Chapter 634 – 634. Sinkhole (6)
Eun-Hyun immediately confirmed Delia’s fracture, which she had given first aid to.
“I’m glad the wound wasn’t that serious.”
Her right leg, which splinted her scabbard, was badly swollen, but it wasn’t a serious injury.
The wound itself can be easily recovered if you do not overdo it and recuperate until the fractured bone is reattached and healed.
The problem, however, is that she and the others are now in an anthill full of darkness, where they cannot see properly unless they rely on torches.
Eunhyeon took her potion out of her arms.
“Drink.”
“This…”
Delia looked at the potion given to her by Eunhyun with a surprised expression.
From the bottle to the color of the potion it contained, things that looked unusual at first glance seemed very expensive.
Swallowing her saliva, he dubiously glanced at Rio De and Cha Han-seong, looking at each other.
But the two didn’t care at all.
As if it was a natural decision to readily hand over such an expensive potion, she was eyeing herself, so Delia had no choice but to receive the potion from Eunhyeon.
“Drink half and sprinkle half on a broken leg.”
“Go, thank you…”
Delia bowed her head to Eun-hyeon with an awkward expression and immediately drank her potion into her mouth.
A sweet liquid flowed down her throat into her body and spread throughout her body.
“Ah…”
When she drank about half of the potion as Eunhyeon ordered, Delia couldn’t help but be surprised by the changes that took place in her own body.
She felt the accumulated pain from the abrasions and fractures disappear, and her stuffy mind clears up, as if a dark cloud had gathered over her.
Its efficacy was qualitatively different from the lower level potions I had ever drank.
‘I hope this is… Advanced Potion… ?’
Her efficacy, which she had never experienced before, was enough to doubt it.
In fact, the potion given by Eun-hyeon is a very expensive potion that is traded for 1 gold coin in the adventurer’s guild.
Delia asked with a trembling voice as she looked at Eunhyun who readily handed it to her.
“This, such a precious thing… Is it okay if you willingly give it to me?”
“Ah yes. I brought it in preparation for this situation.”
“…”
Delia couldn’t help but put on her face as she looked at Eunhyun, who replied that she was natural.
Delia was very perplexed when she realized how much potion she had swallowed in an instant.
Inside the dungeon, the finest herbs cultivated under the strict management of Emilia and her puppets and the potions made with recipes made with Eunhyeon’s knowledge of alchemy boast tremendous effects.
Since it is none other than Eun-hyeon who directly manufactures this and makes regular deliveries to Jis, the loss in terms of cost is close to zero, but since Delia does not know the details, it is natural to be embarrassed.
“Give me this. I will help you.”
As Delia still couldn’t come to her senses from embarrassment, her Cha Han-seong volunteered for her help.
“Ah… Go, thank you Seniors…”
Cha Hanseong, taking her potion from her, took off her gear and sprayed her potion on her right leg, exposing her bare skin.
Although very thin and slender, Delia’s legs, trained as knights by her, were nonetheless firm with her fairly well-muscled grip.
The swollen swelling started to subside little by little.
The effect of the potion he took permeates the entire body inside, restoring broken bones and damaged blood vessels.
While Cha Han-seong was treating Delia’s wounds and helping her recover, Eun-hyeon immediately got up and had a conversation with Riod.
“What do you plan to do in the future?”
“Take him upstairs.”
It was a very simple and logical answer, but Eunhyun realized that he hadn’t thought about anything other than that in his answer.
“… Oh yeah.”
Eunhyun let out a small sigh.
How many engagements are you assuming while going up, how long it will take to reunite with the search expedition, and the longer the time, the longer you need consumables, etc.
Eun-hyeon also knew that he was so urgent that he had no time to think about such things.
“Did you really have the confidence to come upstairs with that member alone?”
“It was not an action. All I could think was that I had to do that.”
“… How has it happened that nothing has changed from before?”
Riod has been like this since before.
He has a very upright and intuitive mind, but because of his thoughts and personality, he doesn’t see his surroundings well.
He rose to the position of captain of the knights who led many knights, but his disposition did not change, just as there is a saying that a habit at the age of three lasts until eighty.
The reason he has been kept in check by numerous nobles within the kingdom of Pernias is because of his upright disposition that never bends to unreasonable things.
However, is it okay for the Knights of Artia, who are considered the main forces of the kingdom, and the person at the center of the Order to act so recklessly?
It can’t be okay
“No. I did this because it has changed.”
“What?”
“…”
Eunhyun tilted her head as if she didn’t understand the meaning, but Riod didn’t answer his question.
This was like a conviction that Riod had set in his heart, and it was also a stubbornness that he could never bend.
Twenty years ago, in the final battle where the emperor of the empire had to be killed to end the war.
Eun-hyeon lost her life.
His end was miserable as he single-handedly fend off tens of thousands of monsters so that he and his other comrades could take care of the Emperor of the empire.
The image of Eun-hyeon, who had her flesh eaten by the monsters and met a miserable end, was not left as a trauma to Illyana, who had him in her heart.
Riod, Gerard, Agnes, Alice, and Raynan were all like that.
Such a simple story that Illyana was only a little stronger in thinking of him.
That experience at that time became an opportunity for Leo to make a decision.
‘I can never go through the experience of losing my person again.’
