Episode 72
burnt snow field
Of course, Elric’s physical body techniques were not yet fully restored.
There was still a lot of work to be done and many parts that needed to be added.
However, theoretically, it is almost completely established.
Even if just that was delivered, it would be of great help to the beast people.
‘Because Gangcheoljuk was originally created to suit the beast people. Rather, thanks to them, you might be able to fill in the parts you were missing. I too would be greatly inspired. ‘Hehe.’
Of course, it could have resulted in the overall power of the beast people improving.
Well, what should I do?
‘I guess I can think about it then.’
Rather, if possible, Elric wanted to be welcomed as a collaborator or ally of the new family he was cultivating.
The beast people were once so prosperous that they even threatened the northern part of the empire.
‘Even though we are now disorganized due to various factions, it would still be a great benefit if just some of us join hands.’
This was natural for Elric, who did not have much patriotism to begin with.
‘I even saw a glimpse of records showing that in the past, unlike other human forces, they were friendly with the original family.’
Of course, since it happened so long ago that few people remember it anymore, it cannot be accepted.
‘by the way.’
Elric narrowed his eyes.
‘How do you find the beast people?’
I heard he shouted at Augustine and others.
In fact, Elric was also wondering how to find the beastmen.
The black snow field is very wide. And it’s complicated. Finding only the beast people in a place like this would be like finding a needle in a sandy desert or a rocky island in an open ocean.
‘It would be nice to see some kind of reaction to this.’
Elric took out an ice crystal he had received from Otto Han a long time ago, wondering if it might be a hint.
“Disciple, that’s… ?”
Augustine’s eyes widen as if he recognized the ice crystal.
Hwaaa!
Suddenly, the ice crystal gave off a bright light and floated into the air.
A light that only feels cold and cold.
Then, the ice crystal spun in place like a compass, and stopped while pointing in one direction.
It was visible to Elric with his mind’s eyes wide open.
From the end of the ice crystal, the grain continues somewhere like a thread.
“Karl!”
Hearing Elric’s urgent shout, Carol opened the coach door and looked over to see what was going on.
“25 degrees to starboard. “Drive your horse in the northeast direction!”
“yes? yes!”
Although Carol was startled, she calmly pulled on the horse’s reins.
I don’t know how long Bingjeong will be able to show me the way so kindly.
So, I had to somehow move as much as possible within it.
Even though the monsters kept holding on to my ankles.
* * *
As Elric guessed, the ice crystal pointed the way for about an hour and then quietly sank again.
I felt like I had run out of strength.
“Should I really call him Mervinger? “I’m not sure by what mechanism this works.”
Augustine looked at the ice crystal with interest. Then, as he looked around the surrounding forest, which was dark as if night had fallen, he narrowed his eyebrows slightly.
“But… Where on earth is this? “Oh, do you see something?”
“I’ve been releasing familiars since a while ago, but anyone who leaves the forest is being eaten.”
Giliti shook her head with a disapproving look on her face.
“hmm.”
“The ice has broken off here, so let’s take a look around for a bit.”
Following Elric’s opinion, the group drove the carriage slowly and wandered around.
Perhaps because it was the entrance area with a glimpse of the barrier, no particularly strong monsters had yet appeared, but objects that were too much for Sean and Carl were slowly appearing.
There were also eyes glaring at us from all over.
Each one had the gaze of a monster crazy with thirst and hunger.
Then.
“Aaaah!”
Suddenly a woman’s scream was heard.
Elric and Augustine made eye contact for a moment, and Carol pulled the reins hard again and drove the carriage that way.
There was a woman trapped between monsters.
Pointed ears and a long tail extending from the buttocks.
The overall appearance was human, but it seemed to have the impression of a cat.
“… Myoin people?”
The moment the name of the race that boasted a fairly large number of beastmen was mentioned, the monsters rushed at the woman as if they had been waiting for them.
“hmm. That’s a bit… .”
“haha! “It’s so blatantly suspicious, isn’t it?”
