Chapter 172 – 2. Psyche’s Sleep (6)
Small continent.
It was originally a land where people lived.
However, due to four cataclysms that appeared in ancient times, this world was in danger, and at that time, dragons and various divine beasts, including the dragon who were protecting this world. And countless mysterious races succeeded in sealing the four disasters by driving them into a small continent with all their might.
That was the identity of the small continent now called the land of monsters.
Disaster began in an island country next to a kingdom.
Due to the birth of the disaster, the island nation sank into the sea without a trace, and the western part of the peninsula adjacent to the island nation was also swallowed up by the sea, except for the part blocked by the mountain range.
A hundred ghost night trips where all kinds of yoma gathered and scattered.
A giant dragon that stains the whole land with blood and forms eight giant rivers. Ambassador
The Oni King, Jutan Dongja.
The fox of Absolute Beauty, Mango Jeolsaek, Gyeongguk Jimmy Beauty, and Gyeongguk Gyeongsaek 傾國傾色. White face golden hair
The four disasters, which were thought to have occurred before that time, were awakened as huge disasters that could not be controlled by absorbing traditions similar to their own while they were asleep.
And after the disasters were sealed on the continent, a kingdom periodically cleaned up the monsters that filled the continent.
By doing so, the power of the four disasters that are about to overflow from the small continent will be drained and prevented from being released into this world again.
However, at some point, the reason began to change little by little.
The ecosystem of the small continent, affected by the four catastrophes, began to provide various materials that could not be obtained anywhere else, and the fact that they could only be obtained from the small continent made the value of them extremely high.
Unique ingredients for which there is no substitute.
As a result, one kingdom was able to rapidly grow rich and strong, but it received so much envy and envy, and in fact, it was isolated from its surroundings.
However, even so, it was not possible to prevent a kingdom from trading through sea routes, and it became more inconvenient than before, but the kingdom was still strong.
With the special material obtained from the small continent, they had excellent equipment that could not be compared to other kingdoms, and the powerful survivors who survived by experiencing the hell of human life by encountering the demonic world of the small continent were already monsters that were ambiguous even to be called humans.
And Haenam is always busy with ships going to and from such a small continent.
Winter, when ships stop there.
The loa were busy with martial arts training.
Despite the cold midwinter, steam was seeping out of Roa’s body, who had thrown off her top.
They wanted to go to the small continent as soon as possible to save YuRia, but if they died in their haste, it would be worthless.
Not only did she risk her own life, but the lives of Nuri and Jincheong, as well as the lives of Hosea and Joshua, who were so precious above all else, Roa let go of her impatience and devoted herself to training.
The more he was in a hurry, the more he didn’t want to go back.
Above all, as he confirmed through his dream that Yuria was resting comfortably, he let go of his impatience.
Now that the ship was cut off anyway, Roa put everything down and devoted herself to training.
Nuri had already finished her basic education and was receiving martial arts lessons from Jincheong, and Roa had only recently entered basic martial arts training.
Jincheong said that he was a deformed being like a Sasangnugak with no basics.
What kind of environment did he grow up in? He awakens the group of risers without even learning the basics and wields them clumsily. I couldn’t, but now I can understand.
The training method Yuria gave her was obviously amazing and outstanding, but it was the method of geniuses.
No, the methods of those in a far-high place who lack even the word genius.
I just do it because I can.
The fighting method of those who had so much power there that they did not need to resort to complicated methods.
That was Yuria’s fighting method.
As Jincheong said, martial arts was study and mathematics, and it was a discipline to attain higher enlightenment.
But on the other hand, there are no fingernails, no claws, no sharp fangs, no thick and tough hide, no hard carapace, no nimble legs, no brute force, no big size. It was the crystallization of the efforts to overcome and win the knowledge and wisdom accumulated by humans who were thoroughly weak and had nothing to survive in the great nature’s competition for survival.
Not the power of the strong who already have everything. Power for the weak who were born with nothing.
Basically, these are skills to survive and win against opponents stronger than you.
The knowledge and wisdom that have been desperately built up in such desperate need for survival.
A struggle to get out of the position of the weakest in this ecosystem.
At some point, it was becoming a way to get out of this weak human species itself.
That was the true identity of martial arts that Roa realized.
Training to be reborn as a higher race.
