Episode 255
EPISODE.128 Ji
Hye-yeol (智慧熱) meets again at the age of looking beyond adulthood and into old age.
The twinkle in his eyes seemed to hear Hubert’s voice once again in his ears, which he had been muttering despondently with an embarrassed face for a moment.
“Of course, I am just starting to walk. Heh-huh—”
Just like that.
What Hubert gained was not a complete realization as an individual.
One of them was just the beginning.
If you compare the future process to the road, you are just standing at the starting point and you have one milestone to move on.
How far is it and how long will it take to get to the right destination?
but.
Most of the wizards who ended their lives without even getting that milestone were the majority.
Compared to them, Hubert would be ready to stand up from the ground and step into the world of brilliant stars.
‘It seems that Brother Vermillion also caught on to something.’
Russell smiled contentedly, recalling the image of the first executioner he had seen from a distance during the ceremony the other day.
Jerk-jerk-.
After exiting the medical unit, Russell’s footsteps headed toward the outside of the military camp, not his own barracks.
An outskirts lined with wooden fences and lined with soldiers at regular intervals to prepare for possible attacks by enemies.
“His Highness the Grand Duke?”
At the sudden appearance of Russell, a soldier guarding the entrance was startled and lowered his head, followed by a moment when he was about to kneel.
chuck-.
“It’s fine.”
Russell approached and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.
“Aren’t you at work right now? Keep working.”
Even then, the soldier, who had a dumbfounded expression, asked Russell, who was passing through the wooden fence.
“Your Highness. If you are going out, how about taking an escort with you?”
After all, this is the land of the Empire. In addition, the Empire’s troops were also not far away.
As a soldier of Endymion, it was a natural thing to say. At the soldier’s words, Russell quietly shook his head.
“I’m just looking around for a while, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”
“Ha-oh-na…”
The soldier, who was about to add something, soon shut his mouth.
I spoke out of concern, but wasn’t the other person being treated as a war hero beyond a war hero?
There are very few people in the Empire who can threaten such Russell. It wasn’t something he dared to worry about.
“I am only grateful for that heart.”
When the soldier kept his mouth shut, Russell responded with a smirk and hurried his steps.
As she moved away from her army’s camp as much as possible, she glanced at the sky.
‘Excel Haste.’
With the activation of the magic, the footsteps became lighter as if it were a gale.
The speed of flying hundreds of meters at a single step.
Wedge-Ae-Ae-!
The place where Russell’s model, which ran as if it was a flash battle, stopped at the top of a small rocky mountain quite far from the military camp.
A rocky mountain with a flat top as if it had been cut with a knife.
Even after using the acceleration magic, he ran for about 30 minutes, so it would take several hours to catch up with the steps of ordinary people.
Russell, who was seated there, glared at the clouds high in the sky.
“How about coming out?”
A voice that was quite spleen.
Eight circles have already started warming up, and Russell’s momentum is ready for battle.
Wheein-.
As if the answer had been answered, a desolate wind mixed with sand blew.
“If you won’t come out…”
Russell’s fingertips aimed at the sky.
First of all, hit the magic bullet with maximum power to buy time and cover the view.
‘After that, prepare a decisive battle.’
If the sense I felt now was not an illusion, the opponent was a strong man who could not guarantee victory even after using a decisive battle.
‘There’s no room to spare.’
That moment.
[…that feels good.]
The entire cloud that covered the sky was distorted, and a single black lightning bolt fell through it.
The lightning that fell as if aiming precisely in front of Russell created a deafening roar.
The shock wave exploded before the sound, creating several ripples.
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When all the dust that rose high had settled, a tall man appeared from among them, a tall man about a head taller than Russell.
Black hair resembling Russell’s, black horns that look like dragons.
The only difference is that the man’s skin on the outside is surprisingly pale grayish-white.
Besides, her eyes were just as indifferent as her skin color.
A man with an ambiguous temperament who can’t be sure whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend. Russell opened his mouth, trying not to reveal the slightest gap.
“It was you too.”
The first time I felt his gaze was when I was leaving the medical unit where Hubert was.
The same kind of gaze I felt when I moved with Muyaho the day before.
“Fallen Dragon. Gillian Rezesty.”
Russell asked coldly, repeating the name he had heard directly from him.
“What is going on here?”
Gillian’s actions immediately afterward were completely unexpected for Russell.
“I came to feel the divinity of the dragon, but is it still not enough…”
Instead of answering, Gillian, who had been looking at him blankly while muttering to herself, suddenly got down on one knee and bowed her head in front of Russell.
