Chapter 541 – IF I Am Alone in Another World 27
The next day.
Dojin stopped by the guild and heard some very welcome news.
“The knights are missing?”
“Yes. There is no record of you leaving the city… He’s not at the accommodation, and there’s no sign of him going anywhere…”
“Did you get robbed?”
“Are you a driver?”
Fion burst into laughter as if wondering if that made sense. Dojin also added his voice to her empty laughter.
That’s right. Although they did not show many outstanding skills in the dungeon, they were knights. Human weapons that have been trained throughout their lives.
It was truly absurd for an anti-human weapon that had only learned the skills to deal with humans, not monsters, to be attacked by robbers. Even though it’s dented and damaged, isn’t the full plate armor they’re wearing going somewhere?
‘If they were able to achieve success by attacking a knight in the first place, there is no way they would remain as robbers…’
In other words, it was reasonable to assume that the knights went missing for truly unknown reasons. And that sound.
“So you’re saying I can just go without them today?”
“That’s how it goes.”
“It was only for one day, but the debt is still the same?”
“Ah, ah- Dojin. Please just take a look. “Yes?”
“There is no way.”
Pion, who remembered her promise from yesterday, suddenly showed cuteness, but Dojin did not fall for it. It wasn’t that Pion lacked good looks, so other adventurers might have fallen for that beauty, but at least it wasn’t Dojin.
He is a sword that has controlled her emotions, and even more so, hasn’t he recently had sex with her beautiful elf that can’t even be compared to her? Now, I am not so shabby as to fall for the beauty world of mere humans.
“Okay then.”
“Do, Dojin-!”
Leaving behind Pion, who anxiously called out to him, Dojin headed towards his colleagues who were waiting for him.
After confirming that the article did not stick today, Orion and Rise smiled as if they were very satisfied.
“Leader, what about those people yesterday?”
“Not today. “You originally said it was until yesterday, right?”
“Is it so? That’s good. He was being so flirtatious that I almost wanted to hit him…”
After completing the confirmation process again, Orion naturally clung to Dojin’s side. Rize, who didn’t care about that at all, just followed behind the two.
The three-person party thus formed headed to the dungeon again.
Yesterday, the day came to check the tactics that could not be confirmed due to the sudden intrusion of knights.
* * *
Sagrak, Sagrak-.
“Leader.”
“Okay.”
Inside the dungeon. Orion hears the sound of footsteps gently scraping the floor and sends a signal. Dojin drew his sword and stood guard in preparation for an unexpected attack, while Orion summoned the spirits.
-Giggle!
-Kyahaha!
-Hello, friends!
The spirits that appeared in response to the elf’s song moved according to Orion’s command and flew towards the monster in the distance.
After a while, the monster that had received the one-sided attack skidded on the ground and ran towards Dojin and his group. A monster whose lower body looks like a snake. It was Naga.
“It’s coming.”
The slide easily exceeded tens of kilometers per hour. I don’t know exactly how much the naga weighed, but it was a monster twice as large as a human and was moving its body as fast as a car.
The weight of those muscles could never have been light.
If you hit it, it’s clear that the impact would be similar to or worse than hitting a compact or mid-sized car. Dojin just held up his sword and blocked the front.
I just trusted my colleagues.
“Spirit, listen to my song. “Exterminate the enemy who tries to stop this chant!”
-Is it the enemy!?
-Is it a fight? I should join in too!
-Caw! How many kills do I have to kill this time?
The spirits let out bloody sounds and moved forward. It didn’t take long for the spirit and the Naga running at tens of kilometers per hour to collide.
At the moment when the Naga’s body passes through the spirits, shattering them like smoke, the Naga’s body starts to tremble! It started to burn.
─Keeeeek-!?
The moment the lubricant leaking out of the skin caught fire, I screamed in pain and slowed down. That was a defeat.
The spirits grabbed the slowed down Naga, tore it apart, froze it, burned it, and attacked it.
Naga, who realized that something invisible was attacking him, belatedly waved the spear in his hand, but it was a futile resistance.
The spirit is not visible. Not only is it invisible to the eye, it is also not real. Spirits only interact with elementalists.
What about those who are not elementalists? You can’t even look at their presence, let alone touch them.
Monsters were no exception.
─Keeeeek! Kiyaaaaak-!
