I Became a Wendigo in a Fantasy World

60 – Episode 60

Of course, the person responsible for raining arrows on Todel’s army was the Wendigo.

Although Gelmir was suspicious of Todel’s group, he was not so foolish as to turn the entire army into enemies.

The coalition could not see even an inch in front of her due to the thick fog, but in the Wendigo’s eyes, the fog was as if it were not there.

It was natural. She is a mist imbued with his mystery, so there is no way she can affect him, right?

The self-immolations hiding in the forest mechanically hit the strings with arrows.

“I’ve never shot a bow before, so it’s a little uncomfortable. I should have practiced at least.”

“… I think it’s not a problem with the shooting posture, but rather because of the person’s large size.”

Geron, who sat next to the Wendigo, corrected the Wendigo’s misunderstanding with a blunt expression.

It is strange that no matter how many clones they have, they are one to two heads taller than an ordinary man and can comfortably use a human bow.

However, in the eyes of the Wendigo, who was twice as big as her clone, there was no difference. She must have thought Geron was joking and she burst out laughing.

“Geron. It’s surprising that you make jokes on the battlefield.”

“It’s not a joke, it’s serious… No, let’s just make a joke.”

“Don’t joke around with someone who doesn’t know anything. It’s just good for misunderstanding.”

The sound of teeth grinding and pills crunching could be heard from somewhere, but the Wendigo didn’t care. Because when she had time to care about that, she had to be ready to fire an arrow.

The arrows shot by the clones became a torrent of rain and poured down on the forest, and the arrows cast by Skadi pierced the enemies with a loud sound.

The Wendigo saw it with the eyes of her crows.

“This was absolutely not a mistake! They betrayed us!!!”

“Calm down, calm down and understand the situation.. Argh!”

“You really fell asleep saying the same thing. Even when you look around, you still hear that sound!”

The authority of the chieftain and shaman was certainly great, but this was not noticeable to the warriors who were covered in blood and were attacked one-sidedly.

The chieftain’s limbs, who were trying to calm them down by going around among the warriors, rolled around on the floor under the beatings of the angry warriors.

They were usually proud of being the stooges of those in power, but they could not raise their voices as much as they did now.

The eyes of the warriors, consumed by evil with anger and hatred, were shining with an extremely murderous spirit.

“Let’s kill! Let’s pay for the death of our colleagues with their blood!!!”

“I will chew their gallbladder and cut out their hearts!!!”

“Ah, I understand! I understand, so stop hitting me! I’ll go back to the chief and tell him what I mean!”

The most important ability of a stooge was his ability to observe the atmosphere.

Afraid that if they did not receive permission to advance backwards immediately, a sword would be stabbed in their hearts, the minions rolled up their tails and begged for their lives from the warriors.

The moment when the chief’s limbs, released by the warriors, were about to find their master.

Peee!!!

“It’s an arrow! They’re shooting arrows from our side too!!!”

“f*ck it. Now that I think about it, we have bows too. Everyone, prepare your bows!”

Several arrows flew backwards, accompanied by a loud ear-piercing sound. The warriors responded by cheering and taking out their bows.

I don’t know who it is, but I can’t believe you’re thinking of returning fire to your enemies in this situation. Isn’t he a very calm warrior?

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The owner of the arrow was not a seasoned warrior with both calmness and bravery, but simply a wendigo.

While Wendigo was using her clones to fire arrows, she was taken aback when her warriors fired arrows at him in response.

“I thought it would be quite effective, but… It’s more effective than I thought? How on earth did we do this to get so angry?”

“They are rotten from the beginning, so wouldn’t they have played a trick? Cutting off supply or something… If they had done something like that, they would have been sharpening their swords to kill each other.”

“No matter how different the forces are, if you do something like that, isn’t it normal for your head to be taken off?”

The Wendigo, who had only heard that Todel was making a fuss, looked at Geron and her shamans as if that could not be possible.

Then Geron avoided eye contact, and the shamans looked at each other and started bickering. Skadi… Was looking at them with a Wendigo-like gaze.

How on earth can someone commit such a crazy act and not have their neck separated?

“Geron probably doesn’t know much about anything other than the forest…”

“Of course. How would I know common sense from the outside?”

As Geron nodded with his bare face, the Wendigo’s eyes naturally looked at the green shamans (average age in their 30s) who had recently become members of the forest.

The shamans who faced the Wendigo’s sinister eyes trembled like newborn lambs.

“You guys understand. Since you’re a shaman, shouldn’t you have experienced something like this at least once?”

“That’s it…”

The shamans could not easily answer and stared at each other.

She tells the truth, but the Wendigo won’t be extremely disappointed and freeze them, yelling ‘This is why we can’t trust those outsiders!’…

Even a shaman had no choice but to be careful with the water owner who supported the mystery.

Of course, no one wanted to take on this difficult and embarrassing position. They started whispering to each other and choosing a scapegoat.

“Osa. Please come forward. Wouldn’t the spirit listen gently to a pretty woman like you rather than an old man like us?”

“Why me again? I came out last time too!”

“You are close to Skadi, and even though it was just once, you also have experience with her. Next time, I will give you the ingredients needed for the spell, so please ask.”

Usually, this kind of work was supposed to be the responsibility of a young person according to a long tradition.

Osa, who was chosen as a scapegoat(?), Stepped forward with a tearful expression on his face. She chanted, carefully bending her waist.

“I guess… Isn’t it because such things are common among chieftains and shamans? They even kidnap relatives of passing chieftains for not paying the toll.”

You may wonder if it makes sense to cause discord with others for just that reason, but unfortunately, those in power in this era were not that considerate of others.

Could there be such consideration and respect for the chieftains who trampled on others and fought for power by pointing a knife at their father’s neck?

