The wise man returns

“Oh!”

Balin shakes her head in surprise.

Mana, which she felt in every single light, was incredibly strong.

That's what's filling this whole cavity. The moment I realized what it meant, I got a cold sweat on my back.

Oh, my God! ’

I thought I already knew some of the power of dragons through my experience of life.

But this power was much more powerful than that. It feels as if a huge mountain range is pressing down on you.

“Khh, khh! ”

Balin grips his teeth and turns Mana around.

Woof. With a small pulse, my body barely regains strength. Thanks to you, I was able to avoid the troublesome collapse.

‘Thank goodness. It worked!' ’

I can feel the stench on the inside of my neck. It seemed to have exploded somewhere while empowering.

But I was able to escape the pressure of death. It was thanks to my laziness in training the sword and pulling up the ether.

- Who are you? How dare you disturb their sleep in the sacred sanctuary!

A majestic voice digs into my mind. It felt similar to conscience or telepathy.

Balin ran the ether one more time instead of answering. So I was able to get up under this pressure.

‘Adapt. ’

Balin opens his mouth, thinking like that.

“I am Valine Theodore, Wizard after a thousand years! I'm here for the magic of dragons from long ago! ”

- You want to be enchanted by the great? How dare you! This is a place where only the Great One, or their chosen sub-creatures, can enter! If you do not return immediately, I will destroy you!

The voice is silent for a moment after speaking up. However, the pressure of crushing the body was still not gone.

“Khh!! ”

Balin lets out a groan.

Of course, he assumed there would be some process, but he did not expect it to go back like this.

- Last chance! The magic behind your back can only be activated one more time, so if you don't get it back online now, you'll have to be left as a corpse in this space, in this twisted multidimensional realm! Of course, even the flesh and soul will lose consciousness and become one of the constituent energies here. If you don't want that to happen, go back now!

The voice declares to Valine once again. The echo echoes through an invisible end.

If you don't go back now, I will kill you. Balin, who has heard so far, also came.

"That guy...?! ’

We don't know if he broke in illegally. Balin won the fair tournament and came here using the blood of five families.

I don't know who this voice is, but at least I don't have any reason to hear it out loud.

“Who are you? ”

Balin said with all his might, turning Mana Circle around. After a while, I heard an answer in my head.

Though I thought I would wield my power for the Moon Dance, my voice surprisingly gently reveals its identity.

- I am Katua, the spirit summoned to this place, the Guardian of the Eternal Tomb. Only a great one, or very few humans chosen by them, can enter here and wield its power! Can you prove that?

Her voice is softer than before. Balin thought to himself,

"The choice of dragons, you mean kings and heroes who stopped the Demon King a thousand years ago. ’

When the Demon King first appeared, he was a dragon, of course, as well as stopping them.

But a dragon didn't do everything.

Humans and other factions fought together, and the Demon King's army was driven out.

In the process, the kings and heroes who were recognized by the dragons seemed to be a place for such people.

The dragon's choice.

Balin thought quietly. A thousand years later, he is also a returning figure in another time zone.

Like the status of a sage, is there someone better suited to you?

Suddenly, a violent reaction erupted from my mind.

The status of the sage was useless, but this was different.

The Demon King, who exerts his divine power, had to have that power to stop him.

To do that, I didn't have to back out of here. I couldn't lose to a demon that would have existed a thousand years ago.

- Apparently there's no such thing. Then die.

Gooooo!!!

As soon as the voice decides to kill Balin, a huge pool of ether unites to form a giant figure.

It is an implementation of the Spirit Patua. Seeing that, Balin opened her mouth without my knowledge.

The spirit that appeared, Fatua, was mixed with all the attributes.

Fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, even light and darkness.

The pure ether, which controls all of them, appeared in the chest of the spirit. Balin swallows a gulp.

‘It's a lot of power. As a manager of dragon magic... "

Boo!

The combined power of the seven attributes suddenly came to the front.

If you get hit there, you'll die instantly. Neither flesh nor bone will remain intact and shattered.

Balin made a frightening yet protective shield for the ether.

Arcane Shield. Though the shield magic was only made of ether, its defensive power was strong enough to ward off class 7 magic.

Even if that Guardian is strong enough as it is, it will not be easily pierced.

Balin's eyes widened as he thought. It was because the Guardian's fist showed tremendous sight.

“Unh!? ”

The feeling of your body being sucked away, as well as the strong shield of Arcane Shield vanishes like a lie.

It was even more shocking to know what this power was.

"This...! Absorption! Absorption ability...! ’

Obviously this is a unique ability that only Vampire Emperors have.

The Guardian didn't know how to use it, so Valine's response is delayed.

It was time to finish the punch that I never missed.

Flash!

A dazzling glow emanates from the necklace he was wearing.

