Resurrected Immortal 517

Chapter 517 – 517. The Cave Dwarf (6)

After driving all day, Eunhyeon and Lily arrived at a huge mountain range full of dense forests that Retona could not enter.
The forest where the elves’ village was hidden was also very vast, and it was full of complexities that people could get lost in if they were in distress, but the blocked mountain range in front of them showed such vastness that it was impossible to even step into it.

“These mountains… Are you riding?”

Although she is said to have inherited demonic blood, Lily’s physical strength is no different from that of an ordinary human woman.
Although she is able to manifest the powers of a succubus, she is still unable to properly use her magical powers to strengthen her body. Will she be able to pass through this huge mountain range?

‘… There’s nothing wrong with master’s help, but she hates that.’

Lily wants to be the woman who lifts up Eun-hyeon and supports her from behind, but she doesn’t want to be the kind of woman who only accepts his help.
As she heard from Regina about his past, that resolve became even stronger.
So, while she was swallowing her saliva, determined to cross the mountain range without Eun-hyeon’s help, Eun-hyeon, seeing the nervous Lily, laughed and shook her head.

“No. There is no need to climb these mountains.”

“Yes? Then… Where are we going?”

Eunhyun pointed down with his finger and answered Lily’s question.

“Down here.”

“Under… ? Underground?”

“You explained it earlier. The Dwarves are a race that digs underground tunnels and builds a place under them.”

“Ah… ?”

Lily sighed and looked down at her.
However, even after listening to Eunhyeon’s explanation, the question of how to reach the dwarven village somewhere underground was not resolved at all.

“Let’s move.”

“… Yes.”

Eunhyun moved along with Lily, who still had a puzzled look on her face.
Instead of going up the sloping mountain range, Eun-hyeon seemed to be looking for something as she circled around the entrance.

“Are you okay? Can you keep walking?”

The road wasn’t too rough around the beginning yet, but it might be a little rough for Lily, who has limitations with the maid’s long skirt and shoes.
Lily shook her head with a small smile, feeling grateful for Eunhyun’s concern.

“This is fine. Master.”

Although the road was a bit rough for her, she was not at a level where she couldn’t walk, so she relieved Eun-hyeon’s worries.
He is given the consideration of holding Lily’s hand and leading her by matching her stride, and here he couldn’t have been more luxurious.

“Okay. Still, hold on to my hand so you don’t fall.”

“Yes.”

Eventually, after traveling for about an hour, the two found a cave.

“Found.”

“Were you looking for that cave?”

“That’s right. It is also the cave I used when I visited the dwarven village in the past.”

In the depths of that cave, there is a passage that goes down to the underground where the Dwarf village is located.

“But didn’t you say that the master visited the place 300 years ago?”

Lily, who was walking behind Eunhyeon, tilted her head as she gazed at the huge cave in front of her.
It is said that rivers and mountains change after 10 years, but how can it be possible to maintain the same passage from 300 years ago until now?
Above all, the cave was not exposed to sunlight, so the interior could not be seen from a distance.
On the surface, it is more like an ordinary cave.
It wasn’t that he doubted Eunhyeon’s words, but the question that popped into his head was closer to curiosity than doubt.

“If it’s a cave that doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary, then, of course, someone with curiosity among humans who came across it through rumors might find this cave.”

“… It is like that too.”

In general, adventurers who explore ruins in search of treasures, including gold and silver treasures, may be fascinated by the cave that gives off the smell of ‘something seems to be hidden just by looking at it.’
Eun-hyeon held Lily’s hand and entered the cave with her.
When I went into the depths where the sunlight that illuminated the entrance area did not reach, the inside was filled with darkness.

“…”

In the darkness where nothing could be seen, the quiet sound of the wind and the dusty air naturally made Lily nervous.
Sensing her trembling through her holding hands, Eun-hyeon hugged her and lifted her up.

“Lord, Master!?”

“Leave it to me here.”

Holding Lily, unconsciously hesitant to move forward due to her lack of vision, Eun-hyeon immediately spread her magic throughout her cave and activated her senses.
Without the help of torches or tools, she grasped every nook and cranny of the interior structure of the dark cave.

‘Found.’

Unlike the road that leads deeper inside the cave, as soon as Eun-hyeon discovered the existence of a secret passage installed in the middle, she ran towards it.

“Hey!?”

Startled by her sudden move, Lily, with her short high-pitched scream, put her arms around her neck and hugged her tightly, supporting her own body so that it wouldn’t fall.
She runs quickly and, reaching the point where her secret passage is located, Eun-hyeon puts her Lily down and activates her magic.

[Single digit magic]
[Light]

The small orb formed on Eun-hyeon’s index finger, which activated her magic, emitted a weak light that was adjusted to a level barely enough to illuminate Eun-hyeon and Lily’s surroundings.
When she placed her index finger holding the light magic on one side of the wall, Eunhyeon discovered an artificially created crack.

“Lily. See?”

“… Yes.”

Noticing a crack that looked like a stone door had blocked the passage, Lily hardened her face and nodded.

“Look up.”

“Wee? Ah…”

Pointing upward with her index finger and seeing the state of the ceiling of the cave illuminated by the light magic, Lily realized a little.
To prevent the ground from collapsing, artificially made supports made of wood, iron, and stone are installed at even intervals to support the interior of the cave from collapsing.

“Even after hundreds of years, this is the reason why this cave has not disappeared.”

Even if this huge mountain range were to collapse due to a disaster, the facilities built to keep this cave from collapsing were sturdy enough to last for over 300 years, as the dwarves’ technology went into it.

