Chapter 242 – Stage 1 Act 3 – Prologue.
Geek…
Unlike the previous time when Yuria steered alone, Nuri held the helm while Roa and Tamamo steered the ship by winding and unwinding the bowstrings that controlled the sails.
In many parts, it was possible because the number of people needed to control the sails was greatly reduced through magic, and only Roa and Tamamo were able to control the sails to some extent, but at first, the ship tilted significantly because I was not familiar with these sails.
Nuri said the boat wasn’t tilted so much that it capsized, but in Loa’s opinion, it was a truly dizzying moment.
“Where are we going now?”
“Originally, I was going to go to the Ing Empire via Hein. Tia. Ine and then to the Sui Empire via Conrin, but with the knowledge I learned from Yuria-sama, I changed the route.”
East Continent and West Continent.
At the point when I didn’t know that this world was a round sphere, I thought there was only one way.
From the East Continent to the West, the West Continent comes out. They say that you have to go east from the West Continent to find the East Continent.
But the distinction was so meaningless.
The bird statue was in the shape of a sphere, and rather, the shortest way from the eastern continent to the western continent was to go further east.
“If we head east like this, the Ming Empire will emerge.”
“Are you okay? It must be dangerous to try a sea route for the first time?”
Noorie smiled at him.
“I have to go this way to see the Dragon King anyway. Up until now, I couldn’t understand why the Dragon Palace was here, but I learned the reason with the knowledge I gained from Yuria earlier.”
The largest sea in the world in the shape of this ball. It was the sea east of the eastern continent.
The sea is even bigger than the sea that mankind has been using so far.
“The place where the Dragon King is is believed to be right in the middle of the sea. If the Dragon King really invited me and Eun-Gong, then something will surely happen when we reach the middle of it, at least roughly.”
Nuri’s words made Tamamo slightly frown.
“Does that sound pretty irresponsible?”
While she was about to become a little upset at Nuri’s seemingly irresponsible words, Yuria, who complained of a headache due to a thorn in her head and couldn’t even use her body properly, got up from her seat.
“Hu, after?”
“Eungong, yeo, was it noisy too?”
YuRia got up from her seat while holding her head, careful not to touch the red shard embedded in her forehead, and quickly moved forward.
“Yuria?”
Tamamo and Nuri felt something that had not happened because Yuria was noisy and her head was hurting.
What happened?
“Come”
“Are you coming?”
That time when everyone was at a loss as to what the hell was going on at the sight of YuRia, who suddenly said the word “Come” And then stared blankly in front of her. Cooong! And a heavy vibration echoed from the sea.
“Wow!?”
“Aww!”
The heavy vibration that echoed from the sea was so powerful that Tamamo’s mouth made a shriek come out of it.
The vibration of something other than the vibration of seawater.
At that time when everyone was frightened by that unfamiliar sensation, YuRia stood there casually as if she was familiar with these vibrations even though she seemed dazed.
“W-what’s going on!”
“You’re calling”
Could it be because her head hurts? YuRia, who would normally explain in an easy-to-understand manner even by their standards, was speaking even more incomprehensibly than before.
And at that moment, the appearance around her changed in an instant.
From the open ocean, which was so dark blue that it looked black, to an indoor space with an unknown and mysterious atmosphere.
It was too huge a space to call it ‘indoor’, but it was definitely not outdoors.
“Ta, Tamamo-sama, hey, where is this place?”
“Yo, Yonggung? Bo, even the original woman doesn’t know! She’s saying she can go, but she’s never been there! That’s right, Nuri, you’re the one who said you’ve talked to the Dragon King!!”
At those words, Noori’s face went white and she shook her head.
“That, that’s all, I just heard the voice of the Dragon King in a dream on the boat when I was heading to the West Continent. How will I meet him!”
I don’t know, but it seemed that this place was the dragon’s palace.
According to Yuria, they are not the ‘omnipotent’ gods that people think of, but they are higher life forms that transcend the material basis of the body, and they are called gods because they are definitely the same as ‘gods’ in the eyes of humans.
That’s why, in conversation with them, Yuria called them ‘gods’ for convenience, but in reality, I’ve heard that Yuria doesn’t call them gods.
And, I also heard that most of those beings are severely restricted from interfering in this human world, and that Yuria is only half the same as them, so she is also subject to many restrictions.
Then. What does it feel like to be a god who is allowed to exist in this world?
Of course, it is not yet confirmed that this place is the Yonggung Palace, but the surroundings were so unrealistic that it made me wonder how a place like this could have been created unless there was a god.
