As he turned around and was about to disappear, he felt a hand pulling on his robe. Margaret, lying on the magic circle, pulled his robe with a struggle.
Jenas stopped in his tracks and frowned.
Turning back to Margaret who was gripping his robe pitifully, he sighed with a troubled face.
“Don’t do this.”
“Wait…!”
Looks like her mind is slowly returning.
Jenas watched the fire blocking Kayden and Enoch’s path begin to die out, then he looked back at Margaret.
He pulled the hem of his robe from her hand and whispered in her ear, “I’ll wait. In the cabin.”
There were a lot of boundaries in conversation as a boy. As Jenas was in his adult form, he thought of having a proper conversation with her.
But he knew too well that he had to stop thinking about it.
Jenas picked one of the Tentationem flowers on the wall. Then the wall rotated half a turn, creating a space behind it. It is the side hallway of the bunker.
“Stop! You bastard!”
Ignoring Kayden’s echoing shouts, Jenas suddenly disappeared into the bunker’s secret hallway behind the wall.
“Dammit! Margaret!”
Enoch first hugged Margaret who was lying on the ground.
She couldn’t breathe and gasped, but when Enoch’s body temperature touched her, she exhaled quickly.
“That damn bastard Jenas……”
She muttered an expletive and put her arms around Enoch’s neck. Then she buried her face in his shoulder and burst into tears.
Kayden, approaching the wall where Jenas had disappeared, found the Tentathionem flower belatedly and hurriedly covered his nose.
“Shit! Your Highness! Your Highness! There are poisonous weeds here…! We must go up!”
But unfortunately, Enoch, Kayden, and Margaret have already been poisoned by the Tentationem flower.
***
Arthdal stood in front of the vast expanse of the swamp with a tired face.
It was a creepy place with a bleak atmosphere even in the middle of the day when the sun was shining. The trees rising above the water in places were also bizarrely bent, and the drooping leaves added to the gloomy atmosphere.
Above the water, there was fog even in the middle of the day, and the water surface covered with green algae was actually more like a grave covered with mud than a river.
Once you step on it, you can’t get out and disappear into the swamp. This is indeed grave.
The problem is, Arthdal and Yuanna have to pass through this place in order to go to the North Island.
After taking one step and almost dying, they tried various things, such as floating a tree to the surface of the swamp and crossing it. But they have failed many times.
In fact, he was very skeptical about crossing the swamp. Because of that, he was prepared to die in isolation on the South Island.
“Not with Sir Diego, but I am isolated with the Crown Prince. God is so unfair.”
“I also feel it’s unfair to be isolated with the Saintess, but I’m not saying it out loud out of politeness.”
“Oh, if you feel unfair, don’t be polite. I’m used to being cursed at, so it’s okay.”
In response to Yuanna’s answer, Arthdal had to calm himself down again. Talking to rocks didn’t seem to get him this frustrated.
But all of this was something he had to endure.
When he first woke up on this island and was attacked by monsters, he thought he couldn’t take care of Yuanna too.
It was a situation where he went crazy without eating for days and even death threats were always coming from everywhere. He didn’t want to die while saving Yuanna, whom he didn’t even know.
He cowardly comforted himself, saying that he had no choice but to leave her.
[T/N: Arthdal and Diego left Yuana because they thought she was dead, re-read chapter 86 to refresh your memory]
Diego seemed to feel guilty for leaving Yuanna, but Arthdal’s debt to Yuanna was due to something else.
It was because Yuanna was the one who saved him when he was almost eaten by the tarantula monster.
After smearing the blood of the tarantula monster all over her body, she lured the monster.
A state where life and death were uncertain clouded his rational thinking. So at that time, he thought it was just a coincidence.
However, when Enoch ran amok and wiped out the tarantula monsters, didn’t Yuanna already know that the monsters gathered after smelling the blood of their kind?
Yuanna knew that fact from before.
Arthdal was also constantly suspicious of her suspicious behavior, but since he owed her his life, he remained silent until conclusive evidence was found. But in the end, he couldn’t find anything that could be called evidence.
At last, he thought that it might be better for him to take responsibility and watch her from the side and stop her in case of emergency. He should at least take on this kind of responsibility as a human being.
Yuanna, who had dragged him to the front of the swamp, seemed to have become a different person. The look in her eyes was different.
