Ch 57
Episode 56 – Long and short things are known only when you touch them.
Palaham shrugged.
“Otherwise, why did you bring them?”
“Yeah, the warriors I took last time……”
Kerun was speechless and looked back at Leto.
Leto was wiping the snow off his luggage with an indifferent expression as if he already knew.
“Mr. Centurion? Did you know?”
“Seed?”
“Yes. Mr. White.”
– I think the ‘foot’ is missing at the end.
-Ha ha ha
“Of course I knew. I was outside urinating when you were stretched out. I can hear the sound of horsepower cannons and pigs nipping, but how can you not know? You are a bit stupid.”
“······haha.”
Kerun burst out laughing and looked at Jaejoo Kim with a sad expression.
“Did you see it? Chanta. Among abnormal people, normal people are treated like strange people.”
“······yes.”
With Kim Jae-joo’s consent, Kerun looked at Palaham again.
“It is the same with travelers. Please refrain from joking around. Don’t you know that even if the devil’s flower glows, it’s not good for each other?”
At Kerun’s subsequent nagging, Palaham snorted and pulled out the stake.
The appearance of being pulled out with one hand was enough to make it feel like Kerun did a rough job.
“What does it mean? After all, the destined destruction is the same.”
“City residents still see travelers as saviors. If we advance the time of destruction for nothing, we will only lose the public’s heart.”
“The problem is that you are too optimistic. Do you think that one day the savior will really appear? You are only giving vain hope to the dying.”
“ah. Yes.”
Kerun sighed in her stubbornness, walked on the iron rope, and cleaned her surroundings.
“I will help.”
Kim Jae-joo also stepped out in a serious atmosphere.
‘That’s why we avoided each other.’
Only then did Kim Jaejoo realize why Palaham and Kerun did not meet each other in the video.
Unlike his playful appearance, Palaham is a pessimistic person.
‘The heart of the original species takes a year to bloom.’
The heart of the species that Jaejoo Kim saw here was not yet half the size of an adult.
It is said that it takes about 5 to 7 months more for it to fully grow and flower.
Nevertheless, in Tharha, the heart of the servant always starts working around 30 days, and destruction is approaching.
because of palham.
Like when he first met Kim Jae-joo, he slams a magic cannon into the bell’s heart, or directly approaches the bell’s heart and makes a riot.
The servant’s heart then draws life force from the rooted ground to heal the wound.
‘The extra vitality remaining after recovering is….’
used for growth
When the ground around the heart of the species dries up to black, the animals that lived there either leave in search of food or die with the energy of death.
“Let’s go. Chanta.”
All of a sudden, the stakes and the iron wire were neatly arranged and placed on Kerun’s back.
Palaham and Leto were already far ahead.
“Kerun. I have one question for you.”
“yes. Ask me anything.”
“When the Palaham goes wild like this, don’t the inhabitants of the city or those in high positions know it at all?”
“That is the most questionable. I don’t know, or maybe… well. So far, this may be speculation. In fact, I don’t even know.”
Kerun frowned for a moment, then turned and walked away.
I’m not sure, so I won’t talk about it.
But Jaejoo Kim seemed to know what he was saying at the end.
There are not many people in Tharha who have strong enough power to control information.
‘I don’t know or pretend I don’t know.’
The way out was raising more questions than expected.
On the way up the mountainside, the yeti was nowhere to be seen.
There was a high possibility that the battle had just been rumored, or that the yeti who smelled the blood of their own people were hiding.
The occasional squirrels and wild boars also ran away in amazement when they saw Kerun and Leto soaked in blood.
Only the trees covered with white snow trembled in the cold wind, breaking the stillness.
Thankfully, the hike was peaceful.
– Oh no jam
– But I was a little disappointed when I came to the northern part.
-why?
– No, if you’re of a different race in the forest, aren’t they usually elves? Why are the furry furry here?
-If you mess up, ask the manager lol
-I thought because I was an elf. Elves are a nature friendly race.
-by the way?
