episode_0103

“The wetlands are quiet. It wasn’t like this originally…”

Jules gestures to Dennis with his chin and points to Julias.

“Look behind you. Even if I tell you to leave, you definitely won’t want to be seen if something like that exists.”

Julias is huge.

It is more suitable to be called a dinosaur rather than a snake.

It is easily over 18m, but considering that one floor of an apartment is 2.5m to 3.5m, it is a size that reaches from the 1st floor to the 6th floor of the apartment.

Plus it’s thick.

Seeing Julia in the sunlight, I felt like I could believe she was literally a monster from mythology.

of course······.

“Aren’t you doing too much?”

If you talk to me, it’s not like that at all.

I wasn’t aiming for something like this, but now it seemed like a really good move to ask Julias to accompany me.

From its weight class and Dragonia abilities, Julias even has insect repellent medicine. Thanks to this, the group was able to cruise peacefully without any interference.

Unfortunately, the stone tomb where Lexia’s finger was buried was swept away during the rainy season and completely collapsed. Still, it would all be rotten by now.

“Julias. look at the sky Amphitier is flying, right? But the smell remains strong. As if you were here just a moment ago! What on earth is the dragon so scared of?”

“···Okay, just stop.”

Just as Jules said, something colorful like a butterfly was flying high in the sky. Of course, it was so big that it could never be called a butterfly.

Only Julia sighed deeply and pouted his mouth.

Shirman, who does not yet speak Elvish properly, was unable to follow the conversation and eventually began to approach me.

“Sihyeon. What is your aunt saying?”

Julias’ gaze turned toward me so subtly that Sir didn’t notice. It was as if he was waiting to see what he would say. It would be better to bury the truth.

“Look at the sky. Is there something flying over there?”

Shir looked up at the sky and couldn’t take his eyes off it, exuding admiration. The same goes for the Amphitier that came before, but the Amphitier was as colorful and beautiful as the butterfly.

“Wow, what is that?”

“It’s a dragon called Amphitier that the priest told me about. We were talking about that dragon.”

Shir’s head was fixed towards the sky.

Only then did Julia raise the corners of his mouth and return his gaze to me. How long did we walk without saying a word?

Jules suddenly stopped.

“···It smells like a stone toad.”

An arrow hangs like light on Dennis’ bowstring.

Perhaps feeling uncomfortable due to the unusually shiny eyes and atmosphere, Shir, who was around Dennis, approached me hesitantly.

“Which branch is it?”

“East. Since it is a harmful animal, it would be better to kill it.”

Jules looks in my direction.

“Sihyeon. You too, follow me. I’ll show you what a stone toad is.”

The reason Juul shows it is probably because I need to know.

“Yes.”

As I walked away, Shir followed behind me.

Julias, who was left alone, followed behind us with a bored expression on his face.

“There are animals with various camouflage methods in the South. A stone toad is literally an animal disguised as a stone.”

Jules picks up a large stone.

“Look carefully. Because something very strange will happen.”

I feel déjà vu.

Where… Ah!

“If you throw it, will it pick you up like a wart?”

“Similar.”

Jules nodded and threw the stone in an empty place────

Tuk─

fell.

And for a long time, nothing happened.

Jules glanced this way.

“······This guy seems a little dull.”

“Ugh…what on earth are you doing…”

Julia smiled and placed his hand on the ground.

At the same time, something started from the ground that Julias had stepped on and started to shake the ground like a mole.

As if alive.

“Witch. What are you doing?”

Sur may not be aware of the concept of handling.

Explanation─── Boom!

“Ugh!!”

The sound of soil splashing is heard.

what? I looked back at Shir, but was startled by the scream and couldn’t see him. There were depressions in the dirt floor, just to hint that something had happened.

“Um, what is that?!”

The rock split open and began spewing out dirt and stones.

It soon closed, but no matter how I looked, I couldn’t see the outside of the toad creature. Could that be a stone with a mouth?

“What is that? How can a rock…”

“Stone toad. He has bad eyesight so he can’t see anything that moves. The rule is to apply poison to the meat, shake it to lure it in, and then kill it by feeding it the meat.”

Dennis catches the target and pulls the bowstring.

“Because it looks like that, its hands and feet are small, so it is slow. Dennis. Don’t shoot arrows. I’ll take care of it.”

Dennis was looking at the stone toad, ready to shoot at any moment.

“Seollang. It is dangerous to approach a stone toad.”

“I know.”

The bowstring that Dennis had pulled was returned.

Jules pulled out a large stone stuck on the floor and picked it up.

” Sihyeon, take care. Stone toads are not good at running away. They hate walking, so much so that some people even stand on their own excrement for a month. So…”

Juul pitches like a baseball player.

“Very vulnerable to long-distance attacks────!!!”

Damn it!!!!

The catapult using Jules’ entire body flew like a baseball, making a sound like tearing the air.

Phew!!!

When the stone Jules threw stuck on the rock, blood splattered and the rock fell. The white belly looks rough compared to the skin. The stone toad that fell over struggled for a while, shedding blood and internal organs, and soon fell limp.

······If this person throws a stone, won’t the tank explode?

My mind is confused by cognitive dissonance.

The person who confused my mind grinned and turned towards me and Shir.

“Now, come here. I will tell you how to recognize stone toads and how to avoid them.”

It is said that all stone toads have a unique posture they use when camouflaging themselves. In addition, it has short legs so it is difficult to turn around, so it seems unlikely that you will be bitten unless you encounter it in the face.

Instead, the stone toad’s teeth are so strong that the moment it catches your tongue, it’s over. And perhaps because the tongue and buttocks were a delicacy, the tongue and buttocks from the stone toad’s corpse disappeared into Juul and Shir’s mouths.

