Chapter 175 – 175 – Kids Fighting Calls Their Parents
Mother? It’s surprising again.
Are you saying that even a gnome like Danar had such a holy presence?
Even in the stock market, it is better to trust the dry statistics of experts rather than your own poor performance. Before I could understand what it meant that Danar’s mother was on the mound, I quickly looked back at Rod.
The world’s most powerful biological indicator, who can destroy castles when he sneezes and chews up the Great Evil like a piece of bread, is throwing himself in front of Garam, surprisingly thoughtful.
Only then did a few keywords cross my mind. I forgot for a moment, but of course Danar has a mother. Danar Numen Where did the name ‘Evennarsson’ come from?
Evenna. A member of the first Hero party. The first wizard. Of course she thought she was dead, but she was a monster that would have matured her magic for a thousand years if she had still been alive.
I first prepared my mind. Don’t be surprised if you close your eyes and find yourself in the afterlife. For an ant caught in a war of giants, it seemed like the best thing to do.
But, to my horror, before I could make up my mind, a white and blue flash of light exploded.
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This is good news. I think my tenacity has increased, perhaps because I’ve been hit and run so many times out of nowhere. This time she avoided fainting.
Next is the bad news. My body says it doesn’t want to live. I barely stood up, feeling with my whole body the sorrow of the tough life that was caught in this world.
Thanks to Rod blocking the explosion and Nidroga holding us like cushions, Thena and the sisters and I were safe, fluttering outward like fallen leaves.
In the case of Eshen and Garam, the situation was worse. A small stone building was completely destroyed and he was trapped under the rubble, crying out in anger.
“개새끼가, 애들 싸움에 부모 불러오기 있냐!”
“···We brought them here from the beginning. And that too in droves.”
“I’m jealous. I should have gotten one too.”
As I continued, the sister looked at me with worried eyes. I tried to excuse myself by saying it was a joke, but then he grabbed my shoulder.
What the sister was worried about was not my poor sense of humor, but my open wound.
“Pay it now.”
“Oh, I should have received healing…”
“If you lie still while you’re arguing about not taking it, it won’t explode, right?”
“Healing power doesn’t come out for free like an inexhaustible spring. Sister, you also need to manage your stamina.”
This is not what I said. Wiping sweat, I looked to the side and saw Tena trying to stand up and spitting out harsh words.
“Think calmly. If my guess is correct, that is a powerful enemy who may be more dangerous than the Demon Lord. This is not the time to devote energy to a porter that would not be enough to use on combatants.”
“I feel the same way, but why do I feel so sad when you say it?”
“Don’t act friendly.”
I reached out my hand to help him, but he shook me off.
Look, man. It was a very frustrating situation, but I endured it for now. Because Tena is a patient and this place is small.
No, wait a minute. I’m dying from pain too, so do I really need to be considerate of what I say? Do you want to lose your temper?
Of course, this is not a good time to hit and run. I don’t think it will be too late to consider it after surviving.
Rod, who had belatedly been pushed out of the dust pit and stood in front of us, shook his forearms a few times while checking to see if we were okay.
On his lower arm, which wouldn’t even leave a bruise after a day and a half of cutting with an axe with the strength of a porter, there is a mark that looks quite painful.
“Fortunately, it looks like everyone is safe. Now that the person who was obviously dead has come back alive, it would be difficult to handle it with just the adult responsibility I mentioned earlier.”
“It’s so scary when Lord says that.”
“What can I do? Everyone is hiding close behind us!”
“Where?!”
Erina, lying face down on the floor, screamed. She may be envious of the rest of the people from the demon world who escaped early.
Erina’s gaze, which was looking at Rod’s back, soon rose upwards as her head bent to the point where it hurt. I ran desperately with Thena, who had stumbled and fallen, and Erina, whose eyes had turned wide, on either side of her. The sister who jumped on my back and clung to me covered his head and screamed.
Rod, whose head touched the basement ceiling, struck the area where Danar and Evenna were as if catching an insect and spoke.
[Behind me.]
