Chapter 483 – [A Guide for Transcendents Traveling in the Post-Apocalypse]

The body of a giant earthworm-like body was properly pulled out onto the desert. About one-third of it is buried, so only that much.

Even if it’s just the weight, it looks like it easily exceeds tens of tons… Ruri’s face was distorted after seeing the body of the dead guy.

“Ah!!!! I can’t take it with me because it’s over capacity!!!!”

“Originally, sand dragons are not individuals, but go out to subjugate cities, but…”

“Doesn’t that mean that dismantling is also necessary on a city-by-city basis?

The drum is a pretty decent vehicle, but it’s not a vehicle. At most, it would be possible to load tons of goods, but there is no way to load by-products from dismantling dozens of tons of monsters when there are already loads.

However, it takes time and attention to go to the city and ask for cooperation… In the end, it means that we have to neglect it.

“For now, let’s take only the important by-products. It would be beneficial if we only took out the actual speed.”

“I did the catching, so you have to take care of the disassembly, right?”

“Jjomsaeng!”

Even if I didn’t help, with Ruri and Jinkyo, disbanding was possible. The bodies of the two are normal, but it’s only a matter of time since a powered suit assists their strength.

Ruri cuts open the stomach and takes out the intestines. Large, sticky, red intestines flowed out, giving off the thick smell of blood.

“Decision! Where is the spirit crystal!”

“It’s the most expensive, so you must find it!”

Me, Xion, and Baekhee laid out something like a parasol on the deck of the Drum to create a shade and watched while drinking tea with ice cubes under it.

If it was the equipment of the drum ho, there would be ice, but I had to save power, so there was no space to make ice in the freezer, so I just made it with my ability.

If you can burn it with Samadhi evolution, it goes without saying that the opposite is also possible. It is very frozen and does not melt easily even in this heat.

A drink that will make your head spin when you sip it! Kyaaaaa!!!

“…Even though there are many talents, there are too many”

“Are you dissatisfied with a lot of things you know how to do?”

“It’s not like that. Even if I just saw it, telekinesis, flame, flame ice… There was no sorcerer in the empire who could handle such a variety of powers.”

Did I mention there are shamans in this era? It’s a similar name to Sorcerer or Shaman, so you can probably think that the title has changed over time.

However, even with the technology of that time, it seems that no one was as good as me. In fact, the existence of transcendental beings is rare, so it’s natural, but…

“On top of that, the physical ability to turn the imperial guards who were injected with the finest strengthening serum into something like that. It wouldn’t be too difficult to kill such a gigantic monster with the power of the empire, but killing it in one blow with pure personal ability is like a mythical freshman it’s possible”

“Hmm…… On the other hand, it might be natural.”

This ability is definitely convenient. If you learn and master it, you will surely be able to rise to a high level and enter the transcendental world.

However, considering the technology of the empire in the past, it focused on increasing its versatility and dissemination, not on individuals.

Just as it is natural for knights in the Middle Ages to be stronger in combat than modern ordinary people, the development of technology brings about individual decline. In this world, there may have been people who became transcendentalists a long time ago, but they may have gradually disappeared as technology developed.

It is not for nothing that the Jade Emperor of the Moorim dimension puts a civilization skill level limit and focuses on martial arts. This is because the more struggles and the lower the skill, the faster the development of this ability.

Think about it. A shot of a gun can kill a pro who has been devoted to martial arts for over 10 years, but who struggles to learn that?

When it reaches a certain level, it becomes difficult to kill except for the transcendent, but it is hard to try to reach that level. Even if there is a frontrunner, if the number of latecomers gradually decreases, the lifeline will be severed.

“Even in the Empire, I’ve never seen anyone like you. I don’t think even strategic weapons can defeat you. You… Who the hell are you?”

“Looking at how smart you are, I think you’re guessing roughly. Didn’t you hear something?”

“Did you already know what happened yesterday?”

“Roughly”

Baek-hee, who entered the inn while I was holding the funeral of an unknown girl and drinking with Ruri, stayed awake.

