ALL NOVEL chapter 32
32 – The Saint and the Elementalist
As expected, my expectations were not wrong.
Clara, who found me in front of the castle gate, rushed to me and embraced me, and before I could shake off all of my burden, I was followed by Irene’s voice as she got off the carriage.
“What?”
“There are a lot of people watching here, but I don’t understand why a princess so innocently seeks them out.”
“Ooh.. Is that the famous cold-blooded Irene? Nice to meet you I am Clara, the princess of the kingdom of Argen.”
Something unexpected happened.
He is kind and popular with the people, but among the nobility and the royal family, he has a lively yet irritable temper, so it was his job to fight back any disputes against him…
Unexpectedly, she held out her hand to Irene first and asked for her handshake.
“I would like to greet you formally. My name is Irene Alsmeyer, who became a new member of the warrior party this time.”
“I was really curious about who it was because I had only heard rumors… But fortunately.”
“……Yes?”
“I don’t think it’s a style that our hero would like. She’s blunt and has no charm whatsoever, so you can rest assured.”
“…..”
“…..”
As expected… He said he couldn’t give a dog a bad habit…
Although it seemed like he was smiling brightly and talking kindly to Irene, listening to the conversation, it seemed like he was saying things properly.
Wheeying~
Is it because of the mood?
She thought it was just the wind blowing, but the wind mixed with the chill and chilled her bones.
“Hey.. Princess.. Irene.. There are a lot of people watching, so go inside first…”
“…..”
“…..”
Two people who don’t budge from my words…
“No.. That’s right. Don’t do this here, let’s go in. Princess, I want to eat the pie I ate last time!”
When Lucia approached Clara and got entangled, the snowball fight between the two ended only then, and she was able to move her steps to the palace.
While I’ve been to the Fjord Empire for a while, the atmosphere has changed a lot in the royal capital of the Kingdom of Argen as well.
Should I say that there are definitely more people on the streets than before?
I could see through the wagon window that there were a lot of people from the west who had slightly different appearances.
“A lot of people from the western part of the continent came here too.”
Clara and Lucia rode in the first carriage, and I, Edwin, and Irene rode in the next carriage.
Irene was just staring out the window, not saying anything, whether it was because of her previous job or if she was just the way she was.
“Yeah.. A lot came in. Maybe it’s because there’s a rumor among the refugees that it’s safe to go to the kingdom of Argen where the hero is… They keep coming…”
“Is that something like a voice telling me to listen?”
“No. I’m just lamenting my situation. Just listen. On top of that, where did a guy called a friend bring in more refugees and aggravate the already worrisome food shortage…”
“Food shortage?”
“Yes. Right now, we can’t even supply the army properly because we’re providing food to the refugee camp.”
It wasn’t that Edwin was ignorant of the stress he was under.
Three years ago, the refugee issue made the emperor of the Eritrean empire rot…
It is impossible not to accept the influx of refugees, and when we do, we have to provide them with lodging and lodging.
But if the support was not provided, all the refugees would become bandits and become a greater danger to the country.
“So.. How many people were there?”
“There are 5 refugee camps set up in the kingdom alone, and if we plan to build another one near the capital within today, there will be 6 camps. Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of people waiting outside the border. Hundreds of thousands.”
A situation that can be seen as severe if it is clearly severe…
Hundreds of thousands is the same as the population of a fairly small kingdom, but if time passes and the war prolongs,
The number of refugees will increase even more.
“That is so embarrassing… Is there any way?”
“If I had known that way, I wouldn’t have whined at you who came a long way.”
Me and Edwin had a conversation, even creating a serious atmosphere.
Irene, who had been staring out of her window, turned her head to look at me to see if she had something to say.
“Hey…”
“Huh? Irene Why?”
“Can I help you?”
“Irene…?”
Anyone can see that Irene just said it in passing, but Edwin and I reacted violently to her words and moved our eyes to her.
“Yes. I will ask Princess Cecilia.”
“Irene, there is no need to overdo it.”
“No. I am now a member of the warrior party, so of course I have to do my job.”
“Still, the relationship with the kingdom of Arjen must be strained, but will Princess Cecilia really listen?”
“If I tell you, he will surely help you.”
If her usual talkativeness was at least her character, it was Princess Cecilia who recommended her, so it wasn’t an unlikely story.
“Thank you. Irene. I will definitely repay this favor later.”
“Then… will you do me a favor later?”
“Please? Well, okay I will do any request, so just tell me.”
I held Irene’s hands and thanked her once again.
In the short time from the castle gate to the royal palace, a big problem was solved in the carriage, and Edwin’s face, which had been stained with all sorts of irritation, was straightened and he was able to see a smile for the first time today.
