Book 1 Chapter 735
735.
It was late at night when Leo returned to the clock tower.
Chen Sia, who had taken a seat on the sofa, served him tea and said,
“Since it's late anyway, why don’t you just stay here overnight today?”
“Sia. You need to sleep early to grow tall.”
Leo chuckled at Lisinas's words.
“He’s past that. He must be all grown up already, right?”
At that, Chen Sia looked at Leo with protesting eyes.
Leo completely ignored her gaze and sipped his tea.
Lisinas gently stepped on Leo’s foot and said,
“I understand how you feel, but you should go back today.”
“Can’t I stay just a little longer?”
“I want to talk with you more too, but… from now on, it’s adult time.”
“Ah.”
Chen Sia made a slightly flustered expression, then hurriedly bowed her head.
Seeing that, Leo stood up and opened a door that could lead anywhere, opening the way to the Department of Knights.
“H-Have a good time.”
Chen Sia bowed and hastily returned to the dormitory.
Watching her, Leo clucked his tongue.
“Anyway, kids these days have too much imagination in strange ways.”
“Why? I think it’s just cute.”
Lisinas giggled and savored the tea Chen Sia had prepared.
“It’s good. Bihard also made good tea.”
Lisinas, who had been momentarily lost in old memories, put down her teacup.
“So? What happened in the meantime?”
“How much do you remember?”
“My memory is fragmented. Some memories are vivid, but since I was in an incomplete spirit state, I don’t have other memories.”
“Then it would be faster to tell you from the beginning.”
Having said that, Leo recounted to Lisinas the story of what happened since his reincarnation.
The story of being born into the Flobe family and enrolling in Lumen.
The subsequent school life.
The existence of the Hero Record.
The story of what happened in Arion and Luna, and Dweno’s world before meeting Lisinas in the hero’s world.
And the process of Arion, Luna, and Dweno appearing in the present world after meeting Lisinas.
“Indeed… it was the Record System.”
As expected of Lisinas, who was called the King of Wisdom, she understood the fundamental nature of the Hero Record at once after hearing Leo’s story.
“You knew about the Record System?”
“Yes, it was one of the divine powers that had been passed down for a long time since the Age of Gods. I’ve seen something similar. I never imagined it would be implemented in this way, though.”
Having said that, Lisinas looked at Leo.
“To even subjugate Silatuna and the Giant King… and a fragment of Erebus. That’s amazing.”
“I used some power.”
“You must have felt very wronged. To go through all that hardship and be reborn, only to be treated as someone who never existed in history.”
“At first, I was incredibly wronged, yes. But since I’ve revealed my existence with my own hands, I don’t care anymore.”
“If it were me, I would have been very sad the moment I learned that your existence had disappeared from history. And very angry too.”
“It’s all resolved now, isn’t it? It’s not that important.”
“No, it is important.”
Lisinas looked straight at Leo.
“History is very important. Because you can learn a lot from history.”
“Your way of thinking is definitely unique. I just felt wronged that I suffered so much and was forgotten.”
“Why else would I be the leader?”
“Yes, yes. Leader. I will follow you forever.”
Lisinas giggled as she watched Leo shrug his shoulders, then rested her chin on her hand.
“How is it? Trying out my role? Isn’t it very difficult?”
“It’s so hard, I miss it to tears.”
“You should have been better when you had it.”
Leo clucked his tongue, looking at the smiling Lisinas.
“Well, still, you’re doing very well on your own.”
“Thanks to learning by watching.”
“Whoever taught you did a good job.”
“No. I learned well.”
Leo and Lisinas chatted playfully.
Just then.
Knock, knock-
Someone knocked on Leo’s room window.
Leo looked towards the window to see Elsi peeking her head in.
[Excuse me, Leo. We have a visitor.]
Lisinas was startled to see Elsi’s face and stood up abruptly from her seat.
“The Shadow Spirit Elsi?”
[Ah, nice to meet you. Lisinas. Of course, you’re not seeing me for the first time, but still.]
Elsi lifted her skirt slightly and greeted them with a bright smile.
Lisinas looked at her with a bewildered expression.
5000 years ago.
It was astonishing enough that a Great Spirit who had perished in the battle with the King of Death was present, but it was difficult to adapt to a spirit with an innocent and gentle impression, completely opposite to the gloomy and sharp appearance in her memories.
Seeing her, Leo said,
“This is Elsi before she met us.”
Leo had omitted the detailed story when talking about Arion to convey the situation quickly.
“Her personality is very different.”
“Elsi also went through what the Guardian of the Azure Sky experienced.”
Lisinas, having briefly heard Elsi’s story, closed her eyes and let out a deep sigh.
Agon, the Guardian of the Azure Sky, whom Lisinas had intended to add to her party.
He was a hero whose mental fortitude was incredibly strong, apart from his individual strength.
She thought that if such a hero had experienced a breaking point, even a Great Spirit would inevitably be affected in the same way.
‘Especially if it’s a young spirit.’
It was understandable that she hated the world at that time.
Nevertheless, Lisinas, recalling Elsi who had ultimately dedicated herself to the world, smiled gently and extended her hand.
“Nice to meet you, Elsi. I’m Lisinas.”
[It is such a great, great honor to meet you too. I wanted to form a contract with you.]
“…It would have been better if we had met a little earlier.”
Elsi smiled brightly, seeing Lisinas’s regretful expression.
