Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 106
Episode 106:
General Dong’s
moment.
Elric was able to peek again at the karma left by the Dongbaek God.
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-I’m bored.
The God of Camellia… no, the ‘Queen’, whose name Elric still does not know, was a lonely being.
In the huge palace named the Winter Palace, he closed and opened his eyes alone, worked alone, walked around the garden alone, and looked alone at his all-white estate.
She was alone in the whole routine.
I didn’t do much of the work alone. It was simply because she was the only one in the palace. She was the only person living in the large estate.
She alone was queen, subject, and citizen.
Of course, it was never like this from the beginning.
The Winter Palace was always crowded with countless people, and the subjects were crying and asking for more manpower due to the workload pouring in from all over.
Yet the people always lived with a smile on their faces. He praised her so much that she could live without worries, saying that it was all thanks to the Queen’s consideration, and she nodded proudly each time.
but.
That’s just a thing of the distant past.
For reasons unknown to Elric, the people all closed their eyes and the subjects went on a long journey.
Not even a single blade of grass grew in this spacious palace and even larger estate.
In this desolate and lonely place where dogs, which were commonly seen, no longer run around and play, all that was visible was pure white snow.
-I’m bored. too.
So, while the queen was busy with her daily routine, she often talked to herself because she had no one to talk to.
If I continued like this, I really felt like I would forget how to speak.
Sometimes I thought about giving up on work and getting some sleep, which I had been putting off forever due to my busy daily life.
It seemed like a lot of time would pass after I hibernated or something.
No, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to just continue to sleep like this.
But whenever such thoughts occurred to her, the Queen would always shake her head and whisper to herself that she should not do that.
If he fell asleep here, there would be no one to remember his precious people and subjects…
That was so terrible.
-Still, I’m bored. What kind of work should I do this time… hmm?
So that day, I was carrying out my daily tasks just like any other day.
As I was walking around the palace, wondering if anything was broken, if anything needed to be repaired, and if there was anything that needed to be added, I was able to discover something that was different from usual.
A sprout growing between transparent ice tiles as cleanly cut as marble… one.
-Hoo?
The queen looked at it and let out a very brief exclamation.
No matter how many times she wandered around palaces and estates, the world around her always remained the same.
If it weren’t for the snow falling outside the window, everything was so quiet and quiet that I thought time would have stopped.
No matter how much she searched to find the broken place, her world always remained the same, but for the first time, there was a very small change.
-I won’t be bored for a while.
For the first time in hundreds of years, a faint smile appeared on the ice-cold face of the queen.
* * *
[Successfully met the necessary conditions.]
[The fourth constraint is being lifted.]
[This constraint requires a considerable amount of time to be lifted due to the large lock.]
Faaaa!
The stone slab trembled slightly and the back of my hand emitted a bright light.
Clap, plop, plop.
Elric could feel the magic energy pouring out one after another from the completed seal of cruelty to the seal of cold wind.
The seal of the cold wind was so urgent that it ate up demon energy without stopping. Still, he felt that something was so lacking that he begged the Cruel Seal for more demon energy. It was as if I was seeing a baby bird begging its mother bird to be fed.
At such times, the Relentless Seal was able to soothe the impatient Seal of the Cold Wind and change everything little by little.
It was around that time that something that had been tightly binding the seal of the cold wind began to fall away.
Hwii!
The wind blew from somewhere.
Elric’s hair also fluttered helplessly in the wind.
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One task was added to the queen’s otherwise busy daily routine.
It was just about growing sprouts.
To help the sprouts grow well, the surrounding ice tiles were replaced and the surrounding area was replenished with soil obtained with difficulty.
To prevent the sprouts from freezing to death due to the cold, we controlled the temperature and built a barrier around them to prevent snow blowing.
-You need to know. This woman is a person who never pays attention to trivial things like this. Always keep in mind how much grace you are receiving.
In fact, the queen did not know what type of sprout this was. The flowers that filled the garden before were all taken care of by the subjects and people. It was my first time growing something like this with my own hands.
So the Queen’s hand had to be very careful. I’m afraid the sprouts might not grow properly. I didn’t want to let go of someone I hadn’t seen in hundreds of years so easily.
-Even if you came in at will, leaving is not at will.
As time passed, the sprout continued to grow. There were a few times when I was almost in danger, but I did it somehow and grew well little by little.
The sprout became a seedling, and the seedling gradually grew upward, spreading branches and sprouting leaves. Then, one by one, flower buds formed and began to bloom.
The flowers were red.
It was so beautiful that the queen had to look at the flower for a long time. It was to the point where I even forgot about having to do the work I had been repeating every day.
And from then on, the queen picked the fruit from where the flower had faded and planted it next to it. I was wondering if more of the same tree could grow.
Fortunately, her thoughts were correct. The garden soon began to fill with numerous trees. And at some point, unknown flowers began to bloom one by one between the trees… and the garden truly became a flower garden.
spring Summer Fall Winter. Although it was still a cold world with snow falling outside, flowers bloomed and fell sequentially every season here. The queen always felt happy just by being there.
and.