Just like a snake in the East becomes a dragon through repeated training.
A way to go beyond the limits of the race itself and move on to the next.
That’s why Roa bumped into and bumped into and bumped into again.
His own limits were still far away.
He had to reach his limits, push those limits, break those limits and jump.
In order to overcome the crisis in the far away small continent, he thought that this was too small.
With Yuria’s words. According to Tia and Jincheong’s interpretation, we had to somehow overcome three huge crises with our own strength, which would have seemed possible only if we woke up Yuria there.
Don’t know what will be Maybe meet the queen ant of Crimson Ant who made Yuria like that.
Or, in that situation where they would face one of the four great disasters on the small continent, they would have to wake up Yuria, but even for that, they had to become stronger.
Even if it was to buy time for Nuri to wake up Yuria.
Loa, who was training to challenge his limits while smoking steam from his body, felt pain in his heart as he saw the children who were training like him without complaining.
Originally, children who have matured too early, but even so, children who should still complain to their parents and play around for a long time, saying that they will save their mother and training until their hands are bleeding, all of this seems to be due to their own inadequacies. Felt
Meanwhile, Roa, who had been training for such a long time, wondered what Nuri would be learning by now.
He said he’s training in a way that makes the most of his unique abilities…
Nuri, who is trying to transform into a sorcerer so that she can make use of the ability of the goblin, unlike the fighting style so far, was struggling in many ways.
How would Nuri change the next time they met?
Roa hurriedly shook his head and cleared his thoughts.
I had to concentrate more and more as it was a training to gain enlightenment through physical training, not just physical training.
* * * * *
Count Baran, who finally arrived in the capital, stepped forward with a very haggard look.
Not only the Count, but also the people of the territory who followed him looked very haggard and very tired.
And that wasn’t all.
Among the villagers, there were no sick or elderly people.
That meant that the Count had finally made up his mind.
Nevertheless, in the eyes of the residents, their trust in the Count seemed almost unchanged. Instead of resentment against the count, only resentment against the king burned quietly.
The time when the count couldn’t make up his mind. The injured, the sick, and the elderly, who learned of the Count’s concerns, gathered together during the break and pondered for a long time before finally making a decision.
If this is the case, if everyone dies anyway, shouldn’t we have to save at least the person to be saved?
So they asked the count. Kill them painlessly and burn their bodies so that they won’t be insulted by those ants and give them a funeral.
The Count tried to refuse, but their determination
And in a situation where everyone was really going to die at this rate, in the end, they couldn’t refuse their will.
In the midst of such scarce supplies, he served them a last supper and poured poison into their supper so that they could die as if they were sleeping peacefully without pain.
The territories who died like that fell asleep were cremated according to their will, and the yeongjimins somehow managed to lead the children to this place.
Perhaps it was because they saw those who sacrificed themselves for everyone, even the children who were still young walked and walked and walked without any complaints or complaints, clenching their teeth even in the pain of blisters on the soles of their feet that burst and bleed.
Only the children who really couldn’t walk relied on the adults who had the remaining energy or somehow rode them on a cart or wagon, and somehow, the remaining ones did their best to reach the capital safely, but what was left of them There was nothing but poison.
Rather than wanting to survive from Crimson Ant.
Only the poison that the sacrifice of those who chose to die for themselves could not be in vain.
And such poisonous spirit became a resentment of the royal family for not granting an evacuation permit even a little earlier.
* * * * *
The answer to the question of what Yuria would think if she saw martial arts.
It’s a half story, but the answer was coming through Hosea and Joshua.
Martial arts, if expressed in the simplest and clearest way possible, is a technique to understand myself and nature to unfold the principles of nature through one’s body, ultimately training to become nature itself.
Hosea and Joshua, who quickly absorbed the concept of martial arts and trained and trained their bodies, began to grasp the concept of the union of magic and martial arts, although they were still lacking.
However, the two soon realized that it was still impossible.
In order to combine the two, there was still insufficient understanding of magic and martial arts.
However, the achievements of the two were able to jump significantly with the still incomplete contact of magic and martial arts.
“What if I was your mother?”
“She’s well… I wonder if she hadn’t been sick somehow?”
Naegong, if you follow the term they learned, they will come.
Unlike their own method, which was close to half-heartedness, the Eastern method was really delicate, systematic, and neat.
