Episode 144
The eve festival ended splendidly as if announcing the start of the festival.
There were no accidents in the meantime, but the Dragias family took action quickly, so there was no big noise.
Allen left the room between morning and night, when the dark blue sky was dyed with clouds.
Perhaps there was a huge drinking party during the night, and there were rows of people who had collapsed in the alley with gochujang.
“why
After being silent all night, she shouted at Allen, who answered calmly, as if she couldn’t stand it.
「You have nothing to say to me!? It’s strange to talk so casually now!”
As she recalled what had happened last night, she shook the specimen. Maybe the sword had turned a little red.
Allen patted her chin, which gradually ragged at her reaction.
“Hmm…, was it too provocative for you?”
Allen tapped the handle of the sword with a serious face.
“From now on, I’ll even put a handkerchief on you.”
“… … -J
“If not, do you need earplugs? But where do you go to cover your ears….”
“hey!”
Allen stopped teasing her any further and headed for his destination. Contrary to her violent reaction, last night he didn’t cross her line.
‘I may have gone before then.
She had a lot of tender parts for her age. Allen shed Vestla’s smirk and recalled the contents of her note.
-Autumn Nagi Inn
A note with only the inn name written on it.
Nothing was written about it other than that.’ He guessed where the man he bumped into belonged to.
circular bridge.
Rachel didn’t notice, but shortly after he bumped into Allen, he showed the sign of the ring bridge over his shoulder.
It was just a moment, so even Allen wasn’t sure. His answer confirmed that he was a circular church.
‘They have the same dream… .’
The fact that there are many people who want the world to be destroyed means that there are many people who are dissatisfied with their current life.
He became an apostle to take advantage of the ring bridge, but sometimes he thinks it’s better to be broken up into a few pieces, as before the return.
There were times when
If it gets too big, it will be difficult to use.
Allen reached the inn with his name written on an old wooden signboard, avoiding the vomit that had engraved on the floor.
The street was quiet, like a brief silence before the harvest festival.
When I opened the door of the expensive inn, the man I saw yesterday was sitting at a table in the corner.
The man nodded, woke up to the sound of the door opening, and saw Allen, jumped up and tripped.
Woodangtang-
“•••Uh 99 td •
“Are you okay?”
As he asked, the man nodded and stood up from the floor.
“•••Yes, it’s okay, Apostle. But… you’re late than I thought:,
Allen did not answer his question and turned to the innkeeper.
The man noticed his gaze and quickly opened his mouth.
“This place is managed by our school, so you don’t have to worry about it that much.”
“Then what about those over there?”
When Allen looked at where he was pointing, their faces turned red from how much they had drunk, and people who fell asleep were laying their heads on the table.
At his question, the man opened his mouth without hiding anything.
“Yeah, it’s a festival, but if you’re sane, wouldn’t it be suspicious? Even patrols occasionally come, but if you leave it there, they just glance at it and pass by.”
Allen nodded at the fact that he had behaved better than expected.
‘It is difficult to eradicate this.’
As a result of his checking, no one here had magical powers or other abilities.
Truly an ordinary resident.
If they usually hide their identities and act, they won’t get caught unless they reveal themselves.
“So, what did you come to the ring for? Did you get any other results from the prophecy?”
“That’s… come first.”
He guided him inside, as if he was a bit shy to stand and speak.
I followed him into a corner room inside the inn. It was a place where the owner of the inn usually lived, so the feeling of life was buried.
The man quickly pushed the bed and cleared the carpet. In the meantime, dust got into his eyes, and he frowned, but his actions never slowed down.
“Uh huh… The dust has piled up again. Please come in. If you go inside, you won’t be noticed by him.”
“•••bloke?”
He smiled vaguely, as if it were more difficult to say, and went into the hole under the carpet.
“Will you follow me?”
Bestla asked in a fat voice.
She kept her mouth shut at Allen’s teasing, but she seemed concerned.
‘You have to go in. Once you are an apostle:
Doubting them here can be seen as a distrust of the Ring Bridge.
As he went down without hesitation, the man was busy looking for something to work. A halo of light appeared in a grid pattern on the wall, and it hum and turned transparent.
“Is it a barrier?”
“Yeah? Yes. It’s an item from the main unit.”
Allen pulled a few strands from the skein and touched the barrier.
Sound insulation, protection, separation, space, shielding.
‘It’s pretty high level.’
Usually, barrier artifacts and relics are created according to their purpose.
Hide the sound, block the presence, or block the attack.
The barriers here had built-in techniques to hide everything. It’s like trying to keep your eyes off something.
“Allen, when I came here, that energy was gone.”
‘Dragon energy?’
Perhaps he was anxious that he closed his eyes and remained quiet, the man looked at him and opened his mouth.
“I, Sado…”
“What’s your name?”
Allen asked a sudden question, and he looked at him for a moment before opening his mouth.
“Max, you can call me Max.”
“Then let’s talk, why did you call me here?”
“Yeah, then I’ve also avoided his eyes, so now…”
“for a moment.”
Allen couldn’t understand what the ‘eye’ he was talking about earlier.
