Book 2: Chapter 194: My goodness. The sea, the sea! (20)

Book 2: Chapter 194: My goodness. The sea, the sea! (20)

‘This is driving me nuts.’

Cale snapped to his senses as soon as he heard that.

He immediately started speaking.

“No. I’m fine.”

Cale’s gaze headed toward Raon, who was blankly blinking his eyes.

“I mean it.”

Blink blink.

Raon looked at Cale with his mouth open. Cale met his gaze as he continued to speak.

“My plate is fine, I didn’t cough up any blood, and I don’t feel like I’m going to faint. I’m not in any pain right now.”

“...Really......?”

“Yeah. Really. In fact, my plate was not in danger even once today.”

Everything he was saying was the truth.

“...Really?”

Raon’s face slowly brightened. Raon looked at Cale with an uncertain gaze and Cale sternly nodded his head.

“Mm.”

Raon squinted his eyes and glared at Cale. Cale remained confident even against that gaze.

He was telling the truth.

He then made eye contact with the Heavenly Demon who was behind Raon.

“Pfft.”

The Heavenly Demon sneered at him.

He then put on a gruff expression that seemed to be saying that Cale was helpless and shook his head.

‘What’s up with this bastard?’

He was about to get annoyed when he heard a sound transmission.

– I understand your concern about the young Dragon. I was not thinking it through. I was lacking consideration.

‘...Hmm?’

– It makes sense. The fact that you went through so much pain accepting the aura of nature to the point that you almost died is something I would not want a child to know either. I only thought about the strength of a Dragon and did not consider his age at all.

‘...What the hell?’

Cale felt that something was off.

The Heavenly Demon’s sound transmission was too calm. It was as if he was only speaking the truth.

– But what was up with your Bai Hui Point opening like that? Were you controlling it? For a human to be able to absorb that much wild nature energy... I am in awe of your abilities. However, be careful next time.

‘...Something is weird.’

Cale started to think that a situation different from what he was thinking could have actually happened.

– It might not have been just your head that went boom boom. Your whole body might have exploded.

The Heavenly Demon continued to speak.

Cale was focusing on what the Heavenly Demon was saying before he remembered something.

A sound transmission.

‘...Raon can hear these.’

Cale could not even look at Raon as he opened his mouth to speak.

However, the Heavenly Demon was faster.

– No matter how much you want to save people, do not put your lives on the line. I do not want to see you dead.

Cale gasped and quickly started speaking.

“No, stop with the sound transmission-”

The Heavenly Demon still continued to speak and Cale flinched at what he heard next.

– And if you do care about your friends... Cherish your life even more.

Raon flinched.

– This is something I learned while leading the Demon Cult. Living as somebody’s sky requires you to sacrifice a lot of things.

The Heavenly Demon was the sky of the Demon Cult.

– You seem to be the sky for your friends in the same way.

– Well, I’m not saying that they worship you or have blind loyalty for anything you say or do.

– However, they trust and rely on you and treat you as if you are their home.

Cale silently stood there.

– And isn’t it the same for you?

The Heavenly Demon was speaking oddly as if he was advising a child.

Cale was a bit annoyed by his tone but there wasn’t much he could say.

– Similar to how the Demon Cult is my base, the ground where I live... Your friends are your base and your home.

– Both sides have no choice but to look at each other and live while relying on one another. I am that way.

Cale sighed and closed his eyes.

– Cherish your own body a bit more. The ground and the sky cannot survive without each other.

He opened his eyes again. He first looked toward Raon. What would this punk have thought while listening to the Heavenly Demon’s sound transmission?

‘!’

Cale flinched.

Raon was shaking with his two front paws clenched into fists.

As for his wings, they were not fluttering normally.

Flap, flap flaaap!

They were flapping extremely quickly.

His expression looked extremely solemn as he glared at Cale. That made Cale subconsciously comment with a bewildered look on his face.

“I’m really okay.”

Alberu Crossman saw that stupid look on Cale’s face through the screen and mumbled in disbelief.

– What a spectacle.

Raon did not care about Alberu’s comment and breathed heavily a few times before closing his mouth. It led to his cheeks puffing up.

However, people were more likely to talk when told not to say anything.

“Mm. Then to tell you a little bit about what I’m allowed to say-”

“Yes, yes! Tell me anything!”

The fisherman slowly looked around before opening his mouth.

Based on how basically everybody was whispering around him, he didn’t think it would be an issue for him to say things as well.

‘And it should be fine as long as I don’t talk about the Blood Cult?’

Last night, he had to evacuate to higher ground with the people of Hainan.

He had been rushing toward the evacuation spot when he saw the large tsunami preparing to attack the island and his whole body shook in fear.

He then saw that phenomenal sight.

“You see... Do you know that Hainan and this port were both almost destroyed last night?”

“Hmm? What do you mean?”

“Haaaa. That was the largest tsunami I had ever seen in my life-”

“What?”

“Ah, just listen first.”

“Okay, okay. Just hurry up and tell me!”

“Ahem. Anyway, the sea and the sky were going crazy. Who the hell can stop that? I thought that we were all going to die. But then-”

The fisherman looked around before continuing in a serious and quiet voice.

“A single person appeared and blocked it all.”

“...Huh?”

The fisherman chuckled at the person who asked in confusion and lowered his body more to stealthily share everything he had seen.

He shared those shocking sights that he would never believe had he not seen it with his own eyes.

That was how the incident of last night spread throughout the crowd.

It spread as quickly as a wildfire.

It was a story that seemed to come straight out of a myth.

* * *

“H, human... W, what is all this?”

Raon stuttered in a shaking voice.

“I, I don’t know.”

Cale also stuttered and could not say anything else.

Blue Blood Fort.

Cale’s group was currently in the Blood Demon’s residence, spreading out to inspect all regions of the Blue Blood Fort.

They were looking for anything that could give them the most information.

Cale and Raon were with one other person in a secret area they found.

The one adult and one young Dragon urgently looked toward the person they brought with them, the young Blood Demon candidate Myung.

Their gazes made Myung blankly stare back at them as if she was confused.

The adult and the young Dragon looked back at each other before looking forward.

The first basement level.

The Blood Demon’s training ground that only she and the people who received her permission were allowed to enter.

That large open area-

The top.

The bottom.

The sides.

All directions-

“G, gold!”

Were made of gold.

Raon subconsciously shouted.

“I, it’s so pretty!”

The way the gold sparkled was so pretty.

Raon’s dark blue eyes sparkled beautifully.

Ding.

Cale’s divine item had received a notification.

Cale stopped blankly staring at the gold and pulled out the mirror to read the message.

Cale had contacted Central Plains earlier.

‘I’m heading home tomorrow.’

This was a response to that.

< Cale-nim, would you be able to stay three more days? >

Cale scowled.

Ding!

< That, umm, I want to give you a gift to thank you......! >

Cale’s face slowly relaxed.

Ding.

< You should receive as much as the amount you suffered, Cale-nim! >

‘Oh. This guy is saying something proper for once?’

One corner of Cale’s lips twisted up.

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Translator’s Comments

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