Chapter 107 - EPISODE 107 – ENCOUNTER (1) (1/2)
The sight of 30,000 eastern troops heading west was simply spectacular.
As the wild gods joined the ranks, their advance became different in many ways from normal troops.
The most noticeable one was the changing of nature.
“Blessings of the Spring Breeze.”
Gentle Snow Breeze began to sing, and the hot air of the spring breeze melted the snow and drove away the cold.
It was something that she couldn’t do now that she had left her sanctuary, but she was not alone.
Great Storm added power to the wind, and Blade Song strengthened the power of the song by singing in harmony with her.
The troops moved forward as winter was driven out.
The troops moved forward as spring trailed after them.
Each time the wild gods used their powers, the miracles became more powerful, and the morale of the eastern army soared up high as if it would pierce the sky.
“It feels like victory is in front of us.”
Sun Song spoke with a pleased expression as he walked side by side with Red Wind who also smiled.
His hasty proposal had already been rejected, but that did not mean Red Wind and Sun Song could not see each other.
‘I’m honestly not sure about getting married. Couldn’t we be friends though?’
After Red Wind rejected his proposal, Sun Song decided to take a step back.
Even he himself had thought that it was a hasty proposal.
Moreover, the Great Storm and Blade Song tribes became the center of the eastern army, so the two would-be leaders of their tribes had to work together to properly fight.
“The western army have also begun their march…we’ll probably meet them in Snow Breeze plain.”
Red Wind nodded at Sun Song’s words.
This single fight wouldn’t determine the fate of the east and west, but it was the first head-to-head confrontation, so they must not lose. They had to win.
‘Unnie.’
Red Wind nodded again to Sun Song as she looked north.
The Sky Roof mountain range divided the wild lands into the east and west.
Due to the harsh environment, it was a land of death that not only people but even the wild gods avoided.
Jude and Cordelia were there now.
They were there for their crazy plan of striking the west at its rear by going through the Sky Roof mountain range.
‘They’re seriously crazy.’
The two alone would cross the Sky Roof mountain range.
The two alone would destroy the rear of the west.
‘But I think they can do it.’
If it was the two of them…
If it was Jude and Cordelia…
‘And if they really do it…’
The west would stagger from the unexpected punch.
It was a plan that even the east, who was their ally, thought was crazy.
‘Unnie…and oppa.’
I look forward to seeing you again. In good health.
Red Wind gently closed her eyes as she brought her hands together in prayer.
She thought of the smiling faces of the two.
And at that same time…
While was Red Wind was imagining them warmly smiling, Cordelia was yelling curses.
“F*ck! I think I’m going to die!”
In the middle of the Sky Roof mountain range…
Jude and Cordelia were on their way as they fought against the powerful icy cold wind that blew violently as if to cut their flesh.
“F*ck! F*ck!”
It was Jude this time and not Cordelia.
Jude usually didn’t swear, but the Sky Roof mountain range made even him spout curses.
“Haa, ugh…mana, I’m running out of mana.”
Cordelia gasped and said as she worked hard in maintaining the <Shield> magic while on Jude’s back. Jude began to look around in order to find a place where they could rest.
“How long can you hold out?”
“5 minutes?”
Jude and Cordelia’s climbing method was simple.
Cordelia was carried on the back of Jude, who had drunk the ancient medicinal drink and gained a stronger body.
While being carried on his back, she spread out the shield to block the wind and also warmed the air inside the shield to somehow maintain warmth.
Jude steadily went up the mountain in that condition.
It was an incomparably simple method but was quite effective.
“Found it! Hang on for five minutes! Okay?”
“Okay…brrrrr! Fu-!”
As Cordelia grit her teeth, Jude hastened his steps.
He approached a place where there was a rock face and found a suitable crack that was not exposed to the wind. He drew his fist as he shouted at Cordelia.
“Release the shield!”
“Ack!”
Cordelia screamed instead of answering as she tightly hugged Jude’s body and released the shield. And at that moment, the violent and biting wind struck Jude and Cordelia.
“Juuude!”
Cordelia cried right behind his back, but he couldn’t properly hear it. Jude strengthened his lower body to maintain his balance as he thrust his fist in between the unexposed crack in the rock.
Black Dragon Release Technique!
Instead of a cross, he released a pure energy to break the rock face, thus making the crack even bigger.
“Good!”
This much should be enough.
Jude quickly pulled out the Cozy 1-pyeong from his waist and threw it into the crack, and a round tent was created in the span of one breath.
“Get in, get in.”
Cordelia weakly said as her teeth chattered, and Jude opened the tent’s entrance without delay before going inside with a jump.
“Haa.”
A breath of relief came out when the entrance was sealed up.
Even though the Cozy 1-pyeong was carelessly expanded inside the crack in the rock, it had a cozy feeling as its name implied.
“Haa…haa…”
It had only been a few seconds after she released the shield, but Cordelia’s whole body seemed to have frozen hard.
Jude quickly untied the podaegi and put her down on the floor before he used the Black Wolf Skin and transformed into a wolf.
“Okay, the fur is comple-”
Cordelia stretched out her hands before Jude could finish speaking.
She tightly hugged Jude, who now had shiny black fur, and curled herself up.
“Haa…haa…so cold.”
The cold wasn’t a joke as it was worse than when they were in Frost Anvil.
They felt cold even though they had the Winter Protection, but if they didn’t have that, they would have frozen to death the moment the shield was released.
“Cold, cold.”
As she repeatedly said the same word, Cordelia hugged Jude tighter.
Her embarrassment and so on caused by Adelia had already disappeared a long time ago.
She no longer cared about being embarrassed as living was more important.
“Ah…warm…”
It was thanks to Jude circulating his Qi energy around his body to give off heat.
Cordelia said as she buried her face in the fur of Jude who was like a human heater – no, a wolf heater.
“Haa…I can relax a little now…”
Six days after they headed to the Sky Roof mountain range…
It had only been two days since they actually started climbing, but the two had already climbed up the Sky Roof mountain range by half.
“We’re only two days away now.”
Jude spoke as if comforting Cordelia, who closed her eyes.
It was a feat that would surprise even the wild gods if they heard that they crossed the Sky Roof mountain range in just four days, but for Cordelia, her only thought was that she had to do this crazy method for two more days.
But she was Cordelia. After having calmed down, she asked in a worried voice.
“Jude, are you okay? Does your back hurt?”
“Eh, it’s okay. Though a certain someone wasn’t as light as a feather when I carried them on my back.”
“F*ck.”
“My princess, why are you suddenly swearing?”
“Because Red Wind isn’t here?”
“Wait a minute, has your swearing recently decreased then?”
“No, well…it’s not just because of Red Wind.”
Cordelia’s foul language had significantly decreased for the past month.
As she had said herself, it was because of Red Wind – or to be more exact, what triggered it was the embarrassing incident that took place near the border, but there were actually other bigger reasons for her change.
‘Is her Cordelia side showing more now?’
More than two months had passed since they awakened their memories of their past lives.
In the beginning, the influence of her previous life that suddenly appeared was so strong that she became more like Yellow Storm than Cordelia, but it was not now. Her two selves had begun to assimilate with each other.
‘Because we were reincarnated and not transmigrated.’
Both of them had lived for 17 years as Jude and Cordelia.
And every time he thought about it, he realized.
This was also a real world.
It was not the same as the world in the game.
But that made him even more afraid.
The future that awaited them.
If everything went according to the original story in the game, this world will eventually meet its end and be destroyed.