Chapter 163 – Recruitment
#163.
Fluff-
Warmth spreads throughout the body from the top.
The scent of tea that lingers in the nose calms the mind and brings peace to the mind and body.
Gaon, who was savoring the tea, opened his mouth.
“How are you today?”
“… It’s growing pretty fast. It seems your eyes aren’t wrong.”
“Is it so? Thank god.”
A month has already passed since Raoul and Hazel were brought to the Barrymore estate.
In the meantime, Gaon and the others have traveled all over the place based on the information they brought from Lucipeon and recruited a large number of talented people.
Of course, most of them were just children.
“Then why did you come here? Are you thinking of bringing the kids again? This is not an orphanage.”
Cain furrowed his brows, saying he would not want to bring any more children.
In a short period of one month, he brought a total of 7 children. Three of them were learning from Cain’s Kritika Guild, so it was understandable that they were trembling as children.
Most of all, the person who brought it wanders around and doesn’t show his face, so he probably didn’t come.
“No. That’s not it. I’m going to bring someone along, but this time it’s an adult male. Rather, if you look after the kids, you look after them, you don’t have to look after them.”
“Hoo… Are you a nanny? That’s good.”
I wasn’t bringing her here specifically to use as a babysitter, but it seemed like it could be used that way.
If I bring them anyway, it won’t be helpful for a few months, so can’t I ask for the care of the children during that time?
“From now on, I will mainly bring things. I have to give you the pension book that I promised.”
“I like that. Do you believe that you can see the future?”
“Didn’t you believe it?”
“Then would you believe me? They just think they have information they want to hide.”
Milena, Volkar, and Cain. Even now that the work of the doppelganger has been completed with these three people, they are pursuing a fairly close cooperative relationship.
How did everyone know, they noticed that Priscilla and Gaon had a special relationship, and made that decision, saying that if they had to keep an eye on each other anyway, it would be better to be close.
So I thought I couldn’t keep it covered forever, so I simply explained that I knew the future.
At that time, I wondered if it would be possible to go this easily because it was easy to get over, but it seemed that they accepted information that was difficult to reveal just for justification.
Gaon narrowed his eyes and looked at Cain, then got up after drinking all the tea.
“Then I will go. I am busy.”
“Yes, next time you come, be sure to bring your alchemy book.”
“Yes, I will.”
Gaon left the office and glanced at Hazel, who was shooting an arrow hard in the training room, and then left the Kritika Guild.
‘There are many places to go.’
I need to meet and talk with Lena, and I need to meet Priscilla after a long time.
In particular, it was said that the risk of miscarriage is greatest now, when the pregnancy has entered the 7th week.
Fortunately, it is said that morning sickness has not yet appeared, but if you go to another territory, you will have to buy local specialties and try them.
For the health of the child, it is most important that the mother eats well.
Gaon, who had been looking for information about pregnancy in her own way while busily traveling from place to place, rummaged through the precautions in her head and hurried her steps.
***
“Honey, be careful.”
Side!
Priscilla whispered softly in his ear, gave him a light kiss on the cheek, and left.
Since when
His title was completely solidified as honey.
In particular, after the people around them notice the relationship between the two, they openly express their affection like this, as if there is nothing to hold them back from.
Of course, it was limited to those around him, and no information was known to the public.
“I’ll be back soon. Priscilla is taking care of herself. Got it?”
“Yes, then let’s go. I’m waiting now.”
Looking back at Priscilla’s gesture, I saw Chorin and Hayeon waiting for her.
I don’t know what changed her mind after the last meeting, but Chorin openly showed her jealousy and she did less.
He surmises that she is doing the best she can for her child.
This is because maternal stress has obvious adverse effects.
And Ha-yeon, her curiosity about her pregnancy was so great that she stared at Priscilla’s belly while she gently stroked her lower belly.
Gaon smiled at the two lovers, each showing their own unique reactions, and after a deep hug with Priscilla, they headed to the gate.
The place they are heading to is the Sargin Territory, where a forest-like demonic landscape spreads out.
It has already been around for decades, but no artifacts have been found yet.
In any case, due to the nature of the Devil’s Nest, it was a place of low value enough to cost more to maintain, rather than to make a profit.
Rather, closing the rift by finding artifacts is a good thing for the territories and the lord.
When I came out through the gate, I saw people coming and going lively.
