Glast Subjugation (10)
“Huh…huh…”
The hill road to Trix Hall is steep.
I thought that this kind of incline would be okay because I trained my body to some extent by cantering morning and evening… but I don’t seem to have taken into account the fact that I was still exhausted.
After coming to the middle of the hill, I turned around and saw the eastern half of the island at a glance. From the far eastern side of the cliff, smoke was coming up from Yenika as a signal.
[ Confirmation of all fifty-seven people on the boat has been completed. It seems that the power retreat has been completed. Once the verification is done, Miss Jenika will be back soon. ]
A bat of fire flew from the edge of the cliff and sat on his shoulder.
In the distance, the waves crashing against the bottom of the cliff are magnificent. In between, generations of boats were swimming.
It’s still a dark night, but I guess I came up from a cliff through a wave like that.
No matter how much he wanted to move away from the bachelor’s surveillance network, wouldn’t it have been a reckless plan?
Anyway, the judgment of the mercenaries was cold.
You know how badly it hurts their trust to leave the client behind and retreat amongst the mercenaries.
Nevertheless, the reason he abandoned Elte was probably because he realized the difference in power.
There is nothing more foolish than putting your head on a quest that can’t be successful.
Even if your credibility is damaged and your livelihood is interrupted for a while, it is not as important as your life right now.
Such thorough judgment must have played a part in being able to survive as a veteran for a long time.
When he turned his gaze from the sea to the inland, the number of magic towers that Professor Glast had built had already reached ten.
The magic towers built using the constellation magic circles engraved here and there on Aken Island… are now so high that you might not even be able to see them from the continent beyond the sea.
– Kwaang! Aww!
– Key hey hey profit!
A sharp scream echoed through the night sky of Aken Island.
The last boss of the secret lab. It was the scream of the ‘resurrected underground waterway demon’.
As much time has passed, it was natural that Taylor’s attack status had advanced a lot.
Now we are slowly entering the Glast subjugation battle, and the final chapter of Act 2 will be finished.
How to deal with the suppressed Elte was put on hold for now.
It doesn’t matter if you hand over the recruits to the Elte Chamber and postpone the processing until after the subjugation battle.
Lortel will take care of most of the related work. It must be Lortel himself who has to end his affair with that person.
After subduing Elte and the mercenaries, compromising with the mercenary commander and retreating them, he even confirmed that they had all left the island. I have also reached the Trix Hall area. It took quite some time, even though I was sprinting.
Slowly, the second act is coming to an end.
The time has come to reach the end of my backstage run that started in the secret laboratory.
Trix Hall, where all the events of this episode began. When you arrive there, all you have to do is check if the named bosses are all well finished… there are no problems.
In fact, it was natural that there were no major problems with the Trix tube. I literally just came to check it out. There’s nothing wrong with being thorough.
Taylor arrived at the underground waterway as scheduled, and confirmed that the clear specs were sufficient, so all that’s left is to wait.
Lucy, who was the biggest variable above all, was somehow resolved.
“Heh heh heh heh heh heh…”
I took a breath and looked up at the whole view of the Trix Hall.
Busy academic staff are busy figuring out the extent of the damage.
Now that the chaos has been settled to some extent and the students have been evacuated, it seems that they are trying to start pursuing Professor Glast.
At the undergraduate level, there are many things to be responsible and concerned about, so the decision of the undergraduate school is always to minimize damage and ensure the safety of students.
You can only move after taking all possible measures so as not to harm other students and faculty, so your judgment will inevitably be conservative and slow.
So, Taylor may have been the first to come, but I’m starting to wonder if it’s still too sluggish. It even feels like the chief executive is deliberately slowing things down.
“As expected… Trix Hall’s situation is as expected.”
With this, I skimmed all the stages of the story. I didn’t know it was going to be a reverse run, but I’m glad that Taylor, who was going forward, took care of most of it.
He also accumulated a lot of combat proficiency, and above all, received a lot of rare craftsmanship recipes. Depending on how you use it, you may be able to use even nonsensical over-spec technics. It is the good news among the good news.
Not only that, but also preparing for the ordeal to come… Even if it’s not perfect, it feels good enough.
