Chapter 210 – 7. Does the Princess of Colchis Dream of Cinderella? (1)
“Ah… Finally”
Er, who was forcibly under the protection of dragons because of her mother, was barely freed when the cataclysm called Crimson Antra began.
Er, who was with the Hetzlings who were tightly united in one place under the protection of the elders, made friends with some Hetzling sisters and brothers, and one of them became Jackie Chan soon, so when he became Jackie Chan, he asked if he could leave the game and stay with himself. I asked.
Er was her older sister, whom she had become very close to, so she was the right one.
YuRia remembered her sister’s situation, so she stopped answering.
She said that she felt sorry for her new sister, but that she had to ask the leader of the party.
And even if she doesn’t give permission, he said that he should definitely go out with him for this next play.
… Yoo hee ra
For herself, this isn’t a game, but it’s not right to impose these standards on her sisters and brothers.
Recognized as a Hetzling, she is said to be able to roam around in human society even though she herself has not become Jackie Chan like this.
They also acknowledged it.
That his mental view is completely different from that of a dragon.
Okay. That’s how I came in…
“What?”
The desired territory was so quiet. What is this?
* * * * *
Bung! Earth! Bung! Earth!
Tondef, who had been sweating for a long time in a huge workshop filled with the sound of tapping metal, striking metal with a hammer, felt something familiar, huh? And raised his head.
“Eh?”
“Uncle yi~”
Seeing Er approaching from afar, Tondef immediately threw down his hammer and ran towards him.
And then.
Peruk -!!
I fired a lariat at Er, who was running to welcome him.
“Kuhheh?!”
“Hey, ssang-nyeon! A bitch who claims to be the owner of the name and color threw away the guardian, and now, where are you raising your eyebrows!?”
Er, who had been coughing for a while, looked at Tondef with a pouty expression, but he couldn’t bear to get angry because Tondef wasn’t wrong.
It wasn’t just a day or two, it was because I had left it alone for two years.
“Collock, but what happened? Why did Youngji move?”
Seeing the clean and well-organized districts and the extremely developed streets, Er looked around.
For a moment, he wondered if this was an empire and tilted his head.
No. It might be a city that is busier than the empire.
“Here? Don’t you remember? Isn’t that the planned city that Yuria was building?”
“Ah?”
Er only then came to mind.
“Did it extend to here?”
“It’s a city that was created to replace the original city from the beginning.”
Shrugging, Tondep went back to the workshop, picked up the hammer he had thrown away, and, wiping off the dust with a gentle sigh, tried to strike down the red-hot metal lump, but frowned and threw it back into the furnace.
“So many people died. In the meantime, new marriages, old families disintegrating, new ones being created, and already the old property rights have become almost half meaningless.”
Searching the blazing hearth, Tondef muttered in a nonchalant tone.
“And since this side is already so much better than the old house, we all moved here. In fact, since we are starting almost everything from scratch, our enthusiasm for learning new things is definitely different.”
Tondef, who took out the red-hot metal again, kaang! Caang! He slammed down and continued his words.
“Actually, this place is more prosperous than the royal capital. I don’t know how far Yuria has looked and worked, but the infrastructure here is something beyond perfect. It’s not a small number, but rather, it’s a place that’s trying to go beyond the old days, so people flocked to it. Rumors spread all over. They say that only this place is fine.
Caang! Caang!
Come to think of it, the workshop here was distinctly different from the blacksmiths of the past.
Some people hit the metal with their hands, but it was lifted up vigorously through a force other than a person. The sight of the huge metal parts being cast, beaten, and made, unlike any other, was so great that it was truly awe-inspiring.
“Is this… The knowledge that sister released?”
“Keuk. Then the intestines turn upside down again? Well, I almost wanted to feed them, but we let them think and devise ourselves. She’s not the ones she brought out.”
At that, Er looked around again.
“So, you’re saying this wasn’t invented by you, but was developed by humans?”
Tondef giggled.
“Yes, that’s right. The image of him sighing as he tried his best to give me this and that, even though he felt like he was about to burst into madness, is still good in my eyes.”
Even this seems to be extremely unobtrusive to the woman, but is there anything special?
“Well, I heard rumors that that woman is solving various things here, and even in Gash, dwarves, field wardens of various races, and blacksmiths come down to exchange technology, and in fact, that side has a bigger influence on the development to this point. Isn’t that where the woman taught you until your guts turned?”
Until the guts turn over.
At those words, Er’s eyes naturally furrowed.
It was down really well.
To the extent that literally inside and outside are physically overturned.
Over and over again in my dream, my intestines turned over. Actually flipping over.
“By the way, where is your sister?”
“You mean YuRia? They’ve been busy trading with the southern region lately.”
“Southern… Yo?”
“Yes. The countries beyond the Empire. Did you say Han, to be precise? A place in the West Continent that has the culture of the Easterners.”
I’ve heard it as if passing by.
It is called the East of the West Continent.
“I think I’d like to go around and show you this and that like before, but right now it’s hard because I’m busy”
Er’s eyebrows furrowed at Tondef’s words.
