Chapter 121
The Foreign Press War Begins.
At that time, Seong Jin-woo personally led soldiers to the distant universe to fight against the enemies of outer space.
An all-out war soon followed.
[And that day…]
Remembering the fierce battle that day, Ver calmly continued.
[The flying dragon, Kaisel, who left with Cha Hae-in on board, never came back. Even now, several years later.]
At the time, Seong Jin-woo’s order to Kaisel was to return Cha Hae-in safely home.
However, Kaisel, who left after hearing the order, did not return to the Shadow Legion no matter how much time passed.
However, Seong Jin-woo at the time did not care much about him.
In the meantime, it was because they had already left too far from Earth for the foreign press war.
When the distance between dimensions widens too much, the shadow soldier’s connection with Seong Jin-woo gradually weakens and is cut off.
Just like Ber does now.
Isn’t it because of the ‘distance between dimensions’ that Seong Jin-woo can’t re-summon Ver from the universe after immediately reverse-summoning him on Earth?
If the distance is too far, mana cannot be recharged or reverse summoned.
[As you know, the method of summoning shadow soldiers is a kind of ‘gate’. It is a way to call the soldiers waiting in the shadow world to this dimension through the dimension gate.]
But that gate is, after all, an act of breaking through the dimension wall.
[If the distance between the dimensions becomes too far like this, the gate will not be connected directly. You have to fly through the dimensional gap while tearing down countless dimensional walls.] A
representative example of this is the War of Lords, which took place in a time zone that has now disappeared.
Even the powerful rulers took years to reach Earth from their own dimension.
So over the years, the monarchs who arrived one step ahead were preparing for war on Earth first.
In any case, it meant that the dimension in which the foreign press war was taking place was also too far away from the earth.
After hearing Ber’s explanation, Suho’s expression hardened seriously.
“Then, from then on, mother…”
[Yes. It seems that Cha Hae-in had an unavoidable accident on the way to move by Kaisel and was unable to return home in the first place. You got caught up in a dimensional rift on the way.]
That’s right.
an unavoidable accident.
It must have been an absolutely unavoidable accident for Cha Hae-in and the flying dragon Kaisel, who was carrying her.
[…Because at that time, a dimensional rift was opening in the sky.]
After finishing his speech, Ver nodded with a serious expression.
However, regardless of the mood of the two, Sirka, who was listening to their conversation from the side, nodded with a bright expression.
“that’s right! That’s why the black dragon Kaisel always guards Chacha’s side! That’s why it’s Cha Cha, the dragon priestess!”
At those words, Suho looked at Shirka and asked.
“So where is my mother or my mother now?”
Suho’s voice cracked a little when he said mother for the first time in a while.
Somehow, my throat was choking.
* * *
Whoo-oh-
When I came out of the cave again, a magical blizzard blew in from all directions, covering my vision.
However, the ice elf Shirka did not mind the severe cold weather and set out on the road.
“Just follow me. I will guide you to where our tribe lives.”
“….”
Suho’s expression as he silently followed Sirka was full of thoughts.
On the other hand, Sirka’s expression when she actually met Cha Hae-in’s son, whom she had heard so much about, was smiling all the time.
“I was born in this forest. Weather like this is normal for the Ice Elves.”
As if to prove that those words were not false, Sirka quickly found her way and moved even in this magical blizzard.
His steps were surprisingly light, and he even showed off his talent of jumping over the thick snow.
On the other hand, the feet of Suho, who followed him, kept sinking into the snow.
Looking back at her, Shirka smiled happily.
“I’m afraid he’s not someone’s son, so even that is the same as Cha Cha! If your feet keep slipping out, try spreading your mana thinly across the soles of your feet.”
“Magic power on the soles of your feet?”
“huh. Chacha was difficult at first, but I quickly learned the trick. You are also Chacha’s son, so it’s definitely possible.”
However, Shirka’s expression when she saw Suho was full of mischief.
The look on his face was as if he was watching his little nephew begin to walk with excitement.
‘Actually, I didn’t learn it right away.’
It was said to be a trick, but in fact, this skill was not an easy skill for non-Ice Elves.
How hard did Cha Hae-in try to learn this skill?
It was possible only when the detailed and sophisticated mana control was fully ingrained in every step.
“The trick is simple.”
Shirka twitched the corners of her mouth and taught Suho personally.
“We Ice Elves crawl on snow like this before we can even walk. So, at first, I instinctively crawled with mana all over my body, and then gradually reduced the distribution of mana…” ”
Aha. Like this. I get the hang of it.”
“huh?”
For a moment, Shirka, who was eagerly teaching her nephew how to walk, became bewildered.
Before he knew it, Suho was standing comfortably on the thick snow.
“why? What’s wrong?”
“Ugh. It’s still a bit clumsy.”
Silka, who was dumbfounded for a moment, pointed out Suho’s feet to save face as an adult (?).
“Look at this. Are your eyes still squinting? Originally, you shouldn’t leave footprints like this like me.”
“You say there are no footprints left?”
At those words, Suho turned his head and looked back at the path Shirka had passed.
‘surely! Only my footprints remain!’
What a strange talent.
Walking in the snow and leaving no footprints.
When Suho realized his shortcomings, Shirka arrogantly folded her arms in relief.
“Isn’t it? Of course, it can be a bit difficult at first. But if you try a lot…”
“Oh, this is it.”
“…”
Before the words were finished, Suho’s footprints were gone.
[You have learned ‘Skill: Elf’s Step’.]
‘A new skill?’
A strangeness appeared in Suho’s eyes.
They said it was just a trick, but it must have been a greater skill than I thought.
Silka, at a loss for words for a moment, stared blankly at Suho.
“…Somehow, whenever Chacha opens her mouth, she brags about her son like that.”
“mother?”
At that, Suho tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.
“Did my mother brag about me? Couldn’t it be?”
Whenever Shirka talked about his mother, Suho felt strange.
His mother Cha Hae-in, whom he knew, was not the type to be stingy with praise, but he was not the type to go out and brag about his children.
Rather…
‘He always wanted me to grow up normally.’
His normality really…
Looking back, his childhood was ‘normal’ itself.
