Chapter 70: Gentle Snow Breeze (1) (1/2)
Terms used in this chapter:
Ondol – a Korean form of underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor.
Soh-wak-haeng – Korean slang that literally means ‘little but certain happiness.’ It refers to the small/little happiness which one can get very easily in their daily lives. For example, eating one’s favorite dessert after a long day’s work. It may be something that is small/little, but it certainly makes one happy.
Ahjussi – Korean word for uncle, but also used to refer to an older man who is within your parent’s generation.
Around the time when Violent Avalanche went down alone the rocky mountain and headed on the wrong path, Jude and Cordelia were preparing to rest after they had found a suitable place to stay for the night.
“Only when you have a good floor can you sleep well.”
Cordelia nodded her head several times as if responding to her own words, and she made a bed by using magic and the witch’s power.
After having dug the ground a meter or so from the surface, she flattened the ground. She then used the wooden board as a roof to cover the place, and cast magic so that they could spend a warm night.
‘Should I place a flat and large stone, and then cover it with dirt?’
Wouldn’t it be completely like an ondol if I heated the stone with magic?
“Stone bed, stone bed. Long live the stone bed.”
Cordelia hummed as she worked on the bed, before she turned to the side.
Jude was cooking over the campfire, and the smell was quite good.
“Jude, Jude. What’s for dinner?”
“It’s beef jerky porridge, Madam.”
He put some chopped beef jerky in the hot water, and then added some of the grains he saved. Afterwards, he seasoned it with salt.
It was a simple meal, but Cordelia kept drooling because she had been working hard on preparing their sleeping place.
“It looks delicious.”
“It is delicious. I made it after all.”
“Hmph, I look forward to it.”
Despite Jude’s impudence, Cordelia was already used to it now.
She hummed a little more, and then nodded her head after she covered the newly made bed with a waterproof cloth.
“Hmm, good. It’s well made.”
The size of the waterproof cloth was not so wide, but it was enough for two people to lie down on.
“Are you done?”
“Yes, I’m done. What about our meal?”
“I’m also done cooking.”
“I’m excited.”
Cordelia danced with a slight wiggle of her hips before she rushed to Jude’s side, and Jude involuntarily laughed.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because what you did was cute.”
“Hmph, don’t you know soh-wak-haeng? Little but certain happiness. People need happiness, whether it’s big or small.”
Little but certain happiness.
Although it was lamentable that the happiness of the incomparably beautiful girl and esteemed daughter of Count Chase, one of the 12 northern families, was the food that they were going to eat this day, Jude agreed with Cordelia’s opinion itself.
“You’re right, little but certain happiness is important.”
“Yes, yes, that’s right.”
Perhaps because Jude agreed with her immediately, Cordelia felt better and swallowed a spoonful of the jerky porridge that Jude passed on to her.
“How is it?”
“Delicious.”
It was hot so she couldn’t speak properly, but Cordelia had a contented smile, and Jude also began eating.
“But Jude.”
“Yes, Madam.”
“First of all, we saved Red Gale ahjussi.”
“Yes, we did. The curse won’t get any worse now.”
“So what’s our next plan?”
Cordelia roughly knew of their plan in the wild lands.
As they had said while convincing Violent Avalanche, their immediate task was to prevent the Angry Bull tribe from unifying the barbarians.
But this was not enough.
She needed a detailed plan.
“First…we need to create an Eastern Alliance that is centered on Red Gale.”
“To fight against Seven Horns and the Angry Bull tribe?”
“Well, seeing that they’ve already reached this place, it’s likely that they’ve already moved in the western region of the wild lands.”
It would be stupid for them to send a military expedition in this faraway place when they haven’t organized and conquered the surrounding tribes near them first.
Cordelia also nodded as if she understood it.
“What’s next?”
“We should rally the wild gods of the eastern region too. The Devil’s Eye would have killed or corrupted the wild gods of the western region. Now that I think about it, it seems like Violent Avalanche was one of the enemies in the game.”
“Violent Avalanche?”
“Yes, do you remember the undead bear that appeared in the middle of Act 2? It had an awful knockback attack.”
“Uh…ah! I remember. Right. Come to think of it, they looked a bit similar.”
As Jude had said, the bear was in an undead state, so it was literally half-rotten when it appeared, but now that they thought about it, that bear seemed to be Violent Avalanche.
“To confront the corrupted wild gods, we also need the help of other wild gods. Moreover, we have to fight against the Devil’s Eye.”
“Hmm…you’re right. Mid-ranking demonic humans are already too much for us, so we’ll be unable to come up with a solution if a high-ranking demonic human appears too.”
It was almost impossible for the power of the current Jude and Cordelia to defeat high-ranking demonic humans.
So their plan was to let those who can deal with those enemies to be on their side.
‘Of course, the best thing that we could do is for the two of us to become stronger.’
Jude and Cordelia’s levels were already considerably higher than when they first entered the wild lands.
Moreover, both Jude and Cordelia still had plenty of room for growth.
‘Because the Ninth Heaven’s Nine Doors is still just at the second door. Furthermore…once we meet Lena and obtain the angelic blood, Cordelia would be able to use the Ancestral Regression technique.’
Cordelia’s Fallen Angel mode that he wished to see would then be possible.
‘I’m looking forward to it.’
Jude briefly imagined the appearance of Cordelia’s awakening as a fallen angel, and Cordelia slapped Jude on the back.
“Oww! Why?”
“No, I feel like you’re thinking of something insidious.”
“Anyway.”
“What is it? Were you really thinking of something insidious?”
Instead of answering, Jude diverted the conversation to another topic.
“Red Gale is both a powerful warrior and shaman too. If it’s only a curse, he’d be able to deal with Seven Horns.”
“Don’t change the topic.”
Cordelia stared at Jude for a while, but it was only for a moment. She soon joined Jude’s conversation.
“There must be strong men among the warriors and chieftains of the other tribes, right?”
“I guess so. There must be some wild gods who specialized in fighting too.”
“And Lena.”
“Yes, Lena.”
She was one of the five main characters in the first episode of Legend of Heroes.
It was highly unlikely that she was on the same level as Landius and Kamael, whose strength were already beyond this world, but her strength would still be really powerful.
“Uh…if I knew where she is right now, I would have gone running immediately.”
Cordelia said as her shoulders drooped, and Jude nodded as he agreed with her.
“Because there are many hidden mysteries regarding Lena’s death.”
Lena’s death in Legend of Heroes 2 was shown in a cinematic movie.
However, the problem was not that it appeared in accordance with the story of the main character, but the fact that a cinematic movie unexpectedly appeared at a certain time.
‘Because we only know the place and time.’
In fact, the location itself was unclear, but some of the rotten waters of Legend of Heroes 2 estimated the location based on the background from the cinematic movie.
‘Raptor Canyon.’