Alpina Acai, the girl who emerged from the pocket watch.

She said a catastrophe was coming down from the sky.

Even the location in detail.

"It's the strongest and worst monster our civilization has ever produced. Dragons beyond dragons. His name is Punisher."

Civilizations that humans of this age now call ancient civilizations.

More than 10,000 years ago.

He said the world was divided into two great powers and disputed.

One produced Alpina, the Barthelink Republic.

The other is the Barthelud Empire.

Both cultivated numerous wizards, creating powerful monsters and even wearing them out for decades in a degenerate battle.

Even though there was a future ahead of us that would fall together, we had lost sight of it when we stopped.

And finally, the Barthelud Empire crosses the last line.

Monsters stronger than dragons. Dragons beyond dragons.

Double-headed dragon. Punisher.

It is huge enough not to compare to a regular dragon, and the urchin is thick and hard. I have the ability to instantly regenerate it, even if I rip that urchin apart or burn it. Even as we try to trap ourselves in a dimensional warehouse, we are constantly gathering the junctions that inhibit its activation.

The town will perish just as the Punisher walks around.

Spitting light from his mouth changed the shape of the mountain.

And most of all, the scary thing is that the Punisher can produce dragons.

More than a thousand dragons are added to the panishers, even though they should be feared alone.

Moreover, it acts not only as a large number, but as a battle governed and ordered by the Punishers.

No longer a large army rather than a large group.

Without exaggeration, he had just the power to burn the world down.

"The Punisher was too strong. It was too strong to even control the Barthelud Empire that I made. Ravaged by the monsters we made, the empire is on the verge of doom. It's funny, isn't it? Well, after that, even my Barthelink republic is almost doomed, so it's not funny at all."

But the Barthelink Republic also had comparable power to the Punishers.

That's the Alpina Acails. Ten combat wizards, artificially created by genetic manipulation.

Ten of them challenged the Punisher to battle, knocking in firepower that exceeded the opponent's regeneration speed. Cut off two of the Punisher's necks and shoot the flame in before regenerating. Peel the skin and release lightning before regenerating.

Flame. wind. Water. Ray. Darkness. Gravity - with all its attacking magic, succeeded in destroying the heart of the Punisher.

At that time, there were only ten battle wizards left with one Alpina.

Punishers who lost their heart temporarily experienced an extreme drop in regeneration velocity.

Poking through that gap, Alpina separates the Punisher's flesh from his soul.

He trapped his soul in a sealing ceremony and launched it across the sky.

Even above the clouds. A place called the universe. It fired farther than the moon.

As it were, the soul of the Punisher flew everywhere through the universe and would never return...... that's what Alpina thought.

But.

The flesh of the Punisher, who had lost his soul and was supposed to have died, was slowly but beginning to regenerate.

Whether it's a lump of meat or not, even if it's completely regenerated without a soul.

I don't think it moves.

Nevertheless, it caused the out-of-consciousness phenomenon that dead flesh regenerates.

Then could there be times when a soul drifting through space returns on its own?

I can't think of it in common sense. That's why if you're a Punisher, you could do it.

So Alpina decided to leave some of her consciousness and magic for the future.

Break your soul in two and put one in your pocket watch.

The pocket watch is engraved with a destiny manipulation ceremony to be the possession of the strongest wizard of its time.

And it sucks up a little bit of the magic that the wizard is releasing naturally, accumulating magic in his pocket watch.

In case the Punisher comes back to life one day.

"That's all I can explain. What kind of life did the real me lead after this? I don't even know how the battle between the worn out Barthelink Republic and the Barthelood Empire came to an end. But I know how much time has passed since I was copied like this. Anyway, I was in my pocket watch. 11,425 and 63 days...... No, I'm a hobbyist for naps, but I'm a little too sleepy. Well, it's not a bad wake-up call."

Where napping was a hobby, the Great Sage had a deep sense of empathy.

"When napping is a hobby and looks alike, he may be the ancestor of the Great Sage."

Her Majesty the Queen, who was listening next door, has pointed it out with a serious face.

"You know... I kind of don't feel like someone else. But is it possible that the genes of people over 10,000 years old will remain that strong? Although my parents were normal people..."

"Well. I don't remember having a baby. If my original had had a child, it would have spread everywhere over 10,000 years. You may be one of them. Ancestry."

Alpina often speaks hypothetically in his face.

