BXBX NOVEL Season: 1 194: Great Medium(3)
Book 1 Chapter 194: Great Medium(3)
The Great Medium opened her eyes earlier than usual.
“…”
As she sat up, her long, ebony hair flowed down, covering her face.
The Great Medium swept her hair roughly to the side, lost in her thoughts.
It had been a long time since she’d received a revelation.
This wasn’t a problem. But this time, the revelation was too short and vague.
The representative. The person who would stand tall and prevent the end of the world. The last fighter.
“…Dauns, what role do you want this girl to play?” (Note: she addresses herself in a similar manner to Snow)
The Great Medium muttered softly as she got up from her seat.
“Jose.”
“Did you call for me, my lady?”
Only a voice could be heard.
After a brief silence, the Great Medium continued.
“Guests will be coming soon, so make preparations.”
The eyes of Jose, who was standing outside, lit up.
This meant the visitors who were coming should not be mistreated but treated as guests.
“As you command.”
Jose’s presence disappeared, and the Great Medium let out a sigh.
It was annoying, but she had to accept the revelation.
She opened a window.
Then, as she looked at the wide horizon and smelled the scent of the sea, she couldn’t but think.
‘He will soon appear on that horizon.’
The mysterious representative from her revelation.
* * *
“By your kind… do you mean a Dragon?”
“Right.”
Dro said that he wasn’t the Dragon Lord. Nevertheless, he still described the presence of the Dragon that he felt there as his kind.
Of course, that wasn’t important at that moment.
Frey thought about Hector’s words.
At that time, Hector had said that there were basically no more Dragons left on the continent, and Frey agreed with him. They were practically extinct.
However, Dro was now saying that he could sense the presence of a Dragon there. Together with a Demigod’s divine power.
“…”
It was possible that there was some kind of secret hidden in the small sea.
“Can you track it?”
“I don’t know. This is my first time experiencing something like this. But… if we get close enough, I think I’d be able to find it.”
That was enough for now.
It was possible that the Dragon was hiding because of the Demigod nearby.
‘If Dro can feel the Dragon’s presence, then it’s possible that the Dragon can also feel his presence.’
Regardless, if they attacked the Demigod, the Dragon was bound to respond in some way.
By the time Frey finished thinking about this, Frank returned. With him were seven sailors who had agreed to accompany them.
When Frey tried to take out the money to pay them, Frank stopped him.
“Ah. I will handle their payment.”
“You will?”
“…You gave me too much money.”
Frey shook his head firmly when Frank said those words.
“It is a fair price for your work. We already calculated your wages, so you don’t need to worry about that.”
“But…”
“End of story.”
Frey then ignored him and went to pay the other sailors.
Frank looked at him and muttered bitterly.
“He’s so stubborn…”
* * *
It was said that the trip to Lesha would take a week.
If they had headed there directly, it would have only taken three days, but since they were taking a route to avoid the sea snake, it inevitably took longer.
However, even if they were to take the longer route, there was no guarantee that they would be able to evade the sea snake.
If it was really a Demigod, then it would attack this ship without a doubt.
Frey had been gently scattering mana since the ship had first set sail. It was like gently waving a rat tail in front of a cat.
‘If it’s really a Demigod, then it won’t be able to resist this bait.’
If it ignored the bait, this meant that it was nothing more than a simple monster and he would no longer have to pay any attention to it. He could just get rid of it on his way back after finishing his business.
“The weather is so good. The waves are calm. Originally, such weather would have created a lot of jobs.”
“If it wasn’t for that snake bastard…”
“Well. Even without it, the current situation in the continent isn’t too good.”
“Rather, it can be said that the sea is still safer than land.”
This was the conversation between the sailors.
It was ordinary people like these who were the most terrified by the Demigods’ appearance. For them, the Demigods were like an unidentified horror.
The circulating rumors were so unbelievable that they sounded extremely exaggerated. Nevertheless, these rumors continued to spread.
Unknowingly, their anxiety was steadily being amplified, so if they did actually encounter the Demigods in the future, their will would be broken right away.
Of course, Frey didn’t have any intention of blaming them. Very few people chose to continue fighting after personally witnessing the Demigods’ power.
Frey turned to look at Ivan.
He was probably the most bored out of everyone on this sea journey. He was standing on the deck, fiddling with the Gale Necklace while wearing all three of Kasajin’s artifacts.
“Did you get any results?”
Ivan shook his head as Frey approached him, saying.
“A little. I can at least see why they’re called the three treasures. All three of them must be collected before they can show their true worth.”
“Worth?”
“Would you like to see it?”
When Frey nodded, Ivan furrowed his eyebrows. Frey realised he was injecting his mana into the three artifacts.
After a while, a slight hum seemed to be coming from the Giant’s Belt, Tiger King’s Gloves, and Gale Necklace.
Paht.
“…”
Frey forgot how to talk for a moment.
Then he murmured in a shocked voice.
“…Kasajin?”
“Hmm. Since the Great Mage himself confirmed it, I guess this guy really is Kasajin.”
Ivan seemed to have still had some doubts whether the phantom of the man that appeared was Kasajin.
It was a man with short hair and fierce eyes, who seemed to exude pressure similar to a mountain.
It was Kasajin without a doubt.
“…”
Kasajin suddenly took a stance. Then he took a deep breath and slowly stretched out his fist.
It was a gentle and fluid motion. But he wasn’t just giving a fist bump.
“Warrior King Fist.”
Kasajin’s phantom was personally demonstrating the Warrior King Fist that he’d created.
Ivan didn’t speak. Unknowingly, his eyes had become fixated upon Kasajin. In fact, it looked like he was trying to devour Kasajin’s image.