Although he was always on the superior side compared to his peers in terms of strength and physical strength, everything else was extremely ordinary.
That was his childhood guardian.
‘And my parents were strangely delighted with me.’
Maybe because of their happy expressions, I think I tried to live a more normal life.
At the time, I took it for granted, but now that I think about it, it was a very strange part.
Isn’t it normal for parents from other families to like it when their children show a little better than the children from other families?
[Khem. That’s it. It’s the consideration of parents who want the little monarch to lead a normal life…]
Ver suddenly jumped out from the side and started looking back on Suho’s childhood.
But there was no room for that.
“arrived.”
Just in time, their steps stopped and a certain scenery unfolded in front of them.
This is the village of the Ice Elves.
But above all else, the first thing that caught their attention was a large beautiful ice sculpture standing in front of the village.
And surprisingly, the shape of the ice sculpture…
“Mother?”
[Haein?!]
Suho and Ber’s eyes widened.
The ice sculptures carved by the Ice Elves were in the form of a huge flying dragon, Kaisel, and Cha Haein.
* * *
5 years ago.
The shadow dragon Kaisel, who was returning with Cha Hae-in, was unable to bring her safely to the ground.
All in all, a dimensional rift had arisen in front of them, which had been multiplying randomly due to Itarim’s invasion.
Kwa-O-O-O
-A powerful dimensional wind that suddenly blew Kaisel’s wings and turned sharply.
-Kyaaak!
Cha Hae-in, who was just an ordinary human at the time, screamed as she clung to Kaisel’s staggering back.
Kaisel tried his best not to let Cha Hae-in fall, but it was impossible to escape once he was caught up in the dimensional rift.
However, when he turned in the opposite direction, a tremendous battle had already begun in the direction he came from.
That moment.
Kaisel, the flying dragon, repeated the order Seong Jin-woo had given him.
That order is…
‘Send Cha Hae-in back home safely.’
Cha Hae-in’s safety.
Because he was Kaisel, who had been watching Seong Jin-woo, he was well aware of how important Cha Hae-in’s safety was to Seong Jin-woo above all else.
The moment he remembered that fact, Kaisel jumped into the dimensional rift without hesitation.
Initially, there were no options.
Hold on and get sucked in.
jump on my feet
In the end, they were destined to be sucked into the dimensional rift.
But if you jumped in on your own, you could at least choose which crack to get sucked into.
And Kaisel turned into the most stable crack for Cha Hae-in’s safety.
And the moment they crossed the rift, they could see it.
A mighty blizzard raging beyond.
The beautiful frozen forest below.
“…So Chacha came down to the forest where we live.”
Remembering the scene of the day, Sirka looked at the ice-carved Cha Hae-in with a hazy expression.
The moment Cha Hae-in passed through the dimensional rift.
The moment we arrived in this frozen forest.
The moment I encountered the Ice Elves.
Cha Hae-in….
Awakened the tremendous power he had long forgotten.
S-class Hunter.
The magic that was stronger than anyone else in Korea.
“And you saved our tribe.”
“From whom?”
“From the ice spirits of the Echo Forest.”
Echo Forest.
The sanctuary where even an ice elf cannot come out alive once they set foot in it.
That moment.
belt ring.
[The quest has arrived.]
A system message appeared in front of Suho.
Chapter 122
“Wow! Sirkkada!”
Just then, lively voices were heard from all over the place.
“Sirka!”
“Sirka is back!”
When Sirka, who had suddenly disappeared, returned safely, ice elves came out from all over the village to greet her.
But that’s only for a moment.
The moment they found the stranger standing next to Sirka, they became ferocious and immediately prepared for battle.
“intruder!”
“It’s an intruder!”
“There is an intruder in town!”
Chwwwwwwwww!
Bows and arrows and sharpened daggers were aimed at Suho in an instant.
Shirka jumped between them and hurriedly waved her hands.
“Everybody stop! don’t fight! He’s not an intruder! Look Carefully! Cha-cha’s son!”
“what?”
“Cha-cha?”
“Are you Chacha’s son?”
Everyone looked at Suho’s face with puzzled expressions.
“What?”
Then, one by one, they realized something and their eyes began to widen.
“Huh?”
“Uh huh? Really?”
The ice elves, who were wary of Suho, hurriedly turned their heads and opened their mouths while comparing the faces of the ‘ice statues’ standing in front of the village with those of Suho.
“wow! You really look like Cha Cha, right?”
“Come to think of it, our eyes are a bit similar!”
“Kodo!”
“Smell too!”
“What’s your son’s name? gender?”
“You fool! Chacha’s son’s name is Seongsuho!”
“What is Shirka! Are you really Chacha’s son? Where did you find it?”
The immediate, bloody atmosphere suddenly loosened up and turned into a riotous one.
Even before entering the Glacier Dungeon, the atmosphere was so friendly that it was disheartening to have fully prepared to face the Ice Elves.
Shirka boasted in front of them, saying that she had found Suho.
Standing in the middle of that atmosphere, Suho was calmly examining the ice elves one by one.
‘…Everyone is young.’
The lifespan of an Ice Elf may not be the same as that of a human, but once you look at their appearance, all of the Ice Elves who are talking in front of you now appear to be in their early to late teens.
He hardly looked like he was in his 20s or older.
‘There are no adults.’
Besides, there was another strange thing.
‘It’s weaker than I thought.’
At that, Berdo made a strange expression and whispered to Suho.
[Most of the Ice Elf warriors I know are A-class, no matter how weak they are, they are at least B-class monsters. But the guys here…]
“Up to B-class to D-class. There is no A-class at all.”
[You’re too weak.]
Silka, who heard the conversation from the side, nodded.
“It has to be. All the capable warriors of our tribe were called out and killed during the war. The only ones in this village now are the tribe members who were too young or weak at the time.”
In the war between rulers and lords that had been going on since the beginning of time, the
‘King of the Yetis, the Lord of the Cold’, used to capture all the new Ice Elves and lead them to the battlefield when they were born and became useful.
Of course, for the Ice Elves, being a soldier of their lord was an honor, and even being able to die heroically on the battlefield was a source of pride as a warrior.
