Published at 4th of February 2022 12:04:24 PM

'The prize.'

I sang a joyous song into my heart. To a certain extent, the feeling was different to hear with two ears in person.

"First of all, grab the horses you let go. I don't want to walk in the wilderness for days on two feet at this age."

"Okay."

Jean shifted her steps to find the horses. Tracing was not difficult because the wilderness was full of footprints.

Fortunately the horses did not run very far, thanks to their tamed ways, and Jean was soon able to find the warping horses in the drying pool.

When I brought the horses back, it was completely night.

"Great work. Sit here."

Tadak, Tadak... ....

A well-smoked bonfire was burning before Vanessa. There was sizzling oil from the beef jerky stuck in the wooden skewer, and there were also a few trimmed fish that were caught from where.

Then there was a drink that went over three bottles. Vanessa picked one of them and poured it into two glasses.

'You loaded the wagon full of stuff before you started, was it alcohol? You said I wouldn't pass the exam, but you prepared for this.'

Jean grinned and bowed.

"Vanessa, thank you for your hard work hard. I didn't expect you to prepare me for such a wonderful drinking party."

"Because I was treated all the time in Tikan."

Kang, bang. The iron glass bumped and the liquor was bubbling.

The alcohol that fighters drink is strong. Unlike ordinary people, a trained body does not easily get drunk with a light drink.

In that sense, the liquor Vanessa brought was horribly poisonous. As soon as I swallowed it, I felt like I couldn't handle a decent uninhabited island, as soon as I could react in my body.

'Better than the jeweler I drank before getting the photocardium.'

Vanessa, who was drinking this kind of alcohol without a glass of wine, looked amazing.

She drank the glass without a word to empty a whole can. Jean tried to keep up with the pace, but realized that she was lost in her own thoughts and waited still.

There seemed to be sadness in the wrinkled eyes of the bonfire.

"Do you remember when you said, when you spent your time in Tikan for no reason, that there was a time that reminded you of me?"

"Yes, I remember."

"I did it because I thought of my brother. I've grown so old, and the boy in memory is still like you, so I sometimes forget my age."

It was a calm voice.

It was only Jin's gaze that Vanessa looked sad, and for her, the death of her brother was now so old, and the feeling she felt was not sorrow but loneliness.

"You must be wondering why I'm suddenly talking about this."

"Is it because I look like your brother?

"You don't look like him at all. The guy wasn't as handsome and as strong as you were. It was special to me, but objectively, he was an ordinary boy who could be seen everywhere. We were orphans and no nobility."

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Vanessa emptied her glass one after another and took out a cigarette. Then he lit a bonfire and burned it down in one breath. The thick smoke covered her face for a moment.

"On the other hand, I've had great potential since birth, just like you Runkandel. I was preparing to be a knight of the Shucheron Kingdom, but at 17, I had a minor quarrel at the tavern. I thought it was a jumble, so I beat him up and he was a knight in the capital.

"That article must have surprised you.

"I came to my hometown's tavern during my vacation, and I was humiliated. I didn't know his identity until he left the bar with a runny nose. The owner, the only witness, told me that he was a knight in the Shucheron capital.

"You must have been surprised to hear that."

"I was awfully surprised. I didn't know a knight would pick on a commoner girl who drinks alone. They tell you to wait or leave, but how can you think of it as an article?"

Vanessa took out another cigarette and burned it at once.

"The next day, the knight killed the master, not me. Then I started killing or catching the few neighbors I knew. The lord made his own crimes and sent troops. I wanted to look good to the knight in the capital.

Vanessa at that time was not as strong as she is now. She was only a 17-year-old girl, with enormous potential.

"So I tried to run away. By the way, shit. My decision was too late. My brother was taken away by soldiers in Yeongju, and I had no choice but to go to Yeongju. Without a sword."

Vanessa's brother was severely beaten and tied to the front yard of the lordship.

Then the knight ordered Vanessa to take off her clothes, crawl and come before the lordship. When Jean heard the passage, she shook her fist, and Vanessa shook her hand.

"Fuhhh, fortunately I had nothing to do with that humiliating request. I was about to take off my clothes, and suddenly I heard a roar from somewhere......the fire started pouring out. At that moment, the dragon attacked the lord. It was a flower dragon."

The hwaryong destroyed the lordship in a moment, killed the soldiers of the lord and lord, and killed the knights.

Ironically.

It was Vanessa who survived to the last minute and fought the hwaryong.