You must have heard the conversation between me and Ruri, so you must have guessed. However, guessing and understanding are different categories.

“There were stories I knew, and there were words and conversations I didn’t know. It looks like they came from a place far away from here, but it’s hard to confirm more than that.”

“I have no obligation to tell you anything.”

“It’ll be enough if you find out yourself.”

“You know what?”

“Because I have to be sure whether it’s an ally or an enemy.”

“Are you saying that out loud?”

“You’ve been watching my face closely since before. If you’re at the level of you, don’t you have a means to judge lies by reading facial expressions? Then, I calculated that being honest would make a good impression.”

“This is why I don’t like quick-witted guys.”

Personally, I hate this type. It’s hard to touch a ruler who is smart, quick-witted, and capable, so he tries to attract them as an ally after exploring at a distance. Besides, if you have a good personality, even more so.

Most of the rulers in this world are full of desire without ability, and I like only a few of them, so it feels a bit wasteful to just kill them.

How beautiful a civilization with a rather decent monarch looks when playing the king of demons……

“Ahh!!!!! I found a fucking big spiritual stone!!!!”

“What is it, can it be a sand dragon urinary tract stone?”

“I can understand the damn behavior if something like that is in the bladder.”

Ruri, who was dismantling it in the middle of it, took out a stone that looked like a candy cane sprouted from the belly of the sand dragon and shouted.

It’s roughly the same size as Ruri’s head. It has some sticky blood on it, but it’s a shiny material, and it looks like a pretty jewel even from here.

“Oh!! Isn’t that a brilliant absence?”

“You know?”

“Unlike what I know, the size is very large, but I know that it is usually created in the body of an animal. It can be used in various fields, but it is usually used as a gem.”

“If you make something like that into an ornament to use as a jewel, did people in the days of the Empire carry at least one blunt weapon?”

“That’s why I said the sizes are different. All I know is that even if they were big, they were only the size of a fingernail.”

“I don’t think there was an animal like that in those days?”

“It couldn’t have been”

A long time has passed since the empire fell. Humans also changed and claimed to be nobles with white skin, but there is no way that they did not change as animals.

Ah, I don’t call them monsters or monsters because I don’t feel alien to them. It looks like something out of a creature movie, but it seems to be working as part of nature.

“There was no such thing as a sand tiger before.”

“In the end, it’s a blessing in disguise”

Ruri and Jin-gyo dismantled and collected only the important parts of the four dragons, and discarded the rest of the by-products. It is certain to rot or dry out in this weather anyway, and there is a high probability that other animals will eat it in a few days.

“Hmm, that’s a bit strange.”

“Huh? What?”

“Even though I’m weak against living things, this feels a little strange. Judging from Baek-hee’s reaction, it seems that this is a creature that didn’t exist in the past. Isn’t it strange that a new creature like this is appearing no matter how much time has passed?”

Raised the problem of Zion. The part she has her doubts about is the very existence of the four dragons.

Evolution includes progress and regression. However, in the end, it means that there is a standard, and that is why there are animals that are the original sources of four dragons.

……What? Is it weird when you think about it?

Evolution changes over time. At most, the difference of a few generations does not reveal the change immediately. It’s natural that your distant ancestors don’t look like you, but the smaller the generation gap, the slower the change, just like how your great-grandfather looks like you.

“A creature like this should have a long lifespan. Even if it had the size of an elephant before the fall of the empire, it would take 10,000 years to evolve to this size.”

“Uh……Sorry.

“Then how do these creatures maintain their bodies when they are not even buoyant in the water in the first place?”

“… Come to think of it, is that so?”

Under the physical laws of general gravity, there is a limit to the growth of living things. So the largest animal on Earth is about the size of an elephant on land, but in the sea there is a much larger whale thanks to its buoyancy.

But obviously, the size of the sand dragon was not the size that was bound by the general laws of physics. I wonder if they were also affected by spirits, but…Even considering that, the issue of evolution remained.

Click.

……Ah, I just instinctively feel like a piece of a puzzle has been put together. It seems that we are one step closer to the cause of this planet’s demise.

