The shaking temple became quiet.
The door to the temple that had been tightly shut was opened. Not long after the door opened, the subjugation team returned to the entrance of the temple, and Kalt received a brief explanation from them.
The war to subdue apostates has come to an end.
The only person who died was the sword demon, Draka.
Kalt couldn’t tell what they had been through inside the temple… but looking at their faces and condition, he could tell that they had suffered a lot.
“You all worked hard, everyone.”
After giving a brief greeting, Kalt leaned against the door of the temple. As I waited a little more time, I felt the presence of two people inside the temple.
Light steps with a thud.
Kalt raised his head and glanced at Raniel, who had stepped outside the temple.
“Are you here? Seniors.”
“What. “Are your limbs okay?”
“It seems like you’re fine, too, since you’ve been the same since your first words. “It looks like the operation was a success.”
“It’s not perfect, but it was successful.”
Raniel tapped my empty eyes with his empty fingers. Kalt held his breath at that sight.
“…Will it ever recover?”
“well. “We have to find a way.”
Raniel let out a long breath, flopped down, and sat down next to Kalt. After sending Cardi toward the punitive force, telling him to go first, Raniel slowly opened his mouth.
“What about Uncle Kuntel?”
“Thank you for sending it to me.”
“Whatever did you say at the end?”
“···Did you know?”
“I knew, so I left it to you.”
Kalt glanced at Raniel.
Raniel’s blue eyes were not looking at Calt, but at the swaying grassland in front of the temple.
“A person with a strong will, especially a superhuman, will always leave a few words just before he dies. “It’s like ending my life.”
“···Is that so?”
“At least that’s what the superhumans I’ve seen are like. So, what were Uncle Kuntel’s last words?”
Kalt tapped the hilt of the sword.
“He said it was great.”
“Did you look satisfied?”
“Yes, probably.”
“Then that’s a relief.”
Raniel let out a faint laugh.
Then, as if she had suddenly remembered something, she let out a short breath.
“Hey, Kalt.”
“What is it?”
“If you defeated Uncle Kuntel, don’t you think you are now truly the strongest swordsman in humanity? “How strong have you become?”
Humanity’s strongest swordsman, La.
Kalt smiled bitterly and shrugged his shoulders.
“I want to shout that too.”
Swishing, Kalt pointed above his head.
Maybe it was pointing to the sky. There is another sky above the sky. Kalt muttered, remembering those words.
“Isn’t there just one more person above me? “He is asleep now.”
“Kyle? Well, if you include that guy, I guess there’s not one but two people above you?”
“Who is the other one?”
“there is. “Sword Wizard.”
“···I think I know who it is.”
Kalt let out a chuckle.
“You’re the one we have to deal with next.”
“I know.”
“It’s a mountain beyond a mountain, really.”
Well, that’s it anyway.
Mumbling that, Raniel got up from his knees and stood up. She stood up, patted her Kalt’s shoulder and smiled.
“Good work. “This time too.”
“Thank you for your hard work, senior.”
Kalt added one more word.
“Please note that with this subjugation, the number of floors in the building I expect from you has increased by one more.”
“···How far does that go?”
2.
“You say you can’t use mana?”
“That’s it.”
Raniel blinked at Kelhalm’s words.
“why not?”
“Why? “Because I gave it as compensation for the transaction.”
Kelhalm answered calmly.
Raniel was quite embarrassed by the answer. For him, not being able to use mana meant the same thing as death. Raniel also expected Kelhalm to lose something in this subjugation battle, but he never thought it would be to this extent.
“No… are you okay?”
“What’s not okay? Rather, I feel relieved.”
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Unlike Raniel, who asked worriedly, Kelhalm’s answer was nothing but calm. Even though he says that the magic tower he spent his entire life building up has collapsed.
“Huh…”
Raniel let out a long breath and tilted his head as if he didn’t know. He said he was fine and that it didn’t matter…
‘Isn’t it too peaceful…’
Kelhalm’s expression was more calm than ever.
He didn’t seem to have any regrets about his choice. As he glanced at Kelhalm, Raniel suddenly realized something.
“Kelhalm, are you restricted…?”
“I told you.”
The wizard who was called a madman chuckled.
“I felt relieved.”
The movement of the eyebrows, the lines drawn by the lips, and the expression of all emotions are so natural. It was not an expression that a madman who lived like a doll with his emotions restrained could make.
“I didn’t just sacrifice mana. I gave up everything that made me…a madman, Kelhalm. “It probably included madness as well.”
Things I couldn’t let go of in order to keep my promise and achieve my goal. Kelhalm let go of all of that through this fight.
“I let go of all of it: the madness, the eternal life I had, the strength those children gave me, and the mana to achieve my goal.”
“Perhaps,” Kelhalm muttered.
“The fact that the star took the madness, which was the price I had to endure, must have been because he thought that was also a part of the life I was dedicating. “It seems that they viewed it as something worthwhile, rather than a punishment given to criminals who broke a taboo.”
Even if you know it, you won’t know it.
Kelhalm said that and laughed lightly. The laughter of a person who had achieved his goal and laid down all the burdens he had been carrying was light. It was light and beautiful.
