EP.29 Old relationship (1)
A canyon where the demon world and the human world meet.
The bloody smell never goes away in the Kirmelt Gorge.
Every day the knights and the devil’s army clash. The corpses of demons and demon beasts pile up. The corpses of the knights pile up on top of it.
The piled up corpses are then offered as sacrifices for the spells of warlocks or shamans. In a canyon where only the scent of blood remains, the knights clash swords with the remains of their former companion.
The knights of Kirmelt Gorge are expressionless.
I have no choice but to remain expressionless.
The front line, a living hell called the Demon World.
The knights guarding that place were veterans of veterans, people who had rolled on the battlefield.
He has no hesitation in cutting down his colleagues.
They endure another day like that.
however.
“Remia.”
Tonight was different.
“Shoot.”
It’s raining arrows.
The arrows raining down under the moonlight accurately weed out only the devil’s army. At least two demon lords are pierced by one arrow.
container.
The sound of lightly flicking a bowstring.
The blonde hair of the elf standing in the canyon is flowing.
“Sarah.”
A moment of leisure.
The knights, all in perfect condition, look at the woman walking between them. A woman dressed in pure white robes, she puts her hands together and offers her prayers.
Light spreads around her.
In that warm light, the knights recall the woman’s name.
Saint Sarah.
Next, the name of the elf standing in the canyon also comes to mind.
Shrine, Remia.
And, the gaze naturally turns forward. Someone jumps out of the canyon. He stands in front of the knights.
Sreung.
A sword that seems to have been forged from starlight.
That symbolic sword represents his identity.
Warrior, Kyle.
He swung his sword.
A slash of light splits the canyon.
“Oh, oh…”
“Oooooh!”
At the appearance of the hero, the knights cheer. That’s what a warrior is. Its mere presence boosts the morale of the knights.
The number of allies is not important.
The only thing that matters is that the warrior is with you on the battlefield.
‘The warrior is with us!’
The knights stood up.
‘The stars are with us!’
I raised my spear knife.
Under the moonlight, the knights marched. A warrior accompanies their march.
Although it was only one night.
That day, Kirmelt Gorge gave humanity its hand.
*
“Oh, I think my clothes smell. Ugh! “This is why I hate the undead!”
“I know yeah. I couldn’t even collect the moonlight arrows properly. “This is why I don’t want to come to Kirmelt Gorge.”
Accommodation prepared for a warrior party.
“Don’t you think it took longer today?”
“That’s right. With Kyle… “Didn’t it finish in less than an hour?”
“You stayed up most of the night today, right?”
“···huh.”
Sarah and Remia looked at Kyle.
Kyle was polishing the holy sword in silence.
Although they didn’t say it out of curiosity, Sarah and Remia knew why the fight was delayed so much.
‘Sage, Raniel.’
A wizard who recently left the party.
They had to feel the wizard’s empty space several times throughout the fight against the Demon King’s army.
When a wyvern appears that doesn’t get shot by arrows.
When warlocks raise the undead.
When the shamans were about to make offerings.
They recalled Raniel’s appearance.
I couldn’t help but think of it.
Normally, this would have been a problem that could have been resolved with just him clapping and snapping his fingers.
‘So, I thought it wasn’t a very difficult problem…’
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It wasn’t easy.
To stop the warlocks, Sarah had to use enormous divine power. In order to pierce the wyvern, Remia had to take out her beloved moonlight arrow.
And, shamans.
To stop the damn shamans from making offerings, Kyle risked injury and jumped into the crowd of demon kings.
‘The bigger problem is…’
Even so, the damage could not be completely reduced.
Dead knights came out.
To the extent that it is similar to usual.
How much was the damage on the battlefield reduced? Since this would soon lead to the hero party’s evaluation, Sarah and Remia had no choice but to bite their lips.
‘It’s that wizard again.’
That was also due to Raniel’s absence.
Originally, while Kyle navigated the battlefield alone, Raniel took charge of the front lines. Standing in line with his knights, he held the line until Kyle returned.
Kyle goes on a rampage using the battlefield as his stage.
Because the only one who could assist him was Raniel.
There is no way the knights could follow the warrior’s movements. The knights who tried to force themselves to follow the hero actually became a burden.
The results were disastrous.
“Tsk.”
Remia clicked her tongue briefly.
“are you okay. “Because he was going to die soon anyway.”
“Yes, of course. “I guess this is what happened in the end.”
They also know that Raniel is a capable wizard.
I didn’t kick him out without knowing that something like this would happen if he left.
‘It would have ended up like this anyway.’
I just thought so.
Raniel’s condition was not good.
His condition worsened day by day, to the point where he vomited blood several times during the fight.
‘He will die soon or become a wreck.’
So I threw it away.
“Hmm.”
Sarah let out a bitter smile and raised the corners of her mouth.
“Besides, you must be having a hard time by now, right?”
she remembers
“If I don’t have my heels, there’s no way I can endure the ‘cycle’ that comes every month.”
Once a month.
The day Raniel’s eyes turned black.
2.
“What the f*ck?”
When I woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror, I was shocked.
The eyes were stained black.
“Oh, was it today?”
I put my hand on my heart.
I could feel the curse gnawing at a part of my heart.
“Sigh.”
When I spit out the blood, it was stained black.
‘For some reason, my throat felt a bit raw.’
I unbuttoned my robe. Then, he placed his palms together against the spell he had stored on his chest.
