< Chapter 39 - Encounter >
Chapter 39 – Encounter
The sight of 30,000 Eastern Army troops advancing toward the West was truly spectacular.
As the wild gods joined the ranks, the march of the regular troops became different in many ways.
The most impressive of these was the change in nature.
“Blessings of the spring breeze.”
The spring breeze that began to blow to the tune of the song of the gentle snow breeze melted the snow and drove away the cold.
Now that she was out of the sanctuary, Gounnunbaram couldn’t do it alone, but she wasn’t alone.
The Great Tempest added to the power of the wind, and the Bladesong added harmony, strengthening the power of the song.
A unit advancing, driving out winter.
A unit that leaves spring behind where it left off.
As each wild god joined, the power of the miracle grew stronger, and the morale of the Eastern Army soared to the sky.
“It seems like victory is within reach.”
As the sun song, which had been walking side by side, spoke with a happy face, the red wind also smiled.
The hasty proposal had already been rejected, but that did not mean that Red Wind and Sun Song had stopped seeing each other.
‘I honestly don’t know about marriage. But maybe we can be friends?’
When Red Wind rejected the proposal, Taeyangnore decided to take a step back.
Even I thought it was a too hasty proposal.
Furthermore, the Great Storm Tribe and the Bladesong Tribe were the center of this Eastern Army, so the two people leading the tribes had to join forces in order to put up a proper fight.
“The Western Army has also begun to advance… so they will probably engage in a battle with them on the Snow Flower Wind Plains.”
Red Wind nodded at Sun Song’s words.
This one fight wouldn’t decide the fate of the East and the West, but since it was their first direct confrontation, they absolutely could not afford to lose. They absolutely had to win.
‘Sister.’
Red Wind nodded to Sun Song again and looked back to the north.
The Sky Roof Mountains that divide the Wild Lands into East and West.
A land of death that is so harsh that even wild gods and humans shun it.
Uther and Cordelia were there now.
For a crazy plan to cross the Sky Roof Mountains and strike at the rear of the West.
‘This is crazy.’
Even if we somehow managed to get over the roof of the sky, it was just the two of us.
The point was that the two of them had to trample on the western rear.
‘But I think I can do it.’
If it’s those two people.
If it’s Uther and Cordelia.
‘And if you really do it······.’
The West will be reeling from the unexpected punch.
Even the East, which was on the same side, thought it was a crazy plan.
‘Sister… and brother.’
I’ll see you again soon. In good health.
Red Wind, who had been praying with both hands together, quietly closed his eyes.
I pictured the faces of two people smiling at me.
And at the same time.
Cordelia, who had been smiling warmly in the imagination of the red wind, was spitting out curses.
“Fuck! I think I’m going to fall!”
Midway up the Sky Roof Mountains.
Uther and Cordelia were walking through the place where the cold, sharp wind was blowing with a piercing force.
“Fuck! What the fuck!”
It was Uther, not Cordelia.
Even Yuder, who usually doesn’t swear, had something so bad about the Sky Roof Mountain Range that he started swearing.
“Ugh… Mana, mana is gone.”
As Cordelia, who was carrying Uther on her back, was panting and using all her might on her shield magic, Uther quickly began to look around. It was to find a place to rest.
“How long can you hold out?”
“5 minutes?”
Uther and Cordelia’s climbing method was simple.
Cordelia is carried on the back of Uther, who has acquired a stronger body by drinking an ancient elixir.
While in a raised position, the shield is spread out to block the wind, and the air inside the shield is heated to somehow maintain warmth.
In that state, Yuder climbs the mountain with great effort.
It was a very crude method, but it was effective enough.
“I found it! Just hold on for five minutes! Got it?”
“Okay… Ugh! Write!”
As Cordelia gritted her teeth, Uther hurried his steps.
After approaching the exposed rock face, I found a suitable crack. I pulled my fist and shouted at Cordelia.
“Release the shield!”
“evil!”
Instead of answering, Cordelia let out something similar to a scream and hugged Uther tightly, releasing the shield. At that moment, a fierce wind blew towards Uther and Cordelia.
“Uder!”
Cordelia’s scream erupted right behind him, but he couldn’t hear it properly. Uther strengthened his lower body to maintain his posture, then thrust his fist into the crevice between the rocks.
Black dragon emerges!
Instead of a cross, he released pure force to shatter the rock wall, widening the cracks even further.
“good!”
To this extent, it was possible.
Yuder quickly took out a piece of cozy blanket from his waistband and threw it into the crevice, and with one breath, a round tent was created.
“Come on, come on.”
Cordelia made a death sound with her teeth chattering, and Uther opened the tent entrance without hesitation and jumped inside.
“ha.”