"It makes me feel overwhelmed. In the chaos the prisoners escaped, the soldiers fled, the lord and the knight died as soon as the dragon appeared, and my brother, who was tied to the stake, was lucky enough to escape the breath of the dragon. So we had to fight."

Vanessa awakened from the fight.

The potential that he didn't even know was in full bloom, and a force that he couldn't understand for himself poured out like crazy.

"I used the sword of the dead knight to protect my brother. It's the knight's sword that took his brother. And it seemed pretty interesting to him. The way I desperately hugged my brother and put out his fire.

He said he was awakened, but it was too much to handle the power of the brazier.

Hwryong soon took her brother from her, and deliberately kept her alive.

"He burned down the whole village past the castle, and asked me to come to the Ante Mountains if I wanted to find my brother. So I went, and I was able to meet the hwaryong again in a cave."

My brother was already dead.

"And the brazier didn't fight me. He flew away for me. He just wanted to see me despair. Rather than trample on a country town, he realized it was a lot more fun.

"......after that day, you've been in the Antenna Mountains.

"Yes, I couldn't think of going out and looking for him. I was exhausted."

Jindo was now emptying the glass at a rapid pace like Vanessa.

Vanessa then stayed there until she met Ciron.

When dragons came, they killed dragons; when men came, they killed men. Not many people were killed, but some of them were as good as Vanessa.

They were all those who had a grudge against the dragon or came to challenge him.

"I was going crazy. No, it was crazy. He killed more than a hundred dragons, but the flaming dragon never showed up, and more than fifteen years passed. And your father, Sir Siron, has come."

Siron was the first man to defeat Vanessa.

"The day after your father overpowered me, he immediately took all the flamingos and their young. Turns out he was the family of Kadun, the guardian of the Kellyak Zipple. That's why Kadun's here, to protect my blood. What do you think happened?

"I think my father killed them all. Kadoon must have been injured and fled."

"Siron only helped Kadun stay out of the fight. I left it entirely up to me to fight the Dragon and his cubs.

Revenge belonged to Vanessa.

She was finally able to kill the brazier, and asked several times before she killed him. Why did you do that?"

"As I told you before, he killed my brother for fun. I killed him because it was fun to see me despair.... he told me frankly that it was a play, maybe because he was afraid of Sir Siron, or if he wanted to screw me to the end of his life."

"Ha."

"I naturally became Lord Xiron's knight. After wearing a black helmet, the past moments continued to be so hard that I couldn't think of anything. Then I got used to it and came to my senses, and my words and actions were quite like a plausible article."

Jean filled her glass without answering.

"Even if you are stronger, as your father did, create an opportunity for your men to avenge themselves. It is a must-have virtue to be king of the swordsmen.

"I'll keep it in mind."

"Also, if possible, don't give your heart to ordinary people like my brother. Unlike us, they die so easily, and just because they are by our side, they are bound to be broken out of nowhere. If you ever fall into despair."

Vanessa, who paused for a moment, made eye contact with Jean.

"It's probably not because you were beaten by a human sword stronger than you, but because of the tragedy that ordinary humans go through next to you. Me, too, because your father was hurt and became a monster. Now I don't even feel sad about the fact that my brother isn't coming back."

With the bonfire burning, silence continued for a long time. Soon Vanessa opened the last remaining bottle.

"Listen to your father when you have a chance one day."

"Yes."

Is being reborn as a transcendent figure a process of castrating the natural feelings of a person? Suddenly that thought reminded me of Tikan's colleagues.

"I think that's enough advice......take this."

Vanessa took out a piece of folded paper from her bosom.

It was a map. But it was completely different from the usual map, and it was a far cry from the roughness of the continent that Qin knew.

In addition, many of the maps were empty, indicating that they were not yet completed, and it was difficult to recognize them because there were many intentionally hidden areas.

"It's a map of the Black Sea. Go to the area marked red. It doesn't matter if you go with your colleagues, but from the marked area, you won't be able to handle your venom if you don't have a Manchurian."

"Is this the image you mentioned?

Jean first noticed that there was a map in the Black Sea.

National black knights mapped the Black Sea for nearly a lifetime, and it was still an ongoing task.

"Siron entrusted me with the map as soon as he made it. And if I see a good one of your children, give it to me. Therefore, it is also my award. It's also a new test."

"You won't tell me what's there if I ask you?

Vanessa shook her head.

"No, why wouldn't you tell me the obvious? There is a demon in the red mark, knock it down. A long time ago, the witch Heluram raised him."

Jean's pupils dilated.