〈 Episode 242 〉 Night of the Wizards (4)
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Raniel always wears gloves.
Inside her robes, which are engraved with expansion circuits, are dozens of gloves of the same type built into them, a habit she has continued since her days as an ashen wizard.
“Why do you keep wearing gloves? “Do you have tuberculosis?”
Remia once asked me about the reason. When asked if he had mycorrhea, Raniel answered by taking off his gloves that were covered in the blood of the demon beasts.
“It’s not like I have tuberculosis, but this feels a little weird. “You wouldn’t know because you just shot an arrow from afar…”
Boom, card boom!
Raniel crushed the skull of the lion-like beast with his bare hands. Light pink slime fluttered and splattered on the floor.
“Wow.”
Remia frowned.
Raniel shrugged his shoulders and continued.
“There are many times when I have to explode my head when fighting at close range, but it feels a bit dirty if I don’t wear gloves. “My hands get sticky and it gets in the way when I draw circuits.”
“Then shouldn’t I just intercept it with a spell? You’re a wizard. “If you look at what he does, he just looks like a boxer.”
“I need to save mana. Also, this is more convenient when fighting in a small space.”
Raniel lightly shook his hands.
Patter, blood fell on the floor.
“Well, it’s not wrong to say that I have tuberculosis. “I always use gloves when digging up babies that don’t look like people.”
While saying that, Raniel glanced at Remia.
“···Why are you looking at me?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
“Well, to a human like you, we elves might not seem like the same people.”
“Crazy bitch.”
Wear gloves when holding something that is not a person.
Raniel said so, and actually acted like that. Even after he retired from the battlefield.
“You’re crossing the line.”
I mean, until now.
Kuuk.
Raniel pulled on his gloves.
The tight brown gloves clearly reveal the shape of her slender fingers. The shape of the wrinkled gloves along her bent knuckles is unusual.
“Sleep, wait!”
The ancient dragon wizard attempts an explanation.
He threw his hands forward and spoke passionately to prove his innocence.
“You are very misunderstanding. It is true that I caused this girl to collapse! That’s right! In fact, there is something very sublime here…”
However, the more he talks, the more he smells like a criminal. Cold sweat formed on Jormun’s forehead.
“Hiccup.”
Jormun looks at the girl sitting down in front of him.
The girl named Chloe is hiccuping. She is reminiscent of a small rodent and looks as if she is scared of anyone who sees her.
Who are you scared of?
Jormun, to yourself.
Who are you sitting on the floor for?
It’s also because of Jormun himself.
Jormun opened his mouth in a cold sweat.
“···In any case, this is a misunderstanding, and I have nothing to do with the sinister intentions you assume…”
“It’s not a misunderstanding. “I saw it.”
Jormun’s head turned.
The place where the gaze is directed is Cardi, who is standing with her arms crossed. Cardi said, shrugging his shoulders.
“It’s true that that old lizard knocked Chloe down, and it’s true that he scared Chloe. “It’s a misunderstanding and it’s not okay.”
He glanced at Jormun and snorted.
“Now you’re putting your hands on a girl tens of thousands of years younger than you. If it’s you, it’s yours to do. Jormun.”
“It’s a conspiracy…! “This is a completely distorted conspiracy!”
Jormun tried raising his voice, but it had no effect.
After assessing the situation, Raniel kicked the ground.
“Huh, huh huh huh!”
Jormun screamed.
Wow!
A spicy fist that could even break a stone wall hit Jormun in the face.
2.
It was ten minutes later that the situation was resolved.
Chloe took Belnoa and the Dark Tower lord who were standing outside. The process was accompanied by Yetual’s lengthy sermon, and Belnoa silently accepted him.
Because it was clearly his fault.
Chloe and Belnoir, still in a daze, left the scene of the incident as if dragged by Yetual. And, there are three people left at the scene.
Great Sage, Cardi Van Armiel.
The ancient dragon wizard, Jormun van Dragonic.
The wise man, Raniel van Trias.
Three wizards who left a huge mark on history have gathered together, but the stories they share are truly trivial.
“It’s spicy. It’s so spicy. Are you really a wizard? “What kind of power is this punch…!”
Jormun muttered in a very resentful voice as he applied ice to his dead right eye.
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“Didn’t I tell you it was a misunderstanding? I am also a person who can discern between interests and interests. That’s right…”
“I don’t think it’s really a misunderstanding. Good job. “I felt refreshed inside.”
