< Chapter 24 - Settlement #2 >
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Inside the accommodation provided by the Gounnunbaram tribe.
Yuder, whose face, neck, the back of his hands, and other parts of his body were covered in saliva, looked down at the floor with a relieved expression.
Cordelia was curled up on the blanket, sleeping with a happy expression on her face.
“Hoo··· Color is empty, empty is color, color is empty, empty is color······.”
After reciting the Heart Sutra again, Yuder covered Cordelia with a blanket and sat back down on the chair.
“it’s tough.”
Physically or mentally.
But in the end, I ended up smiling.
Because Cordelia’s face looked so happy as she curled up and slept.
‘If I wake up tomorrow there’ll be chaos?’
Although his behavior became like that of a cat due to the side effect of Beast Mode, his memories did not go anywhere.
This was a fact that had already been revealed through several experiments.
A rather evil smile appeared on Uther’s face as he thought of Cordelia tomorrow.
In fact, Yuder had already planned out how to tease him.
“It’s peaceful.”
Just a few hours ago, I was engaged in a life-or-death battle with a mid-level mine, but right now, at this very moment, it was completely peaceful.
Yuder smiled brightly again, washed his face with water from the basin, turned his back on Cordelia, and sat down on the floor.
‘The essence of the blue moon.’
Yuder, who was quietly staring at the blue jewel in his hand, straightened his back and closed his eyes.
Although it is not exactly the same as a game as it is real, this world still has many similarities to a game.
The most representative example of this is level.
As I told Cordelia, all of your overall abilities will increase as you level up.
As the saying goes, “level is a bully,” Yuder was born with a weak body, but now that he has passed level 40 and reached level 42, his physical strength is so strong that even the knights of the Count Bayer family look down on him.
His strength also increased significantly, and he was able to display strength that was close to monstrous strength by real-world standards.
‘It’s not really some kind of built-in muscle.’
Although Yuder had become quite strong, he wasn’t as muscular as Landius.
However, the strength was about twice that of a normal adult male.
‘These days, Cordelia feels like cotton to me.’
It’s ok to either carry or not carry.
That’s also why I’ve been carrying it around a lot these days.
‘Well… there are probably some bean pods.’
Uder coughed in vain at his own thoughts and pulled himself together again.
Wasn’t the reason he sat with his back to Cordelia originally to clear his mind of distracting thoughts?
‘Anyway.’
Leveling up was the most surefire and basic way to become stronger.
‘But this alone is not enough.’
As you level up, your body becomes stronger.
Not only does your physical strength and muscle power increase, but your body itself becomes stronger, increasing your endurance and defense.
But the technology doesn’t come into existence.
‘This is what hurts the most.’
In the game, new skills were created as you leveled up, but perhaps because it was reality, no matter how much I leveled up, no new skills were created.
‘Cordelia’s case is a little different, though.’
Cordelia had a witch’s spellbook.
It was a magical spellbook that could be opened at certain levels, allowing Cordelia to learn new spells at certain levels, just like in a game.
But it wasn’t Yuder himself.
‘In the end, the only way to become stronger right now is to level up and use the Nine Heavenly Gate.’
Opening a new door to the nine heavens and nine heavens.
Because of this, he gains supernatural powers, just like Landius said.
‘You can evolve the Gale Force Twenty-Four Steps.’
When the first door was opened, the thirty-six treasures of the world became the twenty-four treasures of the wind.
As soon as Jay Moon opened, a whirlwind of wind was added to the twenty-four steps.
At this rate, when the third gate was opened, there was a high possibility that the twenty-four steps of the whirlwind would advance further.
‘Okay, let’s open the third gate.’
The essence of the blue moon contained the power of pure stars. If I could absorb it all, I would be able to reach the Third Gate.
Uther closed his eyes and concentrated.
Cordelia’s soft breathing from behind me made me feel slightly dizzy, but I soon calmed down.
Aiming for the realm of clear vision, he received the energy of the stars from the essence of the blue moon.
The pure energy of the stars surged in.
