< Chapter 4 - Seong-Gon #3 >
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Boom!
There was a thunderclap and a splash of water.
The water that had surged upward as the water surface broke poured down like a shower.
Cordelia sat in the water, gasping for breath, and at one moment let out a sigh of relief.
‘Got it.’
I caught a bicorn.
The level up effect hasn’t appeared yet, but the situation is different from before. It’s practically finished.
‘Got it.’
A smile spread across Cordelia’s face. And, as she admitted to herself, Yellow Storm was rather simple. So she could be purely happy about the fact that she had fought and captured Bicorn.
‘It’s a little cool, isn’t it?’
Cordelia’s front.
Yuder was seen standing with his fist raised.
Just as Cordelia was a peerless pretty girl, Uther was a peerless pretty boy. One thing about his appearance was that Uther was so handsome that he stood there in a cool pose, and it looked quite picturesque.
‘If it weren’t for the outboxer, my heart might have pounded a little.’
Cordelia, who had laughed out loud, opened her mouth, sweeping her wet hair back from the pouring water. It was to tell her to stop acting like this and get up or ask for help.
But right after that.
“Cough!”
Yuder, who had been frozen in the same position as when he struck the ground with his fist, suddenly let out a gasping sound and collapsed as if he had collapsed.
“Oh, an outboxer?!”
Cordelia, startled, stood up, struggling, and forcibly lifted up Yuder, who was about to fall into the water and collapse.
“Hey, are you okay? Hey?”
“Keuk··· Ugh······.”
Uther kept making gasping sounds and mouthing something, but it was hard to understand right away. So Cordelia hugged Uther and groaned as she came out to the water’s edge.
“Keuhhu··· Hu··· Tae, the necklace of the sun······.”
When he laid him down on the shore, Yuder managed to form words, either because his condition had improved slightly or because he had really squeezed out his last bit of strength.
He was forcibly raising his right hand, which seemed ready to drop at any moment, and was holding the sun’s necklace as if it were a knuckle.
Cordelia opened her eyes wide for a moment and shook her head, shouting.
“Hey! No! You can’t die! I won’t accept any belongings!”
“That, that thing… Ugh. Go, chest.”
Uther let out another gasp and dropped his arms, and Cordelia blinked for a moment, understanding Uther’s true intentions.
Bring the Sun Necklace back to your chest.
Cordelia quickly took off the sun necklace that Yuder was holding and put it around his neck.
“Don’t die. Okay? Okay?”
As I continued talking to him and walked up to the hill, it seemed to be working, and Yuder’s breathing became a little closer to peace.
“Haa··· Lord, I thought I was going to die···.”
Yuder kept gasping for breath as he felt the sun necklace on his chest.
Brain damage.
It was a single blow with lightning-like speed and power, and its principle was truly simple.
‘Concentrate your strength in one place and strike.’
To be exact, it was a simple but powerful technique that focused the entire body’s energy into one place and struck the enemy.
With the power of the Thunder Strike combined with the anti-demon effect of the Necklace of the Sun, he managed to defeat Bycon, but the aftereffects of using the Thunder Strike too forcefully were by no means small.
This was because although he had recently been practicing both the dharma and martial arts, his qi deficiency had not yet been completely cured.
‘This is what happens when you use your internal energy too much.’
I couldn’t tell exactly what was causing it, but for a moment, a chill ran through my entire body and I felt like my heart was going to stop.
Fortunately, Cordelia was next to me. If no one had been there, I would have died screaming while holding the Sun Necklace in my hand.
“Ha, you’re not like Iron Man.”
Cordelia, who had a rough idea of the situation, sat down next to Uther. The tension was relieved and relieved thanks to the fact that Uther was safe.
But it was at that very moment.
Several pure white rings of light appeared around Uder and Cordelia’s bodies. It was a level up effect.
“Ah, I got it.”
Cordelia said blankly, and Uther nodded.
It seems that Bykon, who had lost consciousness after being attacked by Uther, had died from injuries and respiratory failure.
“Wait a minute, you’re level 14 now? You’re 15.”
When Cordelia asked while counting on her fingers, Uther simply nodded in response. Since there was no status window, there was no way to know what level you were until you memorized it one by one like you did now or visited the level shrine to measure it.
‘Anyway… I’ll survive.’
There was no service where your stamina and magic power would be fully restored when you leveled up – but your abilities would still go up.
I felt like I was recovering a bit faster, whether it was because my stamina level went up or because of the placebo effect.
‘Then what’s next······.’
In the original, Cordelia protects the fairies and drives away the bicorns, and the fairies are impressed by this and invite Cordelia to the Fairy Queen’s night out.
‘Since I caught it, I should have given more compensation, not less, right?’
I was just thinking about that.
“Wow! I caught a bicorn!”
“I have to report to the Queen!”
“But who is this person?”
“You’re handsome!”
“It’s exciting, always new, and handsome is the best!”
The fairies who had run away screaming gathered around Uther and Cordelia and screamed again.