Even at first glance, this huge space, made of a strange material that looks as if the blue seawater was made of stone, seemed to easily cross 10Km even at the height to the ceiling and 3Km in width.
“120 stadia high. 30 stadia wide” (1 stadia = about 185 m)
“Ah?!”
Since when have you been there?
On top of the boat, there was a person wearing very mysterious costumes.
The man dressed in a mysterious outfit that looked as if the shape of a rushing blue wave was made out of cloth was very young, but he didn’t feel like he looked young at all.
On his head, he was wearing a Pyeongcheon crown with 64 strings of beads made of colorful jewels hanging down like his feet, but even so, his face was not covered, giving it a very strange feeling.
“Dah, are you Yo, Dragon King?”
Even after saying that, Noori felt sorry for her.
Even that outfit. Presence as well. In the midst of a strong feeling that everyone was a dragon king, I strongly thought that I might have said it too casually.
However, for some reason, Yuria seemed so carefree.
The person who appeared to be the dragon king did not respond or react to Nuri’s words, and simply turned to Yuria.
In that appearance, Roa, Tamamo, and Nuri too. I couldn’t see any reaction.
It’s not something that binds the body. It wasn’t someone who ordered it, but for some reason, I couldn’t move, and only YuRia stepped forward to meet him casually.
“Let’s meet the seniors who went ahead first”
“Yeah, you’ve been pretty badly done.”
Roa was a little taken aback by Yuria’s appearance.
YuRia didn’t look particularly intimidated or frightened, but it was the first time Roa had seen YuRia dressed up in such a formality.
“This is a little difficult for me as well. It will hurt a little. And to apologize in advance, it will be difficult for me to get rid of it completely.”
Presumed to be the Dragon King, or actually the Dragon King, he carefully touched the red piece on Yuria’s forehead, and after a while, Yuria began to tremble violently.
Oh my gosh! Awesome!!
Seeing her eyes turn white, bloody tears flowing down and foaming at her mouth, Roa almost told her to stop, but Tamamo hurriedly held Roa’s hand and dissuaded her.
Yuria, who had been trembling and unable to scream for a long time, exhaled forcefully and sat down as soon as her dragon king’s fingertips fell off the red sculpture.
“Hehhh!! Hehhhhh!”
“I have recovered the thorns that suppressed your brain stem with this, but the remaining parts are beyond my control. I would have easily peeled them off if they hadn’t been broken, but it’s a pain in the ass. I’m sorry I couldn’t be of any help.”
Yuria, who had been catching her breath for a long time and struggled to smear and smear the blood that flowed around her eyes, staggered to her feet and quietly bowed her body, even though she suffered an indescribable pain.
“This is enough. Although she is still very sick and her powers are not usable, her dizzy head is clear now.”
“Yeah. Thank you for saying that’s enough.”
The Dragon King looked down at the boat that Yuria was riding on.
“It’s overly transcended in this era, but it’s a ship that falls far short of your standards.”
“…”
“It can’t be helped. It’s a world I didn’t even recognize before transcending, so it wasn’t long before I saw it.”
Seeing the Dragon King talking with Yuria incomprehensibly, her companions just gulped and swallowed their saliva and remained silent.
It was a different feeling from Tia.
“Yes, of course. What you call the tiara did not come down from him, but only connected his consciousness. Since his presence is not there, it is natural that I do not feel it. Compared to him, I am only at the very end.”
Loa and his party flinched greatly at that once again.
Did you read my thoughts?
“Tsuttuk, ahaha. Your son reads your thoughts, but I can’t?”
At those words, Loa flinched once more.
When he nodded his head slightly, the jade on his crown of heaven slammed against each other, making a growling sound, and that alone made the loa flinch.
“I want to talk comfortably, but there is only one person who can stand my presence, so I can’t help it. Cute junior. You bring your husband and company.”
And the dragon king disappeared without a sound as if he hadn’t been there, and only then did Roa and Nuri realize that they had forgotten that they were even breathing, and they sat down and began to breathe madly.
“Huh! Heh!”
“What, what was it? What the hell was it!”
At least Tamamo looked a little better than the two of them, but she was also breathing heavily as if she was very nervous.
“Well, is this the first time you’ve seen the real thing in person?”
“What does that mean?”
“No matter how much the gods stay on the ground, the main body never directly steps forward. I don’t know how to explain this either.
Seeing that everyone tilted their heads as they couldn’t understand what YuRia was saying, YuRia put on a slightly embarrassed expression.
“Just, can’t you be happy that I’ve cleared my head now?”
“Uh, uh, huh?”
