The presentation ended successfully.
Levin said everything he had prepared without missing parts, and the response was also good.
Shortly after the lecture, Vera uttered those words as he looked back at Levin and Miller as they moved away from the other side of the hallway.
“It is an auspicious thing. I think Mr. Levin has finally caught on with Professor Miller.”
As soon as the lecture was over, Miller approached Levin and said, ‘Would you like to talk to me for a moment?’
As Vera spoke, thinking the two of them moving away from him were going to have a constructive conversation, Renee nodded and reciprocated.
“Yes, I am happy. Because I really wanted to catch the professor’s eyes.”
“I wish I could go to the academy like that.”
“I can go. Levin is talented and has passion, right?”
The words exchanged with a smile were definitely words that blessed Levin’s future.
However, the two do not know whether it is really a blessing or a curse.
Just seeing Levin entering the lab with Miller brought a bright smile to his assistant Henri, only to give him a glimpse of Levin’s future.
*
Most of the purpose of coming to the academy has been accomplished.
All that remains is to find out about the [Life Devourer] stolen from Gilly and find a way to safely enter the Cradle of the Dead with the newly added ‘Maleus King of Rot Flesh’.
With both of these things going to end with Miller’s advice, Vera knew it was time to leave the academy and went to Theresa to tell her.
“I think I will be leaving by the end of this week.”
An all-white laboratory reminiscent of Sungguk.
Theresa, sitting at a table in the middle, sipping tea, looked at Vera and asked.
“Where are you planning to go?”
“I want to go to the cradle of the dead. See if there’s anything you need to know.”
“The cradle of the dead… .”
Theresa said those words and continued to ponder and ask the question.
“Have you prepared a way to enter? No, is there any way to get out of there safely?”
It was a natural question.
It is a land where, throughout history, no one has spent the rest of their lives in good health after visiting there.
No matter how great Vera’s ability is, Renee is by his side, but at least he needs to confirm it is the right thing to do.
Vera answered the question with a small nod.
“I would like to seek advice from Professor Miller. After talking to him a few times, he seems to be quite fluent in that area.”
“Miller… , okay. He wouldn’t even know.”
“It seems to be busy when preparations begin, so I stopped by in advance to say hello… .”
“But not yet.”
“Yes?”
“I’m telling you to stay a little longer.”
Vera’s head tilted.
Theresa smiled playfully and said to Vera.
“Have you not finished the homework I gave you yet? Where are you going to run away?”
Vera’s body trembled. As Theresa said, ‘Know how to be a child.’ The reason why she hasn’t fully solved her homework yet.
Vera could not refute Theresa’s words because he felt that he was getting closer to the answer as he went through a series of events at the academy, but there were still a lot of parts that were too vague to say that it was a perfect answer.
Theresa added a small smile to Vera’s grunt.
“Well, that’s not the only reason. No matter how much you are there, it’s not like you’re sending a saint to a dangerous place. I’m going to ask my Highness for a manpower, so take them with you.”
As Theresa said so worriedly for some reason, Vera continued cautiously.
“… Any kind of support may be worse than not having it. Theresa-sama already knows that a large number is not always a good thing, right?”
“Are you saying that I’m going to pick someone like that?”
“then… .”
“They say that the twins are bored these days and are twisting their bodies.”
Vera’s body shook. His expression began to frown in a different meaning than before.
“… Will they be of any use?”
The words that came out were brittle.
Naturally, it was because he immediately recognized that the twins I was talking about were the guardian apostles Krek and Marek, who were guarding the gates of Elia.
Vera had no idea why Theresa was saying this.
It was because she thought that Theresa was well aware that she was a human being who could not stand the unique frustration of twins.
If you look closely, you will have the ability. Aren’t they apostles? Aren’t they the ones who know how to wield their powers?
However, that was no reason to include twins on the itinerary. Vera was already overwhelmed with Aisha alone.
“It can be a burden.”
“They are stupid, but they do their job really well. Don’t worry about anything.”
“… .”
Vera’s mouth shut.
Theresa smirked, letting out Vera’s reaction.
Come on, I don’t know why Vera is reacting so bluntly. Vera’s frustration with the twins is understandable just by looking at his personality.
However, Theresa still had a reason to attach twins to Vera.
“Inseok-ah, if you try to carry the burden alone like that, it will break soon.”
I’ve seen it countless times Vera couldn’t be left alone for Theresa, as I was the first to see them crushed and crushed by their own responsibilities.
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Of course, Vera, ignorant of Teresa’s heart, came up with a truly blasphemous thought.
‘Is someone who knows that more burdened?’
Vera took a deep breath and nodded dissatisfied, quickly clearing the thoughts that had come to his mind.
“… I know that.”
Vera wanted to add a word of refusal, but now Vera was not ignorant of manners enough to say something stingy at his master’s teacher.
*
That was the academy’s routine.
I wake up early in the morning, wash my body thoroughly, change into my school uniform, and go to class.
