“Yes, it is the clothes that the founder always wore in his adventures toward the truth. Now it’s your turn to wear it.”
“yes?”
As if not tolerating objections, my father took the silently sparkling red robe off the hanger and draped it over my shoulders.
“Now, give that young dragon to me for a while. Tuck your arms into your sleeves.”
“No, wait a minute. father?”
“Come on before you wake up. Didn’t you say that even a little away from you would make you cry?”
Pushed back by the sudden situation created by her father, she pushed her arm into Ceressia’s sleeve.
Then Ceressia, who showed off her aristocratic beauty with a chilly figure, immediately changed the size of her clothes to fit my body.
Perhaps because it was made with magical powers, the clothes were as light as a feather and yet cozy, and they were pleasantly cool as if they filtered the moisture of a summer day.
“Yeah, it suits you very well. Because he is my son, he looks good no matter what he wears.”
My father grabbed me by the shoulders, glanced over my clothes, and gave me a satisfied smile. That smile was too much for me.
“Father, I don’t think so. How can I get the Madose family heirloom… … .”
“What’s wrong? It’s enough to come back and put it back here. If you don’t come back anyway, the Ludwig family will collapse.”
“yes?”
“Brim will die of crying, and I will die of loneliness while mourning my wife. Then tax collectors and brands who can’t be taken care of will also die… … .”
What cruel things are you talking about? As he parted his lips as he took Aki back, his father smiled forlornly.
“It’s asking you to come back. This is to pray for your safety, and at the same time bet that you will have no choice but to come back.”
Then, suddenly, he hugged me tightly and patted me on the back.
“It’s okay if you lose Ceresia in the middle of your journey. You just need to come back. That is enough for me.”
The warmth is so warm… … It was probably the first time that my eyes were blurred because of my family.
“Give the guards and servants silence about my coming here.”
“Okay… … Your schoolmates came to pay condolences. The late index of the Eight Great Schools is five, and up to Christa Warden. Even those children?”
Are those guys condolences?
I was amazed that I was dumbfounded.
At the same time, a longing smile formed. School life with them… … It was more fun than I thought.
“yes. Not to anyone.”
Now that November has arrived, will the final exams be in full swing? Or is it over?
Taking the test was a very enjoyable experience… … The memory of attacking the labyrinth with Logan came to mind quietly.
And Christa, who crushed the clay and promised to flatten my nose for every test… … .
– Then we’ll rejoin our city when we head south, Lane! Akido!
Cassena said so when they parted in the middle of the Empire, but she couldn’t accompany her on this dangerous journey. Now, it’s time to go our separate ways.
“Not only that, but don’t tell Serena or Aunt Elin either. Grandpa will be fine, but… … Those two are so candid that even if you try to hide it, you won’t be able to hide it.”
“Sherry and Elin too? No matter how much you are family, shouldn’t you know about your life and death?”
“I would love to, but… … If you knew where I was alive, you would think you knew where I was, and that would put you both in danger.”
Valencidis, who said he would take my family hostage and get a perfect victory, there is no guarantee that there will be no one on the Black Church side now.
To the imperial troops who witnessed me, Raida said he would issue a silence order. Rumors may circulate because of the guy with a soft mouth, but rumors are the end.
It doesn’t have to be revealed as the truth that I’m alive now.
“When I come back from this journey and everything is settled, I will greet you personally.”
Father did not answer for a long time. Then a smile mixed with a sad sigh returned.
“okay… … If Bran tells Se-Ri that he saw you, can we just say that he was dreaming because he misses you?”
Not from the father, but from the mother.
My father and I turned to the door of the secret room with surprised faces… … My mother was standing there with a sad smile.
He didn’t even come empty-handed, but with a basket full of Mirn Guardia. When the mother coughed, the father hurriedly came to her aid.
“No, why did you come all the way here with a body that is not comfortable?”
“I’m afraid Lane might forget this. I thought it was very important… … .”
After handing the basket of dragon eggs to my father, my mother held my hand tightly.
