Hermit Wizard

I asked because it was ridiculous.

“You want to help me? ”

No matter how much you interrogate me, isn't this too fast for a transplant?

“Yes. I don't know what you're trying to do with the body of the Savior, but I will help you. ”

McQuaid's eyes are full of light. I don't understand anything, so I ask again. I had to see what he was up to.

“Why do you want to betray me? You're the guardian of the Great Convention. It didn't take a contract of domicile, though. ”

Huh? It's weird, after all. The pioneer who met on the Philadelphia Channel saw his soul and determined that there was some stigma on it. He certainly said:

First of all, it's sealed like you said. It's not a seal of rapidity, but it's as nasty as the gods do to their followers, in that it's irrevocable by the will of the Deceiver.

A seal that cannot be withdrawn by its own will. But it is not evidence of a restitution agreement. So what's it for?

“It's not speed, but what's the stigma on your soul? ”

He is flawed.

“Can you even see the soul? There was no such information. ”

I murmured like that, and I threw up.

“That's not the kind of complex contract you have. It's like a tracking device that can track where I am. It's a shackle that keeps me from escaping. ”

A locatable shackle?

At that moment, I remembered the metal necklace that the rammings were hanging around my neck. A management tool that can't be peeled off by its own power, allows dragons to determine the location of Ramming in real time, and can then kill Ramming.

“Aren't all the torturers following the Savior on their own? Are there many guardians of the Great Convention like you? ”

“· · · · · Once the concepts have been separated. Under the present circumstances, the guardian of the Great Convention is soon not the perpetrator. I don't know what the situation is in your world, xenophobic, but there are slaves in this world who are not the worshippers of the Old Testament, but who must follow the orders of the organization. ”

Then I laughed with a big smile.

“Just like me. ”

“Slavery? Why are you so divided? ”

The next moment, I recalled the information Alice had written.

“Oh, yeah. After the Savior died, he said he couldn't create a new kingdom. Existing contracts were inherited by agents. ”

Alice is a transcendent who willingly joined the organization. By placing conditions for the transfer of extinct peoples from other worlds to Earth.

However, are there any factions that disagreed with the recruitment proposal?

I keep an eye on McQuaid. The pioneer said this one has finished the first evolution of the soul. In other words, a state beyond the wall.

The piece fits in your head and the picture comes to mind.

“You were persuaded, but you disagreed. What kind of race do you belong to? Before you crossed the wall, what were you? ”

He replied with a sneaky smile as if he had all those stupid questions.

“He was human.”

* * *

I nod.

Since the Savior appeared in this world, no human has crossed the wall. The wizards who were likely to do so were collected by the guardians of the Great Convention, and isolated from society. so that I can't raise my spirits any more.

After the arrival of the dragon, the man who crosses the wall is the one who carries the hand of the Savior. This is the case with Hessler.

“So, the dragon has already crossed the wall before it appeared in this world. ”

“Yes.”

McQuaid explained that he was a transcendent who originally lived in central Europe. But after the dragon appeared, a long war began, and most of his defeated clans, namely those who crossed the walls of the region, died during the war or were dragged to the dragon.

McQuaid barely survived alone and fled to the island that is now the Republic of Ireland. And he said he lived there for a long time. Until the dragon dies.

But there was something strange about listening to his explanation.

“All the other human transcendents who lived in the area died or were dragged into battle, and you were left alone? ”

“Yes. There were more people dragged in than dead on the battlefield. ”

It's different from the case in the backlog. There were casualties among the inhabitants of the White Rock, but when the charter became unfavorable, they surrendered and contracted with the Savior and chose to live in hiding on the island.

“You know how to surrender and make a deal with a dragon, right? Why didn't you? ”

He looked at me with strange eyes and said.

“You have incomplete information about this world. The dragon is not surrendered to us. ”

That's a lie. I shake my head.

“No way. ”

I heard my voice with conviction, and he changed his face.

“You've seen other transcendents in the world. Those who surrendered and were betrayed. Then think about it. What were all their races? There would have been no humans. ”

I think of a member of the backlog.

Most of them were of different races, but there was definitely Margot. Beyond the wall, in the form of a massive rock wall fused with mountains.

Although it changed a lot from the human body that it used to have, it said to itself that it was from human origin. I'm guessing that the change in appearance is more of a reason for his long existence as a priest serving ‘the earth of blood and oil’ than a trait of transcendence.

Given her presence, unlike McQuaid's knowledge that she is not subject to human surrender, there may have been exceptions depending on the region.

“Anyway, in most cases, you didn't get a human surrender? ”

“Not most of them. The Savior is unconditional. During the war, a transcendent of human origin was chased to the end, killed, or recovered. Cases that have run away as long as I do are rare. I've been on the run a few times, too, and I'm over the crisis. As time passed and the dragon began to weaken, the touch of the chase became moot, and it completely disappeared. It slows down the process of creating power. Since then, he has been dedicated to finding and retrieving human wizards who have not crossed the wall. ”

There was a troubling expression.

