Chapter 28. Double circle (3)
“Ppodong!”
A hole was drilled in the dirt wall.
Pudongie stuck his head out through the hole.
He smiled at Lloyd, who was sitting in front of the wall.
Lloyd opened his mouth in disbelief.
“Ppodong…this?”
“Ppodong!”
“Is it really you?”
“Podo-dong! Boo-dong!”
Podongi nodded vigorously.
In Podongi’s small, round mind, the things he had recently experienced came to mind.
♣
Until a few days ago, Podongi was very bored.
Lloyd was working on mine development all day long.
Bell used to be away all day as he was mobilized for construction work.
But he had nothing to do.
I had to spend every day lying around in my room.
It was good at first, but it was not something I would do if I kept going like that.
A shuddering boredom.
Eventually, he ran out of Lloyd’s room.
He said he had been looking around the mansion.
Then he ran into a woman tending flowers in the mansion’s flower garden.
Lloyd’s mother was the Baroness.
The baroness was very glad to see her.
And he said something like this
‘I’m so grateful. Coincidentally, recently, a few mice kept ruining the flower garden, and it was a concern. Are you related to them? Could you please visit them if possible? Please ask those children not to ruin the flower garden on my behalf.’
…It was a request.
Of course it was accepted.
It was a situation where there was nothing to do anyway.
After accepting the request, he excitedly ran to the grass.
It was from then.
Pudongie spent several days looking for rats around the mansion.
I finally caught a group of rats and even met the leader of the group.
On the spot, he made a polite proposal to the leader of the rats.
‘Podong! Podo-dong? Podong!’
It was a suggestion not to use the baroness’ flower garden as a playground.
But the leader of the rats replied:
‘Crazy! take? Squeak!’
The answer was that I didn’t know what you were talking about.
In other words, Podongi did not know the language of the mouse and the mouse did not know the language of the mouse.
It was an unfortunate breakdown of negotiations.
It was also the beginning of a war (?).
Pudongi declared war on the rats.
Every time I saw a group of mice, I ran bravely.
I pressed it with my belly fat, bounced it off with my buttock, and rammed it with my head.
Every time that happened, the mice were busy running away.
It was the same today.
Podongi chased after the leader of the rat group.
But the mouse captain was quicker than expected.
It didn’t seem to be caught and kept running away.
Podongi also pursued hard after him.
I ran through the garden of the mansion, down the driveway, through the village, and came to the foot of the mountain and came to a tunnel under construction.
Then, by chance, I passed through the tunnel and entered the ant’s nest.
‘Ppodong?’
I got into an unknown place.
The mouse captain also missed.
I tried to turn around there.
If he hadn’t heard a familiar voice from nearby, he would have gone back to the mansion.
‘Whoa! Whoop!’
It wasn’t a voice, to be precise, but breathing.
But with that alone, Podongi was able to recognize whose voice it was.
‘Ppodong!’
The person who summoned himself to this world.
The person who made it possible for me to exist.
It was Lloyd’s breathing.
‘Podong! Podo-dong!’
I raised my voice in delight.
But there was no answer coming back.
Lloyd was still breathing heavily from somewhere nearby.
And every time I heard the sound of digging with a shovel.
‘Ppodong?’
Podong tilted his head.
And I thought.
I think Lloyd is digging nearby.
Then you can go and help yourself.
‘Pododong! Podong!’
I worked hard to figure out the direction the sound was coming from.
It wasn’t far. It was right across the aisle where he was now.
It was from then.
Little Boy also started digging a hole.
He diligently dug the soil in the direction of Lloyd’s sound. He twitched his plump buttocks and moved his palms, which were like rice, sweating.
And finally, it appeared in front of Lloyd here.
“Is that really you?”
“Ppodong!”
“….”
The soft touch of a bump on the cheek as if approaching and saying hello.
There was also a pungent odor unique to Podongi.
Lloyd could feel it.
Podongi was really right.
“Hey, how did you come all the way here?”
That’s what I said, but I couldn’t be this happy.
There was a moment when I thought everything was over.
The hazy mind was slowly awakening.