It was an energy so clear and pure that it seemed like it would be harmful to ordinary people.
But not for Yuder.
Yuder already possessed pure energy due to the meeting of extreme yin and yang energies.
When clarity and clarity met, they became one without any problems.
Uder slowly controlled his breathing.
By reciting the nine heavenly gates, the energies inside and outside the body were united.
Uther forgot the time.
Free from the flow.
He received the clear and bright energy of the stars and the power of the moon and spread it throughout his body.
Reaped with breath, shared with breath.
Uder felt it.
The last major vein, which had been blocked by the spleen vein, was opened.
As the star energy spread evenly throughout Yuder’s body, the veins also began to open.
Complete opening of the entire body’s meridians.
Free circulation of energy.
A door appeared in Uder’s mind.
Third question.
The third gate of the Nine Heavens Gate.
Uder slowly opened the door.
It opened as soon as the third gate was installed.
Something I’ve already done twice.
The opening of the three gates, like the first gate and the second gate.
No it wasn’t.
It was different from before.
Uther could feel it.
It was pitch black all around.
A white light appeared in the pitch-black place.
Covered the sky and covered the earth.
There was someone standing alone in the white world spread out on the pitch black.
He or she.
I still couldn’t figure it out.
It was not a being that could be recognized through the three gates.
But he, she saw Yuder.
A smile appeared.
A person who resides in a white world.
A silhouette of a person, seemingly drawn with rough ink lines.
He started to move.
She made slow but clear movements as if to tell me to look closely.
And that was the moment.
A new idea popped into my head.
A clear voice echoed in my head.
It seemed a little clearer.
It was a woman.
The image of a woman drawn with rough ink lines taught Yuder.
New moves, new textures, new diets.
Black dragon emerges.
The woman said. She stretched out her sword. At that moment, a huge black dragon rose from her palm and shook the white world.
Kwagagagagaga-!
The black dragon roared. It surged forward, shattering and breaking the white world.
The woman looked back at Yuder.
He smiled brightly again, raised his hand, and pointed at Yuder. He made a slight gesture of spreading out his paper.
Give it a try.
You can do it too.
The black dragon of the nine heavens and nine earthly gates emerges.
Uder memorized the spell.
The energy moved on its own. The heavenly body reacted. It was natural to know what to do and how to do it.
“Black dragon emerges.”
Uder said.
I stretched out my arms.
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The next morning.
After being escorted out of the basin by the Gounnunbaram tribe, Uder and Cordelia set out towards the Bladebeak Canyon.
But the expressions on the two people’s faces were quite different.
Uther had a big smile on his face, and Cordelia kept looking at him with an awkward expression.
“Hehehe~ Hehehehe~”
Cordelia flinched involuntarily when Uther hummed in an unusual manner.
And then I looked at Yuder again.
Why am I so excited?
Why are you smiling so brightly?
Well, in times like this, shouldn’t we just act as if nothing happened?
‘That’s right! Let’s pretend we don’t remember!’
Cordelia, who had gathered her courage, coughed in vain and made a shameless expression, and Uther smiled like a villain and spoke in a small voice.
“Tick tock tock.”
Cordelia’s face turned red.
But Cordelia hadn’t given up yet.
“What the hell are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“Tick tock tock.”
“This bad guy! That son of a bitch!”
Cordelia finally gave up and started hitting Uther’s back, and Uther just laughed coolly.
“Hey! Hey! You don’t feel any pain when I hit you anymore, do you? You were lying when you said it hurt until now, weren’t you?”
“No, it hurts a lot. The child hurts. The child hurts.”
“I really hate you to death!”
Cordelia’s hand, which had turned red up to her neck, began to exert more and more strength.
“Ouch! Hey! Hey! It hurts! It really hurts!”
“It doesn’t hurt!”
“No, really? Are you really sick? Are you a high level person too?”
Even though she was a wizard, Cordelia’s physical abilities also increased every time she leveled up, even though she was less powerful than the unmanned Yuder.
