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I thought it was a coincidence.
Maybe God really took pity on me and gave me a chance to make things right.
I have believed and lived like that, and haven’t all my choices been made based on that thought?
If you ask if it’s not futile, what the hell should I answer?
Did you expect it to happen anyway? Should I answer that it’s not futile, that I just need to catch the dragon in the end?
I blamed myself for 300 years.
Didn’t you think that I couldn’t do it because I was wrong or because I was lacking?
“…but, that was intended.”
The Minotaur met my gaze and nodded slightly.
Adrian and Berod were not there.
The barrier created by magical power, the story I heard in it. It was the relationship between the relic of the dragon and the moon stone.
The power of the dragon is, as expected, the power to manipulate time.
The Minotaur said that it was stored in a moon stone and left on the ground to seek its own resurrection.
“Why did it have to be me?”
“I think it was judged to be the best life form to collapse. Only you know the exact reason, but usually if you die 100 times, it will be broken. A lot of people are broken even if they die just once. It must be strange that you have been fine until now.”
There were many times when it was broken.
There were times when I let go of my mind and lived like a madman, so it was said that if I hadn’t calmed down to death even belatedly, it would have ended just like that.
. It was a bit confusing. And there were also unanswered questions.
Then, where is the evil dragon now, and why does Keitel’s use of evil thoughts not change?
“Is the evil dragon’s evil thoughts different from the evil dragon’s spirit?”
There was no way I would allow humans to manipulate my mind in any way.
If I was going to resurrect through my body, it would have been better to have something in natural contact with me.
Wasn’t that the reason why moon stones resonate with artifacts?
I thought it was a function designed to naturally detect thoughts when I approached, but nothing special happened when I touched the artifact containing the thoughts.
There were many things that made me feel uncomfortable.
From why the evil dragon hadn’t contacted me in the meantime, to why the evil dragon’s thoughts were handled by Kaitel.
Upon hearing the question about the evil spirit, the Minotaur pondered for a while, and then began to explain the evil dragon to me.
“Rather than explaining each of those things, it would be better to tell you how the dragon was sealed. Perhaps knowing this will clear up some questions.”
It took quite a long time to hear the story that followed.
How the existence of the evil dragon was born, and how such a dragon was sealed and hid into the twisted time.
About why he made the moon stone, and even about making the moon stone for his own resurrection.
I felt something while listening to the story. Questions that are being resolved, and a sense of incongruity that blooms again.
When I heard all the stories, my feelings were not confusion.
I just felt that this situation was strange.
It was clear that the dragon’s wishes and the situation I had gone through were all out of sync somewhere.
In terms of whether everything is flowing according to the dragon’s intention, it is clearly wrong.
what could be wrong What is the problem that makes all of this feel awkward?
“Do you have any more questions?”
“No, enough.”
“In that case, I don’t need to earn your trust anymore. Has it been made clear that I have no intention of doing anything here?”
After a small nod, the minotaur smiled and looked at me with a blank glance at his empty arm.
What was reflected in those eyes was not hatred or resentment, but only interest.
I couldn’t read what that monster was thinking as it looked at me.
It would be more comfortable to attack in anger.
To think that the demons who were crazy about battle were reading the situation rather calmly.
Not to mention, I didn’t even expect to hand over the information about the dragons to me.
Talking to the Minotaur now felt a bit awkward.
I couldn’t figure out why it favored me.
It wouldn’t be strange if he came out hostile, in fact, he who was called a demon could definitely be called our enemy.
“Then I must go now. If we meet again next time, I hope you can cut off the other arm as well.”
Of course, it would be foolish to try to oppose him in this situation, so he did not make the mistake of drawing his sword again.
It is on the side of the Minotaur that recovery is faster.
Well, I’m pretending to be calm, but it’s not strange if I collapse right now.
It probably wouldn’t have been too much to faint if it wasn’t for Adrian’s help.
Let’s think a little… be smart. The immediate problem wasn’t about beating these dragons.
I knew for sure that those wearing the masks were trying to revive the dragon,
I now understand that there are three more demons trying to resurrect.
The fact that Kaitel’s purpose is to use evil thoughts to summon the evil dragon is also a harvest.
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Just a puzzle that doesn’t fit into this situation,
The reason was that the dragon didn’t come to me directly, and that it hadn’t come out until now in the twisted time.
If it was the power that created the moon stone, he could have escaped enough, but why did he bother to use the artifact to find a human to regain his body?
I could only think of one way to solve this thought.
