Reborn Ishl and the Magic Fixture of God

I can only hear the gibberish, the gibberish, and the noise.

I can't see anything. Darkness.

The river surface (Kawaya) is a mirror that reflects the dark night, or I don't know where the boundary is with the night sky.

Sometimes creepy light points appear, blinking and shaking loosely to disappear, like fluorescence.

Far away, slight water sounds river fish bouncing off the surface (all of them)?

The moon, the stars, sinking into darkness, no wind.

I wonder what the sailor who rows the pontoon sees.

Is not the stream of the river also hidden in the darkness at night, trapped in everything?

The man sitting across the street is overheard by those beside him.

What did you say, I can't hear you. Only the sound of rowing.

The earshot man nodded one small, lifting the cloth he was wearing on the cantera on his knee.

"It's time."

"Hehe," the man laughed briefly as Ishur glared.

The lights lit up on the boat, the face of a bearded man filled with wildness.

"Don't talk too loud. Be careful."

The bearded man dropped his voice and slowly looked around at the Ishurs.

Mira and Sharka, Rifia and Nina are on the same boat. For that reason, the man's voice was more warm than usual, perhaps giving him a sense of majesty.

"So why are you doing this?

Ishur said in a low voice, as the man ordered.

but the tone was unusual and it was somewhat accompanied by weakness.

……

Luffraid said he would have a prank inclusive laugh.

"So I would have said earlier. Then I picked him up."

"Have you bothered to dress as such a pirate?"

"Hmm? I'm not a pirate.... river thief if you dare."

When Luffreid said so, he peeled his jaw, followed by his moustache.

When the beard disappeared from its face, the roughness completely disappeared, and the face of a brilliant young man appeared, who could also be seen at night.

At the same time, from behind Ishur, the bewildered, deliberate signs of Mira and the others pushed.

It was suppressed enough, but the point was, "You ask me on our behalf why this person was dressed like this and doing such a thing," the pressure to rush Ishur from behind.

... Even if it's okay to fake it to “welcome" us in, I don't see why we have to do the bandit thing there...

Ishur agreed with Mira and the others, but nobody tries to ask Luffraid, so I ended up having to ask Luffraid a question myself. Sure, it's a hard story to ask, but it was something I needed to know.

"Is that, Your Highness, an immediate welcome?... It's a great honor, uh, thank you, but why a river thief?"

The fact that there are thieves attacking Karpini, a swampy village that also connects with the Dylave River, promptly led Ishur and Rifia to the rescue of the village, but what a bandit the night thief encountered in front of the village chief's house was who disguised himself as the new Grand Duke of Soleil and was leading.

Surprisingly, not much Ishur turned into a matchmaker with Luffraid standing in front of him, but the venue became even more confused and noisy with the addition of Refia, who went around backwards to enter there.

Refia stands on the roof of the main residence of the village chief as a stone.

"Are those the thieves attacking the village of Karpini? For the record, I will succeed myself this evening. If you leave me alone, I'll save your life. Otherwise, I'll have my neck..."

And I did it flashy. Exactly, I refrained from naming myself "I'm the one..." etc., but it turned out to be a further chase by the bandits' heads (I wonder) against Ishur, who was confused when he found out he was Luffraid.

"You're the one who surrendered, or these daughters will have no life," Luffraid said, holding several village daughters hostage where he caught them.

One of the village daughters tied with rope protruded forward, and Luffraid, who threatened Lifia, was illuminated brilliantly by the other bandits in a pine light, trying to show her off.

……

Lifia, who saw it, also turned suspicious, and in the next moment either realised that the bandit was Luffraid, or became too much of a stick of surprise.

She has gone to the Holy City to bring Ishur back, and at that time, Salomon's brother, Luffraid, has met her face several times. So he grew a mustache and disguised himself, but he looked familiar to his face, he saw that one leg was prosthetic, and he also saw Ishur's anomaly, which was suddenly unwary, and he immediately realized that the bandit was Luffraid.

"Come on, come on down. I don't care what happens to this girl"

The bandit's head, Luffraid, threatened Lifia with a norrinoli.

