Chapter 718 – 710 Sprould, the Sandstone City
Boo-woo-!
Along with the angry cry of the guard at the main gate of the city, the heavy and dull sound of the horn resonates, and inside the gate, a metal grid nearly 2m thick descends with a bang back and forth, blocking the road.
“…”
=Huh?!=
= Oh… !=
Merchants, merchants, travelers, adventurers, and mercenaries who waited in line behind them rushed back.
Right after that, twenty soldiers in unified uniforms rushed out through the metal grid through the left and right side gates of the castle gate, raised staffs that felt strong phase power, and aimed at the party.
Hwanin’s eyes turned to the cane. And I looked at the faces of the soldiers, who were nervous as if their whole bodies were rigid, and who showed fear in their eyes.
“…”
In the meantime, the women, who sensed considerable threat from the soldiers’ orderly actions, each tried to draw their weapons, so Hwanin silently shook his head to stop such actions.
In the meantime, the head of the Proud tribe, who is almost 5 heads tall, shouts again with a reddened face.
= Right now! From the ride! Say it!!=
“…”
Hwanin gets off Norn’s back first in a threatening atmosphere, and women also get down from Que’s back with faces full of dissatisfaction and anger.
=Put your hands on top of your head! Get down on the ground!!=
=… Hey. Now…=
= Shut up!! If you open your mouth just one more time, I will consider it an armed resistance and attack without question and answer! Right now!! Get down—!!=
Anne’s beautiful face, cut off by the high-pitched voice of the guard commander, is filled with anger. Isilite acted as if she would slit the soldiers’ heads at any moment, but…
=… !=
=…=
Seeing Hwanin fall down first, he suppressed his will to live, and then put his hand on the back of his head and prostrated himself with a face that was colder than a thousand-year-old glacier in the North Pole.
In response, the other women also lie on their stomachs, hiding their anger inside, and Norn, hiding her angry eyes, now glares at the Prouds with her head stiffly raised, pretending to be a beast.
Then, a part of the metal grid went up and two soldiers with a collar magician forcibly suppressed the phase power entered the grid with nervous faces.
The two soldiers put a leash first on only the necks of the women except for the young Hwanin, especially Isilite and Anne, and Hwanin lastly ties the rope tightly only to her wrists.
Subsequently, the metal lattice door goes up a little further, and soldiers with staffs aiming at them rush in in groups of four, stuff the arms and legs of the women with restraining magic devices, and even put gags on their mouths.
Norn tried to bite the soldier who was trying to hang a rope around his neck…
“…”
I endured Hwanin’s quiet gaze.
Is it because he thinks he has safely captured the heinous criminal? Only then did the soldiers let out a small sigh, lift the women up, and move around busily, dragging the Que through the fully open metal lattice door to the guard post.
=… ?!=
“…”
The soldier who lifted Hwanin by the shoulders saw his eyes and shook his shoulders.
It was because my heart fluttered when I saw the eyes that were devoid of any emotion, as if the darkness of the abyss had been engraved.
After incapacitating the Hwanin party, the head of the guard approached Gelfree and Gray Que along with the Flavius, a third-class red magician dressed in a gorgeous purple robe embroidered in gold and silver, and looked around.
= That’s right. There is a magic tool with the mark of the Magnar family inserted into the body.=
At the story of the red sorcerer, the head of the guard gritted his teeth with a face so angry that his plaited beard trembled.
= You dare to attack the carriage of Magnar, a relative family of the Sprould family, and kill the heir’s family, then come back to the city naturally after 4 months? You know that you will never die gracefully!
“… If you say a few words, you’ll know it’s a misunderstanding.”
Hwanin, who is unemployed and a child, looked at his small head at the calm voice of the guard commander and soldiers.
Even though it was the words of a child who did not seem to have reached the first sexual characteristics yet, let alone the transition period, I felt that my nerves were focused on that.
But he doesn’t have an aura, and he’s a child who looks like he’s about 5 years old. Even the clothes she was wearing were made of loose linen.
There’s no way a kid like that could be an aristocrat.
The head of the guard dismissed it as bullshit and waved wildly at the soldiers.
=I dragged her away and put her in a special prison!=
Chunk!
A damp dungeon with no light except for the red light from the torches hanging in the corridors.
Inside, Hwanin, who had been pushed away with all his belongings stolen, was tied to a rope and swept away, caressing his newly reddened wrist, closed his iron bars, and watched the departing soldier.
“…”
Grimoam’s relic was too big to wear, so he took it off, and he had no phase power, only spiritual power and core power.
It seems elaborate, but it is not too lax.
