“I will begin treatment.”
“huh.”
“Are you ready?”
“Where is the preparation? “I fought with cuts, tears, and holes in my stomach, but I can endure a fair amount of pain.”
Wow.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The center of Alkeia, where the dark clouds have cleared and the sun is shining. In the place where disaster had fallen and darkness had descended, human screams still rang out. The terrifying sound of a human crying out in pain.
“bone! bone! bone! “Huh, huh!”
“Just stay still. This way…”
“Natida, sleep, wait a minute. Just wait a moment. “Take a breath…”
“Just stay still. Mr. Resty? Please hold this side. Chloe, please hold your legs too.”
“Like this?”
“yes. “Please hold on tight.”
“No, wait a minute. “This hurts more than I thought…”
Drum, crack, crack.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Lesti grabbed Rania’s arm as she screamed and tried to twist her body. Chloe grabbed his leg. With shaking eyes, Rania looked at Resty, who was holding her arm.
“Lesti, if you let go of this…”
“Please wait a little while.”
Resty smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand.
She covered Rania’s mouth with her palm. Immediately after, Natida’s divine power covered Rania’s body. Her full-scale treatment began.
“I would like to be considerate and treat you, but as you know, my sacred arts have a bit of a backlash. Also, it is an urgent situation, so please be patient.”
Natida snapped her fingers with a wry smile.
The light particles blinked white. The divine power that has seeped into Rania’s body promotes and assists the warrior’s regenerative power and begins to heal wounds quickly…
“Huh, huh, huh…”
There is no way the pain that comes as a result of a near-miraculous recovery will be light. Rania’s eyes rolled over. Rania’s body, which had been convulsing briefly, went limp. She gasped and finally lost consciousness.
* * *
“Huh oh oh!”
Suddenly, I stood up.
It felt like I had a terrible nightmare. It seems like she saw something flashing. The cold sweat running down my back stuck to my clothes and made me feel very uncomfortable.
“Ah, are you awake?”
I was startled by the voice I heard and shook my shoulders.
“The acute wound was blocked. “Are you feeling okay?”
Natty smiles very benevolently.
I trembled as I looked at her.
“It’s Nati.”
“Yes, did you call me?”
“Have you ever accumulated anything from me?”
“No, I don’t have any?”
As I was looking at Natida with suspicious eyes, she smiled bitterly and opened her mouth. What Natida gave me was her explanation of my physical condition.
“The fire was extinguished immediately, but the pupil and lost fingers could not be recovered. “I should say it feels like something is blocking me.”
“It’s true that this cannot be recovered. “It may take a long time to recover.”
I let out a long breath.
“thanks. It’s Natida. “I am indebted to you.”
“This is my role. “I’m going to check on the other people’s condition, so please rest.”
Leaving Natida behind as she walked away, I checked my body condition. The flow of mana was very twisted, and it was a mess here and there. Among them, the most severe were the fingers and eyes, which were collected as compensation, so they probably cannot be recovered.
‘by the way···.’
I took a quick look around.
Chloe is resting with her head resting on Belnoir’s shoulder, Lark is stretched out on the floor, and Resty is resting against a fragment of a stone pillar. From a distance, Remia could also be seen arranging arrows.
Looking up at the sky, the hole that had been opened was also slowly closing. I muttered as I was bathed in the pouring sunlight.
“It’s over.”
It’s over. The battle to annihilate Alkeia and the battle to subdue the apostates has come to an end. I took out an artifact from my pocket. It was an artifact that sensed the survival signs of the subjugation team.
Kalt, Kariot, Kelhalm, and Destel, all of whom are invisible here, are all safe.
There is only one person whose dots do not blink.
The survival signal of the sword spirit, Draka, was not caught. It was an expected result. Even before the subjugation war began, Draka saw this as a stage where he would throw away his life.
···At the last moment, did he achieve what he aimed for? What did he feel in his last moments? While thinking about such things, I let out a long breath.
‘There were many variables, and the unexpected bleeding was severe…’
In any case, the subjugation war was over.
The results did not deviate significantly from the originally planned results. However, I still couldn’t relax. I slowly turned my head and saw a distorted space in the center of the temple.
···Cardi has not returned yet.
I slowly stood up.
I opened my mouth, laughing off Natida’s advice to not move and to rest a little more. Because there was still some more work to be done.
“Go outside first and join Kalt. “I think I need to stay here a little longer.”
Everyone looked at me with concern.
Maybe it bothers you that you leave first, leaving me here. That’s why I said it again.
“When that old elf comes back from that space over there, I think he’ll try to grab the weight again if you’re around. So, please make room for me.”
So that I can exist for a little while as ‘Cardi’ rather than the great senior and ancient hero Cardi van Armiel.
After saying that, only then did the punitive force begin to move. As I watched them moving away from the center of the temple, I turned my gaze slightly to the side.
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“Aren’t you going?”
“···Don’t you have anything to say to me?”
Ear… No, Remia was looking at me with her eyes wide open. Why is the kid like this again?
“Three times. “I saved you three times.”
