Chapter 740 – 732 Beltical, Capital of Hebült
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“Manyo. We have a big problem.”
A water-friendly office that can be called an indoor water garden.
While barely finishing a major task and carefully selecting the personnel to dispatch to Rapep at the desk with a babbling stream beside it, Man-yeop heard the voice of an old friend and looked back at him with a gentle smile.
The great spirit of grass and flowers appears in a dress made of leaves, vines, and flower petals.
Manyo, who paid attention to the small, pretty petals that landed on the stream and flowed away, opened her eyes wide in surprise at her dark expression and asked.
=Leafre, I’ve never seen your face so dark when you never lost your smile even in front of a formidable enemy.=
As a great spirit of grass and flowers, she has a virtuous and affectionate personality, so she is a chaste girl who never raises her voice even when fighting powerful monsters.
Seeing her worried with her blurry face made anxiety rise in the heart of Manyo, one of the only 7 top warriors in Hebült.
In time, the uneasiness took its worst form.
“It’s a really big deal. All the children of the water spirits are leaving the city.”
=… What? Why?=
“I don’t know. Even if I ask the children, they just smile and leave as if they can’t tell.”
Manyo hurriedly ran out of the orthodox facility with the feeling that her anxiety was embodied in her grasp and grasping her heart.
She is a great spirit of Leafredo, but her phantom rank is between the upper and the upper level.
If the lower-intermediate spirits did not respond to her question, it meant that she was an order given by a direct subordinate spirit with at least the highest level of hierarchy.
Suddenly, the Rapep report flashes through his mind.
A great event in which the Great Spirit of Water suddenly appeared, filled the city with water, and created dark clouds to rain down on the city.
Man-yeop was preparing with all his heart to invite the Great Spirit who appeared in Rapep, hoping that it would be a clue to solving the long-lasting drought across Beltical.
That’s why he had a vague premonition that the reason the water spirit was leaving now had something to do with him.
Jump-
=… !!=
As soon as he opened the door to the Orthodox Church, he felt a cold sweat pouring out of him.
The landscape of a megalopolis, which has been familiar with living for half a century, is happening on top of what should never happen.
In the sky above the gigantic city, countless water droplets of each type rise and scatter or disappear in all directions.
Astonished at the scenery as if the scales were standing upside down for a while, the spirit had no sight, so he didn’t know about this person and grabbed the shoulder of the office clerk who was bowing to him and asked urgently.
= Hey! Do you know where the Great Qing Temple is?!=
= Yes, yes? Cheo, Daejeon Master Chung is at the 3rd Suwon Research Institute… Wouldn’t you?=
Immediately, as he was about to head to the third water source, a sharp voice flew into Manyo’s ears.
=Hey dude~!=
= Chung! How did this happen?! Why… !=
Manyo, who was holding Cheong’s shoulder, a Saabi woman with intricate three-color patterns on brown scales, hurriedly moved to her seat and asked in a low voice what the officers were staring at.
=Chung, why is the water spirit leaving the city? Didn’t your water high spirit say anything?=
=Sir, I came to find you because you were there! We must find the warchief quickly! Otherwise, the son of the water spirit will leave!=
=So why!=
=Because the Transcendence Spirit has bitten all the kids!! There is a limit to how Wate can stop and hold on to the kids!! We must borrow the strength of the Great Lord Ancana!!
=… !!=
=You jumped up quickly, you asshole!!=
Manyo feels her heart freeze and she chases after Qing, who blows her body into the first water source.
= Oh shit really! You bastard! Aren’t the water spirits flying here and there in your eyes?
=I see.=
=Then get out of the way!!=
= No. The warchief has given strict orders not to let anyone inside, no matter what.=
Hearing the high-ranking warrior’s reply, choked by her stubbornness, Cheong expressed her upset feeling with her whole body.
Her hands scratch the glossy scales of her hair, her whole body twists and turns, and her tail stiffens like a stick.
There were less than 300 advanced warriors in Hebült. Among them, the best warriors will come out, and each warrior will also become the chieftain or village chief of a city or village in the future.
As she was expressing her feelings of going crazy by twisting her whole body, Man-yeop asked in a serious voice.
=After all the water spirits have left, Hebült’s future will be deserted ruins, that’s all. A warchief must be present to prevent such a future. One o’clock is urgent. I’m begging you, so can you get out of there? =
The senior warrior’s expression, which had been expressionless at Manyo’s earnest request, slightly darkened.
= I’m sorry. What the warchief said when entering the room gave the impression that even if the world collapses, don’t enter it.=
= Ah…=
Chimin Manyo, who had a headache, let out a sigh as he touched his forehead, which was covered in bright green scales.
