Chapter 286 (2/2)

There was a gust of wind. It was all coming from my legs and Punghee. Punghee was the first one to move. There was a loud sound and Punghee flew forward like a lightning bolt.

“Eh? It isn’t over there. Ah, I don’t know. I’ll just catch up.”

There was a burst of wind and I followed after Punghee. I caught up and shouted at Punghee, “Punghee! This way!”

“Puung!” Punghee’s firm answer followed, and Punghee and I quickly headed to the place called Hesperides. The navigator was naturally guiding us.

[The first apostle, ‘Prometheus,’ is starting the route guidance.]

“It’s too faaaaaast...!”

Park Muyeol’s loud voice was a bonus.

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At Hesperides Gardens, in the Temple of Clouds...

The three sisters Aegle, Erytheia, and Arethusa were enjoying the same routine as always.

“Hum hum~♪ hum hum hum~♬”

Aegle hummed a song as she refined the barrier using her power, the ‘protection clouds.’ It was because there were quite a few clouds lost since the last human invasion. She didn’t know anything else, but she wanted to protect this Temple of the Clouds where she could communicate with her father.

She touched it. As if making clay, she tightened and hardened the barrier.

She had a childlike purity.

“Sit down! Stand up! Sit down again—!”

Meanwhile, Erytheia was training the monsters here using the ‘deception clouds.’ She was alarmed when she saw humans slaughtering the monsters so easily. She also didn’t want to lose the Temple of Clouds where she could communicate with her father. Therefore, for the same reason, she was with Aegle to further train monsters in the vicinity.

“Kyarurung...”

A wolf-like monster growled at Erytheia. Erytheia frowned slightly when the clouds of deception didn’t work well. “Sit.”

“Grrung...”

“I told you to sit down—!”

Erytheia shouted as she wielded the whip of clouds created by Arethusa. In fact, only the sound was loud. The cloud whip didn’t hurt that much. However, there was nothing more painful than this if she was wielding it with a real determination to kill the target.

“Yip!”

In any case, now Erytheia wished it was in pain, so she believed the whip she just wielded was quite painful. The wolf-like monster sat down quickly. Erytheia smiled and threw one fruit, allowing the wolf-like monster to enjoy it. Erytheia suddenly felt hungry as she heard the noises.

“...Aegle!”

“Huh?”

Aigle, who was stroking the clouds, turned around and blinked her innocent eyes. They were really big eyes.

“Is Arethusa still in the workshop?”

“Yes, she has been like this for a month already~”

Aegle’s tone kept rising like she was in a good mood. However, it was different for Erytheia. Arethusa had stayed in her cloud workshop and didn’t appear for a month. She was determined to make proper weapons and armor so she wouldn’t miss the intruders next time.

“Oh, I want to eat something delicious. Annoying!” Erytheia complained.

Out of the three sisters, Arethusa was the most dexterous. Thus, she was very good at cooking. The three sisters who inherited the blood of a god didn’t need to eat a lot. They wouldn’t starve to death as long as they ate the fruits grown here, but this didn’t mean they didn’t have the desire to eat something delicious.

“Hah, I don’t know when she will come out...”

Erytheia sighed and Aegle offered some words of consolation.

“Erytheia, shall I cook~?”

“...No, I’ll refuse.”

By the way, Aegle’s cooking skills were the worst. She didn’t know the difference between salt and sugar. In any case, Aegle absolutely couldn’t be allowed to cook. Never.

“Then Erytheia, why don’t you try it~?”

“Me?”

“Yes~ You haven’t done it before~”

Ah, was it like this? Erytheia looked back on the past. Certainly, Aegle and Arethusa might’ve cooked, but she had never done it.

‘Well, what’s so special about cooking? I can confuse a delicious-looking monster and order it to enter boiling water.’

Erytheia was thinking about the creepy and bloody words in her heart when she heard it. Aegle and Erytheia’s heads became dizzy at the same time.

“......?”

”......!”

Aegle and Erytheia’s eyes met. Then they simultaneously ran toward the Temple of Clouds. The place they arrived at had a crystal ball in the middle. It was a crystal ball that allowed them to check the situation of Hesperides in real time.

“Intruders, right...?”

“Wait a minute.”

Erytheia manipulated the crystal ball to zoom in and she could see the intruders more clearly. They were beating at the barrier. The intruder was the strange human with a cloud on his face from the other day.

“That man is...”

“Don’t you think he is the human from the other day? The man with the cloud on his face.”

“Yes. This time, there are two humans with clouds on their faces.”

The other was an unknown human. In any case, it seemed like they both had clouds on their faces. The other human even had hair that fluttered like a cloud of feathers. In any case, an intrusion wasn’t a good thing.

“Who broke in?”

At this moment, a voice was heard behind them. Aegle and Erytheia turned their heads at the same time.

“Arethusa~”

“Sister, you came?”