Emperor of Solo Play Chapter 83:
Chapter 83 – The Baheim Tribe (2)
5 .
It was a winding and endless road . When they followed upstream of a river ending at a lake, they arrived at a cliff . The river was falling of the cliff, and the sound of the water falling was deafening . It was letting out a violent scream .
The two users arrived at the location where the river was letting an endless scream . Hyrkan and Whistling faced each other .
Hyrkan opened his mouth to speak . Whistling also opened his mouth to answer back . However, their voices had no chance against the sound of the waterfall .
Hyrkan shook his head as he closed his mouth, then he tapped lightly on his wrist watch . Whistling also closed his mouth when he saw this, and he nodded his head .
The two of them started touching their wrist watch .
“The sound of the waterfall is immensely wonderful . ”
“Is this place the Baekong Falls?”
The conversation between the two finally started .
“We have to pray that we are at the right place or else we would have come here for nothing . Anyways, prepare to give me your 100 gold . You can’t back out later on . ”
“If I could really meet an Elf in a place like this, I would give you 100 gold . No, I would even give you 1000 gold . ”
“Wait a moment . Let me record those words . ”
With the incredible sight behind as their background, the two of them held a conversation that didn’t have much substance to it . Since it was a trivial conversation, the conversation quickly came to an end . The thick mist of water started to tickle their faces .
‘It really is a dead end . ’
The Baekong Falls had a semi-circular shape . Moreover, the stage perfectly fit the description of a dead-end road .
Hyrkan and Whistling stood in front of the dead-end, and they wordlessly looked at the waterfall .
“So do we wait for the Elf to come?”
Whistling was the first one to break the silence .
Instead of answering him, Hyrkan took out the 5 Bone Fragments from his pocket . He spread it across the floor . Whistling knew what Hyrkan’s action meant . Whistling’s expression changed, and he quickly looked towards the back .
One had to slightly tilt one’s head back against the falling waters to see them . Whistling saw 4 enormous Hook Praying Mantises, and 5 Tree Bark Snakes, which looked like moving logs .
These **** were so large that they would make a lot of sound if they started moving . However, the sound of the waterfall had drowned out the sound of the monsters . This was why Hyrkan and Whistling hadn’t been able to sense them .
It was as simple as that . They hadn’t been aware of monsters’ presence .
“Bone Armor . ”
Hyrkan’s summoned Skeleton Warriors were equipped with armor . Gloves, chest armors, greaves and even shoulder armors were put on!
The white armor made it look as if the Skeleton Warriors had swollen in size . At the same time, a horn appeared on the Skeleton Warrior’s head .
After putting on the Madness Helm, the Skeleton Warriors opened their mouth wide, and they aggressively expressed their violent nature . As if it was answering the call of the Madness of the Skeleton Warriors, the swords grasped by the Skeleton Warriors let out a blue light .
Hyrkan gave the attack order .
The Skeleton Warriors immediately split in five directions, and they charge without reserve towards the monsters .
During all of this, Hyrkan had taken out a gem from his pouch . The gem in his hand was used to summon the Golem . The gem within Hyrkan’s hand melted, and it dripped onto the floor .
Koo koo koo!
A muscular, one-eyed giant with a hammer appeared out of the uneven ground .
Cyclops .
Cyclops had a very ferocious nature, and the Golem had inherited its nature . It no longer had its dull appearance . The Golem immediately charged towards the monsters .
Koong, koong, koong!
The 6 meter tall giant made out of dirt caused the ground to ring out as it moved .
Hoo-oohng, kwahng!
The giant swung down with its hammer, and it created a crater . A part of the Tree Bark Snake’s body was hit with the hammer, and it flattened like a sheet of paper .
Kyahhhh!
Of course, the monsters responded by counterattacking .
Five Skeletons, one Golem, and nine monsters became tangled with each other, and it created a mess .
It was only then did Hyrkan and Whistling move . The bedlam was their playground .