A hole the size of a fist pierced by Pudongi.
It was thanks to the air passing through it.
‘Of course, it’s still going to break my head.’
Hypoxia persisted.
The air coming in through the tiny hole was barely enough to keep the condition from getting worse.
‘Still, it’s much better than dying.’
Lloyd wiggled his fingers.
Fortunately, it went the way I wanted it to.
he said to the poo-dong.
“Ppodong? I have a favor for you.”
“Ppodong?”
“Will you bite my nose? It will cheer you up.”
“Podo-dong?”
“are you okay. You won’t die from it.”
“Ppodong?”
“Really? hurry.”
“Ppodong!”
Podongi, who was riding on his shoulder, took a stance.
I got up on my feet and put my hands on the cheeks on this side.
And he bit the tip of his nose.
“Ppodong!”
Cuckold!
“…Noah!”
It was much hotter than I thought.
All of a sudden, my whole body trembled.
Nonetheless, thanks to you, I woke up.
“Thank you so much!”
Lloyd smiled at Pudong, who was blowing a big stick over his shoulder.
And he struggled to get up.
Almost crawling on his knees, he approached the wall.
He put his face in the hole he had drilled.
I took a few sips of the air flowing through the hole.
condition slightly better.
‘I have to save that guy too.’
Lloyd turned around.
I crawled to Xaviel, who was far away.
Xaviel was completely stunned.
Fortunately, he did not stop breathing.
With a grunt, I dragged the guy away.
He grabbed his collar and pulled his upper body up.
He put his face in the hole.
For a while, I could see his complexion getting better.
‘Then let’s get out of here.’
It was not known when a further collapse would occur.
If the current situation were to collapse again, I would surely die.
Knowing this, Lloyd struggled to get up.
I picked up the dropped steel shovel.
Because of the penalty for using the potential explosion option, I couldn’t use the dark sim method.
Instead, the strength to move little by little still remained.
He stabbed the wall with a shovel.
Kuuk.
The tip of the shovel dug into the soil about 1 cm.
That was enough.
In that state, Lloyd leaned forward.
He put all his weight on the shovel.
Cugu country….
The shovel head dug deeper into the soil.
Deeper, deeper, without hesitation, to the end.
And finally penetrated.
Perseok!
The shovel, which had been slowly digging into the soil, suddenly went in.
The shovel head broke through the 30 cm barrier and escaped to the other side.
‘done!’
Lloyd leaned forward with more force.
His body became a weight-bearing mass weapon(?).
cooong!
He hit the barrier with his shoulder.
He pushed the soil with his whole body.
Finally, the wall was torn down and torn down.
“Whoah!”
It was covered in a pile of crumbling dirt, but it didn’t matter.
Lloyd took a deep breath.
The tiny orifice seeped into his lungs far more oxygen than he had managed to inhale.
More vitality came out.
“So can you open your eyes now?”
Lloyd grumbled and carried Xaviel on his back.
It felt much heavier than before, either because he passed out or because he was exhausted.
But Lloyd moved slowly.
‘At times like this, take a calmer step. Surely. Except for unnecessary power. Give strength to the waist and lower body.’
That’s the trick to carrying heavy things on your back when you’re tired.
You shouldn’t try to move only by force unconditionally.
Then it spreads quickly.
The heavier it is, the less urgent it is.
The harder it gets, the better.
It was Lloyd who carried countless bags of cement and bricks on his back when he was going to and from the manpower station every dawn in Korea.
‘Compared to walking up and down to the 4th floor of a villa carrying a load loaded with tiles and bricks all day long, this is nothing!’
bit it tightly.
I just focused on walking.
Thanks to Podongi, who took the lead, I was able to stop worrying about finding my way.
I put all my heart into just stepping out and checking the floor where I was going to take the next step.
how long did it take
An unexpected message began to appear before my eyes.
Ding dong.
[He is overcoming his physical limitations through extraordinary tips in extreme situations.] [
That special experience has a great influence on < Skill: Shady Psychology >.]
[New skill options have been opened.]