“The dragon is weakened? ”

McQuaid nods.

“There is a lot of evidence of that. In the early days of the war, for example, the Savior made an army of his own fragments. ”

It seems to refer to a first-generation trafficker like the one I saw in Dubai's underground cave, Dragon's Nest. The spirit that gave over a little impulse and memory to the maru, who was still just a twitching tentacle, was a soldier with its original body. They said they were all abandoned over time.

“But by the end of the war, when victory came to light, they had scrapped the army of shards and begun to take their place among the contractors of the kingdom. In fact, it was the cornerstone of considering the subsequent work. ”

From here, I don't think Dubai's mind was even aware of the fact that he was discarded.

“It wasn't just a matter of combat power. It won't take long to keep the demons. The dragon expected that he would not have the power to do so later. So it's hard to sign a contract, but maintaining it has begun to make things easier. ”

“Why are you so weak? ”

“After the end of the war, the Savior did seedlings to every human being in the world. After spending too much force on it, it was already destroying the army and slowing down the pace of rebuilding the government. ”

I have no idea what that seedling is doing.

“The power of pottery. ”

McQuaid raises his eyebrows.

“I've never heard that expression before. They just used the word shackle. That's what you call it in your world, isn't it? ”

I just nodded instead of raising my head.

It refers to the action of the Savior, who planted pottery power in the genes of all mankind and suppressed the awakening of the Wizard.

Why are you so obsessed with humans?

I remember what the fragments of Dubai said.

Our mission was to kill Ensi and retrieve his soul. You can't send Ensi's soul back to the Ring of Yungyun. ”

Why not revive the soul of a human wizard? What's the point of crossing a wall already?

I was curious.

“The people who were abducted at that time, did they all meet here again? ”

“I only met a very few. Running around like me, getting caught again after the dragon died. ”

“What about those who were abducted during the old war? ”

Suddenly, his face is full of life.

“I knew already that all those who were drawn back in those days were dead. ”

What did you say?

“Some of the torturers who were tracking me after the war, I captured, killed, or interrogated. In those days, the implications weren't as thorough as they are now. The savior was arrogant. I heard it through them and knew it already. ”

He grinds his teeth and says,

“The human transcendents who were drawn away were all torn apart in the first place. The soul is plucked and stored, and the flesh is used as fuel for the Savior. ”

It was the voice of desperate grudges.

“Fuel? I thought you said fuel. ”

His eyes were filled with madness.

“The shackles he filled with humans were accompanied by enormous penalties. ”

This fact has already been assumed by Parvasse. It's unprecedented to plant such power on all human genes throughout the planet. It would have cost me a fortune.

“Long before he died, the Savior's body was already in trouble. I guess this is the penalty. It seems that other executives don't know that either. Eugene told me. You said you'd regret it. ”

“· · · · · · Problems? ”

“He said that the physical defects of the original race, which should have crossed the wall twice or been suppressed, had resurfaced. As soon as we implemented that shackle, the dragon's body began to collapse rapidly.”

Faggot, he grinds his teeth again.

“This is a fact that I expected in advance. He regained his body by grinding the bodies of his people, which he had prepared beforehand. Even if I couldn't recover fully, I could barely stop the collapse. ”

“You use the human transcendent's body as a potion? Why only humans? ”

He confronted me as if he were asking me all those questions.

“The transcendents have unique abilities, depending on the race from which they come. The primitive magic is enhanced. ”

Yes, in the case of the backlog, Mac deals with dreams and the flames of foxes. It was an exceptional case that I imitated Mac's spells, but most of them had magical territories that were so specific that they were hard to copy.

“I don't know about your world, but the unique magic of the human transcendents over here is' recovery. ’”

· · · · · Hmm?

“Pure crystal of resilience in the human transcendent body, refined by the dragon and used as a potion. ”

I shake my head.

“But Hesler! ”

“He is the one who forced the Savior to cross the wall. Unlike us.”

Wait, that doesn't make any more sense.

“If we use the transcendent as a healer, why are we suppressing the rest of the human race, except for those who have already crossed the wall? Not to stop them from crossing the wall, but to push them all over the wall. ”

“I don't know why. But at least it's not good for humans. I'm sure he's up to something terrible. ”

“Are there more human transcendents in the organization than you? ”

“Yes, it's mostly far away now. ”

“No. Why the hell are you cooperating with these guys? ”

“Because he was intimidated. ”

I couldn't understand it and frowned.

“You want to kill him?”

“No. Our people, who were torn apart after the war, are threatened with that soul. ”

The soul that has already crossed the wall is said to be unable to absorb the Savior. Then where the hell are you keeping that soul?

“The souls of the people who were spilled at that time are not in the territory of the Savior, but in the ‘tools’ made by the dragon. Eugene threatened to destroy that soul one by one if I didn't cooperate. ”

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