Chapter 667 Chapter
169. As the magic of the ice barrier that sealed the
enemy’s holy land (5) disappeared, the speed at which the remaining energy permeated into Valeria accelerated.
Valeria was instantly submerged in rainbow-colored bubbles, and the speed at which she recovered was visible to the naked eye.
Even after seeing Valeria flinching and exhaling slowly, Jin couldn’t let go of his heart.
It felt like a stone had been placed on my chest because of the anxiety that would happen if my recovery suddenly stopped, even if it was just one chance.
Veradin was feeling interesting seeing Jin like that.
‘It seems to be true that I was very close to Jin Runkandel in the past. Seeing that I keep wanting to say useless things.’
Right after his mind became whole, Veradin became a cold person unlike before.
It wasn’t that he didn’t have a cruel or terrifyingly heartless personality, but he didn’t feel particularly inspired by most things in the world.
Friendship, of course, family love, caring heart. Not even those things were left.
The only thing left for Veradin now was a blind sense of purpose: the revival of Zipple.
But strangely, talking to Jin wasn’t bad.
No, I even heard that it was fun beyond that.
“I heard that Jean Runkandel you rarely show weakness under any circumstances.”
“What do you want to say?”
“It was all over His face that Hester was worried that he might never recover. Are you a lover?”
“It could have been.”
“What a strange answer. It looks like they broke up, right?”
Jin was too busy watching Valeria to hear Veradin’s next question. Fortunately, her recovery was accelerating.
Veradin didn’t mind and took out a glass bottle from his chest and filled it with rainbow-colored bubbles.
The bubbles in the bottle gave off a beautiful opal-like color.
It is unknown what kind of reward the magic traces will give to Ziffle.
However, whatever the cost, it was not more important than Valeria’s life to the Jin and Bamal alliance.
“ah…!”
Valeria finally opened her eyes and took a deep breath.
Unknowingly, Jin hugged her.
I almost screamed her name.
“Gin… Gene Runkandel?”
“Yes, it is me.”
“How… ugh.”
“The wound has not yet healed. It’s okay if you wait and talk slowly.”
Valeria looked down at my chest.
When he remembered the moment he was stabbed by Runtia’s sword, the pain came for a moment.
memory.
Memories of the moment he collapsed were flooding in with the feeling that his head would break.
“Nehru… Who is Nehru!?”
“All right. Lord Nehru was protecting you.”
“It’s fortunate…”
Valeria’s gaze reached Veradin.
He could see that the glass bottle he was holding contained traces of his magical power.
Until recently, she had just woken up and was distracted, but soon Valeria regained her cool look as always.
“Jin’s recovery is over. You better get out of here.”
She knew that the power of this land, the Holy Land of Ziple, had restored her.
He had seen the record about the Holy Land from the most recently found Hester’s lore site.
It was not a detailed record. However, there was information that the Holy Land could heal perfect magical bodies.
Because of this, from the moment Valeria first sealed herself, she hoped that Jin and her colleagues would save her and bring her here.
I don’t know about anyone else, but Jin seemed to be able to do it in any way, and that intuition was exactly right.
‘Demon King Orgal, Jin probably got information about this place from him. He was the one who informed my ancestors of this place.’
Valeria doesn’t know what’s going on.
He did not know that there was a great battle in the Garden of Swords, that the three major powers had formed a temporary alliance because of it, and that Jin was the only opponent of Rosa.
‘It seems that the three powers have learned the power of the sword garden. That’s why they formed a temporary alliance, and did Ziple open up the Holy Land…’
Nevertheless, Valeria quickly inferred the whole situation.
“Don’t let that happen.”
There were many stories to hear out there. Jin also didn’t want to stay in the Holy Land for even a second longer since Valeria had recovered.
Above all, the only thing that the remaining aura of the Holy Land had completely restored was Valeria’s wound.
The energy of chaos remaining in the healed wound was not purified, so he had to return to Tican and use the purifier.
“I have one more requirement before we go out, Jean Runkandel.”
At the sudden words, Jin met Beradin’s gaze with calm eyes.
“I didn’t know you had a knack for quickly losing trust, but Beradin Ziple. Are you going to threaten me after the deal is over?”
“You know what you’re asking for, but you’re sharpening your edge.”
“If it’s the Fire Dragon Kadun’s treatment, I’ll accept it.”
Fire Dragon Kadun.
He has been exposed to enormous chaos due to the 1st Sword Garden all-out attack and the Kaldran Snowfield War.
