Chapter 442 – The End of Suffering.
Sure enough, by the time I managed to get out of Ragado, a cold snow hit with a fierce wind.
-Kurreuk!
Hill Dis Beanie shook her head as if annoyed by her flying snow, but there was no need to worry about him. She was already protected from the cold north wind by her white feathers, which began to grow all over her body when the days got colder.
‘There will be no problem with Seolshien.’
The only thing Usher had to worry about now was himself. She could escape the cold inside the carriage, but before he came here, he had to lead the carriage himself, relying on the many layers of cloth and mantle quilted under his armor.
“Whoa, why am I here?”
Rock Saria, originally called a holy place because it was a place where magic tools were preserved intact after being blessed by the gods. However, it has long since become a land of severe cold where no one is allowed to step.
Even though she knew that fact, she couldn’t bear to refuse Seol Sien’s request, so she looked around diligently to find a way to go, but couldn’t find anything.
-Whee Oh Oh!
Even if you try to find traces of wagons and people, this place has already been cut off by people a long time ago. Even if someone had stepped in, they would not have left even that shallow trace in the fierce wind that would freeze the spine and the ceaseless blizzard.
Still, he slowly and steadily drove the wagon forward. Usher knew very well that it was dangerous to proceed in a situation where he could not even find the direction to go, but it was inevitable.
It was because he confirmed the appearance of the monsters that were moving in a row in his slightly open field of vision before the surroundings were covered in a blizzard.
‘Desert Gang, couldn’t it be that the environment has changed this much, but they are still alive?’
It was a group of strange monsters that he had seen on his way to the Holy Land long ago, which looked like birds but walked on short legs and occasionally slid across the sand.
All of a sudden, a group of them was coming in their direction, so Usher was dodging by turning the road diagonally so as not to be seen by them.
-Kurrureuk! Kuruk!
‘No matter how much Hildis Vinny is, it can’t last long in this cold.’
However, the problem was that Hildisvidi couldn’t walk fast because they had to kill their footsteps as much as possible. In addition, the Desert Gang’s gait was quite slow unless it was hunting, so it was a rather troublesome situation.
I was patient and made my way silently as far as I could until I passed the group of Desert Gangs, but no luck. Suddenly, through the snowstorm, something like a shadow of a person appeared, and then all at once, figures turning their heads toward this place appeared.
-Kwieeeeek!!
Of course, it wasn’t like people’s shadows. Even though I tried not to run into the crowd of people as much as possible, I ended up running into them.
-Keeeee!!
-Kwae!!
Their shadows rushed towards this place at the same time as the strange cries echoed from all directions.
-Keeeee
Usher slashes him with his rapier, who often rushes toward the coachman’s seat, and he collapses helplessly. He wondered what it looked like. As far as he knew, the Desert Gang was a monster that was difficult to cut down easily with a sword because of its tough fat layer along with its fur.
-Read it!
Just in case, when I cut down another guy with a sword, I saw a figure that was hidden in the blizzard and was invisible along with the figure of the pick falling down in the same way.
‘Was he starving?’
They were dry enough to reveal all the outlines of their bones, including the joints of their legs that were hidden under their white bellies. It was a miracle that he was still alive.
It couldn’t have been a coincidence that they were coming towards them. He must have been on his way to Ragado in search of prey. At this level, I could have dealt with it without difficulty.
– Pakaang!
“Tsk, is this again?”
Wow! Hearing the sharp sound of cutting the wind, he immediately raised his shield to cover his face, and the sharp ice hit the shield and shattered it.
– Kwyeh yep!
-Keeeee!
Not only that, but also the desert gangs who rushed towards him and the wagon are also pierced and made to bleed. Every single one of these sharp pieces of ice that flew through the blizzard was like a deadly arrow.
It was big enough to fit between helmets, so if I hadn’t intuitively raised my shield at the sound of flying, I might have lost my eyes when I first came here.
– Gweeek!
However, he couldn’t just block the arrows of ice that flew incessantly. Even the desert gangs they must have passed by heard the signal of their people and were sliding toward this place.
Even if he swung his rapier and knocked out the guys who kept rushing at him to bring him down, there were still too many of them. At least, if it wasn’t for the ice arrows, it wouldn’t have been so annoying.
At times like this, I envied the power to kill them all at once like Rachel or Kane. Then I suddenly realized that I didn’t have to deal with it.
– Kuruk!
-Sew it!?
As soon as Usher came to the idea, he swung the reins and, taking his signal, Hill Disbiny kicked the ground, kicking one of the Desert Gangs that was charging at him with his rear foot.
– Tata tatadadang!
Because of the running speed, the ice arrows flew more fiercely and started hitting the shield, but there was no big problem.
“Did you barely get away with it?”
The Desert Gang, who tried to chase them, gave up on chasing them because they couldn’t stand the flying pieces of ice and their withered bodies.
Even the blizzard, which had been intensifying before I knew it, had slightly lessened its momentum. I can’t say that the situation has improved. It’s getting harder to find your way while weeding them out.
“Where the hell is the buoy?”
Because of the snowstorm that enveloped the whole area like pure white fog, it was difficult to see even an inch ahead, let alone a buoy, and it was difficult to drive the carriage.
I was looking for it because it was the only thing that could tell me the way to the Holy Land, but even though the momentum had decreased, it was still impossible due to the fog-like blizzard.
