Chapter 495 – Narmer-Nile (8)
Good times always go fast.
If your mind is distracted by a little carelessness or relief, you will feel that time is a concept that can be compared to sand.
It is said that those with sand sand fruit ability can unite with water and break it, but I could only find a way to forcibly solidify this flow of time, even during my 30 years of life, only during my military and graduate school days.
“Hello Fucking Sunshine.”
Was it like that? When the short cruise trip was over, I readily accepted the future of a fiercely scorching heat and sweltering heat in a port where the sun was bright without my mother and the grains of sand were fucking shiny.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that I laughed happily happily.
Brilliant-!
“The sun is fucking dazzling. This will kill even the fucking jinjo.”
If you bring the vampires who eat Korean garlic bread by baguette, they’ll change class to mummies within 10 minutes. Even perfect creatures that walk in the sun will wither and die.
─Line by line.
The dazzling sun, accompanied by light and heat, dazzled my eyes and drained the juice from my sweat glands.
This is Narmer-Nile’s second port, Alishik.
It is a city ruled by a great lord whose status is equivalent to that of a foreign count, and whose actual power cannot be ignored even by the marquis.
“Alishik is also called the city of artists. Creators say that the more pain they inflict, the better they make, so that’s why our artistic sense is recognized in the world.”
“That is a funny joke. Both environmentally and metaphorically.”
It’s hotter, but it’s hard to react even if it’s loaded with self-harm, gag, black humor.
“Thanks to its majestic appearance, it was fortunate that there were few pirates attacking our ship.”
“There’s no way to dump. It’s because they want to live somewhere else.”
“Puhh. That’s right.”
If you get used to living off the blood of others, you won’t see anything good.
I looked around the city, shading my eyes with my hand, waiting for the crew to go through immigration procedures on the docked ship.
The city seems to have been built by finding a water vein in the middle of the coast.
There is no such thing as a great river, but the flow of trade and the seekers of aesthetics must have gathered together to produce inexhaustible goods.
No matter how badass they were, they couldn’t help but acknowledge their vitality to live steadfastly under this crazy sun.
“… The warriors of the desert do not have strong mental powers, but are their heads messed up?”
I 100% agreed with Dana wearing sunglasses as she held on to the frozen water bottle like a lifeline.
To walk endlessly through a sand hell that is hotter than here, relying only on your mana and the remaining water bucket. I’m not insane.
“It’s not a country I want to stay in for a long time. It will be difficult to adapt.”
It was me who let out a muttering so that people from this hometown could not hear it.
Of course, our destination is not here, but doesn’t it get hot the further we go inland? No, is it the other way around? It’s been so long since I gave up fucking geography, I don’t even remember.
“It’s still spring, but how come we’re already experiencing summer in advance…”
Lalilura, who was similarly drooping, asked me while sloppy.
Even though her frankly cute and naughty 19-year-old wife raised her stress level a bit, she held on and put ice mana all over her body. She, named Lari Lu, stuck out her tongue as she did when she went to the island of the Baikon people before.
“Huh… Senior hands are the best… I love you…”
“Cheap love. Unless you’re going inside a building, pee on her frozen feet.”
It is meaningless even if one of the animals that went to hell against nature was caught up in it. Beim smiled brightly as he watched us die.
“There are many ways to beat the heat. Please be patient a little longer. There is also a way to buy clothes suitable for the climate of the desert.”
“That’s nice… I want to try on something like a dancer’s outfit…”
“Oh, I agree with that.”
Haha. I get burned. I wonder if it’s a magic item.”
“Huh… Sunbae, please buy a magic item…”
“Yes? Okay, let’s buy one.”
Beim seemed a little goofy at the ugliness of our couple who were trying to spend a lot of money in an instant.
What the fuck Professional magic items are hard to make no matter how hard I am. I mean, I’m a idioty programmer.
“… If that’s the case, there are places to rent them. Instead, you can only rent it inside the city, or you have to have a very clear identity.”
“No problem. Please put the receipt in front of the head of the household.”
Even the elders don’t want to see me go crazy, so let’s hope they do this much.
‘But surely that squirrel man, he didn’t push my back because he didn’t want to go to this hot country?’
Chewing into the elderly whose evaluations fluctuate like NC stocks, we rented a magic item that was said to take away heat.
“The dancer’s clothes are pretty, but it’s a bit manly to wear!”
Rarilu, who quickly recovered her energy, put on a layer of robe over her revealing clothes and was satisfied. I put the magic item in the form of a bracelet on the arm on the other side of the window and sighed. Why do you only wear trinkets?
“Ugh… It’s pretty, but I’m giving up. It won’t suit you because you’re short.”
The wives and Tirshi each declined the clothes.
The well-educated, small-breasted duo, who seemed to fit in well because they were slender, did not pay attention to their faces due to the lack of breasts. In the end, the only ones I bought were Lalilura and Audrey.
“Audrey, why are you?”
“If I wear this, wouldn’t it be enough to charm even the rich old man in this town?”
