In a split second, the sun rose from the darkness.
The speed at which the spell appears is so fast that it almost seems as if the process has been omitted. To those gathered here, the appearance of the sun just feels like a phenomenon that occurred without any warning.
The shimmering sun is huge and brilliant.
The sun was brighter than the combined light of the circuits created by the dozens of high-ranking wizards gathered here. Rania lightly waved her arms as the sun radiated strong light. The sun slowly moved along the path drawn by human fingertips.
The sun is falling.
Where the falling sun goes, there is a barrier surrounding Artia. The sun, symbolizing purification and divinity, collided with the barrier made of cloudy sediment.
* * *
There are two main ways to dismantle a barrier.
One is a method of analyzing the circuit of the barrier, finding its weak points, and dismantling it, and is considered a method of correct attack. It’s a tricky but straightforward way to solve the problem.
The second method is simple to put into words.
The barrier itself is shattered with a spell or physical attack of overwhelming power. It’s easy to say in words, but in reality it’s close to impossible.
A barrier is a top-level defense spell that combines hundreds of spells, and is a difficult spell that has the property of becoming stronger if the set procedures are not followed. Moreover, if the target of the barrier is an archmage, a force beyond common sense is required to suppress it with force.
and.
“…open the distance.”
There is someone here who meets those conditions.
“I’m caught up.”
Wizards see. A being that has reached beyond common sense.
In order to deal with disaster, I saw an entity that had to step into the same area as disaster. The wizards took a step back and gradually increased the distance from the barrier.
Hwaaaaaaaaaaa!
The sun began to emit enormous heat and melt the barrier. With a crackling sound, the scum surrounding the barrier began to boil and evaporate.
“It works!”
The wizards cheer at the fact that the barrier is starting to collapse… but Rania herself is not very satisfied with the speed.
“······.”
Without saying a word, Rania stretched her finger toward the sky.
And then, poof.
The moment she swung her finger, light briefly flickered on her forearm, which was covered by her robe. The stocked order was released, and eventually the order was completed.
The highest order is Judgment.
Kwarung!
A sharp noise that feels like tearing the eardrums.
Blue lightning fell diagonally from the sky, pierced the sun, and struck the barrier. For a moment, as the current flowed along the surface of the barrier, the pierced sun blinked violently.
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The sun explodes with a roar.
The compressed heat engulfed the barrier and came into contact with the lightning remaining on the surface of the barrier, causing a series of large and small explosions.
Passs.
As the barrier, which could no longer maintain its form, collapsed, she entered Artia’s interior.
2.
“Now that I think about it, goddess.”
Second day in Magyeong.
Belnoa, who was sleeping minute by minute and was alert to his surroundings, brought up a topic to wake him up.
“Isn’t that the shadow you encountered in the canyon the same shadow you encountered in the royal capital four years ago?”
Heterogeneous form. Strange laughter.
While groping for it, Belnoa asked a question, and the goddess lightly nodded.
[right. It’s the same thing.]
“Wasn’t it destroyed on the spot?”
Belnoa said, remembering.
“It certainly seems like it was destroyed by being struck by some mysterious sword that Lark was holding.”
[It would be nice, but probably not.]
The goddess shook her head.
[Hundreds of years ago, that is… even in the era when my second contractor lived, the shadow met its end. The sword of the greatest swordsman of the time was given a different name.]
“The strongest swordsman?”
[Ganikalt van Galatric.]
Belnoir closed his mouth.
Belnoa has gained vague access to events from hundreds of years ago. The goddess did not tell the whole story, but she was able to form a picture from the fragments of information.
‘You probably mean the sword of death.
To some extent, Belnoa realized that the current disaster was a group of fallen heroes.
[He was a wonderful child. Even if he had been born earlier, in the beginning, he would have been a hero. He was a child that even my first contractor was wary of.]
Anyway, she continued while muttering that.
[The shadow was torn apart by the sword the child swung. Not only the soul, but existence itself.]
“however···.”
[Nevertheless, I survived. The reason is unknown.]
The goddess sighed.
