Chapter 441 – 435 the Road to Alsof
Emmit Jungle Tribute is a vast forest that runs vertically through the central and central part of the Praver Peninsula.
The forest and jungle were half mixed, and the deeper you went, the taller the trees covered the sky, the darker it got, but the road itself was flat, so there was no difficulty in moving.
This is because the road was naturally polished because many people came and went.
The width of the road is about 10m and the floor is as hard as asphalt, so you can see how many people have been coming and going for a long time.
It must have been that there was no room for weeds to grow on the road because there was so much traffic and so many users that a long line of wagons and carts approaching and moving away from the opposite side every hour.
Canine monsters and monkey monsters attacked in the middle, but they didn’t break through the phantom spirit’s surveillance net, and they were weak, so there was no problem.
In fact, it was weaker than the worker Chimera I encountered in Linden Village.
I kept the beasts and monsters I had defeated and used them for Isilite’s skinning skills or to collect potion ingredients during the break.
When Hwanyeon watched the surroundings with spirits and found fruit trees or rare vegetables, he collected them.
During the break, there were occasions when they contacted the person in charge of the upper guild and exchanged news of nearby villages and villages.
=Althof side is afraid that Praver will start a war, and Praver side is afraid that Alsof side will start a war……. They say that only the people suffer from the battles of the superiors, and that’s really true.=
What I learned from exchanging information was that, whether it was a village in the Praber area or a village in the Alsof area, each other was immersed in anxiety and worry that the other side would start a war.
In particular, the trend was more pronounced in villages closer to the regional boundaries.
Fortunately, the trade ban has not yet been issued, but merchants are worried about when the ban will fall.
= But what was the merchant talking about? The catch in the north is only half of the average year, and the nearby sandy beach is flooded with dead fish…… It’s an ominous feeling.=
= Seeing that the center of Aleughel Lake, which is as wide as the sea, was also dyed red, could it be that the water god is angry at the fight between Alsop and Praber, or that the owner of the lake is uncomfortable with it?=
= If you are the owner of the lake…… Are you talking about Adneville?=
= Yes. Aleughel Lake is famous in other countries too.=
Yurpa interrupted the conversation between Isilite and Anne.
= Miss Anne. But Aleugel’s owner has been inactive for over 300 years. Come now…… Well…….=
=Isn’t it plausible?=
= That’s right I’m sleeping well, but if I’m disturbed, I’ll be angry too.
Hwanin was lost in thought as he listened to his girlfriends talking about stories they had heard from the merchant.
According to his scientific common sense, it seems that a red tide phenomenon caused mass death of fish, but his girlfriends see it differently.
Hwanin has now learned that earth science doesn’t work in this world, so he doesn’t say much, but…….
‘I’m curious.’
I wondered if there really was a monster who claimed to be the owner of the lake and was doing such a thing.
If it could do that, it wouldn’t be an ordinary creature. The three animals that left the strongest impression on Hwanin’s mind came to mind.
A blue flame tiger in a forest labyrinth.
A turtle carrying a mountain near a forest labyrinth.
A giant horn-scaled whale in Lake Olzot, bordering the village of Yulkam.
A horn-scaled whale could do something similar.
If you think about it physically, that size cannot realistically exist in a lake. First, there is the buoyancy problem, and secondly, the food problem.
But what if you have a special ability to overcome it?
In a world where monsters exist, not everyone can be the owner of a lake large enough to contain one of Earth’s five oceans, like Lake Aleughel.
If he had the ability to do so, wouldn’t it be as simple as killing fish and changing the color of the water?
Maybe it could cause a tsunami.
Hwanin, feeling a fantasy-like spirit of inquiry for the first time in a long time, circulates spiritual energy throughout his body, wondering what kind of ability the owner of the lake would have, what kind of shape or form, and what size it would be. I let my happy imagination run wild.
After leaving the forest for half a day, the party entered the realm of Alsop in earnest.
