tied to the end of the black stick.
The blade and handle are integrated, or the blade is too short to be suitable for cutting.
‘It’s time to change your weapon……. I’d rather sharpen the tip of the tree.’
There is no weapon that can be changed, and even if there is, he is a fantastic man who has no intention of using a sword, greatsword, or axe.
No matter how much I thought about it, I thought that the weapon that was suitable for me was a spear.
Huini, noticing Hwanin’s troubles, passed the skin she was removing fat from to Ryuhi and ran to Hwanin and asked.
= Eunin! You want to attach a blade to the end of your wand?!=
“It was a window from the beginning. I put a blade on the end of it and used it for cutting and stabbing.”
However, when the blade fell off while fighting the greatsword monster, Huini patted her brown wolf ears and ran to the pile of weapons piled up on the edge of the cliff and began to dig through them.
After a while, what I had in my hand was a straight sword about 50 cm long and a bunch of iron that seemed to have been used for a one handed maul hammer.
=I’ll fix the window!=
“…… Please. However, I wish I could use Changdae as it is, would it be okay?”
=Yes! I learned while watching my dad work! You can do it!=
After answering vigorously, Huini walks around the gravel field, carrying rocks a little smaller than her upper body and stacking them in a similar round brazier.
After that, he brought a large and thick log, put it in a simple stone fire, and started a fire from the bonfire.
Huini, who fanned the flames with his mouth, made the fire so hot that when it was time to make it hard to see, Huini brought three sticks about 1m long, tied them tightly, spread the ends like a trivet, and then cut the sword straight. Insert the blade and tighten again.
At first glance, it looks like a scythe.
Hwanin saw that and realized how Huini was trying to make a spear.
‘I’m thinking of heating the handle and then hitting it.’
Would that be easy Balancing without any tools would be difficult.
After pushing the hilt of the straight sword into the gap in the blazing stone furnace, Huini wanders around the river and finds a flat rock.
= Eunin! Wouldn’t it be better to fix it and use it rather than inserting iron into the tree?
What Huini pointed out was the curved spear used by the iron spear monster.
‘You managed to get it when you left Hove Village. I couldn’t bring the greatsword because it was heavy.’
Her belief in iron seemed to trump other materials, as the other women also gave small nods.
Don’t you know anything about the black tree? Hwanin shook her head to Huini and explained.
“It looks like an ordinary wooden material, but its actual strength is superior to iron and its elasticity is strong. The reason why that barbed wire was bent was because it collided with this window pole.”
=…… Wow. Where did you get that wand?=
Surprisingly, Huini, who seems to be shouting at the basic volume, asks in a voice similar to Ennel.
“Deep in the jungle, Green Hob stole what he was carrying.”
Hehe? Mi, in the center of the labyrinth? Wow, wow.=
The center of the labyrinth…… Then, would it be possible to say that the blue flame tiger is the master of the labyrinth?
While thinking about how he looked magical and not like a beast, Huini showed great interest in Changdae and handed him over to take a look at it slowly.
Then, Epnis and Ennil also came and touched the window stick together with Huini, exclaiming in exclamation.
Huini, who had been looking around the window for a long time with Ennel and Epnis while blowing air into the stone furnace, took out the straight sword when the hilt of the straight sword turned yellow, and began to strike the red hot hilt vigorously with the wide part of the maul hammer. .
His posture is as straight as that of a skilled blacksmith.
Huini, who was naked and sweating profusely hammering beside a hot stone fire, did not mind the sparks flying on her body and straightened the round handle into a rectangular shape.
When the iron cools down, put it in a stone furnace and heat it. When it is hot, take it out and hammer it, and when it cools down, put it back in the stone furnace and heat it up.
After repeating that ten times, the hilt of the straight sword lost its original cylindrical shape and became wide, with convex edges like waves.
After soaking the heated blade in the valley water to cool it down, Huini grabs the spearhead and blade and runs to Ryuhi who is tanning.
Ryuhi blinked as he did something about this, and soon after cutting and cutting the leather with his familiar hands, the straight sword transformed into a spearhead was tightly coupled to the spearhead.
After a while, Hwanin, who received a spear from Huini, who had been sharpening the blade, was quite satisfied.
The knot tied tightly around the convex part of her hilt combined the spear blade and rod as if they were originally one body.
The spear became a shape similar to that of a straight glaive.
Her center of gravity has shifted more towards the blade than before, but her strength has grown that much, so there is no problem in swinging it.
As a test, she cut off her flesh and hung the remaining kuar’s backbone from a tree and swung it, and she cut her ribs whole with a clang sound without needing much force.
‘On the contrary, the attack power has become stronger.’
Hwanin said thank you to Huini, whose eyes were shining like a puppy looking for praise next to her, and stroked her hair.
At night, when the women covered themselves with tanned animal skins and fell asleep, Hwanin carefully woke Ryuhi up and took him out to the entrance of the cave.
Sensing his business, Ryuhi lowered his head and wiggled his fingers shyly.
“Ryuhi. I would like to ask you a favor today.”
= Yes…….=
Hwanin, who was allowed, cared for Ryuhi slowly so that he would not feel humiliated or ashamed.
And when I was ready, I sat down and formed the union, and I felt the warmth of Ryuhi’s lower belly flowing through Hwanin’s second self little by little.
‘There’s a waiting period after absorbing a certain amount.’
The warmth absorbed from Ryuhi flowed along the passage that Hungi made inside his body and merged with Hungi naturally.
Currently, the ratio of warm air and cold air flowing along the spine is about 3:10.
The speed of recovery of Hungi was slower than usual, perhaps because of the aftermath of going down to the ground once, but Hwanin thought it was good to know that he could recover Hungi through contact with others.
Ryuhi, who climbed on Hwani’s thigh and embraced him deep into his stomach, asked with a slightly trembling voice in pleasure.
= I, I, my benefactor, help…… Will it work?=
“Yes. My blessing is not a quality that can be simply used. Every time you use it, you consume energy, and if you consume too much energy, your body will become as cold as yesterday. If it’s serious, you’ll even lose your life.”
= Ah…….=
And when I explained that everyone has that energy, and that energy can be recovered by merging with others, Ryuhi put his arms around Hwanin’s neck with a happy expression and was relieved.
= Please let me know if you need anything. I will continue to help you in the future…….=
“Thank you.”
= Yes heh… !=
Ryuhi, who suddenly came in suddenly and bit his tongue slightly at the sensation of being stabbed in his stomach, hugged Hwanin by the neck with a red face.
The sound of squeaking insects and squeaking water harmonizes and the night time passes.
