< Chapter 4 - Seonggon #4 >
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Time passed.
Uther and Cordelia opened their eyes and found themselves in a valley at midnight instead of the fairies’ banquet hall.
“Etch!”
When Uther, who had been dazed for a moment, sneezed, Cordelia suddenly came to her senses and looked around.
“Valley? Are you back? The banquet is over, right?”
Yuder nodded at the comment that clearly seemed desperate.
“That’s right, it’s the valley. The banquet is over. It’s over!”
“Wow! It’s over! It’s over!”
Cordelia, who was jumping around in the water, hugged Uther tightly, and Uther also hugged Cordelia, feeling both relief and emotion at the same time.
12 hours.
It was the time that Uther and Cordelia spent at the fairies’ banquet hall after meeting the Fairy Queen.
“Oh, shit. I guess I’ll never call Little Star again.”
Cordelia said, shuddering as if she was going crazy.
Because I called out to you not five or six times, but dozens of times. And I didn’t just call out to Little Star.
“Yellow Storm.”
“why?”
“You only know nursery rhymes?”
After Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, it was the Three Bears who sang.
Cordelia said with a snort.
“No, you don’t? You know a lot of other songs, right? You just sang them to the level of fairies?”
“Yeah, it was cute.”
In fact, even Uder himself could only count on one hand the number of songs he could sing in full.
As Uther passed by with a smirk, Cordelia pushed him away hard from her embrace and grumbled.
“Anyway, I really thought I was going to die. In the game, it just passes by like ‘time has passed’ so I didn’t notice, but this is totally unhuman.”
“agreement.”
What is it like to play with dozens of fairies? It’s like looking after dozens of beagles at the same time.
Cordelia, who sang endlessly, was Cordelia, but Uther also had to endure hardships among the fairies who liked handsome people.
“The Fairy Queen was, after all, a fairy.”
“I know.”
The sight of her smiling elegantly and encouraging the fairies as they tried to take off her clothes was still vivid in my mind.
I guess I should be grateful that he didn’t step forward himself.
“ha.”
“Hoo,”
Uther and Cordelia sighed almost simultaneously and soon started laughing without saying a word.
“Anyway.”
“Mission clear.”
The two people clapped their hands together and looked back at their own loot.
What Cordelia got her hands on was the Sunggon Moonlight.
It was an item that could be recharged by converting moonlight into magical power, and was extremely useful equipment for magicians who suffered from chronic magical power shortages.
‘It also has its own special move built in.’
In fact, the reason why Uder had to bring Moonlight was because of that ultimate skill.
It was clear that he would be instrumental in the fight against the Devil’s Hand.
‘And the fairy’s steps.’
As I looked at the silver ring on my right index finger, a smile came to my face.
At the current level of Yuder, once a day was the limit, but even that was enough.
In effect, it was like gaining an extra life.
“Hehehe, I hope Bycon is doing well too?”
“I hope you are doing well.”
While twelve hours passed in the fairies’ banquet hall, only a few dozen seconds passed in reality.
Uther and Cordelia turned to the direction where Bycon had fallen, and looked at Bycon’s body, half floating in the water, with expressions that were half joy and half awkwardness.
It was for a simple reason.
“Um… I guess I have to pull it out from there?”
Uther nodded to Cordelia’s question.
“Because it doesn’t drop like in a game.”
But there was a good side to it too.
When you catch a bicorn, two horns appear.
Because there were many times when something so obvious didn’t happen in the game.
‘Most of the time, when you catch one, it has no horns or only one.’
In reality, on the other hand, you could get not only horns but also other things.
“Don’t worry too much. The knights will take care of the gathering.”
“That’s right. Were they the children of the Count’s family?”
It was when Cordelia felt the sweetness of power anew.
“Miss! Master!”
“Where are you, my lord!”
“miss!”
The voices of the knights were heard from afar.
It was strange that they didn’t notice, as the blinding light and loud noise were exploding.
“Miss! Where are you! Miss Cordelia!”
“Your Majesty Yuder!”
Dahlia and Maia’s voices came closer and closer, and Cordelia frowned and turned to Uther.
“we······.”
“Oh, us.”
“I’m going to get in trouble a lot, right?”
“I’m going to get in trouble.”
There’s no way I won’t get in trouble.
