Chapter 176 – Chapter 18

“My… My… My…”

With his heart pierced, Pezetten fell helplessly to his knees.

“If I fought normally, it would have been dangerous. But it was a defeat that I only knew my ability.”

If Akina had fought while riding her horse as usual, she would have been beaten by a number of battles.

His bad luck is that he didn’t know Kaicent’s abilities.

“What the heck… Are you… What…”

Pezetten questioned Kai Sent’s identity until the end, then hung his head helplessly.

Confirming that her opponent was dead, Akina pulled out her spear and checked her surroundings.

There, Denny, hardened by the fight between the two, looked up at Akina with fear-stained eyes.

“I’m sorry! I can’t even imagine Count Akina…!”
“If you know, don’t pursue it any further. If you pursue it again this time, then I’ll consider it a challenge to the Karaiden family.”
“Yes, yes!”

After saying that, Akina took the spoils from Pee Jetten’s corpse, and headed in the direction she and Kai Sent originally intended to escape.

As the two disappeared in an instant, Denny, who was left alone, barely held on to his wobbly legs and stood up.

‘To think he was really Earl Akina Karaiden. By the way.’

Denny’s anger was directed at Pejeton.

“Using a different type of weapon…!”

He skillfully used dirty weapons of different kinds, and even witnessed traces of magic enchantment.

If it was picked up as a trophy and used, it could be passed because he was an outsider, but it wasn’t that level, he even systematically strengthened it.

Denny, who barely survived by risking his life and dragging time, began to erupt towards Pee Jetten, who used a different kind of weapon, as his colleagues’ dead rage wandered aimlessly.

Denny, determined to ‘purify’ Pee Jetten’s corpse, was about to carry his dead body on his knees.

Pooh!

“Turn it off…A!”

Pezeton’s body, which had apparently been pierced and chilled, moved and stabbed Denny’s heart with the blade of his hand.

Until Akina escaped, she used all her mana and pretended to be dead and held on.

At the same time, Denny’s body dried up like a mummy, while Pezetten’s body began to recover from the pierced heart to the wounds, and vitality began to spurt in his body.

Shredded-

In the end, Denny’s body, which had dried up to not a single drop of moisture left in his body, was split into two pieces as his waist and upper body broke without strength.

“Whoa. This time it was really dangerous.”

Resurrected by absorbing Denny’s life force, Pejeten lightly brushed off the wounded area.

“Ugh.”

However, it must have been difficult for him to fully recover with his life force alone, and blood begins to flow from his scarred chest.

‘Shit. In the western region, all dogs and cattle become knights…’

The knights of the central and eastern regions are all properly educated, and are solidly built from the ground up.

The problem is that knights from commoners have less wealth than those from nobles, so they can’t raise proper seeds, so the overall level is getting lower.

‘Still, I didn’t know, so I brought it, but it was the correct answer.’

Pejeton’s gift is Life Absorption.
As he lived the life of a mercenary desperate to survive, he came to have the gift of making others’ life force his own.

It’s not like taking the opponent’s abilities, but even if their heart was pierced like before, recovery is possible even if they die, as long as they don’t completely stop breathing.

Theoretically, as long as you don’t die, you can recover from any injury.

Akina, who had lost her power, would be able to deal with it easily, but it was fortunate that she had brought a knight just in case, as everyone who had reached that level had a trump card.

‘Of course, to bring a magic bag…’

Earthlings’ weapons that he has collected so far.
In addition, the fruit of enchanting those weapons was stolen by Akina.

‘Still, I did a good job of distributing them just in case.’

Pezetten, who had previously experienced that if he collected and managed all his wealth, he would lose it all at once.

‘Finally, I have to destroy the evidence.’

The way Pezeton was able to hide his evidence was to take the life of the target who used life absorption without fail, and to destroy the corpse in dust units to make it disappear.

He removed his armor and clothes from the dried up corpse, carefully destroyed it, and plowed the ground to dispose of it.

Denny, who was blinded by anger toward the other species, met a lonely death that no one knew, mixing with the cold dirt floor.

‘I need to recover from my injuries quietly for a while.’

One day it will be known that he survived, but only after recovering from his injuries.

‘But what the hell is that white wolf? No, let’s focus on recovery for now.’

Pejeton, who had been hired to hunt the wild west, disappeared without anyone noticing.

