the brighter the light
There was a great uproar throughout the Philo Kingdom.
The Demon Dragons led a wave of monsters and attacked the royal capital!
But even more importantly, they succeeded in stopping it without a single casualty in the royal capital.
Although the wall of several hundred meters had melted in the process and started the great work, in the end the monsters failed to get over the wall.
What was surprising was the fact that it was a young boy who was only 11 years old who had stopped the Demon Dragon and the Monster Wave.
Everyone heard the rumors and treated them as nonsense, but the evidence was very clear.
At that time, an 11-year-old boy was hunting monsters in the forest near the royal capital for a group assignment, and was hunting with a magic projector attached to his chest.
Thanks to that, there was a holographic record of how the boy stopped the monster wave and hunted the demon dragon.
I don’t know what happened, but the consular records at the time they were submitted as evidence were copied infinitely and spread across the country.
Of course, Leon’s battle record had no choice but to react sensitively even in the magical world.
“I can’t believe it even if I look at it. This is the state of an 11-year-old boy.”
“You are sure of your identity, so there’s no chance that you lied about your age, right?”
“That’s what the word means. Of course, it’s not an Elyos, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility that it’s a Balaur.”
Among them, the three magic that the wizards paid the most attention to were.
The last blow that swept away even the space movement magic Blink, the transformation magic polymorph, and even the Dragon Breath of the Demon Dragon.
A magic with an impressive Taegeuk shape, Raging blast.
The wizards who checked the video all agreed that the three magics were the magic of the heavens that could never be performed by the existing human magic method.
In other words, he said that the fact that Leon was able to perform such magic was proof that the blood of a dragon flows through Leon.
Therefore, at present, Leon was officially treated as a dragon by the magic circle.
It’s ridiculous for Leon, but I thought it would be cumbersome and painful to explain everything, so I decided to just let their misunderstandings go.
And Cain Sirius, who started the case, was brought to court.
Of course, it was not intentional, but it was an incident that disturbed the public order of the royal capital.
Depending on the point of view, the incident threatened the king’s safety, so it could be misunderstood that the Duke Sirius had rebelled.
However, the Sirius family reacted quickly.
This case was only done by Cain Sirius personally and has nothing to do with the family.
He deprived his eldest son, Cain, of the succession rights of the Duke Sirius and expelled him from the family.
On the other hand, Leon received a medal that was directly descended from the king.
The Demon Dragon Valcadus was a famous enemy who threatened the security of the Philo Kingdom for the past 20 years, and of course, he had to admit that Leon’s military power to subdue such Valcadus was inevitable.
Rebecca Meredith, the head of the Guards Law Division, put a medal on Leon’s chest, which was on the podium with all the students gathered.
Many students looked at the scene with envy.
Elemental Master Rebecca Meredith, who compares the superiority to the 4th Great Master, was so popular that it took the first place in the most popular wizard among students by an overwhelming difference.
Then Rebecca said with a wink to Leon.
“The old people in the magic world don’t recognize your abilities and think that you can use such magic simply because you are a dragon, but I am different. Would you like to have a deep discussion about magic with you someday if you have the chance?”
At Rebecca’s words, Leon laughed and joked.
“I have to keep working hard so that my bottom doesn’t come off.”
At Leon’s reaction, Rebecca looked at Leon with an expression that couldn’t stop him.
It is surprising that he reached such a level at such a young age, but he said that he would continue to work hard.
But Rebecca was not offended by Leon’s confidence.
Rather, it was to the point that I was annoyed.
He couldn’t stand the anticipation of how this genius would grow in the future and what new magic he would create.
Whoops.
Seeing Rebecca smiling as if Leon was cute, Leon became uncomfortable and avoided his gaze.
Due to this incident, the atmosphere inside the academy had to change significantly.
Cain Sirius was the eldest son among many of his brothers, who was certain to succeed the Duchy. it would have ended
The students who belonged to the Sirius group had fallen apart.
Of course, it was only Leon and his group that came to mind as the opposite.
Until now, Vincent, who had been ignored knowingly and unknowingly because she came from a family of weak Baron Bionell, and Angelica, who had been outspokenly bullied because she came from a commoner, emerged as the powerhouse of the academy.
But watching such a scene, only Arya felt a sense of distance from them in an awkward position.
The never-blooming snowflake and the nobleman of dawn.
Rothbane’s hope, Lyon Farostel, who Arya was the only one allowed to sit next to her.
In this group task, too, there were many things that were tied together by forming the same team, but if she asked if she was on the same team with Leon, it was difficult to confidently answer yes.
Let’s be honest.
Arya likes Leon.
Perhaps he was attracted to him rationally.
However, ironically, as Arya and Leon spent more time together, the distance between Arya and Leon gradually widened.
Arya lost to Leon in a friendly match.
In Direct Dungeon, Nvidia Farostel lost the leader’s position for that reason,
He even had to get help from Leon in a crisis of attack failure.
Besides, in this case, Arya didn’t even have a chance to go out in the first place.
That’s why the instructions came down from the family.
Stop being close to Leon Farostel.
It’s clear that Arya can’t keep up with Leon in terms of skills, so don’t make it look like the Rothbane mage is lagging behind the Farostel mage by being a comparison target.
Obviously, Leon and Arya first competed in a friendly match a year ago.
At that time, obviously, there was no significant difference between the two.
However, in just one year, Leon was growing at an unimaginable rate.
He always did.
Even when Arya stood in his way, he never stopped, never caring about getting ripped off, he strode into her realm.
That was the reason why Arya had special feelings for Leon in the first place, but Leon, who she thought was approaching her, passed her and went ahead.
It was unbearably scary.