The journey was very quiet and leisurely. The party that entered the plain after exiting the Emmitt Jungle branch did not encounter another procession, and the number of beasts or monsters attacking them plummeted.
A tedious journey with nothing to see except for the cumulus clouds that clearly divide the blue sky and the grass and bushes swaying in the cool breeze from Lake Aleughel.
In the meantime, Hwanin succeeded in absorbing the coldness of the last eighth woman’s soul.
As expected, the side effects caused by absorbing cold decreased as the number of soul orbs increased.
At first, there was a physical aftermath that frost formed on the forearm and cold air flowed from the body, but by the time the fourth person absorbed the cold, the side effect was only a slight chill, and the sixth was just blowing cold air.
In her final eighth, her condition returned to normal when she consumed 40% of her own warmth without needing to covet her girlfriend’s.
All that was left was the number of soul orbs increased from 96 to 129, and the light covering his left arm began to invade his left chest beyond his shoulder.
「Ugh…….」
“…….”
「Uuuuu…….」
On the roof of the running carriage.
Hwanin opened his mouth to Baek Ryeo-gang, who was looking at his naked upper body with his eyebrows tightened.
“I can’t see it enough to concentrate my mind.”
“I’m sorry, Hwanin-sama……. Because I’m not good enough…….」
Hwanin, who had been putting on his clothes looking self-tortured because he couldn’t blame himself, said with a small eyebrow furrow.
“Lygang. Excessive self-abasement makes you look servile.”
“However.”
“What did you say when I asked for your cooperation?”
“…… He said that this experiment is highly likely to be an unknown experiment unknown anywhere.”
“There is no room for anything like quality to intervene in such an experiment. Even I, the party involved, do not even know the conditions for visibility and the cause of occurrence, so what can I say more?”
After saying that, Hwanin caressed her blue hair and whispered into her feathered ears.
“And I don’t like servile women, so I want you to remember that.”
“… Yes, yes heh… !”
Several of her cute little feathers overlap and connect, and her cute ears in formation prick up, and Bai Lijiang grabs her sleeves and covers her face.
Hwanin laughed lightly at the scene, then turned his gaze to the eight female spirits following her in the carriage.
From Park Soo-dal ferry, through Akret village, to the western plains of Asof.
“…….」
“Gyus…….」
“Ah….」
During the six-day journey, the female souls, whose limbs were stained black and radiated a red aura, were suffering more than before they lost their reason.
“Uh, maybe Khadram is leaving her husband and son behind…….」
“Sounds like an idiot. Don’t turn a blind eye to reality. What made you and us fall like this…… Isn’t it because we know better that it can’t be like that?”
“…… Whoa….」
Hwanin didn’t particularly comfort or condemn them, he just looked at them in silence.
The more she suffers, the more the black light dyed in her limbs extends to her body, but it’s not very fast.
The remaining distance to Alsof is only three days. If you hurry, it’s about two days. It’s enough time to reach those women before they lose their minds again, so if the chill builds up quickly, it’s welcome.
‘That’s because it will create a stronger ripple effect as a mixture.’
“Ah. Hwanin is a face adorned with evil again.”
“…….”
= Huh? Well……. I don’t know, but Yeon-i, you recognize it right away?=
「Aside from Yurpa, I didn’t know either Isilite or Anne. Why don’t you know It looks good like that.”
=I think it’s because you are the closest to him in terms of blood.=
“Cellar… But. Because I was born from Hwanin’s blood.”
= Cook Cook. Come to think of it, it reminds me of when you first came. Your personality was really great back then.=
“…….」
“Really? How great was that?」
= Do you feel that your personality and tone have been deducted from being considerate? It was a personality that never matched that cute and pretty appearance. Now, thanks to Anne, her personality has become rounder, but at that time, talking to Yeon made her head hurt? =
“Wow…….」
“Ah Yurupa, why are you bringing up old stories!”
Hwanin looked at the girls amicably for a while, then carefully looked at the sky in the direction the carriage was moving. However, there is no watcher or observer, nor even a flying beast.
