31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 467)
The moment the story about the missing dragon's whereabouts came out, Kang Seol's expression changed..
“…what.”
pot-!
Paaaaat-!
Kang Seol and his party, who noticed a brief collision, appeared and surrounded the troll..
“like… The group isn't planning on doing anything to me, is it? Then I'm disappointed.”
snowfall asked.
“What is your intention??”
“What do you think is your intention??”
“…….”
“Could you please stay a little farther away than that? Because I have no intention of causing a fuss..”
unnamed troll.
It was difficult to pinpoint its features because it was wearing a large cloth that matched its size..
‘If you know where all of Baldu's drakes have disappeared... enemy? no, not the enemy.’
From the beginning, the whereabouts of the flying dragon were unknown. If it were an enemy, they wouldn't have shown up and done such a dangerous thing..
“…who are you.”
“When you find out who I am you'll have to cooperate with me.”
“gibberish. Your name is worth it?”
“Otherwise, Baldu's Drake will never be found.?”
Konji said, hitting his solar plexus..
“torture! I will capture him and torture him.!”
“Congee, what does the troll say??”
“I don't know! It's frustrating!”
Snowfall sighed and looked at the troll..
“I guess you approached me because you wanted something.?”
“of course! Looks like you're finally ready to talk..”
The troll crossed eyes with Snow Seol and smiled broadly..
“Actually, I and my friends are in a very difficult situation. So I came to lend you some strength.”
“Why us?”
“I heard you're at odds with the Congress, isn't it??”
“Parliament!”
It may be surprising, but what Kangseol was hostile to was an organization called the Congress. They have already spread their influence over various northern groups..
“…Where did you hear that??”
“It's obvious. think about it carefully.”
The troll's existence was confusing.
The only large tribe that has settled in the north is the Glacier Maw. Not only does he know where Baldu's dragon has disappeared, but he also knows that Kang Seol and company are at odds with the council..
‘…enemy?’
When I thought about it again, I thought it would make sense if this troll was a member of Congress. So, is he an enemy?.
“You really don't notice. then… let me introduce myself.”
The troll pointed his finger to the sky.
“If I told you there was another world above the clouds, would you believe it??”
Startle!
Konji and Kang Seol’s expressions changed at once. There was a group of people who could guess the existence above the clouds if it were not an abstract expression..
Konji shouted..
“High wings! great lack of clouds!”
“You come from high wings. Now I understand.”
“ha ha ha! It took a long time.”
Konji said, looking through the dictionary..
“That trinket! That tattoo! Wings so high!”
Gian and Sindio were surprised to hear the name. Because I remembered where I heard the name of the tall wings..
“If it's a tall wing... It's Congress.!”
“Hekai! Hekai said he was a member of the council.!”
“That's right, it was!”
“you said!”
“that's right! I did!”
Konji said with wide eyes..
“Parliament? ah! right! you are a bad guy!”
“what? ha ha ha! Even if I think about it that way, I honestly have nothing to say..”
Karen and Karuna glared at the troll's entire body..
Once it is clear that they are enemies, conflict is considered..
“That's creepy. Don't look at me like that.”
snowfall asked him.
“The reason why Gosae Wing, a member of the council, approached us?”
“Don't say everything as if it's decided. Because I don't agree with that fact..”
“…what?”
Kang Seol was taken aback by the troll’s answer..
“The decision to follow the council... It's Heka. Not all high wings follow his decisions.”
“That means….”
“I haven't decided on the wings yet. Was there an answer??”
It was a fascinating topic..
If the high wings leave the council, the enemy's power is excluded without a fight, and if the high wings are drawn into the allies, that much power is added..
“…what we have to do?”
“Convince Hekai.”
“Will you listen to us??”
“I create the situation.”
“The location of the dragon is?”
“that… I'm sorry.”
The troll scratched the back of his head..
“Actually, I don't know. I just know someone worth knowing.”
“It must be hekai.”
“…that's right.”
Kang Seol summarized the other person’s words..
“There are more than one reason why we need to help you convince Hekai..”
“I would appreciate it if you thought so..”
“However, questions still remain. who are you?”
“what?”
“As a result, we have to trust you and move on. If you are a worthless guy, your meeting with Hekai will not be successful. I'm sure you're not wrong.”
“……No, that's right.”
the troll said.
“…When you rise above the clouds, you'll find out.”