Next to it, Ishur looked up at Rifia and let her look uncut and shake her neck vertically over and over again. Ishur's eyes said, "Shut up and listen to what the one dressed as this bandit says. Please, don't get violent," he complained.

"Hey, my God! You're a coward!

Lifia also stunned him like that for a moment on the roof, beating Luffraid. This also performed Norinoli.

"Ha ha, do bandits have cowardice and shit! Come on, get down here."

"Mmm, all of you."

"Hih, hih"

Between the two continuing Betabeta's performances, this is apparently not an act, a mixture of genuine screams of the hostage village daughter.

……

That girl is real, looks like a kid from this village. Poor thing......

Ishur got sick of it early and felt disgusted like heartburn.

A deep sigh leaks unexpectedly.

"Come on, what do you mean!... I have no choice. I'm going down now, so stop putting your hands on my village daughter."

Refia flinched as she sighed as much as she could towards the night sky, even as she saw Ishur shrugging her shoulders and weakening, and stood down in front of Luffraid as she spun magnificently in the air.

"All right, rope these guys. I'm taking you with my daughters."

Luffraid, the head of the bandit, commanded the children around him in a good mood.

……

"Mmm."

Ishur had a pulled grin, and Refia looked really sorry and was curled around her torso with thick rope.

The bandits took Ishur and Rifia, plus their village daughter, to lift up the village of Karpini willingly.

No one came after him, which was good, but the bandits strangely took nothing but their daughters, and dispersed without setting the houses on fire, and went south down the reed, which lasted as long as they left the village.

Exactly where the ship was, you don't want them to know, they turned off all the pine lights from the way, their mouths closed and they kept walking silently in the dark. Are all the terrain around you in your head, without falling into swamps or rivers, even in the dark, and walking at no slowdown for about a half an hour, you could see the dim cantera lights covered with cloth from above from the crevices of the swarm.

As I approached him, I saw several figures standing. Apparently, it tastes like a river thief. At their feet, behind them, there are two medium-sized river ships that can boast more than a dozen people, floating on water that they don't know if it's a swamp or a river. No other sign of man, no sign of a warcraft. The moon and the stars hide in thick clouds, surrounded by deep darkness.

"Wait a while."

I can hear Luffraid from a short distance.

Ishur and Rifia were bound with rope by the bandits and were to spend an indescribable amount of time standing quietly on the spot.

After a while, signs of multiple one approached from the east.

From between reeds, it's still a small light. It was the Bandits' separate action team that emerged from the darkness. They also had many captives.

"Oh."

"Mr. Ishl."

……

I could see Mira, Sharka and Nina being speared from behind. Behind it we also saw Romir and the faces of Celia and Nocta.

Only Romir was tied behind his back because he was a man and stood on a frightened dumb surface.

"Mira."

Ishur spoke to Mira.

"You've known this for a long time, haven't you?

"No."

Mira slowly shook her head to the side looking calm.

"I was hoping to help you, Leflade, but this is..."

Mira looked beside Ishur there and dropped her hips, drooling her head.

Luffraid came beside Ishl. When he whispered something to the man who had led the separate task force, he immediately came to Ishur and Mira.

"Mila Dielard, it's been a long time. I didn't expect to see you here."

"We're out of time. Grand Duke."

Because Luffreid became the Grand Duke of Soleil, he will be wearing Henrik Ladis, now King of the Kingdom of Ladis, who was once the Grand Duke of Antios. However, it felt fresh for Mira to use the word "Grand Duke".

"Ishur, of course, would be greatly grateful if he were. I'm trying to pay you well here."

"Thank you......"

Is Mira confused by this situation, too, in a hard tone, and not energetic?

"What about the merchants you were with?

Ishur immediately noticed and asked Mira a question.

Around them are the bandits, and their daughters, who have been taken from the village, have swelled up to a few dozen or so combined. But not one of them was of the merchants who had been with him until earlier.

"They took the golden-eyed thing and drove it back."

A bandit man standing behind Luffraid's diagonal answered Ishl in a strangely folded correct tone.

"Huh?"

"Don't worry. I'm not letting you get hurt, and I'll pay you back the money I took."

