It made me want to suspect that the devastated land, where the abandoned materials of the abandoned houses were scattered, was also in the heavenly mutation.
There is no former shadow in the land, which would have been crowded with people.
The abandoned houses have multiple windings of trees and spreads, weathering is going on, and this will not happen in a few years or so. In fact, more than a hundred years have passed since the land was abandoned.
It was not a strange sight to describe as like a doomed civilization.
Age envelops such a sight of doom that even pity fades.
Heaven stretches clear Ethereal Dome everywhere, and in the uninterrupted distant realm, the sumptuous light draws the horizon, filling every corner. The lush green had absorbed enough sunlight to emit a vibrant colour reminiscent of the fetal motion of life. It's a magnificent landscape of life and breath.
The animals also pass on the trees vividly and run around the green carpet. Someone said, if man is the pest on this planet, it must have been the result of affirming it.
The reason for this was the emergence of a being that could be called an organism. Something too unnatural and alien as life was misled into nature's management.
The emergence of alien monsters, in books, in gaga stories, and also in fantasy creatures that inspired this land to reclaim its original ecosystem is a period of transition in human history and a countdown to ruin. Those alien monsters weren't as fantastic as you see in the book, they were more disastrous and horrible.
The proxy of God, the creature that is the savior to the stars, is precisely the natural enemy to man.
The alien monster was collectively referred to by mankind as the demon.
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Exactly one young boy now was crossing blades with multiple alien objects.
Some giants are like using tree trunks or something instead of sticks. He was gently lifting his special blade with one hand in the sense that a single blow would result in fatal injury.
The boy uses a knife. That's also a distorted form...... no, it should be called a form where fear seems to run. It was precisely a weapon to defeat the opposing alien demons.
The knife has a thin chain attached to the patterned buttocks and is pulled from the sheath lowered to the waist.
Still, it doesn't make a difference that they don't rely on demons with giant bodies that would be a few times bigger than boys.
Demons come in a wide variety of shapes. Even if it's the same species. That's from pin to kiri, and what we have in common is that it's all in a disastrous, ugly shape.
I didn't think it belonged in this world.
The upper body, which is called human like the first giant or beast man, manages to get a close impression, but the lower body was exactly that of the animal.
And demons are uniformly characterized by blackish skin.
There are ten alien demons against one boy. It was also only visible, and there were signs from everywhere that I could peer behind and from the bush. Is it an advantage as an absolute predator, there was an affront like the beast hunting prey.
Whoever sees it will be unable to help but despair of this situation. He said he could even let me fight him.
But the boy doesn't even let the wolf look fine dust. On the contrary, the frying and footing were light.
Pink black hair shakes slightly according to gait. A demon struck at the same time as the edge of his mouth rose.
The giant covering the sun's light so much that I mistakenly thought it was night - the moment, the roar of the first demon turns silently halfway. I could play from left to right to be crushed by something.
If you look at it, the boy is posing as a palm. Exactly as the demon was crushed from both sides.
Dark green fluids poured down, but the fierce demons were never frightened by it.
I guess I knew that. The boy doubles the demon one after the other with a lightly gripped knife.
It was as sight as an absolute mighty man tramples a flock of ants - it could be described as ravage.
If you notice, the boy hasn't even moved around so much. And the look of the knife that was supposed to have been held was sometime out of the boy's hands.
Chains run endlessly around the area to back it up. Fly to sew with purpose, not straight forward.
Only the metallic sound of the chains being pulled off just sounded creepy.
At the end of the chain, the demon wearing the body stops without even being picky. Unnatural silence so much that you don't even know if you're dead.
That fiercely spurting demon was stopping the movement to the point where it was pierced with a knife in front of the prey.
The chain runs all the way into the growing trees, and the strange noise of the screaming Terminator keeps ringing.
That's where the boy opened his mouth for the first time.
"That's it all."
I didn't ask anyone, I completed one.
Fingering the chain. A small circle stared at one of the chains in a row.
"207 Chain Formula (Sashiki), [Chain Resource Note]"
The boy played the strained chain ring with his fingers.
When the air trembles slightly, it is worn, and the connected demons bounce off the inside simultaneously.
One side of the perimeter stained the demon's body fluids, turning them into a miserable scenery with scattered meat masses. As isolated from a beautiful and brightly colored world......
In that case, the boy's body does not have any fluid attached to it. Still, the boy took the water bottle out of the porch in a strip where the odor could stand.
Glimpse around and overflow the sigh to open the water bottle at hand. A clear piece of cloudless water, without any inflection inside.
The boy looked up to heaven.
Beautiful skies, bright white clouds all come in different shapes. I didn't know how fast it would flow or where it was going, and the boy even envied the free-flowing clouds. Ironically, this view is the only one in a world with demons.
I have the opportunity to go outside on a monster's journey on a mission, but I guess it's a view that's not borderline for a human being who isn't. But maybe it's a sight I'm instinctively in love with. Admire the world it once was.
