79 – Master I don’t know
After receiving Rachel’s call, we did everything we could to get to the Khai’an holy ground within a week.
When I got there, Rachel came out to meet me.
“Brothers and sisters. It’s been a while!”
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Looking at Rachel who greeted me warmly, I forced a faint smile.
“Yeah, it’s been a while.”
I tried to speak as lightly as possible, but a hard voice came out of my mouth.
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Luckily, Rachel didn’t seem to care.
“Say hello later, and guide me to the elder.”
“Yes!”
To Iris’ impatient words, Rachel answered brightly and guided us.
We followed her into the sacred ground of Kaian, the realm of the Dark Elves, separated from the world.
Every time I look at it, the mysterious forest catches my eye, and the elder is waiting for us at the entrance of the forest.
“Welcome.”
With the familiar greeting of the elder, a halo of light enveloped us. A sense of floating came, and the light scattered.
Now, a little familiar white building comes into view.
“Only Alik will follow me.”
Following that, I arrived at the room where I woke up on the first day I lost my memory long ago.
Unlike the old days, that room had a blue magic circle tightly engraved around the black bed.
“Lie down on the bed.”
As I followed those words and lay down on the bed, the magic circle started emitting blue light with a buzzing sound.
The light enveloped me and I felt a slight pain in my fingertips.
When I turned my eyes to the pain, a little blood was oozing from my fingertips.
A few drops of blood fell onto the magic circle.
So, as the light grew stronger, it began to completely envelop me.
At that moment, a familiar and eerie voice was heard.
“The old man who has become obsolete is doing something boring.”
The voice of the woman he had heard in the dream was heard, and the blue light scattered.
The blue light scattered and red smoke rose. And then came the intense pain.
Along with the pain, a fishy feeling of nausea came over me, and something hot passed from my throat.
I spit it out with an unbearable feeling of nausea, and dark red blood soaked the floor along with the fishy smell.
After vomiting blood, dizziness sets in.
In that dizziness, something strange was seen and felt.
I feel the cold on my neck, and I see the red arm around my neck.
“Huh, even in death, you do crazy things. Were the sins committed in life not enough?”
“of course. And I have to show this level of sincerity to the person who killed me. Don’t you think so too?」
With a cool voice, a red hand grabbed my neck. I feel the cold, and I am short of breath.
I reached out my hand to get rid of the red hand, but I couldn’t catch it and passed through the red hand.
When a slight sense of bewilderment came over the situation, an arrow of blue light flew.
The flying blue arrow was caught in the red hand and melted away.
“Crazy year. It’s not your thoughts, you ripped out your soul and planted it in magic.”
The benevolent old man’s voice changed to that of a young man full of anger.
“I guess you noticed now. Well, since I’ve become a half-penny, that’s understandable.”
A voice filled with ridicule resounds, and the lungs scream due to lack of breathing.
Dizziness intensifies with lung screaming, blurred vision.
At that moment, the eerie coolness faded and the pressure that had been strangling her throat eased.
“I’ve been watching you for a year, but I can’t adapt to your weakness. It’s easier to play with like this, but it doesn’t taste as good as before.”
After that, the pressure builds up again, and breathing stops.
At that moment, the world slowed down, and I felt a gust of wind.
Beyond that wind, I could see blue light gathering and dispersing.
In the place where the light was scattered, a young man clad in blue light appeared.
The man came towards me with a rusty sword.
“Is this guy important enough to go against the flow of the world?”
“It’s only natural since he’s my one and only disciple.”
“Did you watch her dying without letting go of her companion’s corpse because it was so precious to you?”
Bitterness passed through the man’s expression at the eerie woman’s words.
“I was stupid, so I hesitated. I was hesitant because I had a lot of things in my hands and a lot of things I was carrying on my back. That is my lifelong karma and karma. So I won’t repeat it again.”
For some reason, the man’s words shook the tranquility and shattered it.
Between the shattered tranquility, too heavy emotions pushed through.
“The apostle and his god are fun because they are ridiculously stupid.”
