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The eyes of Park Seung-gun, who was walking shakily with blackened, rotten wings, were somehow blurry. His fingertips reaching out to his wings trembled.
It wasn’t that Park Seung-gun couldn’t face reality. He hated Elix, who made people give up being human, and hated the Celestials, who were driven to cannibalism.
Everything Park Seung-gun did was nothing more than revenge. Sehyeon was just one of those many targets.
Soon, the strange sound of chewing bones began to echo in the inner room. Park Seung-geon’s back, holding his wings, continued to wriggle in the darkness.
***
The faint taste of blood stung the inside of my throat. The fishy taste even made me nauseous. I pushed it down my throat and opened my eyes, and through my blurry vision I saw the familiar ceiling.
Sehyun was lying on someone’s leg. He turned with difficulty and looked up, and familiar figures caught his eye.
Yoo Si-woon and the frog man.
Both of them must have fallen asleep from crying, and were sitting with their eyes closed, holding Sehyun’s hand and clothes tightly. Sehyun, who had been watching them motionless for a while, realized that his bound wrists had been released, put his hands on the ground and raised his upper body.
He announced that his shoulder, which was throbbing as if it had been burned, had come back from death.
One side of the back is out of balance.
I could tell without looking. The roots of the hideously twisted wings would be buried in the wound.
“… … .”
My gaze sank deeply. Will it grow again? Will it be as pretty as before?
Looking at Ruhak, who visits every night and trims his wings, wings may have meant more to the Black Heavenly Clan than just a symbol. What’s more, isn’t Sehyeon carrying the empire’s lineage on his back?
That’s what Sehyeon’s wings meant. It was the faith of the empire, their pride, and the symbol of everyone.
But that.
Sehyeon’s eyes closed miserably. This was the first time she felt more worried than pain. After being lost in gloomy thoughts for a while, Sehyun wiped her cheek, opened her inventory, and held the location actuator in her hand.
It must have been a while since I lost consciousness, and the operating time of the actuator had been reset. I pressed it firmly and waited, and after a while, the operation indicator appeared.
“… Sehyeon… ?”
While I was putting the actuator into my inventory, I heard Yoo Si-un’s voice next to me. Sehyun looked for Yoo Si-woon’s eyes through the dim light. The pitch-black eyes were already wet with tears.
“Because I’m fine… “Don’t cry, Yoo Si-un.”
“Sehyeon… . sorry… sorry… .”
“Dog, dog… .”
The frog man must have woken up after hearing Yu Si-un’s sobbing, and he opened his closed eyes and immediately looked up at Se-hyeon. Se-hyeon, who saw his eyes drooping, patted the frog man to tell him not to worry.
All the passing glances were painful.
“… Yoo Si-un… First of all, I want to ask you something… .”
“Yes, yes… ! “I’ll tell you everything I can say.”
“Mr. Yoo Si-un is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce… Are you a member?”
Yu Si-un immediately shook his head. Her tearful eyes insisted on her innocence.
“I am… The contract was made through ownership. no… Everyone here will. For now, that’s all… .”
“… Park Seung-gun had already finished modifying the airship. Probably the Mapok airship… “It may be at the same or even higher speed.”
“Well, the Mapok airship is a new article from the Engineering Empire that was recently released.”
According to data released by Engineering Empire, this was so. Until recently, the position of the Engineering Empire was that there was no airship that surpassed the technology of the Mapok airship.
However, if there are other technical capabilities that are not disclosed due to internal security issues or confidentiality reasons.
On the day when she was taken away by Park Seung-gun, Se-hyeon watched quite closely as Fan faced Park Seung-geon. It was to catch any signal he might send.
And Sehyun was able to catch a glimpse of the signal from the magic stone wave device behind the fan. The number of L-class magic stones in operation was ‘3’. Fan deliberately changed his posture and turned his body so that Sehyeon could see it.
I was sure then.
The fact that he has already completed the development of an airship that surpasses the Mapok airship.
“… The Engineering Empire probably has an airship that surpasses the Mapok airship… “They may have already developed it.”
The reason why Fan bought the L-class magic stone even though Sehyun had charged a fairly high price. The number of absolutely necessary magic stones has increased.
There was only one L-class magic stone used as fuel for the Magic Aircraft. Sehyun’s airship was like that too. However, when inferring the power device containing three times the magic stone of the existing one and Fan’s intention in showing it off, it appears that Fan had something else he wanted to say to Sehyun.
