Chapter 548 – 541 Sijur Great Plain
After hearing the location and outline of the labyrinth from the great saint, Hwanin ended the communication and returned to the place where her female friends were gathered.
Anne, who was putting the food on a plate, turned around and asked if the food was finished.
= Doryeong. Hurry up and eat. I have chicken ribs, gratin, and an omelet. What would you like to eat?=
“Dak ribs and an omelet, please.”
After receiving the plate of cheese omelet and cheese chicken ribs she gave her, she sat down, and her female friends also sat nearby and started eating.
Hwanin nodded her head slightly after eating the omelet, which was yellow and fluffy and had a lot of cheese.
The soft and plump texture and chewy and savory cheese create a wonderful harmony.
In particular, the mildly salty yet bitter taste of cheese was similar to that of cheddar cheese, and thanks to this, it supported the boring taste of an omelet from the bottom, resulting in a taste that people who like cheese or omelets would not recommend eating at all.
It was so delicious that once you ate it, you couldn’t forget it and it would interfere with your life.
“Is this the taste of cheese made from the milk of the Inu people? ….”
When Hwanin expressed his complex feelings in words, his girlfriends giggled.
A reaction that came because he knew that he was avoiding the milk of the Inwoo tribe without knowing it.
Hwanin, who took a bite of an omelet with bright red seasoned chicken, opened his mouth asheheard his girlfriends giggling.
“I heard the location of the three labyrinths from the great saintess. However, the data is not updated, so it is recommended that you go and check the details yourself.”
=There are three places?=
“It is a 4th, 5th, 5th grade labyrinth that has been observed for about 300 years, and the last time I checked it was 50 years ago. All three are labyrinths with no change in grade for over 100 years.”
= Wow, 100 years…….=
Baek Ryo-gang, who was educated as a noblewoman, admires while eating cheese gratin with a straight posture that appears in textbooks.
Thanks to secretly observing and acquiring her manners and behavior, Issilite, who began to see a little grace in her gestures and gestures, also placed a fork on her plate and revealed her doubts.
= It is said that there has been no change for at least 150 years. Can the labyrinth not grow for so long?=
“Where do you think the labyrinth grows the fastest?”
After thinking for a moment about Hwanin’s question, Isilite replied that she was a city.
“It is as you say. A large amount of phasic power and natural force is required for the labyrinth to grow, she says. Natural power accumulates over time, but phase power does not. It accumulates when many living beings enter the labyrinth and become active.”
= Ah. Since people do not come and go well in this prairie and there are no monsters, the abandoned labyrinth is stagnant for a long time.=
“Okay. The three labyrinths that Daeseongnyeo told me about are such places. A place that was excluded from the list of items requiring continuous observation because the risk factor was considered low because there was no change for 100 years. He said he never had a regurgitation.”
Yurpa, who had been listening intently to the story, opened her mouth.
= Labyrinth could have withdrawn. =
“So he said it was better to go and check it out for yourself. I’ve received and marked the location, so after lunch, I’ll head to the nearest labyrinth.”
=Doryeong, what if there is no Labyrinth?=
“When we heard that we were heading to Heathrond, he said he would find out the labyrinth situation there. If the labyrinth is all gone, you just have to put in the communication again.”
The women nodded and resumed their meal, which had been paused for a while.
Hwanin, who set off her party first, taught Isilite the direction to her destination, then followed her carriage and erased the traces of the carriage movement.
“Please be meticulous so that no traces of spirit power remain.”
“I’ll do it because you tell me to…… How long are you going to do it? Until we reach a labyrinth where we don’t know how far away it is?”
“Let’s decide based on the situation. And ask for supervision. You should keep in mind that pursuers may come from the sky.”
“I’m just pampering you.”
“You’re going to have the spirit do it too, right?”
“That’s right.”
At the sight of Hwanin following him on a flight from the rear, erasing his traces, Baekryeogang tilted his head from the roof of the carriage.
‘Do I think Hwanin-nim is overreacting because I don’t know the world? … ?’
