Hakai no Miko

Lesson 25: Holy Land

There was a group traveling through the Sorbiant plains where signs of a burning summer began to show a slight decay.

Walking at its head are more than twenty Zoan warriors. They are all resilient warriors in brightly dyed claws and braided torso armor.

Particularly eye-catching among them are the black-haired and red-haired Zoan warriors - Gallum and Zoog - who say that they are not only walking through their bodies, but also making them think that they are not the only ones from each and every step of them.

And behind those two is a front carriage.

It is a large lizard called the Lo Long that is towing a front carriage that violently rocks the body of the vehicle, even in the slightest irregularities on the ground. It is Zoan's female warrior with bright chestnut hair - Shemr - who holds the reins.

It is, of course, Aoima Kizaki, her "you under the umbilical cord", who boasts a front carriage where she even imitates you, so proud as to be called (bruised) by the words "exalted fangs" by Zoan and the others.

Behind the front carriage on which the Ethereal Horse rides, a large luggage truck loaded with luggage was towed by a larger organism than the Dragon.

And at the rear end of the group behind it are Dwarf warriors who boast a different strength than Zoan. Leading this is the warrior chief Dvarin, who made his rich mustache a famous Dwarf with stretches all the way to his chest.

Already out of the city of Bornis, the fifth day.

The Ethereal Horses travel the plains for days in such a large area from a report delivered by one Zoan warrior who visited the city of Bornis a few weeks ago.

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The warrior visited Bornis when the Ethereal Horse was running for the establishment of an orphanage or school.

The Zoan warrior named the messenger of the [family of the eyes], and gave a thank you in advance to the faces that were the lords of Zoan, including the Ethereal Horse, Shemur and Garam and Zug, who said:

"The witch's head wants you to come to the Holy Land as soon as possible, if you wish."

It was Gallum who leaned his neck strangely against it.

"Isn't there still a day until it's worn out?

Zoan's Festival Borough opens on a spring day when the length of day and night will be the same. This time, however, is exceptionally held on Autumn Day, but there was still more than a month to spare nonetheless.

"Yes. - Actually, the sanctuary is already packed with many people. It has been decades since we opened the Great Festival Run-down, even though we (the Eye Clan) would have partitioned it. As much as I'm ashamed, there's been some disturbances, and I'd like the clan chiefs to enter the sanctuary early."

The borough is no longer open until nearly thirty years ago, when the Zoan All-Family Coalition lost heavily to the Holmea National Army. For this reason, many only knew the story of their fathers, and there was no reason to be confused.

Thus, the Ethereal Horses rushed forward to the sanctuary of Zoan.

That said, if you ask the Shemls, it will take nearly a week to get from the city of Bornis to the Holy Land. Then it's going to take nearly two months to come back to the city after a rundown more than a month away.

Of course we need to prepare for that long journey, but in the meantime we also have to take measures to make the Ethereal Horse absent from the city. The Ethereal Horse was rushed to such preparations and consultations on measures.

Then, after hearing it from somewhere, Joash stopped at the Lordship's residence in Bornis.

"Yo ho! Dear Soma, I'd love to have this!

That being said, Joash towed into the garden of the Lords' residence was a luggage truck as small as a house. The luggage is piled up with mountains and fronted on top of them.

But more than that, what caught the eye of the Ethereal Horse was the giant creature that towed its luggage.

"What is this guy...?!"

It was an organism very similar to Oosanshaw. But its size is as large as a small dump car. And the four legs that support a torso as large as a mollusk or rhinoceros have thicker and longer rear legs than the front legs and are in an undressed position to poke your butt up. The round, large scar on that ass is probably a mark of a broken tail in the way to tow the luggage.

To the astonishing Ethereal Horse, Joash said proudly.

"Oh, don't you know? Sure, it would be rare around here. It's a big dragon that lives in the far south, and we call it the Great Dragon."

The Ethereal Horse observed snuggling closer to the dragon, which was strapped with a scabbard and a cross tree around his waist rather than his neck.

"Why are you tying your mouth?

The flat-shaped head, which closely resembles the Oosanshaw, is tied tight with leather strings, preventing the mouth from opening wide.

"In this big mouth, even people are packed in one bite. Doesn't that seem like it?

To Shemr's answer, he was a pale horse I didn't think he was, but the answer came back from the side saying, "You're right."

That said, he is a middle-aged man who has towed a dragon so far. Joash introduces the man as a dragon dynasty and then sneaks his ear to the pale horse.

