Chapter 781 – 772 Durdane, the Open Pit Mining Town
The party, who was moving along the coastline with night underwater combat training every night, could move quickly without getting lost or wandering without stopping at a village or village to ask about the surrounding geography.
It was thanks to the guidance of Anne, who was from Merianol.
=If you go north from here, is there a city?=
= Uh It is a city famous for open pit mining. It’s the Proud tribe’s capital, but Selphin and Fingel are all gathered, so the quality of weapons and armor must be the best on the continent?
She answered the question of Baekryeogang, who sat next to Anne holding the reins in place of Isilite, who had fallen out due to Silu’s maneuver training and combat training, which had become a full-fledged child.
Ah-yeong then prostrates herself on the roof of her driver’s seat and points her thumb at Anne.
= I also memorized the locations of the cities and towns of Merianol. Her sister even learned her geography. =
=Because I worked on the main island for several years before moving to the continent. Because she was from where she was from, she also had an accurate map. =
Seeing Baeknyeogang looking back to the north, Ayeong asked while playing with her azure blue hair.
=Bell wants to go to Durdane?=
= It’s not like that…=
In her hand as she murmured softly, there was a quiver she had bought in Palatum, but it was quite worn out.
From Palatum to this place, I practiced pulling out and shooting arrows every day, and every time I put in an arrow and pull it out, it looks like it is scratched by something like an arrowhead and worn out.
Baekryeogang said while stroking the quiver whose entrance was tattered.
=I asked Yuri unnie, but she said that it cannot be repaired because the material is wood and the subspace function is integrated with the quiver. She can use the arrow creation function of the Mystic Palace, but she likes to practice shooting arrows with real arrows…=
= Indeed. Because you pull the bowstring hundreds of times per stance per day.=
Shooting while sitting, shooting while standing, shooting while lying down, shooting while lying down, jumping, turning to howitzer and direct to spinning.
If you look at the number of times you pull a bowstring, it is over a thousand times a day.
In addition, even though he saved and shot arrows whenever a battle took place, there were less than 100 left for each attribute arrow he had bought 200 rounds, and the 1,000 normal arrows he had bought had already been used up.
Now, they replenish arrows every time they visit a city or village, but some places don’t sell arrows at all, so they’re having a bit of a hard time sourcing arrows.
With Anne holding the reins, she recalled the topographical geography and the location of cities and villages on the island of Dorwine, and during lunch, she asked Hwanin.
= Doryeong. Why don’t you stop by the open pit mining town for a while?=
“You mean Durdane?”
= Yes. Belle is making arrows steadily, but it seems to be lacking. It’s time to replace the quiver as well.=
“…”
Although he obtained the Mystery Palace, Baek Ryogang’s archery still has a lot of room to grow.
Earl Psud was a complete archer, so he didn’t need real arrows, but Baeknyeogang hasn’t reached that level yet.
Dorwain is close to the jungle, has an abundance of open-pit mines, and there are Fleurs who use bows as much as the Flavius, so if you go to Durdane, you should be able to secure a large amount of arrows.
=And if you do well, you might be able to get an infinite quiver from Durdane.=
“Infinity. Are you saying arrows are created from the quiver?”
= Yes. It is a top-notch magic tool developed by the Durdan family, and a high-quality infinite quiver produces 200 arrows per day.
Of course, there is a limit that if you take an arrow out of the infinite quiver, it disappears after 5 minutes, does not increase by more than 200, and it takes 7 minutes to create one shot.
Hwanin was a little worried.
No matter how many craftsmen there are in Durdane and high-quality equipment is pouring in, there will be no replacement of girlfriends’ equipment there.
Isilite, Anne, Yurpa, Baekryeogang, Ayoung. Hwanyeon and Norn.
This is because the girlfriends are wrapped around their bodies with magic tools made by Yurpa.
Isilite wears the weapons and clothes she acquired in the labyrinth, but other than that, her gloves, shoes, necklace, earrings, etc., Are made by Yurpa, and she uses magic tools that increase physical ability and defense.
Anne is also wearing the top-class weapons of the Land God Church, the Hammer of Punishment, the Shield of the Castle Wall, and the Church-designated Uniform Magic Weapon called the Lighthouse Light, but her accessories are wearing magic tools that strengthen the body and strengthen the spirit power made by Yurupa.
Not only the two of them, but Baek Ryeo-gang and Ah-young are also the same.
In particular, Ayeong wears clothes made by Yurpa from her head to toe, even her underwear, and Hwanyeon and Norn, who rarely participate in battles, also wear clothes woven by Yurpa.
Since Yu Lepa, a 7th-level mystic, is in charge of the party’s equipment, he can guarantee that there will be no need to change equipment even if he visits Durdane City.
