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    Fortunately, Sylvia was able to overcome the lack of soles, and they were able to use their sled as if it were their own car.

    “Whoa… I’m finally taking a break.”

    Tired people took this opportunity to rest on the sleigh.

    “Sian, get some rest too.”

    “Silvia, I’m fine. And since I can visit the North again, I would like to learn about sledding during this time.”

    “Really… I heard that Xian is very energetic.”

    mother in law? It’s a very ambiguous expression. Among the expedition members, all of them are women except me.

    “I think we’re almost there.”

    “Already?”

    As expected, driving a car was faster than walking. However, if it is this fast, sled analysis cannot be performed.

    “This is Vivian’s hometown, right?”

    First, we visited Vivian’s tribe, the Molar tribe.

    Since we, who have a large power, cannot engage in an all-out war with a small number of elites, we planned to unite with other tribes and raise them as a rival to the Frost Claw tribe.

    But the Frost Claw tribe was crueler than we thought.

    In the place Vivian told me about, there were only traces of the scorching war and the bodies of warriors that could not be buried.

    No one was speaking at the tragic scene, but Vivian casually opened her mouth.

    “As expected, everyone seems to be hiding somewhere else.”

    “Okay. Let’s move on.”

    I moved quickly out of consideration for Vivian, who was trying to pretend she was okay.

    Just before the day was over, we were able to discover the temporary home of the Molar tribe.

    “Vivian?”

    “The Chief’s first daughter, Vivian?!”

    “Sister Vivian!”

    According to Sylvia’s interpretation, Vivian appears to have a certain level of status within the Molar tribe.

    A large man with serious injuries approached her. He must have been in a fierce battle recently, and his body was not in good health.

    “Vivian, why did you come back here?!”

    “Chief, I have returned to avenge my tribe.”

    “What is revenge? Cough, cluck… Damn.”

    “Father!”

    The chief, who appeared to be Vivian’s father, tried to yell at Vivian, but he began to vomit blood, possibly due to more than expected injuries.

    “I will take a look at you for a moment.”

    Helen, who saw this, took out the token of the Holy Kingdom, said, and went straight to the chieftain. Even within the Molar tribe, there was resistance to outsiders, but Sylvia and Vivian persuaded them of that.

    “Helen, are you skilled in medicine?”

    “To some extent. And I’m trying to cure it by a miracle.”

    “Is that possible?”

    “Unfortunately, complete recovery is not possible, as is the case with servants of the Sun Goddess Sunna, but a degree of vitality can be restored.”

    “Really? let me know. I will help you too.”

    “I understand. However, one thing to be careful of is that the miracle I am performing now uses the area under Hestia’s control in detail, so it can lead to mental exhaustion.”

    “Okay, I’ll be careful.”

    After listening to Helen’s explanation a few times, I remembered the image and prayed to Goddess Hestia as Helen had told me.

    “Peaceful flame, please take care of the lamb in front of you.”

    The miracle that occurred was that a hot energy appeared in my hand and passed on to the person I touched, the chieftain.

    “Big black!”

    But why are you having such a hard time since you just gave me your vitality?

    “Si, Xi’an! The miracle is so strong.”

    “Oh, really? for a moment… Is this enough?”

    “That is also strong. Reduce it by 1/100 here!”

    “1/100? I got it first.”

    “Ugh… It has definitely decreased, but there is no sign of it decreasing.”

    “…….”

    I almost had a medical accident while trying to save a patient.

    “Phew… The hurdle has been passed.”

    As if the claim that she was skilled in medicine was not a lie, Helen treated the chief of the Molar tribe with the medicine she had brought with her, and I also helped from her side.

    Helen asked me as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.

    “Sian, are you okay? Normally, you would get tired if you used miracles in succession.”

    “Specifically? There is no such thing.”

    “As expected, the warrior has great energy.”

    Camilla, who was escorting next to him, seemed bored and chimed in with a word. I want to hit one.

    “What about you?”

    After some time, the chief came to his senses and asked about us. Don’t you usually say thank you to the person who treated you first? I was a little angry, but unlike me, Helen didn’t really care.

    It was a sheep.

    “We are from the Holy Kingdom.”

    “You mean those who look into God’s will throughout the continent? Sorry, but we have no intention of serving foreign gods.”

