Chapter 279 – 65. Windswept. (4)
Ah.
As soon as Marie underarm saw her miserable father, she put on an expression of surprise, unlike her own. Then a passion welled up which I cannot articulate.
“Father… , My lord… !”
“Oh, Marie!”
The two fathers and daughters, whose expressions were short on each other, exchanged hot glances once and then embraced intensely.
Every time he took a rough breath, white breath leaked out. At this moment, they forgot even the bitter cold.
“I thought you were alive.”
“Of course you are alive! Who am I! I am the monster of the north!”
The monster Raiga laughed as usual and tried to make biceps with one of his remaining arms, but the muscles that had been lost for several months were not as cool as before.
As the two fathers and daughters unravel their plans for a reunion, Allen turns around the room where the group of survivors stayed.
The food must have run out, but how did she survive here, she wondered, she realized when she saw the stench and blood stains stinging her nose, and clothes piled up in piles.
… I ate the corpse…
Her guess was right, but Allen was not offended by it. Rather, she just wants to applaud their will to survive by eating even her own people in that extreme situation.
The other members of the crew also looked around her room and apparently noticed what had happened, but Allen winked at them, telling them not to say anything. Apart from the winking of his eyes, of course, they didn’t seem to want to say anything about it.
Arlen, who judged that Raiga Danju had solved all of the problems with the armpit hair and the fire ghost Granzo Danju, decided to move from place to place.
It smelled too bad here, and the space was too small for everyone to live together. There are seventeen survivors in total. Even with the added number of mercenary porters, there were over forty.
So they made their way to a decently sized room that Granzo Danzu had found on the other side of the hallway. The windows were all broken due to the cold and wind, so the room was not cold, but a freezer. So the mercenaries hurriedly disassembled the furniture in the room and carefully sealed the windows so that there were no gaps. It took some time until then, but thanks to the magic of the fire ghost and the bonfire, the extremely cold room was instantly filled with warmth.
With the nest finally complete, Allen had time to examine the survivors.
Half were mercenaries, and the other half were residents of the castle. Among them, there was one blood relative of the lord of the castle who ruled the city.
I heard that the baron, the owner of the castle, and his family were also in this group two months ago, but most of them could not stand the sudden change in environment and died of exhaustion. If there was a healer, he would have survived somehow, but the two healers belonging to the Reiga-Mercenary Corps have already passed away.
It was honestly a hopeless situation. It’s amazing how he survived without dying. That’s over four months!
“Danju Raiga, can you tell me what happened?”
Raiga Danju nodded happily.
“Until we arrived in the Windswept Area, it was just an ordinary expedition.”
The story of Raiga Danju began like that.
Not only Allen and Granzo, who were sitting directly across from Danju, but also the mercenaries and porters who had come here listened intently to his story.
I was curious about what kind of amazing thing had happened that made the top 10 representative of the North, the monster Raiga-Mercenary Corps, so miserable.
“The moment I stepped into the blizzard, an unexpected cold suddenly hit me. The horse that pulled the carriage froze to death all night. Even with the fur coat on.”
“… Things started to go wrong there.”
“So she had no choice but to start walking. She was honestly not careless. … Some of our valuable members were lost there. Measures against cold weather were insufficient. That is entirely my mistake.”
Raiga’s voice softened as he admitted his mistake.
“Anyway, I arrived here after many twists and turns. Until then, the city was not like this. I didn’t dare to go outside, but I still managed to hold on. Everyone was waiting for this sudden cold to stop.”
He drank a glass of warm water.
“But I didn’t think it was just a whim of nature. … Something smelled fishy.”
A tense atmosphere began to waft through the air.
“As expected, there were suspicious rumors. So I went further north.”
“… A mine of white gems, that way?”
“Okay. The village nearby is also my hometown.”
Raiga, who was a little stunned, alternately looked at the gazes of Allen and Granzo who were looking at him.
“I prepared enough this time. I even took an expensive horned deer with me. … It was still very cold, but I endured it with evil. I am a top 10 representative of the North. We have an obligation to resolve what is happening in the North.”
With such determination, Raiga held out to the end and went up to the north.
“And, ‘it’ was there. The source of all these changes.”
“… That?”
Granzo Danju, who had no idea what it was about, asked back.
