Episode 271
“Even the Corrupted branch? It takes at least ten days, and depending on the weather and other circumstances, it can take more than twenty days. Of course, nothing special will happen as the time is right.
Tap, tap, tap.
Clap, clap, clap.
Ramon’s voice mixed with the sound of horses’ hooves clashing and wheels rolling is strangely lyrical.
When I looked over the carriage at the word “time,” I saw that it was clearly a spring day.
When the sun was up, tired sunlight poured down, sprouts sprouted, and ants appeared when I looked blankly at the ground.
It was a perfect day to go on a picnic somewhere, but it felt uncomfortable to say out loud that nothing special would happen.
‘please… … .’
“If you say something like that, something happens.”
Lanfero must have had similar thoughts, so he expressed my thoughts exactly as I did.
“Oh my. My brother also said something unlucky… … .”
“It’s not your brother, it’s the boss.”
“… … .”
And I was at a loss as to how to accept this rather rare sight.
Ramon, a regular clan member, is sitting comfortably in the carriage, while clan leader Lanfero is sitting in the driver’s seat and driving a horse.
I was curious why it was arranged this way, so I asked, and received an extremely reasonable answer.
“It would be strange to have a goblin sitting in the driver’s seat and driving a horse.”
“ah.”
That is correct.
A goblin driving a carriage… … . I don’t think I can easily take my eyes off a scene like that.
If you have an extreme temperament or a sense of unnecessary justice, you may draw your sword first.
Still, I felt like I was ignoring the hierarchical relationship, so I insisted that I drive it, and Lanfero responded like this.
“I like driving carriages. Besides, this is a Sadhu chariot, right? “When will I ever drive four horses again in my lifetime?”
He looks like an aristocrat except for his shabby clothes, but it’s his first time driving a four-legged carriage.
No. If you were a noble, wouldn’t you be less likely to drive a carriage? I am also a noble, but I am not sure.
Even so, what clan leader in the world would take the initiative to take on chores just because he likes driving a carriage?
Maybe the relationships in Corrupted are more horizontal than I thought. Including the clan leader, Lanfero.
Anyway, although there was a minor problem at the merchant guild, the journey began peacefully without much fuss.
I leaned back against the carriage and looked at the faces of the people around me.
A goblin, a small giant, a church member pretending to be an inquisitor… … .
‘Even if I tell you to collect it like this, I won’t be able to.’
Ramon seemed to like the carriage, patting it here and there and admiring it.
“Hey. They say that the carriage luggage compartment is usually very uncomfortable, but this carriage is very comfortable. “It feels like I’m sitting on a top-of-the-line sofa.”
“The road is still well-paved, and the Chamber of Commerce said they gave the most expensive one.”
“oh my. Thank you again.”
“I am more grateful. Thanks to this, I was able to buy a carriage like this at a bargain price.”
It’s not a waste of money for a comfortable trip.
Especially on a trip like this, it was clear that I would often meditate or move around, so if the carriage was in poor condition, I would have bought a good one at my own expense.
However, thanks to Ramon, I was able to get a top-of-the-line carriage with almost no money left, so there was nothing wrong with me.
“really… It’s a nice carriage. Moreover, these horses are an improved breed, so they can withstand the cold well and run well on icy roads.”
This is because it is a cold-blooded breed and is a utility horse.
It is a species that cannot be used as a racehorse, so its speed is relatively slow, but it is much larger and has better stamina than an ordinary horse.
Just by looking at it, it looks heavy and solid rather than sleek… No, it’s a horse race.
“nice. “I think having a wagon like this would make it incredibly convenient when receiving supplies or carrying out group missions.”
Ramon stroked the carriage with eyes dripping with honey, as if he had fallen in love with it.
First of all, I am the owner of this carriage.
I was thinking of just handing it over to Ramon, but this goblin flatly refused.
Considering the situation, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to lend the carriage to Corrupted, or even give it to them.
First of all, it is a matter of deciding based on the overall atmosphere of the clan.
“Besides, is there anything to be careful about during this trip?”
“You don’t have to worry too much until you get out of the East. It will probably take six to ten days, but there are cities, villages, and places to camp along the way. “The night is still cool, so I’ll have to light a fire and keep watch.”
“What happens from then on?”
“If nothing happens, we will enter the snowy field. “Have you ever been to the North?”
young master.
Ramon suddenly called me that.
Kayan and Arjan were the names that came to mind, but what are those two doing now?
Both of them are probably doing well.
These are two guys who did their job well in Badknicker, so it’s only right that I’m worried about my future now.
“It’s my first time going. “I’ve heard a lot about it.”
