Chapter 274 – Gorgalia (6)
Fortunately, the meal seemed to fit Fran’s taste.
From early in the morning, we sat together at a table that was rich enough for what we had prepared, and had a pleasant meal. It was nice to see Frank happy, so I was satisfied enough.
After clearing the tableware and washing the dishes, I gathered the party members back in the living room.
“… Henir?”
When I brought up the dream, Dana muttered that as if it were a strange name.
“Uh. He looked like the boss of Yernane’s organization from a dream.”
With that said, I explained the scene I had seen in my dream.
The more I explained, the more our party members frowned. I understand. The content that came out after digging up Yerna’s past was something like that.
When Dana finished talking, she rolled her fist at her temple as if it hurt her.
“… Under. Now, gears have come out. Is there any possibility that it is a fake using only the name?”
“Once you believe that Ji is a god, you recall the memories of other gods? If he wasn’t real, he’d be a psychopath who thinks he’s a god.”
It is impossible to be certain that you are a god just because you believe so much. I’ve heard of the pseudo-religion leader’s head being broken so he came to know that the real Ji was a god.
However, whether real or not, its power could not be ignored. That’s enough for us.
“For now, I guess I just have to remember him as a self-proclaimed god, right?”
Said Larry Lura as she sipped her tea. I thought that talking about this would make the party feel heavy, but surprisingly, the other party members didn’t seem worried or scared.
Did it show on your face that you thought it was strange? Dana shrugged her shoulders.
“The goddess who had been eating three bowls of breakfast to my left until now is wide open.
“… Hmmm. It was delicious, today’s rice.”
Veronica cleared her throat in embarrassment. Although she is a descendant of the Asher family, she regained some of the power of that god, and Veronica was halfway there, and she could be said to be a goddess.
But if I put it that way, am I the husband of a goddess?
This is a more realistic title than God’s Heir.
“Two people named Enrir tried to imitate the power of a god. Even if there is a difference in level, I would like to think of it as an extension of that. It’s not good to be scared.”
“Even if they are gods, not all of them are strong beings.”
Those were the words of Fran and Veronica. It seemed that both of them were not afraid of the name God and were trying to make a cool distinction. You’re better than me.
Anyway, I’m glad that the party members are calmer than I thought.
‘Coming to think of it, Fran’s words are correct.’
Even if the real god is the boss of the hostile forces, haven’t we encountered gods-related beings, myths, and enemies?
The beginning was the prophecy of the Bicorns that they would be the successors of Odin or the descendants of the gods in their dreams.
After that, I met bastards like Enrir, who roared with Odin Kala power and coveted the place of God.
There’s nothing to be afraid of unless a bastard named Henir appears right in front of you and fires the Divine Death Beam.
After all, that bastard will also kneel before the god of forage. Like the young Enrir who was the Chinese Thor.
Enrir, Henir. Now that I see it, they all have similar names.
Veronica sighed as she crossed her arms.
“By the way, have you already succeeded in extracting valid memories? My master may have the gift of Phalaenopsis dream.”
“Don’t underestimate the macho mentality.”
“Anyway, I’ve never heard of a god called Henir, sir.”
Rari Lura, who braided her hair, asked. It’s the same as if this guy got caught up in my circumstances, but he didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up and leaving now.
At the question of Lari Lura, who glanced at me, Fran and Dana shook her head.
“I do not know. It’s the first time I’ve heard of Chong Hye-shin and Henir.”
“Yes. His name is the god of Germania… No, like a god.”
“It is true. Henir, God of Blessings. It is a part of the Old God, who was called the most foolish god among the Asir gods.”
That was Veronica’s explanation. She was writing her impression, recalling whether it was her faint memory. Upon hearing this, Dana narrowed her eyes.
“Wait, Veronica. Doesn’t the word Chonghye mean a wise god? The most foolish god, but the god of wisdom? Germania’s mythology likes contradictions and puns, but that’s a bit strange.”