To lose it and say that the first time you know the value is in people's world.
And the gaze remained nailed to an infinitely widening sky. The boy raised his arms and bathed in water from above all at once.
Not many. The water flow stops immediately.
The boy looks up at the sky again as he waves his face and shakes off the water.
The boy had this become like a habit. The beautiful sky also gave me a different impression when I saw it with a refreshed head bathed in water.
Maybe there's no vocabulary (awesome) to describe how much that struck the boy's mind.
The boy left the scene with regret.
That's also because the body fluids of demons gather other demons.
The boy's name is Ars Regin. It is the name of those who reign at the apex of the Mage, who will be a confrontational force in the long war against demons.
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"You're not gonna rethink it."
"No. I should have worked enough. Zentray and Couvent, the recapture of both continents was fulfilled. All you have to do is relax."
I said it clearly against my boss in white military uniform. Its chest is neatly lowered by several medals.
The old boss, who put his hands together across the street from the big desk and had a troubled face, was thinking up like a troubled man.
"But you are already a valuable force for my country, no, humanity. I said I'd stop and say yes. I don't think so. You can't grant discharge."
"By your word, Governor, although the provision should allow for freedom of discharge for those who have served in the military for ten years and have achieved certain results. It's been ten years since I was in military service since I was six. The recapture of the continent is not a dissatisfaction."
The policy does specify that, but that's the only thing that makes a magician a status, and that's a respectable profession in the first place. The task of defending the country and recapturing its former territory is a human woe.
Yet he with dark hair doesn't understand it. Rather, I'm not interested. He was born and raised in a special environment. Maybe that's something he doesn't understand. Not to mention military service at the age of six, this could not have been what it should have been. It's common practice to be fourteen years old or older. But only at the age of six was his qualities recognized as a magician, and his magic was so young that he surpassed the high-ranking magician. There was no way that the army would leave such a promising stock, and training as a magician was immediately imposed by skipping even general education.
I guess I never imagined that he, the brunette who is only in his mid-teens, would offer to retire first, even though the Governor said he was close to the age of leaving the battle.
I was in the mood for the bumps that I had imposed on the boy I knew from a young age to come around now.
Every magician who belongs to the army is highly paid. Even though it is covered by national taxes, its importance is where all mankind recognises it.
One of the seven powers responsible for the barrier of this Arzecil continent, the great power Alpha, had protruded among them to be effective. The bulk of that battle is raised by just one man. He's the Als Regin single-digit number (single) magician who offered to retire. Dark hair is slightly caught in the eye, and these same dark gloves are inserted in both hands.
A hundred years ago, mankind's population had been reduced to a tenth by demons that had suddenly appeared, and countries dotted around the world had also been reduced to seven.
Today, mankind's survival zone was forced to shrink to the land of the world, together with 700ths.
It was only recently that the concept of magic was converted into force, and to leave the mighty demons and warcraft was not a substitute that could be defeated by magic technology at the time. Magic only served as a help to support our daily routine. It developed rapidly because there was a demonic invasion of the devil.
Demons eat humans, destroy cities and destroy nations.
The depopulation of the population was also stopped thanks to the sublimation of magic technology as a military force. And as the seven nations drew a circle, they drew a survival zone, and made it a defensive line. And the giant white tower in the middle of it is humanity's greatest achievement. He managed to obstruct the invasion by stretching a protective wall to cover seven countries from the heavenly edge of the tower. Exactly the gift of magic research. Then, for more than fifty years, mankind took the lead in the training of magicians in order to reclaim its territory.
"So what if it means a long vacation? I promise you a comfortable life, of course, and I can do whatever you want. I'll support your research, and I'll equip you for it."
"If the convocation hangs instead, you want me to show up?
Stored a carved wrinkle, the Governor nodded with an aged, strict face. Because losing Ars now will halve the power of the state. In that case, the defense will even be loose before the recapture.
Year after year, the magician's death toll has been on the rise, and Alpha, the great power, has fought to reduce casualties. Thanks also to the sixteen-year-old boy.
Als has been on military duty for ten years, and Alpha has a low magician mortality rate in seven countries.
Seven countries must be comrades defending the giant tower of White Asia, a vital part of human survival. But the truth is different. Asking other countries to cooperate is a disgrace to the country, and a decline in national power involves prestige. In other words, while in a collaborative relationship, he is also a competitor.
"Okay."
Ars conceded without a scratch. I knew from the beginning that I couldn't retire without rotting. This is the compromise.
For better or worse, Alpha was too dependent on him now. The Governor has hit his hand for that, but yes, he can't possibly grow up with a brilliant magician or anything, and I have to say he didn't make it.
The Governor re-sat deeply in the chair, overflowing with sighs as tired as he was. I was hoping this day would come someday. It is the result of his being asked only to achieve results in a nest full of selfish and intentional men called the military.
