Chapter 93 – Chapter 93 ― Decision (4)
Episode 93 ― Decision (4)
“… Oh my god.”
Lauca, who had been sitting slumped for a while, jumped up. It was a momentum that could not have been imagined until now.
“All of this… , Was it a decision?!”
The path of the cave they entered and the space they were confined to were all made of crystal.
Roan, too, opened his eyes in surprise.
‘… Wasn’t that what I saw? Does it have anything to do with the collapse? Could it be that it’s inside the cave?’
In the game, it was possible to clearly distinguish between the cave wall and the crystal part.
It was a texture that felt like crystals were stuck into the wall of a black cave, as if a lantern was stuck in it.
But what Roan sees is,
Literally, the flow of ‘crystal vein’, in the middle.
Filling the cave walls made of soil and rocks were translucent crystals.
The crystal that began to emit light after receiving ‘starlight’—the ore emitted a color on the border between blue and purple, like an aurora.
Mysterious colors from the transparent ore filled the walls of the cave and rippled like waves.
“It seems that this was also hidden like a ruin.”
“… You mean it responds to His Majesty’s power?”
“Hmm.”
Roan looked around the cave, filled with shimmering light that reacted to the starlight.
It was a mysterious color.
Transparent colors filled the inside of the cave, and they seemed to be in another universe.
A sense of wonder that makes you forget for a moment that the two of you have already been locked up for dozens of hours.
“… Great power…”
After touching the crystal, Lauca murmured.
And suddenly, in surprise, she removed her hand.
“What is going on?”
“Damn it, the mana has been sucked in…”
Lauca frowned at her.
“This crystal is the culprit of absorbing mana. It must have absorbed only the power of the ‘seed’.”
“Maybe we can store magical energy and use it as the power of the earth.”
“… If the power from the ‘Dark Forest Seed’ is such tremendous magical power, how amazing is that ‘seed’?!”
Roan laughed at Lauca, who couldn’t hide her excitement.
“Sure, Aina. Didn’t I tell you that even children don’t believe it?”
“Um…”
Lauca, who was a bit shy and evasive of her words, reluctantly admitted that she was wrong.
“But seeing ruins that she hadn’t seen appear before her eyes, or seeing crystals she didn’t even know were there… Harder not to believe. It’s strange that all of these only react to His Majesty.”
“Hmm. That is definitely not surprising.”
Roan carefully swiped the crystal.
The magic power inside his body was already empty, and he didn’t feel like something was being absorbed.
Instead, what I felt was condensed magical power wriggling inside the crystal.
You can feel that each piece of crystal contains great power.
However, it is questionable whether it is possible to restore intellect to the extent of physically planting a crystal in the ground. It’s because this crystal can absorb all of the surrounding magical power or intellect.
In order to release the power contained in this and return it to the soil, it seems that the help of an intellectual such as a wizard or medicine man will inevitably be needed.
Eleanor, who comes to mind first, is an excellent wizard, but he can’t come to Basel right now to finish the war and prepare for the wedding.
If she is as good a wizard as she is, who should she recruit?
Roan, who was deeply troubled for a moment, smiled.
“… Why are you laughing all of a sudden? Your majesty.”
“I’m so stupid.”
Roan sighed as he smiled as he sat down.
“I was thinking for a while about who to entrust this decision to study.”
“… It’s efficient.”
Lauca sat down next to Roan again with a weak laugh.
And time passed again.
In the meantime, the two skinned the bear’s carcass in the corner of the cave and grilled the meat.
It was not easy to eat because of the sour smell, but first of all, grilled meat is better than a rotting corpse.
Smoke from roasting meat has been seen escaping through the holes, but there is still no sign of finding them outside.
Lauca’s expression darkened even more.
“Aina. Magic attribute…”
In the meantime, Roan would occasionally cast ‘Star’s Blessing’ on Lauca. Curiously, the blessing was able to slightly slow down the speed at which magic was absorbed.
But now it’s midwinter.
