Episode 207
EPISODE.104
Woo Woo Woo Woo -.
With the sound of a magnificent boat horn, the bow slowly touched the pier.
Cut it down-.
The sound of the anchor being lowered rang loudly, and Russell’s eyes lit up among those preparing to lower one by one.
‘This is the empire…’
Among them, the port city ‘Aiga’.
It is the land of the empire that I have stepped on for the first time since I was born.
At one time, there was a time when I burned with hatred, thinking that there was an enemy of my father in the empire.
Recalling that time, Russell smiled bitterly.
Of course, if you were to ask if the current evaluation of the empire had improved because of that, he could firmly answer that it was not.
It has to be.
Because Endymion and the Britannian Empire had a long-standing rivalry.
There was an emotional trough between the two countries that had been contested for hundreds of years.
That deep-rooted positional difference has been instilled into ideology and education beyond simple emotions over generations.
‘Just as the people of my country frown when I say the Empire, the people of the Empire probably do the same.’
It was then.
Muyaho, who had quietly approached Russell’s side, licked his lips as he faced the panoramic view of the empire.
[Ummm. cock. I thought that an empire would be completely different from a kingdom. There is nothing particularly different.]
It was while biting into a huge piece of meat pie that I wondered where it came from again.
Seeing Russell’s gaze turn to the meat pie, she hurriedly swallowed what she was chewing on and asked again.
[Well, well. What are you looking at? I got it from the ship’s canteen, but if it’s what the male wants to eat too… Ha ha, would you like a bite
?
not even hungry
[it’s okay. And…]
[…?]
[Isn’t everyone’s place roughly the same?]
Since he was born and raised in Endymion, there is no choice but to have animosity toward the Empire.
But even so, it was not hostility toward innocent people.
At Russell’s calm reply, Muyaho stuffed the meat pie into his mouth as if he didn’t understand.
[Rather than that, the continent is really good. cock. Kyahahaha. Even though I’ve been eating new menu items for half a year already, I don’t get tired of them and keep coming out with delicious ones.]
[To say you’re satisfied. It’s fortunate.]
I didn’t expect it to be a food culture.
‘Is it really worth it?’
Most of the food we ate in the Kuril Islands was seasoned really simply, or if not, most of them were flavored with leaves or smoke
… got off
widely-.
‘Aiga, the port city.’
Literally, Aiga was one of the first cities to set foot upon disembarking from the imperial port.
It was also one of the few cities where outsiders could roam without a particularly heavy ID check.
‘Is it because it’s used as a window of trade?’
One of the characteristics of Aiga is that it is surrounded by huge walls on all sides except the sea.
‘A child can move around freely inside, but outside of that. Entering the mainland of the empire must be thoroughly checked.’
It wasn’t strange. Endymion also had a system that was not very different from this.
“East people?”
The soldier who was checking the identity cards of Russell and Muyaho tilted his head.
“What’s going on with the people of the east to this far south?”
“Even though we are from the east, it has already been two years since we left the North. Actually, I was doing a small business in the commercial country of Akain, but this time my wife and I came to the empire for a while to celebrate our 4th anniversary.”
“Hmm, it’s our 4th wedding anniversary…”
Russell’s eloquent reply caused the soldier to fiddle with his ID card.
‘no way…?’
After all, it was an empire. So, I thought it would be clear to some extent, so I prepared a counterfeit identity card.
But the eyes that want a bribe?
‘I heard that the emperor is lying in bed and the princes are fighting for power…’
I never thought the aftermath would have reached this far. Realizing that the civil war in the empire was more severe than he thought, Russell took out two silver coins from his pocket and put them in his hands.
“It’s small, but this is my sincerity.”
“Uh ok. Anything like this.”
Then he raises his voice and shouts.
“Pass!”
Of course, if his identity was uncertain, he would not have been able to pass through the city gate simply with a bribe.
This proves that Dalton did his job.
‘No matter how much I covet the money in front of me, it’s not a lot of money that I would have to take even at the cost of my life.’
After passing through the gate,
“So what are you going to do now? cock. What is your next plan?”
In response to the questioning muyaho, Russell first took out a map and unfolded it.
“For now, this is where we are going.”
“Um… Donit Wilderness?”
As Muyaho read the name of the terrain with stutters, his eyes spun round and round.
“Hey…”
She remembered the road by the location of the mountain and the tree or by the impression of the rock.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that they are practically ignorant of the Dokdo Act.
“If you move at full speed, it won’t take long, but if you avoid people’s eyes and move at a moderately fast speed, it will take about twenty days.”
“ah. hmm. Right. Twenty days…”
At Russell’s explanation, she took her eyes off the map and nodded roughly.
“And moving… I’m planning to use the mountains and forests rather than the main roads. Is that okay?”
If the wagon station system was well equipped, it wouldn’t be bad to use it up to the nearby area, but that wasn’t Endymion’s pride for nothing.
