episode_0062
by adminAfter the game, Aleister, who was taking a light rest alone in the VIP room after the closing ceremony of the sports festival, sighed.
“Phew… .”
The only thing that rings in a quiet room is the second hand of an analog wall clock.
Is this because, thanks to the soundproofing magic installed, no noise such as heat or cheering from outside can be heard at all?
For the first time in a while, Aleister was able to have time to organize his thoughts in a quiet place.
‘What happened?’
Aleister, who washed his face and cleared away all complicated thoughts, asked a question in his mind, which was as clean as white drawing paper.
The first starting point was the appearance of the tree of life.
‘… Was there something between Seong Yu-jin and the Tree of Life that I didn’t know about?’
As soon as the Tree of Life appeared, Seong Yu-jin’s movements stopped and his sphere collapsed.
Aleister recalled that Seong Yu-jin at that time looked as if she were possessed by a ghost.
‘The purpose of manifesting the Tree of Life was to check whether I could use the element of sphere in my path… .’
The moment they collided, like gunpowder and fireworks, the reaction on both sides was strangely violent.
For a moment, there was a strange phenomenon where the tree of life seemed to have completely fallen away from oneself, and along with it, the stable area was also destroyed.
As a result, Aleister’s first feelings, having failed to achieve his goal, were regret and a bit of irritation, but those feelings changed in just a few blinks of his eyes.
Curiosity toward the unknown, desire to explore phenomena that are not understood.
Since he was a magician by nature, he wanted to somehow explain the phenomenon he had seen for the first time in his life.
‘I can’t possibly reason.’
There was very little information given to Aleister.
The unknown phenomenon occurred in a short period of time, less than 1 second, and no data on the process or cause has been found.
One thing is certain: something changed in Seong Yu-jin, who was momentarily dazed after facing the Tree of Life.
Is it about 3 seconds at most?
Aleister was astonished to realize the change in Seong Yu-jin, who came to his senses again after that short gap.
‘Not only the level of the body and the total amount of magical power, but even the level of the soul has increased significantly.’
An unknown territory that even he himself could not reach.
In Aleister’s view, Seong Eugene had achieved such a high level that he thought that he might give off that feeling as he was only about to take the final step at the end of the path.
‘… As expected, I’m jealous.’
Until now, the focus had been on Riftrasir and the most innocent gold, but now interest arose in the existence of Seong Yu-jin, who possesses both elements.
Is Seong Yu-jin really special because he was chosen as Riftrasir and held the most precious gold in his hands?
If not, was he chosen as Riftrasir, who holds the most precious gold, because he is a special being?
‘For now, we have no choice but to embrace them by any means possible.’
Just because you can’t figure it out now doesn’t mean you won’t figure it out in the future.
Mankind went from hammering stones to iron, and built civilization by making machines replace the work that used to be done by hand.
Aleister, who remembered the scale of civilizational reform called the Industrial Revolution around the 21st century and lived through that era, truly thought so.
There is nothing in this world that is incomprehensible.
There is only knowledge and ignorance.
In the world before the cataclysm, magic and monsters were creatures of fantasy, but not now.
Nowadays, mystery is considered an incomprehensible blessing from heaven, but if a magic-based civilization develops in the future, mystery will also be reduced to mere magic.
Just as humanity’s perception of lightning has changed, and the boundary between religion and science has become distinct.
“… There’s a lot of work to do when I get back.”
Aleister moved on, thinking that for the first time in a long time he had found something worth taking seriously.
Because his values have never been broken for hundreds of years.
The oldest and highest magician lit a flame in my heart.
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“Ugh, I’m dying.”
I took a deep breath, feeling the strength drain from my body, which was stretched out on the dormitory bed.
It’s been a week since the sports festival ended.
Is it because of the fatigue from the back-to-back games the cadets played and the clean-up after a huge event like a sports day?
All first-year cadets currently attending the school were given a rare, sweet holiday of one week.
‘But why?’
Did the first-year cadets start the festival right away without getting tired?
