“I said I was a son, but I have no intention of becoming a father now. Even if it was for your safety, I abandoned you.”
“… … .”
“Also, I still have work to do. I’m not sure if I can be with you in the future.”
“Are you running away with that excuse?”
“hmm?”
“I don’t know what you’re worried about. But if you really think of it as a family, shouldn’t it be a family nonetheless?”
At those words, Cain’s eyes widened in surprise, but soon turned bitter.
“okay. Maybe. Maybe I was just scared of myself. Even if you become Master Knight, there are so many things you can’t do in the world.”
Cain invited Noah to sit down.
Just as Noah was nervous when he met his real father for the first time, he was also nervous when he met his grown-up son.
“I don’t care what you think of me. Because that’s my job. But I want you to listen to your mother’s story.”
“Are you my mother?”
“Because your mother, Enya, is also the one who created the story.”
“… … !”
“Enya was born in the imperial family and was the sister of Leyterad.”
“yes?”
“Don’t you know what Leiterade is? It is the Bright Emperor.”
“Yes, yes?”
It seemed that Master Knights had a hobby of throwing bombs first.
* * *
Enya was of imperial origin, but she had no right of succession.
The Empire is a country of sword supremacy.
However, Enya was naturally unable to accept Auras.
“Oh, that… … ?”
“right. Arni here is of the same constitution.”
Arni nodded, confirming Cain’s words.
“Cain-nim is also researching ways to improve my constitution.”
“Anyway, Enya couldn’t learn swordsmanship.”
Strictly speaking, just because you can’t handle Aura doesn’t mean you can’t learn swordsmanship.
It’s just that I can’t use martial arts and sword techniques.
But it was clear that even that alone would not make him a knight.
“But Enya loved to watch swordsmanship. I often hung out with Leyterad and became close with Enya naturally, but you can skip the love affair.”
At that, Arni made a very dissatisfied expression, but Cain deliberately ignored it.
“The reason I was able to marry Enya, who wasn’t even Master Knight at the time, was that she was a princess who didn’t get attention.”
Thus, the promising member of the Imperial Knights married a princess who was considered insignificant.
“But she only had a problem with her constitution, and she possessed the highest level of swordsmanship in history. I’ve said everything since I’ve achieved a swordsmanship within a year of entering swordsmanship.”
“What, what? A heart sword after a year?”
“It’s unbelievable, but it’s true. Besides, the process is even more traumatic.”
Overcome your physical constitution and become a swordsman after a year! It wasn’t like that.
“You were the reason Enya decided she needed to learn swordsmanship.”
“Me?”
“Since the day I conceived you, Enya has been dying.”
“No, what… … ?”
“What if someone who couldn’t accept Auras had a child with them?”
“… … !”
Enya became pregnant with Noah and died as a result.
That’s what Cain was talking about.
“First, let’s make this clear. It is not your fault that Enya died.”
“but… … !”
“The reason why Master and the other guys haven’t told you about it until now is probably because they fear you’ll blame yourself unnecessarily. Again, it was an accident.”
No one could have predicted that until pregnancy.
A rare and unknown constitution.
There was no way to know what problems this constitution was having.
“Besides, you can’t say that just because you’re pregnant, you’re going to die. Enya embraced you and endured for ten months, and lived for several more months after giving birth.”
Every attempt was made to save Enya.
Among them was a proposal to give up Noah, but Enya refused.
“There were talks about extracting all four Auras with star shards, but Enya refused. She made a decision with full awareness of the situation. Enya died because of her decision, not yours.”
It was something that could be said to be too heartless to his wife, but neither Noah nor Arni thought of it that way.
Cain looked so sad when he said that.
In the shocking silence, Cain continued to speak as calmly as possible, but in a voice that could not hide his sadness.
“If that was the end, it would have been just a tragedy between me and Noah, but the problem arose after Enya conceived Noah.”
“What next?”
“The Great War broke out.”
great war.
A war between humans and monsters that took place with the fate of the race at stake.
“At that time, the war against the Witchbeast was intensifying day by day.”
There were only two options for the knights facing the Great War.
die or get stronger.
The extreme situation of war gave birth to heroes like Regina.