On the other hand, I could see that the power that had been building up inside her was gradually starting to leak out.
-These people are all poisonous.
The queen let out a laugh.
Actually, if you think about it, it was a very natural thing. She was the queen who ruled over all ice and snow in the world, and as such, she always had to live with the cold winter in her heart.
But the moment that winter melted away like spring snow, all the thoughts that had formed her also melted away.
However, that did not mean the queen had any intention of destroying the flower garden she had carefully maintained. No, rather, I wanted to keep this place beautiful until the end.
It was a pity that no one would remember the subjects and people who had left when she melted, but she had no desire to leave because she was able to recall old memories while she was in this garden.
This was because this was a place where deep memories of her subjects and people laughing the brightest with her remained.
Pop!
Pop!
As time passed, the queen gradually became thinner. I quietly closed my eyes, burying my face in the flower garden, which was filled with the strong scent of flowers. The water flowing from her flowed proudly, moistening the petals.
[Who is this sister?]
[Who is she?]
[Pretty.]
[Pretty!]
Crying –
It seemed like a sound like a sparrow chirping in the quiet flower garden, but the queen did not open her eyes. I was just quietly enjoying the warmth of the flowers, as if I was taking a nap.
‘Winter’ was coming to an end and ‘spring’ was about to arrive.
but.
-There was something like this in a place like this.
Damn it!
An unfamiliar pitch-black shadow was cast in such a flower garden.
* * *
‘Is that…?’
For a moment, Elric felt that the owner of the shadow he last saw in the game looked familiar.
‘Drink!’
He was someone who possessed the same temperament as the gigantic demon god who once confronted the wizard who seemed to be the progenitor when he first opened the arrangement.
Although it was very different from the tens of meters tall body and appearance.
Elric thought it must be a demon god.
No, I was sure.
The owner of the shadow later picked up the queen’s body left in the flower garden and breathed life into it.
It was a miracle that could never have been accomplished unless it were a divine being.
-Shouldn’t winter just remain winter?
The body was scattered, and the evil thoughts remaining inside it were released, creating a new mystery. It gradually spread out, embracing a lot of darkness, and gradually descended from the black snow field to the outer edge, along the ridge to the first thousand (泉).
It was the birth of General Dong.
Paaaat!
It was there that Elric came to his senses. It was as if the queen’s karma, which was cold yet warm, lonely but happy, could be vividly felt at her fingertips.
However, it was a harsh wind that was extremely chilly for those who tried to destroy the flower garden and trample on the territory, so it was a ‘sleeping wind’.
Toad!
Elric
could feel that the ice string that forcibly restrained the Seal of Cold Wind was completely broken and it was clearly connected to the Seal of Relentlessness.
click!
It was certain.
In completing ‘Winter’, the seal of cruelty and the seal of cold wind were cogs that moved together as one.
[All restrictions have been lifted!]
[Open the essence.]
When Elric raised his head again, the sight he saw was a dark and chilly world.
Here, Elric seemed to know what to do.
The seal of cruelty no longer swallowed the cold. Instead, this time I vomited back what I had swallowed.
With the seal of the cold wind.
“【I’m going to come to Air because I’m lonely】.”
The moment the completed trigger was pulled, the seal of the cold wind violently created a whirlwind.
Kwakwakwakwa!
A snowstorm of incomparably greater size than before clawed and tore the darkness surrounding Elric to shreds. Even the snowstorm that had disrupted my vision and senses was defeated.
Kukuku –
As if a curtain had been lifted, the hidden ‘real’ scenery appeared beyond it.
[…You finally woke up.]
The camellia god was still riding on Elric’s left shoulder.
However, the emotions on her face were very complex and subtle.
For her, her entire past was revealed to Elric. You might feel embarrassed and a little dissatisfied.
but.
There were feelings that went much further than that.
“Hwawon, I will somehow put it back to its original state.”
Elric read those thoughts and spoke to the camellia god.
[You…!]
“Seeing the beautiful flowers that bloomed in the flower garden again. “Isn’t that the sight you wanted to embrace until the end and protect even when you were reborn as the God of Camellia?”
The camellia god kept his mouth shut.
As Elric said, the flower garden she grew up in was now called the Temple of Flowers.
As the main deity who tended the temple of flowers before they were winter flowers, she longed to restore the beauty it once had.
The ‘spring’ that Woosden was talking about was the warmth that the demon god had blocked with a curse.
[ask… Can I do that?]
The Camellia God earnestly wished to Elric with the same face as the queen he had seen in the movie.
“Please don’t say such stiff things as a favor.”
[…?]
“You don’t say things like that between friends, right?”
[…!]
Elric leapt forward while saying those words. With each step, the seal of cruelty and the seal of cold wind mixed together, causing blizzards and ice fragments to bounce wildly.
[A friend.]
Looking at Elric like that, Dongbaek smiled bitterly.
[You’re saying too much. You’re crossing the line that was difficult to draw so easily.]
And yet.
There was a hint of laughter at the end of the sentence.
Far away.
I could see the old skin covered in dark shadows.
Wizard who swallowed talent