< Chapter 19 - Relics >
Chapter 19 – Relics
The reason the Kingdom of Seilun did not expand its influence to the northern barbarian lands was simple.
“Because life is hard.”
It wasn’t for nothing that we stopped at Thunderdoom Fortress.
There were two main reasons why the Wild Land was difficult to live in: one was the harsh natural environment, and the other was the monsters that appeared everywhere.
“It’s cold and barren, and there are a lot of monsters here, so it’s not a place for people to live.”
That’s why the barbarians would knock on the northern border every few years.
Because the North was hard to live in, while the South was livable.
They were coming down in search of a better land to live in.
“Haa··· haa······ It’s hard. There really is nothing but snow.”
Cordelia gasped as she left new footprints on the pristine white snowfield where not a single footprint had been left – deep footprints at that.
At first I liked it because it was pretty, but the prettyness only lasted for a moment. As I walked, I began to hate the endless snowy field.
The environment of the Savage Land was truly harsh.
The village of the Great Storm Tribe was somewhat livable, and was located at the northernmost point of the County of Hresvelg.
However, as soon as we left the village area, the Frost Anvil was deployed with a little exaggeration.
A blizzard that rages without mercy and piles of snow.
If it weren’t for the protection of winter, I would have had a hard time even breathing properly.
“The barbarians are haa··· strong haa··· and there is a reason··· huu···.”
Living in this environment, you can’t help but become stronger naturally.
No, the weak won’t be able to survive in the first place.
Unlike Cordelia, who was panting but still managed to say everything she wanted to say, Uder simply kept his mouth shut and checked the direction with the compass.
Northwest of the Great Storm Tribe’s village.
After estimating the distance in his head, Uther quickly sent a signal to Cordelia.
“What? You just need to go a little further? Haven’t you been saying “haa··· ha···” like that since earlier?
Instead of answering this time, Uther responded with a hand signal, and Cordelia lost her temper.
“Ah, Xiang! Just say it with your eyes!”
Because that was easier to understand than an unknown signal.
‘When I think about it, it’s strange. How is that possible? Is this also some kind of animalistic feeling? Is it really an animal?’
“Falling behind?”
Cordelia, who recognized Uther’s gaze perfectly, hit Uther’s back hard.
Uder continued to speak with his eyes.
‘Just a little further. See that little raised area over there? There’s a path that goes down there. An underground cave?’
Cordelia frowned at the look in Uther’s eyes, groaned, and asked again. As expected, it seemed that she didn’t understand properly because the text was so long.
“Uh… So if you go over there, there’s a path that goes down?”
‘that’s right.’
“Fuck, just say it too. Say it! Say it! Say it too, Daddy!”
“huh.”
After briefly responding to Cordelia’s whining, Uther began to lead the way again, and Cordelia followed behind him, panting.
It was a relationship between two people whose physical strength was completely reversed thanks to the sun flower.
And about 5 minutes.
Uther and Cordelia finally reached the entrance to a large cave.
It was a large cave leading down, just like Uder had said, and it looked like the entrance to a dungeon.
‘That’s all there was to the original.’
Because the line “It seems like there’s something” appeared, it was impossible to proceed any further.
Yuder swallowed dryly and smiled slightly. This was because his heart was pounding with excitement at the thought of going to a place he had never been before.
But Cordelia, unlike Yuder, just stood there and jumped around.
“Anyway, let’s go in quickly. I don’t want to get caught in a blizzard. It’ll be better once we get in.”
“···There’s no romance.”
“Romance is something you can only enjoy when your back is warm and your stomach is full. What kind of romance is that when I’m freezing to death?”
Cordelia, who had been spitting out words without dreams or hopes like a machine gun, quickly created a magical light and began to go down first.
“be careful.”
“Yeah, you too.”
As soon as they started to go down, Yuder naturally took the lead. Three steps ahead of Cordelia. He could feel Cordelia’s blatant gaze at his tail, but from here on out, it was not the time to walk side by side.
He goes to the front line and protects Cordelia, who is in the back line.
It becomes a shield that protects Cordelia from danger.
“Maybe a little thick?”
“huh?”
“No, I just think the tail is cute.”
Cordelia laughed and looked around with curious eyes instead of getting angry, perhaps because the snowstorm had disappeared.
The cave leading down had a very high ceiling and, strangely enough, it became wider the further down you went.
“Ugh… I think I’m starting to get scared.”
After descending about 30 meters, the cave became so large that it could not be fully illuminated with a small magic light.
A dark, damp cave where you can’t tell what’s around you.
