Estio Volume 6
- Episode 2
"......?"
"......"
Even Estio, who had opened the door lightly, was equally embarrassed. Beyond the door that was wide open as if to come, there was a blue light that didn't look like a basement.
"B, blue sand!"
"Aww!"
Frightened by the lever, the priests started running up the stairs in a hurry, without anyone telling them first. Hearing the distant screams of the priests who had vanished in an instant, Parker opened his mouth anxiously.
"Can I leave you alone?"
"Leave it. It's the path they chose, so they'll survive on their own."
If you go outside the temple now, you are likely to encounter monsters. Unlike Parker, who was worried about the safety of the priests, Moobin waved her hand with an annoyed expression.
The rest of the party wasn't nervous at all, even when they saw the blue light. As long as they are with the leader, the bugs do no harm.
Neju poked her head out through the sealed door and rubbed her eyes with a frown.
"Myam. It's so bright that it's hard to open my eyes."
As I passed through the door, I saw bugs emitting blue lights all over the wall. As Neju said, they gave off a dazzling light in the dark underground space. The intensity of the light is stronger because many numbers are clustered in the narrow passage.
Paah.
Estio and his party got used to the intense blue light that pierced their eyes to some extent before slowly stepping into it.
"Hmm, this is strange. The basement is brighter than broad daylight."
"Looking at it, it looks like a cave made of some kind of jewel."
Following the unpredictable move, Parker shrugged his wings in admiration not to provoke the insects that were resting on the wall. It wasn't, but the tiny bugs that glowed like fireflies were truly dazzling like jewels. It didn't feel as creepy as I thought, so even the cowardly Jo-in-jok was relieved without realizing it.
"Leader."
Everyone focused their eyes on Estio, who opened the door in front of the blue light that rose like a haze.
"What would you do?"
Will you go in or not?
The door had to be opened in the blink of an eye, but Estio could not make a decision easily and hesitated at the entrance.
No one knew yet about the secrets of the passage, which had been sealed for many years. Of course, it was impossible to know whether the inside was dangerous or not. He didn't know if his choices would put his teammates together at risk.
'We found survivors and found out that this temple is the source of the blue sands. Do I need to take on any more reckless challenges?'
Estio looked at the passageway shrouded in blue with a complicated mind. The passage, winding like a cave, seemed more dangerous because there was no end in sight.
"Why don't you burn it down instead?"
It was Yeon Yeon-rang, who quietly followed the group, who suddenly offered an opinion. She originally hated extraterrestrial races, and she was looking at the insects that were said to eat people with disgust.
"Even though it is a small insect, if you put a fire in this passage and close the door again, many of them will be eradicated."
Yeon-yeon-rang gathered magical power in an instant and grabbed the blazing fireball. It was a simple, low-level magic that set a target and threw it away and caused an explosion.
"It's definitely different from the monkeys and cacti that the leader loves. They're obviously human-eating monsters."
"......"
"You have to get rid of it now."
"Never again to crawl to the ground," she added in a low-pitched voice. But Yeon-yeon-rang couldn't blow her fireballs at her worms at her best.
"Please wait."
It's because Estio dried up. He had to follow his orders now, as long as it was Yeon-yeon-rang who was stubborn to join the team.
"Originally, they were said to be gentle keratin bugs that didn't harm life. You need to know why they had to turn into monsters."
"Are you saying that if you go inside, you'll know why?"
"I'm not sure."
The bugs have been asking him for help since the first time they saw him. It was still the same today.
"......scared......."
"Help."
I didn't know exactly what to ask for help. The thoughts of the worms were so simple that their readable thoughts were almost nothing but small fragments of sand. Perhaps the begging for help now was not a sound of knowing anything, but a vague wish like humans in despair looking for God.
"I'll go in and check it out."
"...do what you like."
Yeonjun let out a deep sigh. Anyway, she had already predicted that she would say that if Estio was the polar opposite of her values with her. Yeon-yeon Lang, who had scattered her magical powers that she had accumulated, moved her steps first.
"You don't have to follow me."
"So, why don't you go outside the temple and wait? Like the cowardly priests who don't even have that kind of faith?"
In the meantime, Yeon Yeon-rang, who ridiculed the priests who had run away steadily, snorted and looked back at Estio.
"I'll go check it out too. If a creature that wasn't violent at first becomes a monster for some reason..."
Estio watched the moment when her beige eyes were dyed with unknown anguish. An old grudge that she could not confide to anyone came to mind for a moment and then disappeared.
"Anyway, it could be an important issue for me as well."
"Is that so."
"Yeah! So definitely."
