The Paladin on the Infinite Tour

Every time he is needed, he will wake up as soon as possible. After defeating all the demon kings, he will immediately fall into a deep sleep to prevent the world from being destroyed because of him.

Rama did exactly that for the first few hundred years.

But, I don't know when...Rama got tired.

Perhaps it started from the time when he was called to wake up and needed to fulfill his mission of annihilating the devil again. Rama came up with the idea of ​​"Are you here again?" 】This kind of thought with negative and repulsive feelings.

He is the brave man who saves the world, the final king who is given the mission to annihilate the Demon King.

When the world needs him, he must wake up - this is how it should be, but after hundreds of years of fighting, Rama himself will inevitably become tired.

Just like Susanoo.

After wandering the earth for thousands of years, he felt tired and hid in the secluded world to live in seclusion. Of course, Rama, who is also the god of disobedience, cannot escape this change. Any flesh-and-blood being who continues to devote thousands of years to one thing will definitely get tired of it no matter what.

It's like work.

No matter how excited you are when you first join the company, how passionate you are about your new job. But as time goes by, the overtime classes that seem to never end, the work that seems to never end, and the boss who may appear anytime and anywhere... these things will all wear away the initial enthusiasm.

In the end, all that’s left is boredom with the work and accumulating fatigue.

"If I could, I would like to sleep forever, I really want to. But I can't."

Rama said bitterly, looking at the fate at his feet.

"Although I have been given a mission, I am still a brave man. When the world needs me, I think no matter how reluctant I am, I will eventually wake up in compliance with the people's wishes."

"Because I am a hero...Ah, I'm sorry, I said something that may be very complicated for you. There is no need to take it to heart. Just think of it as me talking to myself."

"No."

Faced with Rama's apology, Exia shook her head.

"I can understand what you mean...after all, I once...had the possibility of becoming you."

Aikesha can understand Rama.

His previous thoughts were, in a sense, the same as Rama's. To put it more directly, Rama's state was the [complete body] of his former self.

It was the one who was bound by Kaslana's surname, influenced by Taixu Sword Heart and Kaslana's stigmata, and wanted to be the one who saved everyone - Exia's [Future].

“Can’t let go of people who are in trouble.”

“Wanting to help people who are in trouble.”

"Decide to use everything you have for the things you want to protect."

Exia and Rama met their eyes.

"[At all costs to protect others] - this is the family rule of the Kaslana family where I was born. It is also a creed that has been passed down from generation to generation and observed by the entire family for thousands of years. I once regarded this creed as my own standards of action, and want to become a hero who can save everyone."

"Same as you are thinking now."

(Same as me...?)

Surprise arose in Rama's heart.

He is the hero who annihilates the Demon King, and Exia is the Demon King who kills the gods. Do two people with completely opposite positions actually have the same idea?

but--

"...Once?" Rama asked, "Does that mean you have given up on this idea now?"

"Well, gave up—half gave up."

Alexia smiled easily and said: "That kind of thinking is too arrogant for me. No matter how much I want to save others, the places that my hands can reach are also limited. These hands cannot protect everyone. . And since the number of people I can protect is limited, I have to make a choice."

"So now, I will only protect the people who are most important to me. My family, my lover, and my friends. No matter when and where, I will give priority to protecting only them, everything else. , I will ignore it.”

If you know you can't protect something but still try to protect it at all costs, you will end up unable to protect anything.

Instead of crying over your incompetence afterwards, it is better to decide who you want to protect from the beginning.

This is what Exia does.

"Rama, as someone who once wanted to protect everything, and someone who has now given up on this delusion, let me give you a piece of advice."

Axia held out her hand to Rama.

"If you feel tired or don't want to do it anymore, then be decisive and abandon your mission and fate altogether."

"Whether it's your mission as a hero or your sense of responsibility that wants to protect everything, put them all aside for now."

"Abandon everything, give up everything, and then devote yourself to rest and sleep. Wait until one day in the future you regain your original enthusiasm, and then start fulfilling your mission again."

59. Let me cut off your fate!

Abandon your mission and responsibilities.

This is something Rama has never thought about before... No, I can't say that he has never thought about it. He indeed had this idea, but he gave up on it.

Because he can't.

His own sense of mission was one reason, but another...

"Unfortunately, that's not going to work."

Rama shook his head.

"The God of Destiny has entrusted me with the mission of annihilating the Demon King. Unless I die one day, this mission will never be lifted. And I cannot die now. Even if I am defeated by you here, I will only start again. Become one with the Divine Sword of Salvation and wait for the moment of resurrection."

It is not like there were no god-killers who defeated Rama before.

But even if he is defeated for a time, Rama will not die. He will become the savior and fall into a deep sleep for as short as a few months or as long as a few years. He will be resurrected and make a comeback when he has accumulated enough strength.

"In that case, let me cut it off."

Exia raised the golden sword.

"The swords of Liya and I can cut off cause and effect. If you want the boring mission that has been imposed on you for thousands of years, then I will cut it off! Rama!"

"Of course, even if you don't want to, I will just cut it off in order to defeat you and the God of Destiny."

