Episode 213 some (3)
Southwest of the Autumn Continent.
There was a small island that could only be reached by taking a carriage from Cyron for half a year and then another day by boat.
Sigh-.
Early in the morning, a ship approached the island, creating white foam.
A small dock located on an uninhabited island where no one seems to live.
A person got off the boat that had entered the island.
widely-.
The person who landed on the island with a light sound was a woman.
She was a beautiful woman with strange silver eyes that had a hint of rainbow color.
She walked without hesitation, perhaps because she visited the island often.
As she walked along the small open path, a small cabin soon appeared in front of her.
It was a picturesque house with a dreamy atmosphere in the warm morning sunlight.
From the piles of firewood and the smoke rising from the chimney, I could tell that someone was living there.
The woman walked quickly and knocked on the door.
smart-.
A small sound spreads, and a moment later.
Suddenly-.
What appeared beyond the roughly opened door was a tiny dwarf.
Pure white beard and wrinkles.
Age spots growing all over the face showed the dwarf’s age.
When he saw the woman standing at the door, he smiled brightly and held out his hand.
“Chuckle, the dog-eyed earl came first! “It’s been a while, Floria!”
The hand the dwarf held out was a prosthetic hand with a dark, shiny metal.
Even after seeing this, Floria just smiled and held hands.
“Douglas, how are you?”
Instead, she pulled Douglas’ arm and hugged him lightly.
Short greetings were exchanged between old friends.
Douglas asked, looking behind Floria.
“What about Sae-head bitch?”
“Hehe, he will come soon.”
As soon as Floria finished speaking, a large shadow formed above their heads.
At this, Floria’s smile deepened.
“You’re here.”
A figure fell from the sky with that sound.
Hehe-.
A harsh gust of wind arose.
Douglas frowned and shouted as he was hit in the face.
“Blow up the dust, bitch!”
Where Douglas’ gaze fell, there was a red-haired woman with huge silver wings on her back.
The moment she landed on the ground, her huge wings folded one by one and soon shrunk to the size of a small backpack.
Floria saw her casually approaching the cabin and greeted her.
“Erica, it’s been a while.”
“Wow, our Floria has gotten prettier since we haven’t seen her?”
“Hehe, Erica too.”
“On the other hand, we dwarves… … .”
Erica held her nose towards Douglas.
“No, what is this smell? “Where does the invoice smell come from?”
“Hey, bitch! “I haven’t woken up yet!”
Douglas went wild at Erica’s prank.
Whether before or now.
Whether you grow older or not.
Floria just smiled sweetly at the two’s consistent looks.
After the commotion, the three entered Douglas’ cabin.
Douglas skillfully poured tea and served it.
After lightly clearing her throat, Erica asked in a sullen voice.
“Can you please move? Do you know how hard it is to get here?”
“What about moving!” “Do you think it’s easy to move with this old body?”
Erica sighed slightly as she heard Douglas’ story.
Although it was not known to the public, Douglas, Erica, and Floria met periodically once every five years.
The meeting initially started near Cyron, but as Douglas’ physical condition gradually weakened, the meeting location changed to his home.
“That’s why we come here. And if you’re going to set up a site in the first place, wouldn’t it be better if you set it up closer? “Your hometown isn’t here, right?”
“Kkeulkeul, it’s warm and nice here. “My hometown is too cold.”
Erica and Douglas grumbled again.
As the playful atmosphere continued, Douglas put down his teacup and opened his mouth.
“I still have something to say to you about that.”
“What should I say?”
“… … ?”
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“Slowly… “I feel like I need to sort things out.”
“… … .”
Floria and Erica’s faces hardened.
There was no way they did not know the meaning of the theorem that Douglas was talking about.
“Douglas… … .”
“dwarf… Oh, did you get upset because I said the invoice smelled earlier? If so, I’m sorry… … .”
Douglas smiled as his friends looked at him.
His smile was that of an old man at the end of his life.
“Kkeulkeul, I’m four hundred and twenty and nine years old this year. “I have lived enough to live like this.”
“… … .”
“I know my body well… “It will be seven years at most.”
“On average, dwarves live to be 500 years old!”
“Is it true that the principles of the world are so mathematically broken? Everyone has their own destiny. I have no regrets. “Cluck, click, click.”
“Dwarf, if you go too… … .”
Erica gave Douglas a mixed look.
