Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 135

Chapter 135

The graves of the dragons.
It was the dimension where the King of the dead, Shadow Monarch Sung Jinwoo, King of Dragons, Destruction Monarch ‘Antares’ had their final war.
The strongest monarch of the 8 monarchs, born from the darkness of the beginning.
And the only monarch that could overpower the shadow monarch.
King of the dragons, monarch of destruction, Antares.
He was the incarnation of destruction. For the sake of the war filled with screams, blood, and insanity, he’d not hesitate to sacrifice even himself. A true incarnation of destruction itself.
However, he was defeated by Sung Jinwoo in the end. And the soldiers of destruction turned to become the shadow soldiers.
As a result, the dimension that was once called the ‘world of dragons’ had its soul sucked out and instead filled with the remains of dragon corpses.
The massive amounts of ash scattered throughout the cracks of the dimensions to spread out
And among the cracks, was the Echo Forest.
Thinking about it now, the fact that Cha Haein and Kaisel landed in this dimension was a miracle of a coincidence.
Since if they ended up in a different dimension, Kaisel would’ve never recovered to disappear forever.
But thankfully, the moment that Kaisel entered the space with gray ash, its strength started to recover slowly.
And the more they went deeper into the forest, the faster Kaisel recovered.
Then what if they went to the grave of the dragons? The source of the gray ash?
Kaisel might be able to recover completely.
[I agree as well.]
Beru nodded and agreed to Cha Haein’s theory.
At that moment.
“I want to follow ChaCha!”
“Huh?”
Sirka suddenly interrupted the conversation and latched herself on Cha Haein’s arm.
“I left you alone for one second and look at what happened. I’m never leaving you alone anymore.”
[King of the Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch gladly agrees to it.]
“Wait, hold up. Don’t agree to it as you please.”
Suho was bewildered at the sudden interjection by the blizzard monarch.
He barely saw his mother after years of separation. At this rate, he’d have to say farewell again.
Furthermore, his mother is trying to get to an entirely different dimension.
She was planning to use the dimensional rift beyond the Echo Forest to enter the grave of the dragons.
“I’m sure that there should be a dungeon with plenty of dragon ash. As long as we can get there, Kaisel will undoubtedly recover much faster.”
“I agree with that. So let me join too.”
“No. That won’t do.”
Cha Haein looked at Suho with a firm expression.
“You need to return home first. You never know when another apostle of Itharim will appear. You’ll have to be the one to stop them instead of your father.”
“With that logic, it means that there could be an apostle where you’re going, mother.”
“And what of it?”
Cha Haein’s eyes curved into a smile at Suho’s retort.
After a swing of the longsword in her hands, she stabbed the blade deep into the ground to ask back.
“Son, are you worrying about your mom?”
Bzzt! Bzzt!
Suho saw the longsword of demon king, surrounded by blinding sparks of electricity.
Come to think of it, his mother was a S-ranked hunter that could halve down the apostle of Itharim in a single cut.
Cha Haein let out a playful smile and nagged.
“Who’s worried about who? Why don’t you go back home and work on leveling up or something? Can you even rest peacefully with that level of yours? I’ll be checking on your progress when I come back.”
“Ugh.”
Suho was truly frustrated.
Mother, you never said anything like this when I was younger…….
On top of it all, even Beru was agreeing with Cha Haein as if truly relieved.
[It’s true that the young master is as strong as an ant larva, but at this rate, I won’t be able to rest peacefully and let him out these days.]
Suho sighed and decided to let his mother go.
“Then at least let me assist you until the gate is found. That much should be fine, no?”
He had things to do here anyways.
Aka post management.