“…”
The current destination of the party is the easternmost point of Dorwain Island, a coastal city protruding like a cape.
The immediate goal is to find a ship there, and then find Adnevila somewhere in the sea, far to the east of Passage.
After rechecking Anne’s route through her geographic information, Hwanin nodded her head.
“The underwater training is over, and it will take a little bit of a turn rather than all the way along the coast, but it won’t make that much of a difference in terms of distance.”
=Then you stop by Durdane and then go?=
“Okay.”
When she agreed to change the schedule, Anne smiled and said to Baek Ryogang, who was sitting next to her, = That’s good = and poked her in the side.
‘It would be good if I prepared the armor for Immorel and the weapons for the heroic army in advance.’
Hwanin’s gaze turned to Imorel, who was washing dishes after lunch.
The body she is using is a core dragon cloth, so even with her bare body, she is as strong and sturdy as a 6th or 7th class body enhancement job.
If Yurpa’s body strengthening accessories were used here, she could block Anne’s hammer with her bare arms.
That doesn’t mean you don’t need armor. If you wear high-performance armor, your defense will go up.
Hwanin hadn’t thought that he would be able to use the celestial body until this point.
Ad Nevilla assured her that her body would rot and become brittle after a year or so, so she planned to either use it up properly or give it to Yurpa for research.
However, luck overlapped and overlapped, and like Baek Ryogang, Immorel’s heavenly body and spirit body were fused.
She will come back to life
By the time that happened, she was too far from Rad Sea to get her gear right for her.
The heavenly body is 2.5m tall and the chest is so large that one side weighs 10kg.
Even though she is a woman, her body is about the size of a Gilliant woman, a rare race in the Radsea area.
The ready-made armor that can be obtained near Heathrond and Beltical does not fit that body.
To make a custom order, you have to wait for as little as two weeks or as long as a month, but what you get after waiting that long is an ordinary metal armor.
It was possible to receive a metal armor and engrave Yurpa into a magic weapon, but it was too much time to wait for a month at the longest.
‘There are all kinds of races living in Merianol, so I’m sure I can find armor that suits my body.’
After lunch, the party changed direction and started heading north.
To Durdane, the city of open pit mining.
Due to the change in schedule, the distance to go became a little longer.
Instead, thanks to the increased travel time, the party was able to have Durdane right in front of them around the next evening.
The time of dusk. It is full of fire, as if a fire had broken out on a moderately high castle wall.
Bang there… Caen… You can hear even the faint sound of metal, and you can tell that minerals are being mined in the open pit even at night, as the lights are bright even a short distance northwest of the city.
Cheol-soo Kim muttered as he stood on top of the carriage and was looking there.
“As expected, dwarves are fire, iron, and environmental pollution.”
Kim Cheol-soo, knowing well how much the mine pollutes the surroundings, talks to himself. Kim Young-soo tilts his head while looking in the same direction.
“If the industry is prosperous to that extent, it would be possible to have a gun, but why not… ?”
“Ishibal. What kind of gun is a gun in fantasy?”
“You don’t know. How bad an elf musketeer is.”
“You madman. You can only find such an abomination in sci-fi fantasy.”
While the two Kims were banging on the roof of the carriage, Baek Ryeo-gang was asking A-yeong with a puzzled face inside the carriage.
= Even at night, if it’s so noisy and bright, won’t all the monsters flock to it?=
The people of Nionebres usually make silence a virtue at night.
It’s less when it’s a capital city, big city, or mid-level city, but I still go around quietly or spend time at home at night.
It was to prevent monsters, monsters, and witch beasts from rushing into the city after hearing the commotion.
But the sound of metal that could be heard from several kilometers away and the smell of burning something vibrated…
=Durdane’s strength is second only to Passage. There are magical power cannons installed every 5m on the castle wall, so a horde of monsters can’t even come close and explode?=
In addition, all the Prouds are strong enough to be called warriors and have excellent physical strength.
Even ordinary Prouds who have not awakened are at the level of first- and second-class melee workers in terms of strength and stamina.
Since such a Proud family can be armed with 100,000 powerful weapons, a fair number of monsters will be wiped out as soon as they appear.
The Hwanin party, who concealed their identities with Yurpa’s disguise magic tools, paid 20 silver coins as a nighttime premium toll and passed through the tall and thick walls of Durdane.
“Wow, the width of the moat is 10m, but the depth is 20m.”
In response to Kim Young-soo’s story of checking the moat dimensions with spatial perception, Kim Chul-soo stuck out his tongue when he saw the thickness of the wall passing over his head.
“I think the wall will be 50m thick… How did you make all of this?”
“Because I’m a dwarf, I have to make this level for recognition.”
