Estio Book 5
- Episode 22
When it was time to say good-bye, Alzeniv, who had been half hiding by the hem of his uncle's robe, stuck his head out.
"Are your older brothers and sisters doing business here?"
"Yes."
"We have to keep going to the other side of the desert. The other mercenaries will go with us."
The former ballista guild members signed a contract as escort mercenaries, so they go with Sang-dan until they finish the ascent. When they heard about them, Jose bowed with a shy face. They knew that Estio was a guild leader, and they cared about it all the way back. The name "Aesong" slipped into her mouth and never came out of her mouth.
"Come on, take this."
On the two small palms that Alzeniv reached out, there was something like a round marble. When Estio took it and listened to it, she saw a beautiful starlight spread in the beads. The stars formed a group and were pointing in a certain direction.
It was the star compass that Algeniv had recorded so far.
"When you go back, you just have to go back the way you came."
When traveling in the desert, I had to carry several star compasses. A star compass would eliminate the need for an astrologer on the way back. This is because, unlike the village of Turke, where the coordinates change constantly, the way out does not change.
Now it was time to part ways.
Above, there were many items to trade in Turke village. As soon as he finished his greetings, he turned around without a break.
However, Alzeniv, who was expected to disappear following the adults, ran again Tototo. And he tugged on Estio's hem. Her little child's grasp was very weak, but Estio meekly lowered her posture as she wished.
Then Alzeniv whispered into Estio's ear.
"This is what I saw while coming all the way here. There were a lot of big and strong stars around you. You have to be careful."
Mubin, who was able to hear the whispers at the same time thanks to his excellent physical function, narrowed his eyes. Astrologers are primarily responsible for helping them find their way in the desert, but they can also read the fate of people by looking at the night sky. We needed to listen carefully to what Alzeniv had to say.
"...Thank you for talking. Be careful Alzeniv too."
The girl smiled brightly and waved her hand.
"Thank you so much for protecting me!"
Estio was wearing an eye patch, so he couldn't see that smile, but he could feel that pure kindness. The sign of waving his hand was also faintly touched. So he waved his hand accordingly as the child did.
Chapter 20
Estio and his party, who had fallen from the top of Porima, moved to find the Ignis Guild Turke branch for their original purpose.
However, since it was a village located in the middle of the desert, there was no such thing as a proper building. Most of the tents were in the form of poorly built tents made of poor soil bricks with fabric slanted. The signboard was replaced with a rough drawing on a wooden board, and instead of the roof, the clothesline on the roof was drooping in the sunlight from house to house.
The party, who were wandering in the ambiguous landscape where the building looked like it, eventually decided to grab a passer-by and ask for the way. It was broad daylight, so it was not easy to find anyone who seemed to be idle because everyone went to work.
Parker spotted a large man walking down the street with a leisurely gait among them and flew away.
"Excuse me, but I'll ask you the way. I'm looking for the Ignis Guild building."
"Ignis?"
The man, who had a bewildered expression on his face for a moment, burst into laughter.
"Wow haha! This is a really good meeting."
"Eh? Yes?"
He didn't wait for Parker's bewildering response to 'What...'.
"I'm looking for a guild because I have something to ask, would you like to go with me?"
Under the tanned skin, only the well-groomed teeth gleamed white. Most of the Turke tribesmen were black. Not very black, but dark cocoa, and from warriors, men and women alike, there were a lot of people who had strong muscles all over their bodies.
This man was particularly noticeably tall. Estio was the tallest man he had ever met. He even looked almost like Neju before inflating his body. His gray hair, grown like a mane, reminded him of the intrepid grizzly bear.
"I, then, please."
"Follow me."
The man chuckled again. Even if it looks like an impression, it looks like it can subdue a ferocious monster if you frown once, but her personality is very gentle like a Turke resident.
"Looking at your outfits, are you guys from the guild too? These are the faces you haven't seen before, are you newly appointed to the Turke branch this time? Or are you stopping by for a while?"
Besides, he was a gossip. Even though he was a large man full of lumpy muscles, his gray eyes sparkled like a boy.
Estio answered his question.
"I'm here because I have something to tell you."
"Oh, it would be rude to ask what kind of thing it is, right?"
"Yes."
"...you are a very sword-like guild member."
Estio's short answer made even the friendly Turke residents awkward. Estio, who had no intention of embarrassment, pondered whether to add something more. However, it was a little cumbersome for him to talk about the Spirit of the Mirror. There was a long, shy silence between them, as they couldn't think of anything else to say.
It was the pleasant man who broke the flow.