It was also at that time that the fist that seemed to be about to strike was stopped.

“Huh…?! ”

- Hey, this!!!

Both mild malignancies echoed in the cavity as it was.

The light of the necklace grows stronger in between! It slowly pushes out the Guardian's fist.

- Yeah, you. Where did you get this... treasure? How did you gain more power than the Eternal Tomb? Answer me!

“... ”

I couldn't see his face, but I could tell by his voice what he was standing on.

Meanwhile, Valine sighs and looks at him once.

You try to pretend you're fine, but one of the giant's arms is already badly melted.

It feels like sunny ice cream. Perhaps he was struck by the light from the necklace.

Answer me, human! How did you get your hands on...

“That is the mission given to me. Guardian of this place. ”

When the giant asked again, Balin spoke in a solemn voice.

He was no longer as surprised as before. The five Mana circles emitted enormous amounts of ether as they moved.

Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker!

A spear of light made of ether! The ether used to be used on Kanehuf was not completely refined blue, but it is now capable of pure power.

The giant who felt its power was surprised once more. He stutters and bites off the identity of Balin.

“Four, a mission. So, human. What the hell are you...”

“I am commanded by God to move to save this world. Guardian.”

Balin says so and reaps the magic. He had a hunch that the situation was resolved without having to shoot.

* * *

The situation went as expected. The Guardian, Katua, reaches for power.

Not acknowledged by dragons? It could no longer be a distraction.

The god Rayan is the creator of all things and the best god who manages the realm of light.

No matter how transcendent the power of the dragons was, it was nothing compared to that.

Since Balin was recognized by such a god, it was also natural that Katua could no longer antagonize him.

- You, no. You've qualified enough. But first I have to listen. Why on earth did you gain that power?

“... ”

Valine hesitates, not immediately answering Katua's question.

I knew he meant to ask that question.

Dragon magic is a powerful force that can change the order of the world.

No matter how much they were acknowledged by God, they didn't know what they were trying to get, and they couldn't just hand it over.

Balin's concern was whether to reveal his background or take it lightly.

- It doesn't matter if you don't talk. You have come here in the name of God, and you are worthy of it. If you don't want to talk, I'll leave right now. Human.

“... No, I'll say it. Guardian.”

Balin told Katua everything honestly.

Everyone denies it at the roundtable meeting, but this Guardian instinctively feels different from them.

Besides, he'll never get out of here. I didn't have to worry about sharing the content with others.

Katua was quite interested in the story of her former life, and her current behavior.

Regression was a story that Katua, the spirit who had been guarding this place for a thousand years, would also be interested in.

- Well, the Demon King is resurrected and the world is once again...

Katua nods, hearing the whole story.

It must be something that Layan would never wish for the whole world to be covered in darkness.

It was a reasonable situation to have this human moved back to stop it.

- So you saw the end of your life and came back.

“... Yes. ”

Balin nods forcefully. When I talked about the past, I couldn't help but feel calm.

- Well, good. If we carry out the mission God has given us, we have enough reason to do so. If you use it to slap the Demon King, the Great People who have fallen asleep in the Eternal Tomb will agree.

After finishing his sentence, Katua's figure suddenly shrinks.

Approximately the same size as Balin, it had a proper shape.

- It's a human form, and it won't make your eyes uncomfortable.

“Well, yeah. ”

Balin nods lightly. Katua was drunk as a naked girl and was very uncomfortable with him.

-... you have no desire for reproduction. Maybe that's why he was chosen for his mission.

Katua's embarrassed appearance changed her form. This time, it was a round circle with a subtle light.

Let me give you the power of the great ones. It doesn't work in the morning, so you'll probably have to go back and forth a few times in the meantime.

“Round trip? But this sorcerer...”

- You can only use it once? I was going to. After you left, I was going to seal up this sorcerer again.

Balin lets out a sigh of relief, thinking that he would never be able to come back here again.

If I went back without thinking carefully, I would regret it indefinitely.

“So you'll stay here as long as you have that power? ”

- If you are uncomfortable, I will leave the entrance of the multidimensional barrier around this place open. Get help from the humans outside, move through this corridor, or choose anything.

“The humans out there, what do you mean? ”

- This space is distorted by the magic of great men, and, of course, outside there are ordinary people.

In Katua's reply, Valine was curious.

I suddenly wondered where this space was actually located.

But now I have to ask something more important than that.

The details of the dragon's magic and its power!

It was a trivial curiosity. It was not too late even after I finished my training.

Valine takes a deep breath and opens her mouth slowly.

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Thank you for reading. This is the second episode of today.

Thinking about the details of the dragon's magic, it's quite... a bit late.

But I'm going to try and get the third one up on time.

ah, horseman writer. Princess Knight, if you're watching this review, you should get involved. Why can't you do it in the third year?