221. Trauma (2)
“Looking up at the sky, what nonsense is that?”
“I don’t know. The head professor says so.”
“Ah. Then we should keep silent.”
The guards at the Imperial University raised their heads in bewilderment at the new guidelines.
The instructions given by Professor Ludwig are none other than to keep an eye on the sky.
In particular, if a bird such as a suspicious bird approaches and wanders around, it is to be reported immediately.
It was a very difficult instruction to understand.
“What does a bird drop an explosion artifact to break the barrier?”
“Oh. Sounds like it?”
“But how many dogs do you need to cling to to carry that big thing?”
“You will need 10 eagles.”
It was a sight of dozens of birds grabbing explosive artifacts and flying away.
Anything like that would look suspicious even if you weren’t paying attention.
Then why the hell am I telling you to keep an eye on the sky?
The guards just looked up at the sky without knowing why.
‘I finished contacting the imperial palace…’
Meanwhile, Emilia was banging on her table nervously.
A teleportation spell was found inside Asylum.
The same technique used by the Heretic Questioners, the teleportation.
This implied two possibilities: that Asylum’s followers were hiding inside the Vatican, or that the Vatican and Asylum were cooperating.
It wasn’t very pleasant either way.
Besides the teleportation spell, the Pope’s extraordinary items could have been passed on to Asylum.
‘Why can’t I contact my brother?’
I cast communication magic several times, but no reply came back.
This would often happen if you were inside a barrier or in a place where it was difficult to receive magic waves.
Then he could have gone to find it himself, but the problem was that he had no idea where Schluss was.
Once there was no place in the imperial palace.
The courtier said that Schluss had already left the imperial palace.
Then, where the hell is Schluss?
“When I finish my schedule, I will come home as soon as possible…
The sound of knocking on the table gradually got louder.
No matter how hard I tried to calm myself down, I kept feeling anxious.
What if something happened to Schluss?
What if he was suddenly killed by an assassin who teleported overhead?
With that thought in mind, Emilia gnashed her teeth.
“I’m sure you’re not casually dating another woman.”
Leaving your wife alone at home and meeting another woman without contact?
No, Schluss couldn’t have done that.
Emilia believed so firmly, and decided to catch her breath a little.
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“Do you know why I was surprised when I saw the two of them enter the cave? Everyone goes crazy if they touch that crystal ball for more than an hour.
“Crazy is whoever is crazy.”
“I mean you, you. You who pick and choose what not to do. Don’t go over an hour. I’ll pick you up in 50 minutes.”
“Okay.”
Erika grabbed my cheek and asked me in a loud voice, as if I was not listening.
If you touch it for more than an hour, you will go crazy…
Although Mitch wonders how she would feel, she decided not to venture out.
“·······?”
When I came out to the back garden, Mrs. Lichtenburg, Julia, her butler and her maids were all out.
What the hell are you doing here?
Everyone was acting like they were having some big event.
“I hope you find the memory you are looking for, sir.”
The lady said to me with her eye salutation.
Come to think of it, the fact that Erica noticed Yulia’s reincarnation must mean that she also heard about it.
How will her mother feel when she finds out that her daughter has been reincarnated and repeating her death for eons?
It must be a very complicated feeling.
I passed her and sat down on one knee in front of Yulia in her wheelchair.
“I was really sorry the other day. I didn’t even know I wasn’t allowed to go into that cave…”
“No. Thanks to you, I learned about the existence of the cave.”
“A childhood memory that Schluss lost… I hope it will be a good memory.”
The memories I seek are mainly those after Julia von Eisburg’s death.
So even Julia doesn’t know anything about my past.
Feeling a little better at her cute words of wisdom, I straightened my knees and headed towards the lake.
When I looked back as I headed toward the cave in the boat, there were still people, including the first lady, standing upright and looking at me.
It seemed like he was going to wait all the time.
Hagisa If an accident happened to someone called ‘Your Excellency’ at the Lichtenburg Mansion, it would be a big deal, so he could have been nervous.
The boat quickly slipped and entered the cave.
The inside was the same as the one I had seen before, but for some reason it felt a bit bleak.
Is it because I came alone?
After reaching shore and tying up the boat, I pushed the iron door and stepped inside.
Then, a suspiciously neatly shining crystal ball appeared.
It was the same as I had seen before.
I closed the door and knelt in front of the crystal ball.
‘Did they say 1 hour?’
In case you didn’t know, I prepared a simple technique as a safety device.
It was a technique that gave me a weak electric shock an hour later to alert me.
Can you see it all in an hour?
I swallowed and covered the crystal ball with my hand.
‘Oh.’
In an instant, my field of view was filled with all sorts of screens, and I began to skip as if I had speeded up.
Familiar scenes passed by quickly, and then scenes I hadn’t seen before.
The height of the field of view gradually decreased.
It seemed that he was getting younger and shorter.
I found the right spot.
I stopped the ship right away, and soon the scenery of the white snow field spread out.
Then his vision swung back.
I was lying in the snow as if I was about to fall.
The scene itself is very vivid, but the emotions at the time were not conveyed at all.
On this point, the ‘body’s memory’ was definitely superior.
The problem is that I can’t activate it when I want.
“Were you here?”
“Dad…”
Shortly, a middle-aged man in light armor sighed and walked away.
It was a familiar face.
That face I saw countless times when I was learning swordsmanship using my ‘memories of my body’.
Now it was a face as familiar as my father’s.
Schlus’s father must have been a guard in Iceburg.
“Don’t be too sad. Lady Julia must have gone to a good place.”
