#594. There are simple criteria.
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Holy Lord Johanna.
One of the absolutes of this era.
Although she is evaluated as inferior in combat power, she was also an unequivocal monarch.
She didnât know childrenâs songs at all.
Experience accumulated while leading the church as the Pope of Rome.
In addition, the experience of treating all kinds of patients as the best healer has fostered a sense of immobility to smile in any situation.
Yet at this moment.
Johanna was rarely able to hide her embarrassment.
âThat Vlad?â
âSpeak.â
âI think you said you wouldnât get lost here as long as the running repairman guides you.â
âIt is as you say.â
ââ¦then what happened to this situation?â
Also on the left.
Also on the right.
Both front and back, of course.
Black waves rippling everywhere.
No, being surrounded by a procession of army ants so vast that it looked like a wave.
Johanna couldnât help but put on a puzzled expression.
It was the same with the other priests with her.
Of course, they were also high-level players who had been sick of dungeon raids, so they werenât the ones to be frightened by swarms of ants.
However, the waves of the ants were unreasonable and even unrealistic.
And the sight of him clenching his chin tightly against the shield made his mool goosebumps.
âYouâre not lost, are you?â
âHow about guiding us through the middle of the march of army ants?â
Fortunately, Vlad is not showing any sway even in this situation.
Thanks to that, Johanna, who was able to calm her trembling heart more easily, sighed lightly.
Either subdue this swarm of ants.
Or run away and run away.
Regardless of whether it was a threat or not, wasting time in a place like this was not very welcome.
But Vladâs attitude was still calm.
âNothing to worry about. Nothing stands in our way in this Amazon.â
ââ¦?â
When Johanna wonders
what she means in this situation where she is caught by a swarm of ants right now .
Vlad looked away.
And a shield against ants.
I called the Indian girl who had been squatting in front of it and tapping the defenses as if wondering if she would be able to eat just a few ants.
âSister Sword Spirit, stop being mean and open the way.â
ââ¦â
âSister.â
What do you not like so much?
Itâs been awhile since Iâve looked at him.
Eventually, the running Suri shook her knees and got up from her seat.
And the moment she opened those pink lips.
â100110111110010.â
tall.
strange sound.
rang the air
Itâs too bizarre to be a language.
Rather like the cry of an animal or the noise of a speaker.
Nonetheless, Johanna blinked at the sound of the eagle running with clear regularity.
It wasnât just that I couldnât understand her first words, which Iâd never seen her open before.
From the object scratching the shield.
Even the crowds that were swarming everywhere.
This is because the ants, which used to number in the tens of thousands or hundreds of millions, stopped their actions all at once.
The moment when Yohanna swallowed dry saliva at hundreds of millions of gazes that kept their eyes fixed on them and kept silent without any action.
Wei Ying.
Something flew from far behind the ant colony.
A size larger than most of the jangjeong.
hard metal armor.
A large, round boat.
And from the tail to the ants that are still coming out in real time.
The bizarre being, which was clearly giving birth to and leading this ant colony, circled around the shield once.
Then he clicked the camera instead of his eyes and opened his chin.
[00101000101.]
â11110100.â
[1101010111.]
â00100.â
Hard and inorganic.
There are only more vivid differences.
While facing each other and exchanging similar sounds, Johanna and other priests look at the girl and the metal bug while making strange expressions.
The metal bug had two antennae pointed out like antennae.
And after vigorously wriggling the antennae.
He opened his jaw again.
[10101111110.]
Right after that.
A change has happened.
An army of unrealistically large numbers of ants that were filling up everywhere like the sea.
It was because the army suddenly seemed to be shaken, and then split left and right at once.
a long time ago.
With the help of the Fairy Queen.
Like when Moses parted the sea.
When Yohanna opened her eyes wide, seeing the wide road that was created as the waves of ants receded, even though it was not a sea of water.
The running repairman opened his mouth again.
â1000.â
[1001.]
Vlad, of course.
Uncharacteristic of her, who only showed a cold expression when dealing with anyone, to the running Suri who slightly lowered her head.
The metal bug bowed its head in front of it.
That was it.
The worm just flew away.
The running repairman also moved calmly and weakly through the path opened by the ant swarm.
ââ¦thatâs amazing.â
Just in case, keep the shield up.
Even so, passing between the ants that do not move enough that the contrast is useless.
Johanna asked.
âWas it a spirit?â
âYes.â
âThen, that word must be a spirit word youâve only heard about.â
âPerhaps.â
Vladâs answer was ambiguous.
He was originally a Romanian duke.
Since he was not from North America, he may have seen spirits before, but it was his first experience hearing spirit words.
However, not realizing the ambiguity, she briefly admired the running repairs leading the way.
âI guess the reason why you purposely brought the running repairman was because he could speak the spirit language.â
The Amazon is a land blessed by ancient spirits.
Also, the space is distorted.
Also hard to find the way.
Many hidden dangers.
After all, it is the work of the spirits.
If he could speak the spirit language, it was possible to avoid danger and find the millennial flower through the spirits.