Ash.
Gray mana seeped into my body. It’s the mana that swallows the curse, the spell I mastered while fighting that succubus bitch.
Boom, boom.
My heart is beating loudly.
My throat was itchy.
“Cough, clack. Hehe.”
After coughing up blood a few times, the black eyes returned to their original state. Of course, the curse has not been completely eliminated.
‘I just suppressed it.’
To prevent it from encroaching on my body beyond a certain amount.
I was just dealing with the rising curse.
‘This is not a fundamental solution…’
If you play well, you can maintain the status quo.
There is no problem suppressing the curse for now, so I am leaving it alone…
‘We don’t know what will happen in the future.’
Because nothing has been revealed about the curse.
I thought for a moment.
“Is it right to go to meet him?”
It also happened to be the Sabbath.
I probably won’t have to go to work at Aplia until the day after tomorrow.
‘I guess I should go and come back now.’
It seemed like the day had come when I had to do something I had been putting off. I put my clothes together and got ready to go.
There are two shoes on the shoe rack.
One was the flats my teacher bought me, and the other was the military boots I used to wear.
‘What else do you think I’ll order?’
After thinking for a moment, I put on my military boots.
“Master?”
“Why are you doing this, Raniel?”
“I’ll go out for a moment.”
“Where are you going?”
“hmm···.”
I said.
“To see an old friend.”
*
There are only a few people I would call a friend.
To begin with, human relationships were very limited, and almost all of the people he was close with died, so the number of people left was only a handful.
…Kyle was one of them.
It’s not like that anymore.
Anyway, one friend left.
I was entering the depths of the royal capital to meet my first friend of a different race.
‘Come to think of it, that bitch Remia had a seizure.’
Suddenly, an old memory came to mind.
-···what? Silver-haired elf?
-ok. A silver-haired elf.
The first cross-racial friend I made.
The elf’s hair was particularly unique, so I asked Remia about it.
‘Because almost all elves were green or blonde.’
So I asked if there was a silver-haired elf.
At that question, Remia had a seizure.
-Don’t lie, you cheeky human. How do you meet them? These people only come from legends.
-No, I said we met, but why are you being such a dick?
-Say something that makes sense. under! So what is its name? Bona Mana Aliga…
-Cardi.
-···what?
-They said it was Cardi.
-How do you deal with that person?
Judging by his reaction, he is not an ordinary person.
‘He was a great person.’
He was a great person not in the field of combat, but in the field of knowledge.
‘As far as I know, he is the best alchemist.’
I was now visiting the elf’s house.
As I walked for a while along a dark alley deep in the royal capital, an old and shabby store caught my eye.
“hmm.”
Stopping in front of it, I knocked on the door a few times.
“Please come in.”
As soon as you open the door and enter, you can smell the herbal medicine.
“What’s happening to this old, shabby store?”
An old man with bright white hair looks at me.
The hair is gray and the skin is wrinkled, but it is a fake age. I looked into the old man’s eyes.
Yellow eyes that resemble those of an animal.
Those eyes didn’t lose their guns.
“Hmm.”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“I know, but you’re just kidding.”
“·····.”
“You’ll know it when you see it, Cardi.”
“hmm.”
The old man smiled.
“You don’t know this consideration that you pretend not to notice.”
The old man’s dry fingers tap the table.
Soon, the old man’s appearance changed. The pure white hair turns into shiny silver hair, and the wrinkled skin becomes smooth.
The change occurs in an instant.
He changed from an old man to a young man and shrugged his shoulders.
“A distinguished guest has arrived.”
“I don’t know how precious it is, but I’m a missed guest, right?”
“I guess that’s right, Raniel.”
I laughed bitterly.
Well, there’s no way I wouldn’t recognize it.
‘He is a person who can see through the soul.’
From the first time they met, this elf recognized Kyle’s talent that had not yet developed and predicted his future.
“It’s been a while, Cardi.”
“It must have been a long time by human standards.”
I brought a chair and sat down.
“I heard a rumor. “It seems like you’ve had quite a splendid five years, as I hear your story non-stop every single day.”
“I’ve had a busy life.”
“Seeing as how he cut off the head of that black disaster, it looks like he used a lot of magic.”
“Because I needed it.”
While chatting like that, I looked around the store.
“You’re still the same.”
Nothing has changed in 5 years.
The store still doesn’t have a single ounce of light. This is because it is located deep in the slums of the kingdom.
“Do you like this drab place? I think I’m going psychotic. “Everything I see makes me depressed, man.”
“It was perfect because it reminded me of my old hometown that had been reduced to ashes.”
“Anyway, it’s unique.”
The conversation stopped for a moment.
It was because Cardi was silent. He took a moment to catch his breath, took off his glasses and cleaned them.
“So, Raniel.”
Cardi put back on her wiped glasses and narrowed her eyes.
“It’s just small talk, something you can do even after work is over, so let’s get to the point first.”
He pointed to my heart.
I opened my mouth.
“The heart.”
The voice was different from the gentle voice I remembered from Cardi.
“The curse, the appearance, the deterioration of the soul.”
He asked back in a sharp voice.
“What are you trying to become?”
A word from the author (author review)
In case you’re worried, let me tell you something.
The atmosphere doesn’t suddenly become impoverished or serious. It’s a short 2-3 episode episode that briefly touches on something that needs to be addressed. 😀
