The great mage who transcends by returning, episode 271
The devil does not choose any means or methods to achieve its goal.
To them, humanity is nothing more than a bait that they don’t mind sacrificing as much as they want.
Even more so, he could use it as much as he could to end Walpurgis, who was a thorn in his eye.
The 5th head of the family was a person at the time when demons began to express their thoughts in earnest.
And the 7th head… ….
Kwajik!
– I’d rather kill the car… ….
…He was the head of the period when he was most brutally twisted under that influence.
Many people were sacrificed.
The devil forced a choice, and the family had no choice but to make a choice.
It was clear that if you missed the devil, you would return to a bigger disaster.
In the process, countless innocent people were sacrificed and the atmosphere of the family changed greatly.
“At first, I was willing to make all those sacrifices. I thought it would be okay if I could save the majority of mankind from the demons by doing so.”
Kwajik.
Crushing the demon’s cartilage, the 7th patriarch spoke in an emotionless voice.
“But it wasn’t.”
slap.
With an emotionless expression, the 7th patriarch spoke to me while giving pain to the devil’s body and soul to the limit.
“The devil is endless. Even if you destroy it, it will come back eventually. That alone… …It wasn’t enough.”
“….”
“So I realized.”
At that moment, the corner of his mouth, which had nothing in it, went up.
The creepy thing is that even the corners of his mouth that went up like that didn’t contain any emotion.
just inorganically.
“They also know this pain so they can’t act recklessly.”
The 7th head of the family tortured and tortured the devil with a smile.
I got used to the screams of demons.
By the time I couldn’t feel anything beyond pleasure watching them squirm in pain… …
“The demons are starting to fear the name Walpurgis.”
“Is that so.”
“Look over there.”
The 7th family head pointed his finger towards the window.
There was a bright red thing running across the hallway. It was a fishy blood.
slap.
When I came to my senses and looked down, red, fishy blood began to slowly fill up.
– Big black!
Karma.
It was the blood that Walpurgis had piled up silently in the darkness of that cruel Dark Age.
didn’t you know?
No, I already had a hunch.
It was assumed that Walpurgis had forgotten the meaning of the founder and degenerated into a simple family of magic.
There was also Mamon’s reaction.
The 7th patriarch continued with sunken eyes.
“The problem was then.”
“….”
“I knew that my ancestors, as well as myself, had set foot in an affair. But I felt that it shouldn’t continue. Above all….”
Her eyes were filled with emotion for a moment.
Shoulders shaking lightly.
“…I didn’t want to put the same bridle on my son.”
“….”
“If the degenerated direction of Walpurgis continues, what remains? Indeed at the end… …How will we be different from the devil we hate so much?”
“You are not wrong.”
Continuing to walk on an affair that has gone astray once means that you will continue to walk on the way you went astray in the end.
The 5th family head and the 7th family head… ….
Everyone was aware that they were going wrong.
It just happened once and I couldn’t stop.
“Just in time, the hero Hekau chose was active. It’s not as good as the invitation, but it’s good enough to replace us.”
“so….”
“I let go. Considering the family’s mission, I think it might have been the worst choice.”
However, the 7th head of the family continued.
“It was the best for me.”
“I see.”
I don’t get angry.
No, you have no right to be angry with me in the first place.
I’ve never been through that era, and I can’t fully sympathize with the anguish my ancestors felt.
The situation at the time, which had no choice but to be like that, just felt bittersweet.
“The reason why Walpurgis lost his identity as an adversary of the Demon God in his generation….”
“Yes, it must be my influence.”
The 7th head of the family nodded with a calm expression.
“Just in time, I had an outstanding magical talent inherited from the founder, and it was possible to specialize my identity as a Mado family.”
“….”
“A lot of things started to change when my son reached the stage of being in the 8th circle. Of course, there were things I lost along the way.”
Walpurgis gave up his mission.
The hero was somehow active, but not all problems were resolved.
for example….
“…War of Prophecy.”
“Yes, that was also a disaster caused by our mission.”
She nodded.
From her point of view, it was quite futuristic, but this is a space where many time zones are mixed.
Even if you know, there’s nothing strange about it.
Anyway, it took a lot of time and effort to heal the damaged scars.
After that, a long break followed.
The record is sealed.
Walpurgis was not a descendant of Solomon, who fought against the demons, but became one of the leading magic families in the empire.
“sorry.”
The 7th patriarch bowed his head towards me with a dark expression.
“…I have left too much of a burden on my future generations. Knowing better than anyone else that it wasn’t right.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
I answered and walked past her. Walking and walking in the endless corridor… ….
I saw the history of Walpurgis.
those who sacrificed themselves.
those who patiently persevered.
Those who eventually collapsed… ….
I felt the horrors in the words of my ancestors and witnessed them with my own eyes.
passing through the ancestors.
The hate, the sadness, the joy… ….
Empathize and get over it.
In the end, even if there were many twists and turns, it was not what Solomon wanted, but what Walpurgis wanted.
“Demon God’s Extinction and Peace.”
In the end, no matter how hard you try to erase it, Solomon’s will does not disappear.
pop.
The appearance of the 7th family head disappeared.
I was alone again.
However, it did not mean that there was nothing to do in this space.
