215. Past Poem (2)
‘Was this place originally this rough?’
A desert where a sandstorm rages.
The traveler looked around and couldn’t help but admire.
The corpses of sandworms were everywhere.
Suddenly, the ground was stained with green blood and turned green.
Now the traveler seemed to know why people had been told not to go near Gorgan’s Rock.
The closer you get to the rock, the more frequent the sandworm attacks.
In front of the rock, dozens of sandworms flocked at once.
I thought it would be impossible to deal with dozens of such large monsters at once, no matter how talented a mage was.
So I thought I’d use a little bit of magic power to take advantage of the opportunity, but…
“Whoa. It’s all done.”
“·······.”
There was no need for that.
Because the boy took care of all the travelers without even having to lift a finger.
“You must be a famous wizard in the empire?”
“That’s not it, but…”
That’s not it, it’s a spy for the kingdom and a crow.
, Replying inwardly, Hurtlocker slid down from the sandworm’s corpse.
As he waved his hand, the black steel spear that pierced Sandworm’s body instantly disintegrated and returned to his hand.
‘It’s strange. Now I can see things I couldn’t see.’
Hurt Locker trembled with a strange feeling he still couldn’t get used to.
A crack inside the rock of Gorgan.
I found a strange pillar of light there.
The cause of the disaster was that he approached as if possessed and grabbed onto the pillar.
From that moment on, I suddenly began to feel something I hadn’t felt before.
The monsters burrow into the sand and approach.
Without even putting their ears to the ground, the Heart Lockers could grasp their movement, speed, and direction all at once.
It wasn’t that my eyes or ears became sensitive.
It was like sensing mana directly.
Thanks to this, Hurtlocker was able to intercept the Sandworm as it rushed at it with its mouth wide open.
‘How did that bastard, Schullus, know this…’
It was definitely Schluss Heinkel who asked me to go to Gorgan’s Rock.
I don’t think I’m telling you to go into a dangerous area and have fun.
He was aware of the existence of that pillar of light.
How could a guy who had never even been to a desert in his life know that?
Hurt Locker seemed to have a throbbing pain in his head.
***
“Ah…”
A huge amount of mail in the mailbox.
As soon as she saw this, it was Emilia who frowned at her, but she immediately noticed the identity and looked around.
On the surface, it looked like an advertising pamphlet, but it was clearly in the form of secret service code.
How long did the decipher texts have to be made so that there are so many camouflage texts?
Emilia tilted her head and went inside with all her books.
“Let’s see…”
Spreading a sheet of paper beside her, Emilia skillfully started writing down the deciphered code. She
As she deciphered, she seemed to know why it was taking so long.
In the first place, these were texts containing information, not intended to convey simple commands or instructions.
That’s also a fairly vast amount of information.
“Huh… I was instructed to find something like this.”
The content of the investigation was none other than the son of a woman named Marie Ale.
Marie Ale is the custodian of the Imperial University’s senior dormitory, where she once cooperated with the Intelligence Agency.
For some reason, Schluss ordered to find Marie Eil’s son.
There must have been a desperate reason.
“Did you give your son a keepsake?”
It was a plausible story.
Even though he seems cool-headed and infinitely rational on the outside, Schluss is quite sentimental.
Because I am a fool who would risk his life for even a small promise.
“Hmm…?”
Emilia’s hand, which was writing down her deciphered text, stopped.
The content suddenly became strange.
Is Marie Ale’s birthplace Eisburg…?
“What?”
Emilia’s expression became strange.
Then she hurriedly looked around her.
Schlus was obviously at the Lichtenburg Mansion, so he couldn’t be here.
Nevertheless, he checked again just in case, and sat down again with a heavy breath.
“I can’t believe it… I can’t believe it…”
After deciphering the rest of her cipher text, Emilia’s mouth dropped open.
It wasn’t for any other reason that Schluss ordered to find Marie Eil’s son.
There was an obvious reason here.
.
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From noble mtl dot com.
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A cave where you can see the past.
I had never heard of such a place in the Lichtenburg Mansion.
Is Julia lying?
Or did I just write it down in the settings book and forget about it?
I had no choice but to go inside to see which side it was.
The boat cut through the current and began to enter the dark cave.
As the luminous magic spells were drawn, bright light surrounded us.
There are traces of artificially carved walls on the walls, but looking at the ceiling, there was no doubt that it was a natural cave.
