Episode 995
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An unknown bird flew across the sky and let out a refreshing cry.
“her…?”
Raon blinked blankly, listening to the song of a bird falling over his head.
“Why is there a town I’ve never seen before in front of me?”
There was a small village right in front of me. There were several houses built of red brick, and when I saw the smoke rising from the square chimneys, my heart strangely felt warm. It felt like I was looking at an annex.
‘Where is this?’
I don’t know why I ended up in a place like this, I just broke the old woman’s mask she was wearing to cure Merlin.
‘Is this a world of imagination? For something like that… .’
Raon looked around and narrowed his eyes.
‘The sensation is so vivid.’
Seeing the lovely scent and the flow of the wind coming from the village felt right at my fingertips, it felt like it was not a dream or an imaginary world, but reality.
‘Or maybe I died?’
If Tachyon had attacked him by surprise when the light burst from Merlin’s mask, his body would have exploded before he even felt it.
‘No, that was too much. Larian would have stopped it.’
-Ugh!
As I shook my head, thinking that he probably wasn’t dead, I heard a familiar voice from beneath my feet.
-Hey, where is this?
Lars came up with his eyes half open. He still looked like blue cotton candy.
-Where have you brought the King!
Lass yelled at him to tell him where he was right now.
‘I see you’re here, so I guess you’re not dead.’
Raon snickered as he watched Ras grumbling that his head hurt. Seeing Ras dragged in in a ghostly state, it seemed like he wasn’t dead yet.
‘But it’s so vivid that it seems real… Huh?’
Raon opened his eyes wide as he tried to touch the tree next to him with his hand.
‘what….’
It’s not caught!
As if they had become ghosts, neither the trees nor the leaves could be grasped by his hands.
-Hmm!
Lars looked himself up and down with narrowed eyes.
-You have become a fool like the king! You too must know the pain of a spirit state!
The guy burst into a satisfied laugh as if he had caught it.
‘Is this the spirit state?’
Raon licked his lips as he examined his body.
‘It’s definitely unusual.’
His senses were more sensitive than when he was alive, and nothing could touch his hands and feet. I thought I knew why Lars was so obsessed with food.
‘Should we go in first?’
Raon took a quick sip while looking at the village.
-To that town?
‘I think I know where this is.’
He himself was dragged to this village in a trance state while trying to remove Merlin’s mask. Naturally, this is Merlin’s imaginary world.
-That too, that madwoman’s past.
Lars seemed to notice and nodded.
‘okay.’
Raon slowly took a deep breath and entered the village.
“The weather is nice today.”
“What good is that! It’s going to rain soon.”
“Are you using magic to read the weather again? I told you to let nature be what it is.”
“This time, the cultivation magic that Sella developed is amazing! The harvest almost doubled!”
“His magic is certainly trustworthy.”
“Where have the kids gone? It’s almost dinnertime!”
As expected of a small town, people were talking to each other without anyone being left out. It felt like a cozy place, as if I was looking at an annex.
‘I have to find Merlin… .’
Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked around the village.
‘I don’t know how to find it.’
-I don’t want to say it with your own mouth, but that madwoman’s face is quite clean. It will definitely show.
Lars nodded, saying that if Merlin had the looks, he would have been able to see him from a young age.
‘Maybe not.’
Raon shook his head calmly.
‘Because Merlin’s body in this world is not her real body.’
I don’t know the exact process, but Merlin took over the body of a person who wore the old woman’s mask and came down to the present world.
The Merlin’s face that I saw in reality and the Merlin’s face here had to be different.
-Well, that’s definitely true.
Las nodded as if he understood.
-Even if someone called Tacheon or something was involved, it would still be true that the madwoman stole someone else’s body.
The guy frowned as if something had occurred to him.
“Tsk… .”
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Raon walked around the village in silence and then clicked his tongue briefly.
‘It’s quite uncomfortable to be in a spirit state.’
I could get over walls and doors, but it was frustrating not being able to use magic or auras.
‘It’s fortunate that the village is small.’
As I was sighing and searching through the village, I heard the laughter of children from a small open space between the houses.
‘if….’
Raon turned around and headed towards the empty lot where he could hear the children’s voices.
“Can’t you even do that?”
“It’s really slow….”
“Even kids younger than you do it.”
“It’s a disgrace to Para. A disgrace!”
A group of children who looked to be a little over ten years old were surrounding a girl with purple hair and laughing at her.
“I, I can do it too… .”
The purple-haired child raised his head weakly.
‘uh?’
Raon glared at the purple-haired child.
‘Merlin…?’
The purple-haired child, despite her young age, had an air of beauty that belied the word “beautiful” rather than “pretty.”
It seemed that in just a few years, Merlin’s face would look exactly like the one he had seen before.
-That’s not what you said! You’re just like a madwoman!
Lars waved his hand, saying that Merlin’s face was the same.
