Chapter 129 (2/2)

“Stop! I don’t want to hear it Leave now”

La Tart requested a private audience with the king again, but the king didn’t grant the request The officers argued Twelve years passed since that day, and signals were still co from the place where the acadeht Chi-Woo led Nangnang, Roar from Quiet Snowy Mountains, Shadia, and Hawa to the palace Eshnunna aiting for them there, and she soon took the

“Hht onto the floor and sniffed, tilting his head “A barrier? I did think it was strange that a vast space such as this was left eht anxiously, and Chi-Woo glanced at her

“Were you here before?”

“Uh, well…I thought I could gain soled to finish her sentence She see to ads in front of the princess Snowy Mountain didn’t say anything, either, but he was fidgeting with his hands Chi-Woo turned back to Eshnunna Unlike her usual self, Eshnunna looked extreled up in a mess

“Have you slept?”

“…Sorry? Ah, no Why?”

“I ondering if you orried about solanced at her from up and down and asked mischievously, “Were you worried about hed very deeply and shook her head whileincomprehensibly, “If you were my brother…I would’ve hit…” Then, she told Chi-Woo, “It wasn’t there”

“What?”

“Because you suddenly changed your decision, I went and hurriedly searched through the old records and found that there had been atte times”

“Oh, is that so?”

“But that was all There was no passage that really caught ed your oing to help the whole tierous happen again?”

It wasn’t the first tiht this about her Eshnunna truly was a sharp princess She had good intuition In response, Chi-Woo looked at her like he was touched, “So in short, you really were unable to sleep because of ravation As sharp as she was, Chi-Woo wasn’t able to hide his worries frohtly nervous state, and that Chi-Woo was joking around to relieve his nerves She supposed that Chi-Woo had his own reasons, and he was now going to solve a probleain With this in ement

“Is there really a barrier here? I’e, but I can’t sense it at all, “ Shadia asked while looking around “There are only two possible explanations: The barrier is fake and doesn’t exist Or it’s so massive that we can’t even sense it properly Why it would be just like an antan elephant” After all, if an ant saw an elephant’s leg, it would think the leg was a pillar instead of belonging to an animal

“Well, let’s say there really is a barrier… Can we even open it?”

“Yes, there really is one, and we can open it,” Eshnunna said The sage froo had told the Salem royals multiple times that the fundamental probleain someday; for such a day, he had prepared several devices so that future generations could try to solve the probley One of the devices limited the authority to open and close the barrier to someone of Salem’s royal blood

Eshnunna turned back to Chi-Woo, silently asking Chi-Woo if he was really going with her gaze There was no humor left in Chi-Woo’s expression now He looked serious as he quietly nodded

“…Then” Eshnunna sloalked up to exactly where the front gate used to be Then, slid!

“Prepare” Eshnunna breathed in deeply and unsheathed a sharp dagger Staring up at the night sky tensely, she said, “I’ate now” She pierced the tip of one of her fingers with her dagger

Drip Drops of blood trickled down between her fingers, and after shaking her blood off her hand, she reached forward and siuinis…” Incomprehensible words ca that their devices didn’t autoe, it appeared to be a spell froe “…ostendas”

Eshnunna stopped The world was quiet as usual, and the space was projecting only the night sky Nothing happened…or at least that was how it appeared

“H with his keen eyes “What, nyang?” Having focused on Eshnunna’s finger, Nangnang’s tail flicked upward Everyone’s gaze followed suit, and Chi-Woo strained his eyes to lookblood had stopped Before it even dropped to the floor, it hovered still in the air like it was embedded into space It was as if tile—!

There were ripples all around the in the wind The phenoradually expanded its sphere of influence, and transparent waves began to circulate across the entire area Finally, an enoran to take forn experience for even heroes who had gone through all sorts of difficulties and hardshi+ps, and Shadia let out a s that had been hidden for centuries was co into view bit by bit

“…”

When he looked up again, his eyes were filled with thoughts