“You keep saying ‘eyes’, who are you talking about r
“••• Didn’t you know?”
He made a bewildered look on his face, as if he thought Allen would understand, and began to explain quickly. de
“As you know, we purify everything that does not belong to this world, because it is a natural thing for the world to come.”
Allen resisted what he was about to say. It was a long way to hear an explanation.
“We are doing a lot of work in various places…, and it is the same here in the Central Plains. The upper level guessed that a monster that should have died hundreds of years ago is still alive, and sent us here several years ago from the records accumulated in the main hall. You did.”
He questioned Allen carefully with a puzzled face.
“•••The Prophet has sent an official letter to help the Apostle here.
So I thought you would know… . He said so and looked at Allen. Allen put up with her impressions about to wrinkle.
‘Now that I’ve taken on the position of an apostle, I’m going to use it to the fullest.,
Now that I have an apostle, I have a symbol that I want to make him work.
Allen clicked his tongue as he remembered the rotten roots he had seen the other day.
I had no intention of rejecting it because it was in line with my purpose anyway, but I was afraid to let him do the work at will.
‘•••No, wait.’
But Allen soon put a soft smile on his face when he thought of a way to use them.
“I’ve never heard of such a thing… but it’s the church’s business, so of course we cooperate.”
“Go, thank you. Sado. As expected…”
His eyes were filled with respect as well as the thought of being an apostle.
“Let me tell you what you know first. That way I won’t be able to help you or not.”
“Yes, I understand. First of all, about Confucius Elif…”
As they chatted, Bestla, who was quietly looking at Allen’s face, thought to herself.
Also, it’s ugly.
Underground of Dragias.
Going down the underground passage, known only to the headmaster and a few close friends, there was a space covered in black smoke.
It was a very different purple-black ground with bumpy rocks and soil on the ground.
A middle-aged man stopped walking in the space as if a mountain range had been completely embedded in the ground.
The head of the Dragias family, Belid Dragias, opened his mouth in an attitude that did not match the authority of the outside world.
“You may enter. Seonjo-sama.”
“Come in.”
At the voice that echoed through the space, he began to move the footsteps he had stopped.
When he reached the center through the waving smoke in the sky, there was a huge palace built of pure gold.
gang- gang-
The palace, which was still under construction, boasted an enormous size enough for a dragon to live in, and between the walls, dwarves were working.
Belid opened her mouth, ignoring those who worked like slaves.
“Seonjo, when do you want to deal with the work in progress?”
“The time has not come yet.”
It was Elef Dragias who appeared with the sound of footsteps. He smiled broadly as he looked back at his golden palace.
Even the smile on my son’s face didn’t shake Belid.
“Then, will the harvest festival proceed as planned?”
“Yeah, instead, move the auction in the middle to the last day.”
“Okay. And…”
As Belid dragged his horse out of the ordinary, Ni’dhpggr, the ridiculer carrying the corpse that had taken possession of him, looked at him.
“Why?”
“•••What do you think about Elos?”
He asked in a low voice, as if hesitant to ask about it.
Nidhogg grinned as if he knew what he was worried about at his question. It was the smile he often wore when he was promoting as ‘Ellipse’.
But the words that came out were quite insulting.
“I left my eldest son and took interest in even the youngest. Is it sad for the second one?”
“You said you wanted to leave only the ‘Dragias’ family, not the third generation, but I don’t know how to accept this.”
Belif, as if he had never been humiliated, silently waited for his answer.
“No worries.”
‘Elip’ liked Elos. Compared to him and the third who surrendered for the sake of his family, and those who shut their mouths as if he was pleased with his change, how energetic Elos is.
In order to regain his strength and prepare for the ‘end’, he lived as an Eliff for ten years, but Elos was nothing more than a vital energy for a boring life.
“If you count him, he’s like a son who inherited my blood. Yeah.
As the existence of Beecher under the Reinhardt family became unclear, they were looking for other alternatives.
“Now I need to clean up. I’m not going to kill you, so don’t worry. You’ll just lead a quiet life.”
Elnix’s report confirmed the existence of the dragon’s blood veins and responsive dragon core, and if he obtained only that, he could revive the dead body.
As a hint of relief appeared on his expressionless face, Nidho waved his hand.
“Get out of here. I’ll make sure he’s not leaving the city, but whatever he does, I won’t stop him.”
Shouldn’t the end of life be enjoyed?
At the monster’s gaze filled with ridicule and joy, Velid slowly turned around and returned.
As he left, Nidafj could only hear the occasional knocking of a hammer.
Nidhogg’s eyes stared at the rotting, venomous and oozing body that was stored deep within the palace of pure gold.
“••• One step forward.”
If you take that one step safely, you will be able to prepare for this ‘end’ unlike the last time you were helpless.
If that happens, only the Dragias family will remain in the world, not the third generation, as Veled wished, and he will be able to recover his body anew.
He returned to the Golden Palace again.
In order to successfully complete this task, it was necessary to absorb as much morale as possible.
The dark mountain range fell asleep again in the stillness of silence.