Chapter 696 – 689 Daevaston Mountains
Doo doo doo—
A mountain forest where all kinds of trees that are hundreds of years old shine brightly in green, as if they are stocking up on greenery for the coming summer.
A group of five Que, a witch riding a flying broomstick, and a Celestial with three pairs of wings bravely run through a dense forest with no roads.
As a result of putting the wagon into the aspen and subdividing the load according to the center of gravity and volume, the speed of the party improved dramatically.
It was thanks to Yurpa’s continuous improvement of the subspace pouch and preservation pouch for three years.
Thanks to her efforts, the group has several bags with a 70% weight reduction and a space of 3.5m * 3.5m, engraved with subspace and preservation techniques.
This is the top-class quality and performance among the subspace bags that have spread throughout Nionebreath.
=In terms of weight reduction, 70% should be considered the limit. If you increase the reduction rate more than that, there is a chance that internal space mutation will occur, and the items in the bag may be mixed, degenerated, or metamorphosed into subspace creatures.=
Yurpa, who rode a new flying broom like her young lady and followed her beside her, was asked by her phantom.
“So it’s only artifacts that have a reduction rate of over 70%. Was it from the High Secret Book of the Royal Family of Heathrond?”
= Right. That’s why Praver’s military transport bag also has a reduction rate of 70% and the size is 10*10*6m.=
“From now on, the improvement of the magic bag will be done in the direction of space expansion.”
= It will be like that. However, from 5*5*5m capacity, I need a solidified exoskeleton, so I have to use a box rather than a bag, so I’m a little worried.=
Her phantom listened to her story and watched her follow her on her flying broomstick like a witch.
A bird flying broom made by peeling the bark of a slightly overgrown birch tree, trimming it smooth to an ivory color, and gathering soft twigs together and tying them together.
The outfit of the yurupa riding the broom is also simple in design, an off-white robe dress with a white hat, and her long hair is also pure white, so she looks more noble than a witch, more like a female wizard with a sense of color.
“By the way, would it be okay if I continued following you on a broomstick? Aren’t you putting too much strain on your back and body?”
= Whoops. It’s okay to make the broomstick flat~.=
As she said, the broom handle is not round like a twig or stick, but slightly round like an oar, so it is true that it looks more comfortable to sit on than the previous broom.
Yurpa muttered as she stroked the ivory-colored broomstick with her eyes full of emotion.
=Stable modification of the flying broom is only possible for skilled enchanters. It’s a little hard to believe that I’ve reached that level… It’s really bewildering that so many things have changed in the 3 years I’ve been following you.
It’s only 3 years. During these three years, the experience she had and the knowledge she accumulated was as dense as the previous 71 years.
How much can she see, hear and experience since being by his side.
When his Nionebreath journey is over, his second life on Earth will begin, and how much experience and knowledge he will be able to accumulate then.
Due to an unexpected accident, she is also considering the possibility that she will not be able to be with him anymore…
=Is it really okay if you only wear that outfit?=
= Yes. Outside the labyrinth, I want to stay like this as long as I can. And I wore arm plates and leg plates.=
=The clothes are pretty, but the gauntlets and greaves are pretty, and the hangers are even prettier, so it’s no joke.=
= Aggeuk. Huh, my back…=
= Ayoung… If it’s that hard, it’s not good to use healing arts… ?=
=If you rely on healing techniques for each pain, you may not get the effect when it is really important. Black! Ugh…=
=Ah, healing immunity…=
Turning her gaze back, Yurpa caught sight of the girls following her while chatting little by little.
Now, if someone is missing, the family will feel empty as if a hole has been pierced in their hearts.
I hope everyone can be together until the last moment without anyone getting hurt or falling out. Yurpa turned her gaze forward and offered up a prayer in her heart to her benevolent god.
Dududuk—
Que~.
Pudder the duck-!
Running up a rugged mountain with no roads, Kufin felt the edge of the bedrock on which he had stepped on break and collapse, so he fluttered his wings vigorously and escaped.
Rushingly, some of the rocks and pebbles disappeared into the cliff where the mist gradually settled, and the road was cut off, but Kura, Zellfrey, and the gray Kue who had temporarily joined together flapped their wings lightly and jumped over.