He was his own guardian.
Of course, Erser, who had a mindset closer to a human rather than a dragon, thought that he was respecting him, but even so, it didn’t feel good to see that his guardian prioritized other things over himself.
However, he was obviously upset that he had left him alone for over two years on his own, and it wasn’t a good thing either, so he didn’t say anything about it, though he was offended.
While he was gone, he must have played an important role in the big picture his sister was drawing.
“Go to the central plaza. You can probably go to Yuria.”
“To the central square?”
“There’s a really cool thing made by Yuria.”
After Ton Def said that, he started to get absorbed in the work, and although Er was displeased with being separated from Ton Def, he went to the central square as Ton Def said.
And there, Er was shocked once again.
A huge circular door with an inside diameter of about 3 meters.
“Warp Gate…”
A lost skill now.
It was because the ancient relics, which were operated by only a handful of people who had barely survived that long period of time, were reborn and were there.
“Hey, how is this?”
The product of an ancient civilization that even dragons could not reproduce was settled there.
Of course, I could have made excuses.
For dragons, warp gates were unnecessary, so there was no particular reason to restore them.
However, that couldn’t be the reason.
As the master of magic, dragons used to analyze warp gates that they wouldn’t even use, thinking that there was no magic they couldn’t do.
The result is a catastrophic failure.
There was no way to find out the operating principle and structure of the warp gate without stopping the operation of the warp gate and disassembling the pair of warp gates.
With warp gates that had already stopped working and become junk, no answer came out, and if you wanted to touch the warp gates that were already remaining, you couldn’t touch them recklessly, considering the warp gate’s influence on human society.
‘But you restored it?’
Then Er realized again that it wasn’t like that.
‘No. The warp gate will obviously stop working if you move from the designated spot’
Whether it is up or down, left or right, front or back.
Even the slightest deviation in that angle will stop it.
It was an incredibly detailed organ.
Whatever survived.
Whatever died
The warp gate originally did not exist here.
‘It’s not a restoration… ‘
Is this something new?
Er made her head dizzy.
Dragons. Even though not one, but many people put their heads together to study and devised, humans alone did the impossible?
A new opening, not even a restoration?
“Are you Er?”
“!…”
When the person who seemed to be the manager next to the gate spoke to him, Er was startled and regained his senses.
“No, that’s right!”
“There was a call from above. If a green-haired, half-man, half-dragon came, they asked if Er was right, and if so, they were instructed to open the gate to a kingdom.”
At that, Er thought that her older sister was remembering her, but at that moment, she was startled again.
‘Open the gate to one kingdom?’
Something was strange
Not open the gate.
Open the gate to ‘One Kingdom’?
“What, what do you mean by that? Do you want to open it as one kingdom?”
“That’s right, the gates are for the empire and for Gash. And there’s one for the kingdom.”
At those words, Er looked around.
How many more gates are there?
“Anything?”
“Oh, no. So, which hang gate is this gate?”
At that, the manager tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand even more.
“Through this gate, all warp gates are connected”
“What!?”
Er couldn’t understand.
Obviously, the warp gate could be opened only when the paired doors were placed in a perfect straight line and the angles of each other were also perfectly matched.
“Uh, how is that possible?”
Therefore, two warp gates are always a pair.
It could never be connected to another warp gate.
If there is an exceptional method, if a number of warp gates are placed in a straight line, in that case it could be connected to multiple gates.
According to the knowledge that dragons found out while studying warp gates, it was like that.
“So, can we leave now?”
Er looked around for a while.
The direction of a kingdom…
Then he swung again and looked at the warp gate. Is the warp gate facing one kingdom?
No. Wrong direction.
If you can open all the gates with that gate, you will definitely turn the angle.
In some magical way, they will contact the other side and tilt the gate in the promised direction.
“Then I’ll connect you”
However, this gate was not like that.
When the manager manipulated the device next to the gate, a powerful wave of magical energy was generated, and unlike the warp gate he knew, the landscape of the crossing began to appear very easily.
“Connected…?”
Er is hot!? And was in awe.
No, no, nonsense. Uh, how could this…
What the hell did you use?
Her head was spinning at the current situation, where something that could never have happened with a warp gate that Erga knew.
Sister… What the hell have you done?
* * * * *
Yuria, who was slurping and tilting her teacup, saw her green-haired child running from far away and let out a smirk.
“U~ Lee~ Ah~ Unnie!!”
Yuria, who slipped away from Er who was rushing at her, and gently grabbed her wing, gently put Er down as it was.
“Why don’t you just calm down”
“Ah, no, really, what… What, what the hell is that!? That grotesque thing that common sense has been completely shattered into powder…”
YuRia closed her one eye and clicked her fingers to touch the tip of Er’s nose.
“Akot!?”
“Calm down. Isn’t that what we’re going to talk about first?”
At those words, Er… And felt her head cool.
“Oh, long time no see sister”
“Yes. It’s been a while, you tomboy.”
The two, who felt a strange sense of kinship with each other, hugged each other for a while and shared a meeting.
