Rukna Golden gulped and pulled out the self-defense sword from her waist that was provided by the temple.
Although the blade was thinner and shorter than a typical longsword, it was a sacred object imbued with the High Priest’s divine protection, so its ability was quite good.
The eagle flapped its wings, which were as long as Rukna’s height, and took off.
At the same time, unknown black lumps fell from its wings, and they wriggled and transformed into grotesque snake forms, rushing towards the priests.
“Wh-what is this!”
“Save me!”
The priests, who were usually only in charge of rear support, couldn’t properly wield their swords.
As the monsters coiled around their ankles and wouldn’t fall off like leeches, they desperately flailed and screamed.
“Stay calm. Just wrap divine power around your swords and cut them off!”
Rukna demonstrated by removing the monster attached to her own ankle. However, only a few succeeded in following her example.
The majority didn’t even try to do it themselves and only pleaded to be saved.
“Ru-Rukna, please help me!”
“Move aside, it’s my turn first!”
The priests flocked behind Rukna’s back as she was fighting the monsters.
Seeing the priests begging to be saved first, Rukna realized once again the true meaning of this pilgrimage.
Weeding out those who don’t have the capacity to become priests must be the hidden goal of this pilgrimage.
They pleaded with Rukna to help them first.
Among them, Jodro even pulled on her clothes while she was fighting, throwing a tantrum to remove the monsters.
Ugh! Rukna staggered at the force. She almost dropped her sword.
“Let go! Can’t you see the situation in front?”
“He-help me first. I think my ankle is going to break!”
“You can handle that much yourself. At worst, you’ll hurt your ankle, but my neck is in danger.”
Rukna confronted the eagle monster that had taken off. It had been aiming for her since earlier.
“Yo-you call yourself a priest and don’t help others?”
“I think you should look at yourself first.”
“You, you’re taking revenge on me for bumping into you last time!”
Jodro yelled and grabbed Rukna by the collar. Meanwhile, Rukna, who had not taken her eyes off the eagle, warned him.
“Let go while I’m still asking nicely, Jodro. At this rate, we’ll both die.”
“My ankle hurts so much I think I’m going to die right now.”
“I said let go!”
Damn it, Rukna avoided to the left while keeping an eye on Jodro’s back.
“For whose sake… Ugh!”
Jodro groaned, his body stiff as a board. The swiftly flying eagle monster had slashed his back with its talons.
Jodro’s hand, which was grabbing Rukna’s collar, went limp, and he soon collapsed to the ground.
With her body free, Rukna immediately gripped her sword properly and blocked the eagle’s beak attack.
At that moment, the eagle opened its beak. A long, black tongue slithered out like a snake, imitating someone’s voice.
Chad? While Rukna was surprised, the eagle’s talons approached right in front of her face.
Then, a sword glowing with divine power flexibly deflected the attack and changed its trajectory, neatly slicing the monster.
‘It didn’t work well during practice, but now it does.’
The Wiegratz-style swordsmanship that Matian Wiegratz often used. After replaying the image of him fighting several times, it seemed to have naturally become familiar to her body…
‘Did I think about Matian that much to that extent?’
She was startled because she hadn’t known it normally. As a result, the attack that should have continued in succession lost its rhythm.
Just as the eagle was about to peck Rukna’s shoulder with its beak, taking advantage of the opening.
An arrow flying over her shoulder pierced the eagle’s eye.
Kiyeeeek!
The eagle, which had been critically injured by Rukna, crashed to the ground.
‘Who is it?’
Rukna turned her head in the direction the arrow had come from.
On a large conifer branch, a slender handsome man holding a bow could be seen. The bow he was holding was as large as the height of an average child.
Judging by his tall and lanky body with long limbs and pointed ears, he was undoubtedly an elf who lived in the sacred forest.
“Carelessness is the beginning of regression. Roosevelt.”
He uttered a strange quote and brushed up his bangs that had been covering one eye.
Both eyes seemed intact, but his hairstyle of covering only one eye like an adolescent boy was unique.
“Are you alright? It’s an honor to have the opportunity to save such a regressing human.”
The elf placed one hand on his chest and elegantly bowed.
Treating humans as inferior beings was similar to the dwarves. However, unlike the dwarves who were straightforward, the elves seemed to have wrapped their true intentions in multiple layers of pretense.
“Thank… you.”
“Don’t mention it. I just went out on patrol for a moment beyond this village, which is our territory, and happened to come across a pitiful being who can’t even kill a single monster.”
He jumped down from the tree and smiled brightly at Rukna.
Strangely, the pretentious expression that appeared as his facial features, except for his eyes, softened and smiled was not unfamiliar.
Even the way he spoke, subtly putting down the other person in a soft tone.
“Welcome to the sacred forest, lacking children of god.”
Lacking children. Rukna muttered softly. She belatedly understood why the dwarves would shudder at the mention of elves.
[This is the timeline separator]Elves were a race that revered and managed the ether of the air, the wind, and lived in houses built on tall trees.