I didn’t go far, and soon the land appeared.
It’s inside a cave, so I guess it’s right to call it a land.
Anyway, there was a land that you could walk on after getting off the boat.
From the torches hanging on the wall, it was clear that there was something inside.
“Come on. Hug your neck.”
“Yes…”
I got off the boat with Yulia in my arms.
Of course, I didn’t forget to tie the boat with a line so it wouldn’t float away.
When the torches stretched out on both sides were lit, the interior became quite bright, giving the impression of a bleak castle corridor.
In the first place, this inside was also a space completely artificially cut by humans.
“Tradition, it seems to be true.”
“Schlus. All you can see here is your own past. You cannot know other people’s pasts.”
“That’s what I want to know. I have no memory of my childhood.”
“Ah…”
Actually, not only when I was young, but until I was 20 years old.
This means that there is nothing other than the fragmentary memories seen through the ‘body’s memories’.
Of course, there is no obstacle to living without knowing.
Since Schluss is an orphan and has no family.
So there is no need to take care of the past.
But isn’t there such a thing as a human being?
We have to fulfill the minimum responsibility for stealing the body of the well-behaved Schluse.
As part of that, it was my own conclusion that I had to fully understand him.
“This is it.”
The end of the corridor was blocked by a door.
I pushed it lightly with my shoulder and it opened easily.
A small room appeared from the inside.
It was a room about 1 pyeong in size with a transparent crystal ball placed right in the middle.
[Quest: Use past poetry.]
[Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆]
[Reward: 1 Shop Coin]
The quest window just popped up.
This is called past poetry.
Seeing as there is a separate name, it seems that the setting I made was correct.
If that’s the case, there won’t be anything like touching this and suddenly triggering a trap and getting trapped inside.
“Shall we touch it?”
“Wait-“
As I hesitated, Yulia reached out and placed her hand on her orb.
At that moment, the walls and ceiling became bright and a video spread in all directions.
Lichtenburg House.
A young Irene and a young Erica.
This was definitely Yulia’s past.
The video rewinds quickly and goes back to the past in an instant, and the moment a white snowy field appears beyond the baby’s time-
“Ah. I guess this is the end.”
“·······.”
Yulia hurriedly removed her hand and the video cut off.
There was no doubt that he could see the past.
The problem is that I have to show it to Yulia as well.
I lowered her head for a moment and met Yulia’s eyes.
“What did you put on my face?”
“No.”
It doesn’t matter.
But it would be difficult to hold Yulia in this position for a long time, so I decided to change her posture.
I knelt on her knees in front of her crystal ball, sat Yulia on my thighs, and hugged her face to face.
If this is the case, I will be able to hold on to myself with only Yulia’s arm strength without much effort.
“Are you okay? Aren’t you uncomfortable?”
“It’s okay…”
She gulped and reached out her hand.
I have finished my mental preparation.
Because there’s no way Schluss’ past will be smooth.
And finally, I covered the crystal ball with my palm.
“Wow…”
At that moment, my vision suddenly changed.
Several videos were quickly rewinding back and forth.
The problem was that it was so fast that I couldn’t make out the video.
‘How can I not manipulate it?’
Isn’t it impossible to rewind and forward as you like?
The video would rewind randomly and then slow down arbitrarily.
Only the scenes with Yulia seem to pass slowly. Is it because of my mood?
The video suddenly went back to the past, before I possessed it.
‘Oh.’
A scene that could never be overlooked passed by.
As I was about to concentrate on that scene, the rewind suddenly stopped and it started playing normally.
A mountain valley with endless snowfields.
There I, no, Schluss, was holding a pocket watch with a hand the size of a bracken.
Tick, tick, tick, he could feel the needle moving in his hand.
When she looked up, she saw a woman walking towards her, stepping on the snow.
“Why are you here?”
“Hello…”
“Whoops. You said hello earlier.”
The woman quietly crouched down and met her eyes with this low vision schluss.
The moment I met her face, I felt as if I could not breathe.
The hand holding the crystal ball trembled.
I had to pay close attention to controlling my strength so as not to accidentally break the crystal.
“I don’t want to part with my mom… Don’t go…”
“I’ll be right back. I’ll be right back when this job is over.”
“Then take this… Come back and give it back to me…”
“Okay, my prince.”
Marie Ale.
A poor woman who fell victim to the spy agency’s haphazard work.
She was the woman who died in my arms.