Resurrected Immortal 590

Chapter 590 – 590. Kurdel Mountains (3)

After finishing talking about the devil in the Kurdel Mountains, the innkeeper looked at Erin and Eunhyeon with a serious expression and continued.

“I don’t want you guys to climb those mountains. This is true.”

Although they do business targeting adventurers who are aiming for Orichalcum somewhere in this mountain range, the aftertaste is not very good if they say that those who are scheduled to die stay at their inn.
Some adventurers have already committed suicide by stabbing themselves in the neck at their inn.
The inn owner, who had run an inn business for many adventurers, had been sincerely concerned as if he had foreseen the future of Eunhyeon and Erin.

“What are you planning to do with the inn?”

“… Have to fold What can I do?”

The innkeeper smiled bitterly and answered the question.
Rumors about demons in the Kurdel Mountains will gradually spread outward, and adventurers who have heard the rumors will less and less visit here.
Although it was an inn she had been running since her grandfather’s generation, the inn owner had already admitted that she could not help it.
In the first place, she had no intention of earning a living from this for the rest of her life.
The innkeeper knew that if the income she received from outside adventurers was cut off, she would suffer a big blow from that alone, so she had already finished preparing her heart.
Is her decision to give up her job, which she has been doing all her life, more easily than she thought, realistic or foolish?
Even thinking about it herself, she was pathetic, and her bitter smile came out.

“I heard you well.”

Eun-hyeon bowed her head to her innkeeper and she immediately took one of her gold coins from her bosom and placed it on her table.

“… Our inn has no money to pay back.”

It cost 30 silver coins to get one of her rooms for the night.
In fact, it’s not at all, but it’s no different from a big nuisance on this side to release large units of currency like gold coins.
In the analogy of the earth, it is similar to paying a 10,000 won bill to ride a bus.
However, there was no way Eunhyeon was ignorant of this basic thing.

“No. I don’t need change.”

“Didn’t you say you were only staying for one night?”

“Yes. I will only stay for one day. Just think of this as the price that includes the information fee.”

Eun-hyeon smiled and pushed the gold coin from her table to the innkeeper.
He is kind of repaying the favor of sincerely caring about himself and Erin, he is just returning the favor himself for being able to hear decent information before entering the mountains.

“… Thank you.”

The innkeeper didn’t bother her for too long.
Among the adventurer customers I have met so far, there are some who are quite affectionate, not befitting their name line, and among the regulars, there are some who give tips infrequently.

“Then we’ll be down in an hour.”

“Okay.”

Eunhyeon and Erin unpacked and took a break in the room where they would be staying.
After a brief meal, Erin came back to the room and immediately asked Eunhyeon.

“Is it really the devil?”

“Hmm…”

Eunhyun did not immediately answer Erin’s question.
Traces of arms torn off by beasts, scars from being scratched with large claws.
The extreme choice of finally taking his own life as his half-shattered mind goes completely insane.
If it was the work of a powerful demon, there was no reason to explicitly refer to it as ‘that woman’.
Was it really the devil’s doing?
If this was the Kingdom of Pernias or another place, he would have put a higher chance on the hypothesis that demons might exist, but it couldn’t be because this was the Kurdel Mountains in the northern part of the Arcena continent.

“Erin. Didn’t I say there were other things besides demons here?”

“Ah… Those ‘Specters’?”

Commonly referred to as ghosts, specters, or monsters.
I had heard Eunhyeon’s story that even if the body dies, the spirit that dwells in it does not ascend to the heavens and wanders here and around the Nine Heavens.
If the soul wandering in the sky were to become contaminated through the wrong path, it would only take a moment for it to transform into a ‘specter’.
A beast that has a body, but does not have a soul or intellect, so it is only faithful to its instincts.
Conversely, a specter that has a soul and intelligence, but does not have a real body.
Although the two beings have completely different and opposite characteristics, they all had one thing in common: the influence of contaminated mana.
The difference was whether it was the body or the soul that was polluted, but the beings created by it were very diverse.

“… Eww.”

Recalling Eunhyun’s explanation, Erin groaned softly.
Erin is a story she didn’t like very much.
Since she had already experienced an out-of-body experience in which only the state of the soul exists in a living state, she was horrified by the story that she might have transformed into that specter if she did something wrong.
Because she was protected by the magical powers that flowed from the remains of the nine-tailed fox, she was very fortunate that her life remained intact and uncontaminated.

“By the way, Hyuna. Why do people here think it’s the work of the devil and not the specter?”

“Because that’s something only those with exceptional abilities can feel.”

It is difficult to recognize the existence of the specter unless it is Eun-hyeon, who possesses divine power and becomes a half-god while stepping into a higher dimension, or those who possess something called ‘spiritual eyes’ and can recognize spiritual beings.

“Or, if you have a good sense, you can feel the specter even if you can’t see or hear it.”

But when they do actually come face to face with the Specters, countering them is virtually impossible for them.
Because they are spiritual beings with no substance.

“Hearing hallucinations, seeing false things, bewitching and deceiving people like that, trapping them, and consuming the mana in people to grow their own power.”

What can you do against something you can’t actually see, hear, or touch?
It is truly irrational for ordinary people who cannot feel spiritual existence, but a contradiction occurs in which the person himself cannot recognize the irrationality.

“This is why I brought you, Erin, on this trip.”

