Episode 125
EPISODE.63
“Ukki Geek is an excellent decision. lily-!”
The monkey beastman, who introduced himself as Kinta, jumped from branch to branch while jumping.
The ability to move using arms, legs and tails that are far longer than humans is worthy of being called a feat in itself.
‘That… must be difficult to imitate.’
Russell shook his head, thinking about whether he could apply his movements to La Mancha.
Realizing once again that it was impossible, he lightly clicked his tongue.
“Among the beast tribes living on the coast, there are no people with feet as wide as ours. And if you have wide feet, doesn’t that mean you know the area well?”
In the meantime, Kinta continues to play with his tongue.
“Among those tribes, few know geography better than I do in this area!”
Russell sneered softly at the sight of the guy pounding his chest and shouting confidently.
‘It’s not even funny.’
If you were to be a guide, you would have to ask where your destination is.
But instead of asking for it, he was just bragging about himself and dragging it into the forest.
‘Unless you’re more interested in jet-bap than me, tsk.’
Of course, knowing that fact, he hung out with him because he also wanted something from him.
“For now, if you just trust me and follow me…”
he repeated the words. About 10 minutes to walk after the guy who makes fun of his mouth at random.
After confirming that he had entered the forest to some extent, Russell stopped walking.
tall-.
Kinta, who was ahead of him, looked back and tilted his head.
“Are you okay?”
“So, when are you planning to start talking about the main topic?”
At those words, Kinta’s face hardened in an instant.
Then, the corner of his mouth went up crookedly, and then a lot of wrinkles appeared on his monkey-like face.
The goodwill he had been pretending so far was gone, but his face was full of greed and meanness.
“Since when did you know that, right?”
“From the beginning.”
“Ouchek-?”
“I knew from the start.”
Russell rolled his eyes.
behind oneself.
Catching the sound of the small swaying of branches and leaves, he pointed in that direction with his thumb.
“Your friends were following you even before you entered the forest, right? If they openly pursue you like that, you can’t help but not notice them.”
“It can’t be…”
Kinta muttered in disbelief.
He and his friends are not beginners, but they have already successfully robbed several times.
In the process, not a single one noticed his friends’ tailing.
But this young human noticed the ape-tribe’s tailing?
Not even in the city, but in the forest?
‘They must have made a mistake.’
If it weren’t for that, how could humans notice their tailing?
Thinking so, Kinta brought her thumb and forefinger to her mouth.
“Tsk, if possible, I was thinking of bringing it a little further inside, but enjoy. I can’t help it. Wooki Geek.”
Take away-!
Whistling with his mouth, he took out a hand-length dagger from his chest and grabbed it.
ssut-.
“Cheek cheek.”
Cheeky-.
“Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-”
At the same time, five apes appeared from behind Russell.
They are all clutching a branch in one hand, each holding a dagger in the other.
“I’m pretty quick to notice, but I’ll give you one last chance to look younger. Enjoy.”
“…?”
“Take off everything you are wearing. Enjoy. If you leave all your silver and gold coins behind, I will spare your life.”
It was one of the five monkey tribes in the back that received Kinta’s words.
“At least I’ll let you wear your underwear and go home. Righty kick.”
Do you believe in the ability of the human body that is superior to ordinary humans or do you believe in the number of six.
They didn’t seem to mind their defeat at all.
Russell kicked at them.
“Tsk.”
said with a sigh.
“I don’t know how the pirates I met at sea and you guys live by plundering with such a head.”
“Ouchek-?”
“Your heads are empty. You stupid bastards.”
Russell was also a freelancer before returning.
In the process, I also learned to speak. However, recently, there was nothing to reveal, so I was patient.
“Wuyi is a baby- !!”
The moment Kinta, furious at the direct provocation, was about to jump out screaming, Russell cut him off.
“Don’t you know what it means to have walked all the way here on my own even though I knew it was a trap?”
“Woo woo keek-?”
Only then did they understand the meaning, and a commotion spread among the tribes.
“It’s late, you assholes.”
Regardless, a blue lightning bolt bounced between Russell’s fingers.
Jiji Jiji-!
A thunderbolt that spreads out in six directions.
In an instant, the blue lightning cleared the darkness of the forest and supported the tribes.
A death cry resounded throughout the silent forest.
“Oukiyiyiik-!”
“Ouch-!”
* * *
Exactly fifteen minutes after that.
Beneath Russell’s feet, a total of six man-folks stood on their knees with their hands raised.
Possibly because she was severely affected by the lightning magic, the hair all over her body was standing up and there were traces of soot.
Nevertheless, the fact that he ended up with that level of wounds was something that could only be thought of as Russell controlling the power of his magic.
‘I can’t kill him.’
Although he felt sorry for the robbery, he also wanted to ask himself something.
Besides, there was a reason why it went through such a cumbersome procedure.