“Hmm….”
Kang Seol and his party talked, leaving the troll alone..
“What if it's a trap??”
“Are there any other traps this flimsy?.”
“The troll might be lying.”
“The problem is that we have no other options..”
“that… Yes.”
Find the Drake of Baldu, find out where the Council is meeting, or figure out where the next piece of the Ring of Aspiration is..
We were in a situation where we had to accomplish at least one of these three to move on to the next step, but this was impossible on our own..
“This is what it means to believe because you need it..”
“Shouldn't we tell Baldu??”
“I'm going to kill the troll. cruelly.”
“that… I guess so..”
“Well, what can you do? There is no other way. As that troll said, the only way is to check what the top of the clouds look like..”
Konji said with his nose fluttering..
“It's above the clouds. Of course I have to go.!”
“…I wish it was simple.”
“How to solve complex problems simply!”
“It's frustrating, but it's true..”
Snowfall asked Karen and Karuna.
“How are you feeling??”
“the best?”
“it's okay.”
Even if the troll's words were questionable, we had no choice but to head towards them, so even armed conflict had to be taken into consideration in the worst case scenario..
“Phew….”
snowfall said to the troll.
“Okay, let me help you. Instead, you will definitely have to pay the price..”
“ha ha ha! of course! Okay then… Let's leave right now.”
The troll took out a mysterious engraving from his chest..
“what is that?”
“Stick this way. And don't open your mouth except between you and me. Because you will be suspected.”
Troll pointing to congee and snowfall.
Except for two people who don't even know how to speak the troll language, Gian, Sindio, and Karen and Karuna nodded..
“Hmmmm….”
Smoke billowed from the troll's nostrils..
Easy profit…
It soon completely surrounded Snowfall and the others..
[The Unknown One uses Cloud Sorcery: Dream Memory..]
[Distorts the shape of the specified object and blurs the impression. Doesn't attract attention unless you do something special.]
……[The Unknown One uses Cloud Sorcery: Dream Memory..]
[Distorts the shape of the specified object and blurs the impression. Doesn't attract attention unless you do something special.]
……
“…uh?”
“This….”
the troll said.
“Welcome is my specialty. Now you will give others the feeling of having seen them somewhere else. I won't even be curious until you do something. Here we go.”
“Where are you going?….”
“above the clouds.”
Hwiiiiiii.…
As the engraving glowed, the bodies of the group were enveloped in blue particles..
A sign of transition that I felt for the first time in a long time..
It was the power to fly to the designated coordinates in an instant..
“sleep….”
Quaaaaaaa-!
A beam of light shot up into the sky..
[A sudden adventure ‘Who Lives on the Clouds’ occurs.]
[This adventure is very dangerous.]
* * *
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
thud-!
The transition wasn't perfect.
The group fell from a considerable height due to the wind..
“Shut up….”
“Shhh, it's coming.”
sign of someone approaching.
Those who appeared were also trolls..
‘Are you a member of the High Wings?.’
had to be careful.
I don't know exactly where this place is, but it must be a place very closely related to the wings of the high bird. The courage of this unknown troll to blindly drag it to such a place was also amazing..
“W, was it you? This break was short..”
“Ahahaha! I forgot to bring Kakui a meal..”
“Oh no, I guess I'll forget something. however….”
Kakui.
Kakui was a monster similar to a pterodactyl that rode on tall wings. A creature that is said to have a ferocious personality and cannot be tamed except with its wings..
The guard looked around at Kang Seol and his group and said,.
“no, no.”
“why?”
“Nothing. It just feels weird..”
“Haha, I'll go then. I'm too busy to go.”
The troll dragged Snowfall and his party through an area that looked like a checkpoint..
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
“Puhaa… what is here?”
“I really didn't notice. that's interesting….”
“Sometimes I wonder if witchcraft is greater than magic..”
“Don't say that. I've never been beaten by a wizard.?”
“It's right every day.”
“…ah.”
While Jian and Sindio muttered, Kangseol and Konji looked at the surrounding scenery..
It felt like I was in a dream..
There were many mountains of appropriate heights surrounding it, and colorful grass formed the vegetation..
“Where are we??”
“Above the clouds, I'm curious.”
“I know you brought us to the coordinates engraved on the engraving, but I'm curious where they are..”
“It's a place where tall birds live. Is there anything special??”
Certainly, the air was different..
