At The End Of The Hidden Greenery

Chapter 21

Cough! Cough, cough!

After Jiwoo had raised her voice suddenly, she coughed as if she was going to die the next moment.

Her throat had been burning from a while ago, so she couldn’t help but cough.

Helka rushed to her side. He knew how she screamed and moaned for quite a long time—demanding that he put it in—until she fainted. That’s why her throat was this hoarse.

Helkainis watched Jiwoo as she coughed and then waved his hand in the air. His wrists and fingers moved lightly. Then a glass of water flew over from a table somewhere in the room.

“Here.”

When Jiwoo accepted it, an oval-shaped magic circle appeared over the glass of water. The inside of the circle was filled with letters that Jiwoo could not recognize. Then it glowed blue, and clear water poured out.

“Ah…!”

The stream of water aimed precisely at the inside of the cup made her startled. She almost dropped the cup out of surprise, but Jiwoo received it with both hands. Helkainis was said to be an excellent mage. Seeing how effortless he made that look, it seemed convenient to have magic. She was surprised that she was served like that.

The water was cold as if it had been taken out of the refrigerator. Still, it was as if all her body fluids had gotten sucked by Helkainis, so the cool water was very much welcome.

Helkainis asked after confirming that Jiwoo finished drinking the glass of water.

“…What’s your name?”

“You can call me Akarna.”

“Akarna?”

Helkainis widened his eyes wide as she said those words. Then he said it again, as if he was really surprised.

“The Akarna of Caranazion?” Jiwoo couldn’t help but ask back. “What is that?”

“Hmm…”

Helkainis, who had been observing Jiwoo for a moment, reached out in the air. Then, a translucent sphere filled with illusion was created in the air. It was like a hologram.

A blue background representing the sea appeared. It was not a familiar place to Jiwoo, but the two white and green masses floating on it seemed to represent the continents of this world. And three storms were raging between the two continents. It looked like a globe, but it wasn’t Earth.

Jiwoo realized that she had truly fallen into a different world.

Helka, who confirmed that Jiwoo was concentrating on the illusion, first pointed to the white mass. It was a pure white continent that looked like Antarctica.

“This is our hometown and the land of the divine beasts, El Ragnile.”

Next, he pointed to the green continent beyond the vortexes.

“This is Caranazion. You said you are the Akarna of this Caranazion.”

“Yes.”

Jiwoo nodded and listened to him, and Helka explained other things as well. Next he pointed to the three storms in the center of the two continents.

“And these vortexes divide the continents. Not just anyone can cross them.”

“How did you get over here?”

“Because I’m not that ‘anyone’.”

It may sound arrogant, but speaking plainly, he seemed much more humble than he was.