“… According to oral tradition, when Njord, the god of the sea, called an envoy from the god Aesir, Henir claimed to be the most foolish god and acted as a hostage. He may have intentionally called himself stupid.”
Sea god Njord?
It’s not a very unfamiliar name. I felt a little dreary, considering that my worldly-named cub was Yerna..
“In fact, if you know it, wouldn’t I have been a sea god? I knew that. How come you don’t get seasick?”
“It’s Njord, not Nord, you baby deer.”
“Isn’t Nona Nyona from there to there? Honestly, this has the ability to be king.”
“Fuck Eva. Even if yellow urine changes, you can become a god of fucking manure.”
“Oh.”
The conversation went off track. Let’s get back to the point. I asked Veronica.
“Anyway, Veronica. What is the god called Henir doing?”
“I do not know.”
“Isn’t he there?”
Points are deducted for short answers. I don’t know when I’m taking the test, but I have to squeeze my brain and write a novel so that C becomes C+.
Veronica sighed as she scratched her horn.
“Very few traditions of Chonghye-sin survive. The legend that he was decapitated by the sea god before Ragnarok happened, and the legend that he acted as an advisor after that, as Odin’s brother, only his head remained.”
“You said your head was cut off?”
Young. It was Dullahan. Why did my throat get so itchy in my dream?
He said he was a god and wondered how he survived Ragnarok, but it seems that he was left behind at the time, and later said, “Come here.”
It’s not fucking Lego, it’s like attaching and removing the head.
“This is the only knowledge left in the tradition. If you want to know more, you’ll have to ask the old man of the clan. There was progress in the space magic I was researching.”
Veronica circled her table with her finger.
“If I can study the magic circle left behind by Goddess, I will be able to use magic too. Isn’t that enough reason to go to the sacred place of the bicorn?”
“Uh? Really?”
I knew that our Veronica had been studying at the inn since she was in Germania.
That said, it’s been over 2 months now.
‘But it must have been a difficult environment to concentrate on research?’
Half of the research period was traveling, so I didn’t expect results to come out so quickly.
Did you squeeze in some time out of your busy schedule to do a study that has already made such progress? It was a great achievement for anyone to see. We looked back at Veronica with admiration.
─Break!!
Imagining Veronica’s hardships, I stood up suddenly. This was something that could be praised a bit exaggeratedly.
“Big!! My wife is crazy!! 2 months from receiving the draft to delivery? Well, she’s a goddess, but reproducing human technology is a piece of shit!”
“Ah, um… Aren’t you expecting too much? It requires a stone slab body and an Orihalcon pillar, and it takes a lot of time to activate. Since the flight distance is short, it will be difficult to move between continents.”
“Where is that anyway? No, than it really becomes? I can’t believe it.”
Dana also exclaimed with a feeling of dubious doubt. At first, I wondered if he was being nice to me, but he seemed genuinely dumbfounded.
“Huh, Hooheung. Runes are applied magic. It was not difficult to recreate the finished product already.”
Saying that, Veronica twitched the corners of her mouth. She’s happy, but it seems embarrassing to like her.
But as Fran and Lari Lura applauded and sent her envying glances, she got up following me.
“Whoop whoop! Good night! Praise more! It’s okay to fall in love with her outstanding ability again!!”
“As expected, you are Veronica sister!! I fell in love again♡!!”
“You have bewitched an unexpected opponent! But it’s yinheo! Those who excel are admired!”
Praise makes even the bicorn dance. Excited, Veronica clung to me as I ran her hair through it.
“Ego! By the way, my dear! How are you? Do you have anything to say about the hard work of the woman he took as his wife? Will there be? Is it natural to be there? Huh? Yes?”
“Then!! She is also our goddess!! Well done!!”
As soon as this guy let off her brakes, she was unstoppable. I just hugged Veronica, lamenting that I was such an iguana that romantic comments didn’t immediately come to mind.
─Wow!
“… Ugh, ugh! Right? Is that your Veronica?”