Although it was not intentional, when Rama said this, he actually told Exia how to defeat him completely.

——Just cut off his destiny to annihilate the Demon King!

Seeing Exia raising the golden sword against him, Rama did not respond immediately, but fell into a long silence again.

[Abandon your mission].

Is it really okay to do this yourself?

He is a brave man. He was born in the world as the incarnation of Vishnu. He originally existed to save the world. It can be said that saving the world is the meaning of his existence.

Defeat the devil, save the world, defeat the devil, save the world, defeat the devil, save the world...

(How long do I have to do this?)

Rama couldn't help but think.

Thousands of years of time, thousands of years of conquest, thousands of years of reincarnation... What did you get after you completed your mission, answering people's prayers time and time again?

For the first time, he found his beloved wife.

For hundreds of years afterward, he took pleasure in the thanks of his people.

Thousands of years later...all he felt was exhaustion and boredom.

"Prince Rama."

Suddenly, the sound of Shajo's love song broke the brief silence between Exiya and Rama.

"Can you listen to me?"

"You are... the witch next to Exia. Yes, please speak. Your speech is not prohibited here."

"So - you must also know that the prince and I come from a different world outside this world. In your words, we are the so-called [people from alien planets]. And what I want to say is that in the place where I was once In this world, there is also a Prince Rama."

Shajo Aige explained.

"My world is very special. Heroes, inventors, warriors...any existence that has left great achievements in human history will have their souls sublimated after their death and become existences called [heroic spirits]. And Magicians among humans can use certain magic rituals to temporarily summon heroic spirits to the present world in the form of their heyday."

"Prince Rama of my world is naturally a heroic spirit, and as far as I know, if Prince Rama is summoned, his appearance will be that of a young boy - when he embarked on a journey to regain Sita - — looks like.”

"The reason is simple, because in the eyes of Prince Rama, the period of fighting to regain Sita was his true heyday."

Rama: "——!"

The pale swordsman's expression suddenly wavered violently.

Shajo Aige's words... regardless of their authenticity, Rama had to admit that he really couldn't accept what she said with a calm mood.

(Am I the strongest me who fights to take back Sita?)

Rama began to think deeply about this sentence.

There was not much affection between him and Sita. Although they were a couple, in fact, at that time, he had already shouldered the mission of annihilating the Demon King. As the Earth Mother Goddess, Sita, like Guinevere, only existed to serve him. And Ravana's true form is just an extremely powerful god-killer. He is not as cruel and ruthless as described in the myth, but is a quite straightforward and respectable warrior.

The battle between the two men was just like what the myth describes, and it ended with Rama's victory. However, in that war, because of the dictatorship of Rama's brother——

Rama destroyed everything.

Whether it was his army following him, Sita who was his wife, or the demon king's army who was his enemy... everything except Ravana was destroyed by him.

He destroyed everything he wanted to protect.

Thinking about it now, maybe from that time on, the seeds of fatigue and boredom had been planted in his heart.

"...Indeed, you are right."

After a long period of contemplation, Rama inserted the divine sword of salvation into the ground with a painful expression on his face: "The period of fighting to recapture Sita was indeed my heyday. Because after Sita's death, and in that After that, I never felt that way again.”

Fight to get Sita back.

In other words, it is [fighting for something].

Not for the grand ideal of protecting the world, but for a very pure and simple purpose. Only when a person focuses all his energy and enthusiasm on something can he exert unlimited power.

From the moment he destroyed everything himself, Rama had lost his original reason for fighting.

"Exia Messiah Kaslana."

Rama spoke the name of Aiksha.

"I accept your proposal, please cut off the fate given to me by the God of Destiny."

"I... am completely tired of this mission. The only thought that fills my heart now is [wanting to sleep forever]."

If you want to save the world, you must first destroy it.

Carrying this kind of power, how can I continue to call myself a brave man?

He has been a hero for thousands of years, and now it's time to put an end to this meaningless duty... completely.

Feeling the emotion in Rama's tone, Aixia nodded: "I understand, I will let you go now."

"——[Use my speaking skills to show justice in the world!]——"

"——[Sword, cut off fate and cause and effect!]——"

For the first time, Exia chanted the incantation of the Golden Sword.

The golden sword burning with rainbow flames was raised high by him, and Arturia also raised the holy sword in her hand.

The divine swords in their hands burst out with unprecedented brilliance!

Even though the power instinct is still suppressed due to the power of Mithras, the power released by Ixia, who does not need any restrictions, even if it is suppressed, is far beyond what he has shown before. Any time power!

"Zheng——————!"

The majestic light emitted by the sacred rainbow flame illuminates the infinite space!

Then——

"boom------!"

The holy sword fell!

The raging rainbow flames flooded the entire Destiny Domain like a tsunami!

The holy sword that can cut off all laws of cause and effect, the rainbow flame released this time, if the scale were placed in the real world, it would be enough to turn the entire earth into a burning fireball! After all, this time Exia poured all the magic power into it!

The terrifying spell power is equivalent to dozens of god-killers!

There is no existence in this world that can compare with Exia's output!