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Chapter 2 – Dungeon Book
Count Bayer.
One of the twelve northern families that protect the northern part of the Kingdom of Seilun, and a renowned family of warriors that has produced powerful knights for generations.
Sir Victor Cromwell, a long-time vassal of the Earl’s family and now a retired knight, was moved to tears by the sight before his eyes.
“Ugh··· Keuh··· Ugh······.”
Juder Bayer, known as the agony of the Counts of Bayer, was running on the parade grounds with a sick person who had difficulty even carrying out daily life due to his dysphasia.
Even though I was panting for breath as if I was going to die at any moment.
“It is truly the care of heaven······.”
With my fiancée, I mean, in a place where I ran away during the night – I mean, during the week, I got my hands on a sacred relic, and that sacred relic of the sun god Solari that would help with treating myofascial pain.
A literal coincidence that is too coincidental to be called a coincidence, but can only be seen as a coincidence.
“Askantor, thank you for looking after the Bayer family.”
Victor, who had prayed to Ascantor, the god of war, looked back at the parade ground with a smiling face.
A red-faced Yuder was turning the corner to complete one last lap.
Ten laps of the parade ground.
For an ordinary knight, it would have been just a warm-up or a barely adequate amount of exercise, but for Yuder, it was truly a great leap forward.
Just a week ago, I couldn’t even walk a lap around the parade ground.
“Ugh··· gasp······ Whew.”
Yuder, who had been barely maintaining his running form, almost collapsed in place as soon as he finished the last lap.
“Keuh······.”
The sky seemed to be spinning.
My mind was blank, and I couldn’t think of anything.
“Turn it off······.”
Eventually I ended up lying down. I was sweating so much that my whole body was soaking wet, as if I had drowned in water.
“ha······.”
How much time has passed since I laid down?
After I caught my breath a little, I was able to think again.
‘I’m dying.’
Ten laps of the parade ground.
If we were to measure the distance, it would be about 1km.
It wasn’t that short of a distance, but it wasn’t that long either.
‘still.’
A smile began to spread across Yuder’s face.
Little by little, I could clearly feel my body getting better.
‘Necklace of the Sun.’
The necklace of the sun god Solari still hangs around Uther’s neck.
Unlike the Sun Aura, which infused a massive amount of extreme energy all at once, the Sun Necklace supplied extreme energy slowly but continuously.
The blockage of the blood vessels throughout the body due to the severe cold air meant that the blood vessels were blocked.
As the cold air gradually melted away with the energy of the extreme sun, the symptoms of the nine-syllable pulse also began to alleviate.
Moreover, the effect of the Sun Necklace was not limited to that.
The extreme energies of the extremes of the sun and cold meet and explore each other, thereby creating a clear and pure energy.
Right now, since he was a Yuder who couldn’t properly practice Mana Yeon Gong Beop (in other words, the Naegongsim Beop), he couldn’t do anything about the pure energy that had been created, but that didn’t mean the energy would go anywhere.
Since it all remained within Yuder’s body, if he were to absorb it all later, he would be able to achieve great things all at once.
“master.”
When I rolled my eyes at the call, I saw Victor with a big smile on his face.
Although he had retired in his sixties and did not accompany Count Bayer on his expeditions, he was still very energetic.
“I have seen you achieve your goal without giving up. I am sure the Count will be very happy when he returns.”
It wasn’t just lip service.
Wasn’t it Yuder who finished the parade ground race, panting as if he was about to run out of breath?
Victor admired Yuder’s strong will, as well as his body’s recovery.
‘As expected, Bayer is Bayer.’
The spirit of the Count Bayer, a noble family of martial arts, was passed down to Yuder, although it was not revealed due to the curse-like syllables.
“If you recover a little more, you will be able to learn the martial arts of the family. Thinking that you will display the martial arts of the Bayer family… Hehe, even though I am old, my heart is pounding.”
Victor was a man who didn’t have much to say.
But anyway, it was a good thing, so Yuder smiled too.
‘The merits of the Count Bayer family.’
As a playable character, Uder was also given his own growth points.
One of them is the military service of the Count Bayer family.
