Episode 236. Dark clouds and red clouds
How long has it been since Kundalit once again roamed the plains in the form of a red panther?
“… … !”
I felt something and stopped running.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
Thanks to the water personification, his senses became more delicate, and he could feel the vibrations of the meadow. Was it a tidal wave of the wound? That was what he thought at first.
But it didn’t seem to be a tidal wave of stray dogs. When he took a deep breath and filled his body with the breath of the prairie, he smelled the familiar and lingering scent of stray dogs.
‘There are a lot of scars.’
It was strange that the Tuhun horses were moving in groups around here. The five Tuhun tribes moved seasonally to herd horses, but the place where the Kundalit stopped was not the territory of any tribe.
‘no way.’
Kundalit raised his head and looked up at the sky. Only then did he notice the bird flying in a circle.
The bird’s appearance was rather unique; although its body was covered in feathers, its legs were human-shaped.
‘Lack of pupils!’
They were a group of people who used eagles as their human bodies.
Soon, the person with the eyeless tribe floating in the sky seemed to recognize Kundalit. He flapped his wings and came down to the ground.
“Kundalit? That’s right! Kundalit! You said you’d pass by, and you really did!”
“Uh, you… Talaskun?”
I don’t know every single Kundalit who lacks pupils, but I did know this outstanding young man.
He was the one who had been designated as the next chief of the Snowball Tribe. He often hung out with the chiefs at gatherings.
“But, you knew I was coming?”
“The chieftain told me.”
Come to think of it, Rubin and Haneke were able to communicate, and Haneke was able to incarnate next to Rayubia. So he must also know that Kundalit has returned to the meadow.
“Then you were waiting for me?”
At those words, Talaskun shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. His widely spread wings caught Kundalit’s attention.
“No, that’s not it. Right now I’m helping the Knee-Lack people move their saddles. I’m staying in the sky to watch for any Imperial bastards.”
Come to think of it, in the sky, apart from Talaskun, there were other members of the Eye Tribe standing in line, guarding the surrounding area.
“Ah, so that’s why it smelled like a horse slaughterhouse.”
After a while, a procession of thousands of horses came into view.
Kangaroo men with sturdy muscles can be seen here and there in the gaps between the procession of the horses. They are the Knee-Deficient People.
A person with knee-deep instep approached with a kangaroo-like movement, perhaps spotting Kundalit and Talaskun from the other side.
At first I wondered who he was, but it turned out he wasn’t someone I didn’t know. I just didn’t recognize him because he was a kangaroo.
“Kundalit. You’re back.”
A familiar, clear voice. It was ‘Vahana’, who was currently leading the Knee Tribe. As Kundalit continued to hesitate, she finished her transformation and showed herself as a human.
“Sorry, Bahana. I didn’t recognize you. It’s my first time seeing a humanoid with knee problems.”
“I feel awkward about myself, so why wouldn’t you?”
“That’s the same for me. I jumped up in surprise when I saw my own shadow.”
Everyone laughed in agreement with Kundalit’s words. When Kundalit saw the two, he realized that the ‘Oath of Roar’ had begun.
“But it’s true that I feel very comfortable when I’m like this.”
Bahana said, wagging her long kangaroo tail.
“I’ve put up with it for too long.”
That was true. I had just been hiding another aspect that was given to me from birth.
“But Bahana, where are you moving the horses?”
“For now, to the territory of the Fang Tribe.”
“The territory of the Fang Tribe?”
“The Chieftain thinks that if we are to win, we need to limit the battlefield. We are gathering the tusks to use them within the limited battlefield.”
Bahana raised her hand as if she had remembered something.
“Ah, to be exact, it’s the grandfather’s idea rather than the chieftain’s.”
“Grandpa?”
I knew he wasn’t talking about Chieftain Inakitu.
“When the Chieftain gathered all the chieftains, the tactician grandpa came with him. He was so smart! Kohurt and Manyasque were completely destroyed.”
Kohurt and Manyasque, leaders of the Foot Tribe and the Fang Tribe respectively.
As it turns out, there was a bit of conflict at the meeting where the chieftain gathered all the chieftains and spoke about the dangers of the thorns.
It literally ended with a minor conflict, but it could have potentially escalated into a serious internal strife.
“I was there too! Kohurt and Manyasque, they refused to follow the Chieftain’s will.”
Talaskun, who had been listening, said.
Perhaps it was an expected process. It was a matter of breaking the ‘Vow of Silence’ that had been in place for a long time. Since the fate of the Tohun was at stake, it was natural that it would not be easy to follow the words of the Chieftain.
