< Chapter 84 - The Monastery of Saint Croix #2 >
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As expected from the Abbey of St. Croix, which boasts history and tradition, the armory contained many high-quality sacred weapons and artifacts.
No, there were a lot.
“I suddenly remember the old days.”
“me too.”
Cordelia nodded as she was also painted with sacred objects and artifacts from head to toe, as was Yuder.
old days.
I’m not talking about my previous life when I played Hero Chronicles 2. Back then, it was impossible to paint my entire body like I do now due to the restrictions on item slots.
A few months ago.
The Giving Tree that we encountered in the wild lands – no, the Wild Fairy Queen, who was a giving fairy, and her people.
“Are you doing well?”
“I’ll be fine. Endymion is out of danger now, right?”
“No, that’s not quite right.”
Even though I’m a bit of a pushover, that’s a bit much.
As if this was his chance, Uther grabbed Cordelia’s cheek and pulled her, and instead of rebelling, Cordelia, who had done something wrong, accepted the punishment while sobbing.
“Sob, sob, I don’t know how to write well.”
“Yeah, I guess I know that.”
In fact, thanks to this, we were able to destroy the gates of hell and annihilate the demons.
If Cordelia had chosen a different path instead of destroying Endymion, even if the gates of Hell had been closed, there would have been a lot of damage caused by demons.
‘Or we could have died or been injured.’
Lena Na Kaplan could have been in danger.
‘By the way, I wonder if Kaplan is doing well?’
Kaplan stayed behind to conduct research at the sacred ground guarded by the wild god Bluebeard.
Fortunately, as soon as Lena woke up, she was sent back to the empire, saying that the wild lands were dangerous, so she didn’t seem to be caught up in the dragon vein chain explosion, but she didn’t know what happened after that.
‘Well, I hope you’re doing well.’
Because I am a person who is very strong against bad luck.
“That’s enough.”
Will we be able to meet again when we go to the empire?
After all, I had to go to the Empire at least once after finishing my work in the South.
“Abba, it hurts. That’s enough.”
I also got to meet some playable characters from the Empire side.
Especially Maximilian and Leon.
“Stop it!”
“Ouch.”
When Uther let go of her hand as if he had blinked, Cordelia covered her reddened cheeks with both hands and snorted.
“You too, look at me! Huh?”
But unfortunately, there was no time to take revenge on Cordelia, because the door opened as if they had been waiting for it and the members of the Holy Cross Defenders appeared.
“Lord Uder, Lady Cordelia. I’m sorry I’m late.”
“No, I didn’t really have to wait that long. You don’t have to worry about it.”
Jude quickly accepted Carmen’s words and started talking, and Cordelia beat her chest and complained about her frustration, but there was no other way.
[Mr. Woo, see you later?]
Later. That is, when it was just the two of us.
Instead of answering, Uder simply shrugged his shoulders and spoke to Carmen again.
“Are Carmen and Manuel going together?”
“Yes, we will be joining you on this journey.”
Carmen and Manuel smiled brightly as if they were very happy, and the seven Guardians who followed behind them also had happy expressions on their faces.
“It is an honor to be with you.”
“We are truly honored. We had no idea that the Guardians would support us so actively.”
“The situation is what it is. It’s only natural.”
As Carmen clenched her fists and spoke, the rest of the Guardians, including Manuel, nodded their heads enthusiastically in agreement.
A gigantic and powerful black dragon that is said to have been resurrected in the South.
It was the job of stopping that bastard and protecting the South that Manuel and the Guardians were honestly boiling with excitement.
It was a story that seemed like something out of a myth or legend.
‘Are these guys also from the Lucas department?’
Anyway, it wasn’t bad.
Thanks to those in front of me and even branch manager Heine taking this matter seriously, things went smoothly.
‘The items I brought with me also went smoothly.’
To be honest, I felt like I had taken care of him to the point where I felt a little sorry, but Heine actually felt sorry because he could only take care of this much, so it was a really strange feeling.
‘It wasn’t anything particularly great, though.’
Still, we were able to secure a large quantity of fairly high-quality sacred items.
Even if Uther and Cordelia had no immediate use, it would be enough to arm Scarlett, who would join them from the south, or Kaisa, who would fight alongside them in the future.
“The branch manager said he would relay the situation to the Guardians’ headquarters. We also plan to contact Kamael as soon as we get down to the south.”
That was the reason why Carmen and Manuel chose to go together.
As Uder had expected, the Guardians had a means of contacting Kamael, but at this great distance, it seemed impossible to use anything other than a return order.
‘I’m already in the south, so I don’t want to make a mistake and end up taking the wrong path.’
Furthermore, since issuing a return order to Kamael required the permission of the Guardian Commander unless it was an emergency, the best that Branch Commander Heine could do was to dispatch Guardians with a means of contacting him from close range directly to the south.
“I will do my best to help you in the fight against the evil dragon that will occur in the future.”