"I hope the people of the village of Karpini and those people will flashly touch the disaster that happened this evening. They took our village daughter hostage and followed us. Even then, no one will suspect."

... Well, I guess that's the thing, but I really don't fall...

Why are you a bandit? Do such a fancy imitation.

You could have contacted us more discreetly, secretly, and gone into the solar.

Neither Rifia nor Mira will know what the manoeuvre means until they realize that the earlier Karpini village raid was a disguised manoeuvre with any translation...

As Ishur looked around and tried to talk to Mira and Lifia's face, Luffraid told him to block it from the side.

"Let's talk more about it when we get to our fort. Let's not even stand up here. Now, get in."

The men pull over the boat whispering to each other, one after the other.

In the dark, Ishur narrowed his eyes and looked at the side of Luffraid.

John Silver, covered in mustaches, was obviously enjoying this time now.

"... so you did say“ fort ”earlier."

Nothing but the sound of rowing at the stern, nothing moving, for a moment.

Ishur's question seemed to lay at the heart of this play, or a farce.

Luffreid grinned thinly, poking his bottom a few times at the tip of an iron prosthetic leg.

"Come on, it's time to get out to the Dylave River"

And, at that moment, too many ships made bitter noises.

I felt that the reeds around me disappeared, my vision suddenly widened, and the darkness deepened. River flow changed, slightly faster.

Far away, the wind came from the west.

And the bandits, who had pinched Ishurs, and sat divided before and behind the ship, began to row in unison with their heads.

The ship began its journey upstream, on the west bank of the Dylave River. The ship in the back fits perfectly and follows.

"West..."

Ishur shrugged and groaned briefly.

Mira, Nina, and Rifia were also staring to the west, to the Grand Duchy of Alsar, at the dark, sinking waters.

"Hehe. Yes, we are on our way to Arthur."

On several occasions, Ruffreid raised a pleasant voice.

……

Ishur glanced over the river at night by pushing against her.

This area is already the lower basin of the Dylave River. Wetlands continue on both shores, with large and small marshes and streams crashing in, not sure how far is the river or land. In the second half of the rainy season, there is an increase in the number of mistletoes. The river flow is as slow as ever and there are no signs of water flow. Just the darkness around me was wide and turned into something endless.

...... Fort and West Bank, Alsar.

Totally, I only have a bad feeling.

Then Luffraid passed silence, and neither did the Miras speak a word.

But not everyone on the spot was as uncomfortable or as anxious as Ishur. Lifia was still in a good mood to sing her nose, and Luffraid had a pleasant grin, as she was still savoring the adventure.

Eventually, when the eastern sky began to light up slightly, how much time had passed, shadows emerged like small islands, with trees solidifying and lush in the reed plains of the West Bank.

...... yeah?

Ishur turned his gaze further and farther away.

The island shadow is fine. More than that, that...

When Ishur looked sharp and saw Luffraid, he stood up there smiling, reaching out to Ishur and saying:

"Come on, you're in my safe house. Welcome, my friend."

Scorched tea floors on white walls with seasons.

From the open windows you can see a reasonably large courtyard of grass surrounded by dark green trees and well maintained.

It's a raucous afternoon when the rare, good, sunny, strong sunshine today is like the chirping of a bird heard from among the trees erasing everything from the other side of oblivion.

When the scent of tea leaves flowed through the tip of his nose and he turned his face toward it, his eyes met with Luffraid, who drank deeply seated tea in the rattan chair.

"It's like a paradise in this world."

... all the more so if it's such a place where people don't step in.

"Hmm. That's a thoughtful irony again."

Luffraid said, turning his gaze toward Mira, who sits on the bench beside him when he smiles complicated.

"Well, ho."

Mira laughed softly as she lowered the cup she was wearing on her mouth to her chest.

Rifia and Nina went out for a stroll around this hidden fort after lunch.

Though not so large a fort.

They are aristocrats of the Kingdom of Ladis, courtroom magicians. From now on, we're going to be talking about Leni and Black Spike Crystal, so maybe I dared to take my seat off.

