31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 87)
Kang Seol asked after hearing Jamard’s confident answer..
“Are you using Purga? I'm talking about Genshinje.?”
“Do you know Wonsinje? What on earth is in your head that you know all these things??”
Kang Seol narrowed his eyebrows and changed the topic..
“That's why they kidnapped the people of Nobira.….”
“Perhaps sweeping Wigeultong once was also part of that. He would have thrown all the kidnapped residents into Purga's maw and taken over his power..”
“…If we stay silent, the same thing will happen to the people kidnapped in Nobira.?”
“Of course. And they will use that power to attack again or target Gulia Fortress..”
“There's no way that could be possible with just trolls... Oh my, is Setena involved in this too??”
The Kingdom of Setena, located in the northeast of Nevenia. A country in constant conflict with Nevenia due to poor and insufficient land..
If Setena was involved with trolls, the situation was more serious than expected..
Jamard added, as if agreeing with his thoughts..
“No matter how much power Setena accumulates, it is difficult to overcome Nevenia's knight power. However, if the Sulfur Skull attacks from the other side or shakes Gulia, an opening will be created. This is what Little Zando of the Sulfur Skull had argued..”
“Why was it dismissed at the time??”
“I and the chieftains of other tribes were against it. At the time, my relationship with Setena wasn't that good, and there were many reasons..”
If everything Jamad said was true, Kangseol would have gained invaluable information..
“time is? How much time is left??”
“hour? Oh, you mean the time left before being sacrificed to Purga??”
“okay.”
“well… I don't know what tactics they used, but if they escaped by land, they would have arrived at the volcano in about a week, or today..”
That means it takes between a week and 10 days for snowfall to reach the volcano..
“It might be quicker than you think.”
“no, that's not it.”
“what?”
“Genshin is not their minion and there is no way he would get the job done in such a timely manner. Purga is the kind of person who likes to play pranks, so he's probably having a hard time. It's going to take a long time for them to start with a comforting ritual to keep Purga from getting angry, and then go all the way to offering sacrifices..”
“how much?”
“maybe a month.”
“It takes so long?”
“okay. It will take a long time, so if Nevenia decides to stop it, it can be easily stopped, but since the royal family of Nevenia does not know the troll's plan, they just guard the fort and wait..”
Kang Seol stroked his chin and asked.
“It might be impossible?”
“What do you mean??”
“Persuading troops to move out of Gulia..”
“Hmm, is your plan to arrive at Gulia, persuade the command, then have the command persuade the Nevenian military to send troops??”
“I think you know without me saying it. Okay, let's go to Gulia for now..”
Karen laughed as if she was empty..
“It's the same as before?”
“Different, give up trying to persuade the command. What they want in the first place is to stop the invasion, and I have nothing to do with that goal. We just need to save Xiamen..”
“Well, whatever you like. Then we'll move as soon as we get to Gulia.?”
“Yes, it moves right away..”
Snowfall's eyes looked at something invisible in the distance to the northwest..
“To Yognathun Volcano.”
* * *
20Number of people not exceeding 100 people.
Even most of them seemed exhausted and out of breath..
They buried the words that had already spread and died a long time ago and headed forward, forward..
“Huh... Heo Eok….”
“Bastards… You've been in and out of here..”
“The aisle is not wide. Only small troops can pass through..”
“Just like the troops that attacked Nobira..”
“Mira, what should I do? Shouldn’t I tell Gulia??”
Yumira looked at her colleagues with bloodshot eyes..
Perhaps because I didn't sleep well, the eyes of my other colleagues looked the same. He looked all scruffy and tired, but no one was complaining..
“It will be late if you stop by Gulia. And if it was going to move, it would have already moved, motherfuckers….”
“You don't even know there's a hole like this, so where are you guarding, you idiots?.”
There was a strange story behind why Yu Mira and her group came all the way here..
Recently, the Kibo Alliance, which has grown in size by absorbing all the relic hunters, has begun to establish a system..
Now, instead of Kibo unconditionally participating in the excavation of ruins, several independent ruin hunting teams have been created under Kibo..
Among them, of course, was Yumira's hunting party..
They successfully breached the first ruins and returned to Novira, but soon encountered an incomprehensible situation..
[The base has been destroyed.]
[Nobira will be released from the base.]
[We need to set up a new base.]
Those who greeted them were neither Kibo nor the residents of Nobira..
It was the charred remains of a city..
They wandered around Nobira in a daze..
To find something, even a little clue that could help them understand this situation..
Among the people dying here and there and the people hurriedly escaping from Nobira, someone called out to Mira Yu..
- ha… ha… Miragna?
- mister!
I met a colleague named Yumi who was barely alive after being crushed by the rubble of a building. Even though she felt like she would not be long before she breathed her last..
- how… What on earth happened?!
- Nobira… To those guys... act… stepped on.
- bastards?
- troll… They're trolls.
Mira Yu said, barely holding on to her senses that were about to fly away in unbearable anger..
- Just hold on, hold on just a little longer. Get it out of here right away…
- no… I was wrong. Let me die like this.
- mister!
- go… Now forget about Nobira, Mira. Now there's no place for you to return here.
These were words that shocked me as if the sky had fallen..
- …Keyboard?
- dead.
- Do not lie!
- I’m not fooled… To make a fuss... I was captured by these guys..
- where are you.
- I don't know, we probably left a mark since we pulled the wagon.…
- …….
- You have to leave, Mira. I have to live.
- no, you can't do that.
The man left his last words with blurry eyes..
- then… what are you doing here.
Slurp.
- Quickly, without chasing….
Tuk.
the man died.
- find.