Cain also became one of them, becoming a master knight and achieving a high-speed promotion.
However, despite the active use of numerous master knights, the war situation continued to deteriorate.
“It was because of the end-of-the-world monster.”
A normal level beast that can be dealt with even without sword skills.
A special beast that requires a knight’s sword skill.
A disaster-level monster that requires the master knight’s sword.
And the one and only apocalypse class monster in history.
No one could object to giving it the grandiose name of Apocalypse.
That’s because the ability of an apocalypse-class monster was shocking.
“The ability to grow other demons into disaster levels. With that alone, he was a being that could truly destroy mankind.”
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“Now, wait a minute. Do you think that the ability of an apocalypse-class monster was like that? Have you never heard of such a thing?”
“It is natural not to know. It was a fight that would end if you couldn’t stop him no matter how many times you won on other battlefields. And there was no way to defeat the guy who always brought dozens of disasters with him.”
The end of the human race is certain.
“I couldn’t disclose the fact because the result was so obvious. Confusion is confusion, and there are people who haven’t given up hope yet.”
“Then mother… … .”
“No one knew, but at that time, Enya had never learned swordsmanship herself, but had a deeper understanding than anyone else in the world. To the point where he made up his mind to defeat the apocalypse himself.”
Having conceived Noah, Enya had a hunch that her days were coming to an end.
And the fact that if this continues, the world Noah will live in will also be destroyed.
“From then on, Enya began to actually learn the swordsmanship she had been observing all her life. I was pregnant, but it wasn’t a big deal, since I couldn’t use rigid body techniques, so I didn’t have to move myself.”
It was only one year.
Enya took note of the fact that the elemental tae uses external auras, and decided to create her own swordsmanship.
Emperor Guanghui opened the Purple Sector for her sister, and Enya learned all the swordsmanship there and created her own swordsmanship.
“That is the end of the game.”
A swordsmanship that perfectly controls one’s own body and draws in an aura from the outside.
Enya saw the horizon with that swordsmanship that was completely different from the existing system.
In a state untouched by anyone in history, Enya defeated the end and passed away the following spring.
“After Enya’s death, Emperor Guanghui wanted me for treason. It seems he didn’t want to see her like this, at least, but Enya already expected this to happen.”
Even after defeating the end, Enya left arrangements for Noah to learn the battle before passing away.
The swordsmanship was modified to suit the general constitution, and the finished version was sealed in the basement of the Crescent Moon Archipelago with the cooperation of Cocoa so that only Noah could see it, leaving only the first half in the unnamed swordsmanship book.
This was a measure to avoid giving power to either side in anticipation of a confrontation between Cain and Emperor Gwanghwi after his death.
“ah… … .”
It is no exaggeration to say that Enya gave her whole world for the child she would leave behind after she left.
Noah was speechless at the shocking story.
As Noah and Cain shut their mouths in shock and longing, respectively, Arni, who was listening next to them, intervened.
“that… … It happened, how come nothing is known about it?”
“Because it was too dangerous to reveal the truth.”
Information about the end of the world was not well known, so Enya was also unknown.
This was because Emperor Gwanghui and others around him intentionally hid information about Enya.
“At the time, the empire was suffering from various threats, and Enya’s condition was getting worse day by day. I couldn’t take any more risks.”
The situation might have been different if he had devoted himself to treatment in the best possible environment.
However, the situation where people were dying every day on the battlefield.
Enya gave up treatment, seeing it as a waste to have medical staff attached to her.
It was said that it was better to save far more people on the battlefield than to stick to oneself who was destined to die anyway.
It means that there is no need for meaningless life-sustaining treatment as long as you are alive until the end.
In fact, she still managed to defeat the apocalypse.
“Even though Enya was in the worst condition after giving birth to Noah, she overcame the end. Because of this, Guanghuiji believes that if she hadn’t given up on treatment, she would have been able to live. If other countries hadn’t interfered, it wouldn’t have gone this far.”
If it wasn’t for the interference, Enya might have been able to end the end without having to learn her swordsmanship.
If it hadn’t been for the interruption, this much blood wouldn’t have been shed.
If it wasn’t for the interruption… … .
