Chapter 676 – 669 the Great Plain of Hiarid
After the Savior’s Venomous Leader and Advisor went.
Ordinary people lived today as they did yesterday, but the privileged status of nobles, barons, and chieftains in each country implicitly felt that the times were changing.
Of course, even high-ranking people have dull people, and I didn’t notice such dull people, but those who were sensitive to power and stood in the middle of the succession structure had to find out where this sense of incongruity came from after an investigation.
‘Assassination attempts and assassination cases have stopped.’
It’s not completely stopped. I hear that the number of sons and daughters of a certain family in the neighboring city have been assassinated, but at least the assassination has completely stopped in the surrounding area.
Some of those who noticed this tried to contact the assassination brokers through clandestine means.
But even they couldn’t find a middleman.
— Due to internal circumstances, maintenance of the system will be carried out for the time being.
— Sales are also suspended indefinitely.
— This line will also be closed, so take care until the next time we meet again.
A small note was left in the morning after waking up, in the office or in the bedroom.
Few people figured out that all of this was due to the cessation of the three Nionebreth assassins, Karax’s Assassins, Nasrat’s Assassins, and the Savior’s Poison Fang.
And, among the very few, only a handful of people guessed that Nasarat’s attack on the Holy Emperor’s party had triggered this situation.
A magnificent hanok office with a view of the horizon of a huge lake as wide as the sea behind it.
The nine-tailed beauty of the mysterious Inho tribe, wearing a silk bale as white as snow, quietly opened her mouth.
= Thousand people. It’s been a long time since your prediction was so wrong.=
= Even if others praise me as a great sage or university student, I am just a scholar.=
Although he made such self-deprecating complaints, Ho Cheonmyeong felt sick to his stomach the whole time he watched Seongje’s movements.
It’s not that he didn’t have the opportunity, but because of his own misjudgment, he wasted precious time that could have been a close relationship with Emperor Seong.
=I only understood why the only job is called the only job after seeing Seongje. Why did successive rulers constantly work hard to establish a good relationship with the sole occupational worker?
Instead of traveling by carriage, he should have made friends with Seongje by riding Que.
I should have done that, but because I was concerned about the physical comfort and respecting the face of a 9th-class noble, I wasted my time by spending only in the carriage.
Seeing her younger brother drinking Cheongshim tea in succession as if to soothe her sore throat, Peony, the queen of Radsea Palace, rebuked her younger brother.
= It’s not because you’re lacking. It’s because that man is an unpredictable, out-of-this-world person.
=…=
=The sky was open.=
=… ! When?=
= It was the day of the Seungryeongcheonje Festival. Emperor Goo Ho also confirmed this.=
=It was in the direction of Palatum… After all, I should have made an appointment somehow and left room to meet again… !=
=University Ho Cheonmyeong.=
Ho Cheonmyeong chewed on his nails and inferred the aftermath of the opening of the sky and the change in the world situation, starting with him. At the sound of his sister’s stern voice, he jumped up and knelt down on one knee.
=As the queen of the palace, I order to abstain from all matters related to the Holy Festival from now on.=
=Your Majesty!=
= Because it’s stupid. Look at yourself now Do you think it’s normal?=
=I’m fine!=
=Look at your nails and say it again.=
=…=
The nails of the thumb, index and middle fingers are tattered. If you bite a little more, the flesh will crack and blood will ooze out.
= It is said that Praber’s fishing ground development has entered the completion stage. Conduct research at the Academy itself so that it can be applied to the offshore of Rasubitan, review whether it is possible to collaborate with Prabur, and raise the agenda at the next meeting.=
=… What will you do with the Seongjae appeasement plan?=
= He has become a person who cannot be reached no matter how we stretch out our hands. With his actions up to this point, he has revealed that he has no intention of belonging to any one country, so we will go in the direction of building and continuing friendly relations with the people around us in the direction of not arguing with Seongje.
