Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 126

Chapter 126

The same hour.
Swoooosh-!
[T-This is!]
the antennae of Beru flinched. Beru, who was standing next to Suho, turned to him and shouted.
[Young Master! The forest is shaking suddenly!]
At the same time, an enormous mana storm erupted from deep within the forest.
And Suho’s shadow soldiers got hit backwards by the force of a stronger blizzard.
Suho quickly hid his shadow soldiers within his shadow with the exception of the shadow minotaur.
“Mino! Tau!”
[Moooooo-!]
At Suho’s command, Mino and Tau both held Suho and Sirka using one of their arms, and used their remaining arm to punch through the ground.
Boom-!
Their strong arms got lodged deep into the snow covered ground like the roots of a tree.
Thanks to that, Suho and Sirka managed to stand on their feet through the mana strom, and Suho glared through the blizzard to see what’s beyond.
“What’s going on?”
[It would seem like there’s a clash between two strong powers!]
Beru stuck itself onto Suho’s head and answered while glaring at the same place.
“Even the spirits are panicking!”
As Sirka said, the spirits of the Echo Forest seemed to be irrelevant to this event.
But the issue was that this storm was not a one time thing, but a continuous occurrence.
The blizzard alone was an obstacle, but with this continuous mana storm, continuing onwards proved to be an impossible challenge.
But Suho had no intention to stop the march.
“Maybe my mother would be beyond this storm.”
[I believe so as well.]
“We will continue onwards.”
[Mooooo!]
[Mooooooo!]
At Suho’s determined will, Mino and Tau cried out to gather up all their strength.
Then lowered their bodies flush with the ground to advance step by step while holding Suho and Sirka.
It was slow, but movement became easier with no interference of the spirits.
And while continuing to move through the mana storm.
Sirka suddenly smelled something.
“Suho, I smell something odd around here.”
“What smell?”
“I don’t know. It’s my first time coming in this deep. but…… it smells somewhat warm.”
“A warm scent? What kind of scent is that?”
A smell that feels warm?
Suho was confused at first, but decided that it was most likely true.
Ice elves are a different race than humans.
They could feel things that humans couldn’t.
At the end of that thought, Suho remembered something.
The quest that he got as soon as he arrived at the elves town.

[Quest : Spring Water of the Echo Forest]
A mysterious spring exists somewhere within the Echo Forest.
Find that spring water to be rewarded.
“……. I was ignoring that quest because my priority was to find my mother.’
After receiving that quest, Suho has been focusing on other matters.
His reason for entering the glacier dungeon had been to find his mother or a lead to her.
He had no time to waste time on a quest.
‘In this cold, no spring would be flowing. How am I supposed to find it if it’s covered in snow?’
But
‘What if the spring stayed flowing in this cold?’
A warm smell.
What can retain its warmth in this coldness must be limited.
‘Warm water.’
Or, hot springs.
If it’s the hot spring created through the hot ground water, it could stay as a flowing spring instead of freezing over.
“What’s the direction of that warm smell?”
“Where? Hm, give me a sec. It’s not certain because of all this blizzard, but……”
Sirka continued smelling with a frown on her face.
“I can’t judge the distance… but it’s definitely in the direction that we’re heading to.”
“Is that so? Then we should get near it if we continue on.”
Suho, who was about to give up on the quest without hesitation, nodded.
And a few moments later.
A hot spring appeared before him.
The scenery of the steaming hot spring in these sub zero temperatures proved to be a mystery and an alluring painting.
And one getting closer to the hot spring, the unrelenting mana storm got calmer.
“So there really was a hot spring.”
But Suho’s reaction to finding the hot spring was calm.
He had no time to take in the scenery nor complete the quest. He had to go find his mother as soon as possible.
‘And this quest is too easy, so the rewards are not attracting either,’
Even at that Kasaka quest back then.
The rewards of an easy quest are not worth the trouble.
But unlike Suho’s reaction, Sirka’s expression was filled with surprise.
“No way! This place is….!”
Sirka knew the energy being emitted by the hot springs.
“I can feel the presence of Sillad! Don’t tell me that this is….?!”
“Sillad? Who’s that?”
Sirka gulped at Suho’s question and looked straight into his eyes with a serious expression.
“…..King of snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch, Sillad.”
“……!”

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[Kieeek?]
“It would seem like this was the place that our king resided in.”
Beru and Suho looked towards each other with a surprised expression.
Come to think of it, the Echo Forest is the holy area of the ice elves.
It wouldn’t be surprising for it to be related to the Blizzard Monarch, the king of the snowmen.

»»————-　★　————-««
Ding!