I thought I heard the regular sound of water drops falling from afar, but soon I heard the sound of insects scurrying.
“Cordelia, could you turn the lights up a little bit more?”
“Yeah, just a minute.”
As the light grew, the amount of magical power consumed naturally increased, but securing a clear view of the surroundings was a priority.
As Cordelia poured her magic power into the spell, the magical sphere that had been emitting a soft glow instantly more than doubled in size, and its light output more than tripled.
Paa-!
As if a light had been turned on in a dark room, the darkness was instantly swallowed up by light. The surrounding scenery became clearer, and Cordelia almost screamed at that moment.
Dozens of pairs of eyes located everywhere.
There were so many monsters attached to the walls and ceilings, watching us, that it was strange how I hadn’t noticed them until now.
“Cordelia! Get on me!”
Uther shouted in an instant, and Cordelia understood immediately. She spun around and faced Uther, and instead of drawing the Eastern Warrior’s sword, Uther clenched both his fists.
A number that is likely to be well over twenty or even thirty.
Fortunately, the monster itself was a species I already knew.
“Snow Goblin!”
“Host life! White skin with a blue tint! Blue eyes!”
“Of course ice attribute!”
“There is poison in the fingernails and teeth!”
“A very timid and cowardly personality! If anything comes up against him, he runs away!”
Uther and Cordelia shouted in turns.
But soon the content had to be corrected.
“Hey! Your eyes are red!”
“Corrupted version! If you do that, you won’t escape!”
“Berserk Mode!”
The story is different for snow goblins who have been mutated by exposure to the power of Belial, the Overlord of Corruption.
They were a bunch of vicious bastards who would pounce on every last one of them until they were dead.
“Coming!”
“Trust me!”
At that moment when Uther shouted, Cordelia confidently shouted and fired the arrow of the wind wing she had on her waist into the air. She immediately unleashed her witch transformation and shouted.
“I’ll sweep it all away!”
“Nodo!”
Uther looked at the Wingwind Arrow with expectant eyes, and Cordelia took the so-called sword and moved her hands nimbly to control the Wingwind Arrow.
Chuhua-!
The arrow of the Wingwind made a sharp sound as it flew at a terrifying speed, then flew right between the eyebrows of the snow goblin standing in front of Yuder.
“Kaaaak!”
The one who had been hit in the head fell down. Uther cheered, expecting the arrows of the Wingwind to pierce the others one after another like they had seen in the movies.
But there was no more to it, for the Wingwind’s arrows were blocked by the Snow Goblin’s skull and could not advance any further.
“Uh… This isn’t it.”
Cordelia spoke, and at that moment the snow goblins simultaneously roared and began to charge.
“Fuck! I knew it!”
“Great Storm Nonsense!”
After spitting out a long swear word, Yuder held his breath and stepped on the gust of wind. It created a strong whirlwind and quickly swept away the surrounding area, centering around Cordelia.
Keep Cordelia away.
Defeat enemies with one blow and steadily reduce their numbers.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There was a series of loud noises, and the four advance guards of snow goblins that had been rushing in from all directions fell down, each with their heads, necks, chests, etc. smashed to pieces.
But there were only four of them. The remaining snow goblins charged forward without a care, as if a wave was coming.
“Let’s go!”
Each one was weak, but there were still too many of them. At least they had to change their fighting positions.
Uther quickly grabbed Cordelia’s waist and then quickly hoisted her onto his shoulder like a load.
Cordelia, who would normally say something, didn’t say anything because she was in the middle of a battle, and Uther kicked the ground and jumped high into the air.
“Kwaaah!”
The snow goblins that had covered the place where Yuder had just stood barked fiercely, and Yuder tried to go back up the path he had come down, stepping on their heads.
But it was impossible. The newly appeared snow goblins had already blocked their escape route.
‘Was it a settlement at all?!’
Snow goblins often formed larger colonies than other goblins, and in a proper settlement their numbers could exceed a hundred.
‘To a higher place.’
Uder looked for a high place to avoid being surrounded by them. And that was the moment.
“Okay! I’ll do it again, so carry me! No! Hug me!”
Cordelia suddenly shouted, and Uther reflexively followed her words. He changed the way he had been carrying her on his shoulders like a burden into the so-called princess-like position.
“good!”
Cordelia shouted. At the same time, a sharp wind swept around Uther and Cordelia.
Tsupahaaaaaaa-!
It was an arrow of the winged wind.
It emerged from the head of the first one I had defeated and passed through the snow goblins at a terrifying speed.