It was not right in my heart, but it was the order of a strict queen before being a sister, so Hocheonmyeong raised the town and replied that I would obey her will.
However, lingering lingering continues to tug at the scruff of his neck.
At that time, if only the Holy Emperor had been conciliated, if they had formed a close relationship, Radsea would have been able to build a great empire by surpassing Hethrond, Beltical, and Merianol and pushing out even the Evil Factions in the north and south.
After Ho Cheonmyeong stepped back and left the room, Peony briefly hung a fan embroidered with a solemn white wolf before opening his mouth.
= Yoon. Ring.=
Shuk — With the sound of the wind blowing, two Fleurs with jet-black skin appear prostrate in front of her.
= Keep an eye on Heaven and if the child is about to commit an accident, let her know immediately. =
=John name.=
Hiss—
Peony rose from his seat and relaxedly fanned his fan while facing the wind blowing from Aleugel.
‘Maybe it’s luck for Radsea that I didn’t meet him.’
As a result of putting 80% of the secret intelligence unit directly under Queen Radsea, the Wolf’s Eye, to follow the Holy Emperor, Peony suspected that he had the ability to control his mind.
All those who met or had a relationship with him showed obsession or longing for him.
No matter how much charm a person has, isn’t it too much to say that making even a rational person like a younger brother obsessed over is simply because of the individual’s outstanding abilities?
With the common sense of peony, such a thing cannot happen. Unless he has the power of mind control and mind control.
‘If you look at the situation listed in letters, everything in this world seems to revolve around his convenience. How could that be?’
The divine water of Yeongdo and the divine water of Aleugel are also showing a fascination with him.
It is true that even if he fully mastered blood system techniques and developed the power of Gumi, he would lag behind Shinsoo by several steps.
‘It would be right to avoid him from now on.’
The choice of Peony, who thought so, was reasonable.
Actually, it’s not psychological control, it’s more like influence, but in terms of fundamentally changing the other person’s mind, it’s psychological control and influence.
The level of the soul that continues to rise, the splendid aura of the Holy Emperor that is overwhelmed as soon as you see it. Here, as he mated with a female Shinsoo, the Shinsoo’s personality was buried in his body.
In addition to this, he has a humanly appealing appearance, a military demonstration that takes his soul out of his speech skills to win the opponent’s heart, and even Yeong-do, who exists as his background.
Moreover, due to the nature of Nionebreth culture, where the logic of power takes precedence, the phenomenon of influence inevitably becomes more prominent as time goes by.
=Your Majesty. The Munmu and the White House are waiting for your Majesty’s return.=
=Go now.=
Peony looked at the ships passing by, leaving bubbles on the horizon of Aleugel, and turned around.
Beep… It!
Waking up in the arms of her mother, Kura, Silu bruised her way out of her earthen hut and stretched out her wings and tail feathers, taking in the cool dawn air.
Then Silu, who opened his cute little beak and yawned wildly, felt hungry and looked around the house where the strong captain and master were.
Beep.
But all the doors are closed, so you can’t enter the house.
I went to the entrance and knocked on the door with my beak, but the door wouldn’t open.
Beep…
I’m hungry…
If you go inside, there must be something delicious, but all the doors are closed, so you can’t go to eat.
Without being able to hang around in front of the entrance door for a while, I decided to catch and eat small insects outside.
First, raise your little head and look up at the top of the house.
As usual, a slightly strange-looking family with six large, blue wings stands tall on two legs, watching the surroundings with sharp eyes.
Silu, still young, knew that a strange family guarded them every night.
Having learned from her mother that there are many scary things nearby, if you are not careful, you will get into trouble, so Siloo felt relieved and began digging through the bushes around the house or overturning pebbles and stones with her beak to find small insects and eat them.
Shilu chasing a flying butterfly and watching a yellow bug crawling that he has never seen before, while filling his stomach and playing.
Whiing-!
A gale that suddenly blew Silu, and Silu, who rolled the ground in the wind, wandered about for a moment before seeing the large family guarding her house fly away at an incredibly fast speed.
