Hermit Wizard

I dug the land with magic, not with a gruel. I could not move the ground as quietly and neatly as the magic he had written, but I could do it to the extent of splitting and digging.

Moreover, the object was not buried very deeply. Send magic power to the ground and then mine where the reaction comes from.

“Here you are again. ”

You can see the black surface beneath the dirt that has been kicked out. I pulled it out.

There were 12 objects dug like this. But most of them are not intact and there are traces of gold, broken or soot. An old relic that you can't even measure how long it's been buried. Trace of the dragon.

However, there is only one thing that remains intact.

“Oh, this is fine. ”

I lifted it up with my two hands, and then I blew the wind and took out the dirt.

“Isn't it heavier than you think? ”

An animal's claw-like shape that widens, flattens, but narrows down and falls into a pointed corner. Quite large, but very thin and light. My face sparkles on a glossy black surface.

“You were buried in this fine scale. I'm not that mental.”

[I think so.]

I came to the nest to get this.

Emptying the nest, the torturers did not touch this place. This area was a kind of cemetery. A land where first-generation traffickers used to serve a very distant old dragon.

I touched my chest and said,

“The savior of Silver Rim pulled the tentacles out of his body and made this one. ”

A pile of tentacles that predated in the liver did not even flutter, keeping their bodies close to my heart, whether they were in deep sleep or not.

“The dragon must have made a figure out of scales. ”

Hessler's memory decision contained what the dragon called a "garbage dump." A long time before Hessler was born, the tomb of the traffickers who swept through the earth when the Savior first set foot in the world.

The first way that the dragon chose to make a homeless man was to make use of a piece of his own flesh. But over time, this old method was abandoned and all the first-generation traffickers were buried on the ground.

It seems that the power of the Savior continued to be consumed while Hesler was doing physical activities, such as walking and fighting. The power was weak compared to the transcendents who had a contract of dominion, so there is no reason to use it anymore as a dragon.

“The scales are made of the body of the torturer by the nucleus. ”

[Buried in the ground, the body rots and becomes dirt, and only some of the scales seem to be left.]

I nod. The scales I dug were a little over ten. Not only was the buried warrior that much, but most scales will rot away and only this much remains.

I looked around. A sphere of rock stretched endlessly. I think that one might be some kind of sign. If that were true, the dragon would probably have made hundreds of warriors and buried them on this earth.

So there's one hypothesis that I can come up with here.

“Isn't it impossible for the Savior to make a body and absorb it back into the body? ”

The Savior of the Silver Rim also seemed to receive something from the pile of tentacles he ate and planted. He did not reunite his body completely. If the dragon didn't have to, there would have been a way to reabsorb the scales, but instead it was buried on the ground.

“And I think there's a limitation to killing yourself, or there's a reason for reluctance. Or was there a reason to keep him at home for some period of time? ”

The dragon is buried on the ground alive without killing the body. I don't know why I didn't kill him on purpose.

It seems that the first traffickers slowly decayed and disappeared while buried on the ground, and then the spirit began to collapse, and one soul became a strange spirit fused into a medium. It was contained in a healthy scale.

I look at what I have in my hand and say,

“It's a dragon scale. I thought it was something special, but it's nothing. I can't even feel a handful of magic. ”

[Because the body is already dead and the remaining shell.]

It was also because the modern traffickers left this cemetery because these were really useless garbage, and before the Savior died, they were instructed not to touch this place. Most of the evildoers who had a contract of dominion were incapable of disobeying the dragon's instructions.

I could guess why the dragon gave such instructions. Perhaps the dragon had guessed beforehand that such a spirit was formed, and that the present traffickers wanted to avoid confronting the spirit.

But not only do I not have to follow the dragon's instructions, but I can use this scale very uselessly, which is just a useless keratinous dead skin for the elderly.

[You got both of these. A piece of dragon's body, and his real name.]

“Yes.”

I nod.

When I was a kid, Parvash taught me tracking magic, but I failed to find traces of the Savior. After a long time, when there was no progress, we gave up that method.

But now things are different. My hand now has a clue to chase the Savior. I obtained the Dragon Scale, and I learned from Hesler and Alice's memories what his real name was. These two clues will guide me.