If the aura just tasted like chewing sugarcane, the inner energy was pure refined sugar.
It can be candy, it can be a fancy sugar craft, and it is added to many dishes to add a new taste to food.
Even though they had the same sweet taste, their use was incomparable.
If you compare it to the magical power of using magic?
Magic power is sugar beet. It is an existence that has condensed the sweetness in a different way from the original ingredient called the earth.
If you ask if sugar beet can also be refined into sugar, the only answer is that this does not mean that in the lactation period, such energy is actually sugar cane, sugar, and sugar beet.
However, the fact that all three are substances derived from the condensation of ingredients from the earth through crops such as sugar cane or sugar beet does not change, and their origins come from the earth, and although there are differences in the ingredients or purity, they contain common ingredients. It didn’t change what it was.
That common part. The two saw the possibility of combining the two there.
However, the two did not place much value on the discovery.
Normally, she might have asked for praise from her mother, but her mother wasn’t here right now.
More than anything, it was because she had already realized that this discovery wouldn’t be of much use right now to save her mother.
For the two children who lost their mother, the value of everything now was whether or not it would help her find her mother again.
Therefore, Hosea and Joshua devoted themselves more and more to the training of martial arts.
The more you practice martial arts, the more you build up your inner energy. The mental power that gradually deepened through martial arts training naturally brought about the strengthening of superpowers.
Both abilities were powers that could be used to move Talos.
* * * * *
Winter has passed and spring has come again.
Celebrating the new year, Hosea and Joshua, who have turned seven years old, have now taken off their baby clothes and become reborn as children.
Hosea and Joshua, who desperately wanted to see their mother again while watching their father who was risking their lives for training, ran into Hosea and Joshua’s mind.
It was said that he would no longer be their grandfather because he would get out of the family register someday, but even so, what would become of the count, who was still their grandfather?
What happened to Elza and Liza noona?
Grandpa Cashwin and Aunt Allen?
“Come to think of it, our family genealogy is a mess.”
“Actually, it’s not blood related, so it’s more ambiguous.”
Cashwyn’s grandfather is her paternal grandfather’s younger brother. Aunt Allen is a friend of her father and mother.
Uncle Nuri is her mother’s and father’s friend, sister-in-law Su, and Aunt Delis is her mother’s maid and friend.
My memories from when I was very young are a bit fuzzy, but I still remember the two of them.
The relationship between Elsa and Liza had been passed down from almost the moment they were born.
In fact, except for the occasional time when they were separated from each other, the two older sisters, who were always chattering and never stopped talking, disappeared, and for some reason they felt very empty.
Of course, her mother’s vacancy was so great that she didn’t even have time to properly feel the gap, but even so, the absence of the two of them was so great that they could no longer ignore it.
“Are the older sisters too grown up?”
“Sure. What if we don’t know each other later? It shouldn’t be awkward…”
Right! Damn!!
While sparring with each other’s wooden swords colliding in the air, the two stopped at one point in the air with their sword tips colliding exactly with each other’s sword tips.
“As expected, even if we cut off the link, it seems like we know each other too well and share the same thoughts.”
“It doesn’t matter. From the beginning, we were originally one, but we were born as two.”
She was born split in two because she couldn’t handle the power she inherited from her mother with one body.
That was them
Of course, they wouldn’t know when they were babies, but now it wouldn’t matter if they got back together, but if that happened, the world would check them and put pressure on them, and all kinds of misfortune would come like a mother.
And that misfortune will not only bother them, but will also involve those around them.
More than anything, I thought it wouldn’t matter if Hosea and Joshua merged, but I didn’t think that I wanted to become one again unless it was absolutely necessary.
For some reason, I felt that if I did that, I would get farther away from my father.
I knew it instinctively.
If the two of them become one again, they will put in an incomparable amount of power, but at that time, the part they inherited from their father will disappear.
Tia almost completely followed her mother’s lineage, but also harmoniously inherited parts of her father’s, but the feeling came that if they came together, they might be far from her father.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that the love she’s received from her dad will disappear, so it’s not like she’ll become a stranger to her, but isn’t it?
Children are beings who inherit parents, but she did not like the part of her father disappearing from within herself.
More than anything, it felt like something would change if the father part disappeared.
