Record of a Thousand Lives

“Lies!”

Minerva shakes his head.

She even felt a series of fears about faith.

“I can't trust you. Anyone can say that. You must be lying.”

“I don't lie. ”

Shanette gives a curious look, and Henrik looks stunning, and Iris tilts her head as well.

Minerva collected eyebrows.

“I can tell by the look on your friends' faces. Don't lie to me. I hate lies and betrayal. ”

“I'll make it right. I don't lie to people who will benefit. ”

“Who would benefit? ”

Minerva frowns.

It was an outrageous thing to say.

At that time, Kang Yoon-soo reached out.

“Resurrection of multiple corpses.”

Two burned and torn homunculus stand up undead.

Minerva's eyes widen.

“That magic……? ”

“The last Necromancer Nacron. Another beacon inherited from an ancient hero. ”

“What do you want to talk about? ”

“As a soul, Nakron misses you. And I loved her for the last time. Minerva, you've been betrayed, but there are men who have trusted you to the death. ”

Minerva shuts up.

Kang Yoon-soo added one last word.

“Trust me. I too will believe in you. ”

Minerva stares at Kang Yoon-soo.

Kang Yoon-soo indifferently accepted the gaze without avoiding it.

After giving each other cold eyes for a long time, she said.

“…… wait a moment. ”

Minerva walked to Kang Yoon-soo.

She takes his palm to his forehead.

“From now on, I'm going to read your mind. Make sure I know if you're telling the truth. But you need their permission to read your mind with this magic. ”

“I understand.”

Minerva closes his eyes.

The vast convenience of memory flowed out gradually.

She entered Kang Yoon-soo's head.

* * *

Minerva was confused.

"What the hell is this? ’

Originally, people's minds are made up of different emotions and tendencies.

A barren, dry space.

The floor is white, and a faint breeze flows from over there.

Everything was worn out and collapsed like a place that had been abandoned forever from the world.

There are half a dozen pieces lying around.

A squeaky old cradle.

Broken bracelet.

Unrecognizable doll.

Heart stopped beating.

And the sharp broken bottles are filling their feet.

Minerva was questionable.

‘Strange. Ordinary people's minds are not this devastated. ’

This place, far from the world, had nowhere to go.

‘First, we need to look at this man's life. ’

Minerva flies through a desolate head.

Soon, I saw a door through the memory of my life.

Minerva loses his words in front of colorful doors.

‘What is this……? ’

The amount of memory was too large.

It was a memory hundreds, no, thousands of times older than ordinary people.

In the original human memory, there is only one door.

But now there are hundreds of ‘doors’ in front of her eyes.

"Why are there so many doors? One person can have this many memories? ’

This was the first time even she was known as the Great Alchemist with such high knowledge.

I wanted to casually go through every door, but I couldn't stay here long.

Minerva had to check to see if Kang Yoon-soo was telling the truth.

Yuck.

Minerva opened the door about the 200th.

This is where she'll find the information she wants to remember.

But unbelievable things happened.

As the door opens, a large dark space draws her in.

Too many memories are trying to consume her.

Minerva steps back.

But even an ancient hero was just a fragile being in someone else's head.

Minerva accidentally encountered the most vivid memory at the door.

A new scene unfolded.

A miserable broken world.

Kang Yoon-soo was crying quietly.

“Don't cry, you fool. ”

Henryk smiles in blood.

His heart was deeply dug out and his death was in front of him.

“But……. ”

“This is not a complete breakup. You said you'd go back 20 years if the pope killed you. Then... you'll see me again in your next life. Cough!”

Henryk vomited blood.

But I didn't lose my smile.

As if to give relief to Kang Yoon-soo until the end.

“Come see me in your next life. I won't have any memory of you... but I'll still be able to be a drinking buddy. ”

“I can't lose you. ”

“You fool! You've outdone me before. I'll call you a teacher next time... Cough! Cough!”

Henryk's breathing is labored.

Kang Yoon-soo bit his lip.

“Don't tell me. It's hard.”

“Shut up. My mouth.”

Henryk's eyes have faded.

Whether he started to lose his sight, he looked up at the collapsed sky and said,

“From the next life, just call me Henryk. I don't need respect. Yes... If you're so smart, act like you're so cheap. From the first encounter, joke around like you want to see me with the craftsmanship I raised. Maybe I'll remember you from my old life if you get crumpled up like that... ”

“Please…… please, brother! ”

“Don't think of this life as a failure...... I know. You... you've worked harder... than anyone else... ”

Henry shuts his mouth and closes his eyes.

Soon, I stopped breathing quietly.

Kang Yoon-soo embraced him and misunderstood.

‘Oh my God……! ’

Kang Yoon-soo's memory flows through Minerva's body.

Sadness at the time.

The fever at the time.

Loneliness at the time.

The complex emotions shake her mind roughly.

The overwhelming emotion drove her mad.

‘Gaaaahhhh!'

And that was it.

* * *

“Ugh!”

Minerva shakes his head.

Back to reality.

When I took my hand to my forehead, the violent headache made me feel cold sweat.

She was frightened.

I can't believe you're bouncing around without reading your memories!

She who was called a hero looked at Kang Yoon-soo with wary eyes.

“What the hell are you? None of the strongest I've ever faced have memories like this. How many years...! ”

Kang Yoon-soo cut her off.

“Don't take my memories lightly. I think you'll believe me now. ”

It was an indiscreet tone, distinctly different from that just now.

“ ……. ”

Minerva looks at him for a long time.

In addition, the middle-aged man in the back caught my eye.

"Henryk. ’

It looked young, but it was clear.

A man who died in his memory.

But he's alive now.

