episode_0111

There is no need for treatment as they are under the protection of Shirya Mother Goddess, but that is not the case for Julias and Denis. He took a drop of the Precious Blood, mixed it in a canteen, and gave it to them both to drink.

If Jules saves someone buried in vomit, he will definitely ask for my blood. Because he is that kind of person, he also created it in advance.

“Thank you. I think I’ll buy it now.”

“Thank you.”

Instead, I was able to catch my breath only after seeing Julia’s torn scales being repaired after taking the landslide, and Dennis’ bruised back moving forward. However, Shir showed great interest.

“Sihyeon, how did you do that?”

“This is the medicine Amor gave me.”

“Me?”

“Amor is someone with the same name other than you. He was a damn good person.”

My eyes fell on the scene of destruction.

Julia said it was the tip of Ouroboros’ tail… but the tip of its simple tail was higher than a mountain.

‘It momentarily blocked the sun.’

I had never thought that such a monster could be hiding in the ground.

The same goes for thickness. No matter what you compare, there is nothing to compare.

If you calculate the simple mass based on body length and appearance, it is larger than the combined population of 8 billion people. Just one creature! What on earth can you compare something with a tail as thick as a mountain?

In the first place, unless such a huge animal chews up the world as its name Ouroboros suggests, it has no choice but to starve to death. Although it is said to be a servant’s creation, unless entropy is reversed, it is best to curl up and sleep as much as possible, as if hibernating.

‘But why? ‘Why is it moving?’

If the tunnel is dug well, there is no way lava will flow in. And now the vomit has blown desolately down the mountain. If the twin goddesses love nature as Jules said, there is no way they could just leave it alone. An area several times larger than a moderate forest fire was buried in vomit.

‘Why doesn’t Mother Earth react?’

I heard that dragons and twin goddesses love nature?

I once heard that the sea god was a creation created by Neptune, one of his servants. If that thing is literally just a tail, then the sea god is a natural disaster itself that causes a tsunami just by moving.

If something like that were swimming around like that, no one would be able to live around the sea. In that case, it is correct to say that the sea god had some work to do at sea, and that a major accident occurred on the way back from completing that work.

‘Something is happening in the sea.’

···The root snake is a dragon that protects the southern nature on behalf of the Earth Mother Goddess.

You must be sensitive to your servant’s wishes. If you ask, wouldn’t you be able to get a clue?

There is no answer right now.

Beep! Beep!

The cockatrice is angry. Are you hungry?

First, I started roasting the dried meat on the fire and threw the dried meat to the cockatrice. It may only apply to humans, but the hearing frequency is higher the younger you are.

There are sounds that only children can hear and sounds that older people cannot hear. That little guy really saved the group. The cockatrice, holding the beef jerky with both hands and swallowing the meat with its bird-of-prey beak, looks at me.

“Okay, eat more.”

I cut a little more meat to the proud guy.

“Give it to me too.”

I handed the dried meat to Shir.

Shir chewed beef jerky and stared into space without focus.

Then suddenly I shudder.

“What on earth was that…? It felt like my ears were tearing. If the witch hadn’t covered us, our ears might have exploded.”

“I heard that the sea god Ouroboros glowed when he was burned by lava while digging the ground?”

“What?”

It looks like he wants to explain a little more.

“It is said that the sea god was burned by lava while digging a tunnel in Pangea.”

Shir tilts his head.

“Lava? I’m not sure.”

This child may have heard of the sea, but has never heard of lava.

I need to break it down and explain it.

“Pangaea is like an eggshell. There is dirt inside the shell and lava flowing inside.”

If it were like Earth.

“What are you talking about? Why does lava flow?”

“Uh… First of all, Pangea has a round shape…”

“Why is it round? Then we all have to fall apart.”

I’m out of breath.

I don’t know how to explain the outer core and the inner core.

The cockatrice glances at Dennis. He held out the dried meat I gave him to Dennis with both hands. Animals.

Dennis took the beef jerky offered by the cockatrice and ate it.

But this chick comes to me again and asks for meat. When I give it to him again, he runs to Dennis.

Beep!