As soon as I sealed the entrance, I let out a sigh of relief.
It was a cozy space of one pyeong, just like the name suggests, and despite being awkwardly set up in a crevice between rocks, it felt cozy.
“Haa··· ha······.”
Cordelia’s whole body felt frozen even though it had only been a few seconds since she released her shield.
Uther quickly unwrapped the blanket, placed her on the floor, and covered her with the wolf skin.
“Okay, the fur is done.”
Before Uther could even finish speaking, Cordelia reached out her hand.
He curled up, hugging Yuder, who had now acquired glossy black fur.
“Haa··· ha······ It’s so cold.”
No kidding, it was worse than Frost Anvil.
It was only to the extent that I felt cold thanks to the protection of winter. If I had been naked, I might have frozen to death the moment the shield was released.
“It’s cold, it’s cold.”
Cordelia repeated the same words and hugged Uther tighter.
The shame I felt because of Adelia had long since disappeared.
It was shameful and embarrassing, but living was the most important thing.
“Ah··· It’s warm······.”
It was thanks to Yuder circulating the energy throughout his body and releasing heat.
Cordelia said, burying her face in Uther’s fur, which had become a human hearth—no, a wolf hearth itself.
“Haa··· Now I can live a little······.”
Five days after heading to the Sky Roof Mountains.
Although they had only actually started climbing for two days, Uder and Cordelia were already halfway across the Sky Roof Mountain Range.
“Just two more days to go.”
Cordelia closed her eyes tightly as Uther spoke so earnestly.
Crossing the Skyroof Mountains in just four days was a feat that would astonish even the Wild Gods, but Cordelia could only think of two more days of this nonsense.
But still, it was Cordelia. After she had regained some stability, a worried voice came out.
“Hey, Yuder, are you okay? Does your back hurt?”
“Oh, it’s okay. Mr. So-and-so is as light as a feather, so it doesn’t even feel like I’m carrying him.”
“Shit.”
“Our princess, why are you swearing all of a sudden?”
“Because there is no red wind here?”
“Wait a minute, so you’ve been swearing less lately?”
“No, well… it’s not just because of the red wind.”
Cordelia had been swearing less recently.
As he said himself, the Red Wind – to be precise, the embarrassing incident at the border was the trigger, but in fact, other factors were more important.
‘Is Cordelia’s true nature revealed?’
It’s already been over two months since I awakened to my memories of my past life.
During that time, the influence of the previous life that suddenly came rushing in was so strong that the Yellow Storm aspect stood out more than Cordelia, but that was no longer the case. It was starting to harmonize to some extent.
‘Because it’s reincarnation, not a transformation.’
Because they each lived as Uther and Cordelia for 17 years.
And every time this happens, I realize it.
This is truly the real world.
It’s not like a game world.
But that makes me even more scared.
The promised future.
If things go as planned, the world will eventually be destroyed.
‘No, you can change it.’
It’s already changed a lot of things.
It caused numerous butterfly effects.
‘In the end, it’s people.’
What Uther and Cordelia themselves can do.
Something that can influence the heavily rolling wheel of fate.
Save people, gather people.
On the contrary, eliminate those who will become enemies.
‘Lucas and Cordelia.’
Originally, these were two people who could not coexist.
If Lucas lived, Cordelia would have become a mine, and if Cordelia lived, Lucas would have become a mine.
But not now.
Moreover, relationships have also changed.
‘In the original, Lucas and Cordelia’s relationship was literally just a matter of knowing each other’s faces and names.’
But not anymore.
Lucas was close not only to Cordelia but also to Uther himself, so much so that he could always help her out.
‘The red wind has also been added.’
In the original, Lucas and Red Wind never joined forces.
Lucas was a northern knight who had been taught that barbarians were not people but beasts, and Red Wind had come to hate northern humans after living as a slave.
Even when they met by chance, they were hostile to each other.
But what about now?
If the two people meet, with Uther himself and Cordelia between them.
“What are you thinking about?”
In response to Cordelia’s question, Uther spoke frankly about everything that came to his mind, and Cordelia smiled.
“So, we’re all friends?”
It was a line that could only be heard on a children’s show, but at that moment, Yuder felt like he had come to a realization.
It was something I already knew conceptually, but now it feels concrete and real.
‘If it’s Cordelia.’
It might be possible.
It might have been too much for Uther himself, but it might have been possible for Cordelia, who had incredible affinity.
Not only does it bring all playable characters back to life, it also allows them to work together as allies.
All playable characters fight together, centered around Cordelia.
“wow.”
Just imagining it gave me goosebumps.
In the original, it was absolutely impossible, but in reality, it could be possible.
Cordelia, as she is now, could really do it.
