Chapter 531 – 531. Prelude to Change (3)
It was decided that Illyana’s help would be the means for Erin and Agies to go to Mograf.
Before preparing the teleportation magic to transfer the two of them, Illyana smiled and saw Erin off.
“Baby. Should I come back safely without getting hurt?”
“Lol. Yes. Miss Illyana.”
Feeling good about Illyana’s gentle hand stroking her hair, Erin smiled and nodded her head.
The fact that she had someone who worried about her and saw her off gave her great strength and made her heavy heart feel much lighter.
Her attitude of not being too nervous even in a dangerous situation heading to the frontier where the undead haunted meant that she had grown up in many ways.
“Hi go. You are a very young mother. Anyone who sees it will think it’s your daughter?”
Anies, who was not accustomed to such a new side of Illyana, responded that it was absurd.
She didn’t show much interest in herself or the people around her, but the way she cared for her people within the fence she created with Eun-hyeon, now her husband, is definitely different from her past.
Illyana snorted her snort and brushed off her friend’s sarcasm.
She never thought that she would become someone who could care for and take care of someone like this.
When she thought of her past self, she laughed, but she didn’t hate herself too much after she had changed like this.
“Noisy. Take good care of my child so you don’t hurt him either. Okay?”
Moreover, this situation, which even sparked fire on himself, gave Agies a sad expression.
“Oh, you know what. That bastard taught her, but she probably wouldn’t have raised her as a kid who would get beaten up everywhere.”
“Are you okay. Miss Illyana. I can protect my body.”
“Okay. Go carefully.”
“Yes.”
After saying goodbye, Erin and Agnes were teleported to the designated coordinates.
Erin, who confirmed that her background changed around the center of her magic circle in an instant, and that it was not her house but the middle of a dense forest, immediately activated her bracelet on her wrist.
This bracelet is an artifact with built-in magic called a simple ‘inventory’ used by Eunhyun and Emilia.
Skillfully using her magic, Erin took out a two-wheeled bike powered by her magic power.
“… You have something strange.”
Naturally, Agnes, who had never seen the bike, let alone the Artifact, couldn’t help but be intrigued.
“This one? Hyun made this!”
“Oh, is that so?”
Anies looked amused at the sight of Erin showing off her bike excitedly, as if she were showing off her father’s toy to her friends.
‘Since when did this… No. Did he have a plan from the beginning?’
From before, his extraordinaryness and strangeness were expected, albeit in a rough way, but his actions after he became an apostle who fulfilled the role given to him by God were very special, unlike before.
Now, rather than surprising, the thought settled in my heart.
Eun-hyeon’s behavior, which makes such things without hesitation and has no intention of hiding her existence, is close to that of an unbridled foal running amok, as if she is about to explode what she has been holding back so far.
“Now, get on the seat behind me and catch me.”
“… Like this?”
Despite making a suspicious expression on her face, Anies obediently landed behind Erin on her bike and grabbed her by the shoulders.
“If you hold onto it like that, you will fall…” .”
“It’s okay. It’s okay if you don’t fall.”
Anyes put strength into her hands that were holding Erin’s shoulders.
“Ugh…”
The gripping power of Agnes’ hands gripped her immensely, giving Erin a moan as her flesh and bones were crushed.
I can feel her terrifying determination that she will never let go, even if her own shoulders are torn off.
“Chu, let’s go.”
“Okay.”
She was taken aback by her grip for a moment, but when Erin rolled up her accelerator to signal her departure, Agnes obediently let go of her grip.
Burrung
Burning her magic attribute into fuel, the engine roared as it began to move as the bike rode along the unpaved road.
The point Illyana transferred to was a little far from the Mograf Territory, but it was a distance that did not take that long on a bike that normally runs several times faster than a wagon.
Erin, who reverse summoned her bike back to the inventory at the outskirts of Mo Graf’s territory, took advantage of the walk to her frontier territory with Anies.
“… That was fun, but can’t we just keep riding?”
It’s comfortable, but it’s not that I didn’t like using the cumbersome walking that took more time and drained her stamina.
She seemed to regret that she could no longer enjoy her speed as she rode her bike.
“… Sorry. I’m still reluctant to reveal this to many people, so I told them to hide it if possible.”
In addition to the four-wheel drive Retona and two-wheel drive bike, which are mainly used for long-distance travel, there were various artifacts developed by Eunhyeon, Emilia, and Illyana in the inventory, but they have not been disclosed to the outside world yet.
The core of these technologies was really useful and had a very high value as a treasure trove of highly convenient ideas, but he was watching the situation, aiming for the timing that would bring great benefits to the Armitas domain.
“Tsk. Okay.”
Anyes clicked his tongue and regretted it, but he didn’t bother.
Eun-hyeon judged that way and placed restrictions on it, but he didn’t want to break it for his own convenience.
“It’s not even Illyana, and it’s not difficult for her to barely walk this far.”
“… Did Illyana-sama hate moving like that?”
“He’s been like that ever since. When she continued her march, the thing I was most concerned about was Illyana’s stamina.”
Sometimes she had to walk all day, and her stamina was the most important thing in marching without a sip of water.
Among the seven members of the team, including Eunhyun, the one with the lowest physical strength was Illyana, who ironically had the strongest firepower in her team.
“If you think so, I would have tried to extract the highest efficiency by improving the teleport equivalent to eight-digit high-level magic. It is now she and your husband, Eun-hyeon, who provided the idea.”
– Isn’t it great to be able to move without walking?
Upon hearing Eunhyun’s story, Illyana immediately immersed herself in research, and even during her expedition, she was constantly immersed in quantifying her teleportation magic.
The high-digit magic optimized by considering various factors such as the current location and the coordinates of the target point, calculation of distance, consumed magic power, and the number of people sent was sublimated into one of Illyana’s greatest strengths, resulting in the benefit of the entire team. .
