Chapter 697 – 690 the Hermit in the Daevaston Mountains
=But how do we get from here to there?=
Said Anne, looking around her.
The place where the party is now is the crest of the slope. There is no way to get from here to the beautiful scenery ahead.
The place that Hwanin referred to as Dowonhyang is, for example, an island in the mountains. It looks like the table top has risen abruptly in the basin.
There is no way up, and there are steep cliffs on all sides, so the only way to get over there is to fly…
Yurpa, who got off the flying broomstick, asked as she kneaded Al’s ass after riding the broomstick for a long time.
= Self. Do you see anything in the eyes of the soul? Considering what I’ve seen on my way here, I don’t think there are any traps…=
“I can’t see anything like a trap, but the mid-level wind spirits are flying around half-conscious. It’s an atmosphere where you can get blown away if you approach it carelessly.”
“It is as Hwanin said. Even if I talk to you, you don’t even pretend to hear me.”
=Can we call a higher spirit like before?=
As Isilite asks, Hwanyeon, tilting her head crookedly, only frowns one eyebrow.
“That spirit must be the last defense mechanism for the humans living there, so try to touch it. You’d be happy if you were angry.”
= Um…=
If you can’t fly, what about climbing the cliff from below?
Their gaze goes down the hillside.
Even at the bottom of the valley, which is so deep that it can be called a valley, the trees are so dense that the ground cannot be seen. Even so, you can see the fog forming like cotton candy everywhere.
It is a terrain that looks good for dense poison fog.
= It’s not possible to climb that cliff, and it’s difficult to fly over it… How about calling it here? Unnie Yul, do you have a volume amplification secret?=
= Yes. There should be…=
= Before calling, I think the first step is to check whether the people living there are friendly or hostile. What if she called out and said, ‘Come into my land without permission, die!!’ And attack me. =
= I, I also have the same thoughts as Ayoung… He’s the one who chained the spirits and other spirits to the giant golem in the poison mist…=
=That’s… Is it?=
Hwanin, listening to his girlfriend’s discussion, summoned one of Nassarat’s assassin souls from the soul storage on his left arm.
He is the leader and second lieutenant of the assassins who raided from Nirain.
Hwan-in, who did not materialize, but injected only the spirit to visualize it, entrusted the second lieutenant with the mission of the messenger.
“Go and tell the landlord that you want to see him. Rude words and actions are strictly forbidden, and show a respectful attitude.”
“Yes, Seongje-nim.”
A soul that has only been visualized is almost immune to attacks other than soul-killing techniques, and ministering to souls is a monopoly of spirituality beyond the upper level.
Considering the reputation of the Soul Master in Nionebreth, at least it won’t arouse hostility.
Even if he is hostile and has the ability to touch the soul like a necromancer, if he is an assassin of Nassarat, it is not too much to lose.
The soul that was sent like that returned 20 minutes later with a troubled face when the sun set on the ridge.
“Sorry. No matter how drunk I was, I didn’t wake up no matter how much I called and shouted.”
“… Go and explain what you saw.”
“Yes. First…」
There were no traces of occult or witchcraft around or near the house.
The house looked old, yet it looked like a new house. The house’s household items, which seemed to be suitable for six people, were carved or carved out of wood and stone, and the craftsman’s skill was visible to see if there was anything that came and went.
The interior was tidy, with stairs going down to the basement and stairs going upstairs.
I didn’t feel the presence of anyone except for the owner-like woman. The woman who appears to be the owner is just lying in the living room, sleeping buried in a bottle of alcohol.
“The woman was about 160 tall, appeared to be in her late teens, and had long ebony hair. She had no beast ears, no beast tail, no wings, her ears were round like Isilite-sama’s, and the clothes she was wearing were probably colored robes, but it was high quality and felt foreign, so it was assumed that it was a magic weapon or a relic. The aura was very thin, so I couldn’t tell which job it was.”
= Ugh. A high-ranking professional… Would?=
When Anne turned to Issilite and asked for her consent, Issilite shook her head in denial.
= He could be a disciple of the great sage. If she was sleeping drunk, she might have lost her father and felt the loss. =
= Because it was said to be a house big enough for six people to live in. If there is no one but him in her household, wouldn’t it be possible for her to be Isilite, her sister, as she said? =
= Just like Lady Anne, we cannot rule out the possibility that she fell asleep after a binge because of her drinking. =
After briefly exchanging opinions, the women turned to Hwanin with the look on her face, wanting to decide what to do.
Hwanin looked at the basin and the small tabletop, which were gradually getting darker, and spoke to her girlfriends.
