Chapter 692 – 685 Cheblip, the Village by the Mountain
Dinner was a very friendly and enjoyable time for everyone.
Because of the environment in Cheblief, the fish dishes that the Fleurs like were not listed, but more than 10 main dishes with more than 50 side dishes of vegetables and various meats satisfied everyone.
= Kyaaaaa… !=
= Wow! This is Colpara’s 193-year-old golden dew wine!=
The lineup that comes out as an accompaniment from Grapaden’s subspace wallet is literally at the level of luxury premium.
In particular, when the 1100-year-old wine came out and everyone took a sip, silence settled in the living room for about 4 seconds.
= Ugh… !=
= Ha… I’d believe it if I said it wasn’t alcohol, it was the water of life…=
= I thought it was a vinegar friend because it was aged 1100 years, but how…=
“… It tastes fantastic.”
This liquid, shining bright like an amethyst, was such that even the Hwanin couldn’t think of the right words to express it.
To give a metaphor, not an expression, it feels like a cocktail made by mixing high-quality fruit wine with the essence of Anne, then brewed again after a little time with the addition of a drop of holy water.
Grapparden was pleased with the admiration of the women and explained.
= Haha. It is not that 1100 years have passed in real time. In fact, it is about 300 years old, but it is a wine that has been specially aged using secret techniques and techniques. Now that I’ve opened this, there are only six bottles left in the world.=
= Hehe. Wouldn’t that amount just cost hundreds of gold coins per bottle?=
Ah-yeong looked at the remaining 1/3 of the wine and made a sad face. Roughly equivalent to 500 gold coins per bottle, this small cup would be worth 55 gold coins.
“It is not. With a wine like this, priceless is natural.”
= Yes? Why? Isn’t it rather difficult that there is no price…=
Isilite, who moistened only the tip of her tongue again, asked with a sad sigh and an incomprehensible face.
Hwanin swallowed her thoughts as he looked at the wine with calm eyes, unable to believe that such a thing existed.
The rich boast subtly, saying that they have something priceless to satisfy their vanity and luxury.
However, the real rich considers even such an act to be vulgar, and giving gifts or unknowingly only to rich people of the same level as themselves is the ‘real’ treasure.
What should I do in front of Grappaden with such harsh words?
Hwanin opened his mouth, feeling Grapparden’s gaze full of anticipation.
“Because giving something that cannot be priced as a gift is the most meaningful gift. If this is a wine, would it be used only as a gift for a very small number of people?”
= I know Hwanin-kun very well. As the saying goes, this wine has neither a name nor a value.=
= Are you Lee Sil? Among the higher ranks, mid-price gifts are ranked quite low in the gift category. The same goes for the nobles, but the real precious gifts are the handmade products that the nobles themselves spent a lot of effort and time on.=
In response to Baek Ryeo-gang’s explanation, Anne also added, looking profoundly at the half remaining purple liquid in a small cocktail glass.
= Yes. The time of an aristocrat, especially the time of a person of royalty like my father, cannot be converted into money. To the extent that if you put value on an object made with such time and try to measure it with money, it would insult your honor and challenge you to a duel? Do you remember how the nobles brought gold coins wrapped up as donations to meet the lord in Palatum?=
= Hehe. I’m sorry!=
Ayoung, who had just tried to measure the value, jumped up and bowed at an angle of 120 degrees to Grappaden, and Grappaden burst into laughter enough to bring tears to his eyes.
= It’s okay. I think it’s a custom I don’t understand.=
= Ah… Then, did Grapparden make this wine himself? Your skill at brewing is amazing.=
= Haha. I look a bit old, but I’m not that old. This is the sake that the ancestors brewed as a hobby.=
= Dad. Can I pick something like that?=
= Of course not. I’ve been keeping this bottle all along to open it when you bring your son-in-law. By the way, not only the son-in-law, but also the older sister and younger brother, and even a friend. It feels like I have five more daughters. If I don’t pick this on this happy day, when will I pick it?=
At the same time, he sent a look of admiration for the women to the winking Grapparden.