From the time of the meeting to open the Holy Land, Jin had expected that Ziffle would ask for his treatment.
“okay. I think we can take Kadun-nim with us when we go to Tikan.”
“i get it.”
The way out of the Holy Land was the same as the first.
If you go back the way you came, the scenery of Inse gradually becomes darker after crossing the border from a certain moment.
A door appeared after passing through the corridor, which is the entrance to the Holy Land.
And beyond the door, unlike before entering the holy ground, there were countless people waiting.
Countless wizards wearing white robes and carrying swords.
‘Biological golem…!’
No, they were remodeled humans who might be a form of magic swordsman.
There were so many of them that it was almost impossible to keep an eye on them as far as the eye could see.
“You are openly advertising to me that you are fostering a very magical swordsman living golem. Are you trying to scare me now?”
Unlike Beradin, each of them felt considerable magic and aura.
If the combat skills were at a corresponding level, it was impossible to guarantee that even Jin could handle all of them.
Especially in a situation where you have to fight while protecting Valeria.
‘It’s not just dolls with energy. It’s completely different from those who haven’t been trained to breathe.’
Another odd thing was that they were exactly the same size. As if the Prophet cloned Joshua.
As Jin approached the nearest living golem and tried to remove its hood, Veradin blocked his hand.
“Just look at what we are going to show you, Gene Runkandel.”
“I have a hunch that the face in that hood is somehow the same as yours.”
“Am I such a common face? My little diary is full of comments about how handsome I am.”
“I don’t know what your intention is. It was strange from the beginning that you didn’t hide the fact that you were reaching the level of magic swordsman.”
“I hope you understand that it is a level of sharing power from the standpoint of having a public enemy.”
If there were so many magic swordsman living golems, they would surely have been able to play an active part in the first all-out attack on the Garden of Swords.
However, at that time, the living golems sent by Ziffle from the fleet were incomparably inferior to them and were enhanced through ‘chaos control’.
The same goes for the living golems that died in the Kaldran snowfield.
Jin was able to figure out the reason intuitively.
“…It seems that all of these biological golems can only gain strength near the Holy Land.”
That was the only reason why there were no magic swordsman biogolems at the time of the all-out attack.
Since Kadun and Octavia participated directly, Zipple had put in almost all of its ‘exportable’ power at the time.
Veradin nodded as if there was no need to hide.
“okay. We are looking for a way to get them out of the Holy Land. Right now, the moment I leave the vicinity of the Holy Land, it stops operating like a puppet with a thread cut. it means die I don’t know why it’s more unpleasant than that. Do you really think that being a magic swordsman is a privilege only for your family?”
Jin shook his head.
“No, because I am close to you.”
Jin said as if he had nothing to hide.
“Right.”
Veradin said as he moved his steps.
“But you should have said it in the past tense. You and I will never get close again.”
As Jin and Valeria followed, the eyes of all living golems moved like machines and followed them.
During the long walk to the outside of the Holy Land, the number of living golems did not decrease.
Eventually, they reached the area where Jin first arrived, and Ronil was waiting for them with Kozek on standby, just like when he arrived.
The living golems disappeared by then.
As soon as Ronil saw Jin returning, he checked his pocket watch and showed a look of surprise.
“How much time has passed? Brother Ronil.”
“…day. It’s only been a day.”
“The Holy Land has been very hospitable to Hester. Maybe… He was welcoming Gene Runkandel.”
“My father is looking for you.”
“I was thinking of meeting you right away. You might be curious about this.”
While showing the glass bottle to Ronil, Beradin turned around and held out his hand to Jin.
Jin stared at the hand for a few seconds before clasping it.
“Goodbye Runcandel. With this, I kept the promise I made before I lost my memory.”
Wait for me, Beradin.
Jin shook hands without saying the words out of his mouth.
“I’ll take you to Tikan, Sir Jin.”
“Okay, Ronil Zipple.”
* * *
Cabin with no window again Jin and Valeria sat face to face and talked about the past.
Valeria said thank you several times, but as for Jin, seeing her like that in her present life was very strange, but it felt good.
“…As expected, we made a temporary alliance. It must have been an inevitable choice to deal with the Garden of Swords. Then there’s one thing I need to tell them before we get off the ship.”
“What should I tell Ziple?”
“The imperial family betrayed Zipple. And maybe your friend. The Geomwangseongju may be in a dangerous situation.”