Yeon-yeon-rang, who turned around again, took the lead and started walking. Her long hair, tied up high in her ponytail, fluttered like an animal's tail.
"Be sure to read it. The reason why those insects have turned into monsters."
Estio silently followed her after hearing the voice that seemed somewhat shy. Tsuki, who was attached to her feet, wept bitterly.
'Request.......'
Estio gently stretched out his palm.
The ability, which has been treated as a monster since childhood, has been used a lot in a positive way lately, but somehow it felt strange.
'Did it become a somewhat useful ability?'
Until now, he has met people who want to read people's minds or use his powers to ask for forgiveness in order to solve a request. He didn't intend to read it, but he accidentally read his heart and the matter was solved unexpectedly.
In the midst of that, it was rare for someone to ask someone to read them directly as they do now. Of course, Estio didn't like Yeon-yeon-rang, and it was a passing request, not an official one, but it was special nonetheless.
Aside from the feelings of dislike, I even thanked her.
The blue glowing underground passage continued for quite a long time. It was an incredibly sophisticated road that was hard to believe that people in the distant past designed it and built it deep underground.
What the party faced at the end of the road was a real golden feast, incomparable to the blue light they had ever seen.
"That, gold?"
Parker rubbed his eyes and looked up at the mountain of gold in front of him. The space beyond the sealed door was, after all, a room full of gold. There were square gold ingots neatly stacked, and there were gold coins with the patterns of the kingdom that had already disappeared. A necklace made of gold, a figure carved out of gold, a sparkling golden spear and a golden plate.
It was so great that you could become wealthy in an instant by picking up a few gold bars from this room. Even in front of the unbelievable scene, Mubin scratched his stomach as he was sober.
"Hey, is that all gold?"
"It's ridiculous. Isn't that a fake?"
"Why would you make a fake and keep it in such a hard-to-find place. It must be real."
Mubin kicked the golden cup that touched the nose of his shoe. The golden goblet, which had rolled over, collided with another golden urn and made a clear sound. Parker, who was awakened by hearing the sound of being ok, took a deep breath.
"Huh, then rich...!"
"Wake up your dreams. All the relics from the temple are said to be divine. Everything here, even gold shards, will be taken away by the Holy See."
If you steal even a single gold coin, you will be punished by the Holy See in return for stealing something. Since the priesthood and the imperial power are compatible with Lubarzan, those who sin against the gods are also treated as felons by the imperial family. So even thieves and bad-quality scammers never touched anything related to the divine.
Parker, realizing that he couldn't have it even after looking at the field of gold unfolding in front of him, put on a disappointed expression.
"Hey, but why do ancient temples store gold in such a place?"
"Yeah."
There was no reason to collect valuable jewels in a godly temple that did not engage in commercial activities aimed at generating profits.
'It is also such a secret space.'
Mubin narrowed his eyes as he felt his back swell.
I thought that if I cross the sealed door, I would know the source of the bugs, but what was unexpectedly found was Mt. Geumdong. It was difficult to infer a causal relationship.
"Are worms born from gold?"
"It's probably not."
Neju immediately denied his guess.
"There are no bugs in the room."
It was really full of glittering gold, but not a single bug could be seen. As if they had divided the baseline, the insects that had disappeared from the entrance of the room were questionable and the party began to investigate the room.
While everyone dispersed and inspected the room, Estio went back to the entrance to the room and approached the crouching insects. The bugs were still calling out for help.
"Help me."
'how?'
Fearing to wonder what he was asking for help, the insects fluttered their wings and thought of something.
"......'Box'......."
Because it was an insect, it wasn't exactly the word 'box'. However, there was a certain intense thought wave that flowed into Estio's head. It looked like a wooden box, but it was plain with no decorations. I wondered what was in it, but there was no answer to that question.
Estio reluctantly turned around and headed towards the center of the room. There were so many gold coins piled up on the floor that I was submerged up to my ankles every time I walked. He thought for a moment that this room was just like a pond of gold.
Parker, who was flying around looking for gold pieces, noticed Estio approaching and reported it with a shy face.
"Leader, I don't think there's anything suspicious about it. Maybe this is just an old treasure trove?"
Then Yeon-yeon-rang shot at it.
"Hey, why do we need a treasure trove in the temple?"
"The priests have to make a living too, miss. How rich is the Pope these days! If you go to the Holy See, there must be about ten such treasure troves?"
"It's blasphemy."
"I don't believe in God anyway, blasphemy Taryeong."
At the words of Mubin who intervened in the middle and chuckled, Yeonjunang narrowed her eyes.
