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The capital of the Holy Empire. The owner of a place that should have been the most brilliant, but unfortunately, is called the second radiance.
Emperor Alt of the Empire had a strange look in his eyes.
“… Are you saying that you heard an explosion at the temple?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
There was a strange light in Emperor Alt’s eyes as he looked at the one who answered obediently and bowed his head.
One of the 24 elven Inquisitors, he holds the position of 5th Inquisitor.
1 The loyal confidant of the Inquisitor. Her noble voice echoed throughout the palace.
“The place where the explosion was heard was the building where the Pope was staying for a while. It is said that it was a fairly large explosion that collapsed one of the outer walls.”
And only the Emperor and his confidants can hear this voice.
“Hoo.”
A smile appeared on the emperor’s lips.
He looked down at the Inquisitor and opened his mouth.
“Has the rampage finally begun?”
Pope Cecilia. The Emperor’s most irritating political enemy.
The emperor knew that her true identity was a dragon half-blood.
I also knew that her death was not far away.
“maybe.”
The fifth interrogator raised his head.
The Emperor and the Inquisitor stared at each other.
The elf’s mouth opened.
“I’m thinking that the dragon blood inside the dragon hybrid’s body has run wild. Won’t the human body soon be unable to withstand the dragon blood and collapse?”
A smile appeared on the lips of the fifth interrogator as he spoke calmly.
The emperor’s smile grew deeper.
“That’s good.”
There was greed in his eyes.
“A new balance will soon be found.”
His gaze turned to the ceiling of the main hall. The ornately engraved patterns had an indecipherable meaning, but they were very ornate.
“The first interrogator is the one who should be the center of the religious order.”
The five inquisitors gently accepted Emperor Alt’s words.
“And the church should handle the church’s affairs, and His Majesty the Emperor, who is the center of the empire, should handle human affairs.”
Their gazes turned to each other.
“It’s great that our interests align so well.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The smile disappeared from the emperor’s lips.
He soon spoke in a cold tone.
“The Lord said he would be back soon?”
“That’s right.”
“Before that, let’s finish preparing.”
“great.”
The fifth interrogator continued speaking with a smile.
“Since the Lord has given his permission, preparations will not be difficult.”
“Haha, that’s right.”
The emperor burst into hearty laughter and then muttered softly.
“Anyway, Pope, those are lives that will be thrown away.”
The five interrogators who had been smiling at each other soon left Daejeon.
‘He must have run straight to the first interrogator.’
Tch.
Alt, clicking his tongue, muttered.
“The Pope is also pitiful. He doesn’t even know that the Lord knew their true intentions long ago and was preparing to abandon them.”
He asked casually.
“Is there no answer from the Kingdom of Har?”
“No. There isn’t.”
At his confidant’s words, Alt’s eyes slightly distorted.
“How arrogant. How dare you ruin our country.”
He let out a small sigh.
“There must be someone watching over the Har Kingdom during this Har Kingdom expedition.”
Knock, knock. The emperor, who had been tapping the armrest of his chair, continued speaking in an indifferent tone.
“That background somehow reminds me of the Pope and the dragon half-blood bastards.”
For sure-
“Because there are still things that will cause chaos on this land before I die.”
The emperor looked up at the ceiling of the great hall again.
Normally, ceilings like this would be engraved with pictures depicting the birth of an empire or its heroic aspects.
There are only meaningless patterns here.
He snorted.
‘Yeah, it’s not just a painting that praises dragons.’
I’d rather have a meaningless pattern like this.
The emperor clenched his fist.
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‘I’m contributing to the dragon now.’
Dragons cannot continue to rule over human affairs forever.
“…If you want to become a god, you must keep your hands off human affairs.”
Emperor Alt muttered in an indifferent tone and gave orders to his confidant.
“Put more pressure on King Har. And bring him here.”
“yes.”
“And once you get to the palace, you have to use any means necessary to get information about the backroom from him.”
The confidant responded in kind.
“Can the back of your head point towards the podium?”
“okay.”
A smile appeared on the emperor’s lips.
“The order of things is important. Let’s start with the Pope.”
If you eliminate them one by one like that.
“Everything will come into my hands.”
The smile forming on Alt’s lips did not disappear.
***
“If you reach there, you can converse with the origin of the world.”
Kale shook off the dirt and a huge pit appeared before his eyes.
It wasn’t dark inside the pit.
It was covered in a rainbow of brilliant colors, as if looking at the aurora, with gorgeous and beautiful colors.
The Guardian pointed into the pit, and Wisha spoke with a stern face.
“… That’s why I got hurt.”
She warned Kale.
“If you touch me, you could die.”
Kale’s gaze turned to Wisha.
“That space is balanced. If an imbalanced being enters, its life force is sucked out.”
Wisha’s warning reached Kale’s ears.
1055.
