Hermit Wizard

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Returning to Korea, I arrived at Cheongpyeong's villa.

A secluded area with several houses covered in high walls at a reasonable distance. The owners on the register of these houses are different, but all my contractors, Iseryn, bought them in their own name.

Guieing

Sensitive to a prescribed horsepower pattern, space flows like water and gaps open. I opened an invisible door to an ordinary man and walked inside.

Beginning to prepare this place as a full-fledged hideout, it was the day that Yoon Min-jun was discovered by the Korean government. I didn't know it was going to work this way.

The backlog collapsed with the apostle's scheme. It was a question of what to do for families and residents. I also had the option of asking the government to cooperate to get a safe house, but I did not give it my best wishes. Furthermore, considering that Kim Gyeong-hwan's position was so easily recognized that the government mobilized and defended the army. I didn't like exposing the people of my location and backlog to the government.

“Drumming! ”

A Mac that sleeps on the couch, visible from the living room.

· · · Who suffers from a few dozen hours on an airplane? It's good to sell. I whispered quietly to the floorboard because I didn't deserve anything, and he burst air into the ear of the furnace as I instructed.

Phew!

Suddenly, when it sounds like a bomb has exploded, Garam bursts into the air, trembling.

“· · · What, what! ”

“Me."

He regains his face, humps, and farts.

“Take this. ”

Throws a Pulse Fragment at him. Garam grabbed it with a long nose.

“I only screened out dreams with happy emotions, just like you said. Will it work?”

I had a hard time collecting that. Not many people dream happier than I thought. Most of the places I went through on my travels had dark dreams, filled with anxiety and vigilance. Is it as inevitable as the times are? At least what I collected was mostly a child's dream.

Garam looked into the pulsations for a while and said,

“It depends on how dark the emotions in your dreams are. I'll use it on your mother first. I want this to be a little more stable. “

When I first met Garam, he thought I was a dementia transvestite, and he tried to wash me with a dream of missing feelings about the backlog to restore my memory. It seems to be a type of psychotherapy used by that species. I don't know if it will work for my mother either.

“Oh, you're here? ”

The pearl house comes out of the kitchen. I have a little blood on my mouth, whether I was eating or not.

It was impossible to accommodate all the inhabitants of the lost backlog in one house. Not only is the room infinite, but it's Yooseong and my family who are staying in this house right now. and a few residents to nurse them or ‘watch' them with good words.

· · · Ah, the old priests are also here, although they did not occupy separate rooms.

“How's Yooseong? ”

The pearl clan shakes its head with a dark expression.

“I'm still losing my mind. ”

“And the old priests? ”

“Yes, the same thing. ”

Kung!

During the conversation, I felt the vibrations created by the magic forces outside. Inside the backyard, invisible outside the house.

A familiar magic pattern. Look out at the window leading to the backyard. Kim Kyung-hwan was training while gaining magic power. I didn't seem to notice that I opened the shield while concentrating.

“· · · It's really hard. ”

Honestly, it was amazing.

On the day the backlog collapsed, I asked Kim Kyung-hwan and Hwang Soo-rim what they wanted to do next. If it were the same as before, they would have carried it like a 'transport’ regardless of their free will. with the vague idea that there is something to be used for.

But I couldn't do it anymore.

In the first place, the two were instruments I had prepared for trapping the traffickers of the past. The Chinese were targeting them, so they left protection in the backgrounder, but did not ask the two doctors in the process. I just put it in a quarantined place, just like I put it in a safe place.

They have their lives, too. Do we really need to mobilize up to two of these Elders to handle the balance?

I asked them a question, and suddenly, while embarrassed by my different attitude, the eclipse first stated its intention. I gave her freedom without terminating the contract. Penalties for failing to disclose my information still apply, but I have given permission that I do not need to perform one remaining task.

“I'm sure the Chinese government will continue to target you, but wouldn't it be more dangerous to move alone? ”

I had cause to put her in danger in the first place, so I intended to provide a place to hide with the people of the White Rock, but I refused to leave the Wilderness. Then I smiled bitterly.

“Mr. Yoon Min-jun. ”

The first time I called my name in front of me, I paused for a moment and said,

“I'll be honest. I think it would be more dangerous to be with Yoon Min Joon. ”

She talks and looks around. I sighed lightly. She saw the sanctuary collapse today and the fight between the Apostle and the Savior. Events that would not have happened without me in the first place.

“I don't know if it's an arrogant idea, but if you're a normal ‘human’ who's after me, you can live on the run somehow. ”

She wasn't playing like a white book. I learned the magic of changing the appearance of my body from a friendly pearl family.

Eventually she refused to be under my protection. Then he left for revenge, which was the reason he contracted with me in the first place. While I was saying goodbye, I felt like I had a short conversation with the black scroll, but I couldn't ask.

Shortly after she left, I magically conveyed information about revenge targets obtained through the government to the Sunset Forest. After that, there was no news.

And Kim Kyung-hwan gave a slightly different answer than I expected. Unlike Huangsoo Forest, Kim Gyeong-hwan had a family. My sister, who has played the most part, has a lot of age differences.

“She still doesn't know I'm missing. I think the government is protecting me. ”

He knew I was a family member, but he kept talking up. I don't know what you're thinking.

“The government lied to my family. ”

“It might be better. I have no idea where I am, but it would be better for my sister's safety. ”

He made a completely different choice about me and my family. The objectives were the same, but the means were a completely contradictory one. Kim Kyung-hwan did not try to protect his family by his own hand.