Dennis stroked the cockatrice’s crest with his fingers, then shook himself off and stood up. As if he knew there was nothing wrong with his body, he immediately looked at me.

“Isn’t that medicine very precious?”

“Yes. You got hurt and fainted instead of me, but I have to do this.”

“···Thank you.”

“That’s it.”

Julia, who has low blood pressure, also wakes up feeling refreshed and stretches, perhaps because of the weakness.

“Ugh~! Refreshing…!”

Jules is not back yet.

“I didn’t have time earlier. Where did Seolrang go?”

“It’s obvious. He must have gone to help the buried person.”

At Julia’s words, Dennis’ eyes turn to the mountain that has turned into a mountain like Mt. Baekdu. Dennis followed Julia’s gaze and turned his gaze towards the mountain that was spewing out steam like an arrow.

If seawater had not entered through the hole through which Ouroboros entered, lava would have been flowing by now.

“Shouldn’t we go help too?”

“I was told not to come because the ground was unstable. I’ll be back by dawn.”

Dennis nods slightly.

Trees and rocks are piled up here and there under the gently compacted soil that has escaped pressure. If you take a wrong step, a tree may split, or if rocks or stones hidden below are twisted, a landslide may occur.

Julia sighed and stood up first.

“That idiot doesn’t even think that he is in danger.”

Julia, who was pouting like that, immediately started heading down the mountain.

“Don’t you really think about coming down.”

···I felt stupid.

okay. There will be something I can go and do.

“Julias is several times heavier than us. Isn’t this the real cause of the landslide?”

I smiled and got up from my seat.

Now follow Julia to help Jules───

Cheek!

huh?

An extreme constriction of the pupil appeared in Julias’ eyes, as if he were disdainful. Poisonous liquid is dripping from the fingernails.

“Sihyeon. Did you know that if you tease a woman about her weight… she could die?”

······I don’t know.

I’ve seen people with a straight face, but I’ve never seen someone trying to kill someone.

“I’m sorry. But Julia is neither male nor female.”

“Wrong. I am both a man and a woman.”

“······.”

Julia adjusted her expression and glared playfully with her characteristic sallow face, then immediately turned her head and began to come down the mountain.

If I had been a young man… I might really have died.

I also follow in Julias’ footsteps──

” Rat rate?”

uh? Juul is coming up. It must have gone down earlier?

Dennis got up and stood up towards Jules. The accident site would be too large to look around in this short time.

“Aunt?”

Juul, who came up with everyone’s eyes at a glance, had a confused look on his face. The person they rescued probably didn’t bring them with them, so they returned empty-handed. However, there wasn’t even dirt on my hands.

“···No one is buried.”

The good news is that no one is buried.

“I guess it wasn’t the residence of a wild man.”

“No, originally there were six small Hosot villages around that valley. They were people who branched out from the village where I lived.”

…But no one was buried?

Unless you walk a bit, there is no way you can escape the radius of this vomit. Juul, who was receiving incomprehensible looks from the group, let out a quiet sigh of relief.

“There was a tent, but there were no living tools. I took refuge. It seems that a messenger from the Magic Tower has already visited.”

*

Because the surrounding area was dangerous, the group had to go around the explosion site and head to their destination. As the day dawned and I looked down from the mountain, I could clearly see what had happened.

Trees were hit and broken, and huge rocks flew and rolled down, completely eroding the ground itself. There are many unconscious or dead animals and bugs here and there.

It wasn’t a bad opportunity for the group.

You could pick up a cow with broken limbs and a broken back and cut off only the sirloin, or get a lot of meat to use as food for the cockatrice.

I just felt bad seeing the animals killed without mercy and the forest destroyed. For them, hunting is a means of survival, not a way to make money.

Jules, who was leading, stopped.

Then he sniffed and started looking around. A strange look appeared in Julias’ eyes at that sight. Is there something that catches your attention?

“···It smells strange.”

Jules wanders off into a side street and into the center of the vomit, puts his hands on the ground and begins to fumble. And when I pulled with both hands as if I was holding something, something long started to be pulled out.

Continue···.

“The fault of Ouroboros?!”

Julia smiled and ran away without even looking at the floor.

