The Knight King Who Returned with Gods: Chapter 76
Translators: Nyx and Ririi Rain
Episode 76: The Dragon Palace Gate
-Rumbling, rumbling, rumbling!
Thunder rumbled loudly. Waves crashing high. Rain and
wind raging together.
Hari wasn't strong enough to be unperturbed by any of
this.
"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!! Ugh! Ughuhu!"
All at once, the natural disasters hit Hari hard, and she
could barely keep her eyes open.
"Somebody help...!"
What will happen if the waves get bigger? What if
lightning strikes? Doesn’t lightning usually strike the lightning rod first?
Leon's voice reached her eardrums, muffled by anxiety and
the sound of the storm,
"Hoho, you don’t have enough faith. But since Foma
is fond of you, he may forgive you for your lack of faith."
"I don't need forgiveness! P, put me down!"
“Calm down. Surrender yourself to the ocean. Then,
endless Mother Nature will envelop thee.”
“Y- Your Majesty! I…!”
'I want to live right now!' The words were choked off by
the rain and wind.
"I told you to calm down. We are in the midst of a
storm. But is it not strange, then, how not one of the waves comes upon
you?"
"Huh?"
At those words, Hari slowly opened her closed eyes. Her
eyes widened at the sight before her.
"The waves......."
A whirlwind raged in the distance, and not a single wave
was able to breach the ship.
The waves that had roared so mightily ceased roiling just
before the great ship, and the whirlwinds that had spun so sharply died down
just before the collision.
"Foma is calming the waves through the medium of the
priestess on the mast."
"R, really?"
"Since there are no other believers of him, he must
use a priestess as a medium."
S, such deep meaning. And she thought he was being
sarcastic or something...
"Aah!"
The rope snapped. The knot had been broken by Hari's
frantic struggling.
"Agh!"
Hari fell to the deck and grimaced as she clutches at her
sore bottom. And at that very moment──
-Boom, boom, boom!
-Rumble, rumble!
-Kwaaaaaaah!
Mother nature was rushing in as soon as Hari fell from the
mast. Even the most obtuse observer could not fail to recognize that this
change was caused by Hari's fall.
-.......
-.......
All eyes were on Hari. From beyond the dock, from
Commander Choi on the control room, and from Leon, who stood beside him, were
all looking down at her as she basked in the rain and wind.
-Aren't you moving?
A shared gaze as if to say, "Do your duty."
Hari's face twisted in frustration.
“You can just tie it up again, if you tie it up….”
Eventually, with Leon's help, Hari was back on the mast.
And the waves calmed down.
* * * * *
-Kaaaaaah!
The waves crashed over the Arleigh Burke. Thunder crashed
and a typhoon pounded the ship.
"Great... Great One. If this continues, the boat
will capsize!”
[Damn the weather!]
As expected, it was unreasonable to go through a typhoon
of this magnitude and head to the gate. But he had no choice.
In order to 'close the gate' quickly, they had to depart
at the same time as the Korean attack force that would depart the fastest.
“Damn, why does their ship look so fine?”
"Holy shit, those crazy Koreans. They're strapping
people!"
The U.S. Navy marines stared in disbelief at the
Gwanggaeto, which was cruising without faltering in this gale.
The Jewel of Wisdom shouted,
[Tell the captain to follow that ship's rear end right
now!]
"Yes?"
[If you don't want to see the ship capsize, do as I say!]
Reynald did as the Jewel of Wisdom told him and ordered
the captain to track after the great Gwanggaeto.
Even the admiral of an Aegis ship in the U.S. Navy
couldn't ignore the Archmage's advice, and indeed, the ship stabilized
surprisingly well as they followed the Gwanggaeto.
"My God... what the......."
[He's using the power of the god of the sea and waves,
and the ship under his protection reaps bountiful catches and doesn't sink in
stormy weather!]
"I see."
This was definitely demonic supercompatibility... Reynald
swallowed hard as he thought about it.
"We should be there in no time, cruising this well
in this storm."
[Okay. Remember! What you have to do is very important!]
The warships made it through the storm and arrived at
their intended coordinates, where they heard a report.