“Those who have strayed but have not forgotten their essence salute the lord of all dragons.”
It was in complete contrast to the arrogant attitude he had so far.
Ignoring the dumbfounded Russell, he stood up again and brushed his knee.
“Don’t expect more engineering than this from me.”
“…?”
“The reason I kneel is only for the divinity of the Dragon Lord. You’re still only half a penny.”
Having said that, he lightly stroked his neck and heart and muttered to himself.
“Still…it’s definitely better.”
“Explain clearly. Gillian Rezesty.”
A low-flowing warning.
Russell, who had manifested the power of the dragon before he knew it, was snarling, revealing long, slit pupils in his dilated pupils.
Dragon Fear.
It is the energy emitted by the predator standing at the top of the species. Others would stand on their own two legs and even lose consciousness.
However, despite being corrupted, Gillian Rezesty was also a dragon.
There was no reason for him to be frightened by the still incomplete bloom of the solvent.
Jillian, who was still looking at Russell with nonchalant eyes, slowly opened her mouth.
“Dragon dragons…how the beings commonly called demon dragons are born. Do you know how?”
Along with the voice, Jillian’s memory went back in time.
Memories of a very long time ago, thousands of years ago, flowed out of his mouth.
.
.
I don’t know if all dragons are like that, but Jillian was conscious even before he hatched from the egg.
Thanks to this, despite not being born yet, he was able to hear his mother’s voice and feel her body temperature.
One day, two days, three days, four days.
One year, two years, three years… and hundreds of years.
There were very few cases where the mother left her side after becoming conscious.
Even that was a very short time.
Even the time with her mother, which seemed to last forever, eventually came to an end…
【Wait a moment.】
…One day when another dragon visited
Jillian’s mother, she was still firm with her gentle touch. He said while stroking the surface of one egg.
【I’ll definitely be back before you break out of the egg.】
At the time, I didn’t know what that meant. However, after waking up from the egg, I found out that there was a very big war.
The opponents are the ferocious giants.
It was from that day.
The reason Jillian inside the egg was waiting for her mother who never returned.
Starting from a day, two days, three days, and four days, hundreds of years again.
Although quite a bit of time has passed and the hatching season has passed, his mother has not returned to the nest.
Of course, Jillian didn’t come out of the egg either.
It was because of the existence of a mother who did not return, and a deep darkness had settled in her heart.
And again, after hundreds of years passed, there was someone who came to find Jillian, who was gradually dying of dryness…
“I found it…!”
As skinny as a skeleton touched the eggshell, the achromatic magical energy rushed in and pierced the crack in his heart.
Hwaaak!
.
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“After that, I lived for thousands of years as a dragon of corruption.”
Jillian concluded in a calm voice. To think that a fallen dragon was born that way…
‘No matter how young and weak a dragon is, a dragon is a dragon.’
If it was enough to corrupt such a dragon, the person who came looking for Gillian would not have been normal either.
Given that it was thousands of years ago, perhaps a transcendental person.
‘That must also be a way of socializing that has entered transcendence.’
Organizing his thoughts, Russell asked Jillian.
“so. Gillian Rezesty. Why did you come to see me?”
The story behind the birth of the dragon was surprising, but questions still remained.
“It was because I felt divinity as a solvent germinating.”
“…”
“Originally, I was going to borrow that power to escape from this cursed fate… but you, who are still half a penny, don’t have that much power.”
Anger-!
Black wings spread wide from his back.
Wings of pitch-black film that do not reflect even the slightest bit of light and absorb all of it.
It also had wings that fit the name Tarakyong.
“The fortunate thing is that even though it’s half a penny, a solvent is a solvent.”
Gillian’s body then floated into the air little by little.
“For the time being, I will use the clouds to stay by your side.”
He floated up a few meters in an instant and continued.
“If you do that, the curse that’s gripping my body will also fade little by little.”
With that last word, as if everything he had to say was over, Jillian’s model soared high into the sky at high speed.
Wedge love!
Contrary to how it first appeared, black lightning bolts rose from the ground towards the sky.
A hole opens again through the thick clouds…!
【I’ll warn you one thing─.】
…the last voice he left behind flowed in the wind.
[—Beware of those who hide the Empire in its depths.]
A sudden statement about the Empire.
“What?!”
Startled, Russell hurriedly shouted, but no further answer was heard.
However, as if to replace the warning Jillian had left, only the dark clouds that came from the other side of the sky covered Russell’s head.
dragon-swallowed wizard
