31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 462)
“…Congee?”
When I saw her before, her face was vibrant, but now it was as dull as a withered weed..
“hungry… me… I starved for two days….”
Travelers often face food problems. Native peoples of the world who are not former immigrants pack luggage that is at most the size of a suitcase, including supplies needed for travel and camping supplies, and lastly pack food and water..
If you were a traveler with a certain level of skill, you could procure food locally, and if you had to carry a lot of it, it was likely to spoil..
However, travelers themselves had to be aware that food problems could arise at any time. Even just a few days of hunting and gathering would be enough to put one's life in danger, even without starving..
Konji looked around and stopped his head when he saw Tansia..
For the first time in a while, Tansia was walking around in the form of a baby dragon..
“Yo, it's a dragon. however… me… rice….”
Cough woo woo woo…
Konji stretches his body to the snow like a drunk person..
She looks like she fainted and is snoring.
When Kang Seol looked at the group, everyone shook their heads..
In the end, I had to serve her a meal without even asking her important questions..
rattle…
rattle…
Since he had been starving for a while, Snowfall quickly makes a simple porridge. Since receiving the opportunity to taste the meat of heroic spirits from the ogres of Trium, his cooking skills have been rapidly improving day by day..
Kang Seol supported her neck and fed her the porridge with strength until she regained consciousness..
Rumbling…
At first, Konji was dripping all the porridge out of the corner of his mouth, but then he opened his eyes and ate the porridge, as if he liked the porridge..
“Ah… ha… float….”
When he saw Konji eating the porridge so quickly that it burned the roof of his mouth, Kangseol regretted that he should have let the porridge cool down a bit before waking him up..
“Haha! I think I will buy it! thank you!”
“My physical condition has not recovered yet.….”
Konji jumps up and starts stretching..
“hot! I feel refreshed. I don't have much strength, but still!”
Kuuk…
She showed a flexible appearance, stretching her arms like a mollusk to touch her toes or spreading one leg wide and raising it above her head..
Although it was good news that she recovered quickly, there were still unresolved questions between her and Snow Seol..
“Congee.”
“huh!”
“I have a question. can you please answer?”
“To me?”
Konji opened his already large eyes even wider and pointed his index finger at himself. And she looked like she knew something and she answered.
“I guess I'll have to answer whatever I have to say to my lifesaver. sun! I'll answer everything!”
Kang Seol calmly asked a question..
“When I saw you before, it seemed like you were wandering around the North. Is that correct??”
“huh! I'm wandering the North.”
“…Why??”
“Because I'm an archaeologist!”
“archeology… ruler?”
Snowfall with an expression of surprise.
- Surprisingly, this guy knows a troll archaeologist..
- Troll archaeologist is fine, but Konji, you're not an archaeologist.!
Konji muttered sullenly..
“It's weird that I'm an archaeologist.?”
“Oh no.”
“This is the only thing I know how to do, so I will continue to live like this..”
“I see..”
Before going too far off topic, Kang Seol asked a follow-up question..
“Why did you become an archaeologist??”
“It's important?”
“fairly?”
“I was abandoned. Grandpa picked it up. his grandfather was an archaeologist.”
“Can I find out my grandfather's name??”
“grandfather? Grandpa is Grandpa. no name.”
“…….”
“Is it true? just call me grandpa.”
“Are you moving with your grandfather now??”
“No, grandpa is dead..”
“……I'm sorry.”
Tuk-tuk…
Konji knocking on a thick book.
“A book left by my grandfather. To fill this.”
That was the reason she traveled..
“however… Why the North??”
“Of course, right? Because the meteor is coming.”
Startle!
For a moment, everyone who heard the story flinched..
“Why, why? did i say something wrong?”
“Where did you hear that story??”
“My grandfather said this before he died. A shooting star is coming, a king of a new era will be born.”
Rajin said that there are probably only a few people in the present era who know about the existence of meteors. But, I never thought we would run into each other as soon as we set out on the road..
“Aren’t you excited? who will be king?”
“Congee… Last question. Why did you visit this ruins??”
“Didn't I tell you? I'm an archaeologist.”
“The location is….”
“You can find ruins even with your eyes closed. why?”
“…Konji, what do you want??”
“What do you want? I don't need anything else. I am….”
