How to Survive as a Player Chapter 89

#89

Abduction 1.

I felt like I had lived an abandoned life. To Renshis, the world was a harsh and desolate place.

The ‘Gaul tribe’ was said to be stronger and braver than any other being on earth, including across the entire continent. Renshis was a child born into that tribe.

On the day he was born, a red moon rose in the sky and the cries of birds engulfed the heavens and earth. Everyone thought it was a bad omen.

The child was abandoned on a cliff on a day when a red moon rose. The birds, which were crying in the dark, tore their legs apart to devour the child, whose cries were faint.

The child was originally destined to die like that.

However, a swarthy-looking soldier approached with a surprised face, swatted away the birds, and picked up the child. He was a soldier with the worst appearance, so much so that he looked like a lost castaway, but his will to save his child was clear.

That was the reason Renshis lived. The person who saved Renshis was a mere soldier working as the gatekeeper of the empire. He was a man with gray hair.

He took in Lenshis, a child he had no relation to, and began raising him as if he were his own child. He tried to raise his children without any shortages, and every night he prayed to someone and whispered about his whereabouts.

However, when Renshis was ten years old, the soldier who raised him died in an unfortunate accident. All that was left behind was a small house, some dusty possessions, and a small, old box.

It was so unbelievable that even the sadness felt dry. When Len Schus realized the sadness, he spent three days curled up in an empty room.

It was after that that I had the courage to open the small box. Inside the box was a small note along with an expensive-looking gauntlet. It was not written by a soldier. Moreover, at the time, Renshis could not read.

Everything was daunting. Only then did the crushing loneliness seep into my bones. Len Schus moved to forget his loneliness.

I had to live. And she felt like she had to read it. From then on, with the gauntlet and paper in his arms, Renshis started looking for work, even the odd jobs.

He joined a mercenary group and made a living by doing odd jobs, learning swordsmanship over his shoulder and practicing clumsily every night.

After just three years, Renshis was recognized for his outstanding spirit compared to his peers and was able to officially join the mercenary corps. It was around this time that he learned that the letters he always carried with him were not in the language of the empire. No one in the mercenary group knew the writing, and no one could read it.

The emotion that came before bitter frustration was patience.

Let’s look around the world.

Until I meet someone who knows these letters. As he touched his gauntlets, which had lost their luster and had scratches, Ren Shis engraved the long wait in his heart.

From then on, I poured blood into my gauntlet without stopping and never took it off my body to become stronger. Until his name became known to the ends of a distant continent, Len Schus never stopped growing.

However, even though he traveled across the continent, participated in wars, and learned the languages ​​of all the empires he absorbed, Renshis was never able to interpret the writing.

It was the beginning of a meaningless life. It was a frighteningly deep feeling of emptiness. The faded gauntlets and scorched paper aroused my thirst. I felt suffocated at every moment due to the unrelieved feeling of oppressiveness.

In impatience and anxiety, Renshis searched the battlefield. At the time, it was the only way for him to relieve his suppressed emotions. He repeatedly experienced victory and defeat in battles he fought day and night.

On the battlefield where he fought knowing that he would be defeated, Renshis predicted the end. In the end, his final moments took place in the middle of war. With arrows piercing his entire body, Renshis fell to his knees on the bloody frozen ground as the sun set.

As blood poured out, my vision turned red. Even at the moment of his death, what Ren Schus found was a piece of grimy paper in his arms.

As I held it with trembling fingertips and unfolded it, the text I had read countless times came into view. Even death, which was at her feet, could not stop that desire. She closed her eyes slowly, and for the first time, tears welled up in her opened eyes.

In the end, I couldn’t read it.

The tears that fell on the paper were his last. Renshis faced eternity, holding the paper tightly under the setting sun.

I definitely should have done that.

Snap-

When I opened my eyes, what I encountered was a completely different world. Where the bloody smell disappeared, there was a puddle of rainwater. The warm sunlight and brown earth in front brought back memories of the terrible war.

And a clean letter in your hand.