Until then, if you really used your bare hands to find needles in the sand fields, you would now have a magnet or something.

A dragon who abandons his body and dies. However, his soul did not join the circle of circumcision, as the mortals did, nor was he called to be divine like the transcendents.

A spell that will lead me to the place where the Dragon Soul awaits resurrection. I carefully pack the dragon scales that will mediate the magic, and then I call the scroll to go out.

* * *

“Hey, guest! ”

One Camry stands in front of me.

I would have seen it from afar on a quiet road with nothing. Sentence excluding all unique names, asking you to come back to the place you gave me earlier. It was because of the geographical nature of the surrounding area that I was able to come here after hearing that. Coming in the direction of the barricade, I had no choice but to face me when I arrived at the control ship.

An Indian knight who lowers a window and waves his hand at me. I sat in the back seat.

“Yeah, I thought you'd call me back. You don't get a good cab around here. ”

I nod quietly. There were no vehicles going and going around and there was no need to fly that distance to increase horsepower and stamina. I saw the business card I received and called, and I reunited with the article that brought me here for the first time.

The driver left the car and asked.

“What have you been doing in this Herbal Board for hours? ”

“I picked up some trash. ”

“What?”

I look at myself in the rear-view mirror as if I don't understand it. I shrugged.

“Environmental protection activities? ”

I had not been taking a stand I was tired. I stretched my body and buried my head in the back seat.

“I thought I might be a businessman because I was steering towards the Free Zone. ”

The knight kept talking with my face open. Now I'm looking at a middle-aged man who flipped over when I first took a cab. From entry and hotel check-in, I walked around with my original face lit up by proof of identity, but changed my face just before I caught the cab.

“But seeing as I asked you to go beyond the barricade without a permit, I don't think you have the knowledge. ”

His gaze remained on my face for a long time. I kept talking with a curious voice, but I didn't want to confront him.

Although, he continued to talk on the way to the nest downtown, whether it was of that nature or not. Without answering any more questions about my profession, etc., he changed direction and began to stretch his personal line of passages. As a result, I had to listen to the adversity of his life that I didn't want to know much about.

Well, of course I almost overheard it.

He thought if he kept his silence, the conversation would be over, but he rarely stopped talking. Instead of poking me more this time, I suddenly asked an unexpected question.

“Oh, so you didn't have time to watch the news on your smartphone to pick up the garbage? ”

“Hmm?”

“In the meantime, there's been an uproar on the news. Looks like we got another channel. ”

It is not uncommon. Since that day of May last year, when there were over 200 channels in the first place, new channels have emerged that are rare.

According to the Old Testament of the Silver Rim, at the time of the last year when the dragon was presumed dead, all the Old Testaments who had only grown into adults and had not yet connected channels connected channels to the Earth. That's about 200.

Even then, if their seed channel becomes mature, all qualified soothsayers penetrate the earth. There are no defensive dragons, so 100% success rate if you hit the Dimension level. I think it's a little over 350 now.

· · · No matter how you think about it, it is good that the Earth has not been destroyed so far.

I'm slowing down because there's a little bit of drowning.

“There's a channel in the world these days, and it's not big news. ”

“No, not this time. We've got two channels every few hours. ”

“Yes?”

It would just be a coincidence.

“But if one of the two did, it was in New York. So now my head hurts. I haven't seen anything outside the channel yet. ”

“Hmm? What does the New York Channel have to do with you? ”

Then the article looked back as if it was absurd.

“Hey, didn't you have too much memory? I told you when I was driving. My son's been in college in New York since next year! ”

· · · Have you said that? I yawn. He turns his head forward again and grumbles.

“I'm worried. I'm going to have to Skype right after I drop my guests off. Would you like to take it early? My home is a long way to New York, but I don't know what's going on. ”

Ah. Then my memory is gone. Did you say your son lived in a sister's house in America and went to school?

“What if the city is blocked because of the channel? So you can't go to school without going to college? Like Cairo or any other country in South America, the whole city is banned. ”

He said that for a long time. I flirt with you.

“There are countries where the channel opens and nothing pops out. ”

“Yeah, but that's it. ”

Then he sighed deeply.