Konji's eyes sparkled brightly..
“I just want the truth.”
Snow and the gang exchanging glances.
“Okay, Congee. Can I ask you to accompany me??”
“really? That's okay?”
“Yes, because I want to check the information about the ruins with the eyes of an archaeologist..”
“then… I'll give you food?”
“However much.”
Konji hugged the snowfall.
“I'll do my best!”
Jian looked at that and pointed..
“I… I!”
Konji looked around as if he had remembered something..
“huh? There is none?”
“What do you mean??”
“dragon! I definitely saw it, it's strange?”
Tansia had returned to the form of a human child..
“I guess I was mistaken. I guess I was so hungry that I saw everything... . ruler! Now that we're rearmed, let's go!”
Konji wasn't all that trustworthy, but he called himself an archaeologist. Archaeologists and ruin hunters are a great force once they enter the ruins..
Konji took out something that looked like a magnifying glass and looked at the faded murals that were sparsely visible on the wall..
“I know that?”
“What do you mean?”
“The technology for carving murals is old. It's not the form left on the record... Plus this texture, it seems close to ancient times.!”
Konji pours out stories related to the ruins without hesitation. Kang Seol, who thought it would have been great to have Mael by her side every time she passed through the ruins, was very satisfied with this moment..
Although he was a nerd, Konji was also an archaeologist..
“Oh oh… This part. Did they use blood? So it was erased.”
Jian said as he approached her..
“Hmm… Where, will you tell me too??”
“greasy! go away!”
“…….”
After Konji treated Ji-an coldly, he asked Kang-seol:.
“Look at this, snowfall. Arrangement of murals….”
As Jian stood blankly with a shocked expression, Sindio patted his back..
“are you okay. There are days like this and days like that..”
“Will you please stop comforting me?….”
Snowfall's group moved along the maze-like path, looking around..
“I don't think there are any monsters.….”
“so do i! I don't think there's any evil energy!”
Fortunately, there did not seem to be any evil spirits or monsters that are common in ruins..
“But, snowfall. his grandfather did that.”
“What do you mean?”
“It is said that ruins where monsters do not appear are more dangerous..”
“…How amazing. Why do you say that??”
“It could be a ruin that even monsters fear..”
“The ruins?”
“no. Usually, ruins were places where pseudo-gods, demigods, or evil beings were worshiped in the past, so they were afraid of the objects of worship themselves.!”
“In other words, do you mean that they may not have desecrated the ruins out of fear of those who are worshipped??”
“also! Quick to understand!”
As Konji and Kang Seol were talking, Tansia shouted from the other corner..
“There is ah!”
“Tancia! what?”
“stairs! There are stairs here!”
As Tansia said, there were stairs leading deeper underground..
Snowfall and the others nodded and went down the stairs to the basement..
Pusss…
“Cough… call….”
“It's dry….”
Konji said.
“Dry means good ruins! If it's moist, germs will grow or monsters that like wet places will take up residence. And it smells bad!”
“haha… It was a day where I learned a lot about ruins..”
Karuna spoke quietly..
“Doesn’t the scale of the ruins seem to get bigger as you go underground??”
“…that's right.”
Snowfall also agreed..
The scale of the ruins can be inferred from the size of the structure, the scope of the murals, and other miscellaneous things..
From the moment we came down to the basement, the mural began to grow..
“Konji, what do you think the ruins are??”
“I don't know? Most of the murals have been erased and their meaning has faded. Maybe because they are hiding this secret underground, we will find out gradually, right? ruler! My archaeologist sense tells me. If you go a little further down here, you will find something that can specify the era.….”
Tuuk-!
Something the size of a fist landed on Konji’s head..
“…uh? Ughhhhhhh!”
She shed tears and hugged Snowfall..
“Take it off! Take it off!”
Pak-!
The thing that landed on Konji's head was a spider that landed wrong. What it looks like… It was a visual that made Konji immediately start crying..
“Whoa whoa….”
Sindio caught his breath..
Jian tapped her..
“what's the matter? It's because of the spiders?”
“I guess I was a little surprised. heart….”
“Should I give you a piggyback ride??”
“That's Okay!”
“Don't hate it.”
Sindio said, scratching his hair..
“that… I'll tell you when it gets harder..”
“okay.”