As Uther shouted desperately, Cordelia reflexively stopped her hand and asked.
“Does it really hurt?”
“It really hurts.”
“That went well!”
“Ah! Ah! Hey! Hey!”
“It hurts more! It hurts more!”
“Tick tock tock!”
“Profit! Doesn’t it hurt? You’re not really sick, are you?”
“It hurts, but I’m still moving!”
“asleep!”
A few minutes passed, this mix of violence and uncompromising teasing.
As Cordelia gasped for breath, exhausted from the exertion, Uther spoke.
“It’s okay, you were really cute.”
“Fuck. Never see me in beast mode again.”
Cordelia, who was glaring, decided to change the subject instead of hitting Uther more.
“anyway!”
“anyway.”
“Are we going to Blade Beak Canyon now?”
“Oh, it seems like Lena has something to do with the elf kingdom of magic that was said to be in the Blade Beak Canyon.”
“These are the ruins of the Demon Kingdom… There must be a lot of rare items here and there, right?”
“Tsk tsk… All I have is material desires.”
“losing.”
When Cordelia rolled her eyes again, Uther smiled cheerfully and said,
“Well, I’m looking forward to it one way or another. After all, since it’s the Magic Kingdom, there’ll be a lot of things that Cordelia can use.”
“Moonlight is still usable, so I hope more things like it come out. Armor and accessories.”
“Since I’m going towards witchcraft, items that increase magic recovery speed would be good, right?”
“Yeah, yeah, it’s okay to raise the mana potion itself. It’s good that the witch’s spells are strong, but they all consume a lot of magic power.”
Cordelia, who had said that, suddenly stopped in her tracks and looked back at Uther.
“By the way, did you enjoy the Blue Moon Essence?”
“I ate well.”
“Really? Then you opened the three gates too? Are you stronger?”
Cordelia approached Uther and asked with sparkling eyes.
Uther answered impulsively, pinching Cordelia’s cheek.
“It’s open.”
Cordelia, who would normally get angry and ask why he was picking on her and making a fuss, opened her already large eyes even wider and smiled brightly this time.
“Wow! Sammun! Jesammun! What happened? Did something change? Did you learn a new skill or something?”
“show me?”
“Oh, show me. I want to see it. I want to see Cordelia.”
Uther laughed again at the sight of Cordelia jumping up and down in place, perhaps because she had rabbit ears on, and suddenly hugged Cordelia’s waist with one arm.
“I’ll show you.”
Because it’s not just the black dragon that’s been cooked.
Because the whirlwind twenty-four steps have also faced new changes.
‘The nine heavens and the nine earths.’
Nine worlds and nine doors.
A divine skill of a sage who defeated the great lord of hell who descended to earth in the past.
“The wind is twenty-four steps, the black wind is coming.”
Uther, speaking softly, lifted Cordelia up with both hands. He hugged Cordelia tightly, who was naturally clinging to him, and blew the wind.
What happens is dozens of golden gusts of wind.
And the pitch-black wind that blows in between.
“Huh?”
Uther laughed at Cordelia’s scream, which was a beat late.
I took cool steps and became the wind itself.
Tsuhwaa-!
Instead of a loud noise, what came out was the sound of a blast splitting the air.
A pitch-black wind with golden whirlwinds blew. It became a gale and swept across the white snowfield.
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When Uther and Cordelia headed to Bladebeak Canyon.
Gail and Adelia were facing the red wind.
“Uh… So you’re saying Cordelia bought you?”
“Yes. My sister bought me. To save me from the auction house.”
Red Wind eagerly expressed his affection for Cordelia, even if only in his clumsy common language.
Gail, who had been quietly listening to her story, asked.
“By the way, Miss Red Wind, have you heard where Uther and Cordelia got the money?”
Although Gale had never been involved in the slave trade, that didn’t mean he was completely ignorant.
As the heir to one of the twelve northern clans, I had to have some understanding of how the world worked.
Red Wind, who inherited the blood of the Winter Elf, was an extremely beautiful girl, and given the nature of the Lankevust slave auction house, her price was likely to be higher than expected.
