276 – What to do
It’s cold.
It’s cold.
In the freezing cold, my eyes opened of their own accord.
No, but since when did I close my eyes…?
‘Snow…’
The snow that enters your mouth melts and turns into cold water that stays around your mouth. When I came to my senses, I was lying face down on the floor, and the surroundings had become infinitely quiet.
How did this happen? As I look back on my memories, what comes to mind is light. It’s also a very bright light.
A huge pillar of light that filled the field of vision. They swept me and Roca away… Roca?
Roca. Loca…? Is Roca okay? And what about others?
I quickly raised my head and looked around. But nothing catches the eye.
“Roca. “Are you there…?”
I tried calling just in case, but as expected there was no answer. I glanced up, but all I could see was a whitish light. That light that exists in a very distant place cannot reach this place. I existed alone in a darkness whose depth I could not tell.
In a place where no one comes,
My hands were holding on to the thorns even while I was fainting.
I slowly gathered myself and stood up. Yanid. Mr. Ajahadaka. And Oberta. I suddenly felt like singing out loud, but in the end I didn’t. I am the only one whom the Lord led into a deep pit.
It is not visible to the eyes. Can’t see it in this darkness.
You can only see it with your eyes. Deep below, deeper than here, a large, writhing wall can be seen. And something like a large bead that exists beyond the wall.
‘I can feel it.’
It’s called a bead, but each one is almost as big as a bead. From here, it didn’t look much different from the flat floor. There was no mistake. That is probably the core of a gigantic creature called a primordial body.
When I opened my eyes, the destination of my journey, where I had to drive this thorn in, was just a stone’s throw away. Yes, that monster from earlier. The final ray of light fired by the monster pierced this entire deep glacier, creating a huge cavity and leading me here.
‘This primordial body was truly a continent-sized life form.’
Even the size of the nucleus is large enough to be equivalent to the busiest city on the continent.
The amazing size of this creature is finally beginning to be felt. Deep in the depths, the six walls began to swell and swell. Then it began to cover the exposed core again.
The blackened burnt part splits and new skin sprouts. They begin to repair the parts that have already turned to ashes. The pace was slow but steady. It seemed that after about half a day, the six walls would completely cover the core.
I couldn’t figure out in my head what kind of phenomenon that was. I have never seen or heard of anything similar. But I felt like I knew instinctively. It feels like a wound is healing.
‘Are we recovering from our own damage?’
That nucleus would not have been exposed to the surface from the beginning. Rather, it was as if I had been damaged by the ray of light that had brought me here and had taken on that shape.
If I had been caught in such a beam of light, I would have definitely died at least once. Even if the person didn’t get burned to death by the rays, a person wouldn’t be able to survive if they fell from above to here.
If left alone, the six walls will multiply again and cover the core. Just as new skin grows and heals a wound, this wound that has appeared now will also heal again.
This is an opportunity that everyone, really everyone, risked their lives to create for me. Now there is only one task left for me. All you have to do is push what you have in your hand into it.
It’s easy if you look at the results alone, but if I were alone,
If many people, including Roca, had not helped me,
And if no one from the past left any hope,
I wouldn’t even be qualified to be in this position.
Even if I could have come this far, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything.
There is a thorn in one of my hands, and a core below me.
Here is what I can do.
Here is what I have to do.
As a human living on the continent,
As a believer who serves God,
No matter how I thought about it, it was clear what I had to do now.
I drove a thorn into its heart-red core.
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“Your Majesty. It’s still too early to be heartbroken. There is me, the Master, and there is also the unreliable Master, Lord Kisea. The masters of the beast people I mentioned before also agreed to side with the empire. However…”
Ardain von Illumina, the first princess of the empire, could not accept the situation. After arriving on the island, she talks about the fall of the empire to everyone she meets, something that would have been unthinkable in the past. Who would dare to talk about the destruction of the empire in this imperial palace, the center of the empire?
“But why is Your Majesty, or rather why are you all so depressed in the first place? Aren’t you one of these people? Since when has our empire been a place dependent on God’s help?”
But now, there is an atmosphere of self-deprecation, as if everyone is panicking and losing their minds, or admitting defeat without even fighting. There is nothing that can be called a fraud, so it feels like it will collapse if someone even touches it with a finger.