I have talked to various ancestors and heard about the records from them… ….
‘There are still important things left.’
took a step
I could feel the eyes from all sides.
Whether they talked to me or not, all the eyes of my ancestors were focused on me.
They seemed to be saying
「Will you be different?」
Won’t you fail?
Will he be able to accomplish something that even Asar couldn’t do?
An obsession that may have lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years weighed on my shoulders.
“I will.”
While muttering like that, I never stopped walking.
I looked ahead.
I still don’t know beyond.
But even so, I never thought of giving up, so I walked.
All the despair and failures of my ancestors until I was here… ….
that it will be their last.
took a step
towards the invisible.
The light fills the field of vision and warmly embraces the whole body.
“I’ll watch.”
Walpurgis’ past slowly pushed me away from my back.
I took a step forward without rejecting it.
At its end was a door.
A rectangular door in black and white.
I opened that door.
And there… ….
“…Tsk.”
An old man with an eccentric complexion stood, propped up on a cane.
The madness in the eyes is swirling like a whirlpool.
He said.
“I am Solomon.”
With words stained with obscenities.
“That’s where this fucking blood started.”
* * *
“By now, perhaps my descendants are with my future.”
Saying that, Solomon looked around at everyone with warm eyes.
At that, Ryan asked cautiously.
“…Is that different?”
“It is different in many ways. Unfortunately, in my later years… …It wasn’t that peaceful. There were good reasons for that, but it’s true that it was never bright anyway.”
At those words, everyone’s expressions strangely changed.
Even if it wasn’t bright, it would be the same ‘Solomon’ in the end, so what’s so different.
As if expecting such a reaction, Solomon smiled bitterly.
“Well, whatever. The late me is suitable for that child, and the present ‘me’ you see is suitable for you.”
“However, to say that he is suitable for us….”
“Your strength.”
Solomon put his left hand behind his back and pointed at everyone with his right hand.
“The potential is excellent, but it is not enough to overcome the trials ahead.”
“….”
“To be precise, it means that I cannot fight on an equal footing with that child, my descendant.”
Objectively, the power of everyone here is by no means weak.
It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no group on the continent where each member has such strength.
but it’s still not enough
“That is true.”
While everyone was silent, Herma spoke in a languid voice.
“It’s not that we couldn’t do our part, but as far as I know, the hero’s ‘company’ has never properly stood by the hero’s side.”
“….”
“In the end, everything was done in the hands of the hero. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with that. In the first place, the ‘Hero’ exists for that purpose. but….”
Herma continued.
“The question arises as to whether we will be able to exert effective power against the Great Demon.”
“It is as you say.”
Solomon nodded.
“You guys are obviously talented people, but if you look at it now that the demons have arrived right around the corner, they are not enough. That’s true. Let’s make an exception… ….”
His gaze stopped in the direction of Ariandel.
“Is it just a saintess created to fight the devil in the first place?”
“….”
Ariandel didn’t react otherwise.
But he didn’t even deny it.
At least in terms of dealing with the ‘devil’, except for Mikhail, she is the most suitable being to deal with the great devil.
Everyone’s mood fell.
Among them, Solomon said.
“That’s why I, who is nothing more than a thoughtful thought, invited you here.”
“That means….”
“I, who had never appeared before the family heads of successive generations, appeared in front of you like this because I was expecting that much.”
Solomon opened his arms.
At that moment, an enormous force began to swirl around him.
And five doors were created according to the number of people in the room.
“This….”
“It’s a space that will give you the ‘growth’ you need. It may not be the best solution, but it sure is… …It will help.”
Everyone instinctively felt which door to open.
Solomon looked at them and said.
“Prove the possibility.”
Like a warm light that surrounds everyone.
“So that you guys can be proud of yourself.”
Solomon gave an answer to all of them.
* * *
“It’s been a fucking life.”
The founder of the family stared into the air with a resigned expression and said,
“very…Fuck life.”
“….”
One thing is clear: Sijo uses profane language very gracefully.
‘Fuck.’
Of course, it was the truth that I didn’t really want to know.
Imagine that the progenitor, who has long been regarded as great, laments his situation.
it feels weird
Probably feeling something in my eyes, the founder Solomon looked at me with pitiful eyes and said,
“Don’t you think you inherited a really painful karma, descendant?”
“well.”
It’s karma, it’s nabal, it’s smashed once, and it’s the one that came back.
Solomon looked at me and said to me with a grunt.
“I wasn’t originally like this. I was more docile. I was once the representative of intelligence among God’s creatures… ….”
“Sir.”
“why.”
“A true intellectual does not dwell on the past.”
At my words, Solomon saw me.
“Hmm, that’s not wrong.”
He looked at me with a strange expression and said to me as if he had suddenly remembered.
“By the way, am I not your ancestor?”
“you’re right.”
“No, but as soon as a descendant of mine meets the progenitor, he will not be able to kneel down and praise my greatness….”
“Sir.”
“What why?”
I looked at Solomon with a disapproving expression and said with a warm smile.
“Anyway, I’m a descendant of my father-in-law.”
“so.”
“This is the future that the ancestors chose. Endure it with evil and evil.”
“….”
At that, Solomon looked at me strangely and grabbed my forehead.
“Oh, I’ll turn, really.”