Frey liked the look in his eyes. And Kasajin would have probably, too.
If he was still alive, he would have definitely taken Ivan in as his disciple.
Frey left Ivan to concentrate and returned to his room.
Four days passed.
Until then, the voyage had been smooth. During this trip, Frey mostly stayed on the deck.
Like the previous days, this day was calm, and he spent it having conversations with Anastasia, Ivan, or Frank.
Krrrr.
However, just as the sun was about to set, he felt an unusual tremor. Something was approaching the ship from below.
Frey was the first to realise this.
Ivan and Anastasia rushed onto the deck while Frank hurriedly gave orders to the sailors.
“Unfurl the sails!”
The sailors moved perfectly to follow the order.
Frank looked nervous.
He must have seen the sea snake rushing towards the ship. It was possible that he felt that he might have taken the wrong course and was ashamed.
Seeing this made Frey feel a bit guilty, but there were more important things to deal with at that moment.
Roar…
The waves shook heavily, and the ship listed(1) violently. The sails fluttered as if they had encountered a fierce typhoon.
The sailors tumbled across the deck a few times before they were able to latch onto the mast like bugs.
Suddenly, something emerged from the sea.
It was the sea snake.
Although that was what Frank called it, it looked more like a Drake or a similar subspecies than a snake. With bright blue scales, bright yellow eyes, and gleaming teeth, it wouldn’t have been wrong to call it a Sea Dragon.
Now that he could see it in person, Frey could definitely tell from its divine power. As he’d expected, it was a Demigod.
However… that wasn’t all.
Frey couldn’t help but feel that something was off.
[Are you the ones traveling through my sea without permission? While sloppily and ignorantly spreading your mana at that.]
The Demigod spoke.
It wasn’t strong. At best, it was as strong as or weaker than Milled.
Compared to Agni or even Norn, it was not strong at all.
With his current strength, it would be quite simple for Frey to get rid of this Demigod. Nevertheless, he didn’t release his divine magic power to get rid of it.
[Kuku. Are you afraid? Right. I should have expected this much. Don’t worry, you won’t feel any pain. Your bodies won’t even get stuck in this body’s teeth.]
It had a very strange way of speaking.
It reminded Frey more of Torkunta than of a Demigod.
Frey suppressed these doubts and said.
“I heard you had two heads.”
Immediately afterwards, his body moved, floating up in front of the Demigod.
“Crazy…”
“Th-, that…”
Frank and the other crew members watched this sight with shocked gazes.
It was only at that moment when they realised Frey was a Wizard, but they didn’t have the energy to rejoice.
After all, it seemed that Frey would get swallowed in one bite.
“Reveal your other head.”
Frey spoke calmly.
This was where the strange feeling was coming from.
[You’re out of your mind.]
The Demigod opened its mouth as though it had heard something absurd. Then, flames poured up from its throat.
Now that he thought about it, Frank did say that the sea snake could breathe fire.
Just as Frey was about to cast a spell, a man shot up from the deck.
It was Ivan.
Ivan’s fist struck the Demigod’s chin heavily.
Crack!
[Kuk!]
The Demigod’s mouth closed with a heavy sound, and the flames that it was about to spew out leaked through its clenched teeth.
The flames from its own stomach were burning it.
It was a very effective attack.
Unlike Frey’s calm observation, the Demigod’s anger was intense.
It glared down at Ivan with eyes that seemed to drip with rage. (Note: or tears of pain)
[You… you worm!]
Ivan cracked his knuckles.
“If you want to spit flames, then you should go live on the land instead of in the sea.”
[Shut up!]
The Demigod screamed.
At that moment, the sea surged and the second head emerged.
The moment he saw this head, Frey realised the reason for his strange feeling. At the same time, another question was answered.
“…”
A sea snake with two heads.
That was the impression that most of the sailors, including Frank, had.
The second head also looked like a Dragon’s, but it was different. It was completely different.
The second head wasn’t a sea dragon’s or a serpent’s. It wasn’t even a Demigod’s.
This difference was clear to Frey.
This Demigod’s second head was a Dragon. A Dragon whom Frey knew.
Even if he couldn’t tell the difference between other Dragons, this was the one Dragon whom Frey would always be able to recognise.
It was the head of Green Dragon Isolla. His teacher.
[Ku… uu… uuhh…]
The cracking voice was like a terrible sound coming from a corpse. It was clear that this head didn’t have any intelligence.
Its ego had already disappeared. It was basically a zombie.
Frey realised.
Transplantation.
Did they transplant a Dragon’s body to a Demigod and then reshape it? Was something like that possible?
“What on earth did you do?”
Frey’s voice trembled slightly
The Demigod laughed loudly at that, believing he was trembling in fear.
[Huhaha! You think I’ll tell you? Die!]
“…”
At first, Frey had no intention of killing this Demigod. However, he now had even more of a reason to keep him alive.
He had to find out why this Demigod was wearing his teacher’s head no matter what.
It was then.
“I will help too.”
It took Frey a moment to realise it was Dro’s voice.
This was because there was a strange emotion in his usually emotionless voice.
It was only when he turned to look at him that he realised what it was. Dro’s face was clouded by indescribable rage.
This caused him to wonder about Dro’s true identity once again, but he shook his head.
“You can’t kill him.”
“I know.”
[Kuhaha!]
The Demigod laughed even harder.
He didn’t realise now that most of the Demigods, including Lord, were in the Demon World, these two people standing before him were among the top five strongest beings on the continent.
(Note:
1. To list is to lean over to one side, typically because of a leak, unbalanced cargo, or heavy waves.)