Come to think of it, YuRia’s words had changed as smoothly as before.
The cloudy eyes were also clear again, and did her headaches subside more than before? His expression was clear, although not very clear.
“Yuria, are you okay?”
“Yes. My bangs still hurt a bit, but I can tolerate it in many ways except for not being able to use my abilities.”
The work of the dragon king adjusting the pieces of the crown to reduce the number and length of the thorns was so painful that he fainted several times during the process, but thanks to that, the left and right brains played separately and lived in extreme madness rather than living in chaos. It was a hundred times better.
Above all, the severe headaches that always gnawed away my mental strength had weakened to the point where I could manage my daily life at this level.
It’s just that the frustrating thing is that it’s similar to when you first opened your eyes in this world,
No, more than a certain semantic theory, it was very difficult for Yuria now that her psychic powers were blocked and everything she could see and feel was blocked.
If his ability had been restored to this extent, it would have been less frustrating to be truly blind.
Didn’t it be said that ancient humans depended on their eyes for 90% of the information they obtained from the outside?
We are the opposite
90% of information dependent on ability. 9 pennies from the eye. Since she was sharing the remainder from the remaining 1 penny, YuRia’s feeling was that she had finally opened her eyes again and felt like she was blind again.
“Whoa…”
Still, it was only now that she felt the realization that she was herself.
Until now, she was vague about even feeling like herself, so she wondered if this was really going on.
YuRia let out a sigh and suddenly looked down at her chest, regaining some composure.
Small.
No. It’s not so small, but it’s still smaller than its original size.
But… Judging by the proportions of her breasts and body, I wondered if she was similar to herself when she was whole.
In the past, she had never really thought about appealing to her femininity, so she never really cared about it, but as her loa was born, she secretly developed a sense of pride in her own big breasts, so it felt a little subtle when it decreased. .
She is bitter, but on the other hand, she thinks that she still has the remaining self-esteem that has not been broken by me.
“Follow me. I’ll guide you to where the Dragon King is.”
Even if she can’t use her psychic power, she can’t help but feel it if she doesn’t hide her presence and scatters it like this.
This is not a matter of psychic powers, because they are the types that can be sensed even by other senses except for psychic powers.
* * *
After coming out of a room that looked like a huge dock in the sea and entering a very high, wide, and long hallway, Loa felt strange.
Like the room a while ago, and this hallway as well.
Why is it so high and tall?
Normally, if she had these thoughts, she would read them and answer them, but YuRia didn’t respond, perhaps because she lost her ability.
“Yuria, why is this place so wide and high?”
“Because I’m the Dragon King”
“Huh?”
Even Nuri tilted her head at Yuria’s words.
“Even if he is not a dragon, what does it mean that his title is Dragon King?”
“Ah?”
Nouri also said that?! He looked like he had realized something.
“In other words, is it this high and wide for a dragon to stay and move around?”
“Maybe”
Hagisa, if he were the king who rules the sea, he would have used the expression ‘sea king’, but he would not have used the expression ‘dragon king’.
Noori felt a little shaky, as she had never thought about it before, but it really was.
Then, why did the dragon king know that he lived in the sea and was in charge of the sea?
“The god of the sea is different”
“Eh!?”
“The Dragon King also controls the sea, but the dragon is also a divine beast that symbolizes the sea. And… No, I don’t know about this because I’m not sure.
I was a bit nervous about something that Yuria was about to say, but for now, the party followed her forward.
And.
The party was surprised again by the huge door that blocked the entire corridor, and soon after they arrived in front of it, the door opened by itself.
The palace –
When the door opened wide with a vibration that was insignificant compared to the opening of the huge door, a space larger than the bizarre room in which the ship they came in was summoned appeared.
Like that place, the floor was filled with water, but the water was so deep that it was impossible to see how deep the water was below it. It was so blue that it looked black. The Dragon King was sitting there.
“Welcome, guests.”
Roa and Nuri flinched slightly at the Dragon King’s will, but it certainly didn’t feel that hard compared to when they appeared in front of Yuria.
Is it because I’m not seeing it in person?
Or is it because they are far apart?
But still, it was a really great feeling of intimidation.
There were a lot of things I wanted to say, but when it came to this, I couldn’t stop talking again.
It wasn’t breathless, but it felt like meeting Aunt Nell for the first time as a child or meeting Aunt Eileen for the first time.
No, it seems to have amplified the feeling of that time dozens, hundreds, thousands of times.
In the meantime, Noori barely opened her mouth.
