EP.192 Each person’s stage (6)
Raniel walks toward the gap.
She sees all kinds of soot carved into the floor.
It is a spell soot. Traces of spells colliding and scratching the floor. Raniel thinks about the wizard who would have fought hard while standing here.
The madman, Kelhalm.
He sacrificed his body to swallow the shadow.
I protected the children who were targeted by the shadows.
Next, Raniel sees the sword marks on the floor.
As you look towards the blood stains that follow the sword marks, you see Kalt leaning against the wall with his eyes closed. Raniel thinks as he looks at him.
Knight, Kalt.
He risked his life to face disaster.
We succeeded in buying time from disaster.
“···It’s a feat.”
Kelhalm and Kalt too.
All of them were faithful to their roles. Each of them achieved what they had to achieve on their respective stages.
‘Then what should I do?’
That had already been decided.
‘So that the time they gained is not meaningless.’
‘So that their resolve is not trampled upon.’
‘So that their feats can shine.’
It would be his role to put an end to it.
“······.”
Raniel looks at the gap through which the shadow leaks.
There was his own stage beyond.
2.
Ayla walks through Aplia in the darkness.
It is not a move that exudes elegance. It is not the same confident gait as always, nor is it the graceful step taken without worrying about what others think. Ayla walked with a stride no different from that of the other girls.
She is not the 4th princess.
He is also not a child loved by the stars.
A girl named Ayla groped her way through the darkness. Although the star’s prophecy is not heard, the star is still giving Ayla its protection.
Trudging.
One step, another step.
Although I was anxious, I did not stop and each step I took was filled with light. The light that leaks from wherever her steps are captured becomes a milestone.
A signpost for those who wake up from a nightmare.
A light for those who will follow.
Ayla heads to the altar, leaving footprints like that.
“To resolve the current situation neatly, the altar must be destroyed. “That would be the key.”
“But I cannot destroy the altar.”
Ayla remembered what she had been asked to do.
“I cannot survive within the special barrier surrounding the altar. Most wizards would do that. What’s inside is poison that contaminates mana.”
she said to Ayla.
“But the princess is different. The princess’s star protection controls the flow around her. It means that you can endure even in a barrier.”
this is.
“This is something only the princess can do.”
This is something only you can do.
So, let me ask you a favor.
She whispered that to Ayla.
‘That’s what you said.’
What is the identity of the woman who left those words?
Ayla thinks about Rania Van Trias, a woman called that. The events that had occurred from the first time I met her until now flashed through my mind.
If you think about it, there were many hints.
He said similar things in similar situations, looked at me as if he was familiar, and approached me in an innocent manner. It was all too familiar.
‘So, I always had doubts.’
So far, the star has denied Ayla’s guess.
Ayla’s intuition was clearly wrong.
Since Ayla had lived off the stars, she did not think deeply about that fact. Because if the stars are wrong, they are wrong.
But today.
Not like today, when I chose to ignore the voices of the stars and move forward on my own feet. Ayla confirms his intuition. He accepts what he feels. That’s how Ayla came to a conclusion.
‘Rania van Trias.’
The professor with gray hair and blue eyes.
‘Raniel van Trias.’
He is the same person as the benefactor he admired.
This is the wizard who became the only color of my childhood.
“···Really.”
A smile formed on Ayla’s lips.
The gray wizard, Raniel.
A person who became a teacher, a companion, and always looked at me without fault. Just thinking about him made Ayla smile.
It was a lifesaver.
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It was an idol.
The first person he cared about.
The man said to himself. I’m telling you that I need your help and that this is something only you can do. Those are words worth a thousand pounds to Ayla.
‘It’s not just something that needs to be protected.’
It was different then.
He saw himself as a helper who would be with him.
Ayla is happy about that fact.
‘therefore.’
It will live up to those expectations.
chin.
Ayla stopped walking. Standing in front of the swirling barrier, she looks back. When she looks behind her, she sees the long footprints she left behind.
A milestone that glows softly in the dark.
A ray of light left behind so that those wandering through nightmares can wake up and follow him.
There are two people approaching, tracing the light.
Their faces were hidden in the dark, but even without looking, Ayla could tell who they were.
If there were people who could sense the starlight they left behind, there were only two of them in Aplia.
“Welcome.”
Ayla smiled softly.
The princess who chooses to move forward on her own meets the person who will become her strength. When she looks behind her, standing there are two girls.
Resty Eleanor.
A watcher, someone who reads the context of the stars.
Chloe.
A child chosen by the stars, Brave.
Those who arrived here following the light in the darkness. Facing them, Ayla begins to explain. We talked about the current situation and what those gathered here can do.
“···I don’t think there is any other way.”
Resty nods.
She has faced a situation like this before. Therefore, she immediately understands that the central core must be broken.
“If I can help, I want to help.”
Chloe clearly conveys her opinion.
“That’s probably why I was chosen by the stars.”
Although she is still young and immature, she understands the power she has and the responsibility that comes with it. Because she understands, she is willing to stand by Ayla’s side.
“is it so.”
Ayla nods.
She points to the whirling barrier.
“Shall we go together?”
A cluster of stars blooms around her.
It is a flower that has budded. Ayla’s starlight has always had that form for several years. And now, Ayla is blooming.