Was the battle really like that when the demon god was alive? Because fear kept pulling at my head, I ran away and looked back.
It appears that the wound on Rod’s arm when he was in human form was actually frostbite. A pile of white ice, befitting a near-Arctic elan, rose up like firecrackers at a festival. Even the mighty Lord hesitated and was having trouble with the magic that obscured his vision and dissipated his body temperature.
But there is no room to intervene. A chunk of ice the size of a glacier rose up and hit Rod’s arm, then shattered and rained down on our heads like hail. Isilun, who was running while holding Adamantone’s hand, cried out in horror.
“Aaaaah! Bow down! You’ll break your head!”
“Tan! Someone please take care of Tan and Monica!”
Florica responded to Eshen’s shout with a loud scream and followed behind us. Then he spun around behind her and fired a sword strike that resembled moonlight. The shock wave sent out by the Uja lighthouse hit the large hailstones and turned into ice cubes.
That would be worth it. When snow powder poured down my sleeve and I flinched, the sister said something strange.
“It looks like a sudden heavy snowfall, everyone! Doesn’t it suddenly bring back memories of the three of us making a snowman back in the Borvais Mountain Village?!”
“Are you really saying this out of sudden nostalgia, or are you just passing by because we are all going to die?!”
“···The matter of life and death will be resolved somehow since the Dragon Lord is there. Next, there’s something I’m worried about! The two of us who always seemed like best friends are suddenly in a bad mood, so I’m a bit suffocated! Do you want to make up while reminiscing about the good times?”
“Always best friends? Is that possible? We fought quite often! We were afraid of getting scolded by our sisters, so we agreed and didn’t show it. It was normal for us to throw dirt at each other and pull our hair out, and we even got into fistfights!”
Of course, the record was not good. If I had a conflict with Thena now, not with my emotions but with my body, my sister would be collecting my condolence money at the funeral within a few days, but the difference in my innate aptitude was actually not much different even when I was young.
When the handicap of dog fighting increased and I could be squeezed with just one hand, we stopped engaging in physical duels. Was it seven or eight years old at that time?
···I feel jealous once again. My tears and hair that he unilaterally pulled out must have weighed hundreds of grams, so what good was it for me to accept his offer to make a party? Have you become addicted to the spicy hit that only Hero aptitude can provide?
The chunk of ice that crashed into Rod’s body and still maintained a fairly large piece began to increase. I’m starting to worry about Rod, but it’s useless for ants to worry about whales.
I jumped and shouted, protecting my ankles from the hail.
“Damn, it only brings back bad memories, sister!”
“Why are you picking on me? You’re the one who remembered things I never asked you to remember!”
“No matter how young you were, you got into a fist fight with Thena? With Thena, who cut up an archdemon like a fish who survived even when hit directly by an energy weapon? How are you still alive?!”
Erina, who was pointing out something that I thought was questionable, caught wind of me and clung to me when I reached into her pocket and took out the grappling hook.
The goal is the railing corridor far above. Considering that there are no chunks of ice stuck, it seems to be quite safe from the angle of flying debris.
The hook flew away with a ping and caught firmly on the railing. I cried out as I rose up with the three women hanging on me.
“Hold my ankle, Florica!”
“Thank goodness, I thought I’d leave it behind!”
Florica answered in tears and held on to my ankles tightly. Her weight was too much for her and she felt dizzy, but she held on.
Erina, me, her sister, and Florica fell onto the railing, which was strong enough to withstand the load. At the same time, Eshen was heard shouting.
“The non-combatants evacuated safely! I repeat! The injured and non-combatants evacuated safely on their own!”
“Then what about us?!”
“Bando ran away on his own. Don’t whine when you’re strong! The combatants are all on their own! Let’s dodge on our own and meet at the railing above!”
“Zenjaaaaang-!”
Seeing Danar’s high-class new town shaken by the baptism of the ice shelf, I don’t know whether I should feel relieved or worried about my colleagues.
Florica, covered in white powder and soaked, stood up and swung her hero’s sword once more, despite her shivering. Her tiny lump of snow broke exactly in half and fell out.
