I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77

Once the iron stakes were installed on both cliffs, Raellion used magic to send one end of the lattice bridge he had created to the opposite side.

Callix Crowbell hooked the rings attached to the bridge onto the iron stakes, then drove the stakes completely into the ground down to their roots.

On this side, the dwarves secured it in the same manner.

The lattice bridge fixed to both cliffs was pulled taut. Once the auxiliary ropes were connected, the bridge was stably secured.

“Is this the completion then?”

When Sola asked, I nodded.

“For now, yes. There might be problems we haven’t discovered, so we need to watch for a few days to see if it’s okay.”

“That’s right. We should probably tell those two to come back for now.”

“My lord! Mireon! Come back over to this side!”

Unlike Mireon, who immediately prepared to return upon hearing my words, Callix Crowbell was looking toward the inside of the sanctuary.

Then Mireon grabbed his arm and said something. Seeing Callix Crowbell frown deeply and say something back, it didn’t seem like a pleasant conversation.

“Those two seem to be getting more and more hostile toward each other.”

Sola also seemed to read the atmosphere and spoke worriedly.

“Indeed. I think I should go over there.”

To check if the lattice bridge was safe and to see what was happening, I put on safety equipment and carefully stepped onto the bridge.

The bridge swayed left and right whenever the wind blew, but being in a net form, it was more stable than expected. The foothold section was also densely woven, so there was no risk of feet slipping through.

“Since I’ve come all this way across, why can’t I go meet them?”

“There’s an order to everything. Now is not the time to see Arke.”

“Ridiculous. Why are you the one deciding that?”

“Because I’m the apostle who serves Arke.”

When I reached the opposite cliff, I could hear Callix Crowbell and Mireon arguing.

“You two, please don’t fight.”

Having quickly grasped the situation, I intervened between the two and tried to stop them.

“Don’t do this here, let’s go back first. Let’s go back and talk things through calmly.”

At my words, Callix Crowbell’s eyebrows rose.

“Are you taking that elf’s side right now?”

“What? That’s not what I meant…”

“It’s not? You just said to do as that elf suggested.”

I had only wanted to stop them from fighting, with no intention of taking anyone’s side.

But when he put it that way, I was flustered and closed my mouth.

“Don’t take your anger out on an innocent human.”

Mireon grabbed my arm, pulling me to his side as he snapped at Callix Crowbell.

“She took my side because Duke was making strange claims in the first place.”

I’m telling you, I had no intention of taking your side.

“Do you really think I made a strange claim?”

Callix Crowbell grabbed my other arm and asked accusingly.

“What’s wrong with wanting to meet the god since I’m here?”

“I told you. To see Arke, you need to make proper preparations.”

Mireon firmly retorted. Then Callix Crowbell frowned deeply and glared at him.

Caught between the two, I squeezed my eyes shut.

‘I shouldn’t have come!’

I came here for nothing and now I’m suffering like this.

I completely understood how the shrimp felt when its back was broken in a whale fight.

“My lord, please calm down first…”

Just as I opened my mouth, thinking I should stop Callix Crowbell rather than Mireon.

“Over here.”

An unfamiliar woman’s voice was heard.

I flinched in surprise and looked toward where the voice came from.

“Eileen, what’s wrong?”

When Mireon asked, I pointed with my chin toward the inside of the cliff, at the densely overgrown forest.

“I think I heard some woman’s voice from over there.”

“A woman’s voice?”

Mireon also looked toward the forest, then tilted his head.

“There’s no one there. Didn’t you mishear the wind?”

I didn’t think that was it, but since nothing was visible, I couldn’t deny his words.

“More importantly, let’s go back quickly. If we stay in the sanctuary too long without permission, we’ll incur Arke’s wrath.”

“Getting angry over something this trivial. The elves’ god isn’t much either.”

“Please watch your words, Duke.”

Mireon spoke with clear displeasure. Well, it was natural for him to be angry since their god had been insulted.

Callix Crowbell also seemed to know that what he just said was too harsh, as he said nothing more and let go of my arm.

“Sorry for getting you involved in a pointless fight, Eileen.”

Only then did Mireon also let go of my arm and apologize.

Just as I was about to say it was okay—

“Really, you’re quite troublesome.”

Another unfamiliar woman’s voice was heard, and then my vision flashed.

I reflexively closed my eyes at the intense light that seemed like it would blind me, but it was useless. The light penetrated even through my eyelids and consumed me.

At the same time, my center collapsed as if the ground beneath my feet had given way. I couldn’t even tell if my body was falling down or being pulled up.

“Eileen!”

Callix Crowbell’s panicked voice reached me from far away.

Soon after, firm hands grabbed my arm. The person held on so tightly that my arm ached, as if determined never to let go.

“Eile…”

Mireon’s voice followed, but it was incomparably quieter than Callix Crowbell’s voice.

Right after that, I lost consciousness.

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“Won’t you wake up now? How long are you going to sleep?”

An unfamiliar woman’s voice mixed with irritation pulled my consciousness up from the depths of deep sleep.

I slowly pushed up my eyelids that felt as heavy as stones.

Then I saw an endlessly spread white void.

It was a world of emptiness where even the boundary between where I stood and beyond didn’t exist, making me completely lose my sense of direction.

‘What is this place?’

Thanks to that, I snapped awake and stood up. Then I heard giggling laughter from behind me.

“You must be quite surprised. Well, all the kids who come here for the first time are like that.”

It was the unfamiliar woman’s voice I had heard at the cliff.

I hurriedly turned toward that direction. Then I saw a woman sitting on a chair made of woven leaves.

Her fresh green hair that reached down to her waist swayed gently even though there was no wind. The pointed ears glimpsed between her hair revealed that the woman was an elf, not human.

‘She’s not an ordinary elf.’

Unlike Mireon or the elves I had seen in the elf village, she gave off a different feeling.

“By any chance… are you Arke?”

When I asked carefully, the woman’s eyes curved prettily like a crescent moon.

“That’s right. I am Arke.”

I had wondered, but indeed.

Rather than the joy of being right, the fact that I was actually facing the surreal existence called a god hit me much harder.

I stared at her blankly, even forgetting to breathe.

“I wanted to see you at least once, but I didn’t expect to meet you like this.”

When Arke stood up, the chair she had been sitting on disappeared without a trace into the white void.

Arke strode up to me and looked me up and down.

The moment I saw my reflection in her golden, sparkling eyes, I swallowed a gasp.

Black hair carelessly tied up and plain attire.

Right now, I wasn’t in the form of ‘Eileen’ but ‘Han Seon-a’.

‘I’ve returned to my original appearance?’

As I touched my face in confusion, Arke smiled and explained.

“This is a spiritual space, so only your soul came over to this place. When you return to reality, you’ll go back to that appearance again.”

Ah, so that’s what happened.

Though it was an unrealistic explanation, her very existence was already detached from reality, so I couldn’t doubt her words.

“More than that, it’s truly fascinating.”

Arke examined me thoroughly, then tilted her head.

“You don’t seem much different from the kids who came before, so how have you managed to endure until now?”

“The kids who came before?”

Someone else besides me had come here? And what did she mean by endured?

“Oh my, you don’t know anything.”

Arke looked very surprised and covered her mouth, then nodded as if she understood everything.

“They decided to keep it hidden this time, I see. Well, they’ve been disappointed every time they told, so that’s understandable.”

“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”

Not comprehending her words at all, I frowned and asked.

“Who hid what? Who are these kids that came here, and what do you mean I’ve endured until now?”

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