Chapter 161 – Chapter 17

Little bit

“Ugh… Go away…!”

Feeling something moist on her cheek, Akina let out a scream-like groan as her whole body screamed in pain, as if she had vigorously exercised using all her muscles.

The first is intense cold.
The second was a pain that felt like my whole body would be torn apart.

‘What… Hey… ! This… The pain… !’

After reaching Origin, she instinctively tried to use mana, having never felt the screaming pain of her muscles.

“What?”

However, she felt perplexed when she realized that she had not even a single drop of mana in her body and that she could not collect mana.

Once her body stopped moving in pain, Akina opened her eyes, and her face grimace at the bright green leaves and the sunlight streaming through the leaves.

‘Sunlight?’

“Heh heh heh heh-“

She then turned her head to the strange breathing next to her, as she wondered that she had seen the sunlight.

As she met her eyes with the pure white wolf, Akina reflexively tried to swing her fist at the she-wolf.

“Aaaaagh!”

But feeling muscle pain all over her body, she screamed in agony as if her whole body was being torn apart.

“Ki-ing- Knung-“

However, the white wolf answered with a whimper that could not feel hostility despite her death and screams.

A strangely handsome white wolf.
It is also strangely friendly to itself.

“Kaisent?”
“Kong!”

When I said the name that came to my mind instinctively, the white wolf barked happily and turned around to express joy.

“…What the hell is this?”

While I was unconscious for a moment, something happened that I didn’t know what was going on.

In the end, her head was left blank as she couldn’t accept the situation, and it took about 30 minutes for her to come to her senses.

“Ugh… So let’s check the situation.”

While taking her rest, Akina, whose body aches were relieved a little, sat down on her ground, and she sorted things out with her chi cent, which had become a wolf.

“I, you, Shirin. When the three mana collided like this, for some reason, the mana runaway phenomenon occurred.”
“Phehe.”
“And when I regained my senses, it was a forest I had never seen before, and I became a wolf and couldn’t return to human form.”
-Yes that’s right.-

Kai Sent communicated by slicing the ground with her claws.
Because of the oral structure of wolves, it is difficult to imitate human speech.

“I can’t use mana either. I can’t use mana and I’m being moved to an unknown place. The situation is serious.”

She was worried about what would happen to her own men, but now she had to worry about herself before others.

It has fallen somewhere and cannot use mana, so if you suddenly face an enemy, even if it is not a big deal, it will come as a big problem.

“First of all, in a safe place… Fuck it! Damn it…!”

Akina tried to get her body up, but the pain in her body forced her to sit down again.

-Wait a minute.-

When Kai Sent heard that she was experiencing muscle pain all over her body that made it difficult for her to move, she left the message and skillfully went into the forest grass.

When she didn’t come back after about 10 minutes, Akina felt ominous.

‘If… Did he run away?’

Even a lump of luggage that can’t use any power in a place where you don’t know where it is.
It is a situation where there is nothing strange about tolerable people abandoning and running away.

‘No, that child left me like this and ran away? That can’t happen.’

The Kaicent he had seen so far was a naive, kind, and sincere child who didn’t know how to do it.

He may be trying to find something, but since this is the first place he’s seen, he must be wandering.

For now, I thought so in my head, but as the silence with no human presence continued for 10 or 20 minutes, an ominous feeling began to settle in.

Parsec–

“Ugh…!”

Then, when she heard the sound of something moving in the grass on the other side of the grass Kai Sent entered, she tried to move reflexively, letting out a moan at her terrible muscle pain.

“Sniff sniff.”

Fortunately, the white wolf, Kaicent, came out of the grass.
He handed Akina the strange plant she was holding in her mouth.

– I’ve been looking for a wild herb that has healing properties. Chew the leaves as if crushing them, then swallow.-

It was a herb she had never seen before, but thinking she had to do something about it, Akina crushed the leaf like chewing gum and swallowed it.

After a while, she could feel her muscle pain recover somewhat with a strange feeling of refreshment.

