83 – Cradle of Stars (2)
When I opened my eyes again, the sight I saw was a battlefield that had been devastated by mountain and sea.
“The sun god is looking down on us!!!”
A man with a dazzling halo behind his back is commanding countless people.
The man’s face was very familiar to me.
Because it was His Majesty Arun, the first emperor to come down to the empire.
‘What is this scene?’ .’
Martin is so well-versed in academics that I call him Martinpedia.
However, there is one area where I cannot lose to Martin, and that is the story related to His Majesty the First Emperor.
From a young age, I was called a member of the royal family with ‘eyes filled with the sun’ and someone who would one day become the ‘seventh dawn of the empire.’
For me, who had such an inflated self-esteem, there was no story more thrilling than the myth of His Majesty the first emperor.
It’s safe to say that I was so absorbed that my parents looked a little embarrassed.
But a scene that even I did not know unfolded before my eyes.
Why is the first person who led mankind slaughtering mankind…? .
Wooow.
─ Please punish the blood-drunk evil enemy!
When the man using an unknown word shouted like that, an unknown force struck the battlefield.
Kwasik!
As if something huge had weighed down, some of the troops led by the First Lord were crushed and exploded.
“Punish the apostles of the evil evil spirit!!!”
An evil evil spirit?
‘… ‘Why do I understand what they are saying?’
My head was throbbing.
The apostles of the evil evil spirit were strong.
Those who were fighting against them suddenly hurt themselves or attacked their colleagues, as if under hypnosis.
Suddenly, people were torn to pieces in a place where there was nothing, and others exploded as if they had been hit by a hammer just like before.
But each time, the halo of invitation shone more brilliantly, and the soldiers ran forward without fear of death.
At the end, the being guarded by those called the apostles of the evil god appeared.
It was a creature that was difficult to describe.
It looked like a very beautiful goddess, but it also looked like a very fierce and ferocious man.
It appeared to be a four-legged animal, and it also appeared to be a boneless mollusk.
It is an incomprehensible being.
‘Was it something like that…? .’
Humans feel fear of beings they cannot understand.
I think it’s ominous, but I also think it’s wonderful.
And the most appropriate word to call such a being.
It must be the expression ‘God’.
The being in front of my eyes was something that came from somewhere other than here.
But we couldn’t understand it, so we called it God.
It seems that the Emperor calls those who can communicate with the gods the apostles of the evil gods and punishes them.
─ Arun!!! Why!!!
Someone among these people, who were called the apostles of the evil god, jumped out and screamed loudly.
“Stop imitating Liam, you monster.”
─ Arun!!!
Suddenly.
The chief priest swung his sword with gritted teeth, looking as if he would burst into tears at any moment.
Then, the head of the man who was screaming loudly flew into the air on the spot.
Black blood flowed from the man’s neck.
After a while, the man’s appearance began to change.
‘He wasn’t human?’
When the man who had just been called Liam died, the corpse of something other than human was left in his place.
A creature that gives an indescribable sense of discomfort.
He was a being that I felt was God.
However, compared to the creatures they were guarding, their presence was very weak.
Just like adults and children.
“… Rest in peace now, Liam.”
After saying that, the guest lifted her shoulder.
I don’t know what the relationship is between invitation and a man named Liam.
However, it was clear that the two people had a very close relationship.
Screams were heard from all directions.
It was a voice lamenting and complaining, asking why they were killing us.
However, those who met their end like that became something other than human and faced death as is.
It was a very scary sight.
“Go away, evil spirit.”
After saying this, the first king plunged the sword into the body of the being that was being protected by the apostles of the evil spirit.
Then, light like a brilliant sun burst out from the sword.
─────────────!!!
A being who let out a terrible, inexplicable scream died.
The first king pulled out the sword stuck in the creature’s body.
Drop drip.
The sword was covered in black blood.
Just as the Lord was about to take a step back, he suddenly looked towards where I was.
The moment I fell into the illusion that our eyes had met, something started digging into my brain.
It was a memory.
It was a scene where the First Lord killed, killed, and killed his fellow countrymen like a machine.
***
“Maximilian?!”
My vision returned along with the dizziness.
