Chapter 129 – Days in the Kingdom of Narmer (2)
Fortunately, the misunderstanding was resolved and a bloody situation was averted.
Anyway, even after Karura had properly apologized to the other party, she came up to me and said,
“I misunderstood and caused you trouble. I apologize again.”
I was starting to get a little scared of saying sorry. It was because she met a crazy bitch who tried to cut off her arm in return for an apology.
She also bluntly told Karura, who was about to cut off her arm, that he would not accept her apology.
“Well, it’s okay. Rather, why did you think of me as your representative?”
There were well over a hundred people gathered here, and I still wondered why they singled out me and came to apologize.
So, when I said that, Karura, who was looking at me intently, spoke.
“That is because you had the most numen among all of you. He is the strongest among the group, so I thought you were the representative.”
Det…?
Am I the strongest one?
No, what else is Numen?
“But it seems that in this world, even if you are not strong, you can lead a group. I’m sorry for the misunderstanding. “One day, I will take responsibility for this.”
When I tried to ask Karura what the Numen were, she said that there were other women who followed Karura down from the sky and who seemed to be of the same race as Karura.
“Preparations for the ceremony are complete, Master Daejeon!”
“Well, I’ll be there soon. “Then excuse me.”
Before I could even ask, Karura said that and left.
“So what is Numen…”
I guess it’s the name that refers to energy and mana in the other world… Anyway, I think it’s a general name for those things.
But if that were to be the case, it was a bit strange because the energy I was carrying was said to be the largest among all wizards, let alone the dispensers gathered here.
Among wizards, there are many who seem to have mastered magic for decades, to the point where they are already old, but compared to those people, I have the most energy?
Well, there were a lot of elixirs that were scooped up, but it wasn’t that much.
I might think it’s because of the dragon heart inside Hoa or the artifact I’m wearing, but that’s probably not the case because these are items that Hoaran and Justitia modified to prevent energy from leaking out.
“Well, I guess it’s good.”
Rather than that, I wondered how on earth they could move such a large number of people in the middle of the desert, even though they had come to welcome me.
There were dozens of women with wings who seemed to be of the same race as Karura, but that doesn’t mean they could carry them around one by one.
That’s what I thought, but soon the question of how to move so many people from the middle of the desert was answered.
The moment Karura, heading for a ritual or something, stabbed her spear into the ground.
“Guuuuu…”
Perhaps because there was a hole in the top of her head, the death worm that was missing raised her body as she died, screaming as if a sound was leaking from the hole in her head.
She introduced herself as a great warrior, and I thought she was a warrior or knight or something that wanted to kill monsters like death worms by stabbing them with a spear.
When I thought about it, the place I was planning to go was a kingdom filled with thousands of master-level necromancers.
From the beginning, it was said to be a kingdom with only necromancers left.
In other words, Karura was also a necromancer.
He’s strong enough to stab a huge monster to death with a spear, but he’s a necromancer after all.
“If a necromancer is good at spearing, isn’t it a scam…?”
The commonly known method of dealing with magicians is to attack them by pressing them from close range to prevent them from using magic, but Karura is said to be an all-rounder who kills her by stabbing her with a spear when she engages in close combat and uses necromancy to raise her corpse when she widens the distance. It was.
No matter how you look at it, it seems like a fraud.
Of course, it’s not like I’m going to fight Karura, so I thought about this.
After calling people from over there, I decided to move.
“Queuuuuu )2)].
“Goodbye…”
In the blink of an eye, the warriors of the Kingdom of Narmer, including Karura, who created a huge desert ship pulled by a death worm and put us on board, switched to serving as our guards while keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings.
“Wheeik-“
“Hwiik-“
Echoing sounds heard through the sound of the wind.
As I listened to it, I could tell that it was roughly used to mean something like, “No problem, I understand.”
“How long does it take?”
I got bored while watching the endless desert in a daze, so I said that to Han Yu-jin, who was next to me. Han Yu-jin responded to my words.
“They say it’s about 30 Aiteru… So, I heard that the Narmer Kingdom is roughly 300km away. “At this rate… It will take less than six hours.”
It was really fast, but I couldn’t believe that I was driving through the desert at a speed of over 50 km per hour in a desert boat that I made in an instant.
“But, isn’t it okay to just use magic and go?”
Han Yujin glanced at me at my words and said.
“It is difficult to do so because there is a barrier blocking magic in this area. Even during the Death Worm a while ago… If there wasn’t a barrier, we would have been able to deal with it somehow on our own. “It would have been a flight, not a hunt.”
I see.
