Episode 412
Squeak-
The moment the door opened and the sight inside was revealed.
I felt it.
That our teacher’s body trembled and shook.
That makes sense.
Because there was nothing on the third basement level.
In the previous life, the Tulcan Empire completely swept away the Teslan kingdom. They destroyed the palace, destroyed buildings, and carried out looting and arson.
The Academy could not be an exception.
The walls were destroyed and not a single building was left standing. The entire city was destroyed.
In that situation, I came to this report and discovered the statue of Julius here.
How did they find it? How could a stone statue exist intact in such a collapsed ruin?
It’s simple. At that time, I swept away the already ruined place once more.
therefore.
For example, something like this.
I knelt down on one knee and placed my hands on the floor.
Let’s slowly raise our spirits, Kukugung.
The floor vibrates.
A floor that moves up and down at incredible speed.
Little by little, dust began to rise, and soon the floor cracked with a thud.
The third basement level. There was another basement level below that.
That’s why Tulcan didn’t know. To be honest, I also found out about it by chance.
My master and I landed on the floor.
A huge cavity.
The height was over 10 meters.
In this place, which looked very similar to the cave in the rocky mountain where the Master had been, there was a huge stone statue.
The size is about 6m.
It was a very realistic stone statue.
Hair of moderate length.
Distinctive facial features.
Eyes with dark double eyelids. A slightly blunt but upright nose.
A tightly shut mouth.
It was a face slightly different from the portrait of Julius Teslan hanging in the Teslan Palace.
Should I say it’s a bit beautified?
The stone statue was of a very handsome man, but the portrait was just a little handsome, that’s all.
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It’s not jealousy or anything.
It’s funny that I’m jealous of anyone.
This is a matter of fact.
A beautified stone statue.
As I was thinking like that, I heard my teacher’s voice in my ear.
[He looks like the Julius I remember, but he’s a little different.]
Look at that.
I’m telling you, this is embellished.
[He had double eyelids, but they weren’t that dark, and his facial features were distinct, but they weren’t sharp enough. But his eyes, hair, and mouth were the same. It’s definitely Julius Teslan. That’s him.]
I stood there for a moment.
I just stood there without saying anything.
I don’t know how the Master views me, but at least by my standards, the Master was a patient.
A person who has spent a long time alone. A person who knows loneliness and solitude. A person who has been trapped in it and lived alone for a long time, blaming himself.
That’s why I want to heal someone and spend my life with them. Someone who resembles me.
As I was thinking like that, the teacher asked me a question.
[So, what do you want to do now?]
This may be a bit unexpected.
Our teacher’s attitude was a little different from what I thought.
I thought the teacher would be a little depressed.
[Looking at your expression, I guess it was me from my past life who told you.]
“What is the story?”
[Everything about my past.]
I didn’t feel like lying, so I just nodded.
Then our teacher smiles brightly.
[I have no regrets about the past. I decided to open my heart to Julius, but was abandoned. I waited 400 years just in case. Yes, I am a poor woman. A poor woman who has come to experience a new world and has come face to face with what she had turned away from. Should I be sad here?]
It may seem strange, but my teacher and I have one thing in common.
Not caring about what others think.
If you are not sad yourself, then it is not. However, it is a reaction that can be shown because you have turned away from the emotion called sadness. That cannot be denied.
I’m already sad enough to be sad, so there’s nothing more to it.
I saw the end of sorrow and endured with the mental strength unique to transcendence.
That will do.
Yeah, that’s just it.
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There will be no need to be sad anymore.
From now on, Master, there will be only things to smile about. Since you have seen the end of sadness, I will show you the end of happiness.
Without hesitation, I clenched my fist and stretched it out.
Kwajik- Kwaang-!
The statue of Julius collapses, sending debris flying in all directions.
And a sword appeared there.
Total length is 2.2m. Width is 4cm.
The handle alone was over 40cm long, and there was an ancient bronze bowl of the same size as the handle.
A sword shaped like a long cross pointing downwards, Durandal, was revealed.
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It wasn’t the end.
A strange movement of mana occurred from the direction of the collapsed stone statue.
My teacher and I turned our heads.
The statue of Julius collapsed, and the mana rising from the statue’s head began to take shape in the air.
And what was revealed was Julius, made of mana.
{Did a war break out?}
I didn’t answer. That wasn’t Julius himself, but the will he left on the statue.
Mana’s will.
{If war broke out and the Teslan Imperial Palace fell, my statue would have naturally fallen as well.}
I don’t know the detailed history, but I was able to understand everything from the context.
Originally, this statue was located in the Teslan Royal Palace.
{What’s the point of talking long and hard? The winner has the right to take everything. Just like I buried the black magician Valentine, who was a monster in the past, in the mountain.}
[… … .]
{Teslan is a country with a brilliant history. I killed all the dragons by myself, and I killed the black magician Valentine who was causing chaos in the world. Yes, it is a country I created. The great hero is me. I am a hero. Do you think you can bear that weight?}
To me and my teacher, who knew the whole truth, Julius’s will was the height of ugliness.