Not understanding that, Hwanin touched his chin.
What the hell is Alsof doing?
More than 10 days have passed, starting from the northern part of Praver and two days from Alsop.
By now, due to the active information dissemination activities carried out by the Church of the Land God and Prabur, rumors should have spread that the Green Saint and his party were attacked by Alsop, and that the Saint is on his way to find out about it.
Even if it wasn’t that, he was a hwanin who thought that since he sent an entire division of wild dogs and then lost contact, he would assume the worst and even send an army to kill him.
So, Hwanin predicted the enemy’s ambush point.
Naruto, Akret Village, Emit Jungle, and the vast grassland that I passed two days ago.
However, there was no raid on the grassland, which was considered the final raid point, and even the personnel watching from the sky did not come.
=Alsof is there. Wouldn’t it be time to come and make a mistake?
That night, after a day and a half of travel from Al Thorpe to camp, where she had finished training and eating dinner, Anne brought up her story.
Isilite, who was also meticulously inspecting the Red Rick Alter next to Anne grooming her gear by her campfire, turned her head and asked.
=You mean Althof didn’t send soldiers?=
= Yes. So far, there have been several good places to ambush an assassin. But he’s never been attacked…….=
=Are you saying Lord Althof intends to apologize by making an excuse that it was an unintentional mistake?=
Yu Lepa, who was reading a book with a shawl over her shoulder and a cup of coffee brewed by Hwanin, frowned at her.
= You attacked the saint. No matter how pissed off you are from being slandered, attacking the Spiritual Works is a socially accepted idea and should be strongly criticized. However, wouldn’t this situation be explained if the excessively loyal subordinates were arbitrarily committed and intended to cover all the sins and compensate with an appropriate apology?
=… It is. The attack was only once, and even though I was deceived, I didn’t try to kill myself, but I can give an excuse that I tried to enshrine myself in the castle from the threat of Pravor with the transmission scroll.=
In Yulepa’s opinion, Anne put her trimmed hammer of punishment and shield of the castle wall into her space bag and said with a disgusted look on her face.
=Anyway, lord Alsop drove Ryegang to suicide for his own purposes, and he even plotted against Praver. I think that such a person might throw it away like a card discarding his lower ones to cover up his mistakes.
In addition, rumors spread by Baek Joong-gang and Cardinal Le Awen-Agiosis must have spread to RSOP by now, so it is more probable that they are turning around without being able to attack.
Afterwards, Yurpa let out a sigh soaked in the aroma of coffee and took out a transmission scroll sealed in a transparent shell to prevent the scroll from activating from the preservation bag.
=If you really do that, it will be a big mistake that can’t be undone. There’s this too, but we have evidence we can’t lie to, right? Rather, if you gather people together to clear up misunderstandings and expose this when you announce it, at least Lord Althof will surely be buried in high society, right?
The faintly flickering scroll swayed gently in Yurpa’s slender fingers.
Hwanin narrowed his eyes at the faint but clear aura of magic spreading from it.
It is not a sign that the scroll is trying to activate. However, it was not that the scroll had a spell like tracking its location. If there was such a trick, there was no way that Yurupa wouldn’t notice.
‘Then I…… What are the traces that seem to be sending signals as if they are connected to somewhere?’
Dream?
The group looked in the same direction, raising their tension when Bisang suddenly raised his head and looked back toward Aleugel Lake.
Among the group, Ki-Gam is the most sensitive emergency. If such an emergency shows such behavior, it means that something has happened.
Each one stretched out his hand to the space pocket and asked while maintaining tension so that he could respond whenever a battle broke out.
= Emergency. What’s going on?=
Couw? Cue. Kyup. Beep!
The eyes of the women shifted to Hwanin as she sat next to Hwanin and explained something while laughing.
“…… He said he had a strange feeling far away on the lake. Emergency, how did it feel?”
Cue…… What? Piyu.
It felt like something was wriggling in the dark. What kind of expression is that?
