Chapter 55
-Be careful of the black mages.
The guy who left behind unhelpful words and suddenly disappeared, the Great Sage.
He is now in front of Daphne’s eyes.
Daphne gaped and looked up at him. She was so angry that words wouldn’t even come out.
Interpreting Daphne’s reaction in some way, the Great Sage said as if embarrassed.
“If you look at me with such passionate eyes, it makes my heart flutter.”
“You, you, you bastard……!”
“Nice to meet you? Yes, nice to meet you too. I really wanted to see you again.”
The Great Sage’s smiling face was truly shameless to the extreme.
The guy who refused Taty and disappeared leaving only the words ‘I’ll come someday’, what? Nice to meet? Flutter?
“It would be good to start with getting hit once first.”
“Huh? You can’t use magic in the library…… Ack! There was a fist. I didn’t know.”
The Great Sage, hit by Daphne’s full-powered strike, grimaced and clutched his stomach.
“Hoo. This time it’s not a welcome. Your hitting feels very alive.”
“Yeess…… It’s fortunate that you felt the taste of my hand.”
The Great Sage said while stealthily backing away. Daphne crossed her arms and stared blankly at the Great Sage.
“Your being here means that damn causality is over, right?”
“As expected, you’re someone who knows ten things when told one.”
“So tell me.”
Daphne’s light green pupils flashed.
“What was the causality that was binding this body. And what was the reason I was sealed. In addition, how did you know about it!”
The vivid shout contained the determination to not miss anything this time and find out everything.
In fact, Daphne was tightly gripping the hem of the Great Sage’s clothes. The Great Sage scratched the back of his head.
“I can’t tell you about the causality regarding that body yet. There’s a bit left. Actually, my coming here was also extremely forced…….”
“Then something else!”
“You were someone with an outstanding passion for learning.”
The Great Sage shrugged his shoulders and squatted down to match eye level with Daphne.
“First, I think you need to know in detail about the black mages, do you happen to know?”
“I know that they are the guys who followed me around doing nonsense.”
“Yes. They were serving the calamity. They received power in return.”
“……What?”
Daphne asked back, thinking she misheard. However, the Great Sage’s expression remained unchanged.
“They received power in return for serving Lord Celus. The ‘mana of death’ they use is exactly the proof.”
“…….”
In fact, the ‘mana of death’ used by the black mages was essentially a lower compatible version that could be called Celus’s power from the beginning.
So now, isn’t Daphne accumulating magic power by devouring the black mages.
But Daphne was puzzled.
“I haven’t given any?”
Because she had never given power to such annoying guys. When they appeared, she was busy chasing them away.
“Yes. Lord Celus hasn’t given any.”
The Great Sage continued with a bright smile.
“Because Celus is not the only dragon in the world.”
There are five dragons in the world created from fragments of the god. Excluding the already dead white dragon, gold, green, red, blue dragons remain.
Does that mean it’s their doing? That they gave power to the black mages?
Why, exactly?
“Who…… who, who did such a thing?”
“I can’t answer up to that. If I answer wrong, this body could die too.”
“What on earth can you answer……!”
“Instead.”
The Great Sage tapped his forehead against Daphne’s forehead. It was a close distance where their nose bridges touched.
“I can tell you about Lord Celus’s secret. Why exactly you were born as a calamity, why such causality was bound only to you.”
His blood-red pupils held pitch-black darkness,
“I’ll tell you from now on.”
Right at that moment, Daphne’s vision became distant and faded away.
***
Heros is deeply buried in the armchair.
The stick is leaned against the chair, and both legs are stretched straight. With his eyes closed, entrusting his body to the chair, he is immersed in deep thought.
The fact that the emperor was actually a gold dragon did not give him a big shock.
Thinking back, it seems he had intuitively, instinctively grasped that it might be so.
The emperor who held firm power in his hands and did everything according to his will.
People who couldn’t refuse such an emperor’s orders.
Even Heros himself obeyed the emperor’s commands as if they were heaven’s will.
‘Was it all because of that causality.’
Heros slightly furrowed his brows.
Because the fact that his actions were not the result of his own thoughts but fabricated behaviors inevitably hurt his pride.
On top of that,
-The dragons wanted beings to take on their causality instead. I and another guy refused it but…… the remaining three stubbornly created it. That is the calamity, the black dragon.
To the calamity, the black dragon that he himself stepped forward to seal,
-He has done nothing wrong.
It is said there is no sin.
It is said to be a pitiful being created by the greed of other dragons.
“Did I do wrong.”
Heros, slowly opening his eyes upward, murmured shortly while looking down at his right hand.
It is a murmur mixed with regret.
It can’t be helped. Heros, who was praised as a hero for defeating the calamity, had in fact done something equivalent to killing an innocent person.
But Heros soon recalled the emperor’s words and calmed his mind.
-I plan to revive the calamity when the time comes.
-Then, the name and causality of calamity will disappear for the calamity.
It is hard to discern if the emperor’s words are true or false. Even knowing he is a dragon, his voice made him feel comfort and moved his mind to obey.
But whether he revives the calamity or not, Heros decided to participate in his plan.
