The Paladin Owns the Relic

178 – With wires (2)

“###.”

“…Yes?”

“That’s your name. Your name that only I can call. How is it. Kill?”

The forest queen blinked her eyes.

“My… name…?”

“Yes. Your name. You need at least one proper title to pamper yourself. Is not it?”

The incarnation of the World Tree stood up.

“Let’s go.”

“…To where?”

“We will be the first to hear the West. There are things left there by Wilderness Wolves. You just have to do what I tell you to do. You know, even if you just made it. Who are you to follow?”

“…It’s you…”

“Isn’t it?”

The Queen of the Forest stood beside him. The scenery of the ancient forest looked down was the first time I had seen it.

She tilted her head slightly. She peeped at the incarnation of the World Tree standing next to it.

Love.

Is this the feeling of love?

Just standing together makes my heart swell. It is very pleasant that she is combed by his hand and lives for him.

“Let’s go. ###.”

“…Yes.”

The forest queen put her hands on her chest. She took a deep breath.

“…I will follow you wherever you go.”

. . .

“Woweee!!!!”

Black ooze gushed out of her body and scattered to the floor. Her body condition is reaching its worst according to her failing body.

In the first place, to have a demigod-class existence is absurd. It is the power to destroy the very source of existence itself.

The Queen of the Forest breathed heavily. Raising her dizzy vision, she somehow moved forward.

Let’s go.

To the place where he waits.

“…Your Majesty.”

Someone is calling. The Queen of the Forest turned her shaky vision back.

A knight who faithfully follows one step behind as instructed. A being created by imitating the incarnation of the World Tree, and a person created only out of his own greed.

Knight of the Forest.

The incarnation of the world tree…A being combed from a twisted heart that hoped to protect itself all the time.

“…Don’t come…Don’t…”

Stand upright somehow.

We have to move on. Even if the end comes in the very next moment, you have to keep going.

I piled up a lot and prepared a lot.

I sacrificed a lot and invested a lot.

We have to move on.

Moreover…His words somehow…

Finally…

One last time…To help him…

“Don’t come…don’t come…!”

…By the way.

But why?

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You keep flirting. You keep holding on

Ever. For hundreds of years since I was born, I have never been noticed.

Why recently? Why did you come into my heart after only a few months?

“…Ah…hahahaha.”

The forest queen laughed. A weak wind swayed her rotting dress.

“You… Too…”

The words came out on their own. My body was at its worst, so I kept thinking only negative thoughts.

The forest queen wanted to keep her mouth shut. But she couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

It seemed that she would not be able to bear it if she did not vent her piling up emotions. It seemed that she would want to collapse on the spot any minute and drop everything.

“Did you… love me… from the moment you… first saw me…?”

“……”

“Isn’t it? Is my guess right…?”

I was always anxious.

Isn’t this feeling of love created for the World Tree?

Essentially, it’s an instinct to naturalize to the person who brushed it… Isn’t it?

“Your Majesty.”

“His majesty…Don’t talk like your majesty!”

I know that Duran is not the target to vent my anger on.

But it comes out of my mouth at will. It’s just that every moment is so heavy.

It was so heavy that I couldn’t stand it even for a moment.

“Have you ever… Ever had the feeling that everything about you is fake…? Didn’t you ever think that everything was made with someone’s intention…?”

“……”

“Duran. I know. I don’t know, but I know about you. Everything you have and everything you carry is fake.”

Sure.

…That’s why.

“I changed my mind.”

For making me look back.

“I don’t have to follow you.”

I want you to be happy.

“Just me and the three guardians are enough here.”

Because I want you to live the real life… That I didn’t live.

“Go back. Duran. Go back… And guard the prison.”

Keep on…

Don’t keep stepping on your eyes.

Don’t make me regret it again and again.

“……”

In the silence, the forest queen gasped for breath. She forced her head to turn.

She didn’t know that she actually wanted to be held. She might wish that her knight, who had never once rebelled against her will, would stop her for the first time.

“…Yes. Your majesty.”

But he listened to himself.

“I’ll be back.”

Like the moment I was born fake.

This time, too, it did not exceed expectations.

The reality was so terrible that the existence of the queen of the forest felt like her shackles.

The sound of footsteps got farther away. The Wind Keeper was at her queen’s side.

“Your Majesty.”

“…It’s okay.”

I saw a huge city in the distance. The place was so messed up that the stones couldn’t turn because it was broken here and there.

“Only you are enough.”

“I will obey Your Majesty’s will. But…”

The Wind Guardian sighed.

An endless number of spirits followed.

“Even without Duran… A human city can be captured easily.”

“I don’t mean that.”

“Let’s go.”

The queen staggered on.

“In order to be called by that person once again…because I have come so far.”

“I can stop.”

“There is no reason to stop.”

“…Really?”

“……”

The Queen gritted her teeth.

“No. Really.”

. . .

What is love?

Amar walked. Trampling the bush, he took the lead before anyone else.

「You have to understand what love is.」

Now she forgot what she said. Amar pondered the words.

She took a step forward.

A tight sound. I could see spirits crawling out of the forest.

“…A lot.”

Muttered loudly. Amar didn’t answer.

