A Genius Gamer Reincarnated into a Hero’s Family Chapter 291

Genius Gamer, Reincarnated into a Heroic Family Chapter 291

Stories from the past (2)

Taniya had a dream.

When I was about 10 years old, I was recognized for my extraordinary talent and showed my ability to control ghosts to the adults of the spirit village, and everyone praised me. They said I was a talent that only comes once in a thousand years. According to the prophecy, my ability would definitely help save the world.

‘I will save the world!’

The adults said.

The world is ruled by forces like Kaladan and Ainglass who wield swords and magic, but in reality, it is we who are protecting this world.

Invasion of spiritual beings. Coming of ghosts.

Can we stop them with swords and magic?

Even though we live quietly hidden in a forest village, the world owes us a great favor, so be proud… … .

I lived believing that.

However, after Taniya came out into the world, she was able to find out through the newspapers that it was not them but Kaladan who was preventing all kinds of disasters that were happening all over the world.

The bloodlines of Kaladan were sent to the battlefield to end wars, or to subdue the barren lands of monsters and make them habitable for humans.

But even so, since we couldn’t catch ghosts, I never doubted until the end that the world would not be this peaceful without us.

Until he heard that a boy of the same age as him, Kaladan, had solved a great disaster that covered all the skies of the world… … .

That’s the incident at Yeryeongdo.

‘Don’t lose your pride.’

‘No matter what the world says, you are destined to save the world.’

‘Don’t be intimidated by anyone you meet.’

The words of the adults passed by in her dreams. Taniya felt distant as they spoke. She kept feeling skeptical about whether it was really right to live as a sorcerer.

“Taniya.”

If I could start over from the beginning, I would also learn swordsmanship…

“Taniya. Come to your senses.”

“……omg!”

Taniya jumped up from her seat and looked around, sweating profusely.

Harang Paul Caladan was looking down at himself.

“Oops, sorry, sorry!”

Taniya, who was hurriedly getting up and adjusting her clothes, realized that something was strange. Her hands were flesh-colored, and her clothes were a red and white witchcraft outfit. She clearly had color, but everything around her had lost its color.

Gray. A space filled with gray.

“what……?”

When I looked around, everyone walking around was gray. The buildings were gray, and the sky and clouds were all gray.

“Hey, what’s going on here?”

“I think I’ve come to a memory from the past. I’m not sure of the exact year, but I think it’s around 500 years ago.”

“500 women?!”

Harang nodded and showed the leaflet he had torn off. There was a picture of ‘Warrior Kaladan’ on it, as big as a door. It was something that could not be done in modern times. If you dared to put the face of the ancestor of the Kaladan family on any wall, you would be immediately pursued.

But even… … .

“Hey, it says traitor. Is that correct?”

Taniya looked at Harang with puzzled eyes. After all, it was awkward to mention Kaladan because he was Harang’s ancestor.

But Harang looked indifferent.

“There must be a reason. There’s not much we can do here anyway. We can’t talk to people, we can’t interfere. All we can do is wander through memories.”

“Then… … the person who brought us into this memory must have had an intention to make us see something.”

“Yes. To be exact, you’re probably expecting something from me. It’s simple. You don’t need to solve anything, you just need to see the story that passed by. Let’s hurry.”

Taniya got up from her seat, patted her butt, and walked out of the alley with Harang into the street.

There were a lot of people on the street, and they were all marching toward one place and shouting something.

“Drive out the traitor Kaladan!”

“Pretending to be a warrior!”

“Drive them out! Drive them out!”

“We must drag him out and execute him immediately! Drive him out! Drive him out!”

Taniya shuddered.

“Wh, what’s going on?”

“This is the first time I’ve heard of such a case in history. Let’s just follow the procession.”

As he said that, Harang hugged Taniya and jumped onto the roof of the building.

“Eww!”

Taniya screamed and shut her eyes tightly, but Harang paid no attention and continued to jump forward to the front of the line.

There was quite a shocking sight there. A picture of Kaladan was hung, and dozens of arrows and swords were stuck in it. Behind it was a huge castle, blocked by soldiers, so people could not approach inside.

“Ugh, why would you do something like that… … .”

-Ha. That’s what it meant.

At that moment, Celine opened her mouth. Since she was the only one who knew about the past, Taniya and Harang’s gaze turned to the lower sword.

– This was probably when we all dispersed after defeating the Demon King. For a moment, there was this ‘small issue’. This was originally Kaladan’s homeland, ‘Kaishu’. But when his popularity grew too much, the king became afraid and branded Kaladan a traitor. It was simple. In this world where the media is limited to news articles, even a slight movement of power can cause people to lose information.

“… … .”

That’s right. The news that he had defeated the Demon King must have been spread by word of mouth, but if the king controlled such news and wrote in the newsletter for days on end only badmouthing Kaladan, the people had no choice but to believe it. The people were not stupid.

That’s the system by which the world operates.

Anyone who was born and lived in this era would have done so.

– Well, this was probably one of the biggest reasons why Kaladan established his own power. Kaladan must have been under a lot of stress at that time. If I remember correctly, the Kaishu Kingdom was destroyed shortly after. I don’t know the details either. They were active on the other side of the continent.

“Destroyed… … Could it be that the warrior Kaladan harmed the people?”

– Given his personality, he wouldn’t have done that. Perhaps Kaladan would have quietly left. Instead, a foreign country would have invaded. In other countries, Kaladan is still a warrior and a hero who saved the world, and they dared to frame him.

“ah…….”

In the end, the Aung you see before your eyes is a story limited to Korea.

Outside the country, it becomes a propaganda that has no effect at all.