Estio Volume 6
- Episode 2
"......?"
"......"
Even Estio, who had opened the door lightly, was equally embarrassed. Beyond the door that was wide open as if to come, there was a blue light that didn't look like a basement.
"B, blue sand!"
"Aww!"
Frightened by the lever, the priests started running up the stairs in a hurry, without anyone telling them first. Hearing the distant screams of the priests who had vanished in an instant, Parker opened his mouth anxiously.
"Can I leave you alone?"
"Leave it. It's the path they chose, so they'll survive on their own."
If you go outside the temple now, you are likely to encounter monsters. Unlike Parker, who was worried about the safety of the priests, Moobin waved her hand with an annoyed expression.
The rest of the party wasn't nervous at all, even when they saw the blue light. As long as they are with the leader, the bugs do no harm.
Neju poked her head out through the sealed door and rubbed her eyes with a frown.
"Myam. It's so bright that it's hard to open my eyes."
As I passed through the door, I saw bugs emitting blue lights all over the wall. As Neju said, they gave off a dazzling light in the dark underground space. The intensity of the light is stronger because many numbers are clustered in the narrow passage.
Paah.
Estio and his party got used to the intense blue light that pierced their eyes to some extent before slowly stepping into it.
"Hmm, this is strange. The basement is brighter than broad daylight."
"Looking at it, it looks like a cave made of some kind of jewel."
Following the unpredictable move, Parker shrugged his wings in admiration not to provoke the insects that were resting on the wall. It wasn't, but the tiny bugs that glowed like fireflies were truly dazzling like jewels. It didn't feel as creepy as I thought, so even the cowardly Jo-in-jok was relieved without realizing it.
"Leader."
Everyone focused their eyes on Estio, who opened the door in front of the blue light that rose like a haze.
"What would you do?"
Will you go in or not?
The door had to be opened in the blink of an eye, but Estio could not make a decision easily and hesitated at the entrance.
No one knew yet about the secrets of the passage, which had been sealed for many years. Of course, it was impossible to know whether the inside was dangerous or not. He didn't know if his choices would put his teammates together at risk.
'We found survivors and found out that this temple is the source of the blue sands. Do I need to take on any more reckless challenges?'
Estio looked at the passageway shrouded in blue with a complicated mind. The passage, winding like a cave, seemed more dangerous because there was no end in sight.
"Why don't you burn it down instead?"
It was Yeon Yeon-rang, who quietly followed the group, who suddenly offered an opinion. She originally hated extraterrestrial races, and she was looking at the insects that were said to eat people with disgust.
"Even though it is a small insect, if you put a fire in this passage and close the door again, many of them will be eradicated."
Yeon-yeon-rang gathered magical power in an instant and grabbed the blazing fireball. It was a simple, low-level magic that set a target and threw it away and caused an explosion.
"It's definitely different from the monkeys and cacti that the leader loves. They're obviously human-eating monsters."
"......"
"You have to get rid of it now."
"Never again to crawl to the ground," she added in a low-pitched voice. But Yeon-yeon-rang couldn't blow her fireballs at her worms at her best.
"Please wait."
It's because Estio dried up. He had to follow his orders now, as long as it was Yeon-yeon-rang who was stubborn to join the team.
"Originally, they were said to be gentle keratin bugs that didn't harm life. You need to know why they had to turn into monsters."
"Are you saying that if you go inside, you'll know why?"
"I'm not sure."
The bugs have been asking him for help since the first time they saw him. It was still the same today.
"......scared......."
"Help."
I didn't know exactly what to ask for help. The thoughts of the worms were so simple that their readable thoughts were almost nothing but small fragments of sand. Perhaps the begging for help now was not a sound of knowing anything, but a vague wish like humans in despair looking for God.
"I'll go in and check it out."
"...do what you like."
Yeonjun let out a deep sigh. Anyway, she had already predicted that she would say that if Estio was the polar opposite of her values with her. Yeon-yeon Lang, who had scattered her magical powers that she had accumulated, moved her steps first.
"You don't have to follow me."
"So, why don't you go outside the temple and wait? Like the cowardly priests who don't even have that kind of faith?"
In the meantime, Yeon Yeon-rang, who ridiculed the priests who had run away steadily, snorted and looked back at Estio.
"I'll go check it out too. If a creature that wasn't violent at first becomes a monster for some reason..."
Estio watched the moment when her beige eyes were dyed with unknown anguish. An old grudge that she could not confide to anyone came to mind for a moment and then disappeared.
"Anyway, it could be an important issue for me as well."
"Is that so."
"Yeah! So definitely."