I couldn't believe it, but I was sure.

She clearly saw Kang Yoon-soo.

‘This man is repeating his life. I have an incredibly large memory. ’

Wouldn't she be more likely to get her revenge?

Minerva only told Kang Yoon-soo to listen.

“In the past...... did you find me and give me what you wanted? ”

“Yes.”

“Why do you repeat your life? ”

“There's no reason to say. But not willingly. ”

Minerva is troubled.

Finally, she said.

“Follow me.”

The group follows behind her.

Henry whispers.

“I've always wondered. How can he be surprised by an ancient hero because he's lived such a harsh life? ”

“I wonder. But I'm sure you'll tell me in person when the time comes. ”

“Hmm. Something came up. ”

That's when Iris got sick.

“Kang Yoon-soo is amazing. ”

“What do you mean? ”

“Because I didn't commit suicide to protect something precious. ”

“ ……? ”

Henryk gives a look that he doesn't understand.

But Iris just smiled.

As you walk down the stairs, Minerva turns.

“You asked me to pass on the energy of Alchemy, right? Then……. ”

“Before that, I have one more favor to ask of you. ”

Kang Yoon-soo pulled out an old sword from his backpack.

It was a sword from the Crucible.

[Sword of the Zero]

Rating-??

A sword that Kelvatron of Lervar Canyon was protecting. A rare material that can contain souls. Awakens the Pokémon in a new form using special alchemy.

+ The power of the sword changes depending on what alchemical ingredient it contains.

“Feel the most powerful force in this sword. ”

“This... is not a sword made in this era. It's not a normal material. Where did you get it?”

“You don't need to know. ”

“ ……. ”

Minerva looks at the blunt blade and brings a glass tube from over there.

A creepy glow filled the test tube.

Occasionally, you hear a loud scream in the test tube.

Henryk touches his chin.

“This is what I hear from the secretary sometimes. ”

Iris hides behind Shanette, looking scared.

“What's the matter, sis? ”

“I feel very sad and depressed from that examiner. ”

Minerva nods.

“Yes. These are the souls that made you cry. ”

“Souls?”

“It's the soul of the people of the old kingdom, slain by the dragons of destruction. It's the most horrible and powerful ingredient in my lab right now. ”

Shanette looks at the blue light with an unsettling look.

“I feel depressed just looking at it. ”

“It was just as devastating. The power of emotion is scary. ”

Minerva opened the test tube.

A blue light flows out.

Suddenly, the atmosphere subsided and a feeling of depression settled in my heart.

Minerva shakes his hand.

Then the blue energy settled down on the old sword.

A dazzling white perched on the blade.

A zero-less sword transformed into a spirit sword.

In the blade lies the soul of 105,267 citizens of the old kingdom.

Right now, it's just a cheap sword, but in some cases it's 100,000 strong and talented.

However, we must be able to control 100,000 grudged souls every time we use them.

Minerva gives you the knife.

“A sword that can destroy dozens of lands in a heartbeat. It's yours now. ”

Kang Yoon-soo slowly gripped the knife.

You hear a cool voice from the sword.

[Heheh...... Who were you again?]

It was the old man's old voice.

Kang Yoon-soo replied.

“I am your master. ”

[Heehee...... I'm a good man to swallow, right?]

The voice of a middle-aged woman this time.

You hear the voices of the dead in the old kingdom.

[A young man this blue is our master. What a disappointment.]

[Arrgg! You put us on an old sword like this. Are you crazy?]

[We're not satisfied with just one sword. We need Humans. Humans we can control and move!]

[Arise, people of the kingdom! Dominate this human and build a new country!]

The blade rang roughly.

A fierce wind blows around the blade and several test tubes are broken.

Henryk looks back at Minerva in horror.

“No, hey! That's not just a sword you can handle! ”

Minerva said coldly.

“If anyone is going to accomplish my goal, I need to overcome this crisis. If he dies, that's it. ”

At that moment, the group's complexion pales.

“Oh, shit! ”

Henryk ran to Kang Yoon-soo first.

However, the fierce wind of the blade blew him away.

Shanette's flames blow out in the wind, Iris flies back.

“Gaaak-!"

Kang Yoon-soo stood still with a knife sack.

A powerful and terrifying force flows from the blade and surrounds him in all directions.

Shanette screams.

"Kang Yoon-soo! Let go of the knife! ”

But I couldn't.

Kang Yoon-soo dared not even take his finger off the blade.

[Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh! You can't abandon us! Now we have to spend the rest of our lives together!]

[There are so many things we haven't done in a long time.]

[It's very simple. No need to be nervous at all. Just clear your head and leave it to us.]

100,000 people.

It has now exerted a powerful power as a soul, not as a person.

The most ferocious and powerful force has been conveyed from Kang Yoon-soo's fingertips.

[Now, leave your body to us. Weak generation of humans!]

And...

One phrase came to mind.

The subject's brain has 20,004 years of memory.

This person cannot even be brainwashed with the skill of an Absolute.

[Er, why...?]

You hear the voices of confused souls.

Kang Yoon-soo said, looking at the blade.

“All I need is a sword. ”

He slowly grips the hilt of his blade and the tip of his blade.

His knee heavily kicks up an old blade.

“So you don't need me. ”

Percussion angle.

The old blade has cracked.

[Sa, help!]

[Oh, no! You can't be extinct like this!]

[Grunting]

With the crisis of death, 100,000 people's systems collapsed in an instant.

The air pressure surrounding the area has loosened.

He relentlessly kicks the blade with his knee again.

Incremental-!

You hear a variety of screams, and the blade snaps.

Kang Yoon-soo killed 105,267 souls.

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