– This kind of thing doesn’t happen often, but it did happen occasionally. When he was at the peak of his fame as a warrior, he would try to bring him down out of jealousy or incite many of his people to kill him. At that time, Kaladan felt that force was not everything. He had enough strength, but he lacked authority.

“So that’s how the Kaladan family was born… … .”

-That’s right. Whenever Kaladan had a weakness or a shortcoming, he tried to compensate for it somehow. He always wanted to be perfect.

As soon as Celine finished speaking, the gate opened and King Kaishu appeared.

He struck the floor loudly with his cane and then shouted in a loud voice.

“I hereby announce to the world that the traitor Kaladan has been completely expelled from the country as of today! You have no need to worry, and can enjoy peace!”

“Waaa …

The cheers of the people echoed along with King Kaishu’s declaration.

Taniya felt a pang in her stomach as their future was destined to be destroyed just as Celain had said.

The world becomes blurry. The gray space changes, and this time, you are transported to the top of a huge rock mountain.

-Uh, this is… … .

Even Celine was momentarily speechless, perhaps taken aback. Looking around, she saw all of the warrior’s comrades, including Celine, collapsed.

“Ugh, gasp… …!!”

And the one who stands until the end, holding his sword tightly in both hands, is none other than the warrior Kaladan. He sees something, what should I say, rippling before his eyes.

I was sweating profusely against something that looked like a ‘lump of letters’.

It was a truly ambiguous and bizarre creature, a monster that looked like a giant hole made up of letters and letters clumped together.

“What, what is that… … .”

Taniya looked at Celine with a puzzled expression, but she also didn’t say anything.

because.

-… … What is this? Why am I lying down? We all got hit? I never remember anything like this before?

Chelain, because she also couldn’t remember.

“You don’t remember? How can that be? Since you are a spirit, your memory must be clearer than when you were a human, storing information in your brain.”

The spirit body consumes a lot of energy to store memories throughout the body. Ordinary ghosts consume a lot of energy just to store memories, so they either have no influence on the world or simply disappear.

So, most ghosts only harbor resentment and often lose both reason and memory.

But Celine is different. She is the most special and powerful spirit in the world. She never forgets her memories. In her astral state, Celine has vivid memories of everything from the moment she was born.

And yet, I have no memory.

-Our memories were erased… …?

Harang frowned at Chelain’s muttering. That being was so powerful that it dared to erase the memories of the warrior’s comrades. Something about it didn’t feel good.

“Whoaap!”

A moment later, Kaladan moved.

He stirred up a storm with every step he took, and with each swing of his sword he would create a wind of blades and cut down the rocky mountains with brutal precision. He had already achieved 10 stars at a young age, and was considered the strongest in the world, but he could not even scratch that strange ‘lump’.

“That, that! Isn’t that Calantatis?”

Harang turned his head at Taniya’s gesture and only then discovered the Dragon King Kalantatis lying in the center of the mountain range, catching his breath.

He seemed to have already suffered a fatal wound, his wings half torn off.

– This is impossible. I don’t remember Kalantatis joining the battle. He must have even used verbs. And yet, we’re in this state?

That lump was immune to swordsmanship, magic, divine powers, brute strength, arrows, spirits, and dragon speech.

The warrior and his companions have learned all the martial arts and mysteries of the world so that they can overcome any enemy they face.

All of those things did not cause any damage to that being.

The mass was simply dancing to the beat of Kaladan’s attacks.

Still, Kaladan grew more and more exhausted, and mysterious wounds began to appear all over his body. He was bruised and had cuts.

However, Harang couldn’t even see what kind of attack the lump was making.

The fierce battle eventually ended with Kaladan’s defeat. As soon as he fell to his knees, the mass disintegrated and disappeared somewhere.

He looked back at his colleagues, breathing heavily.

A look of anger filled the world. The gray world faded away again as Kaladan clenched his fists and shut his eyes tightly.

“Huh!”

When I opened my eyes again, I was in an ancient ruins.

The treasure room had already been cleaned up neatly, and there was no one left.

There was a letter lying on the floor. It was a letter with the seal of the Herael and Wilzed families.

Harang picked it up, but had no intention of reading it.

-… … Yes, that’s right. I told you. Whenever Kaladan finds a weakness, he tries to compensate for it in some way. Kaladan, who probably didn’t lose his memories until the very end, was the only one who had the memory of fighting that strange thing.

“… … .”

-The memory we saw is probably incomplete. It doesn’t show us what we fought against at all. It’s as if the memory was completely cut out. It was completely erased from the timeline of history, so we can’t see it through the memory like this. But one thing is certain.

Harang somehow felt like he could see Chelain’s face. She was probably the ‘saint’ who was currently working as a companion of the warrior Kaladan and spreading goodness throughout the world.

– In the end, Kaladan was unable to defeat that unknown being. He even defeated the Demon King, but he was unable to win, so he is leaving it up to you. That is why he is paving the way for you to become a more perfect being than Kaladan himself.

“… … I think I know what you’re feeling.”

– It’s never a good road. It’s a smooth road. It may look like the most splendid golden flower field in the world to others, but in fact, there may be hell at the end. You have to deal with something that even Kaladan and his colleagues couldn’t defeat. Are you confident?

But Celine knew that her questions were meaningless.

Harang had been clenching her fists with an excited expression since a while ago.

Up until now, his path had been nothing more than repeating the path that Kaladan had walked. So, although becoming stronger was fun, it was boring.

After all, even defeating the Demon King was just a repetition of what Kaladan had done.

but.

If there is an enemy that Kaladan cannot defeat. And if he defeats him.

‘I surpass him.’

Looking at Harang thinking like that, Celine couldn’t help but laugh in vain.

I thought you’d be afraid, but you’re actually burning with a competitive spirit.

-That must be why they chose that brat as their successor… … .

Chelain felt like she was learning more and more about Harang.