Chapter 98 - EPISODE 98 – CROSS (1) (2/2)
The couple were so perfectly compatible that one might think that they were born for each other.
“Well, anyway, let’s take a break.”
“Uuuu…do I have to do it again?”
“You have to do it again. You have to get used to it.”
At Jude’s words, Cordelia nodded with drooping shoulders.
She was so embarrassed that her head grew feverish and her normal thinking became somewhat difficult.
Regardless, the strangely quiet Cordelia sat down on her bed and Jude spoke again after turning to Violent Avalanche.
“Violent Avalanche, how is the establishment of the Eastern Alliance?”
“It’s a serious topic all of a sudden.”
The topic suddenly came in, but it was necessary to talk about it.
It had been two days since Red Wind got the Phoenix.
Violent Avalanche walked to the front of the bed and stretched its arms, and Cordelia lifted up Violent Avalanche and sat it on the bed.
“Huu…that’s good. Anyway, about that, it’s going faster than I thought.”
There were three wild gods involved so the establishment of the Eastern Alliance was initially progressing quite fast. It was then accelerated by the addition of what happened to the Golden Dragon King, which was a recent news brought by Jude and Cordelia.
“Because the west is already contaminated and there was also a request from the Golden Dragon King… The wild gods who were very hesitant and evasive have also began to move forward. Perhaps when this Karaval is over, a strong Eastern Alliance would be established that is centered on one tribe, which would either be the Great Storm tribe or the Blade Song tribe.”
At Violent Avalanche’s explanation, Jude’s eyes narrowed.
“Then the scale of this Karaval would probably be bigger than originally planned.”
“Yes, you’re right. The basic one-on-one battle of Red Wind and Sun Song would remain the same, but the number and quality of the audience would be different. Most of the tribal chiefs of the east would probably get together to watch the Karaval this time.”
They would be here to discuss the establishment of the Eastern Alliance and not just to watch a fight.
Jude asked Violent Avalanche again.
“Is there any response from the west? I think that your side don’t know much on what’s going on there either.”
“It’s not like we don’t have spies there, so we at least know a little about it. We’re also keeping a close eye on the events in the west. However…our judgment is that they seemed to be more preoccupied with the complete unification of the west. The Angry Bull tribe is currently preoccupied with their military expedition on the west.”
In other words, they hadn’t taken measures against the eastern side because they were preoccupied with the unification of the western side.
‘It’s understandable.’
Everything that they had done in the east so far was close to a small-scale covert operation.
“But Violent Avalanche.”
Cordelia finally recovered while their conversation went back and forth, so she raised her hand and asked. Violent Avalanche accepted her question with a smile.
“Yes, what are you curious about?”
“You said earlier that most of the tribal chiefs would be gathering.”
“I did.”
“Then would the wild gods also be gathered?”
Jude and Cordelia did not know much about the wild gods’ existence until they had come to the wild lands.
But it was different now.
By personally meeting Great Storm, they learned that wild gods exist. And when they met Violent Avalanche, they found out that the monsters in the original whom they thought to be monsters from hell were actually the corrupted wild gods.
‘Wild gods protected the tribes.’
The tribesmen greatly respected the will of the wild gods they served, as could be seen in the case of Gentle Snow Breeze and Great Storm.
In short, the will of the wild gods rather than the will of the tribal chiefs were more important in the establishment of the Eastern Alliance.
Violent Avalanche roughly understood the meaning of Cordelia’s question, but it smiled and shook its head.
“Most of the wild gods would probably not participate. Each wild god has its own sanctuary and living in it is basic for us. An example right now would be Gentle Snow Breeze who made an alliance with Great Storm but still lives in her sanctuary in the basin.”
Thus, the other wild gods would be more focused on protecting their sanctuaries at the present moment.
“Then what about Violent Avalanche?”
Wild Avalanche was also a wild god, but it was staying in Great Storm’s land.
At Cordelia’s question, Jude slightly turned his glance away while Violent Avalanche indignantly shouted.
“You two destroyed it! You two!”
My sanctuary! My rocky mountain!
Of course, Violent Avalanche’s rocky mountain did not completely collapse, as half of it still remained.
“Ahem, ahem, moving on, Violent Avalanche will be watching the Karaval then.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
When Violent Avalanche grumbled and answered, Cordelia felt sorry, so she hugged the wild god who did not refuse the beautiful girl’s touch.
“Ahem, ahem.”
The combination of a bear cub and a beautiful girl was really nice to look at, but Jude was somehow uncomfortable with it, so he cleared his throat and then pulled Violent Avalanche’s hand before speaking.
“On another note, there’s not much time left until the Karaval.”
“Yes, but I believe in Red Wind. She got the Phoenix and isn’t she also practicing really hard now?”
Violent Avalanche was right.
Red Wind’s growth had been explosive after obtaining the Phoenix.
In addition, Jude and Cordelia’s customized teachings for her had been increasing her winning rate at Karaval day by day.
‘Cordelia is teaching Red Wind’s unique combat method with the flame spirit.’
Because the character Yellow Storm played the most after Cordelia was Red Wind.
Moreover, Cordelia was better than Jude when it came to battle skills, so he completely entrusted Red Wind’s growth to Cordelia.
‘My task is to take the role of her opponent, Sun Song.’
Jude had memorized all of Sun Song’s combat patterns.
Of course, what Jude had memorized were the combat patterns of the corrupted Sun Song. However, only Sun Song’s temperament and personality had changed when he was corrupted, so it was highly likely that his basic physical skills remained the same.
‘She’ll learn how to fight from Cordelia and then have a mock battle with me who can fight like Sun Song.’
It was the best training method they could do for her right now.
‘But time is running out too.’
There were only four days left until the Karaval – essentially, that was a little over three days.
‘Will she make it on time?’
‘She will make it.’
Jude exchanged glances with Cordelia before he nodded once and turned to Violent Avalanche.
When he met eyes with Violent Avalanche, the wild god suddenly clapped its hands, jumped off the bed and said.
“Ah, come to think of it, there’s something that I have to tell you.”
“Something to tell us?”
They had just talked about the establishment of the Eastern Alliance, but was there something else they had to talk about too?
When Violent Avalanche saw Jude and Cordelia’s curious eyes, the wild god had a little evil – no, a happy smile and said.
“Your older brother and sister will arrive in two days.”
Gaël and Adelia would be returning after their vain efforts in going to Raptor Canyon.
They were coming to meet Jude and Cordelia.
They were coming to apprehend the two!
“Eueueueu…”
Cordelia tightly shut her eyes while Jude held Cordelia’s hand.
Though he had made fun of Cordelia, Jude was also nervous when he thought about meeting them in person.
But it was their inevitable fate.
Four days left until the Karaval.
Two days left until the invasion of their older brother and sister.
The night grew late.
***
It was a particularly sunny day.
Jude and Cordelia stood side by side on the pure white snowfield as they looked into the distance but didn’t find anyone.
Two days after hearing about the situation from Violent Avalanche…
That day had finally arrived.
“Huu…huu…”
Cordelia took some deep breaths as her cheeks were stiff from tension.
Jude asked as he glanced at Cordelia.
“Are you nervous?”
“I am nervous.”
“It’s all right, you have me.”
“I’m nervous because of you, okay?”
She had to protect Jude from Adelia.
“Huu…huu…”
Cordelia took some deep breaths again before clenching her teeth and straightening her posture.
Jude also straightened his posture like Cordelia and then looked straight ahead.
“They’re coming.”
The two saw the other side.
Gaël and Adelia finally appeared.