“… Then, how did you work as a team until the teleport magic was completed?”
“What would you do? Of course I was carrying it.”
“… Yes?”
Erin put on a bewildered expression and gradually halted her steps toward her castle wall.
If you think about it, the fact that Illyana, who has physical strength close to her low quality, went around many places with her teammates and went on her expeditions, had a contradictory meaning to her.
It is true that the story had been roughly guessed in her head, but when she heard it herself, Erin was puzzled.
“By the way, it was Eunhyun who always carried Illyana on her back.”
“…”
Sure enough, this was a guess that naturally popped into Erin’s head, and it was the correct answer.
“Now that I think about it, she might have had feelings for him since then.”
Considering that Eun-hyeon was the only human that Illyana, who was not interested in forming human relationships with others and was very clumsy, could openly depend on.
Agies was also thinking that maybe one day the two might connect.
“Above all, I can’t think of a man other than Eunhyun who can accept all of Illyana’s personality.”
“…”
She belongs to the fence, and she is infinitely kind and compassionate towards herself, Eleanor, and Lily, so in a sense, Illyana is overflowing with leadership and charisma. It is Illyana.
“Anyway, I’m really glad he came back alive.”
Even if it was an incomprehensible way for ordinary people, given a second life at the threshold of death, ignoring the laws and laws of the world, the resurrection of Eun-hyun to Agies and other colleagues brought various emotions such as relief, gratitude, and joy. It was cross news itself.
In particular, it was not the most dramatic news for Illyana, who did not miss this opportunity and caught Eun-hyeon, became her lover, and married her. There was no
“… Was Illyana-sama that serious?”
“It was serious. At one point, he wondered if he might not have decided to commit suicide following him.”
Erin doesn’t know the situation at the time when Eunhyeon died 20 years ago.
What a brutal battle it was, how many emotions and how life-consuming the series of days were, those days that Erin had never experienced and could not relate to, those days that she would have only heard about.
Gerard had heard the story of Eunhyun’s death and that her Illyana’s mentality collapsed and drove her to a near-death state, so Erin also had some guesses.
Occasionally, there are times when Illyana’s obsession with Eunhyun is really not normal.
“Now, they have a baby in their stomach and become a couple with a lot of sesame seeds, but after he died, Illyana was in danger of not knowing when she would really explode.”
Agies stopped following Erin, who had stopped her steps, and asked Erin with a hard face.
“Remember. You and his other wives will think that you are following Illyana and supporting her grace, but it is not only Eunhyeon that you need to take care of, but also Illyana.”
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Eunhyeon and Illyana’s past stories usually started with heavy topics, but there were quite a few other interesting episodes.
Hearing such trivial stories, Erin and Agies arrived at the entrance of the Mograf Frontier soon after.
Fortunately, I was able to pass the checkpoint without too much difficulty.
The guards guarding the checkpoint showed an attitude of welcoming Erin right away by presenting an identification card proving that she was an adventurer of the golden age.
At first she was suspicious of Erin, who was accompanying her with a young girl who looked to be about 15 years old, but as soon as she learned of her identity, the attitude of her soldiers changed.
This is the same as saying that the internal situation of the change order is not that good.
In fact, as if to represent it, the inside of the manor is very cold and quiet.
The inside of the territory itself clearly revealed that the people were shrinking and entering a state of tension.
“Anes. What would you like to do?”
“I don’t know. You know what to do.”
“…”
Her calm attitude of leaving everything to herself was so confident that Erin was at a loss for words on her own.
In the first place, even when he worked as a team with Eunhyun and his colleagues 20 years ago, Agies was a specialist who belonged to the highest level as a priest, but in other fields, he had a tendency to show the bottom, and he was not the type to think and move.
Erin let out a small sigh as she imagined her struggles that Eun-hyeon would have done.
She wasn’t confident in gathering information or making plans like this, but she had been doing adventure activities that weren’t short, and she basically moved her body according to the habits she had built up.
‘For now… Are there three places worth listening to?’
Her first step is to meet Eira, a member of the Artia Knights, who has been dispatched here.
And secondly, in order to inform Agies of her support, she needs to visit the Temple of Vesta in the border area to prove her identity.
Finally, the third is to meet Count Mograf, who has made a direct request for support.
Compared to the size of the knights and soldiers dispatched from the Kingdom of Pernias, there were only two of them, but Agnes, one of them, was a high-ranking high priest who could exert great power in the fight against the undead.
Erin thought about where she should go first, but she decided that her first priority was to visit Anies and head to the temple to prove her identity.
“Please, please!”
“No matter how many times I ask, I am in a situation where I can grant the driver’s request… !”
Arriving with Agies at the entrance to the Temple of Vesta on the border of Mograf, Erin hesitated at the familiar man’s cry from inside the building.
“This voice… ?”
An ancient man who is Eira’s junior and partner.
Recalling that she was Cha Han-sung’s voice, Erin heard his urgent voice and read Cha Han-sung’s complex emotions of anxiety, nervousness, and urgency.
“… Cha Han-seong?”
“Yes?”
Cha Hanseong, who had been appealing to the priest of her temple, turned her head back in response to Erin’s voice calling him.
“Erin… ? Why is Erin-sama here… ? No. For a moment.”
Cha Han-seong, with a thought flashing in his head, quickly hardened his bewildered expression into determination and immediately approached Erin.
“Why, why are you doing this!?”
Erin was taken aback by her sudden action of grabbing her hands and raising them together, but she soon read his eyes and sensed that the situation was very serious.
“Senior… Please help seniors!”
Unsurprisingly, the ominous visions that popped into her head began to take shape, and Erin hardened her face.
“… Please elaborate.”