“There was a fight.”
“You know what kind of guys those two are? They just charged at me like crazy orcs before the tactician grandpa could even prove anything.”
Proving the tidal wave of invalidated marks. That was the original plan of the chieftain and Haneke, but Haneke had to face the attacks of the two chieftains first.
It was even said that it was in a personified state.
“Have you ever seen a personification of the foot-and-tooth tribe and the fang tribe?”
“I think I saw it once when I was young, but I don’t remember very well.”
“Kohurut turned into a rhinoceros bigger than the golem on the wall over there, and Manyasque turned into a crocodile man. It was brutal. They rushed at me in that state.”
But things didn’t go as Kohurt and Manyasque had hoped. It only took a moment for Haneke, who possessed the seven-star realm, to subdue Kohurt, the rhinoceros beast.
Although the crocodile Manyasque could be said to have a human temperament, the person who helped Haneke stop him was Imacallum.
Although there was no need to help, there was a need to show the Clavicle Tribe’s trust in Hanene.
“As expected, it’s the ‘Wind of the Fighting.’ It’s incredibly strong.”
“What next?”
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Even though they were overpowered by force, it is unlikely that the Foot Tribe and the Fang Tribe would immediately agree to the ‘Oath of Roar’.
“Then, we proved it with the polar wheel.”
The polar wheel that did not die in the ‘Tsundere’ in front of everyone. Just like the Clavicle Tribe, all the tribal chiefs were greatly shocked.
But even so, Kohurt and Manyasque stood up to make their final stand.
The Empire’s plan was true and Haneke was strong, but protecting them from the oncoming orcs and monsters was another matter.
“So we had another showdown.”
“I don’t know how, but I know the result.”
“That’s right, that old tactician convinced everyone there.”
“Bahana, since you keep calling Haneke a tactician, I think I know what you showed me.”
“Oh, that’s right! His name was Haneke. Do you know that old man?”
“I don’t know much about it either. I’ve never seen it.”
“You’ve never seen it?”
All the major incidents that had occurred on the plains had happened after Kundalit left the plains with Rubin. The red clouds of Layubia, and the existence of the tactician grandfather.
“I only heard stories. I don’t know what’s so special about the red clouds in Layubia. The castle of clouds.”
“You don’t know about red clouds?”
“It looks like you two have already seen the red clouds.”
“Of course! I saw Kohurt and Manyasque get killed for the third time that day.”
What Haneke showed to the players was his tactical ability.
The Fang Tribe Chief and the Instep Tribe Chief are given the Tooth Horse and Tooth Men, and Haneke himself uses his troops in the same way.
It took a whole day to set up a specific mock battlefield, but Haneke knew it was necessary, not only to convince the Fang and Foot Tribes, but also all the Thuun tribes.
“It ended really blandly.”
“I told you they were both completely destroyed.”
Although it was a simplified mock battle, it was said to be a perfect victory enough to gain everyone’s trust.
In fact, the ability of the Tooth Fairies to handle the Tooth Fairies was absolute. Moreover, this was the Tooth Fairy Plains.
In other words, Haneke led poorly trained soldiers into enemy territory, and yet he overturned expectations.
On this day, Haneke showed us what strategy is. He made good use of the habits and psychology of the people he had seen so far.
For example, they faked the corpse of a horse to provoke the two chieftains, and made them mistake each other for attacking each other.
“Thanks to that, no one doubts the tactician anymore. He’s strong and smart.”
Fortunately, if Rubin could get the immune nullifying drug here, it really didn’t seem impossible to protect the grassland.
“That’s right! You, let’s go together to the territory of the Fang Tribe. If we go there, we’ll be able to meet Rayubia. We’ll also be able to see red clouds!”
Bahana shouted.
“We are evacuating all the children of the Tooth Tribe to Jeokun. The Fang Tribe is last. That’s why I said I would come and pick up the children today.”
There was no need to ask if it was true, because at that moment, a cloud appeared quickly passing over the heads of the three.
The clouds were getting closer to the ground, which made them stand out so clearly even in the darkness of the night sky.
It was so grand and magnificent that it filled Kundalit’s vision.
“Kundalit, get on my back. I’ll take you there.”
Talaskun said. He, who had released his watermanship in the middle of the conversation, was suddenly in the form of an eagle waterman again.
“Is that okay?”
