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I just ran like a crazy person.

Hunting was easy because there was a bow.

They cut off the neck of the reindeer they hunted, drank the blood, and chewed the heart.

Although it is not a courtesy to the prey, Baekseol, who smelled the blood, will take care of the body.

Even at night and during the day, I kept running.

There were villages big and small, but I didn’t visit them.

Because time was running out.

How far did you run while taking a nap?

We arrived at the Grand Dukedom of Greeni, located right above the Kingdom of Romaria.

“Please identify yourself.”

It is called “ri.”

When I took out the identity card and the documents prepared by the archbishop and showed them, the driver glanced at me and read the contents before returning the documents.

“What is the purpose of your visit?”

“This is a pilgrimage to the Sky Lake, which supplies water to the world.”

“Are you a pilgrim? Go in.”

Perhaps because of the documents provided by the archbishop, no further inspection was conducted.

Now it was necessary to tie up at the inn.

As I walk down the street, meat-eating people’s eyes are on me from all directions.

There is no need for an expensive place.

I opened the door of the nearest inn and entered.

“This is my first time seeing this face.”

···If there is no floating population.

The innkeeper was Hosott.

“I plan to take a day off.”

“15 Soliduse.”

When I hold out a silver coin, five small copper coins come back.

He wrinkled his nose, then wrinkled his eyebrows.

“Go anywhere and lie down, and once you go in, lock the door. There is no need to open the door even if someone shakes it, so you can just ignore it and sleep. Are you going to wash it?”

“I’m going to sleep and leave right away.”

I went into the nearest room and took off my clothes, listening to the scream of rusty hinges.

Hahahahahaha!

A terribly sweet smell emanated from my body.

It almost makes me wonder if someone smells me and asks me if I spilled any honey on my body.

Of course, not only would the bugs be attracted, but most of the meat eaters in this town could have smelled me.

“Fuck…”

It’s not even the smell of sour sweat… What’s the smell of spilled honey…!

I fell into the hard wooden bed and closed my eyes.

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“Uncle!”

…I heard the voice of a young child.

When I came to my senses and looked, the child’s behavior was not normal.

“Please help me! There’s a hosot over there!!!”

A Rectalian child, charred to ashes, is hiding behind me and pointing somewhere with his white-skinned hand.

At the place the child pointed to, a white Juul was lying.

Jules, lying on the plain, sleeping in someone’s arms, looked very comfortable.

─I wanted to meet and talk again, even in a dream.

But I couldn’t get close to that deeply sleeping figure, nor could I make a sound. And next to him… a slightly short white-haired man was looking at me as if he were perplexed.

As if he was sorry.

‘It’s you.’

“I’m dying because of your daughter.”

At the complaint made in a low voice, Jur smiled softly on his face without a sound. The hand was caressing Jules’ sleeping arm.

“···Please take good care of me.”

“Uncle…!”

The burned Rectalian urges me.

The red eyes, burning like embers in the darkness, seem to be asking why they don’t kill them.

I still hate Hosott.

Because the soul never fades.

“Come on, let’s go over there.”

I hugged the ashes of Rectalian and walked away from Zur and Zur.

So that Jules can rest a little more comfortably.

“Are you a friend of those people?”

“No.”

How much did it fall?

They reached a place out of sight and carefully laid down on the grass. I petted the anxious Rectalian and hugged him lightly.

“Now, shall we sleep together?”

“I’m not sleepy.”

“Because the uncle is very strong, even if those bad people come, he can protect him.”

The red thing inside the empty eyelid looked at me, and soon the light began to fade.

“···Really?”

“Of course.”

So, don’t disturb that person’s sleep by talking nonsense.

If you show even the slightest sign of doing so, I will grind your burnt body to dust.

He hugged and stroked the child, who was as thin as charcoal, and closed his eyes.

* * * * * *

The Romaria Empire was already covered with snow.

As Pangea’s best granary, the fallow land covered in snow resembled a snowy field.

I was the only one there leaving traces, and it felt strangely like I was scribbling on drawing paper.

Knock knock- knock knock- knock knock─

How far did it go that way?

Several men who were glancing in this direction from a building such as a barn began running towards me, holding farming tools.

Surrounding and running from all directions is like herding animals.

At the same time, I could feel their hostility and the tension of more than hostility.

‘I didn’t mean to do anything.’

There’s nothing to worry about in the first place, right?

okay. Let’s just pass by confidently.

“Whatever you were thinking, it was a misunderstanding. I’m not a frostman─”

“Give me everything you have!”

“Yes?”

“Give it to me!!!”

It appears that he was not a farmer but a thief.

It was also my first theft. As I ignored it and ran away, the man in front of me came at me swinging something that looked like a Joseon scythe.

Wedge!

Although it is clunky, the power contained in the scythe is strong.

He twisted his body to avoid the opponent’s attack, walked past him with his foot planted, and pushed the farmer away with his elbow.

“Wow?!”

The thief tumbled down the ridge of the field.

‘You’re meeting me as your first thief.’

He pushed so hard that the farmer fell and was buried in the snow.

The farmer who fell down raises his head stuck in the snow and glares at me.

Anyone who sees me will think I’m a bad guy.

“Catch that guy!!!”

When I saw the farmers rushing towards me, I became very angry.

I started running, matching the speed of my opponent’s running feet, maintaining a distance that made it almost impossible to catch him.

“···Don’t get caught and get into trouble…! now! Cough!!!”

