Chapter 406 – King of the Storm.
“Ha, it was.”
Gideon opened the curtain that covered the sky and smiled as he faced the dragon king who loftily looked down on this place. Was it because he realized that death was approaching? He remembered the time he had met Yakaf once again.
‘I’ve been really pathetic.’
The guilt of not being able to protect the person he respected so much and the guilt of prolonging his life by relying on the mercy left by the person he should have resented. Did he spend 10 years drinking and lamenting, ignoring even his own people whom Var Gazette entrusted to him because he couldn’t control his anger and disappointment at losing his place?
So he saw his old nemesis again in a completely unexpected place. He was confident that he was holding back the weapon he had let go of, his blood boiling as he thought it had cooled down. He ran, forgetting all the years, and was defeated.
Of course, he was weaker than he was before. He couldn’t understand himself like that. Now he thought he was his nemesis. He resented it because he really thought he couldn’t keep up with the Var Gadget flying through the sky any longer.
“It must still be Gideon.”
However, the word returned from his old nemesis, who poured out his resentment, woke him up. He thought it was nonsense. For him, Vargazette has always been an object of respect. If he wasn’t like that, he would…
‘Why are you so shabby?’
It was then that his own face came into view. How pitiful and weak his life and years had made him. There were no warriors or knights to be seen there. He waited endlessly for death, and the people he hated so much were there.
He just realized That Bargazzet and Yakaf weren’t that important to him, that what mattered was that he had been polishing himself by using them as milestones. He realized it too late, but he couldn’t rest on his complacency.
“Discarding the weapon means asking for your head, right?”
“What.. Gagging!?”
Gideon pulled out a spear lodged in himself and thrust it into the owner of the spear.
“What are you doing!? Do you know what the situation is!?”
“Are you planning to just wait like this?! If so, you will die in my hands first!”
“Keah!!”
I knock out the guards who talk like they can’t understand him and pull out another spear stuck in my body.
“Big!”
As he pulled out the spear that had pierced his body deeply, blood gushed from the open wound, staining the feathers he was so proud of, but it was okay. Wasn’t that his destiny? Magic was already unusable and the numbers were being pushed back, but even that was not a reason not to move.
“I can still move. I can pick up a weapon! There is a warrior in front of me who has carved a wound on me!! What’s more important in this situation?!”
“Keah!”
It was only after the guards who stabbed him with a spear had fallen down that they came to their senses and looked for the weapon they had drowned in the water, but bowing their heads to Gideon was like asking for their heads.
‘I will live as myself until the end!’
Even if death is ahead.
“Ha, that’s exciting. I didn’t say he was a true fighter for nothing.”
Jeremiah saw Krikaliev in the back of Gideon brandishing her spear in pursuit of the one who had wounded him, even as death thrust right in front of her nose.
‘Are you just waiting for a death you don’t know when it will come? I don’t want to become that kind of livestock.’
He seemed to know why he had confided his old story to Usher when he knew that no spell could kill a wizard, and that he needed to die himself. He couldn’t say he couldn’t think of a child he had met, but Usher was the only one there to tell him what he knew.
After the child he taught at Kamenshik became a sacrifice himself, he found the exit of the ruins and escaped after searching for it. As if to let you know how irresponsible he was when he said there was no way out of the ruins. However, since he had lived underground and had no way of knowing the geography of the earth, he wandered aimlessly and died of starvation.
“Huh? Mister Yoff! There’s a strange person here!”
A girl’s voice was heard. Those clear eyes met when he barely raised his head.
“Eh? Only bones remain. Isn’t it a corpse?”
“It’s not! Look closely! It’s breathing!”
“It’s a skeleton! Kill it!”
“Evil! It’s not!?”
That was his salvation.
“Yeah, I guess I wanted to be a better teacher.”
In an instant, he met his friend Hwang An, who must have already left in a faraway place, and realized.
“What? Have you been watching this far already?”
And when he saw someone’s shadow facing this place from afar, he laughed.
“…Uncle Jeremiah.”
Shoot Ah, Usher saw the bone necklace in his hand amidst the sound of water cutting outside his wagon. It was given to him by Jeremiah before leaving the basement.
“You talked too much. Now that it seems like the preparations are coming to an end, I have one last thing I want to say.”
“…What do you mean?”
“It reminded me of something I really wanted to teach him.”
It’s hard to say instead, but I hope you’ll listen. Jeremiah then grabbed Usher’s shoulders with both hands.
“Originally, living is suffering. Everyone suffered and everyone was sad.”
Still, there are people who do happen. There are people who continue to make meaning.
“So, kid. No matter how hard and sad life is, don’t give up.”
His voice trembled terribly from the mixture of tears as he spoke, but he continued his speech nonetheless.
“The important thing is to live as who you want to be.”