“Vitality-”
The first to react to Wisha’s words about sucking life force was the clan shaman Gashan.
“Then isn’t it dangerous?”
Wisha sighed at his frowning words.
“that is-”
“Let me explain.”
The elf guardian stepped forward.
Meanwhile, Kale’s gaze turned in the direction he had come from.
On the other side of a deep, endless pit emitting a rainbow of colors. A narrow tunnel.
The secret base was an underground tunnel under the forest.
Without even being able to build a proper living environment, the underground tunnels for minimal survival were built with complex structures like anthills.
It couldn’t even be compared to the underground city of the dark elves. Because it was so shabby that it was hard to even call it a base, let alone a city.
‘There’s no choice. This is the best form to take to avoid Dragon Lion’s surveillance while also being prepared for any eventuality.’
As Cale recalled the words of the elf guardian, her voice reached his ears.
“We were originally digging a tunnel to invade Ryan’s castle when we discovered a giant sinkhole.”
That was this huge hole.
“Because it was a pit emitting a rainbow of light, I thought it was strange, so I investigated it and discovered that the light was the same as the light that the World Tree would occasionally emit.”
The world tree that touches the flow of the world.
“Based on this, I did some research and found out that if you go into this pit, you can reach the origin of the world.”
After that, there were several attempts to reach the source as a natural sequence, and as a result, Wisha and the elf guardian were able to reach the source.
“Currently, the source has lost much of his power. As a result, he is having difficulty controlling himself.”
The moment he heard the word control, Kale’s gaze turned to the guardian elf.
“I don’t have enough time to explain the entire situation in detail, so to summarize, the source is currently concentrating all his energy on not losing himself, and he does not have the capacity to protect the intruder who has entered his territory.”
“But once you have reached the source of the world and received His touch, you will never lose your vitality again when you enter this realm.”
“But the beginning is difficult.”
“You’ll either get hurt like Wisha or grow old like me. Or-”
The elf pointed to a few people standing behind him.
In addition to Wisha and the Guardians, there were several people who held important positions in this secret base.
They welcomed Kale’s party, but were also wary.
“Or, you could get different side effects like these.”
Hmm.
Gashan let out a deep sigh. His gaze turned to Kale.
The other party members were the same. Tasha, Fendrick, and others. They looked at Kale with worried eyes, but no one dared to open their mouths.
‘Are you going?’
Now I know that if you ask me like that, Kale will only answer with ‘I’m going’.
However, the only dilemma for the group was whether to send him alone or go together.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Silence fell.
Neither Kale nor the others could easily speak. However, the dark elf Tasha looked at Wisha with a slightly hardened face.
“If there is something like this, shouldn’t you have told me in advance?”
Then we would have come up with some kind of countermeasure!
In response, Healer Fendrick opened his mouth.
“Even if Prince Kale doesn’t go to the origin of the world himself, why don’t you talk to him through the Guardian Elf here?”
“No. That’s a hassle.”
Fendrick paused.
I looked at the person who gave a decisive answer.
“… Confucius.”
As expected, Kale was about to enter the hole with his face free of any disarray.
That was when.
“That’s right, it’s a hassle!”
A bright voice was heard.
“!”
Gashan’s eyes grew wide and his gaze turned to Raon.
‘Come to think of it-‘
When something like this happened, those who should have been the first to stop Kale were the ones who stayed silent.
Choi Han, On, Hong, and Lac. Gashan’s eyes lit up as he watched what the four of them were doing.
They were already looking at Raon. Raon, who should have been the most excited, was calm. They also waited calmly.
Raon’s words that will follow.
“Human, aren’t you a misguided being?”
ah.
At those words, Gashan remembered what he had heard a little while ago.
‘This space is balanced. If an out-of-balanced being enters, its life force is sucked out.’
He thought that if an elf, a mermaid, or a dwarf entered there, their life force would be sucked out, so all beings that were not the source of the world would lose their life force.
But we first had to look into what it meant to be a ‘balanced’ space.
“What is balance?”
Gashan’s mouth opened, and Wisha opened her mouth in response.
But someone spoke before him.
“The five great attributes of nature are in balance. I think an imbalanced being is one that does not possess all of those attributes.”
It was kale.
Wisha looked at Kale with surprised eyes.
“How do you-”
How did you know? Before she could even ask, Wisha saw the corners of Kale’s mouth go up and shut her mouth.
And Raon chattered brightly.
“That’s right! I knew it the moment I saw it! Only balanced beings can enter here! So we humans are safe!”
“!”
“!”
At those words, Wisha and the Guardian Elf’s eyes widened.
“What is that-”
“no way…….”
When I understood what the young dragon had said, I came to an unbelievable conclusion.
“Savior, do you possess all five attributes?”
Kale, who had turned his gaze towards the Guardian Elf’s question, paused.