After those words, the first intense pain that I felt came rushing in.
The burning pain in my head blurs my vision.
I see a straight line drawn in my blurred vision.
The line was drawn, and the coolness I felt on my neck disappeared.
The burning pain in my head is gone.
The pain is gone, but the remnants of the intense pain remain and the head does not turn. I can’t understand this situation. Blurred vision does not return.
As I was feeling it, the red arm that was strangling me fell to the floor.
The fallen arm melted red and turned into red smoke.
From the red smoke came the laughter I had heard in my dream.
The sound of laughter makes my head ring.
As I was feeling the pain, a gust of wind blew and scattered the sound of laughter.
The pain in my head disappeared, and a faint blue light penetrated me.
Then the broken head and vision began to return.
In the sight that has been perfected, I see the old man I saw when I lost my memory.
The old man looked at me with a sad expression.
“Daniel. No, Alicia. don’t take everything let your burden Even so, don’t give up. Do not be discouraged.”
The space above the old man was distorted, and black chains protruded from the distortion and began to entangle the old man’s limbs.
“Your uprightness is not wrong. Your life is not wrong. It’s just that bad luck came and the day to be rewarded was postponed. So be patient a little longer and get over it.”
The chains that completely bound the old man’s limbs began to slowly pull him away.
The old man forcibly endured it, carving letters on the floor with his hand.
“Take the bodies and keepsakes of the gods and go to the highest mountain at the southern end. There should be a large cave halfway there. There is an altar to the fountain of the beginning, so offer the body and belongings to the altar.”
Blue light began to flow from the old man’s limbs.
“If that is not enough, trials will be given.”
The old man’s breathing began to speed up.
“Still, with that amount of sacrifice, you should be able to overcome it. So don’t give up.”
The old man’s body was pulled by the chains and floated, and he began to be sucked into the distortion of space.
“And when the going gets tough, lean on your partner.”
At the end of the old man’s words, I was completely sucked into the Distortion.
The Distortion that completely swallowed the old man began to disappear.
Just before the distortion closed completely, a faint voice was heard.
“Be happy. You stupid disciple.”
At those words, a heavy emotion surged through the shattered tranquility reacted and spread throughout the mind.
The feeling soaked me in and made me feel warm and sad.
I don’t know why I’m so sad
I don’t know why it’s so warm.
I don’t know why the old man called me disciple or Daniel.
The person who can tell you the answer disappears, so you can’t find the answer.
It’s sad and confusing.
When I was drowning in chaos, buried in the vivid emotions I felt after a long time, the outside started to become noisy.
Not long after I started hearing that sound, Rachel, pale and tired, came to visit me. Iris, who seems to have followed her in a hurry, also came.
“Brother, where is the elder?”
Her tone was normal, but her voice trembled badly.
I explained to Rachel what happened earlier.
Then Rachel bit her lip.
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Looking at her like that, she pointed to the writing the old man had left.
“These are the words the Elder left.”
“I’m sorry for leaving so suddenly.
I thought I would live by your side for the rest of my life, but it turned out not to be the case.
but don’t be sad I am glad that I was able to get the good fortune to clear my karma and let go of the burden on my heart, so please do not be sad.
I said this, but you will be sad. So be sad today. And tomorrow you will live your life as usual.
And the blessings I left behind won’t go away, so don’t worry.
But find your new way.
Find a way to stand on your own, relying on you, not you relying on God.
It will be difficult at first, but you can do it as all the other godless races have succeeded.
And the road will be led by Rachel, who has toured the world the most.
Perhaps seeing this, Rachel would be horrified and wonder how she, who is less than 400 years old, would lead it.
Don’t think so. If you are the one I watched, you can do it. So be confident.
If you are still struggling, seek help from your old master and his companion.
They will be of great help to you.
May your future path be happy.
-Your best friend-”
Those were the last words left to the world by the god and friend of the Dark Elves.
And it’s a will left by a teacher I don’t know.
At that will, the forest fell silent and wept silently.
In that crying forest, I chewed over the incomprehensible feelings.