Elric was dumbfounded by the ‘too contrived’ situation and ended up laughing, but Augustin just let out a light laugh.
“But you still can’t stay still, can you?”
“But since we finally found it, we need to get the rhythm right first.”
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Elric jumped out of the carriage, telling his companions that he would step forward.
“Let’s experiment with the things we’ve developed so far.”
Elric unleashed his magic power by activating the Seal of Relentlessness.
“【Opening of arms】.”
Hwaaah-
Centered around him, pure white snow begins to fall little by little, so much so that it contrasts so well with the surrounding background.
“【Swing】.”
Elric has recently been trying to find ways to modify and strengthen the three spells he mainly uses.
Among these, we decided that it would be better to amplify the attack power of the most frequently used ‘Ice Arrow’ to the maximum.
This was because, rather than simply drawing ice arrows indefinitely and pummeling the enemy, efficiency would inevitably increase if the enemy could be tied up with freezing cold in the surrounding area.
That is why ‘Snowstorm’ was created.
This magic, which combines ‘whirlwind snowstorm’ and ‘hail shower’, could be said to boast the greatest destructive power within an extremely short period of time within a certain range.
just as expected.
Whihwihwi!
In an instant, a cold wind blew from somewhere, creating a vortex that surrounded the monsters, and hard ice arrows and hail rained down from the sky and began to attack them.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!
Puff puff puff!
Wow!
Kieeeeek!
The monsters’ skin was pierced and shattered in an instant, and they had to rest their heads helplessly on the floor.
With green blood pouring out and staining the black ground.
“shit. “If you have something like that, use it right away!”
“… “I’m devastated.”
Sean and Carol, who had had to go through a lot of trouble to fight off monsters on the coach seat, looked helpless.
Sean made a firm promise to himself that he would later catch Elric and nag him.
thud!
The commotion ended like a lie as the last remaining monster collapsed.
“are you okay? many. “You were surprised, right?”
Elric approached the Myoin woman, who was sitting in her seat with a bewildered look on her face, and held out his hand.
Sean and Carol, who were watching this, secretly whispered again.
“I was really surprised. Master Elric, you can’t act, right?”
“uh. “I got a C in the theater class I took as a general education course.”
“You managed to not fail?”
“I bought a bottle of high-quality wine and managed to ej*cu!ate. “At that time, the professor was stuck on some research he was doing, so I helped him out.”
“aha.”
For some reason, it felt too much like reading a Korean language book.
Carol nodded as if she finally understood.
Because Elric’s senses are much more sensitive than others, he was able to hear the conversation between the two people, and he was moved to tears on the inside, but he still tried not to show it outwardly as much as possible.
Fortunately, the Myoin woman was so focused on the monster’s corpse that she barely seemed to hear the conversation.
“If you are injured, we will help you treat it. So, wake up first… !”
For a moment, the dazed Myoin woman opened her eyes wide as if she had come to her senses, but then her face changed into a cruel look.
“I don’t accept any human help.”
No sooner had those words ended.
Shhh!
A considerable number of figures appeared on the trees nearby.
“Everyone put your hands up and kneel down.”
Elric and his party were already surrounded by the beastmen.
Numerous bows and crossbows were all aimed in this direction.
“If you do not surrender until the count of three, we will recognize this as resistance and attack. one two… .”
Elric quickly exchanged glances with Augustine and others.
It just means to be obsessed.
Sean looked very dissatisfied, but as Elric described him as a ‘bat’, he was the first to kneel and surrender.
The other party members also surrendered, and finally, Elric smiled mischievously while raising both hands.
“surrender.”
* * *
Elric and his group were immediately moved to another place, locked in a mobile prison brought by the beastmen.
The wooden prison pulled by a monster that looked like a salamander seemed stronger than I thought.
Is it because the strength of wood appears to be stronger than most steel?
『Seeing that you are filled with mana restraints, it seems like your future is being foreshadowed. ha ha ha!”
Mephisto burst into laughter as if he felt refreshed as he looked at Elric, who looked like a criminal.
but.
