232 – Nymphs and Dinosaur Sorcerers # 2
Buuuuuuuuuu-.
A trumpet sound was heard from somewhere.
Then the Amazon women shouted with tense faces.
“This trumpet sound means… the supreme crow has appeared…!”
“Everyone, grab your weapons…! We need to go hunting…!”
Like a swarm of vigilant warriors, the female warriors each grabbed their weapons, shields, and armor, and rushed out of the village.
In an instant, the Leaf Village became quiet.
At that moment, Inoi appeared before me and crawled up with a pole.
“The master of the house wants you to drink this…!”
Drip, drip, drip-.
Inoi brought a leather water container to my mouth and poured its contents inside.
It was a drink that tasted like grapes.
Delicious.
But what’s even more amazing was that my body, which had been numb and paralyzed, began to regain energy and vitality!
“The master of the house must not be engulfed in the skirts of women in a place like this to become a great hero…! You must escape quickly…!”
“Okay. I think so too.”
This ‘Amazon Tribe – Leaf Village’ was a place so dangerous, it was like poison for my career. I thought I should escape from this place as soon as possible, and it seemed Inoi had decided to help with that.
“Near the end of autumn, the nymphs’ ‘Day of Pride’ is coming…! For Inoi to become the supreme nymph on that day, the master of the house must remain a great hero…!”
What could this ‘Day of Pride’ be?
I was curious about many things, but I could tell that Inoi was genuinely worried about my future.
Inoi was a nymph from the ditch water who loved to show off.
If I became a great hero, Inoi would also have the opportunity to boast about her great achievements.
In that sense, we were precisely aligned partners.
“We must escape quickly…! If we stay here like this, the master of the house will surely become a lazy bum, getting fat while eating only grapes fed to him by women without doing any work…!”
Anyway!
The fact that all the Amazon women had vacated the area was fortunate for me.
With Inoi’s help, I untied the knots that had bound my hands and feet.
“Ah—! The house master is trying to escape…! That Illinois is the very good nymph who is the head of the village’s low birth rate policy committee and the president…! Escape cannot be tolerated…!”
Papatt-!
At that moment, Illinois appeared frantically upon seeing me and Inoi trying to escape.
Did Illinois hold some important position in this village?
“Illinois, if you help me escape, I’ll take you to the casino!”
I proposed a deal to Illinois.
Then Illinois grinned wide.
“I feel very good…! Core Ye-rim is somehow stopping me from going to the casino…! The house master must keep his promise…!”
“Sure.”
Illinois bit her finger, as if satisfied.
Whip-!
Then came a strange whistle, and a shadow fell lightly over my face. When I looked up, I saw something enormous flapping its wings in the sky.
It was Kalilnoi.
“Everyone, we must escape on Kalilnoi…! In fact, I wanted to escape from this village without a water dispenser or shower too…!”
“I, Inoi, also found myself wanting to play ‘Mechanical Snail 3’…! I must also work hard on the ‘Summer Story’ that I started with the nymphs a while ago…!”
“Of course…! It was a nymph-friendly game where you catch orange mushrooms and snails…! Most importantly, the fact that spending cash makes you stronger is excellent…!”
I didn’t quite understand what the nymphs were talking about, but it was fortunate that Kalilnoi was there. I climbed onto the back of Kalilnoi with the nymphs.
Flap-! Flap-!
Kalilnoi flapped its wings energetically and soared into the sky.
Despite the combined weight of me and the nymphs easily exceeding 100kg, Kalilnoi flew high without seeming to mind at all.
Soon Inoi said.
“I, Inoi, am a nymph without wings, but I am flying in the sky…! A friend with wings is carrying Inoi…!”
Inoi was a nymph who loved to fly. However, I worried that Inoi might fall, so I tied a rope made of Bang Bang spider silk around her waist.
Flap, flap-.
As Kalilnoi continued to flap its wings and fly, I asked everyone.
“So where should we go? I heard there’s a powerful demon called ‘Gwangakryong’ somewhere in this jungle, do you know where it is? If we defeat that guy, we can escape this rift.”
We had to defeat the rift boss.
Right now, I had nothing I could call ‘equipment’, but instead, I had Bang Bang, Kalilnoi, and Ahn A.
Bang Bang…!
Zzzziii…!
Good.
And after training my ‘wild sense’ these last few days, I felt confident that I could fight better alongside the animals.
A big hunt to save people and test my strength.
