The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

The green girl was standing as if she had descended with the light of the moon.

To Sieg's gaze staring at the girl with surprise, he looked back, letting go of his eyes from Sieg, and finally noticed the anomaly in the store on the "Wood Leak Day".

"Who are you...?

"Is this light……?

Leonhardt, who has been confronted by demons in the labyrinth for a long time, looks around the store with a small light dancing, surprised by his identity, as he sees that the girl nestled in the moonlight is not the bad one.

Mariella, who was blind to what was going on in the store and staring at the girl in the moonlight, snapped with a small voice as she took a step toward the girl.

"Illuminaria............?

Illuminaria. That's the name of the Spirit who took Mariella to the earth vein 200 years ago. How could I have ever forgotten? And where has she been and why has she come here now?

Mariella can't keep talking to the "who" around her, who can't sort out the situation, even though she has so much to ask.

The girl standing in the moonlight, the Spirit Illuminaria, stared at Mariella, who called her name, smiling with joy, but she can't see how she wants to utter the words, nor how she understands Leonhardt and others' queries.

It's just that she showed Mariella what she held dear when she gently gave her hands forward, which she was holding on to with her chest. It was like a vessel mimicking flowers, but all the tips of the petals were missing, and there were several cracks running that were strange to not crumble.

"That, the vessel of seven flower petals from that time............?

Mariela looked familiar in the vessel. When I went to the Spirit Park to sign a contract with the pulse, it was the flower I searched for with Illuminaria. Even though Mariella was indeed a plant when she found it, when she lifted it so that the illuminaria enveloped it with both hands, it was a vessel in the shape of a flower.

Mariella asks, but Illuminaria doesn't even understand Mariella's words.

"Mariela, the words don't make sense. Probably survived the demon forest flood (Stampede) thanks to that vessel. It was a freshly sprouted seedling, so I could hide in a vessel."

My master explains it to me instead. Mariella doesn't know what the vessel of seven flower petals is to the Spirit, but if Illuminaria was helped by it, I'm glad we searched together. For Illuminaria, the vessel of seven flower petals was an important object, even if it was cracked to pieces, and after wrapping it with both hands, which seemed important again, he spread his hands towards Mariella and the others.

Fluffy, as the cotton wool of the tampon danced, the vessel of the seven flower petals became a particle of light and spread throughout the room from the hands of the illuminaria.

The spreading grains of light descend flutteringly and slowly as glowing snow strikes.

Mariella and the others were supposed to be in the "Leaked Wood Day" store, but sometime they floated in a dark place like the sea at night.

"Here, on our way to the ground……………."

It's where Mariella was taken by the Illuminaria 200 years ago to dive away from her flesh.

In a far, deep place, you can see the light of the earth's pulse.

But unlike then, Mariela and the others must not dive into the ground vein, and most importantly, they are all in their own flesh with it in place.

"This is what Illuminaria sees…………"

To Mariella's whining, Sieg and Leonhardt, who guessed the situation, calmly look around.

Beautiful place to look at again and again, Mariella looks around too. Even now, sarcastic particles of light rise from the ground vein or go back.

Far at my feet, the gentle light welcomed me to envelop Mariella in her young days.

(... that? I don't know, it's kind of uncomfortable...)

Mariela felt a small discomfort. This should have been a warm place where no one would welcome him separately. Yet I feel kind of alienated. It's a very uncomfortable atmosphere, like being kept out of company by far.

Staring at Illuminaria wondering what it meant, the green haired spirits were pointing deep into the ground vein.

(Over there, you just signed a contract with the ground vein, right?)

Mariella stares into the light. Sieges are staring at a point in the vein without a scratch. I was taken to the depths of Illuminaria in my early days. She was surrounded by abundant light, where Mariella met.

I think that's not the ground vein itself, but the kind of administrator who bridges the ground vein with the ground. Because the ground pulse is energy itself, and there's no heart there.