[I guess you liked the handstand tap dance? One more call?]
『… What? How do you use magical power?』
Mephisto looked at Elric with wide eyes.
As soon as the beastmen captured Elric and his party, they immediately attempted to restrain their magical power.
This was because after seeing a group of monsters being killed with a single shot of magic, they felt a sense of crisis that they might also get hurt.
But Elric seemed to have no problem at all.
[Isn’t this too crude?]
Elric snorted while waving his handcuffs.
Clearly, the magical energy was being restrained little by little, but not entirely. It seemed that its performance as a magic tool was not that excellent.
『… Come to think of it, the beastmen were originally far from magic. Since they were driven to such a remote area, any skills they had would have deteriorated along with them. But no matter what, this is a bit… .』
[What is this?]
『… I was going to say that it would definitely be a huge boon for you who are trying to find the Flower Temple.』
Elric was dumbfounded as he watched Mephisto shamelessly change the topic, but he didn’t bother to point it out and changed the topic elsewhere.
[By the way, this is what I expected, but it is so bleak that people live there.]
Before we knew it, the mobile prison was entering what was thought to be a village of beastmen.
No, if we were to be honest, should we call it a city rather than a village?
The moment I passed through the monument, which looked like a simple rock, a completely different world from the outside appeared.
Above a large open space created by extensive logging in the middle of the forest.
Numerous buildings were lined up tightly, and each was divided into sections with different functions.
It was large enough to accommodate thousands of people.
the problem is.
‘It’s too messy. I feel like I’m going to collapse any moment.’
All the buildings looked dangerously close to collapsing, as if they had been hit by the winds of time.
There were also traces of destruction and black scorch marks everywhere.
There was an overall gloomy look.
“omg! I can’t believe the search party caught them… ?”
“human! “You’re human!”
“Why on earth did humans come here? “They’re not trying to invade this village or anything like that, right?”
“Why on earth did you bring me here! “Just kill me!”
The beastmen all came out of the house and were looking at Elric with wary eyes.
[I expected it, but are you really looking at me like I’m going to kill you?]
『It’s not just strangers like us who caused you humans to lose their home. Everyone you despise by calling them ‘demi-humans.’』
From the beginning, the word ‘sub-human’ itself had the meaning of a race ‘comparable to humans’ or ‘next to humans’.
It is a human-centered expression.
『So I have no choice but to glare at you as if I’m going to kill you. Hatred that has been passed down from generation to generation since our ancestors is not something that can be easily resolved.』
A strange smile appeared on Mephisto’s lips as he looked at Elric.
It seemed like a dismissive question, ‘Do you really think you can do it?’, but it also seemed like a mixture of expectations, ‘I’m curious how you’ll be able to do it this time.’
[Let’s try, okay. Still, it seems like each species of beastman has a slightly different perspective on us, right?]
The Myoin people, who are known to be very wary, avoid them, while the Seoin people are fearful but sometimes show curiosity.
『Originally, the name Beast People is nothing more than a lump sum for your convenience. They are all from different tribes with different habits, cultures, and rules. It’s actually wrong for them to be grouped together like that.』
Elric nodded as if he had some understanding, but then he suddenly had a question and asked the closest beastman soldier.
‘In order to avoid mistakes, we need to first understand the power structure in this city, right?’
“Can I ask you one thing?”
“What is it? Normally, it would be unlucky to talk to a human, but since you will be hanged soon anyway, please answer at least one question before I die.”
Elric said, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re so scared,’ and practiced pretending to be surprised.
The beastman soldier’s nose naturally raised as if he thought Elric was really scared.
『… I can’t believe I fell for that kind of acting. Do these have squinted eyes?』
Mephisto muttered in an astonished tone, but Elric pretended not to hear and asked.
“Where are we being taken from now on?”
“The great King of Antromov, who leads us, will judge you personally.”
In an instant, Elric’s eyes widened.
“… “There is a tiger king?”
Wizard who swallowed talent
