episode_0110

We were able to quickly escape from the territory of the extremist wild people.

This is thanks to Juul’s excellent sense of smell and hearing as he is a hosot, allowing him to move coherently and avoid the elf’s gaze. However, we had to be on alert in case of an unexpected attack.

Now it’s my turn.

It seems like only yesterday that the crescent moon appeared, but it is already half moon.

The moonlight is not that strong, and the stars do not shine today.

widely! Tak!

I lit the extinguished campfire with a lighter and threw in some kindling.

A cockatrice waddles around Dennis.

Now, it has become difficult to find bugs of a size large enough to feed cockatrices. I had no choice but to cut off the pieces of meat from the game I caught and feed them, and it’s quite creepy that they are meat-eating chicks.

“Why are you hungry?”

I tried shaking the meat, but it didn’t seem interested.

According to Juul, carnivores should eat about 6% of their body weight once a day. It means you have to kill one deer every three days. Plus… this guy was determined to be a male known for his nasty temperament.

When Dennis received the cockatrice’s affection, he always gently stroked its crest. Every time that happened, it would open its eyes and make an expression like a pet owl.

‘Honestly, it’s really cute.’

When I tried to gently pat its butt, it ran away into Dennis’ arms. Then, he started crying loudly in my arms.

“Wait a minute…! Be quiet…!”

It’s crying so loudly!

Dennis began to stir, and Shir began to rub his eyes.

‘This crazy chick?!’

I feel like the cockatrice has malicious intent to pick on me.

I tried to comfort him, but in the end, Jules woke up first, rubbing his eyes.

“I’m sorry. Suddenly the cockatrice started crying…”

ah?

You are not looking at me.

Jules, who was just looking at the ground with a blank expression as if thinking about something, put his ear down to the ground.

“What are you doing───.”

Jules gestures for me to be quiet.

I thought it was urgent so I stopped talking, but why on earth… Jules gritted his teeth and opened his eyes wide.

“Everyone wake up!!!”

“Eugh──?!”

Shir suddenly stands up and looks at Jool.

After waking up like that, he asked Juul for an explanation with an expression as if he was asking why, but Juul wasn’t even looking at Shir.

At Jules’ shout, the rest of the group started to wake up with confused faces. Dennis woke up soon, but Julias, who had low blood pressure, was looking up at Jules with a half-opened eyes and a sad look on his face.

“Juyul… Why suddenly…”

“Ouroboros is digging a burrow!!!”

Ouroboros?

That’s the sea god. This is the southern continent of Pangea. The sea is a place you can’t reach even if you walk for months. What are you talking about?

“Ouroboros…Sea God…? Why is the sea god… sea god?!!”

Julia wakes up with her eyes wide open.

Dennis, like the handgan that Jules spoke about, climbs up the tree at the speed of a flying squirrel and begins to look around. what? What is the sea god that is doing this?

“There is a valley made of gravel to the north! If it’s over there…!”

“If Ouroboros breaks through, all rivers and valleys with low ground will be swept away! Find a high open area!!!”

“No time to look for it! Anywhere is fine, so go up high!”

Julia shouted and started firing furiously.

what? What’s going on? Shir feels uneasy about the three adults’ actions and approaches Jules with his ears down.

“Aunt? What is Ouroboros?”

“No time to explain! Throw away all your luggage and run after Julia!”

“Jul? Ouroboros lives in the sea, so why―──.”

Juul came out, hugged Shir by his side with both hands, and started running.

“Ah, no…! There’s a sleeping bag…”

Pak!!!

They hit the ground so hard that lumps of dirt bounced around.

Even Julia, who was ahead, caught up. Dennis was the slowest because he was holding a cockatrice, but he was following the group, flexibly avoiding obstacles with his rolling steps.

It’s like watching an extreme sport.

─Kugugugugugung···.

What… what does this mean?

The world is ringing. It’s an earthquake. That was a huge earthquake too!

thud! Grrr!!!

The ground shakes, and a diseased tree rooted on a cliff breaks and falls after being hit by a rock. There, the momentum did not die and the earthquake continued to grow stronger.

It was to the point where I couldn’t stand anymore.

Shir’s eyes filled with fear are constantly shaking and his teeth are chattering.

“Aunt! Um, what is that? Something is crying beneath the ground!”

“It is the cry of Ouroboros! are you okay! I will protect you no matter what!”

So why is Ouroboros here?

Soon the earthquake began to get stronger little by little.

When the tree that Dennis stepped on collapses due to the earthquake, Julia shoots out like an arrow and catches Dennis.

“Are you okay?”

Julias, who holds Dennis like a prince, looks at him with coy eyes even in this situation. The ground began to tremble and soon began to tremble and convulse like an epileptic patient, and Jules began to stumble.

You’re off balance because you’re carrying Shir with me!

I have to run myself!

“Get down on the floor!”

Jules took Julia’s words literally and fell to the floor.

ah! My face gets hit over and over again on the shaking floor!

it hurts!

it hurts!!

