Chapter 243: Divine Spirits Whistle (2) (1/2)

“What are you doing?”

“Marking my territory.”

Kajsa nodded and clapped her hands in response to Cordelia’s answer. Because she finally understood Cordelia’s strange behavior.

“I see.”

Cordelia was now clinging to Jude, and rubbing her cheeks on his back.

Or rather, she was rubbing her head all over Jude’s body to be exact.

His neck, his back, and his head too.

“But why are you suddenly doing that?”

“Basically, the five senses of elves are more sensitive than humans. So if they smell me, their conscience will tell them to withdraw.”

Bentham was slightly impressed by her logical argument that she said with an indifferent expression.

‘As expected of a wizard.’

Even if they were both beasts, she was a little different from Kajsa.

They had only spent a short time together, but he could already tell that Cordelia was of the same kind as Kajsa.

But unlike Bentham’s impressed look, the real beast, Kajsa, gave a different opinion.

“I don’t think that’s going to work.”

“Eh? Why? Are you saying that sirens don’t have a conscience?”

“Uh, no. Not in that way. Rather, they’ll like it if it smells like you, I think? Because it means that they took someone else’s. Since sirens only have women in their race, they view men as a kind of resource. They need a lot of children to build up their family’s power, but they need a man to do that. So they share the man within their family, but never with other families. Rather, if they take a man from another family, it will be for the joy and pleasure of conquering someone.”

At Kajsa’s explanation, Cordelia was frightened by the erofu that were beyond her imagination, while Bentham was somehow impressed that Kajsa could give such a long explanation.

“So the sirens go together as a family when hunting for men. Unless they want to go on a really large scale man hunting.”

Cordelia was once again scared at Kajsa’s words.

She couldn’t help it since she heard a strange word.

“M-man hunting?”

“Yes, that’s what sirens call it when they seduce and capture male sailors with their songs. And well, the dryads living in the empire also do something similar.”

Dryads were also a race made up of only women.

They were famous for luring men into the woods and sucking the men’s energy.

“T-those erofu. What kind of monsters are they really? Are they succubi?”

“Well… they’re similar, I think?”

As Kajsa shrugged her shoulders and spoke, Cordelia hugged Jude a little tighter as if she felt a sense of crisis.

And at that frightened rabbit-like appearance, Kajsa shared more scary stories.

“Jude must be popular because he is handsome, young, and has a good body. Perhaps families will wage wars against each other. They’ll try to capture him. Or perhaps, he’ll be shared by the entire kingdom and not just the families?”

At this point, it was already close to a horror story, but for Cordelia, it was a really intimidating story.

She put more strength in her arms holding Jude.

“I-I’m going to protect Jude.”

In fact, Cordelia had been in a state of panic since earlier.

The cause was the strong emotions that she felt in her dream that she couldn’t properly remember.

Her fear of demonic human Cordelia.

Her sadness for the Jude who lost everything and became obsessed with revenge.

Her attachment to Jude who was the only person that remembered her past life as Yellow Storm and shared secrets that she couldn’t even tell her current family.

As all of these emotions were mixed into one, her affection for Jude grew stronger, as if she had become the child in her dream who was wandering around in search of Jude.

And Jude responded to Cordelia’s actions like always.

In other words, he was smiling in delight.

“Ha, that’s an annoying expression.”

Kajsa frowned and criticized him, but Jude didn’t care.

He wasn’t even listening to her in the first place.

“B-by the way, Kajsa. Does that mean that Sebastian and Bentham are in danger too?”

Kajsa smiled at the question of Cordelia who seemed to have become like a child.

“It’s all right because I’m guarding Mister Sebastian well. As for Bentham… sirens also have a taste. They do not like all men.”

“I see… That’s a relief, Mister Bentham.”

When Cordelia spoke with a convinced expression, Bentham said with a troubled expression like a mature dwarf instead of raising his fist.

“No, it’s not? I’m also popular, okay? The sirens like me too, okay? Bald dwarves are especially popular among sirens, okay?”

“I understand. There are times when one needs to rationalize to mentally cope with reality.”

Kajsa smiled benevolently as if she understood everything, while Cordelia gazed at Bentham with sadness and then said.

“Cheer up, Bentham. Cheer up.”

There was a strong feeling of compassion at the appearance of her cheering him up as she lightly pumped her fist.

Therefore, Bentham became angry again and lightly pound on his chest in his frustration, while Kajsa held her sides in her laughter.

“Moving on… the story is as follows.”

It was Jude’s job to organize the situation like always.

Kajsa and Bentham focused on Jude like Cordelia did because they had not yet heard of the post-battle situation.

“First of all, the sirens rescued and brought us to their realm. As you can see now, Kajsa and Bentham are fine and without any injuries, while Lord Sebastian has a few additional injuries. He’s unconscious because of the aftermath of the brainwashing, but he’ll wake up sooner or later. The sirens are singing healing songs for him. Hopefully, they can successfully get rid of his bewitched state.”

Cordelia nodded, and Kajsa and Bentham turned to each other at the explanation Jude gave.

They weren’t as good as Jude and Cordelia at having a conversation with their eyes, but they were able to understand what the other was thinking perhaps because a consensus was formed.

‘Isn’t he just talking to Cordelia?’

‘We’re just extras here.’

Or rather, they didn’t even seem to be extras from the way Jude talked.

In any case, Jude’s explanation continued.

“The Kraken we encountered this time isn’t the one from the deep sea. It’s the one who was sealed in the sea here and had woken up.”

Krakens being called the demons of the sea was not a metaphor.

Krakens were actually a kind of demon.

When one of the overlords of hell, the violent Behemoth, descended on earth, the Krakens came together with him and accomplished the feat of virtually destroying Perigeo, one of the ancient elves’ kingdoms.

“The Krakens back then numbered seven. Four were killed by the elves of Perigeo, but not the other three.”

The other three suffered serious blows from the elves of Perigeo, but they were not killed.

“Two of the three ran into the deep sea, and the other seemed to have been sealed deep in the sea by the sirens of that time.”

“They didn’t kill it?”

“I don’t think they could afford it.”

The enemies of Perigeo were not just the seven Krakens.

Because there were many demons and monsters that attacked Perigeo on the land side.

“Therefore, Perigeo was eventually destroyed.”

Anyway, what mattered was the fact that a Kraken was sealed in the southern sea of the Sälen Kingdom.

“Are you saying that the seal was broken this time?”

Jude nodded at Kajsa’s question.

“Yes, the seal was released. Chloe said that Perigeo’s Crystal Ball that was keeping the seal had disappeared.”

“Perigeo’s Crystal Ball?”

“It’s a legacy of the ancient elven kingdom. Think of it as a mana generator.”

“Hmm…”

Kajsa furrowed her brows in her uncertainty, while Bentham’s eyes were sparkling.

Because he found a mana generator left by an ancient elven kingdom to be interesting.

And aside from these two, Cordelia’s lips twitched as she lightly pulled Jude’s sleeve.