The Hook Praying Mantis swung tirelessly as it tried to catch the Skeleton Warriors . Hyrkan climbed the Mantis’ body . Hyrkan stabbed at a location where the exoskeleton was thin .
Whistling put an appropriate distance between him and the monsters . He performed his Crescent Cut to chop the monsters into pieces .
The 9 monsters were down to below half of its numbers before 3 minutes were up .
In a flash, there were only two left .
‘Let’s see which one I . . . Ah!’
At that moment, Hyrkan let out a yell .
“Leave one of them alone!”
The moment Hyrkan’s words ended Whistling swung his sword to take off the head of the Hook Praying Mantis .
“What?”
Hyrkan immediately answered Whistling’s question .
“We have to re-enact the situation . ”
Hyrkan flicked his finger as he spoke . The Skeleton Warriors, who had been moving in an agile manner, immediately lowered into their defensive stance . They shifted into defense mode . The last surving Tree Bark Snake lashed out with its tail like a whip . The tail strike hit a Skeleton Warrior, and it was flung away as its body disintegrated .
Hyrkan twisted one corner of his mouth as he watched his Magic decrease .
‘Chet . ’
It put him in a foul mood, but he had no choice .
NPC Selene said an Elf saved her when she was in trouble . Then they would have to recreate a similar scenario .
“All right . ”
Whistling understood what Hyrkan was talking about, so he put away his sword into its sheathe .
All of Hyrkan’s summoned underlings went into being Fragments, or the Golem returned to the earth .
The chaos lessened and Tree Bark Snake was alone by itself . It continued its wild movements .
Hyrkan and Whistling took turns to avoid its attack .
However, this continued on for a while .
‘It’s already been about 3 minutes . ’
A not too short amount of time had flowed by, but they didn’t see any signs of change . Hyrkan looked at his surrounding, and he started feeling a bit anxious .
‘It has to come out . ’
There was a reason why Hyrkan was feeling anxious .
‘A thousand gold is on the line . The Elves have to come out!’
It was a trivial reason .
It was at that moment .
Kyahh!
The Tree Bark Snake let out a coarse sound, and its tail whipped against Whistling . When Hyrkan saw this, he involuntarily winced .
‘Why?’
Whistling was the Trapper Jungle’s greatest gosu . It was a fact that Hyrkan had acknowledged . His battle ability was better than Hyrkan inside the Trapper Jungle . Yet he suffered an attack from a simple tail strike from a Tree Bark Snake? It seemed almost impossible .
However, it happened . Whistling suffered an attack from the tail attack!
‘Ah . ’
He baited the attack .
He purposely got hit, so it would look like he was in trouble . Hyrkan realized his own mistake .
‘Crazy **** . ’
Whistling was a Striker Type . This was why he was able to Advance as a Fighter . No matter how good a defensive gear one had on, it was still burdensome to take the full brunt of an attack from a monster .
Of course, he wouldn’t die .
Still, unless he had a very particular fetish, no human or users liked being hit .
Fortunately, Whistling’s sacrifice paid off .
Pooh-hooh!
From beneath the lake located below the waterfall, a Golem made out of enormous boulders appeared .
The Boulder Golem headed immediately towards the Tree Bark Snake, and an arrow appeared out of nowhere to pierce deeply into the body of the Tree Bark Snake . That arrow was the first of many arrows .
Kyah, kyah!
The Tree Bark Snake started to struggle . Hyrkan and Whistling smiled as they looked at the monster .
‘If I came here alone, I would have never been able to meet the Elven Tribe . ’
Whistling and Hyrkan nodded to each other .
Then the Elves, who they had been yearning for, appeared in front of them .
6 .
Their skin could be described as pure instead of pale . There was a very slight green tinge to their skin, and it was overflowing with a feeling of refreshment .
Their features were delicate . It was as if they had been drawn with the end of a thin brush . However, they didn’t look frail . They gave off an air of sophistication .