Jormun glared at Cardi, but Cardi just snorted and looked away.
“Regardless of whether it was a misunderstanding or not, it is true that I did something that deserved to be beaten. “Isn’t that right?”
“…If you say that, I have nothing more to say.”
Jormun sighed.
Raniel sighed as he glanced at Jormun squatting down and applying ice to his eyelids.
“···So what is the reason?”
In the end, the question is why.
“You may be playful and frivolous, but you are not thoughtless. “Why did you do that?”
I couldn’t figure out why.
Why did the ancient dragon wizard express his anger at the star in front of Chloe? What is the origin of the name Gletus, and why does the ancient dragon wizard find its existence so repulsive?
Since he couldn’t figure it out, Raniel asked a question.
“······.”
The ancient dragon wizard was silent.
It was Cardi, who was standing nearby, who opened her mouth.
“They say you look like my first love.”
“···first love?”
“okay. I had a similar reaction to Gleria. “That lizard that visited Arcadia summoned Gleria aside and created the current situation.”
Ask your name.
He expressed his anger.
“Next, I tried to put my hand on it. “It’s a shame because Ganicalt and I arrived on time…”
“···I’ll say it again, that’s also a misunderstanding. “I was just trying to determine the form of the soul.”
“It’s so damn salty.”
Cardi sighed.
“···When I was Gleria, I thought the senile lizard was talking nonsense, but after seeing Chloe, I’m changing my mind a little.”
He narrowed his eyes.
“The voice, appearance, and even the shape of the soul are similar. It’s hard to say it’s just a coincidence. Do you know something? Jormun.”
A sharp gaze falls on Jormun.
Eventually, Jormun opened his mouth with a sigh.
“···It’s not a coincidence.”
He saw starlight floating next to him.
“Gletus, she wasn’t the only one. People with similar types of souls are sometimes born into the world. Judging by your expression, Raniel, it looks like you’ve already met a few people as well.”
Jormun looks at Raniel.
Raniel nodded slightly.
“Perhaps they were given some star-related talent?”
“···yes.”
“okay. The more talented people are, the greater this tendency is. “In the end, the shape of the perfect vessel has been established to some extent.”
A soul in a form suitable for containing stars.
So, a perfectly shaped bowl.
“The star knows its shape. Because I knew that, I tried to get involved in the birth and cycle of human beings. Despite my warnings, over and over again.”
Of course, said Jormun.
“It’s not easy, even for a star. Very strict conditions are required. A soul that was not perfect from birth but has come closer to perfection through perseverance in life cannot even be imitated.”
For example, people like superhumans are like that.
Jormun mumbled and continued.
“But the stars always hope for a perfect vessel. Perhaps, like the devil you are against.”
Raniel’s eyebrows furrowed.
“···that.”
“The intention is different. That’s just the way it is. And, Gletus’ soul was close to perfect. That’s why the star is probably trying to imitate Gletus’ soul.”
Jormun narrowed his eyes.
Raniel asked him a question.
“…Do you find that unpleasant?”
“It’s bound to be unpleasant.”
Anger flows out between the gaping teeth.
Condensed anger was contained in Jormun’s voice.
“Gletus’ life is over. Her story ended perfectly. “She was happy with her life, and although I was sad, I let her go.”
The vertically slit pupils were bloodshot.
“I didn’t save her even though I could, and I didn’t hold on to her soul even though I could. Because I wanted her to do that. “On that day, at that place, at that moment, her story ended.”
Jormun gritted his teeth and clenched his teeth.
“Reproducing the form of that soul and creating a being that resembles her… is nothing but blasphemy. Isn’t it? “My old friend.”
An ancient dragon wizard.
Star’s oldest friend.
He glares at the starlight circling around him. A platinum-colored ring of light appeared in the vertically torn pupil.
Sarah.
The moment I caught sight of it, the starlight that had been hovering around Jormun was momentarily distracted. As if fearing the wrath of the ancient dragon.
“I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that way. Don’t you think so too? Cardi.”
You would understand me.
Jormun looked at Cardi with that gaze, and Cardi closed his eyes.
“···well.”
Cardi said, opening her closed eyes.
“It’s just a reproduction, a different entity. Chloe is not Gleria. Especially the gletus you speak of. “It’s just a separate entity.”
“Even though there was a trick by the star?”
“Even though it was there.”
Cardi answered firmly.
