episode_0410

How many days did it take to walk?

“It’s not as difficult as before. There is a lot to eat.”

Kailish, looking quite relaxed, passed by a bush and picked several small bush apples and stuffed them into his mouth.

Oh my gosh!

Well done kid.

I see you remember well what I pointed out.

Spitting out the fleshy seeds is something only humans do, and the seeds contain poison.

Therefore, when eating fruit, you must also eat the seeds.

The interior is very well protected from seawater, based on the shallow and wide Rhine River that runs through the south.

As a result, sea water is concentrated in the empty section between the south gate and the middle gate. As other animals have territories, the density is not high, so it is perfect for practice.

“I’ve never heard of seawater inside the Rhine River divider.”

Jean’s eyes, exhausted from several days of marching, were filled with only pain and regret.

I’m sorry.

When it’s all over, I’ll have to release a few sleepover coupons.

“If you pay a little attention, it is a paradise where there will be no turf wars. Someone must have sneaked in.”

They learn.

They might have held their breath and hoped that we would pass by, but I could feel their eyes wary.

Even in places where it was difficult for me to see the outline, he had already noticed this.

He’s not usually an astute guy.

How on earth did you notice?

“I already noticed this one.”

Director Yang Yang was about to step into the forest, but he pulled out and stared at me.

“Did you notice?”

“Yes.”

“How did you notice that?”

uh.

“···The air in the forest has changed. Since he doesn’t seem to be a very smart guy, I’ll take the lead.”

The head of the training camp looked at me as if asking me to explain, but I had to pretend not to see that look and just ignore it and run forward.

‘I sat down and heard the air change.’

The border where the trees have been cut down to ensure visibility is prominent, making the inside of the jungle where the sea water lives feel like hell.

The seawater temperature determines the dragon’s habitat.

If natural enemies began to move from the deep south to the south, where did the original marine life go?

It would have either moved up towards the north or settled on the outskirts.

“All apprentice engineers. Assemble the crossbow case.”

Kuuuk…! Slam! widely!

The arrow was picked up in the hand holding the bow.

When you go through battle successfully, you realize that combat is not about momentum but actual efficiency.

Just like Russia’s window tactics.

In that respect, the fact that the other person was wise and had excellent observation skills was no different from rat poison to those who were beginners.

This is probably what the head of training understands.

“Haesu, who has been secluded here, knows that the owner of this land is a person.”

“Explain.”

“If you don’t show up, there won’t be much trouble, but if you chase them and get cornered, they will threaten you. If you shout loudly or attack prematurely, they will consider you an enemy and attempt to destroy evidence.”

“···Seawater is an animal that attacks people, right?”

Jean?

He looks quite anxious.

“It’s not that animals are particularly cruel or have bad intentions. Because animals just live in their own territory.”

What isn’t like that is people.

That’s why people end up thinking the way they feel comfortable.

“What we do is a field trip, not relief. So, if we have no choice but to fight, let us go in peace.”

Jang made eye contact with me and eventually nodded and answered.

I slowly walked through the forest, looking for traces.

Moving forward, moving forward.

Jules’ sense of smell clearly told him where the sea water was.

however···.

“That’s strange.”

What on earth are these traces?

“I smell blood.”

The training director warned me.

I also took charge of it. But that’s not the problem.

“Okay.”

I couldn’t understand.

‘The traces are arbitrary.’

Footprints are left in all directions.

Why are you wandering around so distractedly?

To begin with, the shapes of footprints are all different.

In addition, there are many accumulated blood stains and blood stains spread on the tree.

‘The time gap is all reset.’

If you were to choose a water that you can trust and drink in the South, it would be blood.

The sap of plants can be eaten, but it is not suitable for large animals to consume.

‘But you throw away the blood?’

The knights were only on guard and looking in all directions, unable to pay attention to the traces.

“Representative of apprentice engineer.”

“Huh?”

“Why are the traces so heavy?”