“Anyway, what’s up!!!! If you sell this on the black market, you can get 30,000 yen!!! Keueueueu! These days, money has exploded! It’s exploded!!!!”

“I only collected the net waste of other by-products, so if I sell them all, 10,000 young will come out!!”

The by-product alone is the price of one water lizard, but considering that the size of the sand dragon is more than several hundred times larger, it was a reasonable figure. Originally, when you kill a large animal, there are many by-products.

We packed up and set off again.

All that was left was the corpse of the sand dragon, which would soon return to nature.

*        *    *

She shouted as Lurie gathered together before dinner.

“There’s a briefing before we head into the next city!”

While grilling the best parts of the four dragons’ meat, I heard what Ruri was saying.

Unlike the giant earthworm-like appearance, the meat was subtly similar to beef. It’s no joke that the juice is dripping after baking with salt and spices purchased in the previous city. Although the taste is less because it is less aged, it is still good enough to eat.

“Mmmm, it’s delicious. It’s definitely better than Taeryeongsuksu’s skills. I consider myself a gourmet, so I was worried that the food wouldn’t taste good on a journey like this, but it was unfounded.”

“It looks good because you eat well.

“Ah! Wait! Why don’t you listen to me? First of all, I’m the leader of this party!”

“Wasn’t he the worst?”

“Jingyo! You too!”

We decided to listen to what Ruri had to say for a while.

Actually, strictly speaking, we are following Ruri’s journey, not ours. Besides, the opinions of the locals cannot be ignored.

“Once the next city we arrive at is the town of Ki-young, one of the largest cities in the South.”

“Kiyoung…That’s a family name I’ve heard of.”

“Huh? Does anyone know?”

“At least I’ve never heard of the name Hwaja. If you were a blood relative of the Kiyeong family at that time, you remember the family tree, but since you don’t have one, you must be that descendant.”

“Come to think of it, what about Jaeho Yugwi?

“He……”

“Why are you bringing that guy up here? Put it in if it’s not important right now!”

Ruri, the person being chased, cut off the story. It’s because that’s not what’s important right now.

“Anyway, the place we’re going now is the place we’re going to avoid Jaeho Yugwi and Jinrang Yoju in the south who seem to be on the same team. I don’t think they’ll be able to influence them because they’re pretty much that way.”

“Isn’t that good news?”

“But I can’t say that Ki-young’s city is a good place. First of all, it’s several times bigger and several times more crowded than the cities I’ve seen before, but there are also a lot of bastards.”

“Oh, that’s wrong”

Have you ever heard of the law of preservation? In the end, there are more than a certain amount of idiots in an organization. The larger the number of organizations, the higher the number.

Shion made a rough guess and sighed, sensing an event that would happen in the future.

“I’m sure there’s a very high chance of getting into trouble. At least, even if the two of you go around covering your face, you’re going to get entangled in some way and it’ll be noisy.”

“So what?”

“If you want to get serious, reveal your true identity. I’m just covering it up by exposing that I’m a nobility.”

“Would that be okay? Wouldn’t that just make the problem worse?”

“Even if it’s rotten, it’s fair to say that wandering nobles are nobles in their own way. Even nobles treat each other for the sake of face, and even if they lose their residence or power, it’s not like they don’t have something, so they’re treated better than a lot of power. That’s why it’s better to carry the tiger’s prestige.”

“You’re trying to escort the escort.”

It’s a good idea. I don’t want to use a big way to escape a short crisis, but rather, it becomes more dangerous if you don’t use such a thing as the law is far away.

I’ll try to be as careful as possible… But I don’t have a good feeling about it.

“The most important thing is not to commit murder in the city. And not to fight with the city’s public power, the guards. If you keep these two things in mind, the guards will side with you, so it’s okay.”

“Do both?”

“You’ll be pursued by Jaeho Yugwi, Jinrang Yoju, and Kiyoung narrator at the same time. It’s going to suck.”

“………”

“Why do you look at me like that, my wife?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know?”

No, I wasn’t that trustworthy!