He turns his head and looks around the prison. Moss is everywhere and it is full of an unpleasant rotten smell.
If you look closely, what appears to be human excrement is piled up in the corner, and flies are infesting it.
“What kind of commotion is this?”
Hwan-yeon, who confirmed that the soldier had gone far, sneaked out of his arms and murmured.
No matter how much the contract with the release was in progress, the current situation could not be ignored at all, so the contract process was stopped and consciousness was awakened.
Hwanin’s ice-cold voice flew into her ears.
“I have been too naive.”
「That’s not it. It’s a middle-class city here, but it’s strange that no one recognizes the aura of a spirit knight or swordswoman. Norn is also very distinctive. On top of that, the belongings you took away, even if you look at them, are not ordinary things, but ignoring them is strange just looking at it.”
Even if they could not know that they were low-level soldiers, they were unemployed and unemployed like worms.
“The guard chief was a human related to the Magnar family, so he must have lost his sight and not noticed. When anger crosses the critical point, people’s field of vision becomes extremely narrow. More than that, fantasies, how are they doing?”
“Perhaps because he was regarded as a serious felon, he was imprisoned in a special prison that suppresses phase power. It’s hanging in an open space, and people with strange canes are staring at it without taking their eyes off it.”
“Watch and if anyone tries to make sexual contact with them or use violence, blow this place up with the best of your power.”
“Huh.”
Hwanindo’s reckless response to the soldiers’ reckless response has put a lot of anger switches on, but they are still enduring it with their transcendent reason, saying, “It could be that way.”
A nobleman who used a gray Que as a mount was massacred. It’s strange that the eyes don’t turn.
That’s why I’m patiently waiting for time to clear up the misunderstanding, but the moment they fool around with his women…
Hwanyeon snorted her snort lightly.
‘Sprould disappears, well.’
It was okay for him to go out and visit the lord of this place to clear up the misunderstanding, but anyway, even if that side crossed the line first, it was a long way off.
They were intimidated and prevented from speaking, gagged, and even imprisoned in such a filthy prison.
Sure enough, around Hwanin who was sitting on the clean and dry floor, six objects that looked like hazy blue mist appeared and disappeared after a while.
Under the circumstances, he must have summoned a blue spirit and sent it to the women to possess them.
‘Is it because I’m in the process of signing a contract with Lil… I can now see the soul faintly.’
Hwan-yeon looked at Hwan-in, who had her eyes closed for a moment, then went back into the hem of his clothes and began to watch the women hanging upside down from the ceiling like meat in a butcher’s shop with the eyes of a spirit.
As if the spirits were possessed, you can see the strength in the women’s shoulders for a moment and then release.
How much she suppressed her rage, Isilite clenched her fists until her fingernails dug into her palms and bled.
‘With that level, even if I can’t use my phase power, I’ll be able to break the chains and escape with only my strength.’
No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like things will end well.
It is a Hwanin who does not mind lowering his head to avoid a dispute, but it is also a Hwanin who will slap his opponent without hesitation if he clearly crosses the line.
Besides, aren’t you in a sensitive state right now because you’ve been busy using your brain with the marianol thing?
‘How will it be organized?’
While Hwan-yeon was wondering about that, a precursor to Sprould’s upside down began to occur.
Around that time, the two knights of the Sprould family and the Magnar family, who visited the guard post at the main gate of the castle wall, were looking at the items confiscated from the Hwanin party.
=Why are there so many subspace bags and preservation bags?=
= Aren’t they all stolen goods obtained by raiding people? See There are so many bags filled with high-quality ingredients. There are so many precious clothes and magic tools in this bag, so there must be robbers who have managed to attack people without leaving a trace.=
With an angry face, the Magnar family knight holds and shakes the clothes and underwear bag worn by Hwanin’s women, as well as the Yurpa magic tool bag.
The knight of the Sprould family, slightly frowning for not knowing something, took out several types of magic tools from Yurpa’s bag of magic tools.
=That’s why there are so many similarities in magic tools that they seem to be the same brand.=
Can things taken from many bear this similarity? To the question, the Magnar family knight answers as if venting his resentment.
=Isn’t it because you raided and robbed a merchant group specializing in magic tools?=
= I see…=
That interpretation was also valid, so the Sprould Knight let out a small sigh. He said he was a high-ranking professional, so it was regrettable.
‘No, it’s because it’s high grade.’
Everyone hates hard and troublesome work. Because it’s much more profitable to attack humans than to fight heterogeneous species.
In fact, I heard that some of the low-quality knights are extorting their bounty money by stabbing or extorting civilians.