‘In that case, it would be better to move in a straight line with a slight increase in speed.’
At Russell’s question, Muyaho raised the corners of his mouth and grinned.
“hey. cock. Who do you think this body is?”
She is the beast king Muyaho.
Although not as much as the elves, the beastmen were also a race that lived on the basis of forests and mountains.
That’s how the route is determined.
Russell and Muyaho both walked slowly.
.
.
It is said that they entered the empire, but nothing special happened.
The two of them were ordinary travelers, and most of the time they moved through mountain roads that were not frequented by people.
Most of the encounters were low-level monsters, not humans. A few days to start moving when the sun rises and prepare for homelessness at midnight.
It was the third day after entering the empire when Muyaho noticed the change.
“hmm?”
She was striding through the grass with her backpack on her back, but she suddenly stopped.
Then he pricked up the tip of his nose and furrowed his brows.
“It smells like a corpse. cock.”
“A corpse?”
It was Russell’s senses that were much more active than before as he reached the level of a superman, but it was not enough to compare to Muyaho.
Besides, Muyaho is a beast race.
It was only natural that his sense of smell was several times superior to Russell’s.
“okay. It smells like a lot of dead bodies.”
“Isn’t there a cemetery nearby?”
Villages weren’t always created adjacent to cities. Villages of herbalists and woodcutters, and so on.
There were many villages in the middle of the mountain, and it wouldn’t be strange if there were cemeteries that were used for generations near the villages.
Muyaho shook his head at Russell’s answer.
“It doesn’t smell like graveside dirt or graveyard evening primroses. Rather, it feels like the smell of human life is thickly covered with the smell of corpses.”
“hmm.”
Even just hearing the story, I could tell that it was not an ordinary thing.
But this is the territory of the empire.
‘I don’t want to make a fuss by going there.’
So asked Russell.
“Which direction is the smell flowing in?”
“Straight. If we keep going in the same direction we were going…”
If this happens, I’m not the type to go and
make a fuss. Exhaled.
“I’ll just take a look at what’s going on on the way.”
“huh. cock.”
.
.
After a while.
What Russell faced was a village of lumberjacks straddling several small logging camps.
No, to be precise, it was a village of lumberjacks.
‘Undead.’
Monsters that can’t die and move alive.
Not just one or two, but dozens of undead.
Kki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-kiki-
Dozens of skeletons with massive skeletons roam the village, clutching the ax that seems to have been used in their lives.
lukewarm lukewarm.
A few small ghouls, who may have once been children, roam the alleys with slow, staggering steps.
Some of the dogs seemed to have turned into demons and were gnawing at the wooden walls of the house or the dining table.
Squeak.
Besides that, there are many undead who seem to be family members of lumberjacks.
“As if…”
Muyaho murmured in a deep voice at the scene.
“The corpses seem to live in villages.”
As the saying goes, it was a sight as if the entire village had turned into undead.
Occasionally, when a magic singularity was created in a cemetery or the like, undead would naturally arise, but this was too much.
The appearance of such a large number of undead.
Turning an entire village into an undead!
‘It’s absolutely impossible without getting on the hands of the cultists.’
“With this… don’t think this is the end!”
“The darkness is not over yet, and an even greater darkness remains. A day when the continent is covered in blood and darkness. The end of you guys…”
Maybe it was simply because of my mood.
Otherwise, Russell clicked his tongue as the word cultist stirred up his memory, as the irritating will came to mind.
Of course, I couldn’t conclude that the cultist who made this small town like this had anything to do with them.
But even so, a cult is a cult.
Besides, wasn’t it in the middle of learning that the death of the father was intertwined with the cultists’ tricks?
“First of all, it is better to sort out the situation. Muyaho.”
I couldn’t just go past it.
“Even though they became dead, not a single one of them wanted this kind of life. So…”
After finishing his thoughts, Russell sighed and raised his mana.
“…I need to make it peaceful.”
Woo woo woo-.
The wind around him howled sadly, as if expressing Russell’s mood.
Hurala-.
Along with that, the vortices that arose here and there were transformed into arrows.
A wind-type magic shock bolt that overlays the wind rotation with a shock wave and sends it out.
If it hits, it should be able to shatter the head of a lower level undead in an instant.
A green spear appeared in front of Russell, who was loading dozens of wind bullets in one breath
as if he was going to organize it for an instant .
[Mission-Ⅰ]
Requiem in the undead village.
It took just a moment for the entire village of lumberjacks, who lived normally, to become undead.
Requiem the town where the disaster occurred.
[Reward]
Lesser Manastone (Edible) x2
‘Mission?’
As long as the difficulty is not difficult, it can be because the reward is salty. But ‘Mission-I’?
‘Is there another mission that continues here?’
Realizing that something was out of the ordinary, Russell’s eyes sank coldly.
dragon-swallowed wizard