The breath I was taking was so unfamiliar that I thought I was really above the clouds..
“The High Wings are a tribe that was abandoned by the tribal alliance. I cut ties with them and live independently on the clouds..”
Neither Konji nor Snowfall knew the exact whereabouts of the wings. It's just that they were one of the major tribes of the tribal alliance in the past. And the only thing I can say is that he disappeared from the continent for some reason..
Konji said to the troll.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
“It's strange. Above the clouds, no matter how you look at it, it’s above the ground? And what is this cooing sound I heard earlier??”
“On the ground? Ahahaha! Okay, there's a mountain I can see over there.?”
“uh? huh.”
“When you climb that mountain you will know everything.”
“Where is that place??”
“Home of the High Wings. Probably the highest mountain in Pandea.”
“Hmm….”
The troll did not lead them in a straight line to the mountains in the distance. He tried to move as unnoticed as possible along the winding and twisting road, avoiding the villages that appeared..
Thanks to this, I needed two more days to reach my goal, the mountain..
Cracking…
widely…
They sit around a bonfire and sleep out in the open..
Sindio said.
“…The long expedition is coming to an end..”
“okay.”
Jian looked at the fire with unfocused eyes..
“Did you find what you wanted? Jian?”
“If you're talking about peace of mind... Well, it's definitely better than before..”
“okay….”
“Sindio, you?”
“jeon… I don't know.”
Perhaps it is Syndio who faces the most different situation from before..
“why am i here?”
“…….”
“we… Where are we now??”
This is a question that cannot be answered even if you know the answer. Even if I understood what she meant, I couldn't understand the worry and pain it contained..
However, unexpectedly, Konji, who seems to be the furthest from this story, gave an answer related to Sindio's question..
“Humans are insignificant.”
“…yes?”
“Look at those stars. Beautiful?”
“What does that mean all of a sudden??”
“It's a small and pretty star, but it's actually very big! Human beings are as bad as dust.”
“…….”
“Pandea is also a star in the end. Humans are just one of the many life forms that have taken root on that planet. And you are just one individual among those people, and the thoughts you have are also just a part of you..”
“Are you talking about my worthlessness from a cosmic perspective? Excuse me.”
“This means don't take on too much responsibility! I thought about it and even if I failed, it was just dust that failed..”
Konji pouted his lips as if he was trying to comfort me..
“…That was comforting..”
“Oh my, there was a guy who was worse at comforting than me. This is comforting to me too. Thank you, Konji. For giving me trashy comfort.”
“Joe, be quiet! grumpy man!”
Sindio said.
“What will Pandea look like when all this is over??”
“well….”
“Could it have prevented the resurrection of the three giants? Has everyone in the Federation returned to normal life??”
“…syndio.”
“I don't know… Why fight a fight that only ends up losing something precious in the end... I wonder if I can do it.”
“The question is too stiff. Let’s take some time off. I'm picturing a slightly closer future..”
“Okay, then….”
Sindio looked into Gian's eyes..
Jian is a gray seed.
The time I spent with him helped me understand Jian a little better..
“Will we finally reach peace??”
“Good question, Syndio..”
Jian grinned..
“It should be so.”
Sindio laughed at Jian’s lively answer..
“Sometimes I feel lucky to travel with you.”
“Well, I think I’m lucky to have you too. If I had walked around with Snowfall, I would have had spider webs in my mouth..”
The night soon brought morning.
While climbing the towering mountain, there were no obstacles. However, the inherent risk gradually increased..
“I never thought the wings of this tall bird would be this big.….”
“There was a reason it was an axis of the council. Could they be enemies?.”
Like other mountains in non-administrative areas, the mountain was a sharp rock mountain, and a village was formed near its peak..
a huge village.
lots of trolls.
And the location of this place holds an even bigger secret..
“Now look down.”
The troll who led them to the top of the mountain pointed into the distance..
“…Nonsense.”
“How is this possible??”
“amazing! amazing! As expected, it's a good thing you came!”
A scenery that even the snowfall can't help but admire. The head and fins of a turtle, carrying the mountains and the earth, were visible in the distance..
[Amazing discovery! Witness the sky turtle Totombo.]
[Intelligence is permanently increased by 10..]
……
The tall wings lived on the shell of a giant flying turtle..
The troll grinned..
“The world seen from above the clouds isn’t bad either.?”
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