However, it did not mean that those left in the village were not given a role.
They also had an important mission that was as important as the role given to the warriors.
That is to nurture my next generation by nurturing newly born children.
It was to raise those children into excellent warriors who could send them to the next battle.
To continue the war with the rulers that has been going on since the beginning.
“…That’s us. Children born during the war.”
The babies had grown up to this extent, and they were carrying bows and arrows and holding daggers in their hands.
In order to emulate the parents’ generation and become a full-fledged warrior.
Suho found a contradiction in Sirka’s words.
“But if all the weak were left behind, not all adults were strong, so why are only the children visible?”
“…It wasn’t like this from the start. On the day the spirits of the Echo Forest ran rampant, most of the adults in the tribe died, and only one adult is still alive.”
Echo Forest.
At those words, Suho’s gaze naturally turned to the ice sculpture of his mother.
There ….
There was a carving of a dynamic battle scene of Cha Hae-in, who seemed to be dancing a ‘sword dance’ with daggers in both hands and his hair fluttering.
And right behind her, a huge flying dragon was spreading its wings as if to protect her.
It was just astonishing to Suho, an art student, how he made such an elaborate and outstanding statue out of ice.
“Looks like your mother is using a dagger.”
“huh. He said he didn’t have any weapons, so he lent me a dagger used by our tribe. And from then on. The fact that Chacha became our savior.”
One day, Cha Hae-in suddenly descended from the sky on a black dragon through a blizzard.
When she just arrived in this frozen forest.
Just in time, the Ice Elves who lived in this forest faced a great danger.
“For some reason, the spirits of the Echo Forest came out of the forest all at once and poured into our village.”
* * *
[Echo Forest]
This forest was a sacred place for the Ice Elves, who said that once they stepped into it, they would never come out alive.
And at one time this forest used to be called by another name.
It’s called ‘Forest of Trials’.
The Echo Forest was also the place where the adult ice elves went through the ‘trial of the warrior’ in order to be recognized as brave warriors.
However, even that ordeal did not dare to go into the depths of the Echo Forest, and only took place on the outskirts of the forest.
It was because if he went deeper than that, he could be possessed by the spirits of the Echo Forest and go insane.
“You’re possessed by a spirit?”
“huh. The spirits of the Echo Forest are insubstantial. that’s why it’s scarier can change in any form. But it’s hard to tell even if it’s in its true form.”
“…I have no idea what you mean by that explanation.”
While Suho was listening to the legend of the Echo Forest from Sirka, the surroundings were still noisy.
The Ice Elves were preparing a small reception for Suho.
“Today is a party!”
“It’s a welcome party for Seongseong!”
“Who keeps saying Seongsung! It’s Seongsuho!”
Where did all the bloody looks from the beginning go? Those youthful faces were full of lively expressions.
Before I knew it, an elf was making art out of ice sculptures for protection in a corner.
Another elf brought out specially saved fruits for protection.
And another elf…
[Uh-huh! The little lord likes meat! Also, do you have any magic stones I can eat?]
Verdo was oblivious to the preparations for the welcome party for Suho, meddling hard.
Either way, Shirka’s story continued on this side.
“But originally, the spirits of the Echo Forest were beings that never came out of the Echo Forest.”
Due to the location, the forest where the Ice Elves lived and the Echo Forest were right next to each other.
Still, as long as they didn’t invade the realm of the spirits first, they weren’t dangerous at all.
“At least that’s how they knew until ‘that day’.”
One day, ‘the day’ when the sky in the frozen forest was suddenly torn apart and a dimensional crack opened.
Perhaps under that influence, the spirits of the Echo Forest suddenly ran out of control.
Then, it popped out of the Echo Forest and started attacking the Ice Elves indiscriminately.
It was a catastrophe for the young Ice Elves who were left behind in a village where excellent warriors had already left.
“That was a few years ago, so we were much weaker than we are now.”
“You said my mother saved you then?”
“huh. The cha-cha was amazing.”
Cha Hae-in suddenly appeared on a flying dragon and asked the Ice Elves to lend him a sword.
The moment the dagger was gripped in both her hands.
“Skill sword dance.”
Shirka muttered her technique Cha Hae-in had taught her.
Cha Hae-in started to draw fancy curves with daggers in both hands as her movements became faster as if she was dancing.
Pod! Pod! Pod!
The wondrous and overwhelming battle that shrewdly cuts down the spirits as if dancing at a fast tempo.
Because of her beauty, the Ice Elves initially tried to nickname her ‘Dancer’.
However, another nickname was created because the party banned it because it was embarrassing.
“That new nickname is ‘Dragon Shaman’.”
“…Are you not ashamed of that?”
“Kaisel liked that nickname. So, reluctantly, they let me just call it.”
And as the nickname suggests, Cha Hae-in’s battles were always accompanied by the black dragon Kaisel.
Suho didn’t know about Kaisel, but Ber quickly appeared and explained.
[Kaisel was once so great that Baran, the lord of the white flame, rode under the name of the flying dragon, Kaiselin. By the way, it was an S-class monster.]
“S-class monster?”
Suho’s eyes widened.
Isn’t it said that my mother suddenly awakened the power of an S-class hunter and rides an S-class beast?
It was a completely different image from the mother who usually led a peaceful life at home.
“Anyway, thanks to Chacha and Kaisel, the spirits that were attacking us fled back to the Echo Forest. And Chacha stayed with us for a while and taught us swordsmanship.”
“You learned swordsmanship from your mother?”
“huh. Until then, the village elders who raised us had all been killed by the spirits. That’s why I don’t know when the spirits of the Echo Forest will suddenly attack again, so it’s chacha who protected us.”
This was the reason Cha Hae-in was called the savior of the ice elves.
She even taught the surviving children how to fight and was responsible for their safety…
“Chacha is the mother of all of us.”
Seeing Shirka smile brightly as she said this, Suho felt a sense of longing.
“So after that, my mother is now…”
“Yeah. As I said before, I suddenly rode a Kaisel into the Echo Forest a while ago. He said there was a strange smell there. He hasn’t come back yet.”
“Is it a strange smell?”
“hmm. What should I explain? Cha-cha can smell magical powers as sensitively as we ice elves.”