[This is the Arleigh Burke. Unfortunately, the
Murasame-class of the Japanese Maritime Defense Force, which sailed from
Sasebo, has been capsized by the storm and is being rescued.]
The Japanese ship was unable to withstand the storm and
sank. In other words, one-third of their power was lost even before it started.
[This is Gwanggaeto, moving forward with the operation.
We'll enter the gate now. We'll get the raiders aboard the boats.]
The two warships put the hunters on the rubber boats.
They had one goal.
A gate loomed over the middle of the vast sea.
"Entering the gate now."
The black boats rowed toward the gate in unison.
Light enveloped them.
* * * * *
Her arms ached.
The rushing water soaked her clothes.
"Mmm......."
Hari lapped at the water that kept slapping at the corners
of her mouth... the saltiness of the ocean assaulting her taste buds.
"Uhuk! Ptoey, ptoey!"
Hari woke up panting. She brushed off the sticky sand,
opened her bleary eyes, and saw the red glow of sunset on the horizon.
'Huh?
Has half a day passed?'
Hari raked a hand through her greasy hair, trying to
recall what she remembered before her collapse.
"I remember feeling a whirlwind as soon as we
entered the gate......."
The Korean and American rubber boats that had entered the
gate were overturned and swept away. Hari's complexion turned pale.
"E, everyone else?"
Hari looked at the other hunters sprawled across the
sand. Most of them were familiar faces.
"Suho! Wake up!"
"Mmm......."
"Uu, huh?"
The cadets and soldiers gradually opened their eyes as
Hari roused them. But there were a lot more who were nowhere to be seen.
‘What
about His Majesty Leon? What about Sir Yappy? Where have the American hunters
gone?!'
Among the cadets and soldiers, there were also some who
were not there. Hari quickly scanned the area around them.......
[Calm down, everyone will be safe.]
"Mother!"
The voice startled her, and she spun around, but all she
could see were the fallen cadets.
"G, ghost?"
[Over here.]
Hari cautiously made her way toward the source of the
voice. But all she found was a small turtle and no sign of the raiding party.
[Here.]
"T, turtle?"
The turtle, which Hari had previously ignored, stared at
her. Hari inquired cautiously,
"Could it be... God Foma?"
[That's right, my priestess. I personally sent an
incarnation for your salvation.]
"An... incarnation?"
Hari had seen incarnations of gods. The incarnations of
the beast gods she'd seen at Jeju Island Gate.
A giant Cheolwoong (Iron Bear). The beast god was indeed
a giant worthy of being called a god, but the god of the sea and waves in front
of her was somewhat.......
"You're small."
[Hoh, you! If you saw a divine being, you shall worship
it as you should!]
The turtle, small enough to rest on Hari's shoulder, was
so agitated that Hari didn't know whether to be afraid or not.
“So you said everyone would be safe. Do you have any idea
what happened?"
[Upon entering this place, the power of the waves swept
them to safe shore, though it did not prevent them from being scattered.]
It was such a huge whirlwind. Hari marveled at Foma's
power to keep no one from dying there.
"T, that is amazing."
[More than that, it is difficult to move with this body.
Put me on your shoulder.]
"Uh, yes......."
Hari placed Foma's incarnation on her shoulder. The
little turtle yawned and pushed his head back into his shell.
"God Foma?"
[.............]
No response. Hari didn't bother to wake Foma, thinking he
might be sleepy, and.......
-Drap-drap-drap!
A strange sound of footsteps sounded from the inner part
of the island. Hari spotted it and called out with a pale face,
"Everybody, everybody, get up, get up, get up! There
are monsters!"
The monsters were large, reaching up to 1.6 meters. They
rushed toward them, brandishing its giant pincers.
“Ugh, really …!”
Hari immediately took her stance and raised her sword.
Not all of the stranded people have yet woken up. She needed to move.
-*Spark!
A spark erupted from Hari’s sword. Hari, who had a unique
skill called Blessing of Fire, was planning to stop the monster using that
skill, but...
"Huh?"
Something different got in the way of the flow of magical
energy being released out of her body.