    “We did not come to evangelize. We have come to retrieve the conflict in the North and the legacy of the external gods in the snowy mountains.”

    The chief seemed momentarily taken aback by Helen’s continued explanation, but he soon gathered his thoughts and expressed his position.

    “I heard your story. We thank you for treating me, Chief, but we cannot afford to help you.”

    “Father!”

    “And Vivian! Why did you come back here! Surely Becky and Bessie weren’t left alone in a foreign land?!”

    “I left it in a trustworthy village. and… ”

    As the father-daughter fight heated up, I slowly fell back. Basically, not caring about other people’s family affairs is being considerate.

    “I brought a man I can serve.”

    “???”

    But Vivian wrapped her arms around me and pulled me towards her. Hey Vivian? Why are you interfering with me when I’m standing still?

    And if you say it while blushing, your father will misunderstand.

    “What?!”

    “Hey Sylvia, please tell me it’s a misunderstanding. Vivian and I are not in that kind of relationship.”

    “I want to, but I don’t think that person is in the mood to listen anymore.”

    The chief, who had begun to misunderstand his daughter’s words, looked at me as if he were going to kill me.

    “You bastard! If you want Vivian to be your wife, fight against me and win!”

    “No… ”

    Don’t make a sudden move, old man.

    “Let’s win!”

    Your patient…

    . . .

    The Molar tribe had arcane skills passed down from generation to generation.

    That was to engrave a unique curse on the ax, which could be said to be their molar.

    “Curse?”

    “Yes. The ax I use.”

    “Ah, it was a curse that returned double the force of the throw, right?”

    “That’s right. And if you keep throwing it, the force is doubled.”

    In a sense, Vivian’s weapon was a double-edged sword. A weapon that can kill you if you make a mistake.

    However, such weapons were being used on a tribal basis. Could this be why we lost to the Frost Claw tribe?

    “When our tribe becomes adults, they must prove that they have become warriors by throwing and catching the first molar over there.”

    “It’s a pretty clunky, big double-edged axe.”

    It looks like you have to hold it with both hands to fight, but I wonder why it’s used for throwing.

    Do you think your hand will be torn apart trying to catch the axe?

    “I got it 3 times, and my father, who is the chief, got it 4 times. The highest record within the tribe was 5 times.”

    “What is the top scorer doing now?”

    “died. He died because he could not catch the returning ax from the war with the Frost Claw tribe.”

    “…….”

    In a way, this is a truly amazing tribe.

    What kind of thrill are you using a weapon like that for?

    “If you’re scared, give up. Because strangers won’t have courage like us.”

    I was dumbfounded by the chief’s words.

    “I don’t call that courage, I call it stupidity.”

    “?”

    Silvia, unable to interpret my sarcastic remarks about the tribe’s traditions, hurriedly spoke and diverted the chief’s gaze.

    I slowly approached the black double-edged axe, and Camilla gave me some advice.

    “Looking at the color, it appears to be made of black iron, a mineral favored by dwarves. Black iron is more than twice as hard as steel, but more than three times heavier. You probably need to distribute your stamina well.”

    “Don’t worry.”

    I completely ignored Camilla’s meaningless advice and picked up an ax that even the handle was made of black iron.

    Then he looked at the chief and said:

    “If I have a higher record than you, the whole tribe will follow me, right?”

    “Yes. Well, that won’t happen.”

    “Don’t say anything else later, and swear on the honor of the tribe.”

    “On the honor of the Molar Tribe, I swear.”

    “Good.”

    Confirming the chief’s promise again, I threw the ax with all my might. Then the trees in the direction it flew started to collapse.

    “It has weight so it goes far.”

    And when I stretched out my hand in the direction where the ax was, miraculously, the ax returned to me just as Vivian had done.

    “Risk… ”

    “Don’t worry.”

    Vivian’s worries were in vain as the ax returned and was caught in my hand without a problem.

    The chief’s eyes widened as he continued to do so and number 5 passed, and when number 6 passed.

    Kwazijic!

    “Hmm?”

    There was a strange sign.

    And when it was time for the long-awaited final decoration, number 7, the blade of the ax that came back due to the curse began to crack and break, and in the end, only the handle came back to me.

    No one could say anything at that sight.

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