Suddenly, the memories of childhood, which I had not even remembered or thought about until now, came back to life in my brain. The warmth of a mother who always warmly cared for her small and delicate hands until they grow big.
“I’m sorry mom. You must have had the hardest time, but you get so angry all the time… … .”
“no. I was wrong. Oh, this time I’ll write you a lot of letters so you don’t have to worry. Of course, you have to pretend to be an acquaintance or servant under a pseudonym.”
When I entered school, I received the letter I hated so much, but this time I personally… … .
Brim was proud of his son’s growth, and felt his heart ache at the fact that he had to let such a son go again.
The boy scratched his head shyly for a moment before moving forward and hugging his mother’s emaciated body.
“Mom, I will go. Get well soon, and come back so that you can be very filial.”
If there was one thing that remained as a lifelong regret from my previous life, it was that I didn’t properly say goodbye when I left the school.
I should have said it properly, but Dean, thank you so much so far… … Why did I think I would come back unconditionally back then?
I decided to make a promise that I couldn’t make then and even if I made it again, I couldn’t fulfill it. Don’t regret it again, don’t shed tears again.
“Okay… … I will, my son… … Always wear warmly in a cold place, and don’t catch a cold. And sometimes I sleep at the inn, and I get sick if I only sleep outside… … .”
“The clothes are Ceresia, so you don’t have to worry. I’ll take a lot of money and go. As you said, stop by the inn once in a while. … … Mother, please eat well, rest well, and be healthy.”
After I put up with my embarrassment, my mother eventually burst into tears again.
Next was my father.
I already said goodbye before my mother came, but maybe, just maybe, like in my previous life, this might be the last time… … .
“father.”
As I approached, my father suddenly lifted the hem of Ceressia’s clothes and brought a basket of dragon eggs into her inner pocket.
Then what… … ?
I thought the shape of the basket reflected on my retina was refracted here and there, but didn’t it disappear as if it were being sucked into another dimension?
“This, now how… … What happened?”
My father smiled quietly as I blinked my eyes like I was in a stunned state.
“It’s one of Ceresia’s hidden features.”
“A hidden feature?”
“You can use the sub-space embodied by the ancestor’s magical power. It’s not that big, maybe it’s about the size of that basket. Fortunately, it fits just right.”
How does this feature… … ?
Ryuken Ludwig’s era was a golden age for research on space-time transfer technology, which was called ‘the magic of the gods’, so it was not unconvincing.
However, as strong as the light was, so were the shadows, and ironically, it was also an era when corrupt wizards appeared one after another in the abyss, and the Emperor’s Office banned research.
To think that a relic from a thousand years ago is working perfectly like this… … . What has been excavated is extremely rare, but most have been destroyed or lost.
“It’s going to be a long trip to Antarctica, and I’m afraid my son’s shoulders will bend if I keep carrying it around.”
My father gave me a bitter smile, and as if to hide it, he hugged me tightly and patted me on the back.
As if wanting to hold on to this time for a little longer, the hand tapping on the back slowed down and slowed down again.
Now, it will be goodbye again… … I had to bite my lip to kill the emotion as much as possible.
“Father, I will go. Please live forever.”
As I left the mansion and got on the course that Guardian Knight Swan had carefully selected, Pipi, full of corn, flew in and landed on my head.
“Don’t tell anyone. Even to the off-duty kids today. Especially not to Aunt Serina Elin. got it?”
“Yes, Bocchan. I will make sure to crack down on it.”
“Take care of your parents and younger siblings.”
“Don’t worry, young master.”
Our always trustworthy guardian knight… … I nodded and tried to turn the horse’s head, but Swann spoke in a trembling voice.
“I am really glad that you came back alive like this, young master. Really.”
At that moment, I had to look back at Swann with surprised eyes. As Swann smiled, the other guards saluted with excited faces.
“We will also wait for the day the young master returns!”
“Bocchan, fighting!”
“Brother, please come back safely! He even said he would give me a house! I will believe you!”
hi go… … He gave a thumbs up along with a smile. Finally, I kicked the courser’s side with all my might.
