The moment after a moment of astonishment in his eyes, my hand finally touched his body.

Encounter (1)

. . . reached.

It was almost at the same time that a purple energy rose around him and Detrodemyan’s body stumbled.

It was an instant death that killed even an ancient archmage with a higher level than this at once. No matter how raw it was, there was no difference.

As soon as I confirmed his death, I immediately opened the floating curtain without any leeway.

The flames that spread around didn’t go out right away just because the owner died.

It would be best to get out of the space jump straight away, but it was impossible.

It was because it was a surprise attack that he barely attempted as soon as one count was charged while running away. And now I couldn’t see any more.

The arm he saw just before his vision was completely darkened, his skin burned with muscle, and almost nothing but bones.

Even for a brief blink of an eye, the body exposed to the flames of disdain even for a very short period of time became so horrifying that even the expression “Man Sing Chang” would not be enough.

Did I say that the greatest pain a person can feel is the pain of burning?

In the midst of this, useless information that I had heard from somewhere flashed through my mind.

It may not be the real flame that is burning my body right now, but one thing I was certain of. The burning pain would be nothing compared to the pain I’m feeling right now.

Now I was literally wandering through the dead. It was probably the spirit of the king that kept him at the mercy of the consciousness that was on the verge of being blown away by pain.

‘Mr.······ Baal···············ogue.’

It was a time to hold onto my mind tightly, saying that I would really die at this rate, but let’s hold on a little longer.

To make matters worse, this time, I suddenly felt the pressure to press down on the floating veil.

It was the first time this had happened, so I was terrified for a moment.

‘What else?’

I couldn’t see what was going on because I couldn’t see anything, but I could definitely feel the shock from the veil.

Could the floating curtain be broken?

I was wondering why I was doing this all of a sudden while blocking attacks well so far, but an idea flashed into my mind.

The purple energy that spread around the moment he came into contact with Detrodemyan.

Right before he was out of breath, he narrowly cut the space.

‘no way······.’

So, is it the ability to cut space that is pressing the veil right now?

The more I endured, the stronger the shock transmitted to the veil became so strong that I wondered if my body would be crushed like this.

But that couldn’t even break the veil. At that time, there is no time to do anything, and it will disappear in an instant.

My body is still burning in an unquenchable fire, and the twisting space outside is glowing to devour me.

All I could do was hold on to the consciousness that was slowly approaching the limit, completely paralyzed.

It was a moment in the eternal hell where one second felt longer than an hour.

‘··········?’

At some point, the pressure on the curtain disappeared as if it had evaporated.

The burnt snow had not yet regenerated, so it was not known exactly what had happened. Did the aura die first before the veil was broken?

I couldn’t stay like this forever, so after some time passed, I finally lifted the veil.

“·····································································································································]

Fortunately, as soon as the veil was removed, the body was crushed and there was no fatality.

I fell to the floor and let out a breath I had been holding back.

As I was panting so unsightly, my vision, which had been in darkness, began to slowly return.

The flame was almost extinguished, and the regenerated arm was the first to enter as the bubbling red foam. The whole body was almost like that, half a corpse.

‘crazy······.’

In such a state, it felt astonishing that even Yongke did not stop breathing.

As he collapsed, he breathed in and exhaled repeatedly, waiting for his body to regenerate.

That was after quite a while.

Burned muscle and flesh were put back on the bones, and the skin was regenerated to some extent, albeit incompletely.

I fumbled around my eyes and got up from exhaustion.

“eww······.”

He rested his trembling arms on the ground and barely raised his upper body.

I looked around blankly and couldn’t help but feel a sense of alienation.

The forest ruined by the aftermath of the battle was nowhere to be seen, and the landscape of the forest was reflected in the field of vision as if something had just happened.

And even Detrodemyan’s body, which should have been in front of him, had disappeared.

‘What······.’

Did his corpse also get caught up in the space leap and disappear?

·······No, that’s not it.

I looked around slowly again.

At first, the scenery itself was different. This wasn’t the forest I had just been in, it was a completely different place.

“············”.

A different place altogether?

Confused, I tried to get up from my seat, but my body got weak and I fell back.

It was felt that the aftermath of the flame was still there. The body was regenerated, but the internal wounds were not healed.

And there was no strength in his body, whether he had spent all his stamina to regenerate.

I didn’t really have the energy to lift a finger anymore, as it was the last handful that I had just moved.

Soon, consciousness began to become hazy.

If he missed it, he would die, so the beggar’s mind he was holding on to was already pushed to the limit.

I don’t know what it is… Now I can’t stand it any longer.

I slowly closed my heavy eyelids. consciousness became blurred.

***

dark space.

A woman is sitting with her eyes closed.

In front of him, a golden sword was stuck on the floor.

The golden energy, which even felt an unknown sacredness, covered the woman’s surroundings like a spherical curtain.

“············”.

Suddenly, the woman’s eyes opened. Very slowly, as if waking up from a long sleep.

However, the eyes that were revealed from the closed eyelids were incredibly clear and clear.

The woman who had been staring at the empty space or something else for a long time stood up.

When he stretched out his hand and pulled out his sword, the golden energy soon dissipated and slowly faded away.

A woman’s low murmur echoed through the room.

“······ There is no help.”

***

Sister Ganesha of the Lobelgio Monastery sighed, rubbing her forehead.

Early in the morning, after the morning worship service, I was just about to start work with a reverent heart.

One troubled lamb from the monastery was disturbing her mind from the start of the day.

