BXBX NOVEL Book: 2: 151
Book 2: Chapter 151
Of course, that didn’t mean to trust it blindly.
As if she read Lukas’ mind, Min Ha-rin calmly continued.
“To be honest, I didn’t really trust it at first. However, during a fight with a Dragonling, I suffered from grievous injuries and would have died if not for a medicinal herb that I found nearby.”
The information window had said the herb was effective at staunching bleeding and restoring energy, so Min Ha-rin had taken the risk to crush some in her hands to spread over her wounds before chewing on the rest.
After that, she passed out for several days before she finally woke up, her condition much better than before.
“That’s when I began to trust it.”
Min Ha-rin had stayed on the Untamed Island for about a year, and in that time, she explored a large portion. This was because she’d hoped she’d meet one of the others.
Of course, it couldn’t be said that she had searched the entire island. After all, considering the size of the island and the amount of danger it contained, one year was far too short.
In particular, some areas were under the control of certain, powerful monsters.
Usually, as long as one didn’t step into their territory, they didn’t show much aggression or hostility. Unfortunately, Min Ha-rin, who didn’t know anything about that, had entered those areas. As a result, she’d almost died two times.
From then on, she ensured that she always knew who was in control of what territory, and she always paid special attention whenever she was passing by.
As time went on, Min Ha-rin began to feel tired and lonely.
At that moment, she no longer wanted to just meet one of the others. Instead, she simply wished to find some other intelligent being she could communicate with.
It was only around a year and two months after her arrival that she was able to meet a Dragonmen she could communicate with.
“Fortunately, they didn’t display any hostility towards me. In fact, they looked at me with a bit of awe.”
They were researchers who had gone to study the island.
These researchers were greatly surprised to learn that Min Ha-rin had survived on that island for more than a year, and they were very curious and interested.
Even if she felt a bit strange, Min Ha-rin gladly welcomed this. She immediately joined their group, and after a while, she was able to go to the largest and safest of the Seven Islands, ‘Peace Island’.
“While on Peace Island, I made my money by doing several miscellaneous jobs while seeking news about the members of our team.”
Of course, as Lukas knew, her search hadn’t yielded any results.
The researchers who had taken Min Ha-rin to Peace Island told her that there wasn’t much contact between islands.
From what Lukas was told, the culture, lifestyle, and values of every island were all different.
In fact, apart from speaking the same language, they were basically a bunch of separate countries.
In other words, despite being on Peace Island, the information she could receive was very limited.
That was why Min Ha-rin decided to explore the other islands after acquiring the minimum required funds.
The Heavenly Realm was made up of seven islands.
Combat Island, Untamed Island, Peace Island, Death Island, Adventure Island, Desire Island.
And Dragon God Island.
Min Ha-rin had been able to enter all of the islands except two.
“Death Island is a forbidden area, and Dragon God Island is a sanctuary. Access to both of them is strictly off-limits. Nevertheless, I heard that it’s possible to go to Dragon God Island if you become the Grand Champion.”
“Grand Champion?”
”Yeah. It’s the title given to the strongest Champion on Combat Island. A competition is held every ten years.”
“…”
In other words, Min Ha-rin had to become the Champion of the city in order to enter Dragon God Island.
“I knew it was possible for there to be others here, but… this world is much larger than I expected.”
‘Yeah.”
Min Ha-rin nodded.
If even the ‘Heavenly Realm’ which sat in the sky was large enough to be called a world in its own right.
Then they couldn’t help but wonder just how large the world beneath the clouds was.
In that case, Min Ha-rin and Lukas might actually be luckier than they thought.
After all, although it took five years, they had been able to start in the Heavenly Realm, and they had even managed to reunite.
But what about the others.
‘When will we meet them?’
No, could they even meet them?
They had no idea where they were, and more importantly, they didn’t even know if they were in the same time period.
What if someone had already appeared in this world decades ago? Or what if they only appeared over a hundred years in the future?
If that was the case, then even searching for them would be a waste of time…
“Ha-rin.”
Min Ha-rin was awoken from her thoughts by Lukas’ voice.
She turned to look at him. The face of the Master from her memories. A face that she’d thought about hundreds and thousands of times in the past. The face she likes the most, although she never told anyone.
“You’ve learned a bad habit.”
“Huh?”
“I mean, you don’t have to worry about things on your own anymore.”
Those words caused Min Ha-rin’s mouth to fall open slightly.
It was only then she realised that at some point, she’d stopped opening her heart to others.
In fact, she’d even begun to forget what she was like originally.
“Maybe we’ll meet the others sometime in the future. This was a game designed by the Rulers, and they were the ones who made us pick five teammates. If there was no way for us to meet each other, they wouldn’t have designated the number of people we could bring.”
“…yeah.”
“There’s no need to rush. Now, we can think it over together.”
“…”
Min Ha-rin’s expression softened subconsciously.
Together.
For some reason, that word was really nice to hear.