Kill the Dragon

War, War, War... Humanity had only three centuries to make Earth a planet of death. Humanity succeeded in holding hands and reconciliation before the end.

They had to make a decision for the survival of the species.

In the 3rd century, mankind surpassed the glory of the past. Population has expanded and technology has reached the realm of God. It was not difficult to manipulate life and make a new one. Violence that destroys even their mothers, creativity that makes even life. Humanity held God's right hand and left hand.

Even humans with that technology had to abandon the planet. In order not to make the same mistake again, we destroyed most of our military technology before we left Earth.

A new beginning, humanity has gone to outer space. It was a long and long time. Generations changed inside the space shuttle several times. After leaving home, mankind found a planet that resembles Earth, from its cycle to its orbit to its gravity. Humanity has found a new home, and has begun terraforming. They deployed nanomachines with environmentalization programs and organized security robots.

There seems to be a time of peace. However, after terraforming, the group was divided according to ideology, directionality of life, and distribution of resources.

Humanity abolished war-related technologies, but it was not difficult for them to develop other weapons of war.

Hypothetically, physicists have succeeded in recreating their psychic abilities, which have only been documented in the past. They found the source of the psychic energy through a non-recognizable observer. Scientists who come face to face with psychic particles through non-recognizable observators go mad. Scientists have studied the fog-like power of five dimensions with thousands of filters. In the aftermath, the psychic particles spread to the planetary atmosphere, and the newborn's sicker rate reached three halves.

Psychic abilities were one of many military skills, and dragons were also just part of many weapons of war. Humanity, who broke the taboo, greedily revealed its destructive instincts.

No one knows how long the war lasted, and how many times it has repeated blackouts and destruction. Did humanity self-destruct? Or did they abandon this planet like they abandoned Earth?

Rock line peaks, nests, and shirine cold seep into the bone marrow.

The miracle did not happen. No one saved Lee Han.

Glug.

Lee closed his eyes. I felt like I was going to cry. I was too lonely to die alone.

‘Cause I didn't want to be a hero. ’

I couldn't be satisfied with this death. Lee was not satisfied with his mission. I embraced my destiny like a great hero and couldn't bear the pride of saving the world.

I wanted someone to hold my hand. Your cold, cold hands are empty. Be nice to anyone. Be nice to 'em. You can rest,’ I thought I could die comfortably. It was unfair to die in vain. The bogeyman springs out.

‘Then save yourself. ’

Lee Han laughs. Coincidences and miracles in life are just convenience and response. You have to act on your own.

Cadduk.

You bite your teeth hard. Crap. The ice inside Lee Han's body is broken. He struggles to get up from his chair.

‘Implement the image. stitching and regenerating wounds.... ’

Implemented the Awesome Healing Factor. It is hard to heal internal injuries. I only healed on the outside and stopped the bleeding.

Kirk, Kirk.

Lee Han went into a frozen psychoframe. Every time I closed my eyes, I bit my tongue. Whenever I breathed, I froze my lungs. Spera, hope. It doesn't mean that we should wait for salvation in peace.

"Move if you want to live. ’

Lee said that again. The open chest of the psychoframe closes closely.

Bang, bang.

Lee Han has escaped the nest. He climbs down the mountain. I fell down several times and rolled off the cliff. I lost consciousness several times and came back. I thought I was unconscious for a moment, but it had been more than an hour.

Lee did not let go of the rope of survival. He did everything he could. I didn't try and give up until the end.

‘You can't recover on magnetism. ’

If we do this, we're dead. Lee walked again and again. I went back the way I had come. Even without consciousness, the body and psychoframe moved. His whole body was swollen, and his fever had not subsided for days. How many times did I think that if I closed my eyes, I wouldn't wake up. One day, the rotten flesh smells unpleasant. His body was dying.

I didn't count the sunrise and sunset. He settles down in front of an Elu village. I opened the psychoframe and crawled out. Eluys yell at Ihan. Lee was unconscious before even verifying whether the shout was hostile or favorable.

It's been three years since Lee Han sealed the nest. Time is fleeting. In the meantime, Ihan was called the Steel Knight to Elu.

“I grew a beard. ”

Lee said, looking at the face of the lake. Unlike before, a dark beard came up from under the chin. He rests, placing down his heavy backpack.

‘I'm still alive. ’

Lee owes his life to Elu. Elu took care of the severely injured and healed. Elu cured him with a psychic. Elu, the town healer, took care of her for three days and nights. After nearly saving his life, Lee spent a year in the village. In return, I used an old psychoframe to defeat Elu's enemies. After a few battles, Spera is rendered inoperative.

Lee also learned a little Elu's language. He became familiar with Elu's culture and behavior. Elu was essentially no different from humans. However, Ihan was a foreigner and a guest for Elu forever. Eventually, there were no spots in their society. I smiled and chatted with Elu, but I couldn't clear the void.

This is why Lee left Elu's society: two years of wandering and exploring. Lee Han traveled the world here. I searched for legacies and relics of the past. I collected faint clues and traces one by one.

The dragon disappeared. Elu believed the dragon ascended to the stars in the sky. Lee did not break their faith. I put up with the bystander's position. The secret that Lee kept is like a taboo to Elu. Lee had no one to think about.

“The Elu... must be indigenous or human or human. ”

Lee had three hypotheses about Elu based on the records he had investigated so far.

One, a human creature just like a dragon.

Two, Aboriginal inhabitants of the planet.

Three, humans genetically manipulated themselves for some reason. The new species is Eludia.

Nests or dragons do not perceive Elu as human. Perhaps some humans in the past have artificially attempted to change species in order to survive dragons. It's a hypothesis, but we don't know the answer yet. Dragons may not be the cause of humanity's extinction. Dragons are strong, but the power of humanity is far beyond average.