One person who heard Sarai was quickly left behind.

“Phew! Are you stealing by running like that old man?”

“───Catch that bastard!! Be sure to catch it!!!”

“Kill! Kill it! Kill it!”

He turned around and ran backwards, holding out his hands as if to hold me in his arms. The farmers began to let out beautiful curses like the cry of an oriole.

It seems like they don’t even know that the swearing they say is a compliment.

I balled up the accumulated snow and threw it in the guys’ faces.

puck!

Blood burst from the thief’s nose after being hit by a lump of snow.

“Ugh?!”

“Phew!”

“That bastard!”

The farmers’ faces frown like demons at the mockery.

Soon, they started spouting swear words that I had never heard before.

But to me, their swearing was as beautiful as the cry of an oriole.

How many times have you thrown a ball of snow at your face?

“This is so bad… Up! Fu!”

The front tooth of the farmer who was playing the curse chipped.

The farmer looked at the broken tooth vaguely, and harbored a murderous intent that bordered on resentment.

“Aaaah!!! Die, you bastard!”

The farming tools thrown by the angry farmers didn’t even reach me.

I picked up the farm equipment and smashed it against the rock as if to show off, destroying it.

Sigh! Sigh! Kwasik!

“No!”

“야이개새끼야아아아────!”

“It was fun! Have a happy day everyone!”

“Get away from me, you bastard!!!”

Even the ending was perfect.

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Looking back on the fun chase, how far did we go?

I deliberately ran to avoid the village, and when I crossed a mountain, I came face to face with a shadow that shattered the setting sun.

‘That’s the Sky Lake.’

A heavenly lake that flows out Pangea’s water of life in all directions.

In other words, it was a sky lake, but in reality it was a sky ‘sea’.

The moment that ocean dries up, the majority of the continent will dry up.

And the fishermen who set up around that lake to catch drilling fish and the glass greenhouse where they grow vegetables will become useless.

The capital of Lomaria, which surrounds it, reminded me of Venice, a city on the Mediterranean. Aqueducts and numerous bridges. And a ferry boat too.

‘Except this isn’t the sea.’

It is a city that is built to be completely wiped out if there is a flood.

Stella and Damian must live here.

What happened to the two? How big was it? You’ve probably already started a family, right?

‘Of course, you won’t recognize me.’

Although it is the capital of Romaria, the topography of this place was not good even to say the least.

It was right next to the mountain.

If it rains and takes into account the water flowing down from the mountains, the capital will be flooded.

After recalling that fact and looking at the city again, I noticed that most of the houses started from the second floor like modern mansions, as if they had already experienced floods several times, and the front of the first floor was open to allow water to drain.

Even considering the practical problems, Venges, the capital of Romaria, was a beautiful place. Better than any city I’ve ever seen.

‘I wish I had come with Lexi.’

You can’t visit there.

Because spring is coming soon.

A baby goat riding on a person’s hand approaches me gently.

When I pet it as a hand toy, it bites my finger.

Then he sucked his finger mercilessly.

“Don’t lick it.”

It’s tricky.

It seems like they think they will eat it, perhaps because of the strong, sweet smell coming from their bodies.

The goat’s pupils were dilated, with its back facing the setting sun, and it had a rather cute face.

I scratched his chin a few times and moved forward.

“Don’t get eaten and live long.”

Meeeek!

No matter how I looked at it, there seemed to be no way to visit Sky Lake, so I headed towards the waterfall pouring into the sky.

It’s a really gorgeous place.

I have to go and take a shower.

Sky Lake was extremely high.

The force of the pouring waterfall was so frightening that water droplets splashed up to a distance of almost 400 cubits.

Shoot ────!!!!

I was shocked by the sound of the waterfall so loud that it made my ears ring.

To the point where I thought I would die if I got hit by that current.

The moment I put my hand into the charnel house.

[Are you doing that meaningless thing again?]

A voice rang in my head.

[It arrived just in time. Come up and have a meal or something.]

······This voice clearly belongs to a servant.

But you want to eat a meal and go? Does the servant eat?

No, why does the servant want to eat with me?

I couldn’t understand anything.

[I’ll put your legs down.]

Gurgling───!!!

With a strange sound, water began to flow from the Sky Lake like jelly, and eventually it began to take the shape of stairs.

‘What on earth?!’

Apparently, Neptune, the seven servants of the beginning, lives up there.

···Were you offered a meal by one of the creators of Pangea?

The stairs were shaped like circular stairs.

When I stepped on it, the stairs rippled with a light softness.

On the outside, it looked like transparent ice mixed with alcohol, but it was clearly water clumped together under high pressure. I was able to take my foot off only after shaking the safety handle and knowing that it was safe.

How far did you walk up like that?

“Ha, Sky Ladder! The sky ladder has come down!!!”

The fisherman fishing for the borer pointed his finger at me and screamed.

Sigh!

At the same time, the stairs broke off and the path to the ground disappeared.

My heart began to beat violently as I saw the way back disappearing.

‘Shall I jump? ‘It’s okay now…’

[I prepared a great meal.]

A voice sounded as if it was regretful.

[The ultimate nectar that cannot be found anywhere else in Pangea.]

It was a seductive tone.

It’s a strange feeling, like I’m being lured in like an animal.

‘···okay. Let’s meet.’

What on earth are they thinking, and why are they acting like this over an obvious solution?

Let me ask you something.