I just flowed into the Trix tube. Everyone was so busy that they didn’t pay any attention to me.
When I saw that my clothes were torn here and there, I could only guess that it was a victim student.
I went up the stairs on a wiggly foot. As I walked among the fragments of the broken and scattered buildings, I reached the rooftop floor.
It is a building built on top of a high hill. When I opened the door, I could see the open night sky at a glance.
You ran and ran from the secret lab, and finally got here. It was a short but long journey.
The back of the girl sitting on the railing and waving her feet like a child is familiar. I came here just in case, but still.
I knew right away that this girl likes to take naps on the roof of the Trix building. It is common to be found on the roofs of buildings, but the frequency was overwhelming in the Trix Hall.
Perhaps he liked the panoramic view and the view of the island at a glance.
“What are you doing here?”
“I was watching that.”
This is Professor Glast’s magic tower.
At first glance, the procession of the magic tower that embroidered the night sky looks like a beautiful pillar of light. It is a symbol of ominousness to students who do not know the full story, but to those who transcend events to some extent, it may feel like a romantic aurora image.
Soon everything will be finished. Taylor’s swordsmanship ceremony was already on track. It is already far from defeat.
“I’ve been thinking about it for a while.”
As the light source covered the sky, the girl tapped the seat next to the railing. He told me to come and sit there.
Taking a deep breath, I sat down together on the dangerous railing. Lucy won’t die if she falls, but I die instantly. Well, if that’s the case, I’ll blow my body away and save you… But that doesn’t mean it’s not in danger.
“Hey.”
“why.”
I already knew what kind of answer I would get when I called out, saying, ‘Lucy is there,’ but… Nevertheless, I answered it for now.
“Do you have any leftover jerky?”
“You said no before.”
“Wow…”
Now that the flow of conversation has become nothing like a macro, there is no emotional consumption.
We just sat next to Lucy and looked up at the magic tower together.
Now there is nothing more left to do. You can sit still as a spectator, as a supporting actor, as a villain, and watch the end of the stage. Surely there is no other place like this for the audience.
“Have you ever cried a lot in the past?”
Looking up at the shining sky, Lucy uttered those words without end or bottom.
“It was so sad that I cried a lot. I haven’t been sad since.”
“why?”
“It’s just that I haven’t been very sad since then. Why? I thought hard about why I was suddenly not so sad because of a change in my mentality… but it was for a reason that was unexpectedly insignificant.”
When I turned my head to look at Lucy’s face, it was still expressionless and blank. The light from the magic tower is illuminating Lucy intensely, but she can’t even feel her emotions.
“It’s just that a lot of time has passed.”
Lucy came to that conclusion alone. It was an accurate and perfect insight.
“It’s been a long time, but it’s stupid to act like an old man. I’m going to have to try to save my grandfather with something like character magic, and then I’ll have to leave again someday.”
-‘Are you sure you won’t regret it if you go?’
There was no reason for asking such a question.
I have seen all the scenarios of ＜Failed Swordsman of Sylvania> at least once. Of course, I also watched the bad ending where Lucy appeared and crushed Taylor.
However, Lucy’s face, which smashed the player and slowly disappeared over the underground waterway… couldn’t be said to look refreshed even with empty words.
In the end, Lucy had no choice but to lower her gaze and answer in a low voice.
– ‘no.’
The reason Professor Glast was able to convince Lucy Meirl was that he had promised to use the power of the Aspect Magic to save the Archmage Gloct.
If Lucy’s plan is going to be thwarted anyway, all you have to do is resurrect Lucy’s gift, Glock, instead of Sylvania.
Glockt may not be as great as Sylvania, but he is a historical great who will make minimal progress. It’s a bit far from the original purpose, but if you can recruit Lucy as an ally for that reason, it was a battle worth taking.
In the process, it is obvious what kind of words Glast would try to recruit Lucy through.
It must have constantly stimulated and urged the nostalgia that settled in the corner of Lucy’s heart. He was a professor in the first place, so it goes without saying. It would have been quite possible to bake and boil Lucy, who had lost her judgment for a moment due to longing.
So… it’s not that hard to change Lucy’s heart.