So, playing around with other people’s supplies or misrepresenting the location of a military camp was close to a common argument.

At least he didn’t come directly to me and spit on me and say, ‘I’ll cut off your head and throw it to the crows.’

… Of course, according to the Wendigo, they were both crazy people with no difference.

“What is that… No. That could be possible. They’re the ones who brought the army and are causing this mess.”

The wendigo let out her bitter words without realizing it and then canceled her words. If you think about it, the people who brought in the army for witchcraft weren’t normal either.

More than anything, the situation was not bad. From the perspective of the Wendigo, who wanted to fight each other to the fullest, it was no problem at all for her warriors to be motivated.

The Wendigo decided that she no longer needed to worry about Todel’s group, so she decided to focus on Gelmir’s group.

“It’s enough for the traitors… The army of that guy called Gelmir might be a little different.”

“Yes. Gelmir is quite an old man, but his skills are famous among shamans. He tattooed the mysteries of giants, but since there was no one to perform the procedure, he did it himself, taking the pain of cutting off the flesh.”

“You know quite well about Gelmir. Osa, please explain about him.”

I flinch.

Osa, who had been answering without realizing it, stumbled when he realized what he had done.

She drew the attention of the Wendigo by playing with her stupid mouth that she couldn’t keep quiet…

Osa cast his gaze of salvation at the shamans. It would have been most effective for her to ask Skadi, but there was a high probability that she would not know about Gelmir.

Her shamans knew what she was saying just by the look in her eyes. They looked at each other and responded with hand gestures.

‘Cheer up.’

‘Damn old people, they are dirty and petty!’

She thought they had become friends while working together, but Osa gritted her teeth when she realized the truth that she would always be alone in her life.

“Why are you doing that? If that’s all you know, you can skip it.”

“Oh, no! I was just gathering my thoughts before speaking to the spirit.”

‘I don’t think so.’

Osa was shocked and made an excuse, but she couldn’t fool the Wendigo. Her eyes were a mixture of irritation and resentment.

.. Most importantly, I heard Osa and her shamans whispering. No matter how small they spoke, they could not fool the Wendigo’s ears.

“Discussing information about the enemy is quite burdensome. So, even if the information is incorrect, I will not blame you and I will provide compensation regardless of its value, so tell me.”

“!”

Osa and the shamans were surprised by the Wendigo’s command. He looked completely different from the person in power they knew.

Most of them complained that they would cut off their heads if they found even one mistake, and in extreme cases, they went to extreme lengths to disparage the value of the information and not give compensation.

‘A truly good spirit… No, he is a good person.’

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‘Couldn’t it be something other than a true spirit?’

Without her knowledge, the Wendigo gained the loyalty of the shamans. Osa cleared away the nervous expression she had been giving just now, her eyes sparkled, and she spoke politely.

“Gel Mir is a hero with an ugly heart but a gift. It is said that he was born with the qualities of a warrior, a shaman, and even a ruler.”

Now that he is old, his prestige has diminished, but in his youth, Gelmir was a hero who caused trouble in the North.

It was natural that even an excellent shaman could not discuss martial arts with warriors who had lived their entire lives with swords. In the first place, shamans and warriors have completely different innate qualities.

However, Gelmir was a strong man who surpassed such common sense. His natural muscles and fighting sense led him to become a warrior.

Thanks to this, Gelmir became famous as both a shaman and a warrior. The fact that he slaughtered his older brother and younger brother with an ax and robbed him of his position as chief is still talked about.

“Plus, as he gets older, he becomes so cold-hearted that it’s hard to believe that he was violent when he was younger, so people even call him an old bear.”

“I know he’s a pretty great shaman… Maybe this is a failed attempt at separation. Thank you for letting me know. I’ll listen to you when you tell me what you want later.”

Osa smiled at the fact that he was helpful and stepped back. Skadi watched the scene and smiled happily.

I guess it overlapped with his past self.

‘I had a time like that too…’

While Skadi smiled like her mother, a smile befitting her age, the Wendigo tensed and prepared for her possession.

I was expecting him to be an incompetent person because there were so many traitors, but after listening to him, I found out that he was not short of a hero.

Isn’t that kind of person likely to notice the estrangement and respond accordingly?

‘Maybe work will become a hassle.’

The Wendigo shook off her distracting thoughts and focused on her possession. He was possessed by a crow located in Gelmir’s military camp.

“Advance the army right now!!! They betrayed. They dared to betray!!!”

“Gel, Gelmir. Calm down! We still don’t know who shot the arrow…”

“Shut up! They, they fired arrows at me! I didn’t trust them who were with the traitor in the first place. I will cut their backs and rip out their bones!!!”

“???”

What the Wendigo, possessed by a crow, saw was Gel Mir swinging an ax and screaming at her allies.

She couldn’t find even a trace of calmness in her appearance. She was a complete idiot, not even hesitating to verbally abuse and swing her fists at those who tried to calm her down.

She said that she definitely gained a cool-headedness as she got older… But in his opinion, the old bear didn’t know, and the angry bear was beaten.

The Wendigo, who had been released from possession for a moment, looked at Osa with her cold, salty eyes.

“Osa. Well done. Wendigo likes people who work hard and don’t hide anything. If she acts without fear of making mistakes like this in the future, she will be able to please him.”

“What Skadi said was right! I was honestly worried, but I’m just embarrassed that I hesitated to speak out because I was afraid of making a mistake.”

“……”

The wendigo couldn’t bring herself to throw cold water on the friendly atmosphere. Above all, she said she didn’t care if the information was wrong, but she didn’t even say anything…

The Wendigo ignored Osa and focused on possession again.

What on earth happened to her that made her so angry to the core???