-Why are you making a bow out of wood? I can’t speak
– Huh, don’t you know that? You’re biting
– What are you talking about?
-???: Hey? It’s a tree? are we close Right? I’ll give it back. Here comes a human. Pretend to be friendly. Hurry. Shake the leaves.
-Crazy haha Are you an elf?
-Dream tree (what used to be)
– tree fissure;
After walking for such a long time, Palaham finally made a step.
“You have arrived.”
I could tell even if it wasn’t his words.
The elongated trees were drooping like discolored bananas.
The ground was so dry that it was crumbly and cracked, so I wondered if this was the mountain road I had just walked on.
“In the meantime, it has grown bigger.”
“Yes. Thanks to someone who is handsome.”
Despite Kerun’s pouting words, Falaham was silent.
‘You want me to get rid of this?’
Jaejoo Kim felt like he was suffocating.
In the dying land, there was only one thing that lived and breathed.
Breathing out comfortable sounds like a sleeping baby.
A creature that bows its head and waits for it to wake up.
Kerun laid down his luggage and looked around the servant’s heart.
The stems that came up from the floor were thick enough that it was not enough for the four of us to stretch out their arms and embrace them.
“You’ve already done it all.”
On the floor was a sticky black liquid soaking the ground.
Leto also put down his luggage and circled around the bell’s heart.
“Will the Yetis let the monsters crawling out of their realm?”
The black ooze was also sparsely mixed with dark red blood.
He sighed and opened his mouth as if he had nothing to see.
“If you see that even the body has been absorbed, you must be digesting it now.”
“Warrior. What are you going to do?”
Kerun looked at Palaham.
“You’re asking something obvious, but.”
Palaham grinned and approached the stem.
“······There are travelers.”
Kerun took a step back with a serious expression on his face.
“A traveler? where?”
“…There is also Chanta, who has just been appointed, so please stop now. There are no monsters, right?”
“Uh-huh. what a sound Chanta. Come here.”
Palaham looked at Jaejoo Kim and grinned.
– Do you have a strong feeling?
– Jaejoo, it’s not too late now
– But considering the mission you received, is it common to have a chance to see it up close? i don’t think it’s bad
Jaejoo Kim hesitated for a moment, then sighed and approached him.
Kerun looked at Jaejoo Kim and shook her head fiercely.
The signal to run away was clear as he gestured to the back.
‘There is no other way.’
Now I had to get information from Palaham.
If it were him, he might know something if he had fought the heart of a species hundreds or thousands of times.
Even as they approached, Palaham was still staring at the black stem.
“Have you forgotten your promise to me?”
Palaham raised his hand and stroked the black stem.
“Did you say that you would get out if you thought it would be dangerous? I remember well.”
“You seem to be creating a dangerous situation right now.”
“Isn’t it your job to get rid of this guy?”
“······yes.”
Palaham pointed to the stem with a gesture of his chin.
“Touch it.”
“Do I have to touch it?”
“Isn’t it necessary to know the enemy to win?”
Jaejoo Kim pondered for a while, and finally raised his hand carefully.
The stems were engraved with dense lines as if someone had dug a furrow.
pounding.
It wasn’t Kim Jae-joo’s heartbeat.
It was the sound that came from the stem the moment I put my hand on it.
The bell’s heart was beating slowly.
“Do you feel alive?”
“yes.”
Palaham nodded his head.
“okay. This guy is alive. It devours all the living beings around it. I can’t stand it.”
“What?”
“The fact that such a bastard sprouts around Tharha and causes her to die is the very thing.”
Palaham stopped her stroking hand and clenched a fist.
His mood quickly changed to ferocious.
‘Dangerous.’
Jaejoo Kim hurriedly looked back.
Leto and Kerun had already retreated too far.
As if I knew it was going to be like this.
“Calm down.”
“I am always calm.”
“I don’t think so.”
“haha! what a sound See you.”
Palaham took a deep breath in the forest, then pulled his arm back as hard as he could.
The tendons in the forearms that were slightly exposed were taut.
