Chapter 152 (2/2)
After progressing so fast that we started feeling nauseous, we finally stood under a strange sky right after tearing the twelfth scroll.
As soon as we stepped on the ground, an alien language applied with interpretation magic was heard in my ears.
“Oh, are you the Awakened beings from the Earth dimension? Welcome!”
The plains of the alien land spread before us.
There, the warriors of the Gorangsha welcomed us.
Their appearance was so gentle that it was hard to recognize them as strong Awakened beings.
‘They’re similar to something… Ah, I see.’
If I had to necessarily find something on Earth that the aliens could be compared to, deers would match their description quite accurately.
Among them, the representative greeted us politely.
“Thank you for your aid in stopping the Red Gate at our dimension.”
Although he clearly knew that we were dispatched because the Union told us so, he still paid us respect.
His sparkling, chestnut-like eyes looked at us while saying those words.
Except for the fact that they had no fur and their skin was green, they could be described as deers that walked in a bipedal manner.
“You must be the advance party. When are the rest of the Awakened scheduled to arrive?”
He wiggled his wobbly horn and asked a question.
As he stared at me, waiting for a reply, I answered him with words that defied his expectations.
“It’s just us.”
“Hmm? There must have been an error in the translation magic. Could you repeat that, please?”
“No, the magic seems to be working well. We’re the only ones sent from Earth this time.”
“?!”
The word spread to the others.
At that point, hundreds of Goransha species gathered on the plains and talked to each other in disarray.
Grunt!
Gruuunt!
Their whining language, which did not pass through interpretation magic, rang as they scratched our nerves.
“O-only the three of you?”
He had accurately identified that only three of the five, including Genograche and Euclid, were Awakened.
He pointed his finger as he continued.
“The devil seems to be a servant of the King of Gold, so he must not be an Awakened…”
– Chet.
Genograche only mumbled and did not resolve the misunderstanding by blabbering.
Regardless, it was true that he wasn’t an Awakened being.
The deer alien’s finger pointed next to it.
“That one smells like a dragon… and if so, it’s probably not an Awakened.”
He easily guessed Euclid’s identity.
“I understand that one of you is greatly skilled in terms of taming. Did you put all of your trust in that? However… the monsters from the Red Gate cannot be tamed.”
When he expressed his concern…
Paht! Pa-pa-paht!
Hundreds of drops of light repeatedly exploded and flashed around us.
Every time a flash that flickered brilliantly faded as if to burst a flashlight, beings who looked different from the Gorangsha appeared.
Their numbers are of hundreds, too.
Due to that occurrence, the plains of the alien world had been filled with hundreds of Gorangshas, hundreds of new aliens, and five of us from Earth.
A hard voice flowed from the machine’s vocal part controlled by the newly emerged representative of the species.
“We are reinforcements from the Tongel dimension. The horned nobles must be the natives here… and are the humans, devil, and the dragon next to you all livestock? As far as I know, I heard that the Union recruited reinforcements from another dimension other than us.”
The Tongels, who said that, were controlling a human-like robot.
– What? Livestock?!
When Genograche was about to explode telepathic waves enveloped by his throbbing rage, I gestured and calmed him down.
The Tongels’ representative continued to drop words of doubt.
“That’s a strange composition. I don’t know what’s going on here.”
At where his head should be, there was a spherical fish tank filled with orange liquid, and within its transparent perimeter, a starfish-like small creature could be seen.
The main bodies of the Tongels were the starfishes in their fish tanks.
Looking at the reflected scene through [The Successor’s Eyes], the Mana flowing from the main body in the tank was seeping into the robot, controlling its movement.
The deer alien greeted them belatedly.
“Oh, oh! It’s a pleasure to meet you, warriors of the Tongel race. I am the commander of the Gorangsha warriors. And… the reinforcements sent from the other dimension is…”
The starfish alien was surprised to hear the explanation from the Gorangsha Commander.
“What? The newly partnered dimension only sent three Awakened beings?!”
The round eye on the center of the starfish body submerged in the liquid gave us a closer look.
After it kept silent for a moment as if it were absurd, it finally spoke again.
“It must be a much insignificant dimension. Were you guys the only ones qualified to be sent as reinforcements?”
Then Gorangsha and Tongel’s commanders ignored us and began to talk among themselves.
The following were the occasionally leaking sound of words.
‘Gorangsha, have you got something held responsible under the Union? Is there any reason that they would not send proper reinforcements?’
‘Not really. I think… They must have considered that the Tongels, your battle force, was enough.’
‘It would be more likely. Then, were they sent here for a field trip? That’s incomprehensible, but…’
The two concluded their conversation and declared it to us.
“Since it’s a newly partnered dimension, you wouldn’t have experienced the Red Gate, and it would be good if at least you were of a large number, but you aren’t… So, I don’t think you all would be very helpful in this battle.”
“So don’t get in the way and mess up the battlefield. Instead, just watch from behind our lines. Our two races will be handling this quest ourselves.”
They didn’t even bother to listen to our reply. Rather, they busied themselves with making the formation among themselves.
After witnessing what just transpired, Nate whispered in my ear.
“Wouldn’t we… be ignored tremendously?”
I smirked and replied with a smile.
“Let them be that way for now.”
They would find out soon enough anyway.
There was a reason why the Union did not care to explain to them and set up the situation in that way.
I looked at the starfishes in their portable aquariums.
Even if their appearance looked so shabby, they were the great traders dealing with almost every dimension that joined the Union. They were a race that had their networks spread in countless dimensions. They could also propagate an event that happened from a different world to another dimension the fastest.
‘The Commissioner had done her best if this is the outcome.’
It was only proper for us to show our true strength through the quest assigned to us in return.
As we waited in that manner for a while…
Whooong!
“Oh, there!”
With a thick echo ringing the air, red cracks began to form in the air.