“Your Majesty. The day I left the East Continent, was the only thing you revealed in a dream at sea to improve the condition of my silver ball?”
「It is not. However, it is true that the reason is great.”
Tamamo glanced at Nuri as if surprised that she was able to speak to the Dragon King.
She couldn’t even open her mouth easily…
“My junior who is so far away. I have a request for you.”
“…”
“Compared to the other gods, the restrictions are weaker, but you are well aware that my restrictions are more severe than yours.”
YuRia swallowed her saliva as she swallowed at her uneasiness.
“I want you to find Yeouiju, the treasure of the stolen dragon race. Also, I want you to take care of the magic books that your ancestors abandoned in this land in the distant past.”
At those words, YuRia uh… She groaned softly.
As she is now, she herself is just a physically strong woman, no more, no less.
If the opponent was a normal person who couldn’t handle special abilities such as mana or aura, she would be stronger than them, but compared to those who had full-fledged training, she was inferior in many ways.
Even if she can’t use her abilities, she can say that she has magic, but it seems that she was using the pineal gland that was ovulated by this damn thorn not only for her ability but also for using magic.
In the end, in this situation where everything about her had to go along with her party, Yuria somehow found it difficult to express her own opinion.
“If you bring her a woman’s pearl, I will completely remove the thorns in her head.”
“I’ll do it”
Before YuRia could say anything, as Roa took the lead and made a decision, Tamamo and Nuri were also nodding at her.
Wait a minute for a moment?
“It’s still very painful. If you bring the treasure of the dragon tribe, Yeouiju, she will be able to completely remove that thorn.”
“Ha, but… That can’t be easy. The treasure of the Balaur is that the Balaur are also struggling to find it, but we have something that even the Balaur couldn’t find…”
At that, Tamamo grabbed her chin and Yuria’s shoulders from behind her.
“I believe in her afterlife, her original daughter”
“…”
Yuria hesitated at Tamamo’s words and pondered for a while.
It was true that Tamamo’s abilities were definitely out of the norm, but it felt strange to do everything for herself like this.
It’s because I feel like I’ve become a princess from a fairy tale that I only dreamed of a long time ago.
In the meantime, everyone relied on her, and she had to take the lead and carve out a path for humanity.
To her, she didn’t see her other people’s back, but her other people’s back.
Even though she loved Roa and depended on her, Yuria was used to such situations in her heart, so she felt very strange now.
“Really… Can you just stay behind me with everything hit?”
At YuRia’s words, Roa and Tamamo quietly hugged YuRia from behind her, and Nuri also quietly held her hand beside her.
“Relax. From the beginning, I didn’t give you a chance to repay the favor, Eun Gong-eun.”
“She wants to earn some points from the West even if she is the original woman.”
“Isn’t Yuria like that? Her husband is someone who leads and protects a family.”
At Roa’s words, Yuria said ah and remembered her distant past.
When Loa still didn’t know anything, she confessed to herself. The words of hers then she had spoken to dissuade the loa came back to herself now.
“I am the father of Hosea and Joshua. I am your husband. It is my duty to protect you. Please do not deprive me of this duty.”
“…”
YuRia, who was welling up with tears in her eyes, finally quietly nodded her head.
“Really, really, I’m not going to do anything, are you okay?”
“Yeah. Get some rest. You really don’t have to do anything.”
“Seriously! Am I really not going to do anything?”
“Now I can do some kind of repaying the favor like repaying the favor, Eun-gong. Until now, instead of repaying the favor, it kept accumulating and it was a difficult car.”
Haha…”
“Heiress. You really look like you’re on the verge of breaking. You’re so anxious. Now take a break. Fortunately, the original girl is still mentally well-rounded, so even if she overdoes herself a bit, there’s nothing dangerous.”
Only then did YuRia feel comfortable, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her chest.
I guess I was overdoing it
You just kept running without stopping.
I didn’t have to…
Yuria was embarrassed as her tears kept leaking out and running down her cheeks.
I feel so comfortable Why does she keep crying? What? What?
“Huh, huh…? This is strange… Why am I like this? I’m not sad at all. I’m not suffering at all, why…”
“It’s not painful. Even now, my head hurts a lot.”
“Oh no, that’s…”
Of course, it’s true that my bangs hurt a lot, but compared to the countless pains I’ve suffered so far, this is really nothing…
Yuria, who couldn’t even understand why she was crying, ended up hugging her loa and crying out loud, as her emotions rose to the point that she didn’t even know the reason.
Even though she didn’t know why, she hugged her and comforted her as if she understood why she was the way she was.
She stayed silent until her own crying ceased.