But that man who gave Mariella her name thought she loved everything about the world. Warm thoughts poured in when I connected the pulse to the line.

Mariela remembered the name she told me at that time.

I remember the story Emily and the others were reading a while ago.

Mariella finally understood who she was over there.

Strangely enough when I knew it was, I felt like I could see her there, where it had only ever seemed like a light.

That's him.

The stronger the consciousness, the more the figure ties the statue in the light. But what's that supposed to look like?

"Why..., why... Endalgia..."

When I called her name, Mariela and the others stood in the store on the "Wood Leak Day".

Soon the light of the moon will hide in the clouds, and nothing will illuminate the stores of the 'Wood Leaked Day' except the sparse lighting magic props and the light of the little spirits that have no shape. The figure of Illuminaria, who had indeed been there until just now, had also disappeared, and only seven, the same as when we had gathered, stood silently on the spot.

"You called us to show that, you flaming wise man. But that... Let me explain what that means."

It was Leonhardt who broke the silence.

There was so much I wanted to ask. What is the Spirit Eye that summoned this strange phenomenon, the Spirit dancing to the room? Who and where has the Spirit called Illuminaria disappeared?

But it's all trivial, and there's more to ask.

As the ruler of the Labyrinth City, as the clan that defeats the Labyrinth, you must know.

When the master smiles quietly, he speaks to Sieg.

"Sieg, your eyes would have seen better. If you had those eyes, you'd know who she was. Explain and treat."

Sieg, who was told the story, saw Mariella, a little blue, at once, to the amount of information he understood, and headed to Leonhardt.

"That is……, it was probably the Spirit Endalgia who was in the earth vein. And she is………"

Sieg cuts his words like he's horrified to say the rest. Mariella holds Siege's hand like she's afraid to listen to the rest of the story. Both the deafening Leonhardt and Weishardt, even the silence-piercing Nielenberg and Robert, have seen with their eyes the state of Endalgia. Even if Sieg doesn't keep the word, we know how it ends.

But he didn't want to accept it.

"She said Endalgia was about to be eaten."

It is probably the Lord of the Labyrinth that was about to swallow Endalgia and become the Lord of the earth's veins for each of its beings.

On the day of the flood of demonic forests (stampede) 200 years ago, the demons who flattened the people of the Kingdom of Endalgia devoured each other, and the last remaining unity swallowed the spirits of the earth and created a labyrinth in the traces, according to the fairytale of the demise of the Kingdom. That wasn't a story.

Endalgia is the Spirit, but also the Lord of the earth's veins. So just because a demon eats you up like a weak person doesn't immediately erase its existence. The demon that devoured Endalgia and became the Lord of the Labyrinth spent 200 years eating the Labyrinth underground.

Growing labyrinths is probably not only a process of increasing the number of hierarchies physically, but also a process of taking in the presence that was the lord of the previous vein and eroding it towards the vein.

Endalgia had not yet disappeared. With only one left eye, I was staring at Sieg. Even now, when he seemed to disappear, he had a kind face full of charity, as if he were happy with the growth of his cousin.

But if she was completely swallowed by the Lord of the Labyrinth......

"Is that what happened when the labyrinth exceeded 50 hierarchies......"

Weishardt loses the word.

"If the Lord of the Labyrinth is replaced by the Lord of the earth's veins..."

Endalgia loved every life equally, man, animal and demon.

But the uncomfortable feeling Mariela and the others felt is the remnants of their hatred for humans.

Demons are incompatible with one another. If something like that unifies the ground vein, I'm sure --.

"People won't be able to live here."

A wise man of flames quietly uttered a word no one could speak.

Endalgia was about to be eaten, and its presence was a wind front lamp.

There is no longer time left for the Leonhardts, people living in labyrinth cities.

The fact was that it anointed any miracle, heavy and heavy, which Leonhardt and others had experienced earlier.