Chapter 491
summer rain fell
-Shoot it
The rain pouring in the mountains was not to the level of heavy rain, but it was falling enough to refrain from outdoor activities.
Luna Artorius, wearing a raincoat, pierced through the rain and listened to the sound of blows at regular intervals.
Luna slowly headed towards the direction where the sound came from, and approached through the rain.
-Eujijijik!
And Luna saw the giant tree break and lie on the ground.
Mechanically, the young man approaches the fallen tree and starts throwing the ax again.
Hitting an ax in the rain is very dangerous.
There is a high risk of the handle slipping and slipping out of your hand, and the blade can also slip and twist, causing serious injury.
But the young man, as if he didn’t know about that, just kept hitting the ax at regular intervals and repeating it.
On the first day, it seemed like a lot of trouble.
On the second day, even the handle of the old ax eventually broke, so I ended up borrowing an ax from another house and chopping wood.
By the time Ronan put a new handle on the axe with only the blade remaining and provided him with a new axe, the pace picked up.
It didn’t end with cutting down the tree, but he had to carry it to Regaira alone, so even Reinhardt, who had unusual strength, couldn’t help but be slow at work.
It’s been two weeks since Reinhardt started cutting down the forest.
Luna could see that one side of the forest was empty.
There were still more trees to be cut down, but it was clear that work was progressing.
Luna approached Reinhardt and said quietly.
“Reinhardt, it’s raining, so take a break today.”
-puck!
It was a situation filled with the sound of rain, but it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t hear Luna’s voice.
But Reinhardt just hit the ax at regular intervals as if he couldn’t hear anything.
Luna quietly looked at Reinhardt’s back.
That back figure that seems to be thinking about nothing but throwing an axe.
-puck!
Since the work has to be solved only with an axe, I see him concentrating only on splitting the cut tree at regular intervals.
“Reinhardt.”
Luna called out again, but Reinhardt still only used the ax as if he didn’t know anything other than what he was doing.
“… … .”
It’s not that I don’t pretend to hear.
that doesn’t really sound
Luna calmly looked at Reinhardt’s back, then quietly turned around.
-puck!
Returning, Luna heard the sound of an ax at regular intervals.
* * *
midnight.
Inside the gray hollow, the meeting hall.
“Princess, how long do you plan to keep that boy in Lizaira?”
An old man with gray hair asked Luna, holding a cane.
Ronan was sitting beside Luna, who was sitting at the table of honor, and the residents of Lizaira were sitting in front of him.
On everyone’s faces, there was no sign of displeasure with Reinhardt staying in Rezaira.
just curious.
There was a doubt that could not be hidden on everyone’s face.
It’s already been over a month, two months.
He was puzzled by the circumstances of the boy’s stay in Lizaira and the head of the family’s decision to tolerate it.
“Until he gets what he wants.”
The atmosphere in the meeting room immediately became chaotic at Luna’s calm words.
“If it’s the headmaster’s decision… … . There must be a big meaning that we don’t know about, but… … . Isn’t this unprecedented… … .”
An old woman shook her head, unable to hide her embarrassment.
“It’s a precedent… … .”
Luna quietly lowered her eyes and was silent for a while.
“For countless hours, nothing like this has ever happened.”
Luna again looks at the faces of the people sitting in the conference room.
There were old people, and there were those who were about to enter old age;
“It was also unprecedented that Lagann was able to go out into the world even after knowing about the existence of Ilwoldang.”
As the head of the household mentioned his son who had already died, everyone’s expressions turned brown.
“My lord… … . Because Lagann did not learn the mystery of Ilwoldang… … . He was able to go out into the world. Like Ellen… … .”
“I spoke of the liturgy, not of the mysteries.”
Luna said quietly.
“We learned through the case of Lagann that unusual things do not happen just because there is a precedent for something unprecedented.”
Everyone was silent at Luna’s words.
“So there’s no law that says this new precedent shouldn’t exist.”
“But, head of the house, if something goes wrong… … .”
Luna intercepted the old woman’s worrying words halfway through.
“I don’t have to be prepared for that. Not you.”
Silence fell in the hall at Luna’s calm words.
“Also, would Ilwoldang disappear without me? All you have to do is serve the sun and the moon in the way you have learned so far, and live like that.”
“My lord… … . The head of Ilwoldang is the only one.”
At the words of the old woman who began to cry, Luna smiled softly.
“Isn’t there a precedent for selecting a new head of household among you?”
Everyone wanted to say something about Luna’s words, but no one disputed Luna’s decision.
After everyone left the meeting room, only Luna Artorius and Ronan Artorius were left in the meeting room.
“Princess, do you intend to teach that child mysteries?”
At Ronan’s words, Luna shook her head.
“No, in that case, it would be to tie the child to the bridle of Ilwoldang, so how would that be?”
Luna calmly looked down at the floor.