Even if you are wearing a bear skin, there is a limit to enduring the cold.
Even though it is a forest fairy, it is impossible to sit still in one place and maintain body temperature in the middle of the winter in an unspoiled cave.
Lauca has been using her warming magic with Roan’s blessing, but her magic power is gradually running out.
“… There’s still a little bit left…”
“For now, dispel the magic. Okay.”
Lauca, who had asked back a few hours ago, ‘It’s a magic that will disappear anyway, but wouldn’t it be better to use it instead of speeding it up to the crystal?’
It was really hard to see the bottom of her magical power.
And when all available magic attribute is gone,
After that, it’s time for the magical energy flowing through the forest fairy’s body to disappear.
Unlike humans and demons, forest fairies have strong magic power flowing through their bodies. In modern times, it could be described as having a higher percentage of magic components in blood.
Because of that, being trapped in this crystal cave is like falling into a poison swamp for her.
It’s because the whole blood component is being taken away.
“How much… , Has it passed?”
Examining Lauca’s complexion, Roan glanced at the long-term quest clock in the corner of his vision.
“39 hours.”
Early in the morning when the sun hasn’t risen yet.
It is the coldest time.
Lauca was shaking.
The water in her canteen that Lauca had brought was not much, so she drank sparingly.
If she had enough magical power, she would rather turn on her shield and think about blowing up the cave. No one thought that the rescue would be delayed this much.
Lauca muttered in a hoarse voice.
“… Sorry. Your majesty.”
“… What… ?”
“From the start, I shouldn’t have done this…”
Her vitality fades from Lauca’s eyes.
“Even if I didn’t run out like an idiot…”
“Don’t blame yourself for the past.”
Roan laughed bitterly.
“But next time I will be angry.”
At Roan’s words, Lauca laughed helplessly.
Because Lauca didn’t have the courage to say, ‘Is there a next time?’
Fortunately, the devil’s body is healthy.
A body with a health level of 99 means that it does not only increase blood pressure, but also has a body that is not affected by moderate cold or heat.
Moreover, even if the search is delayed for some reason, if the emperor does not return after this amount of time, the West Blood Lord will be frantic to find Roan, even if it means digging through the whole forest.
However, Lauca is not as strong as Roan, and has no trust in the high lord.
Therefore, her anxiety and coldness became more excruciating pain for her.
Roan even covered him with his cloak,
Lauca was already trapped in the cave, and after 30 hours, she lost her vitality rapidly.
“… Your majesty.”
After a long time, it was Lauca’s trembling voice that broke her silence.
Lauca trembled to the point where she could hear the grinding of her teeth as she spoke to Roan.
“Please… I have one.”
“Hmm?”
It was unexpected.
Her complexion rose brightly on Lauca’s still pale face.
Lauca’s voice sounded small, as if it were about to go out completely. Is it because she is shy or because she has no energy.
“… Do it…”
A small voice that even Roan, whose five senses are sensitive to ‘detection’, could not hear.
Roan asked again to make sure what he was hearing was true.
“… Aina, what I just heard… ?”
“…”
Lauca added with a wordless, reddened face, only a nod of her head.
“Me too… Of course, I know it’s unlucky, but… Because there are worst-case scenarios… Um, so Because I don’t know what will happen now. So…”
Lauca looked at Roan.
With a shy expression on her face, the forest fairy was observing Roan’s reaction.
“… Finally. Just once, with me…”
Roan nodded his head.
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to have my words confirmed after this, but considering Lauca’s current condition, I didn’t want to bother her that much.
“Are you okay. Aina.”
Roan hugged Lauca.
Despite her tall stature, the slender forest fairy came into Roan’s arms.
Lauca embarrassedly buried her face in Roan’s shoulder.
While holding her, Roan unfolded her ‘Miheun’.
The power to charm the opposite sex that unfolds gently.
The wariness in Lauca’s eyes faded slightly.
“Your Majesty, it’s warm…”
Roan held her lauka and brushed her over the bearskin she was wearing.