The fact that the baron family, the lord of Hraslind, has collapsed is an event that is enough to react sensitively in the baron world, where the sense of authority is exceptional.
Depending on who is the reason for the fall of the baron family, it is the number of cases that the baron family can draw their swords and unite, considering that the baron’s authority has been violated.
But isn’t this side involved in the death of the lord of Hraslind?
Even though the prince came from the capital city, judging from how he treated Hwanin-nim respectfully, he wouldn’t use violence or force even if he made a serious mistake.
That’s also true, the royal prince clearly saw what kind of person Hwanin-nim was right next to him.
=…… Hey, sister Anne.=
Baek Ryogang, who found it difficult to come up with an answer in his own head, looked for Anne because he didn’t want to.
= You kept moaning, so I wondered what you were thinking, and were you thinking about that? =
= But I am concerned. Because Hwanin-nim always assumes that the enemy is pursuing him…….=
When Anne heard Baekryeogang’s troubles, she let out a small moan and saw Hwanin following her in a carriage.
=Lyegang said you were a child of a noble family, but your background was aristocratic… You don’t know the baron society well, do you?=
=I heard a little talk at social tea parties and banquets.=
=Num.=
She thought for a moment, working on her words, and then began to open her mouth in as soft an expression as she could to make it easier for her to understand.
=I think the preparation for Doryong is the right thing to do from my point of view.=
= Is that so…… ?=
=Whether it is a baron, a noble, or a chieftain, the high-ranking members of society hate change very much. Change means instability.=
= I definitely think so. I’ve seen a lot of people who are nervous about changes that aren’t for a purpose.=
= Yes. It is because when society is unstable, the possibility that one’s vested interests are threatened increases. That’s why we react somewhat harshly to the anxiety factors that hinder our current society. Would you like to think of Young master Baekjunggang or Baekchiryeong before meeting Doryeong?=
=…….=
=Those who have power and power tend not to think deeply. That’s why there’s a greater tendency to dismiss the anxiety factor rather than solve it in a good way through conversation. It’s convenient to press down with force, but why is there a reason to go back a long way?
Whoa, she let out her small snort and scratched her head until her silver hair fluttered.
=And I am the one who proves the nobles’ attitude.=
=Are you my sister?=
= I’m Floe, but before I met Doryeong, she was one head taller than she is now. At that time, my thighs were thicker than my waist now, but can you believe that muscles were attached to my whole body?
Baek Ryogang’s eyes widen at the story that her thighs were the size of a human waist.
= I was treated as an element of social anxiety, so I left Merianol almost as if I was running away, but look at Doryong. Power is power, personal connections are personal connections, dragons have ties, and they have a great presence not only in the three cities of Radsea but also in Yeongdo.
In addition, he possesses knowledge that can change the entire social structure of the city. Here, he is even a dimensional wanderer.
=To the barons, Doryong probably feels like a living bomb.=
He himself, who said this, did not think that the nobles would ignorantly attack with force.
Perhaps, whether it be an envoy or a messenger, he will continue to send and try to make contact with the doryeong, and he will try to persuade and attract him.
The important point comes right here.
= Will such an appeasement work for our doryeong personality? The pride of the nobles and palaces who were kicked out of their hands first would be greatly hurt, and even Li Kang knows how low and disgusting the barbarians whose pride was hurt.
= Yes…….=
=But such a living bomb was beside the downfall of the Hraslind lord’s family. Wasn’t it also where the magic dragon of Lake Aleugel appeared? However, after investigating, it seems that the black magician’s black magic book that touched the labyrinth fell into the hands of the bomb. …… How about =
The more she hears Anne’s story, the more Baek Ryogang’s beautiful face frowns.
= I feel like I can understand how Hwanin-nim moves based on those thoughts…….=
=Doryeong also sees the possibility of an extreme battle as small. However, from the point of view of the leader in charge of the party, we have no choice but to assume the worst.
Rather than being unprepared and carefree and facing a situation where you get hit in the back, move to prepare for the worst.
