Chapter 447 – 441 King of the Lake
Hwanin has traveled Nionebres for several years and has met quite a few tribes.
I met Lukerang, Fleur, and Proud, the main races of Nionebreth, as well as dwarf-like Gifla and Dryad-like Amdrux, and also saw a few people called Adsektra.
When they refer to an unspecified number of people arbitrarily, they call people, and when referring to a specific person or race, they call the name of the tribe.
And to call them human is to call them impolitely, or when non-humans call the human race…… Learned through high social customs.
‘That means…….’
Hwanin lowered his gaze and saw the back of Bisang’s head, which was about to flap his wings. He’s trying to go back as if he just didn’t hear the voice.
He’s a smart guy so if he just heard a voice he’s still moving even though he must have stopped once. That is, he did not hear the voice.
In addition, there are no surviving human beings around. More than anything else, the voice that resonated in my head felt as if it was calling me, not others.
It’s a mysterious and inexplicable thing, but Hwanin, who felt that way, stopped his flight.
“Emergency, pause.”
Coo?
Byeong-jae continues to fly in place as instructed while asking why.
Hwanin turned his body and looked at the white blue dragon, which looked like an eastern dragon, not a western dragon. And he made sure he wasn’t wrong.
The white blue dragon, I guess, Adneville, the owner of the lake, was staring at him from several kilometers away.
“…… Is it you who called me?”
After a brief hesitation, he opened his mouth. I don’t know if the monster talking calmly into my head is something that naturally happens in this world, but I still couldn’t help but ask.
“Yes. I can feel the traces of heaven in you, so I can trust you more than these insects.”
The response came back immediately.
A voice full of animosity and anger, as if the object had disappeared, and the hostility felt particularly strongly in the part of the insect.
At first, I wondered how the emotions could be felt so clearly in his voice, but Hwanin put aside the trivial things for now.
It is a monster that destroys a mid-range city where hundreds of thousands of people live while drinking tea. It is crazy to think that such a monster is showing signs of annoyance and anger, so it is unwise to drag on for a long time.
“Because it’s 1,000 won…… Can you believe it?”
“It is true. If it weren’t for you, you who deal with unpleasant things would have died right away.”
The voice that seems to pierce through his head and shake his emotions also puts a lot of pressure on him. Hwanin endured it with the mental strength and patience he had accumulated over 20 years and quickly shook his head.
Cheonwon, the source of the sky.
It is probably not a coincidence that the first thing that came to mind was the cosmic tree and the mysterious land where I saw the eyes in the sky as soon as I heard the word.
Did that experience leave a mark on you?
‘If it’s unpleasant, it must be a black soul orb.’
Hwanin asked, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
“So why…… Did you call me?”
“You have the cleverness to see a thousand won. Come and help me.”
Coo… Wow…….
A dragon approaching through the current with legs that could be described as meager compared to its body length.
Hwanin glanced at the vast dark clouds rapidly approaching from the horizon. Is that the dragon calling?
Taking a deep breath, Hwanin asked the blue-white dragon.
“As you call me, I am human. And you have exterminated hundreds of thousands of people on this land. If you don’t know what to ask for help, is there any reason why I should respond that I will help you?”
“Because of you, this cause and effect began. You cannot be said to be the original culprit, but since you carried part of the original sin, harming it is also a burden given to you.”
Hwanin let out a long breath at the story full of dizziness.
The more the dragon speaks, the more the expression of anger and annoyance disappears and the voice changes into a voice containing the clarity of Lake Aleughel.
Thanks to that, the mental fatigue was relieved, but the mental wave, which seemed to give in to a person with weak mental power, became stronger.
Hwanin took out a dagger from his pocket and pierced his thigh avoiding his artery.
The burning sensation is followed by great pain, awakening the brain and mind at once as if they are about to melt.
And the brain, awakened by the pain stimulation, organized the timeline at once and pointed out the original sin that the dragon said.
No, there is nothing to point out and do. It was a story that the meeting of Baek Ryogang and Reshim in Wayford was the beginning of the incident.
