Episode 66
Why are you there, brother?
‘Why is the gate here… …?’
A doubt crossed my mind, but only for a moment.
Cracks can appear even if Babel doesn’t provide coordinates through ‘sub-local channels’.
Sudden Gate is a representative case.
Even if it is not a sudden crack like that, there are also cracks that appear silently and wait for the ‘right time’.
The John Burr Gate, waiting quietly for the right time to open its doors.
They called it the seed crack, the seed gate.
“Wow, there are a lot of people living without the law.”
These kids should all be filmed in Wise Prison Life.
The national rule is to report ‘seeds’ as soon as they are discovered.
Sometimes, children who have run away to Andromeda will try to hide it by talking nonsense like they want to communicate with the other world, and if they are caught, they will be sent to prison without a fight.
As expected, this picture was also obvious.
What kind of mad scientist guy was so excited when he discovered the seed that he set up a research center.
“Rare animal experiments, drug research… … even seed hiding. This is a complete crime gift set. What kind of Christmas is this?”
Verses 1 and 2 are not enough, it’s brainwashing itself.
Geo looked at the unlucky blue hole with a rotten expression.
“Can’t the seeds be closed in advance?”
“In principle, yes. If something is open, it can also be closed.”
“Then let’s quickly take him out first. If we report that guy and hit him, the center kids will take care of it.”
The fairy dragon that was dying miserably was a priority over the seeds that were still alive.
Geo reached out and asked with the utmost kindness in his life.
“Hey, Fairy Dragonfly. Are you okay?”
It was the utmost kindness according to the standards of Kyeonjio.
“You didn’t die in the meantime, did you? It was time to explain the Seed Gate. If you don’t mention this, you’ll hear people complaining that it’s not plausible.”
‘Is that Deadpool? Don’t break the fourth wall like that… ‘
A finger poking the body without caring whether Baek Do-hyeon looked at it in confusion or not.
“Hey, hey, open your eyes! At least open those dead fish eyes!”
Did that desperate (and rude) cry get through?
The air trembled.
Then, a voice buzzed in my head.
It was the dragon’s way of communicating through will rather than vocalization.
[… … I smell like my own kind.]
“… … .”
Geo’s eyebrows, which had been light-hearted the whole time, hardened.
A primitive form of communication transmitted through will.
Although it had the advantage of being completely free of misunderstanding, it also had its drawbacks.
The other person’s feelings and intentions are conveyed ‘very’ directly.
Jianjiao felt the emotions of a dragon.
It was so sad, it was devastating.
“… … Oh. I have a dragon too. A dragon like you. Even though the lineage is a bit different, the roots are roughly similar.”
[Is that so? Then it wasn’t my mistake, thank goodness… … I thought it was a dream right before I died.]
The sound of Asrahan.
Geo looked at her blankly.
“Yonggary, what’s your name?”
[Amphitrich.]
“Amphitrite. That’s a good name. It’s the name of a Greek sea goddess.”
The fairy Amphitrich laughed. It was a dissipative groan.
[How clever.]
[I too was born in that sea… … . White waves under the warm sun created me… … .]
That would probably be the case.
That day at the academy, Geo never forgot the color of the dragon scales that he had seen under the sunlight to check.
It looks black now, as if it has been lacquered, but it must have originally been a dazzling array of colors.
Like the white waves of the Mediterranean Sea breaking under the sun.
Geo put his hand on it quietly. The life force he felt from the dragon was extremely weak.
“Yes… … . Amphitrich. I came at your partner’s request. I’ll take you to him. Until then, hold on.”
[… …the book.]
Kyeonji-oh immediately regretted mentioning Yun Ui-seo’s name.
It was a huge emotion, incomparable to what it had been just a moment ago. They completely washed over Geo.
Sadness, worry, regret… … .
It was a painful heartbreak.
The fairy Amphitrich wept without crying.
[Because I was weak… … and lacking, I caused my partner to suffer like this. I resent humans, but I can’t forgive myself the most… … .]
“… …Why you?”
A fairy dragon trapped underground due to human greed.
Even as we speak, the horrible artificial blood vessels are draining blood and magic from her.
With its wings torn off and its entire body covered in coffins, the dragon was dying amidst human desires.