If she had been lethargic before, now she is full of vitality and confidence.
“I told you I disagree with the idea of you being bait. I’d rather do it myself.”
Despite his dissuading, Yuanna smiled calmly.
“I will do it because I know how to lure them. But did I ever say I would be the bait alone?”
Not understanding her words, Arthdal narrowed his brows. So you’re telling me to be the bait, too?
“I like that you act the same as me. I’m going to lure the monsters into the swamp and use them as a bridge.”
“You’re crazy.”
Yuanna smiled and admitted it meekly, “I am. It’s a crazy way. If you make one wrong move, you’ll die. But is there any other way?”
Arthdal could not answer her question. It was because he had been unable to do anything in front of this swamp for several days.
“It must be quite a distance to the end of the swamp. I don’t know if there is any chance of success,” said Arthdal as he brushed his hair with a skeptical face.
Dying one way or another would be one thing, but this might be suicidal.
“This is the best way to spank that damn brat, and it’s the only way we can live……”
“To spank who?” asked Arthdal in confusion.
Yuanna gave him a pretty smile. “I will explain later.”
Then Yuanna brought back a wolf that Arthdal had killed with an arrow the night before and dismembered it with a sharp stone knife. Immediately, black blood was smeared all over her body.
Seeing that, Arthdal felt rather eerie.
“As expected, it’s dangerous. Both of us could die.”
“I will make sure to succeed. You know I’m quick on my feet, right? I’m not as good at survival as Margaret, but I’m confident if it’s a trick.”
She’s right. Her agility and quickness make her better than him.
‘Still, it’s true that she’s crazy.’
While thinking that, Arthdal felt the ground shake slightly. Just in time, it looks like the monsters are gathering.
“I will lure them, so please protect me with your arrows.”
Arthdal raised his eyebrows and stared at her. To be honest, it wasn’t a plan he liked in the first place. But there was no time for him to hesitate too long because the monsters were gathering fast.
Arthdal had no choice but to quickly scanned the terrain near him. Then he hid among the bushes and took a ready position, drawing his bowstring.
Not just wolf monsters are appearing, there are many different types, such as tarantula and mole monsters. The division of habitat now seems completely meaningless.
Moreover, the number of monsters rushing in like waves was enormous. He even thought that if he pushed all of them into the swamp, they might fill it.
Yuanna was standing right in front of the swamp as planned. She stood still until the monsters came right in front of her, and when they opened their mouths wide at her, she immediately ducked and avoided them. It was incredible agility.
Just as she had expected, two wolf-type monsters plunged into the swamp. The orangutan monsters, with their somewhat sluggish movements and large bodies, are very good to use as stepping stones in the swamp.
Arthdal shot and killed the monsters approaching Yuanna with arrows. In the meantime, she strode toward him and grabbed him by the collar.
“W-what?”
He shouted in bewilderment, but Yuanna dragged him along without an answer.
“No time to talk. Run!”
With Yuanna still holding his collar, Arthdal jumped onto the body of the monsters that were sinking into the swamp.
Behind them, half of the monsters chasing after them, and the other half they stepped on struggled their way out of the swamp.
“Damn!”
It’s a ridiculous plan, but it’s surprising that it works.
Even as Arthdal was being dragged away by Yuanna, he took out an arrow and drew a bowstring to shoot and kill the approaching monsters.
Unable to move forward anymore, Yuanna shouted, “Can you follow what I’m doing?!”
“What?”
“Follow me!”
She bent down as she waited for the wolf monster rushing towards her to get closer, then kicked it in the stomach, and instantly stepped on it as it fell into the swamp.
Using the monster’s body as a stepping stone, she easily dodged the monster jumping at her.
“Damn it, how can I follow that……!”
But Arthdal couldn’t complain any further because the orangutan monster was rushing towards him.
You have to do it to live!
He bent down agilely. As its massive body leaned toward the swamp, he pushed it with his foot and stepped on it.
After repeating it several times, Arthdal felt like he was going crazy. It felt like they were only two-thirds of the way through, and they still had a third to go.
Now, the monsters also hesitated and stopped approaching. Unlike Yuanna, he wasn’t covered in monster blood, so they didn’t lose their minds and rush at him.
In the end, Arthdal was isolated in the middle of a swamp.
The monster under his feet was almost half submerged, and it seemed that even he would be submerged in this swamp soon.