Along with those words, it was Sirka who sniffed Suho’s scent.
“Suho, you have a very nice scent. so i knew right away That you are Cha Hae-in’s son.”
Cha Hae-in talked a lot about his family while living with the Ice Elves.
“Chacha said that. His son looks just like his father and smells great. So, by chance, if her husband comes looking for her while she is in the Echo Forest, she told me not to attack her first and tell her this.”
“what are you saying?”
At Suho’s question, Shirka opened her mouth with a serious expression.
“…found a place where ‘gray snow’ falls.”
Chapter 123
Cha Hae-in spent a lot of time hanging out with the ice elves and living in their village to return to Earth.
Whenever they had a chance, they flew on Kaisel and searched for the rift in the dimension they rode over.
At first, I thought I would be able to go back soon.
I was just going back the way I came.
However, Cha Hae-in had no choice but to hit a wall soon.
First of all, flying through a terrible blizzard that obscured your vision was a problem.
Above all, the biggest problem was that when I went up to the sky, there was not one dimensional crack that existed there.
A world that has lost its monarch.
This frozen forest was being torn to shreds in real time, wandering through the dimensional rifts.
In the sky of the frozen forest, countless dimensional cracks were forming.
Finding the rift in the dimension connected to Earth was never an easy task.
However, Cha Hae-in and Kaisel did not give up and wandered through the blizzard every day.
In the meantime.
A really big thing happened.
-Grrrung….
-Kaisel?!
At some point, the power of Kaisel, the dragon that protected Cha Hae-in, began to weaken day by day.
The reason was simple.
The reason why a shadow soldier could be immortal was because he was supplied with magic from the shadow lord.
However, Kaisel could no longer receive his magical power because the distance from Seong Jin-woo was too far away.
– I can’t. If this happens, Kaisel will be destroyed before he can find the gate back to Earth.
This wasn’t Earth.
You couldn’t predict when and where what kind of enemy would appear.
If he had to encounter an unexpectedly strong enemy, Kaisel’s power was absolutely necessary.
Cha Hae-in stopped trying to find the gate through the snowstorm from then on.
It was never about giving up.
– Let’s trust our husband. He will definitely find me wherever I am.
A confident voice.
Cha Hae-in trusted Sung Jin-woo.
He believed that he would surely find him wherever he was.
Because he was the one who came to find himself even in this world, where he was destined to never meet.
While waiting for Seong Jin-woo here quietly, Cha Hae-in began teaching swordsmanship to the young ice elves.
Even if you leave this place someday.
I hope that these children will develop the strength to protect themselves from the ice spirits that invade the village whenever they have a chance.
And it was about then.
Cha Hae-in, who frequently dealt with spirits near the Echo Forest, discovered ‘gray eyes’.
* * *
To find his mother, Suho decided to leave for Echo Forest.
“Are you really going?”
The expressions on the faces of the ice elves watching the scene were full of uneasiness.
“Are you okay? The Echo Forest is a really dangerous place…”
“That’s right. I also said To enter there, you have to be at least Class A by human standards.”
“Is Suho grade A?”
“Even though Suho is Chacha’s son, why does he look so weak? I don’t think the energy I feel is less than half of the chacha.”
“Ah, that’s the same for everyone. Of all the humans who have invaded here, no one has been stronger than Chacha.”
Ironically, soon after Cha Hae-in left for Echo Forest, heavily armed humans began to come over, as if a new gate connected to the earth had opened.
How absurd it would be if Cha Hae-in came back and found out about this later.
Anyway, humans started to come over here, but the ice elves did not develop friendly relations with the humans.
In the first place, the purpose of the demons’ existence is to ‘destroy’ everything according to the orders of the lords they serve.
It was an existence that destroyed everything but themselves.
It was impossible to have friendly relations with mere humans.
In that respect, Cha Hae-in could be said to be a very unusual existence.
Because she was a savior who helped them.
No, even if that were the case, if it were not possible to talk to each other, the relationship like now might not have been created.
The reason Cha Hae-in was able to talk with the Ice Elves in the first place was because of the ‘necklace’ gifted by Seong Jin-woo.
It is a special necklace prepared by Seong Jin-woo as a gift for the 16th wedding anniversary.
Seong Jin-woo put a number of strange functions for Cha Hae-in into the necklace, and one of them was the interpretation function.
In fact, the purpose of Sung Jin-woo putting that function into the necklace was for a very personal reason.
It is to make the conversation work so that Cha Hae-in can run errands even for shadow soldiers who cannot speak Korean.
And thanks to that private function, Cha Hae-in was the only one who was able to communicate with the Ice Elves and not antagonize them.
However, other humans who were unable to communicate with them were just prey to be hunted as soon as they were seen by the Ice Elves.
So when I met humans, I only asked one question.
Do you know ‘Sung Jin-woo’?
It was because they could be the people Cha Hae-in’s husband sent to find her.
Even if he couldn’t speak the language, he was able to pronounce at least his name, so if someone who understood the name ‘Sung Jin-woo’ appeared, he was willing to save it.
Of course….
Unfortunately, no one knew Seong Jin-woo.
At that fact, the Ice Elves clicked their tongues in complete disbelief.
‘Shadow Lord Seong Jin-Woo’ rather knew people from other dimensions like themselves.
He was the only victor in the long and grueling War of Lords, and as a result he became the true ruler of all these planes.
However, none of the people on Earth who were saved by him really remembered him.
It was a really brutal thing.
“I will guide you on the way to the Echo Forest.”
Shirka hopped over the snow and stepped in front of Suho.
His movements were much lighter and more agile than before.
It was thanks to Suho confirming that Shirka was not an enemy and deciphering ‘Kasaka’s poison’.
As her muscle strength, which had been damaged by the snake venom, recovered, Sirka opened her chest more confidently than ever before.
“Ahem. Even if you look at it like this, I am the guardian of the Baruka tribe.”
Guardians are those who guard the borders of the Echo Forest.
Of course, I knew exactly how to get there.
“Then please.”
Suho disappeared through the blizzard with Sirka, and the ice elves of the village left behind looked at them worriedly for a long time even after they disappeared.