So, the Emperor of Luminosity wanted to avenge the sacrificed imperial knights and Enya, and Cain wanted a peaceful world just like Enya had wanted in his lifetime.
“that… … .”
Arni was speechless at Cain’s story.
Because while serving as the North Sea Sword King’s duties, she also learned how the Sanctum Keep behaved to the Empire during the Great War.
At the time, most countries saw the Great War as an ‘opportunity’ to end imperial hegemony.
Saying that they were providing supplies, but wasting time was cute, and with the approval of the council, the regular army plundered the imperial city.
In fact, we don’t know if Enya would have lived if she had been treated.
However, the Emperor of Light did not think so.
And the Emperor Guanghui was the strongest human being and the emperor of the empire.
A person who can really take revenge on the whole world.
No matter how much the child he got at the end of all that sacrifice, Cain could not readily give priority to Noah.
A long silence followed.
Noah made a decision in his heart.
“Okay, I’ve decided.”
“Mr. Noah?”
“For now, let’s focus on the mission. I can’t forgive the Precursors and their gang bastards. If you’re cooperating with this, you’re probably wanting to destroy the organization as well, right?”
“of course.”
“Then I will finish my work here and meet with Your Majesty. If things go on like this, the problem won’t be solved unless one side is put to an end.”
The fact that the conflict continued until Noah reached this age was the same as saying that it would last the rest of his life if left alone.
“I will do something for Your Majesty, so leave it to me.”
“You don’t have to go that far.”
“No, there is.”
“… … ?”
“You can’t go to your mother’s grave alone. father.”
“… … !”
While I was still awkward with my adoptive father, I had a more awkward real father, but it wasn’t a bad feeling.
* * *
Same time Sanctum Keep, Witch’s Mansion.
white hair and white eyes.
The woman who was called ‘witch’ by people because of her foreign appearance was sitting on top of things that were human.
“so? None of our kids had a successful film?”
“I’m sorry, but it is.”
“I think I raised the article to see this crap!”
Enraged, she slammed her hand down, and the white bones around her crumbled.
These skeletons, who were once her pupils, subordinates, and lovers, were the failures of the witchcraft treatment.
Of course, she had no respect for the dead as she sent her subordinates to experiment on living organisms.
“Still, those Skeleton Soldiers are special monsters, so they’ll be a force in their own way.”
“This is why you can’t even show it in front of people! Where can I use these things!”
Quaang!
Again, the white bone was blown out in pieces.
However, even after a while, there was no sound of bone fragments falling.
Instead, white ash flew into the room.
“You seem to be in a bad mood today.”
“Is it homegrown? After doing this, you appeared in front of me. Are you kidding me that even the North Sea Sword King couldn’t finish it properly and even made my knights look like this?”
“I have said enough about the possibility of failure. The North Sea Sword King will take some time, but eventually he will die in a hospital bed.”
“It’s not a matter of dying or not! You weren’t helping me eat the sanctum keep!”
In order to contact the White Witch, the organization used the method of recruiting from the surroundings.
Thus, they contacted the White Witch through Tara and recommended that they join the organization, and the White Witch demanded a price.
That is, to help him take control of Sanctum Keep.
“It won’t change anything if it’s a little late. All you have to do is announce the status of the North Sea Sword King at the next meeting as scheduled and collect the majority of votes. If you win, taking care of the remnants of the North Sea Sword King will be a piece of cake for you, right?”
“That’s natural. But the Imperial dogs seem to have smelled something.”
“Don’t worry. We will take care of that.”
“joy. If this time ends with an ambiguous result, then I know it’s over. And take care of the trash you bring.”
The white witch kicked the skull aside and left the room.
When the leftover Jipseongje stirred his hands, the white bones in the room began to turn into ashes.
As he placed the ashes into his shadow, Arachne poked her head out of it.
“That’s a crazy year. How long are you going to curry favor with a b*tch like that?”
“It won’t take long. The decision will be made in a few days.”
The White Witch can no longer avoid the witchcraft treatment.
“Will a master knight who uses superpowers be born, or… … .”
Bassrock.
In the process of turning one skull into ashes, it could not withstand the weight of the ashes and collapsed.
“I wonder if he will become the monster he used to call trash.”