This water plug, the hidden fort on the west bank of the river Dileib, near the Grand Duchy of Alsar, is superficial and has become an agate of river thieves who call it the "Fountain of Fioa". About a few hundred years ago in the story of Ruffreid, when Arthur and the Holy Kingdoms were fiercely contending, it must have been a place like a rocky reef floating by the water for a long time, that we were treating each other as castles out.

Long after the conflict between the two countries had ended, this water plug had also been deserted, but for about a few years now a group of bandits with no foolish name lived in it, not even joking about "Fiore Fountain," and began attacking boats crossing the Dylave River.

Some time later, the Lords of the two countries held up the lair of the Fountain of Fioa, but the place could not point a decent army to the place alone, and in a small number of units the defenses could not be firmly attacked just once used as a castle out, and no one could help them for any other reason.

Location is the only place, naturally the wetlands on both sides of the Dylave River are the disputed lands of both countries, and if we put out a large crusade we stimulated the other country, and there was a fear that a full-scale conflict, which has been repeated many times, could erupt.

For other reasons, it was also a problem that a herd of hundreds of lizards (Lizardmans) were nesting in the marshes that descended southwest about a few miles long (scar, around 2 km) from this water plug.

Lizards nest by herd in rivers, wetlands, etc. in the southern part of the continent, and those living along the coast of the Mediterranean often travel north avoiding increased water during the rainy season. Even though the north, from the whole continent, is the southern range, their northern limit of habitat is just equivalent to the latitude around Soleil.

A certain number of lizards flock to the southwest of the fort, although slightly increased or decreased due to the season, will also live in winter and will not disappear throughout the year.

For them the presence of the fort is of concern, but not close enough to invade the territory. For that reason, they never attacked the bandits from the lizards.

On the other hand, the existence of lizards' nests, rather than settlements, was like one more large wall from both countries, which could not be approached rather than attacked, especially from a southwestern direction, making it more difficult to crush the bandits' Azitos.

However, if the bandits also exit the Fort to the Dylave River as river bandits, it is possible for even a handful of troops to manage to seize them.

That would keep the river thieves under control and keep water transport safe at that level for a long time, and yet, once and for all, the appearance has not changed.

An earlier generation of Sorail castle owners laid their hands on this little troublesome river thief. Little by little, he let the river thief dive into the shadow of the house of the Holy King, the man of the pointy crystal stone, and spent about three years succeeding in replacing the one on his side with the head of a new thief.

Just around that time, the Sorail castle owner also took the place of the new Grand Duke, Luffraid. He took over the work of the previous castle owners and swept away the “real bandits” that remained in the bandits, where he decided to become the head of the river bandits himself, adding the elite of the Knights to the shadows of the House of the Holy Kings, and lead the "Fountain of Fiore" river bandits.

The previous Sorail castle owner was going to dismantle the Fountain of Fiore without a massive battle to avoid irritating the lizards, and the fort would crumble and renounce the surrounding earth bases and piles of stone, giving the lizards as a new place to live so as not to cross over to the enemy.

But Luffraid decided not to do so, to survive the Fountain of Fioa and, while his activities as a bandit continued somewhat, to sometimes disrupt transactions on the part of the Grand Duchy and gather various information around him. It further enhanced the defenses of the water plugs, stockpiled them with weapons and food, so that they could be used as important castles for the Holy King's Army, as they used to be.

He took the Ishurs hostage with his village daughter because it was a very convenient place for this fort to get rid of Soleil, deceive Grand Duchy surveillance, and make a close entry into Alsar.

Luffraid was informed by his brother Salomon and Mira that Ishur was going to the temple site of the Water God in the Grand Duchy, and begged for help to use this plug.

"It's fine for Ishr to infiltrate the Grand Duchy."

Nothing to worry about, Luffraid went on to say.

If it is the strength of Ishur and Mira, even if the Grand Duchy side grasps their movements, it is not so easy to get their hands on them. Sure, it would be best if we could safely head to the temple ruins of the water so they wouldn't know, so this is how we worked hard, but if we had to, it would be possible to push and push.