It was clear at the time that it was going to be something other than Hosea and Joshua.
“Come to think of it, isn’t Tia working hard these days?”
“Ugh… Come to think of it, Tia is also very toxic.”
Tia’s training.
She learns and learns the method of accumulating internal energy, called Ungi Tonap, and how to operate internal energy within Shinchae.
Cold sweats flowed down Tia as she ate a very small piece of Byeokgokdan every day and tried hard to get used to the taste.
Know.
Even though Tia is their younger sister, she is also a great being who is older than her mother.
Still, her brother is her brother.
Her baby, Tia, was trying so hard, but she couldn’t be tough on herself.
The impressions of Hosea and Joshua, who opened the lid of the jar in one corner of the training hall and took out the Byeokgokdan and ate it, were mercilessly distorted.
“Ouch!!”
“Hold on, but this definitely not only fills the meal, but also helps in training, right?”
Didn’t Mr. Jincheong do that?
Although the effect of Byeokgokdan is very slight, it is said to be a kind of elixir.
Of course, it was not really an elixir, but it had such an effect, even though it was the lowest grade, to condense that amount of nutrition into this small size and maximize its shelf life.
As if thinking, they wanted to ask Uncle Jincheong to find a proper elixir, but the elixir was still too young for them to consume, and above all, elixir was not something they could ask for.
Even if he could get it, the price of the elixir was really high enough to make him swear.
In fact, Byeokgokdan was the best in terms of elixir that they could eat, no, elixir.
“About late summer of this year?”
“As long as it doesn’t interfere with my father’s training.”
My father’s realm was very unbalanced.
To the extent that even Uncle Jincheong was very surprised, Dad had the realization of rising, but the foundation and basics to support that level were not at all.
Her mother corrected her father’s musculature and made her body as good as it could be, but she was in no way able to properly handle the body.
That’s right
She is a mother who is so perfect that she doesn’t need martial arts, so she wouldn’t have thought of this part at all.
That’s why Jincheong had his father hammering such foundations and basics into his body.
“Is there anyone who can match us?”
“Well… Even if we don’t use our skills or superpowers, is there anyone our age who can deal with us?”
Hosea and Joshua, who were staring blankly at each other, sighed at the same time.
Does not exist.
However, if you bring in a senior with an age difference enough to break out of the weight class category, the balance is ambiguous in its own way.
What they wanted was an opponent who would literally compete with swordsmanship itself, not a difficult fight due to physical differences.
It was like that.
“Hey! What are you?”
Huh? Looking back, a boy who looked like he had eaten about twelve or three was looking at them.
“This is a place where no outsider can enter! Get out of here”
Upon closer inspection of the boy’s clothing, it was similar to Mr. Jincheong’s at first glance.
At first, I didn’t know much about the clothing style of a kingdom, so I didn’t know much about it, but I was able to feel the difference to some extent now.
The clothes worn by Uncle Jincheong are the unique style of the Baekryongmun school.
In other words, this boy in front of him now also belonged to the White Dragon.
“We’re training with permission”
“That’s right”
Since he had never asked, and Mr. Jincheng had never given any explanations, it was unclear what position Mr. Jincheng was in at Baekryongmun, but at least he knew that he was not in an ordinary position.
People came from Baekryongmun just by sending a letter. Even after coming here, seeing that he used the facilities of Baekryongmun without incident, he seemed to be in a very high position.
“Lie!”
Visor! Hosea and Joshua were taken aback for a moment at the sight of the boy pulling out a real sword from his waist, but the two exchanged glances for a while and nodded slightly.
Rather, it is an opportunity.
Apparently, his internal energy is still shallow, so he won’t be able to use the power to infuse energy into the sword to strengthen his spirit.
Then, even if they were real swords, they wouldn’t be hurt by that child’s sword.
As they secretly strengthened their bodies and wooden swords with psychic powers and exchanged glances with each other, Hosea stepped forward first.
It doesn’t matter which of the two leaves.
The two who linked the link again will now share each other’s realization in real time.
“I will uncover the identities of you, my wicked bastards.”
“I don’t think you’ll listen to anything I’ve already said…”
I guess that’s why my mother often said that. I don’t want to deal with barbaric things.
Yeah let’s think Because it was the first sparring using proper martial arts.
The opponent doesn’t seem to think it’s sparring.