Meanwhile, Kaisent and Akina, who were heading east, spread the distance to dozens of kilometers in an instant just in case.

“It’s safe if you’ve come this far… Mr. Seo?”
“Keuk…Keulreuk”
“West!? West!”

However, Kaicent, who drew and used a considerable amount of the Sun Guardians in a short time to kill Pezeton, collapsed helplessly in pain as the aftermath came at once.

‘The chest… Short circuit… It hurts… !’
-Master! Fortune the rest of the ancestors! We have to retrieve even the energy we have now!-

Artemis, who had been shutting up under Kaicent’s command, was worried that if she fainted, her energy would be blown away, so she shouted for luck.

At the sudden situation Akina wondered what the situation was and she was perplexed.

‘I wish you success… !’

At that time, Kaicent concentrated his divine power rather than fortune-telling in pain to strengthen the energy of the heavenly guardian in his body.

– Divine power! Okay! You were thinking of strengthening and restoring the ancestral guardian with divine power!-

Kaicent, who thought that he needed to sacrifice himself to fight Pezeton and win, but also devised a plan to recover the exhausted Celestial Guardian.

Not exactly a plan, but a gamble.

‘Aki… Me… ! Energy… As I remember… Because of luck… Before… Put it in… !’
“Yes, yes! Got it!”

Rather than asking what the situation was, Akina read her memories Kai Sent brought to the surface and gave her luck instead.

It would have been impossible if Kai Sent had done both, but since Akina saved her energy instead of her as a human gift, Kai Sent focused only on using divine power.

As he recovered the Seoncheonchigi that had been spread throughout his body, Kai Cent, who continued pouring his divine power into it, waited for the strengthened Seoncheonjigi to enter the danteon.

When Akina brought in every last bit of her lifeguards into the Danjeon, Kaicent, feeling the intense life force spreading from his lower abdomen, passed out in excruciating pain followed by a soft feeling of fullness.

*                           *

Noisily noisily—

“Oh! Is this a ten man from the forest? It’s strange.”
“It seems there were animals and monsters from another world.”

Heint Empire, research fortress near the city of Dahadern.

In it, adventurers exploring and gathering the forest that covered this terrain from another world, as well as wizards and scientists studying, were moving noisily.

‘Whoa. This mission is pretty tough. Since he had such characteristics, I thought it would be over with a little effort.’

And a member of the East Continent’s information organization, Renoir’s Golden Hair, who entered as one of the adventurers, sighed.

‘The Moorim, Lee Jong. Female. Its blood is toxic, so even getting close to it poses a risk of poisoning, and its veins are green. It’s a characteristic that can only be found quickly when you hear the explanation like this.’

The problem is that it is in a vast forest where the heterogeneity is unknown.

‘I had high hopes because the terrain was covered by a forest from another world near Dahadern.

Since the Heint Empire is actively researching and developing, I thought that if I waited for about a month, something like an eyewitness would come out, but it seems to be wrong.

I’ll investigate for a few more days, but he sighs, worried about where his superiors will send him this time.

‘Living in a place like a corner village is not life, but survival.’

The gang member, whose future was uncertain, decided to have a drink at a bar made of prefabricated buildings.

“It’s a scout!”
“Injured! Everyone get out of the way!”

At that time, the gates of the Research Fortress were opened and soldiers shouted and began to clear the way to the infirmary.

“Mage or priest with the ability to decipher! I’ll pay for the treatment, so anyone can come to the treatment center!”

The person in charge of the reconnaissance party desperately sought someone with the ability to decipher, and all those carried away by the soldiers were poisoned by poison rather than trauma and were coughing up black blood.

‘This!?’

The sense of having lived as a member of an intelligence organization until now is wriggling.

When the atmosphere was moderately organized, the members met with one of the soldiers they had become close with to obtain information.

He has a lot of close friends, so the speed at which he gets information is fast, and he has no special personality, so it’s easy to get close to him.

“Hey, what’s the fuss about? Did a poisonous alien monster appear?”
“Uh…Um… Well, it’ll be known as time goes on anyway, so it doesn’t matter. Still, we should keep our mouths shut until our superiors make an official announcement, right?”
“Of course. You know how heavy I am, right?”

The organizing member who bought a lot of alcohol for this day (with the activity money provided by the superior) was already half-sure before the soldier spoke.

Because all his senses are screaming that he is the target he is looking for.

