Chapter 222 – 7. Does the Princess of Colchis Dream of Cinderella? (13)
Epi kingdom of the Northwest Continent.
In the distant past, it was a desert where not a single blade of grass grew, but now it is still very desolate, but it is a land close to a wilderness with rare grass.
There are places where grass grows around sparse small springs, but in fact, the amount is far too small to grow crops. In the end, in order to farm, the distance between the springs is likely to be several kilometers, and five or six springs must be cleared for farming. The land in this country was very barren.
Drinking water was still obtained from springs scattered here and there, or cactus juice was drunk, and alcohol was brewed with these cacti.
Naturally, in order to feed one person, a very large area of land was needed, and people were scattered far and wide from each other.
Above all, in order to survive on this harsh land, they had no choice but to become very strong.
Hunter’s race.
There was such a background that they came to be called that.
Puff!! Wooooo!!
The huge scorpion’s head was broken by something flying from an invisible place before the sound of a fierce slicing through the air was heard.
However, after hearing the sound, his head was already crushed, and he just shuddered and trembled, then sat down without power.
After a while. The brown-skinned man on horseback looked down at the huge scorpion carcass indifferently, then took a small dagger from the horse’s saddle and began dismembering it.
The meat of the Giant Scorpion is very delicious and highly nutritious, and its claws and stinger are the parts that guests from across the sea exchange for valuable food.
Above all, this dagger was also obtained through a transaction with customers coming from across the sea.
As the time for the last guest of the year was approaching, he was getting impatient.
Although the Giant Scorpion is certainly a good game, it was not a highly valued game for the guests.
In order to safely pass this year, they had to find more valuable prey.
He could have caught three or four more scorpions if he was alone, but the story was different now.
It was time for his son to become independent.
Now he had to hunt more diligently in order to provide a little more for the child who was going on a long journey in search of his own territory.
‘What did the guests bring this time?’
First of all, food is the most important thing, but I wanted this customer to have this knife.
This item, which is very useful in grooming the game, was purchased quite expensive, but it was worth it, so it was a transaction that I did not regret.
It was hard to imagine life without this sword.
That’s why she wanted to give this knife to her son who was leaving.
The quality of life changes greatly depending on the presence or absence of a knife.
After removing the edible flesh from the giant scorpion, he removed only the tail and claws, tied it with a leather strap, and carefully tied it behind his back. He climbed on the horse again and headed home.
For hunters, greed is forbidden. He already had a lot of hunting goods on his back, so he couldn’t carry it anymore even if he hunted more.
When I got home, his son had caught some pretty good game.
He was very proud of his son, who seemed to have become a better hunter than himself.
Perhaps it is because he is a son who was born with the seed of a guest. The son was very strong and strong, which made him happy.
He hoped that his son would grow up to be great.
Two of the children born of her own seed died before reaching the age of independence. One child was independent, but before long he was found dead in the desert, which tore his heart.
That’s why he was really expecting a lot from this son.
Please stay strong in this harsh land.
A young man named Sharp Spearhead went out to meet his father’s last guest this year.
His father, who always looked big, became smaller than he was before he knew it, and his strength grew stronger.
The fact that he was going alone on this road, which he had often followed with his father before, was a bit bitter, but on the other hand, he was also looking forward to it.
My father always said
Seeds are not to be given away carelessly.
However, the sharp spearhead wanted to plant more seeds.
And, if possible, to the women of the guests who came from far away, not to the other women who were seen around them.
Of all the knowledge he had learned from his father in the culture of this land, it was difficult for him to comprehend.
Why shouldn’t seeds be given carelessly?
Giving seeds was a very pleasant thing.
My father said he was a very good hunter, so shouldn’t he spread the seeds more widely?
Of course.
The idea of the sharp javelin was right, but his father’s teachings were also right.
In the short term, the widespread spread of superior genes would greatly increase the strength of the clan, but in the long run, excessive spread of one gene would greatly reduce genetic diversity.
The wisdom accumulated from generation to generation for the survival of the whole, not the individual, was by no means in vain.
