< Chapter 18 - The Great Storm #2 >
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“big.”
“It’s big.”
Uther and Cordelia stood in front of the large main gate, which was at least five meters high, and spoke.
The village of the Great Storm Tribe was much larger than I had imagined. It was to the extent that I thought it could be called a city rather than a village.
“There are more than ten thousand people.”
Red Wind smiled and said, feeling somehow happy at Uder and Cordelia’s reactions, and Uder was convinced.
‘Because they’re a group that the Devil’s Eye guys would deliberately pay attention to.’
It was because the Red Gale itself was a great hero, but it was also because the power of the Great Storm Tribe could not be ignored.
“Who are you!”
“Red Wind?!”
A warning voice and a welcoming voice were heard simultaneously from beyond the main gate.
The Red Wind laughed bitterly, then took a step forward and raised his voice.
“It’s the Red Wind! I’m back now! I want to see my father!”
Although she was not fluent in the continent’s common language, she was naturally fluent in the language of the barbarians.
“What are you saying now?”
“Uh… I think he said he looked back? I think he said he wanted to see the Red Whirlwind.”
When Cordelia asked quietly, Uther answered quietly as well.
Although he was a Yuder who could read and write in the language of the barbarians, he was not fluent enough to have a natural conversation. In the first place, he was a Yuder who had only memorized the characters that appeared in the game.
‘It’s really amazing when you think about it.’
It’s a game for fun, but it features several languages that can actually be used.
Of course, there are some works that feature fictional languages, like The Lord of the Rings or Star Trek, but they are so few and far between that you can count them on one hand.
‘But there’s something else that’s really amazing.’
This world is identical to the Heroes Chronicles series.
I didn’t really feel like I was in the game.
It would be more realistic to think that a world identical to the game exists somewhere and that I was reborn into that world.
‘Then why are they the same?’
The reason why the Heroes Chronicles series and this world are so similar.
Did the production team of Heroes Chronicle imitate this world? Or is there something else?
It was an interesting intellectual exercise, but I couldn’t continue my thoughts because the front door was open.
“Red Wind!”
“Blue waves!”
As the blue-haired girl appeared through the front door, spreading her arms wide, Red Wind quickly ran over and hugged her.
“I know him.”
As Cordelia spoke softly, Uther nodded as well.
She was a girl who appeared in the Red Wind’s ‘Homecoming’ event.
The image of Red Wind sobbing and embracing her corpse, which had completely frozen and turned into an ice statue, was vivid in my mind.
“It went well. It really went well.”
Because it didn’t turn out like the original.
I’m glad we met while we were still alive and could laugh like that.
Cordelia’s eyes turned red, then she turned to Uther and continued speaking.
“Let’s change it completely.”
The fate of two people.
The future of the Great Storm Tribe, destined for destruction.
“Okay, let’s change it completely.”
It was already Uther and Cordelia who had changed many futures. Accordingly, the unknown situations they were unaware of and could not know at all increased, and the danger also increased accordingly, but they had no intention of stopping.
“Let me introduce you to my friends. They saved me.”
When the red wind pointed at Uther and Cordelia, the blue wave made a wary expression, but soon smiled brightly and held out her hand.
“Friends of the Red Wind are my friends. Welcome to our village. The chief said you would come.”
Cordelia blinked, Uther thought hard about the interpretation in his head, and Red Wind smiled and said.
“Blue Waves, welcome you. The Father said you would come.”
It seemed like the great storm had its hand in it.
“Okay, then let’s go quickly. We have to stop the progression of the disease.”
When Cordelia urged her, Red Wind nodded vigorously. She had originally left the village to cure her father, Red Wind’s illness.
“let’s go!”
The red wind blew powerfully.
And about 20 minutes later.
The red wind burst into tears.
“I was wrong! I was wrong! Ugh!”
It wasn’t tears of emotion shed while embracing the red whirlwind.
It was a cry mixed with about 20% shame and 80% pain.
Crunch crunch! Bang! Bang!
The red whirlwind was hitting the buttocks.
To be more precise, I was lying face down on Red Whirlwind’s lap, my buttocks being hit by his palm.
He pulled down her pants and hit her, whether others were watching or not, and a bright red palm print was clearly visible on her buttocks.
“That’s why I’m leaving the house······.”
Cordelia’s words were somehow persuasive, even though she had left home for a completely different reason.
“···Are you really sick?”
A red gale beating the red wind.
First of all, it was huge.
It wasn’t to the extent of Landius, but no- his palm was much larger than Red Wind’s butt, and Red Wind, placed on his lap, looked like a doll, so he was a gigantic body that could rival Landius.
