Chapter 1244 – Ep.1242 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
It was when we got closer to tribal territory that it had a city feel just by adding bricks and windows.
“Ambush.”
Anku, who had been sleeping with his head on Ardel’s shoulder without anyone knowing who was carrying him, raised his head with fierce eyes that he had not shown since the first time they met.
“Ambush?”
“Down there.”
The place Anku pointed to was none other than the sandy bottom that corresponded to the tribe’s border.
“Indeed.”
He was still on his way down, and in the meantime, Ardel looked with narrowed eyes at Anku, who was glaring at that place, not where the ambush was.
“… Oh?!”
And Anku, who belatedly felt Ardel’s gaze, shook his shoulders as if he had been caught in a crime, then returned to the blank face I was familiar with, rolled his wide eyes, avoided Ardel’s gaze, and placed his face on Ardel’s shoulder again. Buried.
“What’s wrong?”
“No. “Nothing.”
Was there something special between the two of us while I was spending the night with Raksha?
‘Women’s privacy must be protected.’
Anku’s sharp-edged ambush was something I was not interested in from the beginning.
What an enemy──!!
Now, two bright blue ice flowers have bloomed on the sandy bottom that Anku, who was burying his face in Ardel’s shoulder, pointed to. The ice flowers, which were originally beautiful, took on a bluer moonlight today and looked like a painting.
“Get off!”
And as soon as Ardel came down lightly onto the sand, Anku jumped out of her arms and ran straight toward the ice flowers in full bloom.
“… ?”
“It looks like it was irritated because it was held for too long.”
“Is that so?”
I knew that wasn’t true, but as I said before, I had no intention of interfering in women’s private lives, so I accepted Ardel’s cute defense to get over it.
“Why are you running and making a fuss when you can’t even get close?”
“It’s pretty, it’s pretty!!”
“What the hell.”
I ran first, but Anku, startled by the bone-chilling cold of the ice flower, ran to my side and jumped into her arms.
I lightly stroked Anku’s head and headed to the spot where the ice flowers were blooming with Ardel.
Slurp.
As I approached, Ardel flicked his fingers, and the brightly bloomed ice flower turned into powder and seeped into Ardel’s body again.
What was revealed in the place where the ice flower disappeared was two clearly gaping holes.
Perfect! Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!
And two natives crouching and shivering at the bottom of the hole.
‘Is it a poisonous sting?’
Although they were pretty, they looked like common sights, so my eyes quickly lost interest in them and instead turned to an object that looked like a flute on the ground nearby.
“Don’t touch it!”
“I’m not touching you, so please stop sticking your head out.”
“Yes!”
As I pinched his cheek and pushed him away, Anku started to wheeze, then scurried down the hole and came up with the two long sticks that I was interested in.
“Tie a bag full of powder down here and put it through the hole here!” “If you blow, powder comes out this way!”
“Powder?”
“Huh! “Sprinkle a lot of powder that causes an immediate reaction on contact!”
“For example?”
“There is powder made from ground red scorpions that make you hallucinate and make your whole body itch at the slightest touch, and there is also sand soaked in horned ghost juice that paralyzes the area it touches!”
Unlike his innocent answer, the words that came out of Anku’s mouth were very cruel.
‘The desert is scary…’
When I thought that they had been attacking each other with such vicious things in a place I did not know, I was once again struck by how fierce the lives of these women living in this harsh environment were.
“But you touch it with your bare hands?”
“It’s okay because I’m resistant. Mom… “When the chieftain was young, he locked him in a jar full of poisoned sand for three days to help him develop immunity!”
It was very cute to see him proudly sticking out his chest while holding his hands on both sides of his waist, but I couldn’t laugh at all, so I praised Anku by lightly rubbing both cheeks with both hands.
“For now, let’s throw it away because it’s a loss.”
“What is support?”
“It’s dirty.”
“It’s not dirty, but if Smith tells me to throw it away, I throw it away!”
Anku suddenly threw back the flute-like stick he had brought to explain to me.
Clink──!!
The bar, which was parabolic and flew like a dagger, broke the glass of the building that was in a straight line and disappeared inside.
“Oh…”
“Uh, no. Well done.”
Anku shrugged his shoulders as if the glass was about to break, and patted his head, telling him it was okay. In fact, I wonder if someone will come out soon… Because I was just thinking.