The Aspen of the Hwanin appeared in the eyes of the knight of the Sprould family who put the magic tool back into the bag.
Even if you look at it, it’s a handbag that only aristocrats could use.
The knight who took it for reporting said to the warden who stood at attention.
=Go see Kue. Superintendent, they are extremely dangerous criminals, so be careful that the guards don’t do anything stupid until the lord gives a verdict.=
=Old, Knight!=
The Magnar family knight, who was unwilling to answer, threatened.
=Last time, there was an accident where soldiers died and property was damaged while playing with a smooth-faced criminal. These guys look more dangerous, so don’t let that happen. Do you understand?=
=Old! I’ll stick with the lower ones!=
After giving the warning, the two knights left the post and exchanged stories of lamentation.
=The world is so troubled that such a strong professional goes on a rampage as a robber. Isn’t it?=
= That’s right. Wouldn’t they attack Seongjenim in Merianol, where they thought their sense of justice was high, or would they forcibly summon dimensional wanderers and study them as sacrifices… I want something different from the uncivilized lizards of the South.
= Maybe because of that, thieves and wild bandits often appear, and in the Daevaston Mountains, there are also unidentified black monsters roaming around… What is the world going to be like? =
=We can feel the agitation like this, but I can’t even guess what the nobles are like. Ah, the gray ku is over there.=
As they left the guard post and headed for the training ground behind them, the knights could see twenty or so soldiers clinging to a green beast and wandering around.
=… What is that green beast? Is there a green griffin too?=
=It’s a bit small to be called a griffin, but it still looks amazing. It seems that you can feel the elegance. =
The green beast with a nice beak and feathers was running amok, kicking it, grabbing it with its beak, and throwing it away as if it didn’t like the soldiers hanging on its leash or hanging from its leash.
Still, no soldiers were seriously injured.
The kicked soldier rolls on the ground whimpering and rises up, while the bitten soldier falls out with the hem of his clothes or armor bitten, shakes his head, and wakes up again.
= It is a great power. It blows away the young men as easily as dusting a blanket.=
=Yes. Power control is great too. Look at the claws If the beast makes up its mind, it looks like it can easily kill soldiers, but it’s deliberately striking with its claws gathered.
=Is it a tamed beast?=
= Anyway, let’s get closer. =
The knights approached a little closer and marveled at the majesty of the green beast.
Kaak! He threatens from time to time, but his breathing is not rough at all. The only thing they saw was that they hit the soldiers close to twenty times, but they were fine.
He has great stamina, great strength, and seems to be intelligent enough to distinguish enemies. Its green wings look as hard and thick as steel, and its hind legs literally feel the power of the earth.
Standing up on its hind legs, it is large enough to turn an ordinary Que into a sub-adult. The gray Kue, who opened his eyes from the side, looked small.
The knight of the Sprould family, who fell in love with that strong and wonderful figure, spread his four wings wide and flew up to try to subdue…
=… !=
I flinched at the blade-like gaze sent by the green beast.
As a 20-year-old knight, his intuition sounds an alarm. It was her intuition that a big accident would happen if she rode on the back of that beast.
=Huh, is it a spirit creature?=
=Did that beast reject Turn-U?=
= That’s right When I tried to subdue it, it increased my momentum. It feels like you’re going to hit a mirror if you approach it recklessly.
= You really look like a spirit creature…=
The knights beckoned to the exhausted and panting soldiers, bit them, and approached the green beast.
When the soldiers who were trying to hang on to the body fall off, the leash is caught and even though it is caught by several soldiers, it stands tall on four legs and sends lofty eyes in this direction.
The knight of the Sprould family burst into admiration at his lofty figure.
= Seeing it up close, it’s a more wonderful creature! I need to be honest with the lord. Superintendent.=
=Old! I’ll fill out the paperwork!=
=Please.=
The knight held out his palm as if he had no intention of hostility, while looking at the straw-colored Que and the gray Que gathered nearby.
Is this green beast leading the Queers? The knight reached out his hand and tried to grab the reins of the dangling green beast, but the beast jerked its head around and snatched the reins, leaving nothing but empty grooming in the air.
Then she felt a little embarrassed.
=… ?=
The beast’s eyes just… It seemed like you were measuring yourself. Are you highly intelligent?
Come to think of it, even with a soldier close to twenty tied to his body, he went on a rampage.
Wouldn’t it be possible to fly up even with the eight soldiers holding the leash?
His gaze fell upon the vivid green feathers of the green beast. I wonder if a feather color like that would handle the wind…
The knight thought for a moment, then grabbed the rope around the green beast’s neck and said to the soldiers who were hanging down.
