184. Ludwig’s fate
This story is about Jeto before reaching the end of death.
The warrior Ray and the wise Obert have arrived at a place where countless pasts and futures are connected in one line.
A barrier surrounded by layers.
When I stepped into it, I saw a ‘village’ that I hadn’t seen before, along with a mysterious forest.
The scenery of the village, which harmonized very well with nature, gave the feeling that it was like that of an elf, but the village in front of me was no different than that of the Ludwig clan.
“…I don’t think anything has changed.”
Ray, who entered the village, held the back of his head and spat out a sullen voice.
“As expected… There seems to be no massacre.”
The evaluation of the sage Oberth, who was looking around together, is also followed.
“Well, I don’t think there’s much difference in that there are no survivors.”
“But it’s not like it doesn’t exist at all.”
Ray nodded lightly at Oberth’s words.
Eisel Ludwig, presumed to be the last survivor of the Ludwig clan.
And Jeto prepared for her death to protect her.
Although I couldn’t help out helplessly because I didn’t have the strength yet…
The hero was curious.
The causal relationship between these mysterious events.
They arrived at the village of the Ludwig clan to dig it up.
It was a simple intuition.
As a warrior, he felt that he would be able to find out something when he arrived here.
It was an idea that was only possible because it was Ray and Oberth, who had some ties to the Ludwig clan in the past and knew their secrets.
Obert followed Ray’s opinion without saying anything.
The eyes of the hero next to me were the same as before.
The hero he knew was a kind-hearted fool with a strong curiosity who was pure and sometimes did stupid things without hesitation, but even his colleague Aubert could not ignore such a hero’s intuition.
The intuition of a warrior was far beyond the scope of understanding of the wise man who had been coveting worldly knowledge throughout his life.
Obert reasoned that some sort of fate was at work in this.
After all, the little girl in his eyes was a ‘hero’ with the power to save the world.
Moreover, in this case, the evidence was not very weak.
An empty town with no human presence.
But there was no battle.
Knowing the past and the future The Ludwig clan, which was said to be known, seemed to have completely disappeared from the world.
At the same time, a girl believed to be the last survivor of her clan appeared on her surface, and Zeto said that she was being hunted by her demons.
As a bonus…
“When I came before, I still felt a bit energetic, but…”
Ray looked through a window at a dusty house.
…The hero had memories of his previous life.
It was an issue that could be assumed that the vision of the Ludwig clan, which they knew, was written.
I continued to walk with Ray.
The destination was fixed.
“Obert, do you remember? The great door we saw then. I tried to open it, but my grandfather, the head of the clan, stopped me.”
“That’s right. Celis gave me a bruise to stop being a nuisance.”
“At that time, that grandfather whispered something to me.”
“What?”
“It is not yet time.”
“Hmm…”
“So I thought it would open when I killed the demon lord and came back. I don’t know what’s inside.”
It was Ray who judged that, but unfortunately, the hero never returned after defeating the Demon King.
The warrior could not escape his bondage.
But he did come back.
As Ray, not Leon.
Soon, they cross over the Lüdwig clan’s altar and reach the huge door in the cave.
“…I wonder if that could be now.”
Ray’s voice as he gazed at the door echoed in the cave.
“It sounds plausible. By the way… Someone came and went first.”
The crystal ball that was embedded in the door and the one that acted like a lock were stained with red blood.
“Not that long ago.”
Obert said while looking at the bloodstains left on the crystal ball.
Quietly, Ray asks.
“Who is it?”
“It’s obvious. If there’s another human who can come in here…”
“Eisel Ludwig…”
At Ray’s voice, Oberth, who was examining the crystal ball, nodded lightly.
“Unfortunately she couldn’t open this door.”
“Why? If she was truly a member of the Ludwig clan, she should have been able to open the door?”
“She’s an old construct, but shows signs of being sealed relatively recently. It looks like she wasn’t allowed to.”
“Then… Is it my turn?”
After that, Ray approached the door and tried to put her hand on her crystal ball.
“…Sigh.”
However, the crystal ball was out of her reach. She tried her best, but the little girl’s immature height never made it.
“…I guess I didn’t expect your current height?”
Obert held back a laugh and lifted Ray.
“……”
After being lifted up by Oberth, Ray stopped glancing at him and focused on her crystal ball again.
