EP.141 The past, the more distant past (4)
There was a party formed to take down the Demon King.
It was a party that was formed with the world’s expectations.
Champion, Ganicalt Van Galatric.
Shaman, Belial van Dragonic.
The first saint, Gleria Bel Armias.
Great Sage, Cardi Van Armiel.
There was no one on the entire continent who did not know their names. They were superhumans even before they were chosen by the stars. They gathered under the warrior, each with their own purpose.
“I lost everything to the devil. I hope there are no more people like me. “The world today is wrong.”
Shadow magic called dragon magic.
Belial, a sorcerer who freely manipulates it, lost his child to the cursed army led by the devil. He wanted revenge on the devil. He also hoped that there would be no more people like him.
“Even if we pray to Delohim, Delohim will not save us. Rather than staying in a cathedral and praying, wouldn’t it be possible to make the world a more beautiful place if I went for a run myself?”
A saint who was called the incarnation of Delohim.
Gleria, the first saint of the church, wanted to save more people. She wanted to comfort those suffering from the curse. She hoped to make the world beautiful with the miracle she received from God.
“If what I have accumulated helps the world, then I should be willing to do so.”
The sacred place of the sword, the master of Galatric.
The first master of the sword who realized the limits of the sword simply wanted to be helpful to the world. He hoped that the star sword he would wield would cut through the darkness that covered the world.
and.
“I have to take care of this rat.”
“ouch! “Why are you hitting me, Armiel!”
“Do you know how many times I told you not to call me by my baptismal name? It’s already the 3752nd. “I feel like I’ve been saying this once a day for nearly 10 years.”
“Stop giving up, then!”
“You give up. “Elves don’t know how to give up.”
The pinnacle of magic, a wizard close to the truth.
The Great Sage, the owner of the capital’s largest tower, joined the journey for a truly humble reason.
Each and every one of them is a genius born of the times.
These are superhumans who are not satisfied with their talents and have achieved perfection through hard work. They were stronger than anyone else.
-The hero, Ganicalt!
It was only a matter of time before the party with those four would make a name for themselves on the continent. Every road they took was filled with reports of victory.
Suddenly.
Every time Ganicalt swung his sword, the demon king’s army split. The person who was originally called the strongest swordsman even received the blessing of the stars. There were only a handful of entities that could block his path.
The warrior opens the way.
A saint guards his side.
The shaman catches the back.
The wizard turns the battlefield into a wasteland.
It was the simplest, but most effective strategy. They broke through everything with honest attack. Cutting through the curse left behind by the Demon King, they move forward and forward again.
The sun that illuminates the curse fell.
The cursed land was purified.
The lake encroached by the curse was burned.
The king of demonic beasts has been subdued.
He achieved something that everyone thought was impossible. It became a light symbolizing victory. That’s why they were called warriors.
“Becoming a hero is not something someone decides to become. A hero is a being created by the world.”
Ganicalt, who always walked ahead, said.
“If anyone finds comfort in seeing him. If the path he walks is right. “If he can restore the light to everyone, then he is a hero.”
It’s okay even if it’s not you.
If he can light the way ahead, he will be a hero. This was something Ganicalt always spoke of. Therefore, he was more of a warrior than anyone else.
“That was a long story. “Don’t even move.”
like that.
“Cardi!”
“I’m still doing it! “Hold your sword straight!”
they fought
“Oh, what should I do… Belial, my arm…!”
“Save your strength, Gleria. I know my body better. Since I am a master of magic, I was already prepared for this much. “It’s not your fault.”
“but···.”
“I rather like the fact that the two arms belong to a dragon. “With this, I’ll be able to endure a little longer by that ridiculous Ganicalt bastard.”
I fought by cutting myself down.
“···It’s late.”
“······.”
“Ugh, huh…”
“Stand up. Gleria. Don’t even think about using a miracle of recovery. Even if they are revived, they cannot live a normal life.”
I have seen countless devastations.
I have seen hell and passed through hell.
“is it.”
At the end.
“···We’ve arrived.”
“Just barely. Have you arrived? “Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
“It’s just like I heard. This is the Temple of Shade. The star’s prophecy clearly says this is the place…”
“It’s a bad place.”
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They arrive at the Temple of Shade.
They took a deep breath as they stood before the palace where the King of Ten Thousand Demons resided.
Sreung.
Ganicalt immediately grabbed his sword. Belial releases his half-dragonized body. Gleria scattered blessings, and Cardi concocted a spell that would overthrow the temple.
and.
Talent■■Profit.
Giggig, Gigi■■■■Gigig.
The temple door opened with a strange sound. What wriggles inside the open door is darkness. Deep, deep darkness. A darkness that has no end. Therefore, an indescribable being reveals itself.
“come.”
That is.
“I will go first.”
It was the last thing Cardi remembered seeing.
There their journey ended.
No, it had to end in some way.
2.
“sorry.”
A magic tower built at the top of the Kurakt Mountains.
Cardi lowered her head and muttered.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t keep my promise, so I couldn’t keep you. Cardi repeated the same thing over and over like a broken machine.
Failed.
Halfway up the mountain, I gritted my teeth at the words that Skebal was a failure, but those words were absolutely true. Cardi failed. He failed miserably.
Demon King.
Something whose very existence is contrary to providence.
‘I shouldn’t have thought about catching that.’
The method was wrong from the beginning.
We should not have set out to catch the devil with the idea of uprooting the curse. It should have been blocked to prevent it from growing. Since the method was wrong, it was natural that it would fail.
It was a long time later that I realized that.