“What did you hear?”
“Isn’t it funny how cold it is all year round? “They say that if you spit, it turns into a piece of ice before it even hits the ground.”
“Puhaha!”
“That is a gross exaggeration.”
Ramon and Mir burst into laughter.
I laughed along with him because it was one of the dumb jokes I heard during my Southern days.
And he kept spouting nonsense in an attempt to lighten the mood.
“Besides, if you make a mistake, you’ll be surrounded by snow trolls, or there’s still a living water dragon at the bottom of a glacier lake, or when you feel warm while wandering in a snowstorm and look down, the skin on the soles of your feet has fallen off… … .”
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“Hehe… It’s a scary place… … .”
“It’s your hometown.”
Mir, who was making stupid noises, seemed to be in better condition than expected.
Rather than feeling discouraged, I felt like I was quietly accumulating anger and motivation, which is a positive thing.
According to Ramon, it takes up to 20 days to get to the north.
That’s 20 days, but if you travel for 20 days, you’ll accumulate almost a month’s worth of fatigue.
If you spend that period crying, worrying, or burning hatred, you will be mentally pushed to your limit when you arrive.
In that case, it is better to be a fool altogether.
You become a fool for a moment, and then the condensed hatred and anger explodes when you encounter an enemy.
‘This is easier said than done.’
Emotions are emotions because they cannot be controlled by oneself.
That’s why I found Mir to be special.
“What are you looking at, Sister?”
Mir asked, looking at Verita.
Maybe it’s because he doesn’t use polite language very often, but when he talks to Verita, his tone becomes particularly strange.
Does it seem like a lie when you show your fighting spirit in front of the feed?
Verita, who was reading the document, smiled slightly and answered.
“This is the content of this request. “I plan to organize it after reading it.”
“I see.”
“If you’re bored, would you like to read the scriptures?”
“Gwae, it’s okay…” … .”
“That’s a shame.”
I checked the contents of my backpack and found cookies from De Marlin Refreshment Shop rolling around inside.
As I put the remaining piece in my mouth and chewed it, Mir asked.
“What are you eating?”
“cookie.”
“omg. “Give it to me too.”
“That was the last time?”
“Unbelievable… … .”
Mir, who was in despair, felt sorry for me and said to Berita.
“Razbet, if you have any leftover cookies, please give them to me.”
“… … .”
Verita, who was calmly flipping through documents, paused for a moment and said.
“sorry. “I already ate it all.”
“okay? That’s right, Mir. “Do you want some beef jerky?”
“Give it!”
I threw the jerky into Mir’s mouth as it opened.
And after a while, the carriage became quiet as Mir began to take a nap.
“… … .”
Traveling is usually accompanied by silence like this.
The overall lively and chattering atmosphere continued, but at some point, it became quiet as if everything had come together, and that was the case now.
Ramon took out something like an abacus and a statement and started doing some calculations, while Verita was still checking the mission-related documents.
I also had nothing to do, so I thought I should read something, but when I thought about it, the only book I had was the Book of Heavenly Evils.
While I was thinking about it, I decided to read it again.
Last time, I felt like it was difficult to treat the book as a book because my emotions were fluctuating due to the cruel content.
My thoughts were not wrong, and although I still felt anger and pity, I was able to read the book much more calmly than last time… … .
I was able to accept the content with a somewhat objective perspective.
Since I had read the book once, the reading speed itself was not that slow, but the problem came after I finished reading the book.
“… … ?”
I saw something I had never seen before in a book.
At first, I thought I had forgotten something, but no. No matter how many times you read it, it doesn’t seem like a sentence you’ve read before, but rather a phrase you read for the first time.
In other words, new content was clearly added to Cheonaktanseo.
It was a little embarrassing, but since it was a strange object to begin with, there was nothing strange about it.
I noticed the new additions.
[Can only evil be born in the abyss of evil?]
[I fully understand the importance of the environment.]
[I also ignored numerous tragedies for my own sake. He lived a life no different from that of an animal, prioritizing only hunger, survival, and the most primal desires.]
[This may be a late retrospective.]
[But one day, when I look back on my own footsteps in the twilight of my life, I hope that I will think like this at least once.]
[I’m glad I regretted it even then.]
I felt slightly uncomfortable.
For some reason, the feeling was quite different from the book I read before.
‘The speaker has changed.’
The handwriting also changed, and I soon discovered who had written the new information.
This is Sister Cheon’s residence.
Of course, it was a little different from the sister-in-law’s handwriting I remembered.
It was rough rather than elegant, but it occurred to me that the Sister Cheon I knew when I wrote this book might have been quite different from the Sister Cheon I knew.