From being an ideal royalty to being an ideal father. How could he not respect him?
In this way, the good atmosphere of the dinner continued for two hours.
Since the wine aged in 1100, distilled spirits and distilled spirits have continued to come out, and Anne also took out all the remaining alcohol she brought from Korea.
Grapparden and Suanadade all enjoy a drink while enjoying the atmosphere.
“I wondered where Anne’s drunkard traits came from. The culprit was Mr.
= Haha! That’s not the only thing her daughter inherited from her uncle! I have this face too!=
=Really. If my face didn’t look like my father’s, I would have thought that I had been given it from under the root of a tree somewhere.
= Well then. This father is a master of spirit magic to the extent that he has had a conversation with the spirit king, and the mother is to the extent of making a contract with the highest level spirit of the land with only magic and spirit affinity, but her daughter is terribly poor in spirit magic and magic. =
= I thought that all of her qualities were focused on her physical abilities. Her daughter’s body is literally a blessing from the land god…=
=Huh?=
=Huh?=
Shuanade’s face, which had been narrowed since drinking a little, suddenly turns cold, and the crystal glass in her hand is cracked.
=Crying for my cute daughter or Jilliant…=
Her gentle voice, which had been full of inclusiveness, became cold, and a haze of life began to creep up over her shoulder.
Anne and Grapparden hurriedly clung to her, feeling her spirits draining away.
= Oh! Mom! Because I’m fine! Thanks to Doryong, he has become so slim while maintaining his strength?!=
= Right, right! Madam, I think you’re drinking a little too much, so why don’t you stop? Miss Isilite, cold water please!=
= Yes? Yes!=
Not as much as Grapparden and Anne, but the women were also taken aback.
Ever since I met her, she has always been gentle and kind, so that the person who was like an ideal mother could live like this.
Shuna Deh doesn’t even realize it’s ruining her mood, and she spits out her grim life.
= It’s a very absurd act. How could she throw such a rant at such a cute child? Especially Tarbanciol, that child, I will never forgive him. She dares to call my daughter a devil and breaks her engagement, and because of that, my daughter doesn’t even make a single friend for her and she ends up being banished from Meria Knoll… !=
When the women were embarrassed and flustered at the top-notch spiritist’s life and spirit, she laughed into Hwan In-man and put a bitter smile on her lips.
How could she resemble her mother to such a degree.
When Anne recalls the time she was persecuted, her angry look vividly reminds her of her mother who passed away.
She was a mother who didn’t mind even if she was criticized for a reason, but when she was criticized for being a monster with a sore throat, she was more angry than anyone else.
Bang!
She lowered the table with her slender hands and tried to raise her body, staggering.
= I also want to go back. At least tarbansiol should be crushed so that no one will be sad next time if something like a daughter happens again!=
= Mrs. Other children are scared, so please control your energy!=
=Mom, aren’t you thirsty?! Drink water, water!=
=Shu, Mr. Shuanade! Because Anne is no longer alone… ! Me, me and Ayoung… ! Right?!=
= Sure! Anne-sister has us, Isilite-sister, and Yurpa-sister! With Hwanin oppa, I am no longer alone!=
Hwanin, who had been watching her while smiling faintly as her girlfriends dried her shu na de, suddenly opened her mouth impulsively.
Of course, she spilled a life that was as thick as her shua-nade, several times more heinous than her.
“Are you Tarbansiol of the Turcion royal family? Thanks to her friend, she met Anne, but… Listening to her mother-in-law makes me feel unbearable.”
=Hwanin-kun?=
=Son-in-law.=
“Even if you don’t, there are a lot of emotions built up in Merianol. The next time I meet a member of the Turcion family, it would be fun to let go of my old feelings.”