Their large eyes held the color of emerald, and a high nose gave off a sense of arrogance . Their face was small compared to their high nose, and the combined effect of the features gave off a sense of aloofness . Their pale lips had a delicateness that seemed to have been made for an art piece .
When one saw them, one couldn’t help but show appreciation regarding their unforgettable beauty . Moreover, the Elves had cosmetics applied to their faces . Instead of it giving off a dry feeling, their appearance was filled with a sense of refreshment .
The delicate scent of evergreen was coming off their body .
“Who are you guys?”
A pure voice flowed out of the Elf’s mouth . However, her voice was buried by the sound of the falling waterfall .
This was why Hyrkan and Whistling looked at each other without saying anything . No matter what the Elf said, they didn’t have the ability to hear what the Elf had said .
Of course, Hyrkan was the first one to react as he picked up what was going on . Hyrkan looked over the Elf’s face, and he put on a slightly sour face .
‘Somehow I get a leery feeling when I see pretty people . ’
It wasn’t as if Hyrkan hated beauties . Of course, no one in the world hated beautiful people . It was weird, but the sense of distrust came up before the feeling of admiration . He wouldn’t put the beauties before his work . In Hyrkan’s experience, it was rare for him to have a normal encounter with beautiful women . Moreover, the worst insult in his life was given as present to Hyrkan by a beautiful woman .
This was why the Elven Race’s beauty made Hyrkan put up his guard .
On the other hand, Whistling looked at the Elf in front of him with an absent-minded face . He kept staring at the Elf . Hyrkan nudged Whistling’s side with his elbow .
“Didn’t you say this was your life’s dream?”
“Ah!”
Whistling finally realized what was going on, so he started walking towards the Elf . He still had a dazed expression on his face, so the Elf took couple step backwards in surprise .
Gwahhhhhk!
As she took several steps backwards, she quickly pulled her bow back . There didn’t seem to be an arrow loaded, but one could tell something transparent was notched .
“Hey, stop!”
Hyrkan spoke out, and those words made Whistling alert once again . The Elf warned Whistling once again .
“Please reveal your identity to us . ”
They still couldn’t hear her, because of the sound of the waterfall . Whistling rolled his eyes around as he tried to guess what was going on . Then he opened his mouth .
“I’m Adventurer Whistling . I’m an Adventurer . . . The child you saved sent this letter . ”
Whistling tried to take out Selene’s Letter, which he had safely put away within his pocket . It was a funny sight to see a large human awkwardly try to take out the letter .
The Elf once again pulled back on her bow . She thought Whistling was taking out a weapon . Whistling quickly took out his hand in fright to show that both his hands was empty of weapons . Then he unbuckled his sword from his waist, and he placed it on the floor . Afterwards, he was able to take out the letter . He placed the letter on the floor, and he retreated backward with both his hands raised .
Hyrkan snorted as he saw this sight live .
‘Jeez . Are they trying to make a movie?’
A character unarming themselves to show that he didn’t hold any hostile intent towards the natives was a scene commonly seen inside movies . However, he never expect to see such a sight within the game . Hyrkan tried very hard to stop himslef from ridiculing them .
At that moment, the Elf started to aim the bow towards Hyrkan . It basically meant she wanted Hyrkan to backoff like Whistling . Hyrkan had an annoyed expression as he raised both his hands up high towards the sky . There was no need to make it more difficult here .
When Hyrkan and Whistling backed off a sufficient distance, the Elf relaxed slightly and she picked up the letter . Before she read the letter, she brought the letter up to her nose and she sniffed it .
“So you received a request from that child . ”
Before she read the letter, the Elf had already discerned the content of the letter . She let out a long whistle .
The hidden Elves started to show themselves one or two at a time .
“Since you’ve seen us, we can’t just send you back like this . We’ll guide you to our village . ”
Those words were still not registering with Hyrkan and Whistling .
Instead . . .
[You’ve completed the Quest ‘Selene’s Letter . ]
[You’ve earned the Title ‘A Person who Encounter the Elves’ . ]
The system announcement informed Hyrkan and Whistling of the situation .
