(EP.433) Those Who Do #8
433 – The Stopper # 8
Elgar’s blue eyes were engulfed in flames. As I watched it burn with a huge explosion, I felt the blood of my whole body sink coldly.
“Elgar!”
I shout out loud But no answer is heard.
I hurried to my feet and jumped into the blazing fire. The flames fluttered like the devil’s tongue, and it was hot on my cheeks and skin, but it wasn’t the time to worry about that.
-Grrrrrrr!!!
Then a loud roar was heard. When I turned my head, I saw the wyvern who had destroyed Narmi’s golem with its claws extended towards me.
Was it his target?
You want to attack Elgar and get me excited, then try to open up that gap? For a moment, I was surprised that the Wyvern had that level of intelligence.
“Sword of Asura.”
Sreung.
A huge sword fell from the sky and cut the dragon’s body in half. When I turned my head, I saw Aira breathing heavily.
-Grrrrr… .
The Wyvern was killed by Aira’s magic. But now it didn’t matter if he died or not. Because what was important to me was Elgar.
I hurriedly ran and found Elgar where it was burning with fire. But Elgar is nowhere to be seen.
Has it all been burned out already?
All I could see in my bewildered eyes were the bubbles shining in the rainbow. Seeing the bubbles melt in the dragon’s flames and burst forth, anger boils over me.
“Ah-!”
I screamed in unbearable heart. If only I had less time to hesitate. If only I had done my best to defeat the drake from the beginning.
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No, if I hadn’t come to this city—.
Regrets fill my mind one after another.
It was a man’s voice that echoed in my ears.
-Don’t rely on magic. Power gained easily is easily betrayed.
Did he do what he said? After all, did my magic not play its part at the crucial moment? What is certain is that we will no longer be able to see those blue eyes or fluttering blonde hair.
I can no longer feel that warm warmth. It was a little rough, but in fact, it was Elgar who was softer than anyone else.
– Hey, Tae.
I couldn’t come to my senses at the thought that I would no longer be able to hear the voice calling me more lightly.
Am I punished? It’s not enough to have happiness already, is it a punishment for being greedy to reach out for things I don’t have?
If I had known it would be like this… .
I fell among the flames. To feel Elgar’s warmth that will remain here somewhere, I crouch down a little more.
But I didn’t feel anything either.
forever gone
It was very sad.
It was the first time I realized that when a person goes through a really sad event, he stops breathing without saying a word or even a tear.
Shh.
Just then, someone grabbed my shoulder. When I raised my head, Mirna with a very depressed expression was looking at me.
“Sir Tae-oh, look over there. Now, something strange is happening… .”
Mirna points around. It sounded like she was muttering, but I couldn’t hear it well with my ears now. But she seemed to know what she was trying to say.
Shhhh
In this Gargata, which I thought was only a collapsed and abandoned city, strange shadows began to tremble one by one. It looked like a haze or a hazy mist.
– The dragon has fallen.
-This is the third time. The third dragon fell.
They even made it to the end. Mirna saw the scene and said to me.
“It’s like a spirit body. Probably the spirits that dwell in this Gargatha.”
“Soul… .”
But what about that? Even if a strange shadow appears and says the word, the dead Elgar does not come back.
“Hey, Tae.”
At that moment, a familiar voice was heard.
As I turned my head, I saw the figure of Elgar waving hazy from the distant building over there. Those blue eyes and swaying blonde hair were definitely Elgar’s.
Mirna was the first to shout.
“Liones, it seems that the young girl has already appeared as a spirit!”
Elgar frowned at him.
“What is he saying now. to a well-lived person. So, what happened to the dragon?”
Pot-!
I ran to Elgar and grabbed her by the waist. Elgar, who was suddenly hugged by someone, seemed to be puzzled, “What is it, what is it?”
She quickly patted my head, “Why are you so excited?” Elgar smells like apples as always. A warm and soothing scent.
What is felt in that warm warmth is a great vitality. That Elgar, who feels this vitality, is just a spirit. I felt like I was going to burst into tears.
Then Elgar said.
“Everyone has a face like someone who has seen a ghost. Did you really think I was going to die from being hit by a fireball?”
Shh.
At Elgar’s voice, I asked, removing what had been buried in her chest.
“Then are you alive?”
“There’s no way I’m going to die from just being beaten by the Wyvern Breath.”
limp.
A light coating melted off Elgar’s face as he said that. Then her blurry figure became clearer.
Maybe that was my fairy foam coating?
Elgar scratching her cheek.
“I don’t even know what happened. When I woke up, I found myself in that building. I was surprised that the world suddenly changed so much. Tae-oh, didn’t you do it?”
Elgar felt like she was floating the moment the fireball flew, and when she woke up, she said that she was lying near a building.
So he was able to avoid the fireball without getting hit. Listening to the story, it sounded like Elgar had teleported, so I had to feel suspicious.
“I didn’t do it. Did Ira do it?”
When I asked, even the child shook his head.
“It’s an instantaneous space movement. I can’t do that.”
Say yes. So, if it’s not me or a child, is there another wizard among us who is great enough to move Elgar’s body in an instant?
Then Narmi raised her hand.
“Actually I did it!”
“Five.”
“Actually, that’s a lie!”
I see
Shh.
