Episode 106
General Dong
That moment.
Elric was able to peek again at the karma left by the Dongbaek God.
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-I’m bored.
God of camellia… No, the ‘Queen’, whose name Elric still did not know, was a lonely being.
In the huge palace named the Winter Palace, he closed and opened his eyes alone, worked alone, walked in the garden alone, and looked alone at his all-white estate.
She was alone in the whole routine.
I didn’t do much of the work alone. It was simply because she was the only one in her palace. She had no other people living in the large estate other than her.
She alone was queen, subject, and subject.
Of course, it was never like this from the beginning.
The Winter Palace was always crowded with so many people, and the subjects were crying and asking for more manpower due to the workload pouring in from all over.
Yet the people always lived with a smile on their faces. He praised her so much that she was drooling, saying that it was all thanks to her queen’s consideration that she was able to live without worries like this, and she nodded her head proudly each time.
but.
That’s just a thing of the distant past.
For reasons unknown to Elric, the people all closed their eyes, and the subjects set out on a long journey.
Not even a single blade of grass grew in this spacious palace and even larger estate.
In this desolate and lonely place where dogs, which were commonly seen, no longer run around and play, all that was visible was pure white snow.
-I’m bored. too.
So, while the queen was busy with her daily routine, she often talked to herself because she had no one to talk to.
If I continued like this, I really felt like I would forget how to speak.
Sometimes I thought about giving up on work and getting some sleep, which I had been putting off forever due to my busy daily life.
It seemed like a lot of time would pass after I hibernated or something.
No, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to just continue to sleep like this.
But whenever such thoughts occurred to her, the queen would always shake her head and whisper to herself that she should not do that.
If you fall asleep here, there will be no one to remember your precious people and subjects… .
It was so horrible.
-Still, I’m bored. What kind of work should I do this time? hmm?
So that day, I was carrying out my daily tasks just like any other day.
While walking around the palace and wondering if there was anything broken, if there was anything that needed to be repaired, and if there was anything that needed to be added, I was able to discover something that was different from usual.
A sprout growing between transparent ice tiles that are as cleanly cut as marble… one.
-Hoo?
The queen looked at it and let out a very brief exclamation.
No matter how many times she wandered around palaces and estates, the world around her always remained the same.
If it weren’t for the snow falling outside the window, everything was so quiet and quiet that I thought time would have stopped.
In her world, which always remained the same no matter how much she searched to find the broken place, there was a change, albeit a very small one, for the first time.
-I won’t be bored for a while.
For the first time in hundreds of years, a faint smile appeared on the ice-cold face of the queen.
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[Successful in meeting the requirements.]
[The fourth restriction is being lifted.]
[This restriction requires a considerable amount of time to be lifted due to the large locking mechanism.]
Faaaa!
The stone slab trembled slightly, and the back of my hand shed a bright light.
Toaduk, toukduuk-
Elric could feel the magic energy pouring out from the completed seal of cruelty to the seal of cold wind.
The seal of the cold wind was so urgent that it ate up demon energy without stopping. Still, he felt that something was so lacking that he begged the Cruel Seal for more demon energy. It was as if I was seeing a baby bird begging its mother bird to be fed.
At such times, the Relentless Seal was able to soothe the impatient Seal of the Cold Wind and change everything little by little.
It was around that time that something that had been tightly binding the seal of the cold wind began to fall away.
Hwii!
The wind blew from somewhere.
Elric’s hair also fluttered helplessly in the wind.
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One task was added to the queen’s already busy daily routine.
It was just about growing sprouts.
To help the sprouts grow well, the surrounding ice tiles were replaced and the surrounding area was replenished with soil obtained with difficulty.
We controlled the temperature in case the sprouts would freeze to death due to the cold, and built a barrier around them to prevent snow blowing.
-You need to know. This woman is a person who never pays attention to trivial things like this. Always keep in mind how much grace you are receiving.
In fact, the queen did not know what type of sprout this was. The flowers that filled the garden before were all taken care of by the subjects and people. This was her first time growing something with her own hands.
So the Queen’s hand had to be very careful. I was afraid that her buds might not grow properly. I didn’t want to let go of someone I hadn’t seen in hundreds of years so easily.
-Even though it was free to come in, leaving is not free.
As time passed, the sprout continued to grow. There were a few times when I was almost in danger, but I did it somehow and grew well little by little.
The sprout became a seedling, and the seedling gradually grew upward, spreading out branches and sprouting leaves. Then, one by one, flower buds formed and began to bloom.
The flowers were red.
It was so beautiful that the queen had to look at the flower for a long time. She even forgot about having to do the work she repeated every day.
And from then on, the queen picked the fruit from where the flower had faded and planted it next to it. I was wondering if more of the same tree could grow.
Fortunately, her thoughts were correct. The garden soon began to fill with numerous trees. And at some point, unknown flowers began to bloom one by one among the trees… The garden truly became a flower garden.
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spring Summer Fall Winter. Although it was still a cold world with snow falling outside, flowers bloomed and fell sequentially every season here. The queen always felt happy just by being there.
and.
