Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 226



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Episode 226.

My body trembled.

He created magic on his own, without any advice or help from anyone.

Mixed marriage.

Unlike any other magic that Ronobe used, this was a miracle that he could accomplish without any limit to the number of times it could be performed. It was a magic that was created on the spur of the moment, but it was a brilliant success.

“I’m tired.”

I took a deep breath to calm my trembling heart. But my heart wouldn’t control itself. I sat on the carriage seat, flapped my legs, and expressed my joy with my whole body.

“Kkieeeek! Kyaa!”

Of course, it’s still too early to like it.

A line of lines on the palm.

A black mouth made like black letters.

Honmun is still sticking his tongue out.

The most important thing is that the guy has to be able to talk. He can’t just talk. He has to be able to recite spells and simultaneously perform miracles, and there are a lot of other issues, but it feels good.

I had a feeling it would work out.

Double window!

“Jiyu.”

-Bebe

“hmm…”

Honestly, I didn’t expect much.

It’s easier said than done to set up and control an organ that moves like another body, although it’s not Ronobe’s body, but it was actually quite difficult and awkward.

“I think it will work out with just a little practice.”

Even people cannot speak immediately after being born.

The same goes for mixed marriages.

The guy was just born.

It takes a period of adaptation.

Even though it is not easy to control the tongue now, there is hope if you practice. If you can control the mind and make it speak, you can increase the effect of magic with double chanting. Then, it will not be difficult to extract oil like Karanqal even in the frozen lands of the north.

-Bebek Bebebebe

“It’ll work out if you keep doing it. There’s no limit to the number of times you can do it. It’s not hard to maintain a mixed culture.”

He could maintain it all day. From that day on, Ronobe focused his training on maintaining the spirit of the soul at all times.

The possibilities for intermarriage were endless.

If you have two mouths, three mouths, five mouths, ten mouths, a hundred mouths!! Isn’t there a possibility that the magic will be strengthened?

“A miracle becomes a miracle when you praise it.”

That’s what Charles said.

Miracles tend to appear to those who hope for them. The more one hopes for and sings about miracles, the easier it is for them to see miracles. I don’t know why. That’s what Charles said.

“Tonight is going to be a long night because of Liam.”

Everyone is busy with training.

It is not good to break this flow. It doesn’t matter if you climb the snow mountain quickly. You can climb it after you have trained enough and leisurely. There is nothing more foolish than climbing a snow mountain in winter. However, since there is a reason to climb it, you should prepare thoroughly.

three days.

After three days of preparations to climb the snowy mountain and the training of those who will guard the carriage, they set off.

There was no reason to rush.

*

Boom. Boom. Boom!!

A huge orc entered the castle along with the walls collapsing.

But there, like a plain in the middle of winter, only the sharp wind brushes past your ears. Barren spaces and burned-out buildings. Only burnt corpses and pieces of animal bones remain.

This is Lapain Castle.

The Blue Hand Warrior. Kiba led his men and looked around.

“Your Majesty, it seems the enemies have already left this place.”

Kiba nodded.

Kiba touched the ground of the castle with his blue hand and closed his eyes. A human doll flashed through his mind. Soon, Kiba’s eyes turned to the snowy mountains in the north, hidden by clouds.

“Your Majesty the Great. The enemy…”

“I’m going to Seolsan.”

The monster that killed the great warrior, Rakaku, headed towards the snowy mountains in the north.

“Snow Mountain? Hey, Grand Master. Do you really have to go all the way there?”

Behind the blue-handed warrior Kiba, there were humans. Those who spoke with a different accent than the northerners. Kiba only snorted and groaned when he saw the seven or so humans, and didn’t say anything.

“The revenge of a great warrior is done by a great warrior. This is our tradition.”

The humans spat at Kiba’s words as if they were not pleased and followed him. They looked at the back of the warrior’s head and their hands seemed to tremble, touching the hilt of the sword on their waist or their glasses.

*

Three days later.

Ronobe packed most of his luggage into the saddle and prepared to head to the snowy mountains. There were only four of them: Ronobe, Beni, Nasu, and Lopin.

“The snowy mountains are dangerous places. The air is thin because the mountains are high, so if you’re not careful, you could die in an instant. Of course, the young disciples, and even the soldiers below the rank of knight, would only be a burden.”

“That’s right.”

Ronobe said as he looked at his disciples who were feeling sorry. Peter and Lirun felt sorry, and Joke felt relieved for some reason. It seemed that the barbarian who lived on top of the snowy mountain was also afraid, as was the snowy mountain itself.

Anyway, since it was decided that way, most of the soldiers, including Liam and his disciples, were assigned to guard the carriage.

“Should I go too?”