Elgar touched her stomach.
“Then maybe Leonoi did it? It is said that magic is determined by blood. Maybe Leonoi was also a great wizard, so he moved me?”
Elgar’s guess seemed quite plausible. The child in the womb is also a life. the will to live. The will to protect her mother is enough.
whatever it was
As Elgar was alive and not dead, it seemed that all the energy in my body was exhausted. When you feel relieved, your legs lose strength and you fall to the floor.
But it was good nonetheless.
You just need to be alive.
* * *
It was only after we found out that Elgar was fine, that we were able to fully understand the situation. The corpse of a fallen drake that was cut by Aira’s magic.
It decayed rapidly at an unbelievable rate and disappeared entirely. Even Narmi, who has a good knowledge of corpses and life, seemed to be at an amazing speed.
“I have never seen it rot so quickly. You disappeared without leaving a single scale.”
The only traces of the drake that remain are the broken houses, debris, and the smell of smoke. Thanks to this, we all doubted that we were fighting a ghost.
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Collective hallucinations.
Having said that, the surroundings were also suspicious. There were a lot of haze and fog swirling around us. There were so many and they were so crowded that it was eerie.
– The dragon has fallen.
-It’s already the third time.
The haze repeated the same words. I wondered if this was the kind of collective hallucination we are facing.
Shrek.
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Narmi stretches out her hand in the air.
The mist-shaped group that Narmi touched was disorganized like a cloud. However, if the hand was removed, the fog gathered as if it had ever been and took on the appearance of a human shadow.
“It is interesting. Are they ghosts? Ghosts of this city?”
Mirna told them they were spirit bodies.
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Narmi makes a similar assessment. As Narmi and Mirna said, these shadows are probably the inhabitants of this city.
What was surprising was that after they appeared, lights came on in the dark city one by one. There was a buzzing sound from somewhere, and there was also a delicious smell.
A dead city comes to life.
Of course, it was these strange ghosts that powered the city. They murmured like living people and repaired broken houses.
Seeing that, Mirna said.
“There are times when ghosts repeat the things they did while they were alive. It seems that the inhabitants of the city, who had been crushed by the drake’s mighty energy, reappeared with the drake’s death.”
It’s just a guess, but Mirna blurs the end of her words. Under the current circumstances, nothing seemed more accurate than Mirna’s conjecture.
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Narmi looked very excited.
“It’s a city of ghosts! Absolutely amazing! This is the real face of this city! Look, there’s food on the stall!”
Food made from hazy haze was displayed where Narmi’s finger was pointing. When Narmi stretches out her hand, they disappear again like a haze.
“I guess I can’t eat.”
“Ugh-!”
At that moment, Elgar is trembling. Her hair stood upright. Soon, a shadow that passed through Elgar’s body disappeared into the corner over there.
Elgar said as she calmed her brittle hair with both hands.
“Oh, I hate here! Well, the strange city just got weirder! Will there be dragons or ghosts?”
It seems that Elgar doesn’t like ghosts. However, I could vaguely sense that these ghosts had no malice toward us. They just exist here.
Just like a dandelion swaying in the wind, with no will, no will, no malice, no good intentions, it just exists and sways.
They just exist in this city.
Then Stella asked.
“So, where is that arrow now?”
At Stella’s question, I looked around.
A mark that led me to the Wyvern’s nest. However, after destroying the nest and defeating the Wyvern, there was no such thing as a mark anymore.
what.
That was the moment I had my doubts.
-You are the warriors who defeated the dragon.
We turned our heads in amazement as someone was talking behind us.
There, a shadow, about half of my body, was looking up at me wearing a smiling mask like a hahoe mask.
-I am a city guide. We will guide you who defeated the dragon to the desired place. Follow me.
After those words, the shadow quickly turns its head and goes away. We looked at each other’s faces in this sudden situation and whispered one word at a time.
“Sister, what just happened?”
“I’m fine too… . How?”
To Mirna’s question, I just replied, “Let’s go along.”
Perhaps the arrow that was guiding me wasn’t meant to defeat the dragon and follow the guidance of the guide who would appear after him?
We walked behind the small shadow like that. I suddenly had a question, so I asked the little shadow on the back.
“What the hell is this, and what are these ghosts?”
-The Last City. And these are its inhabitants. The moment when the sky shattered and the city was distorted. All the poor who were sacrificed and unable to leave the city.
“The offering… ?”
-The dragon was the watchman that protected us. He is suffering from the curse of immortality, so he will come back to life after a while. We will have to hide again.
That the drake that was hard-killed will come back to life. Only then did the gossip of the ghosts that the dragon fell for the third time understood.
The dragon has been knocked down by someone before. When I understood it, it felt like lightning struck my mind. It pierces my lips as a curiosity and comes out at will.
“Were there any other people who defeated dragons in the past?”
– There was. wonderful young man. And one beautiful fairy. We don’t know if it was a few days ago or a few years ago, but to us, it’s as vivid as yesterday.
Shh.
The ghost, who called himself a guide, pointed to the fissure in the distance with a blurred hand.
-They all went there. never showed up again. No one came back. I don’t know what’s in there.
You’re right I found it right.
I asked with an unbearable thirst for curiosity.
“You don’t know why you went there?”
Is this place like the Spirited Away or something?