Episode 343
“… …Who on earth are you?”
Jack looked at Valentine, who was sitting on his shoulder, for a moment, and then at Silarion for a moment, and thought.
What should I answer?
There were so many words that defined me.
but.
This seems right for the current situation.
“The first and last disciple of Valentine Milos, the master of Silarion.”
* * *
The size of the territory occupied by the dwarves in the Forest of Demons is about 1/11th.
The dwarven lands are a little larger than the combined Ascendible Territory and Capital of Teslan.
Considering that the total population is only about 200,000, the size of the land is by no means small.
More importantly, dwarves can go anywhere in the Demon Forest without any problems.
They were a neutral faction and were very good at making weapons and buildings, so it could be said that this was a natural trend of the times.
December 10th.
Our group arrived in Brandel, the capital of the dwarven kingdom.
“Wow-”
“Whey.”
All of our group exclaimed in admiration when they saw the magnificent and solidly built castle walls.
That makes sense, first of all, the height of the wall seemed to be at least 40m, and what was even more surprising was that there were small grooves dug here and there on the wall, and since we weren’t stupid, all of us in our group could tell what kind of grooves each of them was.
cannon.
This is a home from which a cannon can be fired.
The number is at least 400, just from what you can see in front of you.
This could be seen as a fortress rather than a kingdom.
It would be strange not to be impressed.
Maybe that’s why other people look at me and my teacher strangely.
Especially Menama.
“Have you ever been here before?”
He didn’t say much and just nodded quietly.
Because.
I broke down this wall in the past.
There’s no need to say this.
But our teacher seemed to notice and looked at me with a strange look.
As we entered the fortress, the carriage stopped.
It wasn’t Menama who gave the signal separately, it was me who gave the signal to that horse.
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“Huh?? Why is he like this? Why is he stopping?”
The dwarf who was acting as the groom looked puzzled, but did not care.
Menama looks at me as if he noticed something.
“Did you stop there?”
“uh.”
“why?”
“just.”
Then he stood up from his seat and opened the carriage door.
“Let’s go down to the ‘underground city’ later. Just bring the sword to the king.”
The city you see before your eyes is not the capital of the dwarves.
The geography of this place is, to be precise, ‘front yard’.
The true capital of the dwarves, Brandel, is underground.
An underground fortress and an underground city.
But before you go there, there is a place you should stop by first.
“… … Do you have somewhere to go?”
He nodded to Menama’s question.
As mentioned before, the dwarves are a neutral faction.
And there are two races that belong to the neutral camp.
Dwarves and vampires.
Among them, vampires have made a home near this kingdom and are living there under the ‘protection’ of the dwarves.
It is not the capital of the vampire kingdom, but it is a territory that is relatively close to the dwarf kingdom.
I’m planning to go to a place called Lionel Estate, I think the name of it is.
“If the king asks to see you, tell him this.”
When Menama nodded as if telling him to speak, he did so.
“I’ll be at the vampires. If you have anything to say, come to me directly.”
Only then did Menama seem to notice.
The reason I came here in a carriage was to see the vampires in the first place.
“Oh, and tell him that too. If you break Silarion or something, I’ll chop you up before I chop up the Emperor’s head.”
Menama.
His real name is Menama-Amour.
The second son of Khalid-Amur, the current king of the dwarves, and the commander of the fortress.
And the man who becomes the Dwarf King 20 years later.
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He nods with a hardened face, then flinches.
“… … You’re saying you’re going to cut off the Emperor’s neck?”
The five emperors mentioned here refer to five dragons.
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A dragon that lived through the glorious era of 400 years ago and experienced the entire history of that time.
It’s a new idea, but the reason I came to the Demon Forest was to cut these five into pieces.
I’ll show Charlotte some vampires as well, something like that.
“Are you really going to cut off the Emperor’s head?”
“Oh, then do well.”
Menama’s frozen expression suddenly loosened.
If only it could really happen like that.
“If that’s really the case, I promise on my deathbed that I’ll treat you as the greatest benefactor of the dwarves if you just kill those lizard babies.”
I ended up laughing hysterically.
“Do whatever you want, and just fix your sword. I trust your skills.”
“… … .”
Menama just kept his mouth shut.
You want me to fix it? You think my skills are trustworthy? When did you see me say something like that?
I didn’t care about that expression.
This isn’t the first or second time this has happened.
Leaving such a mess behind, we stretched out in the seemingly dwarven capital.
* * *
“But is it true that you have regressed?”
It was a question from Saxony.
When I turned my head, I saw that not only Saxon, but also Ken, Harold, and Benedict had the same expression on their faces.
hmm.
“Didn’t I tell you?”
“Yes, you didn’t. I heard you talk about Death Knights and dreams when you came to your senses, but this is the first time I’ve heard about regression.”
“This is my first time hearing about it.”
“I heard there was a secret, but regression… … I never would have guessed that.”
“Indeed, regression, that explains everything. The knowledge that is beyond your age, the ability to predict things to the point of foresight, the ridiculous powerlessness. If it’s a path you’ve already walked and a situation you’ve already seen, then it explains it. Oh my. This shouldn’t be this easy to understand, but it’s easy to understand.”