As Manuel spoke with shining eyes, Yuder nodded appropriately and spoke without wasting any more time.
“Then let’s set off right away.”
Because I had already finished preparing for the trip.
“Yes, I understand. Come this way. I have prepared the horse.”
Unfortunately for Cordelia, the Abbey of St. Croix only provided one horse per person, so she had to mount the horse alone.
‘What, something feels really awkward.’
If I think about it, I’ve always been with Yuder whenever I move.
Whether you carry them on your back, hold them in your arms, or ride together in a horse or carriage.
‘There······.’
Until you reach the territory of the Seven Southern Clans, you must accompany the Guardians.
In other words, we all had to travel together.
‘Well, I guess we can still make time for just the two of us?’
Even when I was traveling with Dahlia and Maia, I somehow managed to make time.
‘Right, yeah. It’s possible. It’ll be possible.’
The journey to stop the evil dragon was a journey, and making progress was a journey.
‘Ji, Jindo······.’
I’ve done the forehead, cheeks, chin, neck, collarbone, and other things, so now I have to clear the final boss, the lips.
‘That, and just like my older sister and uncle······.’
Up to there.
Just imagining it made Cordelia feel hot and her heart pound, but for some reason, the corners of her mouth went up.
Of course, somewhere in my head, I heard a voice inside my head saying, ‘Hey, hey, isn’t skinship prohibited? You forbade it?’, but the voice inside my head is something that can be chosen.
Cordelia wiggled her fingers again and let her imagination run wild. Thanks to Adelia’s audiovisual education and Dahlia’s humanities education, Cordelia had already accumulated a considerable amount of data, and her imagination was very detailed.
‘That, that’s not possible yet. It’s not possible. I’m saying it’s not possible.’
It was the moment when Cordelia, who had been smiling with both hands on her cheeks, shook her head.
“Cordelia?”
“Huh?!”
Cordelia, who almost fell off her horse – of course, like a beast woman, she quickly regained her balance, but anyway, she gasped and turned to the direction where the voice had come from, to see Uther, who had already come up right next to her.
“uh?”
“No, your face is red. Do you have a fever?”
Since they were both riding horses, even though they were close together, there was still quite a distance between them.
So Cordelia spoke while looking straight ahead instead of making eye contact.
“Oh, no. It’s just that the weather is hot. Oh, it’s hot.”
Cordelia tugged at her collar and fanned herself vigorously, but instead of letting it go, Uther narrowed his eyes and spoke.
“Hey, we got the protection of the four seasons, right?”
Spring, summer, fall, winter.
A protection from the four seasons that contains the power of the four seasons.
Thanks to this, Yuder and Cordelia were now immune to heat and cold, just like the Han Dynasty warriors who often appear in martial arts novels.
And here’s the finishing blow.
“And it’s winter now?”
It’s the south, so if it were the north, it would be snowing right now, right?
“I see? But why is it hot? Cordelia doesn’t know why it’s hot.”
Cordelia, who had been speaking as best as she could, spurred her horse forward, and Uther kept narrowing his eyes as if he found Cordelia suspicious, but only for a moment.
I straightened my back and looked into the distance.
‘Invasion of the Black Dragon Malekith.’
The last of the three incidents that led to the destruction of the Kingdom of Seilun.
‘If you only consider difficulty, it’s the highest.’
Not only the Mines they had to fight against in the wild lands, but even the Guardians they had to confront in the royal capital were much stronger opponents than Uther and Cordelia, but Malekith was a being of a completely different class.
Ancient Black Dragon.
Compared to humans, they are truly god-like beings.
But this time, it wasn’t easy either.
Of the main characters from the first part of Heroes’ Chronicles, four were to join in this battle.
‘I’m really nervous.’
Landius and Kamael.
Here are Lena and Belkian.
For a moment, Yuder imagined Landius punching the Black Dragon’s massive chest with his fist, and was impressed in many ways.
‘Work, you’re in a bad mood.’
Why is it that I don’t feel uncomfortable imagining a person blowing away a black dragon’s chest?
‘Okay, let’s do better this time too.’
I couldn’t rely solely on Landius and Kamael.
As in the wild lands and the royal capital, we had to do our best and achieve the best results.
“For a perfect happy ending.”
Yuder spoke softly as if making a promise and looked back at the monastery of Saint Croot.
It was a bit disappointing that I couldn’t meet the young god Atalia, but there was always another chance.
‘No, we can just create another opportunity.’
By stopping the black dragon Malekith, the destruction of the kingdom of Cailun was completely prevented.
Yuder, who had made up his mind, looked straight ahead again.
He spurred his horse to keep up with Cordelia’s trail.
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Same time, different place.
Count Bayer looked at Count Chase with cold eyes.
I had no choice but to do that.
“Is this really that effective?”
“Yes. My friend ate this and had a bunch of kids, and they ended up forming a platoon with just the kids.”
“oh.”
A pharmacist selling medicine diligently and Count Chase listening to the pharmacist with a serious face.