I wondered why Karura’s group of necromancers did not use necromancy or magic to catch the death worms, but skewered them with huge iron arrows and spears, but it seems they had spread a barrier hundreds of kilometers around the kingdom to make it difficult to use magic in the first place.
I wondered if such a thing was possible, but I also thought that since it was possible, the world governments would have had no choice but to compromise by acquiescing to the request.
Wizards are just a lump of burden here, and even if warriors who use martial arts or other skills rather than magic are used, breaking through the extremely large desert terrain and fighting with necromancers would actually be an act of suicide.
Anyway, it seemed like it would take close to six hours, so I nodded and immediately lay down.
“Then I’m going to sleep for a bit. Wake me up when you arrive.”
“…You sleep here?”
The Death Worm moves really fast, and it’s a bit bumpy because it’s made of a single body, so it’s not a joke, but it’s not so bad that I can’t sleep, so I said this to Han Yu-jin, who looked at me strangely and asked me if I could sleep in a place like this.
“Because I have a body that can sleep anywhere.”
Even when the orphanage’s elders punished me for disobeying me and locked me in a narrow closet, I was the one who slept soundly.
Even though it was a bit shaky, it was like a really comfortable bed for me.
“Is that so…”
Han Yu-jin looks at me with an expression of incomprehension.
Regardless, I just closed my eyes and went to sleep.
“…You’re a strange person.”
Han Yu-jin muttered that as she looked at Kang Han-jo, who said he was going to sleep, but fell asleep in an instant.
“Really, a strange person.”
It was like that from the first time we met her.
As if surviving terrorist attacks that occurred simultaneously around the world wasn’t enough, the man in front of me from the first time I met him as the person in charge of the person who received the ‘Brave Citizen’ award for his efforts in rescuing others was a rather unusual man. It was long.
In the midst of great damage from terrorism all over the world, in the peninsula region where the only criminals were caught, and as a witness who is presumed to have clues about it, and under strict protection and surveillance, he did not feel intimidated at all. Because he was the one who made the demands.
‘This bed isn’t very soft, so please change it.’
‘The food is a bit off, but please change it. If possible, Korean food.’
‘Oh, just do something. ‘I get dizzy without it.’
If you revealed that you were an official of a world government, or even a security-related agency, most people would either be afraid and cooperate obediently, or be reluctant and stay away.
He was neither of those things.
Because he was a strange person who wasn’t afraid of me, didn’t shy away from me, but didn’t cooperate, and in the meantime, he asked me to do whatever he wanted.
At first, he couldn’t help but be suspicious.
In other places, it was not enough to survive without even a scratch in the midst of a terrorist attack that killed hundreds to thousands of people, and he was too calm and weak-willed for someone who had experienced such a terrorist attack.
Moreover, anyone could see that he was hiding something, so it was natural to be suspicious.
However, in the end, they were unable to reveal something they were hiding, and orders were given from above to get out of the matter.
It is clear that he is a person with something.
I felt that way, but since the instructions were given, I couldn’t hold on to him for any longer, and that’s how I broke up with him.
And…
Today, I never thought I would see him again, but when I saw him again in a completely unexpected situation, he was still a strange person.
“…At that time, I definitely tried to come forward.”
When everyone panics, even you.
He was the only one who looked around calmly and seemed to be worried, and he was clearly about to step forward when the Death Worm started to rush towards him.
He was just an ordinary human being who couldn’t even feel the slightest mana. Nothing would have changed if he stepped forward, but that was the case nonetheless.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the problem was resolved with the help of the people of Narmer Kingdom who arrived just in time.
The representative of the Kingdom of Narmer, a great warrior named Karura, mistook him for the representative of this side and even apologized in person, so it was clear that something was up.
Didn’t she even say it?
He’s the strongest one in this group.
“…Even if I look again, I can’t feel any mana.”
I looked at the mana in his sleeping body before and even now, but he still couldn’t feel any mana.
However, if you thought he was a warrior with a highly trained body, that was not the case.
Although he had a well-trained muscular body, it was only slightly better compared to the Orcs, who were born with a body suited to warriors.
Considering the quality of bones and muscles that humans are born with, it was clear that his pure strength would probably be insufficient compared to that of a smaller orc.
No matter how you look at it, it’s hard to say he’s the strongest… He’s just an ordinary human.
“…Let’s just watch for now.”
I stopped because the higher-ups told me to stop investigating further than this, but since I didn’t completely let go of my suspicions about him, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take this opportunity to get to know him personally.
If this is a personal investigation, there will be no reason for the higher-ups to say anything.