Customs that sometimes fail and endanger extinction, and sometimes succeed, hardened in such trial and error.
That’s why they had no choice but to be sensitive about the exchange of seeds.
It was a method that made it possible for me to barely get past what almost destroyed me several times in the past.
Above all, his father, knowing that her own son was superior, had her guest’s woman plant his son’s seed instead of himself. Somewhere in this land, the seed of the Sharp Spearhead must have germinated and is already growing.
That is why his father cautioned him.
Don’t give seeds too carelessly.
Before the wisdom accumulated by our ancestors pays a painful price to teach you painfully.
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The kingdom of Effie is a kingdom of horses, but in reality there is no king.
A tribe of lonely hunters who live scattered in all directions on a very small scale, not in a tribal or village unit, but in a family unit, and pioneer everything on their own.
The center of the group is centered on the father, who is a hunter, and in fact, the rest is a nation with established customs based on the concept that the father owns everything.
The authority of the head of household is absolutely absolute. Even the family was in fact a concept close to the property of the head of the family, and even the son, who could be said to be the heir, felt practically close to the possession of the father until he became independent.
That’s why this kind of culture could be established.
He regards his wife as his possession, not his equal companion, and his children, who are not meant to be protected, are also regarded as possessions.
A child of one’s own, born of one’s own.
Interests derived from cultures different from the usual family love and ethics of the Western continent.
In a way, the group here is a small nation of families ruled by a king called the head of the family, and it may be similar to the feeling of repeating arranged marriages with each other.
However, even in such an Epi Kingdom, there was one place that was the only one where the laws of the Western Continent, not the laws of the Epi Kingdom, were passed.
At first, there were quarrels and small wars.
Giving a certain coast to strangers, and in that place, the culture of strangers is used.
It was a concept that they did not have, but it was a kind of maintenance.
And in the middle. They traded with each other, but the main trade took place in a buffer zone where both cultures were somewhat common.
And. It was a kind of tacit pact that the strangers decided to follow the rules of the land if they went beyond their own territory and even out of the buffer zone, except for a few special cases.
Cab Port.
This nameless large port in the island of Epi Kingdom was called Kab Port from some point on.
Since when was it called that? This port, which is called Kabhang without knowing the origin of the name, was naturally settled as the name of the port because there was no reason to be called by another name.
It is a place where ships from the island nation of Ine stay, but from time to time ships from other countries arriving via the Idian Kingdom or intermediate stops were also seen.
But one thing was certain.
It is very rare for a new ship to appear in Kab Port.
It was common for only the ships that always came to come, and new ships appeared only when the ship owner changed or added ships.
It was a place where only those who came came.
However, there was a reason why people flocked to this vast and insignificant place.
There are many different things to get here, but in the end, there was only one ultimate goal.
A fruit called black gold called cacao.
A fruit called green silver called kava (coffee).
Of course, in the case of kava, it is called black silver because it is roasted black, but let’s move on to green when living here.
In the end, these two fruits were the main trade targets.
Well, in the case of the Sorby Empire, it seemed that they were doing business with the Ing Empire.
It seemed that most of the metal keels that were difficult to trade with a kingdom were used to make ships that traded with this kingdom.
And now what’s important.
It was that a new ship had appeared here.
It was also a ship without the flag of the guild or organization that had been coming and going here until now. Alone too.
Where the hell is the badge?
What the hell is that ship anyway?
A very rough sailing road is a place where you don’t know what kind of accident will happen.
It is very rare that the ship is broken and split by strong waves, and the ship collapses or the mast is broken because it cannot respond to a sudden gust of wind, and it is not unusual to encounter pirates.
As such, many ships always moved together in preparation for countless things, and operated ships that were verified to that extent.
However, the ship entering the port now was a new type of ship that had never been seen before, and only one was coming in.
From the very early days of pioneering when the port of Kab was not named, until now. Kabhang began to be agitated by this incident, which had never happened in its history.
The ship, which smoothly flowed into the harbor as if gliding on the surface of the water, looked very nimble despite being very gigantic, and in fact came alongside the harbor very naturally just like that.
