Chapter 19 - EPISODE 19 – SACRED ROD (4) (1/2)

Time had passed, and when Jude and Cordelia opened their eyes, they suddenly found themselves sitting in the valley at midnight instead of the fairies’ banquet hall.

“Achoo!”

We were in a daze for a while, but when Jude suddenly sneezed, Cordelia came to her senses and looked around.

“The valley? Are we back? The banquet’s over, right?”

They had been desperate earlier, but now, Jude nodded to her comment.

“That’s right, it’s the valley. The banquet is over. It’s over!”

“Wow! It’s over! It’s finally over!”

Cordelia jumped up and down in the water and hugged Jude. He embraced Cordelia too, as they both felt emotional and relieved.

For twelve hours, Jude and Cordelia spent their time at the fairies’ banquet hall after their meeting with the Fairy Queen.

“Ah, f*ck. I will never sing Little Star again.”

Cordelia shuddered as she was fed up with it.

She was made to sing it not just 6 times but more than a dozen times. Moreover, it wasn’t just Little Star.

“Yellow Storm.”

“Why?”

“Do you only know the nursery rhymes?”

She had sung Three Bears after Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Cordelia said with a snort.

“No, it’s not? I know a lot of other songs. I adjusted it to that of a fairy’s level, okay?”

“Okay…well, it was cute.”

In fact, Jude himself could only sing in full a handful of popular Korean songs.

Jude laughed and moved on, and Cordelia pushed Jude away from their hug and then grumbled.

“Moving on, I really thought I was dying. In the game, I didn’t understand the true meaning of the line, ‘Time has passed,’ that was said in passing. But now, I realize that this isn’t something a normal human could completely do.”

“I agree.”

Playing with dozens of fairies felt like taking care of dozens of beagles at the same time.

Cordelia was made to sing endlessly, but both also had to struggle hard among the fairies, especially Jude, who was well liked because of his handsomeness.

“The Fairy Queen too, was a fairy.”

“Yeah.”

Jude could still remember in his eyes the elegant-looking figure of the Fairy Queen smiling and even encouraging the fairies trying to undress him.

If the Fairy Queen hadn’t come out in person, I would’ve been very thankful to her.

“Haa…”

“Huu…”

Sighing almost at the same time, Jude and Cordelia soon sneered and laughed.

“Regardless.”

“Mission clear.”

The two did a high five before looking at their own loot.

Cordelia got her hands on the sacred rod, Moonlight.

Moonlight is an item that can be recharged by converting moonlight into mana. It was a very useful tool for wizards who always had to suffer from constantly running out of mana.

‘It has a built-in lethal move too.’

It was the true reason why Jude tried to get the Moonlight.

It would clearly play a big part in their fight against the Devil’s Hand.

‘And the Fairy Steps.’

Looking at the silver ring on his right index finger, a smile was drawn on his face.

The number of uses was limited to once per day at Jude’s current level, but that alone was something to be very grateful of.

In essence, it was like having another life.

“Hehe, the Bicorn’s good too.”

“Yeah, it’s good.”

Twelve hours have passed at the fairies’ banquet, but in reality, only ten seconds have passed.

Jude and Cordelia looked back in the direction where the Bicorn collapsed. With faces mixed with joy and awkwardness, they looked at the Bicorn’s corpse floating halfway in the water.

The reason was simple.

“Umm…I suppose we’ll have to pull it out from there?”

At Cordelia’s question, Jude nodded.

“Because it doesn’t drop like in the game.”

But it was also a good thing.

When you defeat the Bicorn, you can get two horns.

In the game however, it was very natural for it to be an uncommon drop.

‘I defeated it, but I only got one horn or didn’t get any at all.’

Whereas in reality, you could obtain not only the horns but everything else too.

“Don’t worry too much. The knights would do the collecting.”

“Oh yeah. We’re the children of counts, right?”

Cordelia felt the sweetness of power again.

“Miss! Young master!”

“Where are you! Young master!”

“Miss!”

From afar came the voices of the knights.

It would be strange for them to not notice the bursting of a tremendous amount of light and the roaring sounds.

“Miss! Where are you! Lady Cordelia!”

“Young master Jude!”

Dahlia and Maja’s voices gradually approached. Cordelia made a long face and said while looking at Jude.

“We are…”

“Yes, we are.”

“…in a lot of trouble, right?”

“In a lot of trouble.”

We’ll certainly not be scolded…

It didn’t stop at the two of us stealthily sneaking out, but we also fell into the water and made a mess of ourselves.

“Don’t worry, Cordelia.”

“Huh? Do you perhaps have a plan so that we won’t get scolded?”

“No, just…”

“Just?”

“If you give up, it’s easy.”

Jude smiled refreshingly, and Cordelia gave him a middle finger.

***

Jude and Cordelia were exceedingly scolded.

Sir Zebeck, a knight from Count Chase, was in charge of the party’s journey. Count Bayer and Count Chase had put him up as their proxy, and so, he issued Jude and Cordelia a ban on going out of the carriage.

“If the young master and miss would find it necessary to spend some time alone together, this humble knight would offer to make it possible.”

In front of Sir Zebeck who spoke very seriously, Jude and Cordelia could only bow their heads.

But it wasn’t really that bad for them.

In the first place, there were no more matters that we persistently need to go out and take care of in our journey to Langesthei.

Rather, it was good for the two to discuss their future plans while being alone together in the carriage.

‘I’m sorry for Dahlia, but…’

Sir Zebeck severely scolded Dahlia for forgetting her escort duty and exposing the two to danger. He imposed on her a pay cut measure as punishment.

Cordelia worked hard to defend her, but it was inevitable.

‘However…is it fortunate that our public opinion is favorable?’

The public opinion referred here was the knights of Count Bayer and Count Chase.

In reality, they now didn’t find it surprising for the two to go to the valley. It was because of the circulating rumors about how Jude and Cordelia deeply yearn for each other since last week’s daytime runaway.

What the knights paid attention to, was the fact that Jude and Cordelia defeated the Bicorn together.

“Young master, you’ve become very strong.”

“Ha, the young master inherited the count’s talent after all.”