“Aren't you anxious? What are you going to do if China touches you? ”

Kim Kyung-hwan said with a dark face.

“I don't want to keep her in isolation from the outside world forever. ”

I understood the thorns hidden in those words. His gaze slightly touched my mother, who was fainting, and then went away again.

“If you stay away, you will remain anxious. ”

Kim Kyung-hwan said decisively.

“My involvement is rather dangerous. If there's any evidence that I've met her, she's in danger. ”

Kim Kyung-hwan and I don't know which one is right. I just decided to respect his decision. And he asked me to sign a new contract. This was unexpected.

“Teach me magic. This time it's real magic. ”

There was a small flame in his eyes.

“I'm not like the Sunset Forest. The magic level is much lower. I can't honestly survive running around beating the Chinese government by myself. The Korean government? I knew they couldn't protect me from China. ”

He shakes his head and mutters. No matter what you think, your end is obvious.

“China killed a few hundred people trying to catch me. What are you gonna do after you put me in your hands? Bait to catch Yoon Min-jun? If you divulge your information, the contract will trigger a penalty and you will die, or you will be ruined by the Chinese government torturing you on the day you don't open your mouth. ”

“· · · Will you sign a contract with me, in the end, for you to live? ”

“To live. To avoid China, to grow the power to survive. ”

Kim Kyung-hwan's pursuit of China has also raised my stake. But another way to think about it is · · ·. If I didn't intervene in the training camp in the first place, everyone, including Kim Kyung-hwan, could have been exterminated by the torturers, or the torturers' intervention might have been speeded up because I intervened. It's a little vague.

Though I was going to accept a lot of things, I had to go back and forth in order for the deal to happen.

“What can you do for me? ”

Kim Kyung-hwan said with a stiff expression.

“Anything.”

I felt a little shaky with that look on my face. Why has he changed so much?

“You won't regret it? ”

I ask questions that I want to leave behind. Kim Kyung-hwan shakes his head.

“I, I thought I was special. ”

“ · · · · · ·. ”

I recalled the lies I heard when I was acting like an e-laser. Kim Kyung-hwan, who was taken by magicians from other worlds. The only successor to the great magic that transcends dimensions. I really believed it.

“It was because I wanted to believe a word that was so easy to believe. I'm special. Unlike everyone else. ”

He spits like a sigh.

“I'm not special. He's not a genius. He's a very special man in the jungle. And someone more special than the Yellow Forest. · · ”

He looked at me. My face shone on that pupil.

“In order to survive this situation, we must seek the help of a special person. ”

In the end, he re-contracted with Kim Kyung-hwan that day. He sent a covert summoner to his family to protect him, and he moved to the plain with the people of Backlog.

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After unpacking, I was in my room. I tried to talk to my mother before, but I still didn't try to look at my face. I had a brief awkward conversation with my brother. I was a little different from the last time I looked through my face, but it didn't come as close as it used to be.

Unlike sending the Sunset Forest, I can't send my family to the outside world. I couldn't think of a safer place in the courtyard.

A process of persuasion is needed. But my mother continues to refuse to talk. Maybe I've already missed a few words I should have talked to you about. I should have explained the situation calmly rather than confining myself to a few reasons I couldn't understand.

After all, I was giving up and having a conversation with Parvasse in my room.

“What does he want from me? ”

I had a conversation the whole time, but the answer was a duck. He seems to have taken steps to prevent Parvasse from waking up for a long time. and made me give the body of the dragon to God.

Going further back in time, he also took steps to prevent me from being caught by the Black Keeper.

This is one of our most troubling topics. What the hell is he hiding in me for? Why did he try to protect me? What's your relationship to me?

“He also knew the identity of Parvash, as the pioneers had guessed. ”

Parvasse nods quietly.

“You really don't remember anything? ”

[Not at all.]

“Hmm.”

[The memories of the present self, and the memories accumulated up to that generation. It's all my undeniable memory. Because there is one soul with a memory written on it. But there is no mention in it that I was the Savior.]

“Before you summoned me, what happened in the void? ”

He explained.

Before being summoned to me for the first time, Parvashe remembered what he looked like. It was a memory of the future, not the present self.

A void left in its place after one world was destroyed. It was like a trace left after the dimension was extinguished.

After the end of the world, Parvasse spent the same time in that chaos. A world without loops. An abandoned world where no savior will tame. Countless selves emerged, doing nothing in the space of nothingness, merely being present and reasoned, then extinguishing when the time came and passing the order to the next selves. Next, the self who dominated the ritual was the same in the end. I just keep repeating myself.

Not surprisingly, it is because countless rituals have been shared over the years.

After such an awkward time, Parvasse one day saw a dimensional rift. Closed dimension where there is nothing to connect to, if at all. A world destroyed. An attempt was made to connect that world. There was a knock to open the dimensional wall without any resistance.

Parvasse realized its identity through the incomplete memory of the sculpture left to him. A blue light was leaking in between the dimensional cracks. It was a light that could not even measure how long it had been in this abandoned world.

Parvasse seemed to have approached the crack in response to a call coming from beyond.

[Yes. It was you, Min Joon, who summoned me buried in the darkness of the void. There was no one else's call. Now if you think about it on the basis of the information, it's no coincidence that the channel was opened there, but it was intended by someone. It doesn't change as much as the fact that you're the one who called me.]

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