* * *
The moment we reached Echo Forest through a snowstorm.
Suho was able to see with his own eyes the true nature of the spirits feared by the Ice Elves.
In the air where the blizzard was blowing, the ice blocks suddenly coalesced and turned into monsters.
[Ice Golem]
[
Ice Golem]
[Ice Golem]
…
Shirka’s complexion turned pale at the sight of countless ice golems thumping in the forest.
“be careful! They are the spirits of the Echo Forest! But why did it come out already?”
At those words, Suho and Ver’s eyes lit up at the same time.
The spirits that had no substance nested in the ice and created their own substance.
That was the true identity of the Ice Golem.
[Little Lord! Apparently, all the golems that destroyed the ground outside the dungeon were also spirits!]
Even before Ver’s cry was over, Suho was already running towards the ice golems with his twin swords out.
“Wake up!”
Wow!
At that moment, around Suho, the shadow soldiers swaying black steam rose up all at once.
[Because I am the master’s spear!]
Wedge-!
The shadow spearman, Quay, jumped forward faster than anyone else as if he had been waiting for this moment.
[Mummuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
]
The Shadow Minotaur Minnow and Tau pushed the Ice Golems from Suho’s left and right with force.
[Number of storable shadows: 3/3]
This is just a full-time job.
They were shadow soldiers that Suho could save, but there were a lot of day laborers that Suho had just extracted today.
“Everyone come out!”
[Shadow Kobold Lv.1]
[Shadow Kobold Lv.1]
[Shadow Kobold Lv.1]
….
[Shadow Troll Lv.1]
Knight Grade
All those monsters I hunted as soon as they fell right here.
Suho had extracted all of the hunting tribes and hid them in the shadows.
That number is…
[Number of shadows that can be extracted: 36/36]
“Wipe it all out!”
Kerruk!
Wow!
At Suho’s command, a total of 36 shadow soldiers began to attack the ice golems.
“What is this number?!”
Shirka, who was taken aback by the untimely appearance of the ice golems, widened her eyes as she saw the soldiers summoned by Suho.
“As expected, you are Chacha’s son!”
Of course, compared to Cha Hae-in’s shadow dragon, Kaisel, the power was far less than that, but instead, Suho’s soldiers were more numerous.
In addition, unlike Kaisel, who was getting weaker the more he used his strength, this one was truly an immortal army that would never die as long as the guardian had enough mana!
However, Sirka fell behind and shot an arrow herself to help Suho, telling him something he didn’t know.
“Suho, be careful! Same goes for the spirits of the Echo Forest! No matter how many times I kill them, they keep appearing!
[Mummuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
!
Just in time, the Ice Golem’s body, made of ice, was shattered by Minnow and Tau’s brutal strength.
[The Ice Golem has been defeated.]
[The Ice Golem has been defeated.]
At the same time, an amazing sight unfolded.
Shwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
new spirits penetrated into the wreckage of the ice golems that collapsed after riding the cold wind.
Then, the surrounding ice coalesced again, and the ice golem was resurrected in a normal state.
Seeing this, Suho’s eyes flashed.
‘Playing?’
They were weird guys.
Although the principles are opposite to those of the Shadow Soldiers, in the end, they were similar to those who were infinitely regenerated no matter how many times they were killed.
“Good?”
Suho’s eyes sparkled.
Enemies that continued to regenerate no matter how many times they were killed were obviously difficult to deal with.
But what about the count?
“Wasn’t this a good place to level up?”
snap.
[Purchased ‘Item: Intermediate Mana Potion’.]
Suho immediately drank the Mana Potion in one shot and fiercely exposed it.
“Come, however you like.”
And be my experience.
[Status Window]
Name: Holy Guardian
Level: 40
Occupation: None
Title: Wolf Slayer, Enemy of Bugs Demon Slayer
HP: 15310/15310
MP: 2411/2411
[Stats]
Strength: 115 Stamina: 49
Agility: 49 Intelligence: 49(+10) )
Sense: 49 (+5)
(distributable ability points: 0)
[Skill]
Passive Skill: Strength Lv.5 Dual Swordsmanship Lv.3 (Unknown) Lv.max
Active Skill: Ruler’s Power Lv.1 Shadow Extraction Lv.2 Saving Shadows Lv.1 Storm Slash Lv.3 Giant’s Armor Lv.1 Rigid Combat Lv.4 Living Lv.1 Elf’s Steps Lv.1 Grassland Wind Lv.1 (Spiritual Only) [
Number of shadows that can be extracted: 36]
[Number of shadows that can be stored: 3]
[Blessing]
Kandiaru’s Blessing,
Rakan’s Blessing, Plague
Blessing
[Equipped item]
Volkan’s Horn x2
Gray Ring (Sense +5)
Horus’ Ring (Intellect +10)
Ice Bear’s Robe (Defense +50)
Chapter 124
[The level has risen!]
[The level has risen!]
….
Suho continued to march into the Echo Forest while mercilessly smashing the ice golems that were endlessly swarming.
[Clear the way! Keep pushing!]
[A death mace to all the cursed tribes that stand in the way of the little lord!] The
Guardian Shadow Corps, supported by Quay and Ver, moved forward without hesitation.
Even if the ice golems that obsessively block them continue to regenerate.
At this rate, even if it was like stepping into the middle of enemy lines.
‘If only there was a mother in front of me!’
Suho never stopped advancing.
“Pierce!”
[Geuuuuuuu!]
A terrible battle that kills each other fiercely and resurrects endlessly.
And the back of Suho, who doesn’t hide behind the soldiers and takes the lead in destroying and smashing the golems…
‘…my God.’
Shirka was watching with a shocked expression.
‘Is this the son of Chacha?’
If Cha Hae-in’s battle was like watching a beautiful dance, Suho’s battle is truly a storm.
In the center of the storm, he was crushing the bodies of enemies bigger than himself.
oh oh!
The shadow soldiers did not lose either.
A grueling hand-to-hand combat led by two shadow minotaurs.
The overwhelming violence emanating from that strong body!
When Ber’s support was added to it…
[Ber uses ‘Skill: Harsh Command’.]