The bustle of Kabhang has increased.
Is this the time to ship?
The sea is very dangerous, and if you do not take the prescribed time and route, even a skilled sailor is a very dangerous place.
In other words, it was a story that the time when ships came in and out was always made at a determined time.
“Hey, how many days do we still have before the boat comes in from Ine?”
“About 5 days left. I counted it as if I was lucky enough to get a good wind.”
In other words, it was generally said that there was about 15 days left.
Usually, the last ship departing from Ine Kingdom arrives around the time when fishing boats are prohibited from sailing along the coast.
And it was a time when there was still quite a bit of room left before sailing on the coast was banned.
“What kind of madman are you?”
What is this guy whose life remains as a spare?
There were often guys like that.
Best bunny. They say it’s the best navigation and do crazy things to set a new record.
Most of the people who did such things often became meat on this dangerous sea or were captured by pirates and enslaved, but there were some who succeeded occasionally.
“Coming to think of it, didn’t the development of Ine’s kingdom start with crazy people like that?”
“That’s right. But that’s right. These guys really don’t know how much their lives are worth.”
In the early days, the trade of cacao and coffee was all that the Sorby Empire traded with the Ing Empire and distanced themselves.
The Ing Empire, which was very proud of itself, locked the door saying that it was not in line with other kingdoms and only traded with the Sorby Empire, and cacao and coffee were inevitably rare.
In the meantime, various attempts were made to break through new sea routes or trade routes.
For him, new ships, navigation techniques, and routes that were different from those of the past were needed, and many people died fleetingly in such numerous attempts.
Indeed, in the chart drawn with blood and the birth of a new ship, a new trading partner called Effie Kingdom was born, and with the same standardized ship style as now and a new year. And the time for a safe passage was set.
And as the route and time were set, the pirates who were aiming for such ships also began to boil, and in many ways, it became more dangerous to try something new alone after dripping like before.
However, the fact that they have arrived now means that they have escaped from such a standardized flow.
How did you get there
There were several, but did he come alone after meeting pirates and losing other ships?
Or, if he was originally alone, would he have pioneered a new route free from pirates at all?
Could it be that the ship was so fast that the pirates couldn’t catch up?
People were agitated with all kinds of thoughts, and four women jumped off the ship, which suddenly became the object of attention.
No, a woman and three girls jumped.
Could this tall woman with red hair be a sign?
And, perhaps they were the offspring of such a female knight, the blue and golden fox beasts, who looked young, had different colors, but they looked so much alike as if they were twins.
However, as if they were not identical twins, unfortunately, the gap in a part that is a symbol of femininity was very large.
And to be called a dragonian, her face resembles an elf. The girl with dragon wings and tail looked a little older than the fox beast race.
The three of them, who looked younger than they were, had the effect of looking younger than they looked, perhaps because they were next to a very tall female knight.
What the hell did they come here for?
Many people were very curious about the unidentified ship, so many people took great interest in the four who got off the ship, but the atmosphere of the female knight, who seemed to be the guardian of the children, was so unusual that it was difficult to approach them. I was looking at the surroundings with curious eyes, and the dragon beast (?) Girl was striking the ground with her tail as if she was displeased.
And in the midst of that, the woman living here seemed to be at a loss among the three children with a troubled expression on her face.
“Children. You have to listen carefully to your guardian. Will you use it if it annoys an adult?”
When someone who was worse than her spoke to her, the female knight bowed her head slightly with an expression as if she had finally lived.
“Excuse me. Just in case, did the last ship from Ine arrive?”
“You mean the ship from Inebal? It’s still a long way. At least 5 days. At most 15 more days.”
At that, the little blue fox jumped up and ran wild and shouted, ‘Oops! Obtain the Blue Ribbon!’ It made an incomprehensible sound.
(Blue Ribbon: An unofficial title given to a ship that traveled westward across the Atlantic Ocean the fastest among regular Atlantic passenger ships)
The female knight let out a sigh of relief at those words.
I don’t know what the blue ribbon is, but it seems that they are explorers who are researching new ships and new routes.
