Chapter 83 – 081 Road to Wayford City
Even after the wagon departed, Hwanin pondered over Urge’s soul for a long time.
In any case, hearing the command means that it is impossible to preserve it with a soul orb, but the skill can be used.
Meanwhile, Hwanin is leisurely grazing in a distance not far from the left horizon……
‘…… Dinosaur?’
Found a dinosaur It looks like a triceratops, but it’s about the size of a donkey.
“Isilite, can you catch the animal you see over there?”
= Um…… Let’s do it! There’s nothing you can’t kill with your bare hands!=
At those words, Hwanin’s gaze turned to the twisted greatsword as he received Urge’s punch.
Certainly not a weapon.
“Don’t kill me, save me…… No, I will go with you.”
If you think about it, you don’t know what will happen when Urger’s soul is enchanted.
Instead of bringing them here, it would be safer to go and check.
Hwanin didn’t know that Issilite was regretting, saying to herself, “I’m just going to catch it with confidence!” I took the black spear and the deer antlers staff and moved behind Issilite’s riding Que.
“Miss Susa. I’ll be gone for a while.”
=Yes. Shall we send Brillit as an escort?=
“It’s okay. It’s not dangerous.”
In response, he patted Isilite on the waist to give her a signal, and Isilite immediately spurred her forward and sprang out in front of her.
‘The riding comfort is better than I thought.’
Being a two-legged animal, I was prepared to rock up and down, but the ride comfort of Kue was surprisingly better than expected.
If you ride a four-legged horse, your body bounces beyond imagination.
If you ride for a long time without her tips, the pain that seems like her back will break and the feeling of numbness in her thighs are a bonus.
However, the two-legged Kue is sitting in the back seat, and there is almost no impact on the waist. It feels like riding in a car with a bit of a mess.
In addition, there was no discomfort due to the bend even though I was riding without a saddle because of what kind of creature the backbone was. If you compare it, it feels like sitting on a slightly hard cushion?
“At this level, it’s a pity to compare it to words.”
=Is this your first time riding a Que, sir?=
“Okay.”
=There is a reason why a que is 10 times more expensive than a horse. She’s not very sensitive, she’s not afraid, and she recognizes her owner well. =
If you look at Que’s merits, there is nothing that lags behind his words.
Its strength is stronger than that of a horse, and its appetite is omnivorous. Night vision is also better than that of horses, and she has good physical strength and can glide thanks to her wings. It is said that she even has a record of safely jumping from a height of 50m.
Above all, it is very sturdy.
Hwanin glanced at Que, who was running with himself and Isilite.
This Que, along with Isilite, had been beaten by Urgur’s punches and rolled. When I checked after the battle, she was crying as if she was in a little pain, but she was safe with no broken places.
It might be thanks to the increase in physical ability due to the code, but her strength is to the point of being ignorable.
What if it was a horse? She must have broken her ribs and, if she was unlucky, her leg.
In addition, horses tend to have separate roles, such as war horses, riding horses, and pack horses, but Que does not have such a thing. One Que can fulfill all the roles of all horses.
“One bird is worth 5 gold coins.”
It is said that the price of a medieval war horse in the 14th century was about 300 million won, so if you look at the times, you can say it is cheap or expensive.
=That price is also in the case of straw que. I heard that the gray ku for the baron’s royal guard costs more than 40 gold coins. You won’t even be able to trade in green ku? It’s probably only available at the auction house in Chengdu or the capital city.=
“Hmm.”
=So you should be careful when entering a town or city. No matter how much emergency food is the spirit master’s pet bird, many people will turn their eyes away if it is known that it is the green baby Kue.=
“As the saying goes, humans are beings without impossibility. Either in a good way or in a bad way.”
=Sometimes people give up and risk falling into hell…….=
While exchanging short conversations, they get closer to a group of beasts resembling Triceratops, and beasts called gurats are visibly wary of the approach of strangers and hide their cubs behind them.
“Is the male the one with the long horns?”
When I asked as I got off at Que, Isilite also got off and answered.
=Yes. Females have blunt horns and males have long horns.=
‘There is only one adult male. Are there three male babies?’
Thinking that the group will not go extinct, Hwan-in, who handed over only the antler staff to Isilite, approached Gurat with only a black spear.
Feeling threatened by Hwanin’s approach, a male the size of a bull came forward, aimed her horns at Hwanin, and began thumping, koo-gung, and stumping with her front legs.
Ignoring the visible threat, I continued to approach, and Gurat rushed forward with a bang, but the speed was not that fast.
Do you have to be good at bull level?
In an honest charge, while avoiding the mobility of the neck joint in mind, he cut off Gurat’s right forefoot.
Gooooo-!
The left forepaw of the male Gurat, who stood up on his hind legs and howled with a bone-exposed wound, was also severely cut.
Gooooo!
Coo goong?
When the male cries loudly and falls to the side, the females immediately take their young and run away. Issilite, who saw that, licked her lips and regretted it.
=The female meat tastes better.=
“Isilite, relax.”
=Yes.=
What I wanted to test through Gurat was what would happen if a middle or upper level soul was commanded.
