episode_0377

I know very well how dangerous the soul is.

What is sleeping inside me is not Juul, but Heindeer’s evil spirit.

Even though I know in my head that Jules is dead, I just can’t accept it.

Even though it disappeared into ashes in my arms.

Even though I traveled to Pangea for half a year and paid tribute.

The plants that were growing were low, and the snow had long since melted and disappeared.

Yellow dried grass in a dry climate like the savannah of Africa.

Between them, green plants with a light green color can sometimes be seen.

Although it was a very dry climate, there was no need to worry about water.

‘Water will flow forever from this bottle.’ Neptune gave me a water bottle made of water.

On the outside, it looks just like a glass bottle, but as the saying goes, water constantly gushes out.

Even though it was still pouring out, the water continued to flow out.

It was Neptune’s miracle.

How long did he run like that?

Traces of civilization began to appear everywhere around us.

‘Has it finally arrived?’

In this savanna there is a country called Terub called Ga-Alemoshir.

This was also the country I ultimately had to visit before crossing the Hibi Desert.

There was almost no general route in Terupi village.

I hop up and walk down the second floor, and then hop up and head to an inn whose entrance I don’t know where it is.

Some children and other species climb rope ladders, etc.

There was only one place I had to visit.

Among them, this is where the worst people gather.

It is a black market that is no different from a grave robber’s house.

Finding it was simple.

All I had to do was find the oldest antique smell.

“Who are you?”

Terub, who sensed my presence, quickly hid the relic he was appraising with a straw.

“I have business in the Laobian Empire.”

“Why are you asking me that?”

The noble man turns his head and glares at me.

As I silently accepted the gaze, Terup took out his fingernails.

“Get out.”

“···Are you talking?”

The words that go are good only when the words that come back are good.

When I take out the spear, I see a nervous look on his face.

“I feel really, really bad.”

It was really good until I met Neptune, but now I have nothing to relieve my frustration. I put pressure on him with the power of Dantalian.

“······!”

“Just tell me the direction. Like the east or the southeast.”

His fingernails tremble slightly and enter his fingers.

“···How big is the Laobian Empire, why are you saying things like that?”

There was some truth to that statement.

Because I don’t know where to go to see hell or its exact location.

However, when I think about what the prince told me and the reason why the Hibi Desert was created, I have a rough idea of where to go.

“I want to go to the place where the prophet’s tree was cut down.”

“Ha, that’s the center of the Hibi Desert. They said the temperature has dropped a little, but if I go now, I’ll burn to death in the desert on the way back.”

truth.

“But I think you will be happy when I die.”

“Crazy guy. Buy a compass and head northeast. The angle is 55 degrees.”

truth.

But it’s the harsh truth.

This also means that the place was very far away or the oasis that must be passed through was filtered out and told.

But for me, who doesn’t have to worry about water, that’s the closest route.

“Thank you.”

As soon as I heard the answer, I headed straight to the general store.

“Can you give me a compass?”

The store owner offers up an old compass.

“5 solidus.”

I opened the compass and looked at its composition.

North, south, east, west and angles are written correctly.

The pole moves properly.

After buying dried fruits, sliced honey cactus, edible aloe, and beef jerky to eat along the way, I immediately started crossing the Hibi Desert without any intention.

The Hibi Desert was hot and dry.

‘This temperature even though it’s winter.’

The criminal will not last an hour.

But thanks to Venus’ blessing, it wasn’t that difficult.

It was exciting to begin with.

As I pour water over my body and quench my thirst like a bourgeois, I feel confident that the desert is no big deal.

Except for the sand that sticks to wet skin.

How many days did it take and how far did it go?

I saw a small ruin buried in the sand.

─I can see them in the ruins.

Among the ruins, pitch-black things with shining red eyes and chattering teeth.

Crackling!!! simplicity and honesty!

Maybe it was because I bit too hard, or maybe it was because my gums were burned, but all the teeth that couldn’t handle the force of the bite protruded forward and broke.

Exciting!

When I saw that, my heart started beating wildly.

Crackle…!

My body starts to feel hot, like it’s on fire, and my throat starts to get dry, like it’s burning. It was the same thing when I drank the water flowing from the kidneys.

‘Why is this happening all of a sudden?’

There’s no way something like this could happen just because I saw their teeth getting shattered.

After thinking calmly, I realized this.

It was clear that the karma inside me was starting to run rampant due to the trauma, just as Jules fainted due to stimulating his own trauma that was sleeping inside his body.

Because these people, they all burned to death.

I had to avoid their gaze.

Don’t look. Don’t look at it!

“It’s hot…!”

“It hurts!!!!”

up. That’s a servant’s job.

As Neptune said, the two souls sleeping within me had something in common.

Both were burned to death, and both were killed by servants.

Either directly or indirectly.

‘···You bastards!’

I can feel the eyes of souls gathering.

In that gaze, Alfred’s advice suddenly came to mind.

If I perceive them as just a natural phenomenon, karma cannot cause me any harm.

Alfred was right.

That is a natural phenomenon more toxic than radioactive waste.

The hell I have is like a nuclear waste landfill.

‘You need to come to your senses.’

It’s not something spiritual, karma or anything.