“…….”
Hwanin stared at the huge white blue dragon, which could be said to be the transcendence of mystery.
The sky whale appeared in the fog that surrounded it like a wall on all sides, and it was an existence that made people feel the impression of fantasy. However, as if the word transcendence was materialized in reality, the white blue dragon is a creature that asserts its presence.
Does such a being see not only the present but also the past and the future with both eyes?
No matter how much he thought about it, it didn’t seem like he was spouting nonsense, so Hwanin landed an emergency on the nearby spire of the castle wall, a place that wasn’t collapsed by the tidal wave.
The conversation seemed to be a little long, but I thought it was bad to keep the emergency hovering.
Kwuuuuu.
Hwanin, who stroked his head as he groaned softly, asked the dragon, no matter how big the liver was.
“Even a being like you, who seems to have transcended life, needs help from others.”
Even as he spoke, he calculated the aftermath of this incident and the impact it would have on society.
“Only five people can do it alone. This body that has not attained the upper heaven is just a creature like you.”
“…… You said to help, what will you give me if you help?”
《I will exclude the humans you rescued from the targets I decided to kill.》
I guessed it from the time I blew up the castle of Asof with a water breath and massacred the people who fled in the sky with water bombs and the people who took refuge by swimming…….
Feeling the headache coming back, he squeezed his temples.
‘A world where mysteries, miracles, and powers exist is an extremely unstable place.’
Hwanin muttered to himself. After all, Nionebreath is not a place for people to live.
The wrong choice of a specific individual can destroy a city. Even on Earth, wars have broken out due to a few people, but at least it didn’t go against the laws of science and physics.
But what about Nionebreath? One action by the city’s lord moved one object and exterminated hundreds of thousands of people.
That dragon that seemed to know the truth of the world or the laws of the world slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people as if it were natural.
This kind of world does not fit the word stability. It is literally a castle built on chaos and sand.
Seeing hundreds of thousands of souls lined up around the white and blue dragon and ascending to heaven, Hwanin felt the bottom of his eyes getting stiff and closed his eyes before opening his mouth.
“What can I do to help? I will listen and decide.”
《From the head to the back of this body, under the 157th scale, there is something dirty, unclean, and disgusting. Remove it.”
Hwanin noticed that what the dragon was talking about was the remnants he had seen through the pattern-enhancing spirit vision.
“Is that why you destroyed this city?”
“Yes. The human who ruled this city threw it into my dwelling place.”
A mental image flowed in like a video from the white blue dragon, who was facing his eyes.
A lake dragon that had built a nest deep in the depths of Lake Aleughel and fell into a deep and long sleep.
Thousands and tens of thousands of ships came and went over his head, but the king did not care. Then one day, a fast ship passed over his head and threw the Mark of the Blade into the water.
The blade containing dirty phase power and some of the mysteries contaminated by kneading descended to the depths of the deep sea, and stimulated it as it passed near the dormant Dragon’s Wrath.
The dragon struggled and his abode was ruined. In the meantime, the mark of the blade is inserted into the gap between the white blue dragon’s scales, breaking through the infinitely low probability.
The dragon, which was in hibernation, was forcibly awakened, so it did not notice what had happened for a moment.
However, his high intelligence and rationality quickly grasped the situation.
Another image unfolded within the image.
After a while, the Wild Dog Warriors grabbed the scroll and charged at a man. At that moment, the mark of the blade inserted into the gap of the dragon’s scales was activated and a dirty signal was scattered.
Due to being embedded under the scales, waves of dirty and vulgar energy penetrate the body of the white blue dragon.
It was a terrible and disgusting sensation several times worse than having human excrement and excrement forced into the mouth, according to Hwanin.
The warriors were soon swept away by Hwanin’s party, and the scroll was placed in a preservation pouch. The signal divergence of the Mark of Blades also stopped.
Baekcheongryong, who was attacked, was furious, but he endured it at first.
