7 Escape romance

The escape was very smooth. The Grand Duke's search party often passed by my side, but everyone ran to another place without knowing it was me. Who would consider me to be a Grand Duke, covered in a reed hat made of haste in a shabby outfit?

However, I met a moment of crisis because I had a knight stop me to explore, but when I got down on my knees and buried my face on the ground as usual, I left without noticing.

‘Oh, good. ’

A blurry cloud was flowing through the blue sky. I was riding around in a wooden wagon that an old man collected in the countryside, waving a dog grass in my mouth and repelling the flying insect into my face. The spring energy is mild because it has been down to the southeast for more than three days.

I accidentally looked at the basket in my hand and my eyes opened sharply. It contains well-baked barley bread. Plus, there's a lot of sheep. The old man in the wooden carriage had enough left to eat today.

‘Even if you eat too much, it's bad for your health. ’

I grabbed two sliced barley buns and slashed them. Soon, my mouth smells of ferocious vegetables. Something a little salty seems to have been cooked with vegetables.

Admired by the unattainable taste, I raised my upper body and told my grandfather.

“Grandpa, this barley bread is really good. ”

Grandpa turned around, holding his hand to his ear.

“Excuse me?”

“This bread is delicious. Is Grandma a good cook? ”

“Well, even when my grandmother is old, she's pretty good. ”

Grandpa smiled brightly, revealing gums without teeth. I rolled my eyes and lay down again.

Soon after, the wooden carriage arrived at a fork in the road. On the sign, you see Lori Village on the left and Hopper Village on the right. Both roads are clear to the destination, but I descended immediately after the wooden carriage turned to the left.

On the way to Lorai Village, there is a barracks stationed by the Grancer's own troops. The soldiers are probably everywhere, so you should avoid them as much as possible.

“Grandpa, I gotta go. He's in good health. ”

He drove the wooden carriage as if he hadn't heard it. Then I carried a wooden fork toward Hobba Village.

“You've finally arrived. ”

When I arrived in Hoppa Village, it was known as a rural town at the foot of the Drewin Mountains. Magic was often known to be quite dangerous in the raid and within the territory, but it was overflowing with people. On the other hand, there is a path through Hoppa Village that leads to the trade route to the Kingdom of Caligo.

The Yosrahim Empire, which is currently making the faith of the God of Light ‘Lou’, was in sharp conflict with the Kali Empire who believes in the God of Darkness’ Knox ’. Since the birth of the human civilization, the forces of light and darkness have been constantly colliding, which is not surprising, but until recently, both countries have been at war with a lot of blood.

So the two countries were currently cutting off trade, and just like the world of people, they were closing their eyes as much as the smuggling trade to get the various specialities they needed from each other.

Moreover, the Yosrahim Empire is more flexible in the dark, even though it is a force of light. I was neutral until about 200 years ago. However, the tradition of the past remained because it was unable to be defeated by the forces of light up and down in pairs.

A typical example is the flag of the empire.

The symbol depicted on the flag of the Yosrahim Empire represents a neutral god, the yin & yang, with the sun and moon simultaneously present. Thanks to this, I've been asked to change the flag from many forces of light, but I refuse to stand for the flag of Siegfried the Emperor who founded the country, and now ignore it. Because in the past, it was a small kingdom on the north side, but now it has grown to be the most powerful empire on the continent. Of course, power is a comfort to all.

‘Anyway, our empire is good. ’

Hoppa Village is one of the trade routes where smuggling takes place. Although there is a risk of crossing the harsh landscape, it is not common for Temples and the public to recognize each other's trade.

However, it can be done because Yosrahim is Empire. Other Light Nations are already aware of this fact, but they don't take it lightly.

I stepped into Hobba Village with a light heart.

‘Huh. This is a city or a town? ’

In the village, there were entertainers as well as a guild for mercenaries and a magic communication station. It is a town about the size of a city, but the regular army was not stationed there. Even an empire can be seen placing regular troops at the center of smuggling trade. So the security of Hobba Village is handled by vigilantes and mercenaries, except in special circumstances.

But I still couldn't throw off the reed hat. An impeccable human like Earl Meier would not have sent a flyer with my face on it to Hobba Village, here at the Magic Communications Center.

Moreover, many sources of information from the Yosrahim Empire are active here. To find spies in the Kingdom of Caligo who might be able to infiltrate it.