=There is nothing wrong with our current situation even if we move to prepare for the worst.=
=If the worst doesn’t come, it’s all right, and if it does, what you’ve prepared will work, so there’s nothing to be a problem.=
=Yes.=
Baek Ryogang, who only then understood, bowed her head and thanked Anne for her easy-to-understand explanation.
= Thanks for letting me know. Her sister explained it well, so I understood =
She was also the princess of Meria Nole and the older sister who served as a holy fighter of the Church of the Earth God. It is unusual to see her wide field of vision and infer predictions and predictions.
= Dew. Did you listen to what this sister said?=
= Even if she wasn’t so conceited, she would have looked at it a little differently. =
=Ah~ Being shy again~.=
= I didn’t. =
Baek Ryogang, who was looking at Anne with a little respect as she smirked while arguing with Isilite, clasped her hands together and prayed quietly to the beast god.
I hope Hwanin’s future path will be filled with peace. And I hope that the barbarian society will not start a war against Hwanin.
It’s been three days since I left the road that stretched out to the eastern horizon and headed north.
Hwanin, who erased the traces of the carriage and the party following it, stopped erasing the traces only on the third day.
The distance traveled by the party in three days reached a whopping 250 km. If you can chase them this far, there’s no point in hiding their traces.
“Should this be enough to erase traces in preparation for the pursuers?”
Hwanyeon, who had been using spirits for three days to erase the traces, glanced at Hwanin with a tired expression.
「Hwanin. Aren’t you really paranoid?”
“Well……. It’s a strange feeling to answer no these days. I can’t see any pursuers flying above that.”
“Yes. Can’t see within 500m. Even looking around from high in the sky, there is no trace of the beast, let alone an animal.”
“…….”
It was fortunate that there were no pursuers, but the fact that there were no beasts was rather a strange illusion.
East, west, north, south, wherever you look, there are only bushes and grass swaying in the wind and the horizon.
In a grassland this wide, it is no wonder that there are nomads, and it is an environment where herbivores can roam even in herds.
And if there are herbivores, it is only natural that there are carnivores that hunt and eat such herbivores.
But there are no animals. Besides, didn’t Kisagi say that an unknown monster would appear between Palatum and Turad?
Hwanin, who drove an emergency to the coachman’s seat, told Anne, who took turns driving her carriage with Isilite.
“Fly and look around and come back. It’s a flight to find the labyrinth, so it won’t take an hour at the latest.”
= Uh Are we going in this direction?=
“Okay.”
When the conversation is over, Bisang soars into the sky after making two formal run-ups without having to say anything.
With the unfamiliar feeling of the internal organs leaning to one side, the carriage quickly became smaller.
“It’s spring, so the wind doesn’t hurt anymore.”
“Okay.”
It rose to hundreds of meters in an instant, but all I could see was still the plains and the horizon.
How wide is this Sijur Great Plain?
The great plains I have seen so far have hills and small hills here and there, so the perspective doesn’t get weird, but here it’s really only a one-square horizon, so my eyes feel strange.
I guess it’s good that I’ve been up high in the sky for the first time in a long time. In response to the chattering story of fantasy, yes, that’s right, I look at the ground roughly, but I can’t see a single shadow of a living animal.
Even after opening the eyesight of the enhanced soul and looking at the ground and looking at the horizon, nothing suspicious can be seen.
‘Did it become a blank space after the great migration of animals?’
Hwanin, who was thinking of a hypothesis that could be explained within her own knowledge, lightly touched her stomach with the heel of her shoe and gave instructions.
“Emergency, let’s go over there.”
Kwu~!
Wedge love liquid—
Flight speed was so fast that the sound of cracking air could be clearly heard even though emergency had spread the shield with the wind.
Hwanin focused a little more and started searching for the labyrinth.
I got off the road and went north for three days. It’s time to see the first labyrinth that the great saint told me about…….
「Hwanin. The land over there.”
Kyw!
Hwanin, who had been searching for nearly 30 minutes, turned around at the sound pointing to a spot, as if Bisang and Hwanyeon had found the same thing at the same time.
