I Quit the Hero’s Party Chapter 529

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The road to heaven has been opened.

Beyond the cracked blue sky, the door to the starry night sky was opened. However, just because the door is open does not mean that anyone can go there. Only those who have earned the qualifications and proven themselves by defeating the guardian will be able to cross that threshold.

And there is one wizard here.

He was a wise man, a sage, a warrior’s companion, a warrior, and a guide who brought humanity to this point. Raniel van Trias slowly raised his arms. The platinum temple floated at her beck and call.

Things that are split, crumbled, and broken.

However, she unearthed fragments of the old tower that had not lost its original purpose. From her scraps she built her own tower. Her tower, unlike her other magic towers, does not have the shape of a spire. It is closer to a staircase rather than a tower.

A staircase stretching straight to the sky, that’s the end.

Her tower neither boasts its majesty nor contains grand rules. It is an extremely simple tower. It’s really just a means to climb the sky.

widely.

Stepping on the platinum stairs, she ascended towards the sky. At first glance, it looks like Gleria’s ascension to heaven, but the current Raniel does not even possess any divinity. He is not using the power of God either.

Only as a human being.

As a mere human being.

She ascends to heaven only as a representative of humans, not of God. Because she had something to say to heaven. Because there was a story to be told to her parents, who had protected humanity for so long.

“Tap,” he said.

She took a step.

As always, just look forward.

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“······.”

Jormun leaned against the pillar of the collapsed temple and looked at the sky in silence. God, who always looked down at everything with his head down, now became a human and was looking up at the sky. I saw God who fell into human form.

The road to heaven opens.

The sight of Raniel ascending to the sky in a tower of a completely different form than himself.

“···aha.”

Looking at that scene, Jormun smiled bitterly.

The tower he built with Gletus, the tower he destroyed with his own hands after losing her, the tower used as material for a temple in her honor. The pieces of the tower were crumbled, mixed up, and thought to have lost their original purpose.

But, lo and behold.

Aren’t the things that were crumbling now shining once again? Aren’t we once again becoming a tower, connecting the path to heaven? Jormun laughed at the sight.

He smiled and stroked my face.

The era he knew is over.

That too a long time ago. Now I had to stop acknowledging that fact. Jormun just smiled as he looked at the shining tower. It took so long. So much.

His eyes, which had fallen into human form, no longer reflected the future or the past. All that is visible is the present.

Since ancient times, mankind has lived in the present, learning from the past and groping for the invisible future. The same goes for the current Jormun. He was able to vaguely predict the future based on his past experiences.

It’s full of uncertainties.

I was sure of one thing.

‘From now on.’

The world will begin to change.

In a direction no one can know.

Raniel monologued as he approached the sky.

It took a long time to get here.

If you think about it, it’s just amazing things. The journey that started from a small village burned down by the Demon King’s army has already ended up in a place like this.

“Let’s go to the royal road. “You shouldn’t be in a place like this.”

“If you go there, you can become anything.”

My hometown was burned down by the devil’s army. He left his burned hometown and the corpses of his family behind and headed to the royal capital.

“You have talent, kid.”

He was recognized for his talent in the royal capital, met his teacher, and with the help of his teacher, he entered the Magic Tower. After proving his worth in the Magic Tower, he took the position of the next Magic Tower leader.

“Let’s go together, Raniel.”

“We are going to achieve a feat that no one can ignore.”

I threw away everything I had accumulated and set out on a journey to take down the devil with my hometown friends. He made achievements, drank the blood that someone shed, and moved forward without fail.

“stand up.”

“I can’t. “I no longer…”

“I told you to stand up.”

Conflicted, broken, ruined.

“I can’t be like you.”

“That’s it, Raniel.”

“We don’t need you anymore.”

As a result, they became antagonistic and ended up taking a long, long journey back. She returned to the royal capital and somehow he ended up taking a professorship at the academy. She met qualified children and watched them grow.

“Not everyone can be like you.”

“I think it’s okay though. “If you don’t give up, it will be the right life.”

I faced my own mistakes, mistakes, and mistakes.

I realized that I was broken.

I learned that no matter who you are, you will break down.

“Go, Kyle.”

“I will open the way.”

I accepted the fact that there was another way.

“I don’t want to die.”

“I don’t want to end here.”

After suffering from the fear of death, I came to understand that humans can never be perfect. He felt in horror that he too was just a weak human being.

“I am you. “You from the future.”

“Look at me, Raniel. Don’t give up on your best. You can’t live like me. Please take a different path from me.”

“So that my life is not meaningless.”

Without compromising on anything, he fought to find the best ending that would satisfy him.

“okay.”

“When you open your eyes, let’s have a drink.”

I got my best. I shook off everything that had accumulated, and thanks to shaking it out, I was able to start anew.

“I will beat up the professor.”

“I think I need to return to the battlefield.”

Returning to the battlefield, he walked a long, long way to find the path that would be best for everyone, not just himself. Still, it was good. If they could be satisfied with my life, that was enough.

“Thank you, Raniel.”

“Thank you, junior.”

「Thank you. “To everything about you.”

“I want to express my gratitude. Thanks to you, my daughter can fulfill her duties as king until the end.”

That’s how it went.