The two of them didn’t just sneak out, they even fell into the water and caused a scene.
“Don’t worry, Cordelia.”
“Huh? Do you have any tricks to avoid getting in trouble?”
“No, just······.”
“just?”
“It’s easier if you give up.”
Uther smiled brightly, and Cordelia raised her middle finger.
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Uther and Cordelia actually got into a lot of trouble.
Sir Seebeck, a knight from the Counts of Chase who was in charge of the party’s journey, issued a ‘horse carriage ban’ to Uder and Cordelia, using the power of attorney from Counts Bayer and Chase.
“If you really need some time alone, I can make it happen.”
In front of Lord Zibek, who spoke with great seriousness, Uther and Cordelia could only bow their heads.
But actually, it wasn’t that bad.
In the first place, there was no need to go outside during the trip to Langest.
Rather, it was better for the two of them to be in the carriage together to discuss future plans.
‘I feel a little sorry for Dahlia, though.’
Dahlia was severely scolded by Lord Jibek for forgetting her duties as a bodyguard and exposing two people to danger again, and even had her salary reduced.
Cordelia defended herself fiercely, but there was nothing she could do.
‘Still… I guess it’s fortunate that public opinion is favorable.’
Here, public opinion refers to the knights of Count Bayer and Count Chase.
In fact, since the last time they ran away, rumors had spread about how deeply Uther and Cordelia loved each other, so it wasn’t all that surprising that they went to the valley to play again this time.
What the knights noticed was that Uther and Cordelia had caught the bicorn together.
“Your Majesty, you have really become stronger.”
“Well, Your Majesty, you also have a talent that you inherited from the Count.”
In the memories of the knights who were vassals of the Count of Bayer, Juder was always a sick man who could not even go outside freely.
It was only natural that Yuder, who had been like that, was moved, not only because he was now quite healthy, but because he had defeated a bicorn instead of a goblin.
In Jun’s case in particular, he was so happy that he even wrote a letter to the count’s family in a hurry.
The knights of Count Chase’s house were delighted in a slightly different way, focusing more on the fact that ‘Uther had become stronger’ than the fact that Cordelia had defeated the Bykon together with Uther.
Cordelia was the youngest child and the flower of the Chase family, loved by everyone.
Cordelia’s future husband, Uder, was always sick and groaning, so although no one spoke out about it, everyone was worried, concerned, and dissatisfied.
But how could I not be happy that Yuder, who used to be like that, is now showing himself to be quite trustworthy?
After Sir Jebeck had scolded Uther and Cordelia, he immediately wrote a letter to Count Chase.
“I like it a little now.”
It was a short and sweet review, and it was the real heart of Lord Jebeck.
Anyway, things were somewhat sorted out and another half day passed.
Uther was sick and depressed in the carriage.
“I have a cold.”
As Cordelia briefly commented, Uther had a cold.
Falling into the stream on an autumn night and struggling was a problem, but the biggest reason was walking around while wet.
“Ugh······.”
Yuder, lying long on the carriage seat and covered with a blanket, was half-asleep with a wet towel on his head, and Cordelia clicked her tongue.
“I didn’t get caught.”
So what do you want me to do?
It was when Yuder was worrying with a sore head about what to do in return.
“I’ll change your towel.”
Cordelia changed Yuder’s towel with her own hands and wiped the sweat from what appeared to be his forehead and neck.
“Thank you······.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“If only I··· had the syllables··· and pulse······.”
“Yeah, yeah, you hug them, you throw yourself at them, you climb over walls, you stand in the line of battle, and you take care of the sick, right?
When Cordelia spoke in a calm voice, Uther had a blank expression on his face, and Cordelia soon smiled faintly.
“I remember everything, so prepare yourself?”
It seemed that he was very happy that he had fought back against Yuder.
“For now, don’t think about anything and just sleep.”
Cordelia sat back down after tidying up her towel and opened the book. Uther looked at her for a moment before closing his eyes.
And again late afternoon.
Jude, who had barely opened his eyes, shook Cordelia, who was sleeping across from him, awake.
“Hey, hey. Wake up. Stop drooling.”
“Huh?”
Cordelia suddenly raised her head and started to fumble while wiping away the drool that was dripping down her face.
‘It’s pretty, after all.’
Drooling and flailing around are also pretty.