The stains on my hands were still the same, but the blood had disappeared as if it had been washed away. Renshis slowly advanced beyond the puddle towards the huge open door.

That was the beginning of hell.

“wren… ?”

What brought Lenshis out of his deep thoughts was when a friendly voice rang through the drizzling water.

Renshis’ eyes immediately turned to the side. His worried gaze was close. The eyes looking up were pale in the sunlight. A smile spread across Renshis’s lips.

“Yes, Rod.”

my load. Renshis slowly stretched out his hand and carefully brushed back the blonde hair tickling his white cheek. Even his slightly closed eyes were delicate and pretty.

“Are you in any pain, Ren?”

“Yes, no. Rod rather than me.”

“Look at me.”

The tickling touch immediately touched Renshis’ cheek. Lenshis lowered his body and quietly closed his eyes. His hand grazed my cheek and seemed to lightly touch my forehead, but a moment later it moved away, leaving behind only a lingering feeling.

“Tell me right away if it hurts, okay?”

A worried smile took away the dark thoughts. As the dull memory faded, another memory took its place.

A man whose warm smile spread through the cold warmth was impressive.

It was also the day I felt the warmth of sunlight for the first time. At a time when everyone was exhausted from repeated deaths, the 42nd king had a faint face.

He was a particularly small and delicate man. But when her faint face greeted him, Ren Shis felt the cold melt away from her warm smile.

Even though everything was blurry, the emotions were still conveyed. It felt warm and comfortable.

“Ren, it’s time. let’s go.”

Renshis stood up, holding the delicate hand that was holding mine. The water from the fountain behind my back began to recede. The knights were waiting for training time. He couldn’t hide his worries all morning, wondering if the drivers were having a hard time under the scorching sun on this hot day.

It seemed even more so because it had been a long time since the heat had come.

“Rod, you’re hurt. Please walk slowly.”

“Ren, kids fall down. “We have to go quickly.”

The walk to the training center became faster. Knights were talented people who could survive in a fire pit for three days. These people were not even shaken because Kyle constantly brainwashed them and maintained their discipline through high-intensity training.

Even their speech, intonation, and facial expressions were trained and refined, and even their emotions were able to be controlled. Rather, discipline had become so lax that the heroes could be heard yelling at the Archduke of the fortress.

Of course, if you look at those wings fluttering before your eyes.

I was very worried because it was still soft and weak, and my immunity was not high enough, so I was still reacting sensitively to changes in the weather.

When it suddenly gets cold or suddenly hot, the wings start to flutter, which is why the heroes’ hearts are pounding.

With our hasty steps, the training center quickly appeared. The car was sitting nearby waiting to begin with, so it wasn’t too far away.

Lenshis quietly captured the image of Sehyeon visiting the training center located behind the training center. Although the clothes that covered his neck were quite uncomfortable, he never once said anything that he disliked.

On the contrary, he even went to great lengths to grant all his requests. Whatever it was, he listened to it all.

Without even knowing that it might be abandoning more heroes.

“… road.”

“huh?”

As soon as he was called, his eyes immediately looked back. The two people stopped under a shady building. The warm warmth in my hand made me forget about the cruel battlefield.

For Renshis, he was a sanctuary. He was the only one who made me forget about the sea of ​​blood, and the benefactor who helped me escape the countless moments of death.

However, because it was so weak and small, you had to check it every moment to feel safe. Several times a day, the heroes were scared that he would disappear, worried that he would get hurt, and scared that he would turn around.

“only once… “Can’t I hug you?”

The gray eyes that had been staring blankly widened slightly after a while. At the small sound of permission, Ren Shis stretched out his trembling hand, brushed his waist, and wrapped his arms around him inside.

The thirst that quenched every time I hugged him was to the point where I couldn’t even quench it even a little today, perhaps because the day was hot.

Perhaps that was why strength naturally entered my arms. When she realized, her chest was touching so much that her heart was pounding. The sound of light breathing reached Renshis’s ears.

I hugged my weak body and took a long breath, and only then did the thirst that seemed to build up begin to subside. The reason Renshis let go of Sehyeon was when he had filled his empty thirst.