Both Douglas and Floria knew.
Erica, who appears to be tough, is actually very cruel.
When their teacher died, and when Victor died.
It was Erica who had the hardest time.
Douglas’ hand went up on top of Erica’s hand, which looked depressed.
He said, lightly patting Erica’s hand.
“Hey, buddy. “Let’s enjoy the remaining time.”
Erica forced herself to hold back tears as she looked at Douglas’s hands, which were wrinkled and rough, unlike her own, which were still young and beautiful.
And he answered with a bright face.
“What are you saying, you old man! “By the looks of it, you’re my friend!”
“Oh, you bird-headed bitch. “It’s like speaking.”
Floria, seeing the two bickering again, sighed lightly and asked.
“So what are you going to do next?”
“I guess I’ll have to go to Cyron first. I did some organizing there too… I’m thinking of going to my hometown. “When I die, shouldn’t I be buried in my hometown?”
“… “We’ll go together too.”
“Okay, don’t think about going alone, go together.”
Douglas could not bear to refuse his friends’ offer to join him on his final journey.
In the first place, it was not at all easy to lead an old body to Siron.
It will be easier if you have help from your friends.
He nodded.
“If you give it to me, it’s fine for me.”
“So, are we all going to Cyron together for the first time in a while? “It’s been 30 years for me.”
“I think the last time was 40 years ago.”
“Yeah, everyone should stop by often. Do you know how lonely it was for me to guard the tower alone?”
“Ugh… I don’t like kids being too clingy… … . “Those bright eyes that follow you as if you’re praising them are so cringe-inducing.”
“Floria, I’m sorry… … . “I made you carry the burden alone.”
“Hehe, it’s okay. To be honest, I don’t know when was the last time I worked for TOP. For now, I’m just leaving it to the kids below me and living comfortably. “Maybe he’s the old man in the back room?”
“Oh, Floria is the old man in the back room! Have you seen this pretty old man in the back room?”
“Well, unless it’s a big problem, we should let the kids take the lead. “How long are we going to take action one by one?”
“Honestly, they’re too old to be called kids, right? Ah, dwarf. “So when are you leaving?”
“few days later. “Because I have a lot of things to take care of.”
“Can I help?”
“That’s it. “Everyone is resting.”
Douglas lightly waved his hand at Floria’s suggestion and stood up.
Even if I couldn’t get to Siron, it could have taken half a year, maybe even longer since I had to lead my old body.
I was already thinking about this day and preparing various things, but there was still a lot to organize.
If I leave this time, I will never return.
The day when the Grand Meisters gathered for the first time in such a long time.
Douglas began preparing for what would be the last journey of his life, and Erica and Floria could only look longingly at the back of their close friend.
Meanwhile, they didn’t know.
While they were away from Cyron.
Something scary is happening there.
* * *
Lois followed William into the alley and immediately deployed a space distortion field.
Lois quietly followed William at a certain distance and observed him.
‘Ohh?’
At first glance, it might seem like I was just walking down an alley.
But Lois noticed that he was constantly using his senses to check for what was being followed.
‘see… Is the level roughly tier 2?’
The felt properties seemed to be mental properties.
William’s sensory area stirred within his own sensory area.
The radius of the area is approximately 10m.
Lois entered his sensory realm without hesitation.
If a normal being had walked in, he would have noticed right away, but William seemed to feel nothing and was still going his own way.
‘Because the realm of the senses is not absolute.’
The way Lois fooled William’s senses was simple.
Copying the surrounding space and overlaying it on his senses themselves.
It was literally something only Lois could do.
Lois, who deceived William, followed closely behind him.
‘This bastard…’ Are you wandering around here too?’
To be exact, it was spinning around the alley.
‘You’re right to be worried about being followed.’
The idea of going round and round in the alley was to confuse any potential tailgaters.
‘What on earth are you hiding so you’re so careful?’
Lois’ curiosity grew even stronger.
After that, William continues to wander the complicated alleys.
Lois persevered and chased after him.
After a while, a look of relief flashed across William’s face.
Then, after entering the alley, I turned to a different direction than the first place I went to.
At this, a look crossed Lois’s eyes.
‘It moves.’
Perhaps the place he is going now is his real destination.
Lois followed him more carefully.
and.
Sigh-.
Lois tilted her head as she saw William entering an old, shabby store.
‘That’s… … ?’