What’s so good about that monster’s legs? Is it an ingredient for alchemy? I don’t know why I like it, but in my opinion, it’s just trash.

Just like that, Juul continued to cut the sea god’s leg…

Patter!

Constantly being dragged out!

Julia joined in and began to use magic to pull Ouroboros’ legs out of the vomit. Like a floating submarine, Ouroboros’ legs began to rise.

How much does it cost?!

The leg that Jules thought was lifted was not actually lifted, but the end joints of Ouroboros’ legs, which were about 20 meters long, were straightened.

Jules couldn’t hide his astonishment at those huge legs.

I can’t believe it.

Jool, who lifted that thing, and its enormous size.

Was your ancestor Hercules? I couldn’t pull it all out, but the exposed legs… Unlike the torso, the legs are something to compare with.

It is as big as the high-rise buildings you see in Gangnam.

“Diana…!”

Dennis lets out a low scream and looks at the huge bridge.

Shir was also entranced.

“Is there anywhere I can use that?”

“Since ancient times, the legs of the sea god have been used as the best weapon and armor material. It doesn’t rot, doesn’t break, and is light.”

It is ironic that midges have strong legs, but…

“······How do I use that?”

” Melt it and use it.”

Melt the shell? It’s so absurd that I laugh out loud.

It’s also true that skin is a material that all craftsmen want, and it doesn’t make sense for Juul to move it.

It moved only slightly compared to its size, but it still moved. It’s like a human lifting a blue whale.

‘What on earth is that guy?’

Realizing that the carapace was too big to take, Jool clenched his teeth and cut off the Ouroboros’ skin with his sword.

Jang!

But then the curved sword broke.

Jules looked at the broken sword hilt in confusion, then laughed and shook his head, then stood up, shaking off the dirt.

“I can’t do it. I don’t know how to process it, and I can’t tear it apart as needed. I’ll have to call someone with specialized knowledge over here.”

Juul also seems to have become greedy after confirming the identity of the skin.

He is a person who does difficult work, and there is no one who doesn’t like big, beautiful weapons.

“I can’t even imagine how they would process something like that in the first place.”

“It’s pretty easy. Ouroboros’ skin is strong, but it melts easily in fire. Even if you heat it up to the level of a regular bonfire, it will melt in ten minutes. If you mix it with iron in half proportion, it becomes harder than any other iron.”

It was Dennis.

“What iron?”

“Any iron.”

It’s pretty specific.

I didn’t think Dennis would be interested in this.

Not being limited by carbon content means that ore can be processed with less fuel.

“I thought only the legendary metallurgist would know that… How did you know?”

It is impossible for any railroad to have that much strength and not be shattered by gravity. One living creature weighed more than 8 billion people.

It’s hard to believe, but the math says so.

Maybe the reason he’s a sea god is because he can’t handle body heat? So I cool off in the sea. Dennis’ gaze was still fixed on Ouroboros’ skin.

“Elves live long. There are a lot of old books inside Ymir’s tomb. Among them, the story about Ouroboros’ faults is a common one. Because it’s a real legend. The reason why the Central Romania Empire, which was only a granary, was able to gain hegemony faster than other countries was all because of that fault.”

Did it already appear in Lomaria hundreds of years ago?

“You may not believe it, but traces of Ouroboros can also be found around Julia’s village.”

Ah, the shortcut to Root Village!

Juul said that it was terrain destroyed by Ouroboros.

“Anyway, I’m lucky.”

“Maal gave hope to the south.”

Iron is used in many things, not just weapons.

If there is someone who has pioneered the path ahead of you, it is easy to follow them. Iron was created. Suddenly, Schwein and Felix come to mind. Since they are also people who work with iron, wouldn’t they know how to use Ouroboros’ shell more efficiently?

If you know how, processing will be easy.

You need to melt a small amount and take it with you on your way back from meeting the root snake. It may be a small amount, but the best armor might come out.

“I never thought my sword would break.”

Juul looked devastated with the broken sword, but I could feel that he was happy nonetheless. According to what Dennis said, it means that Ouroboros’ carapace is an item that can replace steel.

“Let’s go! I have to tell this news to the wild guys.”

Juul turned to the wild man’s abode.