42 – Love
After the disaster passes, the survivors bury the dead and rebuild the village in order to somehow continue their lives.
Dead Deed—!
Kwaguaga River—!
Workers lift and move materials, and wizards assist them by wandering around the sky.
He builds up the collapsed gates and walls one after another, flattens the dug up ground, and cleans up the scars that cross the sky.
It is being restored in an instant at a speed that is unusual for superhumans to carry out the construction.
Thanks to that, Skidbladnir has reached a fairly normal state, as if nothing had happened at first glance, except for occasional roars.
After the incident, the people who were engulfed in fear and anxiety for about a week gradually returned to a stable state as time passed, and each of them began to concentrate on their own work.
Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang!
Sword Saint Marco struck the hammer with all his might.
The stake was driven deep into the ground.
He strongly doubted why he was wielding a hammer and not a sword, but he dutifully drove the stake into the ground.
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In this way, a total of 72 stakes were driven by Marco around the walls of the fortress into the ground. They soon each emit light and resonate with each other, connecting lines to create geometric patterns.
Procedure expansion.
A huge magic circle that covers the fortress with an area larger than Yeouido soars into the sky.
And…… ,
Clanging——!
It was shattered in an instant.
A halo of rain falling down. Marco looked at the result of his hard work for half a day with a dazed face.
He muttered to himself.
“f*ck.”
Inadvertently, it popped out of his mouth.
He gnashed his teeth in resentment, then suddenly turned his head.
Then I asked a colleague who was writing something on the floor with a twig.
“How is it? Are there any results?”
“… ….”
A desperate question to find any meaning.
However, De Weiss, the Xiao Fang family’s first-class barrier officer, shook his head without saying anything with a calm expression.
Marco frowned at the sound of sweat dripping into water.
“Sibaal… ….”
It’s been 15 days since the disaster called ‘Yoo Han-na’ has passed. Similarly, half a month has passed since the Xiaofang family was sealed in Skidbladnir.
…… And, still they couldn’t find a way to escape.
I tried every method that came to my mind, but the results weren’t great. This time, I tried to transfer the entire fortress using a large-scale magic formula, but it also failed miserably.
I thought it would take another year at this rate.
“f*ck, if it’s just a combat job, you only fight. What kind of cheater are you? Even the barrier technique is so perfect…….”
“…… Sorry, I gave it a fortnight, but it failed. The fort will break if exposed. Hopeless.”
“No, what do I have to be sorry for? We are all locked up together.”
As an elder in his own way, Marco comforted his downcast comrade. In fact, the current situation was not even that urgent. The contents of the contract they signed with Yuhanna in order to prosper were roughly as follows.
──All personnel in this position who sign a contract with Yuhanna cannot leave the top-class artifact ‘Skidbladnir’ until January 1, 2022.
※Except for Earth, movement to other worlds is permitted.
A restriction that only prevents movement to Earth, with no other conditions. Therefore, there was no gap to dig into, and it was difficult to destroy.
And then, I was going through this high school.
‘…… Well, it seemed that Xiao Fang signed a different contract.’
Is the content of the contract the problem?
To be honest, as Marco, I thought that it would be fine to go to the other world after completing all the preparations while slowly maintaining things like this.
He didn’t have enough supplies, manpower, and money to go down to Earth.
However, Xiaofang asked to put all his energy into the barrier, and seemed to have no time to spare, as if he was being chased by something these days.
Besides, he said he had to do his duty as the leader of the organization, and he had been touring the fort periodically, but he was stuck in the lab all day…….
“I’m worried.”
Marco muttered as he looked in the direction of the castle. Jeop, he clicked his tongue sadly, and this time he grabbed the magic pliers and started pulling out the stakes he had been driving since morning.
Kwaang-! Quaang-!
I worked until late at night like that.
* * *
Nothing is infinite.
As an archmage, Xiaofang certainly possessed enormous magical powers, but if he continued pouring them out, his magical powers would eventually run out.
Then he couldn’t even tame the artifact. So she continued to do what she could while her magic was restored.
“…… Isn’t this?”
Xiao Fang pressed her between her brows and frowned. She then she crunched again – she organized the contents of her spell that came to her mind on her parchment.
In addition to the restrictions, the entire fortress had a sealing spell. This vicious barrier synchronized with the magical contract placed on all members.
She later said that even if she could fully use the spirit prison, she would eventually have to use magic to destroy it, so even when she had no magical powers, she did not stop studying her sealing and barrier arts. She had no more time to waste.
How many days did you devote yourself to research?
Jureuk─. Something flowed through the crowd.
Xiaofang wiped it off.
It was red.
“…… Uh?”
At some point, there was bound to be a limit.
* * *
…… When was it
Actually, I don’t know.
I picked it up and put it away without much thought and fell in love with it without any warning.
Maybe it was because he gave me a lot of money.
It is definitely 100 times as many.
Hmm, but I never thought of myself as such a snobbish person…….
──That’s right, we’re best friends!
The image of the man who kindly extended his hand to me with the brightest smile in the world.
For some reason, looking at him, I realized that something was very wrong.
Actually, right now I’m showing a strange compulsion…….
hahahaha, did I get brainwashed as a reverse…… ?
While thinking about it like that, Xiaofang suddenly spat out in a saddened heart.
“…… Hey, you said you were best friends.”
I said let’s be friends first, but you said let’s be friends first. But you go somewhere to play and throw it away like this.
“…… It’s all stupid.”
Xiao Fang wept and covered his swollen eyes with the palms of his hands.
She also knew it in her subconscious.
Her curse of oblivion, which tightened her every moment, was so strong that she would completely erase her memory of him before she went to see Jin-Woo Lee.
We can’t meet at this rate.
When the curse completely chokes him, he’ll forget what he’s been struggling with. If he continued to lie in bed as if he were recovering from his shaken body, the possibility would be even greater.
Xiaofang began to ponder in a daze.
What is the reason why the superman clings to such an extent that his body is broken?
What was the reason he was trying to meet such an idiot Lee Jin-woo?
And then, I realized.
Perhaps I knew from the beginning.
What you have in mind is not the heart or friendship of your ‘best friend’…….
It was love.