“Hey. While playing here · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”

About the time I passed the entertainment hall, a prostitute called me. Apparently, he was quite old and not a very nice face to look at. That's why they called me a worthless woodcutter, but I ignored it and passed by.

I have a profound philosophy of revealing only pretty women, even though I can't use a four-legged dwarf.

‘Well, there's no money. ’

I soon arrive at the entrance of the Smuggled Trade Route. There were ten mercenaries guarding it, frowning as soon as they saw me. It was because of my dirty appearance and the stink of cow dung.

“Where are you going? ”

“To the trees.”

“Why are we going this way? ”

“I know a guy. He said there's a colony of Iow trees near Joe. ”

The mercenary pounces. The Iow tree was a good firepower and long burnt and suitable for use as firewood. And the only people who knew about this were wandering mercenaries and professional woodcutters who had been camping for a long time.

“Got it. Identification, then. ”

I made a cheeky face to look as long as I could.

“I'm not an adult yet, I don't have an ID card. Identification cards only come out next year. ”

“Really?"

“Yes.”

The mercenary who glanced at me nodded. I just became an adult this year. Even though he was a minor, there was nothing strange about his appearance.

“Then pass. But don't go too far. It's dangerous.”

“Yes.”

As I try to get inside the entrance, one of the mercenaries next to me sharply opens his eyes.

“Hey, and you. ”

I clenched my fist.

“Yes?”

“Please wash up and go. Next time you come to this shithole, I'll kick you out right now. What is that cow shit smell? Phew.”

“Yes, I understand. ”

Soon, I entered the entrance of the mountain pass and looked behind me. I wondered if there was an informant who suspected and tracked me down. But no, he was a perfect fighter.

Moreover, there was no ID test that worried me the most. Of course, it didn't matter if it took me long enough to get here, but I was lucky to have been able to avoid a forced entry. I mean, it could be completely religious.

You can't find me anymore. My future appearance within the Empire is in the northern tip of Divinum Sanctuary, Earl Graff. I can't imagine anyone showing up here.

I immediately threw a fork down a nearby cliff and started sprinting through the mountains.

“Yojo, I'm coming! Wait!”

The sights around you swiftly pass by. The branches of the tree that my body touched shook violently, and a group of rabbits, who had been wandering along the mountain for a while, were stunned and dazed without even thinking of escaping, watching me pass by.

I'm faster than anyone. I just ran for a little while, but I've already crossed the summit twice. Nevertheless, I was almost at the top of the next mountain.

‘Phew! It's harder than I thought. ’

But the hike was never, ever light.

In fact, this body was not my body before I died in my previous life. Manawa piled up in her body was only a drop of rat, and her body was not trained enough to be satisfied. It was certainly not as fast as in its heyday.

Fortunately, Mana continues to grow. It was the nature of Mana.

Mana acts as a junction between the physical body and the intangible mind. However, my mind is not just a young adult, but a mental test that I entered in my previous life as a master test.

Currently, there was a imbalance between my sudden rise in mental strength and less Mana, and the amount of Mana, which was also the presence of harmony to stabilize it, was increasing rapidly and was gaining balance.

At this rate, it seemed that we could recover all the Mana we had in our previous lives after about ten days. The body will also be rapidly trained as this Mana increases.

“Let's take a break. ”

I took a break as soon as I entered the deep mountains. There is still a lot of stamina, but excessive stamina can put you at risk.

There was a lot of magic in the Dwayne Mountains. It's because it's not easy to subdue people after making such a big deal of it.

That's why those who cross the Drewin Mountains should always be stockpiled up to prepare for the attack on the devil, who may be there.

Funny thing is, if the contents of the Codex of Creation contain the history of creation, there should be no magic in this world. The gods of creation and command have blocked all the cracks in the dimension of the entrance to this world through chaos and emptiness. Nevertheless, the presence of magic in this world and its continuing appearance is also a sign that the dimensional walls are extremely weakened and that chaos and void are seeping into this world.

Humanity was not aware of it at all. Because magic existed long before the birth of human civilization, when history began to be recorded.

This period is at least tens of thousands to tens of thousands of years.

These years were only very, very short periods of time when we saw the history of God's creation, but they were long enough to routinely destroy humans. Yes, the destruction of humanity has been going on for a long time. Only eight years later, the age of destruction was merely an event in which the gods of heaven Himself made their mark.

The End

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