As such conversations were going on, Harold made a hit on Hwa-ryong-jeom-jeong.
“Confucius must know everything in the world.”
I thought it was something like that.
More than that, it seems like these guys are trying to exercise their strangely limitless imagination.
So I drew the line in advance.
“Why can I go around talking about my regression as if it were nothing?”
“well…….”
I never said it out loud, but given the circumstances, the answer had already been presented a long time ago.
“There are many differences between the world I returned to and the world now.”
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I turned my head and looked at Harold.
“You, Roland, and the others in charge of the continental battlefield all died when the Tulcan Empire unified the continent. Are you the only ones who died? That can’t be. Those related to you, almost nine families, were publicly executed all over the country, and the bodies were all buried in common cemeteries or in the back corners of some nameless mountains. This is what will happen in the future.”
Next I looked at Saxony and Ken.
“The Taoist temple is destroyed by my hands. I think I did it when I was a little out of my mind, but in the end, they all die.”
Next I looked at Charlotte.
“You didn’t exist in the future. Is that all? Cell and everyone around me didn’t exist in the future.”
He just raised his head.
“That’s why I can proudly say that I’ve regressed. The world now is completely different from the world back then. I saved all the people who deserved to die, and killed all the people who deserved to be killed, so why are you hiding this? It’s not like I stole anything, and.”
and?
“The world that will unfold from now on is a world I do not know. In such a world, hiding secrets that do not need to be hidden and acting like that? It does not suit my personality.”
I need people to make the world a better place.
It’s my belief that I trust someone who shows me everything.
It gives you faith.
But I know that in order to make someone show me everything, I have to show them everything first.
So I show everything about myself.
That’s all.
He raised his hand and rested his chin on Charlotte’s head next to him.
I’ve been feeling this for a while now. Our Charlotte seems a little depressed.
“Isn’t it complicated?”
“Yes. A little. It’s a burden.”
“Don’t worry. You’re doing your job well enough.”
Charlotte asked with an awkward smile.
“Really?”
“Oh. Of course. Did you see me joking?”
Charlotte nodded without hesitation.
“You lied to Cell when we talked about the Book of Prophecy before.”
“Hey, that’s… … .”
A blackened demon is going to destroy the world or something.
Honestly, that’s not true.
“There’s nothing else, right?”
The heavy atmosphere had long since lifted.
Charlotte chuckles.
“Yes. Thank you, boss.”
I patted the guy’s head again.
The reason I bring this up is because our Charlotte seemed a little down.
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Thanos and Cell, who had been living in the same house until recently, had risen to stardom in just a few months, while he felt uneasy as if he was standing still.
That’s what I see.
It must have been visible not only to my eyes but also to our teacher’s eyes.
It seems right, as I see you quietly brushing my hair.
So we walked away with a slightly brighter atmosphere.
We walked for about 3 hours, talking about this and that, and finally arrived.
Vampires invade the city of Lionello.
As soon as we got there, the mood in our group immediately plummeted to its lowest point.
Charlotte’s expression, which had seemed to have gained strength just a moment ago, had darkened to a degree that was difficult to describe in words.
This is not it.
This is not what I wanted to see.
Should I say that such thoughts are directly reflected on his face?
ghetto.
All countries, including Tulcan, have slums, as befitting a place where people live.
But the vampire city of Lionel was darker and more vile than any slum.
Charlotte was silently watching what was happening right in front of her, and I was watching her.
It feels a bit strange to say this.
Charlotte needs to grow up too.
It’s useless if you just stand still.
* * *
There were two differences between the vampires and dwarves of Lionel’s domain.
One is the overall quality of life.
To be exact, the clothes they were wearing and their behavior were completely different.
The dwarves seemed to live almost in the celestial realm, while the vampires seemed to live underground, or even deeper, or, to put it simply, the poor.
This was the first difference, and the second was that they did not show any ‘hostility’ towards humans.
The dwarf had two reactions when he saw our group.
Wariness and hostility.
I wonder if they, like the human mercenaries called ‘Hunters’ who come to the Forest of Demons, will steal things or capture us and make us slaves. I saw that, but vampires weren’t like that.
I just stare blankly.
It doesn’t contain any emotions.
To be exact, there was exactly one emotion involved.
That’s helplessness.
That one word sums it all up.
This place almost looked like a city of defeated soldiers.
Liveliness? None.
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The children wandering the streets looked like ordinary children, but there were no smiles on their faces.
When I visited the Arbeloa estate in Teslan before, I said this.
The fact that children in Yeongji are running around laughing, playing, and running around is indirect evidence that Yeongji is a place worth living in.
Even if you just look at the current situation, it was simple.
This was simply not a city worth living in.
A city without laughter.
A city in ruins, on the verge of collapse.
A few people looked at our group with curiosity, but that was it.
Because they kept doing something as if they each had something to do.
Some carry trees, some burn firewood, and some make things like toys.
Such a sight unfolded before my eyes.