In front of me was Priscilla, calling me with a worried expression.
“What’s going on, Priscilla?”
“Blood!”
Blood?
Too-duk-duk.
I felt something hot near my mouth, so I wiped it with my hand and noticed that blood was flowing from my nose.
Mild dizziness and headache.
“Your Highness?!”
“It’s okay, Sir Pedro.”
I took out a handkerchief from my pocket, wiped my nose, and shook my head.
“… “Let’s withdraw.”
“What should we do about this?”
“Leave it as is.”
“Yes.”
I already got all the answers I wanted.
‘That’s what it was….’
The inexplicable being called the Shadow of the End refers to a life form beyond human understanding that can only be described as a god.
It would have been difficult for those who immigrated to the Acradium continent to explain its existence.
So you just expressed it as something like a scary disaster.
Now I understand the miracle that happened to Priscilla.
“Are you really okay?”
“Yeah, it’s okay.”
After coming here, the last question that remained in my mind disappeared.
What resides in Priscilla’s body is a fragment of divinity that overflowed from the dead god.
In other words, the story goes that Priscilla’s body contains the power of God.
I can’t help but feel ominous and dangerous.
After all, it is a power that cannot be understood by the human mind.
“The mana of the sun showed an interesting sight.”
As I walked towards the gate leading back to the island, I decided to tell my group about the sight I saw.
“Are you talking about an interesting sight?”
I nodded to Martin’s question.
“I saw the shadow of the end that the first generation had defeated.”
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Priscilla was the one who reacted the most to my words.
In The Garden of Thorns, Priscilla appears as a witch who brought the shadow of the end to this world.
Since you know the story, you can’t help but react the most violently.
“This is a creature that came from a dimension other than this one. “It was a creature with mysterious powers that human wisdom could not understand.”
I don’t know what purpose they acted for.
However, it is presumed that this action was not very beneficial to humankind.
That must be why the first king drew his sword.
“Did that creature come from another dimension?”
“Okay. “It seems like I came here by swimming through the sea of stars beyond the sky.”
“That…” .”
Martin looked up at the sky with an expression of disbelief.
‘That may not even be the sky in the first place.’
This is literally a ‘dungeon.’
It’s a dungeon, but there’s no way there’s a sky, and there’s no way there’s a sun when there’s no sky.
This is probably a dungeon created by someone who can interact with a god from another dimension by interpreting its mysterious power.
The reason it is different from my past life memories is because it came to me a year earlier, or because of the actions I have taken so far, the change occurred.
I came to an amusement park that had not yet opened.
Isn’t this a situation that can be seen like that?
‘It’s a creepy situation.’
In my past life, I skipped most of the story, so I don’t know the details.
But since the conditions were met, I felt like I could guess how the story of The Garden of Thorns would have progressed.
‘I probably got the information from here.’
When Cynthia and Maximilian looked at Priscilla in the Garden of Thorns, they clearly saw a scene here that brought up the phrase ‘shadow of the end.’
It was probably a black liquid dwelling in the dead Priscilla’s body.
Isn’t that an ominous scene no matter how one looks at it?
The situation was so complicated that it was inevitable that there would be a misunderstanding.
It feels like watching a well-written play.
“Hey… “It’s like Cthul or something!”
Cynthia looked at me as she said that.
‘Ratings that are excessively polarized.’
Suppose what was said to be a twist was actually the female protagonist and player of the game who was the culprit behind everything.
People who thought it was novel would have given it 5 points, but those who found it offensive would have given it 1 point.
‘He’s a kind clown… To be precise, Cynthia herself is also being taken advantage of.’
I felt like I could finally understand what the old woman meant.
If my relationship with Priscilla completely breaks down, Cynthia becomes my new companion and joins me.
We came here with our colleagues, received incorrect information, and attacked Priscilla, whose body and mind were already torn to shreds, by labeling her as a shadowy figure.
This put an end to all the incidents that had engulfed the empire.
Probably, like other endings, it will end with a CG containing a peaceful scene.
But wouldn’t something be revealed later in the additional story?
“It was hard. “Let’s return in order.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
I went through the simple gate one after another with my companions.
I was exposed to so much information in a short period of time that I felt like my head was going to explode.