Rista said.
Looking back at the magic tower that was getting farther and farther over the horizon, I realized that I liked the magic tower and my classmates.
– Rin, that’s what I like.
Then now, I thought I came out without any regrets, but if you had seen me keep looking back, you would have said the same thing.
Rin, you liked that mansion, the people over there… … Called.
Then, unlike the time when I couldn’t be honest at all, I would have answered you like this.
That’s right… … Called.
* * *
The ceiling of the old corridor was painted horribly naked, the world of creatures that had been engulfed in the abyss in the prehistoric era.
Unholy letters and numbers spread out on the floor, which had been roughened by the wind and waves of the years, creating geometric cracks, and a man and woman stood in the center.
No, should I say one person? … The other was asleep in the blue ice. for as many as 300 years.
The shrine maiden in an old hat, Tureina, who had been staring at the boy in the ice for a long time with her dark eyes, suddenly turned her head back.
I thought the darkness was rustling there, and soon a man with a grinning smile walked out.
“Hmmm, it looks like it’s still lacking, right?”
“go away.”
“this! Master Lee personally came to teach you some really good information, but I’m sorry.”
Turaina’s men know him simply as ‘Number 7’, but… … The reality was different.
Thousands of snakes coiled around the body and flicked their tongues, the terrifying amount of magical power in the grain of magical power that gives goosebumps… … .
He wasn’t Turaina’s underling, so receiving the number 7 was actually an insult to him. Even though he refused again saying he didn’t need it, he just intervened on his own and gave me his number.
“You are not my master.”
As I sneaked up to him and hit the man who had reached out to hug his waist with a smoking pipe, his hand was engulfed in blue-black flames.
Abyssal Fire… … .
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Everyone should scream in agony as his flesh rots away, but he still grinned as his hands melted.
“Eh, I taught you magic so diligently, but now and then and now, only looking at that kid single-mindedly, Master is so sad.”
“I told you to turn it off.”
“It’s because I’m teaching you how to make that kid get stuck in bed when he wakes up.”
‘Number 7’, who never interacted directly with other members, always changed not only his face but also his body itself.
He is not a master of counter-use and counter-engineering. It just changes the body it controls all the time. To be precise, it would have to be said to be a master of ice magic.
Its true identity was Xernix, the sixth great wizard who became a great wizard at a young age about a thousand years ago, but then disappeared and caused a stir in the world. It’s like a person who is the senior of the 11th great wizard Rin.
That person was now one of the three pillars of the Black Church. He is also the person who taught Turaina magic and black magic.
“Enough of the joke, I will teach my cute disciple a good lesson today. You need more dragon blood to wake him up, right?”
“I don’t need your teaching.”
“Heh, will I say that after hearing it? The whelpling’s guardian is coming to the southern part of the empire. Will you be crossing the borders of the Republic soon? Wouldn’t it be perfect if I took the whelp from him then? It’s a true dragon.”
“Guardian of the whelp… … ?”
I knew there was a huge uproar in Harbadonia and Trident Point.
The fact that Xernix had made a mistake in the process and was reprimanded by the first pillar of the Black Church (I know because he came and made a fuss).
Are you saying that you are so powerful that you calmed down all the situations and signed a contract with the dragon?
“Is your mouth watering? With your skills, you can kill him without causing any damage to his body, so give his body to Master Lee as a tuition fee.”
“Why don’t you do it yourself with that great skill?”
“As you know, Master Lee has work in Antarctica right now. He did some magic in case he wasn’t descended from my f*cking master. I couldn’t win in the state of ice.”
Turaina put the smoking pipe in her mouth and thought for a moment.
It’s a baby dragon of Jinryong… … .
If it was a true dragon in its adult state, I wouldn’t have dared to hunt it, but it’s a different story if it’s a dead body. If I could use that infinite power, it would be more than enough to wake up Master.
After finally assessing the situation, Thureyna let out the smoke she had inhaled deep into her lungs and raised her eyes provocatively.
“So who is he?”