Anne, who was riding a coupin, felt her heart drop for a moment, so she wiped away the cold sweat and let out a sigh.
= I can understand why she said not to enter unless it is Que. =
= That’s right The fog seems a little strange…=
As the mountain range began in earnest after passing the entrance of the mountain range, it was enough to say that the terrain was rugged.
It is common to move along the edge of a cliff-like rocky mountain side, and it is common to move left and right along a single road like a cliff, and most of them are inclined, so the speed of movement is greatly reduced.
Of course, it is faster than walking on two legs because it is riding a Que, but it is not even half that speed on a gentle mountain road.
= Huh? I don’t think this is fog?=
=If it’s not fog, what is it?=
=You saw a lot of very high mountain peaks at the beginning. When a cloud flows and gets caught in something like that, it sometimes flows down the mountain, but I think this is it.
=It is part of the cloud.=
Somehow, it felt more humid than normal fog.
With a new magic tool outfit, Isilite, who removed the chest plate and chain belt skirt from the Celestial Veil and wore only the leg plate and arm plate gauntlets, looked up at the water droplets that began to form on the surface of the gauntlet and raised her head.
The mountain peaks stand so high that you can hardly see the sky, a landscape that feels somewhat intimidating.
And the strange sense of incongruity felt in the landscape.
Now, Hwanin is also sending a warning that there is a sense of incongruity in the scenery.
= I don’t think it’s because of this cloud… The atmosphere is a bit odd. It doesn’t feel like an ordinary mountain. Anne What do you think? =
= Since the Daevaston Mountains are one of the 5 Nionebres Mountains, isn’t it right that they are not normal mountains?=
=You know I didn’t mean that.=
Isilite furrows her brows slightly, and Anne, giggling, nods her head, making her look serious.
= I haven’t heard the sound of mountain birds since a while ago, and the surroundings are quiet. When small animals get this quiet, it’s usually only when there’s a threat around them…=
= It means that something different happened than usual. Aren’t you afraid of us?=
=If that’s the case, you should hear the birdsong from far away. But I can’t hear any animals, let alone birds, within my hearing range.=
Is it a hostile creature? Isilite placed her hand on the hilt of the knight’s sword strapped to her waist, and Anne gripped the ceremonial (but also practical) warhammer behind her waist.
At that moment, Hwanin, who rode her yolk and advanced from the front, lifted the balance.
The 1-shaped stick received as a sign of apology for an incident in Parchist, and the balance that was flat in the labyrinth of the underground cave was crafted and gave an antique feel in many ways. Came out
Faaaaa…
=It’s not just a wave of tranquility. Enhanced with glyphs.=
The golden light spread far and wide like a shoal. As it spreads and mixes with scattered clouds like mist, then flows, the scene looks like golden holy water that washes away the dirt of the world.
=… ?!=
=… !!=
The women who stared at the sight in awe were startled and grabbed the handle of the weapon.
All over the golden shoal, the white things that should be called terrible and grotesque were buried and washed away together.
= What is that? Was that the identity of the sense of incongruity you felt?
= Mo, I don’t know…=
= Ghost… ? It feels similar. But it’s much more hideous than that.=
At Ayoung’s analysis, Isilite thought that she had seen that figure somewhere, narrowing her brows, and clapped her hands.
=The Evil Spirit of Carton Village!=
= Huh? Miss Dew, is it the evil spirit of Carton?=
Isilite explained briefly to Yurpa, who suddenly popped up the name of her hometown and her eyes widened.
=The woman from Ouling’s high-ranking relative who was killed by Aldhelm Bijarux. She is a woman who was killed and buried in a river bed, and then became a Buddha to her master, and when she became an evil spirit, her appearance was similar to that. =
= Oh, that woman…=
“I will go again.”
If it’s Carton Village, it’s a story when Hwanin travels with Isilite.
The women who wanted to ask more about Hwanin’s story hurriedly touched Kue’s side and let him go.
In the misty mountain valley, which had been quiet before I knew it, I began to hear the chirping chirping of birds and the screeching of grass insects.
For some reason, the color feels a bit brighter than the gloomy feeling that seems to have been covered with a gray filter.