Because Lucy already knows.
What is lost is lost. There is no need to revive the pain of loss.
“And, if my grandfather comes back to life, I think he’ll get angry by pinching my cheeks again. It hurts.”
The three major fields that twist and break the providence of the world, blur the flow of time, and reject the frame of fate given to humans.
Seeking eternal life, reviving the lion, going back in time.
It is a field that is treated as a taboo among taboos even in the field of magic.
I quietly looked up at the beam of light and continued.
“It would only be blasphemy to revive a rare archmage who devoted his life to the study of magic with such a taboo.”
“Because, in the first place, the old man died after he was ready to die. You might die again from anger. Yeah… I knew it from the beginning. Life or anything else is my desire.”
He lived frugally and donated all his fortune to the Sylvania Academy.
Traces of that academy were clearly left here and there.
One of the three buildings in the student union that Yenica destroyed is the Gloct Hall, and the institution I received a scholarship for this semester is also the Gloct Scholarship Foundation.
In addition, Gloct’s name is engraved here and there, so to Lucy, this academy itself may have felt like a keepsake left by Gloct.
“So, Lucy.”
The busy and urgent situations have come to an end, and now we are finally in the audience’s position.
“Are you okay?”
I wouldn’t say it from my point of view, who told me not to go, but I couldn’t help but ask.
There’s no way people’s emotions can be controlled at will.
You know that bringing Gloct back to life is an overly impulsive choice. You must also know that you should not be swayed by what you have lost.
Still, throwing away such an opportunity on your own will hurt your emotions. At least if it’s a person.
There is no change in the expression on the girl’s face. However, don’t rush to the conclusion that even the inside will be as peaceful as Myunggyeong Jisoo.
When I live in society, I often feel it.
People who are less expressive on the outside are often a mess on the inside.
Killing your emotions, even if you think this person is going to be really good… No one really should jump to conclusions until you get to the heart of that person.
What an unpredictable creature humans are.
I thought he was a weak person with a lot of emotions and tears, but if there is someone who can overcome trials and tribulations.
There are many people who always seemed to be okay because they are blunt and mechanical, but in fact, there are many cases where they break down easily.
So I had to check it out.
Then the answer popped out.
“Hey.”
“…”
Are you going to come to this situation and get jerky again? It’s really you… I tried to take a deep breath.
“Lend me your shoulder.”
When I asked him why he had to sit next to the railing… at best, it was like this.
Rather than answering out loud, I just nodded my head lightly.
In the future, it will be difficult to find someone who studies Aspect Magic as passionately as Professor Glast.
The lion revival magic is also a train that has left.
the dead are the dead What is lost is lost.
I have rarely seen a case where a person who puts down the present while being swayed by the loss of the past is greeted with good words.
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Maybe that’s the difference between Lucy and Professor Glast.
The form of loss differs from person to person, but in the end, it comes to everyone equally. Because of this, you have to accept the loss and learn how to cover the wounds with the things you have now.
Lucy fully understood that fact.
So, Lucy and I sat side by side for a while and looked up at the magic tower in the sky.
The starry sky that came into view seemed higher than usual. It was very beautiful.
*
– Bang!
The subjugation squad covered in the blood of numerous demon tribes stood right at the top of the magic tower.
The top of the magic tower made of halos. In the center of the open square where the starry sky can be seen… Professor Glast was standing with Ayla captured.
All kinds of test tubes and research materials were scattered around. The huge magic book floating in the air is the ‘Sage’s Seal’ that has completed the induction work.
“Professor Glast!”
With Taylor’s shout, Professor Glast stood up and looked back.
There is not much vitality left on the haggard face. A figure full of exhaustion from all night long gives the illusion that he is already dying.
Even so, the magical power of the Aspects that surrounds the body cannot be taken lightly.
Professor Glast stood up straight and looked at the subjugation team and muttered something softly.
I didn’t know who he was speaking to. However, when I got to the extreme, that was the only thought that came to my mind.
He had a hunch that this would be his will… Professor Glast thought carefully about it.
“I miss you, Mu-ri.”
Professor Glast repeated the name once, and slowly closed his eyes. It was the final game of Act 2.