Coober was staring at me with eyes full of fear, uncharacteristic of a nobleman.

He is as big as a bear and is very sensitive.

“These are not traces of an animal.”

“Did I say I was a non-human personality?”

That’s not the only reason my head hurts.

There are two types of footprints.

These guys…

“It looks like they are fighting over territory.”

One is avoiding them in a coherent manner, but the other is persistent and diligent in searching for the other person.

Footprints look like human hands.

“Who is walking while standing on their head?”

“Aren’t your hands too big to be human?”

And round claw marks.

“It’s a finger bear.”

One footprint…

‘It’s deep.’

It was a huge weight.

It will be at least in tons.

Or, it is a bipedal animal and has three toes.

‘It’s not algae because it has meat.’

Animals with such footprints are so heavy that their concealment is poor due to the sound of their footsteps.

Sea creatures that walk on two legs are not common.

Especially with this weight──

“Huh?”

One possibility flashes through my mind.

“Why are you doing that?”

“This is…”

“···Representative of apprentice engineer. Director Yangseong···.”

Bessie quietly comes out and calls the training director.

The earnestness in his voice naturally steals my attention.

There, standing there with only half of its face exposed, was spying on us.

‘Finger bear.’

“Um, what is that…?!”

Jean screamed in exhaustion and took aim with his crossbow in panic.

“Ready for launch.”

“Do not shoot.”

Director Yang Sung looks at me intently.

You don’t know what a finger bear is.

Long fingers are a symbol of humans and primates and the basis of intelligence.

The finger bear, who inherited the basis of that intelligence, was looking at me.

Because he has a good nose.

“Finger bears are carnivorous monkeys. I have a good head. Additionally, since it is an animal with hands, it can make or do various things like humans.”

“But?”

“That’s why dragons are one of the animals that are treated as servants.”

The footprints were too deep.

It noticed something about me as soon as I entered this forest.

A bipedal animal.

The birthplace of primitive humans, when humans began to stand on two feet, is not the jungle, but Africa. This is because bipedal walking is disadvantageous in the jungle.

In other words, it is very rare to see an animal that stands upright on two feet.

‘Unless someone created it that way.’

Finger bears, apes, and monkeys also walk on all fours, but they only know how to use their hands.

The species that rejects this natural physiology and is artificially created by servants and has evolved to a level that is completely incomprehensible is the dragon. Among them, there is a dragon that walks on two feet.

“There is a lint called nestled in this forest.”

A young man less than 500 years old who did not hesitate to kill people at a time when antipathy toward humans was at its strongest.

Its existence caused ripples just by being mentioned.

“Yo, dragon?!”

Amilla was unusually startled and screamed.

He held his crossbow anxiously, as if it were a habit, and looked around.

Not only Amilla but everyone here was scared.

“···Head out of the forest right now.”

The dragon refuses to be a sub-human, but it is an animal that fits into the template of sub-humans set by the standard for servants.

In a way, they too can be said to be demi-humans.

If the dragon doesn’t do something crazy, he won’t be able to receive Dragonia’s help.

Through that book, it is also already known that the root snake sees the world through the eyes of all dragons.

If the death is not due to natural death or an accident, the root snake confirms the dragon’s death and an ancient dragon such as the ruler of the mangrove forest or Craxxmara is dispatched to the scene.

“Look directly into the bear’s eyes and back away slowly.”

Director Yang Yang began to carefully step back.

‘I don’t understand.’

If that bear, which resembles an ape, is a pet to the dragon.

This situation is bad.

Because it looks like pets are attacking humans.

The finger bear stared at us like a monkey in a zoo, and then slowly began to approach us.

“Even though the finger bear looks like a bear, it is still an ape.”

“I feel curiosity rather than threat. He has a strong temper and is aggressive, so he gets angry when you look him in the eye as if he were confronting a bear.”

Apes are a kind of ‘badass’.