But did Uther and Cordelia buy her in a normal transaction?
Adelia also showed a look of renewed admiration at Gale’s question.
“Come to think of it, that’s true. It’s not something I can do by saving up my allowance.”
Moreover, looking back on their journey, it was Yuder and Cordelia who secretly spent a lot of money.
I wondered where the money to buy expensive slaves came from.
“Uh… Sister Cordelia said. That he gambled.”
“Gambling? Oh, you mean the casino?”
“That’s right. He said it was a casino. He earned money there and bought me. He said that Yuder oppa said he wanted to go to the casino to earn money to buy me.”
As the Red Wind laughed heartily, Gail and Adelia looked back at each other, and soon anger appeared on Adelia’s face.
‘You were a gambler?!’
You said you weren’t just going to the casino to play, but to earn money to buy slaves?
It was one of two things.
Either you are too clear-headed and naive, or you are a gambling addict!
“Uh··· um······ Anyway, I guess you got it.”
Adelia’s eyes narrowed as Gail spoke, clearing her throat.
And the red wind spoke again.
“That’s right. Cordelia said she won a lot. She bragged about how good she was at gambling.”
“Wait a minute, Miss Cordelia got it?”
“My sister is really good at gambling. She said she’d take me with her later.”
At Red Wind’s innocent remark, Gale’s gaze returned to Adelia, who flinched and then spoke with a cough.
“Ahem, I guess I was lucky… Yes.”
“···okay.”
Anyway, instead of going bankrupt, he earned a lot of money and saved the Red Wind, so I guess it’s a good thing.
“Red Wind Sheep, can I ask you to tell me the next story?”
“Okay, I’ll talk.”
Red Wind also talked about the things he experienced after crossing the border.
“The Sword Demon Kamael······.”
“I never thought Yuder would become Lord Landius’s disciple.”
It was the appearance of unexpected giants.
The swordsman Kamael and the iron man Landius.
The best inspectors on the continent that no one can deny.
“Um… I’m sorry. I didn’t really understand what kind of conversation you had with that guy named Kamael.”
“No, this is enough. Thank you for telling me.”
When Gail smiled brightly, Red Wind blushed without realizing it, then laughed hehehe and left the room. Adelia coughed in discomfort for some reason and then said.
“It definitely doesn’t seem like an ordinary thing.”
“Yes, it seems that it is not simply a matter of entanglement with the devil’s followers. It seems that crossing the border was not for the sake of love but for a serious mission. Perhaps… we should change the purpose of our trip.”
From the retrieval of a young man and woman who ran away from home to helping two people solve their current problems.
“Haa··· Cordelia······.”
Adelia bit her lip and let out a pained voice.
I wish it was just a simple runaway.
If things were as they were now, Cordelia was running towards even greater danger.
“Don’t worry too much. I’ll be able to join you two soon.”
“Yes… That’s right. Thank you, Prince Gale. I’m glad we have Prince Gale.”
“I am so glad that I have Miss Adelia.”
Gail and Adelia looked at each other.
An exchange of glances that would have made for a truly uncomfortable expression if there had been a rough avalanche.
The first one to turn her head was Adelia.
“Ahem. Anyway, it seems like we don’t have time to waste. Let’s head to where the Gounnunbaram tribe is.”
“Okay, that sounds good.”
Gail smiled leisurely, stood up from her seat, and extended her hand to Adelia.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes, Prince Gale.”
Adelia, who was holding Gale’s hand and standing up a little more quietly than usual, suddenly stopped in her tracks before leaving the room. Something suddenly occurred to her.
“Me, but Prince Gale.”
“Yes, Miss Adelia.”
“That… Prince Gale doesn’t gamble or anything, right?”
“No, I don’t. That… Miss Adelia… won’t do it either?”
“Yes, me too.”
“That’s good.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
What on earth went well?
Anyway, the two people, relieved that neither of them was gambling, walked forward with small smiles.
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< Chapter 24 - Settlement #2 > End