I was afraid of being left alone.
But Arya didn’t know what to do.
‘If you refuse the instructions of the family, you know what will happen.’
Everything she wants is gone.
All beings upon which she could depend have been eliminated by the family.
Her attachment doll, her pet dog, her peers, and even the nanny she trusted and followed like her mother.
So what’s next?
If Arya comes to want Leon, wouldn’t Leon disappear next?
When I thought about it, my mind was in a mess and I couldn’t move.
His hands and feet felt stiff and cold.
Arya was absent for a few days and was confined to the dormitory.
When I go to the academy, Leon is next to me.
If I see him, I’m afraid I’ll get away from him again.
When the family watcher sees it, he fears that he will misunderstand that he has rejected the family’s orders.
No, all that aside, she no longer had the will to act on her own will.
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Just push everything away and reject it.
Like the power contained in her magical resonance.
What reached Arya’s gaze was the magic wand Leon had made.
With a trembling hand, he reached out and embraced it.
Then I felt a little relieved, but today, Arya was lying on the bed, unable to do anything.
Then at some point,
smart,
There was a sound that invaded her space.
“aria. I have?”
It was Leon.
Leon’s voice.
That voice was very pleasant, but as much as it was pleasant, it was also painful.
Arya did not know what to do and thought for a long time before opening the door.
“What, there was. here this one The homeroom teacher left it to you.”
Leon calmly presented the tasks he had accumulated over the years, as if he did not even know Arya’s inner feelings.
Arya accepted it without a word.
Leon’s warmth felt as if his heart was frozen.
Leon asked Arya.
“…what happened?”
In the end, she couldn’t stand the warm voice at that question, and tears overflowed from the corners of Arya’s eyes.
“I don’t know what to do anymore…”
Arya whispered that in a very low voice.
It was a voice that squeezed the last remaining will of her to the fullest, but it was a very small voice that had doubts about whether it had been properly delivered to Leon.
But Leon listened.
listened
“Tell me in detail what happened.”
And Arya hesitated for a while.
He couldn’t even decide if he could say this to Leon.
However, Leon did not urge Arya’s hesitation and waited patiently without any change in expression.
Arya, who had gained courage from him, stuttered.
“The instructions came from the family. don’t get close to you If I break the family’s instructions and stay close to you, the Rothbane may harm you.”
Arya uttered these words after long deliberation, but Leon snorted a little.
“Did you just cry because of that?”
Leon’s reaction like that was a bit disgusting.
But then Leon reached out and stroked Arya’s head.
Even my hatred heart melted in an instant, and my face heated up.
Even so, Leon still didn’t know Arya’s heart and only said what he wanted to say.
“You don’t have to cry over that. You can do whatever you want.”
“However······.”
“Then let’s think about it this way. Why are you so strong?”
Why are you having a hard time?
At Leon’s words, Arya looked at Leon with tears in her eyes.
I had never thought of such a thing.
“Aren’t you putting too much effort into giving up or giving up on something? I wondered if it hurts because I put too many sheaths in my heart to give up.”
I didn’t know that.
Even if you want something, you can’t get it anyway.
Arya had to learn to give up.
No, I could only live by breaking my heart.
“If you can try so hard to give up, it’s not a bad idea to use that power to achieve your greed.”
At Leon’s words, Arya was frightened.
However, if you do not achieve what you want even after trying so hard, if you do not have the energy to give up and lose your precious things as they are,
then······!
At that moment, Leon reached out and took Arya’s hand.
“I know. You’ve lost so much so far. So my heart, my will, and my greed were frozen. because I’m afraid If you’re going to lose anyway, you’re thinking that it’d be better if you didn’t have it in the first place. So I spent so much of my heart trying to give up my greed, and I lost my heart to do what I really wanted to do.”
Leon knew how harsh his words were.
There is nothing harsher than telling a girl who collapsed from exhaustion with all her strength to give her strength.
“Then forget everything.”
“…forget everything?”
“okay. All. Who you are, why you are so strong, everything. And think. what you want.”
What Arya wants.
Arya looked down at the floor for a moment, then raised her head to look at Leon.
“Think of how you can get it and not lose it, with all your might. To be very specific, to use all your abilities, to imagine realistically, no matter how difficult it is.”
Arya’s expression grew more serious.
“Did you think?”
“···yes.”
“Then compare. Indeed, the pain of giving up on it and the effort to achieve it. Which of the two would make you happier?”
Arya raised her eyes.
Surprisingly, the effort to get ‘it’ in Arya’s imagination did not feel so difficult.
That doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Trying to get what you want is no harder than giving up thinking you won’t get it in the first place.
At least he didn’t have to go through the agony of putting a sheath in his heart.
“That is a dream. And everyone lives to dream.”
Arya could find a ray of light in her crumbling heart.
A light called hope.
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Just like the brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
But isn’t that kind of funny?
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow?
Who would have said such a thing, Leon scoffed inwardly.
It was just that when the light was bright, the pupils constricted and received less light, so the darkness looked darker in contrast to the light.
Scientifically speaking, if the light is bright under the same conditions, how could the shadow be darker?
Of course, it was Leon’s theory that the greater the hope, the more we strive to achieve it, the less the despair.
So,
“Dream it.”
Leon could tell him to be strong, even though he knew the words were harsh.
But Arya was no longer afraid of those words.
It wasn’t painful either.
It will definitely be difficult.
Arya’s dream was an act that went directly against the will of the family.
But unlike before, Arya’s heart began to fill with will.
He closed his eyes and brought his clenched fist to his chest.
At that moment, light began to radiate from Arya’s heart.
It was the moment when Arya’s circle increased to four.