Only I Level Up: Ragnarok - Episode 122
Only I Level Up: Ragnarok Episode 122
“and! Sirkada!”
At that moment, lively voices were heard from all over the place..
“Sirka!”
“Sirka is back!”
When Sirka, who had suddenly gone missing, returned safely, ice elves came out from all over the village to welcome her..
But that only lasts a moment.
The moment they discovered the stranger standing next to Sirka, their expressions became fierce and they immediately got ready for battle..
“intruder!”
“It's an intruder!”
“An intruder came into the village!”
Clap clap clap clap!
Bows, arrows, and sharply forged daggers were instantly aimed at Suho..
Sirka jumped in between them and waved her hand urgently..
“Everyone stop! Don't fight! This is not an intruder! Look Carefully! He's Chacha's son.!”
“what?”
“Chacha?”
“Chacha's son?”
Everyone looked at Suho's face with a puzzled look on his face..
“Ugh?”
Then, one by one, I realized something and my eyes started to widen..
“Uh oh?”
“Uh huh? Yes, really?”
The ice elves who were wary of Suho quickly turned their heads and opened their mouths, comparing Suho's face with the face of the 'ice sculpture' erected in front of the village..
“wow! You really look like Cha Cha?”
“Now that I think about it, their eyes are a bit similar.!”
“kodo!”
“Even the smell!”
“What was your son's name? Holy Spirit?”
“You idiot! Chacha's son's name is Seong Su-ho.!”
“What is it, Sirka! Are you really Chacha's son? where did you find it?”
The suddenly violent atmosphere suddenly relaxed and became noisy..
Even before entering the glacier dungeon, the atmosphere was so friendly that it felt like you were completely prepared to deal with the ice elves..
Sirka boasted in front of them that she had found the guardian..
In the middle of the atmosphere, Suho was calmly examining the ice elves one by one..
‘……Everyone is young.’
The lifespan of an ice elf may not be the same as that of a human, but if you look at their appearance, the ice elves they are talking about right now appear to be in their early to late teens..
20There was almost no appearance beyond the price..
‘there are no adults.’
Besides, there was something else strange..
‘It's weaker than I thought.’
Ber also made a strange expression and whispered to Suho..
[Most of the ice elf warriors I know were A-level magicians, and no matter how weak they were, they were at least B-level magicians. But these guys here…….]
“Up to B level to D level. There is no grade A at all..”
[I am too weak.]
Sirka, who listened to the conversation between the two, nodded..
“It has to be that way. All of our tribe's capable warriors were called away and killed during the war. The only ones in this village now are the tribe members who were too young or weak at the time..”
In the war between rulers and monarchs that has been going on since the beginning of time,,
The ‘King of the Yetis, Lord of the Cold’ who ruled this place would capture all the new ice elves and take them to the battlefield when they became useful..
Of course, for the Ice Elves, being a soldier for the monarch was truly an honor, and even being able to die heroically on the battlefield was a source of pride as a warrior..
However, this does not mean that those left behind in the village were not given any role..
They were left with a mission just as important as the role given to warriors..
That is, raising new born children well and nurturing the next generation..
The goal was to raise those children into warriors good enough to send them off to the next battle..
To continue the war against rulers that has been going on since the beginning..
“……That's us. Children born during war.”
The babies had grown up so much that they were now able to hold bows and arrows and hold daggers in their hands..
To become a full-fledged warrior following the example of our parents' generation..
Suho found a contradiction in Sirka’s words..
“However, if all the weak people were left behind, then not all adults were strong. Why are only children visible??”
“……It wasn't like this from the beginning. On the day when the spirits of the Echo Forest ran rampant, most of the adults of the tribe died, and only one adult is still alive..”
echo forest.
At those words, Suho's eyes naturally turned to the ice sculpture of his mother..
At that place…….
A dynamic battle scene of Cha Hae-in, holding a dagger in both hands and appearing to dance a 'sword dance' with his hair flowing, was carved..
And right behind her, a huge flying dragon was spreading its wings as if protecting her..
As an art student, Suho was simply amazed at how such an exquisite and outstanding sculpture was carved out of ice..
“Looks like your mother uses a dagger..”
“huh. They said they didn't have any weapons, so I lent them the daggers our tribe uses. And it was from then on. Chacha became our savior.”
One day, Cha Hae-in suddenly came down from the sky on a black flying dragon through a snowstorm..
When she just arrived in this frozen forest.
At that time, a great danger was approaching the ice elves living in this forest..
“For some reason, the spirits of the Echo Forest came out of the forest all at once and poured into our village..”
* * *
[echo forest]
This forest was a sacred place for the Ice Elves, who said that once you entered this forest, you would never come out alive again..
And at one time this forest was called by another name..
‘'Forest of Trials'.
