Episode 570: It’s all about me (3)
A look of disappointment appeared on Nirva’s face.
As it happened, I ended up encountering someone here that I should not have encountered the most.
“What are you doing here?”
“Have you forgotten what I said? You declared war. So of course I came to keep what I said.”
Surna said so and lightly pulled out the sword stuck on the floor.
It was the sword that pierced Nirva’s wings and shot him down.
The sword with its gorgeous design was pulled out very easily.
Nirva sensed that the sword was also unusual.
But what I didn’t understand more than that was why Surna was here.
“What on earth? Weren’t you obviously watching the situation from outside?”
At least until the Infinite Prison unfolded, Nirva could not feel Surna’s presence in the depths.
So, after Infinite Prison, he realized that and came to the depths?
How do you know how things will turn out?
‘Furthermore, the Goddess was resurrected at the same time as the end of Infinite Prison, so there is no way he would have been fine there…’
Suddenly.
Nirva had that thought.
From the timing of Surna’s appearance, she now appears to be targeting him as if to show off.
Isn’t it too elaborate?
Surna, noticing that Nirva’s eyes had changed, grinned.
As if you agree that what you think is right.
Nirva sensed from that smile that her anxiety had become reality.
“Are you saying you targeted everything?”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t lie! “I mean, you were the one drawing the blueprint for this whole situation!”
“haha. I? Don’t you think too highly of me? You said that. “I was just a kid.”
“okay. You were definitely like that in the past. But you are different now.”
Surna lightly accepted those words.
“that’s right. I have changed. And you changed too.”
“I’ve changed?”
“Nirva. “Don’t you understand why Goddess Noksanna is falling asleep again?”
“What is that…”
“There is no way that someone who loved humans more than anyone else would put them to sleep through his own actions. Didn’t His Apostle know that either?”
Surna’s point was no different from touching an offense to Nirva.
“Shut up!”
Nirva flapped one wing and created wind, but it could not reach Surna.
An intangible energy scattered all the wind around Surna.
‘what. No matter how much it flapped its wings, it was a dream-like blow, but it was blocked so easily?’
Does Surna have this much power?
How on earth has this guy gotten stronger over the hundreds of years?
‘I can’t figure it out.’
Nirva synthesized information through dreams to recognize the enemy, but this power did not work on Surna, a fellow apostle.
In that case, we need to find out indirectly through the dreams of the people around us.
‘Even that doesn’t exist at all.’
Even those closest to him don’t know the extent of Surna’s true skills.
There was just nothing apparent.
In fact, Surna, who easily blocked Nirva’s attack, had a somewhat subtle expression.
“What is that face?”
“just. Even though we didn’t get along well, we were still fellow apostles and I recognized your skills.”
Surna let out a small sigh.
It was a sigh made out of genuine regret, not to provoke the other person.
“You are so broken now.”
“I’m broken?”
“You used to be wiser. Despite my cautious nature, I had no hesitation in making bold decisions. But now you’ve become more cautious, lost your guns, and even become stubborn.”
Surna’s gaze turned to Noksanna’s body sealed in the obelisk.
“okay. “They all changed after Goddess Noksanna was sealed.”
“gibberish! It’s nonsense! Have I changed? I am the same! “It’s no different than before!”
“It wouldn’t have ended up like this if the connection with the gods we serve was severed. Rather, did your vague hope push you into even more pressure?”
There is no way to bring a dead god back to life.
However, there is a way to wake up a sleeping god.
Nirva did this to awaken Noksanna again.
As that blind loyalty has concentrated over a long period of time, it has degenerated into a twisted mess.
“Because you were so intelligent, even now that you lost that gun, you are still able to make rational judgments, but even to me, who used to hate you because your personality didn’t match, you were still dazzling. But not now.”
“This…”
Nirva’s lips trembled.
I had to refute Surna’s words, but strangely, my mouth didn’t drop.
Surna, as Nirva remembers, was an apostle who lost the god he served and whose power was weak.
Moreover, he did not show his emotions very well, so he was like a doll, and even though the god he served was dead, he was not angry at Lumensis.
Nirva didn’t like that.
When I looked at Surna, I felt like I was looking at a soulless puppet.
Surely, at that time, Surna was so insignificant that even being treated like an apostle was considered a luxury.
But what about Surna that we are facing now?
‘It’s huge.’
Even though I was just standing still, I felt a huge pressure pressing down on me.
An apostle serving God feels pressured by a fellow apostle?
That could never have happened.
‘Are you saying I’ve become that weak?’
Nirva belatedly realized his shabby appearance.
It was ironic.
An apostle who lost God became stronger over time, but an apostle who served God became more broken over time.
“You said that. “The path an apostle must take is from despair to hope.”
“That’s what I said a long time ago…”
The words Nirva had said to the other apostles flowed from Surna’s mouth.
To be exact, these were words directed at Surna.
“From lies to truth, from unhappiness to happiness. “It is a path from a short and impermanent life to a long and eternal life.”
It was the philosophy of dreams preached by Nirva and the favorite phrase of Noksanna, the goddess of dreams.
“From the world of darkness to the world of light. From a world of illusion to a world of peace. And from the world of suffering to the world of enlightenment.”
What you can achieve that way is an immortal self.
To overcome the vicious cycle of pain that exists in reality and finally achieve true freedom.
“Wasn’t that the dream you wanted?”
“….”
“But what about now? “They tried to extort human lives under the pretext of creating a false paradise.”
From truth to lies.