=Let it go.=
= Oh, but…=
= It’s okay. I’ll take responsibility, so let go.=
The soldiers are perplexed by the stern knight’s order, but leave the rope and retreat. If that beast flies away, the knight will fly away too.
The soldiers let go of the rope around their necks and retreated, but the green beast showed no signs of flying away.
Rather, it raises its forepaws and uses its claws to lightly cut the rope hanging around its neck.
While the soldiers who saw it were agitated, the knight asked with curiosity and interest.
=Will you follow me?=
“…」
=I will take you to the lord. Will you follow me?=
The knight who spoke to him twice got a pleasant goosebumps at the sight of the green beast nodding slightly as if he were going to do it.
= Good let’s go =
When an outstanding spiritual creature belongs to a family, it benefits the prestige and prestige of the family in many ways. It is clear from looking at the past history.
How wonderful the personality of the head of a family followed by such a wonderful spiritual being.
There must be many great talents in that family enough to tame and follow such spiritual beings.
If it’s enough for spirit creatures that don’t settle down very often to settle down, that family’s land will be wonderful even without seeing it.
As the family’s reputation rises, more talented people are attracted to that reputation.
If talented people flock to Yeongji, living in Yeongji will become better, and if living in that way improves, the number of people who migrate will increase.
The number of Young Ji-min is the power of Young Ji.
The knight of the Sprould family, who was happily leaving the guard post training ground and returning to the lord’s castle on the Rider, narrowed his eyes at a sudden thought.
When I looked back, a green beast was watching the city, following with three gray and straw-colored quoe.
Calm eyes without any excitement, as if evaluating the city rather than looking around.
=… It was said that the spirit creature entered the city with them.=
=I heard that.=
= Do spirits follow villains? =
=… I’ve never heard of such a thing, but seeing that a spirit creature followed Turn-U so obediently, wouldn’t it just be a coincidence?=
= Ugh. Something is bothering me…=
The feeling that you are missing something very important grows stronger.
This intuition is important. It’s the kind of sense that helps you survive on the battlefield.
But this isn’t even a battlefield, so why… Because of those imprisoned?
Seeing the knight of the Sprould family brushing his chin and continuing to care, the knight of the Magnar family opened his mouth with a slightly unwilling face.
= Mr. Turnu. So, do you want to go back and get to know the criminals in detail? There are also children in the group, so if you bully them, you might be able to find out something.=
=… You’ve come far from the post. Let’s go back to the castle and present the spiritual object to the lord, then look into it again.=
=Yes.=
It is said that a person will regret his choice a couple of times in his lifetime.
Turn-You took the green beast, Norslinen, to the lord’s castle without even dreaming that he had crossed that fork…
=A spirit creature came to the city?=
=Yes. When I asked the spirit creature, I wanted to see my lord, so I didn’t fly away and followed him, so I’m reporting you.
= This is a very interesting story. You guys go out together.=
Upon the report of the knight that a rare spiritual creature had visited the city, the lord of Sprould showed great interest and stopped the estate management meeting and headed to the castle’s petal garden with his retainers.
=For a spirited creature to come to a country where the situation is already in chaos, it seems to be a sign that glory will dwell in the family.=
= Haha. Wouldn’t it be better not to expect too much while understanding the feelings of Elder Ganli? Spiritual beings are said to have a reed heart enough to be called a ghost.=
= What Elder Sedna said is right. However, at this time, I can’t contain my excitement that a spiritual creature with windy wings might be related to something. Heh heh heh.=
The lord of Sprould, the low-ranking Earl of Multrach, also smiled at the friendly conversation of the elders, then spoke to the Prouds, who looked like a 14-year-old girl.
=Come to think of it, Baron Mikta. The main culprit in the family heir massacre was caught at the main gate? I’m sure I can alleviate a little bit of my son’s grievance.=
=It is as you said.=
=I will give you the right to decide on the recruits of the criminals, so I hope you use them well so that your sons and daughters don’t wander around the world.=
=Tears cover my eyes at Yeong-ju’s consideration like Ha-hae. Even the dead children will resolve their grievances and attain Buddhahood at the will of the lord…=
=Um.=
On his way out to the garden with his retainers, the lord of Multrach ran into a high-ranking count from the capital who had been living as a guest for two months in the last hallway.
=Lord of Multrach.=
=Mr. Feldricks? Are you going for a walk?=
= Yes. If I don’t see the castle’s flower garden for a day, I feel empty as if my feathers are falling out.
=If your wife hears that, she will be very happy.=
Haha.=
Contrary to his aged appearance, the lord gently invites the Count, who smiles calmly and calmly.