After arriving in front of the palace,
As soon as the carriage stopped, Clara, who got off first, waited for me to get off, then rushed to her and hugged one side of my arm tightly.
“Hero, go inside! I prepared a lot of foods that the warrior likes!”
Irene, who watched this as it was, turned her head away, but the frown between her eyebrows seemed to still have feelings for Clara…
“Can I hold this side?”
Even Lucia pulled her left arm inside her, buried it in her own arms, and dragged her into the palace with Clara.
Irene seemed to be taken aback at the sight of Lucia even doing this, but after she met her eyes with me, she eventually widened her distance and followed.
“Hero! I heard you caught a boss-level monster!? You are so amazing! Warrior!! How did you catch such a terrifying monster so easily?”
“How did you know that?”
“I heard everything from Lucia when I came here. She said it was enormous?”
On the way to her palace, Clara started asking me a series of questions, talking about the journey she had heard from Lucia.
Lucia was listening with her eyes wide open even though it was a story she already knew on the other side.
“Hero! Try this too! I made this.”
Clara is a princess, and she cuts the apple pie she made herself and serves it to me until she puts the pie in my mouth.
She was watching as she rested her hand on her chin.
“How are you? Delicious right? Did I do well?”
“Uh… Yes… It’s delicious.”
“Really!!? Ha ha ha!!”
At my words that it was delicious, Clara clapped with Lucia’s hands on the spot and was so happy that she didn’t know what to do.
Lucia was rejoicing with her as she matched Lucia’s beat to see what was good.
“Haa… I wonder who will take that later…”
Edwin sighs when he sees Lucia and Clara happily touching her palms in a restaurant where they are supposed to sit quietly and eat…
No matter how I heard that sound again, Clara, who had been laughing, turned her head and glared at her.
“What is your brother.. I will propose to you later when the hero defeats the demon king!?”
“……”
“……”
At Clara’s words, Edwin and I both put down the forks we were eating the pie with,
She didn’t know why we were doing this, so she just stared at us with a questioning face.
Lucia approached her and whispered something to her…
“What!? No! I’m going to marry a real hero!”
I don’t know what Lucia said, but she shouted as if in rebellion.
“hahahahaha, sorry. Carlos. It’s because my brother is immature yet. You understand.”
“No. Are you okay.”
Edwin kept Clara quiet and talked to me, and I replied with a smile that meant it was okay.
Clara may have been speaking from the heart, but
For me, who made a promise to get married and then saw it go badly, the word didn’t bring back good memories.
“By the way, Commander Irene has also entered, so we have to save the fourth and last party member, right?”
“The fourth member?”
“Yes. As usual, I got a call from Daeshinjeon this time, and they pointed out that there is no healer in the hero’s party.”
“That means…”
At Edwin’s words, I naturally thought of Emilia, and she interrupted my words that I was about to reject without even listening.
“Of course I know. Just looking at a few sentences, you can clearly see what’s inside.”
“…..”
“Isn’t there a law that requires only that b*tch to be a saint? From what I’ve heard, even though she was an apprentice saintess, it was said that a new saintess had entered before the high priest. How is it?”
“That doesn’t matter, but our party already has a healer?”
“What?”
Edwin was surprised to hear that there was already a healer, and looked at Irene and Lucia, who were sitting next to me.
Looking at me again, probably not getting a sense of who it was.
“Who the hell…”
“Yes. Lucia knew how to use healing magic.”
“What!? Wasn’t Lucia a Elementalist? Could he have been a priest?”
“No. It’s not like that, but they say that water spirits have healing abilities.”
The water Lucia said is where the source of all life begins. As the human body is made up of 70% water, if you treat the tissues made of water,
It is said that it can become healing magic and cure all diseases and injuries.
In addition, water has the ability to purify like divine magic, so it was possible to use [Purification], Which is second only to healing magic in dungeons.
I explained to Edwin about Lucia’s abilities and the Spirit King…
“Oh my God… I thought until now that spirits were just supporting elves with bows.
Edwin, who had only been looking at Lucia cutely until just now, quickly changed her gaze and looked at her with respect.
“No. I am only a healing magic using water, and I am far short of comparison to the saintess who heals with the divine magic received from the goddess. I can’t even bring the dead back to life.”
“What are you talking about! Lucia. After all, among the saints, a saintess with faith strong enough to bring the dead back to life is only born once in a few thousand years!”
At the words of her humble Lucia, Edwin spoke her words excitedly as if to honor her.
Even from my point of view, leading a party, I wouldn’t want to take a saint with mediocre attack power.
Like Lucia, a multi-talented Elementalist was much better, attacking when attacking, defending on defense, healing on the side of healing, and convenience on the side of convenience.
If all the former warriors’ party members Emilia, Lydia, and Illuen were combined, even Lucia couldn’t do it alone…