There are very few data that can be interpreted. A little piece of information and a little bit of history, like puzzles.

There were traces of humanity's past all over the world. Like most nests, it was a relic and legacy accessible only to humans. Some of the ruins were untouchable to non-human beings.

"The fact that we're biologically human has been used with the privilege of accessing the facility suggests that non-human intellectuals may have coexisted. Eluna Grunts could have been human servants. ’

Human beings alone had enormous power. I was even authorized to stop that powerful bioweapon factory, its nest. Weren't there a handful of humans living as nobles before they disappeared? Hypotheses and guesses were endless. Lee pursued one truth by erasing those possibilities.

It's not just intellectual curiosity that heats up the historical research. If you find the higher level keyword of the nest, you may be able to resurrect only Silver Hive separately. Historical investigations were his only hope.

‘This was the realm of dragons. Be quiet.'

Lee looked around, lighting a campfire. Even now, when the dragon disappeared, there were not many animals. Many ruins or artifacts have been found in the dragon realm. There were many artifacts left in the circle because they couldn't reach the Elu's hands.

The dragons seemed to have built their own mindset, perhaps beyond the earliest designed levels. Humans used an integral intelligence called the Hive to use dragons as bioweapons. The Hives differentiated into beings of different personalities. Especially Silver Hive "Kill Humans." I refused the command to be born. It was evidence that the dragon was evolving into an independent species rather than a designed bioweapon.

‘Silver Hive wasn't wrong. Silver's judgment must have been the right direction for the Dragon to go. They weren't satisfied with artificially created beings, they were taking it to the next level. ’

The larynx!

Suddenly, the armor poured out. Due to the tropical climate, showers were frequent. Lee stood up and moved while resting. I tried to find a place to avoid the rain, but there was nowhere I could go.

Cheapskate, cheapskate.

Lee quickly stepped forward, having found a large tree. Something caught my foot. You roll cold, thinking it's a trap.

Boom.

The rolling Lee Han hit the tree. He quickly looked back. The sharp eyes narrow.

‘It's not a trap. ’

Lee looked at something stuck in his feet. Something bumpy tangles in the mud.

Larynx.

It rained more heavily. Lee Han cleared the pile of mud. I saw a familiar metal.

“Psychoframe.”

What Lee found was an old psychoframe. It's also the first generation psychoframe. Lee confirmed the name imprinted on the psychoframe.

“Johnny, Johnny Schwartz. ”

Lee's movements were busy. He pulls the psychoframe out of the mud with both hands. He sighed and checked the psychoframe. The damage was reversed. There was a human bone between the broken parts.

“Here, he died alone. ”

Lee Han smiled bitterly.

Johnnie Schwarz, a first-generation biker who fought alongside Ihan a long time ago. He was taken by the Black Hive Bahamut on his behalf. The Black Hive has captured him, so there's no way he's alive. As I knew, I was heartbroken when I encountered the remains.

Lee looked at Johnnie Schwartz's remains for a long time in the rain. He didn't move until the rain stopped.

Chip, chip.

The rain stopped and the sun came up. Lee took off his wet clothes. I took the shovel out of my bag.

Lee Han dug up the ground. Johnny Schwartz and the psychoframe dug deep and wide enough to get into the ground. Lee worked diligently to build Johnny Schwartz's grave.

“Goodbye. ”

Lee got up on his knees and prayed. Johnny Schwartz. He was a hero. You fought bravely against the Black Hive.

But how many people put that name on their mouths after Schwartz died? ’

I didn't even think about it until I saw Johnnie Schwartz's remains. Over time, my memory and emotions became blurry. Johnny Schwartz was a forgotten man.

‘Am I going to be like that too? ’

I sweated a lot, but I felt a chill. Lee took the dirt from the annoying shovel. He looks back at the grave one more time before he leaves.

“I forgot. I'm sorry..."

Yihan sincerely apologized.

Lee Han recited the names of his colleagues who had died that night, one by one. Sometimes I know a face, but I don't remember the name. On the contrary, there were many. Many people died, but few people remember Lee. That's sad.

‘I can't remember... I can't believe I asked others to remember me. ’

People live in the present and the future, not the past. Whether you like it or not, the past needs light. However, Lee felt guilty. And I was scared. I didn't want to be in the past.

A man alone in a strange land. Loneliness never withered. You turn around and see the footsteps. How good would it be to be able to follow that footprint back? Even Lee's eyes, which were full of firearms, gradually became grey.

It's been a long time since I discovered Johnnie Schwartz's remains. The gradual flow of time was meaningless to Lee Han. Despair consumes hope. The balance of the heart was broken. I often blurred in front of my eyes.

‘You can't go back.’ Someone seemed to be whispering.

I knew it was a hallucination. I knew it and I couldn't get rid of it.

‘I can't go back.’ The hearing is a spokesperson for Lee Han's voice. The cry of the heart that Lee Han wants to turn away. The door that was tightly closed with reason was opened.

‘If I'd rather go to war again, I shouldn't have come here alone. ’

I broke even a taboo I shouldn't have thought of. Lee Han, who was walking indefinitely, sat down. I fell facedown and burst into tears.

‘No, I should have frozen to death in the nest before I did this. At least then I could have died a hero, not a weak one... ’

Lee gripped the ground like it was squeezed. He barely felt it.

“... I did good. There's no one to blame. It was my choice.”

Lee forced the horse out of his mouth. The environment must have been destroyed several times by the strongest reinforcements. Whenever Lee was weakened, he refined himself and went forward. Paradoxically speaking the unshakeable mind is like having no heart. The strength of the mind is the posture that stands up again after falling down. His strength was like a habit. In the face of any confusion and problems, he organized his thoughts first and focused only on what he had to do.

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