Liam spoke hesitantly, but Ronobé shook his head.

“I need you to manage the soldiers. I feel uneasy without you.”

“…Okay, then, take care on your way.”

“Okay.”

The group set off for the snowy mountain with a simple farewell from the soldiers. It was midwinter. Climbing a snowy mountain was tantamount to suicide, but for knights and magicians, not ordinary people, it was not entirely suicidal.

“The Baron is truly a great wizard.”

Lopin was impressed by the warmth that the totem of Mandong that Ronobe had given him. Even Lopin, who was used to the northern winter, did not dislike warmth. Firewood in the north was expensive. However, the presence of the totem created warmth that drove away the cold, and there was nothing better than this. Not only that, after drinking the potion that Ronobe had given him, the arthritis that he had suffered from his entire life and the inflammation that had made his joints ache disappeared. He felt like he could fly.

“Didn’t I tell you? I’m a white wizard.”

“I know a lot about white knights, but I don’t know much about wizards. Magic is a mysterious thing.”

Magic is something mysterious.

That’s quite nice to hear.

“I see. Are there no wizards in the North?”

“There are some, but not many. The North doesn’t like the presence of wizards very much.”

“…Why?”

“Because Obel is not a wizard.”

“ah.”

The Obel religion was deeply rooted in the north. It seemed that the religious views of the north were deeper than I thought. I thought that was why they were rejecting magicians.

‘Uncivilized. Uncivilized!’

From Ronobe’s perspective, they are extremely uncivilized. If you think about it, the North is really strange. If this situation had come to this, it would have been normal to contact the kingdom and ask for reinforcements, but there is no sign of that.

‘Even though the Black Knight was frozen in a coma.’

Or perhaps, as Jonterion says, there was an internal division. The North might have been the center of gravity for the Margrave.

“Come to think of it, I heard that most of the nobles died in the old war.”

“That’s right. All the great heroes died at that time. It’s sad.”

“Then now…”

“There are descendants of that.”

It wasn’t something to be judged hastily.

‘The illness of the Count of Byung-Gwan worsened, and Enhyde Castle itself froze over. The orcs took advantage of the gap to move south, and so it is possible that the remaining nobles became greedy for power…’

There was. It is quite possible that there is an Imperial Wizard in the middle of it.

‘Why don’t I just fly to the Count and treat his illness…’

But Enhide has a chieftain.

If he is the chieftain of the Orcs, he is no less than the Black One. Because of that unidentified being, we cannot approach Enhide rashly. If only he were gone, things would have been easier.

“In the end, is there nothing but snow-capped mountains?”

“For now, that’s the best we can do.”

Since they rejected wizards and did not welcome the nobles of the south, the only thing Ronobe could do was to recruit the barbarians.

The past three days.

Ronobe transformed into a crow and wandered around the snowy mountains to gather information.

There was also a need to confirm whether Lopin’s words were true or not. I had heard from the conversations of the old soldiers that the Barbarians were here, but I also had to prepare for any situation. Lonobe was the leader responsible for the lives of many people. I had to be suspicious of everything and act cautiously.

‘Barbarians are descendants of giants.’

In this world, a giant is not simply a large person. It seems to refer to a being that is large in size, knowledge, lifespan, and everything else.

‘The giants are wise. They are treasures of knowledge… they are infinitely close to gods.’

This was a story that the storyteller sometimes told when Ronobe lived in Hopper, eating dirt. If so, wouldn’t their descendants, the Barbarians, be a fairly wise minority group, not ignorant like the Orcs? Either way, it was a meeting that was quite anticipated.

“How much further do we have to go?”

“At this rate, I think we’ll get there within two weeks.”

“What? It took that long?”

“It’s okay now, but… if you go up a little further, there are a lot of steep parts. Since it’s a place where you have to climb carefully, there are many sections where you can’t go fast.”

It was a place that took longer than expected.

It took two weeks just to climb the mountain. I didn’t have to worry about food since I hunted a herd of elk, but I sighed at the thought of having to sleep out on this snowy mountain for two weeks. My feet sank in because of the snow that had piled up, making it hard to walk. When Ronobe got tired of walking, he would turn into a sparrow and sit on Nasu’s shoulder. The reason he didn’t sit on Benny’s shoulder was because even when he turned into a sparrow, he weighed the same as when he was a human. He looked like a sparrow and light, but he was heavy, so he felt bad about sitting on Benny’s shoulder.

“Are you okay?”

“it’s okay.”

But Nas was strong enough that it didn’t matter whether Ronobe sat down or not.

“Aren’t you cold? You can come inside.”

“where?”

“Here it is.”

Nas pointed inside his armor.

“Uh… is that okay? I was just looking for a nap.”