The soul orb is just a form that increases the retention period, and the necromantic can be used even if the soul orb is not in state. Orders work for Urger, so the code can be used of course.
The problem is if the symptoms he experienced while forcing the blade boar’s soul also happen to Gurat.
Although they are herbivores, it is only natural that they will become very strong when they receive the upper-middle class, given their appearance and size.
Hwanin, who handed over the black spear after giving himself and Isilite the lowest level of decree and received the staff, approached Gurat, who was frightened and fluttering.
Wow~.
Hwanin, who had thought that he was struggling on his hind legs while weeping bitterly, or that his thick eyelashes and big frightened eyes looked like those of a bull, threw away his thoughts and focused his mind.
And that was when he tried to command Urger’s spirit.
————…….
“Well.”
A grimace and a strange sense of being almost connected to the soul flooded his brain.
‘No, this isn’t a connection, it’s like holding Urgur’s soul in your hand…….’
=Master?=
“…… It is nothing. I’m concentrating, so don’t talk to me.”
=Yes.=
By this time, he had unfolded the program hundreds of times, but this was the first time he had felt it.
‘It’s not the first time.’
Noticed belatedly This is the sense of technology I felt when the spirit of the land seal descended.
That feeling when I got the skill of soul arrow and soul shield.
“…….”
Hwanin, who was gazing at the floating soul of Urger with a dazed face as if fascinated, slowly raised his hand and stretched it out toward Gurat…… I let out the words my heart told me to.
“Write it.”
At that moment, Hwanin felt that something connected between himself, Urgur’s soul, and Gurat, where the soul was possessed.
Gu, woo woo~.
= Huh? Why is this guy suddenly like this?=
A yellow light suddenly flashes in Gurat’s eyes. It was not screaming or roaring, it was screaming and struggling as if it were struggling.
He begins to foam at his mouth and shudders as if having a seizure as he punches or pushes the ground with his unhindered hind legs. Even so, Hwanin realized the reason for the act of panting as if it was beyond his strength.
‘I was weakened.’
His blinking eyes and seizure-like behavior must have been possessed by a strong spirit far beyond his own soul level.
The code strengthens her physical abilities. And if there is a beneficial effect, it is a natural principle of the world that there is also a harmful effect.
Hwanin, intuitively realizing that what he had just used to weaken the enemy, clenched his fists.
Gained skill, weakening, opposite of strengthening.
Hwanin, who acquired a new skill through Urger’s soul, tested it several times while heading to the city of Wayport, and concluded that this skill was a curse.
When I first unfolded it to Gurat, he thought it was simply weakening his physical abilities.
However, when he weakened it using a ball made of spirits, a different effect appeared each time.
It seems like the body is weakening, but the effect is different each time, such as standing still and shaking, crying while shedding tears, or running wild.
More than anything…….
“Fun!”
“Me too! I’ll do it too!”
“Please play with me too.”
…… After I used the curse, the spirits around me were making noise like this every time, so I couldn’t notice it.
Fortunately, there was a difference between when the spirit was applied and when the soul was applied like a beast or animal.
If you curse a spirit, you can’t predict how it will react. However, if you cast a curse on a soul that has just died, you will simply become weak and gasp for breath.
An unpredictable reaction is a bad effect in a debuff sense. It’s because you need to have a certain reaction to make a plan so that you can cast a curse and lead the battle to your advantage.
When fighting enemies, a soul curse will be much more helpful than an unpredictable elemental curse.
On the third day like that.
= Lord, master, what did you do…… ?=
Isilite asked with a frightened expression as the wild animals or monsters that had been attacking in the meantime showed strange appearances several times.
Although there is a difference in degree, both Susa and Brillit seemed frightened, so Hwanin came up with a good idea and answered in a bleak voice.
“I cursed it with the power of the soul.”
=Hey hey.=
=…… !=
At the word curse, Issilite sprints behind her with a girlish scream, and Brillit, too, with great reluctance, backs away from the rampaging nocturnal beast as if having an epileptic seizure.
‘As expected.’
From ancient times, people are more influenced by what they see than what they cannot see.
In addition to the method of revealing the appearance of the soul, this curse technique will more clearly show the trickster-like disposition of the spirit master.
Of course, Hwanin had no intention of using this to make money. What Hwanin wanted was the sure fear and fear that the enemy would feel in him.
“There will be no other punishment like this for those who despise the soul and insult death.”
As I muttered in a gloomy voice, Susa, whose hair stood upright all over her body, trembled and said,
= I will never blaspheme the soul. Of course, I will keep my mouth shut about Hwanin-nim!
At Susa’s cry, not only Brillit, but also the rest of the escorts and porters nodded vigorously to her.
No, I don’t even have to swear an oath of silence like that…….
“…… Isilite, deal with it.”
=Me, me?=
She realized another flaw in her extremely reluctant appearance. The greater the belief in the garden and spirits of the gods, the greater the fear of the curse.
The problem was lightly settled by unfolding the program.
“Since you cast a blessing, you won’t be affected by the curse.”