After being hit several times, Naga goes crazy and swings his weapon wildly. But you can’t hit someone you can’t see.
When I was swinging my weapon so recklessly and I lost my strength.
That’s when Raize started chanting magic.
A new naga suddenly regenerated from behind.
─Keeeeek-!
Assault. At that time, both of the rearguards were unable to react and were just shocked. Dojin’s body moved reflexively.
“─Hmm-!
One blow.
Maeng Ho is imminent.
The sword flew quickly like a tiger and cut off Naga’s arm.
Separation.
Seungryong doctrine.
The sword that came down rises upward again and cuts the upper body diagonally.
Three strikes.
Gwana Cheolsan.
The sword thrown out pierces the Naga’s heart. The Naga’s heart gets caught on the tip of the sword and comes out of the body, and his heart turns into a magic stone.
Dojin, who hunted the monster after three attacks, shook off the blood on the sword and carefully led it away.
“─What are you doing? Rise. Deal with it.”
“Oh, yes-.”
Rize, who was watching the scene, fired magic at Naga, who was suffering. Just like that, the two Nagas turned into magic stones.
After finishing the hunt, Dojin rested his chin and analyzed the current situation.
‘It’s not bad…’
What if Orion couldn’t use elemental magic? He should have been in charge of dealing with the monsters approaching from afar.
However, now that elemental magic can be used. Monsters from a distance can now be hunted by alternately using Orion’s spirit and Rise’s magic.
Even if there was a sudden surprise attack by a monster like now, I was able to respond as much as I could.
“Good. “I think it’s going as I thought.”
“… The leader is not even surprised.”
“Are you surprised? Because the performance is better than I expected. I think I’ll just have to try it a few more times, and it will settle in completely.”
Dojin said that and moved his feet to find another monster. Orion and Rise, who saw that, burst into laughter and followed suit.
Indeed, he mutters that he is a man whose heart is also made of iron.
* * *
After finishing hunting in the dungeon.
The group split up from their respective guilds.
“Then tomorrow, in the sand.”
“Yes. Leader. “Don’t put too much effort into it.”
“I don’t have that kind of relationship with Rise.”
Unfortunately for Orion, it was unable to monopolize Dojin. Because today was the day to continue magic experiments at the Magic Tower.
That’s why the day I became alone. It’s lonely but not lonely. Solitude is so familiar to Orion, an elf, that he is now as familiar with it as air.
Orion, who returned to his lodgings and was alone, summoned the spirits and talked to them.
-What happened? What happened?
-Why did you call me?
“Just… “I want to hear the stories of the spirits.”
-Us?
-Story?
The spirits did not have the intelligence to tell high-level stories, but at the same time, they had the wisdom to tell simple stories.
They talked about the world. They talked about nature, they talked about flying dungeon cities, they talked about humans who couldn’t see themselves and elves who saw them.
We talked about the world tree that grew in the great forest, and the world tree that grew in the dungeon territory.
It was a nostalgic, nostalgic story.
“… “Good.”
Listening to the whispers of the spirits, it felt as if I had returned to the great forest. Around the time I was in the arms of Mother World Tree. Even though she had no aptitude for spirit magic, she went back to the time when she heard the voices of spirits.
To the childhood that everyone misses.
“I wish I could live like this for the rest of my life…”
-Kyahaha!
-We always!
-I’m by your side!
Listening to the spirits talking in their sleep.
Orion quietly closed his eyes.
I feel drowsy. She was able to get a very deep sleep for the first time in a long time.
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Early morning.
A day when the sun beats pleasantly on your whole body.
Orion opened her eyes and stretched her arms, greeting her spirits.
“Umm… Good morning. Mr. Jeongryeong.”
But strangely, no voice was heard. I guess it’s because I’m asleep… When Orion, feeling her confusion, finished washing her face and opened the window of her room.
The time when her natural energy was focused on her.
Orion spoke to the spirit again.
“Mr. Spirit? Spirits? Where are you?”
Since this is a spirit that likes to play pranks, is this also some sort of prank? That’s what she thought. But that wasn’t the case. The spirit did not speak to Orion that day.
It was only then that she realized that she had lost her power to call upon her spirit.
The fact that you can’t see them, touch them, or call them.
The terrible feeling of loss came over her.