Hermit Wizard

“I'll ask the pioneers about their intentions. ”

We have to look forward to their positive feedback.

“So, do you have a peace agreement with me? ”

I had already finished discussions with Parvasse and Maru in my head.

Nod.

“Conditionally, yes. ”

“Great. I thought about it. I'll take a careful look around without breaking or destroying anything, host. ”

Jamie winks with one eye and smiles four-year-old. Speaking to the landlord like a guest who's allowed to see the house.

After biting the main dish, he made a photodistortion around the table and entered into a sort of leasing contract. Teaching about dimensional barriers was a contract that left room for me to change the price I wanted if it didn't work out the way I wanted. During the discussion, I made a few more calls.

“Fifty-nine people have crossed the Earth? That's more than I thought.”

I demanded that I get a real-time view of all of that body's movements, and Jamie accepted.

“Originally, it was 75, but it was a little less. ”

“Did you originally return to the world? ”

“No, sixteen died on Earth. ”

I did not create a contract that interfered with my soul, but opened my eyes. The moment I heard it was true, I doubted my ears.

“Who killed the Old Man? ”

“Not all of us live in a safe environment like I do. As you may recall, the world was very chaotic at the beginning of the channel. It wasn't the perfect condition to travel. Isn't it a little better now? Min-jun, I think there will be another global panic because of what you did in China a while ago. ”

As he said that, Jamie grinned bitterly.

“· · · But I didn't touch the entire facility. Now, the economy is all about political and social factors. I will recover.”

I turned my back.

“Are all the dead bodies trapped in the Channel? ”

“Nine out of sixteen died because of the channel. The remaining signatures are varied. Some died camping near the Arctic Ocean, some died in the African Civil War as mercenaries, some died on their heads, some got caught in a political drama, and some were beaten and killed by a woman's family. ”

No, wait. Even if you say so, mercenaries? Besides, political theatre?

After seeing my reaction, Jamie shrugs with a bold expression.

“Love and war are one of the courses of civilization. ”

I shook my head with a fistful of nonsense.

After completing the provisional agreement, we went through the process, which is a day through the soul. At that brief moment, I felt for the first time the grip of the body connected to him, not the figure in front of my eyes. It was a moment of tension that I almost forgot.

Goo Woong!

“Well, then. From this moment on, we prohibit any hostile acts against the other person and the world of the other person, and we also prohibit the concealment or manipulation of information that could be linked to hostile acts. Okay?”

It was so mild, even in the midst of emitting a horror of souls.

“Yes.”

I nodded as I tried not to make an overwhelming look.

This contract was produced by implementing a magic pattern instead of writing it on paper. I said after having divided the intangible energy fragments one by one.

“Well, I'll give it to you when I hear from the pioneers. ”

Now that I'm done, I was going to get up, but Jamie raised his hand and looked up.

“Hey, wait a minute. Wait, should we go eat dessert? This house is a panna cotta. ”

I ponder for a moment and nod. Of course, rather than greedy desserts, I was wondering if I could get more information from a good-looking soothsayer.

I started asking questions that came to mind.

“Well, that's what you said before. ”

“What?”

“You study AI because of your interest in the soul, right? ”

“That's right.”

“Is there a reason for that curiosity? The position that most of the Old Testaments see about souls is just to eat. I don't think I've ever seen an accident go any further there. ”

“Oh, that's it. I travel quite a lot of worlds at the same time. Utilize your personality.”

It's already been heard through perverted gossaries.

“Then, it's time to reach a very old world. You know, the size of the world and the age of the world aren't always proportional, right? Among the world-class worlds that could lead to my world and channel, the old dimension is often difficult to determine when it started. ”

Jamie told the story by choking on wine.

“The scope of my interest also includes the history of each civilization. If you hear that dimension, you're selling historical records pretty deep. But at some point, something strange started to stand out. ”

“What do you mean? ”

“In the grim old records of those old dimensions, even at that time, I found a certain commonality by looking at information that is treated as an ancient record that is difficult to calculate. It was a contradictory sentence. ”

“A contradictory sentence? ”

“Yes. Information that is mentioned repeatedly in the old records of various dimensions. But it was a little contradictory or confrontational to what the realities knew. ”

He shines his eyes.

“The reason I caught my eye was because it was a sentence completely contrary to modern common sense, and I felt like even the writers didn't know why and just wrote it. ”

“What is that sentence? ”

Jamie smiles as she reveals it. An unexpected sentence came out of his mouth.

“[The Savior is the one who sacrifices.] ”

* * *

For a moment, only the sound of two breathers sitting face to face on the table flowed with static.

Instead of showing a real face, I produced a response that seemed to have heard something wrong.

“The Savior makes a sacrifice? ”

Naturally, I was forced to recall [him] hiding in me.

But I didn't look embarrassed and said it.

“It's 180 degrees different from the phrase I know. The Savior is not the one who sacrifices himself; on the contrary, he sacrifices everyone. The world, the soul of that world, is eating away. ”

“That's right. That's why it's weird. Why do such contradictions appear repeatedly in old records? ”

As he spoke, Jamie continued to choke and drink wine. For a short time before the dessert came out, this body was quickly emptying a bottle of wine that I had not touched. One drink, one more. Soon after, his face became disgusted. · · · Slight but seems to twist the tongue too.