“Whoa~”

Perhaps thanks to the therapeutic effect, the body still suffers from muscle pain, but at least it is able to stand up on its own.

“Thank you, Kaicent.”
“Woogh. Panting heh heh.”

Kai Sent may be happy to be helpful to Akina, but he expresses his feelings by spinning around her legs.

This is because the wolf’s face could not reveal the rich emotions of a human.

‘Why is this kid so cute no matter what he does… !’

Even though he has become a wolf, his every action is cute and proud.

In addition, he seemed to be wandering here and there, seeing his figure with twigs and unknown leaves buried in his fur, doubting this child made him feel so foolish.

“Let’s find a safe place for now.”
“Kong.”

Akina, unable to use or collect mana, decided to find a place where she could recover at least her body.

This is because if you can use only a powerful body that has reached the realm of Origin, you can easily deal with tolerable enemies.

“Hook- whoop-wook- whoop!”

Enduring the throbbing pain in her lower body with each step she took, she moved while receiving Kaicent’s worried eyes.

‘I have to protect Akina-sama.’

The situation is serious.

Akina barely moves.
Forest for the first time.
She herself is unable to use mana and her divine power while immobilized in wolf form.

The belt collided with mana runaway, destroyed the inside, and lost contact with Artemis.

At least, the belt has a self-healing function, so if time passes and the repair is completed and you can enter the zero dimension, your chances of survival will greatly increase.

‘Will everyone be okay? The fact that we moved to the unknown forest means that the knight named Shirin also moved, so if everyone joins forces, we will be able to retreat sufficiently.’

She knows the strength of Lillian’s party best.

For them, even in the worst case, losing a single body would not be a problem.

Anyway, now, rather than escaping from her mysterious forest, Akina had to rest in a safe place until her condition improved.

‘Let’s not panic. First of all, we have to check the dangers around us.’

When I first fell into this world, I was stranded in a thicker and more dangerous forest.

‘Seol-young noona protected me when I was frightened. It’s different this time.’

Although she cannot use mana and has become a wolf, the strength of her tempered body remains.

Believing that any danger she could handle herself, Kaicent rallied all her nerves to protect Akina.

After that, I kept moving, but fortunately I didn’t encounter any monsters or dangerous animals.

The real problem was different.

“Hak. Lower jaw. Whoa.”

Her armor was destroyed by the mana runaway, and even the function of the magic clothing she was wearing over it, like Lillian’s, was broken, and Akina was sweating even in the cold of winter.

As she sweated, her body odor became stronger, and as she became a wolf, she took over with her keen sense of smell.

‘There’s an incredibly good scent rising from behind… !’

Kai Sent caught Akina’s body odor giving off her sweet and sour addictive body odor, and she kept losing her concentration.

I succumbed to the temptation and glanced at her from behind. Excluding the snow-white high-legged magical clothes, her pure white skin glistening with sweat glistened enchantingly in the sunlight falling through the wind-blown leaves.

Still recognizing Akina as her beauty, he had to hurriedly turn his attention to her figure, which was all thin cloth clinging to her body.

‘Wake! Now is not the time to think about that!’

Kai Sent, who scolded herself and regained her sanity, checked Akina’s condition again.

Because of her muscle pain, her face frowns every time she takes a step, and her legs are shaking.

I think I’m holding on somehow now, but if I keep this pace, I think it will spread quickly.

‘I need to rest first.’

After quickly looking around her, he made sure that there were no other smells around her, and then sprinted towards Akina.

“Kyong kong.”
“Kaisent?”
“Can-can-can.”

Kai Cent isn’t very flat, but he points to a small rock where he can sit and rest.

Recognizing that it was about taking a break at this point, she shook her head.

“I can still move more. I need to find a safer place… Yay?”

Denying her rest, Akina jumped up on her own two legs and she couldn’t overcome Kai Sent’s force pushing her towards the rock.

Eventually, she sat down on a rock and admitted she was exhausted.