After a moment of thought, Yuder looked back out the carriage window and continued speaking.
“Let’s talk about work.”
“Uh, uh. Phew… Are you feeling okay?”
Cordelia shook her head to come to her senses and opened the lid of the water bottle and asked.
“Oh, I feel better after taking a deep breath and waking up. This stuff works too.”
Cordelia said with a hollow laugh as she lifted the sun necklace around her neck.
“What is this, Gu-eum-jeol-maek-2?”
“huh?”
“It’s called Muandan water.”
After talking nonsense for a while, both of them came to their senses to talk.
Uder sat back down and opened the lid of his water bottle as he spoke.
“If we continue like this, we’ll probably arrive at Langest in three days.”
Even if they went at a leisurely pace, it was a distance that would take several days by carriage, so they both came quite far from their hometown of Baylun.
Cordelia counted the days on her fingers, blinked, and said.
“Uh… So it’s roughly four days before the event starts?”
“maybe.”
Currently, Uther and Cordelia are moving on a schedule that is about a day ahead of Cordelia in the main scenario.
Events in Langest.
There were more than ten events, big and small, but the one Cordelia was talking about now was only one.
The first main event of Cordelia’s main scenario, the ‘Devil’s Hand Attack Incident’.
The original story was like this.
The minor children of the twelve northern families gather in the commercial city of Langest.
As it was originally planned that Yuder would not attend, it was not an event where all the children of the 12 families would gather.
There were quite a few families that did not attend, citing reasons such as not having any minor children or being busy with family matters.
In Cordelia’s main scenario, the number of participating families is exactly half, six.
With the addition of Yuder, there were now seven families gathered together.
“Langest does not belong to any of the twelve families’ territories.”
And that is why it was chosen as the location for the gathering of the children of the 12 families.
Not all of the twelve northern clans were on good terms.
After all, they were just the 12 strongest families in the North, and they didn’t have any great bonds or ties with each other.
Depending on the region they were located in, there were 12 families that were rivals or, in extreme cases, even enemies.
‘We are the exception.’
Engagements between the twelve families were common as they were political marriages, but there were only a few families that were as close as the Counts of Bayer and Chase.
“Anyway, as you know, this event is extremely tough from the start. The story of the first one being taken… That’s why it’s a scenario that was created for that purpose.”
To cut to the chase, the Devil’s Hand attack is a success.
They commit atrocities such as killing some of the children of the twelve northern families, kidnapping others, and using them as sacrifices to summon demons.
The world of Heroes Chronicles 2 was a world heading towards Armageddon, or in a word, heading towards the apocalypse, and one of the starting points was the Devil’s Hand attack incident.
As Uther continued speaking, Cordelia’s complexion gradually darkened.
“Can this really be stopped?”
It was a bit of a strange story, but Cordelia liked Cordelia.
In other words, the story was that Cordelia had been played several times during the Yellow Storm era.
That’s why Yellow Storm knew the severity of the Devil’s Hand attack incident. The number of people mobilized for the attack was easily over a hundred.
Although he had brought Moonlight with him for today, he wondered if he and Yuder would be able to stop this event with just their own strength.
“Wouldn’t it be better to just cancel the event itself?”
“how?”
When Uther asked again, Cordelia opened her lips, but soon closed them again. She couldn’t think of anything.
I wondered if Uther and Cordelia would believe me if I told them about the Devil’s Hand attack.
However, it would have been impossible to make up another excuse and ruin the social gathering itself. In fact, it would have been more likely for only Uther and Cordelia to have been kicked out of the social gathering.
Because there was no clear evidence that there would be an attack by the Devil’s Hand.
Moreover, if they were to disband carelessly, things could get more complicated.
The Devil’s Hand could have attacked the children of the Twelve Houses individually.
“Ugh.”
As Cordelia wrapped her head and cried in pain, Uther clicked his tongue and unfolded the paper.
“I have an idea.”
“What do you think?”
“wrinkle.”
“What the fuck?”
When Cordelia flared up, Uther chuckled and continued speaking, playing with his pen on the paper.
“First, let’s try this.”
Uther himself and Cordelia – only two rotten waters in this world can do this.
Uther began to explain, and Cordelia, who had been listening intently, opened her eyes wide.
He had a bright smile on his face.
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