Was the sense of incongruity earlier because it was hidden in the fog?
The women stopped chatting and started following Hwanin, paying more attention to their surroundings than before.
Then, in front of the party, a single road attached to the cliff appeared again.
It is less than 2m wide, so it is not strange for those with a weak heart to suffer a heart attack.
= Even though it is the beginning of the Daevaston Mountains, the terrain is so rugged. Without the flying broom, I couldn’t have followed.=
“Yurpa. Please update the feather fall secret technique.”
=Yes.=
While Yurpa was renewing the secret technique of falling feathers with everyone in the party, Immorel, who had gone on reconnaissance earlier, returned with six blue wings flapping and reported to Hwanin.
“Sir Seongjae. The fog gets thicker the further you go inside. If you go further than this, you will not be able to see 5m ahead.”
“Were there any signs of heterogeneous species or other monsters?”
“Yes. And when I went into the fog, I felt like I could feel the gaze. I tried to push the fog away with the wind, but it was impossible because it was too wide. I think you need to be careful.”
‘As was the case with the ghosts hiding in the fog, but the artificial intentions are getting stronger.’
After saying that he understood, Hwanin, who sent another search and reconnaissance, crossed his arms and thought for a while.
A whitish ghost hiding in the whitish fog. The girlfriends were surprised and wary, but in Hwanin’s eyes, it was a messy spirit that felt like being kicked on the road.
It’s so bizarre that it’s impossible to tell whether it’s a human soul, an animal, a beast, a monster, or a monster.
If you are a weak person or a person with weak spirit, it will be used for such a soul, but if you are in a party, rather, the evil spirits may be exorcised by the powerful control of phase power, so they do not approach.
The only thing Hwanin blew away with the wave of tranquility was cleaning the surroundings to prevent troublesome situations.
“…”
A little further, a place similar to Zhangjiajie in China began to appear.
A cliff like a ceiling, a narrow road, and a pillar-like mountain that can be glimpsed through the thick fog.
As Immore said, the fog thickens even more. There is no worry about falling to death as there is Yurpa’s feather drop secret, but if one falls, you have to go back to retrieve the group.
If the vision is obscured by this much, the possibility of stumbling increases, so Hwanin calls on Hwanyeon to ask if he can clear the fog.
“… Why do kids do this I’m not listening.”
“Is it an intermediate level spirit? Not listen in any way”
“It feels like someone other than me gave a stronger order and didn’t listen to me.”
“That means the spirit that received the order is staying here and not leaving.”
Second, the spirits blocked the visits of other spirits.
Hearing his story, Hwanyeon felt bad for some reason and called a high-ranking wind spirit friend in the ghost realm.
‘Blow away all this unpleasant fog!’
At her request, a high-ranking wind spirit laughed lightly and lifted her hand. With him, the gale raged widely, dispelling mist from the valley into the sky.
As if turning on a fan in a space filled with cigarette smoke, the fog is pumped up into the sky.
A gale sucked in the fog like a cyclone and threw it away. The gray fog that filled the valley began to rapidly decrease in density, and what appeared in the fog that lifted to the extent that the sky was visible was enough to harden the party.
In the middle of the fog that still lay below, a giant with only the upper half exposed as if the lower half of the body was embedded in the ground… Golem.
‘I wonder if that was the cause of the stare Imorel felt.’
The gloomy stone golem that stood between the far-off cliffs was so gigantic that even Hwanin gave a little goosebumps.
Isilite fumbles behind her and calls out to Hwanin.
= Lord, Master. It’s dangerous, so step back, step back…=
A huge humanoid golem with only one mountain peak. If that thing starts running amok, it’s going to be very difficult.
But it seems you don’t have to worry about that.
Hwanin looked at the golem’s condition while sprinkling golden light from his eyes and came to a conclusion.
“I don’t think you need to worry about running amok.”
Golems also have drive cores. It is a method of maneuvering by extracting energy from the drive nucleus and passing the energy through the circuit to the body.
However, I could only feel a slight phase power from that mountain-sized golem. Please…
“It looks like it was made.”
Anne, who had been listening to her story, said in a slightly trembling voice.