Julia puts down Dennis right next to me, wraps the group in a coil, secures them, and puts his hands on the floor. The entire ground was distorted and took the shape of a carpet, and then it began to move forward, undulating like a wave.

The vibrations continue to grow stronger with no sign of stopping.

This is not an ordinary earthquake. In fact, it was as if the planet Pangea itself was splitting in half.

“Ugh…!”

Shir and Jules tremble, clutch their ears, and sink their heads into the dirt. Why are you doing this all of a sudden?

‘It’s because the audible frequencies are different!’

I can’t tell how big the thing down there is, but it’s strong enough to hurt both of their eardrums!

“Julias! Build an earthen wall!!!”

Yulias looked behind him as if wondering what he was talking about, saw Jules and Shir, and created an earthen wall. Only then did Jules and Shir let out their suffocated breath and exhaled harshly.

Coo coo coo coo…

Is this what it feels like when you are standing on a public trampoline and an obese patient jumps vigorously on the trampoline next to you?

Even when I’m lying down, the ground shakes so much that my body floats into the air.

At the same time────

Quagwagwang!!!!

A volcano erupted on a mountain in the distance—no, the mountain itself exploded, and rocks and dirt began to explode in all directions.

Dust began to rise, threatening to block the sun, and steam covered the sky like dust.

There, sticking out was something like the lower body of a centipede, with thousands of legs so large that it blocked out the sun.

······Is that Ouroboros, the sun god?

“···Ouroboros?! Is that the head of Ouroboros?!”

“That’s the end of the tail! They must have ended up here because they couldn’t find the land they needed to dig into because of the dragon’s veins! I’ll get in soon but──!”

“Ugh───!”

Shir and Jules cover their ears and let out low screams.

Julia quickly stretched out her hand and covered Shir and Juul with a thick earthen wall to prevent Ouroboros’ screams from reaching them. Soon, the vomit on the ground that had exploded in all directions began to fall noticeably slowly.

As they started to get closer, they got bigger quickly—and started flying this way quickly!

“Hide behind me!”

Julia created a huge pile of dirt into a helmet-like shape and started catching all the vomit. Dennis lay down on top of me, holding me and the cockatrice.

─Puck! Quick!

Heavy things, such as trees, continue to fall down.

Fortunately, there was no sign of Julia’s earthen wall collapsing.

thud!

Occasionally, a stone the size of a person’s hand would break through the earthen wall and land somewhere. Fortunately, it didn’t fall to the party’s side because its orbit was distorted or its strength was weakened.

But I didn’t look at it closely.

A few stones may have fallen on the backs of Julias and Dennis, who were holding on in front. No, I definitely failed. How long did it last like that?

“Ugh!”

Yulias collapsed, pushed aside the mud wall, and fell. The tail of Ouroboros, which blew away half of the huge mountain, disappeared into the stratum.

As if it never happened in the first place.

As if to prove that the monster existed, white steam was rising high from the mountain where Ouroboros had emerged, as if there were fire.

*

Julia collapsed immediately afterward from exhaustion.

It was a long time later before Jules and Shir came to their senses. Jules laid Shir, who was exhausted, on the floor to rest.

The mountain where steam was still spewing out… I focused my gaze on the reservoir. The large Baekdu Mountain-like reservoir created when the mountain collapsed was filled with hot water, and a strange smell that I had not smelled in a long time irritated my nose.

like···.

“It smells like the sea…”

It was just as Jules said.

There was a smell of sea water around here now.

“Why on earth did such a monster suddenly appear?”

“Ouroboros is large enough to surround Pangea in a ring shape. If you dig your tail even a little deeper into the ground, you will get burned by the flowing lava veins.”

“···What is that?”

“Ask the servant who made it. Why did you create such a monster?”

As Juul said, it is a creature whose reason for existence is unknown.

Just because he was struggling in pain, the world was splitting apart and sea water and lava were exploding.

Jules’ gaze was fixed on the bubbling blown mountain.

Your feelings will be complicated. This is the territory of wild people. Thousands of people may have died in the accident just now.

Immediately, Julias and Denis were also hit by shrapnel.

If he had been hit in a place like the head, he would not have escaped serious injury.

“It is said that something like this happens once every few hundred years across the entire continent of Pangea.”

“If Jule hadn’t woken up first, we might all have died.”

“It’s helpful that the cockatrice noticed. Really… we all almost died.”

The cockatrice was in Dennis’ arms.

Dennis’ physical condition was a mess. He had been hit several times by flying stones. This was the same for Julia.

After confirming that Shir was safe, Jules quietly stood up from his seat.

“Where are you going?”

“There must be someone buried. I’ll take a look around and come back.”

“Me too…”

I tried to get up, but Jules stopped me by gently pressing my shoulder with his arm.

“Don’t think about following me. Because the ground is unstable, you could fall into the dirt.”

There are no ropes or protective gear.

Actually there was nothing I could do.

“I’ll be back by dawn.”

Jules adjusted his shoes and headed alone towards the site where the landslide had devastated him.