Chapter 147 – 147. Restoration of the Holy Sword (3)
“…”
“Why are you like that?”
After the restoration work was finished, as Eun-hyeon stared at the holy sword on the anvil, Eleanor, who was maintaining the barrier of the sanctuary from a distance, approached Eun-hyeon after the work was finished and asked.
“…”
Eun-hyeon, who only glared at the holy sword he had made, did not answer Eleanor’s question.
“… ?”
Eunhyun’s reaction was strange, but Eleanor’s gaze naturally moved to the holy sword he was staring at.
“Is something wrong with this sword?”
“I have a problem… Princess. Would you like to hold the handle of this sword?”
“Yes? What is that…”
“It’s not dangerous, don’t worry. It’s because there’s something I want to check.”
“All right.”
Eleanor obediently followed Eun-hyeon’s words and grabbed the handle of her holy sword with her slender hand.
Seeing her actions, Eun-hyeon’s face gets even more distorted, as if she’s seeing an offended bastard who betrayed her even though she’s grown up.
“What’s wrong? Do you not like that I touched the Holy Sword?”
Did you ask me to touch you?
Eleanor couldn’t understand Eunhyun’s reaction.
“… See for yourself.”
She took Eleanor’s hand away, and Eun-hyeon approached the holy sword and reached out to touch her handle.
Ugh
“… ?”
Eleanor had the illusion that she had just moved the sword by itself.
However, it was not an illusion.
Seong-gum obviously voluntarily avoids Eun-hyeon’s movement to grab hold of his handle by moving his hand once again.
“I was fine… ?”
Why didn’t her holy sword resist her own touch? Even when she questioned her, she put into her mouth a really hateful imagination that came to her mind for a moment.
“I can’t believe the owner of the holy sword…”
“No. That’s not it. The princess is not the owner of the holy sword. It’s just that this sword doesn’t react when an ordinary person touches it. Only… It’s just that cases where people express their intention to refuse contact like this are really rare.”
“Didn’t I say that the Holy Sword refuses to contact the wicked?”
“It was.”
“Are you also a pervert who likes to be looked down upon by the wicked?”
“I don’t know why you’re arguing with me all of a sudden. First of all, it is certain that this holy sword is rejecting my contact.”
To think that the holy sword that had been restored after accepting and eating her own divine power rejected herself.
From Eunhyeon’s point of view, the situation was absurd.
“First, wake up Alex… ?”
Eunhyeon looked back and frowned slightly at the sleeping party with her head bowed on the chair at the entrance of the forge.
“… What time is it now?”
“It is dawn.”
“Do you know how many hours I’ve been working on?”
Eunhyeon, who was engrossed in hammering, was so engrossed in the restoration work that at some point she could not even feel the flow of time.
“Fifteen hours. Were you unaware?”
“Because she was concentrating on her work…”
“…”
Eleanor looked at Eunhyun, who was scratching her cheek and showing a shy expression, with a look of disgust.
The image of Eun-hyeon silently forging the holy sword with a hammer without sleeping a sigh showed excessive obsession and madness beyond persistence and effort.
After the work, his body was a mess.
His whole body was drenched in sweat from the excretion of an enormous amount of sweat, and his body, squeezed out of moisture, was very dry.
No matter how much he healed the burns and preserved the physical damage through the barrier of sanctification, the enormous amount of fatigue accumulated in the body and mind was a problem that could not be relieved.
“Brother, I will call you and have you move the holy sword. Once you…”
Eleanor placed it far away from the anvil she was working on, and she forcibly hid her feelings of joy when she saw that the contents of the plate containing the sandwich she had made were empty.
“Get some rest. It makes no sense.”
“Ha, I guess so.”
Eun-hyeon smiled bitterly as if agreeing and nodded his head.
His eyes were already strained with fatigue, and it was so severe that it would not be strange if he collapsed at any time.
How the hell did she hold on until now, Eleanor wondered about her.
“Yes… It’s over?”
Just in time, Illyana, who rubbed her eyes and raised her body, wondered that she couldn’t hear the sound of her hammer, and she asked Eunhyeon.
“Oh, it’s over.”
“Huh… How many hours have you been beating?”
“It’s been 15 hours.”
“It turned. Really… ? Whew.”
Illyana let out a sigh and stood up to support Eunhyun’s staggering body.