“…… Is that the labyrinth entrance?”
And the conspicuous labyrinth entrance. It was like an entrance to a tunnel drilled into the ground, as if an insect had eaten the flesh.
“Let’s go down.”
The entrance to the labyrinth, which revealed a hole so secretly that it would not have been discovered had it not been for the point of fantasy and emergency, has no protruding surface at all, and the nearby area is covered by knee-high bushes.
If you just listened to the rough coordinates and tried to find them by walking around, you would have wasted dozens of days.
Hwanin walked slowly around the entrance and checked for traps.
It is about 4m wide, and the left and right walls and ceiling are made of rock-hard soil. The floor is formed with stone steps, revealing that the labyrinth has grown enough to grow. Labyrinths with immature growth do not reach the labyrinth changes until the entrance because you catch the inside shape first.
From the perspective of the Enhanced Spirit, there are no traps or dangers except for the fog-like aura that gathers inside the stairs.
Hwanyeon, who was looking at the entrance to the labyrinth from above his shoulder, expressed her feelings.
“Hmm. This labyrinth doesn’t smell that terrible.”
“Do you feel that way?”
“Yes. The labyrinth where I was born didn’t like the musty smell of the ground. There were a lot of monster smells just mixed in. But something is refreshing here.”
“I think it’s a quarantine transformation underground labyrinth, but is that because of that?”
“Containment change…… Are you talking about a labyrinth with one foot in another dimension and the inside completely different from the outside?”
According to the knowledge obtained from the labyrinth-related books examined in Yeongdo, there are many different types of labyrinths.
There are labyrinths that are just formed underground, such as the labyrinth where light does not reach in Wayford or the tyrant dragon labyrinth near Helumen, and there are also labyrinths that are spread out in nature, such as the forest labyrinth that you first tripped.
There are places like the labyrinth of spawning ponds, where the inside and outside are divided by mysterious powers, even though they are in nature, and there are isolated labyrinths that can only be entered by passing through the ‘membrane’ at the entrance, like the prison labyrinth of Farhist.
Among the isolation-type labyrinths, there are also isolation-changing underground labyrinths, but in this case, you can only enter through the entrance curtain like the Farghist Prison Labyrinth, and the inside is said to have a completely different form from the outside.
It is underground, but the sea can come out, the sky can come out, and the highlands can come out, and that’s it.
When such a basic type of labyrinth is determined, the interior is divided into a layered or layered type, and as the labyrinth grows, a reinforced layer may appear, and the form and variety are literally different.
「Hwanin. Are you going to go inside?”
“No. Now that I’ve confirmed that there is a labyrinth, I’m going back. Before that, I make a mound of dirt roughly the height of my height. Make it easy to find here.”
“Okay.”
After that, Hwanin, who returned to the carriage relying on the vision of flight and fantasy, found out that the labyrinth was farther than expected.
When returning, it flew at a speed close to Mach, but it took about 10 minutes, so it means that it is about 180 km away from the wagon.
Anne asks, scratching her head, as she flies with all her might for 10 minutes, injecting vigor into the raging Bisang.
=So you’re saying we have to go at least two more days?=
“Okay.”
This is because the moving speed is very slow because the road is unpaved and the grassland is not organized. If there is a road, 180km is enough in one day when the speed is increased.
As if that time was a waste, Anne stuck her tongue out a little.
=It is a distance that can be reached in 30 minutes by flying, but it takes two days by carriage. It feels like a huge waste of time.=
=It would take more than three days on foot.=
Isilite’s short reply made Anne let go of her pain.
= Grunt. This is why the Joins and Flavians are attracting attention for their reconnaissance and patrol. That’s probably the reason Pravor’s Sky Knights are one of the most powerful knights in the central region.=
Anne, who was gently stroking Silue in her arms, stared blankly at the flight with her Hwanin in her sudden thought.
Seeing her rogue energy from that gaze, Bi-Sang raised his eyebrows and began pecking at her thighs with his beak.
