Episode 204
Episode 66. Vanessa Olsen (4)
‘It’s a prize.’
I called for joy in my heart. It was expected to a certain extent, but hearing it with my own two ears felt different.
“Once you let go of the horses, hold on to them. I don’t want to walk for days in the wilderness on my own two feet at my age.”
“All right.”
Jin moved to find the horses. Tracking was not difficult as there were full of footprints in the wilderness.
Fortunately, the horses had been tamed, so they didn’t run very far, and Jin was able to find them quenching their thirst in a puddle that soon dried up.
When the horses were brought back, it was completely night.
“Good job. Sit here.”
Crackle crackle…
A well-lit campfire was burning in front of Vanessa. Sizzling oil flowed from the beef jerky on a wooden skewer, and I saw several fish that had been trimmed from where they had been caught.
And there was a drink that went over three barrels. Vanessa opened one of them and filled two iron glasses.
‘Before leaving, I loaded a lot of things into the wagon and it was alcohol. You made it sound like I wouldn’t pass the exam, but you prepared for this.’
Jin smiled and bowed.
“Vanessa-nim also suffered a lot. I didn’t expect you to prepare such a nice drinking party.”
“Because I was treated the whole time in Tikan.”
clumsy. The iron cups clashed and the wine glistened.
The alcohol drunk by warriors is poisonous. This is because, unlike ordinary people, a well-trained body does not easily get drunk with a fair amount of alcohol.
In that sense, the alcohol Vanessa brought was terribly strong. As soon as he swallowed it, his body reacted with Mandokju, so it seemed that even an unmanned person could not handle it.
‘It’s more than the jewel liquor I drank before I got the optical heart.’
Once again, Vanessa looked amazing as she guzzled down this kind of alcohol without even having to drink it alone.
She gulped down the glass in silence until she emptied the whole bottle. Jin tried to match her pace, but realized that she was lost in her own thoughts, and waited patiently.
There seemed to be sadness in the corners of his wrinkled eyes, illuminated by the campfire.
“Do you remember when I said there was a time when I was just passing time in Tican?”
“Yes, I remember.”
“It reminded me of my younger brother. I’ve grown so old, but the guy in my memory is still a boy like you, so sometimes I forget my age.”
It was a calm voice.
It’s only Jin’s gaze that Vanessa looks sad, and her brother’s death is a long time ago, and the feeling she feels is not sadness, but loneliness.
“You must be wondering why I am telling you all of a sudden.”
“Is it because I look like my younger brother?”
“It doesn’t look alike at all. He wasn’t as handsome as you, and he wasn’t as strong. He was special to me, but objectively, he was an ordinary boy who could be found anywhere. We were orphans and not nobles.”
nice.
Vanessa emptied her glass and pulled out a cigarette. Then he lit a bonfire and burned it all in one breath. A cloud of smoke hid her face for a moment.
“On the other hand, since I was born, I have had great potential just like you Runkandels. I was preparing to become a knight of the kingdom of Shucheron, but at 17 at a tavern there was a small quarrel. I thought he was a junkie, so I beat him up and he said he was a knight of the capital.”
“The article must have been a surprise.”
“It’s like visiting a tavern in your hometown while on vacation and being mistreated. I didn’t know his identity until he left the bar with a nosebleed. The owner, the only witness, told me that he was a knight of the capital of Shucheron.”
“I was surprised to hear that, too.”
“I was very surprised. I didn’t know that a guy who could be a knight would have a pointless fight with a commoner girl who was drinking alone. They tell you to wait or leave, but how can you consider that a knight?”
Vanessa took out another cigarette and lit it in one go.
“The next day, the knight killed the owner, not me. Then I started killing or capturing the few neighbors I knew. The lord made the crime himself and sent troops. I want to look good to the knights of the capital.”
Vanessa then was not as transcendently strong as she is now. The potential was enormous, but she was only a 17-year-old girl.
“So I tried to run away. But damn The decision was too late. My younger brother was captured by the lord’s soldiers and I had no choice but to go to the lord’s castle. Without a single sword.”
Vanessa’s brother was severely beaten and tied up in the front yard of the lord’s castle.
And the knight ordered Vanessa to take off her clothes and crawl to the front of the lord’s castle. When Jin heard that part, his fist trembled, and Vanessa shook her hand.
“Luckily, I did not have to respond to that humiliating request. I was about to take off my clothes when I suddenly heard a deafening roar… and fireballs started pouring down. All in all, the dragon attacked the lord’s castle at that moment. It was a fire dragon.”
The fire dragon destroyed the lord’s castle in an instant, killed the lord and his soldiers, and killed the knights.
paradoxically.
It was Vanessa who survived until the end and fought the fire dragon.