Although they are now only the lowest of the twelve northern families, they were once the heads of the twelve families and held the position of Count of Bayer.
The level of martial arts that have been passed down through generations has never been low.
‘It’s martial arts.’
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a superhuman technique that is not limited to martial arts as in reality, but rather magic in a sense that utilizes internal energy.
It wasn’t particularly strange, since it was a world where angels, demons, and even magic existed, but it still felt new and new every time I felt it.
“Okay, Master. Let’s stop here for today. It’s not good to overdo it. Don’t forget that getting enough rest is also part of training.”
Yuder stood up, holding Victor’s pot-lid-like hand, nodded, and took another breath.
‘A week.’
It’s been a week since I obtained the Sun Necklace from the Red Moon’s Raizegang.
The curfew will be lifted in three days, so it’s time to start preparing for what’s next.
‘If I were alone, I wouldn’t have even been able to dream.’
The next thing I want to get my hands on is the Sun Necklace.
The ultimate goal of Uther and Cordelia was to stop the ‘Great Summoning’ and protect this world from the Armageddon of angels and demons, but they could not make any major moves from the beginning.
‘I don’t have the ability right now.’
It was obvious that it was something that could be done by a combination of a weakling who could barely run ten laps around a sports field and a one-star wizard.
So now was the time to suppress impatience and lay the foundation for growth.
‘We can do it together.’
Although it wasn’t intentional, I leveled up thanks to the Raize River, so I should be able to proceed to the next stage right away with Cordelia.
‘but······.’
How to contact Cordelia.
In fact, it was not that there was no means of contact.
It’s just a burden.
‘Maya would like it······.’
After the last weekly escape, she was the one who was scolded with words but looked happy with her eyes.
‘The yellow one I love… no, Miss Cordelia.’
Yuder, who recalled the first line of the letter he was going to send to his fiancée, unknowingly put on a miserable expression.
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The next morning, at Count Chase’s house.
Cordelia, who was practicing meditation to raise Manaheart, suddenly opened her eyes and started shivering.
Because I had a bad feeling about something.
‘What, what is it?’
Since the days of the Yellow Storm, she was so good that she could hit an outboxer in the face.
Even though I was meditating, I had an ominous feeling that made me snap out of my thoughts.
But there was no need to think long.
This is because one of the people who are considered to be the cause of the premonition has come into view.
“miss.”
Dahlia Fay, Cordelia’s bodyguard.
She was approaching me with a smile that was nothing short of ominous.
“dahlia?”
Why is that?
Why is she smiling like that?
Actually, I have a rough idea of the reason.
It was something I had seen several times over the past week, and whenever she did something like that, the name ‘Juder Bayer’ always came up.
‘It’s not the kind of behavior a virtuous maiden would do, but I support your love.’
It was Dahlia who approached him and said these words to him as he was feeling gloomy after receiving a stay-at-home order.
Those words were so creepy that I could remember them without missing a single word.
‘Why, why are you laughing like that again?’
What kind of strange story are you going to tell this time?
When Cordelia smiled awkwardly, Dahlia nodded as if she understood everything and spoke in a soft tone.
“Miss, your face is half gone. I understand.”
“I’m telling you in advance, is it because you practice hard? Not for any other reason?”
“Haha… I guess so.”
He said he understood what he said, but his eyes said otherwise.
It was clear that they were thinking completely differently.
‘Oh, really.’
It was all because of Yuder.
If it weren’t for that day, if it weren’t for those embarrassing lines, Dahlia wouldn’t have been so misunderstood.
In fact, Cordelia wasn’t the only one who was upset by her weekly runaway with Uther.
Dahlia had also been given a pay cut for not performing her duties properly, yet she was still showing the same attitude.
‘Well… because she’s like an older sister.’
If Maia was like an older sister to Uther, Dahlia was like an older sister to Cordelia, with whom she had grown up since childhood.
‘Well, come to think of it, isn’t this an act of revenge?’
Just as Cordelia was questioning, Dahlia opened her mouth again.
“Anyway, miss. I have some good news for you, miss.”
“Good news?”
“Yes, good news.”
“What, what is it?”
“Hahaha, that’s news about Prince Yu De.”
