Chapter 319

‘It had the appearance of a black butterfly.’

Kalyan once said this.

‘I’m still not sure if there was a reason other than what I thought or the exact meaning of why it came out that way, so I decided to just assume that I was right.’

I looked down at the black butterfly that had landed on the tip of my finger and was telling me that there was a commotion in my head. It wasn’t long before the two sharp eyes softened.

black butterfly.

It’s a black butterfly.

Alan, who turned his head towards Adelia who was standing far away and repeated the same words several times, smiled secretly. And then he lowered his gaze again. Mysterious wings that seemed to have been carved from a corner of the sky and finely crafted fluttered peacefully. The sight was so impressive that I looked at it again for a while.

– Crispy!

As if there was nothing to worry about, he rolled it into his fist and crushed it with all his might.

“Adelia.”

Wing debris that had turned into black, burnt sand slipped through my fingers and fell down helplessly.

“…It’s a butterfly. What is it? That’s it?”

“You’ve mastered the finesse, Adelia.”

The voice, which was not at all loud, clearly reached Adelia’s ears, which were so far away that they seemed smaller than a finger. Adelia, who had been watching Alan and the black butterfly from so far away, looked regretful.

A magic that shows people’s fears.

It was a nasty spell that could make you live in a nightmare for the rest of your life. There may be a problem with a wizard learning and using magic, but it is different if the magic is a type of black magic. Adelia learned that. He pretended to send a huge magic mixed with all kinds of properties to Alan, and in the meantime, he implemented another black magic and sent it to Alan.

And Alan saw a black butterfly.

“Isn’t this black magic? Since increasing the circle has become difficult, it seems like you have become greedy for things you shouldn’t learn.”

“There’s nothing that says a wizard shouldn’t do anything. If he wants to learn, he learns, and if he wants to, he does.”

“It’s not a mouth that’s open to spit out anything, but it’s not a head that’s open to learn anything. Didn’t you know that even though you lived until you rotted away?”

“I guess I’ve lived so long that I forgot. What’s the problem? Anyway, I was wondering what young people these days are most afraid of, what are butterflies? There’s a rumor that they’re so amazing, but they’re afraid of butterflies. Alan Manasil.”

“Did you think that if you wrote this to Alan Manasil, you would at least meet Sispanian?”

“Yeah. I thought at least someone like that would come out. I’m disappointed.”

It has been a long time since black magic disappeared from the continent due to the Sispanians. Didn’t they modify ‘Taming’, one of the black magic spells, and say to destroy everything except raising a letter-carrying bird?

“As a wizard, the more you learn, the less you can do. Did you crawl out into the world without learning that one thing?”

“Don’t be scary. It’s my first time using it too. Don’t be too tight. It didn’t fit properly anyway.”

Learn black magic. Put a stone in your heart.

Alan, who witnessed what the wizard’s twisted curiosity had done, clicked his tongue.

Alan, who had already put away the magic sent by Adelia as if he had nothing more to say, gathered his strength once again.

– Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….

It feels like the air in all directions is flowing backwards.

The earth shook and the sky cried. The land, which had been repeatedly splitting and joining together again, turned into an appearance like the bottom of a river that had lost its water. If you were to see the land of salt at the edge of the Great Desert in person, it would probably look like this.

It seemed as if crumbs of the ground, which seemed to have cracks all over the place, appeared one by one, then small pebbles and stones the size of a fist appeared. A lump of stone rose and a rock rose. Alan’s fingers moved, exposing the entire floor and floating it in the air.

– Sigh!

– Howling!

The things that filled the space between Alan and Adelia began to burn. It burned with red light, then blue light, and eventually black light. The remains of the earth, which had been spinning in the air with fire at a temperature that was difficult to even fathom in my head, stopped moving for an instant. and.

– Sigh!

Alan announced his goal to the flames.

– Pot!

Adelia’s appearance disappeared. And then he appeared behind Alan.

The black fire did not stop or hesitate. It passed by Alan and continued to change direction and fly only towards Adelia. The hem of Adelia’s robe melted and disappeared.

-Ssam!

– Hwiik!

As if the goal once set will never change, black fireballs persistently rush at Adelia wherever she appears.

Finally, a few of those fireballs hit Adelia’s shield. The ice covering the gray great shield melted and disappeared as soon as it came into contact with Allen’s fire. A black fire that seemed to burn away the darkness passed by Adelia’s shoulder.

Even though I only brushed against it and didn’t even get close, I felt pain as if my skin was burning.

Adelia gritted her teeth and gathered her magic power.

The surrounding gravity was moved again and the fireballs stopped. A shapeless lump of water was pulled up from between the cracked floors. A mass of water stretched out like a huge curtain and covered the sky above Alan and Adelia. And it poured down.

– Chiiik!

The water that touched the fire that could not be extinguished easily created a huge cloud in an instant, which became a heavy rain again. Adelia froze the rain. He continued to pour out his magic power until the black, burning flame changed to blue light, then red light, and then disappeared.