“It was a monster that exhaled tremendous cold air. Without limbs, crawling down like a slug…”
The monster Raiga muttered for the first time in a dejected tone.
“I couldn’t even tell if it was a monster or a demon. Ever since I was born and raised in the North, I haven’t heard or heard of anything like that.”
Then Allen, who had been listening quietly, opened his mouth quietly.
“There was a prophecy. It was a prophecy of infinite cold. The guy is a spirit. However, it is a spirit that must not be awakened. … And if it’s moving, that means someone forced it to wake it up.”
“Who? … No way?”
“Except heretics, no one would do such a thing. It’s normal to not know that such an existence exists in the first place.”
Ah.
Someone let out a small sigh.
“If we don’t stop it, eventually this entire continent, like this city, will freeze. The chill has already reached the central region.”
“… I thought I was a dangerous guy too, so I tried to stop him. And, it ended up like this.”
Raiga Danju smiled self-deprecatingly and glanced at his empty right arm.
“If I had known it was a spirit, I wouldn’t have been so ignorant. … Still, whether he was a monster or a spirit, he had stopped him once. But after that it was a problem.”
“After that, you mean?”
“He had a strange spirit. It was a spirit that radiated tremendous cold. So I noticed that it was its source and tried to break it. … And as he lowered the axe, his right arm froze. If it was just a little too late to cut it off, his whole body would have been frozen.”
So, it seems that he never recovered his right arm after giving it to him.
“It is not physically breakable. … It has to be sealed. It is the only way.”
It was cold itself. Even in [Guild Master], There was no way to completely get rid of it. Just sealing it up and bringing it back to the polar regions as much as possible.
“Right…”
And there was a long silence. The sound of someone coughing made the silence even more frightening.
“For now, let’s end today’s talk here. Rest, all of you.”
Allen distributed some emergency rations to starving survivors. They ate human meat to survive, and they gobbled up the food they received with their eyes closed. Most non-mercenaries wept sadly there.
Unghost Granzo Danju had a small talk with Allen in the corner.
“When are you leaving?”
“I think it would be good to leave tomorrow. There is no point in staying here for another day or two anyway.”
“… What about the other survivors?”
“It would be better to wait here for now.”
At that time, Raiga Danju, who had been eavesdropping on their whispering conversation from afar, stood up.
“I will go too.”
Having healed his wounds with heals and drinking potions to the fullest, Laiga Danju shouted with a big look in his eyes, as if he had some energy now.
“I know the geography here best. And I dealt with him myself. You will definitely need my help.”
“… If you do it wrong, you really die.”
“I was ready to die a long time ago. This is a Northern thing. Can I fall?”
To be honest, it was nice to have experience. No matter how well Allen mastered [Guild Master], The game and reality were clearly different. She’s dealing with the demon Gau Sachs, and she’s already felt it keenly.
If Rai and Danju could follow without difficulty, Granzo Danju didn’t seem to want to refuse either. He decided that it was better to have an experienced person too.
This time, Allen glanced at her armpit hair.
“What do you think?”
“I will obey your father’s will.”
Then the monster Raiga laughed heartily and pounded my chest with his fist.
“If you thought that I would be embarrassed because of just a little hardship, you are mistaken! I am the Raiga of the North! Even if they die, the warriors of the north die on the battlefield!”
What the.
Granzo Danju sneered at the honor of the North, which couldn’t be stopped. … However, even with his death in front of him, he acknowledged such determination and determination.
“… That’s good. Let’s go together.”
Then the mercenaries from the group of survivors got up and said that you and I would follow.
“Could you send Danju alone! Even if I die, I will die with you!”
“I’m ashamed, I can’t hold my dick and wait here! I will go too!”
“I still have one eye left!”
Bitches!
The monster Raiga smiled proudly at the crew who did not lose their courage until the end.
“Good night! Everyone who wants to go, let’s go! Let’s die for the North!”
“Whoah!”
Also northerners.
A group of mercenaries saw that and laughed lightly.
… But the honor and pride of the North touched their hearts for the first time.
Maybe this is the feeling they were so proud of.
Even Allen, the money ghost, forgot money and profit for a moment.
At this moment, everyone in this place was united in one mind.