Since it was not a situation where Uther could speak properly, Cordelia coughed and opened her mouth to speak.
“This is my fiancé. He was watching over me while I was taking a bath in case something dangerous happened.”
It was a line prepared in advance in case I got caught.
After hearing Cordelia’s explanation, the fairies looked around among themselves and said.
“I’m getting engaged!”
“You were watching? You weren’t just spying?”
“But does this kid really take a bath with clothes on?”
“Hey, now is not the time. We need to notify the Queen immediately.”
“That’s right, that’s right.”
Fortunately, though, there seemed to be a smart guy among them.
The one with the green butterfly wings flew close to Cordelia’s face and continued speaking.
“Hey, what’s your name? My name is Adele.”
“Adele, I’m No… Cordelia. This is Yuda.”
“Nocordelia?”
“Cordelia.”
“Yes, Cordelia. Anyway, you and your fiancé caught the bicorn that has been harassing us. We were going to invite you because you were pretty, but now we have to invite you unconditionally. Come see the queen with us. She will give you a reward.”
It was the flow I wanted.
Cordelia clenched her fists and looked back at Uther as if to say, “Hey,” and Uther looked at her intently as if to say, “What are you bragging about?”
“Are you going together?”
“Yes, I will go with you.”
When Cordelia smiled and answered prettily, Adele smiled bashfully as if in a good mood.
“Okay, then come with us and your fiancé. We have to go into the water to get to where the Queen is.”
Fairies were called a race that was everywhere and nowhere.
Because they were beings who could transcend the walls of dimension and space.
“Can you go?”
“roughly.”
When Cordelia asked softly, Uther nodded and sat up.
If it were as per the original, time wouldn’t have passed in the Fairy Queen’s residence, but since they had caused such a commotion anyway, Dahlia and her party would arrive soon. It would be better to finish this before then.
“Catch me, I’ll hold you up.”
“thanks.”
Uther stood up, holding Cordelia’s hand, and surrendered himself to her.
“This way.”
As the laughing fairies went ahead, Cordelia diligently chased after them and said.
“But you know.”
“uh.”
“You caught the bicorn, right?”
“Got it.”
“Then the horns will grow too?”
“If you pull it out, it will come out.”
In the game, the horns would drop as soon as you caught them, but this was reality.
“One is mine.”
“Okay, the remaining one is mine.”
Fortunately, the bicorn had two horns.
The horn of the bicorn had many uses, like that of a unicorn, but its most common use was to refine it into a dagger.
A dagger made from the horn of a bicorn could cause various status effects such as confusion and delusion.
After finishing his business with the Fairy Queen, he asks Dahlia and the knights to take care of Bycon’s body.
Cordelia was always smiling brightly, as if just imagining it made her feel good.
“It’s so clear, so clear.”
“What? Water?”
Instead of answering, Uther simply smiled, and Cordelia tilted her head a few times before following the fairies into the water.
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Being able to breathe underwater or anything like that didn’t happen.
Because when I just closed my eyes and opened them, it was a completely different space.
A large open space nestled among trees of all sizes.
It was a place that felt very cozy despite being in the forest, perhaps because the soft, warm yellow light melted into the darkness like moonlight.
There were dozens of fairies gathered in the vacant lot, and they were already dancing, singing, and making a lot of noise, as if they were having a night out.
“It feels like I’ve come to the land of dolls.”
Cordelia blushed slightly and spoke softly, but Uther decided to pretend not to know. It was a bit awkward to tease her offline, let alone online, when she spoke so cheerfully.
In any case, since giants appeared in a place where palm-sized fairies gathered to play, everyone’s attention was naturally focused on them.
“What, what?”
“He’s a person.”
“But he’s pretty. He’s handsome.”
“Who is today’s guest singer?”
“I got completely soaked.”
As they were all squawking amongst themselves, Adele stepped forward and shouted at everyone.
“We have to take him to the Queen. They’ve caught the bicorn!”
As I stepped forward, pretending to be smart, the four fairies in my group also stepped forward and pushed the other fairies away.
“Okay, let’s go. This way.”
As I followed Adele, a path opened up between the fairies, as if by a miracle of Moses.
And how far did it go?
Strangely enough, with each step I took, the surrounding scenery changed a little. The fairies around me seemed to shrink as if I was skipping a few meters at a time, and the gaps between the trees narrowed until it felt like I was walking down a narrow corridor.
And then a few more steps.
When I stopped walking, Adele, who had been leading the way, had also disappeared.
A small, round room.
Instead of a ceiling, a dark blue night sky took its place, and the soft moonlight shining down beautifully illuminated the surroundings.
And the center of that light.
The Fairy Queen was sitting there, not carved from wood, but in a throne that seemed to have grown out of the wood itself.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a human child in person.”
The Fairy Queen was young and beautiful.
Colorful butterfly wings of various colors, and splendid blond hair and blue eyes that seem to be made of molten gold.