From happiness to unhappiness.
From a meaningless life to a meaningless life.
From the world of light to the world of darkness.
From a world of peace to a world of delusion.
Enlightenment.
With agony.
“Something that had been building up inside you for a long time eventually slowly contaminated you with something else.”
“I changed?”
“okay. So, you must have danced on this stage I created without knowing anything.”
“…okay. Let’s say I have changed as you said. “Then how will you explain the goddess’ actions?”
“Didn’t I tell you? She was originally a god for humans. Of course, we don’t make choices that make things difficult for humans. “If it were you before, you would have known this a long time ago.”
“You calculated all that and then came to me?”
“You are a hindrance to future work. Wouldn’t it be better to nip the danger in the bud?”
“…Your goal from the beginning was to eliminate me?”
Nirva let out a self-deprecating remark and lowered her head.
“Now that it’s the end, will some of my old insight come back? But it turned out to be a pity. “Because it’s already too late.”
“…Did you even use your right-hand man as bait?”
“It may seem like bait, but Franz did it willingly. “I just created a good tool to help.”
“Is that something like that?”
“Of course, Franz induced me to move like that. “It was a really long and difficult task.”
Nirva’s eyes widened at the sudden confession.
“…What did you just say?”
Nirva stared at Surna, asking what that meant.
Surna shrugged his shoulders and laughed as if it was no big deal.
“I mean, it was difficult. “Contacting Dreamwalkers from a very long time ago and subtly brainwashing them into believing that the fragments of the Relic should be hidden in Dreamland was a task that required a great deal of patience.”
“What on earth are you talking about? Are you saying you were planning for this situation from the beginning? “Even the whole situation where that kid fell into the deep that day decades ago?”
Surna did not respond but just smiled.
But when Nirva saw that smile, her body trembled without realizing it.
Nirva’s eyes read some indescribable madness in Surna.
“No way, that happened 500 years ago…”
Nirva recalled a dream 500 years ago when Basara invaded a kingdom.
Why did Basara invade that kingdom?
Why were there dreamwalkers in that kingdom?
And was it really a coincidence that the Dreamwalker’s successors reached this point?
“Are you saying that they have been working behind the scenes for hundreds of years to use humans as puppets?”
Nirva’s lips trembled in shock.
“I saw you wrong. You didn’t become more cunning while you were not looking. “You have become more evil.”
“know. “That’s why I was called the Great Devil.”
“It’s not at that level! You are not simply evil. What lies within is a madness that cannot be guessed! “You did those things 500 years ago…”
“That’s right.”
Surna easily agreed.
“That’s what I did.”
“Why?”
“It shouldn’t have happened so quickly. That wasn’t what I wanted. The place and time were all wrong. So I just flipped the board over.”
“Are you using your fellow apostle, Basara?”
“It was so easy to coax a guy with blind rage. Because this guy is a time bomb that doesn’t know where he will explode. “I felt anxious if I left it alone.”
“So we decided to handle it together?”
“Because it doesn’t help me.”
“It was your fault that woke me up.”
Originally, Nirva should have slept for a long time.
Like life that hibernates for a long time, waiting to come out of its burrow on a warm spring day.
However, Surna deliberately stimulated Nirva and made him wake up.
They say it’s spring now.
“okay. I’ve been sending canaries down there periodically ever since, decades ago, when you woke up from your sleep. “That’s how you became who you are today.”
“Everything from me waking up and the goddess opening her eyes…”
“They are beings that will wake up someday anyway, but they will appear after everything is over, right? So, we needed to organize things in advance before anything happened.”
Nirva felt dizzy.
“What on earth happened between you and Saint Archenis in the past…”
“That’s not important right now.”
Surna cut off Nirva’s words with a single sword.
Nirva laughed at his situation.
“I’ve been waiting for this moment from the beginning. They danced perfectly and proudly on stage equipment that had been built up over hundreds of years. If you think about it, that dagger was strange. Because the weapon Franz used was not something that could be made by humans. “It was your touch that gave you the strength to hit me.”
Nirva’s eyes turned to the sword held in Surna’s right hand.
“And that long sword. Actually, that’s the main thing. “The dagger was just a by-product of making the original.”
“this. “I’m so embarrassed that you’ve suddenly become so perceptive.”
“You’re mocking me until the end. Yes, losers don’t have the right to do that.”
Nirva’s face, which had been filled with anger, became peaceful.
It was the look in the eyes of someone filled with firearms, worthy of a once wisest apostle.
“But that sword is not for killing me. It has too much power to kill me. You can’t use a cow knife to kill a chicken, but it doesn’t even look like a knife for killing a cow. Surna, what on earth are you trying to catch?”
“Wouldn’t our purpose always be the same?”
When told that it was the same, Nirva nodded calmly.
“okay. If so, give it a try.”
“I was already thinking of doing that.”
“But you definitely won’t die a nice death. “You know, right?”
“that.”
For the first time, Surna’s expression did not smile but became cold.
It was also a sincerity that I had never shown to others until now.
“I was prepared from the beginning.”
Surna’s sword decapitated Nirva.
Nirva’s severed head soon disappeared like sand blowing in the wind.
The same was true for the bird’s body.
Surna looked down at Nirva’s scattered corpse for a moment, then turned her head and gazed at the [Nurse Lime] floating in the high altitude.
“Franz, you will definitely receive grace from the goddess.”
Surna put the sword in his waist and left.
With the last words.
“So fulfill your contract on the day of promise.”