The only person who can stop the current situation is the only person who signed a contract with a transcendent water spirit in Beltical, Daesang Lord.
And only one of the great chiefs of the time can see the great lord, and if anyone else enters the great lord’s residence, they will be eaten without questioning and answering.
If that were all, I would gladly serve as food after devoting my life to the mantra, but the Great Lord doesn’t care what the devoured person says.
In order to convey the will, the warchief must be there.
= Chew… Really fucked.=
Crouching down, Cheng collapsed and stared at the water droplets disappearing high in the sky. I already missed the peak time. If we try to capture the spirits now, there won’t be many of them.
Still, the good thing is that water spirits of higher rank and higher seem to remain for a reasonable reason. An order came down to Wate, but he refused and stayed, so there must be some other high-level water spirits, if not as much as Wate.
If I gather them, wouldn’t it be enough to pee on my frozen feet?
Man-Yeop asked Cheong after watching other top warriors running from the other side of the hill.
=… Q, can you bring back the water spirit that left later?=
= Do you think it will work? You know very well that spirits that are freed from the land they were born in don’t come back.=
=…=
= Iggy What the hell is going on? I called the spirits to tell them what I know, and I was teaching them, but fuck. Suddenly, as if they were freed from slavery, they laughed and flew away, and all the other kids disappeared, and I was really scared.
= What did Wate say? Was it because the transcendental level water spirit was angry with Hebült?=
= Don’t know According to Wate, something happened in the depths a few weeks ago… Since the depths are the realm of transcendental spirits, the highest level is not even close.
There is no way to know. At those words, Manyo brushed the scales on his chin like a beard.
=How much does that have to do with this case?=
= I don’t think there will be any. This is an order in the hands of an ordinary person…=
The gazes of Cheong and Manyeop cross each other.
=Did you catch some of those goblins nearby? The kid who cheated on Meria?=
=That’s… I don’t think so. =
=Oh my gosh, close your mouth and don’t roll your eyes alone. If you know something, blow quickly!=
= I can’t because I don’t know what to do with your impatient personality. =
=Amy.=
Manyo, who passed Qing’s swear words through one ear, wiped away the scale wrinkles with a serious face.
As she said, if the order that just happened was handed down by a human, then it would be a story that another person who made a contract with a transcendent spirit appeared.
The number of spirits living in this wide and expansive world is tens of billions, maybe even hundreds of billions, including the lowest level. And the number of known transcendental level spirits for each attribute is approximately 420.
Among them, the majority are those who do not come out of the ghost world or the realm of the original body and live as if they are assimilated with Mother Nature and do not exist.
Regardless of their attributes, there are at most ten or so transcendent level spirits that make direct contracts with people or appear at the call of people.
Four of them are in Merianol, one in Beltical and two in Yeongdo. The other three are unknown, but they exist in the present world anyway.
‘I should add one more here.’
I heard that there is a spirit that accompanies the Holy Emperor. And there is also news that an outsider in Rapep is the Holy Emperor.
Is it an exaggeration to speculate that Seongje signed a contract with a transcendent spirit through some kind of relationship?
‘As a god, he would have absorbed the power of nature into his body, so he would be loved by the spirits…’
At that time, two top warriors who arrived a little late asked them a question.
= Hey! Cheong, Manyo! What the hell happened? Why did the water spirit leave the city?!=
=I don’t know, so don’t ask. Fuck.=
Ignoring the swear words, the two best fighters fixed their eyes on the serious-faced Manyo, but Manyo also shook his head, saying that he knew nothing at the moment.
As the best warrior in charge of the environmental agency is stroking his unkempt hair, which is evidence of his transformation into a dragon, he glances at the residence of the Great Lord and frowns.
=Now, there is a certain amount of water, so you can endure it, but the aftermath of all the water spirits disappearing will appear in a few days. Water quality will be polluted quickly and purification will be delayed. The spring that was gushing will gradually dry up, so shouldn’t we figure out the cause and prepare countermeasures?
= It is a yard that even Wate of the blue does not know. It is not easy to determine the cause.=
=In addition, because of the bloody festival taking place inside the Savior’s Fang, the chaos that flows from it is swallowing up each tribe…
At the story of Sabi, a woman with sapphire-colored scales, and the best warrior of the educational institution, the best warrior of the environmental institution narrowed her eyes.
=It is a scale that needs to be moved to the scale of a city by gathering the will of the tribe, but it is a headache.=
=They must have recognized that all the water spirits have left. If you talk based on that, won’t you lend a hand?
