The 31st Piece Turns the Tables

Episode 446:

Pajijijijik-!

Black lightning flashed loudly, revealing the figure hidden within.

Tancia, the legacy of the earth.

“….”

“Tan… Sia?”

She had become a dragon.

However, it was not the dragon that was commonly imagined.

Where rough scales should be, there is skin with a smooth and chewy texture.

The facial features that should be dignified and angular are somehow slippery and round.

In addition, the wings, which are one of the biggest symbols of the dragon, were not even the size of a hand span.

Yes.

It looks more like a giant salamander than a dragon. Even its size was only slightly larger than the original Tansia, and it was far from the overwhelming size that conveyed the majesty of a dragon.

– … That’s why I told you that it may be different from what you expected.

[Soul form: Maintain the dragon.]

[You can use the power of the dragon.]

[The content of the ‘Dragon’ adventure is determined.]

The party and the heroic spirit forgot what to say for their own reasons.

Tansia looked around and cried when she saw the snowfall.

“Is it wrong? me?”

Kang Seol smiled, putting her hand on her head.

“No, there’s nothing wrong.”

That was only Snowfall’s thoughts, but Javatu, the deer spirit, seemed to have other thoughts.

– No scales. Wings are small. This child cannot be called a dragon yet.

“… Javatoo.”

Tansia looked like she was about to shed tears at any moment.

“Tancia, why isn’t it a dragon?”

She asked Javatu as if trying to clear up her own doubts.

– Because you swallowed the shadow.

“The shadow…”

Kang Seol realized the cause of the problem.

The earth dragon swallowed the shadow to be born. At the time, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem, but now that I’m looking back, I wonder if the side effects are appearing now.

– Forces that cannot be digested create disharmony. To you, a shadow is a thorn stuck in your heart.

A thorn stuck in the chest.

These were words that were hurtful to both Kang Seol and Tan Sia.

– But it is also a pillar built in one’s heart. It’s just immature. If you work hard, you will achieve something bigger.

“Uh… Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

Tansia toddled off and disappeared into the mountains.

How could a creature that couldn’t fly be so fast and disappear in an instant?

Kang Seol looked at Javatu and said this.

“What you’re saying…”

Heroic deer spirit Javatu closed his eyes and answered as if he knew what Snowfall was trying to say.

– The first step is to find out what you are. She will grow further.

Then he looked to the side and called someone.

– Koopa.

Kururuk-!

Koopa, with his wings spread wide, stood next to Jabbatu.

– Comfort me.

Paaaaang-!

As Koopa launched himself, a sound like a ball exploding was heard and the air trembled.

Koopa’s figure also disappeared to the other side.

Jian laughed helplessly.

“The little boy looked very heartbroken…”

“I don’t have to chase him?”

When Sindio looked at Karen and asked her, she answered:

“huh? Oh, shouldn’t you give your child time to cry? “You just have to pick me up slowly.”

“That’s true.”

Karuna nodded, agreeing with Karen’s opinion. And Kang Seol also agreed with this.

‘You’ll need time to get your mind together.’

There was something that Kang Seol wanted to use this opportunity to ask the heroic spirits gathered here.

“Could you please answer one question?”

– Something stranger.

– Go ahead.

An old name was thrown out.

“Do you know Gori’s whereabouts?”

Startle-!

All the heroic spirits gathered here cringed at the name.

– How did you get that name….

– You know the ring?

These are all people who once made a contract with Gori.

Thanks to their power, Gori was once a deer, once a wolf, once a bear, and once an owl.

– That name… It’s been a while.

– Gori… Gori… Hehehe… Yes, that guy.

The deer spirit Javatu said.

– Gori A human being we recognized. I thought he was the strongest among humans.

“….”

– Are you looking for someone like that?

“Yes, I was wondering if I could hear some news.”

– How do you know… Well, I guess it doesn’t really matter. At his level, he would have committed all sorts of misdeeds.

– Haaaam-! Right.

Life after Ascension.

Jiang Xue still did not know what fate all ten Ascendants met.

Are they still there, and if so, what are they preparing for?

If we can catch the whereabouts of any of them, we will be able to infer the whereabouts of the remaining horses.