“Whatever that child wants, he will have to figure it out on his own.”
“So, do you put your hands on time instead?”
At those words, Luna looked at Ronan quietly.
“… … You knew.”
“I don’t know the details, but somehow I had a feeling that you would do that.”
“… … okay.”
Luna quietly stares at the common aisle.
“Because all I can give him is time.”
“… … .”
“Isn’t tampering with Lizaira’s time interfering with the world? It’s just that an outsider entered the world I touched on time.”
Ronan smiled awkwardly at Luna’s smile.
“It sounds like sophistry.”
“Yes, sophistry.”
“Wouldn’t it be okay to tell Reinhardt that time here flows differently than outside?”
“I guess so.”
Because he doesn’t know anything, Reinhardt has to spend his time in nervousness and anxiety.
“If he knows that time here is different, he will be able to relax. He would find peace, he would find peace of mind early, and he would have had time to rest his exhausted body and mind.”
“But the easy-to-earn peace will inevitably be broken.”
“Only if it is a peace that has been valuablely obtained, wouldn’t that peace also be stable?”
“If you easily gain composure and tranquility and mistakenly think that it is your strength, it will collapse later when true confusion and fear come.”
Ronan listens to Luna’s words and nods slowly.
“You didn’t tell me anything on purpose.”
“Because achieving goals and overcoming limitations are two different things.”
Hearing Luna’s words that Reinhardt needed to overcome, not achieve, Ronan was silent.
The sound of an ax that had been heard at regular intervals echoed in Luna’s head.
“Ronan.”
“Yes, my lord.”
“Would you be sad if I disappeared?”
At Luna’s question, Ronan nodded with a firm expression.
“obviously. It will.”
“… … .”
“Because he always seems like an arrogant guy.”
“… … .”
“But the life of a human being forced to live because of you wasn’t too bad. No, it was good.”
Luna stares at the hallway quietly.
“Since I was forced to live a human life, I often think these days that I want to experience death, the end of human beings.”
“My lord.”
“I just did it.”
Luna smiled at Ronan’s expression.
* * *
Time passed.
Reinhardt continued cutting down trees.
In fact, cutting down the entire forest was something that Reinhardt could have done in one day if he used the Holy Relic with the maximum output of magical power enhancement.
However, he had to cut down trees one by one using an ax while maintaining extremely refined magic power.
Therefore, Reinhardt’s work, which had to be carried out with more sluggish movements and inferior tools than usual, had to be slow.
Of course, maintaining a clear mind throughout the day was not an easy task.
Of course, there were times when my immersion was broken, and there were many cases where I was confused and distracted by the ax blade slipping out of the hilt.
Nonetheless, obviously, it does not change that it is getting better.
The state of concentration, which was too much to maintain for an hour, soon exceeded two hours. And three or four hours passed.
Later, he was able to maintain concentration while chopping wood all day, eating sesame seeds and taking a breather for a while.
Around two months had passed since the first ax to the tree.
At some point, Reinhardt cut down all the trees in the forest.
“How did you do it?”
Arta said that while looking at the forest that had disappeared with only the stumps of countless trees remaining.
“But later on, it picked up speed and became very fast. yes?”
At Lena’s words, Reinhardt nodded quietly.
Reinhardt clicked his tongue briefly as he put the ax on the fork, the handle of which he had changed several times, and put the last pieces of wood onto the fork one by one.
“I would have beaten him to thrush if anyone had told me that doing this kind of thing helps to keep the mind going when you’re out there.”
Reinhardt grumbles and carries a fork full of wood.
“It pisses me off the most that this actually works.”
Dark emotions did not disappear from Reinhardt’s eyes, which were filled with only the abyss.
but.
Those feelings were infinitely quiet.
* * *
“I finished the tree.”
“yes.”
“It took a long time.”
“Two months is fast… … . I don’t know, but isn’t it compliant? I wonder if I’ve ever done something like this in my life.”
It’s almost two months.
She had completed the grand task of clearing the forest by herself, but Luna had a puzzled look on her face as if she had finished it now. Ronan quietly nodded her head.
“Then tomorrow I will have to uproot the tree.”
“… … .”
no.
Can’t you tell me that you did a good job?
As soon as work is over, seeing Luna casually saying that she will have to do something else tomorrow is what to say.
Do I have to say it out loud?
no.
Having been here for a long time, even though I know I shouldn’t, sometimes I forget what I was doing.
It’s absurd to be sad that you didn’t receive praise for cutting down all the trees.
me.
Maybe I’m too used to life in Lizaira… … ?
To be honest, there were many times when I jumped up from my sleep because I felt like I was going to sit down.
I put down my thoughts about the outside world for now, but sometimes I have nightmares.
Still, I felt that if I repeated simple tasks throughout the day, my thoughts would definitely disappear.
“Still, your expression has improved a lot.”
Those were Ronan’s words.
“that… … song?”