The search for the expected route for the location of Park Seung-gun’s empire must have already been completed. So, Sehyun also had to prepare.
“Yoo Si-un, Mr. Frog… .”
“yes.”
“A croak.”
“From now on, my words… Listen carefully. Si-Woon Yoo said what I said… “I have to pass it on to others.”
“Yes, please leave it to me.”
Sehyeon secretly took out the alliance ring and put it on the finger hidden by his clothes. From now on, he had to save up as much stamina as possible. Concentration if possible.
Sehyun started with a long sigh and began to reveal her plans for the future. Yu Si-un and the frog man held his body close to him and listened to even the slightest sound of his breathing.
Actually, I wasn’t sure. Rather, it could have been a process that put everyone at risk. Still, Sehyun decided to put her hope in that small possibility.
It was not an action decided solely out of a sense of duty to save, a sense of justice, or good intentions. What I realized after coming here was that the Celestial Race had become an ‘essential element’ for the achievements that empires would achieve in the future.
The way others see it and the way Sehyun sees it.
The Celestials were not people with abilities that could be ignored. Those weren’t empty words, and they weren’t just words he spat out to comfort me.
I only realized this after hearing their skills.
‘Play’ skill.
It was a skill that had never existed before. Back when it was a game, such skills did not exist in Elix. However, most of the Celestials here possessed that skill. Sehyeon expected that it was a unique skill of the race that was created when summoned here.
The reason why Yoo Si-woon stared at Huey and Gong Jae-woo in Se-hyeon’s Empire.
That was because he had the skill to fix Huey’s leg. The desire reflected in Yu Si-un’s eyes was his desire to be helpful.
So, in order to fight that ‘monster’, the Celestial Race had to become indispensable beings in the future. That was the Celestial Race defined by Sehyeon.
Before we knew it, all the Celestials were holding their breath and listening to Sehyun’s voice. The desperation to live and the desperation to escape were palpable.
And when all the talk was over, the secret room became dead quiet again. But Se-hyeon knew that it was to save his stamina and prepare.
It was no different for Yoo Si-un and the frog man. It was a hard gaze. Sehyun accepted those gazes calmly.
A night that might be the last was passing.
***
Sehyeon must have fallen asleep, but when a bang rang through the secret room, Sehyeon reflexively opened her eyes. After a moment of confusion, Sehyeon immediately began looking around.
Except for the blinking light, all other lights in the secret room were turned off. In this case, it meant anchoring somewhere. Sehyun opened her inventory and took out the location actuator. The drive reset had not yet occurred.
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This meant that no more than 12 hours had passed.
Unlike other times, the vibration of the trembling hull created anxiety. The ship’s hull, which had been shaking so much that it tickled my toes, shook again with a bang. The body tilted sharply to the side and the hull began to slowly tilt.
And the emergency alarm sounds. It was immediately after that that all the lights that had been turned off came back on.
“Se, Sehyeon! It’s an alarm… !”
All the lights turned red with an alarm sound. In the foreground of the room that had turned red, crouched bodies were visible, but there was no one shaking inside.
Sehyeon found a recovery potion in his inventory, drank a bottle, and immediately took out his crossbow. The direction the sight was pointing towards was a skill suppression device that was blinking.
Sehyun aimed the arrow at the device and took a long, deep breath. From now on, all my actions had to be left to chance.
“every… “Get ready.”
If you just did exactly what I told you, everyone could survive. Even though he knew that, his fingertips were shaking. When the alarm sounded once more, Sehyun fired an arrow at his skill control device.
bang!
The arrow stretched out straight and pierced right through the blinking back. With the sound of something cracking, the flickering light gradually lost its glow. And when the light was completely extinguished.
Rattling-!
“How can I take care of all these things right now… !”
“I don’t have time! “Move quickly!”
“Throw away the keys!”
“You made such a threat that it was safe, but damn it!”
The door opened and a bunch of men poured into the secret room. The confusion and fear revealed on the urgent faces signaled the severity of the current situation. Sehyeon looked at the bundle of keys his men were finding and taking out.
An urgent hand moved in search of a key, holding a blunt key and heading to a nearby iron cage. However, at that moment, the hull received another external blow and tilted significantly, accompanied by a pounding vibration.
