Chapter 52 – 051 Yellow Ridge
Hwanin led the party and when one ridge ended, they moved to a new ridge and steadily moved toward Bald Mountain.
Drinking water was replenished every timeheheard the sound of water, and smoked bear meat served as food.
The amount was enough for 5 people to eat for a month, but I was worried about the weather, but the ridge was dry day and night with a large temperature range, so I was able to ease my worries because it was an environment that made it easy to preserve meat.
Thanks to that, the party continued their forced march for 14 hours a day, rain or shine, and on the 10th day like that.
I could put a yellow bald mountain right in front of me.
‘Even if it’s right in front of me, I think I’ll have to go five more days to the foot of the mountain.’
Women exclaim at the figure of Bald Mountain, which is clearly visible from the top of the hill where yellowish plants grow in the crevices of gravel.
= Whoa. Bald Mountain is really high!=
=Bigger than I thought.=
=It looks small from a distance, but it’s frightening to see it up close.=
=Even if they are the same size, far away things look small. That must be the reason.=
Even Hwanin was amazed at how Bald Mountain, standing alone, looked several times larger than the Himalayan Mountains.
Even at a distance that requires several days to go to the foot of the mountain, you have to tilt your head as far as you can to see the top of the mountain. I can’t help but be surprised
‘The elevation must easily exceed 20,000 meters.’
While he was calculating the height of Bald Mountain while watching cumulus clouds pass by the foot of the mountain, the conversation of the women reached Hwanin’s ears.
=The mountain is so big that it will take a lot of time to go back!=
=Still, since it seems to have escaped the labyrinth, there is nothing more dangerous.=
=Certainly, the monsters are no longer visible, and the animals are also moving in groups, so it’s a bit relieved.=
= Sister Ryuhi. I think differently.=
=Huh?=
=The monster that lives in that mountain can come down to the surroundings, right? I think a monster living in a mountain like that would be stronger.=
= Ah. It could be =
Really strong beasts tend to act alone. Since they are weak, they make up for their weakness by forming a group.
And most of the beasts that had been attacked by this time were in groups.
Hwanin, who was listening to the women’s conversation, brushed back his long bangs, which he hadn’t been able to tidy up for over two months.
“Anyway. If you go forward as much as you came, your village will appear.”
= I guess…… I couldn’t see this mountain from my village.=
As if feeling sorry for the fact that she had to move as much as she had moved so far, Ryuhi stretched the corners of her eyes.
Hwanin didn’t care and looked at the mountain where something yellow was sprinkled on the peak instead of ice caps.
“I’m glad it means that you’re halfway there. Then we have to decide which course to go.”
The yellow bald mountain was an alpine mountain standing alone.
The right side of Bald Mountain was a plain stretching to the horizon, and the left side consisted of ridges and forests as before.
After questioning the women, Hwanin chose the course to his left.
“If it were a plain with no rivers and few animals, the number of animals would be low and safe, but considering the food and water we consume, the right side would be overcrowded.”
Although all of the Malay Kodiak meat was smoked, the amount of food for five people was by no means small.
At least you can save on food, but you can’t survive three days without drinking water. If you run into a situation where food and drinking water are depleted while moving through a plain without anything, the only thing left is death.
Compared to that, the course on the left has many forests and hills, so you can move while digging up grass roots.
“The Great Lakes of Allzot are also relatively close, so we will move to the left.”
The women, well aware of their lack of survival knowledge and judgment, accepted Hwanin’s decision without hesitation.
Ryuhi, Epnis, Huini, Ennel.
The four women knew their fountain well. In addition, they had shamelessness and had feelings of great gratitude and admiration for Hwanin who rescued them from death.
That’s why they tried to do everything other than battle.
His fighting ability is not even up to Hwanin’s toes, so he wanted to help with the rest.
From carrying luggage to preparing food for camping, to relieving the big and small sexual desires that any man would have.