It wouldn’t be strange if the people gathered here were some kind of shabby bunch, but how could that be? The most renowned people on the continent gathered here.
Starting with the owner of the Tower of Magic, four of the five denominations that serve the five main gods of the continent met. The empire generously mobilized its hidden, secret forces. Even Harmael, the emperor of the demons who had been known as the enemy of mankind, was present here.
These people, who cannot be said to be inferior to Princess Ardein in terms of skill or authority, can each be seen as representatives of the continent. However, everyone only made mixed expressions at Ardein’s words and did not seem to have gained the slightest courage.
“But why is everyone keeping silent? Isn’t there still something we can do? “If that Shinigami is the problem…”
“Princess Ardein. “The Shinigami has perished forever.”
Only the quiet Ray broke the silence and opened his mouth. From those first words, Ardein was dumbfounded. Modrig is the most powerful Shinigami of all time, created by Demon Lord Grimudo himself.
This current union could never be achieved in peacetime. Only because there was a common enemy called the Shinigami, the most powerful forces on the continent were able to join hands and join forces.
And now, the Shinigami has disappeared. There was no battle like a battle. No one killed Mordrig the Reaper. If there is anyone who has been killed, it is no one else but Modrig himself.
“We couldn’t believe it when we heard the news, but the envoy committed suicide. It’s a little different from human suicide. “He said it was suicide, but he probably didn’t choose to die because he wanted to.”
Oldman Tower added. As the most unclean and twisted being, the Shinigami has a weakness.
If the idea that gave birth to oneself is lost or denied, the Shinigami can no longer maintain its existence and disappears. That is an extremely natural phenomenon.
A reaper born from hatred can no longer exist if it loses the object of its hatred.
Even if you give up your feelings of hatred, the result is the same. If that happens, the Shinigami will attain Buddhahood. In the religious world, it is called Buddhahood, but from the Shinigami’s own perspective, it is absolute extinction.
So, there are numerous forces on the continent and they fight against each other on random days, but when the Shinigami appears, they suddenly join hands and treat them as common enemies. It is not for nothing that the Three Gods Church of the past caused competition just by hearing the name of the Four Gods.
If you are born from resentment, you must continue to hold resentment in order to survive. If one is born from anger and does not want to attain Buddhahood, he has no choice but to become angry at anything. Therefore, the Shinigami are the most twisted beings in the world, and there is no way to stop their wrong desires other than eradicating them.
A being whose origins are distorted from the beginning self-destructs.
It is possible in theory, but only in theory. The Church of the Three Gods never even thought that something like that could happen. And that actually happened.
“We humans are horses. Even if you despair at the absurd reality, your mind dies, but your body does not. So later, when your body regains energy, your mind also regains some energy. The Reaper is not like that. It despaired, cried out desperately, and gave up its mission.”
This was the first time for Oldman Top Ju, who had no knowledge of magazines on the continent, so he squeezed his memories, searched through all kinds of books, and barely came up with a single inference. No one knows whether this inference is correct or not, but no one wants to verify it. The Shinigami was permanently destroyed anyway. What meaningful results would come from further research on someone who is already dead?
“In my opinion, the Reaper named Modrig is a being with a desire to pollute everything. He has an ambition to color the world with his own power. And he probably thought he could. But, this world was much scarier than we thought…”
“Nonsense things started to appear.”
Maje, Harmael responded with a gloomy expression. She once dreamed of unifying the continent, but now she has finally tasted the real continent and is devastated. She appeared one after another all over the continent, leaving her speechless at the strange things.
“Actually, I thought monsters didn’t even make sense. Things like that shouldn’t exist in the world. That’s common sense. We demons and you humans have clashed a lot in the past, but the power we can mobilize each other is somewhat common sense. Monsters weren’t like that.”
In the past, at the North Star where the martial arts resided, she saw with her own eyes the majesty of the monster Bimoa. The wonder and astonishment she felt at that time was so overwhelming that even hearing the word martial arts made her body tremble. Even now, I get goosebumps when I think of those huge eyes!
“But what appears now… Everything is dozens of times bigger than then.”
But now, if possible, I feel like I want to go back to those days. Those times were better than witnessing an unbearable truth and feeling helpless.
She was confident that she was playing in the sky and was making plans with confidence. Looking back, she was just a one-day puppy, but at least she was happy.
It wasn’t like that at all now.
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