It was like when you pour yourself a coke at a hamburger
chain and white water got mixed in?
-Ssh!
A stream of water poured into the rising flames. The
flames went out.
“Huh?”
What, why is this like this?
Foma said with a sleepy look at Hari's confusion,
[What… does it mean… to be a priestess… who receives the
protection of the sea and waves…?]
"Yes?"
What does that mean?
This meant that water attribute was added to the magic
power of the magic swordswoman with a fire attribute because she received the protection
of the sea and waves! In other words!
“I, I can’t use fire?! Oh, no! Give it back! I won’t
become a priestess, God Foma!”
“No. I have no intention… of releasing you.”
Hari's scream reververated widely across the sandy beach.
* * * *
The U.S. raiders were also caught up in the whirlwind
that occurred upon entering the gate.
"Whew... that was unlucky to encounter that at the
entrance."
[At least we got away from that monster.]
As Reynald and the Jewel of Wisdom were relieved, the
American hunters approached, having regrouped.
“Thirty-eight people have been confirmed, Archmage.”
The guy called Minuteman was the eighth-ranked member of
Maverick, the largest guild in the United States. He was an S-class hunter who stood
over two meters tall and had been handpicked by Archmage Reynald for this job.
"Have you been able to track anything about the rest
of the group?"
"I've never experienced anything like this before.
Still, I'm sure they'll hold their own."
“What about the ‘natives’?”
"There's been a commotion, so they're probably
approaching. Oh, there they are."
-Drap, drap, drap!
-Drap, drap, drap!
As Minuteman said, giant crab-like monsters were coming
from the forest. The Maverick Guild members were quick to get into battle
formation despite being stranded on an island.
"Time to get to work, y'all. Let's mow them down and
start 'building a vacation spot'."
There was no need for Raynald to help. Under the
direction of Minuteman, Maverick guild members slaughtered monsters like
killing machines.
“Then, you can build a camp and rest. I’ll go to the
inside of the island for a while.”
"Are you sure you don't need an escort?"
"That's fine."
Raynald left the Maverick guild members on the shore and
headed for the inner part of the island.
He was the most powerful mage in North America. He was no
weakling who would fare badly at a gate like this, even without a hunter
escort.
Indeed, a few crab monsters lunged at him along the way, but
Reynald's magic slayed them.
"Rise."
Reynald poured evil magic onto the monsters. Then the
monsters wriggled and became undead and stood up.
"Lead me to the statue."
At Reynald's words, the crab monsters take the lead. And
perhaps because the island was quite small, he was able to get to his
destination quickly.
"This is......."
[This is the stone statue I was looking for. We need to
find a few more things like this!]
The stone statue that Raynald found was a large stone
statue with an unusual shape.
A relic that showed traces of time, like something you
would find when excavating an ancient civilization.
An ordinary person would have sensed traces of
civilization here, but Reynald sensed the immense power felt in the stone
statue.
"Then──"
The moment Reynald stretched out his hand towards the
statue ──
"Wait...!"
A voice restraining him rang out on the island breeze.
* * * * *
Yappy, which had been caught in the whirlwind, could
barely function due to the seawater entering it.
While Yappy was a high-end, combat-ready, multi-purpose
vehicle, it was not designed to be used in the ocean, so it was not saltwater
resistant.
However, thanks to the waterproofing of critical
components and a self-diagnostic program that activated at the same time as the
system went down to clean up the mess, the system was quickly restored to
normal.
-Kkilug?
What Yakt Spinner saw after booting was a place where a
lot of monsters and creatures had gathered.
-Kkilug! kkilugkkilulug!
-Kkilugkkilug!
When Yappy opened its eyes, it was greeted by a group of
pincers that jumped from side to side in a cheering manner. They held their
pincers high, rejoicing in Yappy's every move.
-Kkilug?
It was not clear what was going on. Yappy realized that
it was being sheltered in a primitive silkworm nest, piled high.
Yappy must had been rescued by these crabs.
-Kkilug!
When Yappy tilted its head and raised its voice, the
crabs cheered,
-Kkilugkkilug! Kkikkilug!
-Kkikkilug!!
***
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