A blue aura flickered near his arm.
bang!
It was an instant.
Palaham’s fist struck the stem.
A part of the stem is dented.
Kie hey hey hey!
A painful scream echoed above his head.
It sounded like my ears were being ripped apart.
Jaejoo Kim quickly covered his ears and looked up.
The stems were forming denser projections as they went up.
The flower buds attached to the wriggling stems slightly opened their mouths and twisted their heads.
“Look!”
When I turned my head to follow Palaham’s words, the hollow part of the stem was filled like a lie.
-crazy; show regeneration
– Wasn’t that a Palaham Full Punch?
On the other hand, Jaejoo Kim was surprised in other areas.
In the video, Jaejoo Kim once asked Palaham.
“You want to know what my strength is? Take a good look.”
Then, with a single punch, dozens of trees evaporated.
Considering its strength, it was a very slight wound to the extent that the stem was torn off a little.
Palaham tapped Kim Jae-joo on the shoulder and said.
“Are you going to catch this guy? You may be destined to die!”
Jaejoo Kim didn’t even have time to answer that.
drop. drop.
Black ooze was falling from the sky.
What he saw with his raised head.
Kie hey hey!
They were black masses that the buds opened and their mouths spit out.
thud. thud. thud.
Kerun and Leto took out their axes.
The black masses started wriggling and taking shape in an instant.
-uh?
-that?
They were monsters that Jaejoo Kim knew well.
Kirk. Kirk.
Something reminiscent of cockroaches was the cleaning lady on the 6th floor.
In an instant, dozens of scavengers appeared and started flapping their wings.
-Why are they here?
– When I saw you in the city, you were the gatekeeper?
– The gatekeeper is coming? I did it haha
-Really; must perish
“Warrior!”
Kerun shouted from afar in an annoyed voice.
“Why?”
“I will go to Chalet-sama. I’m here to die again.”
“Uh-huh. Talk to me later!”
“No!”
Palaham clasped his hands and made a clattering sound.
“Let’s get started.”
The battle ended surprisingly lightly.
Every time Palaham moved, the scavengers disappeared as if they were being erased.
As soon as they hit only those who approached in moderation, the surroundings were neatly organized.
“Is it now? let’s go. please.”
Kerun grumbled as he brushed off the thick liquid from the axe.
“Is that so? Chanta. Are you satisfied?”
“················ogue.”
Jaejoo Kim did not answer.
He quietly turned his head to look at the servant’s heart.
The servant’s heart was asleep again, as if something had happened.
It will survive even if it absorbs all the vitality of this mountain range.
“Go back and have a drink.”
Palaham was asking.
Can you catch this nonsense guy?
I was asking Kim Jae-joo like that.
“no. I am not satisfied yet.”
Kim Jae-joo’s answer to that question was clear.
The result is the same even if the Palaham does not cause riots and has time to spare.
When the bell’s heart sprouts and takes the form of a flower bud, it somehow survives.
So Palaham may be showing mercy.
Because he knows that the rest of his life is more difficult for a death row inmate.
‘Yes…’
If we go on like this, nothing will be left.
He only realizes his powerlessness towards him.
easy profit.
Jaejoo Kim pulled out jagged thorns from the soles of his shoes.
Then, at once, he stepped on the stem and climbed towards the bud.
to key.
The flower buds trembled in the slightest pain.
The guy dripped black saliva menacingly.
“Chanta! What do you think?”
Kerun shouted with a puzzled expression.
“You have to deal with the long and short ones!”
Jaejoo Kim settled in the center of the flower bud.
He quickly tucks the thorn into his shoe so as not to irritate it.
I pulled out a mechanical glove from my backpack.
Wii ing.
The magic circuit of the mechanical gloves it was equipped with started to burn brightly.
‘To get rid of this guy, you need overwhelming firepower. Enough to melt it without even having time to play.’
He spread out his palm and brought it to the bud.
‘okay. You win or I win.’
The palm of the hand began to glow brightly.
‘Let’s do it.’