Not pecking as a joke, but puck, puck! It’s a strong beak pecking that makes her blow sound right.
Frightened by her bruised peck, Anne hurriedly takes refuge on her roof and protests.
= Hey! Bijang, why are you pecking on your sister!=
Couw! Kyum!!
When her Bi-san cried out with her angry face toward Anne, Hwan-in laughed and stroked her hair to calm her down while scolding her Anne.
“If you think like that, it’s worth it. You were wrong this time.”
= Ying. What was I thinking…….=
She was stingy, but Anne did not want Bi-sang to even read her thoughts, but she had no choice but to ask for her forgiveness for the story of her Hwanin that followed.
She said, “Didn’t she think of making a squadron of green ku by having Bisang lay her eggs?”
= Ugh…… Sorry for that Stop because flying around is so convenient and useful. But you didn’t say anything directly, did you?=
Kwyang~!
Anne, who was cringing at the threatening action of spreading her wings wide, asked her visionary with a troubled expression on her face.
=What did Bi-Sang just say…… ?=
“They say he wouldn’t have forgiven you if you had said it.”
=…….=
I’m glad I ended up just thinking about it. Anne, feeling relieved inside her, imitates her flight and soothes Silou, who cries and pecks at the breast under her.
Isilite, who laughed a little at the happening, asked her phantom.
= Master. What kind of labyrinth are you going to now?=
“If there is no change inside and the information given by Daeseongnyeo is correct, it must be a giant forest labyrinth. It must be level 5.”
= Giant Forest Labyrinth……. It’s a name that reminds me of what kind of scenery it is inside just by hearing it.
Hwanin, who moved to the coachman’s assistant’s seat in the carriage, nodded slightly. Since everything is said to be a forest geared towards giants, she must not be mistaken in her imagination.
In the conversation between the two, holding Silou by the small red beak = You shouldn’t peck people = = Anne, who was disciplining, intervened.
=If it is a forest, there will be vegetation, so you can get enough food. How many minutes of our food are left?=
= It’s a 35-day supply with a little supplement from Turad. If I make all the ingredients edible without worrying about the taste, I think it will take about 61 days.=
=That’s enough to last for 3 months if you combine gathering and hunting.=
= Yes. If everything was geared towards giants, the vegetables would be huge too. How does it taste If the size is too big, it won’t taste good.=
=Still, I hope mushrooms come out bigger. The golden mushroom steak I had at Hraslind was really good…….=
= Right. Me, my master, and Ryegang also ate the human-sized Fungus Romer.=
= Huh, really? Where? What did it taste like?=
=In the labyrinth of the small town of Wayford. The taste is a bit lighter than that of golden mushrooms, but the unique cool scent was very attractive. The texture was also soft. =
= I envy you…….=
As he listened to the stories of his girlfriends, Hwanin began to ponder again.
If the labyrinth remains as the Giant Forest labyrinth, the area will be very huge.
If this is the reason why there are no beasts on the ground, it explains to some extent.
Hwanyeon even said that there was a refreshing smell coming from the entrance. If you are a herbivore who is sensitive to smell, you may be attracted to that smell.
In that way, if the herbivores disappeared into the labyrinth, the carnivore would either follow them into the labyrinth, or else the prey would disappear and leave elsewhere.
Then there will be a huge void like this.
At that time, Hwanin, who had been itching for a while, turned around and looked up at the sky.
I can’t see anything flying even if I stretch my eyesight wide open.
Is it because of the mood?
…… Hwanin did not pass it off as a whim, but confirmed it with Hwanyeon again.
“Enjoyment. You must be keeping an eye on the sky.”
“Yes. I ordered the wind spirits to keep an eye on it in all directions. Why?”
“…… Not. Let me know as soon as something trivial comes up.”
“Don’t worry. I will do it for sure.”
Hwanin nodded his head, leaned back on the backrest of the assistant seat, and relieved his tense spirit a little.
In two days, you will have to tighten your tension again inside the labyrinth. For now, let’s rest our heads a little.