She had white skin, was wearing a grass-colored dress, and held a jewel-encrusted staff in her hand.
“Meet the Fairy Queen.”
When Uther bowed, Cordelia hesitated and bowed in return, and the Fairy Queen smiled cutely.
Although she was as big as the palm of a hand like other fairies, she was still a queen.
I felt the aura unique to those who lead the group.
“I heard the story from Adele.”
For fairies who freely move through space, even time was not a completely forbidden area.
As Uther and Cordelia took a few steps forward, the Fairy Queen met and spoke with Adele through a gap in time.
“Bicon has been a long-standing headache. I can’t help but reward you for taking care of it.”
Uder became slightly nervous at the Fairy Queen’s words.
This is because in the original, the focus was on the fact that Cordelia devotedly protected the fairies rather than the fact that she chased away the Bycons.
‘What if they give me something else?’
Because what Uther and Cordelia needed right now was Sunggon Moonlight.
But unlike Yuder, Cordelia’s eyes sparkled with anticipation as if she had no other thoughts.
“Cordelia, this might be good for you as a sorceress.”
As the Fairy Queen moved her hands gracefully, the roots that covered the ground opened and a wooden staff, too short to be called a gon, but too long to be a staff, rose up, encrusted with silver jewels.
‘Moonlight!’
Uther and Cordelia cheered inwardly, almost simultaneously.
“It is an extraordinary object, but it is too big for our use. Rather than leaving it to rot in a place like this, it would be better for it to fall into the hands of those with good intentions. Take it.”
Fortunately, the lines were similar to the original.
Uther relaxed, and Cordelia laughed and reached out to Moonlight.
“And I will give you a reward, Juder.”
As Cordelia clasped Moonlight in both hands in joy, the Fairy Queen turned to Uther and said:
From here on out, things weren’t in the original, but Yuder was more excited than worried.
‘Anything you receive is a plus.’
It was different from Moonlight. Originally, I wasn’t supposed to receive anything, but I was receiving it, so honestly, I would have benefited from receiving anything.
‘What could the fairies give you? A fairy stone? A fairy’s whisper?’
It was a time when various items were coming to mind.
“Take it.”
The Fairy Queen waved her hand gracefully again, and this time a tree branch moved of its own accord, offering Uther a silver ring.
And then, immediately after, Yuder’s eyes opened wide.
‘no way?’
The identity of the ring.
Cordelia was also surprised.
If Moonlight was a B-rank item, then the item in front of you now was actually an A-rank item, or in some sense, close to an S-rank item.
‘Fairy’s Steps!’
The effect was simple.
Depending on the user’s capabilities, the number of daily uses varies from 1 to 3, but the user can jump over space.
In fact, from a game perspective, it was a somewhat ambiguous explanation.
That’s why the hero story website, Heroes’ Chronicles, summarized the fairy’s footsteps as follows.
Ignores enemy attacks.
The moment an attack comes in, temporarily move to another space and completely evade the attack.
What made it different from a normal evasion was that you didn’t even have to move from that spot.
Even though it was limited to a daily number of times, the effect was truly tremendous.
‘You’re giving me this?!’
Of course, catching a bicorn was never easy.
Maybe Bycon was tormenting the fairies more than they could have imagined.
But even so, the compensation felt a bit excessive.
“It’s the same reason as Moonlight. Furthermore, the Fairy’s Footsteps were originally made for use by other races.”
And actually, that wasn’t all.
The Fairy Queen, who transcends not only space but even time, although limited, felt a strong sense of destiny from Uther and Cordelia.
‘It’s touching.’
The fate of the world.
The fate of these two people would not end as just individual fates.
‘If I were a little stronger, I could have known more.’
There was not one Fairy Queen, and she was still only a young Fairy Queen.
But she was definitely a queen, and it was also true that she felt a strong sense of destiny.
That is why the Fairy Queen had no hesitation in handing over Moonlight and the Fairy Steps to Uther and Cordelia.
“thank you.”
As Uther carefully accepted the ring and bowed, the Fairy Queen smiled elegantly and looked at Cordelia.
Although he was happy to have obtained an unexpected high-quality item, he looked slightly offended and envious that Yuder had received a better item than he had – in other words, a higher-ranked item.
The Fairy Queen smiled even more deeply, perhaps because she found the sight quite cute.
“There is a reason why the compensation is like this.”
Cordelia flinched at the Fairy Queen’s words, but soon nodded.
In fact, Cordelia knew the reason roughly.
Because he was a wizard and Yuder was a warrior.
It was only natural to give magic wands to wizards and evasion items to melee fighters.
But the Fairy Queen suddenly shook her head.
I know what Uther and Cordelia are thinking, and it’s not entirely wrong, but it seems like there’s actually another reason.
“I like a handsome man better than a pretty woman.”
Even if she was the Fairy Queen, she was still a fairy in the end.
The Fairy Queen smiled elegantly in front of Uther and Cordelia, who had blank expressions on their faces.
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