7 .
Five Elves surrounded Whistling and Hyrkan . They continued to wander around near the Baekong Falls .
During this time, the two of them shared a conversation .
“Wasn’t I right? I told you they were at the Baekong Falls . Since your life long dream has been fulfilled, you can’t go back on your words . At the end of this, you have to give me the gold . ”
As Hyrkan spoke, Whistling was still looking at the surrounding Elves with a dazed experssion . It wasn’t the simple case of being dazed by beauty . He looked as if he had been hypnotized by something .
Hyrkan shook his head from side to side as he looked at Whistling’s expression .
‘He isn’t like the Pit Bull I knew from before . He fell into that category of people?’
Whistling Pitbull .
He was nicknamed the Pit Bull, because of his outer appearance . However, as befitting his nickname, he possessed the tenaciousness of a fighting dog .
He was decisive .
He saw the battle to the end without sparing his body . He was like a cool hunting dog that never gave up once he entered the battlefield . However, the current Whistling looked nothing like a pit bull . He didn’t even give off a feeling of pet dog .
“Do you really like the Elves that much?”
Hyrkan finally asked the question . It was a question he had avoided asking until now . He had no reason to ask it . Hyrkan didn’t care about other people’s preferences .
Hyrkan had already given up finding a teammate . He only had two categories . A person fell into either the profitable or non-profitable category . If the person could lead Hyrkan to a profit, he didn’t care if the person preferred Dwarfs instead of Elves . He would be able to overlook their taste . He could even overlook a person liking the Orcs . He would have to think long and hard though if someone’s preference ran towards the Trolls .
At Hyrkan’s question, Whistling slowly opened his mouth .
“Of course . I really like them . It was one of the main reason why I started playing this game . ”
“I guess you like beautiful women . ”
“What man doesn’t like beautiful women? However, it isn’t as simple as that . ”
“You have another reason?”
“I have a great admiration towards the Fantasy genre . ”
“What?”
After he thought about it for a moment, Whistling told Hyrkan the reason he had told no one before .
It was a gift, since Hyrkan had helped him out .
“Warlord is a game . I won’t deny that fact . However, amongst all the games out in the market, it had a setting that was closest to a Fantasy world . It was my life long dream to meet the Elves in such a world . To me, Elves are symbol that epitomizes the Fantasy genre . ”
“Is that so?”
“Now that I’ve met the Elves, I think I will truly be able to enjoy this world . Moreover, it feels like I could give it my all in playing Warlord now . ”
Whistling grinned .
“Isn’t everyone playing this game for those reasons?”
At those words, Hyrkan recalled someone .
‘He’s a guy that likes the challenge itself . ’
Don Quixote .
He was a challenger, who lived for the chivalric romances .
Whistling was cut from the same cloth . At that moment, Hyrkan knew it for sure .
‘There’s no way I’ll become teammates with Whistling . ’
He couldn’t become comrades with Pit Bull . Hyrkan was on the complete other side of the spectrum with those who were playing this game out of enjoyment and romanticism .
“We’ve arrived . ”
At that moment, the barrier in front of Whistling and Hyrkan was taken down . Then the hidden Baheim tribe’s village inside the Clapper Jungle appeared . There were countless bridges connecting the Clapper Trees, and houses hanging off of trees . The sight filled Hyrkan’s vision .
[You’ve received the title ‘Baheim Tribe’s First Customer’ . ]
He immediately heard the announcement for the Title .
When Hyrkan heard the announcement, he patted Whistling’s shoulder .
“All right . You should have fun playing this game . ”
He realized not too long ago that he couldn’t become teammates with Pit Bull . If that’s the case, they would have to part ways here .
“What?”
Whistling spat out a reply at Hyrkan’s abrupts words . However, Hyrkan ignored Whistling’s question, and he spoke toward the Elf on the side .
“I’m here on an errand for the blacksmith Olf . I would appreciate it if you could take me to someone in charge of this place . ”