Relaxed and carelessly sitting in his chair, Leflade's eyes relax, drifting between the sun and its shadows falling into the grass.

The room in which they are relaxed is the living room of a private house without any strange philosophy of the bungalow, in the middle of a fort surrounded by trees.

The bandits who had previously made it their place of residence missed their homeland, building a small garden to breathe in the heart of the fort and a common private house. The surrounding area is covered by stuffy, lush evergreen trees, with covered lookouts set up everywhere at its top and gut-gathered stones, large and small, piled up at the bottom. Between the trees were scattered barracks and warehouses, wells were dug, sewers were also maintained, and large and small riverboats were hidden between the dense reeds at the outer edge of the fort.

"The problem is then with my friend Leni Pujer. My brother knows that the fugitives and the Pujer family will also be heading to Soleil if they do. You will also see that Ishur tries to help Miss Leni. That's fine, but the person you're tracking is the crook. It is quite difficult to hunt down, terminate or capture the survivors of the handsome Black Spirit Crystal, with multiple magic implements of the powerful Spirit God. Even if Alejandro's granddaughter is of extraordinary interest to her brother."

Luffraid woke up his upper body and said with a stern face.

"It would be good for Ishur to enter the castle in secret, even this evening, with me. All you have to do is lurk in our castle for a while until Leni Pujer, the White Spike Crystal captors and traitors show up."

……

Mm-hmm. That would be nice. Once the footprints are erased in the village of Calpini, they are moved to Soleil, unknown to anyone, waiting. … the best course of action.

Ishur stood from his chair as he nodded small, broke his knee in front of Luffraid and thanked him once again.

"Thank you, Master Luffraid"

"Thank you, Grand Duke"

"Yeah, because Ishur is the benefactor of my life. It's only natural to do this. Never mind."

Luffraid smiled a little shy.

Then Ishur left Luffraid's opponent to Mira and went out looking for Rifia and Nina, who were strolling around the fort.

Go through the courtyard and step inside the surrounding wood. Wood, rope, barrels, etc. were piled up among the trees, scattered with stone piles, bricks, and wooden huts. The bandits who returned with us to the fort last night, the knights whose contents served Luffraid - did not see much of them still resting in the barracks. Turning from the west to the south, the wood cut off along the way and went out into a well sunny vacant lot. There was a well beside it, Romir's and Ishur's, Nocta's and Salia's clothes for the women, and then the village daughter, who was brought last night, was washing the clothes of the bandits. Nocta and Salia, as well as the village daughters, had a relaxed and bright atmosphere, which did not look very much like they had been abducted by bandits.

It's been a long time since we've sunk well and it's definitely laundry day. I guess Romir and Noctua are asking their village daughters not to miss this good opportunity and let them do the laundry together.

"Ah, Mr. Ishl"

As I approached him, Romir, who was bending in front of the barrel, raised his face.

"Good day, Romir"

Ishur looked at his village daughter and whispered, wandering Romir.

My daughters are drying their clothes on the string I gave them between the trees.

"How are they doing?

From what I heard last night, this fake bandit group regularly grabs daughters as young as children from the villages of the Holy King and makes them do chores, chores, etc. for the fort. It meant that he had no hard work to pay properly, and that he had about six months to work with it, and was sending it to the village where he had been taken through the Soleil merchant.

"No, it sounds like fun. Looks like we're gonna get a lot of money."

"Hmm."

Sure, it's one stone and two birds because it makes them do housework such as cleaning and laundry, and people grab (one), but even if they stop talking, they'll all spread to the neighboring villages in a rumor. When that passes to the Grand Duchy side, you will be suspected of what the bandits of this fort are like.

It is only then that we need to further increase the defense of this fort and continue to maintain it as an exit on the side of the Holy King.

Whatever you say, on the southwest side of the fort is the Lizardman village. Combined with the surrounding terrain, it is in a position that is not difficult to attack.

... Speaking of lizard people.

Yet Ishur has never seen a lizard man straight away.

"Let's see it in the Lizard's Nest."

"You shouldn't stimulate yourself with some tricky magic again."

"I know that."

"Speaking of which, Lifia and Nina said they were going to see it."