“Yes…”
It was the tenth day after Julia von Eisburg passed away at the age of 19.
It was also the tenth day after Julia von Lichtenburg was born.
Schluss said that she followed Yulia as her older sister and was quite friendly with her.
What were the emotions Schluss felt after she died?
Okay.
Since he didn’t cry, he didn’t scream, he just lay still, so it was impossible to guess.
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“Huh…?”
“Why is that?”
At that time, I saw a thin plume of smoke rising from the sky.
One line. Following that, four lines rose in succession, and five lines of smoke were flying high into the sky.
Seeing my reaction, my father turned around and was equally speechless.
It was a beacon.
“Step 5······. This is the highest level. You go down to the village immediately and inform the chief of the situation!”
“Oh, what about your father?”
“I have to report to the Count. Quickly!”
My legs started moving on their own due to my father’s screams.
The highest level means that the enemy has already come close.
Although Eisburg is near the border, it is definitely a land located within the territory of the Empire.
And it was only once in history that the empire was invaded by a foreign enemy.
Only once during the Great Winter Offensive of the Trude Kingdom.
It was an unprecedented incident in which thousands of kingdom troops crossed the border at once.
“Chief! Beacon fire level 5!”
“What?”
I went down the mountain in a month and started spreading the news throughout the village.
Only then did I know exactly what step 5 meant.
Over 3000 enemies appear within 5km.
It was said that there was a force that Iceburg Castle could never withstand.
The villagers gave up on entering the castle and immediately began to pack up and prepare to evacuate.
Amidst the chaos of the town, I was stomping my feet, not knowing what to do, when someone grabbed my hand.
“What are you doing here? We have to run away!”
“Ah…”
It was a lady dressed in a maid’s uniform and looking quite old.
Looking at the clothes that are quite expensive, it must be a maid working in the castle.
It seems that after coming down to the village for a while, something happened.
The maid grabbed my hesitant hand and began to drag it.
“Let’s go quickly! Don’t stop there! Don’t block the road!”
“Why did you bring the livestock!”
We started walking down a narrow road, joining a procession of refugees.
People, wagons, and carts were mixing here and there, creating chaos.
Even in the midst of this, people kept their own order and proceeded slowly.
“Oh my God.”
At that time, sighs erupted from all over the place.
Everyone was busy looking back and sighing.
Fiery arrows flew over the walls and into the castle.
Not just one or two, but hundreds.
The Kingdom’s attack had already begun.
“Dad…”
I immediately stopped.
I continued to endure even when the surprised maid pulled me over.
With people busily passing on both sides, I turned around and started walking.
“Hey! Where are you going! Come back! Hold hands, lady!”
“I’m sorry. I need to go.”
Started running.
Ignoring the desperate cry from behind, I ran.
I ran against the evacuation procession and ran again and again.
“Haaa…”
After running out of breath, we arrived at an empty village.
By that time, the sun had already set, and the surroundings were covered in darkness.
To make matters worse, it started to snow heavily.
I had to fall several times while climbing the mountain along the slippery road in the dark.
Once I slipped and fell several meters.
If I hadn’t held on to the roots of the tree, I would have almost fallen to my death.
“Huhhhhh”
With my whole body covered in scars, I climbed the mountain without rest.
The castle finally came into view.
A castle with the front gate wide open and the sound of metal clashing coming from inside.
I already had a hunch.
At this point, Schluse’s father is already dead.
If it were me, I would have run away from here.
But the young Schluss started running toward the front door, probably not giving up hope yet.
“Ugh…”
There were dead bodies everywhere.
Women, men, soldiers and civilians alike were all laid down.
The pure white snow melted into the falling blood.
At some point, the floor Schlus stepped on was filled with red ice.
“How many people come at once!!!”
A shout echoed from up above.
It was a voice that tasted like a lot of rest, but I soon recognized that it was my father’s voice.
My legs, which had been wobbly until just now, began to move vigorously.
After climbing and climbing the stairs and jumping over the corpses, I was able to reach a place where soldiers were lined up.
At the end of that narrow passage, knights and soldiers, including my father, continued to resist.
“Ke-heo-eok······!”
However, the resistance did not last long.
They began to fall one by one in the pincer attack of the kingdom army that was constantly rushing at them.
In the end, even my father’s wrist holding the sword was cut off and he was captured.
“You are the last soldier in this castle. What about your will?”
“·······.”
My father’s eyes turned this way.
The moment his eyes met, the sword blade rushed in and cut his father’s throat.
His head fell off, and soon his father’s figure was hidden behind the soldiers’ backs and disappeared.
“Ah…”
A shallow sigh.
There was no need for a separate connection of emotions.
Since I fully felt Schluse’s emotions.
Only pure anger and vengeance.
“Ahhhhh.”
I couldn’t shed any tears.
Instead, the sight narrowed, the blood flow increased, and the muscles throughout the body were filled with strength.
I trudged over and pulled a sword from the chest of a nearby fallen soldier.
Then I got into a position.
The posture I learned from my father.
Weiyiing·······!
The internal circuit began to spin violently and make a loud noise.
It was a sound I had never heard before, when it was at maximum output.
Chips······!
The pure white snow fell and evaporated with the sound of boiling water as soon as it touched my shoulder.
It wasn’t just the eyes that were boiling, but also the blood that flowed through the veins.
It was only then that the soldiers noticed my presence and turned around one by one.
“I swear. I will slaughter all of you until this body burns away.”
“A child…?”
It was crunchy and gnashing of teeth.
And my eyesight turned red in an instant.