And it wasn’t just about being big.
He was a muscular man like Landius, and his arms looked thicker than Cordelia’s, and even thicker than Yuder’s waist.
‘Uselessly handsome is also similar.’
The Red Wind was also of the same bloodline as the Winter Elf. His smooth face without a single beard gave off an androgynous charm that made him seem closer to Kamael than Landius, but because of his large size, the sense of alienation was even more severe than Landius.
As Cordelia nodded and responded on her own, Red Gale took his hand away after completing his punishment.
“You are prohibited from going out for the next month.”
Uther and Cordelia instinctively flinched at the familiar words, but fortunately(?) it was Red Gust who was only focused on Red Wind.
He spoke very solemnly and gestured to the blue wave that was waiting in the corner, and the blue wave ran like a squirrel and quickly picked up the red wind. The red wind couldn’t even walk properly because it had been hit on the buttocks so many times.
“Ugh… I hate Dad!”
“Huh! Take him.”
Because it was a red wind that not only ran out of the village but also crossed the border.
Normally, it would have been normal for him not to have returned. In reality, he was the Red Wind who had been captured at the slave auction house.
Although violence was not a good thing, Yuder could understand why Red Storm was scolding him so harshly.
“ha······.”
As the blue waves and red wind receded, the face of the red gale, which let out a sigh, had a mixture of worry and relief on it.
Although he seemed healthy, I was worried about what kind of hardships he might have endured across the border.
But now was not the time to continue worrying about her daughter.
Red Whirlwind stood up and said.
“Thank you so much. For saving my daughter. The Great Storm told me to. Please understand that I am not feeling well and cannot get up. I am truly grateful.”
Although the pronunciation of the official language was somewhat crude, there was no problem in understanding it.
Uder responded with a smile.
“Thanks to the guidance of the great storm.”
“I am a warrior of the great storm. You are also warriors of the great storm. Help me, says the Great Storm.”
Red Whirlwind sat down and rolled up his arms, revealing the golden emblem on his right upper arm.
“I have one too. It’s silver though.”
Cordelia immediately showed off her sentences with a smile, and instead of rolling up her sleeves, Uther quickly moved on with the story.
“As the Great Storm said, you are not sick, but cursed. This necklace will stop the curse from progressing.”
When Yuder handed him the Sun Necklace, Red Gale spoke with a very serious expression.
“You said it was something I needed to cure your illness. I am truly grateful that you gave me such a valuable item.”
“It’s okay. I’m just lending it to you until things are resolved. You can return it later.”
“It was a loan, not a gift,” Yuder continued.
“I’m sorry to rush you, but I’d like you to hurry up and get ready to leave.”
“Well! I understand. The Great Storm has asked us to help you. You may take anything that belongs to our tribe. However, there is a condition. I would like to welcome you today. Prepare now, and depart tomorrow morning.”
Although they were strangers, they were warriors chosen by the Great Storm, the benefactor of the daughter and the protector of the tribe.
Moreover, it was Uder and Cordelia, who were already close friends of the Great Storm Tribe, whether they were strangers or not, who came up with a solution to the Red Storm’s own illness that had been helpless.
It wasn’t just because he was a powerful warrior that Haragen, a member of the Demon’s Eye, sought to eliminate the Red Gale.
His human charm, which came from his upright and honest nature, and his strong bond with the wild gods were enough to make him the focal point of the barbarians.
“Okay, I will do that.”
“Okay. White Frost will guide you.”
After Red Whirlwind finished speaking and clapped his hands a few times, the young man who had been waiting outside the door came in.
He was a handsome young man with white hair, just like his name.
“Take them to the storage facility. Give them whatever they want.”
“Okay, then. Come this way.”
As soon as he answered Red Gale, White Frost, who had spoken to Uther and Cordelia, took the lead, and Uther and Cordelia headed to the storage facility with excited hearts.
And then another 30 minutes.
“Wow, there are so many interesting things.”
“Because barbarian weapons were rare even in the Heroes series.”
Most of the equipment was something I was seeing for the first time.
“Let’s start by changing all our defensive equipment.”
“Yeah, yeah, the dwarf ones are too conspicuous.”
The ancient dwarven overalls I got from Frost Anvil were good, but the color was a problem.
From now on, I’ll be running around like crazy on the white snowy fields, and the yellow color stands out too much.
“Most of them are made of bone or fur.”
“It looks like the equipment from Monster Hunter.”