When I clapped softly, Erina grabbed my arm and pulled it down. Thena, who was lying down and struggling to breathe, muttered softly.
“I can do it too.”
“···Uh?
“I can do it too.”
“···Cutting ice with a warrior’s sword?”
“If you hadn’t held on, I would have blocked the ice shards a long time ago. So put it down right now. You don’t want to get caught in the knife’s path and get hurt.”
“···I’m not holding on, and you’re on the ground. If you were in good condition to begin with, wouldn’t you have shaken off me and done the sword dance on your own?”
Thena fumbled with her own waist for a moment. It looks like they confirmed that my arm wasn’t wrapped.
Her sister, perhaps truly concerned about her mental state, touched Thena’s head with her healing light-filled hands. Thena wheezed for a moment before pushing her sister away.
Are her ears red because of the sudden cold or because she is embarrassed?
“···I was momentarily dazed and made a mistake.”
“Like when you thought we were fragments of the devil and tried to swing the sword? Let’s come to our senses soon. If you faint a third time, we will catch you.”
Thena looked back, biting her lip tightly. Now, I can’t help but laugh because I feel like she’s more familiar with her than she was back then.
On the other hand, Erina, with her eyes wide open as if she was frightened, screamed silently and waved her arms towards me. She seemed to want me to use a moderate tone, so I turned my head away.
Even Florica laughed as if agreeing with what I said, and Erina made an amused expression.
“I don’t come from a culture full of warrior parties, but would you like to give me some advice?”
“There are two warriors next to me who are born with bright ears like cats, but I don’t see the use of whispering. Tell me.”
“Do you know why people get stabbed and torn to pieces at mixed parties? I’m saying this because I feel like I’m going to see that in real time, so let’s do it in moderation, right?!”
If I don’t do something in moderation, a political drama will break out between Florica and Thena.
I got up, throwing up my hands in annoyance, wondering what was going on. Right now, before I can think deeply about Erina’s words, I have a problem to deal with.
Thena, who realized the situation, also struggled to get up and glared at the elves who were blocking one side of the railing passage. These are the same bastards who were shooting crystal arrows at us.
Did Danar call them ‘guardians of the royal capital’? He also described it as a doll without an ego. Maybe it’s true. Like a blind person, the boundaries of the eyes are blurred and there is no focus. And just like Evenna, the shine of her hair had faded. It’s so severe that it’s as if her mummy’s hair was planted on a living person.
At that moment, Nidroga flew in in the form of a dragon and threw the party members that were hanging on his toes behind us. Our colleagues, who were lying around protesting the unkempt landing with vicious swear words, noticed the unusual confrontation and quickly got up from their seats.
Garam shook off the ice from his clothes and gritted his teeth as he looked at the elves retreating to either side.
Even if they don’t listen to the king’s orders, they seem to be polite enough to get out of the way. Danar, who emerged from the ‘Guardians of the Royal Capital’, smiled calmly.
“I don’t think the situation is appropriate for a conversation, Lord. Who should I try to convince first?”
“The talkative man has appeared again.”
“You too, try living for 800 years. The things you have to say will pile up like a mountain.”
Garam looked embarrassed at the guy’s calm reply. Eshen stepped forward, patting his younger brother on the shoulder as if you were far away.
“Look at the way he ordered his mother to fight instead, and the person involved quietly got away. You gave birth to an unfilial child with high firepower who has been riding strong for 800 years. I should have just cut him off earlier and cut off the stem.”
“First. If that was really my mother, she would have been very saddened by my words, but the first grassroots guardian, Evenna, died a natural death. That thing over there is just a shell with only magical energy remaining, so she is no longer alive.”
“···Sorry.”
Eshen had the same expression as Garam, and glanced at us, looking for the next batter. However, no one participated in the intense pad lip relay. I grabbed Eshen’s shoulder and stopped him.
The moment he admits defeat and turns around, an image tingles through Eshen’s skin. At the same time, Eshen turned around with his eyes wide. The retort that comes to mind is, ‘It’s like asking your mother’s corpse to fight, so what’s honorable about that?’