“It is late, so we camp here today. Immorel, go in spirit state with the ensign and wait for the landlord to wake up. If you wake up, politely convey your intention to request a visit.”
“Yes, Seongje-nim.”
After escaping from her celestial body, Imorel received aura from her phantom and flew to the house of Taktsangji with her ensign.
Sizzling—
As night fell, the tabletop in the basin created an even more fantastic scene.
The sound of peaceful grass insects and the intermittent cry of the night, countless fireflies flying and scattering light, and the cherry trees dyed in the light of those fireflies, and faint clouds of fog.
After dinner with rice balls and gimbap cooked in soup boiled over a small fire, the party enjoyed the superb view of the night without neglecting their surroundings.
= It’s very beautiful, but if you ask me if I’d like to live there… I don’t think I can live.=
=Because I like hanging out with unknown people.=
=Is Dew okay?=
=As long as the master is by your side.=
=Wow, the dew has completely turned into a fox. I can live as long as Doryeong is by my side!=
=Really?=
= If it’s a doryeong, it seems like he’ll often take you out. Also, since she has her younger siblings and Yul’s older sister, she’s not alone either.
= By the way, sisters. Why does the woman who used to live in that house live alone over there? So when we assume that she is a disciple or that she is not a successor but a great sage. =
At Ah-young’s question, the women thought for a while before sharing their thoughts.
= If you live in a place like this, you don’t like people, so either you’ve experienced bad things or you’re wanted for committing a serious crime. =
=Among the most wanted news, there was no person skilled enough to create a giant golem or a scene like that, so it’s more likely that he retired because he didn’t like people.=
= I… He must be someone who has a lot of scars in his heart and can only live alone.
= Huh? Lady Ligang, why do you think so?=
= I thought that if I could create such a beautiful place, I would be a person with a beautiful heart… Is it weird?=
In the story of Baek Ryeo-gang, the women again turned their attention to the tabletop with a dreamy atmosphere.
The moon shines through the sparse clouds on a dark night. Every time the light silver curtain flows, fireflies disappear and appear to light up.
Ayeong, who had been admiring the scenery for a while, looked back at Baekryeogang and she smiled.
=Because Bell has a strong girlish sensibility. Her artistry and personality are not in proportion. Do you know the famous painting She is the Lady of Bordjac? =
= Yes. Isn’t it a portrait that an unknown artist painted while vomiting blood? A famous painting that is said to have shaken the sensibility of many people with its slightly faded red color.
= Wrong. The Bordjak’s girl was painted by a colossal madman who extracted a woman’s heart alive and then melted paint in the blood.
=… !=
Baekryeogang’s eyes widened to the extent they had never seen before.
The women laughed at the change in facial expression that anyone could see, and Hwanin also laughed a little while drinking the coffee that Isilite brewed.
“Talent and personality cannot be the same. A terrifying racist may have excellent ability to create novels and pour his talents and lives into the Enlightenment, but there are people who express the idea of the chosen people more than anyone else.”
=…=
Baek Ryeo-gang sulks like an innocent and pitiful maiden who has learned about adults and the dirty side of the world. Then, she called her and seated her next to her, while stroking her light aqua-colored hair, he turned her gaze to her tabletop.
“… There are traces of the field, but it seems that it has not been cultivated for more than ten years. There are also traces of the waterway, and there are fruit trees that have not been trimmed for a long time, and you can see the warehouse, but it collapsed and withered because it was not managed. If you can’t control it and collapse in the living room while drinking, then Baek Ryogang’s story may be partially true, although the inside story is unknown.”
=Oh, is all the land covered by the grass a rice field?=
=It seems that the bare branch was a fruit tree, not a cherry tree.=
=If you let go of everything because your heart is hurt… The lover who lived together died and disappeared?=
= You could go out and lose a loved one and come back alone and live because you can’t die. =
= If that’s the case, it’s a very sad story. If you made a nest for the two of you, for your family, but the family disappears and you remain alone… If it were me, I wouldn’t have been able to endure the heartache…=
Baek Ryeo-do forgets her heartache and joins in the story wagging her dragon’s tail.
Hwanin looked at her good girlfriends and jumped up from his seat.
It was because Immorel and the second lieutenant who had been sent for the message were escaping from the house and soaring into the sky.
Hwanin quickly realized that there was a problem inside.
Their expressions were mixed with bewilderment and perplexity, and they were rising up into the sky instead of flying this way.
I soon found out why.
“It’s so bright!! Let’s see the end today, bitch!!”