Javatu said:

– I don’t know what I expected, but my relationship with Gori is already over.

“…Have there been any recent incidents?”

– There was none. at all. Gori has forgotten us, and we have forgotten him.

– Maybe he didn’t go to another heroic spirit who is easier to control?

– Sigh… He will get along well with any heroic spirit.

Around the time of Ascension, the connection with the spirits of Mount Horus was lost. It could only be interpreted that way.

“All right. “Okay then…”

– Are you leaving tonight?

“I plan on moving in the morning.”

Snowfall plans to leave right away.

Javatu turned around and spoke.

– Look at the abandoned mine area to the west. I felt an unusual energy there.

“… thank you.”

Thanks to the heroic spirits who quietly grumbled and took care of various things, there was quite a harvest.

Snowfall looked in the direction where Tansia disappeared.

* * *

“Aaaah! Ugh… Cough….”

Tancia jumped up to the top of Horus, leading her plump and fat body.

“It’s not Tansia.”

Tansia looked at every nook and cranny of her cute body and muttered.

“Tansia lizard. Hmm….”

She was also prepared to some extent. That you can’t become a fancy dragon from the beginning.

Even so, there are no scales.

I can’t even fly.

I couldn’t help but be shocked.

Whioooooo…

Then something huge appeared through the wind.

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss-!

It was a corpse hawk Koopa.

Wow!

Koopa touches the ground with his claws and lands roughly.

“What are you! “Don’t brag!”

Tansia tells you not to boast about being able to fly. She envied Koopa’s flight.

Kururuk…

Koopa stood next to Tansia.

Tanxia looked down at the mountainside with a slightly pitiful expression.

“They say Tansia can’t grow. “They say you can’t fly.”

“I didn’t say that much.”

“The wings are small! So… huh?”

Tansia suddenly turned her head and looked up at Koopa.

“Did you tell me? Big bird….”

“It’s me, Koopa.”

“Can you talk?”

“You’re talking.”

Koopa narrowed his eyes and talked to Tansia.

“At some point, I was able to do it.”

“I see…”

Tancia fiddled with her hands hesitantly.

“…Are you upset?”

“They say Tansia can’t fly.”

“Do you want to fly?”

“Shouldn’t you fly?”

“Whoa… Flying in the sky is more tiring and difficult than I thought. ruler!”

Sigh…

Koopa bent down.

“Get in.”

“huh?”

“Get in quickly.”

Tansia climbed onto Koopa’s back.

Whoosh…

Whoosh…

The wings waved up and down a few times, and then the body took off.

Whioooooooo…

A huge wind hit them.

The feeling of resistance that comes with flight.

“Uh…”

“Hold on a little bit.”

Paaaaang-!

Koopa made a sharp turn.

The landscape of Horus became smaller.

“Do you want to look down?”

“Yes…”

As Koopa bent his body diagonally, Tansia’s vision became a little easier.

A sense of liberation that came after a sense of resistance.

Tansia is now obsessed with the sky.

“how is it?”

“… good.”

“It’s tiring and painful.”

“It’s still good. Tansia wants to fly.”

Koopa told her.

“Then I think I want to fly. Over and over…”

“Over and over?”

“Then I’m sure I’ll be able to fly someday.”

“Is that so?”

Koopa nodded.

Whioooo…

“Kupa was small at first too. “I thought I wanted to grow to become this big.”

“… I see!”

Tansia opened her mouth in surprise and seemed to have realized something.

“I can see it over there. “Where to get off.”

Before we knew it, Kang Seol and the group were standing on the ridge.

Tansia tried to wave her hand, but it was not possible due to her body structure.

“What I can say, please keep it a secret between us.”

“secret?”

The magical power of the word secret was fatal to a child.

“okay! secret!”

Hwioooooo…

Paaaaaaaa!

Koopa landing.

Tansia jumped off his back.

“… Tancia.”

“I decided! Tancia will fly!”

Snowfall stroked Tansia’s head.

“okay.”

“And there’s a secret! But don’t say anything! “Because it’s a secret.”

“… secret?”

Koopa was taken aback by Tansia’s words.

“Ku Kurururuk?”

“secret!”