[My origins are extremely humble, and my roots are also tainted by evil. The whole world gathered together to disparage me, probably because my history is not important to them.]
[At one point, it was almost broken by such a storm.]
[I thought that if Gangho defined me as a demon who would overshadow the sky, I would gladly become that.]
[Have the gazes of those arrogant people who call themselves Baekdo ever touched the cold snowy mountains?]
[When the eyes of one thousand and seven hundred and twenty-seven children were gouged out, their tongues cut out, their eardrums torn out, and eventually even their sense of touch disappeared from their whole bodies, and when they sobbed for salvation through this throat that had swallowed only rotten food, our cries were heard. Did they hear the barking?]
[I didn’t hear it.]
[Maybe you didn’t listen.]
[So when one thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven became nine hundred and fifty-nine, when nine hundred and fifty-nine became five hundred and forty-six, when five hundred and forty-six became two hundred and one, and when two hundred and one became ninety-nine… … .]
[…] Until the ninety-nine became one, their eyes never once looked towards the depths of hell.]
[I resented and hated.]
[Even though I killed all the evildoers who gave me hell, the pain in my heart did not go away.]
[Is it because murder cannot be a requiem?]
[Then how can we soothe the souls of the 1,700 and twenty-six children?]
The handwriting was particularly difficult to read in this part, and it took quite a while to read and understand as it was not a familiar character.
Not only was it rough, but it also looked extremely confused, as evidenced by Sister Cheon’s emotional state at the time.
[I wandered aimlessly around the world.]
[It was a journey without a destination or a place to return to.]
[But what is the meaning of a journey that cannot be seen, heard, or felt? By losing all five senses, I acquired six senses, which were more sensitive than anyone else’s, but this was too much power for a purposeless ronin.]
[Then there would be no meaning in life.]
[Am I really alive?]
[At some point, I came to think of myself as a ghost. An evil spirit wandering this world without even realizing that he has already died.]
[Actually, maybe I should have died under that cold snowy mountain too. With my brothers and sisters who had the same fate as me.]
[If that were the case, a monster devoured by hatred and resentment would not have been born.]
[It was a natural consequence that my next thought would lead to death.]
[And there is only one place in the world where I will die.]
“… … .”
I turned the pages in silence.
[On the way back to the snowy mountain, I passed a village.]
[It was a village with absolutely no vitality, but signs of rotting blood and flesh could be felt from the entrance.]
[As we entered the center of the village, there was an altar made of human bones. Dozens of children were tied naked on this unclean altar. Only then did I understand the situation.]
[It was the scene of a ritual conducted by a cult.]
[Surprisingly, they also called themselves demonic religions. It is a derivative religion that has the same roots as the Heavenly Demon Church, but uses different methods.]
[I overturned the ritual and annihilated the cultists. It was the moment when I was about to leave again, covered in blood. I felt a soft hand grabbing my collar.]
[The child was just about eight or nine years old.]
[In the eyes of a child who had just escaped death, a desire for life was still visible.]
[Like the children who passed away in vain under the snowy mountain, or like me once… … .]
[At that moment, I felt as if I had suddenly been liberated from all the restraints that had bound me. I realized it at the same time.]
[It is a time when righteousness and cooperation have fallen to the ground. Could it be that we were the only ones crying under the already dead sky?]
[In the end, I realized that even my feelings of resentment toward the world were born from intolerance.]
[…] It’s just that the kite didn’t reach it.]
[Suddenly this thought occurred to me.]
[If the gaze of the white sword is directed to the livelihood of the people of the world, and the gaze of the sword is directed to the battlefield named Gangho… … . Isn’t magic the only thing that can save those wandering down the road to hell?]
[Shouldn’t I be a kite to those who have fallen into the pit of evil, at the bottom of hell, where even their sobs are swallowed up by blood?]
[Because only those who have experienced hell can understand hell.]
Handwriting.
Around this time, I realized that Sister Cheon’s handwriting had returned to the form I knew.
If so, it would be at this moment that the personality of Sister Cheon, who had been wandering, was completed.
[I will say it again.]
[My origins were lowly, and my roots were also riddled with evil.]
[However, if I, who was born as an evil person, for evil purposes, and for an evil world, can establish righteousness and cooperation without being broken by it, wouldn’t that be the greatest revenge on those who played a role in my life?]
[Therefore, I will not abandon the name Heavenly Demon.]
[I hope that those who kidnapped the young Cheon will shed tears of blood when they one day find out about my actions in the afterlife… … .]
[…] I swore to walk the path of salvation in the name of Cheonma.]
(Illustration 271)
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