Still, as she usually has little charm, she is Veronica who has little experience of skinship except for night time. Our attendant, who was satisfied with just my hug, with a happy face.
“Whoop, whoop, whoop. Hehe♡”
So I stroked her back a lot and let her go. And I cleared my throat to regain a more serious atmosphere.
“But Veronica. Didn’t you say that Sleipnir’s movement magic circle was hated by your own people after you studied it?”
“Uh? Ah, um. Yes. If I am alone, I will inevitably be beaten. But are you my dear? Have you forgotten who the husband I love is?”
“Ah, Glekoman.”
I understood as if the problem that had been blocked had been solved. Then Veronica triumphantly stretched out her breasts. Her unusually big breasts swayed beautifully, even if less than Fran.
“Yes! If I use you as my shield, even the short-haired elders of the clan will have nothing to say!”
“Madame. Do not use her husband as a shield.”
Are you saying you want to use me, Odin’s successor, as a tank? There’s a lot of evidence, so there’s no need to worry about being questioned whether it’s a fact or not.
Well, that’s what I wished for, even if I said it like that.
The Forage Nord is always the shield of our wives.
“Then let’s go to the place where the movement magic circle is installed first!”
“Wait. It’s hard right now. You have to go to Romania first.”
If intercontinental movement is impossible, it is not good to go out now. Because you never know when an order will come from the young lady.
In addition, it is better not to teleport between countries because of the issue of the entry permit.
If you get caught, it’s an express for a family slave.
“Ugh. He knows that But there are holy places that you can stop by on the way to Romania.”
“On the Romanian side?”
“No, there are no holy places in Romania. There was once, but I was told it shut down before I was even born. Looking back now, it seems that this was also the will of the Prophet.”
I nodded.
If it’s natural, then it’s natural. It seems that the Prophet was wary of Romania in his lifetime.
“Where is that shrine?”
“It is the old home of Gorgalia.”
“Gorgalia? Do bicorns live there too?”
Fran asked in amazement.
Gorgalia.
It is a country founded by people near Orwalia, the hometown of the Crown Crown. The main race is Britannians.
I remember that the territory was especially small among the neighboring countries. Only the territories that were stolen and plundered between Germania and Romania in the days of the Vikings, an ancient civilization, are still alive.
“There are several vicorns stationed in sacred sites all over the world who act as administrators.”
Veronica immediately answered Fran’s question.
“Most of them are the old of the crooked old people. Even though he knows the old stories well because he is old, he is just a man whose head is hardened from filling in the knowledge.”
“Ho, are you harsh? Not like a sister.”
She is a lari lura who is embarrassed by her anger, which is rare for her. Veronica turned her head away with an apologetic face.
“… Huh. I heard so much muttering around the time I was collecting rune stones. Those writers are also older, so they don’t know wisdom, but in terms of knowledge, they are more than me. He is a suitable opponent to dig up Henir’s oral tradition.”
“Hmm. Then, on our way to Romania, we will pass through the Holy Land of Bicorn. Do you want to make a round trip course?”
Dana muttered as she wrapped her hair around her fingers. Lari Lura, who had been hugging the pouting Veronica and playing with her, responded.
“Ah, don’t you think that’s it~? The stopover from Britannia to Romania usually goes through Gorgalia. If you go through Germania, the checks are really strict.”
“Uh? Yes?”
“Okay. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be held for an extra week. When I came here, I also came through Gorgalia☆!”
It must be true because it is the words of Ralilura, a Romanian. After all, he’s a pretty smart guy.
As I said before, Romania and Germania don’t get along very well. It is difficult to cross the border area. Fran said seriously.
“Well, Veronica still doesn’t have a solid ID.”
“… Wouldn’t it be enough to transform into a human checkpoint and pass?”
Veronica, the god of illegal immigrants, grumbled in a volmen voice.
Unlike dwarves and elves, bicorns were not subject to the process of registering their birth to a human country or issuing an ID card from the time they were born.