I turned my head. Trees moved everywhere you could see. The sound alone filled the earth.

There is no place without enemies. It was large, and its strength was too strong for a human to withstand, and it felt tingly on the skin.

Army.

An army of immortal spirits.

Amar raised his head. She looked up at the sky.

The warm sun. The weather was not suitable for a place that would become a terrible battlefield.

The sky is blue. The earth was dyed green, and the last barrier of the elves was clinging to the earth, barely maintaining its shape.

“If I don’t go out…!”

“Open.”

The hand moved. The mana shook.

“Before I destroy everything.”

“…Get out of the way.”

Flora opened the door herself.

“We cannot stop them.”

Part of the barrier is blurred. Amar slowly stepped her foot into it.

Love is understanding. She learned that

But someone taught me that that’s not the answer.

「I don’t know much about love.」

Slightly goofy voice. A glance at her feet because she didn’t know where to put them.

Amar remembered. Her hand that held her own hand.

And she also remembered what he said the last time she saw her.

「Please. Amar. Protect Arpina. When she is cured, then she will come to rescue me.”

「But…!」

「It’s okay. I’m not dying. Never.”

Strong impact. Back view going away.

「Please. Amar.”

The last figure was hidden in the bushes.

Amar felt it for the first time. She thought more clearly than ever.

Love is not understanding.

I can’t explain it with just that.

“…Zahard.”

Trampling on the earth. Raise her hand.

What is a dream? What is fantasy?

There were times when I was curious.

She knows how far she can go.

How far can she go?

“Everything has an end…I read a story like that.”

Her hand moved. The spirits raised their heads.

Many eyes gathered. I looked up at the sky which was getting darker.

Dark clouds were gathering under the cloudless sun.

Rain and thunder. The world has changed as if it were accompanied by the wind and shredded everything.

Change reality.

With enough magical power, the power to turn the world upside down.

Of course, the magical power inside Amar had its limits. So it was polished.

Continued.

Continued to study.

I died several times in my dreams. I was strangled by the fantasies I created myself.

Bleeding and wounded. Adjusted the power and reduced the waste of mana.

Continued.

Continued to study. Because I don’t want to go through the same thing again.

“But our story does not end. There is no such thing as the end.”

The sound of thunder rang out. The created fantasy overshadowed reality.

Amar’s pink eyes grew cloudy over time.

“If the end had begun from the day you and I met…”

Sings magic as if dancing.

Reproduce the nightmare that can not be contained at the fingertips of formless magic.

“I will destroy even that.”

The earth trembled.

The whole forest shook. Trees broke and the whole ancient forest roared and sang of great calamity.

Something breaks through the army of countless spirits. A spirit whose entire body is made of stone. Its size is so large that it causes a weak earthquake simply by walking on it.

Another calamity against the darkening calamity stands before Amar. Turning her back against her numerous army, she asked.

The sputtering voice was loud. It was so loud that even the sound of thunder was swallowed up.

“You…”

But the disaster they faced was trembling.

The voice was a bit tired.

“What is it?”

Guardian of the Rock.

Muttered a gigantic being guarding the ancient forest.

“What is this… Nonsense… You… What the hell are you? What do you mean? This magical power… This magic… It certainly wasn’t to this extent before…”

The growling voice gradually grew louder.

It swallowed even the thunder and shook her earth.

“What the hell are you?! Answer me! Monster! An existence that should not exist!”

“I can exist. I will continue to exist for just one person.”

Walking.

Walking through the air. Move her feet and stand on top.

Amar raised her head. The day covered in fantasy became rather gloomy.

I like it.

This should be enough, it’s like the reality I’m seeing right now.

“You… Have committed a crime.”

You stole my one and only sun from me.

I imprisoned a being that I don’t want to be taken away from again.

“I…”

What I wish for is destruction.

The most primitive yet simple form.

The spirits raised their heads. The branches hanging from the old tree swayed violently.

Something descends through the dark clouds. Stifling heat. A primordial form of destruction enveloped in a blinding flash of light fell to the ground.

Meteorite.

A mass of primordial destruction that seems to destroy the entire ancient forest pierces the sky and explodes on the earth.

“A person who can kill all of you for just one person.”

The huge body of the Guardian of the Rock trembled.

“Boo, you must be like me… That was all… What the hell have you been doing for months!”

“I missed you.”

Amar, who turned his back on destruction, whispered.

“I missed him every moment of my life. Hate at the same time you So all die. No forgiveness don’t beg me I’m not merciful You can call me a monster.”

Amar nodded his head in the flames of destruction.

My gray hair fluttered in the strong wind. A rain-soaked voice murmured.

The sound of a black heart engulfed the earth. Amar’s second heart, which has accumulated human malice over and over again.

It’s different from when I didn’t accept it. Having fully embraced his power, Amar died several times in countless agony.

Thousands of fake deaths have been repeated for just one person, and the mana can be fully controlled.

Estimated level 90.

That underlying power started beating again.

“It’s okay to be called a devil by everyone.”

The spirits screamed. Trees that were swept away by the meteorite crashed down without a shape.

A wire starting to crumble. Amar advanced amidst the cries of the stone guardian in pain.

Forward.

To the place where there is only one sun.

“Because all I need is one person.”