Since the two of us were relatively free from the cold thanks to the protection of winter, we chose our equipment with mobility in mind rather than wearing heavy clothing.
Another ten minutes passed like that. Cordelia suddenly spoke in a lively voice.
“This is it! This is it! This is good!”
“What is it?”
Yuder looked back absentmindedly and swallowed his breath.
“What do you think, Daddy? Isn’t it cute? So cute that I can’t even breathe?”
Cordelia said sadly, and Uther neither confirmed nor denied.
Because it was really cute.
Cordelia had white rabbit ears on her head.
It was a headband, to be exact, with rabbit ears at the end, a cute accessory commonly seen in JRPGs.
“They say that barbarians draw out shamanic powers from animal-shaped equipment, and it seems to be true. Equipping the rabbit set increases your agility and even your jumping ability. It’s a good choice.”
“Don’t change the subject. Here’s yours too.”
Cordelia giggled and put out another bunny ear.
“me too?”
“Oh, you too.”
When Uther hesitated, Cordelia clicked her tongue and said.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Yuder is a pretty boy. He’ll suit you.”
“You were handsome in your past life too?”
“I guess so.”
Cordelia, who had been passing it off appropriately, placed a rabbit ear headband on Yuder’s head as he hesitated.
“Wow, it suits you. It suits you perfectly. Our Yuder is so pretty.”
“If you say something like that with a face that looks like it’s going to laugh you out of your mind, it won’t be convincing.”
“But still, the performance is pretty good, right?”
That’s true. It’s just a little embarrassing.
“It’s okay, Dad. I’ll do it too. It won’t be embarrassing if we do it together.”
“I guess so.”
Yuder answered bluntly and looked for some more things, but unfortunately he couldn’t find any better equipment than the rabbit set.
“Let’s leave the armor aside and grab our weapons.”
“What could be better than the sword of the Eastern warrior? The barbarians don’t use swords very often.”
They were barbarians who preferred large weapons such as axes and spears rather than swords.
Right now, Red Wind’s specialty is spearmanship, and Red Gale also uses a giant axe as per the settings.
“But it’s free.”
“Yeah, I guess I’ll have to look for something.”
As expected, since the main weapons were large-sized weapons, they couldn’t find anything that could be used as a main weapon, but instead, Uder and Cordelia had brought several usable daggers and hand axes.
“I am a genius.”
“Yes, yes, you are a man who is good at anything you do with your body. Finally, equip this.”
What Cordelia held out was a white, round, furry thing.
“What is this?”
“Rabbit tail.”
The dragon point of the rabbit set.
Uther’s face darkened, while Cordelia’s face brightened in contrast.
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The schedule after that went smoothly.
After going to the Great Tempest Shrine and taking the Arrow of the Winged Wind, Uther and Cordelia attended the simple banquet held by the Red Gale, and left the Great Tempest Tribe’s village the next morning.
“It would be good for you to learn fire elemental magic. The Great Storm said that it would suit you well. Spear magic is good, but try practicing archery too. It will be fruitful.”
The strongest tech tree of the Red Wind, created through various experiments by numerous rankers of the Heroes Chronicle.
Red Wind nodded several times in agreement with Uder and Cordelia’s request.
And about ten minutes.
Uder suddenly stopped in his tracks, looked back and said.
“Miss Cordelia.”
“Yes, Dad.”
“Why do you keep walking behind?”
“That way, you can see Dad’s tail better.”
As Uther’s expression hardened, Cordelia continued to laugh.
“Okay, okay. I’ll take the lead for a while. Watch my tail and relax.”
“Is it okay?”
“If you said it was okay, why are you coming behind me?”
“For the sake of fairness?”
“Shit.”
In the end, the two walked shoulder to shoulder as usual.
The mission given by the Great Storm is to investigate the Sanctuary of the Rough Avalanche.
But the two had one more purpose.
“Are you going there after all?”
“I should go there and check it out.”
In the Heroes Chronicles series, there was little opportunity to travel to the savage lands.
The only things that were possible were the beginning of Kirara’s scenario and the part where Red Wind returns home, but even in the part where he returns home, the places he could go were limited.
‘You said that all areas would be opened in the last expansion pack.’
And because of that, there were several areas where you couldn’t go, but it was clear that there was something there.
One of the places that Uther and Cordelia care about is this.
A place where there is even a line in the Red Wind’s Homecoming part that says, “It seems like there’s something there,” but it is still an area that cannot be visited.
Since it happened to be near the road leading to the Wild Avalanche Sanctuary, I planned to stop there first.
‘If my guess is correct… there should be Solari’s ruins.’