Dahlia smiled brightly and took out a letter from her bosom and handed it to him.
“This is a hot letter from Prince Yude.”
Yeonseo.
Love letter.
The moment Cordelia heard it, she got goosebumps all over her body, but at the same time, she was also happy.
In any case, it was the first news I heard from Outboxer in about a week.
“Come and read it.”
As Dahlia urged her with sparkling eyes, Cordelia opened the envelope with a complicated and subtle expression.
To my truly beloved Miss Cordelia.
I couldn’t stand it from the first line.
But still, Cordelia swallowed dry saliva and steeled her resolve.
Anyway, I had to read it.
Moreover, it couldn’t have been just a letter. There had to be some hidden message.
‘There must be a vertical trip, right?’
Or maybe a diagonal drip.
Cordelia, who was reading the letter full of sweet sentences with a painful expression after receiving Maia’s corrections, opened her eyes wide without realizing it.
It wasn’t because I found a vertical or diagonal drip.
The last of a love letter filled with words of love.
A single line of Korean written honestly, without any trickery.
Let’s meet at the temple of Varuna at 2pm, two days later.
‘Oh, you used your head a bit?’
In Pleiades, the only people who can read Korean are Yellow Storm himself and Outboxer.
At this point, it could almost be said to be a perfect password.
‘The temple of Varuna rather than that?’
I understood the date itself, since the curfew was due to end in two days, but I was concerned about the temple of Varuna.
Varuna, the god of the silver screen.
A guardian of secrets and a watcher at the same time.
There was also a temple of Varuna in the border city where the Counts of Bayer and Chase were located.
Although it was not very large, it was a place where quite a few people came for confession purposes, as befitting a temple of the god who governs ‘secrets.’
‘What was there?’
If you insist on seeing it there, there must be something there.
Cordelia tried to recall her memories for a moment, but nothing came to mind.
‘Anyway, the problem is······.’
Cordelia folded the letter she had finished reading and glanced at Dahlia.
And as expected, perhaps.
The bright, shining gaze of the dahlia greeted Cordelia.
‘I don’t want to talk. I really don’t want to talk.’
But I had to do it anyway.
Whether or not the curfew was over, I had to take Dahlia with me if I wanted to go out in broad daylight.
“dahlia.”
“Yes, Miss.”
“That… two days later.”
“Yes, Miss. Are you having a secret meeting with Prince Yude in two days when the curfew ends?”
“Uh… Huh? Uh, a secret meeting?”
“Haa… Prince Yuder seems to be in a good mood. Asking me out on a date right after the curfew is over. Hehe, you’re so hot.”
Cordelia was momentarily dazed, but nodded.
Anyway, I had to go.
The misunderstanding was a bit annoying, but there was nothing I could do about it.
“Oh, anyway. I’m going to Varuna’s temple in two days.”
“Oh… Even the location is plausible. To have a secret meeting in the temple of the secret god. This time, don’t run away. I’ll make sure to make time for the two of you.”
Dahlia finished speaking with a smirk and even winked.
What should I say?
Although it is clearly a helpful story, I have to say that it feels like my throat is being strangled.
Cordelia closed her eyes for a moment and took a long breath, for peace of mind.
But Dahlia’s thoughts on the matter were different.
‘I’m so relieved.’
The fact that I can finally meet my beloved Prince Yuder.
After all, wasn’t it Cordelia who had been focusing solely on training to suppress the pain of not being able to meet him for the past week?
I don’t know when my love became so deep, but originally, between a man and a woman, momentary communication was more important than absolute time.
‘Miss, I will help you a lot. Fighting!’
Dahlia looked at Cordelia with warm eyes, and Cordelia, who opened her eyes just in time, thought with a start.
‘What the heck, why is he like that again? What kind of delusions is he having again!’
But I didn’t ask out loud.
Because I was afraid of what to say.
“Oh, anyway. Two days later. Just remember that.”
“Yes, Miss. Two days is not a short period of time, but please bear with it for a little longer. Okay?”
He said it cutely, but it wasn’t cute.
Who can tolerate anything?
‘I’d rather die than be sick.’
Cordelia nodded dryly and slumped her shoulders.
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