It’s reasonable, but unfortunately, the lifespan of that kind of fertilization is cut off the moment you miss the timing. Danar continued speaking without giving Eshen, who was infuriated, a chance.
“Secondly, honestly, even if you were very embarrassed because you’ve never faced such a threat, your bloodline wouldn’t have been cut off if you touched my body. My son is right there by your side.”
“Thirdly, there’s a reason why that bullshit has to be bullshit. That’s because there’s no way my mother would have dragged an asshole like you into bed.”
“···Tan, even Tan, don’t become someone who talks carelessly like Eshen. That’s a bad habit to talk about when it comes to your own mother.”
“Think again, sister. You honored my mother and humbled that bastard.”
“I see. I’ll take back what I said.”
“…Son of Calais, will you tell me why you think Calais has rejected me?”
“My mother, to put it bluntly, was not an exemplary mother. Leaving her upbringing to village elders and a nun who was only a teenager? Repaying the favor by earning a fortune through adventure? It would be difficult to do that unless she was quite addicted to adventure. “
“···Tan, are you sure you are honoring your mother?”
“But although he had some strange aspects of his personality, on the whole he was a very nice person. He did not discriminate against his children based on their aptitude like some of the bad adults in the neighborhood, and he valued honesty and simple determination as his greatest values. Above all, he was chivalrous and self-centered. “You were full of sacrificial spirit.”
If it had been a little less overwhelming, I would have been able to attend my younger brother’s academy entrance ceremony. I swallowed my bitterness and continued what I wanted to say.
“He is not the kind of person who hides his identity and treats others dishonorably, or tolerates a gloomy old man who plans mass murder. You know this well. He has been approaching my mother under the alias ‘Barragand’ and posing as a party colleague.”
“···Let me do it again. If I had given her real name or touched you carelessly, the Senate, which loves the purity of fairies, would not have left her and your siblings alone. It is similar to how I did not dress up as a woman because I liked you. Two. Although I have lived my life, “I have told many lies, but I swear that I have never treated your mother with pretense or lies.”
Danar’s tone was appealing. The reason why Isilun whispered to me not to listen to him was probably because he was anxious about the sincerity in his voice.
···I discovered something very annoying. The desperation of Uncle Mansell as he deals with the desperate Adamantone can be seen in his facial expression. It’s the kind of face that can’t bear to give up his recognition as a father and the bond of his bond.
“And three. You can accuse me of being a massacre, but I’m probably not what you think.”
“The guy who kills all the porters is a massacre or a sanitation worker?”
“It is true that the blood of porters will flow. It will flow enough to saturate and moisten the seedbeds for a new era. But shouldn’t we understand that those who were porters from birth are going to be executed? It will be me who decides who is the porter. .”
···It seems like the angle that was strangely off-putting and bothered me has suddenly fit into it.
He plans to kill the porter. He collects aptitudes. However, I am the perfect porter because he is trying desperately to ask for understanding.
At that moment, the Amethyst Palace shook greatly. It probably wasn’t because of the brutal battle between Lord and Evenna. From a distance, even Lord lifted his huge head and looked at the ceiling questioningly.
As the dust fell on our heads, we recoiled in anxiety, but Danar seemed relieved.
“It has begun. Only after shedding your own blood do you become afraid of shedding someone else’s blood.”
“···What just happened?”
“It is the beat of the opening of an era. It will begin with the party gathered in the banquet hall above. Only those who have proven themselves will be appointed as warriors…”
Surprisingly, Danar pointed to all of us while saying ‘those who have proven their qualifications.’
And before he could reach the last person, he suddenly folded his hand. Danar, who made an exception, smiled faintly and stared at the ceiling.
“Those who persecuted their neighbors because they were porters will become porters.”
I tried not to look back. Isilun also managed to survive thanks to the loyalty of his family.
But the rest of our party couldn’t resist. Everyone reflexively turned to look at ‘that guy’. In the end, I turned my head because I was curious about that expression.
Adamantone, who had been sticking around as if he was not there, became thoughtful and muttered quietly.
“What…”