[‘Skill: Harsh Command’ increases the stats of beast-type shadow soldiers by 50%.] [
‘Skill: Harsh Command’ As a side effect of ‘harsh command’, beast-type shadow soldiers are cursed with insanity.]
[Kwoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]
Minnow and Tau, who suddenly turned into berserkers themselves, completely went berserk.
He wielded his muscular arms, which were swollen as if they were about to explode, and began to literally destroy not only the ice golems, but also the forest itself.
Kwajik! Bang!
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam!
It was to the point where the ice golems looked pitiful.
‘But the real thing starts now.’
Sirka warned Suho.
“This is the Echo Forest! And from now on…!”
Before he could finish his words, a huge number of ice arrows began attacking the Shadow Soldiers in the forest.
Shush shush shush shush shush!
“…!”
Seeing this, Suho’s eyes flashed.
The bodies of the soldiers hit by the arrows were immediately frozen.
And blah blah!
It became a piece of ice and shattered on the spot.
Suho turned his gaze to find the guys who shot the arrows.
Familiar figures atop the densely grown trees of the Echo Forest were aiming their bowstrings in this direction.
“Ice elves?”
“no! They…!”
Shirka opened her mouth with a complex expression.
“…Our tribe members whose spirits were eaten by the spirits of the Echo Forest.”
‘Ah, that’s it.’
Suho recalled the story the Ice Elves had told him about the Echo Forest in the village.
The Echo Forest was a forbidden land that even the Ice Elves could not come out of alive once they set foot in it.
That’s why.
‘Is that what it means to be possessed by a spirit?’
Suho deflected their arrows with his sword and quickly inspected them.
White ghosts aiming their bows on top of a dense tree branch.
Their eyes were unfocused, and what I felt in those empty eyes was pure madness itself.
In addition, their bodies were half-frozen, and even if their bodies were torn or cut by the shadow soldiers’ counterattack, a cold blizzard came from somewhere and reattached the wounds.
No, to be exact, it was ‘freeze’.
“It looks like an ice golem.”
“Exactly… they’re the same guys.”
Suho nodded his head at Sirka’s answer, which seemed disturbed.
[Ice Golem]
[Ice Golem]
….
As Sirka explained, the name tag ‘Ice Golem’ was attached to the heads of the ice elves who were possessed by spirits.
And as the battle continues to prove it.
The more ice clings to their wounds and regenerates over and over again.
Gradually, their appearances were changing from ice elves to ice golems.
If the golems outside the forest were created by spirits dwelling in the blizzard, the golems here were spirits inhabiting the corpses of ice elves who died in the Echo Forest.
However, seeing them skillfully shooting arrows using their innate skills even after death, Suho suddenly realized.
“Were these guys the ones who shot the arrows in the first place?”
The ice golems that caused the ground to collapse and cause them to fall here.
Right before they appeared, it seemed that these guys were the ones who had shot arrows and attacked this side.
Basically, they were on the same side.
‘…That means there is another gate leading to the outside somewhere in this Echo Forest.’
There was no way these guys flew through the sky and came over to Earth, so there was another passage.
“I am here now.”
Shirka, who had been following Suho until now, suddenly hesitated and spoke.
“I want to follow you further, but if I go further into the forest, I will be possessed by the spirits like that.”
At those words, Suho looked at Sirka.
In this sense-disturbing blizzard, Shirka was a road guide I liked, so I wanted to keep taking her with me.
“Is there any way to stop the spirits?”
“Very few. Basically, our tribe and the spirits here have a high affinity. So, if I make up my mind and the spirits target me, there is little way to protect my mind.”
“Does saying there are few mean that there are?”
“Ugh. That’s actually…”
“…?”
When Suho suddenly saw Sirka looking at him, Suho had a puzzled look on his face.
“I’m asking just in case, that fur.”
“A fur coat? Oh this?”
“huh. Isn’t that Ice Bear’s fur?”
“ah. that’s right.”
Suho nodded, and Sirka opened her mouth hesitantly.
“Actually… Ice spirits don’t get along well with Ice Bear. That’s why the spirits won’t come close to me if I’m wearing that fur coat.”
“Oh, was it like that?”
“ah! Of course, I absolutely do not mean to ask for the clothes! Ice Bear’s skin is the symbol of a warrior. I know how important the clothes are to the warrior who killed Ice Bear…”
Jjag-lak.
[I purchased ‘Item: Ice Bear’s Robe’.]
“Now, put it on.”
“…!”
Suddenly, a new fur coat appeared on Suho’s hand, and Shirka’s widened eyes filled with emotion.
“you you…! What a nice guy!”
“Hurry up and get dressed. Can’t you see I’m busy right now?”
Even in the midst of this, a huge rain of arrows was pouring down from all sides.
While Shirka quickly put on her fur clothes, Suho immediately opened her inventory and changed items.
Coincidentally, there were two ‘bows’ in his inventory prepared for the glacier dungeon.
One was Daegung, bought with Lio Xing’s corporate card.
And the second bow was a pretty amazing item that Lim Tae-gyu, the head of the Reaper Guild, lent me.
[Grim Reaper’s Bow (Imitation)]
Difficulty to obtain: A
Type: Bow
Attack Power +90
This is an industrial product modeled after the ‘Grim Reaper’s Bow (S)’, the symbol of the Grim Reaper Guild.
Although the attack power is not outstanding compared to the grade, the cohesion of magic arrows is very good, so the archer’s skill effect is amplified by 3 times.
…Of course, this item was an item that Suho didn’t really need.
In the first place, Suho did not condense mana to create magic arrows like normal archer hunters, but just made shadow soldiers into arrows and fired them.
However, if something might happen in the dungeon and it was lent for free, shouldn’t we accept it unconditionally?
‘As expected, I’m glad I accepted it.’
Suho took the great bow Lio Xing had bought him and handed the other one, the ‘Grim reaper’s bow (imitation)’, to Sirka.
“Now, I’ll lend you this too, so from now on you fight too.”
“…!”
Then, Sirka’s expression was several times more shocked than when she received the fur coat.
“What what? You’re giving me such a good bow?!”
“No, I’m lending it. Not even mine.”
“Thank you so much! I will work really hard!”