“I don't know what to do if I can't get in. There are too many unprecedented incidents after the channel. What should freshmen do if a university that has been accepted burns the whole building because of a xenophobic raid, or if a city with a campus becomes a no-go zone? ”

It's a troublesome issue to hear, but I didn't want to rot with him thinking of an alternative.

“I haven't seen anything like this in a long time, so why is that damn channel in New York right now? ”

Speaking of which, I heard the article grow to see how my emotions had developed.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, mister. Why would I be in this mess while I'm living in this world? And why would he do that to me? That dragon.

“It's because of my son that I came all the way to Dubai to do the taxi driver. He's very smart. I'm going to graduate from America to college and get a good job. But that channel may cause the admission to be cancelled. Then we have to consider other schools, and it's really complicated. ”

I yawn a few more times and turn on the base. I was transformed and didn't want to sleep defenselessly in front of strangers. He replied that he would also go to sleep and dry.

“You're smart. Are you sure there's nowhere you can go to drop out of that school? ”

“Yes, that's right! ”

His face was painted again.

“Lakesh is really me. He's gonna be a big guy. He's the first person in our family to go to school in the United States. This is huge. ”

He spoke after God.

“It was unthinkable until a few generations ago. You heard earlier, right? Our great-grandfather was a British peasant in the colonial era, and our grandfather was a peasant of the holdings that inherited the land. Both of you worked hard enough to get your hands peeled off, but you didn't get a penny. ”

I don't remember at all. Did you say that? By the way, you're so sleepy.

“My father ran away to Chennai because he hated that fate. And I worked in a bloody factory. I may have been beaten, but at least I made enough money to make a living. More importantly, I went to school in that city. So I could learn English. In my father's generation, life has obviously improved, compared to the previous generation. Isn't that right?”

I nod quietly.

“And because English was available, I was able to get a job in Dubai. Do you know what the average salary is for people working in Chennai right now? 300 USD. $300 salary. That's ridiculous money! ”

“You make a lot better money here, don't you think? ”

“Absolutely! You'll get 600 dirhams ($160) in taxi fare for your round trip today! ”

He laughed, saying so.

“Of course, that money doesn't just come into my pocket, but the units of money that roll around are different. ”

It was followed by a pleasant voice.

“How much, my son? He's gonna live a much better life than I do. He's been living in our big sister's house in America since middle school. Of course I spend every month on my living. I'm a little nervous about the channel, but I'm sure the university will get in somehow. I have a head for that. He doesn't have to suffer from boxing in Chennai, and he doesn't have to drive every day without a holiday in Dubai. He's going to live a relaxed, rich life in America. ”

It was like a humming rhythm and accent.

“And then what? Our son, and his son, will get better over time. We always did. Perhaps a distant offspring, at this rate, would be the grandson of a grandson, but our family would be rich? ”

His voice was mixed with strange vibrancy. He seemed genuinely trusting and doubtful. His descendants will continue to flourish and continue to prosper, each one seeking better happiness than the former generations.

But as I listened to his endless words, I had no choice but to think of one thought.

If a generation is 30 years old, maybe even the great-grandchildren of that knight can succeed. But then what?

I think quietly with a glance at the back of the knight who joins the horse with excitement. The time given to Earth in the future is about 200 years. If humanity does not find a dimension to migrate to by then, perhaps that man's wish will not be fulfilled.

Whether life gets better or not, it leaves the possibility that a new life will not be born in the first place.

But at least this man won't be sad about it. When that time comes, he'll be dead and his ego will be gone.

I think that at this moment, for all ordinary people who live and breathe in this world, there is no direct harm.

At least about their personalities, their selves.

“Oh, by the way. ”

There was a question that the knight could not ask as he continued to pour out his words.

“You said you had two channels? Where else than New York? ”

“Ah, that's it. ”

The knight leans slightly as if he doesn't think well.

“I forgot what I heard today. I'm always confused. You might know that. ”

Then I took out something I didn't even think of.

“The country where the channel is open, not the United States, is Korea. ”

· · · What?

I couldn't sleep. I tried to take it back with a stiff face, but the knight scratched his chin and asked me.

“But this is always confusing. Hmm. Which one of South Korea and North Korea? The famous dictator who ruled over the generation after generation? ”

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