Beep!
Fast!
Not realizing that the strangely colored curtains around the house had disappeared, Siloo followed her instincts and ran after her family, who were suddenly flying somewhere.
There wasn’t any particular reason. It’s just that Kue’s instincts tell her to go after her family, who are flying away.
Koogung, Pung- Kwaang—
After running for a while, Silu heard the sound of something exploding in the direction her family had flown.
Did something scary come out?
Only then did Silu, free from her instincts, stop and look around her.
Where are you?
When she was chasing her flying family, she didn’t know because she only looked up, but the grass grows high and everywhere she looks around is grass.
As she leaps and flaps her wings, she finally sees a small house over there.
Silu, relieved internally, puts his foot towards the house.
What?! Beep!
She fell off with the feeling that her feet were going to collapse, and she rolled somewhere.
= Silu~. Siluya~.=
=Anne. Not there?=
= Uh… Wasn’t it in the crypt?=
= Yes. Where did he go? =
It was around the time when all the women of Hwanin realized that Shilu had disappeared, getting up and preparing breakfast.
If it was normal, she would have been walking around the living room with Norn, but she didn’t want to see her until late today, so Norn came running and said that Lu was gone.
Coo. Que~.
Whoops!
Que also wandered around looking for Silu, who had disappeared with an anxious look, and the women scattered and searched everywhere, but Silu was not found.
Ayeong and Yurpa, who had been searching the house, also joined them with faces full of worries and concerns.
= You weren’t even at home? I looked all over, but I didn’t see a single red feather.
= I don’t understand. You obviously made sure Luxomi’s protective barrier was activated before going to bed. It wasn’t that something had broken in, and if Siloo had touched the barrier, it would have sounded an alarm, but there wasn’t anything like that…=
Anne frowned and asked Yurupa.
= Sister. Are there any monsters that can pass through the barrier? Something like a ghost.=
=If there was such a thing, Luxomi would have been classified as an artifact or a high-class magician, not an artifact.=
=But the silou is gone…=
=Really… Does she really have a monster that can get through the protective barrier? But Immorel must have been watching.=
Imorel, the lieutenant of Argentea scout souls, was on duty while the party was asleep.
From Palatum to the middle of the Great Plain of Hiarid, the party’s faith is solid because they have faithfully worked without watch every time they camped.
If an abnormal situation had occurred, he would have woken up someone, whether it be a phantom or a woman.
The women’s expressions become worse as the case gradually falls into a labyrinth. Shilu’s mother, Kura, now shows strong anxiety and wanders around her dizzily.
Flutter—! Flutter—
At that time, with wild flapping of wings, Norn came down and changed into a girl.
The women approached Norn, who took out her clothes from the pocket she wore around her neck and put them on.
=Norn, did you find Silu?=
“I searched all around, but there are bloodstains 800m away…」
=Did you miss it?!=
“… It was the trail of a monster her aunt had killed. I couldn’t find it.”
=Hey, confused!=
「Ah! Don’t do it!」
She ruffles Norn’s green hair and looks back at her house with her face ready to die, worried about her messy Anne.
=Why is Bell not coming? Have you gone to wake up the thief yet?=
= Isn’t she caught by her brother? If she gets caught by her brother while trying to talk and starts to cry quickly while she’s fathering her, Bell won’t be able to get her words out. =
When Ah-yeong, who was scanning the ground looking for Silu’s footprints, said that, the door to the Wanderer’s Rest opened and Hwan-in walked out with a fan on her shoulder. And Baek Ligang, her blushing face, follows.
I can roughly guess what happened.
As the women quickly approached him, the voice of fantasy flowed into their ears first.
“Doesn’t exist. I freed the spirit and looked around, but I couldn’t see it.”
“Have you checked the ground speed?”
“I called wind and earth and checked everything within a radius of 500m, but nothing happened.”