"Hmm, hmm. Anyway, it's been a while since a guest came to our village."
"Isn't it? It's a desert, but I heard that merchants come and go often because it's a valuable passage connecting the southern countries and Lubarjan."
As Parker spoke with a puzzled expression, the villager nodded.
"Of course, merchants are our good friends. But it feels a little different from travelers. It's hard to put into words."
The man was a talkative person, but his vocabulary was not particularly good. He likes to tell stories that come to his mind, but he finds it difficult to explain his feelings or emotions to others.
"The merchants who always come for the same purpose are familiar as colleagues, but the travelers have different purposes, so it feels new."
"Oh! That's right. How do you know so precisely? Wonderful."
It was Estio who relieved the frustration. The man from Turke was overjoyed when he gently scraped off the blockage, who had given him embarrassment with a knife-like answer a while ago.
"You must have looked into my heart! Ha ha ha ha."
"......"
Estio didn't have to deny that because it wasn't really wrong. But he started chatting again, not knowing that the gray-haired man was right.
"It must have been difficult to cross the desert, but it would be very inconvenient for those who came from outside our village of Turke to live. Meals are modest, and water takes a long time to come out."
"Oh, how about having water? I want to wash quickly."
Parker let out a weary sigh. In the meantime, I had been riding on a desert crab and covered in a lot of sand and dust, so my white wings were all scrambled and burned.
The villager of Turke then pointed out one more inconvenience.
"By the way, all the water drawn from the oasis is cold water. Outsiders said that washing with it is the most inconvenient."
"Ugh, cold water. Now even that's a good thing."
The party all agreed with Parker's murmuring. Anyway, it was fine because the weather was hot. In a desert like this, I wondered what it would be like to drink a bowl of cold water.
"But what are you going to do to visit the guild?"
"It's a secret."
"......Ah yes."
Parker was just trying to get attention, but the man started telling the story that he didn't even ask himself.
"Khahaha! It's a joke, a joke! It's not a secret at all. The whole town had a meeting and decided to ask for it. That's what it is."
"The whole village?!"
It felt like something was getting bigger. Parker waved his hand.
"If it's such a big problem, you don't even have to talk about it."
"Oh well, I'm the representative, so that's fine. Just listen!"
it was reckless Then, all of a sudden, Estio pointed out the word that came into his ear.
"......representative?"
"Yeah. I am the head of this village, Galvin Turke."
Galvin smiled, pointing at himself with his thumb.
"Are you a lord?"
"Wahhahaha. That's right, 'Lord'. I'm not familiar with the title given to me by the Empire yet."
It was a naive and even stupid answer, but Galvin Turke was a lord who ruled the vast southern desert, that is, a nobleman.
Parker was the most embarrassed by Galvin's coming out, who he thought was just an ordinary village youth A.
'No, what is this? You must have chosen and picked and asked the lord for directions!'
The entire party looked at the gray-haired lord of Turke with eyes full of bewilderment. Even though he was baptized with eyes, Galvin Turke only smiled wildly. It was an ordinary thing that rose a bit more than Moobin, who naturally pretended to be a commoner with words and actions that were not normally aristocratic. Even the villagers in the same village did not treat him with strict courtesy as a noble. Even now, Galbin was facing the greeting that a woman gave with a smile.
It was around the time the next story began that he took a serious attitude.
"Do you know about the blue sands that appear in the desert?"
"I know. I went through it once while coming here."
"Hey! You've already seen it."
Galvin made a serious face.
Although blue sand is considered one of the anomalies that occur in Turke, it was not often seen in the first place. If the frightening phenomenon that silently approaches and takes life in an instant is repeated frequently, Turke would have already been transformed into a land of death. Fortunately, it didn't happen very often, and it was blocked by magic. With the help of the wizards living in the village of the Turke tribe, they were maintaining safety around the village.
However, in recent years, the occurrence of blue sand has started to increase remarkably.
If they weren't traders who traverse the desert often, and even newcomers who had just set foot on their way to the village of Turke, witnessed blue sands, it meant that the situation had deteriorated considerably.
'I'm happy though. It seems that there were no victims among these travelers.'
However, Parker's subsequent answer was different from Galvin's guess.
"What did you see? I got out on foot."
"Hey, you got out on foot? What do you mean?"
Galvin widened his gray eyes. Even if he didn't have a bad impression, he raised his eyes, and Parker's voice, frightened because it looked like a man-made angry expression, softened.
"On the way across the desert, I met bugs like fireflies that emit blue light."
"bug!"
A loud shout shook the group's eardrums.
"Are they still live bugs? My eyes weren't wrong!"