“Ha, I see. I’m going to rest, okay?”
-I’ll take a quick look around here and come back. Resting here.-

Kaisent, who carved the words into the ground, sprinted away and disappeared in an instant.

‘Whoops. He’s a trustworthy little knight.’

To be honest, I didn’t feel like Kaicent was reliable.

It’s because the impression of looking fragile is also an impression, and being still young eats up all the strengths he has.

However, the boy, unable to use mana and fixed in the shape of a wolf, quickly adapts to this situation and rather protects himself.

‘Are you protecting me? Me?’

At that time, Akina, who became aware that Kai Sent was protecting her, felt the emotions she felt for the first time.

She has been fighting while protecting others, because she has never been protected.

She still doesn’t know how to express this feeling, but when she is terrified, Kai Cent, who has been exploring her surroundings for her safety, returns.

“Kang! Kang Kang!”

But as if she had found something good, she hovered around Akina and got up on her feet, revealing all of her expressions.

“Wait. Kaicent. Calm down. Calm down.”

Kaisent, who expressed all the joyous movements possible because he was a four-legged beast, tried to lead Akina somewhere while biting Akina’s hand so that it didn’t hurt.

“I’ll go. Whoa!”

Giving strength to his throbbing legs, he began to move in the direction Kaicent pointed.

Perhaps it was because she had been fortunate enough to rest, or perhaps because she had gotten used to this pain, her gait was a bit quicker than before.

“This?”

Akina walked away for a while and found an old hut in her eyes.

“Is it the lodge of forest keepers or hunters? It seems that there are no monsters nearby.”

Since the forest is a place where many monsters live, having a hut like this also means that it is a safe zone where there are no threatening monsters.

Still, the possibility of a trap could not be ignored, so I carefully checked my surroundings.

The inside of the cabin was dusty as if it had not been used for a long time, but now it was a good thing.

‘It’s unsettling that it hasn’t been used for a long time, but at least it’s not a problem caused by monsters.’

If it was a problem caused by monsters, this cabin would have been destroyed long ago.

“Sniff sniff.”

At that time, Kaicent, who started smelling something, found a flint near the furnace.

“Good find. Thank you, Kaicent.”
Hehe.”

Akina, who expected homelessness, thinks that she is lucky that she can sleep warmly, and she strokes the head of Kai Sent, who has found this and that.

-I’ll look around here more.-
“If you are in danger, you must run.”
-Do not worry.-

Kaicent left to look around the cabin for safety.

‘I have to do something.’

Thinking that she couldn’t entrust everything to that child, Akina started searching the inside of the cabin.

Fortunately, she was able to find household items such as pots and bowls, although they were dusty.

‘I know that these shelters are public goods used by hunters and herbalists alike. However, there are no signs of being used for a long time…’

Since I was sure earlier that she wasn’t a monster, there is only one answer left.

‘There is a problem that can’t come here. I don’t know what it is.’

As she learned that it was a stable place to rest until her body recovered, she had a sense of security. Now that her problem was solved, she naturally started thinking about other problems.

‘How was the war situation? The fact that we were moved like this must mean that Shirin is also the same. She might be rather overpowered if she wasn’t there.’

I want to go back to my manor right away and find out what happened.
However, it is not known where this area is located.

‘If it’s the subordinates I personally trained, they won’t do stupid things. But if Sirin’s words are true, it means that the king used me as bait from the beginning.’

Probably, even if this was questioned, the king would undoubtedly pretend to be reinforcements just in case.

‘How dare you do something like that to me.’

But it is clear that she lied to herself.

As Akina pondered her concerns about her men, how she could fuck her king, she felt a sense of presence.

“Kyong kong.”

Fortunately, it was Kaicent who quickly scouted the surroundings and returned.

He began to paint around the cabin, drawing his fingernails on the dirt floor.

The eastern part of the hut expresses something like a river, and the remaining three sides show only trees, letting us know that there are no traces of people nearby.

‘In the end, I’ll have to wait until the body recovers.’

If there are people, I would talk to them and find a way to contact Yeongji, but unfortunately things don’t seem to work out that easily.