Doesn’t that mean it literally disappeared? After hearing the conversation between Hwan-yeon and Hwan-in, Anne called Immorel and told her to check it out.
As the girls wished, they called three Argentea scouts, including Immorel, who had been on night watch last night, and the women began to question Immorel and the other two scouts.
“… I saw them roaming the yard at dawn and catching and eating insects.”
=Dawn? After that?=
“I confirmed that a presumed level 4 monster appeared in the middle, shot it down, and didn’t see it after returning.”
=Didn’t Siloo escape when the protective barrier was released?=
“I don’t think so. I was away for about a minute. If Silu had moved outside the shield area, I would have discovered it first.”
“Were there any other monsters besides that one?”
“Yes. After that, until you woke up, there was no suspicious approach.”
“Uh, by all means, will things happen then…?” …」
=Then?=
At Anne’s question, Hwanyeon scratched the back of her head with an embarrassed expression.
“Because I was being tormented by Hwanin, the spirit monitoring was a little weak. She told me to inform only approaching people, so if Shirou had slipped away, she would have left it alone.”
The women were speechless. The phrase ‘if it’s necessary’ comes out of nowhere.
In the meantime, Hwanin and Ayoung were examining the land around the house, starting with the dungeon for sleeping in Quedeul made by the earth spirit.
Ah-yeong finds something on the ground and calls him.
=Brother, Siloo’s footprints moved this way.=
Kue’s unique small footprints that grow among the footprints of his girlfriends who were dizzyingly taken.
Hwanin, who was looking for footprints by calculating the stride length of the footprints, the running distance, and the speed of Silu, found a trace of a rolling roll at one point.
And even the traces of running out of the ground.
The direction Siloo ran to is a place full of 50cm to 70cm tall bushes.
=This is my tracking technique. I need the skills of a professional tracker to track more here, but I haven’t learned that far…=
“No, this is enough. Fantastic. Come this way.”
“Why? What did you find?」
“Here are the footprints of Silu. It seems that after rolling once here, he ran to the other side.”
“Really.”
“Can you call the spirits of the land or grass to follow Silu’s trail?”
“Huh. I’ll look for it.”
When Hwanyeon summoned the spirits again and ordered them to search, Norn looked in that direction and pulled Hwanin’s arm and said,
「Hwanin. If you keep going this way, you’ll find traces of the monster Imorel killed.”
“…”
A rough scene of Norn’s story is drawn in Hwanin’s mind.
Siloo caught and ate bugs in the front yard. At that time, a monster appeared 800m away, and when Immore released the barrier to catch it and flew away, Silu must have instinctively chased after it.
As Hwanin strode forward, he found several mounds of soil that looked like mole burrows.
‘This…’
Ordinary moles dig into the ground and erect mounds of soil that are less than a hand’s breadth. However, this mound of soil is about to exceed 70cm in height.
Hwanyeon’s bad news was added when his expression deteriorated.
「Hwanin. There are some oysters in the ground. It is wide enough for a creature one head smaller than the yolk to walk around.”
“Did Silu fall into that den?”
“… Huh. The Silu footprint continued over there, but ended in front of the crypt.”
Hwanin raised his head and gave instructions to the stiff-faced girlfriends.
“Anne and Baek Ryogang, go and organize the camp and follow me. Follow Aunt Rell, possess her heavenly body, and follow them.”
=Yes.=
“Yes, Seongje-nim.”
“The rest goes together. Hwanyeon sends an earth spirit to check all the caves, and Yurpa, please prepare the miniaturization secret technique.”
=If you shorten the height to about 1m, you will be able to secure the duration of about 4 hours.=
“Yes.”
He then summoned all the Argentea scouts, all five top-class fangs, and four monthly-level assassins from Nassarat, and pushed them all into the crypt.
‘Find the traces of Silu.’
“Hwanin, this way.”
In order to find the missing Silu, the party began to move deep into the Great Plain of Hiarid following the search for the spirit of fantasy.