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“Sister in Lawwww-!”
On the ocean of facade island, Ahjin guild’s helicopter landed.
The moment that Yoo Jinho heard that Cha Haein was discovered, he crossed the entire pacific ocean.
“Sob Sob! Look at how thin you’ve gotten! I was so worried for you…… waaah!”
“J, Jinho……. I’m okay so calm down…….”
Cha Haein stared at Yoo Jinho, who cried with tears and snot all over unbefitting his age, then glanced behind her with a troubled look.
Behind her were Yoo Jinho’s secretaries, flabbergasted by the sudden difference of attitude.
But Yoo Jinho did not care at all.
“Uwahhh! Sister in law! I remembered everything! He left me! Hyung-nim, he…. He-!”
“Aaah, I did hear about that from Suho. I got it so stop with the tears!”
“Hiccup! Hiccup!”
No matter how hard anyone tried, Yoo Jinho continued to cry.
After recovering his memories of past life, whenever he thought of Sung Jinwoo, who sacrificed himself unbeknownst to anyone else, he couldn’t help but let out his tears.
And he found out that Cha Haein retained her memory of back then, and even got thrown into some dungeon and went missing!
So when else should he cry but now?
“Hnggg…….”
“Please, Jinho……. Think of your age. Everyone’s looking at you.”
But what else could be done?
The person standing here was not the iron-blooded representative of Ahjin soft.
He was the twenty year old who used to follow behind Sung Jinwoo a long time ago.
Cha Haein, who knew what that felt like, gave up to let out a smile.
Then suddenly.
Yoo Jinho’s swollen eyes met the eyes of Suho, who was standing right next to Cha Haein.
“……Cough. Anyways…. I’m glad that you’re okay. Suho, you worked hard too.”
“…….”
It was too late to save face.
Suho just shook his head.
Once Yoo Jinho’s tears calmed down.
Suho brought out the reason why he asked Yoo Jinho to travel all this way.
“Anyways, Uncle. Can you lend me some money?”
“Ah, right. You said you wanted to purchase the rights to the glacier dungeon?”
“Yes, I’ll pay you back with the money I earn from selling the spring water,”
The mention of business related topics changed the look in his eyes.
Of course, the usual amounts of charisma could not be found with those swollen eyes of his.
Suho relayed the news of his mother’s discovery and the issues dealt by facade island due to the glacier dungeon.
The brief situation went like this.
“Clearing the glacier dungeon is impossible now. We can no longer defeat the monsters within it.”
To clear the dungeon meant that all the ice elves including Sirka had to be killed.
But that was not a viable option now, so they had to think about the future.
“I understand up until that point. The ice elves are friends with my sister in law, so of course they shouldn’t be killed. What about moving all the ice elves outside of the dungeon?”
“Having the ice elves live on Earth?”
Taking out the ice elves outside of the dungeon was in a way, clearing the dungeon.
But that method was declined by the ice elves.
“Not a chance. We, the Baruka tribe, have the mission to protect the holy area of our monarch. We will continue living in the forest.”
Yoo Jinho met the eyes of Sirka, who suddenly appeared to glare.
“She’s so cute. But what is she talking about?”
“…….”
Yoo Jinho was fascinated by Sirka talking in the language of monsters.
“Anyways, so moving is out of the question. And you said that the springwater of the echo forest can be sold for a good amount as a detoxifying potion?”
“Yes, and it’s groundwater so the supplies should last a while.”
Of course, it didn’t mean that the supplies would be limitless. Over time, it will soon run out.
But that in itself was not an issue.
“Hm. releasing it all in the market would lower its market price anyways. So it’d be best for use to release it little by little……. And it’s unknown how effective it’d be too.”
Yoo Jinho calmly calculated.
The item description simply explained that it can nullify any poison.
There was a need to figure out the extent of its effects by testing out various poisons.
It was the basics of business to test out the exact properties of the merchandise before the item is sold.
And in that process, large amounts of labor, time and money was needed.
And so Yoo Jinho, the businessman, was needed.
“But before that, Suho. Let me confirm one thing. To be specific, you were included in this mission into the scavenger guild. Did no one from the guild try to take control of the supply?”
Yoo Jinho was curious.
This business was about selling water.
Money could be earned just by filling up the bucket with water.
Would the scavenger guild really let this golden source of income go?
“Of course, we wanted to. But the ice elves declared that only Sung Suho would be allowed to take the springwater.”
Laura made a sincere disappointed face.
But this was an obvious decision on the ice elves part.
The springwater of the echo forest was strictly the holy area of the blizzard monarch, an area restricted to outsiders.
It was an arduous journey for typical humans to even get through the mana blizzard to find their way in the first place.
Which meant that the springwater had to be obtained by the ice elves…….
“The ice elves said that they’d only do that for Sung Suho or Cha Haein.”
It was natural.
Since both of them were the friends of ice elves, acknowledged by the blizzard monarch.
“So we, the scavenger guild, would like to make a proposal to Suho-ssi…….”
“Wait.”
Yoo Jinho stopped Laura mid-sentence.
The thick stacks of documents on the hands of the suddenly approaching secretaries.
Laura gulped down nervously at that overwhelming sight.
‘……This won’t be an easy fight.’
The immature Yoo Jinho, who cried until his eyes got swollen in front of his sister in law, was no more.
Yoo Jinho returned back to the iron-blooded representative that he was and let out a chilling aura to look down on Laura.