“So, Elica, I hope you can explain why you broke Rex’s nose bone in the morning.”

The girl who was standing in front of her with a look of trouble with everything answered calmly.

“I didn’t mean to break it. I just slapped him in the face and the bones of his weak bones were softer than my fist.”

Ganesha asked again with patience in her heart.

“Yeah, why did you hit Rex in the face no matter what?”

“That bastard….”

“Elika.”

“·················· That idiot keeps scratching my nerves. You know that he is talking to me and the children around me that he is a low-spirited person, right? He ignores me once or twice.”

Ganesha let out a small sigh.

Rex was a boy who had recently entered the monastery.

He came from a noble family in the northern part of Seintea, and his family collapsed and came to this place by chance, but he was still setting up a blade around him, and he was hardly immersed in the monastery.

Most of the children were able to understand even if they were in a similar situation anyway, but they didn’t all have such a docile personality like the girl you see now, so clashes were inevitable. Today it was especially bad.

“I don’t know how many times I’ll have to say it for you to listen to me. Didn’t I say violence should never be used?”

“I tried my best.”

Ganesha said with stern eyes, the girl, and Elica gently averted her gaze.

“And it’s in the scriptures too, right? Love your blood, love your companions, and love yourself.”

“·······Yes, but why?”

“But, if I listen to words that are insulting to my bloodline, and if I stay still, wouldn’t it be that I love my own blood and flesh?

“Elika!”

“I’m sorry. I’m reflecting. I won’t do that again.”

In the end, as soon as Ganesha exploded, it was Elika who immediately changed her stance and bowed her head.

Ganesha let out a few deep breaths before speaking as if in a trance.

“Even so, this time it was too bad. You know it yourself, right?”

“············”.

“Go to the forest by lunchtime and cut a tree. If you wield violence again, it won’t end with this kind of punishment. Okay?”

I didn’t think it was serious at all, but Elica did not respond further and nodded her head.

“Then I’m going to leave. I’m sorry I shouted.”

“Yes, I’m sorry too.”

Elica came out of the room, scratching her head and moving forward.

When they came out of the monastery, a boy wielding a wooden sword in the yard stopped and waved brightly.

“Hey, did you escape?”

The boy quickly caught up to her as she passed by ignoring her.

“I should have adjusted my strength like that. Still, it was too bad to spit the nose bone? How harsh is that to an ugly guy?”

Then another boy sitting on a nearby rock and reading a book also came up and asked.

“What did the nun say?”

Elika replied with a shrug.

“Go and make a tree until lunch.”

“Hey, what? I didn’t get any disciplinary action. Anyway, Sister is very caring. I’d have to lock her up for half a day to hear what she said…”

“shut up.”

As Elika lifted her foot as if about to kick her ankle, the boy who had been wriggling again flinched and backed away. It was a reflex action, as if he had been kicked a lot as usual.

The scruffy boy’s name was Tom, and the boy he was reading was Heron.

“Well, anyway, then let’s go. I’ll help you.”

Elica was the only one who made the mistake, but the other two took an ax and moved to the forest together as if it was natural.

The three of them grew up together in the monastery from childhood, and they were like the three Musketeers of the Lobelgio Monastery, who always stick together no matter what they do.

Whoops!

As he sat down and fell trees for a while, Tom wiped his sweat and said.

“But did you guys hear that? This time, Clendem Paladin said that he was going to the denomination in the capital of Seintea.”

“I heard. There’s nothing strange about him because he’s such a great person.”

Clendem was a young paladin with excellent skills among the paladins in the monastery.

“Hyah, I want to become a paladin someday and be called by great people.”

“Wake up your dream. Are you?”

“What’s wrong with me? Is there anyone my age who wields a sword better than me, except for Elika?”

Tom asked Elica, who was silently digging down the tree.

“More than that, Elika, how about you? Don’t you want to become a paladin?”

“take no interest.”

“Hey, he talks like that every day, and he trains swordsmanship harder than I do. Because he’s not honest anyway.”

Elica kicked her tongue and stopped chopping wood and threw her ax to the floor.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“To drink water.”

She left the two of them and walked towards the brook.

As I was walking alone in the forest, something caught my eye.

“···········?”

She narrowed her brow and looked at the figure in the distance. And soon I had no choice but to open my eyes wide.

It was because a certain man was lying naked in the middle of the forest.

Encounter (2)

‘What is that?’

For a moment, I thought I was wrong, but it was definitely a person.

Elica stopped walking tall and looked around her with alert eyes.

Confirming that there was nothing more to see, she cautiously approached the person who had fallen.

The person who fell was a young man.

Elika blinked and looked down at him with a puzzled look.

Probably because the floor around the man was covered in red blood.

She brought her ears close to the man’s face.

I could confirm that the faint sound of breathing was not a dead body but a living person.

‘······ Does not seem to have any wounds?’

Elica looked around the man’s whole body with puzzled eyes.

There was blood on the floor, but strangely, there was no visible trauma.

I tried to turn my body by pushing it with my foot to see if there was a wound on the front.

However, there were no visible scars on the front side, except for the hardened bloodstains.

Her gaze turned toward the man’s lower body, then she frowned, turned her head, and gently turned her body back to its original state.

“············”.

What should I do?

Elika pondered for a moment.

It was not at all unusual for a person, even naked, to lie down out of nowhere in this forest.

Moreover, it was a remote area with few passersby. The only outsiders who occasionally stopped by were the residents of a nearby village.

‘No matter how you look at it, I’m not a village resident…’

First of all, it was a face I had no memory of.

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