The Minotaur’s body soon turned into black smoke and disappeared.
What I did while watching the curtain of magical power being lifted like that was not going back to Adrian.
I take out the artifact that was stuck in my chest and release my mana.
It was only connected to Mirazen, but the one-way communication network could now be used by one more person.
“Arwen.”
Apparently, I should have come to the North right away.
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It was immediately after the battle with the Minotaur that Robert’s movements sped up.
Adrian, who was watching everything with a nervous heart, was worried, but Robert was not acting impatiently like before.
What Arwen had studied while looking at the ruins, and some facts he knew about the dragon.
Robert told Arwen everything the Minotaur had told him, but he realized something in the process.
If there was a difference between the truths that each other revealed to me, it was the goal that the dragons wanted.
“Saryong seemed to be looking for someone to kill him. If everything I researched is the will of the dragon.”
“…But, usually, he won’t break the seal, hoping he’ll kill himself.”
Wouldn’t it be better if he chose to conform to the seal and fall asleep forever?
It is absurd. Though I thought about it over and over again, it was an inappropriate word,
I couldn’t explain why Keitel and the dragons got involved in this return started by the dragons.
If you wanted to be killed, you should have come to me, not Keitel.
If this regression was a process to get him to the present state, aren’t those numerous regressions just a waste of time?
I went to the Wall Tower to look for data.
He left the north and visited the imperial family, and with the help of Arwen, he explored the library in the imperial basement.
I looked through all the materials related to the dragon, and looked for any remains or artifacts that I hadn’t found yet.
The harvest obtained in the end did not exist. However, there was something I realized that there was nothing.
Among the records left in the imperial family, there were hardly any records hostile to the dragon.
If the church considers the dragons to be the enemies of the deadly enemy, the imperial family didn’t have any records about the dragons at all.
In an empire that worships the god of the moon, it wouldn’t be strange if only bad records were left about the dragons, but did they think that the name dragons themselves was dishonorable?
“That’s probably not it.”
It wasn’t deleted for that reason. There is something stabbing, so it must be a movement to erase all of that from history.
If I had looked a little more closely when I infiltrated the library before, would I have noticed this sense of incongruity?
no, that won’t be If he hadn’t heard about the dragon from the Minotaur, he wouldn’t have felt this sense of incongruity.
Robert swallowed his saliva and stared at the book in his hand.
It is visible to know. The reason why the imperial family desperately tried to erase the name Seryong.
When I looked at Arwen next to me for a moment, he was staring into space with a pale, weary expression, as if he had realized something.
“I really hate the word if. I hope you know that, but if what I just remembered is true.”
“I think you might be thinking the same thing. Do you have any guesses?”
“The dragon has definitely been sealed. And he hid in the twisted time, and he probably knew that the god who guards the moon also hid the dragon. They make relics that repeat their return, wouldn’t there be no reason to watch them without knowing anything about them?”
That was also the question I had. What did the god of the moon do while the moon stone was being made and one person’s return was repeated?
The goddess, who consumed a lot of strength in the process of sealing the dragon, was definitely going to rest.
I don’t think I would have watched all of that without doing anything.
The space called the library began to slowly change due to Arwen’s magic.
The cracks in the cracked space were slightly twisted and misaligned, and the scenery that changed again in succession pointed to one of the remains of the four dragons in the south.
Only those who have endured eons of time can end the dragon’s breath.
When the letters with such a meaning were clearly visible, Arwen carefully poured his magic power into the letters.
“…maybe.”
If it is written with the power of the dragon, it should emit red light.
However, the letters that received Arwen’s magic shimmered with blue light.
The letters that respond to the moon’s magic, and the letters that respond only to the moon’s magic, mean only one.
“Some of these letters must have been written by the moon god himself, not by the dragon’s follower.”
Something that came to mind with those words was enough to make me laugh.
The letters written by the god of the moon, and the evil thoughts of the four dragons that were intertwined with Kaitel.
And the records of the dragons in the imperial family, all of which have been erased.
And finally, Eclipse, the name of the capital city.
“…Eclipse means solar eclipse.”
A solar eclipse is the moment when the moon covers the sun.
The name was given for the moment when the empire that worships the moon and seals the dragon that symbolizes the sun shines brightly.
However, it didn’t just mean an eclipse.
“Sometimes it means a lunar eclipse.”
When this star we live in covers the moon
Since it was a lunar eclipse, maybe this imperial family.
…Maybe it was related to the dragons from the beginning.