Perhaps being a blue ribbon means setting a new record? I liked the way it felt when something stuck in my mouth.
“So, how many days did you guys get here?”
“Seven days.”
Huh. 7 days. 7 days…
“What, what, what, what!?”
In an instant, the harbor turned upside down.
In fact, these crazy guys set a truly unspeakable record.
Because it set a record by reducing the voyage period, which usually takes about a month, by almost a quarter.
The ship that arrived the fastest so far was 11 days, and even then people were astonished that God had helped them, but to advance that record by 4 days…
“Has the record been broken in 11 years?”
“Come to think of it, didn’t that blue fox kid say something about the blue ribbon?”
Judging by the flow of the story, the name of the record breaking the shortest record of the Ine-Epi route here is on the verge of becoming the Blue Ribbon.
YuRia, who did not expect the story of the blue ribbon, which she half-jokingly talked about, would go on like this, scratched her cheek with a slightly embarrassed expression.
What, don’t you care?
“But it’s strange that the record of 11 days is broken after 11 years.”
With a buzz, people began to gather to look at the ship that set the record of the century.
Looking at those people, Roa wondered if this was okay.
[Yuria, is that okay?]
“Are you okay. Han Kingdom and Sorby Kingdom. In addition, if Gashu and Ine dig up all their resources and cooperate together, it is absolutely impossible.”
It is definitely a ship that can be built in this era.
However, ‘can it be made’ and ‘can it be made’ were different areas.
In the first place, the question is whether it can be made from the copper alloy that covers the ship.
Made by adding trace amounts of gold and beryllium to gunmetal, a bronze-based alloy, this alloy is an alloy that has maximized corrosion resistance and durability against seawater.
Above all, considering the deadly toxicity of beryllium…
Being a dwarf, you can handle it, but a human would be too much.
Even that dwarf is barely able to deal with it while receiving various supports from other races.
The thought of beryllium made me feel sick to my stomach.
Somehow, he taught the dwarves in Gash how to extract beryllium, twisting the causality of the past and the future, and dreaming of being dissected alive several times. In the Empire, wasn’t the whole body actually disassembled with that ignorant and uncivilized tool?
Suddenly, I remembered what had happened at that time, and I shuddered and shivered.
“Gwa, are you okay?”
Roa was surprised to see Yuria shivering with her face pale, so this time she asked directly by voice.
It was just because she had a bad nightmare-like memory, and it was really okay, so Yuria nodded her head, but Roa and the people around her didn’t seem to think that way.
“The voyage was too rough, so the child must be tired.”
“There is an inn over there, so hurry up and get a room and get some rest.”
“But why don’t the other sailors get off?”
At those words, Yuria felt sorry for them.
While thinking about what to do, Tamamo quickly came up with a trick.
She referenced the outfits of the sailors around her on the ship, copied them as flatterly as possible, and created dozens of fox food souls wearing those outfits.
Sensing what Tamamo had done, YuRia hurriedly put her heads together with Tamamo and hurriedly conveyed her knowledge of how to handle pears. He sent the food souls out of the cabin and began to steer the ship.
Tamamo’s food souls, disguised as fox beasts, began to do the work that YuRia had done alone until now.
“Anyway, the boat is a boat, so there are many sensitive things. As you can see, these children are still young and need a break, so they got off with me on behalf of the boat.”
And even though she didn’t kiss her, Roa, who saw the situation and noticed the situation, opened her mouth.
“Hmm, sure, he’s like that too”
“The value of such an enormous ship must be insignificant…”
Roa, who somehow escaped the situation, quickly grabbed an inn room with the help of the people around her and entered the room together.
Then, as Yuria was laid on the bed as she was, Yuria struggled and quickly protested.
“Oh, no, I’m not really sick.”
“But you really don’t look good.”
“Husaeng, did you overdo it by looking at the boat?”
At Tamamo’s words, Yuria simply let out a sigh.
“Now, no matter how much I use all my strength in the singularity, I’ve become weak, but it’s not enough to make me feel weak.”
“Then why did you do that?”