No, that guy originally had a bit of a greedy side, and he was often tempted by things like health foods, but was it really that bad?
“Just give me one. No, give me two.”
“Oh my, thank you. That was really well thought out. Hehe.”
As if afraid that he might change his mind, the pharmacist quickly handed over the packaged goods, and Count Chase paid the price with a pleased face.
“Hehehe.”
Is this what it means to feel full just by looking at an object?
Count Chase, who thought of Gale and Uther for a moment, packed his things into his space expansion bag and smiled happily once again.
It was because the image of Adelia and Cordelia’s children playing ball in the garden of Count Chase’s house came to mind.
One, two, three, four… no more, no less, eleven people per team…
The smile on Count Chase’s face gradually deepened, and Count Bayer, who had been watching, stroked his chin and thought.
‘That guy is seriously ill.’
Although they weren’t able to understand each other just by looking at each other like Uther and Cordelia, Count Chase and Count Bayer were able to read each other’s thoughts to some extent thanks to their long-standing friendship.
‘And now I understand why it took so long up north.’
I wondered why it took so long to catch up with the runaway kids, and it turned out to be because of this.
Several times a day – sometimes more than ten times – I would stop and pick out different items.
‘He’s not really a friend who’ll be harsh.’
Am I blinded by my son-in-law’s love?
It was when Count Bayer expressed his doubts like that.
“I know that the effects won’t be as great as the herbalist said.”
Count Chase, who had been looking this way, suddenly spoke, and instead of being flustered, Count Bayer opened his eyes wide and asked.
“If you know, why are you doing that?”
“Even if the effect is minimal, it is not nonexistent. Even if 100 becomes 101, isn’t growth still growth?”
As Count Chase spoke with a smirk, Count Bayer’s expression became even more subtle.
At first glance, it may sound like a great statement, but if you think about it carefully, it is a truly foolish statement.
“Anyway, let’s hurry.”
“That’s right.”
Count Chase, who had returned to his usual cool expression, turned his gaze to the tracking magic that was following the movements of Uther and Cordelia.
I looked far away, in the direction of the Forest of Eternity.
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Each time passed in different parts of the continent.
The heart of the wild lands.
A man and a woman clashed fiercely on a hill overlooking a city protected by the Golden Dragon King.
It was Taeyangnosong who had a much more dignified face than before, perhaps because he had grown a red wind and a beard in just a few months.
The two people who were stuck together all day like someone somewhere were intense anytime, anywhere.
“Stop this too!”
“As much as you want!”
It’s clearly a duel, but why is there a pinkish glow?
No, aside from that, if the two of you were going to spar like that, why on earth did you call him?
The rough-looking Avalanche, who had been watching the clash between the two with a sullen face, stood up from his seat and looked south.
This is because the two original people came to mind.
“Have you eaten?”
The voice of the rough avalanche mingled with the wind.
It continued towards the south.
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Lucas looked up.
After returning from the capital to the County of Hresvelg, he continued to train every day, but he also picked up his pen and wrote letters from time to time.
As soon as the commotion in the royal capital ended, Scarlett suddenly disappeared.
But she didn’t just disappear. She left a short letter with her contact information.
‘If anything comes up, please contact me.’
A short phrase that can be interpreted in many ways.
So instead of worrying about this and that, Lucas just wrote a letter to get in touch.
And as I was writing the letter, two people naturally came to mind.
The people who popularized honeymoons disguised as love escapes.
Lucas smiled without realizing it and looked back at the letter.
I wrote the letter with sincerity, letter by letter.
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“Children! Let’s go cut his throat!”
“Woooooooo!”
Amidst the fierce clash between merchant ships and pirate ships, a girl with black hair and healthy, tanned skin took the lead, wielding a giant hellbird.
Caesar Orphan.
The second daughter of Count Orphan, one of the seven southern clans.
Boasting the strongest physical abilities among the playable characters, she still doesn’t know about Uder and Cordelia.
So instead of thinking of the two people like everyone else, I focused on the enemy in front of me.
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The wind blew towards the south.
It was the result of a great current that would determine the fate of the Kingdom of Seilun changing direction from north to south.
Maximilian felt the flow of such fate clearly.
Because the ‘voice from on high’ that had been ringing in his ears since childhood told him.
“It was here. I found it.”
The reason why Maximilian left the empire and came to the Kingdom of Cailun.
Maximilian smiled as he stood before the Ultimate Two-Sacred Sword Barisada in the ruined city of the ancient dwarves. Although he did not have the key, he followed the voice from on high and broke the seal to obtain the sacred sword.
“This time, south? Yes, I understand.”
Maximilian responded to the voice from on high, retrieved the Holy Sword, and turned to face south.
Where the winds of fate gather.
The two people who are destined to lead all those winds.
Maximilian smiled gently. He followed the voice from up high and took a step forward.
He added his own wind to the flow of fate that had begun to gather in one place.
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< Chapter 84 - The Monastery of Saint Croix #2 > End