“Princess. Inside this box is the sheath of the holy sword. Maybe Alex could touch the sword even if he wasn’t recognized as the owner. Then may I ask you to take care of the aftermath?”
“Yes. I’ll wake up my brother right away and move her holy sword.”
“Thank you.”
Eunhyun bowed her head to Eleanor while being supported by Illyana and thanked her.
“Hey, aren’t you walking straight?”
“Sorry, to be honest, I don’t have enough strength in my body. Let’s wake people up first, we can’t let them sleep here.”
Laughing bitterly, Eunhyun moved slowly with Illyana’s support.
Riod had already gone up because he couldn’t leave Theresia alone.
Illyana, Eunhyeon, and Eleanor took on each of the three people, Anies, Avros, and Alex, and woke them up.
“Duke. It’s done.”
“Um… Is it finally over?”
Abros only heard Eunhyun’s voice, woke her up and awakened her consciousness.
“Restoration completed successfully. Rest of it… The key is who the Holy Sword determines as its owner. Then I’m just… Let’s go up first. I’m a bit tired.”
“Right. I owe you a lot Thank you.”
“You don’t have to worry, as I understand everything you said to live a comfortable life, so I helped you.”
“Hmm…”
Abros tried to respond to Eunhyun’s words, but he stopped her and quietly nodded her head.
“Oh, and there is some amount of Orichalcum remaining after restoration, but this is something I want to make on my side. May I use it?”
“It was a metal I bought with the money you guys gave me in the first place. Now that the holy sword has been resurrected, it’s a funny situation for me to say this or that. Take it.”
“Thank you.”
Eunhyeon smiled at Abros’ cool attitude of giving up a large amount of Orichalcum.
Since it was Orichalcon purchased with the platinum coin given to him by Eunhyeon from the beginning, Abros did not even think of the metal remaining after restoring his holy sword as his own, so he had no regrets.
“Then I’m done.”
“I get it.”
“Wow, this fucking… , You really just hammered for 15 hours?”
Agies, who was awakened by Illyana, confirmed the existence of the Holy Sword emitting pure white light and radiating holy energy from the anvil, and had an expression of absurdity that he finally succeeded.
“You suffered too. The princess suffered, too.”
“No. Rather than me…”
Eleanor took turns with Anyes for several hours, and did nothing but inject her divine power into the barrier on a regular basis.
On the contrary, when she heard that Eun-hyeon, unlike herself, had a hard time hitting Eun-hyeon with a hammer non-stop, she was only troubled.
Eunhyeon slowly left the smithy with Eleanor’s support.
Naturally, Agnes tried to put one arm around Eunhyeon’s shoulder to support the other side, but Eunhyeon refused Agies’ favor.
“Are you okay. You are so small that it is rather uncomfortable to be supported.”
“Did you turn? Even if I try to return her favor, she only talks like that. Oh, no, no.”
When Anies, frowning, mentioned his complex, his small stature, he frowned and became angry.
Seeing the scene, Illyana giggled as if it was fun.
“Ah, yes. Hyuna.”
“Huh?”
“I want to learn to cook from you.”
After hearing her Illyana’s words, Eun-hyeon stopped her heavy steps and looked at her with her astonished expression.
“What… ?”
“Pooh!”
As if hearing her disbelief, Eun-hyeon stares blankly at Illyana’s face.
Agies, seeing his reaction, let her laugh, and Illyana glared at Anies with a fierce expression.
“What is funny?”
“No, puff… Hey, your expression is the same as that of Riod from earlier! Fuhahaha!”
“…”
“Are you Leo?”
“Hyunah. Do you think so too?”
“Uh?”
“Doesn’t it suit me that I cook?”
“No, rather than it doesn’t suit me… What kind of wind suddenly blows and you want to learn to cook?”
While Eunhyun was gone, Illyana was the woman who lived alone for 20 years and never picked up a knife because her hands were too heavy. Did not show
Of course, she feels the pleasure of eating delicious food, but in order to feel it, she is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one What the hell happened to her.
“… I won’t tell you.”
“Ah? It seems that Illyana has quite a bit of pride?”
“Poem, noisy! Hyuna, let’s go up quickly.”
The behavior of Anies, who constantly clung to her side, giggled at her Illyana, made fun of her, and teased her, was also very nerve-wracking.