The words written on the store’s sign caught Royce’s eye.
[Astrology supplies store]
‘Astrology?’
There were people in this world who read fortunes.
Predicting the future, New Year’s fortune, love fortune, etc.
People who read various fortunes.
Of course, such astrology was ultimately a superstition.
It was said that it was no different from Earth or the place where this ability existed.
A high-ranking official from the Holy Tower frequented such an astrology supply store?
‘Let’s see. What on earth is hidden there that makes it sneak away like that?’
As things became more and more interesting, Lois moved into the old store and entered.
‘It’s wide?’
The inside of the store was bigger than I thought.
And as it looked from the outside, it was very old and shabby.
It had not been used for so long that there were dust and cobwebs everywhere.
Lois’ eyes pierced the darkness and found William.
He was standing in front of a shelf not far away.
‘What are you doing?’
Crystal balls of various sizes were placed on the shelf where William was standing.
After looking around for a moment, William picked up a crystal ball on the shelf.
Soon, red light flowed from the crystal ball he picked up.
No, more accurately, light was flowing from the crystal ball’s pedestal.
‘What about that?’
It was a very familiar wave of mana.
There was no way Lois didn’t know this.
‘Communication seat?’
And as if to confirm Lois’s guess, a voice came out of the crystal ball.
[You’re late.]
The crystal ball that turned red was, as Royce expected, a communication stone.
To be exact, it is a communication device made by improving a communication stone.
However, the voice coming out of the crystal ball was of a very low standard and was very muddy and noisy.
Still, there was no problem understanding the conversation.
[I waited for 30 minutes.]
William’s expression was distorted by the harsh voice.
“For that, blame them for choosing a place like this.”
[Isn’t that the best meeting place?]
“You can say that because you are comfortably at home. Creating a meeting point in the central district. “Are you out of your mind?”
[You don’t know what. If you select a place where no one is present as a meeting point, it will be more difficult to deal with it later if you are discovered. Because it is easy to travel around the central district with minimal travel.]
“Please be careful when choosing the next meeting location.”
[hmm… Is it already time to change places? Okay, I’ll take more care in choosing the next meeting location. however… How is things going?]
“Whoa… Uneasy.”
[I think I already heard that last month, right? Do you know? It’s already been half a year?]
“Don’t rush it. Because we are trying too.”
[Hmm, does such a thing really exist?]
“Wasn’t that conversation over already?”
[I can’t help but have doubts. Could there be something in the Tower of Desire that not even the Meister can find?]
“perhaps… Because it might not be the tower.”
[What does that mean?]
“It’s not certain yet. I’ll do a little more research and let you know when I’m more sure. So wait. And I say it again… Believe it. Because it really exists.”
[When I say this with such confidence… Well, I understand. But know this. Our patience is not that deep.]
“Hmph, that’s not even funny. “Stop making trivial threats.”
[Is that so? Then cheer instead of threaten. I hope you will definitely get that technology… The moment you bring it to us, you will be given unimaginable wealth and honor.]
“That’s kind of okay.”
[Then good luck. And I will take great care to find the next meeting location and contact you.]
“Wait.”
With that, the conversation between William and the unidentified being ended.
The silence continues for a moment.
Afterwards, William threw the crystal ball on the floor.
Passsseuseu-.
A crystal ball that fell to the floor and shattered.
William crushed the remains of the crystal ball with his foot and looked around again.
After confirming that no one was there, I carefully opened the door and went out.
How many steps did you walk like that?
“… … ?!”
A sudden chill passed through his back and he quickly turned around.
But when he felt nothing, he let his guard down again.
“after… “I guess I felt wrong.”
Due to his heightened nerves, he thought he was mistaken and started walking again.
The old store he left like that.
Soon the air rumbled, and Lois’ shape emerged from the darkness.
He walked to the remains of the shattered crystal sphere.
Creak-squeak-.
The old floorboards let out a strange scream.
Eventually, the completely crushed fragments of the crystal ball were placed at Lois’ feet.
His face was very stiff as he looked down at this.
Lois recalled the conversation between William and someone in the communication zone here a little while ago.
The meaning of their conversation was simple.
‘William, you bastard… … .’
There was life in Lois’ eyes.
‘Were you an industrial spy?!’
William had a secret that should not be revealed, and it was revealed by someone who should never be discovered.
fantasy,