‘Me too… I don’t know why.’
Merlin died 500 years ago and was reborn by putting the mask of an old woman on a young girl in this world.
It was surprising that Merlin from the past looked the same as Merlin from the present.
‘But the eyes are different.’
Merlin’s eyes, unmasked, were purple, with a red cross engraved in the center of their pupils.
However, Merlin’s eyes were now just a normal purple color.
-Rather, the cross is engraved in the eyes of others.
Las raised his finger as if to show us a good look.
‘uh…?’
Raon followed Las’ hand and turned his gaze, then gasped.
‘It’s true.’
As Lars had said, it was not Merlin, but the children surrounding her who had blue crosses engraved in their eyes.
‘It’s not just the cross.’
The children had such a pure energy in their bodies that it seemed as if they had absorbed the mana of nature itself. It was the quality of a natural magician.
“her….”
Raon swallowed dryly as he saw the cross forming in the eyes of a middle-aged woman hanging up her laundry.
‘Could it be that those eyes are a bloodline trait?’
Not everyone in this village had a cross hanging over their eyelids, but most of them did, and they carried pure mana with them.
“Now, look carefully… .”
Merlin stuttered and opened her hands with difficulty. A small orb of flame rose above her palms.
Wooooow!
However, the flame could not be maintained and was blown out like a candle in the wind.
“I knew it!”
“Failed again!”
“He doesn’t even have a cross in his eyes. He’s not a Para like us.”
“I don’t know why Sella is taking care of him.”
The children teased Merlin, sticking out their tongues.
“Oh, no.”
Merlin stirred the flame in his hand again, but instead of maintaining it, it faded away even faster than before.
“I told you not to do it.”
“Give up!”
“You can’t even do basic magic that’s lower level than that.”
“No talent. No talent.”
The children shook their heads, mumbling that it was okay.
“You’re not even Sella’s real daughter….”
“These guys!”
As the black-haired child was about to say the name of the person named Sela, a middle-aged woman who was hanging laundry to dry came running.
“I told you to stop bothering your friend!”
“Eww!”
At her scream, the children turned and started running away.
“Where!”
As the middle-aged woman snapped her fingers, the running children began to rise into the air and be dragged towards her.
“Okay, I was wrong!”
“I was just joking!”
“Ugh… .”
The children muttered apologies as they hung their laundry in the air.
“You should apologize to your friend, not me!”
The middle-aged woman frowned, pointing at Merlin.
“I, I’m sorry… .”
“It was really a joke….”
The children rolled their eyes and nodded.
“Black….”
Merlin didn’t answer, but sniffled and covered his face.
“… … .”
-… … .”
Laon and Las gaped at Merlin, who was crying like a normal child.
‘Is this Merlin?’
-Is this a madwoman?
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“Ugh… .”
Merlin wiped his eyes and nose as if trying not to show that he had been crying, then entered an old brick house at the end of the village.
“Yes, I’m back.”
As she nodded weakly, a young woman walked out of the kitchen with a rustling sound.
“You’re here early?”
She was a cool-looking beauty with smooth blonde hair tied back neatly, and there was a blue cross engraved in her eyes.
“Have fun… Huh?”
The blonde-eyed woman smiled and nodded, then lowered her eyebrows slightly as she looked at Merlin’s reddened nose.
“Are you crying again?”
The blonde-eyed woman sighed, as if this wasn’t the first or second time something like this had happened.
“Oh, no.”
Merlin shook his head, saying that something had gotten into his eyes.
“I see. Then there’s nothing you can do. Just always be careful with your hands. A wizard’s hands and eyes are his lifeblood. Do you know Merlin’s teachings?”
The blonde-eyed woman gently stroked the burn marks on Merlin’s fingertips. The burns slowly faded as if they had some special power.
“… Yes, Sella.”
Merlin looked down at the blonde-eyed woman he called Sella, unable to look straight at her.
“I told you to call me Mom and speak comfortably.”
Cella shook her head, saying that it was okay to be comfortable with her.
“… … .”
Merlin didn’t answer, but just rolled his eyes. He seemed embarrassed and hesitant.
“…Okay. Let’s eat first.”
Sella let out a short sigh and went back into the kitchen.
“Yes, I will help you.”
Merlin sniffled and followed Sella into the kitchen.
“Okay, go wash up and come back.”
Sella sent Merlin out again, telling him to go wash his face and hands.
“yes….”
Merlin opened the round silver orb and washed his hands and face, his shoulders hunched as if he had become a crouch.
-That… .
Lars gasped as he looked at Merlin, who was sticking his mouth out like a duck.
-Are you really that madwoman? No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like it.
The guy shook his head, saying there was no way that crazy woman could be that quiet.
‘I thought the same thing.’
Raon let out a small laugh.
‘Because it’s so different from the Merlin I’ve seen.’