Mira Yu and the ruin hunters searched the entire area of Nobira like crazy. And soon after, traces of the trolls' movement were discovered..
- It's north.
- What should I do??
One of the remaining prisoners in the village approached them..
- Don't go, you'll all die. No one chased the trolls.
- …what?
- A revenge adventure took place for the transferees who stayed in Novira. And then, they all fled to Kongori. You're the only one I have to chase after.
Mira Yu nodded at his words..
- step back.
- This… This is crazy! We're all going to die!
- What should I do, Mira?.
Mira Yu put her hood down deeply..
- chasing.
- let's go!
A message occurred to the transferees who were with Mira Yu..
[A belated revenge adventure is in store..]
[This adventure is very dangerous.]
[Skip the break.]
[Start your next adventure.]
[The thirteenth adventure begins.]
[Adventure 13. Belated Revenge]
……
That's how Yumira and her group came all the way here, following the traces of the trolls..
Their condition was at its worst as they could not get proper rest or eat nutritious meals..
After passing through the deep, dark cave created under the border, they arrived at the world beyond the border..
“From here on, it's no longer Nevenia.?”
“I knocked down the crypt, but I can't finish it because I don't have time. Maybe they can break through again.”
“Yeah, there's something more urgent than that..”
Yumira looked at something far away in her field of vision..
“They're heading there.”
“What kind of plan is this??”
Where their eyes turned, there was a huge mountain.
“…Yognathun.”
The great volcano Yognathun of the primordial god, the fire monkey Purga..
* * *
Kangseol's group also headed north without stopping, along with Yumira's group..
There were no problems along the way, except that the road became a little uncomfortable..
The north was a rough terrain from the beginning, and merchants did not use this road except for contract merchants who regularly supplied goods to Gulia..
Moreover, the situation is currently in great turmoil due to troll attacks..
It was clear that the bandits who might have settled down here also headed further south..
“How long until Gulia?”
“4Is it about a day??”
“Time really flies! Ah, but the date wasn't set up to meet Chao or whatever.?”
It was just one story..
“Nobira is on fire and Chao can't wait there..”
“Hmm… I worked so hard to get something, but was it in vain??”
“I'll have to resolve this first and then look again..”
“It's the same situation as before. damn….”
Jamad asked Kangseol.
“Even if you head to Yognathun via Gulia... How do you deal with the Brimstone Skull??”
“I plan to go and think about it first. Because if you think and move, it’s too late.”
“It has to be so….”
Karen made a gloomy expression and pounded her heart..
“Just trust me and Karuna. Together we are invincible, master..”
“No, I'm worried about that right now..”
“Eh? What are you talking about?”
Karen and Karuna had special abilities that made them stronger when summoned at the same time. The current Karen also has a hundred abilities, but if she succeeds in summoning two, it won't be that difficult to save Xiamen..
‘the problem is… You can't summon both at the same time..’
Jamard laughed at Karen..
“Hey, fairy. I guess I didn't really notice the problem because I only went in and out of the shadow space occasionally..”
“what?”
“It's very narrow here now..”
That's the problem.
lack of shadow space.
Even if it was possible to summon Karen, it was impossible to summon Karuna, whose abilities were suddenly adjusted..
‘lack of wisdom.’
A situation in which the summoner's core ability, wisdom, is lacking compared to the summons he has..
Now, you can have them, but it's hard to manage them perfectly..
“Let's think about ways to increase wisdom in a short period of time..”
“Where is such nonsense??”
“Or Karen will have to deal with the Sulfur Skull on her own..”
“I'll think hard about it. If we put our heads together, something will come out..”
- Attitude change lol
- Can't you spray the sulfur skull alone??
- You've seen too much martial arts magazine haha
Night fell again, and Kangseol put Jamard, who had slept during the day, on watch and went to sleep..
Hehehe…
The farther north you go, the colder the night air becomes..
Snowfall approached the bonfire as the chill penetrated her body..
closely…
come closer…
Kang Seol’s eyes opened brightly..
‘what?’
Someone's voice that sounded like an auditory hallucination.
Snowfall shook her head and looked around..
Jamard spoke to Kangseol who woke up from her sleep..
“You woke up, I was just about to wake you up..”
“…What's going on?”
“Look over there.”
Far away in the dark snowy field, they felt something approaching them..
“beast of prey?”
“No, the energy is a little peculiar..”
flashing-!
When a sudden flash of light erupted from a being crossing the field, Karen also stirred and woke up..
“What is it, a beast??”
“…You were all listening..”
“Hehe, I tried a prank. What should I do, master??”
Karen asked Kang Seol and approached the sword that had been released..
“Should I kill him before he gets close??”
closely…
closely…
‘…Again.’
Kang Seol realized that the auditory hallucinations he was hearing were related to that being and tried to dissuade Karen..
“Let's watch for now.”
After some time has passed, we have now reached a distance where we recognize each other..
In the eyes of Snowfall and his party, the existence of the field was clearly visible..
“…troll?”
“Is it a sulfur skull??”
The being that approached Kang Seol was a troll..
The only troll that could be encountered near the border of Nevenia was the Sulfur Skull, so when everyone was about to fight, the troll pretended to know..
“Snowman! That's me!”
“who… That voice... no way!”
As the opponent waved his finger, a bright sphere appeared in front of him..
A troll wearing old-fashioned glasses was standing there..
“This is Mael. It's me!”
[condition has been met.]
[Helper ‘Star Child Mael’ appears in this adventure..]
[Helper 'Star Child Mael' will join your ally in this adventure..]
“Why is Mael here??”
In the north of Nevenia, Snowfall found an unexpected ally..
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