Avoid eye contact and pretend to look somewhere else, or make a ‘bang’ to pretend not to hit.

“I get really angry, especially when I hear high-pitched screams.”

“···Then what should I do?”

I don’t know what’s going on, but the dragon in this forest is crazy.

“Apes are generally curious, greedy, and gourmets. You can put down food with a pungent smell, semi-dried meat, fruit, bread, etc. and step away.”

You can kill it by shooting it with a crossbow.

Although it is only that level of seawater… I can feel Lindt’s gaze.

This is a similar situation to a dog owner letting his dog off leash and taking it for a walk.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t give a shit to these crazy people.

“The dragon’s pet can be dealt with by calling the Dragonia of the Great Wall.”

“The sea water is threatening to people, so after checking their memories, they will immediately turn them into powder.”

Only then did some of the apprentice knights seem to understand this situation.

How can you let a crazy sea beast like that out into the forest, shooting at it as it pleases, without even showing its face?

I can feel Lindbergrum’s emotions as he understood what I was saying.

I felt it getting closer, perhaps trying to mediate between this side and the finger bear.

” Fasten the safety rings and take out food for everyone. ”

With stern faces, the apprentices laid down on the floor the fruit, salted semi-dried meat, beef jerky, bread, and biscuits they had brought.

The finger bear wrinkled its nose and began to approach.

‘You’re very thin.’

Because there are no deer here big enough for that bear to eat.

Since there were no railroads or cars and food procurement was very expensive, hunting was permitted at the Great Wall.

So there is no way there are any animals left that could be eaten by that size.

For us, we are truly fortunate.

I felt the dragon approaching close by.

Soon, when the finger bear started eating human food.

Something huge pounced on the finger bear as silently as a cat.

But the ripples it made when it hit each other were magnificent.

Kkwadukduk!!!

It sounded like every bone was breaking apart.

─Huh?!

Lindtbrother’s tail was sticking out of the finger bear’s chest, like a shattered sternum, and both hands of the finger bear were being grabbed and suppressed by Lindtwurm.

The bear’s resistance was ferocious, but it was infinitely helpless against Lindwurm.

All I could do was scream.

Hahaha!!! Wow…! Kkwadu doo doo duduk!!!

···This is my first time seeing an adult dragon eating.

Lintbrurm bit the finger bear’s head and pulled it, shaking its head like a crocodile, and in an instant, the finger bear’s head was pulled out like the head of an insect or something.

Lindworm spat out the torn off head as if it were a cork, lifted the finger bear, and began to drink the blood that was flowing out without stopping.

“Hee profit…!”

Tons of animals are eating each other.

The finger bear’s smashed head rolled over and stopped at Amilla’s feet.

Amilla’s ears were downcast, and Coober was baring his teeth.

‘why?’

Why is it necessary for that Lint-caller to come forward like this?

That’s the dragon’s pet.

In that case, all you had to do was mediate.

I couldn’t understand it so I looked into it and soon found out why.

─There is no discomfort.

“Hey, Director Yang! How do I do it?!”

Bessie is contemplative and puts her hand on the crossbow.

‘Panic came.’

If you criticize it, you will be in trouble!

If we don’t do something…!

“Quietly step back.”

The cold voice of Director Yang clearly pierced my ears.

okay. You’re not fighting a dragon.

They are the powerhouses at the top of an ecosystem with no limits.

However, as if Lindtwerm was not interested, he sat down in his seat, hugged the finger bear, and looked in this direction, and soon began to cut the finger bear’s skin.

Then, as if to show off, he puts his hand into the bear’s stomach, takes out the heart, and puts it in the mouth.

─Just like Jules.

‘Is it Juul?’

······I guess not.

I’ve heard about this phenomenon.

Jules did that to me.

“···Has the filth fallen away like skin?”

Lindberg’s gaze, which had been pounding my heart, fell on me.

“How did you know?”

“I am a hunter.”

“Well, it happens often.”