Raising her hand on her crystal ball, Ray converted her mana, her strength as a warrior, into her power of light and blew it into her crystal ball.
ㅡKeying!!
The crystal ball absorbs pure white light.
ㅡCoooung!
ㅡKoo-gu-gu-gu-gu…
Instantly, the cave rang loudly, and the crystal ball embedded in the door rotated and the door began to open.
“I wonder if… You gloomy bastards… Didn’t you even predict my reincarnation?”
Lay landed on the floor and grumbled, shaking her palms.
“I guess so…”
Obert opened the huge door and took in the scene inside.
Huge tombstones were placed in the dark hall where not a single light came in.
Ray runs fast.
“Letter…?”
Innumerable letters were engraved on the tombstone.
“These are records. The beginning and the end of the Ludwig family are written…”
Obert took a quick look at the tombstone and immediately recognized its contents.
“It’s interesting, but I don’t think looking into the past makes sense right now…”
Instantly, Oberth, who lifted himself up in the air, reads the tombstones, looks at the order, and reads the tombstone at the end.
“Here’s our story.”
“What is it, what is it?”
Ray’s eyes sparkle with curiosity.
“I managed to lead the hero Leon’s party to the village where the clan lives… The seeds planted this time will take root deeply… Everything is for the bond…”
“…Hah, we didn’t find it… They guided us?”
“For now, yes.”
Ray let out a sigh of despair.
Obert went downstairs at once after reading the sentence that the hero Leon died in a decisive battle with the demon king.
It took too much time to read all the records of hundreds of years.
On the way down, one sentence caught Oberthe’s eye.
Obert came down from the air and touched the ground.
“Is this the end…”
In front of his eyes, the last record of the Ludwig clan was written. Since there were no records written after that, it had to be considered the last.
This was a sentence that could be confirmed even from Ray’s eye level, so the two read the sentence together.
“…At the end of a time of endurance, the fate of the clan has come.”
This fate is unavoidable.
It has been predicted for a long time.
Death is at hand, and we are powerless to oppose them.
It took a lot of sacrifice, but I found it.
The only way to continue the clan.
We decided to bet everything on the child of the task.
He was a child with a very cruel, indescribably harsh fate. You will have to endure a lot of pain in the future.
However, you will be able to meet at the end.
The one and only being who can break the terrible ‘bridle’ that makes this world sick and the ‘curse’ of the clan.
This is the destiny and task inscribed in the letter Lüdwig.
To achieve this, the lives of all members of the clan must be sacrificed, but we accepted it.
No one objected.
Why did Ludwig exist?
“Now that I know why…”
Ray recited the last sentence in a timid voice.
“The only one who can break the bondage…”
“I think I know who you mean.”
“Well, it’s clearly written.”
Aside from the bridle, he was the only one with a sentence that said he would break the clan’s curse.
“Hmm…”
Ray remembered her drooling with her arms crossed.
Her reincarnation found her… Her blind man with bandages around her eyes who rescued her.
***
As I approached the light, a pure white space opened up.
A table was placed in that white space where the word sacred came to mind.
Soon after, the woman sitting at the table speaks to me.
“Sit down.”
A sweet voice that echoed in my head before.
The woman had an indescribably beautiful appearance.
A beauty that makes you wonder if it’s human.
It didn’t seem like there was anything wrong with my eyes.
Because I thought I knew what this sense of disparity really was.
I asked while sitting in a chair.
“Are you… A ‘God’…?”
At my question, the woman smiled lightly.
“…Yes, that’s what it’s called.”
She didn’t deny it.
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That you are a transcendent being called a god.
“Do you have any idea who I am?”
A woman asks while pouring tea into a teacup.
God is a god. What is his name?
Well, when I put together the information so far, only one person came to mind.
“Heneris… Is that you?”
A woman smiles at my answer.
“I don’t think I remember it.”
“It’s a memory… It’s the first time I’ve seen your face…”
It looked different from the statue in the first place.
“…Well, let’s postpone the explanation until later.”
The woman puts down the teapot and continues her story.
“Let me formally introduce myself. I am Heneris, the goddess who governs this world.”
An encounter with Heneris, one of the goddesses of this world.
Her current position should be seen as a position prepared by her. What did Heneris want to say to me?
I don’t know what it is right now, but it bothered me.
“……”
Because Heneris was looking at me with a very bitter smile.