In the center of the village was a giant tree called the “World Tree.”
This giant sequoia, situated among the conifers, was a legendary tree that was said to have grown along with the birth of the world, and the elves would break off its branches to make arrow shafts.
The priests briefly looked around the World Tree, where the saint was said to have stayed in the past, and hastened their schedule.
This was because there were many casualties due to the monster attack, and Jodro, who was critically injured, had not regained consciousness.
The poison from the monster had spread throughout his body, and his life was in danger.
‘If I had killed it in time…’
Rukna bit her lower lip. She had abandoned the collapsed Jodro. She didn’t want to help him.
Rather, she felt it served him right for not following her orders and ending up in that state.
So while the other priests treated him, she just watched from the side. With the thought of letting those conceited people handle it on their own.
‘But now that it’s come to this, I feel uncomfortable.’
She was pathetic for feeling this way. She was angry.
‘It’s not like I could have purified that poison anyway.’
Closet’s divine power showed definite healing effects only when there was a mindset of caring for the other person.
And right now, she hated Jodro, definitely didn’t like him.
‘How can I love all people when I’m not even a real saint.’
When Rukna was picking at the skin next to her nails and lowering her gaze, one of the elves examining Jodro shook his head.
“We’ll have to send this patient there for treatment. This lowly body can’t withstand the great recovery magic of the elves.”
“Then I’ll prepare for the transfer now.”
Another elf began drawing a teleportation magic circle on the ground with the arrowhead he was holding.
‘I heard elves could freely use magic, but it was true.’
Especially teleportation magic was famous for being difficult to calculate, but the elf completed the magic circle very easily.
“Who among you will accompany this patient as a guardian?”
The elf asked, scanning the priests. Jodro’s popularity must have been worse than expected, as everyone just exchanged glances without readily stepping forward.
But then, a male priest wearing a deep hood suddenly pointed at Rukna.
“She would be good.”
“Me? Me?”
Rukna opened her eyes wide and stared at the priest in question.
Was there such a large-bodied priest among this pilgrimage group? He seemed very unfamiliar. His physique was more suited for a knight than a priest.
She was about to ask who he was and his identity, but then the magic circle activated and a tremendous wind blew, enveloping Rukna and Jodro in a circle.
Ugh! Rukna closed her eyes tightly. She felt nauseous as if her body was being turned upside down. And when she opened her eyes again…
“You’re the person I saw in the painting!”
A child she had never seen before was staring intently at Rukna with sparkling blue eyes.
‘Where did this kid pop out from?’
Rukna stared at the child who strangely resembled Matian, then looked around.
‘Oh my god! Where on earth is this place?’
Just a moment ago, she was definitely standing in the elven forest. But now she was sprawled ungracefully in front of the entrance of some mansion.
Jodro was also thrown down like a piece of luggage.
Then the entrance door opened and an elderly head butler appeared.
“Oh my, it seems the elves have sent another patient addicted to black magic. Young master, what brings you here?”
“I felt magic power and came out to see.”
“Please come inside. You need to learn etiquette from Mrs. Pitts.”
“But the woman I only saw in paintings is here. I want to see her too.”
“The woman you only saw in paintings?”
The butler glanced at Rukna.
“It’s your first time seeing a woman in priest robes. Well, since you’ve only seen male priests until now because of the young master, it’s understandable to be curious.”
The butler reassured the child, saying he would arrange tea time with the guest after the etiquette lesson was over, and sent him inside the house.
At the same time, servants with their noses and mouths covered in cloth came out in a group and took Jodro to the annex.
“I apologize for the many discourtesies upon our first meeting, Priest. I am Alechi, the butler of the mansion.”
Alechi? It was quite interesting that it was the same name as the plant Matian had told her to place by the window in the past.
But the introduction that followed was so familiar that it was shocking.
“Welcome to the Wiegratz mansion, Priest.”
[This is the timeline separator]Around that time, the elves who had succeeded in the teleportation magic were elegantly chatting.
“Come to think of it, I heard the Dawn Knights are looking for a certain human.”
“You mean the Wiegratz knights? Whoever it is, they seem to be a criminal who committed quite a serious offense.”
“Judging by how thoroughly they’re searching even the ports in case the person escaped to a foreign country, they must have properly deceived Wiegratz.”
“What about the description of the person?”
“They say it’s some girl. Platinum blonde hair, green eyes, about this tall…”
The elf put his hand on his own chest and explained, then closed his mouth. Didn’t the female priest they just sent look just like that?
The other elf who was listening to the description also tilted his head.
“Doesn’t she resemble that priest we saw a little while ago?”
“Right.”
“So that human must have designated that priest.”
The elf pointed to the large-bodied priest who had designated Rukna as the guardian a moment ago.
The priest smiled, taking off his hat. His short hair and face with scars all over looked fierce.
“Calling me that human. That’s too much.”
His name was Kal. He belonged to the Dawn Knights.
The priests standing around were belatedly surprised and took a step back.
No one remembered when that foreign man had infiltrated the pilgrimage group.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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