A girl in a robe that looks like the color of cafe latte at first glance soars into the sky and screams.
Pung, Pubbung— From the girl’s hand, blue flames shoot like cannonballs and fly toward Immorel and Lieutenant’s spirits, and Phoebe Bing— along with a gunshot-like sound, dozens of dark blue energy bullets pour like diffuse guided missiles.
Hwanin’s expression slightly frowned at this commotion, and the women opened their eyes wide and looked back at him.
= I just called… Isn’t it Korean?=
=Uh, I heard it in Korean too…=
“Everyone wait here. Norn, let’s go.”
Hwanin made Norn, who had woken up from a night of drinking, into a mythical figure, and then rode off.
Putting aside the ensign, I can’t lose Immore here. Since it is a soul in a state of visualization, it is immune to most attacks, but exceptions can exist anywhere.
Sssss— Kwagwagwang… !
Hwan-in, who blew up an improved barrier panel at a blue fireball the size of a house flying in a direct hit course, felt the girl’s aggro heading straight for him and controlled the emergency to make a hurried turning motion.
Right after that, the colorless and transparent haze that shook her and Norn’s flight course soon changed into a color and then turned into a blue flame that engulfed her in the air.
Roaring-!
If he continued to fly, he chose a location that would have been in the form of jumping into the flames on his own.
“You’re moyai shhpaal again!”
Pubbeong, Kwagwagwag— Rumble, Kwagwagwang!!
Attacks of all kinds of attributes poured out with tongue-twisting swear words.
Fireballs pouring towards him explode like fireworks, embroidering the air, and as if predicting the trajectory of this side, the flying ice blade bursts in the middle and shoots like a shotgun.
The lightning splits into hundreds or thousands of branches, blocking the way, and an unknown black sphere creates repulsion and attraction to hinder flight, and even attacks the wind spirit.
While Norn lightly evades all those attacks by freely accelerating and decelerating, Hwanyeon exerts control over the wind spirit and neutralizes it.
“Ehh, are you all avoiding it? I’m sorry, you followed me… Uh huh?”
Hwanin, now accustomed to Norn’s aerobatics, burst out a wave of her tranquility towards the girl pouring out her magic as if desperate to see her gap.
Firstly, a wave of grayish white light bursts out from above the small tabletop and dyes the whole area, and secondly, a wave of Ganghwa Peace tinged with gold covers the entire basin again.
The girl, who was filled with irritation and tantrum at the sight of her avoiding all of her own attacks like a rat, tied her hand, 手印, raised her magical power, and tried to blow away her surroundings, turning them into a grayish white color. And swept away by the golden wave, her eyes widened like her rabbit.
The movement stopped due to the unexpected mental shock, and the flow of phase power and magical power within her body also stopped.
Hwanin also stopped her flight and floated in the air above her, calmly addressing the girl who looked at him with her big eyes.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“… Huh. Ugh, I’m going to split my head…”
Without answering her, the girl with a frown on her face staggered down to the tabletop, pressing her temple with one hand as if it were a headache for her.
Hwanin, who looked at her so drunk that she could smell her alcohol even from afar, retrieved her carefully approaching ensign, instructed his aunt Reel to bring her girlfriends, and then headed to her desk. .
「Aaaaah~!」
「Kiyo Oh clothes!!」
「Where are you going~!」
Then, the mid-level wind spirits shouted deafeningly and rushed like a gale.
“…”
Hwanin, who found this more irritating and annoying than her girl’s attack, captured all the wind spirits and turned them into her spirit beads.
Come to think of it, it would be dangerous if the girlfriends came over to the tabletop and these crazy wind spirits went on a rampage.
Hwan-in, who had captured all of them by using her force, headed for a quiet log cabin full of tabletop land.
‘Is it a hanok?’
When I saw it from afar, I couldn’t see it well because it was hidden by trees, but when I looked closer, I didn’t know it well, so I had a strong feeling of a hanok made.
It is not a jjamppong hanok where various cultures of Radseah are mixed little by little, but a hanok that Koreans have made by recalling their memories.
There is no entrance. Do you come and go through the toenmaru?
Hwanin, who got off Norn’s back, approached the verandah, and together with him, a girl’s voice from the other side, immersed in darkness… A tired, struggling voice that sounded like a high school student came from inside.
“You may come up.”
“Are my companions okay?”
“Huh. I don’t accept guests, but I’m allowing it as an apology for the attack I just made.”
Hwanin, who nodded, asked Norn, who was still waiting in a new sign language, to bring her girlfriends here.
“Okay.”