Now that I look back on the path I have taken, I feel a different way from when I was struggling with the fear of death. At that time, I looked back at my life and groaned, saying, ‘I lived a terrible life.’

But what about now?

“You lived well.”

Raniel muttered without thinking.

She smiled and moved forward. There were no regrets. I can’t say it was perfect, but I lived my life to the best of my ability and had no regrets. Looking back on her own life, she smiled with satisfaction.

That’s how the child became an adult.

After realizing his mistake, giving up his stubbornness, and growing up, the child stood directly in front of his parents.

Now, it’s time to make a deal.

By building a tower with the path he walked and the life he lived, Raniel reached the sky. When he raises his head and looks ahead, there is the other side of the collapsed sky.

“Whoa…”

After taking a long breath, she took a step towards the other side of the collapsed sky. The night sky did not deny Raniel entry. Because the tower she built and her life proved her qualifications.

“Tap,” he said.

Raniel stepped onto the other side of the sky.

Blinking her eyes, she looked around. What existed beyond the collapsed sky was an endless horizon. Or, maybe we should call it the horizon.

An endless dark space.

Whether you look up at the sky or look down at the ground, all you see is the night sky. However, it was not an ominous darkness like those associated with shade. There was a darkness there that could be called cozy and warm.

And, also what you were looking for.

“······.”

Raniel stretched his gaze in silence.

A constellation was engraved in the center of the night sky. A huge constellation spread out like a net. There was an old constellation there, twisted, crumbled, and dusty.

widely.

Raniel walked towards the constellation.

Against the fluttering starlight, she arrived in front of the constellation. The constellation, which had already lost its integrity and was being destroyed by the madman and the shadows, was completely exposed by the battle between itself and Jormun a while ago.

That’s why you can do something like this.

Raniel stretched out his hand toward the constellation that was rooted in the night sky like a giant tree supporting this world. The great discipline denied her touch, but she did not need Raniel to get there.

“Oh, get out of the way.”

Crunch, crack, crunch…

Raniel tore off the branches with force and walked toward the inside of the constellation. Because I knew what was inside.

‘At first, I thought it was something like a rule.’

Raniel smiled bitterly and tore off the branches.

In the past, I used to think of stars as a kind of natural phenomenon. A natural phenomenon that stabilizes and balances the world according to established rules.

‘But, it wasn’t.’

It may not seem like that on the outside.

But stars were not that kind of phenomenon. The first time I felt a sense of discomfort was in Jormun’s attitude toward the stars.

Jormun treated the star as if it were a living intelligence. He even pointed to a star and called it his own friend. It was during the battle with Kyle, who had become the sword of heaven, that the sense of discomfort I felt there turned into confidence.

The voice of the star I heard at that time.

The voice of a woman asking what she wanted from herself. That gave Raniel confidence.

“If you think about it, there are a lot of strange things.”

She muttered, breaking the twigs and heading deep into the constellation.

“What ‘you’ wanted that day was a god who would grant the wishes of mankind. Even if not all wishes come true, it was thought that there was a need for a being who would at least listen to their wishes. The stars were meant to fulfill that role.”

That is the origin of stars.

“In order to stabilize the world, it must be a being with solid rules, but in order to listen to human wishes, it must be a being with a heart like humans.”

so.

“You must have thought that neither of the two should be missing… and made the outside and inside of the star different.”

“Tap,” he said.

“I guess that’s why you made this choice.”

Raniel entered the deep part of the constellation.

There was the inside of a star. There was a god there who answered the wishes of humans, different from the stars as rules that protect balance.

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A woman with her head hanging while nailed to a constellation. When she sensed Raniel’s presence, the woman slowly raised her head. Raniel opened her mouth and pronounced her name.

“Gletus of Discipline.”

“No,” Raniel laughed bitterly.

“It would be more correct to call it the fragment of Gletus. It would be closer to the soul being broken into small pieces and mixed with the stars.”

Gletus was the original, but the being nailed to the constellation could not be called Gletus. Because the proportion of Gletus in that being was not large.

“Listening to people’s wishes, creating Stella and the Watcher, the opposites of the madman, and creating a hero to defeat Shadow, are all things you did, right?”

The eyes of the woman nailed to the constellations were cloudy.

Perhaps it was because the star was damaged by the appearance of the shadow, but the outer star as a perfect rule and the inner star with a human heart were mixed without boundaries.

‘I guess this is why the stars became that way.’

Raniel clicked his tongue and turned his wrist.

It was too late anyway, but he was going to destroy it sooner or later, so without hesitation, Raniel struck the constellation where the woman was nailed with his fist. The constellation shattered with a loud noise.

For some reason, I felt a little cold inside.

One way or another, there was a lot accumulated in the star.

Passsssuk.

Raniel picked up the woman who had fallen among the shattering constellations, sat her down, and waited for her to open her eyes. How many seconds had passed? Blinking, she opened her eyes.

“···you are?”

Raniel smiled at the being that was the original of Gletus, who was looking at him with hazy eyes.

“It’s spherical.”

Raniel stretched out his hand toward the star.

“Let’s talk.”

The attitude was that if I didn’t catch him, he would grab me by the collar.

“I have a lot to say.”

It seemed like a lot of facial expressions.

fantasy,