“Gleria, Ganicalt, Belial.”
Cardi sees a vision before her eyes.
It is an illusion of the past. Cardi said as she looked at a vision of the past that only passed by even if she stretched out her hand.
“I have seen so much through losing you. “I had no choice but to see it alone and endure it alone.”
The illusion does not listen to Cardi.
Despite knowing this, Cardi continued speaking. He continued speaking as if he was repenting.
“No one remembers us. Because that was the price of the contract. Your records have been expunged. “The kingdom we stayed in… was destroyed by your own hands.”
In exchange for the contract, the hero’s journey disappeared.
No one remembers them as warriors. They turned into a disaster and burned the kingdom.
“I couldn’t stop you.”
Everything was just meaningless.
“Ganikalt, you asked me to protect humans. sorry. “That promise was not kept.”
“Belial, you didn’t want anyone to lose their family. sorry. Many countries have disappeared. “The streets are filled with the wailing sounds of those who have lost their families.”
“···And, Gleria.”
Cardi’s voice trembled.
“I couldn’t protect you. I ended up watching you no longer be yourself. sorry.”
His repentance continued.
“I wanted to find an answer.”
“I constantly thought about the contract I made with the Demon King, how to reverse the contract, and how to turn you back into humans. “I tried to find an answer.”
I researched endlessly.
I tried to find a way to twist the contract, a way to widen the gap, a way to turn them back into humans.
“We built a new magic tower and studied new things. I tried my hand at alchemy, something I had never touched in my entire life. “I’ve really, really tried a lot.”
however.
“I couldn’t find a way.”
In the end there was nothing I could do.
Helplessness made Cardi sick. Cardi looked at her hand with wide eyes. He was covered in scars from the drugs.
“…I couldn’t find it.”
Gleria in front of me trudged forward. She walks away from Cardi. She walks up to her podium and looks behind her for a moment. That appearance was also in Cardi’s memory.
“Please take care of me, Armiel.”
“Please take care of me, Armiel.”
she smiled
“I’ll trust you.”
“I will trust you.”
These were the words uttered by Gleria, who was still pure white, looking back at herself at the beginning of her journey. With those words, her vision of Gleria disappeared.
“······.”
Cardi closed her eyes as she pondered those words.
“…I couldn’t find it.”
He opened his eyes.
“I couldn’t give up.”
He trudged forward and took a step forward.
The sunken eyes were like a pile of ashes. The yellow eyes have lost their shine. Like burnt ashes, he staggered and walked toward the center of the church.
chin.
Every time he took a step, the circuit engraved on the church wall glowed. This place was a kind of ‘library’. A library engraved with history that remains nowhere else.
‘A library that only I know.’
Even the erased history fully exists here. The records of those who were once warriors remain intact here.
Sarah.
Cardi looked at the circuitry carved into the wall.
The wall that records his past is full of adventure stories he had with his colleagues. Remembering the past, Cardi continued his pace.
After moving and moving.
widely.
“Ganikalt, you said it.”
He stood at the center of the church.
Cardi stood there at the place where Gleria disappeared and took out a wooden box from his pocket.
“Because we are human beings who live in a moment, I promise the next time. There are many things that cannot be achieved in a short life, so I promise to do next.”
He placed it on the altar.
“···If it doesn’t work out for me.”
The altar radiated light.
“If it is impossible for me to live forever, I will try to follow your words.”
Next. Again, next
“···Someone.”
Cardi carved a circuit into the light.
“Someone will know our history. “It will bring to fruition the ending we were unable to make…”
That’s how we will reach the truth.
“For the first time, I pray to God.”
A wizard who did not believe in God prays to God.
“I offer it.”
Ash becomes fertilizer.
The ashes settle down for new flames.
『The contract has been concluded.』
The contract was signed there. A new clause is created under the contract made with the shade. In a place where no one could see, a contract that would decide the fate of Inse (人帖) was concluded.
No one knows the contract.
No one knows the truth.
Just like that, time passes.
A lot of history flows by. The Demon King existed only as a Demon King. Countless countries burned to the ground. Countless humans died. At that point, the four disasters had a name.
black storm.
Apostate.
sword of death.
Ancient Lich.
At first, not even the name was known. However, their name begins to spread by an ancient dragon wizard who remembers that era.
Black Storm, Belial.
Gletus, the apostate.
The sword of death, Ganicalt.
The ancient lich, Skeval.
Chaos comes. The hero appears and disappears repeatedly. The history of mankind continues continuously, and then again.
Time continues to pass.
From a human living a fleeting life to a human again. The blood they shed flows and flows, again and again. Constantly next, next…
like that.
“······.”
Even if time passes continuously, the end comes.
After hundreds of years have passed, someone arrives at the truth. she is human She doesn’t live a long life like an elf. She is not a warrior chosen by the stars. Well, she is just a human being.
Because I’m just a human.
Because I risked my life every moment.
That is why the shining man stretches out his hand. He reaches out to a part of history that is nowhere to be found. She won the right to accept it with her own hands.
“Cardi.”
A story of ancient heroes who were brilliant, but whose ending was not brilliant. At the last page of the story, she slowly closed her eyes and opened them.
“Is this what you wanted to show me?”
A human being who has reached the truth.
The Gray Wizard, Raniel Van Trias.
She sees what is in front of her.
They were four brilliantly shining stars.
Four stars that resemble the starlight of a hero.
A word from the author (author review)
Since it was a scene I really wanted to write, I got greedy for one reason or another, so it was a little late!
Sorry for being late ㅠㅠ