Not only the four women, including Ryuhi, but also unmarried or unmarried women in the countryside had a custom of easily opening their bodies to outside visitors.
A story that has been passed down from the days of his grandfather’s grandfather, his grandfather’s grandfather.
It is because of the story that deformed children or children with weak constitutions are often born as generations change without new blood being transfused.
No one knows where this story started, but everyone in a village of any size knew it.
If you reject the new blood, the village will eventually disappear.
Of course, that alone does not mean accepting the seed of a man who is an outsider.
An increase in the number of people means an increase in the number of people who can work in the house, and it is also helpful for the prosperity of the village, so even if a woman without a husband has a child, she is protected by the law of the village until she gives birth.
Also, in most rural areas, joint childrearing is a principle, so after giving birth, even a single woman can engage in a livelihood without burden.
Above all, even if you were born in the village, in the case of a woman, you have to give birth to a child to be recognized as an official member of the village, and if your child grows up to be a strong warrior, you will not only be envied by the same women, but also have a stronger voice within the village and take a position. Identity changes in many ways.
Anyway, for that reason, Ryuhi and her girls had no objection to being embraced by Hwanin.
Rather, she secretly hoped to be embraced by Hwanin whenever the opportunity arose. In the eyes of women, Hwanin was the savior of life and a warrior among warriors who defeated even the monster Bardul.
If I could inherit his blood…….
Anyway, women want to hug him as much as possible, but at some point, they stopped wanting them.
However, they cannot be the first to shine hope.
It’s not because I’m ashamed or embarrassed as a woman. It was because he knew how much a man’s energy was consumed in a single mating, and was too shameless to dare to make demands out of desire to Hwanin, a lifesaver and warrior.
So the women were only voicing their sorrowful voices inwardly.
If they made a mistake in bed, if there was a part they didn’t like, please give them a chance to fix it.
Contrary to the women’s intentions, the reason why Hwanin stopped hugging women was simple.
It was because the warmth in their belly had almost run out.
Exhausting your stamina every night to enjoy physical entertainment when you can’t even absorb more warmth is the height of inefficiency in the current situation.
Hwanin wouldn’t have refused if it was a place where he could rest comfortably, but there’s no need to risk doing something that doesn’t help at all in the current situation.
‘Based on this trend, it will take about three months to fully recover.’
However, after about 15 days had passed since leaving the Twin Mountains, Hwanin noticed that the women’s stomachs were slowly recovering in warmth.
Finally, after absorbing it, he noticed that the warmth is restored after a certain period of time.
The hypothesis is supported by the fact that Ryuhi, who was the first to lose warmth among the four women, is the first to recover.
So, Hwanin did not reach out to the women and just watched them. That is how much warmth is restored in a day.
In fact, it is impossible to measure the amount of warmth with your eyes.
If you could tell that a bead the size of a pinky fingernail had increased in diameter by 0.1mm, it would be a microscope, not an eye.
‘It seems that psychic powers can measure the amount of warmth.’
In the meantime, whenever he sees a spirit, he is a hwanin who has been continuously training by spreading the spirit to four people, including himself, and using spirit skills.
Thanks to that, the number of soul beads that can be possessed has increased to 16, and he was a hwanin who thought he had gained the ability to measure warmth.
Now, if you reap the soul, you can keep the beads for 16 hours, and the duration of the necromantic is also 16 minutes.
Currently, Hwanin’s concern was whether his ability would grow to another level when the number of soul beads he possessed increased to 18.
At first, you could only have 6, and when the number of possession increased to 12, the ability increased once.
‘Normally, the demands necessary for growth are gradually increasing…….’
Even if the limit of holding marbles is increased to 18, it is unlikely that supernatural power will grow, but there is still a sense of anticipation.
Feeling a bit flustered from the anticipation, Hwan-in, whose sensitivity bloomed as he moved against the background of the magnificent view of Bald Mountain, which was so huge that Mount Everest was dismissed as ‘something like that’, held Ryuhi in his arms at the campsite by the river under the moonlight. .