Yet Amphitrich blamed herself more than those who had made her that way.
I was worried about my partner, who must have been the one who got trapped here.
‘It’s always like this.’
Always like this.
That’s how the world is.
Good things are the weakest. They fade the earliest.
A man who lived his entire life doing good deeds and thought of others before himself until the end also died that way.
Leaving behind a young daughter.
A sacrificial altar-like unit with a giant fairy dragon crouching on it.
The blood vessels surrounding the periphery and the seed cracks rippling just above the dragon’s massive body.
Baek Do-hyeon, who had been looking closely at them as he approached, called out to Geo in a deep voice.
“Joe, these blood vessels… … and even the seeds, they all seem to be deeply connected to Amphitrich.”
“… … .”
“As if they were one life, organically connected.”
“… … Hey, that’s what I mean.”
“Yes. I guess… … .”
If you touch even one thing wrong, it can have a fatal effect on Amphitrich.
Maybe, I could die.
Baek Do-hyun was saying that with a heavy look in his eyes. He, too, felt miserable about this situation.
Geo’s expression darkened.
[… … King of Humans, what is your name?]
“Hold on.”
[Geo, I can feel your anger too. It’s like an angry wave.]
“… … .”
[But there is no need for that. Don’t you also feel that my life has already reached its end… …?]
Life is as precarious as a candle in the wind.
The fairy dragon, who had been continuing her will with her fading breath, suddenly turned her head.
[… … Still, if you don’t mind.]
He stares at Geo with clear eyes.
The sky brightens for a brief moment before the sun sets completely, like a twilight glow.
[Can I ask you something?]
“What is it?”
[The lives of the Tamer and Partner are connected.]
[I hope my death does not become the death of the Book of Ethics. This is my only wish, Amphitrich.]
“… … Bullshit. Why did you have to die?”
Geo responded annoyedly.
What are you talking about? Do you think I came all the way here to force you to terminate the contract?
Her sentimental mind, swept away by her emotions, wakes up a little thanks to her.
[One, Your Majesty.]
“Ah, shut up.”
Geo also carefully examined the area surrounding the dragon.
Certainly, even to an outsider, it is deeply intertwined and difficult to readily touch.
Thump, thump.
From artificial blood vessels that feel a pulse, to seed gates that stick out of the air like seeds and emit blue waves around them.
I didn’t even know where to start.
“Hey, Mr. Baek. You’re really good with knives. How can you cut something like this so well? Like a grumpy chef filming a salmon butchering show.”
It was at that moment that I was muttering like that and just taking steps towards Baek Do-hyeon.
“… … ! Geo, watch out!”
『Stigmata, forced opening.』
『The ultimate status, ‘■■■■’, exercises some of his power of intervention in accordance with the Covenant of the Holy World.』
【Aren’t you going to come to your senses?】
But there’s a slight difference.
“Are you okay?”
Baek Do-hyeon’s arm roughly grabbing my shoulder.
Geo quietly raised his hand and touched my cheek. It felt tingly.
Baek Do-hyeon, who had been looking around quickly, let out a shallow sigh of relief.
“It was dangerous. Fortunately, the trait seems to have been activated… … ”
no.
It’s not a characteristic or anything.
Geo looked at the broken pieces of arrow and the fallen hat on the floor.
An arrow that barely grazed my left cheek. I didn’t notice it because it had no magical power whatsoever.
The ‘Absolute Barrier’ trait of Gyeonjio, which instinctively blocks attacks, only reacts to magic power.
Even if he is so strong that his job classification is meaningless, he is basically a magician who can withstand it.
If ‘he’ hadn’t intervened and pushed it away, it might have gone straight into my eye.
“… … F**k. Who the hell almost made Gung Ye out of someone just now.”
Geo’s face, finally understanding the situation, slowly distorted like a demon.
Jeok-.
Tsk tsk tsk-!
“Catch them! Kill them!”
“Joe! Back off, gate!”
Was the blind arrow the starting point?
People with strange eyes coming from behind.
and…….
The seed of birth began to draw continuous diagonal lines in the air, sucking in magical power.
The triggers were pulled simultaneously.
It was a moment when the room turned into a battlefield, as if someone had played a prank on them.
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