“What, why are you doing that again?”
“No, I think it would be awesome if all the playable characters fought together.”
I intentionally left out the idea of uniting around Cordelia, but that alone was enough.
“Wow, then it’s really wow.”
Suddenly, I felt motivated.
I really felt hopeful that we could prevent Armageddon and bring about a happy ending.
“Maximilian and Leon are going to fight together? With each other’s backs?”
Maximilian, the artificial pearl of Heroes Chronicle 2, and his rival Leon.
In the original, two people who were at odds until the end join forces?
“Even the Red Wind and Kirara can fight together.”
Two people who came from the same wild land but hated each other.
“Wow, this is giving me goosebumps.
It was an emotion that could not be helped since they were two people who were the rotten water of Hero Chronicles 2.
The story is that any combination that seems like it would only appear in fan fiction is possible.
“Could Lucas and Red Wind get married?”
“uh?
“No, I think it would be better to give it to Lucas rather than to Taeyang Song.”
“The red wind is not an object.”
“anyway.”
Cordelia’s eyes lit up.
This is because the playable characters that will be located in the capital of the Kingdom of Seilun came to mind.
Those are the people I will meet if I successfully complete this task.
“I saved Lena too.”
The biggest harvest of the moment.
Saved the life of Lena, who was already a completed hero.
“Can you save the other two too?”
Two of the five main characters in the first volume of Heroes’ Chronicles.
Necromancer Belkian and Druid Fran.
“That’s right. And above all else… I have to save Landius.”
Iron Man Landius.
A man who is Uther’s own master and perhaps the strongest of the five heroes in the first part.
“I think it’s more difficult than Lena.”
The rotten waters of the Heroic Chronicles speculated that Landius was killed by Duke, the highest level of the Devil’s Eye, but no matter how much I thought about it, it seemed like that wasn’t possible.
“Landius is too strong.”
It wasn’t the Landius they knew from the first game.
Landius in Part 2 was literally a superhuman.
Duke killed Landius? That was ridiculous.
“I thought about the possibility that Landius had become corrupted and become a Duke… but that’s also impossible.”
“Why? Because Landius can’t possibly become corrupted?”
“No, the sizes are different.”
“ah.”
While Landius was a whopping 230cm tall, Duke was only(?) 180cm.
I couldn’t even imagine that they were the same person.
“Perhaps uncovering the cause of Landius’s death… and saving Landius might be the key to victory.”
Although he was unable to open a new door by taking the ancient elixir, Yuder was able to reach approximately level 3.8.
The Nine Heavenly Gate was literally a divine power.
And Landius was a superhuman who opened the Nine Heavens Gate up to the 7th Gate.
As of now, among the living ‘humans’, Landius is probably the strongest.
“It’s kind of funny. I have to figure out why someone who was so strong that he didn’t seem like he’d die even if I killed him died.”
“Maybe if I don’t do anything, I won’t die.”
“If it’s Landius, that might really be the case.”
For a moment, Uther and Cordelia recalled Landius’ face and his powerful body, and they both laughed without saying who would be the first.
“May your muscles always be with you.”
“Sob, sob, teacher. I’ll work hard.”
“Oh, don’t cry. You’ll lose muscle.”
Instead of laughing at Cordelia’s imitation, Uther flinched. It was because the trauma that had developed in just a few days came back to him.
“Those were really horrible times.”
“But thanks to that, I feel a lot better.”
“Ugh.”
Actually, looking back, it wasn’t just bad memories.
At that time, I was so tired that I couldn’t enjoy it properly(?), but Cordelia took such kind care of me.
“Are you having any weird thoughts again?”
“No, I thought that if I win this fight, I could really achieve a lot of things.”
It was something I said to change the subject, but once I said it, it became sincere.
“Are you talking about your father and uncle?”
“Because the two of them were killed during the invasion of the northern barbarians.”
But by destroying the West and making the Northern Barbarian invasion a thing of the past, both men’s lives could be saved.
Even if a war broke out between the East and the North as Gale feared, he would not be in a position to just sit back and watch, so he could easily distort history.
The survival of Count Bayer and Gale.
It wasn’t just a matter of discussing the power to prevent Armageddon.
It was something I really wanted to achieve as a Uder Bayer.
“Ha, now that I think about it, it’s really amazing.”
“what?”
“No, my sister and uncle.”
“I know.”
Who would have thought those two would end up together?
“It’s fun.”
Cordelia laughed and hugged Yuder tightly as if he was holding a doll, and instead of provoking Cordelia with the word “double in-laws,” Yuder closed his eyes and enjoyed the warmth.
And just as they were both about to fall asleep.
“Is there anyone there?”
A voice was heard following the sound of the wind.
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