“I really don't understand. But it's interesting, isn't it? ”

“By the way, how does that phrase connect to your curiosity? ”

What does that have to do with the soul?

“The Savior and the Sacrifice. I thought about combining these two words somehow that don't fit together. The only way to put the word sacrifice on the Savior is when the Savior looks at the end. ”

I noticed what Jamie was saying.

The Last of the Savior.

“You know that, right? The only way to extinguish a soul is to eat it. But no one can eat the soul of the Savior. If so, is the Savior immortal? ”

Jamie squeaks her wrist as she lifts the glass. The red liquid was wavy in the wine glass.

“No. The Old Testament has an end. The Savior, who did not eat the world, did not throw himself into the void. And a new world begins. And when there is a world, the soul is not there. By the way, have you thought about it? How is the total amount of soul given to the world determined? ”

“I only know that each dimension is different. ”

One more sip. He nods as he wipes the red-brown liquid down his mouth with his sleeve.

“Exactly. Different dimensions. Unequitably, there's one rule. ”

Jamie whispered as if he was telling a secret story that was exaggerated. Already this table has been thoroughly blocked off from the surroundings and even though no one can hear it.

“· · · The soothsayer who throws himself into the void is divided, and does not break into small pieces without end. · · · · · That's what the Savior says, isn't it? ”

This guy, no, this guy. My tongue is getting twisted.

“· · · · ”

“By the way, there are more souls in the world that emerge from the void where the Savior has disappeared. ”

“Yes?”

It was a sentence that seemed to have forgotten something in the middle. I frowned.

“More souls? ”

Compared to what?

Jamie whispered with a playful face.

“The soothsayer who threw himself into that void ate more than the soul he had eaten all his life before he died. More souls will come to that place! ”

* * *

Under the unfamiliar skies, the outskirts of any primitive forest covered with air. A channel has emerged in the forest where huge trees have left the darkness like columns, and in the boundary line facing the plains where various plants are spread out.

A series of human beings appear in their work attire through that blue light. The channel was closed again after hundreds of crowds came out. Then the man at the forefront instructed the workers.

“I ask you one more time. Be sure to follow the precautions you have trained before entering. It's directly related to your life. ”

“Yes!”

Workers are scattered along familiar lines. Then I approached the huge ruins beyond the plains.

“D214, start working! ”

The ruins of a civilization that didn't fit into the surrounding forest and flower garden were there. A view of some of the modern cities of the Earth, but scattered throughout and moved near the primordial forest. Traces like fragments of a fragmented world.

It is a site where people are forced to walk and move because any machinery using petroleum fuels has been banned. Workers approach the slanted, collapsed concrete building and carefully bring the artifact. A magical tool that can be used by even those who can't use magical power, sheds light on themselves, digs holes in the ground, and pushes the dirt away.

The workers were recovering servers and traces of the Chinese government scattered throughout the ruins. Reports of deadly national secrets being stored are left unattended all over the land.

Looking at the work site, the supervisor murmured.

“The information that Yoon Min-jun needs has not yet come out, but · ·. ”

Yoon Min-jun wanted to find out what information the Chinese government and Gramiel shared while building a new body. However, no matter how powerful the wizard is, he doesn't know the spell to interpret the information stored on the server as an electrical signal. It was left to the South Korean government to retrieve various electronic equipment and materials from the premises of major national institutions spread in China and to interpret and classify them. I kind of left it to the outsiders.

And the Korean government willingly and gladly accepted the request.

In addition to information about Gramiel, the servers they have acquired to date are overflowing with data like treasures that could be used to help the Korean government.

“From the Chinese point of view, having a cut off head is a madly coveted resource. ”

China, where the whole brain is missing, has now declared a state of emergency around the local government of each sex. Most of the top ranks evaporate in an instant, and some of the survivors are about to collapse their identity as a nation because of intense bowl fights between the top ranks and the bottom ranks, the chaos near anarchy, and the protests and turmoil caused by the army that lost its master.

“From the survivors' point of view, the Mane Mane is torn apart to create its own tradition. ”

But they won't even imagine. We know that the remnants of the central government that were so missing came into the hands of South Korea.

“Oh, you're here. ”

Soon after work began, a xenophobic group approached the supervisor. A woman in white skin whose black hair flows down to her waist.

“Long time no see, gardener of the Earth. ”

The manager of the workers from Earth, Minister Choi Soo, turned his head towards the sovereignty he calls himself.

“Ah, long time no see. Telmin!”

A faint smile spread over the mouth of a xenophobic tribe called Telmin.

“You don't want to confuse us anymore. ”

“You were right this time, right? Haha.”

The minister laughed shrewdly.

He asks as if he had guessed why he called himself.

“What does He call you? ”

“Yes.”

The Great Being nodded and replied.

“You waited for the day you came out of your neck. Can you give us a minute? ”

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