Episode 199
“My lord, ••• This method is too cumbersome.”
“Then is there any other way besides this plan?”
How desperate it is to live in a world destined for destruction.
“It’s a fact I’ve known since my father’s day that this era will end with a disaster.”
“•••Yes, it is.”
“That’s what my great father, Augelmir, heard himself from the yawning Abyss hornless cow.”
Even the Father who created us cannot escape, and the end directly affirmed by an existence comparable to such a father.
“Do you think you can get out of such destruction in a normal way?”
“But fate…”
“Fate can escape.”
At least you should try
Unlike those dragons who thought they would give up without even trying.
“We are giants.”
If a wall blocks his way, he will break it, and if fate seizes him, he will cut it off himself.
“At least I don’t want to take the blame like that, because I’ll wait for destruction and future generations will find a way.”
“•••Then there could be discrimination between giants.”
“Children will learn from birth that they are not equal to each other, and they will become indolent, relying on the fact that there is something higher than me.”
“The existence of each other is not inherently equal, and how can the fact that there is a higher being be a reason for indolence?”
We also know ourselves that we are not equal under the Father.
“Father and the hornless goat left, leaning on the possibility of the future. That’s why we are the only ones. Isn’t it?”
“That’s right….”
“My only friend, BCiri, also left my son with me to find another way.”
So should the rest of us leave everything to them and tremble?
“So… I will declare.”
“Order.”
“I, Volton (B-born), will now sit in the king’s seat given to me by a close friend and issue the first order.”
A power that has never been seen before, something that cannot appear in the present age, but only appears in the next age.
“In order to attain divinity and transcend, build temples throughout the region and identify him with the king.”
“My name is sacred, so let it be called the Evil Hand, and let the son of Beak deal with the grievances in the dark.”
“Okay. Then to the princess…”
The evil hand shook her head, remembering her who was called a swordsman genius.
“Hide everything except the secret of the adversary”
I will be responsible for everything.
Allen grabbed his flaky hair and woke up.
It was dark all around. He forcibly pushed the scene floating in his head and looked around with his senses.
A space that no one has been to for a long time.
Allen was sitting alone in a cavity engraved with a mural.
After confirming that there was no immediate threat, he calmly analyzed the situation. am
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‘I found the city after entering the interior through the outskirts of Nastrond Plain.’
The site was built with only low stone walls, which are embarrassing to even call it a city. Not a single undead was there, so I felt uncomfortable and looked into it in detail.
Then, there was an empty space in the basement of the center of the city, a place not different from other places.
I thought that there was something to defeat the undead, so I went in there… .
‘I met a giant with only bones left.’
After that, nothing happened. Allen was vigilant and talked to get information. And the giant sent himself here.
If I had to force a conclusion, it could be reduced to one word.
‘Did it:
There was no premonition to say …
No, from the beginning, Allen did not believe in the skeleton giant.
“No, if you think about it again…”
How many people have visited the city except yourself? ten seven hundred? At least not a small number.
But has no one acted like Allen himself?
‘I don’t think so.’
There must have been people who dug because they wondered if something was buried underground, and there were also artifacts and magic tools to explore the basement.
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But Allen alone found an empty place underground?
‘From the beginning… The giant knew me/
This was the conclusion I came up with, step by step.
An unknown giant recognized Allen’s existence and attracted him. It was not known whether the reason was because of the giant’s lineage or because of Bestla.
In any case, the giant was hiding the cavity… It would be correct to make the chapel recognizable to Allen, and to make him intrigued.
After that, the gnome took the time to talk, and transported him here.
I didn’t know the intention or the reason, but at the same time, I felt that way.
“Then, does that dream have anything to do with this?”
From the moment he entered the Nastrond Plains, or to be exact, from the point where he stayed for a while, he had been dreaming every night.
A giant and a dragon are fighting, and sometimes someone has a conversation.
Until the dream lasted, I was worried that it might be some kind of mental attack, but now I vaguely realized that this was to tell me something.
Even when he was on the outskirts of the plain, the content of his dream was unclear.
I couldn’t understand it except for the last word.
However, as we got closer from the outside to the inside, the dream became more and more clear.
I don’t know how close they are now, but I was able to listen without interruption as if I was really listening next to them.
‘•••The last conversation.,
The exact meaning of the conversation is unknown, but Allen knew who the evil hand was.
One of the two rulers who ruled the Age of Dragons and Giants and the king of the Giants.