[All I remember is that the shadow was cursed by the sky. I have lost both my name and my existence.]
The one who lost his name, the first madman.
[Those who have lost their original name and existence cannot set foot on this land. It has to disappear. Because there will be no more way to define yourself. However, it is still alive and interfering with the world. how?]
The goddess asks herself a question.
[I guess.]
He answered that question himself.
[It seems like the foundation of my existence was placed in a place where the stars could not interfere.]
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“A place where the stars cannot interfere?”
[okay. The fact that the stars cannot interfere means that they are not bound by providence. so···.]
The goddess turned her head.
Her eyes looked at one place. A far away place, a world deeper than the present.
[He must have tied his existence to the false god, the being you call the devil.]
“Is that possible?”
The goddess smiled bitterly at that question.
Of course, this is impossible.
Although it is impossible, the goddess knows that it was a strange being in the first place. A being who created gods from human bodies and human knowledge. An entity that shook the rules engraved in this world tens of thousands of years ago.
What do you call such a being that brings variables to the world? The goddess knew that name.
Tens of thousands of years ago, in the era when she lived as a god, such people were called ‘like this’ and were warned by the gods. The moment its existence was discovered, the gods did their best to exterminate it.
Guide. Or, pioneer.
They do not gain the right to mess with providence because they were chosen as guides. They are chosen as guides because they want to touch providence. Even the goddess did not know about its existence.
[I don’t know the details either.]
The Shadow Dragon Lord let out a long breath.
[I’m just guessing that’s the case.]
Seeing Belnoir looking at her with suspicious eyes, she let out a chuckle.
[Just because he is a god does not mean he is omniscient and omnipotent. That’s why all gods are imperfect. so···.]
Those called guides will appear.
I swallowed my last words.
As for information about the guide, his first contractor will never allow it to be revealed.
‘What a funny kid.’
A child who became a leader because he wanted a revolution.
However, at the last moment, the child chose to follow the rules rather than revolution. He wished to remain in this world as a god, not as a human being.
Therefore, the child is afraid of variables.
For a being like yourself to be born.
The child is pathologically afraid of someone trying to revolutionize the rules that the being he cherished the most engraved on the world.
[So, are you awake now?]
“You knew I was talking to you to wake you up.”
[I am not omniscient, but I am omnipotent enough to see through the contractor’s intentions.]
The goddess smiled and leaned her head on Belnoa’s shoulder. Belle Noah scratched the back of her head sheepishly and yawned briefly.
“I’m hungry.”
[Is that so?]
“It’s a bit like chewing beef jerky like this for two days.”
Belnoa opened the pouch and took out a piece of beef jerky.
Dried and twisted jerky. Belnoir sighed as he chewed the beef jerky, which now had a leather-like texture. While chewing on these pieces of beef jerky, I couldn’t help but miss the dessert I had with Chloe.
At the time, I complained that it was too sweet… but now, that sweet and fluffy texture kept lingering in my mind.
“······.”
Belnoa glanced at the goddess who was leaning her head on his shoulder.
“Goddess.”
[What is it?]
“Can’t I get the dessert I offered back?”
This was said as a joke.
However, the goddess trembled greatly.
It looked very suspicious.
[W-what did you mean?]
The startled goddess lifted her head from Belnoa’s shoulder and stepped back. The goddess opened her eyes wider than ever and spoke in a more serious voice than ever.
[No, it doesn’t work.]
“yes?”
[It is a great sin to take something that has been given. Absolutely not.]
Belnoa’s eyes narrowed.
A robe worn by the goddess around her shoulders. It was a robe that Belnoa once offered as an offering to the goddess because she felt very burdened by having to show off.
What looked like a candy bar was sticking out of the pocket of the robe. The pocket of the robe was also wrinkled in a round shape for some reason.
“That robe pocket…”
[Can not be done.]
“······.”
[······.]
We exchanged glances for a moment.
With a tearful expression on her face, the goddess took out the candy she had hidden in her robe pocket. It was candy she had saved to eat sparingly.
[One bite, one bite…]
“···Just eat it.”
3.
Rania entered the interior of Artia.
