There was a benefactor.
The benefactor who could not be saved.
Over the past three years, I kept thinking about someone. My teacher, benefactor, and senior. She was a teacher because she taught me, a benefactor because she gave me the answers, and a senior because she walked the path I should have walked before me.
Raniel van Dragonic.
I came from the future and was saved.
Because of her, I didn’t have to regret anything. Thanks to her answer, I was able to save Kyle. Because I was able to save it, it didn’t get damaged.
“Live the way you want.”
“Don’t compromise, don’t rationalize.”
“Live like you, Raniel van Trias.”
She said that with a smile.
That smile was so unfamiliar that I couldn’t accept her from the future as ‘myself’. She felt like a stranger.
“Don’t live like me.”
Someone who lived a different life than me.
Someone else who took on the life I should have lived and the tragedy I should have endured. At the end of the tragedy, my benefactor returned to the past and changed the future.
···I am indebted to her.
A debt that cannot be repaid by anything.
When everything was over, I learned of her end through Master. After completing all her work, the Goddess of Ash disappeared. Now that she couldn’t repay her debt, I resolved to never forget her existence.
so that.
“You’re damned, you senile lizard.”
I couldn’t ignore those words. Because I thought I shouldn’t pass it up. The sound of bones resounded cheerfully as he lightly turned his fingers.
“I already had a lot to say.”
When I found out the truth about the contract.
When Cardi heard the truth. From then on, I waited for the ancient dragon wizard to come someday. Because I had something to ask.
“Let me ask you something now.”
The stars, the bystanders, the rules, the damn discipline.
Things I can’t understand.
Now, things I don’t even want to understand.
“You damn constellations.”
These are not words a warrior would say.
Therefore, the words I will speak from now on are not the words of the hero Rania Van Trias… but the gray wizard, ‘Raniel Van Trias’.
“What on earth are you doing?”
I was always curious.
“Destroy the forces of evil. Purify those who are wrong and do not serve the stars. Burn everything related to demons. Subdue the Demon King, the owner of ten thousand demons.”
What the stars have emphasized throughout hundreds of years of history.
Things that have been conveyed to humans, sometimes through oracles and sometimes through the voices of stars. Thinking over those words one by one, I took a step toward the ancient dragon.
“Speech is flashy. However, after fighting on the battlefield for the past few years, I started to have doubts.”
widely.
“Those are all empty words. Ever since the shadow fell into an imperfect existence, the stars have no intention of ending it. “Am I wrong?”
Probably right.
I burst out laughing.
“The only threat to the stars was ‘complete’ shadow. “At the point when Shade was reduced to an incomplete god by Ganicalt, Star was not very interested in subjugating Shade.”
This is a star that even tried to take away Ganicalt’s starlight.
It was not the will of the star that fixed the star on this earth, but the will of the Great Sage. The great sage sacrificed a lot to keep the starlight of Ganikalt on this land.
Stars have always been like that.
There was a time when that was considered a rule, but that is no longer the case. Because I heard the stars whispering to me. Because he confirmed that the stars have will.
“In other words.”
You guys.
“From the beginning.”
I remembered something I once said to Kyle.
“You didn’t plan on catching the Demon Lord, you f*cking bastards.”
All you want is to maintain the status quo.
It was something I had only suspected, but when I learned the whole truth about the contract Cardi had made… my doubts turned into confidence.
Sigh.
I grabbed the ancient dragon’s collar.
I glared at Byul’s agent, who was deceiving me.
“Who says who is a sinner? “Do you have the right to say something like that?”
“Someone who broke the rules. Anyone who breaks a taboo is a sinner. So he just called him a sinner. In fact, discipline was shaken by that criminal. “It’s a terrible thing.”
It was so absurd that I laughed.
“Discipline, yes, that damn discipline.”
The ancient dragon’s eyes were still cold.
Eyes that show no emotion whatsoever. I laughed while looking into those eyes.
“Is it okay to live bound by f*cking rules?”
I flinch.