= I am also a son-in-law. At that time, I was also… !=
= Hehe… ! My brother is also drunk!=
= Ah, ah! Hey, what are you all doing?! Dry the sword! Seul-i and Norn are attached to Doryeong… Mom, stop it too!=
=Master!=
「Ahaha! Hwanin is angry!」
= Honey, honey! Water here! Would you like some water?!=
It was a drinking party that became more lively with laughter and murder.
When I open the living room window and come out, a cool night breeze blows in, washing away my tired senses from the smell of food and alcohol.
“Whoa.”
Hwanin exhaled the stale breath from her lungs, and Anne, who followed him, brushed her bangs and made a really bad expression.
=Really… That’s why it doesn’t feel like a joke. I took 10 years.=
“Hmm. When did I say it was a joke?”
= Uh… ?=
“… Kuk-kuk-kuk.”
=Ah, it doesn’t look like a joke if you do that! Stop that!=
Didn’t you really pass on something strange to your mother? As Anne muttered with her serious face, Hwanin looked at her with her soft eyes.
By listening to the story, Anne is 66 years old this year. At the age of 18, she had a coming-of-age ceremony and she left her house shortly after, so she was reunited with her parents after 30 or 40 years.
But the way she shows her doesn’t feel like she’s been separated from her family for a long time.
Is that why the scars of discrimination and persecution have been blurred?
‘No way.’
In front of the dazzling light, all flaws are hidden. And the wounds of the heart carved in childhood are obvious even when they grow up.
Moreover, her age is in her early 20s when converted into a human.
The fact that her sick side is not revealed even at the height of her sensitivity must be that her bright personality is hiding the scars in her heart.
Hwanin opened his mouth quietly as he wrapped his arms around her shoulder as he was blowing wind with his palm.
“Anne.”
=Huh?=
“Your heart understands.”
=…=
“But I can’t stop. There’s a small chance that we can come to an agreement with the royal family of Merianol and end the discussion. No matter what anyone says, I will be involved with the people who forcibly brought me into this world.”
= Doryeong…=
“And now I hear that those who bullied you are also in there.”
=…=
Turning her head away from the sorrowful gaze she sent her, her Hwanin continued her words while looking at her towards the town street where only a few small lights were floating.
“Fortunately, your father-in-law and mother-in-law left Merianol, but you have a real brother.”
=That, by the way?=
“He will be my older brother, so when he enters Passage, he will be the first to contact his older brother and important people in the family, and make them leave the capital even if they make various excuses. In the worst case, lest I harm them.”
= Yes. Okay…=
She spoke calmly, but Anne responded gloomily to the content that was never calm.
Even if he didn’t, he wanted to stop the massacre, but he couldn’t avoid the feeling that he was being encouraged because of himself.
It feels like the currents of the world are inducing his slaughter. Could this be fate?
‘… No. There’s still time before Merianol.’
Unni Yul, Seul-i, and Ah-yeong won’t pay much attention to these things, and if it’s Hwan-yeon, they’ll encourage you to do it quickly. Li Kang is a weak-willed child who will follow Do Lyeong wherever he goes.
She is the only one to stop it, but what if she gives up on herself?
If it were Doryeong, she wouldn’t commit an incident openly enough to leave her name as a rare murderer. Even if posterity doesn’t think of him as a hero, he won’t be remembered badly.
Even so, the fact that a great amount of blood was shed on his hands did not change.
How would he change if he, who is already sensitive to blood and flesh, gets a large amount of blood on his hands?
Anne liked the way he looked now as he gradually changed into a human. I don’t want to come and taste the blood and go back to the way it used to be.
‘I have to find a way somehow to avoid committing a massacre…’
Thinking so, Anne felt her terrifying elemental power gathering right in front of her, and she quickly blocked his way.
Even if you look at it, it is a tremendous spirit power of the highest level. With this level of spirit power, even in Merianol, the old pure-blooded Fleurs could use it.