“…Then I’ll ask you again, sister. What is that bizarre thing that destroyed common sense and shattered it!? Wouldn’t it be crazy to make something like that?”
YuRia shook her head, slurping her slurp and drinking her tea again.
“Regulations have weakened quite a bit recently. We haven’t released the technology. Above all, we’ve only improved it, but we haven’t developed anything new. There’s nothing against the rules.”
“What is that…”
In Er’s opinion, this was the biggest thing that Yuria had done so far, but it didn’t seem like that was the case with her rules.
“Above all, isn’t that completely uninterpretable?”
“…”
It was like that too.
A thing that went one step further than the warp gate that even the dragon couldn’t explain everything to the end.
There was no way humans could interpret it.
“Dae, how the hell did you make something like that?”
“Well, I can’t tell you the details because it’s going to be restricted. Once you know, why didn’t I think of this?”
Er, dumbfounded by those words, looked at YuRia.
“Perhaps the dragons didn’t think it was the answer even though they got right in front of the right answer?”
“Huh? Now, wait. I didn’t say anything…”
“Because there were data on dragons among the documents I referenced when I made that one.”
Err at those words, eh?! I looked back in the far distance in the direction where the warp gate was supposed to be, but I couldn’t see it because it was covered by different terrain.
“D-Dragon data…?”
“Yes. If you really take one step further, the answer will come out. In the end, I couldn’t find it and turned around.”
Er had a sense of futility about him.
One step…
Are you saying that the dragons stopped without even thinking about taking one more step?
“Haaa…”
In the meantime, what about Er? And looked at the teacup that Yuria was holding.
Something was strange.
It doesn’t even smell. It was gradually getting colder, but the steam that should have been steaming in a normal car was not steaming at all.
“Sister. Isn’t that tea?”
“…”
Yuria, who was slurping and drinking tea, no, something disguised as tea, closed her eyes and tried to avoid Er.
“What is it! What the hell are you pretending to be tea and drinking?”
“Mo, can’t you pretend you don’t know?”
Er, who took the teacup away with an eighth, saw the transparent liquid in the teacup and immediately identified it.
“Alcohol?”
“…”
“Why are you drinking like this?”
Yuria tried to avoid her gaze.
“Sister. Are you pregnant?”
“If I’m pregnant, I won’t drink myself even if someone recommends it. It’s not like I’m going to harm my child just because I drink a little, but do I look like I’m going to do something that will harm Loa’s child?”
“Then why?”
“Senin-nim!! Did you drink alcohol in this holy hall again!!”
“Sheesh…”
YuRia put on a puzzled expression at the sound of shouts coming from far away.
An old man with a long white beard was running at him in a hurry, and Yuria sadly took a teacup… No, she put down her drink.
“Have you not been drinking much before?”
“Because I didn’t have enough time?”
Vodka is her own drink of her own taste, even if she has money.
It is like clean morning dew, leaving only pure water and alcohol.
If you think of the alcohol here, which is hard to see other than beer or wine, they were alcohol that you wouldn’t drink.
At least in one kingdom, there was a clear and fairly strong alcohol called ‘shoju’, and after distilling it once more, it became an alcohol similar to vodka, and it just sniped at my taste.
“Is it that good?”
“Everyone has their own preferences.”
Even Yuria herself didn’t know why.
Her Tamamo, her former life, has similar tastes in alcohol to hers, but they don’t match perfectly.
I can only think that it is the effect of the lineage of the body, which is half-joking.
However, it is almost like comparing monkeys and humans. Except for the external similarities between ancient humans and themselves, they were like a third race that was completely different from the inside.
“This is confiscation!”
Seeing Yuria looking bitterly at the old man taking her cup, Er laughed.
“Well, then sister. Does that gate connect only to the gates her sister made?”
“It’s not like that, but it’s a bit complicated because you need permission from that side to connect to another gate.”
Therefore, there are only four gates that can be connected at will without permission.
Shelton Kingdom and Gash Kingdom. And an empire and a kingdom.
Other gates can be opened with the permission of both parties, but the contact network itself has not yet been established and is still being negotiated, so it is virtually unusable yet.
“All, with other gates?”
“It’s the same with ultra-ancient civilizations. It would have been if it had gone one step further.”
What…
It is said that it is a super ancient civilization, but it is not actually a super ancient civilization.
If you think about the identity of this world, it must be a civilization and technology that have been abandoned because there is something wrong.
Rather than a civilization that existed and then perished, something that existed elsewhere was abandoned here.
It was only a very long time ago that it was abandoned in this world.
“Still, it’s been a while since we met. Would you like to have a meal together? I’ll treat you to a famous delicacy in a kingdom.”
“Really?”
Without realizing it, the complicated thoughts in Er’s head disappeared and he began to follow Yuria, who had risen from her seat.
Seeing Er like that, Yuria was relieved, thinking that Er was fortunate to be simple.
Be honest I was very worried about what I would do if asked about what had happened.
It’s because I’m still mentally tired to think back to the past.