Yeon-yeon-rang, who turned around again, took the lead and started walking. Her long hair, tied up high in her ponytail, fluttered like an animal's tail.
"Be sure to read it. The reason why those insects have turned into monsters."
Estio silently followed her after hearing the voice that seemed somewhat shy. Tsuki, who was attached to her feet, wept bitterly.
'Request.......'
Estio gently stretched out his palm.
The ability, which has been treated as a monster since childhood, has been used a lot in a positive way lately, but somehow it felt strange.
'Did it become a somewhat useful ability?'
Until now, he has met people who want to read people's minds or use his powers to ask for forgiveness in order to solve a request. He didn't intend to read it, but he accidentally read his heart and the matter was solved unexpectedly.
In the midst of that, it was rare for someone to ask someone to read them directly as they do now. Of course, Estio didn't like Yeon-yeon-rang, and it was a passing request, not an official one, but it was special nonetheless.
Aside from the feelings of dislike, I even thanked her.
The blue glowing underground passage continued for quite a long time. It was an incredibly sophisticated road that was hard to believe that people in the distant past designed it and built it deep underground.
What the party faced at the end of the road was a real golden feast, incomparable to the blue light they had ever seen.
"That, gold?"
Parker rubbed his eyes and looked up at the mountain of gold in front of him. The space beyond the sealed door was, after all, a room full of gold. There were square gold ingots neatly stacked, and there were gold coins with the patterns of the kingdom that had already disappeared. A necklace made of gold, a figure carved out of gold, a sparkling golden spear and a golden plate.
It was so great that you could become wealthy in an instant by picking up a few gold bars from this room. Even in front of the unbelievable scene, Mubin scratched his stomach as he was sober.
"Hey, is that all gold?"
"It's ridiculous. Isn't that a fake?"
"Why would you make a fake and keep it in such a hard-to-find place. It must be real."
Mubin kicked the golden cup that touched the nose of his shoe. The golden goblet, which had rolled over, collided with another golden urn and made a clear sound. Parker, who was awakened by hearing the sound of being ok, took a deep breath.
"Huh, then rich...!"
"Wake up your dreams. All the relics from the temple are said to be divine. Everything here, even gold shards, will be taken away by the Holy See."
If you steal even a single gold coin, you will be punished by the Holy See in return for stealing something. Since the priesthood and the imperial power are compatible with Lubarzan, those who sin against the gods are also treated as felons by the imperial family. So even thieves and bad-quality scammers never touched anything related to the divine.
Parker, realizing that he couldn't have it even after looking at the field of gold unfolding in front of him, put on a disappointed expression.
"Hey, but why do ancient temples store gold in such a place?"
"Yeah."
There was no reason to collect valuable jewels in a godly temple that did not engage in commercial activities aimed at generating profits.
'It is also such a secret space.'
Mubin narrowed his eyes as he felt his back swell.
I thought that if I cross the sealed door, I would know the source of the bugs, but what was unexpectedly found was Mt. Geumdong. It was difficult to infer a causal relationship.
"Are worms born from gold?"
"It's probably not."
Neju immediately denied his guess.
"There are no bugs in the room."
It was really full of glittering gold, but not a single bug could be seen. As if they had divided the baseline, the insects that had disappeared from the entrance of the room were questionable and the party began to investigate the room.
While everyone dispersed and inspected the room, Estio went back to the entrance to the room and approached the crouching insects. The bugs were still calling out for help.
"Help me."
'how?'
Fearing to wonder what he was asking for help, the insects fluttered their wings and thought of something.
"......'Box'......."
Because it was an insect, it wasn't exactly the word 'box'. However, there was a certain intense thought wave that flowed into Estio's head. It looked like a wooden box, but it was plain with no decorations. I wondered what was in it, but there was no answer to that question.
Estio reluctantly turned around and headed towards the center of the room. There were so many gold coins piled up on the floor that I was submerged up to my ankles every time I walked. He thought for a moment that this room was just like a pond of gold.
Parker, who was flying around looking for gold pieces, noticed Estio approaching and reported it with a shy face.
"Leader, I don't think there's anything suspicious about it. Maybe this is just an old treasure trove?"
Then Yeon-yeon-rang shot at it.
"Hey, why do we need a treasure trove in the temple?"
"The priests have to make a living too, miss. How rich is the Pope these days! If you go to the Holy See, there must be about ten such treasure troves?"
"It's blasphemy."
"I don't believe in God anyway, blasphemy Taryeong."
At the words of Mubin who intervened in the middle and chuckled, Yeonjunang narrowed her eyes.