He even tried to pull out the mark of the blade embedded under the scales.
However, that effort is futile as it cannot penetrate the dragon’s strong phase flow, reverse flow, and scales that are one of the strongest in the world.
I tried to call out the essences that lived in the deep sea, but I was overwhelmed by the power of the king of the lake, a holy beast, and I couldn’t move.
In the meantime, the image within the image unfolded again.
The moment Yurpa took out the transmission scroll from the preservation pouch near Alsoof, a wave of disgusting energy attacked the white blue dragon again.
Baek Cheong-ryong was greatly angered by the second incident that soiled himself.
Enraged, White Blue Dragon chased the signal and rose from the destroyed abode to wipe out everything, but the second signal diverged was literally short-lived.
I read the direction, but it took too little time to read the location and the root cause.
The white blue dragon stopped his movements and endured.
And when Hwanin took out the transmission scroll and threw it in front of Cadram Althof in the main hall, the king of the lake went to Alsof with anger.
“…….”
Realizing that it was the dragon who showed this image, and that it took less than 0.1 second, Hwanin wiped his sweat-covered face and asked,
“Are you the one who caused the labyrinth to explode?”
《There is no way that the palace, which has been polluted by human dirty tableware, will be fine even after accepting pure energy.》
With all the doubts answered, Hwanin closed his eyes and let out a long breath.
The contents of the image he saw were literally unimaginable.
His image overlaps with the scene where the beast and the monster get close to the dragon and vomit blood to death.
Hwanin looked at the dragon’s figure in silence for a moment.
The place where the dragon is standing is where the labyrinth used to be. Now, the ground has collapsed and it has become like a huge sinkhole in the sea.
And around the dragon, thousands and tens of thousands of ripples are rising as if the waves are vibrating.
The dark clouds approaching overhead are slowly drizzling down, and the rain also falls to avoid the dragon.
Is it a phenomenon of phase flow and counter-breaking flow?
Hwanin asked, thinking about the concept he had just skimmed through in the image of the dragon.
“Can I try a test?”
“Do it.”
The muddy water that submerged the city quickly settles down and becomes clear and transparent, as if purified by a dragon.
After looking at the dragon standing on the water for a while without falling into the water, he created a soul arrow with a lower spirit orb and shot it at the dragon.
Phisht—
Soul arrows that do not reach even the dragon’s scales and shatter.
Was the phase flow effective for soul arrows?
《Ho. How can you dig up the upper part of this body? You had a knack for doing it.”
“…….”
In response to the dragon’s attitude of appreciating that the soul arrow touched the topological flow and disappeared, Hwanin poured 10% of the pattern energy into 4 stacks of pattern-enhanced soul arrows.
“You, wait…….》
Hwanin ignores the dragon’s restraint and shoots.
A beam of golden light emanating from the tip of the scale passed near the body of the dragon, which hurriedly staggered.
When Hwanin looked at him asking why he was avoiding him, he purred as if he was dumbfounded.
“Are you planning on subjugating this body under the pretext of helping?”
“Normal creatures die when they get near you. That would be the same for me, and I don’t want to die yet, so this is the only way.”
“You won’t know until you try.”
“If the price is your life, I don’t want to do it even as a test.”
The dragon purring again.
Even Hwanin, overwhelmed by the presence of the dragon, did not want to help.
However, as long as that blade mark is embedded, the dragon may pour out its irritation and anger at any moment. It is a story that you can wipe out the cities adjacent to Aleugel Lake one after another by venting your anger.
And the capital of Radsea, Rasubitan, is also attached to the southern part of Lake Aleughel.
What could be more useless than the assumption that in the national capital of such a world there is no one capable of conversing with a dragon?
If the conversation is established, the full story of this incident will be known, and if it is revealed that the dragon did not help even though he asked for help, his position could be jeopardized.
Even if the dragon did not vent its anger, one of the mid-level cities in the northern part of the lake was destroyed. The capital city will dispatch people to investigate the truth, but in the same way, if the full story of the incident is known…….
