Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 413
A severe cold is hitting the resort.
Snow fell on the streets and my body trembled from the cold air that made my bones ache.
Lethe who had lightly wrapped her shoulders and looked around opened her mouth.
“Well it’s quiet.”
“huh.”
Could it be because of the cold? Considering the size of the city and its reputation as a resort it’s normal for it to be crowded but all the shops were closed and only a few tightly wrapped people were walking on the street.
‘There must be something wrong.’
Simon who was deep in thought with his chin propped up suddenly raised his head.
“Lethe this way!”
“?”
Simon started running down the street breaking through the crushing chill.
“Ah why is the sword jumping all of a sudden!”
Lethe grumbled and followed suit.
After passing several buildings and exiting the winding and complicated alleys the open view finally unfolded.
“ah…!”
The sea was frozen.
The entire sea within sight was frozen ice. Lethe’s expression hardened.
“The situation is much worse than we were told.”
She took out something like a Juseom Juseom booklet from her travel bag.
“It used to be like this.”
Brilliant beaches and sandy beaches people running around in swimsuits. The snowy mountains above it.
All of this was in perfect harmony but now the sight in the brochure is nowhere to be found.
Simon raised his head.
A view of snow-capped mountains. I thought it was magnificent and wonderful like a picture but now it feels a little different.
“Hey how is it? Any room to sail next week?”
Simon and Lethe’s heads turned.
A sailor sitting at the dock was saying something. And the sailor who seemed to be his colleague shook his head after patting the frozen ice with the back of his hand.
“What next week I think it will take a month.”
“It’s a headache. If we can’t handle this shipment we’ll go bankrupt.”
“Laus. I’d like to ask you something.”
Shaking her snow-white hair Lethe approached the two of them.
“It was so cold and the sea froze. When did it start like this?”
“Since when? I don’t know. The weather has been going back and forth recently but it’s been about six months since the sea has been frozen like this.”
The sailor sighed heavily as he answered.
“Have you ever been like this before?”
“Kula’s port is an ice-free port. It means that it is a port blessed by nature where the sea surface does not freeze even in winter. This is the first time in the history of Kula that everything that is happening in the city right now.”
“Your brother is right.”
A dark-skinned sailor climbed a ladder to the dock.
“All the barley in the village froze to death. The sea route the only passageway was also blocked and that’s why we’re stuck in this city and are about to starve to death.”
This time Simon opened his mouth.
“Aside from the sea route are there any other routes for food to come in?”
“Look at it once. Those rugged mountains.”
The sailor pointed with his hand.
All around the city are snow-capped mountains. Except for this city which was the only flat land there were mountains on all sides and the sea to the south.
“Even if you give a thousand gold there’s no guild that will bring you food across that mountain range anywhere.”
“Cancer. Cancer.”
The sailor next to him answered.
“Is that the only problem? Monsters in the snowy mountains that only appeared in the middle of winter are more active because of the severe cold. Now Kula is called Hell.”
While talking lamentably he took a quick look at Lethe’s outfit and asked.
“Come to think of it it’s the first time I’ve seen a face a tourist?”
Lethe didn’t change her complexion once and looked around.
“What kind of tourist is there in this situation? Just an adventurer.”
“That’s right.”
He waved his hands around.
“If you have the skills to cross the mountain range to avoid monster attacks you’d better get out of Kula as soon as possible. It looks peaceful at first glance but it’s on the verge. You don’t know when it will suddenly turn into a lawless area due to a food shortage.”
“Thanks for the advice.”
Simon said with a straight smile. The sailor smiled and nodded his head.
“Thank you for listening to the lamentation of your life as a stranger.”
* * *
I looked around the city and collected information but it was roughly similar to the story I heard at the dock.
“As far as I know Coola is a town that makes a living from tourism and local produce.”
Lethe who was walking with her hands in her pockets opened her mouth.
“What special product is it?”
“Holy tree leaves.”
It was Simon’s expression that he was hearing it for the first time and Lethe added in a relaxed voice.
“It is a plant used for large sacred events and worship. When washed and floated in water it purifies impurities. In particular the ingredients of the leaves make the water white so it is a symbol of the highest quality holy water. It is definitely used in places like cathedrals.”
“It will be expensive.”
“Right. But if the weather is like this the holy tree leaf farming would have been ruined.”
The more I got to know him the more hopeless Kula’s situation became.
At that moment warm breath flowed from Simon’s mouth.
“It’s getting cold. Let’s put something on top too.”
“That would be nice.”
The two opened the subspace at the same time and took out the robe.
I wore the outfit prepared by Israfil but the completion of the adventurer’s fashion is the ‘robe’. I’m an adventurer but it’s awkward if I don’t wear this.
Simon is pulling out a white robe and putting it on.
“hmm?”
Just like that Lete was also wearing a white robe with the same design as Simon’s. A smile of joy crept across Simon’s lips.
