“Is this the library? It’s a lot bigger than I thought?”
Standing in front of a fog that is so thick that we can’t even fathom an inch ahead, we raise our heads as much as possible and look up at the tower built high in the sky.
It’s more like a dungeon than a library… First of all, it was so high that it was impossible for a human to see the end…
“And this mist right in front of us… as if it was prepared to stop intruders…”
Rather than a simple fog, it’s as if a wall has been erected so that no one can step in… It glimmers in front of our eyes so strangely that it’s strange.
“I don’t think I would ever have been able to find it in the original environment… This feeling… Is it rejecting me or something, even though it’s foggy, I feel like I’m touching it…”
Erina stretched out her hand against the wall of fog and analyzed the texture, and now it is just a field.
“It’s moist… It’s like touching pudding… To be honest, it’s strange that it has a texture and it doesn’t seem like it… Once you enter your body without knowing it, you’ll never be able to tell the difference.”
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Nodding her head with such confidence, it might have been difficult to find if it wasn’t for Erina’s show off.I also couldn’t utilize the game knowledge this time… At first, I doubted whether this place exists because it is a place that does not exist at all in the game, and is a completely original place with no mention or information at all. also did
“There’s something unusual about it, oppa… I don’t think we should relax as if we’ve arrived…”
Yura suddenly felt a sense of incongruity, so she kept her ears up and stared through the fog as if she was on alert.
“Do you see anything?”
“No… The fog is so thick I don’t know what it is… I can instinctively know something… This place… It’s unusual…”
I even frown and look over there, if it’s serious like this, it must be an unusual place…
That’s why I think that this is the library of ruins I was looking for.
“Still, we should go inside after finding it, there may be dangers lurking, but we can’t just stay here, can we?”
I take slow, deep breaths and prepare my mind for the unknown to come.
“Sup.. ha ha..”
Fresh air flows into the tip of my nostrils, calming tension, clearing my ears and bringing my mind closer to the word obsession.
“Yeah, let’s go.”
Steps without hesitation, you walk into the fog with a lighter heart.
“Brother, go with me!”
“Harold!”
Erina and Yura, who slowly follow me into the mist, make up their minds in their own way and leave.
“……”
I tried my best and walked into the fog, but nothing happened…
I’m just walking endlessly into an unknown space where I can’t predict the future…
Usually, in movies or games, obstacles that block the view like this are tricked by sending them back to the entrance without knowing it, rather than traps that do direct damage…
We may be moving forward now, but at some point the development of returning to the place we came in could unfold.
“Um… did I feel wrong…? It’s more peaceful than I thought…”
“Certainly, it seems surprisingly quiet compared to the sense of incongruity I feel…”
As if the other two also felt a little strange, I heard voices from behind each saying a single word.
That moment…
aaah!
sudden strong wind
Finally, something like a trap has been activated?!
“Kids, are you okay?!”
It was impossible to move forward due to the wind like a typhoon, and just barely staying in place… It was an environment in which it was difficult to check their condition because the field of view was already limited.
“Ugh, oppa?! What the hell is this?”
“Is Harold okay?!”
I hear a voice saying that they are also in the same situation as me.
“Oppa! Where are you ㅡㅡ”
“ㅡㅡㅡ…!”
Then, the voice suddenly moves away… As if I was the only one being swept away, I could feel the girls falling away.
“Erina, Yura!!”
I tried calling them as hard as I could, but there was no answer… What really happened?
…….!
At that moment, the wind suddenly fades… Let’s open our eyes to the quiet atmosphere where we can’t hear anything…
“uh…?”
A place so different from before was open to me.
“Here…”
A huge place that feels so mysterious… It looks like the interior of a certain building and features…
“I can’t see the floor…”
The place where I am standing is an unknown bridge, and below it, another bridge lies between the cliff and the spider’s web.
“Those are…”
But there was something else that caught my eye… so many books that I couldn’t predict the number of… a huge bookshelf was replacing the wall of this building, and when I looked closely, there were old and new books floating in the air. was going
“?!”
At that moment, I was able to vaguely realize where I am right now, maybe this is…
“The library of ruins…?”
The place I first heard of from Arsia… It was a place that had never been in the game, and I felt like I was going to be overwhelmed by the vast and mysterious sight I saw for the first time.
“By the way, where did the other kids go? Erina and Yura?!”
And Yura and Erina, who realized later, no matter how much they looked around, at least they didn’t seem to be on this bridge.
“Why am I here in the first place… Is there something about it…?”
Talking to myself, now, when desperately trying to understand this reality…
“I called you in, kid.”
A rather heavy yet drowsy… Another mature woman’s voice comes from behind.
“?!”
Surely there was no one before?!
I turn my head in a hurry to the sudden development and see the identity of the being I just talked about…
“I don’t need any other girls, only you, so I specially invited you to my sanctuary. Now, I’ve been waiting for this moment.”