The women couldn’t relax, but soon saw Bi-sang close her eyes again with her head down on Hwanin’s lap, and they pursed their lips with a face that said they had a lot to say but couldn’t say anything.
I waited for about 5 minutes, but still nothing happens.
The women sat back down and relaxed.
= What did Bizangi say? Does Yul unnie guess anything?=
= Well, I’m fine too…….=
“Isn’t it that the monsters of the lake are coming from far away or something?”
Concerned with Hwan-yeon’s opinion, he raised his eyebrows with an expression of “I’m fine.”
= Suddenly? And when the monsters come, Bi-sang will be the first to flutter with excitement…….=
With her head resting on Hwanin’s lap and her eyes closed, the image of her is extremely peaceful.
=…….=
=…….=
“…….”
The story that everyone was talking about was also stopped because of the awkward feeling that they couldn’t explain.
The night passed without incident, as before.
A day later, half a day’s drive from Alsof.
On the hillside, where you can see the castle walls, towering towers, and ships floating on the horizon, which are slowly starting to appear at the far horizon, the party took off the aura-concealing magic tools and returned the wagon to its original form, following Hwanin’s instructions.
Hwanin also wears a gray hooded cloak in the black high-class battle mage-like outfit that has become his symbol, and releases the feather color-changing magic tool of flight to make it the original green.
Anne, who could not take her eyes off the exotic city in the distance, let out a slightly erotic moan, then raised her hand to her eyes and chanted her spell.
=…… The mercy of the earth god, who can see a thousand miles, with my own two eyes.=
In response to that incantation, Yurupa also touched her forehead with her staff and chanted a short spell.
=Doesn’t the distance cover the view?=
“What is he saying now?”
“These are spells that allow you to see far away.”
After completing her spell, Anne’s eyes were yellowish yellow, and Yurpa’s eyes were shining sky blue. And what about the two women looking at the city with those eyes? Scream a little
= It’s true. Doryeong, the city is in a festive mood?=
“It’s a festival.”
= It’s as Miss Anne said. Flags of all nations are hung on the streets, and there are many stalls. Everyone laughs and chats…….=
Hwanin was a little unpredictable.
The conversation they had the night before yesterday was what Hwanin also had in mind. She tried to cover up the attack on her with words of misunderstanding.
It didn’t matter either way, but I never imagined she’d be celebrating like this.
Hwanin asked, looking back at the female spirits of the wild dog warriors who were half-immersed in anger and betrayal.
“Are there any festivals taking place at this time of year?”
“There is not. Festivals are rarely permitted. It’s all about celebrating the Ascension Celestial Festival, which happens once every two years, and Kadram’s own birthday.”
Ninu’s voice seemed frosty, and the group fell into doubt more and more.
“Even if I get into trouble here, the answer won’t come out. For now, in preparation for the battle, Liegang is invisible.”
Even if it’s a soul, it can be visualized, and physical contact becomes possible if you inject energy into it.
If attacked in that state, it can be dangerous, so Baek Ryogang, who has no power, turns her into a non-visualization state, in which all her attacks are immune except for soul magic.
Then, Hwanin, who gave instructions on what to do if a battle broke out, headed to the lakeside city of Alsof, which is not a western city but full of oriental sensibility, with tile-roofed houses and buildings lined up.
And when you reach the gate, which resembles Tiananmen, the entrance to the Forbidden City, but is made of white and blue.
= Ah?! You are a saint!! The Green Saint, the savior of Bijalux and Linden Village, has come!!!=
Hwanin had dry eyes.
A soldier shouting loudly and running inside. People who recognize themselves, get out of the way, and show respect.
Even the people dressed as samurai who appear in the martial arts run from the other side, slightly nervous but unable to hide their welcome.
=Did you even hold a festival to welcome Doryeong?=
=I really want to, but looking at their reaction, I can’t say no. One more drink than we expected.=
=It’s a bit disgusting.=
The women whispered, hiding their laughs and sarcasm.