What? Could it be that Merianol has already sent an assassin!?
Glaring at the gigantic lump of earth that quickly took on a human form, Anne was about to pull out the hammer of punishment from her subspace pocket. She opened her eyes wide when she heard a voice coming from the multi-meter-long lump of earth in the shape of a man.
“Isn’t it? It’s been a while.”
=… Uh? I, do you know me?=
“I am, at least, the highest level earth spirit contracted with your mother Shuanade. I’ve been watching you since you were born.”
= Ah. Mother’s Spirit…=
You weren’t an assassin. Relieved, Anne took her hands out of her pockets and smiled softly at the conversation that followed.
“You’ve built up quite a bit of spirit power. Isn’t the journey in the past not helpful at all?”
= That’s because I’ve experienced a lot. Rather than that, it’s a strange feeling to talk to a mother’s spirit that I’ve never felt before.
「That’s natural. In the past, you were such an ugly thing that all spirits avoided it.”
=… Does that mean my elemental power is low? Right?=
Anne, who has grown fat, puts her hand on her waist and glares at Agamgan, but Agamgan is already talking to her Hwanin without even looking at herself.
“You, human. Don’t ask Shuanade that kind of request again. This time I granted her earnest wishes, but next time I will stop you by turning you into a bowl of jelly.”
“I will. Rather than that, you came back in one day, so did you go through all of the Cheonam Mountain Range in the meantime?”
“The act of seeing is an expression that does not suit our spirits. If you look and act like you humans, a year would not be enough to tour this land.”
“It is as you say.”
“Joy. Human, if you have a map, take it out.”
As Hwanin took out the Nionebreath Evangelist obtained from Helumen and spread it out on the outdoor table, Agamgan spoke again.
“Show the location and all directions of this place.”
“You can look at it like this.”
When the north latitude on the map matched the north of the real world, Agam Gan made the tip of his finger like an awl and pricked one point.
A point slightly skewed to the north between Cheblief and Sprould. After that, I take about 6 more places around it.
“That is all. Then.”
Agamgan disappears as if melting away as if he had said everything. Hwanin, who was about to ask a couple of questions, looked at the disappearing place for a while before he had time to say hello, then took out a scaled-up map and marked the place where he had marked.
Anne, who was waiting for Hwanin to draw something on the map, asked while putting his arm around her breastbone.
= Dolyeong? Did you ask your mother for something?=
“Somehow, my mother-in-law helped me find the great sage. The place indicated by Agamgan is a place where people live in the Cheonam Mountains…”
Only one of the places I photographed is unusually large. Is it that there are strong people, or does it mean that it is a place where many people live together?
=Certainly, the earth spirits and the wind spirits are the best at searching for people. Anyway, among these seven places, there is a great sage, right? Isn’t the one marked the largest here the most likely?=
“There is no way the spirits will accidentally divide the size and take pictures. I’m going to look for this place first, then look around the rest. “
Hwanin nodded and rolled up the map again and stored it in his aspen.
The next destination has been set.
Ha ha… Ahh… Black… ! Haaaaang… !
Whew… Chest… If you pull like that… Ahn Dae-ae… !
Aww… ! Haha… !
Inside a pitch-black room. Divine voices full of joy and ecstasy flow faintly through the thick and sturdy walls.
In her now familiar environment, Ah-young sat naked on her bare floor, placing her hands palms up and under her belly button, activating her senses.
As her sensory hypersensitivity awakens, every cell in her body begins to accept the signs and sensations around her.
That sense made the sight beyond the wall vaguely visible.
Sister Anne lying on her side and raising her left leg up to the ceiling. And behind her sister, she mercilessly wrapped around her neck and waist… Hmmm.
Ah-young slowly reversed the reception of those sensations and directed them into her body.
Gurrureuk— doo kung- doo kung- kurl rrrr—
Cologne cologne… Duk, Duk, Duk—
Kiyi Ying – Self, Tudu Duk.