As the fire died down, sharp drops of frozen rain rushed towards Allen. When Alan saw this, an intangible shield was wrapped around his body. One by one, the sharply forged ice flew towards Alan and hit the shield.

But no sound was heard.

Neither the sound of the ice blocking the shield nor the sound of Alan dodging it could be heard. As if one of the giant wizard’s pockets had been left open. The shield absorbed all of the ice blades that Adelia attacked.

– Ji-Ik.

After a while.

A straight crack appeared right behind Adelia. And through it, I thought I could see the back of Alan in the distance in front of me.

– Easy profit! Hiss!

The blade of ice that had been flying toward Allen just moments ago but disappeared came out as if pouring through the gap. Instead of using great effort to block Adelia’s attack, Alan connected the space around him and behind Adelia.

“… It’s annoying.”

Adelia, who quickly created a shield once again to protect herself from the attack, let out a swear word.

A stone embedded in the heart.

A stone that gives you the power of a 7th Circle Master or higher.

I haven’t used that power properly yet. Of course, Alan may not have used all his strength, but the same was true for Adelia.

Adelia lowered her hands to the floor and closed her eyes for a moment. The circle within the heart began to rotate frantically, sending out red energy from the black pebble embedded in it. When Alan saw that, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

– I said it was noisy.

The voice that had been hallucinating rang in Alan’s ears once again. And this time, the same sound came to Adelia’s ears. A black butterfly, which had relied on Adelia’s black magic to deliver a warning, but had crumbled and disappeared in Alan’s hands, flies again.

It wasn’t fake.

It was not a vision that brought out the fear in Alan’s heart. Alan’s fears were certainly true the first time, but not this time.

-Flapping, fluttering.

With a single flap of wings, the burning fire stopped.

The wind blowing with two flaps of wings stopped.

Time stopped with three flaps of wings.

Just one butterfly.

The whole world stopped at the flapping of the wings of that little butterfly. How dare you think of that as an illusion?

“Exceedingly great.”

In a world where everything stopped, the two great wizards, who were only tiny creatures, stopped fighting in front of the ancient ancient dragon. I bowed my head and saluted.

“… Meet Sispanian.”

He is the perfect person to understand for Kalian.

He was a grateful being who suddenly appeared at unexpected times, providing comfort on some days and accepting grievances on other days.

For Planz, they are living, breathing ancestors.

He is the one who caused the ridiculous names such as ‘My Fanny, the scariest person in the world’ to be engraved on the pure white treasured sword in the royal treasury. He looked at the lifeless face in the cavity he visited for Rosellita and said, ‘Now is enough.’ It was a vague existence that disappeared like a spark with just the word ‘.

And for most people, it was like an old storybook or a faded portrait.

But to wizards, it was like Serenti. Rather, it was a more absolute being than Serenti. Isn’t the ancient dragon who supports Sisterra on behalf of the sleeping god himself the god of all wizards? Faced with such a being right in front of me, it was difficult to properly control my nervous mind, even though I knew that I had come here only through my will and not my true self.

“I’m sorry for causing a commotion.”

Perhaps, if it had been Calian, it would have been foolish to ask what brought them to such a strange place, not the stone chamber of the Kyris Palace or the Sispanian nest, but unfortunately, the two were real wizards. It’s a miracle that he remembered Sispanian’s first words and offered an apology.

Anyway, it was noisy. It’s not like Sispanian came twice to stop two human wizards from fighting.

Palak Palak.

Once again, the black butterfly landed on the tip of Alan’s hand and flapped its wings several times.

– I’m worried that Danu’s roots will be cut off.

And he answered that it was true that he had come to stop the fight.

The land has been split so deeply that it is difficult to see the end, and huge craters have been created by colliding with fragments of the village star, which has been completely incinerated and difficult to find its shape. After briefly looking around the old elf village that was completely ruined in a short period of time, Adelia bowed her head and answered.

“I didn’t know that the origin of the mother tree reached this place.”

The problematic wizard who said that curiosity was black magic and Zeon’s pebble and that there was nothing to hide, finally said the right thing.

Most of those things weren’t me, but that young guy over there with unusual hair color. I didn’t make any excuses. I couldn’t act without hesitation that much. Adelia had a serious look on her face that had never been seen before, and when Alan saw it, he burst into laughter, forgetting that he had put the Cispanian on his hand.

– I understand.

A cloud of black light poured out from the body of the butterfly, which flapped its wings once again as if nodding its head. A cluster of twinkling stars flowed across the sky and then the ground, disappearing into the distance.

– Saaaa……

Then, surprisingly, everything that was hurt and burned began to return to its original place. Grass sprouted on the ashes of the earth, and stars appeared in a sky full of dark clouds.

It’s as if time is flowing backwards.

– Just leave this place alone. Danu’s request.