Just like we did after the dungeon strategy practice, a few cadets took the lead and started the after-party for the sports competition.
And that lasted for a week.
‘… I’m tired.’
Perhaps because I was the winner, all the attention was focused on me.
I also received a lot of attention because I revealed at the sports festival that I was the ‘real’ top student.
Even if you ask Hermod to try to attract aggro, you probably won’t be able to attract this much attention.
It was such a tiring week that I couldn’t help but think about it.
‘Still, I enjoyed it.’
As a bonus, I roughly finished organizing my thoughts.
I think I spent most of the week given as a holiday thinking about it.
It’s not an exaggeration, it really was that way.
The amount of information that the voice I met after contacting the Tree of Life crammed into my head was so much, it was so shocking that I couldn’t believe it.
‘World Tree Yggdrasil, I thought it was something of a MacGuffin until now… .’
A setting element that serves as the main axis of the worldview and exists only to continue the story without making a proper appearance.
That’s how I understood the world tree, Yggdrasil.
For the player camp, Yggdrasil is an objective that must be protected to prevent the destruction of the world.
For the Apostles of the Apocalypse and Ragnarok, Yggdrasil is a rotten rope from the old era that must be burned down to achieve their goal and open a new era.
At the same time, it is a convenient device in the play that makes it easy to explain things like top-class elixirs, and somehow ties the story of going to the mountain into a love affair… I thought.
‘However, Yggdrasil contained a more shocking truth than I thought.’
To sum it up really simply, I am not a possessor, but a summoner.
He is also a summoned person summoned by the world tree, Yggdrasil, to ask him to save this world.
It was said to be the same situation as the introduction to a typical hero story from another world.
‘… I wrote this in an organized manner, but I just can’t believe it.’
When I turned on the notepad on the tablet I was given for education, I saw that the truth about the world and myself, which I had worked hard to organize over the past week, was organized into one file.
I ran that file.
The contents were extensive, but perhaps because I worked hard to organize them for easy understanding, the contents of the file were quite neat rather than dense.
After reading it all again, I finally managed to organize all my thoughts neatly.
This world has already been destroyed once, and Yggdrasil and Othinus endured enormous sacrifices to return once.
The I knew was a kind of test created by Yggdrasil and Othinus to find a hero to stop Ragnarok, and this world is a world where there is no main story from the beginning.
In the first place, the timeline of the event that I called the main quest was a list of history created by editing the major events of the world where Othinus was destroyed.
It is because of this background that many settings in were empty and many elements remained as MacGuffins.
Among the countless pieces of information given by voices like this, the biggest piece of information is… .
“… I need to somehow get my hunter’s license quickly, right?”
If the history of the destroyed old world proceeds similarly, the Amazon demon world will run rampant in the very near future.
And the great disaster will devastate South America, and the apostles of the apocalypse will begin to move in earnest from that region.
So the voice made a radical decision.
By handing over part of the World Tree that was used as the foundation of the Tree of Life to me, I was able to minimize the risk of succession and at the same time finish all the pending successions at once.
‘Perhaps the reason we couldn’t talk for a long time and conveyed information in such an ignorant way was to resolve the cost of succession.’
Succession proceeds with greater damage to the body than expected.
The core is stretched, the circuit is repaired, and the bones and muscles are turned over at the same time.
To give the most similar example, in martial arts, when you undergo a transformation, a new Danjeon is suddenly created and your body is destroyed.
If the Voice hadn’t supported me as part of the World Tree… The moment the succession was carried out all at once, my body might have suffered a breakdown.
“Vice President Odd.”
So, now I have to make the move myself.
The main story and game knowledge have all become cumbersome.
“I would like to get permission to go out.”
“… What is the reason?”
He pursed his lips for a moment and hesitated to answer, but even that didn’t take too long.
“I need to visit the World Hunter Association.”
It was a waste of time to wait for Aleister Crowley to contact me.
He’ll come to me anyway, so I’ll go to him first.
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