It certainly looked quite comfortable. It also looked warm, and it seemed like it would be a good night’s sleep if it snuggled into the valley of its chest. Sparrows are weak, so it seemed like they could sleep in peace if they slept in that sturdy place. It was a knight’s job to protect his master.

“it’s okay.”

“I wonder? Hmm…”

But that wasn’t the case. No, I couldn’t. Because Benny just stared at me blankly. He wasn’t even glaring, he was just staring with half-empty eyes, which made me even more scared.

“It’s, it’s not to that extent.”

“I see. But if you’re tired, you can come in anytime.”

“… thank you.”

When I got tired, I would rest on Nas’s shoulders or sleep under the hood of my coat. Even after a few days, the mountain was so high that as time passed, it became steeper and there were many sections where one wrong step or slip would send me falling off a cliff.

“From here on out, you’ll need to put cleats on your shoes, or you’ll slip and fall or fall off the cliff.”

I made something similar to a wire with spikes that would be good for tying onto shoes. Just place it round the sole of your shoe and tie it tightly with a string.

Ronobe also tried to tie a ring made of iron, but Nasu stopped him, saying that it was not really necessary.

“why?”

“You don’t have to walk.”

Nass emptied my armor.

“You can stay inside me. You don’t have to walk, my lord.”

“Huh? No… but still.”

“You never know what might happen when you meet the Barbarian. It’s best to reserve your strength.”

“Um… is that so?”

“yes.”

It’s just tying the shoelaces, so why should he stop me like that? But then again, the story sounds plausible, so I wonder if there’s any reason to refuse. Lopin watched quietly, and Benny didn’t bother to look at him, but was still tying the buckles on his boots.

‘No, do I have to be mindful of things like this? Well, that could happen.’

“Well, that’s what it is.”

After handing the gong back to Lopin, Ronobe transformed into a sparrow and sat on Nasu’s shoulder.

Time passed.

There were a few dangerous times when climbing the snowy mountain, but no major crises occurred. Since the knights were physically strong, dangerous things often turned out to be not dangerous. Ronobe simply practiced by making a conspiracy on Nasu’s shoulder.

“Is it difficult?”

“Because I’m just like a newborn baby. I feel like I’m exhaling and moving my tongue all by moving my palm or fingers. It’s unfamiliar and ambiguous, so I might do it wrong.”

Ronobe asked Nasu as if it was a good thing.

“Wasn’t it strange at first? Nas was moving well from the beginning.”

Even if the arm was created by Gochi, it is a person who moves it. Something that was not there before cannot be natural, but Nasu did it skillfully from the beginning. It is new, but I am curious about the reason.

“Well, I just tried to move more efficiently without being conscious of it. I didn’t consciously try to manipulate my arms.”

Nas took out his hand from inside his winter uniform and moved his four fingers.

“Come to think of it, I find it more uncomfortable to move my lower arm than my upper arm. It may be a structural issue, but I also find it awkward. That’s why I often intentionally use only my lower arm. How about you try it too, my lord?”

“Me too? But what do you mean?”

“In order to make something unfamiliar familiar, you have to use it often. So, how about speaking in a mixed tone rather than saying it out loud…”

“ah.”

It is forbidden to speak with the original mouth, and only speak with a fake mouth. The fake mouth can be done even in the form of a sparrow.

It’s not a groundbreaking method, but it’s the most reliable method for now.

“good.”

From that day on, Ronobe made him speak only in private. Nasu would deliberately talk to him in various ways to help him train. Nasu was loyal to Ronobe. However, he was only loyal because he knew little about him.

Where he was born. What kind of life he lived. How he became a wizard and how he acquired such powers. He also had to know everything about his family and blood relations. After all, it was the duty of a knight to assist his master.

‘I don’t know the owner.’

He was born again.

It was a loyal death, but not an honorable death. It felt distant, like someone else’s story, not my own, but it gave me new life.

I felt like a fool to be serving my master even though I was just born again. But that actually made me feel relieved.

A loyal knight.

Because you might have to be a little stupid.

-Wow, wow, wow, wow.

“…”

It seemed like I still needed a lot of time to get to know my master.

Unlike Ronobe, whose progress in marriage is slow.

The Bavarian’s trek to the snowy mountains was progressing well. The pace of the experienced and the knights was different from that of the commoners, no matter how rugged the mountain was. It was a little different from the expected two weeks.

“We’ve arrived…!!”

The group reached the summit of Seolsan Mountain in a week, and were amazed by the acrobatic village built in a place that seemed uninhabitable.

And there.

“Fate, divide, north wind.”

There was a gathering of long-haired warriors covered in all kinds of tattoos.

Bavarian Snow Mountain [5]