=Oh, yes!=
Well, I didn’t lie. Applying a debuff is also a kind of curse, and curses are not contagious in the first place, so there is nothing to spread.
It was a trick using the fact that it was different and different, but there was no problem, so it was a hwanin who acted naturally.
Thanks to this, a very minor problem occurred, but it was a problem that Hwanin had forgotten.
Hwanin doesn’t know about it, but the spirit life is a job that not only the common people, but also the middle class and the upper class who have not entered the powerful family can’t treat it carelessly.
Since Hwanin showed his face as a true master of spirits, the only one who spoke to Hwanin first was Susa, and even Isilite and Brillit became visibly awe-inspiring and changed their behavior cautiously.
Brillitt is the least bit better, but Dinte and Hughes and the three porters are going to make eye contact with Hwanin, so they hang their heads around him.
‘I’ll have to be careful.’
When you start taking these behaviors for granted, life is likely to become tiring.
If you’re aiming for a higher rank, a rank like a high-ranking baron, it wouldn’t matter if you took it for granted.
Because the basic passives of dignitaries are arrogance and arrogance.
However, Hwanin’s current goal is to go to the city called the capital of the tribal union. I can’t settle down in one place, so I have to pretend to be polite and comfortable to live in…….
‘If I take it for granted that people cringe and serve me, trouble will arise in many places.’
Hwanin vowed to be careful and continued traveling with Susa and his friends.
= Do you see it? That’s Wayford, the key city in this area.=
The seventh day after leaving Etbruk.
A huge stone-walled city reaching 10 meters in height appeared in front of Hwanin.
Malevolent malevolent-
Waiting for their turn to check in a long line at the northern gate of Wayford, a small city, Susa and the others drew the attention of the people around them.
From people who stare openly, to people who glance at you, to people who come up close and ask questions directly.
= That’s great. Did you catch Urgur?=
= Heh heh. Lucky =
= I haven’t heard of Urger appearing nearby, where did you catch him? =
= We met by chancehaha.=
The corpse of a 5m class Urger in the luggage compartment was the cause.
Although there were two professions, no matter how you looked at it, it was a group that had nothing to do with battle, but people couldn’t help but wonder when the corpse of a 5th grade Urger was lying in the luggage compartment.
=If you’ll excuse me, may I ask how you captured Urgur?=
=Of course it is rude.=
While Susa was good at coaxing people who approached her and skillfully evading an answer, Hwanin put on a hood and was preoccupied with examining people.
It was unavoidable. In Hwanin’s eyes, the men of the Lukerang tribe really drew attention.
‘I never thought I’d personally see the centaur in the story.’
In particular, the appearance of the human horse tribe directly pulling the wagon caught Hwanin’s gaze for a long time.
Humans and horsemen are divided into two types.
One side is the half-man, half-horse, centaur that appears in myths and novels. And the other side is a horse head, the head of a horse and the body of a human.
It’s amazing just to see this, but there were men in scholarly clothes with sheep’s heads and round glasses, men in the shape of koalas but with bodies close to animals, not humans, and there were Indones who looked like pigs standing on two legs.
Not only that. Hwanin thought that all of the Lukrang people were a race in the form of animals.
‘An eagle man?’
Surprisingly, there was also a man in the form of an avian.
While admiring the appearance of a man with the head of a dignified bald eagle and dark brown wings on his back, he saw a man with wings and legs resembling a stork, a theropod, and his eyes lit up.
‘Are there Lukes who are close to beasts and Lukes who are closer to humans?’
And Hwan-in, who saw the race that Isilite reflected her worries on, exclaimed inwardly.
‘That race is Adsect. Really…… I was an insect man.’
Hwanin unconsciously swept his chin and stared at the Adsects shining black.
If it wasn’t for the belt pouch at the waist, not wearing any clothes at all, it would have looked like a monster.
= I’m glad. Today’s security guard seems to be a flexible person. The line is quickly shortened, so you don’t have to camp under the walls in the dew.=
“If we make wagons with wagon lines and people with human lines for inspection, the work speed will be faster.”
In front of the gate, hundreds of people and dozens of wagons and wagons were lined up in a really ignorant line. As a rule of thumb, there are 8 city guards checking over 100m.
Even then, 4 people are just standing on the left and right and chatting leisurely, and only 4 people are being checked.
=Depending on the captain of the guard, there are times when this is the case and there are times when it is not…..Haha.=
Seeing Susa’s awkward smile, Hwanin guessed roughly how this city works.
‘I shouldn’t expect a modern aspect.’
When you mention flexibility, it means that bribery is also accepted. But taking a bribe…….
Hwanin, having a premonition that something slightly troublesome was about to happen, crossed his arms and waited for his ranks to diminish.
Two hours later, Hwanin, who was concentrating on meditation while fiddling with a pearl-colored stone, narrowed his eyes at the light voice in his ears.
= Two low-ranking warriors caught Urger, which could only be caught by a 5th-class regular warrior unit? Does that make sense~.=
A hyena-headed guard wearing a slightly thick aura was grinning.
= Didn’t you really steal it? Huh~?=