=Perhaps they are still in the middle of making it?=
= I don’t think I’m making it… You can see old cracks and cracks all over the surface…=
Baekryeogang, who was measuring arrows on his thunderbolt, pointed to various places in the golem and said his thoughts.
“The reason I stopped making it was probably because I thought it was not profitable. I have no idea how much energy it would take to move a golem of that size.”
=Why did you try to make it so big? If that was completed, it would have been 10 times larger than the giants that settled in Yeongdo in terms of size alone.=
=Isn’t that what you were trying to do to fight Nara?=
It was Ayoung’s remark, but the women shook their heads saying it was nonsense.
Certainly, the power that comes from its size cannot be ignored, but it is just a walking target if there are no defenses to match.
And the defense function to protect a body of that size would consume an enormous amount of energy.
Even as he spoke, the fog in the valley continued to rise and the lower part of the giant golem began to appear.
As if it was carved out of a mountain, it looks like rocks are attached here and there. Yurpa, who saw that, said as if she was a little astounded.
= Who made it? Do you want to be a great sage?=
=Certainly, if there is anyone who can make something like that, it must be the Great Sage.=
At Anne’s reply, Yurpa let out a sigh.
No matter who made it or for what purpose, as a 7th-level mystic, such a form is unacceptable.
= Bad taste. Aside from utility, why does a golem need such a torso and a human face? It would only decrease durability. Besides, even the hood was meticulously made.=
A real waste of labor and materials.
Hwanin listened to the conversation of his girlfriends and looked at the giant golem before opening her mouth.
“It is certain that there is a great sage or someone equivalent to him around here. Move on.”
A thing with miscellaneous spirits embedded in it, a thing with a golem driven after making it, and a thing with a spirit tied to it.
In this series of circumstances, Hwanin felt a subtle premonition and continued to move forward.
Maybe it’s because the terrain is too rough, and the fog is thick. There were no demons or monsters in the Daevaston Mountains.
It likes to hide in the fog, so it likes flying beasts, flying monsters, and monsters, but it has a method of killing.
However, in the middle, obstacles continued to appear and caught the party’s ankle.
Whether it’s that poisonous air is forming and blocking the way, or that the road is cut off, or that a magical fog that disturbs the senses is fixed in the area.
Ayoung cleared the miasma with a wide-ranging cleanse, and at the place where the road was cut off by a cliff, Yurpa applied a light weighting technique to the party, and then Norn and Immorel moved the party to the other side one by one.
The fog of sensory confusion was completely annihilated by Hwan-in’s soul explosion, and Hwan-yeon found the way with the spirit’s sight and guided it in the place where the path was hidden by the illusion circle.
Isilite muttered to herself at a series of obstacles.
= It feels like you are being told not to come in here…=
If you were an ordinary adventurer, your life would be in danger several times, and the obstacles that blended with your surroundings were at a level that could even take your life away.
Did he die from a fall due to sensory confusion, or from being poisoned by poison in a colorless, tasteless, odorless poison fog?
‘If it wasn’t just one or two spirits at the beginning, but dozens of them, it would have been difficult for even a normal 4th or 5th class worker to overcome.’
In any case, the party, who crossed the rugged mountain range with their own wit and performance, was able to arrive at the place marked on the map by Agamgan, a place with an unusually thick mark in 7 hours.
This is thanks to the fact that he rode the Que and moved while receiving directions without rest. Had they tried to come on foot, they would have had to make harsh camps along the way.
Upon arriving at their destination, the group was speechless at the beautiful sight in front of them.
Green grass is laid at the foot of the slightly gently sloping mountain, and cherry trees with pink buds in full bloom here and there create a superb view in harmony with the background.
A place where a clear and clean stream flows along the slope, and around the mountain is surrounded by clouds like a dragon, and the mountain covered with deep greenery is wrapped like a folding screen.
“It’s a place that seems to have moved Dowonhyang.”
=Dowonhyang?=
“A different world… Think of it as a place similar to the Garden of the Gods. It is a place like heaven where you can live without any worries.”
Hwanin’s gaze, answering Anne’s question, was directed to a wooden house in the middle of such a place like an island paradise, hidden by trees.