For the first time, a change occurred in the ancient dragon’s expression.
* * *
Just as the ‘Goddess of Ash’ acts as an evil to Raniel, there is also something of an evil to Jormun.
Gletus of Discipline.
That is the evil of an ancient dragon that has lived for tens of thousands of years.
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Therefore, the ancient dragon reacted to the ‘discipline’ that Raniel had just mentioned. For a moment, his emotions fluctuated, but the ancient dragon quickly suppressed the rising emotions.
“You’re excited, Raniel van Trias.”
A cool voice.
“First, calm down. “I didn’t come here to fight you.”
The ancient dragon grabbed Raniel’s wrist, who was grabbing his collar. Then, he tapped Raniel’s abdomen with the tip of the cane he held with his free hand.
Coo!
Raniel was pushed back along with the shock wave.
The barrier surrounding her body split with a crackling sound. Raniel laughed as he looked at the crumbling barrier. She looked as if she was saying ‘Did you hit it?’
‘···The tip has turned tightly.’
It got annoying.
With that thought in mind, the ancient dragon slammed down his staff.
“Cool your head.”
Ripples ripple around the cane.
Immediately after, a huge pressure pressed down on the area, accompanied by a roaring sound. A spell similar to a gravitational field. However, the spells expressed with the ancient dragon’s mana are different from ordinary spells. Because it is filled with power and starlight.
A spell filled with starlight and power.
It’s like a kind of providence. The spell manifested by the ancient dragon is providence and law. It would be impossible for humans who have not reached the realm of transcendence to resist it.
‘Even if he is the leader, he is not on track yet.’
So there would be no way to resist.
In the creaky space, the ancient dragon sighed. He had no intention of retracting his statement that he was a sinner, but I didn’t think the conversation would work properly if things turned around like that.
“Tell me when you calm down. “I also experience this kind of emotional exhaustion…”
The ancient dragon closed his mouth.
The ancient dragon narrowed his eyes, unable to finish his sentence. The gaze was directed at Raniel, who did not kneel even in the creaky space.
Squeak, squeak.
A space that creaks and shakes.
Even in that space, Raniel did not kneel. He didn’t just hold on with spirit. There wasn’t even a dent in the ground she was standing on.
“······.”
In a swaying space.
She took a step forward. The steps are light. Even in the space dominated by the ancient dragon, she moved leisurely. As if she was unaffected.
“I was wondering how my future self killed me.”
Raniel blurted out.
“It was worth killing.”
In an instant, Raniel’s new form disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, the ancient dragon saw a palm that completely blocked his vision. As he passed by the ancient dragon, Raniel squealed and grabbed the ancient dragon’s face with one hand.
Blah, blah.
The ground where Raniel stepped on cracked. Immediately after the tent in the barracks shook loudly, a flash of light struck the area.
2.
『This is everything.』
“really.”
『This was the end.』
As he walked through the field, the Shadow Dragon Lord pondered the scenes lingering in his mind. That is the future we glimpsed a little while ago. A world collapsing, and the existence of a strange god born at the end of that world.
‘This is outrageous.’
His first contract, Jormun Van Dragonic, who opened the sky and tore apart nearly ten thousand gods. The goddess never imagined seeing him defeated. However, something she could not have imagined happened in her original future.
“Move.”
The only dragon that Jormun has.
The giant dragon had its wings ripped out, its jaw ripped out, and all its organs spilled out before it met its death. There was one who approached Jormun, shaking off the dragon’s blood.
『I said Vicky.』
Empty eyes. An empty human being.
With nothing to lose, humans walked toward the center of the world beyond Jormun. Jormun tried to stop her, but her resistance ended up costing her both eyes.
『I have to go back.』
『I have to go back.』
The pulled off head of Jormun.
The woman who plucked out the two eyes from there put the dragon’s pupils into her own eyes. Receiving her Dragon Eye in place of her lost eye, she gained her powers.
He became a contractor for the Shadow Dragon.