A new white dress and long gray hair to match, a very young but unique atmosphere conveying maturity.
“You…!”
She was a very familiar woman… Because the one in front of me right now is the final boss that exists in the story…
“There’s nothing to be wary of, kid, I don’t intend to be hostile to you… I’d like to sit down and offer you some tea.”
Did the hostility count without me knowing…? He notices my feelings and calms me down like an adult reassuring a child.
“I have something I want to talk about for a moment.”
I can’t believe… this is her haven…? Then the rumor that there are even books in the past, present, and future… did you mean that?
A being who just casually drinks tea while looking at the book he is holding without even paying attention to me…
“Oh, come to think of it… you haven’t even introduced yourself yet…”
The final boss in the game and the transcendent God who controls all time and flow
“My name is Tempus, I’m managing my time. I know about you, so I don’t need an explanation.”
Tempus, the god of time… She was clearly present before me…
“Well then, shall we have a conversation?”
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Something wasn’t right…
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No, I dare say it’s the worst…“Hey, why are you shaking so much? I don’t mean to hurt you, so you can relax.”
I faced the final boss of the game directly…
Tempus… She is the god of time and the final boss of the story, who overwhelms the protagonist with the unprecedented skill of time magic.
“……”
First of all, as she says, she takes a deep breath slowly and in her heart, making a casual expression as much as possible.
“Now it’s time to talk. I just wanted to say a few words to you, so I called myself.”
Tempus slowly sipping tea again and savoring the scent… He gently closes his eyes, lifts his head slightly for a moment, and begins to speak slowly.
“I knew you were coming to me right now, at this moment, you are the God of time… and I give you advice that might be of some help.”
It’s questionable to say it as if it sees through everything… but that was characteristic of the character Tempusa, so I had to just ignore it…
“Any advice that might be helpful…?”
little girl ㅡ
The teacup then hits the saucer and the sound is clearly audible.
“Yeah, now you can’t uncover many truths. That’s why I’m going to give you my advice to light up the path of a journey that was not made in the dark.”
The truth I didn’t know… What the hell do you want to say…
“I have a lot to say to you, but everything has an order… There’s no need to rush, so you can go one by one, realizing it.”
chin!
This time, he closed the book he was holding and put it down on his desk.
To be honest, I had one question: how far Tempus knows…
“First of all… Yeah, I’d better tell you this first.”
Even in the game, Tempus, like the god of time, already knew the battle with the main character and was preparing thoroughly for it.
So, does Tempus in front of me know that I will be hostile in the future…?
Along with that, my identity… and the truths that only a few really know… Does she know?
If that’s the case, then why is he not being hostile to me and being so kind to me now… If it was an existence that would kill me, it wouldn’t be strange if I killed him right away…
“…..”
What the hell was hiding in her head… I couldn’t predict it, so I was just afraid…
“Miru… Do you know her? Go to her and ask the truth. I’m careful about anything, so it’s okay to mention my name.”
procrastination…? Do you know Miru?
“Hmm… I’d like to tell you everything in my mind… but I’m going to tell you just this today, considering your mental state.”
Then, while giving only hints of unknown meaning, he began to wave his hands in the air…
aah!
“Ugh?!”
Once again, a fog appears and engulfs me, gradually obscuring my vision.
“Once you get to know Miru, it will be easier to explain later.”
Starting with the increasingly blurred appearance of Tempus, the surrounding environment is completely covered with a thick white mist.
“If that’s the case, I can explain a lot, so you’ll be quite shocked in the process… I know you’ll definitely stand it, so just wait for me calmly.”
“Wait-!”
Come to think of it, he didn’t even ask about Yura’s solution… If he was the owner of this tower and the god of time, he must have known anything… He only wanted to tell him what he had to say and let him go again.
“Tempus!”
I desperately shouted her name, but now my vision was obscured by the hazy… Only the fog was full…
“Huhuh… that’s interesting… He’s a man who doesn’t know his identity…”
In the meantime, I couldn’t tell if he was talking to himself or if he was telling me clearly…
“Come back again, baby, thanks to you, it was nice to have a little bit of entertainment in a life that had been boring for a long time.”
The last voice of Tempus is heard along with a suspicious laughter…
“brother?!”
“Harold…!!”
The fog cleared… At the moment when I barely regained consciousness, Yura and Erina were welcoming me.
“Where the hell have you been?!”
“When I opened my eyes, you weren’t there… We came out to the place we first entered.”
It makes you feel like you’ve been in a bit of a fantasy, as if you were dreaming.
“Erina, Yura… I’ll explain as I go, so listen to me first.”
A question that comes to mind once again as the mind gradually becomes clearer
What is Tempus’ true intention? An ironic existence that serves as both my enemy as the final boss and a supporter…
“Let’s go back to the royal road for now.”
I don’t know what’s going to happen in this future… but I feel like I’m playing with her.