Eunhyeon asked Agies what had happened while he was restoring the holy sword, but Agnes did not answer Eunhyeon’s questions until the end, giggling and taking a bystander attitude as if he had found something interesting to see.
Eunhyun, who arrived in her room with Illyana’s support, went into the shower room prepared in her private room and washed off her sweaty body.
As soon as she got out of the shower, she threw herself on the bed.
“Just take care of breakfast and lunch. I’ll sleep a little bit.”
“Okay. Good night.”
For Eun-hyeon, who stayed up all night, she finally had time to sleep, but for others, it was early morning when she was starting to wake up.
Illyana smiled at her and nodded her head, put a blanket over Eunhyun and left the room.
“Did he go to sleep?”
“Huh? Huh.”
She left the room, and Illyana, who came out into the living room, nodded her head with a subtle expression on her face as she saw three men, Leo de, Avros, and Alex, sitting at a table drinking her tea.
“… Witch.”
“Huh?”
“There is one thing I want to consult with the witch.”
“Hmm? Why do you want me?”
“Yes.”
After seeing Alex’s serious expression, she glanced at Riod and Avros, and Illyana read the serious atmosphere at her table.
Riodna, who is closing her eyes with her arms folded, saying that she will not interfere, and the two rich men of the Duke of Armitas, who seem to have business directly, stare at her. I started guessing.
“I can guess what’s going on.”
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A week has passed since the ‘restoration of the holy sword’ was carried out in the house of the Archis Great Labyrinth.
After the holy sword was restored, after a night’s rest in the labyrinth, her party immediately returned to Pernin, and now the days of the capital continued as normal, no different from usual.
However, that ordinary daily life was not fulfilled in the Armitas ducal family.
Abros and Alex originally intended to present the restored holy sword to Prince Evan, the second prince, to secure an advantageous position and base of support for the crown prince’s installation, but ‘the possibility that the holy sword may not recognize Prince Evan as its owner’ ‘ Because of this, I was in a situation where I was rotting my head while thinking about this problem.
Eleanor recently stopped by the Temple of Vesta in Pernin every day, where she spent time late at night offering up her prayers to the goddess Vesta, so that she could train her mind.
“Thank you for today.”
“The priest too.”
“God bless you.”
“God bless you.”
After bowing her head to the temple priest and praying ceremonially, Eleanor left the temple and walked through the night with two escorts.
“Miss Eleanor. Are you worried about something?”
“… Do you see it?”
“You haven’t said anything since before, and your expression is very hard.”
“…”
At the point of escort Leno, Eleanor did not answer and silently walked down the dark night road.
As soon as she finished her thoughts, she opened her mouth.
“I was just thinking about how to grow as a priest more quickly.”
“Faster… Do you mean growth?”
“Huh.”
Ever since she saw the vast gulf between her anies and herself, Eleanor had been unable to hide the frustration that had arisen in her heart.
The fact that the Vesta goddess she serves is not the other priests, and that she is none other than Agnes’ successor, rather makes Eleanor’s heart rush.
‘I can’t just be helped by that person forever.’
He remembered the man who had saved him from the warlock, agreed to the expedition to rescue his brother, and put an end to the story of his unwanted marriage.
Now, he didn’t just receive help from that person, he felt that the way he could help was opening little by little, but Eleanor’s own growth did not go as smoothly as he thought.
“But Miss Eleanor… Aren’t you already on the top of a very fast growth path unlike other priests?”
“That alone is not enough. I am…”
The moment you shake your head and try to say that your current growth is not enough.
“… ! Miss Eleanor!”
Caang!
After slashing the dagger at her arm with her gauntlet, Leno and the other escort knights wrapped around Eleanor, and she drew her sword to prepare for her incoming attack at any moment.
“This…”
Eleanor stared blankly at the dagger that Leno had slashed and landed on her floor, then looked up at the black shadows emerging from above her building and trembled.
“A raid… ?”
No matter how dark it was at the time of day, not many people passed by, but I did not expect that he would openly attack the duke’s daughter in the middle of the capital’s inner boulevard.
Sensing Eleanor’s ruthless murderous intentions, which do not contain any personal feelings, Eleanor’s two escort knights trembled and began to grip her swords tightly. .
