Solo Swordmaster

#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 didn’t know children’s 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.

“That Vlad?”

“Speak.”

“I think you said you wouldn’t get lost here as long as the running repairman guides you.”

“It is as you say.”

“…then what happened to this situation?”

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 couldn’t 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 weren’t 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.

“You’re not lost, are you?”

“How about guiding us through the middle of the march of army ants?”

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 Vlad’s attitude was still calm.

“Nothing to worry about. Nothing stands in our way in this Amazon.”

“…?”

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.

“Sister Sword Spirit, stop being mean and open the way.”

“…”

“Sister.”

What do you not like so much?

It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at him.

Eventually, the running Suri shook her knees and got up from her seat.

And the moment she opened those pink lips.

“100110111110010.”

tall.

strange sound.

rang the air

It’s 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 wasn’t just that I couldn’t understand her first words, which I’d 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.]

“11110100.”

[1101010111.]

“00100.”

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.

“1000.”

[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.

“…that’s amazing.”

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.

“Was it a spirit?”

“Yes.”

“Then, that word must be a spirit word you’ve only heard about.”

“Perhaps.”

Vlad’s 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.

“I guess the reason why you purposely brought the running repairman was because he could speak the spirit language.”

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.

“It’s not just that.”

“What are you talking about?”

“It means that the Amazon is not a place that is easy enough to open the way simply because you know the elemental language.”

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 don’t look after criminals.

It’s because being able to have a conversation and being able to have the spirits do a favor are two completely different things.

That’s why shamans can’t use the spirits themselves, even though they study the remains of the spirits and apply the technology.

“Especially, as this Amazon is blessed with the blessings of ancient spirits, they say there are more tricky spirits than North America.”

“But Suri-nim, who was running just now…”

“That’s why he brought the sister.”

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 can’t 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.

“Before the Sword Spirit Sisters are sword masters, excluding the Fairy Queen, they are one of the best elementalists in human history.”

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[Um… For some reason, I feel like I’m going more comfortably than when the older sisters and older brothers of the Green Dragon clan guide me. Is it because of my mood?]

“If it was because of my mood, would we be resting so leisurely here right now?”

[That’s amazing.]

Yuna-kyung scratched her head with her wings.

To be honest.

She really didn’t 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.

“So you said you would know if you try.”

[I still don’t know?]

“If you don’t know, you become what you don’t know. Anyway, the important thing is that I’m going comfortably thanks to you.”

[That’s the case.]

Maybe I can’t accept it.

To Yun Na-gyeong, who is confused.

“You’d better relax a little, though,”

Limon said .

[Why?]

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a normal spirit, but running into an ancient spirit can be very annoying.”

[yes? Didn’t the ancient spirits disappear after the spirit crisis?]

“That’s another story.”

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.

“Deep in this Amazon lies an ancient spirit that has been dormant since the golden age. That’s why no one can come in and out of this place.”

[There was no such episode in the Spirit Sentai?]

“That’s right. It’s not something worth mentioning in all the TV shows that kids watch.”

[Is that so…?]

As a fan of the Messenger Sentai, he didn’t like the fact that he didn’t 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. There’s something I’ve been curious about before.]

“What is it?”

[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.

“It’s mainly the age difference.”

[Couldn’t an ancient spirit just refer to an elder living since the golden age?!]

“Of course, it’s not just that. There are simpler but stricter standards.”

[What is that standard?]

“I’m not sure because this is a story I’ve heard about, but…”

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.

“When the Golden Age opened, the first spirit that descended from the sky on a disk was called an ancient spirit.”