A city full of crumbling ashes.
The city, which was in ruins 100 years ago, was full of soot. The ashes you are stepping on now will not only be the ashes of crumbling buildings, but also the ashes of burned-to-death humans.
Sabak.
Rania walked, stepping on the ashes.
Toward a place where mana fluctuates strongly. After walking for a while, we arrived at what looked like a square. There were long traces of the battle, and traces of the past and present were mixed together.
“······.”
Rania raised her head.
Where her gaze was directed, there was Kelhalm with his head hanging down. Kelhalm is alive as she leans against the wall, but she is dying. He is so injured that he will soon die if no action is taken.
“As expected, you chose this one.”
Rania shifted her gaze to the echoing voice.
Someone was sitting on the remains of a collapsed building.
“I guess this would be a more reasonable choice. I don’t know where they might be, and it would be more efficient to do this than to save talent who lacks battlefield experience. yes?”
A being covered in a fluttering shadow.
“I thought I was going to die from boredom waiting. “If we had been just a little bit late, we would have just blown it all away… but we arrived in the nick of time.”
However, what is revealed as the shadow flows down is the human shape. A voice filled with laughter echoed.
“It’s been a while, Gray Wizard.”
The first madman, the one who lost his name.
The madman resting his chin and laughing had platinum-colored hair. A young man with short platinum-colored hair. Rania narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth.
“Is that your body?”
“main body? No way. I’m not even that friend of Sukebal? I have no body. “This is just one of the bodies I have crossed over over the past hundred years.”
I don’t even remember what generation the king was, but it must have been during the childhood of one of them. The madman muttered and shrugged his shoulders.
“It’s not the main body, but well… I do have something called the first body. Don’t you know that too? “It will be in the center of Arcadia.”
The basis of shade.
A place outside of providence that cannot be erased no matter what you do.
“······.”
Rania narrowed her eyes and made a pouting sound as she relaxed her hands. The madman laughed at the sight of her as if she was going to attack him at any moment.
“Don’t be so guarded, Gray Wizard. “If I had called you to fight from the beginning…”
The madman stretched out his arms.
The tip of that finger was pointing towards Kelhalm.
“I wouldn’t have saved that thing. “It’s not that I didn’t think about killing him, but I still thought it would be a waste since he was a compatriot called a madman like me.”
The madman shrugged his shoulders.
“My intention from the beginning was to make people choose who to throw away. If the chosen one survives, shouldn’t the abandoned one become even more miserable? So I kept him alive.”
Rania wrinkled her face.
“Are you finished talking?”
“no? “It starts now.”
The madman spread his arms wide.
“I called you here to give advice to my junior.”
···Junior?
What kind of bullshit is that? As Rania narrowed her eyes, she answered as if the madman was asking the obvious.
“I am the senior and you are the junior. Even as a wizard…”
And, he added.
“Even as a leader.”
“···what?”
“Weren’t you guessing? I am also a guide like you. So, they must have created a god.”
The madman laughed.
“How much do you know about the Guide, Gray Wizard?”
A shadow flowed from the corner of the mouth that was parted.
“Even though the lizard never acknowledged it, I am also a guide. A guide who succeeded in twisting a providence that had not changed for tens of thousands of years. And that…”
The madman, laughing, pointed at Rania.
“Isn’t that what you want, Ash?”
“······.”
Rania was silent, and the madman was talking.
“I saw what you were planning. The lizard was doing something interesting out of sight. And, coincidentally…”
The madman snapped his fingers.
The huge wave of mana felt in Artea gathered to one point. So what emerged behind the madman’s back was a huge circuit. A circuit made in an ancient language.
“That’s what I already tried.”
A circuit so large that it reaches the sky.
Although it was not completely completed due to interference from high-ranking wizards, it is a circuit that has a rough shape. The madman laughed, pointing to a circuit that rotated slowly, making a clicking sound, like the second hand of a clock.
“Junior, don’t you need my knowledge?”
The first madman, a guide who had lived for hundreds of years, reached out his hand to the current guide.
“I’m asking for a deal.”
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