My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 79

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 79

Episode 79. Oasis

Perhaps because they were massive giants reaching 3 meters in height.

The Orcs’ footprints remained deeply embedded in the ground, unErased despite quite some time having passed.

Thanks to that, following the Orcs’ trail wasn’t much of a problem even after time had passed.

‘The real big problem isn’t even that though.’

Whew.

I wiped away the sweat flowing down my chin and frowned as I looked up at the sky.

That damn sun shows no signs of setting even after all this time has passed.

Clearly quite some time had passed, yet it was still blazing intensely from the same position.

“Still, it’s fortunate.”

I breathed in the sandy air and turned around to look back.

No one was standing there anymore.

“They ended up going back after all.”

The two of them eventually returned to the Tower.

In Jini’s case, despite being wrapped in Omen, she couldn’t withstand the heat and collapsed from exhaustion, forcing her return.

Elpinire went back saying she’d bring water or food from the Tower.

She probably forgot the fact that she couldn’t bring the Tower’s items out because of the heat.

‘I didn’t bother telling her though.’

Walking through this steamer is enough for just me alone.

There’s no need for everyone to suffer together, right?

I wiped away the sweat flowing down my forehead and spoke to Cheo-ri on my shoulder.

“Sorry about this. There was nothing I could do.”

“Kkyung kkyung kkyung.”

Cheo-ri responded as if it didn’t matter at all.

No, she really looked like it didn’t matter to her at all.

“…Why are you perfectly fine?”

“Kkyung?”

I’m dying from the heat, but she looks completely unbothered.

Even if snakes are strong against heat, wasn’t dryness supposed to be a problem?

I looked at Cheo-ri blinking her black sesame seed-like eyes and chuckled.

If she’s fine, then that’s fortunate.

“Let’s catch our breath for a moment.”

I can regenerate even if my arm gets cut off and endure even if I overload my brain.

But my body losing energy in real-time is beyond what I can help.

I won’t die from the heat, but my body becomes heavy like waterlogged cotton, making it hard to move forward.

Hearing my muttering, Cheo-ri jumped down from my shoulder and began heading in a certain direction.

“Cheo-ri?”

I called out, but she just kept moving forward without any response.

I stared at Cheo-ri and muttered.

“…She’s not the type to do this without reason.”

Even if her actions seemed completely random, Cheo-ri’s actions always helped me.

I don’t know why she’s doing this now either, but it’s definitely an action that will help me.

“Trust me?”

“Kkyung.”

A short cry that seemed to contain the meaning “of course.”

With that, she stopped making any more sounds and began moving forward.

I followed behind her, walking through the wasteland.

* * *

“…There really is one.”

I stopped walking and muttered while staring blankly ahead.

The wasteland completely covered in yellow.

Within it, I discovered the only space that possessed green.

“Is this the oasis I’ve only heard about?”

Only that space had green plants growing.

I felt like only that space was where living creatures could survive.

“Kkyung.”

I grabbed Cheo-ri, who was standing upright and nodding her head, and petted her roughly.

“You really are the best, Cheo-ri.”

“Kkyung kkyung kkyung.”

As if saying to keep doing well if I understood, Cheo-ri lifted her head and smiled, then familiarly wrapped her tail around my neck.

After confirming Cheo-ri had climbed up securely, I headed toward the oasis with quick steps.

“Wow.”

The boundary between yellow and green.

The moment my foot touched the verdant boundary, an indescribably intense refreshment enveloped my body.

Clearly not a handful of mana could be felt just like outside, but as if some magic had been cast, only this place’s temperature had dropped significantly.

I smiled at the moderately cool temperature and walked deep into the oasis.

“…It’s water.”

While walking through the grass, a fishy smell of water stung my nose.

I muttered quietly and rushed inside urgently.

There, under the shade created by trees, was a huge puddle of water.

“It should be drinkable water.”

The color is murky and looks like something no one should drink.

But with water right before my eyes, such things seemed to not matter at all.

“…I won’t die from this anyway.”

Even if the water was rotten, ‘Blessing of Super Regeneration’ would take care of it.

It’s a skill that’s an upgraded version of ‘Natural Healing’ that automatically detoxifies poison, so it should be able to handle this much.

I swallowed dry saliva and stuck my head into the water-

“Whoa there.”

Grab!

A rough hand suddenly appeared and grabbed the back of my neck.

Forcibly stopped just before dunking my head in the water, I quickly turned my head.

There stood a figure over 2 meters tall wearing familiar black armor.

“You are…”

“So you were here, little traveler.”

Heh heh heh!

Kargon laughed heartily from behind his armor.

In his hand was a familiar bag.

“I came to return the item you forgot.”

“…”

I stared blankly at the bag he held out.

So…

“You looked for me to return this?”

“That’s right.”

“In this barren wasteland?”

“Exactly.”

“Wearing that armor that looks hot?”

“Once you get used to it, it’s not hot.”

Hmm.

This made it certain.

‘He’s insane.’

Well, I should have realized it when he was falling leisurely while wearing armor.

No, more than that, how did he survive from that height?

But whether he was insane or not, it was certain that he had retrieved my bag for me.

“Here it is.”

“Thanks, really.”

Kargon, who found my bag when I desperately needed water, was nothing short of a benefactor to me.

I opened the bag and looked inside for water…

“…”

Where did the water go?

I blinked and looked up at Kargon.

He was avoiding my gaze while humming a tune that didn’t suit him at all.

“Hey.”

“…Hmm? What is it?”

“Wasn’t there water in here?”

“W-was there?”

“I’m sure there was a lunchbox inside, and jerky too. How come there’s nothing left?”

“…”

Now Kargon wasn’t even responding at all.