“There’s a heterogeneous human living deep in the forest.”
“Did you attack this way?”
“I don’t know that much, but they say it’s a poison that gets poisoned just by getting close to it.”
“He’s alone. Are you a man or a woman?”
“Crazy bastard. You get poisoned even if you get close to it. Does that matter? She’s a woman, you bastard. According to eyewitness information, she looks like a Moorim person.”
“!!”

Lee Jong, a Moorim. Female. German. Vast forest.

As soon as the member confirmed that he perfectly matched the transmitted characteristics, he immediately left.

“Thanks for the info. I’ll buy you another drink later.”
“Don’t tell me anywhere! You know!”
“Because I know.”

If time was wasted before being formally reported, an order to move to another place would have come down.

Members of the organization, who wanted to announce that they had found the target, purchased carriage tickets to the city of Dahadern.

*                           *

“Ahhhhh…”
“West!”

Upon regaining her consciousness, Kaisent opened her eyes and was greeted with warmth, Akina’s face looking down at her with her weeping face, and the familiar white ceiling.

“Ah… Kina…”
“Yes! That’s me! Are you okay!?”
“Wait for a sec…”

After contemplating his body, Kai Sent breathed a sigh of relief as he felt that most of his innate guardians had recovered.

“Whoa…”
– It’s not whoops. You haven’t fully recovered your congenital guardian, have you?-

Then Artemis scolded in a disapproving voice.

“But this is only about 10 years. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to survive with a lifespan of 10 years?”

In the original world, the lifespan of a dragon is 1000 years based on pure blood.

Kaicent, who inherited the blood of a dragon from his pure-blooded mother, the blood of a transcendentalist from his father, and learned martial arts to increase his lifespan, can live to be over 1000 years old.

He had a lifespan of a thousand units, but he survived with only 10 years of lifespan, so you might think it’s a gain.

“Don’t say that!”
“Oh, Akina?”
“Seobang-sama! You’re so young…! You’re so small and young…!”

Akina was very sad that such a small, cute, and lovely boy had to sacrifice his life at the cost of his life.

But even sadder than that was the boy’s smile at the fact that he survived at the cost of his lifespan.

No matter how much you think about it, it’s not something a boy who hasn’t reached adulthood would say.

“Never again! Whatever happens! Don’t use your strength at the cost of life!”
“But…”
“Answer!”
“Yes!”

When Kaisent was forced to answer in a similar way to training himself, Kaicent went into trainee mode and answered without realizing it.

But he smiled inwardly at the thought that he was loved.

“By the way, how are we in the dimensional warehouse?”
-The owner operated it directly in manual mode in preparation for an unconscious state. I also told Akina that the master used his powers by consuming his heavenly guardian.-
“I see.”

Artemis answered in a voice that was still gruff and cold like the chill of an ice planet.

Kaicent realized that the more he dwells on the past, the more he is at a disadvantage, so he decides to check the future situation.

“Are there any problems now? Can we just go all the way to the east like this?”
“Yes. I killed Pezeton, and the surviving knights knew that I was not a heterogeneous species, so there would be no pursuit.”
-And if you need to, you can use this.-

Artemis held out a gun with a magic circle on it with her mechanical arm in front of the two of them.

“It’s the weapon that Pejeton was using.”
-Yes. It’s a primitive gunpowder weapon, but it’s magically enhanced, so it’s quite useful.-
“Wow. I’ve never seen gunpowder weapons since I was born. People in the past really used gunpowder weapons like this.”

In the original world, he had only seen weapons such as lasers, plasma, anti-gravity, and nuclear fission, but Kaicent, who had never seen a weapon fired with gunpowder, fiddled around with his gun as if it were strange.

“I can’t even see the weapon registration system. People in the old days didn’t have a weapon registration system in case their weapons were stolen or stolen, right? Huh? Do you have to manually use the safety device? Wow. It’s a really old weapon.”

For Kaisent, who takes weapon registration and safety device control through bio devices as common sense, the fact that she had to manually switch the safety device came as a culture shock.

‘Now I’m like a child of my original age.’

It’s a little annoying to fiddle around with firearms like toys, but the children of Yeongji see the knights’ weapons and say they’re cool and want to own them, so it’s comforting to think that it’s similar to them.

Akina wants the masculine side that has subdued her, but also wants to have a boyish sensibility suitable for her age.

Embracing such a complex mind, she smiled happily at the sight of him acting like a child.