It was the first time I saw the name on a mural I had read at the ruins.”
So it must be holding an important secret.
‘It’s still not fully connected due to lack of clues… .’
If only a few pieces came in, it would make a difference.
Having gathered his thoughts, he slowly got up.
“No one is coming.”
If I had sent myself here, I thought there would be someone waiting.
Was it just rain?
Then I heard a small sound.
Allen did not respond and began to examine the communal mural.
Immediately after moving, the existence of the mural was known. However, the first thing to do was to analyze the situation and prepare for someone to come.
ji.
At least, the fact that his opponent is deliberately showing off means that he wants to show that he has no hostility.
Tick- Tack-
He looked around the cavity and let out a small sigh.
The overall impression was this.
Had the academy come a little sooner, there would have been room for something different.
The contents of the mural were depicting contents that Allen was familiar with.
A gray disaster appeared when civilization reached the peak of development and bloomed splendidly.
However, the surprising thing is that the giants knew in advance that the gray disaster would appear, and that they found some way to avoid him.
There were no detailed instructions, but… .
‘No, wait a minute. Does it have anything to do with what you just heard when you lost your mind?’
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Allen woke up to the sound of footsteps. A more detailed judgment will come later. For now, let’s start with simple facts.
The giants worked for centuries to make the method a reality.
It wasn’t long before the plan was realized, when something extraordinary happened.
“The betrayal of the dragon…”
A giant who built his own framework and planned work, and a dragon who helped fill in the gaps in the plan.
It was the dragon that caused the relationship to collapse.
Dragons are the masters of magic and rulers of powerful reason.
The giant doubled the power of his body with his emotional anger, but the dragon used magic to make judgments with extreme rational judgment.
To them, the giant’s plan seemed futile.
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It would have been a more ‘reasonable’ decision to obey the two transcendents who would have orchestrated all this if only they could survive.
So it was only natural for some of the dragons to betray.
It was also not strange that the dragons who followed them betrayed the giant.
But their actions resulted in ruin.
The dragon and the giant mutually annihilated according to the intention of the two transcendents, and the plans of the giant and the obedience offered by the dragon were also to no avail.
“Lizard, I said lizard.”
Was this the reason?
Somehow, the reason Bestla hated was too strong to be just a racial feeling.
Then, the Nidhogg in the basement of the Dragias family may not be the real figure.
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Because Dom’s appearance was too emotional to be a dragon.
Maybe it was the result of becoming an undead and degenerating intellect… , did he endure the fall in order to live even knowing that? Is that rational?
“It’s literally like a snake.”
“You did a good job! They are truly selfish people.”
Allen did not panic at the sound of footsteps and turned around.
“Because I’m old, it’s a little late to entertain guests.”
There was a man there, but he was dressed as neatly as possible. Her height is not much different from Allen’s, white jade-like skin and pointed ears, and her appearance is not that different from before… .
Allen’s expression hardened after looking at him for a moment.
“•••This is amazing. I’m sure there will be living things for thousands of years.”
“Are you alive?”
He let out a weeping laugh and shook his head.
“If you can say that this is still alive.”
He showed a part of his lower body that was covered with a robe. Allen showed a feeling of surprise. yea it had to be
Unlike his upper body, his lower body had nothing but bones.
‘•••The sound of footsteps was strange.,
If that was the case, I could understand.
“Why did you do that?”
“I was blessed by the Queen of the North in return for the future.”
If you look at it like this, it wouldn’t be strange to call it a curse.
He smiled bitterly as he said that.
“Have your questions been resolved a bit? Then let me introduce myself first. My name is Volund (V inndr), blacksmith. The tribe… If I put it in your way, can I be called a high elf?”
Allen looked at something other than his race, the origin of the elves.
“blacksmith?”
He smiled and nodded when he questioned a title that didn’t quite suit his slender body.
“exactly. Hundreds of ruins, including this one, have traces of me. Haven’t you heard from Borr? You must have one of my works… .”
Bor? Pronunciation is subtly different. Before Allen could care about him, Volund’s gaze fell to his waist.
Allen calmed down the emotions he was about to reveal as he looked straight at Bestla.
How would Allen know if he was telling the truth?
But Volund sighed as he thought it was because he had not heard any information.
「•••Yeah, it was too long to hold on.」
No matter how great the son of
He turned and beckoned to Allen.
“Follow me. I will explain the rest as I go.”