Faaat.
The flower buds begin to burst one by one. The star flower blooming in the darkness decorates Ayla’s side. It is not a brightly shining flower. It’s not even a fancy flower. It is simply a flower with a soft light.
“Please stand next to me.”
Soft light drives away the darkness.
The world around her is already a different world. A small light is born in Aplia, covered in darkness.
Stella, a child who has been loved by stars.
However, the child becomes an adult.
He does not blindly believe in the love of the stars, but chooses to move forward on his own. I choose to escape the protection of the stars on my own and live my life as a human being.
The stars respond to that will.
The stars no longer dominate her path.
Instead of telling prophecies, the star shines light on the path chosen by the child she loves.
Even if it is the wrong answer, it doesn’t matter.
The path you choose is the right answer in itself.
“Follow me.”
The star child walks at the forefront.
Walk ahead of everyone else.
The world calls such a person a leader.
3.
Tears a gap in the twisted space and enters another world.
The world loses color in an instant. Raniel, who entered the colorless world, walked without stopping.
One step, another step.
She walked along the black mist flowing across the floor. The more she walks, the more her heart beats. The curse in my heart reacts with the fog. That fact isn’t that surprising.
‘Because I already expected it.’
The fog on the floor is a piece of the devil.
I had already expected that the heart filled with the Demon King’s curse would react with it. Ran El overheated the circuitry carved into his chest.
It puts a strain on the body.
The broken body becomes a little more broken.
Raniel took a vain step due to the sudden pain. However, that too only happens once. Raniel, who quickly regained his balance, continued walking.
It was a long time.
Raniel remembers the day he encountered the Demon King. The memory of that day when half of my life was weighed on the scale will never be forgotten. Raniel has had to reflect on the helplessness he felt that day several times over the past few years.
Demon King.
An incomprehensible concept.
Something whose very existence denies providence.
Everything Raniel had accumulated had no meaning in front of the Demon King. Therefore, Raniel’s life was completely denied there, at that moment, and in that place.
There is nothing you can do.
In front of that, I am just a human being.
A human being who must simply accept death.
‘but.’
Raniel did not forget himself.
He is a wizard. Even if everything he had built up was denied, the fact that he was a wizard did not change. Therefore, Raniel longed for an answer.
‘Finding the answer.’
Understand the incomprehensible.
Deal with what you cannot deal with.
What cannot be done, must be done.
“okay.”
Raniel stops walking.
“I guess you did too.”
She looks ahead.
That is the starting point of the black fog. There stood a human with black fog.
“I guess he was trying to find an answer.”
A human being who has lived for over a hundred years.
A superhuman who struggles with madness and searches for answers.
A wizard who must find the answer.
“it is not so?”
Raniel looks at him.
“Kelhalm.”
The madman, Kelhalm.
He slowly turns his head. Eyes that have lost their reason turn to Raniel. The fog seeping out from him spread thickly on the floor.
Gigigik, Gigigigi.
A twisted circuit appears around Kelhalm.
Amid dozens of circuits, Kelhalm opens his mouth.
“Do you know me?”
The seething voice of a madman echoes.
The appearance was as Raniel expected.
‘All restrictions have been shattered.’
Kelhalm has been freed from all restrictions and has lost his mind. It regards everything that approaches as an enemy. Even the shadow is next to him, so you will have to go through a rather cumbersome process to deal with him.
“···know.”
Answering the question, Raniel started walking again.
“I remember the name of the guy who won. To be honest, that duel was a bit weird, wasn’t it? It’s hard to even call it a victory…”
Grumbling, Raniel enters the gap between Kelhalm.
At that moment, Kelhalm reacted. He waved his hand, and the completed spell glowed. The black fog dissolved in the spell fiercely clawed the area.
Sigh!
It is a spell like a violent storm.
Shadowed spells ignore all magical effects. It cannot be blocked by any means the wizard has, nor can it be penetrated. So, there will be nothing left where the spell scratches.
The madman unconsciously expects this.
“That’s right.”
However, that expectation was wrong.
“It’s a rematch.”
A place where the shadows scratched past.
There is a human being who walks straight through the place where the black fog is rolling in. The blue mana in her hands does not shine like always.
“You and what you carry.”
The gray wizard, Raniel.
What shines in her hands is gray mana.
“Four years since defeat.”
Four years that some would have wasted in frustration.
However, for some people…
“Enough time to find the answer.”
Just enough time to find the answers to win.
“Clap,” Raniel slapped his palms together. The circuitry engraved throughout her body burned.
Wow.
The gray mana blooming from the palms that clashed together swallowed up the hundreds of stocked spells.
“An order is an order.”
She raises the corners of her mouth.
“A curse is a curse.”
Cursed Mana.
The wizard who survived the curse that was eating away at him acquired a way to deal with the curse. This is the answer Raniel found.
“It’s a rematch, Kelhalm.”
Wizard and wizard.
Superhuman and superhuman.
Man and disaster.
And again, humans and humans.
The two rush towards each other to reach a conclusion. Spells collide and the other world is shaken. Curses and the mana that swallows them mix and tear apart space.
A place where no one’s eyes can reach.
The back of the stage, a step away from the world.
That was the stage given to them.
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