Until the day death comes by itself. Live confidently enough not to be ashamed in front of it. Usher could see that this was the truth Jeremiah had never been able to convey to her child.
I couldn’t understand why he said that to me, but I couldn’t bear to throw away the necklace he gave me, so I was just staring blankly at it.
“I guess I can talk now.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Hearing Kane’s words suddenly opened, Helena looked at him as if wondering. The three of them were riding in this carriage now. But Kane shook his head.
“I’m not talking to you. Usher, I have something to tell you.”
Kane took out a small note from her chest and remembered the image of the girl who had handed it to him.
“You said your lover’s name was Erica.”
“Erika?”
Helena muttered her girl’s name in puzzlement, but Usher didn’t mind it. He couldn’t take his eyes off the note Kane had handed him.
“It was she who brought you back when I was imprisoned after having her powers sealed by a wizard.”
While confined to prison for a long time and surviving on barely enough food to live on, Kane heard the sound of unfamiliar footsteps approaching this place. Shortly after hearing the sound, it was apparently one of the pair of Cattsie who was escorting the wizard, Martin, and a girl frowning in pain in his arms, Erika.
“What about you?”
Kane said she couldn’t understand the situation even then. Martin was following the wizard and Erica would have been taken by the wizard with Usher.
“Sir, I don’t have time to explain.”
The girl gestured to Martin, and he rolled another figure he had been carrying over him. As expected, its true identity was Usher. Even so, Erica groped somewhere along the side of the prison and pressed something on her.
– Coo-goo-goo
“This!”
“Wait a minute! How do you get through that aisle?”
Then, as Kane was surprised by the passageway that opened at the back of the prison, Martin intervened, but the girl did not respond.
“Quickly! There’s no time.”
“But I have a restraint…”
Catch! When Kane was surprised at the sight of the restraints being released before his feet were even finished, the armor and weapons that were taken away while he was imprisoned this time were handed over to him. He heard that the mage was going to use it to fight the paladins.
“Oooh!”
“You.”
“Oops, don’t mind me.”
Erica’s painful groans caused Kane to speak out, but her words of refusal came back. Most likely, she wouldn’t have cared about him either, but the girl’s moaning, which seemed to leak out of her pain, didn’t seem like it was going to go unnoticed.
“Just, huh! Take Usher with you. Well, just this is enough.”
That’s how the girl gave them a small note and pushed them away. Usher heard that and felt her hand tremble as he gripped the note.
“No… That’s nonsense. But this!”
At the same time, Usher got up from his seat and approached the carriage door.
“Where are you planning to go?”
“I have to go back! Anyway, this, this!!!”
He couldn’t quite comprehend it. He said he was happy in Jude’s arms, and wasn’t she the one who berated him? But come now? But more than anything else, because he realized why Erica had to be, Usher wanted to go back.
“If I go back now, I will die.”
“But Erica!”
Qurrrr! But they couldn’t speak any more. That’s because there was a huge thunderous sound that seemed to come from all directions.
“What is this again?”
When they involuntarily saw the back of the wagon. They could see
“Dragon King…?”
“If it’s the Dragon King!”
The figure of a gigantic dragon wrapped in scales of lightning that flashed blue.
“The spell that kills wizards is, of course.”
“…You were calling the Dragon King.”
The Dragon King, among countless dragons, only three exist, and all those who see them lose their lives, so even their appearance is passed down as a legend, so to speak, the god of destruction.
“This is why the heretic.”
Kane muttered something, but Usher couldn’t hear it.
“Erika…”
Even Usher knew what it meant for the Dragon King to descend because of the Holy Land. Above all else, the note she had handed over.
‘Hi.’
There was only one word written there.
“I mean. I’m different from Verdi♪”
Listening to Erica’s words, Jude moved her finger to try the magic again, but he still couldn’t use the magic no matter how much he moved. All magic is meaningless in front of the Dragon King.
“Verdi wouldn’t even pay attention to you, but I hate you so~?”
Kufuheh ♪ The girl who seems to have gotten rid of everything now without a hint of distress is dancing around and laughing mischievously.
“I couldn’t let him go, knowing you would keep interfering with Usher.”
That’s why she planned everything.
“Because with the body of a witch, you can’t break taboos on your own ♪”
Then Erica slowly reached out her hand and pointed at her Jude.
“So, Erda. Please be kind to me this time♪”
At the same time, as if he had heard the girl’s words, the white light that formed the wings and scales of the Dragon King and Regin slowly began to grow in size. Everyone who faced the scene realized that death, which had been delayed for a while, had arrived. And it was the same for Jude.
‘What on earth was I wandering around for?’
He realized as he felt the last hug of the woman he thought would remain in her memories.
‘I guess I’ve come too far.’
Before long, the world permeated into pure white stillness.