The Shadow Dragon Lord saw his future self appear in front of the new contractor. The future self said, looking at her woman with sympathetic eyes. We talked about something.
I couldn’t even eavesdrop on that conversation…
『That’s enough. Poor kid.』
After the conversation, my future self disappeared without a word. As if an agreement had been made and the agreement was satisfactory. And the woman with empty eyes immediately fulfilled the contract.
『······.』
At the end of the world, a woman looked back. She locked eyes with the current shadow dragon lord. Defying the flow of time, she conveyed some information.
Thinking over that information.
“…He’s my contractor.”
The Shadow Dragon Lord turned around.
The night was already coming to an end. Soon the sun will rise and the special time will end. Before the time was over, the Shadow Dragon Lord took steps towards Belnoa.
“What’s going on?”
“You wouldn’t know it if you looked at it.”
She stretched out her arms towards Belnoa.
As if asking for a hug.
“···What are you doing?”
“It means to hug you. “I’m tired of walking.”
“I heard that walking is fun sometimes.”
“I’m sick of it.”
“You’re also quick to change your mind.”
Instead of carrying him forward, Belnoa picked up the shadow dragon lord. It was light. Very much.
“So what is it?”
“What?”
“Don’t you have something to say?”
“You’re quick to notice.”
The goddess smiled.
The goddess wrapped her arms around Belnoa’s neck and leaned her head on Belnoa’s shoulder. She then spoke in a low whisper.
“Do you know what? Everyone who signed a contract with me met a very bad end. “That is my strength.”
“I know.”
“No, you don’t know.”
The goddess smiled bitterly.
“The first contractor lost what was most precious to him. There was only one thing that liar wanted to protect, but he couldn’t protect that one thing. “Even though we protected everything.”
“It was the same with my second contractor. That child was even more unhappy. Because I couldn’t protect anything. I just became an animal that lost my senses and went on a rampage. “By burning the things he wanted to protect with his own hands.”
A moment’s breath.
The goddess said, letting out a long breath.
“So, this is my third contractor.”
“yes.”
“I hope you don’t. “Hopefully, let me give you one more piece of advice.”
“You’re talking a lot today.”
“I always talk a lot.”
The goddess spat out.
“The flow has the tendency to return to its original position. So there will be danger to you too. “If things were the same, you would have died soon.”
“Fate is so cruel.”
“yes? So, please keep these words in mind.”
What, Belnoa asks.
The goddess spoke a little faster.
“Do not use your strength just for the sake of sacrifice. Use your strength to survive. “If you truly want to protect that child, you will have to survive for a long time.”
This is similar to what I have already said.
Belnoa smiled and nodded.
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“You speak really well.”
“You have to speak well.”
“He’s a kid who never loses a word. be impertinent.”
“Well,” said the Shadow Dragon Lord, biting Belnoa’s ear. Since he didn’t bite with his teeth, the attack was limited to a tickling sensation.
“What are you doing? stop···.”
And, that is the moment.
“Belnoa…?”
A voice was heard.
From the front, not from behind. It was a very familiar and welcome voice, but it was a voice that was not as welcome as it was now.
“Belnoir, what are you doing here?”
Belnoa looked straight ahead with shaking eyes. At the end of the night, the road is just starting to get brighter, but it’s still dark. On that road, there was a girl looking at Belnoa with unusually bright eyes.
“Huh, Chloe?”
“Yes, Belnoa.”
Blue-green eyes sparkled in the darkness.
“What are you doing here?”
Chloe smiled.
The same smile as usual, the same look as usual.
However, the voice was a little colder than usual… no, it was a lot colder. A road that sends shivers down your spine.
“and.”
Chloe raised her arms.
With an outstretched finger, he pointed at the shadow dragon lord who was humming in Belnoa’s ear.
“Who is that woman behind you?”
Belnoa had a hunch.
Something was definitely wrong.
“Oh.”
The goddess who was humming in Belnoa’s ear spoke.
“The crisis is coming sooner than you think, contractor.”
No, it’s because of you.
fantasy,