Yuria let out a heavy sigh as she hung her shoulders helplessly.
“That ship. It’s because it contains the forbidden knowledge that I mistakenly passed on to Gache before.”
“Yes?”
“Not now. Anyway, the bees that showed off the technology that should have come out in the distant future ended up with the terrible punishment back then. Now it’s the technology of this era.”
She wasn’t sick, but she felt mentally tired for some reason, so YuRia just lay down on her bed.
When she thought about it, she seemed a little tired because she had kept her brain half awake all this time, and in some sense kept awake.
“Maybe that’s why. She did it because she suddenly remembered the terrible experience she went through at that time.”
“…”
“Sleep a little. You seem tired for some reason.”
After saying that, Roa, seeing Yuria who had fallen asleep in a really bad mood, laid her right on her bed and covered her with a blanket.
“Let Yuria rest for now, shall we discuss the future?”
The biggest reason the party came here is, on the surface, the recovery of the sacred spirit.
And in fact, what the king most absolutely wanted was the safe return of the princess.
“The best thing is to encounter them on the sea and retrieve both the princess and the god, but actually it’s difficult. But thanks to YuRia, we overtook the ship the bastard was on and arrived first.”
5 days at the earliest. 15 days at most.
That was about a week or so.
“I’m a little ignorant, so I don’t know, but how does Tamamo look? Did the other person notice the current situation?”
Tamamo thought about it for a while and made a slightly ambiguous expression.
“The odds are half and half. Me and the younger generation are also formidable beings, and certainly the sacred treasures are a very great thing, but it is questionable whether the princess’s ability will be so great that she can properly handle the sacred treasures. Whether you are doing it is also a big factor.”
“In other words, if the princess’s ability is excellent and she is doing this with her own will, she would have been caught. If not, would she not have been caught?”
At Er’s words, Tamamo nodded.
“So. If it weren’t for that, it would have been easy to conceal themselves because of the high level of the sacred weapon itself, but it wouldn’t have been so easy to look this way.”
At those words, Roa murmured and pondered for a while.
“I’ll have to make a plan assuming both. What should I do?”
At those words, both Tamamo and Er murmured in agony.
“Is the divine power in question counterbalanced by divine power?”
“So it is. That’s why she insisted that the original daughter should put her ghost daughter in her company.”
“But… I’m dealing with divine power, but I’m not yet serving a specific church…”
The saint’s bowl.
In fact, the gods are unilaterally making love calls to Er, but Er has yet to choose any god.
Now, she wants to choose her sister’s daughter, Thebes Noah, but due to the nature of her Thebes Noah, that was very ambiguous. .
“Don’t worry. Tia is helping as much as possible as long as it doesn’t go against the rules and order.”
“…”
In other words, she was a saint who did not worship any gods yet, but in fact she could exert the same power as a saint of Thebes Noa.
“I don’t think it will become a burden in this work more than I thought.”
“If it was used more seriously than the West, it would be used, but it will not be a burden.”
At that, Roa said in a small voice, ‘It’s too much… ‘ She muttered.
“Poop!”
“Pu-huh…”
“Of course, the West also has a very important role. If you can’t catch them in this port, there are many things that women cannot do in that land. You have to dress up as a man and come forward to solve the problem.”
They are strangers The custom here is that people do not form large groups, so there will be no shortage of strength, but the people who live in this land are by no means weak.
Clearly, each and every one of them, who pioneered the path of life with only one body and the rugged nature, were strong people who easily transcended ordinary humans.
An extreme environment where you cannot survive unless you are strong.
To them, being weak was a sin.
“How strong are you doing that?”
“… If the West doesn’t use Talos, the Holy Sword, and the Gravity Sword, most of the adult men here will look like the West and the Middle Ages. There must be a lot of people who can beat the West.”
At those words, Er looked at Tamamo with a smirk.
“Of course, this is just an inference based on rumors, and I’m not sure.”
“Even so, I’m making a plan, wouldn’t it be better to set that as a standard?”
Tamamo nodded his head.
Because the original plan always assumes the worst and establishes it.
So quietly, the party shared their opinions.