The Echo Forest was also a place where adult ice elves underwent the ‘Warrior’s Trial’ to be recognized as brave warriors..
However, even those trials did not dare to go deep into the Echo Forest and were only held on the outskirts of the forest..
If you went deeper than that, you could have been possessed by the spirits of the Echo Forest and gone crazy..
“I'm possessed by a spirit?”
“huh. The spirits of the Echo Forest are intangible. That's why it's scarier. It can change into any form. But it's hard to even tell if it's the real shape..”
“……I have no idea what you mean by that explanation..”
While Suho was listening to Sirka's legend about the Echo Forest, the surroundings were still noisy..
The ice elves were preparing a small welcome party for Suho..
“Today is a party!”
“It's a welcome party for the saint.!”
“Someone keeps saying it’s a castle! It's Seongsuho.!”
Where has all that bloody appearance gone at first? Those young faces are full of lively expressions..
Before I knew it, an elf was making art in the corner with ice sculptures for protection..
Another elf brought out specially saved fruits for protection..
And another elf…….
[Uh huh! Solord likes meat! And is there any magic stone that I can eat??]
Ber was also busy meddling in preparations for the welcome party for Suho..
Anyway, Sirka's story continues here..
“But originally, the spirits of the Echo Forest were beings that never came out of the Echo Forest..”
Due to its location, the forest where the ice elves live and the echo forest were right next to each other..
Still, as long as they didn't invade the spirits' territory first, they were not dangerous at all..
“At least that's what they knew until 'that day'.”
One day, the sky of the frozen forest was suddenly torn apart and a dimensional crack opened.’.
Perhaps due to that influence, the spirits of the Echo Forest suddenly ran wild..
Then, it came out of the Echo Forest and began to indiscriminately attack the ice elves it could see..
It was a disaster for the young ice elves left behind in the village, where many of the best warriors had already left..
“That was a few years ago, we were much weaker than we are now..”
“At that time, my mother saved you.?”
“huh. The chacha was amazing.”
Cha Hae-in suddenly appears riding a flying dragon and asks the ice elves to lend him a sword..
The moment a dagger was held in both her hands.
“Skill, sword dance.”
Sirka muttered about her technique that Cha Hae-in had taught her..
Cha Hae-in's movements became faster as if he were dancing and he began drawing gorgeous curves with the daggers in both hands..
Pot! Pot! pot!
A wonderful and overwhelming battle that nimbly cuts down spirits as if dancing at a fast tempo..
Because of her beautiful appearance, the ice elves initially tried to give her the nickname 'Dancer'..
However, the party banned it because it was embarrassing, so another nickname arose..
“The new nickname that came about is ‘Dragon Shaman’..”
“……That's not something to be ashamed of?”
“Kaisel liked that nickname. So, reluctantly, they just let me sing it..”
And as his nickname suggests, the black dragon Kaisel was always with Cha Hae-in in his battles..
Suho looked like he didn't know anything about Kaisel, so Ber quickly showed up and explained it to him..
[Kaisel was so great that Baran, the Lord of the White Flame, once rode it under the name of the drake Kaiselin. For reference, she was an S-class demon beast..]
“It's an S-class demon beast.?”
Suho’s eyes widened..
Didn't your mother suddenly awaken to the power of an S-class hunter? Didn't you say that she rides an S-class demon beast?.
It was a completely different image from the mother who usually led a peaceful life at home..
“Anyway, thanks to Chacha and Kaisel, the spirits that were attacking us ran away back to the Echo Forest. And Chacha stayed with us for a while and taught us swordsmanship..”
“I learned swordsmanship from my mother.?”
“huh. Until then, all the adults in the village who had raised us had been killed by spirits. So it was Chacha who protected us, as we never knew when the spirits of the Echo Forest might suddenly attack again..”
This is why Cha Hae-in is called the savior of the ice elves..
He personally taught the surviving children how to fight and took responsibility for their safety.…….
“Chacha is the mother of all of us.”
Suho felt a sense of longing from the expression on Sirka's bright smile as she said this..
“So after that, my mother…….”
“huh. As I said earlier, I suddenly entered the Echo Forest on Kaisel a while ago. They said there was a strange smell coming from there. And it hasn't come back yet.”
“What a strange smell.?”
“hmm. How should I explain it? Chacha can sense the scent of magic just like us ice elves..”
With those words, it was Sirka who sniffed Suho's scent..
“Suho, you smell very nice. So I knew it right away. That you are Cha Hae-in's son.”
Cha Hae-in told a lot about his family while staying with the ice elves..
“Chacha said so. He said his son smells very good because he takes after his father. So, if her husband comes looking for her while she is in the Echo Forest, please tell her this instead of attacking her first..”
“what are you saying?”
In response to Suho’s question, Sirka opened her mouth with a serious expression..
“……‘I found a place where 'gray snow' falls.”
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