But Vlad shook his head.
âItâs not just that.â
âWhat are you talking about?â
âIt means that the Amazon is not a place that is easy enough to open the way simply because you know the elemental language.â
Elementary language is also a clear language.
Although the acquisition difficulty may be high, you can learn as much as you want to learn, and that is why learning elemental language is only basic for a shaman.
However, no shaman would blindly set foot in the Amazon and do something crazy.
whether spoken or not.
Cannibals eat people.
Just like the police donât look after criminals.
Itâs because being able to have a conversation and being able to have the spirits do a favor are two completely different things.
Thatâs why shamans canât use the spirits themselves, even though they study the remains of the spirits and apply the technology.
âEspecially, as this Amazon is blessed with the blessings of ancient spirits, they say there are more tricky spirits than North America.â
âBut Suri-nim, who was running just nowâ¦â
âThatâs why he brought the sister.â
Shaman too.
Descendants of dragons.
Gods, witches, and priests.
Even the Sword Master.
The deeper you go, the more you get disturbed by the spirits, so you canât avoid getting lost or being attacked.
Excluding the same spirits, only special people with innate talents can find their way here.
Among them, the only human being who can freely roam the Amazon is the reason why the running eagle is the only one.
What I heard through Billy.
Vlad said calmly.
âBefore the Sword Spirit Sisters are sword masters, excluding the Fairy Queen, they are one of the best elementalists in human history.â
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[Um⦠For some reason, I feel like Iâm going more comfortably than when the older sisters and older brothers of the Green Dragon clan guide me. Is it because of my mood?]
âIf it was because of my mood, would we be resting so leisurely here right now?â
[Thatâs amazing.]
Yuna-kyung scratched her head with her wings.
To be honest.
She really didnât do anything.
I just rode the unmanned vacuum cleaner and moved forward as Limon ordered.
But that alone has changed a lot.
Of course, even when the Venomous Dragons were thoroughly guarding the surroundings, the predatory beasts and poisonous insects that appeared occasionally disappeared from the surroundings.
It was because I was just moving on an open road, let alone obstacles like swamps or cliffs.
why did this happen
For Yuna-kyung, it was so miraculous that it was almost incomprehensible.
âSo you said you would know if you try.â
[I still donât know?]
âIf you donât know, you become what you donât know. Anyway, the important thing is that Iâm going comfortably thanks to you.â
[Thatâs the case.]
Maybe I canât accept it.
To Yun Na-gyeong, who is confused.
âYouâd better relax a little, though,â
Limon said .
[Why?]
âIt doesnât matter if itâs a normal spirit, but running into an ancient spirit can be very annoying.â
[yes? Didnât the ancient spirits disappear after the spirit crisis?]
âThatâs another story.â
Limon said calmly.
After the golden age, of course.
Most spirits have disappeared except for North America.
Even after the Spirit Crisis, the ancient spirits disappeared even in North America.
However, there was an exception where only two ancient spirits still remained in the world.
One of them is Fairy Kingdom.
And the other one was this Amazon.
âDeep in this Amazon lies an ancient spirit that has been dormant since the golden age. Thatâs why no one can come in and out of this place.â
[There was no such episode in the Spirit Sentai?]
âThatâs right. Itâs not something worth mentioning in all the TV shows that kids watch.â
[Is that so�]
As a fan of the Messenger Sentai, he didnât like the fact that he didnât know.
A little bit of an ambiguous expression.
Yun Na-gyeong asked casually, as if she wanted to know for sure.
[Well, come to think of it, the manager. Thereâs something Iâve been curious about before.]
âWhat is it?â
[What is the difference between ancient spirits and normal spirits? If you look at the Spirit Sentai, sometimes there are ancient spirits that are weaker than normal spirits.]
Although the absolutes of the silver age were the great witch and the saint, it seems that the incarnation reigned over them.
Although the absolute rulers of the Golden Age were the Fairy Queen and the Unryeongsa, it was the spirits who truly ruled that era.
Among those spirits, what is the reason why only ancient spirits are considered special?
To Yun Na-gyeong, who asked out of curiosity.
Limon replied calmly.
âItâs mainly the age difference.â
[Couldnât an ancient spirit just refer to an elder living since the golden age?!]
âOf course, itâs not just that. There are simpler but stricter standards.â
[What is that standard?]
âIâm not sure because this is a story Iâve heard about, butâ¦â
Limon scratched his cheek.
Although he has lived a long enough time to be counted among mankind, he is only a few hundred years old.
Even he did not know in detail about the ancient spirits that had existed since the beginning of human civilization.
However, age is not meaningless.
She is the ancient great witch.
Sir, half-human, half-god bloodline.
Even she is her own grandfather.
In other words, one fact that he heard from Helios, the sun god.
An anecdote that is said to be the origin of human civilization, considered a legend even in the age of mythology.
Limon said calmly.
âWhen the Golden Age opened, the first spirit that descended from the sky on a disk was called an ancient spirit.â