* * *

The snowfall left Mount Horus.

Perhaps it would have been a good choice for her to leave Tansia here, but Kang Seol did not do that.

Even more than training, I was looking forward to Tansia enlightening herself during the trip.

Koopa went to the bottom of the mountain to meet Snowfall and his party and then returned. Cairo, the owl spirit, said that Kupa would become a heroic spirit like them.

‘I’m sure you can take care of it.’

Thanks to Koopa, he was not kicked out of Mount Horus, and although Tansia was lacking, he found his true form and obtained various information.

“The expedition is regretting leaving Horus.”

“The experience of setting foot in Yeongsan itself is a rare experience. “There will be people who are affected.”

If the foundation is good, there are things that naturally follow. Something like the results of training.

Of course, Kang Seol left in a flash without any chance of getting anything like that.

“So is it true that they headed west to the abandoned mine area?”

“It hasn’t been said directly, but the probability is high. Since the information was cut off in the first place… can’t we get more information about Jian?”

“You’ve already been branded a traitor.”

Sindio said indifferently.

“Should I leave this person behind? “I don’t think it’s really necessary.”

“He’s a complete villain. “It’s not wrong, so just bear with it.”

“Okay… but are you okay?”

“what?”

“If it’s an abandoned mining town… that’s it. “Your hometown.”

“ah… yes.”

Gurjant, an abandoned mining town.

A place that has been closed due to the monster’s actions.

It is a place where Jian’s childhood is intact.

“It’s been a while since I saw my hometown.”

“It won’t be okay….”

“No? It’ll be better than it looks. The monsters were rampaging for a short time and the building still remains. “I left because I couldn’t live a normal life because of the demonic energy that had spread throughout the land.”

Gurjant was not currently a suitable environment for people to live in. It’s okay to stay for a short time, but if it lasts longer than a month, something goes wrong with your body.

That’s why everyone left there.

“For me… it’s fortunate. “Because everything is still there.”

Kang Seol looked at Jian’s expressionless face for a moment and then turned his head.

When I remembered that this journey started with him, I remained silent.

‘You must have something in mind.’

A few days later, the group arrived at the outskirts of Gurjant.

Sigh…

A black fog was spread at my feet.

Kang Seol and Jian spoke at the same time.

“It’s corruption.”

“It’s corruption.”

Gian frowned at the unprecedented energy and spoke to Sindio.

“Can you come up with a solution?”

“Well… for now.”

Jeeeeee…

When Syndio waved his staff, a translucent film protected their bodies.

[Syndio uses the Shepherd’s Protection.]

[Status Abnormality: Prevents the accumulation of corruption.]

[It is not effective against direct corruption.]

“You’ll be fine for a few days.”

“Thank you. If it wasn’t there, it would have been a big problem. Then… let’s go.”

The party had to find traces of the council here in Gurjant.

The group is divided into two.

Karen, Karuna, and Tansia walked around holding hands, with Tansia in the middle.

“no one is here! Interesting!”

“Kahaha! Yes, you can talk as much as you want.”

And the remaining members, Kang Seol and Sindio Jian, moved to the opposite side of them.

“It reminds me of this.”

“Preparing a place to sleep must also be work.”

Kang Seol followed Jian’s gaze, looking for traces.

His eyes were tracing the ruined buildings of Gurjant.

“Everything… is the same…”

Kang Seol shrugged and said.

“I’ll take a quick look around.”

“Please.”

Jian and Sindio are left alone. They wandered around for a while, looking for traces.

“I don’t see any traces of anything.”

“… Isn’t it headed to Gurjant?”

“Haa… I’m in trouble like this. What should I do?”

“As the sun sets, let’s go to bed first…”

That was then.

Paaaaat-!

Before they could react, someone jumped out of a gap in the building.

“Who…”

A shadow covers Jian and Sindio’s mouths.

“Shh…”

The gurgling darkness enveloped them and seeped into the twilight.

It was snowfall that silenced Jian and Sindio.

“…appear.”

At the same time as those words were spoken, signs of presence began to be heard from the outskirts of Gurjant.

[An unexpected adventure ‘Visitor in the Abandoned Mine’ occurs.]

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