Chapter 19 - Mythical Creatures (1/2)

Chapter 19 – Mythical Creatures

Nabel escorted Ronée to the carriage that awaited them behind the mansion. The carriage was loaded minimally in order to travel as fast as possible. There were two of them.

Ryne rode in the second carriage with the others. She understood that it could not be helped to let Ronée travel more comfortably.

The carriage rattled as it sped off. Ronée had only ridden a carriage a few times before in her life. She felt like she had ridden in a carriage often when she was a young child, but then her stepmother had arrived and such opportunities had diminished.

As such, riding a carriage as an adult was yet unfamiliar to her. Ronée watched the black-clad riders following beside them.

“They’re all people we can trust,” Nabel said quietly, smiling.

“I see you met many good people while we were apart.”

That was a relief. She had worried so much that he had been suffering alone. A tender smile formed on Ronée’s face. Of course, it must have been hard for him. But she was relieved that he was safe.

“It’s not as meaningful now as it used to be,” Nabel smiled. The first good person he had ever met in his life was staring out of the window, illuminated by a shaft of warm sunlight.

They traveled by carriage for a long time. Fortunately, there was no need for them to voyage across the rough sea. He had dreamed of the wide ocean since he was young, but he had put it off for now. Ronée’s body was too weak. He did not want to make the journey any longer than it had to be.

The Western Continent where they arrived after traveling for more than ten days certainly was different to the Eastern Continent.

In the distance, Ronée could see trees that towered so high that you could not see the whole thing in one glance. She did not think that even ten people linking arms could encircle the trunks of those trees.

As the carriage drew a little closer, the sky cleared, casting sunlight over the trees that had been shrouded in shadow and she saw that they were, in fact, all connected to one trunk.

“Wow…”

It was just as Nabel had said. This place was completely different from the Eastern Continent. If that kind of immense tree could exist here, the monsters too must be as big as Nabel had said.