“A person’s body temperature is comforting.”
“I wish I had a partner…”
Lauka muttered in her arms.
Roan lifted her face slightly into his arms.
“Someday, you will find your mate. But for now, focus on me.”
“… Huh?”
Lauca’s face reddened once again.
She shyly turned her hurried gaze elsewhere.
“Ah, no, but, a forest fairy’s companion is originally a forest fairy who continues to travel in the forest… I’m already disqualified as a forest fairy…”
“Aina. It’s okay if you don’t necessarily insist on the same way as other forest fairies.”
Roan stroked her hair.
The high ponytail that was neatly tied was scattered here and there from long-time outdoor activities, but it still smelled like a forest fairy’s unique scent.
A refreshing scent mixed with the smell of the blood from the bear’s carcass, the smell of the beast, and the smell of the soil in the cave.
It was the scent of a tree in a deep forest.
“Still, you are a forest fairy. No matter what the other forest fairies think, you don’t have to be a human or a demon.”
Roan buried her face in the nape of her neck and took a deep breath. Lauca twitched as if it tickled her.
“You are already the messenger of the beautiful forest.”
While the two share each other’s body temperature.
In the silence of silence, the sound effect of beeping beeping was announcing the rise in favorability of Lauca.
The affinity that started at +25 stopped after taking +40.
Lauca is a character who only has an affinity index, and nothing after that is unknown.
As if she were an NPC who could have sex with the hero, there was a level of affinity, but after becoming the hero’s party, Lauca was wary of everyone except Grünent and devoted all her energy to revenge against the demon lord.
It was because Lauca in the game thought that the devil and his leader, the devil, were her lover or the enemy of her unrequited love.
That’s why the hero, or player, couldn’t fall in love with Lauca. She was able to build some intimacy, but she couldn’t go all the way to the sex scene.
So it is not even known what skills she can acquire.
That’s why, holding her is her uncharted territory.
She doesn’t know what skills will come out,
In the first place, it is also unclear whether ‘skill duplication’ is the target.
But one thing is for sure,
That she needs me now.
Anyway, Lauca’s skill is like a bonus. She doesn’t matter much now.
“… Your majesty.”
With her pitiful expression on her face, she cradled the forest fairy’s shoulder, which had barely trembled, and Roan lightly cupped her cold cheeks with both hands and kissed her.
The forest fairy’s face, which seemed to be frozen by the hot body temperature, warmed up.
Lauca felt relieved at that temperature.
Did you really think you should have spoken out like this?
Lauca laughed inwardly at the regret, which was not important at all in the current situation.
The thoughts couldn’t go any further.
The sensation of touching her lips was hotter, sweeter, and more intense than I thought.
“… After, laugh…”
A light kiss with ‘Miheun’ open so that Lauca doesn’t feel repulsive as much as possible.
Lauca accepted the bird kiss with eyes startled by her unexpected touch.
The touch and temperature of her soft lips felt quite pleasant, and when Lauca began to smile at her, Roan licked Lauca’s lips with her tongue.
“Right… Oops… ?”
“If you feel strange, tell me anytime.”
“Oh, no… That kind of thing…”
Lauca shyly accepts Roan’s tongue.
Her lips parted helplessly.
‘Strange…’
Kissing was something I couldn’t understand when I heard Grunent’s explanation.
Mixing Her Tongue
What kind of incomprehensible act is that?
I knew that copulation between a man and a woman is an act of combining each other’s genitals, but why even the tongue?
However, the first kiss that took place while feeling pleasure from physical contact through ‘Miheun’ was amazing.
‘Mood… , Good…’
Even though she had lived for more than 200 years, Lauca lacked the vocabulary when it came to the pleasure of a relationship between a man and a woman.
She gasped for breath as she hurriedly accepted the entanglement of Roan’s tongue.
The softly closed eyelids trembled.
Lauca wiggled her body, which she unconsciously touched Roan. Her well-muscled thighs rubbed against each other slowly.