So he made an effort and became the leader of the knights leading the best knights representing the kingdom.
The reason why Leo did not give up and threw himself out to save Delia, his successor knight a little over a year after joining, was the result of that determination.
Although it was a foolish move, Lyod did not regret his action.
“Even so, you should have thought of someone else.”
“Because Cain or someone up there can take my place…”
“I didn’t say that. I was told to think of Eira and Theresia, Elion and your youngest daughter who had just been born.”
“…”
At Eunhyeon’s point, Liode flinched for the first time.
“Theresia still needs you, and your son and daughter still need you. So don’t take your life lightly like that.”
It is a very correct and contradictory point.
However, since Eunhyun was the one who said it, it was very contradictory.
“Then… Then why did you do that?”
“What?”
“Why did you choose to block that place alone then?”
Eunhyun immediately realized when Riod was talking about.
He is asking about the work at the imperial palace of the Mirva Villa Empire where he met his death.
Eun-hyeon advised Liod not to take his own life lightly, but in fact, Eun-hyeon was the one who didn’t practice it the most.
He must have felt terribly unreasonable to hear such advice from him and no one else, and on rare occasions, Lyod distorted his expression and showed emotion.
“If it were you, you would surely have been able to find a way for all of us, including you, to live in that situation.”
But he didn’t.
At the time, he couldn’t afford to think of such a thing, nor did Leode think to deny that it was a quick and efficient decision.
But even if it was the most efficient and decent method, accepting it or not is another matter.
“I agreed to your proposal at the time. But…”
If at all, Eun-hyeon asked for help, if at least one of his teammates had stayed and just slept here with him and talked.
No one on the team would have turned it down.
Among them, it was none other than Eunhyeon who took her life the lightest.
“… It hurts like a bone hit.”
Eunhyun smiled bitterly.
He knew very well by now how much trouble he had caused to Illyana and others.
So he has nothing to say in return.
“I swore I wouldn’t do that anymore.”
Not only for Illyana, but also for the goddess she enshrines.
I will never take my life lightly again.
Glancingly stroking his hair, he shifted his gaze to Belldandy, who was looking at him proudly.
[Hmm.]
The embrace of Belldandi, who was smiling happily as if he were proud of it, was very kind and happy, but it didn’t go well with the serious conversation right now.
‘… Mr. Belldandy.’
[How are you? It is not visible to other children.]
It was a correct point, but Eunhyun, who didn’t have the heart to continue the serious story as if steam had leaked, opened her mouth with a bitter smile.
“You and I both have places to return to.”
There are places that need you, and there are people you need to take responsibility for.
“For now, let’s just think about going up.”
Next comes the nagging to work while sacrificing one’s body from now on.
“… I will.”
“Okay then, we’ve finished talking about the general topics.”
Eunhyeon glanced at the front of the dark anthill.
Through sensing, I sensed the presence of something felt nearby.
Seeing Eunhyeon immediately summoning Jeokwol and Cheongwol and holding them in both hands to prepare for battle, Leo also pulled out a longsword from his waist.
“Cha Han-seong.”
“Yes. Captain.”
It was a sudden call, but Cha Han-seong, who noticed it, also changed his eyes and answered his call calmly.
“Protect Delia.”
“All right.”
Cha Han-seong nodded his head and accepted his role.
Excluding his successor knight, Delia, he had the weakest power among the three, and he had no doubts about the two men standing in front of him.
“I-I can fight too.”
Delia also drew her sword and began to be on guard.
Due to the effect of the advanced potion given to her by Eunhyeon, she is able to hold the sword again with her wounds and part of her condition restored.
Her eyes were filled with determination, as if she was very embarrassed that she only showed an unsightly figure to Riod due to her injury.
“I get it.”
Riod nodded his head slightly.
He couldn’t have chosen a knight who would choose the option of being quietly protected here in the first place.
With Eunhyeon and Riod at the front, Cha Hanseong and Delia were guarding the rearguard while slowly following the two, the four of them moved slowly.
Eventually, the four of them arrived at a huge, open cave.
Kirik!
“That…”
It appeared in the field of vision where the light of the torch that Cha Hanseong was holding from the rear line reached.
It is not the locust in the shape of a person that we have seen so far.
“Spider… ?”
A giant spider that is twice the size of a human.
The lower body of a spider with a total of eight legs on a gigantic body and the upper body of a human woman.
Kyririk!
A monster with a shocking visual that looked like a combination of a human and a spider was licking its lips and glaring at Eunhyeon and the others.
Even in the dark cave, where even a torch couldn’t see properly, the sharp gaze from the predator’s eyes was enough to harden Cha Han-seong and Delia’s bodies.
While the two hesitated for a moment, Eunhyun muttered in a low voice.
“Suddenly, I remember the old days. When you and Gerard got wrecked in a dungeon. You suffered a lot.”
“… Don’t talk nonsense.”
When I brought up the story of my youth, lack of experience and immaturity, Lyod frowned.
It is a story no different from the dark history between himself and Gerard.
“Left.”
“Take the right side.”
First, when Eunhyeon suggested the direction, Riod quickly responded in response to his words.
With that said, the two prosecutors took action to rule out the giant human spider.
Kyririk!
A human spider, who confirmed the ridiculous prey’s charge, pulled a thread from his mouth and spewed it towards Eunhyeon and Riod.