There are only two or three lectures a day, so the time devoted to the lecture itself was small, and most of the remaining time after that was spent on personal business or tour of the academy.
However, since he had to leave the academy soon, Vera came to Miller’s lab with Renee, thinking that it was time to use those empty hours more constructively.
To inquire about the life predators and the cradle of the dead.
This time, the whole lab is messy.
Upon entering there, Levin greeted the two with a bright face.
“Oh, my lady! Apostle!”
A surprised expression rested on Renee’s face at Levin, whom he met in an unexpected place.
“Mr Levin? How are you… .”
“From now on, I will be working as an assistant in the lab! The professor said that he wrote a recommendation letter for the academy after seeing what he was doing during this period… .”
A word spoken by scratching the back of his head as if embarrassed. It brightened Renee and Vera’s faces.
“Congratulations! Are you one step closer to your goal?”
“No, the future is important, so we have to work harder!”
A deep smile appeared on Levin’s face. A smile came to Ren’s mouth.
The lights of those who were advancing toward the goal were also brilliant, so just facing it, there was a corner that made me humble, so I laughed along.
“Ah, did you come to see the professor? Wait. I’ll bring you!”
“thanks.”
Immediately after Levin left the laboratory, a warm atmosphere that had not yet faded was circulating in the laboratory.
Assistant Henri, who was working in a corner of the lab, trembled with a blank expression like someone who had seen an unbelievable scene.
Henri thought.
‘Me, crazy people… .’
Levin, who is happy while preparing for graduate school, and those two who cheer for being a graduate student, they are all crazy people.
People who shouldn’t exist in this world.
Henri, who had been tormented by Miller for years, simply closed his eyes and erased the scene he had seen before.
So, he hinted to himself that he was dreaming.
*
After a while, Miller returned to the lab and sent Levin and Henri away, and as he looked around at Vera’s dagger, he suddenly felt his expression harden involuntarily.
There was a hint of surprise in his voice as he asked the question.
“Where did you get this from?”
“This is the dagger I got when I went to the Great Forest. Just in case you know anything.”
great forest.
Miller’s expression began to harden even more at that word.
“… First of all, do you know that this is a dangerous object?”
Vera nodded.
Miller looked at it and let out a ‘wow’ sound.
Because of the depth of the scholarly work, there were some things that were related to the history of the Gods, especially those related to witchcraft, which could be known.
“This is an object used for human sacrifice. See the inscriptions on the dagger here? This is a script that existed before the ancient species began to eat land. So it is a primitive age without civilization or anything else. And I mean… .”
Miller paused for a moment and licked his lips.
A blatant tension began to appear on their faces.
I knew that dagger was just a thing related to the demon king and a dagger that absorbs life force, so I was shocked by the inside story.
In the subdued atmosphere, Miller continued.
“… Come back and build this land again.”
words without context.
Fortunately, I added an intuitive explanation to help Miller understand what it meant.
“It must have been the dagger used to make offerings to Ardein.”
Ardein, the eternal sacrifice.
The first of the nine ancient species, and the last to remain in this world.
Listening to the story, Vera narrowed his brows and continued his thoughts.
‘Also… .’
Ardein is the Demon King. It seemed the most reasonable to judge that way.
In the last episode, I couldn’t recall the existence of Ardein until just before I realized that the demon king’s actions or perceptions were distorted, or if we take a look at the oral traditions about Ardein recorded, there is no reasoning that fits as well as that.
In the meantime, Miller, who had been staring at the dagger as if piercing it, continued to speak.
“It’s not normal. The fact that this object has come to the world means that the moment Ardein may have opened his eyes may have come.”
The sign that appeared on Miller’s face as he spoke was more serious than ever before.
It was natural.
When he woke up, it was the same as saying that the end of the era was just around the corner.
It was said that the living apocalypse that ended the beginning age and then the divine age would awaken.
Miller raised his head and looked at Vera.
‘… There’s something.’
There’s something about that man.
The blood he reacted with Grimour, his memories that were completely distorted to the point that he didn’t even know it, and the figure of him researching information about the ancient species.
It was clear that a series of events were taking place around him.
Miller was able to draw those conclusions with his insight even in the context of limited information, and then he spoke out.
“I would like to hear more details. I think both of you know that this is not something to hide.”
It was a word that was done by putting a dagger on the table, and it was also a word that erased all the mischievous tones of the past.
Vera asked, looking at Renee with a brief thought over the sign.
“What would you like to do?”
Renee continued to ponder the question for a while, then nodded.
“I say. It is true that we need the help of the professor.”
A word made by tapping the back of Vera’s hand under the table with his index finger.
Vera could feel Renee’s gesture as a kind of signal.
‘Don’t tell everyone, that’s what it means.’
Vera nodded. He then turned his gaze to Miller.
“… It started with meeting Orgus. He showed me the future in a different time zone.”
Coming out of the mouth was a thing from the last episode with a little bit of adaptation.