[‘ITEM : Spring Water of the Echo Forest’ has been obtained.]
[Quest Completed.]
The moment Suho bought an empty potion bottle from the shot and filled it up with the spring water, the quest was completed.
He felt as if the quests lately have been too easy, but thinking about it now, this quest was not easy at all.
Looking for the spring water through these harsh environments without a lead.
That was the reason why Suho ignored this quest in the first place.

[The quest completion reward has arrived.]
[Do you want to check the reward?]
( Y / N )
Before Suho checked his rewards, he decided to look through the description of the item : Spring Water of the Echo Forest.

[ITEM : Spring Water of the Echo Forest]
Difficulty to obtain : ??
Type : Consumable
A mysterious spring water from the Echo Forest.
It can nullify poison through consuming it or applying it on the body.
“Aha, so it’s a type of an antidote.”
A mysterious spring water, but it would seem like it was an antidote for poison.
It was mysterious, but Suho had the blessings of the plague. He had no need for it.
But after checking his quest completion rewards, that thought changed a 180 degrees.

[The following reward has been prepared.]
Reward : ‘Rune Stone : Production of Holy Water of Life’
“Hm? A skill to craft the holy water of life?”
The name itself was too grand.
And Beru, who knew exactly what that name meant, shouted in glee.
[Young Master! So the holy water of life means……!]
A thousand words can not compare to seeing it in person.
Suho absorbed the skill by crushing the rune stone while listening to Beru’s explanation.
Ding.

[Crafting Skill ‘ITEM : Holy Water of Life’ has been obtained.]
At the very end of Suho’s skill description window, a [CRAFTING SKILL] slot appeared.

[CRAFTING SKILL]

Consumable : Holy Water of Life (1/3)
Once Suho’s gaze fell on the ‘Holy Water of Life’, its description appeared.

[ITEM : Holy Water of Life]
Difficulty to obtain : S
Type : Consumable
A mysterious potion that can heal any illness through strong mana.
Only when the entire bottle is used can it be effective.
“Any illness can be healed?!”
[Indeed. The holy water of life can not be compared to a typical healing potion. It’s a medicine of legends.]
Beru nodded at Suho’s flabbergasted expression.
Suho’s expression turned serious. He was not expecting to get something like this from this quest.
It couldn’t be helped.
After the cataclysm, when people called the healers emerged, people naturally looked towards them with great interest.
A skill that can heal others, how great is that?
People went wild at the miraculous ability that surpassed the technology of current medicines.
However, the ability of healers was not omnipotent.
Excellent healers could heal fatal injuries, but they were very few in numbers.
And no matter how great a healer was, even an S rank healer had a limit.
“But this can heal any illness? This is the potion for immortality! Ah, I guess not immortal though.”
[Immortality is useless. At least when you die, you can become a shadow sold…….]
“I better stock up on these. But what are the other ingredients?”
Suho immediately looked into the other ingredients for the holy water.

[ Holy Water of Life]
-Ingredients
Blood of Purified Demon King (0/1)
Shard of the World Tree (0/1)
Spring Water of the Echo Forest (1/1)
“Blood of Purified Demon King? Shard of the World Tree?”
After confirming the ingredients of the potion, Suho made a flabbergasted expression.
Seeing it now, the spring water of the echo forest was by far the easiest ingredient to get.
He had no knowledge of the location of the World Tree.
And by demon king, it means the monarch of the demons.
“I heard that the demon king died a long time ago? Where do I even get the blood then?”
[I have a good idea.]
Beru’s eyes glinted with mischief.
[Make Esil a demon king and get her blood.]
“Ah, that’s a good idea.”
Suho agreed to that evil plan and nodded.
Esil was the only remaining demon noble, and the sole candidate for the demon king.
It was unknown if Esil could be the vessel of a monarch, but she had the highest probability at this point.
Then only one ingredient remained.
“As long as we can find this world tree, I can make the holy water of life.”
At this very moment, the shadow soldiers have been diligently transfering the spring water into empty potion bottles.
He had no time to waste here so he had to hurry.
But while Suho was doing this,
Sirka had been marveling at the energy of the Blizzard Monarch around the hot spring and wandering the area.
And then at some point.
“…….”
Sirka’s eyes lost focus and turned hazy.
That expression was like the ice elves who got lured by the spirits of echo forest, and Sirka, as if lured by something, began to walk towards the hot spring.
Suho caught on a moment too late.
“What are you doing? If you get wet, you’ll only get colder lat……”
Splash.
It was too late.
The moment Sirka stepped into the steaming water.
Fwooooosh-!
Her body suddenly erupted in a blinding light.