“It is astonishing. In the chaos, the prisoners escaped, the soldiers fled, the lord and his knight died as soon as the dragon appeared, but my brother, who was tied to a stake, luckily escaped the dragon’s breath and survived. So I had to fight.”
In that fight, Vanessa awakened.
The potential he didn’t even know was in full bloom, and even if he thought about it himself, his incomprehensible strength poured out like crazy.
“I used the dead knight’s sword to protect my brother. It is the sword of the knight who captured his brother. And it must have looked quite interesting to the Fire Dragon. The image of me desperately hugging my brother and fighting his flames.”
Although he had awakened, it was unreasonable to bear the power of the fire dragon.
The fire dragon soon took her sister away from her and deliberately kept her alive.
“He passed the castle and burned the village, and then told me to come to the Ante Mountains if I wanted to find my brother. So I went and was able to meet the Fire Dragon again in a cave.”
brother was already dead.
“And the fire dragon didn’t fight me. left me and flew somewhere He just wanted to see me in despair. I realized that it was a lot more fun than stomping through the countryside.”
“…Have you been in the Ante Mountains ever since that day?”
“Yeah, I couldn’t imagine having to go out and find him. I was tired.”
Jin, like Vanessa, was now emptying his glass at high speed.
Afterwards, Vanessa did not leave the place until she met Chiron.
When dragons came, they killed dragons, and when people came, they killed people. There were not many people killed, but among them there were a few unmanned people with skills comparable to Vanessa.
All of them had a grudge against the fire dragon or came to challenge it.
“I was going crazy. no it was crazy He killed more than a hundred dragons, but the fire dragon never appeared and more than 15 years passed. And your father, Sir Siron, has come.”
Chiron was the first human to defeat Vanessa.
“Your father captured all the fire dragons and their offspring the day after he subdued me. It turned out that he was a blood relative of Kelliac Ziffle’s guardian dragon, Kadun. That’s why Kadun came too, to protect my flesh and blood. How do you think it would have turned out?”
“I think my father killed them all. Kadun must have been wounded and fled.”
“Lord Shirone only helped to keep Kadun from getting into the fray. I left it entirely up to me to fight the Fire Dragon and his offspring.”
Revenge was Vanessa’s.
She was finally able to kill the Fire Dragon and asked several times before killing it. why did you do that
“As I said before, he killed my brother for fun. He killed me because it was fun to despair… Maybe because he was afraid of Sir Shiron, and he wanted to fuck me until the end, or he honestly said that it was play.”
“under.”
“I naturally became a knight of Sir Shiron. After wearing the black helmet, the hard days continued to the extent that I couldn’t remember anything about the past. Then, when I got used to it and came to my senses, my words and actions had changed like a fairly plausible article.”
Jin didn’t answer and filled her glass.
“Even if you are stronger like your father did, give your men a chance to avenge themselves. It is a virtue that must be possessed to become the king of the sword demons.”
“I will listen deeply to my heart.”
“Also, if possible, don’t give your heart to ordinary people like my brother. Unlike us, they die too easily and are bound to break out of nowhere just because they are by our side. If you fall into despair one day.”
Vanessa paused for a moment and met Jin’s eyes.
“It’s not because you were struck by a sword stronger than you, it’s probably because of the tragedies of ordinary people next to you. Both me and your father were hurt by that and became monsters. I don’t even feel sad that my brother isn’t coming back anymore.”
There was a long silence as the bonfire burned. Soon Vanessa opened the last keg.
“If you ever get a chance, listen to your father.”
“yes.”
Is being reborn as a transcendent character a process of castrating the natural emotions we have as human beings? When I suddenly thought of that, Tikan’s colleagues came to mind.
“I think this is enough advice… take this.”
Vanessa pulled out a folded piece of paper from within her bosom.
It was a map. However, it was completely different from the general map, and it was far from the approximate shape of the continent that Jin knew.
In addition, a large part of the map was empty, indicating that it was an unfinished map, and there were many areas intentionally hidden, making it difficult to recognize at first glance.
“It is a map of the Black Sea. Go to the red marked area. It doesn’t matter if you go with your colleagues, but from the marked area, if you don’t have Mandokju, you won’t be able to handle the miasma.”
“Is this the prize you speak of?”
Jin knew for the first time that there was a map of the Black Sea.
The previous Dark Knights had mapped the Black Sea almost their entire lives, and that was still a work in progress.
“Lord Shirone entrusted it to me as soon as he made the map. And then, among the sir’s children, I told him to give it to me if he came out with a good one. So, this is also my award. It is also a new test.”
“If I ask what the mask is, won’t you tell me?”
Vanessa shook her head.
“Why don’t you tell me something obvious? There is a monster in the red marked place. Defeat it. They say it was raised by the witch Heluram a long time ago.”
Jin’s pupils widened.