"The Dragon Ding has the privilege not to have to thank the royal nobility, so forgive the disrespect"

Even back in the Middle Ages, Ethereal Horse was convinced that Dragon Ding probably did the same, although he had given such privileges to craftsmen and others in need of special skills.

In front of the two of them interacting like that, the Dragon Ding man unties the leather string that was tying the dragon's mouth. Then when he slapped his neck twice with a flat hand, the dragon opened his silly, big mouth.

And at the next moment, I wonder if the dragon's throat rang loudly, and a ton of vomit pours out of his mouth.

To that sudden event, the Ethereal Horse jumped away in surprise with a small scream.

"Here, take a look"

The Ethereal Horse was surprised when Dragon Ding told him to throw up as he put his face against a twinkly irritating odor, like piercing the mucous membrane of his nose. There was something like animal bones and massive chunks of hair in the puke that raised the hot air.

"It's indigestible hair and bones."

Just there a boy helping Dragon Ding dragged one of the calves he had just killed. When the boy puts the calf in front of the dragon, Dragon Ding slaps his neck muscle flat again. Then the great dragon opened his big mouth and swallowed the calf in a packed whole.

Dragon Ding explains to the pale horse, who stared admirably at the figure of a great dragon swallowing a calf as he waved his throat wide.

"If you give a calf like this, they'll work just water for ten days or so."

The Ethereal Horse was impressed. Compared to cattle, horses, etc. that have to be fed leaves on a hiatus, it's convenient for them to work for ten days just to feed once like this.

"But then this is really going to swallow people whole"

As a joke with no other love, the Ethereal Horse said, and Ryudin replied with a laugh.

"Actually, there's always this story going on everywhere in the stables that have this guy."

One beautiful blonde boy was hired as an apprentice in one of the Great Dragon's stables. He was a very serious working child and very adorable from the dragon dings in the stables.

But one day the boy is neglected and disappears. The worried dragon dings searched desperately, but no matter how much they searched, they couldn't find it. Finally, Dragon Ding and the others gave up looking for the boy and rumored that the job must have been hard enough to get away with.

Then a while later, Dragon Ding tried to feed the Great Dragon, but only one doesn't feed him for some reason.

Now I thought you might have eaten something weird, and when you let that dragon throw up, she said that beautiful blonde hair and apprenticeship clothes appeared in that puke.

Dragon Ding opened his big mouth and laughed at Ethereal Horse and Shemr, who were surprised when they heard such a story and rounded his eyes.

"It's just a rumor. I rarely get that kind of accident."

Rarely, that means unlikely but can happen. The Ethereal Horse and Shemr stepped back from the Great Dragon.

There, I heard a "ehem" and wazzy cough.

"The dragon would be nice, but the loader would also be interested in it."

Ethereal horses rush to apologize to Joash for pointing his mouth like a shin. Of course, it was Joash's sweetheart who showed him the shank. He doesn't look offended, Joash says in a playful tone.

"Barley in the wines I've picked up from all over! And on dried fish and shellfish taken in the sea of Jeboa, our prized fish soy sauce! Dried fruit! A metal pot kettle! We have all sorts of other things that you won't see on the plains"

Joash gave a token of grace.

"Does Master Soma think he will be king of the Zoans? Then you shouldn't bare your hands. Be sure to bring these items!

These are souvenirs from Joash to Zoan on the plain combined with a celebration of the King of the Ethereal Horse assault name. But there's no way Joash can just give me something. The Ethereal Horse was immediately conjectured to Joash's aim.

"Uh, so that means introducing the people of Zoan to Jeboa's products?

"Yo-ho! Have you found out"

As usual, the Ethereal Horse had no choice but to laugh bitterly, impressively.

But Joash's thoughts are not bad for Ethereal Horse either.

Human and Zoan interaction is indispensable in order to create a country in which all races will live equally in the future. But now we still have years of certainty, and in the city we have an attitude of ignorance or non-interference with each other. I was hoping there was some incentive to get over Zoan and the human stubbornness, but the deal could trigger that.

Besides, the Ethereal Horse looks back at the luggage.

"Ooh! booze or booze! This is good!

There was just a Zoog appearance with a liquor code loaded in the luggage car. I keep my nose tip close to the barrel and smell it.

I blamed Garam for that in a risky tone.

"Hey, Zoog. It belongs to Soma."

For Zoan, the hunting race, it is stipulated that the prey obtained is distributed by the greatest. It is considered disrespectful for those below to touch their prey at will.

"Whoa! Of course, now it's just the smell. But in the end, they're gonna behave, right? - Hey, Lord Soma!