It was natural to feel my heart flutter.
Whirlr-!
At that moment, I felt a great heat on my face.
When I turned my head, I saw a hot pillar of heat rising to the sky from a distance like a fiery column.
It wasn’t a simple natural phenomenon.
It was literally a pillar of fire.
As far as I knew, there was only one person who could produce enough heat to melt the surrounding landscape.
Seo Ye-rim.
“Kalilnoi! Let’s go there!”
Shhh-.
I pointed to where the pillar of fire was rising while stroking Kalilnoi’s nape.
Whoosh-!
Kalilnoi changed direction and descended.
Soon, I landed in a place where the ground was charred black and bubbling like lava, and I spotted Seo Ye-rim, who had her arms crossed.
“Seo Ye-rim!”
“What! How did you escape, Haildo?”
“I, Inoi, worked hard…! Surely no nymph would have rescued heroes in danger like I did…!”
I quickly explained the situation using Nymph’s unique chatter.
Seo Ye-rim understood everything in an instant.
Now it was my turn to hear Seo Ye-rim’s explanation.
“What on earth happened?”
“I fought with the demon who seems to be the owner of this rift. But it ran away. It’s quite a strong one among S Rank demons. Well, it wasn’t a match for me!”
“I see.”
Seo Ye-rim dusted off the blazing flames on her palm.
To be relaxed even after facing a strong S Rank demon was indeed impressive.
Though I did miss my chance.
# # #
Whirl-!
The female warriors scowled as they looked at the huge pillar of fire rising.
An act that clearly violated the laws of nature.
It was the work of a ‘witch’.
“Witch─.”
The acting chief Rose clicked her tongue.
They halted the wonders of the supreme crow hunted by the new tribe member Yu Ara and chose to advance toward the direction of the pillar of fire.
It was because there was nothing more important for the Amazons of Leaf Village than to defeat the witch.
“Let’s hurry! We have to catch the witch!”
“Now it shows its true colors!”
“It’s clearly trying to set the forest on fire! It’s trying to destroy our homeland!”
The female warriors were stirred up.
Seeing this, Lee Jin-A could read a mixture of fear, terror, and anger in their emotions.
Jin-A asked Coris, who had followed along with the female warriors.
“Why do those people hate witches so much?”
“I, Coris, am not sure, but according to the rumors, the witch destroyed the world…! That’s why the warriors could not escape from this jungle…!”
The witch destroyed the world?
Jin-A furrowed her brow at the unexpected story.
Soon, the acting chief Rose opened her mouth.
“It was after the Trojan War. Suddenly, a great calamity struck the world, and everything started burning to ashes. A rain of sulfur fell from the sky, and the rivers ran dry.”
The Amazons were people of the world alongside nymphs.
Jin-A thought she might learn why many nymphs, including Coris, wandered through the rift and settled in the 21st century.
“The prophets and witches said that doom had come to the world. But most heroes who could have stopped it had died in the war. That’s how we were annihilated.”
The destruction of the world of the nymphs living in the world of Greek mythology.
It was said to be due to the fire and sulfur that came one day.
Jin-A had never heard such a story before.
Though she didn’t show it, Yu Ara was also listening to this story from the side, memorizing important information in her heart.
Soon, Coris trembled slightly.
“Hyek…! I had no idea such things had happened…! It means I would have become a boiling water nymph in a world filled with fire and sulfur…!”
Shhh-.
Then Yu Ara, organizing the information, asked.
“So, is it true that the ‘witch’ destroyed the world? Is there a connection between fire and the witch?”
“That’s…, we don’t really know the details. The chief probably knows. The chief said that the witch caused all this. She wouldn’t be someone to lie. She has lived longer than any of us and is the wisest sorceress. Of course, that’s an old tale. Now….”
The acting chief Rose looked up at the sky where the pillar of fire was rising.
In those days, when suddenly the rivers dried up and mountains and fields burned, the sky glowed with a reddish hue.
This wasn’t a good thing.
“That’s why I hate witches. I told them to stay quiet as much as possible, but…!”
Rose could tell that the witch, Seo Ye-rim, was not a bad person. She was just a woman whom the nymphs respected.
But Gwangakryong wouldn’t think that way.
The mad fairy who was the owner of Gwangakryong would not think so either.
Prick-.
The first to react was Coris’s short fairy ears.
“Something dangerous is coming…!”
The second to react was Yu Ara.
She immediately took a fighting stance.
