“How long are you planning on staying here?”
Bud Illis plopped down on the deck and looked to the side.
He could see someone standing as still as a giant boulder.
‘…I didn't expect something like this to happen.’
Bud's expression turned odd.
Ron Molan was the person standing as still as a giant boulder.
There was also one other person next to Ron. The Mercenary King had received information about this person a few days ago.
Cale’s strongest knight.
Choi Han, the youngest sword master.
“Mr. Choi Han is here, so why don't you go inside, patriarch-nim?”
Bud could see the old man with a cold expression that no longer had the benign smile on it start to speak.
“Shut up. You're being too loud.”
‘Loud?’
The Mercenary King let out a sigh.
It was quiet on top of this ship.
No, it was absolutely silent.
Even still, Bud’s quiet voice was not enough to be considered loud.
However, Bud shut up as Ron ordered.
Glenn Poeff. His mage friend motioned to him with his eyes.
‘Are we going to leave them like this?’
Bud started to speak again after seeing the gaze.
“Wind Island.”
The Three Restricted Areas.
The island itself was not visible because of the roaring winds.
It did not allow anyone to easily approach the island.
However, people still knew how living beings died by this island.
There was a simple reason for it.
“Anything that dies in Wind Island will have its corpse fly out along with the wind.”
Not even breathing could be heard on top of the ship.
Bud closed his eyes.
Swoooooooooooosh- Swoooooooosh-
The sound of the wind could be heard.
One week.
Bud thought about the things that happened this past week.
The first three days were decently calm. Cale's group started to get worried once it reached the fourth and fifth days.
‘Why, why is the human not coming out?’
‘Something’s weird!’
‘Something's very very weird! It is super weird!’
Bud recalled the endless concerns of the children.
And today was the seventh day.
Bud raised his head.
He could see the ocean that held both Wind Island and its twin island. It was a place that was covered in fog over 360 days a year.
Bud had not seen the night sky of his hometown in a long time. It was a night with a new moon, however, the stars were shining brightly.
‘…It looks like I made an amazing friend.’
Well, the friend himself was amazing, however, the friend's group was even more amazing.
Back on the sixth day.
The people who had been sharing their concerns, walking around without knowing what to do, or slowly started to stop speaking all started to move.
Wind Island and the twin island next to it. The night sky around the two islands had been clearly visible.
It was because the fog surrounding the two islands and the ocean had disappeared.
“…Amazing.”
The silver kitten had pushed away the fog around the island.
The black Dragon caused some wind to appear to help.
The black Dragon, silver kitten, and the red kitten were all observing Wind Island from the night sky.
Swoooooooosh- Swooooooosh-
They were looking at the island even though Wind Island was still covered in wind and nothing was visible.
‘It is fine because I am the great and mighty Raon Miru! You two don't know about this, but this Dragon life of mine has been going on for six years! Over half of that was living in pain! This is not painful at all! Don't stop me! I will destroy everything!’
‘I’ll still eat well, rest well, and just sleep a little less to wait! It is not hard at all compared to when my sister and I were alone!’
‘…Don't stop us.’
The children were extremely stubborn.
Of course, even the three of them went to eat and sleep without any complaints when Ron or Beacrox told them to go.
“…It is so bright.”
Something was shining in Bud's eyes.
white gold mana orbs surrounding the ocean and the island were extremely
expression had his arms crossed and stood there while lighting up the area
of the wind, but he might be able to see the light
fists over and over
back
“Still.”
the
had not come
faster than anybody else if a corpse had
“…Still.”
been one
not
“He is still alive.”
Ron, and Beacrox all touched their weapons and
been
he had not contacted the group outside, Cale Henituse was
shot his
fingers or even
that the group could not easily
“…The wind decreased again.”
Swooooosh- Swooooosh-
wind was still strong, but the amount of
Bud started to speak.
the scent of the wind attribute. An extremely strong scent
looked down at his
covered in
of the island
similar to the scent of Bud’s wind attribute ancient power, but different
that scent was
is definitely doing
Wind Island.
The Three Restricted Areas.
of wind coming off of Cale was slowly getting stronger as that area
Cale was still fine and
Ron's voice
will soon be two days since he ran out
His voice was dry.
bottle of water. Ron
put five days’ worth of food in Cale's spatial pocket bag just in case. Cale would soon reach his limits no matter how
man looked toward the
was always
puppy young master-nim had always given
not know what Cale was
didn’t know the situation
on an island covered in
“Tomorrow at noon…”
Cale stay
was something the ancient Dragon
it reaches noon
“At that moment-”
else finished the
the person who had
finished
destroy all
King could not help but
“Is that possible?”
eye contact with Choi Han
I will definitely make
and the children. Those white gold orbs looked ready
and leaned against the railing
get past tonight
filled the area
to be holding their breaths as they
absence was creating this suffocating
One week ago.
when Cale entered Wind Island
“It’s black.”
could see some rough terrain and a mountain that seemed to be shooting
mountain was also
‘…Dead mana.’
was dyed
at the tip
and feet cannot touch the ground. You could get poisoned by the dead
You can’t dig up the dirt nor rocks and eat them. You can get poisoned through your
Mercenary King’s useless comments.
the
used the Sound of the Wind as he
you get on the island, take three
thought about Bud’s explanation last night describing the path on the map
must not
the map as you go.
walking but without any
Swoooooooosh- Swooooooosh-
there was oddly a gap if he walked exactly as Bud told
small gap but enough for
“How amazing.”
was as Cale subconsciously commented. Of course. My friend can easily
‘Huh?’
flinched after hearing
“Friend?”
owner of the power belonging to the child that told you the way is my
Mercenary
in his will that their bloodline would work as gatekeepers of Wind
Bud Illis had belonged to that ancestor as well. He was a thief
‘Ho.’
powers ended up
his head before starting to
underneath the mountain at the center of the island.
Swoooooosh- Swooooooosh-
from the
You should be able to get there in about an hour
then turned
a temple entrance welcoming you in. It will take about two days to go into the temple and come
a while. He floated in the air while looking
could see a large boulder that was the only
the boulder that Bud had talked
and long slash mark
the front of that boulder. He then put his
boulder will respond to your calling once you put your palm on it
Oooooong- oooooong-
sound of the wind suddenly appeared.
looked toward the black
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