I knew right away what he meant by hard work.
After receiving the bow of the imitation god of death politely with both hands, Shirka’s momentum immediately changed.
If Ver’s harsh command drives beast-type beasts mad, a good bow drives archers mad.
Shuwaaaaaa-!
In an instant, a great concentration of magical power raged from Sirka’s bow, and six arrows of magical power were immediately created.
“Is this happening?!”
Sirka, who could only create two magic arrows at the same time, was deeply moved.
And when I let go of the bowstring, the six magic arrows flew at tremendous speed and intercepted the arrows of the enemies flying this way in the middle.
Damn it!
The arrows that collided with each other in the air became ice powder and flew away.
“Just trust me and follow me! I’ll keep guiding you to a place where you can find Cha-Cha!”
Shirka became bold again and stood at the forefront of Suho.
But then.
“Move.”
Shirka’s pupils widened as she hurriedly looked back with a chilling feeling.
There…
kuwaaaaaa!
There was a figure of Suho carrying a black arrow of great momentum in the great bow.
“Stir as much as you like, Quay.”
Kwa-O-O-!
At that moment, a black bolt of lightning flew through the white snowstorm.
“oh my god.”
Shirka was shocked.
The black arrows fired by Suho were literally thunderbolts, and they pierced the bodies of enemies, freely changing directions in zigzags instead of straight lines, as if they had eyes.
Kwajangchangchang!
The ice elves hit by the lightning began to shatter in a chain like an ice statue breaking.
At that moment, it was visible in Shirka’s eyes.
The spirits of the Echo Forest that dissipate like smoke from the broken and crumbling bodies of the Ice Elves.
And as if they had waited for this moment, new spirits approaching to reclaim that empty body.
However, Suho felt the presence of those spirits as well.
“I can’t take it away.”
The ice golems he had encountered so far were nothing more than blocks of ice without a body.
However, these guys were still ‘corpses’ with even a little bit of flesh left.
There was still a chance until the corpse was taken back by the spirits.
[This is a target that can extract a shadow.]
[This is a target that can extract a shadow.]
[This is a target that can extract a shadow.]
….
A smirk.
Suho quickly sent a few shadow kobolds back to nothing and created an empty slot.
And before the spirits take away those precious corpses.
“Wake up.”
It was intercepted from this side first.
That moment.
Shuhua ah!
Black shadows began to rise from the shattered corpses like pieces of ice.
[Shadow extraction succeeded.]
[Shadow extraction succeeded.]
[Shadow extraction succeeded.]
Chapter 125
[Shadow Elf Lv.1]
Knight Grade
[Shadow Elf Lv.1]
Knight Grade
[Shadow Elf Lv.1] Knight
Grade A
shadow archer unit stands proudly in front of the guardian, waving black steam. appear.
Bows made of shadows were held in their hands, and at Suho’s command, they drew the bowstring at the enemies without hesitation.
Suaaaa!
At that moment, several strands of shadow arrows were created from their bows.
“oh my god.”
Realizing their identity, Sirka couldn’t help but be astonished.
“To bring back the souls stolen by the spirits!”
The souls of the Ice Elves were finally freed through true death.
And now, Sirka realized the true meaning of the word ‘son of Chacha’.
Cha Cha No Cha Hae-in’s husband Seong Jin-woo.
He is the one who controls death.
King over death.
The ‘Shadow Lord’
and the fact that the one who inherited his blood is Seongsuho.
“Full-arms advance.”
At Suho’s command, the black archers aimed their bows at the enemies.
* * *
On the other hand, contrary to Suho, who is attacking the Echo Forest from the outside…
The scavenger hunters who came in with Suho had already been wandering deep in the Echo Forest for a long time.
Shush shush shush shush!
Ice arrows flying from all directions.
“Come again Damn!”
“Stop!”
“I can’t stop you this time! There are too many!”
“Then, behind that tree…!”
Unlike Suho, who fell alone, they fell into the Echo Forest from the beginning.
If Suho hadn’t attempted to glide through the blizzard with a storm slash while falling, he could have fallen this way from the beginning.
However, even though it was not the same way as Suho, they were able to calmly land in their own way, keeping everyone alive.
Anyway, these are the scavenger’s guild members representing America.
Their ability was verified just by being a part of it.
However, even after landing safely, they did not have time to catch their breath.
As if they had waited for that moment, ice spirits from all directions began to attack them.
“…an ice elf possessed by a spirit.”
Likewise, Eshil, who had fallen into the Echo Forest and continued the battle, clicked her tongue as she saw the Ice Elves possessed by the spirits.
With a look that’s really ridiculous.
“It’s worth it. Yeti were eaten by ice spirits? How weak were they in their lifetime?”
Perhaps if the King of Yetis, the Lord of the Cold, saw this now, he would not be able to close his eyes gracefully even after he dies.
“To think that a yeti specializing in spiritism could eat spirits instead of commanding them.”
Demon noble Esil knew very well the true fear of ‘Yeti’.
The protection of the Ice Spirit always followed the Ice Elf warriors who were put into the War of Lords.
So, no matter what bows or weapons were lifted in their hands, the ‘Curse of the Cold’ was carried on every attack.
If they get hit by an arrow, the area freezes.
When cut by the blades wielded from their hands, blood did not splatter and the cut surface froze intact.
If that cold and relentless attack accumulates only a few times, the opponent’s entire body freezes and his movements slow down.
As a result, the Ice Elves were warriors who demonstrated tremendous power the longer the fight went on.
‘If it weren’t for the ice bear robe I received from Suho, I would have been in danger…’
Damn it!
“Keep! My arm is broken! healer! healer!”
“Wait! I’m on my way…!”
Just in time, during the fierce battle, among the scavenger hunters, there was a victim with a broken part hit by an ice arrow.
At that moment, Ash’s eyes lit up.
Once it was like that, it was impossible to even heal the wound with ordinary methods.
Schwack!
Eshil quickly approached the injured Hunter and tore off the wound on his shoulder with one hand.
“Keah!”
“Be patient. It can be cured only when all the cold air that has penetrated the blood vessels is removed.”
bloodstone formation.
Wow!