Yes, it's just a hypothesis. I'm not sure that's the right thing to do right now.

But considering that's the case, it's convincing.

The Great Sage's parents were very ordinary peasants, neither wizards nor adventurers.

I didn't even have silver hair.

Yet the great sage has silver hair, perhaps because the blood of a distant old ancestor was resurrected by a secular gene.

Besides, even before the Great Sage, there is a record of wizards with mutant strength.

They are all said to have had silver hair.

"Well. Shall we go where the flesh of the Punisher sleeps? The soul falls there. I feel it coming down right now."

"Now? I don't feel anything...?

"I can't help it. Because it's still quite far away. I know who I am, so I can detect. A little closer and you'll feel it."

The Great Sage was invited by the Alpina, but remained, flying through the sky to the place of the Punisher's flesh and doings.

The truth is, the Great Sage was still half-hearted.

It is believable that Alpina is a man of ancient civilization.

It is also understandable that I once fought a monster named Punisher.

But it doesn't pin me to be told that it will resurrect to modern times beyond 10,000 years.

Because so far, the world is so calm.

Wasn't her anxiety a concern?

Yes, the great sage suspected...

"Oh no? The dragons are coming this way."

As Alpina shrugged, a red dragon flies from the front.

Unusual.

How many years has it been since a dragon appeared near the Wang capital? After defeating it, Emilia was promoted to A-rank.

The dragon threw out red light from his mouth and attacked this one.

The Great Sage tried to prevent it in the defensive junction, but the alpina moves slightly faster than that.

"Reflection"

At that moment, the rays distorted into gnarly and returned to the dragon.

Dragons are pierced through their throats with their own rays, desperate and falling.

"Oops. You were trying to prevent it, but you seem to have disturbed me."

Alpina laughed as she showed her nigga and dog teeth.

"... no. These are the quickest winners."

And the Great Sage answers disguised as calm.

But the inside was full of surprises.

I didn't just really lose at the magic activation speed.

What the Great Sage was trying to do was just a defensive junction. Alpina is a more advanced reflex.

A person who activates magic harder than himself.

Such an opponent, the Great Sage, met for the first time in his life.

Of course, that's not all you can measure your strength as a wizard. Doesn't mean Alpina is stronger than the Great Sage.

Still - I regretted it.

Oh, this is the first time I've tasted it since I've lived for nearly three hundred years, wondering if this means regret.

"What's going on, Carlotte? I suddenly laughed at myself when I thought I was in a mood. Is this the first time you've been magically outdone?

"... yeah, right. I realized you were my ancestor."

"Ha. So don't treat me like an old man. I was seventeen when I copied my personality to my pocket watch, so I'm subjectively seventeen for good. Carlotte, by the way. Are there a lot of dragons in this day and age?

"No. The number of individuals in the dragon is low. It's rare to come near people."

"I guess. Because dragons are strong and big. Instead, they have weak breeding power. Yet we met. At the time of the Punisher's return. It also flew from where the Punisher's flesh was asleep... maybe this is what the Punisher is already doing"

Alpina narrowed her eyes and spoke in a serious tone.

"What do you mean? Your soul is still in space, isn't it?

"I'm not saying I'm sure. But because they're souls. Even if the distance is away, does it affect the flesh?

Hi. What Alpina is saying lacks specificity.

Even though dragons are rare, it doesn't mean they'll never show up.

To be honest, what I encounter is coincidence.

"... what is this sign!

The Great Sage looked up into the sky.

There was a cloudy winter sky there.

But the other side.

Even higher than the blue sky above the clouds.

There's something here.

It's falling.

"Oh, can you even detect me when I get this close? Come on, let's hurry. If you can, I want to reseal it and send it back to space before it merges with the flesh"

"Hey Alpina. Can't we just completely wipe it out, not seal it or send it to space?

"Yeah. I can't. I'm doing it if I can. My soul was too big to break with our powers. No matter how much the flesh attacked, it slowly regenerated. You and I need to seal it again."

Fulfilling, the Great Sage wondered if that was all right.

I'm just putting the problem ahead of me.

After another 10,000 years, the Punisher will be back.

Can't you do something and take it down completely?

The Great Sage is strong. I am firmly proud of that. And Alpina is comparable to the Great Sage... or has the power to outsmart him.

Do they really exist, such as monsters that can't be defeated if those two join forces?