... Well, I guess so. There are no lizards in the Kingdom of Ladis. They'll want to see it, too.

When Ishur spoke to Romir, he went between the trees on the southwest side of the fort.

As he stepped through the sesame grass and proceeded away from the overlapping tree branches, he soon saw the wetlands that spread outside the fort and a well sunny wide sky.

Smells like grass, smells like sunshine and rivers.

That was a previous life, smell I had smelled several times as a child. Memories that had left far away felt right now in front of me.

When the jungle ran out, the surroundings were covered with reeds, and there were several wild birds flying around on top of them, making noisy noises.

Look, I don't see a lizard settlement.

……

I saw Rifia and Nina a slightly apart when I felt signs of people on my right hand side and west side.

"You've come to see Ishr, too?

Walking up to the two sides, Lifia asked somewhat silently.

"Oh. Where is the lizard man's nest, by the way?

"Speaking of which, it's hard to understand, isn't it?... there. You can see it on the other side of the reed."

Nina pointed and told me politely.

The lizard settlement was a collection of tent-like nests that bundled reeds. Full of vision, left and right, I see something like that in dead gray between reeds.

The lizards are basically nocturnal, and I can't clearly sense if they're all asleep at this hour.

"Hey, look, there he is"

Lifia came face-to-face from the side, dropping her voice and saying:

"Whoa."

At the tip of her finger, I see a black silhouette like an upright commode lizard. It's still bigger than humans.

Lizards have the same degree of intelligence as little devils (cobolts), make herds and live in groups, and the level of sociality is very similar. However, the power is much higher, and in one-on-one melee combat, humans are no better than humans.

He wasn't a decent opponent to fight unless he was good at spear swordsmanship, like using martial arts magic equipment. But unlike little devils, not using fire and only using weapons like sticks and stones was an easy opponent for the human side to prevent.

"Interesting......"

Ishur whispered in a whisper that no one could hear.

Speaking of the previous world, the way the reptiles stood upright and walked with their necks spinning, seemed quite irrational.

Much later in the night, Ruffreid prepared a riverboat and left the water plug.

It was Ishur and Rifia, Nina, and Mira and Sharka who entered Soleil, and Romir and the others were to wait at the fort.

Luffraid was not dressed as a pirate that night, but as a young shopkeeper named Boots, a scarlet scarf dull on a tired jacket.

"A little down the Dylave River, we board a bigger merchant ship for the dim hour. We'll be in Soleil after noon, so that's when we'll be hiding in the crate of the ship, landing one at a time, going inside the castle."

There was an explanation on our part as to whether Luffraid himself had thought of it.

"Oh, well, somehow, I'm free every day. A little adventure like this will give you a good breath."

Just guessed the subtle air flowing between the Ishurs, or Luffraid elucidated a little embarrassed.

Then, as planned, at dawn, he moved onto a one-mast sloop docked east of the Dylave River, anchored and continued southbound, reaching Soleil after noon.

Before hiding in the ship's cargo, Ishur gazed at the city of Soleil, a fortified city surrounded by slightly lower walls with the Rifias by the sail pillars. The flat walls did not see the castle tower from the ship, nor the buildings throughout the city, and the only thing that could see was the castle-like shadow on the riverside.

"Hmm, that's Sorail, that's a pretty good wall."

Rifia said something like that, or even at a distance, she could tell the height of the wall of the Sorail, and that's what she said.

"Hehe. Long time no see."

"I miss you."

Mira and, rarely, Sharka also said in a bright voice.

……

But beside her, Nina looked a little anxious.

"Mmm."

When Ishur looked at Nina's face like that comically, he felt someone letting him knock on the bottom of his heart.

... This is...

Yes, this feeling belongs to Yorik, the spirit of the wind I put on Leni's escort.

He's nearby...

Yorik has been in gentle contact with no one, not even the high spirits, nor the wizards.

Those black sharp crystals and Leni are nearby. It could already be inside the city.

"Hehe."

... just fine. Isn't this a good time?

Ishur felt a fervent and violent urge, a struggling spirit gushing up in his heart.

Unexpectedly small, I laughed.