As I drank the endless spring of water, my burning body began to feel better little by little, like a cramp.

good. It will be fine. It’s okay.

“Whoo…Whoo…”

I lost the confidence to look forward and walk.

I lowered my eyes, looked at the compass, and only looked at my feet heading towards.

···Since we already know what Neptune means, it is right to escape the Hibi Desert as quickly as possible.

Alarm bells were ringing that this should be the case.

I sprinkled water on my head, drank until my stomach was full, and moved forward.

* * * * * *

The sun was already setting behind the sandy mound.

How far did I go while my legs were stepping on soft sand?

When I took out the compass, I realized that I had been running in a slightly biased direction.

Okay.

Well, it’s just a little bit.

Fortunately, the sweltering heat subsided as night fell.

The sound of my feet was buried in the soft sand, and it was really quiet.

‘In this vast desert, I am the only living thing.’

I climbed up the severely sloping sandy mound with both hands and feet.

Eventually, I climbed to the top, but there was only a continuous desert.

It felt like I was going to have a panic attack that wasn’t there before.

“Desert like a dog.”

In the end, I ended up swearing.

Even though it is so vast, it is a place that is heartbreaking.

Is it related to the dead?

I opened the compass again and checked the location.

‘The direction is bent again.’

As I climbed the hill made of sand, the angle seemed to be curved.

The moment I regained my position and rotated my body.

The poles turn in the opposite direction.

Are there any magnets or something buried there?

The place I turned around without thinking about was a dead person seething.

A chill spreads all over my body, as if I had been covered in cold water, and my skin started to grow.

I quickly looked away from it.

Do not talk to it, look at it, touch it, or smell it.

The moment I recognize that thing, it also recognizes me.

Like an abyss.

That’s what soul is.

I took my gaze away and ran blindly forward.

It was as if I was getting closer to the dead, but all I had to do was not recognize it. In that case, even the dead will not recognize me.

Let’s run.

Let’s run.

I kept running.

How far did it go that way?

Burning endlessly across the high sand dunes, I found the red light from before.

that···

doesn’t exist. does not exist.

I lost all strength in my body.

it’s okay. This is it.

As if breaking my wind, my body vision catches the movement.

On the sand dune on the other side.

Slowly.

As if spying.

Something quietly sticks its head out.

Eyes that shine red and have no sense of distance.

It looked at me, and then it smiled.

“Keuuuugh…?!”

My heart is beating.

Hot! It’s hot…! You don’t have to recognize it…?!

The moment you saw it, the moment you recognized it as dead, it was all over!

I poured the water from the water bottle all over my body.

The heat doesn’t go away.

The trauma of the soul began to burn!

However, it was not only the soul inside my body that was stimulated by trauma.

“Water?!”

“Fuck you──!!!”

“Give me water!”

The guy is running towards the water.

A bony body with 4th degree burns, arms and scalp turned white.

A body that looks like its skin has been peeled off.

He was dead.

“Don’t come here, you bastard!!!!”

Battle cannot be avoided!

I immediately threw the spear at the guy running towards me.

Buuung!!! Kwasik!!!

The thrown spear pierced straight through the dead man’s heart.

The spear that did not stop and smashed the dead man’s body into the ground was even preventing the dead man from getting up.

good! Now you just have to run away!

Just as I was about to take a step.

“···It hurts.”

A low voice came clearly as if it were whispering in my ear.

···The dead man impaled on the spear weeps.

“I’m thirsty… It’s hot…!”

The dead man was pleading with me.

Not only the dead, but even the karma in my head is pleading.

Asking for water.

It feels like they’re putting an iron on my body.

I looked at Hell begging me for water.

I guess I can’t understand the dead as a natural phenomenon or anything like that.

─That’s my nature.

He pulled out a spear that pierced the heart of Hell.

“Open your mouth.”

···Trash bastards.

After pulling out the spear, they trampled the dead man to prevent him from getting up and poured water into his mouth.

For a long time, until the dead refused.

As I pour water on my body, the heat that wasn’t resolved even after pouring water on my body begins to go away.

“Wow…”

The dead man let out a strange groan as if he had found paradise.

Neptune said I would become a horse in hell, but I didn’t really feel that.

In the first place, this is just water, and that is something without substance.

Thanks to this, not a single drop could wet the body of the dead man.

How many minutes did it take?

Just as I was about to collect water.

chin!

“More…!”

The dead person grabs my foot and looks up at me with shining red eyes.

If someone had seen it, they would have been shocked… but I wasn’t.

It wasn’t thirsty.

You can read it in the eyes.

The dead man was glaring at me with eyes like forged daggers.

Ironically, I felt relieved that the dead man was hiding something from me.

─It has intelligence.

Pure things are scary.

But I wasn’t afraid of something that wasn’t pure.

“I don’t know what you want, but don’t look at me with those forged eyes. If you want something, just ask.”

I shook off the hellish hand that was holding my foot and took out a compass.

It seems that the play that was led by the dead has finally started to work properly.

I saw everything Neptune wanted to show me.

Now I just have to go my own way.

I turned my back on the dead man and moved towards my path.

However, I had no choice but to stop after taking a few steps.

“Kill the servant. Kill the servant. The servant…”

Because hell has asked me a very tempting favor.