In front of the Hunter screaming in pain, Eshil quickly pulled the frozen bloodstone from his wound.
Then, he ordered the healer who had arrived next to him.
“Now regenerate a new arm! So do the other guys! First, cut out all the frozen wounds and then heal them!”
“Yes yes!”
Due to the charisma of the demonic aristocrat displayed in this melee, Healer was submissive to her orders without even realizing it.
And that charisma influenced other hunters as well.
“Everyone, don’t get hit by arrows and don’t even rub them! The curse of the bitter cold seeps into your body with the slightest touch!”
Since there were so many strong bodies in the scavenger, there were many hunters who fought while just getting hit with their bodies.
However, if a blind arrow accidentally strikes between armor and armor, it was a fatal blow at that moment.
In this way, Eshil encouraged the scavenger hunters and gradually increased their power by gathering scattered colleagues one by one.
Of course, among the hunters, there were A-class hunters who were stronger than Esil, but even so, their experience was only two years after becoming a hunter.
The charisma shown by Esyl, a demon aristocrat who has lived fiercely in the demon realm where she is eaten and eaten since birth, was not comparable to human hunters in the first place.
The result of helping each other and helping each other like that.
As the number on this side gradually increased, the aspect of being chased one-sidedly at first gradually stabilized.
“You’re getting used to it!?”
“Anyway, you just have to destroy everything!”
“By the way, where did our guild leader go!”
“Thomas! Thomas Andre! Can you hear us!”
As soon as I started to breathe, I started to look for Thomas Andre, the most important core force.
But it was never easy.
My senses were dizzy as a snowstorm raged all around me.
“Where the hell did Suho fall?”
Eshil was trying to find the energy of Suho rather than Thomas Andre.
Then all of a sudden
Creepy.
“What!”
Eshil hurriedly raised her head at the sudden, creepy sensation.
Whoa oh oh!
As I wandered aimlessly through the forest, gray snow was mixed with the blizzard that was raging.
“…gray eyes?”
Esil’s eyes widened.
‘no! It’s not like snow!’
Eshil was basically a demon who was familiar with blood and corpses, so I was sure.
“This is… ashes! The ashes from burning the corpses are flying in the snow!”
In this bitter cold, did the corpse burn without freezing?
It wasn’t such a simple matter.
It was because the identity of the aura felt in this tiny gray ash like dust made me feel really unbelievable fear.
“Could this be… a dragon?”
The energy of the dragon race was clearly felt in the gray ash.
Eshil, who realized the identity of it, was startled and looked around urgently.
But there was nothing to be seen, and only one thing could be guessed.
slap!
Esil’s eyes stared at the direction where more gray ash was flying.
“Somewhere over there, a dimensional rift has opened! That also led to the world of dragons…!”
Or maybe it was a completely different world.
The war between the shadow army and the monarchs led by Sung Jin-woo took place in all dimensions along the dimensional gap.
And no matter how much you think about it, Sung Jin-woo was the only one who could kill the ‘dragon’ race so mercilessly that it would become ashes and scatter like this.
There was no way that dragons of the same kind would fight each other.
‘This… isn’t good.’
Ethil had an ominous feeling.
Among all the races living in the entire dimension, if you were asked to pick the most dangerous ones, there were only two.
giants and dragons.
Especially among them, the dragons were a race armed with tremendous magical power and power, and the bones and corpses they left behind when they died were treasures with tremendous power in themselves.
‘But the corpse is turned to ashes and scattered all over the land like this?’
This is never good.
‘The dead dragon’s curse was being sown on this land!’
Eshil exclaimed, looking back at the hunters who were hurriedly fighting the forest spirits.
“Go back the way you came! We need to get out of here ASAP!”
“what? What’s wrong with you all of a sudden?”
“This forest is cursed! These gray eyes…!”
It was then.
In Esil’s eyes for a fleeting moment, a silhouette passed over the gray blizzard.
“…!”
In an instant, Esil’s eyes were stained with astonishment.
“It’s a dragon!”
The identity of the silhouette was a huge dragon.
The shadow of a dragon with its huge wings spread wide was flapping its wings beyond the gray blizzard!
And the hunters of the scavenger who saw it couldn’t help but be frightened.
“crazy.”
“What is that?”
“A dragon!”
Among the Demonic Beasts that have appeared on Earth in the past two years, there has never been a race called Dragon.
At least there were gargoyles that looked similar to dragons, but even gargoyles were not that big.
“You have to run away too!”
“iced coffee! At a time like this, where the hell did Thomas Andre go!”
“retreat! retreat!”
“It’s impossible for us alone!”
The hunters hurriedly retreat before Eshil’s command is finished.
Looking at that dragon, I realized that ice golems were really nothing.
But what a fuss they caused while they got here.
It was a fight for survival, but it seemed that the disturbance had touched the heart of the dragon who was sleeping quietly deep in the forest.
“…shit.”
Eshil, who was retreating while keeping an eye on the dragon, swallowed a dry spit.
The dragon that was flying over the blizzard suddenly turned this way.
Then he opened his mouth and let out a roar full of life.
That moment.
oh oh oh-!
“…!”
“…!”
Dragon Fear.
A suffocating, terrible living thing engulfed their bodies.
At that moment, everyone’s body stiffened on the spot.
will only realize
A frog placed in front of a snake.
The fact that they are nothing more than mere prey in front of that powerful being.
However, in the immediate situation.
Whee-a-a-a-a-
they could see it.
Just at that moment, a new dragon flew to the side of the dragon that was flying towards its prey through a blizzard and crashed into it.
Tuquaang!
“…!”
“…!”
And the bodies of the Hunters, caught in the tremendous shockwaves that exploded in all directions, were thrown back helplessly.
However, even at this moment, Eshil, who was holding on tightly to her mind, could clearly see the scene in front of her with her own two eyes.
And then his eyes widened as if they were about to pop out.
“…Can you stand?!”
will only see
The second dragon appeared, its whole body shimmering with black steam.
And is it an illusion of the eye?
Someone was riding on the dragon’s back.
The distance was too far and the detailed face was not visible because of the snowstorm, but the silhouette
was… a woman with daggers in both hands.
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