[Skill-only options ③ : Power saving mode – Even in extreme exhaustion, you will be able to maintain the state of using the dark sim method, albeit weakly. The mana amplification rate at this time is fixed at the usual 10%.]
‘Huh? What is this?’
Lloyd narrowed his eyes.
It was the creation of an unexpected skill option.
The effect was immediately felt in the body.
Keyiing….
A double circle of mana surrounding the heart.
It was a circle that fell asleep in a state of exhaustion.
But it woke up and started spinning.
It was only about 1/10 the normal rotation.
But that was enough.
Lloyd, who was extremely exhausted, was given strength like the rain of a drought.
‘Mana is absorbed again.’
Even if you didn’t intend, the dark mental method was automatically activated.
It drew and absorbed a small amount of mana from the surroundings.
The absorbed mana was turned into a circle and supplied to various parts of the body.
A new vitality has sprung up.
‘you can do it. I can get out!’
Lloyd’s steps gained strength and speed.
I walked for such a long time.
Still carrying Xaviel on his back, he never stopped.
Meanwhile, the surroundings began to change.
The number of luminous mushrooms living on the walls of the anthill gradually decreased.
But the oysters did not darken.
far ahead.
It was because the flickering light of the torch there illuminated this side.
“excuse me! This is Master Lloyd!”
I heard someone’s cry.
A number of hasty steps running towards us.
A hand that hastily approached and reached out to support this side.
Among them was the Baron’s.
“Are you okay? Where are you injured?”
A devastated voice asked as she grabbed her face with both hands.
Lloyd stopped laughing.
I had no mind to answer.
lived
At that relief, the strings of tension were released.
A smile came out of nowhere.
The eyelids are closed.
‘Whoa. It’s been a tough day.’
Even when I was living in the gosiwon, I used to hang out like this when it was exhausting.
Lloyd was crumbling into the baron’s arms.
It was the end of a long and exhausting day.
♣
Time has passed.
In the meantime, Lloyd fell into a deeper sleep than everyone thought.
I didn’t open my eyes even after a day and two days passed.
There were no major injuries except for muscles and ligaments damaged by overuse.
There was no sign of illness.
Yeongji’s doctor said that the body was just resting, and that the tired body was recovering through sleep. That’s how I comforted the baron couple.
The baroness stayed in Lloyd’s bedroom from time to time.
I stayed by Lloyd’s bedside for as long as time permitted.
Especially the Baron.
It was the baron who had taken the lead in charging the beast ants the day before.
He was the one who did not hesitate more than anyone to clear the way down to the underground anthill.
Even though he broke one arm in the fight, and even though his body was boiling in the aftermath, he refused a bed and tried to stay by Lloyd’s side.
The baroness’s sincerity was no less.
She took care of the affairs of the estate on behalf of her husband.
He visited the wounded soldiers in the fight against the beast ants, praised them for their work, and patted their wounds.
In the meantime, warm rumors spread quietly in Yeongji.
It was a rumor about Lloyd.
It was said that when the beast ants first appeared, this ragged boy evacuated the workers first. He said he stayed behind with Xaviel for their safety. If that wasn’t enough, he went into the ant’s nest, defeated the beast ants, and even rescued the knight Xaviel.
There were also witnesses.
Workers who were at the moment of evacuation.
It was the soldiers who witnessed Lloyd carrying Xaviel on his back at the moment of rescue.
A young boy who risked his life to protect Young Ji-min.
A young boy who did not give up on his loyal knight until the end.
The men of the territory clenched their fists as they heard the story, the girls felt their hearts pounding, and the gentle-hearted old men shed tears.
Meanwhile, the baron couple called Xaviel, who woke up first.
The young and faithful knight was asked what had happened in the anthill.
While listening to the story, the couple were sometimes surprised, sighed, and brushed their hearts.
Like everyone waited.
I sincerely looked forward to it and hoped.
May their son-in-law wake up.
Hurry up and get up in good health.
By the time the fourth day had passed since the accident had occurred.
Lloyd opened his eyes.
[Everyone in Baron Prontera is deeply impressed and praises you for your heroic courage and initiative.] [A large amount
of RP is specially paid as a bonus for this great social achievement.]