Remia shrugged her shoulders with a triumphant expression. As if she wanted to make a strong case that she was helpful this time.
“Once when the pillar of black light falls, again when you rush at the apostate, and finally again when you push the apostate that you missed. That’s three times. remember.”
Looking at that confident face gave me a very bitter feeling, but it was a fact I couldn’t deny.
“Well… thank you. “Thanks to you, I survived.”
“huh. “You just need to know.”
Remia smiled.
“I will slowly pay off the remaining debt, so just wait.”
Leaving those words behind, Remia turned her back and walked away from me. I smiled bitterly as I watched her back, walking along with the punitive force she led.
“A lot has changed.”
Through trials and losses, Remia changed. It wasn’t just Remia that changed. Because the students I raised, Kyle, and even me have changed.
There is no human being who does not change.
How long did it take to realize that fact? I smiled bitterly and turned my head. I looked at the swaying space. Everyone has changed. Maybe even that elf who has endured for a thousand years might change.
···To be honest, I was a little worried.
The gray goddess from the future had spoken.
When the apostate was defeated, Cardi did not say anything for three days and then committed suicide. She had advised me not to make that ending. I couldn’t take her advice lightly.
Because that actually happened, and it was a time she went through. And because I had her duties and responsibilities to walk a different path from hers.
That’s why I tried. So I found the answer.
As a result, a lot has already changed between the time she lived and the time I live. Although I was certain that Cardi would not meet the same ending in a different world, I still could not completely shake off my anxiety.
“······.”
I waited for Cardi in silence.
How much time has passed like that? The space that had not changed began to crack and crack. The trembling space collapsed and a hole appeared.
Passyuk.
The sound of footsteps was heard from beyond the space that was collapsing into powder. The sound of light steps resounding with a thud. Eventually, Cardi appeared. She looked around and saw that Cardi was the only one there, and she smiled bitterly.
“Were you waiting, Raniel?”
“Well, that’s right.”
Anyway, Cardi let out a breath and slowly walked away. Unlike his usual Cardi, his gait was light. Relax your body, relax, and be comfortable. After taking a few steps, Cardi sat down on a pile of stones piled up here and there.
“It’s not a very bad sight.”
He muttered that as he looked up at the scenery where the open sky was closing. Sitting next to Cardi, I looked at the same scenery as Cardi.
“It’s an opening. “The truth that wizards pursue.”
“okay. “I’ve been pursuing the same thing.”
It’s okay now.
Cardi laughed while saying that.
“I guess you were worried. “I’m afraid I might die.”
“To be honest, I was a little worried. My future self said that. “You committed suicide when the apostate was defeated.”
“I guess it was because there was no more meaning to living.”
Cardi let out a long breath.
“Because in the end, the reason I held on to life for a thousand years and the reason I lived tirelessly was for her. She must have lost the meaning of living when she died. “The value of life would have become infinitely worthless.”
“Then what now?”
“Well, now…”
A moment of silence.
Finally, Cardi laughed.
It was a lighthearted laugh.
“I have to look for it now. “It wasn’t until the very end that she released me from her shackles.”
“shackles?”
“He finally called me Cardi.”
Cardi, not Armiel.
“The baptismal name Armiel was a curse to me. It was a curse and at the same time a shackle that kept me from becoming a great sage. For none other than her, it happened. “Whether she wanted it or not.”
But, Cardi said.
“I can now throw away this baptismal name. “Without any regrets.”
“Is that so?”
“It’s like that. I feel light and empty. “I have finally achieved a dream I have dreamed of for a thousand years.”
“It’s an unimaginable time.”
“okay. “Even if we were an elf, we couldn’t take a thousand years lightly.”
Cardi bowed her head.
I didn’t look at Cardi. I was just looking at the sky collapsing in the distance. Time passed like that, and after a while, Yacardi opened his mouth.
“Raniel.”
“uh.”
“thanks.”
“It was nothing.”
The wind blew.
The remains of the black cross that soared into the sky and the remains of the shadows turned into powder and scattered. It is warm sunlight shining through the crumbling things.
Things that are over come to an end.
Things that will begin will begin.
A wizard’s time, which had been stopped for a thousand years, began to flow again. The history of mankind, which had suffered from apostates for a thousand years, also began to take a step forward.
“Go ahead, Raniel.”
Cardi stood up.
“Isn’t there still a lot of work for you and me to do?”
It was not the image of someone dying, nor the image of someone frustrated with a life that had become worthless.
“It looks like you don’t intend to die.”
“She told me to live, so I guess I should live hard. However, if you make her a lover, she will immediately come to grab you by the collar.”
It was the appearance of someone trying to live again.
I laughed bitterly at Cardi’s joke.
“You’re kidding, right?”
“It can’t be a joke. “He might actually come up from the underworld.”
“There is a possibility. Hey, if you think about it, isn’t that kind of dangerous personality inherent deep in your soul? These days, Chloe looks a bit dangerous.”
“…Sadly, I can’t deny it.”
We walked on with laughter.
Moving forward, leaving behind the temple that is starting to collapse and crumble. to the next. Back to the next one.
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