Estio Book 5
- Episode 22
When it was time to say good-bye, Alzeniv, who had been half hiding by the hem of his uncle's robe, stuck his head out.
"Are your older brothers and sisters doing business here?"
"Yes."
"We have to keep going to the other side of the desert. The other mercenaries will go with us."
The former ballista guild members signed a contract as escort mercenaries, so they go with Sang-dan until they finish the ascent. When they heard about them, Jose bowed with a shy face. They knew that Estio was a guild leader, and they cared about it all the way back. The name "Aesong" slipped into her mouth and never came out of her mouth.
"Come on, take this."
On the two small palms that Alzeniv reached out, there was something like a round marble. When Estio took it and listened to it, she saw a beautiful starlight spread in the beads. The stars formed a group and were pointing in a certain direction.
It was the star compass that Algeniv had recorded so far.
"When you go back, you just have to go back the way you came."
When traveling in the desert, I had to carry several star compasses. A star compass would eliminate the need for an astrologer on the way back. This is because, unlike the village of Turke, where the coordinates change constantly, the way out does not change.
Now it was time to part ways.
Above, there were many items to trade in Turke village. As soon as he finished his greetings, he turned around without a break.
However, Alzeniv, who was expected to disappear following the adults, ran again Tototo. And he tugged on Estio's hem. Her little child's grasp was very weak, but Estio meekly lowered her posture as she wished.
Then Alzeniv whispered into Estio's ear.
"This is what I saw while coming all the way here. There were a lot of big and strong stars around you. You have to be careful."
Mubin, who was able to hear the whispers at the same time thanks to his excellent physical function, narrowed his eyes. Astrologers are primarily responsible for helping them find their way in the desert, but they can also read the fate of people by looking at the night sky. We needed to listen carefully to what Alzeniv had to say.
"...Thank you for talking. Be careful Alzeniv too."
The girl smiled brightly and waved her hand.
"Thank you so much for protecting me!"
Estio was wearing an eye patch, so he couldn't see that smile, but he could feel that pure kindness. The sign of waving his hand was also faintly touched. So he waved his hand accordingly as the child did.
Chapter 20
Estio and his party, who had fallen from the top of Porima, moved to find the Ignis Guild Turke branch for their original purpose.
However, since it was a village located in the middle of the desert, there was no such thing as a proper building. Most of the tents were in the form of poorly built tents made of poor soil bricks with fabric slanted. The signboard was replaced with a rough drawing on a wooden board, and instead of the roof, the clothesline on the roof was drooping in the sunlight from house to house.
The party, who were wandering in the ambiguous landscape where the building looked like it, eventually decided to grab a passer-by and ask for the way. It was broad daylight, so it was not easy to find anyone who seemed to be idle because everyone went to work.
Parker spotted a large man walking down the street with a leisurely gait among them and flew away.
"Excuse me, but I'll ask you the way. I'm looking for the Ignis Guild building."
"Ignis?"
The man, who had a bewildered expression on his face for a moment, burst into laughter.
"Wow haha! This is a really good meeting."
"Eh? Yes?"
He didn't wait for Parker's bewildering response to 'What...'.
"I'm looking for a guild because I have something to ask, would you like to go with me?"
Under the tanned skin, only the well-groomed teeth gleamed white. Most of the Turke tribesmen were black. Not very black, but dark cocoa, and from warriors, men and women alike, there were a lot of people who had strong muscles all over their bodies.
This man was particularly noticeably tall. Estio was the tallest man he had ever met. He even looked almost like Neju before inflating his body. His gray hair, grown like a mane, reminded him of the intrepid grizzly bear.
"I, then, please."
"Follow me."
The man chuckled again. Even if it looks like an impression, it looks like it can subdue a ferocious monster if you frown once, but her personality is very gentle like a Turke resident.
"Looking at your outfits, are you guys from the guild too? These are the faces you haven't seen before, are you newly appointed to the Turke branch this time? Or are you stopping by for a while?"
Besides, he was a gossip. Even though he was a large man full of lumpy muscles, his gray eyes sparkled like a boy.
Estio answered his question.
"I'm here because I have something to tell you."
"Oh, it would be rude to ask what kind of thing it is, right?"
"Yes."
"...you are a very sword-like guild member."
Estio's short answer made even the friendly Turke residents awkward. Estio, who had no intention of embarrassment, pondered whether to add something more. However, it was a little cumbersome for him to talk about the Spirit of the Mirror. There was a long, shy silence between them, as they couldn't think of anything else to say.
It was the pleasant man who broke the flow.