Merlin always shows extreme action. I never imagined that the friendly monster who called Sylvia, whom he met for the first time, ‘mother’ and called Glenn and Lectar, who everyone was afraid of, ‘grandfather’, would have such a past.
-however….
Lars looked at the kitchen where Merlin and Sella were with serious eyes.
‘what’s the matter?’
Raon looked at Las, feeling ominous.
-Aren’t you curious about what’s for dinner in this house?
Lass was licking his lips, wanting to see it right now.
-It smells good, but I don’t know what it is!
The guy quickly gestured for us to go into the kitchen.
“Ha, I want to see your past too….”
Raon entered the kitchen, picturing in his mind how Lass became the Demon King of Wrath.
In the meantime, Merlin and Sella were eating at a round table, as if time had changed.
-What is this?
Lars rolled his eyes at the red food on the table.
-It looks like melted tomatoes, cheese, and sausage? It’s like pizza, but something is different!
The guy licked his lips as if he wanted to eat.
“How was the magic implementation?”
Sella gave Merlin a buttered loaf of bread and raised her eyebrows.
“Has the retention time increased?”
“About 1, 1 second.”
Merlin let out a long sigh, saying that nothing had changed.
“It’s okay. It’ll get better.”
Cella smiled, saying that things would get better slowly.
“Because you have talent.”
“Well, I don’t have any talent or anything….”
Merlin shook his head, biting his lip.
“I don’t have Para’s eyes either….”
She bit her lip as she looked at the blue cross in Sella’s eyes.
“These eyes are not important.”
Sella put down her fork and smiled softly.
“What’s important is not the power of the magic, but what kind of magic you learn and use.”
She laughed, saying that even without these eyes, the path to magic is wide and long.
“Merlin wasn’t Para either. You know that.”
Cella covered her eyes slightly, telling her to remember well.
“yes….”
Despite Sella’s advice, Merlin let out a short sigh as if thinking about what had happened during the day and put down his fork and spoon.
“I ate well… .”
She left the house again, saying that she had eaten well.
“Okay, wait a minute!”
Sella reached out and called Merlin, but she had already run outside.
“ha….”
Sella let out a short sigh and looked at Merlin’s half-eaten bread.
“Being a mother isn’t easy. It’s much more complicated than magic.”
She shook her head and began to clear the table.
‘I guess I should go out.’
It seemed as though I wouldn’t be able to get any additional information by staying here, so I was about to follow Merlin out.
Phew!
Suddenly, a blue light appeared before my eyes, and a dimension that people could enter opened up.
‘What is this place…?’
I turned around with a frown, and saw Sella frozen in place, holding the plate. It seemed as if time had stopped.
-It looks like he’s telling me to go inside.
Las frowned, saying that was all there was to it.
‘I guess so.’
Raon took a quick sip of his drink and then entered the blue dimension gate without hesitation.
Swish!
A huge golden platform appears, more than twice the size of Glenn’s throne.
On a splendid and beautifully sculpted throne sat an old man with trembling knees and a wrinkled face that did not suit the throne.
“Well, we have to find a way.”
The old man wearing a magnificent golden crown bit his fingernails in fear and kept repeating that he needed to find a way.
His whole body was covered in deep wrinkles, and his complexion was so yellow that it would not be strange if he died at any moment.
“I can’t die like this….”
The old man in the golden crown chewed his lips as he looked out the window at the vast view of the kingdom.
“That’s why I’m telling you to find a way!”
He swore and threw the potions and healing artifacts next to the throne down onto the platform.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
“But the illness Your Majesty is suffering from is something I have never seen before….”
“We have never seen a disease that accelerates aging to that extent.”
The priests and healers below lowered their heads as if they were ashamed.
“Incompetent things… .”
He gnashed his teeth and showed deep anger. In the meantime, another wrinkle appeared on his forehead as if he was getting older.
“Just that person needs to come, just that person… .”
As he waved his hand, calling out to someone, the huge door to the audience room opened.
Kookookookookook.
The person who opened the door and came in was a man wearing a gray robe over his entire body.
He approached the podium with a confident, yet not overly confident, stride.
“Your Majesty. I have finally found a way to cure your illness.”
The man in the gray robes bowed to the wrinkled king, saying that he had found a sure way.
“Is that true?”
The king swallowed dry saliva and came down from the throne.
“Wise man! Tell me quickly!”
He ran down the platform without even being able to fully straighten his back and stood in front of the man in the gray robe.
“Of course.”
The man called the wise man took off the hood that was covering his face with a faint smile.
“her?”
Raon swallowed dryly as he looked at the face of the man in the gray robe.
‘Ta… a thousand?’
The face of the man in the gray robe was exactly like the mask of the young man that Ta-cheon was wearing. Judging from his smiling face, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was the same person.
“Your Majesty. By any chance….”
A man with a face as sharp as a blade clasped his hands together with a faint smile.
“Do you know the race called Para?”