“Yes, definitely.”
no matter how it goes
Even while anxiety and nervousness were swallowing me up, I was getting used to maintaining my composure and maintaining the most efficient magic power reinforcement for a long time.
“Thanks to that, it seems that we have plenty of firewood for next year.”
According to Luna’s words, it seems like she did only good things for Lizaira.
I wonder if there is anything I shouldn’t do. It’s also true that I live on Lizaira.
Every time the villagers saw me stacking the firewood in the center of the village, they said that I was doing a good job, and there were many people who left their new arrivals.
Rather than remaining as a member of the military family, I do good things to myself and help the village.
I want it to be nothing bad.
Before I knew it, I was part of a community living in the countryside called Lizaira.
* * *
As a result of me cutting down all the trees in the forest, I don’t have to worry about firewood called Lizaira.
Watching the enormous firewood I chopped dry to a crisp in the sunlight, I felt a strange pride of unknown origin rising up.
If everything is done.
If everything works out somehow and all the burden on my shoulders disappears.
I suddenly thought about what it would be like to go back to farming.
Demon King, Return to Farming
It was an absurd thing that made me laugh out loud just thinking about it.
Anyway, after a long, long time, the wood chopping was over.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ll say goodbye to Dok2 forever.
Following the ax, two other tools were added.
shovel and pickaxe.
The trees in the forest are multicolored.
There were large trees, there were medium-sized trees, and there were small trees that would break if I just grabbed and twisted them with my bare hands.
Let’s say it’s small.
“Honestly, I tend to find this difficult.”
“You too?”
“of course. Would this be normal?”
Looking at the solid stump, where it was rooted from where to where and how far it was rooted, it was almost mind-boggling.
How the hell do you pull this off?
Don’t you need heavy equipment? Originally, isn’t this what excavators do?
I even brought in Arta to avoid heading into the ground like when I started chopping wood, but even this guy shook his head.
I stood in front of the stump of a tree a little smaller than that, ignoring the stump of a gigantic tree that made me dizzy just by looking at it.
I think this work corresponds to a series of processes.
The repeated mastery task, tree-breaking, was to erase wandering thoughts through endless repetitive tasks, and to get used to the optimized method of magical power enhancement.
So, I’ve been able to get used to it quite a bit now.
That’s it this time.
To increase the output itself of the optimized magical power enhancement.
Pulling out the stump of a tree deeply rooted in the ground requires equipment, not skill.
But there is no such tool in this mountain valley.
So, you have to do what requires skill.
The most efficient horsepower enhancement, and getting used to increasing its output, replacing all of the horsepower with my own power without releasing it to the outside.
Looking at things like this, I wonder if Luna had a meaning in everything she ordered me to do in the field… … .
horn.
It’s more a dream than a dream.
It’s just something I ordered, but it’s clear that I gave meaning to it.
“I’ve never done this myself, so I guess I’ll have to get the adults in.”
“no.”
This is not a skill, but a job that requires strength itself.
“First, go ignorant.”
“… … what?”
-Pak!
I put the shovel in
To make a groove for the base of the tree.
-Pak! Fak Fak!
After several shovels, I exposed some of the tree’s roots.
“… … I know what you’re trying to do, will you?”
“If that doesn’t work, you can think of another way.”
I squat while standing on top of a tree trunk.
Then, with both arms down, he grasped the hollow at the base of the tree like a handle.
Arta’s expression was not very good.
“… … It’s not good.”
“If it doesn’t work, find another way.”
I don’t know what will happen if it’s the highest output magic power, but since this is all part of my training, I use magic power enhancement with the highest efficiency that can be used in the current state and with enough output that the magic power doesn’t spill out.
I can already feel the extremely high level of my magical power.
What I need to do from now on is to increase the output itself and put the control of the magical power fully in my hands.
With overwhelming power, it pulls out deeply rooted trees with its bare hands.
“I am a human excavator.”
“Excavators… … ? What is it?”
“There is such a thing.”
While using self-suggestions and even the commandments.
“Suck!”
Feeling the blood rushing to my head, I try to pull out the tree trunk with my bare hands.
While putting strength in the thighs, arms, and waist.
“Mmmmm!”
“crazy… … .”
– Excited
I don’t know, but there is movement.
do.
trying to become
I don’t know if I don’t budge at all, but I feel like I’m becoming something, so I put more effort into it.
As if the blood vessels in his body were about to explode, he poured out his monstrous strength.
With the concept of not pulling trees, but pushing the earth with my legs and pulling up the world.
With all my might.
Even so, the mana overflowing with rationality was endlessly pushed into the inside.
“that.”
“ah.”
“ah.”
“oh!”
Whilst screaming, I poured in as much strength as I had ever before.
– Pop!
“!”
There was the sound of something breaking.
“to… … ugh… … .”
“hey… … Are you okay?!”
Obviously, something was broken.
It was just my waist.