“That child is a separate entity.”
“···is it.”
Jormun laughed bitterly.
“I couldn’t think of it that way.”
He doesn’t give in to his stubbornness.
An ancient dragon wizard may sympathize with others’ opinions, but cannot be influenced by them. Because values established over tens of thousands of years do not change easily.
“Whoa…”
The ancient dragon wizard let out a long sigh.
“That’s the way it is in the end. I just felt bad. That’s why I reacted sensitively. “Be careful going forward.”
He is about to finish his sentence. Ran El, who had been silently listening to the ancient dragon, opened his mouth.
“Is that all?”
she asks, narrowing her eyes.
“I don’t think that’s all.”
“Don’t dig too deep. “I am not someone who wants you to understand.”
The ancient dragon wizard draws a line.
In response to the warning not to go any further, Raniel looked at him with suspicion. He asked a different question instead.
“Then who do I resemble?”
A question I kept hearing while listening to the story.
He wonders if his specialness may be the result of the stars interfering.
“…it is not that easy to be involved in the birth of a human being. “For the past tens of thousands of years, there have been less than thirty-seven people at most.”
Jormun laughed bitterly at Raniel’s question.
“And, I had that suspicion before you.”
“···yes?”
“Because it never occurred to me that your extraordinaryness would just come out. “Don’t you think so too?”
Jormun looks at Cardi.
Cardi affirmed by remaining silent.
“It is far beyond what a single human can reach. I was born with it, that cannot be explained in one word. “You, Ganicalt, and Belial.”
Even though they were nothing special, there are people who achieved achievements that reached God.
“Funny.”
Jormun laughed.
“Those people weren’t interfered with by anything. “They are born without anyone’s attention, and they achieve achievements that steal everyone’s attention.”
he declared.
“You look like no one else.”
so that.
“It’s something I don’t understand.”
3.
We ended up delaying the festival.
Let’s meet at the magic banquet.
With only those words left, the ancient dragon wizard left. I looked at the back for a while. He was hiding something and left out important details.
“The stars always hope for a perfect vessel. Perhaps, like the demon lord you are opposing.”
The stars have a purpose.
“The intentions are different. “It’s just that it is.”
He did not say the purpose.
‘And, it was a tone that seemed to draw a line.’
As if you and I are different.
“What do you think?”
“I do not know either. “As that lizard said, I have a vertical relationship with the stars.”
“There’s something you don’t know either.”
“If I knew everything, I wouldn’t be doing this. “I would have gone to destroy the stars right away.”
Cardi said jokingly.
I laughed inadvertently at those words.
“I understand how Kelhalm feels.”
The more you understand about stars, the more you understand.
The more you dig into the stars, the more you learn.
“I just think it’s better not to have it.”
I question the existence value of stars.
Cardi didn’t show any reaction to what I muttered. I just assumed that he also had similar thoughts.
“Don’t go anywhere and say it out loud.”
“Use that level of discernment.”
For a while we stood there.
The barrier that the ancient dragon wizard had set up was disappearing as if melting into thin air, and soon people would flood into this place as well.
I was staring blankly at the street like that.
“Oh right.”
I clapped my hands and looked at Cardi.
Now that I think about it, there was something I wanted to show Cardi. I took out a magic tool from inside my robe.
“I made this, how was it?”
Cardi turned the magic tool around and narrowed her eyes in surprise.
“It’s Arcadia’s magic engineering. How did you recreate this? “It is a circuit that cannot be engraved without a White Magic Stone, and there would not have been any pure White Magic Stone left in this era, right?”
“I tinkered with a blue magic stone.”
“···Amazing. “I never thought we would be able to see Arcadia’s technology again in modern times.”
“I didn’t make it alone.”
I smiled.
“The current gray magic tower lord, Resty Eleanoa. “We made it together with that kid.”
“is it.”
Cardi also smiled slightly.
“I guess it was the right decision to build the Gray Magic Tower.”
The first gray magic tower lord, Armiel.
The wizard I admired when I was young.
“excellent.”
We often forget that we only see his actions as a terrible old man, but Cardi’s true identity is none other than Armiel.
It wasn’t a bad feeling to hear praise from the great first Mage Tower lord.
“It’s an honor to hear you say that. Armiel.”
“Don’t call me Armiel.”
He was also recognized as the first Mage Tower Lord. It seemed like there was nothing lacking as a finished product to be submitted to the Magic Banquet.
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