= It just went well. I’m on my way to see a spirited creature that came to my family. Wouldn’t you like to go with Mr. Felix? If you don’t mind, call Lady Limin.=
=It’s something to congratulate that a rare spirit creature came directly. According to the lord’s will, should Li Min be summoned as well?
=It will be a good experience for Youngae. It’s hard to see spirit creatures.=
= Ah… It would be like that in general, but both my daughter and this old man have only seen a spirit creature that has reached the highest level.
= Oh. Did you? I can’t help but wonder what kind of spirit creature it is.=
= What are you going to do by hiding it? It was the green Que of the famous Holy Emperor. Even the finest silk was a vivid green that seemed to lose light from the side, and the two eyes were intelligent as if they contained the blue sky.
= Ah… ! I’ve heard of it too. It’s such a beautiful bird that you can’t take your eyes off it once you see it.=
The two counts, who had been chatting while her maid went to call for the granddaughter of Count Feldricks, moved to the garden with the lady who arrived shortly after.
Even then, the atmosphere was very friendly.
It wouldn’t be strange if he became a high-ranking count or a low-ranking marquess, and the old count, who is said to have reached the royal family of the capital city, was polite and considerate of the lord from beginning to end, and the lord also seemed to ask for lessons from his age without lacking.
=There must be a spirit creature beyond this door.=
=I really look forward to what kind of spirit creature it will be.=
= I feel the same way. Then I will open the door.=
Such a friendly atmosphere began to crack the moment the door opened and a garden full of brightly bloomed flowers appeared, a proud green beast standing there.
=Ah?=
Dijon = Count Feldrix’s granddaughter, Rimin = It was because of the short exclamation that Feldrix had uttered as if there could be no such thing.
To think that a girl who used to talk so little and only had a thin smile at teatime was so surprised.
Multrach lord asked with a surprised face.
=Lady Limin. Are you okay?=
=Now, excuse me for a second.=
The lord of Multrach opened his eyes slightly in surprise.
She doesn’t talk much and only exudes a slightly ephemeral atmosphere, her behavior never goes against the rules of etiquette, she is calm and intelligent, and she became a 6th-class light magician at a young age.
She liked her heart and was guessing her eldest son’s daughter-in-law, but such a girl slightly lifted the hem of her dress and ran to the green beast that seemed to be a spiritual creature.
=Emergency, is it an emergency? Teacher Hwanin’s flight, right?=
=Hmm?=
=Oh, is Lady Limin acquainted with that spirit creature?=
Shit.
Disquieting cracks are added to the friendly atmosphere.
“… I know? Who are you?”
=… ?!=
=Huh?=
Norn’s words spread astonishment among the audience.
Do beasts and spirits speak? It’s not a spiritual creature, but a holy beast, and it’s a story that gets closer to or closer to a divine beast.
Besides, I just… What did Lady Limin say? Hwanin… Teacher? Wasn’t that name, the name of the Holy Emperor?
Li Min was also surprised that Bi Sang didn’t know how to speak to her, but then she smiled slightly and introduced herself.
= I am Rimin. She showed a lot of ugly things to the teacher…=
“Ah. Was that you?」
=Yes. By the way, where is the teacher? How did she get here by herself? =
“Great. Do you have a high status? Call the owner of this land.”
Confused by Norn’s story, Rimin nodded her head, and Lord Multrak and Earl Fedrix also hurriedly approached Norn with a premonition that something unusual was about to happen.
And the knight who had brought Norn up here lost her face, and her complexion turned white like wax.
= I… No, I am Multrach Evan Sprould, lord of this land and city.=
“Bad guy! Free my friend!!」
At the self-introduction of the lord of Multrak, the Norn flapped her wings, showing a lot of anger and anger.
In her wrath, the surrounding nature and wind spirits unleash a fairy tale, a wild gale.
Multrach asked in a sudden fury, panicked and deflecting the wind blast into her face with the palms of her hands.
=Chi, what do you mean by asking me to release my friend? I never imprisoned your friend!=
Of course. Spirits… No, holy water? Shinsoo? If you are a friend of ‘, your friend must be a holy beast, a spiritual creature, or a divine beast, but how can you imprison such a being?
However, Yeongju was taken aback by the story that followed, and his complexion became pale.
“My friend! Hwanin! Your underling put my friend in prison!!」
Castle, castle song, in my city… Are you in jail?
It was the time when the minds of Sprould’s vassals, including Lord Multrach, and Dijon = Feldrix and Limin = Feldrix turned white.
Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo… !!
A huge pillar of light that put an end to their tranquility soared from the place where the outpost dungeon had been.
