Solo Leveling: Ragnarok – 122



Episode 122

“and! Sirka!”

At that moment lively voices were heard from all over the place.

“Sirka!”

“Sirca is back!”

When Sirka who had suddenly gone missing returned safely ice elves came out from all over the village to welcome her.

But that only lasts for a moment.

The moment they spotted the stranger standing next to Sirka their expressions turned fierce and they immediately got ready for battle.

“intruder!”

“It’s an intruder!”

“An intruder has entered the village!”

Chuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Bows arrows and sharply forged daggers were instantly aimed at Suho.

Sirka jumped in between them and waved her hands urgently.

“Everyone stop! Don’t fight! This is not an intruder! Look carefully! “He’s Chacha’s son!”

“what?”

“Chacha?”

“Chacha’s son?”

Everyone looked at Suho’s face with a puzzled look at those words.

“Huh?”

Then one by one they realized something and their eyes began to widen.

“Huh?”

“Uh huh? Really?”

The ice elves who were wary of Suho quickly turned their heads and opened their mouths while comparing Suho’s face with the face of the ‘ice sculpture’ erected in front of the village.

“wow! “You really look like Chacha right?”

“Come to think of it our eyes are a bit similar!”

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“Kodo!”

“Even the smell!”

“What did you say your son’s name was? “Sungseong?”

“You idiot! Chacha’s son’s name is Seong Su-ho!”

“What is it Sirka! Are you really Chacha’s son? “Where did you find it?”

The suddenly violent atmosphere suddenly relaxed and became noisy.

Even before entering the glacier dungeon the atmosphere was so friendly that it felt like all preparations had been made to deal with the ice elves.

Sirka boasted in front of them that she had found Guardian.

In the middle of the atmosphere Suho was calmly examining the ice elves one by one.

‘…they’re all young.’

The lifespan of an ice elf may not be the same as that of a human but if you look at their appearance the ice elves talking about right now appear to be in their early to late teens.

He rarely looked like he was in his 20s or older.

‘There are no adults.’

Moreover there was another strange thing.

‘It’s weaker than I thought.’

Ber also made a strange expression and whispered to Suho.

[Most of the ice elf warriors I know are A-level no matter how weak they are they are at least B-level magic beasts. But these guys here….]

“Up to B level to D level. “There are no A-level grades at all.”

[It is too weak.]

Sirka who listened to their conversation from the side nodded.

“It has to be that way. All of our tribe’s capable warriors were called away and died during the war. “The only people in this village now are the tribe members who were too young or weak at the time.”

In the war between rulers and monarchs that has been going on since the beginning of time

The ‘King of the Yetis Lord of the Cold’ who ruled this place would capture all the new ice elves and take them to the battlefield when they became useful.

Of course for the Ice Elves being a soldier for the monarch was truly an honor and even being able to die a heroic death on the battlefield was a source of pride as a warrior.

However this did not mean that those left behind in the village were given no role.

They also had a mission as important as the role given to warriors.

That is raising new born children well and nurturing the next generation.

The goal was to raise those children into warriors so good that they could be sent into the next battle.

To continue the war against rulers that has been going on since the beginning.

“…that’s who we are. “Children born during the war.”

The babies had grown up so much that they were now holding bows and arrows and holding daggers in their hands.

To become a full-fledged warrior following the example of my parents’ generation.

Suho found a contradiction in Sirka’s words.

“But if all the weak people were left behind then not all adults were strong. Why are we only seeing children?”

“…It wasn’t like this from the beginning. “On the day when the spirits of the Echo Forest ran rampant most of the adults of the tribe died and only one adult is still alive.”

Echo Forest.

At those words Suho’s eyes naturally turned to the ice sculpture of his mother.

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There…

A dynamic battle scene was engraved with Cha Hae-in holding a dagger in both hands and appearing to do a ‘sword dance’ with his hair flowing.

And right behind her a huge flying dragon was spreading its wings as if it were protecting her.

Suho an art student was simply amazed at how such an exquisite and outstanding sculpture was carved out of ice.

“It looks like your mother uses a dagger.”

“huh. They said they didn’t have any weapons so I lent them the daggers our tribe uses. And it was from then on. “Chacha became our savior.”

One day Cha Hae-in suddenly came down from the sky riding a black flying dragon through a blizzard.

When she just arrived in this frozen forest.

At that time a great danger was approaching the ice elves living in this forest.

“For some reason the spirits of the Echo Forest came out of the forest all at once and poured into our village.”

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[Echo Forest]

This forest was a sacred place for the Ice Elves who said that once you entered this forest you would never be able to come out alive again.

And at one time this forest was called by another name.

It’s called ‘Forest of Ordeal’.

Echo Forest was also a place where adult ice elves went through the ‘Warrior’s Trial’ to be recognized as brave warriors.