{Durandal is a sword that no one can use properly. Those who use it will walk the path of destruction. Yes, it is a sword of destruction.}
I tried it and it didn’t work.
{If you put mana into it, it will reject that mana. This is a sword that even I could not use properly. No, rather, it was because I was the one who used the sword to that extent. You who destroyed my country, you who destroyed my statue, can you use Durandal? Can you use it like I can? If you cannot use it, then that is your vessel. That is your limit.}
Actually, Durandal is a pretty rough sword.
It’s not a sword with an ego or anything, it’s a sword for the transcendent.
A sword from another world that rejects the power of mana and only accepts the energy of the soul.
I heard from my teacher that Julius couldn’t even use this sword properly.
That’s because Julius was unqualified.
{I created the world. I am a hero with an immortal history. That is how it will be told.}
Other than that, they all sounded similar. I am immortal, I am the emperor, the Teslan Empire is eternal, etc.
That was the end.
The last of Julius’s mana left in this world has disappeared.
The nation of Teslan has disappeared, and the Teslan bloodline has also disappeared, so there is no longer any trace of Julius.
Well, there is only one conclusion.
Julius was a dirty man until the end.
I walked quietly and grabbed the handle of Durandal embedded in the stone statue.
It’s crackling and sparks are flying.
My hands felt a little hot, but I ignored it.
The sword cried and rejected my hand, but I ignored it, because it had done this before.
Opened the door to the soul.
A black aura extended from my arm and covered Durandal.
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Durandal, who had been trembling and crying, became quiet like a well-behaved cat.
A truth so simple and sudden.
Now, Durandal is under my control.
The difference between me and Julius is just this.
Differences in strength. And differences in appearance, differences in personality, etc.
I picked up the sword.
Durandal, once a brilliant white, is now completely black.
As in my previous life, there is no longer a name called Durandal.
“Heavenly Demon Sword.”
From now on, that will be the name of this sword.
The sword of the man who united the entire continent.
A symbol as an inspector.
The strongest longsword on the continent that cannot be broken by anything.
He draped it over his shoulder and asked his teacher.
“Does it suit you?”
The teacher, who had been smiling awkwardly, nodded.
Actually, I know that too.
What wouldn’t suit me?
This hanger is so nice.
So everything is ready.
Now it’s time to go to Tulcan.
Chapter 3
The Tulcan Empire was in chaos.
war.
It’s so absurd.
The reason it was absurd was because for hundreds of years, Tulcan had been ruling the continent.
Starting a war? It’s not a big deal for humans to fight each other. But the subject is wrong.
The words conflict and war are different.
There were many instances where the conflict was not started by Tulcan, but it was not a war.
In the hundreds of years of history since the founding of Tulcan, the Tulcan Empire has never once been declared war.
The entity that started the war was always the Tulcan Empire, it had to be the Tulcan Empire, it was the Tulcan Empire.
That was the history of the continent for hundreds of years, and the order created by Tulcan.
That order has now been broken.
Cheeky little kid.
I admit that he has the greatest talent the continent has ever had.
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I admit that Beckerman also won. I admit that he made the continent’s strongest warrior, Tem-Samitra, kneel down and accept him as his subordinate. I admit everything, but this is not it.
Can the power of an individual exceed the power of a nation? Impossible.
That’s not common sense, it’s an absolute truth.
Tulcan’s power is enormous.
There are dozens of Masters, hundreds of high-circle Mana users, and if you include those who are retired and in their old age, the number could easily be close to thousands.
Is that all? What about regular mana users?
There are at least one million mana users with 4 circles or more who can be classified as a solid combat force.
This is exactly why the five kingdoms never thought of uniting when Jack wasn’t around.
Even if we unite, we cannot reach the power of Tulcan.
Even if we somehow managed to match the numbers, we would have lost all sense of organization, so fighting in the first place was meaningless.
That’s how huge the Tulcan Empire was.
In the previous life, the Tulcan Empire was able to unify the continent because of the power of the Half-Bloods, but fundamentally, the power of the nation itself was already an insurmountable wall.
In such a country.
Declared war on a country with such great power.
If it had been that far, I would have said so.
The Tulcan Empire is the champion of the continent.
It is arrogant and presumptuous to think that there will never be challengers.
Actually, I wanted to fight a proper war at least once. As the saying goes, power has to be demonstrated periodically.
But this is not the case.
There won’t be any conscription? Just do Mercury?
This is beyond arrogant.
A shameless, filthy little bastard.
Tulcan seethed. It was rage. High-temperature rage that erupted without any attempt at refinement.
And here, in the Tulcan Imperial City, there was someone who was angry for another reason.
Tamar Tulkan, the second prince of the Tulkan Empire.
He was heading there accompanied by a large number of nobles and vassals.
To the villa where Iskandar, the crown prince of Tulkan, resides.
