Chapter 364 – Toward the World Tree (1)

The moment Dojin arrived at the mansion, Bree, who saw them, jumped out with a tabi and greeted the group.

“Dad-!”
“Briya, you didn’t have an accident, have you been well?”
“Absolutely! Is it not it? Are you Ruby?”
“…… Yes.”

Ruby’s face starts to blush after hearing Bree’s words to her. I wondered what had happened between the two, but Do-jin turned his gaze to Bree, not caring.

Like a puppy meeting its owner after a long absence, Bree’s tail was wagging frantically from side to side.

“Brie.”
“Yes. Dad!”
“Are you tired of being here?”
“…… No? It’s okay!”
“I don’t mean anything, so tell me.”
“… Little? A little bit. Really little.”

As a rule, beasts tend to have a wide range of activity. Even beasts like tigers require an area of ​​​​400 km radius, not to mention the chaotic water that even gods have chewed and swallowed.

Likewise, this mansion was too small for Bree, who was still young but a chaotic beast. It was also a great stress for him that he couldn’t tour the city like the others because of the fearsome power he possessed.

Dojin sympathized with Bree’s stress on her. Wasn’t he like that too? In his childhood, he couldn’t go anywhere except school and home.

“Finally, I have a place to go on a trip – do you want to go?”
“—I want to go! Where are you!?”
“Elf kingdom.”

In a way, it could be said that it was Bree’s maternal family of hers. Because the world tree there was the same as the world tree that gave birth to Bree.

Naturally, Bree was delighted as she jumped on the spot.

* * *

“Tell me how to drive a carriage.”
“Yes.”
“Um…… It’s not easy to tell, but….”
“This is the tuition fee.”
“I’ll make it so that the horse can scratch peppers with its feet.”

Do-jin, who wanted a carriage to the elven kingdom, learned how to ride a horse lightly. Until the middle, he was able to take his coachman with him, but after that, it was the Great Plains of the Beast tribe, where human access was restricted.

He learned the not very difficult horsemanship, and even tried pulling a wagon himself in the middle as a test.

“How are you, are you okay?”
“Yes I’m okay. Husband.”
“Husband? Why is your father your husband?”
“…… Bree. You should call me Mom.”
“I am not your mother.”

Bree, who had been studying while at the mansion, wondered why Iris called Dojin her husband her after learning what the word husband meant.

During this process, Iris slightly frowned upon hearing the unbelievable word ‘Ajumma’, but she couldn’t be angry with Do-jin’s son.

She sighed lightly and began her explanation.

“Mom promised her future with her with Do-jin, so that’s why she calls her husband!”

“Um…… It’s hard!”

“Hehe, it may still be difficult, but…… It is easy to imagine that she is married to her husband her.”

You never made a promise—Do-jin swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth and watched the coachman’s expression quietly sitting next to him.

Fortunately, he didn’t seem to have imagined that the woman riding behind him was a saint. Hagiya- what kind of person is the saintess?

Was n’t she cursed to see her flesh blind, hear her voice deaf, and even touch her skin her make lightning fall from the sky?

If she had been a saint, she would have gone deaf right away—so the coachman seemed to think.

‘I’m glad.’

Soon after, the carriage arrived at the border. After handing over the reins to Do-jin, the coachman got off the carriage and got on the second carriage wanted by Do-jin.

“This is it. If you do as I’ve told you, you’ll be fine. Then we’re done…….”

As if he was uneasy about being in a place where a beastman might appear at any moment, the coachman quickly disappeared with his companion.

After receiving the reins, Dojin waited for them to disappear, then crossed the border and entered the Great Plains.

Not long after they entered the Great Plains, the border guards of the Beast tribe, who smelled humans, quickly ran and stopped Dojin’s carriage.

“Stop… Dojin?”
“Oh, long time no see.”

Ho-yang, who found Do-jin in the carriage, approached Do-jin with a bright smile. Other prisoners who knew Dojin’s face also lowered their weapons and let their guard down.

Do-jin was a hero of the beast people. He was the hero who stopped the Black Axis rebellion and saved the warchief—there was no one who didn’t know his face.

“Long time no see. What’s up? Do you want to see the chieftain?”
“No, I’m going inside today.”
“Inside? Ah— the kingdom of the elves?”

Recalling that a certain human had entered the elven kingdom, Hoyang nodded, thinking that it must have been Dojin.

If it was Do-jin, it would be no problem if he sent it, so Ho-yang jumped on top of the carriage and sat down next to Do-jin.

“Uh-cha-! What are you doing? Leave!”
“No-you, don’t you follow the border?”
“Border? Hey, this is the Great Plains? Where is the idiot who jumps over on his own?”

