Barbarian Quest

Chapter 1 – Sky Mountain Range (1)

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“You will become a great warrior, Urich.”

“Hah? Don’t speak nonsense, hag.”

“Kekeke.
Urich, I saw a vision of you in a nightmare.
I saw you becoming a warrior of light.”

“I don’t believe in shit like shamans or fortune telling.
That bullshit comes out of your mouth because you’re drunk on medicine,” replied Urich, a warrior of the tribe.

He turned sixteen years old this year and had his coming-of-age ceremony two years ago.
He was deemed the strongest amongst his age group and was even good at fighting.

“When are you going to give up your spot as the shaman, hag? If you’re old, you should just go and drop dead already.”

Urich talked while chewing on a piece of dried venison.
His well-trained body was beautiful—like that of a panther’s.

“Tch.
Even if you rush me, I don’t have much time left.
You little punk.”

The shaman responded while whacking Urich on the butt with her staff.

“Ahh, this fucking hag!”

Urich raised his hands in a blaze of anger but couldn’t bring himself to hit the old woman.
He finished eating his piece of meat and stood up from his seat.

“Where are you going, Urich?”

“Hunting.
With my brothers.”

“There are a lot of young warriors your age following you.
The chieftain’s son must be jealous.”

“I have no interest in becoming the chief.
He’s misunderstanding it and getting upset by himself.”

“Even if you think like that, the others aren’t the same.
Your name often comes up when discussing the next chief.”

“I already said that I don’t want to do it.
Who’s going to make me? Anyways, take care of your body, hag.”

Urich ran out, leaving the shaman by herself.

“Punk.”

The shaman watched Urich’s back and clicked her tongue.
She saw a faint light around Urich.

‘You will become a great warrior, Urich.’

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The shaman mumbled to herself while drinking her medicinal juice.

 

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The young warriors of the Stone Axe tribe gathered.
There were five of them, including Urich.

“You’re late, Urich,” one of them lightly scolded.

“I came after visiting the hag.”

Urich scratched his chest hard and spat on the ground.

“Why are you so worried about her when she’s going to die soon?”

A different warrior laughed.
If you aged, you died.
Such was the law of nature.

“I won’t be able to sleep well if that withering hag dies alone.
I have to check every once in a while to see whether she’s still alive or not,” Urich muttered to himself.

He looked at the warriors.
They were all members of the gang that followed Urich.

“Are we really going to go up the Sky Mountain Range?”

The warriors looked at Urich with nervous eyes.
Urich wrapped his arms around them and laughed.

“The chief’s son recently caught a wolf the size of a calf.
We have to go up the mountain range if we want to catch bigger prey than that.
We can’t let ourselves fall behind him.”

Urich gestured towards the faraway mountains as if it were obvious.

The Sky Mountain Range.
To this day, no one had ever gone beyond it.
People believed that there was a world of souls beyond that mountain range.

“But even so, the Sky Mountain Range is too much.”

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“Even the adults would go up the base of the mountain range.
We’re just going to hunt around there as well.
If you don’t want to, just go back.”

If anyone stepped back here, rumors would spread of them being cowards.
That would be a disgrace.

“Well, we’ll have to go to the Sky Mountain Range someday.
I’m in.”

The warriors raised their hands one by one.
The decision came to a sure conclusion.

“Then today, we’re going hunting there.”

Urich smiled ear to ear and hit his brothers’ shoulders.
Members of the tribe in the same age group are all friends as well as brothers.

“Alright, let’s go.
The last one there has to carry the carcass on the way back!”

The five young warriors started to run.
They were adolescents that could be considered experts at running.
They ran across the forest and headed towards the mountain range of rising white.

Climbing the Sky Mountain Range was taboo.
The tribespeople believed souls lived beyond that mountain.
The elders warned that you couldn’t come back once you had crossed the mountain.

‘Everyone goes to the base of the Mountain Range.’

It was only banned to climb it; it wasn’t taboo to approach it.
In fact, the adults of the tribe hunted around the base of the mountain when they couldn’t find prey elsewhere.

“Urich, do you really have no thoughts about becoming the chieftain?”

“I already told you, I’m not interested in it at all.”

Urich was irritated.

“Then why are you competing with the chief’s son?”

“Bec