I don't think I can help but think that the humanity of him doing what he does for people, who grew up dyed in that kind of world, while the late rush to do something about it is exhorting.
"As soon as we're ready, we'll get out of the way. Until then, wait at home."
Ars corrected his posture.
"Understood."
Break your hips deeply and quit the spot.
Maybe he wasn't too involved with people to pierce his will. Even in that sense, getting into college could change something.
I still have to ask you to wear the lost upbringing. Even though his resolve remained the same, I personally thought that would be good.
But the army is the protector of humanity, which is why the last time Ars told me to "show up," I had to snort in distress.
He could not be seen as the Governor General for what he lacked now.
So if he wants to defend something of his own accord, maybe that's when Beric won't have to give his first order as Governor.
Viceroy Beric Sarevianu reset his thoughts once and darkened his deep wrinkles even more. When I took the roster out of the paperwork stacked on my desk, I pushed a card-like terminal against my ear.
I succeed in getting out of retirement first, but I stay away from the front line, which is the need for a fence. Even if demons show up, it's hard to kill them instantly without him. Needless to say, Governor Bellick has become busy with new formations such as personnel transfers after this in case of an emergency.
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There was a second magic school entrance ceremony, a corner of the college with vast grounds in the city of Beliza in the great Alpha, the only blank seat for a large number of young people aspiring to be magicians to sit in a vast hall. There are no students who are particularly concerned that they are ill.
It's like they were promised a future as magicians when they were admitted to the School of Magic.
They bought the magician's talent, and they're the elite who broke the difficult exam. To protect the Arzecil continent, which consists of these seven nations... there is only one within the Alpha - only one school at a time in each country - that knocked on the gates of the Magic Academy.
They are not ordinary people at the time of enrollment. Being a student of the School of Magic is the guardian of the nation and, by extension, of humanity. It is also an arrow that expands the national territory at the same time.
Although the College has raised and complained about the training of superficial magicians, all graduates of the College serve in the military.
Regardless, no fool enters school without knowing it. Ning Lo, move on and go that way. That's all the magician status has to offer. At the same time it is a noble profession. Defend the country by risking your life. That's why people admire and indulge as a sweet sound.
And the use of magic is basically forbidden. Initial magic allows only what is essential to life - magic that is not even classified as first-degree as a clear reference point for magic - but there is no way that young people will be attracted to the power with endless possibilities of magic.
That's why we have no choice but to enter a military or military college where the use of magic is fully authorized. Student ID issued there, in search of a licence.
On the day of the admission ceremony, Ars was attending school early. Because it's time for the package I sent in advance to arrive. I have a lot to organize and do.
It's just a magician training agency, and it's got a lot of space. There are more than a thousand magician chicks enrolled here in the third grade, all of whom live in dormitories on the premises. A wide range of magic research facilities, including its accommodation and training facilities, are housed in a vast area. That alone accounts for one fifth of Beliza, the largest city in the country.
It's so big that it's not enough in a day to go around all the school buildings. For this reason, students are given the school stamps necessary to travel at the Metastatic Gate Circle Port, which assists with metastatic magic, at the time of enrollment. This is a handy item that allows you to navigate to the transfer gates installed everywhere.
It doesn't make any difference that Ars is a freshman again, but he didn't intend to attend the ceremony. For it is a college which was put in at the behest of the Governor. There is no difference in respite to spend time for yourself as I have advanced. The three years leading up to graduation had already filled my head with immersion in research.
"Are you a freshman, too?
It's still the first time I've heard that, and I'm a female student with sleeves in a uniform that doesn't have a single wrinkle. Her light chestnut hair swayed beautifully around her shoulders, and she had a coquettish grin. On the left chest there was a brand new school badge, and Ars glanced at the school badge tilted by chest swelling.
"Yes, but so are you?
"Yeah, I couldn't wait to get here sooner"
Smiling gently in an atmosphere that seemed tedious and tongue-in-cheek, his expression relaxed from the joy of finding the same freshman as himself, and his hair was overwhelmed (nabi) by the pleasant breeze of the spring season. That's a pretty shattered word for the first time.
Ars tried to open his mouth to cut the conversation without putting his mind to the table.
At that time...
"Alice, what are you doing? Looks like the opening's still open, but they can wait in the school building."
The girl, called Alice, looked back when she heard such a voice happily from behind.
Red hair approached me from afar shaking left and right behind me.
"I'm sorry, Fia, I'll be right there"
Then I have business to attend to.
Alice tilted her neck. Was it a strange story that freshmen were running errands on the day of their admission ceremony?
"Aren't you going to the ceremony?
I have business to attend to.
"... See you at the ceremony"
I smiled and waved my hand left and right in front of my chest.
"If I had."
I succeed in lying and managing to break up with her to get past the occasion. Naturally, I'm not going to be at the ceremony. I turned my back with only a brief glance at the approaching redhead.
"You haven't been here since morning."
I leak that away Alice to my ass and start walking into a prepared lab.