‘Isn’t that too much?’
The elf was looking at Kale with overly sparkling eyes.
So I couldn’t answer for a while.
“That’s right! We humans have more attributes than that!”
Raon answered.
“oh my god.”
And Wisha was astonished.
To the point where it seems a little too much.
‘hmm.’
Suddenly, an idea occurred to Kale.
‘…Is there an ancient power in this world?’
It’s like it never existed?
So is it possible for humans to have multiple attributes?
‘Uh. Hmm.’
The moment when an inexplicable feeling of unease crept into the back of Kale’s head.
“A human being is like the origin of the world. Such a creature can exist.”
This is Wisha.
“…Savior, that name was not in vain.”
This is the dwarf on the other side.
“Oh my god. Is this just another source?”
The one making this terrifying sound is another elf.
And finally the elf guardian-
Thud.
He grabbed both of Kale’s hands and spoke desperately with a hot look in his eyes.
“Please, save this world!”
Uh, um.
Kale pulled his hand away without a moment’s hesitation.
And then blurted it out.
“It’s not my job to save the world.”
A line was firmly drawn.
“I’ll just deal with the purple blood hunters and leave.”
He showed a very, very firm attitude.
“The rest is up to you, the origin of the world. Saving Apitoyu is the job of the creatures living in Apitoyu. It’s not my job as an outsider.”
ah.
Wisha and the Elf Guardian let out a gasp.
And Choi Han also sighed.
‘hmm?’
Yes, Choi Han wasn’t an exclamation, but a sigh. Cale turned his head slightly and looked at Choi Han. Their eyes met.
Nod.
Choi Han nodded with a serious expression. Kale felt an inexplicable sense of discomfort at the newly determined expression, but an even more uncomfortable sound reached his ears.
“As expected, you are the savior.”
The Guardian Elf’s eyes grew hotter. Kale didn’t know why, but since he had clearly stated what he was going to do, he wouldn’t cross that line.
-Kale, no matter how you look at it, there’s no way our life force will be sucked out.
Listening to Jjangdol’s words that it was safe, Kale turned away from the elves and the Apitoyu people.
And then he strode briskly towards the colorful pit.
“You guys stay here.”
“I get it!”
Raon shook his front paw.
Cale stepped into the hole, feeling relieved at the sight of the average 10-year-old readily letting him go.
At that time, Wisha said.
“Ah. Don’t be surprised, I’ll just fall down.”
But those words came a little too late.
“!”
The moment Kale took a step, his body suddenly fell down.
‘omg!’
Too shocked to speak, he was sucked straight into the hole.
“Really, your vitality is not fast.”
Wisha, who was watching his figure disappear into the rainbow of colorful light, muttered softly, and the guardian elf continued her words.
“… You have such an indifferent expression until the very end. Are you used to this kind of thing?”
But none of Kale’s group answered her question. They just stared into the hole where Kale was no longer visible, waiting for the moment when he would return.
And Kale opened his mouth in a rainbow of light.
“what?”
My body went down endlessly.
No, it got sucked in.
He looked down.
I couldn’t see the bottom.
It really felt like I was going to go all the way to the bottom of the earth.
-Kale.
At that moment, a familiar voice was heard after a long time.
-I’m hungry.
The unbreakable shield. The gluttonous priestess opened her mouth.
“huh?”
Are you hungry?
Why all of a sudden?
-looks delicious.
huh?
-gulp.
I can hear someone swallowing.
Kale looked around, feeling a chill without realizing it.
Looking closely, the colorful lights were made up of small grains, each containing a different light.
In a way, it looked like the air bubbles that appeared when the sea was turned upside down.
gulp.
“hmm?”
Kale flinched without realizing it.
‘Did I just swallow my saliva?’
Aren’t I hungry?
And what did you see that made you swallow?
Once again, the brilliant specks of light came into view.
As he went down, more and more grains of light surrounded him.
-gulp.
gulp.
The gluttonous priestess and Kale swallowed at the same time.
‘Huh!’
Just as Kale was startled, a faint voice suddenly came from below.
-Ah, no no no no—-!
It was the voice of a girl who seemed to be about three years old.
A voice full of sobs was heard.
-Please, please, please. Please, don’t steal it from me… Sob, sob.
Crying.
‘hmm.’
This must be the original voice of the world.
-Ugh. Sniff!
I can hear someone sniffling and swallowing mucus.
-Please, save me… Heheheehe—!
Now let’s cry out loud.
Kale reached out.
A place filled with a brilliant halo of light. Kale’s body no longer descended.
Instead, his vision was centered on a brilliant halo of light.
There was a giant bead there.
It was roughly the size of an average house.
Kale’s hand touched the bead.
smart.
When I tapped on the glass-like surface, the tooth inside the bead looked at the kale.
-Sniff, sniff.
fantasy,