If Zoog puts so much anticipation into it, there's no way he can turn down Joash's offer. When the Ethereal Horse nodded, Zug happily began to fish in the luggage car.

"It's Zoog! That's why you can't go fishing on your own."

"Hey, Gallum. Look at this guy. I've never seen such a big fish before!

To Garam, who tells a novel, Zug threw a big fish dry. Gallum, who received it, clogs his words and puts on his face. Somehow in the plains, I've never seen a fish this big. When I say I'm not interested in what the hell it tastes like, I lie.

Zoog cheering when he found something rare and one bitter laugh leaked at the appearance of Gallum staring dry and silencing with a difficult face before Ethereal Horse also looked up at the luggage that had been piled into his luggage.

"But how do we carry all this stuff..."

Even if we use a large cargo dragon kept at the Lordship's residence, we will have to divide it into two or three cars to carry all this luggage. As we have already secured a cargo wagon to put our own luggage on, if we take the further unscheduled cargo dragon on our journey, it could interfere with the carriage of the cargo in the city left behind.

To the Ethereal Horse who was worried about it, Joash slapped one on his chest to show it.

"Rest assured. Let's give this dragon and the whole luggage car away!

This also surprised the Ethereal Horse.

In addition to such a large luggage product, there are also dragons that he said were rare. Perhaps this is just one piece of property. Joash laughed to reassure the pale horse wondering if it would be good to get a pound of that.

"This is cheaper than my expectations of doing business with Zoan."

If you try Joash, dealing with Zoan, which does not yet have the hands of other merchants, is a new business where huge profits can be desired. For that reason, the investment was insignificant.

The Ethereal Horse, who was thus also able to prepare unexpected souvenirs thanks to Joash, decided to leave the city of Bornis a month before Autumn Day, when he left the city to Eladia and Marcronis.

At the time of its departure, however, there was one unexpected disturbance.

Jahangil, who was supposed to remain in the city, came silently onto the carriage when he tried to leave the city in a front carriage that Shemru saw.

If the Autumn Day, when the rundown is about to open, finally approaches, all the Zoans who are still in the city will also head to the sanctuary. If Zoan, now the greatest force of the Ethereal Horse, slips through, the city will be thin, and not necessarily a rebellion will ensue because of it.

To deter such rebellion, Aoima had asked for regular patrols of the city by the Dinosaurians while he was away. Because if the Dinosaurians, who are more than two melts tall (about two meters), walk through the city in groups, there will be no more effective demonstrations.

"If Dad's going, I'm going, too."

That said Mehrzad, the eldest brother of Jahangil's three sons.

Bearing two single-edged swords curved like shamseals on his back, Mephulzad tried to get onto the carrier following his father.

Once that happened, there was a fierce whipping noise, along with it, a mefluzard about to board the carrier, rolling down to the ground with a gobble.

When the Ethereal Horse looked at the front carriage carriage carrier, whose neck had shrugged unexpectedly by its painful sound, there Jaharn Gill, who crawled belly in the carrier, was moving his tail every way he thought he had slapped off his real son.

I see Mephulzad wondering if it's okay to be slapped in the tail so hard that such a loud noise rings, but I somehow feel out of place "I'm scared to be Dinosaurian" at the way he resists energetically being dragged along with his sides stiffened by his two brothers.

"Kissama! This is Soma's carriage!

Shemru ate at Jaharngil, who had entered the front carriage in a delicate manner. Besides, Jahangil opens his thin eyes and sees the Ethereal Horse. Then, pulling that giant over beside the sloppy, narrow front carriage carrier carriage carriage, he takes the liberty of pulling on the fur textiles he had placed nearby, leaking one yawn and starting his nap.

And you can't say "Fair enough" about Shemr who tried to eat more.

Leading Dinosaurians, who are usually under the Ethereal Horse, are, in fact, two of Jahangil's two sons, Nieusher and his youngest son, Pearlshire. Jaharngil doesn't show much interest in anything other than battle, and this is how he usually just takes a gobble and a nap. Even if he falls out like that, it won't make a big difference.

"Well, thank you for coming later"

The Ethereal Horse, who boarded the vacant place of Jaharngil, spoke so to Eladia and Marcronis, who came to see him off, before heading to the Holy Land.

And just a week after I left the city.

"Look, Soma. That's Zoan's sanctuary, Lolo."

Ahead of Shemr pointing, the Ethereal Horse, who captured Lolo's appearance, raised an exclamation.

"Heh. Is that Holy Land Lolo..."

At last, the Ethereal Horse drew near Lolo, the holy place of Zoan, where the great feast of Zoan was to be opened.