‘It was said that the foundation of the Kuril Islands ruled by Muyaho was strong self-esteem.’
It was a lifestyle worthy of those who inherited the blood of beasts based on rationality.
If you show your skills like this, you probably won’t openly lie or try to fool yourself.
The proof was that even while looking at the subject whose body was burned by the lightning magic, there was a gaze of longing mixed in.
Receiving their gaze, Russell calmly opened his mouth.
“…Did you say Kinta?”
“yes. Yes. Enjoy. This is Kinta. be well.”
Perhaps it was because he experienced the difference in skill so harshly, at the end of his speech, the word that he would get better again followed.
“There are a few things I want to ask you, but first of all, are you guys the tribe with the widest feet in this area?”
At Russell’s question, all six tribesmen nodded.
“of course. be better Wooki Geek!”
“I don’t know if it’s inside the island, but outside the island, there won’t be people with feet as wide as our aborigines.”
the answer you wanted.
“hmm.”
After a short pause, Russell pulled out a map from his pocket and set it down in front of them.
It was a map of the Kuril Islands.
“How many places on this map do you know with certainty?”
After exchanging glances at Russell’s question, the guys quietly lowered their hands. Then, each of them marked the areas they knew little by little with their fingers.
“Ouch. I know everything from here to here.”
“I’m going to joke around here from here on.”
The six Aboriginal tribes chattered about the area they knew, and Russell, who soon united them, swept his chin.
‘Hmm, roughly one sixth of the outskirts.’
Considering that the size of the Kuril Islands is close to that of a small country, it was by no means a small area.
“Then, is there a place where the river of fire overlaps with the river of ice?”
The six original tribes blinked their eyes in unison. Was there such a place? The guys who exchanged glances with each other for a while even think about it.
Soon, as their representative, Kinta shrugged and muttered.
“I’ve never heard of a place like that. be better Wooki Geek.”
“In case you don’t know, why don’t you think about it again?”
I tried asking, but it didn’t change much. If it’s just one income earned -.
‘There is no place where lava is flowing on the outskirts of the island.’
As explained earlier, the Kuril Islands were created through volcanic activity.
In such a situation, nothing that could be called a river of flame existed other than flowing lava.
“Am I forced to keep going inside the island?”
Hearing the murmur, Kinta’s eyes trembled.
“Are you thinking of going deeper? Will you be better?”
“Isn’t that okay?”
Russell shook his head to the outside, and he continued with a stutter.
“That’s because there are tribes of warriors living inside…”
The tribe of warriors refers to the beastmen who inherited the blood of beasts.
Not the gentle tribes living on the outskirts of the island. The Nanginjok (狼人族), who inherited wolf blood, and the Hoinjok (虎人族), who inherited tiger blood.
Other than that, etc…
“I know you’re not normal, but they’re a bit dangerous, so… laugh.”
A snort of laughter came out.
To be worried about the topic of robbery to give money.
Of course, Russell didn’t bother pinching that part.
Instead, I asked a question.
“Even if it’s dangerous, they wouldn’t enjoy human flesh, right?”
“I do, but they’re so belligerent, so I laugh at them.”
The explanation went on that it would be nothing strange to challenge a fight anytime, anywhere, as he revere the strong and even possesses belligerence.
But what can I do?
The only way to find the traces of the dragon is to go inside the island.
There.
‘You didn’t come here without knowing this situation, did you?’
Wasn’t that the reason why I visited the Kuril Islands after completing the 6th circle?
“….”
Russell shrugged his shoulders moderately and continued on his way.
The destination was deeper in the forest, inside the island.
* * *
They came about three days after Russell entered the Kuril Islands.
After preparing for camp, Russell, who had been lying down in his tent, quietly opened his eyes.
I raised my body and slowly expanded my senses.
Tak Tak Tak -.
The sound of a bonfire burning outside the tent, the sound of the wind blowing through the branches of trees.
The cries of unknown grass insects and wild birds, etc.
There was a group of signs approaching him through the sounds that were nothing special.
‘It’s here…’
Russell got up from his seat at that sign and stepped out of the tent.
The crooked moonlight falls proudly over Russell’s head.
Bathed in the moonlight, Russell pursed his lips.
“How about you leave now?”
A low but clear voice cut through the cold night air and spread throughout the area.
With him, a group of people slowly approached.
thump thump thump-.
The sound of the ground did not hide its presence in the slightest, probably because it was discovered that it was stealth.
A massive sense of weight was transmitted through the earth. The agile beast races are a presence that can never be seen.
‘Speaking of a large beast race, a lion or a tiger or…’
Kung-.
In the moonlight that soon fell, their figures were revealed in the white day.
Similar to the first brother-in-law Vermilion Ulsen, it was a huge body that seemed to have been stretched into several, and the curved horns that grew on both sides of the head.
After figuring out their identity, Russell looked back at them and asked.
“Why did the water buffalo bearers come to see me this night?”
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