066. Han Ji-woo from the Beginning Village (4)

Actually, I thought this schedule was completely ruined because I fell into a trap, but I never imagined that things would turn out so well.

With the help of the manager, I escaped the trap, and in the unfamiliar world where the fishy smell of these reptiles was prevalent, there was a ‘real army’s hometown’, not a fake that the ruler of disaster plotted to catch me.

“Jiu, you seem to be very lucky. What cosmic energy is helping you?”

“… … .”

As the manager said, the continuity of all these events felt too contrived to be a mere coincidence. This made me feel as if I had become the hand of a Go-Stop game someone made and played.

Well, putting that aside for now, now that things have happened like this, going to the Pond of the Beginning and finding and researching parts that can be helpful in upgrading the Legion was the best way for now.

“I need to check before I go there… … .”

“Are you sure?”

When I asked for guidance, team leader Kim Mi-young, who returned to the power of blessing and blessing through a process similar to mine and became the leader of the dragons, said something meaningful.

“So… … Dragons were created by the first rulers to take on the role of guardians protecting this land from outside invasion.”

“Yes, so?”

She hesitated for a moment before speaking.

“What we need to stop is… … It is said that the descendants of the legion aiming for the power of that pond are also included.”

“… … Yes, and so?”

“I’m sorry. Although I was a human in my previous life, now I am the head of the Balaur, who must protect the mission of the race… … .”

“So what do you want to say? I would like you to keep things a little simpler.”

“Even if this makes me feel bad, I can’t help it… … .”

Ah, it seems that this woman is also the type to talk a little too much to wrap up the main topic. Besides, his speaking skills seemed to be better than I thought.

On the outside, she is obviously shy and seems to have a hard time persuading others, but when I listened to her, strangely, she was saying everything she wanted to say.

With that kind of personality, I wondered how she could take money out of someone else’s wallet while selling things at high prices, but I’m sure this woman might take a lot of money if she gets caught wrong.

Originally, a person who secretly says everything he wants to say is the most frightening law.

“I won’t be offended, so tell me quickly. What do you want to say?”

Of course, I’m not much of a fan of prolonging the story with needlessly nitrogen-packed recitations of sentences. In the first place, I was a bit impatient, so it was completely different from people who talk a lot unnecessarily.

“I heard from the manager beforehand, but… … Still, I have to check on myself.”

“What do I need to check?”

In response to my question, team leader Kim Mi-young said something quite meaningful.

“The key left by the Legion… … You have it, right?”

ah, what else am I saying

“Can I go there with this?”

I took out from my bosom a small container of cultured tissues of the first demon that I had prepared in advance for use in an emergency.

Team leader Kim Mi-young, who witnessed the dark energy emanating from the barrel, did not say anything else and immediately started guiding.

“Follow me.”

* * *

The manager and I followed her into the depths of the jungle, where the sky was so thick that we couldn’t see the sky properly.

The forest in this area, where the primitive ecology was preserved as it was untouched by anyone, was very rough, but the road was pierced in an instant even without our hands or hands.

Quaang-!!!

This is because team leader Kim Mi-young, who is said to be the ruler of the dragon race, led the way, and soon gigantic obese lizards appeared from all over the place, smashing everything in their way and forcibly creating a path.

“Oh oh… … .”

The manager, who was watching this right in front of his eyes, was holding a camera that looked very expensive and was filming the scene with a smirk.

What the hell happened to this old man in the past so that he couldn’t use his legs when he saw dragons like that?

Anyway, while we headed for the Pond of the Beginning along this comfortable path, team leader Kim Mi-young started telling stories.

“I opened my eyes and saw… … They say I’m the head of the newly born Balaur… … .”

“ah… … .”

“It was hard… … The elders tried to force me out because I was too young… … .”

“So what? Did you catch them all and kill them?”

“… … yes.”

“Ah, you don’t have to bow your head. I also caught three other rulers and tore them apart.”

Like this, Miyoung Kim and I communicated very well with each other. Well, of course, because this woman and I have been through surprisingly similar experiences.

We were both victims of the old man’s smirking power over there watching the dragon, and at the same time, it wasn’t enough that we broke through astronomical odds and became the head of the tribe.

Maybe that’s why listening to each other’s stories was so deeply immersive that it was different from just listening to other people’s interesting anecdotes.

As long as there are so many things we can relate to, it really took an instant for us to become close.