As he turned around and was about to disappear, he felt a hand pulling on his robe. Margaret, lying on the magic circle, pulled his robe with a struggle.
Jenas stopped in his tracks and frowned.
Turning back to Margaret who was gripping his robe pitifully, he sighed with a troubled face.
“Don’t do this.”
“Wait…!”
Looks like her mind is slowly returning.
Jenas watched the fire blocking Kayden and Enoch’s path begin to die out, then he looked back at Margaret.
He pulled the hem of his robe from her hand and whispered in her ear, “I’ll wait. In the cabin.”
There were a lot of boundaries in conversation as a boy. As Jenas was in his adult form, he thought of having a proper conversation with her.
But he knew too well that he had to stop thinking about it.
Jenas picked one of the Tentationem flowers on the wall. Then the wall rotated half a turn, creating a space behind it. It is the side hallway of the bunker.
“Stop! You bastard!”
Ignoring Kayden’s echoing shouts, Jenas suddenly disappeared into the bunker’s secret hallway behind the wall.
“Dammit! Margaret!”
Enoch first hugged Margaret who was lying on the ground.
She couldn’t breathe and gasped, but when Enoch’s body temperature touched her, she exhaled quickly.
“That damn bastard Jenas……”
She muttered an expletive and put her arms around Enoch’s neck. Then she buried her face in his shoulder and burst into tears.
Kayden, approaching the wall where Jenas had disappeared, found the Tentathionem flower belatedly and hurriedly covered his nose.
“Shit! Your Highness! Your Highness! There are poisonous weeds here…! We must go up!”
But unfortunately, Enoch, Kayden, and Margaret have already been poisoned by the Tentationem flower.
***
Arthdal stood in front of the vast expanse of the swamp with a tired face.
It was a creepy place with a bleak atmosphere even in the middle of the day when the sun was shining. The trees rising above the water in places were also bizarrely bent, and the drooping leaves added to the gloomy atmosphere.
Above the water, there was fog even in the middle of the day, and the water surface covered with green algae was actually more like a grave covered with mud than a river.
Once you step on it, you can’t get out and disappear into the swamp. This is indeed grave.
The problem is, Arthdal and Yuanna have to pass through this place in order to go to the North Island.
After taking one step and almost dying, they tried various things, such as floating a tree to the surface of the swamp and crossing it. But they have failed many times.
In fact, he was very skeptical about crossing the swamp. Because of that, he was prepared to die in isolation on the South Island.
“Not with Sir Diego, but I am isolated with the Crown Prince. God is so unfair.”
“I also feel it’s unfair to be isolated with the Saintess, but I’m not saying it out loud out of politeness.”
“Oh, if you feel unfair, don’t be polite. I’m used to being cursed at, so it’s okay.”
In response to Yuanna’s answer, Arthdal had to calm himself down again. Talking to rocks didn’t seem to get him this frustrated.
But all of this was something he had to endure.
When he first woke up on this island and was attacked by monsters, he thought he couldn’t take care of Yuanna too.
It was a situation where he went crazy without eating for days and even death threats were always coming from everywhere. He didn’t want to die while saving Yuanna, whom he didn’t even know.
He cowardly comforted himself, saying that he had no choice but to leave her.
[T/N: Arthdal and Diego left Yuana because they thought she was dead, re-read chapter 86 to refresh your memory]
Diego seemed to feel guilty for leaving Yuanna, but Arthdal’s debt to Yuanna was due to something else.
It was because Yuanna was the one who saved him when he was almost eaten by the tarantula monster.
After smearing the blood of the tarantula monster all over her body, she lured the monster.
A state where life and death were uncertain clouded his rational thinking. So at that time, he thought it was just a coincidence.
However, when Enoch ran amok and wiped out the tarantula monsters, didn’t Yuanna already know that the monsters gathered after smelling the blood of their kind?
Yuanna knew that fact from before.
Arthdal was also constantly suspicious of her suspicious behavior, but since he owed her his life, he remained silent until conclusive evidence was found. But in the end, he couldn’t find anything that could be called evidence.
At last, he thought that it might be better for him to take responsibility and watch her from the side and stop her in case of emergency. He should at least take on this kind of responsibility as a human being.
Yuanna, who had dragged him to the front of the swamp, seemed to have become a different person. The look in her eyes was different.