"Hmm, hmm. Anyway, it's been a while since a guest came to our village."
"Isn't it? It's a desert, but I heard that merchants come and go often because it's a valuable passage connecting the southern countries and Lubarjan."
As Parker spoke with a puzzled expression, the villager nodded.
"Of course, merchants are our good friends. But it feels a little different from travelers. It's hard to put into words."
The man was a talkative person, but his vocabulary was not particularly good. He likes to tell stories that come to his mind, but he finds it difficult to explain his feelings or emotions to others.
"The merchants who always come for the same purpose are familiar as colleagues, but the travelers have different purposes, so it feels new."
"Oh! That's right. How do you know so precisely? Wonderful."
It was Estio who relieved the frustration. The man from Turke was overjoyed when he gently scraped off the blockage, who had given him embarrassment with a knife-like answer a while ago.
"You must have looked into my heart! Ha ha ha ha."
"......"
Estio didn't have to deny that because it wasn't really wrong. But he started chatting again, not knowing that the gray-haired man was right.
"It must have been difficult to cross the desert, but it would be very inconvenient for those who came from outside our village of Turke to live. Meals are modest, and water takes a long time to come out."
"Oh, how about having water? I want to wash quickly."
Parker let out a weary sigh. In the meantime, I had been riding on a desert crab and covered in a lot of sand and dust, so my white wings were all scrambled and burned.
The villager of Turke then pointed out one more inconvenience.
"By the way, all the water drawn from the oasis is cold water. Outsiders said that washing with it is the most inconvenient."
"Ugh, cold water. Now even that's a good thing."
The party all agreed with Parker's murmuring. Anyway, it was fine because the weather was hot. In a desert like this, I wondered what it would be like to drink a bowl of cold water.
"But what are you going to do to visit the guild?"
"It's a secret."
"......Ah yes."
Parker was just trying to get attention, but the man started telling the story that he didn't even ask himself.
"Khahaha! It's a joke, a joke! It's not a secret at all. The whole town had a meeting and decided to ask for it. That's what it is."
"The whole village?!"
It felt like something was getting bigger. Parker waved his hand.
"If it's such a big problem, you don't even have to talk about it."
"Oh well, I'm the representative, so that's fine. Just listen!"
it was reckless Then, all of a sudden, Estio pointed out the word that came into his ear.
"......representative?"
"Yeah. I am the head of this village, Galvin Turke."
Galvin smiled, pointing at himself with his thumb.
"Are you a lord?"
"Wahhahaha. That's right, 'Lord'. I'm not familiar with the title given to me by the Empire yet."
It was a naive and even stupid answer, but Galvin Turke was a lord who ruled the vast southern desert, that is, a nobleman.
Parker was the most embarrassed by Galvin's coming out, who he thought was just an ordinary village youth A.
'No, what is this? You must have chosen and picked and asked the lord for directions!'
The entire party looked at the gray-haired lord of Turke with eyes full of bewilderment. Even though he was baptized with eyes, Galvin Turke only smiled wildly. It was an ordinary thing that rose a bit more than Moobin, who naturally pretended to be a commoner with words and actions that were not normally aristocratic. Even the villagers in the same village did not treat him with strict courtesy as a noble. Even now, Galbin was facing the greeting that a woman gave with a smile.
It was around the time the next story began that he took a serious attitude.
"Do you know about the blue sands that appear in the desert?"
"I know. I went through it once while coming here."
"Hey! You've already seen it."
Galvin made a serious face.
Although blue sand is considered one of the anomalies that occur in Turke, it was not often seen in the first place. If the frightening phenomenon that silently approaches and takes life in an instant is repeated frequently, Turke would have already been transformed into a land of death. Fortunately, it didn't happen very often, and it was blocked by magic. With the help of the wizards living in the village of the Turke tribe, they were maintaining safety around the village.
However, in recent years, the occurrence of blue sand has started to increase remarkably.
If they weren't traders who traverse the desert often, and even newcomers who had just set foot on their way to the village of Turke, witnessed blue sands, it meant that the situation had deteriorated considerably.
'I'm happy though. It seems that there were no victims among these travelers.'
However, Parker's subsequent answer was different from Galvin's guess.
"What did you see? I got out on foot."
"Hey, you got out on foot? What do you mean?"
Galvin widened his gray eyes. Even if he didn't have a bad impression, he raised his eyes, and Parker's voice, frightened because it looked like a man-made angry expression, softened.
"On the way across the desert, I met bugs like fireflies that emit blue light."
"bug!"
A loud shout shook the group's eardrums.
"Are they still live bugs? My eyes weren't wrong!"