“It can’t be helped.”
Usher pulled a blanket from his driver’s seat and lifted it up and put it over Hill Disbiny.
“Ahin, I’m going to rest until the snow stops.”
Ain was the name he gave to Hildisbini. It didn’t mean anything special. It’s just that he came in after seeing other knights naming him in this way, so he gave it a name for himself.
-Kurreuk
As if answering his words, Usher went inside the carriage after confirming the figure of Ain crouching down and crouching down, shaking his neck.
“Turn it off.”
As soon as Seol-shien got out of her sleep a little, she pulled the blanket she was wrapped around, shivering with the cold that seemed to pierce her whole body.
Originally, the night in the wilderness was cold, but the cold that became more severe as we crossed Lagado and approached Rak Saria could not be relieved even if it was inside the wagon. Even the fur of Gigantopithecus, which I was holding as a sample, had to be wrapped with a blanket to be able to sleep.
“Oh, you’re in.”
Suddenly realizing that the carriage was not moving, he opened his eyes in surprise and was relieved to see Usher sitting resting in his cloak.
“The blizzard was so bad that we couldn’t move the wagon.”
“It’s not like that…! I’m glad you’re safe.”
It was only then that he checked the light coming through the window and, thinking that he misunderstood what he was saying, he muttered an excuse. She was only surprised to think he might be wrong.
He had already lost the knights he shared with him because of his stubbornness, and he didn’t know what to do if he lost even that. Relieved by the sight of Usher, he checked out the window for a moment, then got up from his seat, pulling on his cloak.
Rather, the scales made of iron on the outer surface of the cloak moved smoothly with the movement of the cloak, and the small bumping sound caught the eyes of the cloak’s tail.
In addition, the fur that looks under the cloak, the fabric that connects the joints with yellow and gold embroidery, and the plate armor that is less glossy but neat. Sulsien thought it was like a knight in a fairy tale.
“It looks like the snowstorm has stopped soon, so let’s go out.”
Although the story of her coming back to her was businesslike and indifferent compared to her beauty. Sul Shien laughed bitterly at the thought that she couldn’t help it. Because he was a person who didn’t even show his normal face with a helmet, let alone emotions.
“Grunt, okay.”
She followed him as he opened the door without a word. In the first place, this work was for investigation. As soon as I opened the carriage door like that, I was blinded by the dazzling light for a while.
“And.”
Seol Sien forgot what to say about her, and she could only concentrate as if she was sucked into the scenery of the moment. She was just a desert she thought stretched far into the distant plains, a thin layer of snow piled up on hills of sand big and small like mountains.
What you see behind it is a high mountain of ice that seems to reach the sky, and an iceberg that is transparent but resembling the sky and shining blue covers a white blanket like desert sand.
In the sky, the pale sun and the setting round moon floated together as if they had just risen from sleep, and it made me think that the blizzard that had been raging while coming here was to protect this scene.
“Oh, Mr. Usher?”
The moment Seolsien was lost in the scenery. Before she did, she had teeth moving towards it. She didn’t know what to do as she stamped her feet as he kept moving away from the carriage as well as from where she was standing.
– Kuruk
Fortunately, Hill Disbiny, noticing that her master was walking away, got up and started moving towards Usher, so Sulcien was able to follow him.
Savjak Sabjak, for some time to advance while leaving footprints mixed with the white snow and sand of the desert. Seol-Sien was restless, not knowing where Usher was going, so the surrounding scenery came in again.
“Statue?”
They weren’t the only ones around. Numerous statues in the form of people, hildisvinies, and chariots were scattered over the snow-covered desert.
What they had in common was that they were all approaching that iceberg. She tried to touch one of them.
-Kurrureuk!
“Ah! Okay! Don’t rush!”
At some point, Hill Dis Beanie, who came up behind N, pushed her back with her head as if it were annoying, so she had no choice but to leave behind the numerous statues and follow Usher.
“These people…?”
Then, they stopped at the bottom of the iceberg soaring high into the sky, in front of it. In addition, what caught my eye was the figure of the people who were frozen in it.
Did he freeze while riding in the wagon? I could see that the Hildisbinies were trapped in the iceberg just as they were leading the wagon and running towards this place.
Even now, as I looked at the figure that seemed to be running out of the ice, I saw people who seemed to be sleeping comfortably in the ice next to it, and I followed them without realizing it, and soon I was able to reach the place where Usher was standing.
“Mr. Usher? What are you doing?”
At the edge of countless people sleeping in the ice, the knight knelt on one knee with his sword inserted and his hand on a piece of iceberg.
“…”
When he approached, questioning how he didn’t respond to her call, she looked at Seolshien, who quietly stood up with a sword in his hand, and she talked.
“Didn’t you say you were doing an investigation?”
“Ugh, but that’s because Mr. Usher suddenly came here…!”
As Seolsien puffed out his cheeks in regret, Usher looked back at the iceberg he had been holding for a moment and opened his mouth.
“Sorry. There was something I wanted to check for a while.”
She wondered what he wanted to check, but she couldn’t figure it out.
“Anyway, I know there were people who were evacuating from the Holy Land.”
The only reason Usher was in the ice with his hand was a ring frozen in the air and a pair of small shoes like a lady would wear.
