Chapter 332 – Episode 332 – Nothing Lasts Forever (7)
Episode 332 – Nothing lasts forever (7)
My turbulent inner self gradually became calm.
It is not accurate to simply say that the light allayed Roan’s fears.
Roan is still an unknown subject,
That’s because the pressure I feel from the fact that I have to finish something that holds tremendous power hasn’t changed.
But at least the goddess is watching.
Because Roan has met the goddess several times,
She knows her heart, which she can feel instinctively as a living being.
Since she chose Roan,
She will love him unconditionally,
Roan had no doubt that he would watch over him until the end.
Such trust and Roan’s unwillingness to be ashamed of the goddess were pushing away the darkness surging into Roan’s heart like an unquenched flame.
Priests would have called this heart faith.
“Goddess. Are you watching?”
The starlight shined clearly and spread out as if blocking the shadow of the door in front of Roan.
“I don’t know if everything I do is right.”
Roan’s low voice spoke to the goddess.
As if in response, the starlight began to flicker softly.
It was a leisurely movement, as if there was no sense of crisis at all.
“I believe that this is a step that will at least be of some help to the people of this land.”
Roan suddenly remembered the words he had shouted at ‘Greed’ the other day.
After being killed by the Archduke once, loading was about to end.
—
I only found out after I lost it! Even if I couldn’t meet moment-to-moment satisfaction, I had to value the time spent running toward what I wanted. This time, you won’t lose!
A second life welcomed by a miracle.
In my first life, everything was regret and anger.
Every time I look back and wonder why my life was so ruined.
What Roan concluded was this.
I shouldn’t have given up for half-hearted satisfaction.
I struggled to survive within the given environment, and at least I stopped going hungry.
But he was always dissatisfied with it. Looking back now, it was a shame.
However, I suddenly shake off the reality that I have become complacent with and wake up,
He didn’t even have the courage to take a step towards the life he considered ideal.
This was because the handful of things he held in his hands had already become something that was difficult for him to give up.
But now he has a new life.
What everyone dreams of.
In the body of someone who has everything.
So Roan decided to show courage.
He can lose what he has at any time.
But at least.
I decided to live a life with no regrets.
This is because he already knows that even if he chooses a comfortable option while regretting it, it may not be the best option.
“Regardless of how the goddess and people view me, I want to be a person who is not ashamed of myself. “Now.”
In the past, he made money by harassing, hitting, and chasing people out.
He used to live a trashy life, but now he has people he loves and people he needs to save, so he tries to save them.
“Is it right for me, the so-called emperor, to throw myself away like this? . “I’m not sure if it’s good for the demons.”
Maybe it’s self-satisfaction.
In the end, Roan’s essence is a person from a different world and a different era.
Is it really right to lead people by his standards?
Moreover, no matter how many good deeds he has done,
It’s not like he didn’t have a past of bullying others.
However, after thinking about it, Roan decided to empty his mind. I had a faint thought that if I could save one person through my current actions, it would at least be an atonement for the irreversible memories of that time.
Above all, the goddess is responding.
His ways will be right.
No matter what’s behind you, you don’t waver and move towards what you’re thinking about.
That is faith.
“At least my people, even if I’m not there… I believe that he will follow suit.”
The royal palace is a closed place,
It is not an open area.
Although the number of infiltrated knights is small, 100 are enough if you only target the king. Even the elite that has been selected and selected.
Grünent would have already ruled the nobles.
Because Grünent is smart,
Even if this project fails, he will have a clever plan to kill the king and control the nobles.
She put her full power into it.
She knows all the royal family’s secret passages and emergency travel routes.
If it doesn’t work out, Fiora, Anmut, or Aina, who are with Grünent, will change the king of this country.
Even if you fail to destroy the magic stone, Helen is there.
Helen’s holy power is incomparably stronger than Roan’s. She will be fully capable of taking over her own tasks.
Destroy the magic stone to remove the protection of the Spros Palace, inherit the will of the goddess, and protect the people.
Roan suddenly had a smile on his face.
“This is what it means to not be alone… It gives me courage.”
It’s just that I came here in the first place because I have the power.
Roan is not alone.
Although it may seem like we are isolated here, there are actually allies out there. They are already risking their lives for him.
In the first place, it was something I couldn’t solve alone.
The goddess who created a new life,
The women of Roan and the subjects.
If everyone hadn’t done something for Roan from the beginning, Roan wouldn’t be standing here now.
“The goddess will be with you until the end.”
When I thought like that, the loneliness that had been gnawing at my heart seemed to be washed away.
If you step into the darkness
Instead, someone else can look after the person.
Someone can have the courage to move forward without worrying about what’s behind.
This is possible because there is someone watching his back.
“Everyone.”
That’s right.