Everyone was astonished that Lindt Wuerm was talking, so they just stared at him nervously.

“Isn’t the finger bear the dragon’s henchman?”

“He was a confidant. Until the disgust comes off like skin. I wanted to collect it if possible, but I don’t want to get caught by Dragonia.”

So, it means that I didn’t want to kill him, but I had no choice.

Lindtwerm’s eyes seem to have narrowed slightly as he looks at me.

······Anyway, it’s okay.

“I threw away all the food to lure that guy. I would like you to share only a few parts of the meat.”

“Okay. Take it.”

Lindtbrurm tries to rip off the finger bear’s arm.

Where are you trying to give me your arms that smell like pleasure?

“Please use your torso.”

“······There is a lot I wish for.”

Lindt stopped abruptly and grabbed the finger bear’s upper and lower body.

Kkwadukdukduk! Ttuduk! Tdu-duk-duk-!!!

The ribs and pelvis of the upper body held by Lindt are completely shattered.

The finger bear was torn to such an extent that it was difficult to think of it as a living thing anymore, and the part that was received was a rib that was not bad to eat.

‘You don’t want to eat bones.’

“Take it.”

“Thank you. I will warn people not to walk around here.”

“Thank you.”

He took the meat offered by Lindwurm and draped it over his shoulder.

Although he didn’t seem to know who I was, I could sense curiosity in his sharp eyes.

Lindberg looked me up and down, and then he started to look sideways at each of the group.

Just to see who it is.

I don’t feel any ill feelings.

However, Isabel’s piercing eyes were full of surprise.

‘Why?’

Soon, the corners of Lindberg’s mouth began to rise like a devil.

I don’t know what it was, but it was a smile that made people very uneasy.

“What is funny?”

“I have no idea. Now go on your way.”

I couldn’t ask more.

That was definitely cheeky.

If Lindworm had been angry, everyone here would have turned a blind eye.

Because dragons are authoritative creatures.

From the beginning, Lindwurm’s view of Isabelle was not favorable.

“I heard that dragons don’t eat animal intestines.”

“That’s right.”

“I want to use it as bait, can I take it?”

“Sure.”

He put the head of the finger bear with its face sunken into the gunny bag and the intestines that Lindtwerum had cut off and thrown away, and then looked at the group who were still very nervous.

Everyone is very nervous and their hands are towards the safety ring.

“It’s okay to pass by.”

When I stood next to the dragon and spoke in a relaxed tone, several hands flinched and eventually fell off the safety ring.

The first person to take the lead was Director Yang Yang.

Director Yang Yang walked past the dragon straight ahead without any hesitation, but the other party members turned at a distance and passed by the dragon as if they were using me as a shield.

Wood clatter!

Anyway, I wasn’t interested in the Lindt call.

“When will you start shedding again?”

“One year.”

In the meantime, you’ll feel like you’re dead.

As a year passes, the lint will regenerate, and the next year, this lint will disappear from this forest like a ghost.

“Please tell me that the root snake is looking forward to your wise judgment.”

“······?!”

I quickly looked around.

Fortunately, everyone in the party was standing at a distance, perhaps because they were scared by Lindwurm.

Lintcall follows my gaze and glances at the group waiting for me from afar.

” Consider this a gift.”

Lindtrum handed me something with his huge hand.

It was an abomination with a circular shape.

‘You’re giving Yeokrin as a gift?’

“Write it with care.”

Having the power of a dragon rather than powder means that you are a friend of the dragon.

Of course, it wasn’t because he really recognized me as a friend that he ripped the Yeoklin off his skin and gave it to me as a gift, but it’s still a Yeokrin that still retains its original form.

“Yes. We will treat it with care.”

I don’t know when I would use it, but it was definitely something that would be used someday.

I put the medicine in a leather bag and sealed it tightly to prevent it from spilling.

“Thank you for your help.”

Lindt did not respond and continued eating.