“Fuhetchu!”
“… ?”
Anku, who had been unaffected by the cold of the desert for the past few days, suddenly coughed and pushed my chest with his smooth forehead. I, who had been caught off guard, was knocked over by the force and fell onto Ardel’s chest cushion.
Toad!!
And then I heard the sound of very thin things being struck in succession in the spot where I was standing just moments ago.
“What should I do?”
Ardel gently hugged my waist from behind, resting his chin on my shoulder and tickling my ear with his hot breath.
I don’t know what it was, but I almost got in trouble a little while ago, but I wasn’t furious or anything. In the first place, if you wanted to threaten me with Ardel, you had to be at least Amela in Molingta.
“I came here with a bad feeling. “Please only threaten in moderation.”
“If that’s what you want.”
I felt like a cool breeze was coming out of the hot breath that was tickling my ear just a moment ago.
“And…”
Between the border separating the tribe and the desert, a huge wall of ice, which had already been shown once, appeared and trapped the entire tribe. It was the same ice wall that Ardel showed in the underground trading city.
Perhaps because I had only been eating downwards recently and had not used my strength properly, the ice wall reflected in the moonlight was much thicker and bigger than it looked in my memory.
“Anku.”
“Four?!”
When Ardel called his name, Anku, who had been staring blankly at the ice wall, jumped up and quickly came to Ardel’s side. Ardel put Anku on his side, created an ice platform in the empty air, and climbed up the huge ice wall.
“Wow, you were hiding like that.”
As I climbed up the ice wall, I was slightly amazed by the sight of Dasue indigenous people lying face down on the ceiling of the building with camouflage covering them.
They said that unlike other tribes, they couldn’t even see a watchtower, let alone a wall, so I would have guessed that they were hiding on the roof of such a tall building, watching the surroundings.
It was even hiding in the sandy bottom.
“Tell the chieftain that if he doesn’t come forward and bow his head right now, I will kill you all.”
“Yes.”
Anku, who was not immune to the cold, but was an exception to the ice created by Ardel, took a deep breath and shouted with all his might as he was snuggled into Ardel’s side.
“───!!”
The language of the indigenous people, which was extremely difficult no matter how many times I heard it, spread throughout the tribe through Anku’s mouth.
“It’s coming out.”
“Where?”
As I looked around, Ardel kindly gave me directions by gently pressing my cheek with her thin, pretty index finger. He slightly frowned in the direction Ardel gave him.
Among the very two-dimensional buildings, I was able to discover a very three-dimensional building alone.
The scale was roughly similar to my mansion in Mallingta, and the exterior was a palace-shaped building commonly seen in the Middle East. The large iron door in the center opened, and there was a woman wearing a thin dress in an appropriate combination of red and gold. The woman walked out.
Woman.
The chieftains I had met so far also looked suspiciously young compared to their age, but the woman walking out now was not like that; she was really just young.
However, I knew at a glance that it was because as she walked out, younger girls were following her to help keep the hem of her long dress from dragging on the floor.
“The more you know about it, the more interesting it is. “A place called the desert.”
“I guess so.”
It is said that the more a couple is together, the more they resemble each other.
For some reason, I felt like I knew what Ardel was thinking as he looked at the woman walking towards me.
Who would have imagined that there would be indigenous people with such advanced culture and technology in the desert, even dozens of days away from the fortress.
This is progress in such a barren environment where we have to worry about immediate food, let alone luxury.
Although Ardel is a long-lived species, its lifespan is not infinite.
She will one day pass it on to Ardella, and Ardella, too, would have passed it on to her other children if she had never met me. And by then, at least 100 years would have passed.
Even now, they are different from other indigenous people, and it is hard to know how much further they will have developed in 100 years.
‘If we had succeeded in overcoming all adversity and making progress over that long period of time…’
When my thoughts reached that point, my eyes met the red eyes of a woman who was walking towards me with an undisturbed and elegant appearance.
Then the woman gently lifted the corners of her mouth and smiled seductively.
“Ardel.”
“Yes.”
I was confident as I met the gaze of the woman approaching me, still not avoiding her gaze.
“I guess this place is real.”
A smile revealed on skin that glows softly in the moonlight. However, unlike Chiron’s beautiful red color, which is always full of affection, whenever she looks at me, I cannot find any emotion in her woman’s red color.