Neither of them answered. No, it would be correct to say that there was no time to answer. The black butterfly that had said what it had to say to the two wizards did not stay any longer and flew away into the sky and disappeared.

Alan let out a laugh.

It is said that if you put that black pebble into the heart, you will be able to aim your sword at Sispanian. A young disciple said something like that. Calian, who had met their true self and not through the will of Sispanian, who came to visit them now, had said such a thing.

Who else in the world other than Calian would think of taking out a sword in front of someone like that?

“…… “My pretty baby is truly extraordinary.” This

means that he said something truly crazy.

When Alan, who was muttering like that and looking at the end of the star cluster following the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, lowered his head, Adelia had already gone somewhere and was nowhere to be seen.

* * *

The long night continued.

“Prince Calian has decided to intervene.”

“Are you helping to degrade Crown Prince Chase?”

“No. This is retaliation for threatening Crown Prince Plants and Hina.”

“That’s just right.”

Kirie reported the situation to Arsene, who was on the flagship after seeing the Secretia Royal Knights disappearing after dying at the hands of Teilan. Kirie temporarily took on the role of escort. Arsene got up from his seat.

“Where are you going?”

“I need to help you. Should I just watch?”

Devlan is a massacre. He massacred.

Who doesn’t know that Tailan is behind it? Now that Tailan is slaughtering the royal knights, will it be seen as reflection and apology or as a threat that will not go away? .

“Lord Verne. It is said that no noble in the world wants

the monarch’s military power to be strong alone.” It was not surprising that I remembered Planz’s words at this moment, but what can I do? The right thing is right.

“Kairis intervenes . If that intervention is justified this time, we can step forward. “I think it’s because of our prince that Lord Castrin came over there.”

Chase couldn’t have hastily sent Teylan here.

Chase probably couldn’t stand it any longer when Devlan tried to mess with Calian again. How could he just let that happen? B. Rather

than have Tailan wipe out all those knights on his own and fill Chase with the name ‘As expected of Devlan’s son,’ let’s just go out on our own for a moment. Teleport from the window to the outside of the Marquis’s house and into the middle of Devlan’s knights, who have already been reduced by half

. Arsene grinned,

“Nice to meet you. My name is Arsene Hertz, Vice Commander of Kyris Vulcan.”

No noble would want a strong monarch on their own, but they are the ones who would most definitely welcome a strong monarch who can protect them from neighboring countries with stronger military power. Do you think so?

– Damn!

This time, the deputy commander of the Balkan army set out not to start a war in this land, but to return it to its original owner. Numerous ice spears appeared next to Arsene Hertz and split the air. The

knights All the swords shattered and disappeared.

* * *

The sun rose.

A long, dark night passed.

Planz slept a long, long sleep. He slept while the sun rose and set again, and the moon rose and set, and the sun rose and set again.

– This is the path you will take anyway. Don’t you know that?

– Stop the pointless rebellion.

The voice you tried to forget keeps coming back to you.

– …… Kwajik!

The feeling of a fingertip piercing someone’s heart. This keeps coming up.

My smart brain, which can’t forget it, doesn’t fall asleep completely even in my dreams.

Even in my dreams, there are many days when I open my eyes struggling with the bloody smell that I can’t forget, so it’s been a long time since I haven’t been able to get a deep sleep. Because of that, I’ve been sleeping longer and longer

. I slept.

Maybe it was because I fell asleep after touching the anesthetic. Maybe

it was because I fell asleep smelling the scent of flowers, which was stronger than the smell of blood.

This time, I smelled sweet and sour the whole time I was sleeping. I fell into a deep sleep for a long time, intoxicated by the sour smell. I slept for a long time, intoxicated by that unfamiliar smell, not the smell of blood.

And when I opened my eyes,

instead of asking if I woke up and saying, “Do you want to eat it?” and instead of the cod that I would definitely eat, as if it was a wish or a promise, my younger brother held out a yellow, long banana .

He spoke.

Without asking if I had slept well, without asking if there were any more pain, without even thanking him for helping me, he held out bananas. The ones piled up were bananas, but the room

was filled with the smell of sour tangerines. The light green tangerines, with only the peel remaining. Only then did he see that it was full. Planz, who had now realized why the dream was filled with only sweet and sour smells, raised one corner of his mouth.

“…… not.”

Do you think I am you?

Plantz frowned slightly and raised his finger to point at the table. There was one last sour tangerine left after everyone had eaten.

“I know you can’t eat sour things.”

“It’s no different.”

I don’t know how many days I slept, but my stomach was empty, so I ate a banana or a sour tangerine.

Kalian, who had completely forgotten the pile of sour tangerines while Plants was asleep, took a long time to choose his words before opening his mouth.

“I’ve got it all now, thanks.”

snake.

With those words, Plantz accepted a sour tangerine that was offered to him.

The sour tangerines my younger brother gave me after waking me up from a nightmare had a sweet taste.