There was a reason. If you absorb the warmth, you really want to check if there is a rest period of about 15 days.
Hwanin, who explored Ryuhi in a sitting position, absorbed the warmth in her stomach very weakly. She tells her feeble amount that it doesn’t bother her.
‘…… Is it possible to control the amount of absorption?’
I felt that way for some reason, but I couldn’t test it any further against Ryuhi, who had almost run out of warmth again.
Hwan-in, who had once dug into Ryuhi’s stomach, sat down on a rock and knelt between her naked legs, stroking Ryuhi’s head as she buried her face.
Ryuhi’s gray dog ears, which vigorously moved her head back and forth against her, twitched and then pricked up.
Ryuhi, who had his symbol in her mouth, looked up, smiled a little, and buried her face between his thighs again.
‘I’ll have to check with Epnis tomorrow.’
Ryuhi, who cleaned Hwanin’s symbol with his mouth when he was inquiring about his psychic powers, carefully asked with his face flushed with the afterglow mixed with his body.
= I…… Eunin? Did you like me today?=
“…… ?”
Hwanin stood still for a moment, unable to understand the meaning of Ryuhi’s words.
Hoot-
What?
Brisket, Bumblebee.
Emergency rations raise their heads and rustle at the sound of an owl coming from somewhere.
Hwanin, who came to his senses belatedly, touched his forehead for a while and then asked Ryuhi, who seemed nervous.
“Well. Please correct me if I misunderstood. The question I just asked was whether the sexual act was satisfactory…… Is that correct?”
=Yes.=
“…….”
Hwanin was seldom embarrassed. He was so embarrassed that he couldn’t remember the last time he had been this embarrassed.
It’s not that a man with little experience is asking a woman, but being asked this question by a woman.
Unknowingly, Hwanin, who had been closing his mouth, suddenly realized that Ephnis, Huini, and Ennel were also listening.
“I would like to know why you asked such a question.”
Judging by Ryuhi’s devoted attitude up to this point, he must have asked such a question because he had a reason.
And instead of Ryuhi, who was blushing with embarrassment, he sighed lightly after hearing the inside story from Epnis.
The coping system, the system of renting a wife, is a custom that has evolved further.
Hwanin, who saw all the women shrinking from his own sigh, relaxed his expression and calmly explained why he hadn’t hugged them until now.
= Ah…… !=
Upon hearing the reason, Ryuhi put on an expression that his head had cleared.
It was only then that he remembered the fact that Hwanin needed male and female mating to gain energy to use his blessing.
Epnis, Huini, and Ennel were hugged by Hwanin just to pay back to their benefactor without knowing the details and, if possible, to receive the seed of a strong man, so they put on a relieved expression when they found out what was going on.
“It wasn’t because I wasn’t attractive to you, or because I had a problem. It was because you shouldn’t do something that causes fatigue in a dangerous place.”
The women looked at Hwanin even more.
In the village, when there was no work after the harvest season or the busy farming season, it was common to flirt with women all day long like a horned bastard.
How gentlemanly is Hwan-in compared to the man who had no self-restraint and just flirted with himself.
“Today, I asked Ryuhi to have sex for a reason. He’ll ask you one more time tomorrow, but after that, he’ll refrain from sex until he gets to town. The reason, as I just said, is for safety.”
=Yes, Eunin.=
Ryuhi answered in a sweet tone as if he had fallen in love. Her sisters’ gaze towards her narrowed a little.
Why is your sister answering?
Asking for a favor tomorrow doesn’t mean you’re asking your unnie again, right?
I can’t leave it like this!
That night.
Hwanin heard the secretly gathered women fighting over the order of sleeping tomorrow in very low voices during the night shift, but Hwanin deliberately did not intervene.
It was because he had to wait and eat the rice cake that came into his mouth.