So it was not an exaggeration to say that Veronica was committing illegal stay and smuggling at the same time.
In fact, this is racially unavoidable.
‘If I’m going to marry Veronica, I’ll have to solve the ID card issue.’
Fran and I filed a marriage certificate. However, since her identity has not been proven, me and Veronica cannot officially become husband and wife.
Marriage registration in a different world is only possible through a wedding ceremony—provided by the officiating priest or nun—so this was also an issue that had to be resolved in the future.
‘By the way… Is it Gorgalia?’
I opened the map in my brain.
The location of Gorgalia is just below the island nation of Britannia. And it is also known as the site of one of the Ulster colonies.
Dana brushed her hand, as if I had understood it roughly from my casual glance.
“My hometown is Northern Britannia. Those who live in Gorgalia are the descendants of Jintung Erin. Why, there are Ulsterians who walk around with their red hair standing upright.”
“No, I knew the location of Nunna’s hometown when I was in college. But I think I’ve seen that Ulster leader too?”
A red Mohican Ulster warrior I saw on the way to Sar Gadis who came to find her wife.
Was that guy also from Gorgalia’s Ulster colony? He seems to have appeared in my dream for a while, but he forgot his name. I’m a little sorry.
Dana brushed her hands off as if she wasn’t interested, but she tickled the back of my hand with her fingernails. Tickling.
“Anyway, we’ll have to find another boat on the way, right?”
“I guess so. It will be a long business trip like last time. After we set out between January and February and find Tyrsi, who is said to have gone missing, the date of the auction will be close.”
“Shouldn’t we meet Selena, whom we met at the underground tower, when we go to the local area? She tells him that she will be in Romania until the auction, and she will also discuss how to find Mr. Tyrsi.”
“Senpai, you’re going to meet a girl again!”
“No, it’s Ralilura. Can’t you speak a little better?”
The low-key killing that Lalilura laughed at was more painful than I thought.
Fuck that person and I don’t have a relationship with a man and a woman. What Selena looks like her fiancé is too.
‘The schedule was roughly set.’
I laid out the order of my plan in my mind.
1. Go to Romania to find the missing Tyrsi.
2. On the way, listen to the myth of Henir at the sacred place of Bicorn.
3. After finding Tyrsi in Romania, meet people you know.
4. Before returning, auction off the Elixir and sell it.
‘It’s probably about this much.’
It’s been a while since I went on a business trip to Germania, but I’m going abroad again. Like an archaeologist, I was running from continent to continent.
‘Fuck, now that I think about it, I have to submit a thesis to the academic world.’
I sighed. Let’s choose a paper that won’t attract aggro of 〈 Compilation Battalion 〉 and write one.
‘Her wife, Dana, is a doctor, but if I had a master’s degree, Gao wouldn’t buy it.’
This was a forager’s duty and commitment before logical logic.
In the academic world, they might say “Yes, you’ve already seen it” And turn my thesis over, but what can I do? As a field worker, even if the evaluation was reduced a little, it was better than exceeding the submission period.
Still, I couldn’t stop my teeth from grinding when I thought of the babies.
‘Fuck. Fucking red guards from another world.’
It’s a world where it’s hard to find papers, but it’s such a mess! Anyway, criminals are no help in my life.
I sighed and settled my conversation.
“Anyway, everyone, remember to proceed as we have just said. If the young lady contacts me, the detailed plan may be revised.”
So after we finished talking, we devoted the rest of our time to training, dealing with overdue work, and researching magic.
And 3 weeks after that.
We were able to receive a letter from Lady Hennessis.
Since he couldn’t find any more news from Tirsi, he wrote a letter asking him to head to the local area on the ship he had prepared in a week.
──So, our next destination has been decided.
It is a country that boasts the largest territory in the modern world, and perhaps because of that, it is one of the world’s leading hegemonic countries that has become a breeding ground for numerous large-scale criminal organizations.
To the Holy Empire of Romania.