Erin, who inherited the magical power of the nine-tailed fox, a divine beast, has the constitution to directly recognize the existence of her soul with her eyes and hear it with her ears.
Not only Erin, but all of her other wives will be able to recognize the existence of the Specter in their own way.
Eleanor, who can purify the corrupted mana that is the source of the specter, and the evil spirits that have changed.
Lily, a demon who belongs to the higher order of monsters and specters.
Illyana has the constitution of a witch who is sensitive to magical powers from birth.
Excluding Iliana who is currently pregnant, Eleanor who mediates between the dwarves and humans and strives to run the estate, and Lily who assists them, there is also a realistic reason that Erinn is the only person who can actually accompany Eunhyun on her journey and help. There was.

“I see.”

Erin nodded her head in understanding.

“So Hyun-i thinks that the devil in the Kurdel Mountains might actually be the work of the Specter?”

“For now, yes. It’s hard to make a decision based on what I’ve only heard in context.”

But she couldn’t make a quick decision based on just the words and the explanation of the circumstances.

“Let’s go up again tomorrow.”

In the end, she has no choice but to step out and check it out herself.

“Let’s revise our goals. Our purpose was to mine pure Orichalcon without any impurities, but for now, we have to figure out the truth of the rumors.”

And, if possible, a solution to the problem was also considered.
If the problem was left untouched, Eunhyeon and Erin felt a little uncomfortable.
Erin, who had been thinking that the innkeeper who cared for her by doing her favor would ease her worries about going out of business, agreed with Eun-hyeon.

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“… Are you really going?”

Early in the morning when the sun started to rise, the innkeeper put on a puzzled expression when he saw Eunhyeon and Erin as they came down to the first floor to leave the inn.
Unlike the one that came last night, the backpacks filled with food and consumables were the same as the adventurers trying to enter the mountains.
In the end, she let out a sigh at the fact that her advice didn’t work.

“Her advice was appreciated. Still, we came here with a purpose.”

“… Okay. I hope to see you again alive.”

“When I come down, I will definitely stop by and rest for the night.”

Like that, Eunhyeon and Erin climbed the mountain while receiving the innkeeper’s send-off.
It took about an hour to keep going up without stopping, wading through the snow that cut your feet all the way to your calves.
When the village under the mountain range became invisible, Eunhyeon said.

“I’ll take it out.”

“Huh.”

Reaching out into the empty air, Eunhyeon took out a pure white magic-powered snowmobile from the inventory.
Another name is a snowmobile, literally a car that runs on ice or snow with ease.
It is also an ambitious work specially created by Eun-hyeon based on modern knowledge to climb this snow-filled Kurdel Mountains.
Occasionally, he was strangely obsessed with making golems like Optimus, but Erin showed great interest this time.
As I had driven a bike made by Eunhyun before, I was naturally interested in this snowmobile.

“This is it. A car that lets you run on snowy roads?”

“That’s right.”

Eun-hyeon laughed and got on top of the snowmobile, and she poured magic power into the magic crystal attached to the handle to activate the snowmobile.

“If… This is just… Didn’t you add the ability to transform into a golem?”

“Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to add that feature.”

“…”

I couldn’t understand what was missing, but Erin spared her words.
I immediately landed on the back seat of the snowmobile and put my arms around Eunhyun’s waist to keep it from falling.
To be honest, wearing the helmet Eunhyeon gave me seemed uncomfortable, but when he thought of the situation he would face while driving at high speed, the worries in his heart disappeared.
When everything was ready, Eunhyun gestured forward.
It meant starting now.
Even though they did not communicate verbally, Erin immediately understood what Eunhyeon was trying to say.
Erin moved her arm wrapped around her waist with a prearranged signal and lightly tapped Eunhyun on the waist twice.
One negative sign.
Twice is a positive sign.
When Eunhyeon operated the steering wheel, the snowmobile, which had been vibrating slightly, began to move forward.
As she accelerated and drove at high speed, the snow from the sky hit her helmet and made a thud.

“… !”

Before long, Erin’s body trembled slightly at the many signs that caught her senses.
Erin, with one arm firmly anchoring her silver waist, pointed her finger at the place where her presence was detected with her other hand.
She noticed the presence of snowmobiles that were moving at high speed, and there was no way that Eun-hyeon could not have noticed the existence of the snowmobiles that were running towards Eun-hyeon and Erin with furious momentum.
Eunhyeon responded to Erin with a small nod of her head and activated the inventory again to take out the newly crafted weapon along with the snowmobile.
What appeared out of thin air and was held in Eun-hyeon’s hand was a strangely shaped weapon with a round iron pole on the handle that was longer and thicker than Eun-hyeon’s forearm.

“… Huh?”

Eun-hyeon was interested in the weapon she hadn’t seen before for a while, and Erin showed a puzzled reaction when she confirmed with her naked eyes the identity of the presence that was rapidly running toward her.

‘… Rabbit?’

The witch beasts with a pair of elongated ears extending upwards have the appearance of cute rabbits from a distance, but unlike them, the vibrating sound as they run towards them is unusual.

‘… Omg!’

Before long, Erin was astonished when she confirmed the actual appearance of the ‘snow rabbits’ that were getting closer.
When I saw it from a distance, I couldn’t pinpoint its proper appearance because of the snowstorm, but when I got closer and checked it, it wasn’t a cute rabbit, it was just a ferocious beast with a pair of elongated ears and a body the size of a wild bear.
The snow rabbits hopped over the massive giant and chased the snowmobiles Eunhyeon and Erin were riding with ferocious momentum.
Finally, when the snow hare, who had been leading the charge among the crowd, approached Eunhyeon and Erin right in front of them.
The moment the terrifying giant’s front paws were about to strike down, Eun-hyeon aimed the tip of the large iron pole he was holding at the snow rabbit’s front legs.

Taang!

The muzzle of the special large-caliber revolver that Eun-hyeon had crafted, at the end of a long iron pole one inch thicker than Eun-hyeon’s forearm, spewed fire.