I narrowed my eyes and asked him.

“If this was going to happen, why did you come to return it?”

“…Sorry about that. I was hungry, so I couldn’t help it.”

Damn it.

Either way, the fact that I had to drink that dirty water remained unchanged.

I swallowed my tears and was about to plunge my head into the oasis water again.

“You shouldn’t do that.”

“Why, again.”

No, I was about to plunge it in.

If only Kargon hadn’t stopped me again.

I frowned and looked at Kargon as I spoke.

“I feel like I’m going to die of thirst right now. I have to drink this water at least.”

“You’ll get sick if you drink it.”

“I know that much. I also know I won’t die from this.”

“Hmm. Still, wouldn’t it be better to drink clean water?”

Kargon, who told me to wait a moment, moved his hand behind his back.

Kargon stuck his hand into the fluttering red cloth and pulled out an iron pot from inside.

“Come over here.”

I tilted my head at Kargon’s words and followed him.

He stopped in front of a thick tree and felt around the tree with his hands.

“This one should be good.”

“What are you trying to do now-“

Crack!

Kargon struck the tree hard with the pot.

The pot became dented.

The tree was deeply gouged.

I was momentarily flustered by his sudden action, but then clear water began flowing out from between the gouged tree trunk.

Kargon lightly straightened out the crumpled pot and began filling it with the clear water.

“The trees that inhabit Berdine all have the habit of storing a lot of moisture. Thanks to that, you can get clean water by cutting the tree trunk.”

“I see…”

“It would be less risky to heat it once, but…”

“Just give it to me.”

“I thought you’d say that.”

As soon as I received the pot from Kargon, I immediately brought it to my mouth.

Water flowing down my throat.

As moisture replenished my parched throat, all the hair on my body stood on end.

Sweet.

Delicious.

I drank the water without a single pause, then trembled and wiped my mouth with the back of my hand.

“Ah… This is proof that I’m alive.”

The world instantly looked clearer.

I let out a satisfied breath and turned my head to look at Kargon.

With his hands on his hips, he was looking at me and laughing out loud.

“You drink it quite deliciously.”

“Thanks to you, I survived. Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it. But don’t you know that you shouldn’t readily trust what strangers say? What if I had bad intentions and you just gulped down the water like that?”

“If I was going to be cautious, I would have been from when I was falling. You’re the one who saved me then.”

“That’s true.”

It was useless help, but he helped me anyway.

Just the fact that he helped someone else in an emergency situation meant I couldn’t consider him a bad person.

Most importantly, even though some of the contents had disappeared, how could I be wary of someone who wandered around this wasteland to return my bag?

I returned the pot to Kargon.

Kargon, who received the pot, immediately crushed it with his hands.

“…?”

Wait a minute.

He crushed it?

I looked at Kargon with question marks floating above my head.

He neatly folded the pot and shaped it into a small cube.

Without using any mana at all.

With movements as smooth as flowing water.

After performing this impossible feat, he put the completed cube into the red cloth.

“So.”

He turned his head and looked down at me as he asked.

“Why did you come to this place?”

“Uh… Well?”

“Don’t tell me you came here without knowing? To this place, Berdine, one of the Five Great Forbidden Realms?”

“…Ah, this is also a forbidden realm?”

Just by looking at it, it didn’t seem like a place for people to live, so I thought it was a dangerous place.

Now that I realized it was one of the Five Great Forbidden Realms like Darkness and the Verdant Forest, everything made sense.

“No wonder it’s damn hot.”

“Haha! Your assessment of Berdine is quite straightforward!”

“Well, did you expect me to give it some other evaluation?”

“Berdine is the homeland of orcs, you see. Since you must have encountered orcs on your way here, I thought you’d have different impressions.”

“…There were definitely a lot of orcs.”

They were strong too.

But that was all.

Orcs are orcs.

They’re not creatures that would pose a major threat.

Kargon let out a small exclamation at my response.

“You must be quite strong then?”

“Strong enough not to be looked down upon.”

“…Is that so.”

Kargon muttered in a sunken voice as if mumbling to himself.

After that, he said nothing more and simply stared outside the oasis.

I took a step back with a reluctant expression at his sudden behavior.

At that moment.

[Encountering Kargon]

[Achieved]

[Moving to the next floor]

A system message appeared before my eyes indicating I had cleared the 3rd Floor.

Who would have thought that meeting Kargon was the condition for clearing the 3rd Floor.

‘That means….’

I raised my head to look at Kargon.

He was still staring outside the oasis with a noticeably different atmosphere.

‘It seems this man is the key figure this time.’

The Tower of Echoes and the Tower of Illusion.

Both towers were structured around progressing with ‘one person’ at the center.

In the Tower of Echoes, it was an elf named Elpinire, and in the Tower of Illusion, it was a girl named Jini.

But now.

The tower is telling me to make contact with Kargon.

‘Calamity….’

I remember.

The future where Elpinire and Jini should have become calamities.

The future that would have occurred if I hadn’t been there.

By entering the tower, I changed their future where they should have become calamities.

That means Kargon might also have a similar fate to Elpinire and Jini.

Clenching my fist tightly, I tapped Kargon with my knuckles.

“Hey.”

“Hm? What is it.”

“Since it’s come to this, want to travel together?”

“…With me?”

“Who else is there besides you?”

I chuckled at Kargon who asked back in a reluctant voice.

If Kargon is destined to become a calamity, then this time too.

As always, I’ll try to prevent the fate of becoming a calamity.

[4th Floor]

[Accompany Kargon]

[Time Remaining: 167.9 hours]

[※Time will not flow if you separate from the target.]

I looked up at Kargon with such determination.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————