While listening to the story of the two Kims, Hwanin, who entered the city through the drawbridge, recalled the siege weapons lined up on the wall before entering the city.
“…”
Unlike Oxybeles, a fixed cannon that was installed on the outskirts of the city of the Colaido Alliance, it could be called a real ballista.
It is not an arrow or a bolt to load, but something like a 3m long cavalry spear, and it is a true war weapon that can adjust the angle up, down, left and right, completely different from that of the Colaido, which was difficult to adjust the direction.
‘It was 100 years ago that the prototype of the ballista was made in Colaido…’
Technology is bound to develop. There is plenty of time for Oxybeles to be improved into Ballista.
However, Anne called these magic power sacks. There is a story that you can charge phase power and shoot it like a cannon.
If Durdane has such a siege weapon, there is a high possibility that the main passage has a more powerful weapon than that installed.
‘I’ll have to talk to Ji Ji-yul again.’
If she knew, it wouldn’t be a problem, but if she didn’t, the problem would be bigger.
Hwanin’s gaze goes down to the street.
Is it false to say that it is a Proud tribe city? Half of the people who come and go are the small Prouds.
The height is 1.3m for small ones and 1.5m for tall ones, but most of them spread sideways like drums, and both men and women have thick muscles and shaggy beards and hair.
“Wow. A real woman has a beard.”
“Uh? Aren’t you a man?”
“That’s a woman.”
“… I’m a girl, but why do I have a beard?”
“I heard it’s a characteristic of the Fingel Prouds.”
As in the conversation between Norn and Hwanyeon, the Prouds are divided into two groups, Fingel and Selpin.
Fingel has an outgoing personality, boasts thick muscles and stout bones, and loves harsh mining and blacksmith work. He is often said to be that simple, and he is the kind of person who trusts people easily and is also good at gullibility.
Serfin is the exact opposite of Fingel, with an introverted personality, slim and slender, but her skills, dexterity, and technique overwhelmingly surpass Fingel’s, and her personality is also more delicate than Fingel’s.
If Fingel is famous for producing and manufacturing weapons, Selphin is known to have overwhelming skills in jewelry and design.
=If you deceive Fingel, he will say that Selphin will come running out and bring Fingel.=
Norn, who had been watching the drunken Prouds come and go with her face out of her window, looked back at her Anne and asked.
“I can only see Fingel. Don’t you have Selpin?」
= Shelfin doesn’t like to go out, so she stays at home except for work. Is she hard to see from the outside? Oh, over there, Selpin passes by.=
Turning her head to her story, Norn could see a girl who looked just like him.
If the same Fingel woman is likely to weigh 80kg, Selfin is less than 40kg.
Unlike Norn, who quickly loses her curiosity at her appearance, which is nothing different from herself, Kim Chul-soo’s excited exclamation bursts out from the roof of her carriage.
“Oooooh… ! Legal loli, legal loli!”
“Hey, you pedo bastard, really.”
“Yeah~ Selphin is an adult, right? Is she legit?”
“Wow. Hey, since you’re fucking throwing up, why don’t you go and call me my friend?”
“It’s a joke, a joke. My preference is a sister who is taller and stronger than me.”
“…”
“Strong Snow! Distorted sexual desire!”
As usual, there is not even 1 gram of nutritional value.
Hwanin knocked on the side door of the coachman’s seat that was connected to the inside of the carriage and summoned Hwanyeon.
“Is there anything I need to be careful about in the city?”
“I checked the entire castle, but the entire castle is treated to prevent spirits. Even in places that seem to be the core buildings of the city, there are spells to block the spirits. Other than that, nothing quirky or unusual.”
It is the opinion of fantasy that there is no suspicious person chasing after, so it seems to be safe for now.
=But, well, that guy, his face turned red from a glass of beer… !=
= A boy can only drink a beer… It’s a waste of double drops!=
=Khakhakhak!=
Loud laughter and voices pass by.
The octave is one step higher than the other Prouds, so I glanced around and saw the women of Pingel Proud.
Her face and her shoulders and neck covered in soot as she walks towards the bar.
It can’t be a scene that clearly shows the atmosphere of Durdane.
“…”
When Hwan-in feels that something is bothering him, Isilite asks Anne in her carriage.
=Anne. Where should I go from here?=
= Turn right at the intersection in front of you and go straight to the upper level commercial street. =
=Where else are you going from there?=
= I don’t know more than that. When I came before, I only stayed in the mid-level commercial street. I heard that the entire street there is a luxury hotel and inn, but if that’s true, you’ll see a lot as soon as you pass the inner wall.
As she said, following the busy road, a gateway to the inner wall appeared, and beyond the gateway, unlike the middle-class commercial street, the brighter and more colorful streets and buildings caught my eye.
