Episode 127
Allen healed the wounds and cleared the memories before returning.
The time to contemplate like now was rare. If you leave the Primitive Corridor, you will have to move quickly according to the changed war situation.
‘Grandel, who was the starting point of everything, eventually paid the price.’
Miss Francisca’s revenge was finished, and she knew why Julius had been trapped.
So now what to think about.
‘Does destruction have anything to do with the gray book?’
Allen pulled out a book with chains wrapped around him in front of him.
Unlike a black book or a white book, a gray book with only one title, ‘Reincarnated’.
Until I heard the rumors from Margol of the Alchemy School, I thought it was something completely different.
The destruction and the gray monster that Grandel directly mentioned, and even the words he saw during the relic practice.
‘Is there no connection?
However, there is not enough information to connect the singularity, extinction, and the gray book.
The same goes for black books and white books.
I haven’t been able to find any other clues since the text I saw during the relic practice.
‘•••It is still difficult to grasp the outline of the picture.,
As Allen put aside his thoughts about them and recalled the situation just before his return, he noticed a disturbing feeling of incongruity.
‘Then, at the end… :
Just before returning to the past, what were the priests and paladins by his side?
Priests and paladins were rare, but could be found even after the god disappeared.
However, they had to be seen as those who continued evangelism only with sincere faith without divine power.
However, the number of temples was very small because the temple was destroyed after the great collapse.
Even if the people who came at that time were the power of the circle church, there would be no priests and paladins who used divine power.
‘Who were then with Julius:
Allen had also summoned a priest to check if Julius had an evil spirit.
Even after returning, he called a nearby priest to help solve the witch case.
But it was no different from getting paid to work.
It’s that he doesn’t come rushing around saying he found the devil like his last.
‘••• A new denomination was created in the midst of the confusion?’
Allen decided to investigate the matter later through the circular bridge, and continued his meditation.
The injuries have not yet been fully healed.
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the sky is shaking
Allen, recovering from his injuries in a quiet place, woke up to the vibration.
A pillar of white light rose above the heads of those who entered the Primitive Corridor according to the vibration.
Seeing the primordial corridor ending, Allen stood up.
‘How did the attack happen?’
According to Allen’s knowledge, in the end, Barenden, the lord of the Tower of Light, activates Bifrost and wipes out the attackers.
Magician’s power is important for the future as well, so I’d like to reduce the damage as much as possible… .
The moment Allen waited for such a thought, the vibrations became more intense and the light flashed as it reached its climax.
The view changed and the students’ bodies moved to the central square of Perta.
“Finally back… Huh?”
“Do, the city…”
“What is this…”
Although it was a short time, they were delighted with the many harvests they could get, and they lost their words at the sight of the city.
There was a rotten body all around, bloodstains, black smoke, and the wreckage of a broken building made it possible to guess that a fierce battle had unfolded here.
But after a brief pause, a light flashed over their heads.
“Barden!”
One of the disciples of the tower, who recognized Inyeong’s sudden appearance, shouted, and Barden spoke to them with a tired face.
“I’m busy with post-processing right now, so I’ll talk about it in a little bit. Skyna!”
“You’re busy, so why call me?”
When Barden shouted, it was Sky I, the head of the School of Change, who appeared. She walked out in front of them to see if they were nearby.
“Anyway, all that’s left is a little tidying up, so please take care of the younger students.”
“It’s not over yet, what’s your intention for me?”
“Don’t you know that the situation is in turmoil because of the traitor?”
“•••I got it.”
She nodded with an annoyed look on her face and then waved her hand to the students.
Barden disappeared as soon as he left the students with her as if he was busy with work.
“Come on, follow me? If you stay here, you don’t know who’s going to attack you again?”
By following her, Allen was able to get a more accurate picture of the city’s situation.
‘•••Than you think.,
worse
“Isn’t this just a level where the city was destroyed in half?”
At best, I thought that some of the outskirts of the city and not the heart of the city would be stopped sooner or later… .
The scars of the city were not as severe as expected, so that the aftermath of the battle reached the center of the city.
Allen felt it.
‘Something has changed.’
I have come to be different from the future Allen knew and thought would come true. am
It caused more damage than he knew. Fortunately, it seemed to have been resolved, but it was painful to see that the magician’s power had decreased. numm
‘More details… :
Allen looked away.
There, with a gentle smile, he bowed his head to him.
Her whisper reached Allen.
‘I believed it.’
Francisca approached him.
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“•••Twelve casualties. Fortunately, the students of the Faculty of Magic were in the Primordial Corridor, so there was little damage.”
“is it….”
Professor Malvern raised his face.
How many students per year die?
An accident by accident, a mistake in Dalian, an attack by someone, and a major variable during practice.
However, this did not mean that students were accustomed to death. Malvern had seen numerous deaths before he became an old man, but he could not always get used to it.
I couldn’t get used to it.
The sight of unfinished flowers withering always added weight to the heart of the old man.
Each time, I felt skeptical.
“We’re getting better, but Matop’s side… It’s a portrait house now.”
“They’ll have to deal with traitors too, so they’ll talk a lot.”
Malvern looked at the assistants checking the remaining students and then turned his head towards the tower.
“I’ll have a headache, too, Barden’s Mato.”
If the master of the tower betrayed, should the entire tower be regarded as betraying him?
If three of the Seven Great Horseman’s Towers betrayed them, wouldn’t the deceased’s power rot and the doors were exposed?
Even the compensation for that, the restoration of the city, and whether the demons are revealed.