If she had been lethargic before, now she is full of vitality and confidence.
“I told you I disagree with the idea of you being bait. I’d rather do it myself.”
Despite his dissuading, Yuanna smiled calmly.
“I will do it because I know how to lure them. But did I ever say I would be the bait alone?”
Not understanding her words, Arthdal narrowed his brows. So you’re telling me to be the bait, too?
“I like that you act the same as me. I’m going to lure the monsters into the swamp and use them as a bridge.”
“You’re crazy.”
Yuanna smiled and admitted it meekly, “I am. It’s a crazy way. If you make one wrong move, you’ll die. But is there any other way?”
Arthdal could not answer her question. It was because he had been unable to do anything in front of this swamp for several days.
“It must be quite a distance to the end of the swamp. I don’t know if there is any chance of success,” said Arthdal as he brushed his hair with a skeptical face.
Dying one way or another would be one thing, but this might be suicidal.
“This is the best way to spank that damn brat, and it’s the only way we can live……”
“To spank who?” asked Arthdal in confusion.
Yuanna gave him a pretty smile. “I will explain later.”
Then Yuanna brought back a wolf that Arthdal had killed with an arrow the night before and dismembered it with a sharp stone knife. Immediately, black blood was smeared all over her body.
Seeing that, Arthdal felt rather eerie.
“As expected, it’s dangerous. Both of us could die.”
“I will make sure to succeed. You know I’m quick on my feet, right? I’m not as good at survival as Margaret, but I’m confident if it’s a trick.”
She’s right. Her agility and quickness make her better than him.
‘Still, it’s true that she’s crazy.’
While thinking that, Arthdal felt the ground shake slightly. Just in time, it looks like the monsters are gathering.
“I will lure them, so please protect me with your arrows.”
Arthdal raised his eyebrows and stared at her. To be honest, it wasn’t a plan he liked in the first place. But there was no time for him to hesitate too long because the monsters were gathering fast.
Arthdal had no choice but to quickly scanned the terrain near him. Then he hid among the bushes and took a ready position, drawing his bowstring.
Not just wolf monsters are appearing, there are many different types, such as tarantula and mole monsters. The division of habitat now seems completely meaningless.
Moreover, the number of monsters rushing in like waves was enormous. He even thought that if he pushed all of them into the swamp, they might fill it.
Yuanna was standing right in front of the swamp as planned. She stood still until the monsters came right in front of her, and when they opened their mouths wide at her, she immediately ducked and avoided them. It was incredible agility.
Just as she had expected, two wolf-type monsters plunged into the swamp. The orangutan monsters, with their somewhat sluggish movements and large bodies, are very good to use as stepping stones in the swamp.
Arthdal shot and killed the monsters approaching Yuanna with arrows. In the meantime, she strode toward him and grabbed him by the collar.
“W-what?”
He shouted in bewilderment, but Yuanna dragged him along without an answer.
“No time to talk. Run!”
With Yuanna still holding his collar, Arthdal jumped onto the body of the monsters that were sinking into the swamp.
Behind them, half of the monsters chasing after them, and the other half they stepped on struggled their way out of the swamp.
“Damn!”
It’s a ridiculous plan, but it’s surprising that it works.
Even as Arthdal was being dragged away by Yuanna, he took out an arrow and drew a bowstring to shoot and kill the approaching monsters.
Unable to move forward anymore, Yuanna shouted, “Can you follow what I’m doing?!”
“What?”
“Follow me!”
She bent down as she waited for the wolf monster rushing towards her to get closer, then kicked it in the stomach, and instantly stepped on it as it fell into the swamp.
Using the monster’s body as a stepping stone, she easily dodged the monster jumping at her.
“Damn it, how can I follow that……!”
But Arthdal couldn’t complain any further because the orangutan monster was rushing towards him.
You have to do it to live!
He bent down agilely. As its massive body leaned toward the swamp, he pushed it with his foot and stepped on it.
After repeating it several times, Arthdal felt like he was going crazy. It felt like they were only two-thirds of the way through, and they still had a third to go.
Now, the monsters also hesitated and stopped approaching. Unlike Yuanna, he wasn’t covered in monster blood, so they didn’t lose their minds and rush at him.
In the end, Arthdal was isolated in the middle of a swamp.
The monster under his feet was almost half submerged, and it seemed that even he would be submerged in this swamp soon.