Even though it is no different from the Barrymore estate, the air that has definitely changed makes you feel refreshed.
“Master! Look over there!”
Suddenly, Ha-yeon pointed to one side of her with a startled face.
Looking there, I saw a forest of trees soaring high enough to be seen over the castle wall.
The feast of trees soaring hundreds of meters was literally an indicator that showed at a glance that this place was a different world from Earth.
Except for the World Tree, it was so majestic that it could not be compared.
Gaon was also curious, so I looked up blankly at it, and Chorin asked.
“Gaon, is that where we should go?”
“Yes, that’s right. The artifact is sleeping in the basement over there. Let’s go.”
Why haven’t artifacts been discovered in decades. It was the fact that this artifact synchronized with the monster, just like in the anthill.
‘I thought it was a thorn beetle.’
Two years from now, a giant scarab with a total length of 50 meters emerges from the depths of the forest and attacks the territory.
There was quite a lot of damage by the guy who jumped wildly shooting huge thorns sprouting all over his body in all directions.
It is probably sleeping underground in a pupal state right now.
It is their purpose to subdue him.
The party quickly left the castle wall and entered the forest.
All daily necessities and tools were prepared in the subspace pocket anyway, so there was no reason to hesitate.
The inside had the same climate as a tropical rain forest, and bugs, large and small, were everywhere.
It was a sight that instilled a sense of rejection enough to raise eyebrows for women at once, but Chorin and Hayeon were awestruck, perhaps because of the experiences they had gone through so far.
Ha-yeon asks, rather annoyingly, as she slashes the spider the size of her fist from her tree with the back of her hand.
“Master, how are you going to catch the scarab? I heard it was in the ground.”
Chorin also looked at him curiously.
Gaon looked around at the gaze of the two and took out an item from the pocket of the subspace, judging that he had entered deep enough.
“I’m thinking of pulling it out with this.”
“That…”
“Speaker?”
The thorn beetle is an insect that has been influenced and mutated while crossing the dimension.
As such, it has all the habits of an ordinary scarab, but it was a device that emits a frequency that drives away insects.
Of course, given its size, its frequency was amplified and remodeled approximately 10,000 times.
After explaining him, the two nodded their heads in agreement.
Hayeon frowned and asked if she was suddenly worried.
“But what if the scarab doesn’t come out? Rather, you can run away even deeper underground.”
That’s a valid question.
Usually when we find ourselves in a similar situation, we try to avoid it, but we do not bother to visit and eliminate the cause.
However, there is one drawback.
That is, living things, including humans, sometimes make irrational decisions.
“In other words, you can touch the emotional part. Hayeon, think of you If you hold on for two more years, you can achieve your goal, but that was hindered. That too was maliciously intended. So should I just avoid it? Or let’s look at these babies. Shall we run?”
“Hmm… If it were me, I think I would run right away and pay for swearing.”
“That’s it. An object that has evolved by embracing an artifact is also highly intelligent. Maybe he’ll get angry and run out?”
Even if you don’t, it doesn’t matter.
It might take a little time, but just avoiding him is the same as letting him know his location.
Now that the fake danteon has been restored after a month, you can quickly dig out the depth where it is hiding.
However, if you do that, you will be incapacitated afterwards, so we prepared this speaker for maximum safety.
“Master, if I turn it on now, will it come out?”
“No, this is also the limit, so now I have to turn it on and go around. It probably won’t take too long. Let’s go!”
Compared to other demonic realms, this place belongs to a micro-miniature.
With their movement speed, you could probably look around all of them within a day, so it was better to get rid of them quickly and return to the territory.
Since he had to move to another territory immediately, he had to minimize his physical strength.
And so, the real trek through the forest began.
Since the frequency had to be reached, they chose to go around the outskirts and cross it, and they moved non-stop except for mealtimes until the afternoon after lunch.
And when I crossed the upper part slightly away from the center,
Kugu Palace!
It started to shake on the ground with a loud roar.
“Master!”
“Miss Gaon!”
“You’re right! Watch out, both of you!”
Oh oh oh oh-!!
As Gaon pulled out the spear on his back, he saw a scarab with a strong presence that could be seen even in a forest full of giant trees.
The wings of the carapace, which have not yet formed, are wrinkled unsightly, and the carapaces of the whole body also reveal the soft texture as it is.
It let out a loud roar and charged at the Gaon party with its sharp horns.