“In addition to that, the suspicion of assassination of Grandel, the lord of the Tower of the Wind, overlapped, so you can see that it will be difficult to do outside activities for the time being.”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
But that wasn’t the only thing.
“••• I’ve done something like this, doesn’t it mean that I don’t want to hide it anymore?”
“Yeah, it’s small, but since they attacked other cities as well as here, it’s an open declaration that they’re moving now.”
Now it was certain that the continent would be embroiled in war.
If so, the academy must also change.
Until now, the academy has trained talented students to prepare in advance for the appearance of the demon king.
However, it had no choice but to gradually loosen up in the long-term peace.
There was a lot of talk about whether it was turning into a social club or not… .
‘Maybe it could have been better’
The academy will change.
A little more practical.
You will become stronger as you gain more intense battlefield and experience.
More and more students may die because of that, but… , Malvern thought it would be better than dying for not preparing for the war to come.
His sighing gaze turned to the students who had finished the inspection.
[••• Confucius Julius blocked the King of the Spirits.]
Allen looked at Julius again, repeating what he had heard from Miss Francisca.
[Thanks to him blocking the Demon King, the undead army stalled, and in the meantime, Barden-nim defeated Pardel-nim and helped others activate Bifrost.]
Julius was looking at Heisel with subdued eyes.
Heizel, who is sensitive to gaze, would have noticed Julius’ gaze earlier, but he ignored Julius.
A cold atmosphere enveloped the two of them.
Seeing Julius like that, the people who were next to him also shut their mouths, and Heisel looked at the tower with eyes that didn’t know what he was thinking.
‘Heisel did not come forward, la.,
Allen had no personal feelings for Heisel.
Even at the beginning of the semester, he paid attention to his unfamiliar attitude as well as question-and-answer questions, but as the gray Tsu 4 was unresponsive and there were more things to be dealt with, the contact disappeared.
It is the same even if I remembered it in the original while watching the chase play between him and Maria at the festival.
I thought about what to do with my future plans, but I didn’t think about how to deal with him.
This is because Heizel knew that he had a contact with the demons, and that he would be walking a different path than Julius.
‘But if Heisel changed in this episode… :
You need to be prepared just in case.
Allen remembered the white-haired girl he had an appointment with every evening.
‘Are you a hero as a card against the Demon King?’
The relationship has continued because of her attitude before the return to which she committed suicide, but if Heisel has changed, the relationship needs to be closer.
When he thought there, Professor Malvern exclaimed.
“Now back to the academy. Everyone, please get on the carriage!”
All work on the tower has been completed.
‘Is it surprising that Miss Francisca’s choice?
She announced that she would leave the tedious horse tower and transfer to the academy.
Transfer was more difficult than admission, so I was worried.’ Allen thought it was possible with her talent.
It’s time to go back to the academy.
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It’s been a week since I returned to the town of Perta.
In the meantime, the academy even ordered school closures and held meetings in a hurry.
Regarding the direction of the academy in the future, how to act according to the current situation.
Or maybe it’s to look at the situation on the continent for a while.
Allen spent time alone with Bestla, no matter what.
“Well… , Allen, I don’t know how a human will grow after becoming a giant, right?”
To be precise, it was an investigation into Allen’s own body.
Because of that, I couldn’t train with Gaion, so I rented a training room with Bestla.
She flew around, checking every corner of his body.
“By the way, it’s been over a year since you had this body, and now it’s time to start seeing changes, isn’t it?”
Saying so, she explained the development of the giant.
“A giant undergoes a total of three changes in its lifetime.”
The first is just growing up.
“As you live like a human, you gain a lot of experience, and over time, it grows to the size of the ashes you saw at that time.”
“Then, is it that I am growing up?”
When Allen asked, recalling the gigantic size of that time, her blade trembled as if in doubt.
「•••It is true, but it is ambiguous. The yellow mist you absorbed when you turned into a giant. That is the bone marrow of giants.”
So I don’t even know how long it will take to grow up. She said she said that the bone marrow of a giant accelerates the growth of a young giant.
The second is metamorphosis.
「There are many names, including the giant of the mountain, the giant of the lake, and even the giant of the devil, right? It’s like that.”
Just like when a giant dies, it turns into a mountain and turns into a hill.
The giant said that after a certain period of time, he needed something to be used as his source.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to sustain the enormous force required to move the giant.
“I don’t have enough food, so I can supplement it with what I eat every day… Then I have to eat all day. But you… .”
She answered in a tone of unsure.
“It is already based on the race itself called ‘human’. That’s why it’s okay to eat less, and I think it can be in a smaller size.”
Allen nodded at her words. She doesn’t know for sure about the race of giants, but if she is, then that’s right.
He’s a human giant… .
When I thought it didn’t sound like a good word, Bestla continued.
“So it may be that growth has stagnated. Just as a mountain giant resembles a mountain, a human giant resembles human characteristics.”
“That means…”
“Experience and learning. In other words, in order to grow, you have to face more enemies and gain combat experience.”
After all, isn’t it different from what we’re going to do in the future?
Allen shook his head and grabbed his sword.
Now that I have made an appointment with her, I need to learn the next level of Jotunsverd.
Before he could swing his sword like that, Allen opened his mouth as if he had suddenly remembered.
“If growing up is first and metamorphosis is second… what is the third last?”
She replied in a tone that seemed to be hesitant and uncertain.
“An allegory.”
To break away from one giant and become a greater being.
It was an unknown step that no one had yet achieved, but that should have been accomplished.
It was impossible because of destruction.
“The name of the third stage is allegory.”
she whispered lowly.