As they approached the gateway, a Fingel Proud tribe soldier in heavy full plate armor and carrying a steel helberd blocked the party’s carriage.
=Wait. No one can go beyond this. You need a special ID to get over… Is there?=
=Uh, here.=
Ah-yeong, dressed in a modest yellow robe, quickly gets off the carriage and shows her freedom ID and pass card, which is certified by the Church of the Land God.
After receiving it, the Prouds, who had been examining Ayoung’s face and hand, frowned under her helmet and shook her pass card.
=Hey, this pass has expired.=
= Huh? What are you talking about. Will it be valid until next year?=
= Are your eyes bad while fleuring? Take a good look. It’s until the end of last month.=
=Oh, that’s true.=
Ayeong, who had returned her pass card, frowned and scratched her head. Seeing a very pale glow in her hair, the soldier groaned bitterly and demanded that she return her ID card as well.
= I need to check. Perform any spell once.=
Ah-yeong, who noticed her intentions, cast her energy recovery spell on the soldier. He snatched something and held it out.
= It is a temporary pass. As soon as it dawns tomorrow, visit the magistrate or the temple to update. If you’re late, you’ll be fined, and if it’s serious, you’ll get a wanted order, so remember that. The toll is 60 silver coins including the temporary ticket.=
=Expensive!=
=It’s a 50% discount for priests, so if it wasn’t that much, it’s 1.2 gold coins.=
= But it’s too expensive… Here. And do you know of a hotel with good facilities and service inside? I need to stay for a day or two.=
The soldier who collected the toll that Ah-young handed over to her took a look at the group and handed over a rectangular metal stick from within his arms.
=Take this and go to Yuja Hotel. The location is adjacent to the plaza that comes out after going inside and turning right and turning left once.=
= I don’t like places where I have connections with soldiers. =
Seeing her grimacing expression, the soldier also grimaces at her.
= It’s not like that. It’s my hometown, so don’t think it’s strange. =
=Oh, that’s welcome.=
A soldier of the upper level street gate of the inner wall. He was a corrupt and seemingly unrelated figure, so he wouldn’t be ripped off.
=Then, good job~.=
Ayeong, who quickly picked up the metal plaque, climbed into her carriage, and her soldiers naturally moved out of the way.
Hwanin, who quietly watched this series of processes, felt that the indescribable awkwardness he had felt earlier gradually grew stronger.
The atmosphere changes dramatically as the carriage passes through the inner wall gate and enters the neatly paved road.
The attire of the passers-by has changed from the common people to the wealthy, and the exterior walls of the buildings are luxuriously decorated, but the atmosphere is no different from a middle-class street, lively and lively.
If it was another city, I would have thought it was during a festival.
‘The capital passage must be about a week northeast of here.’
If it is far, it is a long distance, but there is no way that the news of the capital will not be transmitted.
What is the reason why Hwanin did not visit the villages and cities after coming over to Dorwain Island?
It is close to the main passage.
The Passage, which has been raining for seven months over half a year, is currently being submerged in real time and is fighting a war against the Nagas.
The atmosphere of the capital city is no different from that of a family house, but the cause is the same as yourself.
However, Durdane’s mood is too bright.
“…”
While he was lost in thought, the carriage arrived at the Yuja Hotel the soldier at the inner wall gate had spoken of.
The city of the Prouds is a gorgeous, grand yet practical hotel.
=The construction skills of the Prouds are amazing.=
Glass was used freely, gold was plated everywhere, and the interior decoration was so luxurious that only the finest stone and wood were used, making it indistinguishable from a modern hotel.
After checking in for a two-day stay, Hwanin, who entered the room, immediately called Hwanyeon and gave instructions.
“Make sure there’s nothing like our montage inside the gate post.”
“Huh? Hmm… No?」
“… How is the city atmosphere? Is it similar to where we were last?”
“The slum side is quiet, but the other places are similar. Why?”
When Hwan-yeon, who had placed her bed basket on the living room table, asked, Hwan-in approached the curtained front window and looked down at the night-like streets of the modern city.
“Passage is not far to the northeast. If it had been raining for seven months in the capital city of the country, it would be no different from a house of mourning, but even if the atmosphere was bright, it might be too bright.
His women, who were bringing and putting down their luggage, told Hwanin’s story = Come to think of it…= And look at each other.
“Ahyeong.”
=Yes.=
“Tell Elmine to organize the situation in the city around Passage and report it.”
=Old.=
Hwanin walked over to the sofa in the living room and sat down while watching Ayeong immediately pull out the communication crystal ball and try to communicate.
If the report comes up, I think this reluctance will be relieved to some extent.