The ruins of the sun god Solari.
The Solari ruins located throughout the continent had certain rules, and according to Uder’s hypothesis, there were several Solari ruins in the Savage Lands.
And, of course, the places you couldn’t go in the game and the places where Yuder expected the Solari ruins to be were in the same locations on the map.
“Let’s go quickly.”
“Yes, Dad.”
But the two of them only pretended to walk and did not take a step forward, because they both intended to walk behind each other.
“At the level of thinking.”
“It’s the same for you and me, right?”
In the end, the two of them walked shoulder to shoulder again.
And the same time, a completely different place.
Likewise, there was a couple who were arguing.
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“What did you just say?”
“It’s clear that we’ve crossed the border.”
Adelia appeared in front of Gail, who was doing morning practice in the yard of the inn, and spoke with an excited face.
“The signal is getting further away. It is moving north even at this moment.”
Gale and Adelia were now in Berdfolnir, which could be said to be the entrance to the County of Hresvelg.
Considering that it had taken Juder and Cordelia nearly a fortnight to travel from Langest to Berdfolnir, this was truly an incredibly fast journey.
But it wasn’t enough. Uther and Cordelia were still too far away.
But they went one step further and crossed the border.
“Are you saying that Miss Uther and Cordelia went over to the Wild Lands?”
“I told you so! How many times have I told you this already!”
Adelia, who had been shouting loudly, took a deep breath, then puffed out her chest and said.
“This is not the time to be nitpicking. We also need to cross the border.”
There was a vast difference between wandering within the Kingdom of Seilun and wandering the savage lands beyond its borders.
The land of the savages.
A land of uncivilized and cruel savages.
It was the Kingdom of Cailun that had been fighting against barbarians for hundreds of years.
‘You bad boy, Yuder!’
If you’re going to take her around, why are you dragging Cordelia to such a hellish place where you only take her to nice places?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t forgive him. Whether Cordelia or her father were against it, if I caught him, the engagement would definitely be broken off.
“I’ll go by myself, so please understand.”
“Let’s hurry.”
“yes?”
“I said let’s hurry.”
Gail didn’t stop there. She went straight back to her room and came back down after packing her bags within a few minutes.
“First of all, we must keep the fact that Yuder and Cordelia have crossed the border a secret. If Count Hresvelg finds out that we are trying to cross the border, he will do whatever it takes to stop us.”
The Hresvelg Counts were a family of border counts.
The leader of the crows would not easily allow them to cross the border.
“Wait a minute, you want to sneak over?”
“So you were planning to just pass it over openly?”
Adelia blinked and was momentarily speechless at Gale’s question.
Because it was just as Gale said.
Legally crossing the border required several procedures. Furthermore, it was unlikely that the Hresvelg Counts, who had already suffered disgrace thanks to Uder and Cordelia, would willingly create a new headache.
If something had happened to Gale and Adelia beyond the border, it would have been a blow to Count Hresvelg, who had allowed them to cross the border.
But still, Adelia couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.
“Are you okay?”
“Oh, you mean how to cross the border? You don’t have to worry about that. The Count of Bayer knows everything about the wall that divides the north. If there’s a route to cross the border secretly, I know of at least ten.”
“Oh, no. That’s not it.”
It wasn’t just about climbing over the wall next door.
It was a story of crossing the border, and especially the northern barrier that bordered the land of the barbarians.
Adelia felt that Gail was an upright and honest man during their trip together these past few days.
A man who never misses morning practice even while traveling, never shows any sign of fatigue no matter how difficult it may be, and is the epitome of sincerity, solving everything according to established rules regardless of whether others are watching or not.
But the man was trying to sneak across the border.
That too, through a secret route known to Count Bayer.
“Then is there any other problem?”
“No… no, it’s no problem.”
Of course I knew you would object.
Or maybe we should ask Count Hresvelg for help.
“Then let’s go right away.”
Before she knew it, it was Gail who had brought the horse out of the stable. Adelia, who had been going, “Oh, oh, oh,” found herself on the horse and running after Gail.
Unexpected momentum.
A man who is not simply sincere. No, a man who is sincere but knows how to distinguish between the pros and cons of work.
“I’ll change the subject at Rugenbüst! I’ve already contacted you in advance, so you won’t have to worry about delays!”
A man who is thoroughly prepared.
‘It’s solid.’
He might look a bit like his brother.
Adelia, who slightly improved her evaluation of Gale, smiled faintly without realizing it and soon returned to focusing on horseback riding.
He rode his horse north.
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< Chapter 18 - The Great Storm #2 > End