So don’t be lonely.
I am by your side as always.
The moment I thought the warm voice of Goddess Laurecia sounded like an auditory hallucination.
The huge door in front of Roan began to open silently.
The starlight coming from Roan’s hand scattered the darkness coming through the crack in the door, as if guiding his steps.
The light of the statue was not strong,
No matter how faint the light is, it can shine brightest in the dark.
Even with its delicate light, the star became a sufficient guide for those walking in the darkness.
The eyes of the demon who walked quickly adapted to the darkness.
Surprisingly, the inside of the door was small.
The exterior was a temple of majesty that overwhelms the viewer, but the interior space was a circular room the size of a royal palace hall.
There are beautiful pillars erected here and there that extend upwards of about 10 meters,
The circular wall started from the gate where Roan entered and ended at the gate.
There were no doors visible other than the one where Roan entered.
Considering that the temple seen from the outside looked as large as the Temple of Laurecia in Spros, it was hard to understand that this was the only space inside.
This is proof that magic exists here too.
Painted on the surrounding wall is a colorful mural. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it wasn’t just a drawing on a flat wall, but a sculpted wall with color added.
Looking at the vibrant dragons and other appearances in various colors, Roan suddenly remembered one of the waypoints he had seen in the past.
“It’s similar to the goddess’s space.”
When I first visited Zeno of the Western Blood Spirit and then visited the Dark Forest in search of the Asto Crystal Mine.
There were traces of a collapsed temple around the waypoint discovered there.
A round wall on which the story of the goddess and evil were carved.
Although he was not skilled in art, even for someone who didn’t know it is like him, the thing in front of him was similar in many ways to what he saw at the waypoint at the time.
“Are they traces of the same era, or…?” .”
Leaving behind his emotions and thoughts, Roan naturally shifted his gaze.
Compared to the relatively flashy walls,
A structure designed to draw attention to the center of an almost empty hall.
A small round magic stone is placed on a small circular altar in the center.
“Bültz’s magic stone.”
It was a jewel that glowed red like a heart. It is about the size of a human head.
It was so enormous that it could be called a jewel.
Normally, a magic beast’s magic stone is created where the heart or brain is located. Its size is proportional to the size of the demon beast.
Considering that Roan knew that the magic stone of the magical beast was the size of a finger, he was able to guess how huge the dragon, which is now gone, must have been.
Roan could see how powerful the being who obtained this power could wield.
“I can’t believe I left something like this alone, it’s greedy…” .”
I stopped talking to myself.
At that moment, I remembered what Grünent had said.
Information about the exact location of the magic stone has been lost for generations, and even the current king has never seen this magic stone in person.
‘This door must not have been opened.’
Roan knew instinctively.
The door opened only after receiving the light of the goddess.
The door to the temple would not have been opened unless it were divine magic containing the power of the goddess or some other method.
Roan stopped with the magic stone a few steps in front of him.
“Immense power…”
Roan’s mumbling came out like a moan.
The reason Roan couldn’t get closer to the magic stone was because he felt like the magic stone wouldn’t allow any further access.
Powerful.
It was a power that seemed to be a mixture of magic power and actual pressure.
The energy of ‘greed’ added to it.
To Roan, it feels like a bad smell,
The malice that originally felt like a thick fog to Roan and Naor was condensed and made Roan’s body tingle.
Roan’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.
It is a magic stone to protect something,
Why does this magical stone feel like an impure feeling?
— Fuck off… !
Shocking.
A shout that seemed to be delivered directly to my brain pierced through my spine.
The hand holding the sword gained strength without my knowledge, and a clicking sound was heard.
A sound that seems to shake a mountain.
A command that filled Roan’s head without any filtering.
In order to overcome the lingering pain, Roan barely restrained himself from trembling and moving.
It’s not because the sound was loud.
Because the power contained within it was so strong.
Did you say that when a tiger encounters a person, even if it does not roar loudly, the person feels numb and sits down?
Could this be the voice of a dragon?
Is there a voice contained in the magic stone?
If the dragon king was powerful enough to face a god, he would have comparable power.
It may be natural to feel a bit of that power in the voice.
— Don’t disturb my sleep!
“… Sleep?”
Sleeping in a magic stone?
Roan’s eyes widened.
Only then did he understand this deep emotion emanating from this magic stone.
Anger. Malice. Hatred.
It feels like all the negative emotions in the world are lumped together in a circle.
That’s not because this magic stone is unclean.
Myself who came to destroy the magic stone,
It means that the magic stone is considered unclean.
‘Oh my God.’
The sword trembled slightly.
It turned out to be a bigger deal than I thought.
We’ve already done enough big things,
As for waking up a sleeping dragon by touching its fragments, I really didn’t plan on getting rid of it.