No, it wasn’t just passing by.
“Cock!”
“Ugh!”
“Keeek!”
The arrowheads of the Wingwind tore at the skin of the snow goblins’ necks, waists, and other areas, leaving wounds.
‘crazy.’
It was truly a fearsome piloting skill.
If it can’t pierce, it cuts and wounds.
The theory itself was simple, but it was none other than an arrowhead. Moving at such a fast speed and making wounds on leather was practically a feat of acrobatics.
‘but.’
It was meaningless to the extent of causing a minor wound.
The snow goblins weren’t so weak that they could just stretch out like that.
Cordelia was well aware of that fact, so she took one more step.
“Cough!”
“Keeek!”
The snow goblins, wounded by the arrows of the Wingwind, suddenly let out gasping sounds.
It was for a simple reason.
“poison!”
“That’s it!”
Poison Blade.
It was Cordelia who gave the arrowheads strong poison with a witch’s spell. Furthermore, Cordelia’s combo did not end here.
This is because there are new spells that you can learn thanks to repeated leveling ups.
“Blast death!”
Cordelia released her black magic wand and clenched her fists. The snow goblins’ wounds began to swell and then burst out in a purple glow.
Poison explosion.
In a word, a toxic explosion.
It was a magic technique that exploded the poison stacked on the enemy, and the greater the amount of poison stacked, the greater the power.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dozens of explosions occurred in succession, seemingly as one.
Because she was just starting to learn, Cordelia’s poison blast was weak in power, but Cordelia had already calculated that level – no, she had instinctively figured it out.
The arrows of the Wingwind did not hurt anywhere.
It only targeted places where even a small explosion could cause fatal damage.
“Keeee!”
A snow goblin with a torn throat fell down, strangling its own neck, and the one next to it had its groin torn so it couldn’t even scream properly. There were also those with injured waists and ankles who couldn’t move properly.
“Haa··· haak··· ha··· huh, how is it?”
Cordelia, who had expended a large amount of magic power and concentration at once, looked back at Yuder, sweating profusely. Yuder looked around first. Dozens of snow goblins were lying down, groaning.
‘Indeed, a yellow storm.’
He is the strongest being in Hero Chronicles 2, having caught up with Yuder himself in one hunt, and is only strong in the area of one-on-many hunting.
“As expected, he is the king of massacre of innocent people.”
“No… right? Even strong guys… are good at catching them?”
That was it. Cordelia’s nose started to slosh as she spoke with difficulty, and both of her arms slumped.
“I’ll hit the final blow, just rest for now.”
“Oh, shit······.”
With a pitiful cry, Cordelia fainted. It was because she had overexerted herself.
‘Still, that’s amazing.’
It was Uther and Cordelia who had just reached level 30. At this level, only Cordelia could have created a scene like this.
‘I’m looking forward to the future, the future.’
How strong will it become later?
Uder smiled brightly as he looked at Cordelia, who had fainted with a look of injustice on her face, and began to strike at the noisy goblins.
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“ah.”
Cordelia opened her eyes.
My head hurt and I felt weak all over.
“eww.”
I raised my voice again, and then I heard a familiar voice.
“Are you awake?”
Instead of answering, Cordelia closed her eyes tightly once, then opened them and looked around.
Still in the cave.
Himself riding on Uder’s back.
“Uh… Where are you?”
“Inside the cave. The deeper you go, the fewer snow goblins there are.”
“why.”
“···Isn’t it obvious?”
“My head hurts. I don’t want to think about it.”
As Cordelia whined and hit Uther’s shoulder a few times with her jaw, Uther clicked his tongue and said.
“The sacred energy is growing stronger. Do you remember the seal of the Raize River? Just like that.”
“Then did you come to the right place?”
“Oh, I’m sure there are remains of Solari.”
“Wow, this is exciting.”
Cordelia answered weakly, looked back at herself again, and soon realized that she was tied up in something like a sling and hanging on Uther’s back.
“Sorry, I couldn’t get any diapers.”
“Don’t hit Eva.”
Instead of creating magical light, Cordelia continued speaking, looking at the torch that Uther was holding.
“So how much further do we have to go?”
“I think they’re all here.”
It was just as Uther had said. When Cordelia looked straight ahead, she saw something that looked like a door right there.
“That’s the Solari crest.”
“It’s not just a relic. It’s like a tomb.”
Yuder held the torch to the inscription on the stone gate, narrowed his eyes once, and then continued speaking.
“Cordelia, can you walk by yourself?”
“maybe?”