Various sounds that resonate inside the body. Among them, I focus only on the sound of blood flowing, so the other sounds slowly disappear.
As Ayoung focused on the flow of her blood, she recalled the story Shuanade had told her.
‘A tree flower is an unavoidable fate for the Fleurs who have a heterogeneous partner as their companion. What is needed is to change the outcome while conforming to fate.’
‘Do you know the structure and principle of tree flowers?’
‘The change in the body to provide the most necessary ingredients to the companion by unconsciously analyzing and discriminating the biological structure of the companion is called arboretum.’
‘In the case of arborealization, all bodily fluids, including tears, saliva, breast milk, and the sexual juice produced in the genitals, become pure water, and this is what Ayoung-yang should focus on.’
Essence is stored in one part of the body. The stored essence moves to the mammary glands, bladder, uterus, salivary glands and lacrimal glands as needed.
Blood Manipulation is a technique created to consciously control the flow of essence, allowing it to circulate through the body rather than going to the internal springs.
‘The fact that Miss Ah-yeong’s situation was that she had been forcibly stopped planting flowers was the most effective. From today, keep the flow of blood in mind as much as possible.’
‘As you proceed with arborealization, remember where the essence gathers on your body and where the bowl of essence is created.’
‘Once the Vessel of Essence is complete, manipulate the blood around it to figure out where and how the essence moves, and manipulate the flow of essence with blood manipulation.’
In that way, even if the springs inside the body are filled with water, it becomes an ordinary liquid without the effect of quintessence.
Ayoung asked questions that arose during her education.
‘Then, the essence must be accumulated too much inside the body. What should I do with the accumulated essence?’
‘There are two ways to use integers. One is to provide essence as it is for a partner to improve health and vitality and help them live a long and disease-free life. The other is to sprinkle essence on flowers to make them pure.’
Yu Lepa had heard a similar story from Anne before, but A-Young was surprised because it was the first time she had heard it.
Anne, of course, was different from what she had been told, so she asked Suane Dé again about her arboreal plant.
She and she admitted that she had misremembered, she frankly admitted.
Somehow, I tried to make the essence into a flower by feeding it to the doryeong, but the flower didn’t bloom.
At that time, I thought it was because Doryeong ate too much essence…
Anyway, the petals of purity are a key ingredient in Elixir, known as the medicine for immortality and cure all diseases.
The pure flower is a mysterious flower that is excavated only occasionally, once every few decades, at large auction houses in each country. Nothing is known about where it blooms.
Although the elixir made from purification is less effective than the absorption of essence, on the contrary, unlike the essence that only works for companions, it is also used for others.
It is like the story that Hwanin and his women can live happily ever after.
Shuanade, who explained everything, added a gentle smile as if she had forgotten.
‘This is one of the secrets of the royal family, but I forgot to tell you. Please keep it a secret?’
… Called.
Ayoung thanked Shuanade once again in her heart.
‘As expected, she’s my sister’s mother.’
Because her knowledge of Shuna Deh did not stop at allowing Ah-young to sleep with her Hwanin even after she had been sleeping on her tree, but more than anything else, it made her place steadfast.
For her, her Chouna de is literally her mother-in-law.
A-Young, feeling grateful to Shuna De and Anne again, began to grasp the flow of blood and blood vessels in her body with her hypersensitivity.
It was very difficult to identify all the blood vessels because the speed at which blood flowed was different depending on the body part, and the blood vessels were so long and detailed that it was mind-boggling.
‘I’ll make it!’
Ayoung desperately clung to it.
For the sake of the place she is, to repay her favor to her Blessed Mother and her sister, who gave her this knowledge free of charge.
And to repay her yurupa, her sister, who had created a tattoo exclusively for herself by concocting an incredibly complicated formula for herself.
Because if she makes pure flowers herself, her Yurepa sister will make it into an elixir.