The group finally reached the end of the underground..
“It's here!”
Konji spreads his arms wide as if introducing his house. There was a truly amazing scenery unfolding in front of me..
“The stone statues….”
“It's huge!”
The discovery of these ruins is itself a major discovery..
The stone statues were lined up so that there was no end in sight. The stone statues were all of high perfection..
[Amazing discovery! Check the footprints of something old.]
[Wisdom increases by 2.]
[Feel less tired throughout the day.]
“This guy! This guy! I'll dig it up!”
Konji was excited and dug into the various details of the ruins..
Snowfall took her eyes off her back and looked around the ruins..
‘little… It's strange.’
I didn't mean that the ruins were strange. Just as Rajin said, the ruins seemed to hold the secret of the presumed king of the next era..
It's just that the statues are somewhat awkward..
“It's awkward.”
“It's strange?”
“I wasn’t the only one who felt it, right? yes? Everyone is weird?”
Yes.
A strangeness that everyone can feel.
The beings in the statue were various living things..
There were fairies and dwarves. Even sculptures of dragons, beastmen, and countless other races..
“Why everything... A beggar crawling on the ground?”
“You don't have the right attitude. Everyone is crawling on the floor.”
Position with both hands and feet on the floor and looking straight ahead.
please… Like carving a beast.
Konji muttered..
“Umm… Is it an expression of class??”
“what does that mean?”
“All carved life forms are bipedal, right? However, the fact that they were all carved to crawl on the ground meant that people who saw the sculptures would not be mistaken..”
“…….”
“Do not mistake slaves or livestock for soldiers or objects of fellowship..”
Jian and Sindio's hair stood on end..
“…Are you saying that all other races were treated like slaves or beasts? The being worshiped here?”
“maybe? You'll find out if you go further. Look over there.”
giant door.
A really huge door sat at the end of the row of statues..
Opening the door is already a given.
The group stood in front of the door and waited for it to open..
Ugh…
‘huh?’
The door wouldn't open no matter how much force I applied..
“…I can't open it alone?”
“stick! stick!”
Konji urged the group to stick to the door..
Kugu Palace…
Kugugugugugugung…
Soon, the door began to open.
And through the open door, gigantic statues of a size incomparable to those before appeared..
“This….”
“person… liver?”
“no, no.”
Konji declared..
“It's a giant. This place… It was the remains of a frost giant..”
Armed giant statues line up on both sides..
It was a lot of pressure.
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
Snowfall's group crossed the gap and headed forward..
“Konji, do you know about giants??”
“How much did you hear from your grandfather? Looking at the coloring and the pieces from earlier, I think it's definitely a frost giant. Beings who conquered the north and crossed over to the center during the era of war..”
They finally reached the end of the procession.
There are three huge thrones and three giants sitting on them..
The walls were filled with the language of giants..
Among them, Konji reads big sentences..
Kang Seol also read the sentences she caught in his head..
“The last giant king. Mum, he and….”
Snowfall closed her eyes tightly..
“home.”
Sindio and Jian widened their eyes..
“home? no way….”
“If it's home….”
As Kangseol read along, Konji continued in a daze..
“Yes. home. The three giants... Will you come back? The rest is all kinds of rhetoric….”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
A lot of veins appeared on Jian's face..
“Ugh… Uhhhh….”
“Jian!”
“lol… Hehehe… It was these guys?”
“what's the matter?”
Jian said, drooling..
“At this moment, I was freed from my oath. I can now say everything.”
“…what?”
Jian's tongue spit out the faces of the members of the National Assembly as if he could not delay even a moment..
“Gregory… A person who ministers. Chief of the High Wing Tribe... I don't know his name, but there was a troll..”
Snowfall muttered..
“…Hekina.”
“what?”
“Hekina is a coward. Chief of the High Wings.”
“How do you know that name??”
“…also?”
“Azanic for Drilling….”
I knew it.
It was clear that he was responsible for the corruption that broke out in the north..
One question is why he joined forces with Congress?.
“Is Azanik their leader??”
“no… The head of the council is a different guy. On the surface, they are all equal. The leader's name is….”
Snowfall heard the name she had forgotten from him..
“Agrath, the great one.”
A cursed wizard who played a huge role in creating a being called Yasha..
Agras is still alive.
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