“I managed to avoid being noticed by the adventurers and others…”

“In the first place, it is rare for humans to visit this mountain range, where it is difficult to get over it, and it is not easy to notice unless you have a special search ability.”

It takes two to three weeks to reach these mountains from the human habitation, even on horseback.
In the case of Eunhyeon and Lily, they started from the nearby elven forest and arrived quickly because they had a horse-powered vehicle called Retona.
In addition, it would not be easy to discover the secret passage of the dwarves unless you have the outstanding ability to grasp the proper internal structure in this deep place where not a single light enters.

“And since this is a place where exchanges between elves and dwarves take place, there is also a barrier unique to elves, so it is difficult for ordinary humans to notice this place.”

“… I guess.”

Lily nodded her head with a look of understanding.
After the explanation, Eun-hyeon lifted the heavy stone door with both hands, opened the entrance, and sent Lily inside first.
With no visibility at all, I slowly stepped down the stone steps leading to the basement with careful steps.
When Lily entered the basement stairs completely, Eun-hyeon followed and descended the stairs, then set the stone door back to the entrance and closed it.
Like when she strode inside the cave and ran around, Eun-hyeon, holding Lily’s body again, quickly descended as if she could see everything through her senses.

Caang! Thud!

I couldn’t see anything, and I couldn’t measure how much I had descended, so there was a little uneasiness in my heart, but Lily didn’t show it.
After walking like that for about 30 minutes, as you went down, the ground and the air were shaking more and more, which was transmitted to Lily’s skin.

“… Iron sound?”

It was also evidence that the two of them were getting closer and closer to their destination.
Lily, who was slowly descending the dark stone steps in Eun-hyeon’s arms, begins to see a faint light from below.

“Master. The light… ?”

“Okay. You seem to have come to the right place.”

It was dark, so Eun-hyun’s face could not be seen properly, but Lily realized that her longing for the dwarves’ village was locked in her voice.
The sound of iron banging and the smell of iron carried up the dark stone steps in the scorching heat.

“… Hey? Who do you think is coming?”

The guard, who had sensed someone coming down the stone steps from the exit side, spoke in a gruff voice.

“What? There wasn’t even a deal?”

“The deal with the long ears is three years later! It’s an intruder! Call the guards right now!”

The clutter that had been filled with the roar of iron banging gradually subsided, and a calm atmosphere began to settle there.

“… Master?”

Sensing that the atmosphere did not bode well for them, Lily asked Eun-hyeon, who was holding her, in her uneasy voice.

“This… Isn’t that dangerous?”

“Are you okay.”

Eunhyun carefully put down the Lily she was holding and came out with Lily.

“Eww…”

As long as they had been in the dark, the sudden light in their eyes was so dazzling that Lily covered her face with her hand, slightly frowning her eyebrows.
Eventually, as the light gradually got used to the light, Lily put her hands away, and she had no choice but to harden her face against the countless weapons pointed at herself and Eunhyeon.
What was odd was the location of the weapons.
All metal weapons, such as spears, swords, axes, and maces, were pointed upwards from below, and those aiming the weapons were all dwarfs with short stature, thick muscles, and bushy beards.

“These are dwarves… ?”

It’s a look that fits perfectly with the characteristics Eunhyeon told me about.
The shock of completely shattering the image she could never have imagined in her head puzzled Lily even more than this dangerous situation with her weapon pointed.

“Human?”

“Uh? Human?”

“How do humans know this passage?”

The dwarves started to show agitation at the fact that the person who suddenly appeared was a human, and started discussing with each other.

“What do we do?”

“Shouldn’t I inform the chief first?”

“First of all, we have to interrogate how you know this passage!”

As the voices began to stir up a fuss, Eun-hyeon, who had been quiet until now, raised her hand and opened her mouth.

“May I speak to you?”

“… What?”

“Here’s your letter of introduction.”

“It’s a letter of introduction… ?”

The dwarves did not let go of her guard, sending suspicious glances at Eun-hyeon, who reached into her arms and took out the letter of introduction written by Regina.
As he smiled and handed over the letter of introduction, one of the guard dwarves, who seemed to have the highest position, came forward as the representative and received the letter of introduction handed to him by Eunhyeon.
After reading the contents of the letter of introduction, the security representative Dwarf widened his eyes and made a surprised expression.

“Humans… The benefactor of those long ears?”

“What? A human?”

The reactions of the surrounding dwarves who heard the murmur were no exception.

“If you are related to those long ears… There’s nothing strange about knowing this entrance.”

The Dwarf, the head of security, moved his eyes up and down to examine Eunhyeon and Lily’s whereabouts.
Even if they knew this passage, it is an unchanging fact that the humans who came here alone were unusual.
The content of the letter of introduction is that two humans, benefactors of the elves, will visit the dwarves’ village, so please do not be vigilant.

“And… I was told to show you this when you come back.”

Next, Eun-hyeon took out the metal engraved with the hammer pattern that she had received from Oran when she left the dwarf village 300 years ago and showed it to the dwarf representative of the guard.

“This… This is… !?”

As soon as he recognized the metal and the engraved pattern, the dwarf’s expression, the representative of the guard, began to be more surprised than when he opened his mouth wide and read the letter of introduction.

“… Hey.”

“Yes?”

The guard representative Dwarf spoke to the young Dwarf next to him, who couldn’t recognize the sign and looked confused.

“Tell the chief right away about this.”

“Uh, should I tell you that the guest has arrived?”

“No! Not on the human side! The ‘Mark of the Thousand and One Nights’ is back! Tell the chief quickly!”