“Then let’s get off for now.”
When Uther untied the sling, Cordelia looked somewhat unsteady, but soon managed to stand on her own feet.
“Whew, the magical power consumption of the Wing Wind Arrow is too much.”
“The power is a bit weak. But the mobility is amazing.”
“If I pour more magic into it, its power will probably increase… but I think I’ll have to level it up a lot more to do that.”
Cordelia, having said that, took a gulp of the magic potion she had taken out from her waistband.
“Uhhh… Okay. Anyway, let’s go in now.”
The ruins of Solari.
If it was a tomb, there would definitely be items sleeping there that would be helpful in fighting against demons in the future.
“wait for a sec.”
Yuder, who lightly relaxed his shoulders, carefully opened the stone door.
“and.”
It was the same cave beyond the stone gate, but it looked completely different.
Blue-emitting jewels were embedded here and there, creating a mysterious atmosphere rather than a dark and gloomy one. Furthermore, the water flowing along the wall was so clear that you could see through the water about a meter deep.
“The energy of Solari is clear.”
Thanks to the Necklace of the Sun, Uther was familiar with the power of Solari.
“You can’t tell whose grave it is?”
Instead of answering Cordelia’s question right away, Uther cast his gaze into the distance. He was looking toward the sarcophagus located at the far end.
A huge stone coffin measuring 1.5 meters high and 4 meters long.
The coffin, which was engraved with the Solari emblem, also had several other sacred characters engraved on it.
“oh my god.”
“why?”
“It’s Galleon’s Tomb.”
Cordelia blinked at Uther’s answer, then opened her eyes wide and asked again.
“Galeon? Disciple of Garius? Saint Galeon?”
“Oh, Saint Galleon.”
Garius, the Solari champion who sealed the Demon Prince Raizegang, had three disciples who inherited his progress.
Saint Galleon, Paladin Verfa, and Templar Amelia.
“Wow, so there’s something really great there?”
“maybe?”
Even in the Solari Order, Galleon was a named figure.
Cordelia’s eyes began to sparkle.
“Let’s open it quickly.”
If there’s anything, it’ll be inside the sarcophagus.
Furthermore, the Saint Galeon was the progenitor of the divine power used by the Holy Cross Guardians.
There was a high possibility that it contained something useful to Yuder now.
‘But come to think of it, isn’t this grave robbery?’
It’s not the tomb of a sealed demon or villain, it’s the tomb of an adult.
“But there’s nothing I can do about it, right?”
Even while checking the current state of the rough avalanche, there was a possibility that the two would clash with the devil’s hand.
To prevent a future headed towards catastrophe, the power to fight the demons was needed.
“But let’s at least pray.”
“Yes, and I also prayed silently.”
Because it was different from the game.
After offering prayers to Solari together, Uther and Cordelia held a moment of silence for Galleon.
And one minute.
Looking back at each other, Uther and Cordelia smiled and reached for the coffin without saying who would go first. They trembled with excitement at the prospect of discovering a completely new item, and tried to break the seal on the coffin.
And that was the moment.
[Who is he who touches the tomb of the holy warrior!]
The harsh roar shook not only the minds of Uther and Cordelia, but the entire cave.
“Uder!”
As Cordelia covered her ears with both hands, Uther grabbed Cordelia’s waist. He immediately stepped on the twenty-four steps of the wind and left the place where he was standing, and as if in sync, lightning poured down from the ceiling and struck the place where Uther had been standing.
Kwakang!
Blue brain.
Then, blue light gathered over Galleon’s tomb and soon took the shape of a winged leopard.
[Those who defile the graves! You will not escape the punishment of Solari!]
A huge blue-furred leopard stood on the coffin, glaring at Uther and Cordelia.
It was clear that he was the guardian of the tomb, which often appears in Solari-related relics.
“Guardian of the Grave.”
“The lowest angel.”
“No intelligence. In fact, a gargoyle. The comments are most likely already recorded.”
“Holy attribute. Since she is an angel of Solari, the sun attribute is added.”
“What should I do?”
“We have to fight.”
It seems that prayer and meditation alone were not enough.
Anyway, since it had come to this, I had no choice but to fight, either opening Galleon’s coffin or running away.
Moreover, the party had one more reason to fight.
“But you know.”
“uh.”
“Are you an angel?”
angel.
Although he is of the lowest rank, he is still an angel.
Although it is a gargoyle-like being, it is a being made of flesh and blood.
“Angel’s blood.”
Cordelia said, and Uther nodded.
The eyes of the rotten things began to shine brightly.
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