Wow! Wooooo!!
Every time the dragon strikes the ground with its huge tail like a mad cat, a roar and vibration occur like an earthquake, and the walls of the castle shake as if toppling over.
Seeing him protesting, asking if he was thinking about something else in front of him, Hwanin stopped thinking and pointed the dragon at the end of his balance.
The fact that you just dodged the glyph-enhanced soul arrow means you can pierce the dragon’s force field and deal damage.
This time, take out four medium-level spirit beads, apply 4 stacks of soul arrows, and apply 10% of the pattern energy equally.
“I can’t even write this a few times. If you avoid it again, I will judge that you do not need help and leave.”
《I don’t want the beautiful scales on this body to be scratched.》
“…….”
My head is dizzy and tired from the shedding of blood. Hwanin said with a rare expression of annoyance.
“I knew. Wait, I will find a way.”
Hwanin stroked Bisang’s head, and Bisang, recognizing the signal, spread his wings and flew to where the party was waiting.
“…… That’s how it happened.”
= Uh… My hands are shaking and my heart is racing. =
Anne, who had been listening to Hwanin’s wounds on Hwanin’s thighs without leaving a scar with her sex art, murmured with a bit of heavy breathing.
Other people had similar impressions.
The wide rock where they took refuge was low compared to Alsop, and they could not see Alsop because it was blocked by a high castle wall.
However, I could only know that something was happening with the presence coming from beyond the wall, the presence getting stronger and weaker every moment, and something thumping, thumping, and shaking the earth.
I couldn’t believe I was talking to the king of the lake.
Even from such a distance, his presence made my heart thump. If we could talk to each other face to face…….
People were stunned by its presence, and it was not difficult to imagine themselves tumbling around.
= You are also the light of dawn. To think that the king of that lake spoke directly to the salt temple…… !=
The narrow-eyed, purple-haired beauty who seemed to have her eyes closed said with a slightly flushed face.
As if apprentice soul masters saw advanced soul masters, they were full of adoration and respect. Hwanin asked the question he had been asking before gathering knowledge on how to resolve the dragon’s request for help.
“Aziera Spirit Inquisitor keeps calling me the Light of Dawn. What is the light of dawn?”
=I will answer the question asked by the light of dawn. The light of dawn is a noble title that refers to a person who transcends spirituality and connects with the divine tree in the sky.=
“…….”
The number of souls that Aziera is talking about seems to refer to the white tree that stands in the place called the heavenly source that the dragon said, the cosmic tree.
Hwanin’s headache got stronger again and he furrowed his brows. The treatment of his thigh is finished, but he does not get up from his seat and rubs his face with his two hands.
What the hell is going on with his own body.
Why do the Spirit Inquisitors call themselves the strange title of the Light of Dawn, and why do the dragons treat them rather kindly, saying that they are a human with traces of Heaven?
Putting aside the complicated thoughts in his head, Hwanin said to the people who looked at him with awe.
“For now, the dragon is waiting beyond that wall, so please gather your knowledge. How can I get the Mark of Blades out of the cracks in the dragon’s scales?”
=If irreversible phase flow and reverse flow are activated…… There is no way.=
Renie, whose golden hair had turned straw-colored under the drizzle of her dark clouds, answered weakly, pulling back her fox ears.
The phase current and counterchain flow are part of the power that cannot be released even if the dragon wants to release it. That means that the means of contacting the dragon are extremely limited.
=The problem is not only phase flow and reverse flow. If he’s the king of the lake, he’ll naturally spread his majesty. Unless it’s similar or a level or two different, if you approach it recklessly, you’ll vomit blood and intestines and die.=
= That’s right. Even those who are not qualified cannot approach, and even if they are qualified, contact is impossible due to the two abilities that deny physical and phase power.=
Alax, a cleric of the same land god cult, nods his head.
The seat became silent.
Nearly 30 people are gathered, but in the silence, only the soft sound of the drizzling rain hitting the ground is heard.