Of course, Kim Mi-young had much more quality information. It was because dragons were the ones who could leave very accurate records as documents, and she was the head of the dragons that were said to have been created to protect the pond, the home of the Legion.

“If you look at the really old records… … Suddenly, a loud voice was heard from the sky, and the sky became dark and all the stars in the night sky disappeared… … .”

“ah… … It’s like a fairy tale story. And what?”

“That’s all that remains of the records of dragons… … But there are some stories that have been passed down by word of mouth… … .”

She even had some very valuable information about the rice cakes thrown at me by the ruler of calamities.

Thanks to that, I was able to be very confident.

“I won’t be able to bite into such bad rice cakes in the future.”

This woman was a person who would be of great help to me if I built up a friendship like this.

“Ah, we have arrived… … .”

After walking and talking for a long time, the place we met was a place where rugged buildings made of unpolished stones were standing in a very deep jungle.

And not too far from these buildings was the pond of trouble that had brought me and the Lord of Calamity into conflict.

“This is the place where the first Legion was born, and it is said that this is the place where ancient dragons dwelt to guard this pond… … .”

The place that the ruler of disasters or Kim Mi-young calls ‘the pond of the beginning’ is not a pure pond, but a place filled with a very dark green thick liquid that reminds me of poison.

It would be an appropriate expression to say that this is similar to the feeling of a small lake covered with algae and then dried up by a drought and turned into a swampy area.

“This is the place where the first Legion was born… … .”

The young ruler of calamity said that whoever occupied this place would prevent the coming destruction and take possession of this world. Of course, I don’t know how much of what he said was true and how much was a trap to catch me.

But, of all the things he said, one thing is certain.

“I see, there is a hidden power in it.”

It was absolutely true that the pond contained powerful power.

The green liquid that made up the pond looked like it was going through some kind of fermentation process, bubbling up and bubbling up air bubbles.

Just looking at the scene where the poison-like liquids were boiling seemed to be very harmful to living beings, but to top it all off, a very powerful power unknown to me was pouring out in all directions.

“Oh… … .”

The power emanating from the pond was so powerful that it was quite difficult to confront us head-on, even though we were now quite a distance from the pond.

“Isn’t this a bit of a joke?”

In order to block the powerful energy emanating from that pond, I opened up my mental power to the maximum output possible as an incarnation.

Pajijik-!!!

When the golden energy I exuded and the energy of the pond collided in the air, intense sparks began to explode at the point where power met power.

Of course, the power emitted by that pond was not at a level that only one incarnation could handle, so I had no choice but to stop after walking a couple more steps.

“No fuck, I need to get closer and take a look… … !”

In order for me to find a clue about strengthening the corps, I had to obtain a sample of the liquid contained in that pond unconditionally. However, it was really difficult from the process of approaching the pond.

As I took a step toward the pond, this intangible force that began to rush in from all sides was so powerful and heavy that it made me think that it was not a pond but an ocean-level sea.

Since then, there has been no way to approach it.

Just then, I heard the voice of the woman who had guided us to this place.

“Take out the key.”

As she ordered, I took out the holy relic of the First Demon God from my chest.

Then, to my surprise, the dark power that radiated from the holy relic began to erase it very neatly, as if it were erasing the unknown power itself emitted by the pond with an eraser.

“… … what?”

Eventually, the power of the pond that surrounded and blocked me completely disappeared as if it never happened.

Even the water surface of the pond, which had been bubbling and boiling, became so still that it did not even move from the moment the power of the sacred object of the first demon god touched it.

All of this was the result of the holy relic of the first demon in my hand. I couldn’t help but be properly surprised once again by seeing the power of this object.

“This was a complete scam… … .”

Just as people who don’t know how to use it can’t use it properly no matter how good it is, it seems that this sacred relic of the first demon was a much more valuable item than I thought.

This item not only neutralized the magic and power of the demons very easily, but also chewed up the regenerative power of disasters, and even had the power to calm the bloody pond.

Do I really have to say that I am very fortunate that something with such terrifying power came into my hands? If this got into the drinking side, something really terrible would have happened.

Anyway, the reason why the ruler of disasters tried to rip this thing off me even while digging a trap must have been there for a reason.

It was very clear that he, like me, was aiming for the power of that pond, but in order to overcome the formidable power emanating from there and approach it, he must have needed the holy relic of the first demon god.

“Now then, shall we study this pond?”