-I will annihilate all dragons.
-Will you join?
The ones who created the calamity are the remaining three dragons.
They contacted death-black mages-.
Therefore, they are evil.
They can no longer be called agents of the god.
So naturally,
‘I have no choice but to join.’
Heros’s fully opened eyes. A gleam shines in his blue pupils. It is the gaze of a true hero who has put a complete determination in his heart.
“Oh, have you finished your meditation now?”
What entered his view was Polin, still with a haggard face. He glanced at the grandfather clock and said.
“This time it was quite long. It took a full three days.”
“There was a lot to think about.”
“Yes. While Your Grace was thinking, I worked to death.”
“…….”
Seeing Polin whining every day without rest, it seemed that getting a deputy for the adjutant soon would be good for mental health.
Heros swept back his bangs soaked in slightly cold sweat.
“Was there anything special?”
“There wasn’t particularly any incident, and only His Majesty’s imperial decree came. It was sealed so I couldn’t see it.”
Heros got up and approached the desk.
On the desk, there is a sheet of golden letter paper wrapped in mana. Somehow thinking it resembles the emperor’s scale color, Heros familiarly infused mana and unfolded the letter.
“What is the content?”
Heros’s mouth twisted as he read the content.
“It says a ‘Hero Academy’ is being established.”
“Wh-what academy? May I read it too?”
Heros nodded and handed the letter to Polin. Polin adjusted his monocle and rolled his eyes.
“A plan to establish an academy to gather talented infants, children, adolescents regardless of status to create a second hero…… What does this mean?”
“With the current manpower, it’s difficult to deal with the specters long-term, so he’s taking measures in advance. It means fostering children to make them countermeasures against the specters.”
Currently, the empire is struggling to stop the specters-black mages-. Although the subjugation team that Daphne belonged to is advancing without defeat, the outlook is not very good.
From the beginning, black magic is a tricky type of magic to deal with unless it’s divine power, and since the relationship between the temple and the empire has soured at this time, it’s hard to expect their support.
Therefore, the emperor made a clever move.
To blossom the still latent abilities of children through quality education and systematic training. And to make them knights of the empire to confront the specters.
This was something that would help improve the empire’s national power in the long term, so there was nothing bad about it.
Heros recalled the emperor’s question once again.
-I will annihilate all dragons. Will you join?
To that, Heros naturally answered that he would.
In other words, Heros will no longer get involved in the fight with the specters from now on. Instead, he will search for dragons underground and confront them.
So it seems the emperor announced this academy. To select those who will succeed Heros, those who will protect the empire from the demons of specters.
“Hmm. The purpose is good.”
Polin also seemed to have the same thought, nodding and stroking his chin.
“But will children really gather? It blatantly says to confront specters, won’t parents oppose?”
“At least up to commoners will gather. Since it’s quality education incomparable to other places.”
“Hmm. That’s true. It says if you achieve high grades, you’ll get apprentice guardian qualification.”
Polin’s eyes narrowed.
“What about nobles? They wouldn’t be interested in such perks.”
“They will gather if the emperor pressures them appropriately. Isn’t there the pretext of for the empire’s future.”
“Carrot for commoners, stick for nobles method, huh. Not bad.”
Polin murmured with a chuckle, then looked up blankly at Heros.
“What about us?”
“…….”
“We’re also supposed to participate. Look here.”
Polin pointed to the supporter list. There, ‘Archduke Akion Family’ was blatantly written.
Ah.
Right.
We have to participate too.
No, since I, the archduke, am personally going out for dragon subjugation, couldn’t our kids be exempted from something like an academy? Heros furrowed his brows.
“From the archduke family…….”
Lache? Arius? Vipera? ……Daphne?
It was right at that moment, continuing the worry.
Bang!
The firmly closed door opened wide as if breaking.
“Herooo!”
And very naturally, Daphne came running in.
Heros clicked his tongue seeing Daphne running toward him as if nothing.
“Don’t you know knocking?”
“There is nothing that can block my entry.”
“There is something called a door.”
“It doesn’t apply to me.”
Heros, about to shoot one more word, felt that the current Daphne was a bit different from usual and closed his mouth.
How to say.
Should he say she looks angry.
Ah, of course, Daphne always looks like she’s angry all the time. But now, something more than that…… should he say she looks like she’s forcibly swallowing unbearable anger.
Whatever it is, the current Daphne was greatly agitated.
“Hero.”
Daphne took a deep breath and looked straight up at Heros.
“I want to bring down the specters.”
The ‘truth of the world’ learned through the Great Sage.
In that truth, she learned that the specter black mage organization belongs to ‘them’. Daphne, Celus wanted to give them a very fiery revenge.
Yes. From now on, my actions are truly revenge!
“I want to catch all those son of a b*tch and throw them into the fire pit! And I’ll totally beat up the XX bastard who commands them!”
“…….”
“So send me to the subjugation team! I’ll smash all those rotten guys!”
Looking at Daphne’s blazing eyes, Heros took the paper from the blankly standing Polin and handed it to Daphne.
“You go.”
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By Anna 💓