Is it because the group prepared and went out early in the morning rather than in the early hours of the morning? Every time I passed through this place, I had to sleep in the middle of the road, but this time I was able to reach the end of the wetland.

“The sun has set, so I think it would be a good idea to sleep around here.”

Jules found a suitable clearing and stopped.

“Yes. At this point, there would be no way for harmful animals to come out of the wetlands.”

Dennis tries to light the lamp using a flint, but it doesn’t seem to work. If not now, when should I use it?

Dennis lit the kindling he had prepared with a lighter.

“Thank you. I’ve seen Sir Heinrich use it a few times, but I think it’s a really well-made tool.”

“Me too.”

Now prepare for homelessness, focusing on the lamp.

“I will make you a place to sleep. Do you want to get out of the way?”

Julia places his hands on the floor.

Are you trying to reuse the magic you used in the morning? I took Shir, who was lost inside the vacant lot, and came out of the vacant lot.

That’s it!

The dirt floor began to be plowed as if it were being cleared, and a flat open space of even height was created. Soon, the earthen walls began to be built high, and in an instant, an earthen house with an open ceiling was created.

“Wow, I don’t know how long it’s been since we’ve been camping like this. Oh, when you come in, take off your shoes and bring them with you.”

“Ha.”

Jules let out a laugh filled with admiration.

“Now that I think about it, you have this talent. I forgot about it because it’s been 10 years.”

“Oh, that rainy day?”

“You said it was cold and you twisted your body around me, so the next day my legs hurt so much…”

Julia smiled as if she was soaked in memories and spread fabric on the inside of the improvised earthen wall, then went in and collapsed to the ground. It was clearly homeless… Isn’t this camping?

Juul followed Yulias into the mud house without hesitation, and Shir looked at the mud house blankly, then took a seat next to Juul and lay down. It looks like Urias is still afraid.

“I will dry the remaining food over the fire and then go in.”

Dennis smiled awkwardly and gathered the lamp’s flame into kindling to make a bonfire.

“Dennis~ Don’t think about coming in without being on guard. All you have to do is block the entrance and the ceiling.”

Julia seems to be having fun picking on Dennis, and seduces her with a soft voice.

“···Yes. I’ll just dry it and then go in.”

I’m not even sleepy right now.

Because the sky was bright and there were many stars. Even though it is night, it is very bright. I sat next to Dennis, helped dry the clothes over a small bonfire, and looked up at the night sky with the Milky Way.

“The stars are strangely bright today. It’s all so bright that I don’t even know what Diana’s star is.”

Dennis’ eyes turn to the sky.

“Do you see an unusually bright star one and a half moons away to the right of the moon?”

Ah, there is.

It is certainly quite large compared to other stars.

Or maybe it’s both.

“Yes. I can see it because you told me. It’s definitely bigger than the others.”

“That’s right. Diana, whom we serve, lives there.”

Diana lives there? Is there something in the universe like Olympus, where the gods live?

“Do servants live in space?”

“Space?”

ah.

Except for a very small number of people, there are probably still many people who do not know the concept of space. I corrected my words to Dennis, who was looking at me quizzically.

“I said it wrong. Do servants live on that little planet?”

“Of course. Is it possible that Lee doesn’t know about the servant’s residence?”

···Servant’s residence?

“Yes? Is the servant living decently somewhere?”

“······Isn’t it obvious? They are the original living creatures created by Maal.”

uh···?

Isn’t it like living in the fourth dimension or watching us from space?

“Lee. It looks like the beef jerky is burning.”

this! I was mesmerized!

“Oh my, what a waste…! sorry. This was my first time hearing this story, so it was interesting and I was mesmerized. Oh, I will eat this. Could you please tell me more about that?”

Fortunately, it wasn’t so burnt that I couldn’t eat it.

The corners of Dennis’ mouth rise. It seems like he just happened to be bored.

“Some servants change their residence quite often. The appearance is also arbitrary, so there may have been a servant among the people we passed. As far as I know, Neptune lives in the sky lake in the central region.”

“···Sky Lake?”

“That’s right. Sky Lake. Water gushes from the lake in the sky. But the lake doesn’t dry up. The Sky Falls is one of the largest water veins that flows from the central part of the continent to the entire Pangea.”

Water flows through the lowest level of ground.

Old clothes falling from the sky? Well, it must be magic. Even if I try to ignore it, I don’t understand it.

“There lives in that lake a fish called a sky-swimming fish. It is said that this fish sometimes falls out of the lake, and it is rumored to be a top delicacy.”

···Even fish are released and raised in a lake floating in the air. If it were me, I wouldn’t be able to do it because I would feel burdened by the stares.

What kind of servant is Neptune?

“Do all servants live such conspicuous lives?”

Dennis shakes his head.

“Not really. Some people like to be quiet, and some people haven’t even shown themselves yet.”

I just thought he was the god who created the world.

I vaguely thought that I would be looking down on the world while living in a place like Olympus in Greek and Roman mythology, but in reality it seems to be different.

They created this world, but at the same time, they were one of the living creatures in this world. It’s quite different from what I’ve always thought of God as.

“It looks like everything has dried up, so it would be best to go in and sleep now.”

“Are you coming in now? If it’s okay, please come sit next to me.”

Dennis, who was putting away the dry food at Julias’ joke, made a perplexed expression and was puzzled.

“I will sleep next to Julia.”

“···Thank you.”

Dennis gave me a sincere thank you.

“Thank you?”

At the same time, I received criticism from Julias.