Ho-yang said that she was worrying for nothing and started shaking his hand. Dojin tried hard to hide the fact that the idiot was riding behind him.

Even if they are beastmen, I don’t know Iris’ true face…… If she was a prisoner who could remember her smell her, she might be.

“Come on, Kazuah! Oh, if someone finds me, they say they went to see the chief for a while. Understand?”
“Yep!”

After notifying his subordinates his, Hoyang started to shake his body from side to side while singing his hum song. It was an act that cats and animals do without even knowing it when they are in a good mood.

Do-jin, who has never worked part-time job, couldn’t understand it.

In an instant, the carriage headed toward the dorms where the beastmen ate and slept. They were the beast race that was the most distant from words like science and civilization, but surprisingly, many things had changed from before.

“…… Now the building has been erected.”

“Yes! The warchief said so. It’s not good to be too tight. Accepting progress is just as important as being with nature.”

“Okay?”

Do-jin listened to Ho-yang’s explanation and looked at the buildings built instead of the tent. It was still lacking compared to the 21st century Earth where Do-jin lived or a large city like the Dungeon Spirit…… Compared to the days when a tent was set up and claimed to be a house, it has improved considerably.

To say that it has grown from the primitive era to the ancient era- the reason why it was able to jump over dozens of centuries at once must be because there is already an advanced civilization around it.

“Hoyang, where are you during working hours…… 100 million-! Dojin-sama!?”
“What!? Do-jin?”
“Where are you?”

While by the road that has now become a village, the attention of the surrounding prisoners began to focus passing on a word spoken by the prisoner who recognized Dojin’s face as his.

Fortunately, when they saw Do-jin, they didn’t rush at him like a celebrity or ask for his autograph his.

Everyone got down on one knee and showed their respect for the hero who saved the beast race. Of course, it was more burdensome for Dojin.

‘I’d rather rush in and scream that I’m a fan…….’

Thanks to Kahi, I knew very well how idol fans react to idols. Rather, that was better.

Rather than kneeling down and paying homage to some kind of king or god.

“What do you think? Do you like it?”
“…… Why is this?”
“Why is it that respect for the strong is the instinct of the beast race?”

Yield to the strong
Weakness is a greater sin than evil.
It was also one of the reasons why the beast race did not develop.

However, facing all sorts of dangers coming from the outside, the Beasts acknowledged their insufficiency and faced a cataclysm.

Accepting civilization was just one of them.

“The warchief will be over there.”

Saying that, Hoyang pointed to a tall building on top of a hill. A building with a view overlooking almost all of the Great Plains.

A building that puts all the beastmen under its feet, a structure that anyone other than the strongest would have dared to build. It was a heavenly mansion.

Do-jin, who arrived at the front of the stairs, told Iris and Bree, who were riding in the back of the carriage, to wait for a while and climbed the stairs.

At the same time as climbing hundreds of stairs, eyes fly from all directions. Only then did Dojin realize why this place was built this way.

‘I made it so you can see at a glance who dares to challenge the chief…….’

If it was made like this, there would be no unfortunate incidents like before where someone would attack and take the chieftain’s place.

All the beastmen will become watchers and watch out for anyone who challenges the chieftain. Challengers who don’t fit their ranks, or those who don’t stand out from them, will be weeded out on their own.

The moment he climbed all the stairs, Do-jin was shocked to see the door open naturally upon his arrival.

-Come in.
“…… It’s a surprise.”

I thought it was an automatic door that wouldn’t exist in this world. Chun-hwa, feeling Do-jin coming from inside, must have opened the door with her magical power her at the right time.

Sorcery is very convenient-thinking, Do-jin moved his feet into the building. The moment you enter, the space is distorted.

The surrounding landscape changes, and the Cheonhwa, which has been there as if it had been there from the beginning, appears.

“You’re here. Kid.”
“How long have you forgotten your name already? Shall I teach you again?”
“…… Noisy. Kid.”

Realizing the meaning of Do-jin’s words, the tail of Cheonhwa swayed gently.

Realizing what she wanted, Do-jin smiled at her and sat down in front of her.

“Sorry, I’m a bit busy right now.”

“Yeah, well—you’ll have to pass this place to get out of the Great Plains anyway. Did you say you were going to the elven kingdom?”

“Yes.”

“It looks like he’s been impatient because he hasn’t seen you yet…… Be good to you Don’t get me pregnant before me.”

“Are you impatient?”

Hearing Cheonhwa’s words, Dojin recalled what the elves, who were not impatient with, had done to him.

The elves who were masturbating on the roadside while secretly spying on passers-by…… What if the elves who couldn’t see Do-jin found Do-jin?

He might be captured and raped by the elves en masse.

‘…… I really have to sneak in.’

Dojin thought of a way to quietly enter the elven kingdom.