Chapter 146: Chapter 146

TL: Zimming

We were on the carriage for six days in a row. Arriving near the mine, I was exhausted.

Isaac, who got off the carriage, said,

“Kid, you’re very fragile.”

I was dumbfounded.

I’m not weak, but the other people who’ve been with me for six days were monsters!

I got motion sickness because the road was so rough. But I couldn’t starve for six days, so I repeatedly ate and threw up.

Sometimes I had to go to the bathroom, and it was really hot because it was summer.

We can come a little comfortably using teleportation devices, but we couldn’t even use it because we had to move secretly.

“Leblaine, why don’t you take a break?”

I clenched my hand and I nodded “Yes.”

I’m so tired that I can’t use my divine powers properly.

“Let’s rest for a while.”

At the words of the commander, people began to move.

Then Isaac looked around the mountain, as Henry and Seto set up a team to search inside the mine in advance.

Meanwhile, I stood near the barracks.

“Do you want me to bring you a chair?”

“No need, I could sit on the rock.”

“Are you really fine now?”

“I think the medicine is working well. I’m fine now. More than that, I’m hungry…….”

I was starving all day, it was also because I had a bigger appetite than average people.

When I looked down in tears, the people of Irie, who were escorting me, left and said, “I’ll find something to eat for you.”

Zachary is strengthening the barracks in front of me.

Growl.

“…….”

“…….”

Growl.

“…….”

“…….”

Growl.

“Is there a beggar on your stomach?”

Zachary, who was putting a pillar in the ground, looked at me ridiculously, and I nodded with a sad face.

“I don’t think it’s just one beggar…….”

“I have peanuts. I’ll give you that…”

I ran and reached out my hand.

“Who would think that you are a lady with that appetite…”

After taking the peanut, I went back to sit and gently peeled the peanut.

‘I used to eat it a lot when I was a beggar.’

I usually wait around stores. Some good-hearted owners usually gives us some peanuts.

When I was about to chew, I heard a rustling from somewhere. Zachary, who had just finished his job, glanced and stood close to me with a spear.

“Beast?”

I hugged my precious peanuts, as Zachary shook his head with a tense face.

“It’s not only one or two.”

I nodded and grabbed Zachary’s sleeve tightly.

He bent down and grabbed a whistle around his neck.

“At my signal, go the other way…”

It was then..

“Kakk-!!”

The monster’s screams rang everywhere, as their big body obscured everyone’s view.

At that moment Zachary blew a whistle. It was a sign of emergency.

I go to the other side. Zachary held off a few unidentified men to open the path for me.

But there were a lot of them and one of them slipped towards me.

Just then,

“Argh!”

An unidentified man snatched a bag of peanuts from my hand.

“My peanut! Peanut thief!”

“Kaak—!”

Holding a bag of peanuts, he ran toward the crowd that had been knocked down by Zachary.

Zachary did not miss the moment and caught him. Running quickly, I frowned at the mysterious man Zachary caught.

“Human monster?”

Its limbs, eyes, nose, and mouth are like humans, but its body was like a dwarf. Their skin was like a fish, and their eyes were as wide as the black iris of a puppy.

“Kiik! Kik!”

“Goblin?”

“Similar, but I don’t see some of Goblin’s features.”

The monster who attacked us only stole my peanut. The peanut thief caught by Zachary hit him.

“Kii! Ki! Kii!”

“Are you asking him to drop you off?”

As soon as I said that, Isaac ran towards us.

“What’s going… Huh?”

Isaac frowned and looked at the group of peanut thieves.

***

Isaac looked at the monsters scurrying away with dried fruits and nuts and asked me.

“Just how much are they going to eat?”

I also looked dumbfounded when I saw the pile of food bags.

The six monsters seem to have eaten two days’ worth of our soldiers’ food and are not full yet.

I hand a jerky to the smallest monster, the monster. It sniffed with a curious look and took it afterwards.

“Kaak! Cui!”

I guess beef jerky doesn’t suit your taste.

Isaac laughed when he saw the monster spitting out beef jerky.

“Woah so they have a taste?”

“I don’t think It can eat meat.”

“Then it’s definitely not Goblin…… no way, are they nymphs?”

The place where Suwon was kept in legend was Lake Nymph. In other words, it’s where the nymph lives.

The nymph is created by the Spirit of Water, and according to the books I read here, it looks similar to them.

“But nymphs were said to live in clean water. They couldn’t last an hour when they came out of the water, but these kids stayed with us for two hours at least.”

“What a surprise. Or maybe it’s not a nymph.”

At this time.

“It is the nymph.”

It was Henry who said so after returning to the mine. And then there was a giant version of the monster with them.

“Kiik-!”