“Do you know what the tactician grandpa made us, the Eye Tribe, do? He kept telling us to put someone on board, saying that we should use it to infiltrate the Clavicle Tribe warriors.”
The red cloud passed them by and quickly approached the territory of the Fang Tribe. Kundalit, who was watching the red cloud gradually get further away, climbed onto Talaskun’s back.
“If that’s the case.”
As soon as he got on, Talascun started running with his two tautly muscled legs.
It kicked the ground and spread its wings wide in a frightening manner. It flew into the sky, pushing out the air with powerful wingbeats.
“I’m so happy that the child you and Imacallum loved so much has become a hero!”
Bahana’s voice could be heard from far away on the ground. Kundalit chuckled.
Checking the cumulonimbus was secondary, and I wanted to quickly see Rayubia and Imacalum’s faces. I thought it would be an eternal separation, but they came back alive.
Wheeeeeeee.
Talaskun followed the rear of the red cloud. At the rear of the red cloud, a flock of eagle beastmen of the eye tribe were waiting. When they found Talaskun, they waved their arms widely to signal.
“Now that you’ve identified us as allies, we can get closer.”
Although it was a short period of time, under the leadership of Haneke and Rayubia, the Tuhun people were beginning to take on the appearance of soldiers.
Talaskun continued to advance above the cumulus clouds. For Kundalit, having clouds under his eyes was an experience he had never had in his dreams, but there was something even more surprising.
The sight unfolding above the clouds was something that really caught his eye.
Above the clouds, the voices of children filled the air. They were all around Rayubia’s age or younger. They had not yet gone through the ritual of turning fourteen and had not yet been able to identify their own bodies.
It seemed as if those children alone formed a tribe.
“You idiot! I told you, that’s not how you spread your teeth!”
“Then what you made is that, Tohunpuya? I thought it was an orc tomb.”
“Are you a person with a weak foot, who looks like a rhinoceros?”
“Yeah, you comb the orc’s hair!”
Even the sight of them bickering brought a smile to Kundalit’s face.
In fact, the sound of children chatting had long since ceased in the Clavicle Tribe. A plague had broken out, and all the children had died, with Rayubia being the only survivor.
Rayubia, who grew up so lonely, is now the lord of Jeokun Castle, protecting all the children.
“Kundalit. No matter how amazing it is, don’t drool on my back.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
At Talaskun’s words, Kundalit wiped away her tears.
“There’s Rayubia. And there’s the tactician grandpa. Can’t you see Imacarum?”
In fact, the two of them didn’t know, but Imacalum had discovered them earlier and was running over the red clouds. In the form of a black panther.
Meanwhile, Rayubia was concentrating on controlling the red cloud and bringing it down closer to the ground. This was done through a mental connection with Elchio, who was pulling the red cloud.
In the end, it was Haneke who noticed the approach of the eagle man.
“Rayubia, your chief has finally arrived… … .”
The moment when Talaskun landed on the cumulonimbus and Kundalit took careful steps.
A black figure passed Haneke and snatched Kundalit away.
“Eww! What the heck, you!”
“Are you really alive? Are you a ghost?”
Imacallum and Kundalit rolled around on the floor several times. The black panther examined Kundalit’s face here and there with its thick paws.
“Yeah, I’m alive! I’m not dead yet!”
“Kundalit! There are two prisoners of the Empire in our tribe alone! And they both came back alive!”
Kundalit stood up and shook himself. He moved his feet a few times again, concentrating on the sensation of the rustling clouds.
“I have a sense of honor as the lord of the castle, so I can’t rush in, Kundalit.”
Rayubia said with a smile. And before I knew it, the children’s eyes were focused in this direction.
The Lord of Red Cloud was different from the Chieftain of the Tohun Tribe. Rayubia was the captain of the ship and the spiritual leader of the children who had no fighting ability.
Kundalit smiled gently at the sight of Rayubia quietly touching the clouds with the Black Soul Sword.
Then, Haneke stepped forward.
“Yes, if your body is missing, then Imakarum is enough. Nice to meet you, Kundalit. I have been watching you from inside Luhan, but this is our first meeting, right?”
“Yes, Haneke. So Felkyon really resembles you.”
Kundalit suddenly remembered something and asked immediately.
“I broke up with Luhan Melas two days ago. How are you?”
Haneke answered, brushing his beard away.
“He is someone who has infiltrated the enemy lines while the clouds of war are gathering. I can’t say he is doing well. However, he continues to deliver valuable information. I heard that the Grandbird carrying the Imperial General will arrive there tomorrow.”
War is imminent.