Hwanin took off his boots and went up to the veranda, and took a quick look inside.
The outside was like an old hanok, but the inside was a modern hanok. A hanok house that divides rooms with paper screens and uses glass windows.
Eventually, a girl in her mid- to late-teens staggered over from beyond the paper gate and walked over, sat down on the funeral chair, and gazed at Hwanin with a half-lying appearance.
She seems to have no thought of entertaining her guests, but her Hwanin isn’t the kind of person who cares about such things, so she stares at her without saying a word.
After looking at each other for a while, the girl opened her mouth first.
“How old are you, uncle?”
“Before I passed, I was twenty-six. I am thirty now.”
“I am seventeen. Coming over… It’s been so long that I forgot how old I am now. Are you Korean? What year did you come over?”
“It is 2023. You are?”
“Sixteen years.”
“…”
“…”
The conversation cuts off again, and the sounds of bugs resembling crickets are heard through the veranda.
Quiet and serene atmosphere.
The girl who was not a girl who was staring at Hwanin lowered her eyes and asked helplessly.
“Aren’t you from Merianol?”
“Yes. You seem to have a grudge against Merianol.”
“Kick kick. There are two types of people who come to this fucking world. The people who hate it so much, and the people who love it so badly. For reference, I’m the former. Uncle…”
=Doryeong!=
=Master!?=
=Self!=
The girl, who was about to open her mouth again, opened her mouth at the sight of the women running and screaming.
Even though I’ve lived in this world for a long time, there are so many beauties that I haven’t seen a few times. The girl who was looking at them asked Hwanin with a face that half coexisted with ridicule and absurdity.
“Huh~ Mister must have liked this place?”
“There are no likes or dislikes in this world.”
“For something like that, you set up a harem in earnest. What is it in Lucrang and Fleur? Isn’t it? There’s even a spirit in the inside pocket—”
Hwaaak—
“Yurpa. Give me clothes.”
“… I thought it was a green griffin, but what kind of race is that?”
You have no likes and dislikes about this? Hwanin returned it with a gaze asking if there was a problem.
“Yeah~ It’s none of my business how you live.”
A voice more subdued than before. Hwanin felt a bit troubled while reading the psychological state of the woman who had clearly gone down a notch.
His behavior is as young as his appearance. Originally, I wouldn’t have been young. It’s probably because I’ve become eccentric after living in this rotten world.
Matching other people’s moods is familiar in social life.
Hwanin, who was half convinced of the girl’s identity, opened her mouth in an instant.
“The reason I said that I have no likes or dislikes in this world is because I have a precious person. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have cared about this world, whether it was ruined or not, and would have focused only on finding a way to return to Earth.”
“…”
“Because no sane person who was forcibly brought would like a world full of irrational violence.”
“… Joy.”
Feeling that the girl in front of him had calmed down even more, Hwanin asked with a calm attitude.
“We are looking for someone called the Great Sage.”
“Oh, that’s me. So? If you came to ask about how to get back to Earth, you got it very wrong, right?”
“I didn’t come here to ask such things. Isilite, I’ll ask for a cup of tea that’s good for a hangover.”
= Yes? Yes…=
The girl put on a puzzled expression as she felt the man in front of her stop him little by little.
His face was so smooth that he wondered if he had played with women quite a bit in the other world.
Somehow, my stomach is spinning. The way he looks, the way he brings a lot of girls around, the way he is calm and calm even in this situation, the way he has built up enough strength to want something like that in 4 years!
When I came to this world, I really went through all the hardships while rolling to death. In the meantime, all the precious people have vanished like sand that flows from between your fingers…
What the heck is that, he even has an aura?
“I have a question.”
“You have no obligation to answer, right? Then go back now.”
In her vain mind, the girl shook her hand as if dealing with a pseudo-religious man, and turned and lay down on the back of the funeral chair opposite her.
The girls are taken aback and embarrassed by her childlike reaction that they don’t want to talk anymore, but Hwanin doesn’t react much. .
‘What is that man?’
The girl, who glanced back at her rustle, glared at the unconcerned man with her bewildered face.
It’s normal for her to get angry or show her emotions if she’s showing the bad attitude she’s showing now for attacking her with her question-and-answer dance.
If I was irritated or tried to suppress or intimidate myself by mobilizing my colleagues, I was going to use that as an excuse to blow it up to the other side of the continent right away, but I was going to tear it all apart and make it take years to get back together.
‘Why is he carefree like his own house?’
It’s annoying.
The girl, Ji Ha-yul, recalled the memories of several people because of that man, and she closed her eyes for no reason.