The monster who stole the peanut bag from me suddenly ran away quickly. It tried to attack Henry but,

Bang!

The monster flew back due to the impact

“Don’t bother.”

Henry’s hand was glowing. Come to think of it, he had a scratches on his neck and face. People of irie who went with him also seemed to be injured.

“Henry!”

Henry patted my head after I ran to him with a pale face.

“It’s only a small wound, don’t worry.”

“Did you get hurt catching that giant nymph?”

“Yeah, if it hadn’t hesitated in front of Seto, we wouldn’t have been able to capture it.”

“He’s a child protected by the spirit, so the Nymphs under the control of the spirit couldn’t harm him.”

Henry and people from irie were aura users. For some reason, the strong people who never lost had such a wound to capture a nymph.

“It’s not just one.”

I opened my eyes wide at Henry’s words.

“What?”

“At least a few dozen. There’s a lot of them in the mine.”

As me and Isaac hardened, Henry said, wiping the purple blood off the blade with a cloth.

“But there’s a bigger problem here.”

Isaac asked, frowning.

“What is it?”

“The things that were with you would be nymphs’ children. There’s no way adult nymphs let their child out of their realm.”

“……You mean this whole mountain is the realm of the nymphs?”

“Yes, some of the nymphs in the mine, and more of them are on the mountain.”

Henry’s eyes sank.

“It means that we’re surrounded by the nymphs.”

“If that number of nymphs knew their children had disappeared…… damn it.”

Realizing the urgency of the situation, Irie’s commander shouted.

“Destroy the barracks and put out the fire!”

Me, Isaac, and Henry discussed countermeasures while the irie moved in unison.

“The entire team was injured only catching one of them. We have to go back after finding the suwon.”

Isaac expressed resistance to my words.

“But we can’t miss this opportunity. Marche should aim for a time when the situation is hectic and it is now.”

“For now, Leblaine must be sent back. This time, even if there is a risk of being tracked, we should use long-distance teleportation.”

“If Henry and Isaac don’t go, I won’t go either!”

Henry grabbed me by the shoulder with a serious face as soon as I shouted.

“We brought in as many knights as we could. We can’t get more support here to move discreetly. After all, we’re only going to find suwon here with them. I can’t afford to let you get hurt.”

That’s…… I know.”

“Those who cannot fight will only burden us.”

“……I can fight too. I’ll be helpful.”

“It’s not about whether you can fight or not. It’s whether you can kill or not. Are you confident that you will not hesitate to kill your opponent in a time of crisis?”

I couldn’t answer anything and bit my lip.

Henry is right. I am not ready. However, it does not mean that I’m not as helpful as Seto.

When I pulled out the device with a sullen face, the brothers grinned

“Kid, if it’s dangerous, we’ll also run away.”

“Yes, I’ll wait for you.”

I wiped the tears from my eyes with the palm of my hand.

“It’s a promise. You both have to come back alive.”

“Have we ever not kept the promise we made for you?”

“……Keep it this time again.”

Hugging Henry and Isaac, I use the device with wet eyes.

But,

“……?”

“What.”

“How come…….”

I tried it again.

“…….”

“…….”

“…….”

It doesn’t work.

We, siblings have already parted sentimentality. It’ll be embarrassing if it doesn’t work. I caught a glimpse of the knights who were looking at me with a sad expression.

To avoid embarrassment, I quickly decided to bluff.

“I won’t go back! We’ll die and live together!”

“…….”

“…….”

“Let’s go find the suwon!”

Henry and Isaac, who hardened, looked at me with ridiculous expressions when I shouted seriously.

***

The problem wasn’t just the teleportation. The communications device is also dead. I tested the mana stone just in case, and the mana stone was useless.

“Magic couldn’t work here?”

“I was able to invoke magic. It’s not that you can’t use mana. There’s only a problem with the magic tools.”

“That doesn’t make any sense.”

“……There may be certain thing in this mountain that prevents the use of magic tools.”

“So how in the world did Baron Eston manage to mine rocks? I heard he has been mining here for a month.”

It was a very dangerous mountain, as it is the nymph’ area. And we also can’t use the tools.

Listening to the conversation between the two, I frowned at the sudden thought.

“……signal.”

We looked at Seto at once.

“What kind of signal is like that?”

Isaac muttered as I spoke.

“Signals that cause nymphs to appear and create wavelengths that interfere with the magic tools…….”

Henry said, clutching his temples.

“Then it means that this ridiculous situation will end only when the legend is fulfilled.”

That means we need to enter the mine and complete the legend of the young warrior.

‘In other words, meet a spirit.’

But it’s weird.

Why was it Seto? Why was Seto chosen by the Spirit among the many children?

In the end, we decided to enter the mine with Seto.