I have a big dream too. An old man with a lot of money is his ideal type, what kind of Cinderella of death.
“May I guide you to a place to rest?”
“No, wait. Let’s take a look around here and rest.”
Even if it’s annoying when you’re working, it’s best to drive it away.
Protecting my eyes with sunglasses made with transformation magic, I set foot on the street of artists like trendy city people.
***
There are many images that come to mind when you hear the word ‘desert country’.
Pyramid. Sphinx. Beetle. Mummy. Tutankhamen. Imhotep. Beetle. Dual disc. Dancer. Alibaba. Beetle. Fairy Genie. Carpet in the sky. Anaksunamun…
In any case, it is a country with many images mixed together, but the scenery of Alishik that I actually saw resembled the Mediterranean.
The market street, as dark and bright as the shade under the trees, with long poles attached to the buildings to half-block the sun’s heat.
Pickpockets, portrait painters, and tourists roamed around in noisy business, and street vendors selling cheap ornaments roasted and boiled the tongue and took their travel expenses as if they were getting wet in the drizzle.
“What is the graffiti on the wall? Is it a trace of not being able to control artistry?”
“Variation of traditional mural culture. Whoops. It is pretty.”
Fran, who was reading the pamphlet he bought with money, smiled brightly.
“Yes, our franc should see only the good things. “
I tried to pet Fran’s head, but I only patted him on the back thinking he was being treated like a child.
To be honest, I honestly don’t know what kind of effect the graffiti on that stone will have on Fran’s image… There are rare beautiful places. It was good to take out the cut to the rear to tour leisurely.
The countless graffiti murals painted on the beige walls give it a very different feel.
I’d be lying if I said it matched the image of Narmer-Nile I had in mind, but this must be Alishik’s specialty.
Anyway, it had its own flavor. Beating off the heat, we slowly climbed the white-walled stairway to the observatory without taking too much attention to the market.
Is mana gradually increasing? Tirsi, who was walking behind, blew air cooled by magic, enjoying the sight.
“It looks like a maze. It seems like a country famous for its many dungeons… Would it be rude to say that?”
“Where is the praise of the golden land of success and opportunity? However, there are many roads that fall sideways, so be careful. There are also masterpieces that can be found inside the labyrinth.”
“Looks like you’re going to get lost after wandering around without a guide.”
“Haha. That happens often.”
Veronica shook her head, and Bane pointed her finger at the lighthouse on Lookout Hill.
“That old lighthouse is because of that. It is said that they left it intact in order to find the castaway.”
I listened with one ear and avoided a mouse approaching at my feet.
Desert rats are smart. Even the guys who live in the city did that.
Tossing his knuckles of cheese, he points his snout at his lighthouse. I tossed one more loaf and said.
“Mr. Beam. Is that lighthouse off-limits?”
“No. It is also a kind of tourist attraction. Would you like to go?”
“Yes, please.”
Beim nodded and guided us there.
The word that Tyrsi is like a labyrinth pierced the core. The road leading to the observatory was like an anthill, and all the walls were someone’s house, so you couldn’t tell the difference between the front and the back.
Even Beim, the guide, laughed, saying that it would be confusing if the pictures used as milestones were destroyed or erased.
《If you want to enter, pay the entrance fee.》
When I came up the hill, I was already receiving an admission fee to see if the lighthouse had been remodeled into a tourist attraction. Good business.
《Please put the fee on the treasury of this territory.》
“Well? … Well? Oh billion! Joe, have a good time!”
When I signed it while showing the coat of arms of the Armials family, the guard saluted fiercely. They say that Romania and Narmer-Nile have had a lot of exchanges since ancient times, so it seems to be real.
That’s why I also swipe the admission fee for everyone with the mindset of swiping the corporate card.
I’m not even worried because my juniors have too much money to worry about what if I mess with this.
“Please explain the tourist destination to your companions. I’m going to the bathroom.”
I entrusted the work to Beim, and I came out leisurely.
On the largest wall nearby—the most conspicuous—a mural of a pyramid by the sea was painted. Even the coloring is neat, and the level of perfection is complied with, but it is somewhat awkward because it lacks power.
‘This is it. An art academy’s drawing of an art student who passed.’
It feels just like that. It didn’t look like a painting by an artist who could win this spot with pure skill.
“How is it? That picture.”
As I was looking around, someone spoke to my back.
I looked back, lowering my sunglasses, and smiled. He was an old man with a white beard and dark brown skin.
Coming right out. Well, it’s not like I’m a standout.
“You are so wonderful, Lord Alissik.”
Looking at his appearance alone, the old man, like a benevolent grandfather, chuckled and laughed.
It was a face that could not be seen as an aristocrat whom sailors feared as a ‘poisonous snake’ or a ‘mad mongoose’.
“Haha. The old man waiting for the day to go meets all the heroes of this era. Today is a very lucky day.”
“It really is.”
Is there any other expression?
It seems that either the grandpa or me will go to the goal.