“Uh Grove! That’s the one I bought from the Holy Federation the other day isn’t it?”
“!!”
Lethe looked back at Simon with a cold expression then blushed and hurriedly hid her robe behind her back.
“What what you bastard! I just accidentally took out this robe among the many robes!”
“okay?”
Simon laughed lightly and Lethe stuttered and shouted.
“Oh turn your clothes inside out!”
“huh?”
“Put it back in black man! I’ll wear it in white!”
“What’s wrong? How I wear my clothes is my heart.”
“No! At this rate that…!”
Right then.
Two women passing by laughed at the two of them.
“Hey look at the kids over there. It’s a couple look.”
“Aw~ I’m not lucky but I’m cute.”
It was a small whisper but Lethe who understood the story like a ghost even turned her earlobe red.
She jumped at Simon and tried to undress him.
“Oh no why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“Quickly change into black!”
As Simon continues to resist Lette thumps his chest with her forehead! got hit Simon groaned and took a step back.
“No if you care about the same clothes you can take out a different one out of the many robes and wear it!”
“S-I don’t like it! Don’t give me instructions! Necromancer or something!”
“He gave instructions too… Ugh!”
The two chatted in the street for a while.
“haha.”
After a fierce struggle Lette pushed Simon to the wall and took off his robe.
The fight was so intense that Simon sat down with his legs apart while Lethe knelt down clutching Simon’s stolen robe in her hand.
The breaths of the two people who were exhaling colorfully and harshly were close.
“If you do anything strange outside in this cold you will freeze to death!”
Ha ha ha ha!
Rum-drunken men passed by chattering.
Lethe dyed red to the nape of her neck hurriedly stepped back.
“Ah! Really childish! I just need to change clothes. What are you doing!”
Simon straightened his messy hair.
“You’re surprised that I rushed at you. And that’s what a saintess who forcibly took off people’s clothes on the street would say?”
“Shut up! You don’t even bring out the saint of saints!”
Lethe turned Simon’s robe inside out and turned it black then threw it into his chest as if pushing it.
“Daddy get dressed quickly. There’s no time for fooling around.”
Then he jumped up from his seat and strode away.
Simon also had no choice but to put on a black robe turned inside out.
Since I came to the Holy Commonwealth I had to pretend to be a priest so I was thinking of walking around in a white robe.
“Ah aren’t you going to investigate? Stop messing around and follow me quickly.”
Seeing Lethe say something as if she was sorry Simon smiled quietly and followed her.
* * *
– There is nothing to eat in the village so it’s really big.
-I saw monsters moving in groups in the mountains last night! Sounds like an ominous sign.
The two men organized the information obtained through the interrogation in a notebook.
While I was wandering around the roadside to gather information like that.
Cough Cough!
I saw an elderly woman sitting on a mat and wearing a mat. A crystal ball was placed in front of the mat.
It seems to be a fortune teller that caters to tourists but since there are no tourists there will be no profit.
Seeing her haggard face shivering from the cold waiting for a customer I felt a bit pitiful.
“Wait here for a moment.”
Lethe saw the old woman and strode towards the open shop nearby.
She talked about something there and after paying something she got some bread and beef jerky and brought it back.
“I’m sorry-“
Lethe knelt down on the old woman’s mat and smiled.
“We don’t have any money but do you accept food by any chance?”
Tears welled up in the old woman’s eyes as Lethe tore open the envelope and laid out the bread and beef jerky.
“Thank you! Thank you very much!”
Then as if he was very hungry he began to eat in a hurry.
“You should eat too.”
Lethe said chewing on the jerky.
It was a rather late lunch.
Simon sitting next to him and holding a piece of bread said in a small voice.
“I saw it again. As expected she has a saintly side…”
puck!
Immediately Lethe’s fist hit Simon’s forearm. It was very painful because it must have contained sincere energy.
Simon had to hold his arm and let out a silent clamor.
After the meal the old woman with a much improved expression took up the crystal ball to go to work.
“Hee hee hee! Then what should I look for…”
“No. Rather than fortune telling I want to ask you something.”
Lethe asked about the abnormal weather and severe cold that was happening in Kula.
I was able to hear a slightly new answer different from others.
“All of this is because of Esqail’s curse.”
At the word Esqail Simon and Lethe’s eyes lit up at the same time. Esqail was the town the two of them would soon visit as tutors.
The old woman’s wrinkled fingers pointed to the middle of the snowy mountain.
“Esqail’s grudge against the people of Kula has become a curse driving Kula to a cold hell.”
“A grudge?”
“The people of Esqail also lived in Kula originally. It’s been more than a few decades.”
However the story after this was just a gossip so it was not a big reference.
“Now then since I received the divination value I should look at the divination.”
The old woman glanced at Simon’s and Lethe’s faces and smiled. As much as her job is her job she had a knack for dealing with tourists.
“Then couple points…”
“If you really want to see it please ask separately.”
Lethe cut it off.