However even those trials did not dare to go deep into the Echo Forest and were only held on the outskirts of the forest.

If I went deeper than that I could have been possessed by the spirits of the Echo Forest and gone crazy.

“Being possessed by a spirit?”

“huh. The spirits of the Echo Forest are intangible. That’s why it’s scarier. It can change into any form. But it’s hard to tell if it’s even in its true form.”

“…I have no idea what you mean by that explanation.”

While Suho was listening to Sirka’s legend about the Echo Forest the surroundings were still noisy.

The ice elves were preparing a small welcome party for Suho.

“Today is a party!”

“It’s a welcome party for Seongseong!”

“Someone keeps saying it’s a castle! “It’s the guardian of the castle!”

Where had all the bloodshed from the beginning gone? The young faces were full of lively expressions.

Before I knew it an elf was making art in the corner out of ice sculptures for protection.

Another elf brought out specially saved fruits for protection.

And another elf…

[Uh huh! Solord likes meat! And are there any magic stones I can eat?]

Ber was also busy meddling in the preparations for the welcome party for Suho.

Anyway Sirka’s story continued here.

“But originally the spirits of the Echo Forest were beings that never came out of the Echo Forest.”

Due to its location the forest where the ice elves lived and the Echo Forest were right next to each other.

Still as long as they didn’t invade the spirits’ territory first they were not dangerous at all.

“At least that’s what they knew until ‘that day’.”

‘That day’ when the sky of the frozen forest was suddenly torn apart and a dimensional crack opened.

Perhaps due to that influence the spirits of the Echo Forest suddenly ran wild.

Then it jumped out of the Echo Forest and began attacking the ice elves it could see indiscriminately.

It was truly a disaster for the young ice elves who were left behind in a village where many of their outstanding warriors had already left.

“That was a few years ago so we were much weaker than we are now.”

“You said my mother saved you back then?”

“huh. “The cha-cha was amazing.”

Cha Hae-in suddenly appears riding a flying dragon and asks the ice elves to lend him a sword.

The moment a dagger was held in both her hands.

“Skill sword dance.”

Sirka muttered about her technique that Cha Hae-in had taught her.

Cha Hae-in’s movements became faster as if she were dancing and she began drawing gorgeous curves with the daggers in both hands.

Pot! Pot! Pot!

A wonderful and overwhelming battle in which the spirits are cut down with alacrity as if dancing at a fast tempo.

Because of her beautiful appearance the ice elves initially tried to give her the nickname ‘Dancer’.

However because the person concerned banned it because it was embarrassing another nickname arose.

“The new nickname that came about is ‘Dragon Shaman.’”

“…Aren’t you embarrassed about that?”

“Kaysel liked that nickname. So reluctantly they just let me sing it.”

And as his nickname suggests the black dragon Kaisel was always with Cha Hae-in in his battles.

It seemed like Suho didn’t know anything about Kaisel so Ber quickly showed up and explained it.

[Kaisel was once so great that Baran the Lord of the White Flame rode around under the name of the drake Kaiselin. For reference it was an S-class demon beast.]

“An S-class demon?”

Suho’s eyes widened.

Didn’t you say that your mother suddenly awakened to the power of an S-class hunter and that she rides around on an S-class magical beast?

It was a completely different image from the mother who usually led a peaceful life at home.

“Anyway thanks to Chacha and Kaisel the spirits that were attacking us fled back to the Echo Forest. And Chacha stayed with us for a while and taught us swordsmanship.”

“You learned swordsmanship from your mother?”

“huh. Until then all the adults in the village who had raised us had been killed by spirits. So Chacha was the one who protected us because we never knew when the spirits of the Echo Forest might suddenly attack again.”

This is why Cha Hae-in was called the savior of the Ice Elves.

He personally taught the surviving children how to fight and took responsibility for their safety…

“Chacha is the mother of all of us.”

Suho felt longing for Sirka’s bright smile as she said this.

“So after that my mother is now….”

“huh. As I said earlier I suddenly rode Kaisel and entered the Echo Forest. They said there was a strange smell coming from there. “And he hasn’t come back yet.”

“What a strange smell?”

“hmm. How should I explain it? “Chacha can sense the scent of magic just like us ice elves.”

With those words Sirka sniffed Suho’s scent.

“Suho you smell very nice. So I knew it right away. “You are Cha Hae-in’s son.”

Cha Hae-in told a lot about his family while staying with the ice elves.

“Chacha said so. He said his son smells really good because he takes after his father. So if your husband comes looking for you while you are in the Echo Forest please tell him this instead of attacking him first.”

“What?”

In response to Suho’s question Sirka opened her mouth with a serious expression.

“…I found a place where ‘gray snow’ falls.”