When the three best warriors from the orthodox institution, research institution, and educational institution were somehow brainstorming and exchanging stories to come up with basic countermeasures, the best warrior in charge of the educational institution looked back at Manyo with a face of ‘Come to think of it.’ Asked
=Man-yeop, didn’t you hear from Rapep?=
=… ?=
I don’t think you mean an on-time report, but a report? Noticing his question, the best warrior of the Ministry of Education asks back with a slightly embarrassed face.
=The great water spirit that appeared in Rapep. Didn’t send Jeok Hong to invite him and the contractor…=
The best warrior who was talking saw Manyo’s expression twisting in shock and intuition that something was going on.
Manyo asked urgently, holding her sapphire-colored scales by the hand.
= Did Jeok-goong go? Where did you hear that story? To whom?=
= Huh? Did you see the child who manages the space teleportation team posted a report? He received an assignment as the head of the Orthodox Church and went to Rapep…=
=I didn’t send that child! In the process of selecting a prudent child who is well suited to diplomacy and negotiations, he just jumped out after seeing Sadal!!=
=Fuck mother, country is going well. That right-wing bastard who attacks enemies without permission, or that bastard who didn’t even know he was going.
=~~~!=
=… ?=
=?=
Man-Yeop covered her eyes with her hands as if she was going crazy, and in agony, Chung and the other top warriors frowned at her incredulousness and doubt.
The reaction is too much to see that just one fool went… However?
= Hey bear. And Grano? Far away?=
=… It’s holy.=
Even the top warriors look like motherfuckers at Manyeop’s voice that has become muddy.
=The person in Rapep, the person related to the Great Spirit, is probably Seongje.=
=…=
Cheong, who had been sitting all over the place, lowered his head, and the other top warriors all looked embarrassed, and the awkward atmosphere continued.
Then, with her eyes full of flesh, Chung raised her head and began to count his hands one by one.
=So, a right-wing bastard who fucking hates outsiders went to Rapep on his own, and there was Seongje, an outsider, and the Great Spirit that rained on Rapep on a large scale was a transcendental spirit that made a contract with such a Seongje? Hey mona. When did that bastard go? =
=I’m not sure, but I heard it was about an hour.=
= The time is just right. That asshole messed with the planting of the Holy Emperor, and the angry Holy Emperor cast the Transcendental Spirit and drove away all the water spirits.=
= No, no matter how you do it…=
The best warrior of the Ministry of Environment spoke out, asking if he could go that far, but Chung cut his words in the middle and entered.
= You still don’t know how stupid Seongje is? Seongjae Ai is a crazy boy trying to break a Merianol earthen pot by himself.=
Even these days, she wakes up from her dream with excitement as she recalls the life of Seongje that she saw in front of the giant forest labyrinth while sleeping.
= She was afraid of fucking dogs even then, so she almost got tired of it. Hey, Manyo. I don’t know, so don’t involve me?=
Man-Yeop and the other best warriors sigh heavily at the sight of Cheong, who has the best hair and eyesight than any of the best warriors, and quickly cuts his hands.
Mona, the top warrior of the Ministry of Education, asked.
=Manyeop. How much do you think is the validity of Cheong’s story?=
=Nine out of ten.=
=…=
Zhi Hong never ceases to look down on and despise other races, no matter how high their status is.
His tribe is also a famous family that has produced many shaman priests, and Jeok Hong himself is a candidate for shaman priest who reached the Yonglin tribe at a young age.
If he hadn’t seen it himself, he was a Jeok-goong with a distrustful temper, so of course he would have done something rude to Seong-je…
=There are not many problems.=
=…=
At Mona’s murmur, Manyo sighed again and said.
=Even though I didn’t send it, Jeok Goong is my direct subordinate. He will take responsibility and try not to harm you.
After saying that, Man-yeop turned away, and the voice of Cheong’s Bolmen flew in from behind.
= Hey where are you going
= Considering Seongje’s personality, going to him as soon as possible and kneeling down and apologizing is the shortcut to not making things big. So, blue.=
=Huh?=
=When the warchief comes out, talk to me.=
= No, why did you ask me… Oh, okay, don’t hit me like that!=
With a grin, Manyo turned around and headed for the sophisticated institution, organizing what he had to do in his head.
There’s a lot of work to be done to get over to Rapep by the end of today.
You may not be able to come back forever, so you will have to prepare something about the takeover, and there are urgent issues right now…
=…=
Manyo looked up at the scorching sky with hollow eyes.
It’s damn good weather.
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