But I can’t keep my mouth shut. People gather, put their heads together, and begin to weave wisdom.
=How about throwing a rope at a distance where the light is out of reach? I have the ability to snatch an apple from a distance of 300m with a rope.=
= Ugh. Since that is also the action of physical force, wouldn’t the countersurge flow resist?
=Why don’t you try using telekinesis so weak that the upper class doesn’t react?=
=At that level, it must have been less powerful than a gentle breeze…… Is it possible to take out the mark of being stuck in the gap of the scales?=
=Then asking the Proud race to make a tool that the dragon of the lake can handle and pull it out by itself…….=
= Why don’t you gather the shaman and mystic of the capital and the yeongdo and cast a weakening spell on the dragon? When the body becomes weak, the protection will also fall…….=
In the middle, some good ideas came up, but if you dig into it, it turns out to be a problem.
It is doubtful whether the lofty dragon will accept the curse that makes it weak, and whether it will be possible to pull out the thorns stuck in its body with its thick and crude hands.
Hrod, a man with the head of Sapsaree, who was soaked in the drizzling rain and turned into an arched man, opened his mouth as he brushed the fur covering his eyes.
= How about asking the apostles in the capitals of each country? If it’s them, they’ll be fine with the majestic light surrounding the king of the lake, and they’ll be able to pass over phase currents and countercurrents.=
I thought that was the most complete and decent way, so Hwanin went to the dragon and made an offer.
“Refuse.”
The dragon flatly refused.
“Why?”
《They are not allowed to leave their seats according to the causal law. In order to obey your words, I have to go to their territory, and they become many times stronger in their territory, but beings like me who enter their territory become many times weaker.”
In addition, the apostles were very dissatisfied with themselves who struggled desperately to become divine beasts as holy beasts by gaining enlightenment and virtue from nature like themselves, and it was said that they would even try to kill those with eccentric tempers.
“Then, I will gather talented shaman and mystic to weaken you and draw the mark.”
《I will put a curse on this body!!》
Rumble- Kwagwagwang!!
Dark clouds become savage at the dragon’s progress, and his thunderbolts fall. At this point, Hwanin did not hide his annoyance and took out his scale.
“Then I will break the scales with the mark. Then the mark will also be broken.”
“This guy! Can’t you put down that staff right now!”
“I don’t like this, I don’t like that either. What are you talking about?”
“So, didn’t you tell me to come and pull it out!”
“I don’t want to die in your majesty.”
Let’s bump into honest feelings without turning around and express them. The use is great. Shake it twice as if using the floor with your tail.
《Cheonwon is not a place where insects such as mayflies can go.》
“…….”
“You also have a phase current, and though weak, you also have a countercurrent flow. I will not blindly risk my life. Come closer and test it.”
Hearing the dragon’s story that he thought that you would be able to withstand my majesty and that the phase flow and countercurrent flow would also be partially offset, Hwanin clenched his forehead.
“… Promise me. If that doesn’t work, I’ll throw away at least one scale.”
《…… Do not promise.”
Hwanin let out a long sigh at the disapproving attitude, but he couldn’t help it.
If that dragon were cowardly, tyrannical, or suspicious, he would have run away with only his girlfriends.
Rumble—
In the ruined city where it is dark and raining due to dark clouds, the blue-white dragon with its head raised loftily is not enough to be called a legendary blue dragon.
Ability above all.
Even though he is a dragon who can crush himself or his party at once, he maintains courtesy and consideration.
“Emergency, let’s go down.”
Hwanin came down to the submerged ruined city and started approaching the dragon through the road in the ruins that was knee-deep in water.
Kwyuh!
“It might be dangerous, so don’t follow me.”
It was Hwan-in who chased away Bi-sang, who was chasing him, but Bi-sang was gone! Cries softly and pretends not to hear and chases after Hwanin.
“…… Take care of it.”
Hwanin, who was tired, was too lazy to wrestle, so he moved toward the white blue dragon standing tall with a lofty appearance.