“Congratulations on your liberation, Kelhalm.”
“Well, as the general commander of the battlefield, it’s not something to celebrate, is it? “It’s like an important power source is missing.”
“A soldier who fought on the battlefield for over 100 years is retiring with all four limbs intact. It would be crazy not to congratulate him on that.”
“That too.”
“And, I kind of expected that you would retire after this fight.”
War to subdue apostates.
Because that was the purpose of your life.
Raniel smiled and asked a question.
“Have you thought about what to do after you retire?”
“Well, not yet.”
I am no longer dominated by madness. Because I am not controlled, there is no need to restrain my emotions. Moreover, now that he has left his body for eternity, he will be able to grow old with the passage of time. Just like any other ordinary human being.
A life in which many things have changed. Kelhalm still didn’t know how to live that life.
“Unless you have any other ideas.”
Raniel gave advice to Kelhalm.
“Shall I recommend a job? “To a good job.”
“Job?”
“Yeah, maybe it’s a job you know well?”
Raniel rummaged through his robe.
After rummaging for a while, she took out a piece of paper. The paper I took out was blank. However, the moment Raniel engraved letters with mana on that paper, it became a letter of recommendation.
A letter of recommendation endorsed by the hero, Rania Van Trias.
No one knows how much it is worth. No matter where you go, as long as you have this letter of recommendation, you will be able to pass without any questions or questions. On such a letter of recommendation, Raniel engraved the name of an academy.
Cradle of learning.
The best magic academy.
“Professor at Aplia Academy.”
Raniel handed Kelhalm a letter of recommendation.
“It’s the perfect position for a talented wizard who has retired from the battlefield to get a job. what do you think about it?”
3.
Standing at the entrance to the temple, I stretched out for a long time.
What needs to be sorted out has been sorted out.
This was enough rest. Looking around, the sight of a punitive force ready to depart caught my eye. Also, the image of Destel stretched out on top of the familiar summoned by Resty, saying he was tired and dying.
Now it was time to return.
To our land, to our base.
If you look around. When I looked up at the sky, I could see things slowly collapsing. This place, Alkeia, a land for non-believers, was an alien world made up of the sacred power accumulated by apostates.
A sacred place and sanctuary just for her.
Now that the owner of this land has left, Alkeia is returning to its original form. Her refuge, set in the deepest place, where starlight could not reach, began to collapse.
Crispy, crispy.
The sun in the sky collapsed. The blue sky split. The wind that was blowing disappeared. It was darkness that seeped through things that had disappeared. The mixing of the blue sky and darkness was like mixing paints.
Coo goo goong, coo goo goong.
Subsequently, the temple collapsed.
The sins committed by the apostate, those who suffered because of her, and the remnants of the familiars she created will all be buried in this land and disappear. I snapped my fingers at the collapsing temple.
My body was so broken that I could no longer cast spells, but I still had to finish it.
Ashes to Ashes.
I set fire to the ashes that were scattered as I left the Kardiwa Temple. The ashes did not explode loudly. It simply became a flame and engulfed the remains of the temple. Quietly. And definitely.
“let’s go.”
Leaving the burning temple behind, we headed toward the ground. I was on my way back. Because we had to announce our victory to those who would be waiting for our return.
“ah.”
I was walking up a vertical tunnel like that and walking through a forest that had been burned to ashes. I mumbled without thinking.
“I would have to stand on the podium and give a speech…”
“It’s not like that.”
Cardi, who was walking next to me, answered my mumbling.
It was just as Cardi said. That’s what I was thinking about. At least to the knights, I had to be a symbol of victory that would not be shaken or injured.
“Do you have any camouflage artifacts? Cardi?”
“Is it possible?”
“Tsk. I don’t know if it’s a subtle injury, but this one is very noticeable. “Even if you cover your fingers, your eyes are the problem, your eyes.”
Should I wear something like a prosthetic eye?
That was around the time I was thinking about it.
“There are no artifacts that can help you.”
Cardi took something out of her arms.
“There is a holy relic that may be helpful.”
“···Sacred relic?”
Cardi shook the glass in her hand.
What was contained in the cup was pure white divine power.
I opened my eyes wide. That divine power…
“She asked me to give it to her as a gift for her bold junior.”
Cardi threw his glass at me.
I took the glass and laughed.
“No, did you still have the strength to squeeze this out?”
“He said it was his duty to heal the wounds he inflicted. That saved me about a minute of conversation time with her. I hope it’s worth it.”
“Your words are full of thorns.”
“It’s because of my mood.”
Anyway, I laughed.
“She’s a saint until the end.”
“She is a real saint, different from the saints of today.”
I glanced at Cardi, who looked secretly proud, and shrugged my shoulders. Unlike in the past, Cardi did not show pain while talking about Gleria. She must have been relieved of her burden.
“thanks.”
“Thank you to Gleria, not me.”
“Can I make a toast while looking at the sky?”
“That’s how it was.”
So I really did that.
I pretended to toast the sky and tilted my glass.
“In memory of the martyr, Gleria Bel Armias.”
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