On the other hand, I could see that the power that had been building up inside her was gradually starting to leak out.
-These people are all poisonous… This is it.
The queen let out a laugh.
Actually, if you think about it, it was a very natural thing. She was the queen who ruled over all the ice and snow in the world, and as such, she always had to live with the cold winter in her heart.
But the moment that winter melted away like spring snow, all the thoughts that had formed her also melted away.
However, that did not mean the queen had any intention of destroying the flower garden she had carefully maintained. No, she rather wanted to keep this place beautiful until the end.
It was a pity that no one would remember the subjects and people who had left when she melted, but she had no desire to leave because she was able to recall old memories while she was in this garden.
This was because it was a place where deep memories remained, where her subjects and people laughed the brightest with her.
Pop!
Pop!
As time passed, the queen gradually became thinner. She quietly closed her eyes, burying her face in her flower garden, which was heavily scented with flowers. She let the water flow freely from her, moistening her petals.
[Who is this sister?]
[who is this?]
[pretty.]
[Pretty!]
Cry-
It seemed like a sound like a sparrow chirping in the quiet flower garden, but the queen did not open her eyes. She was just quietly enjoying the warmth of the flowers, as if she were taking a nap.
‘Winter’ was coming to an end, and ‘spring’ was about to arrive.
but.
-There was something like this in a place like this.
Damn it!
In such a flower garden, an unfamiliar pitch-black shadow was cast.
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‘That… ?’
For a moment, Elric felt that the owner of the shadow he last saw in the game looked familiar.
‘Drink!’
One day, when he first opened the Arrangement, he was someone who had the same temperament as the gigantic demon god who confronted the wizard who seemed to be his ancestor.
Although it was very different from the tens of meters tall body and appearance.
Elric thought it must be a demon god.
No, I was sure.
The owner of the shadow later picked up the queen’s body left in the flower garden and breathed life into it.
It was a miracle that could never have been accomplished unless it were a divine being.
-Shouldn’t winter just remain winter?
The body was scattered, and the evil thoughts that remained inside it were released and reborn as a new mystery. It gradually spread out, embracing a lot of darkness, and gradually descended from the black snow field to the outer edge and along the ridge to the first thousand (泉).
It was the birth of General Dong.
Paaaat!
It was there that Elric came to his senses. She was cold but warm, and the lonely but happy queen’s karma seemed to be vividly felt at her fingertips.
However, it was a harsh wind that destroyed the flower garden and was extremely chilly for those who tried to trample on the territory, so it was a ‘snow wind’.
Toad!
Whoa whoa-
Elric could feel that the ice string that forcibly restrained the Seal of Cold Wind was completely broken and it was clearly connected to the Seal of Relentlessness.
click!
It was certain.
In completing ‘Winter’, the seal of cruelty and the seal of cold wind were cogs that moved together as one.
[All restrictions have been lifted!]
[Open nature.]
When Elric looked up again, the sight he saw was a dark and chilly world.
Here, Elric seemed to know what to do.
The seal of cruelty no longer swallowed the cold. Instead, this time I vomited back what I had swallowed.
With the seal of the cold wind.
“【I’m going to come to Air because I’m lonely】.”
The moment the completed trigger was pulled, the seal of the cold wind violently created a whirlwind.
Kwakwakwakwa!
A snowstorm of incomparably greater size than before clawed and tore the darkness surrounding Elric to pieces. Even the snowstorm that had disrupted my vision and senses was defeated.
Kukuku-
As if a curtain had been lifted, the hidden ‘real’ landscape appeared beyond it.
[…] You finally woke up.]
The camellia god was still riding on Elric’s left shoulder.
However, the emotions on her face were very complex and subtle.
For her, her entire past was revealed to Elric. She might feel embarrassed and a little displeased.
but.
There were feelings that went much further than that.
“Hwawon, I will somehow put it back to its original state.”
Elric read those thoughts and spoke to the camellia god.
[you… !]
“Seeing the beautiful flowers that bloomed in the flower garden again. “Isn’t that the sight you wanted to embrace until the end and protect even when you were reborn as the God of Camellia?”
The camellia god kept his mouth shut.
As Elric said, the flower garden she grew up in was now called the Temple of Flowers.
As the main deity who tended the temple of flowers before they were winter flowers, she longed to restore the beauty it once had.
The ‘spring’ that Woosden was talking about was the warmth that the demon god had blocked with a curse.
[ask… Can I?]
The camellia god had the same face as the queen he had seen in the movie and desperately wished for Elric.
“Please don’t say such stiff things as a favor.”
[…] ?]
“You don’t say things like that between friends, right?”
[…] !]
Elric leapt forward while saying those words. With each step he took, the seal of cruelty and the seal of cold wind mixed together, causing his blizzard and ice fragments to bounce wildly.
[Friend.]
Looking at Elric like that, Dongbaek smiled bitterly.
[You’re saying too much. [The line that was so difficult to draw is so easily crossed.]
and.
There was a hint of laughter at the end of the sentence.
Far away.
I could see the old skin covered in dark shadows.
Wizard who swallowed talent