[I don’t think there’s any need to regret it at all! After all, thanks to all of you, the world was saved, and we were able to meet like this, weren’t we?]
“Luminus would have really liked you.”
Lisinas, recalling her sworn companion, looked at Leo.
“Leo. Do you happen to know what happened to Luminus?”
Seeing Lisinas ask about the whereabouts of her sworn companion who had been gravely wounded and sealed in the battle with the King of Gluttony, Leo handed her a necklace decorated with a brightly shining jewel from his pocket.
“Light Gem…”
“He was sealed until I arrived.”
Leo continued, looking at Lisinas who was gazing at the necklace.
“He saw the current era before he left, so don’t worry too much.”
“That’s a relief.”
At that, Lisinas smiled in relief.
“By the way, didn’t you say there was a visitor?”
[Yes, it’s a visitor looking for Lisinas.]
“Me?”
Just as Lisinas made a bewildered expression.
A fairy flew in through the open window.
Golden dust scattered with each flap of its wings.
The wing dust of the Fairy King, valued as treasure by alchemists.
Lisinas was surprised when she recognized the face of the visitor.
“Oh my goodness! Silrod!”
[I’m so happy to see you again! Lisinas!]
Silrod flew into Lisinas’s arms, shedding tears.
“You were alive all this time!”
Meeting someone who remembered her in a world 5000 years later gave Lisinas great emotion.
Silrod rejoiced wholeheartedly as they shared their reunion after millennia.
“You’re a proper Fairy King now. Cathariu worried a lot that Luna might ruin your personality.”
[No matter what, with my personality, I can’t imitate Luna.]
“Good job. There’s no need to learn bad things.”
‘He’s saying things that would make Luna go berserk if she heard them, so casually.’
Leo said, watching the two converse.
“Silrod.”
[Yes, Kyle.]
“Is there anything wrong with the Erebus fragment sealed in Fairy Land?”
The atmosphere grew serious at Leo’s question.
[No. It’s still sealed. There’s no particular movement either. Why?]
“It’s not anything else.”
Just as Leo was about to open his mouth.
Slam-!
Leo’s door burst open, and a beautiful child with grey hair and eyes, whose gender was indistinguishable, tumbled in.
Seeing that, Elsi and Silrod instinctively hid behind Leo and Lisinas.
As sensitive spirits and mythical beasts, they were overwhelmed by the aura emitted by the being in front of them.
Lisinas tilted her head slightly.
“Gods usually dislike grey, don’t they?”
“You recognized me at a glance?”
“Because I’ve met many gods. Fundamentally a god, but also a little different, it seems.”
It was when Lisinas narrowed her eyes.
Lian, who had fallen to the floor, got up and looked at Leo.
Then he shrieked ‘Kiiiiiiiik!’, covering his face, and moved as far away from Leo as possible.
[Wh-Why is that person acting like that?]
Elsi asked in a terrified voice, and Silrod, who had been hiding in Lisinas’s hair, cautiously said,
[Is that person really a god? I don’t remember any god being so crazy, no matter how powerful they are?]
[Are gods usually crazy?]
[Yes.]
‘If Fiboa heard that, she would feel wronged.’
Leo clucked his tongue, recalling Fiboa, the only god in his memory who had rational thoughts.
“Aargh! Too dazzling! Lisinas, the King of Wisdom who guided Sir Kyle! And even the summoned beasts who accompanied him on that journey! Yes! This must be a museum! The greatest museum in the world! Ah! This place must be preserved forever and today declared a world holiday! And it must be designated as a public holiday to celebrate this day! Specifically, the public holiday period will be one week! Yes! One week would be perfect!”
“It seems like he’s getting crazier as time goes on.”
“Aaaah! The sun! The sun is coming!!! It’s more brilliant than usual! If I stay like this, I’ll go blind!!!!”
“Wear sunglasses.”
“Aha!”
Lian took Leo’s advice and put on sunglasses.
“Ohh. This way I can clearly see Lord Leo’s honored face… No! To put such dark glass pieces in front of my eyes when looking at Lord Leo’s honored face! Such sacrilege!”
Lian threw away the sunglasses and knelt before Leo.
“Lord Leo. This sacrilege, I will atone by plucking out my own two eyes…”
“You’re particularly overdramatic today.”
“I can’t help it! Is it not the King of Wisdom, Lisinas, none other than herself, beside Lord Leo?!”
“Are you talking about me?”
Lian nodded as Lisinas asked with a perplexed expression.
“Yes, Lisinas. Because you are by his side, Lord Leo shines even more brilliantly!”
“Why Lisinas?”
“Was it not the King of Wisdom who gave light to the dark Lord Leo? The one who guided Lord Leo onto the path of a hero!”
Leo grabbed Lian by the scruff of the neck with an unenthusiastic expression.
And casually threw him onto one side of the sofa.
But Lian immediately approached Lisinas and offered her a statue of herself.
“King of Wisdom, please sign it.”
“……”
As Lisinas signed with a bewildered expression, Lian smiled happily.
“This is an addition to my collection.”
Lian, who sincerely rejoiced and placed the statue into his sub-space, then introduced himself.
“It is an honor to meet you, the great King of Wisdom and King of the World, Lisinas. I am Lian, the administrator of the Record System.”
Lian, having shed the fanatical atmosphere from moments ago, introduced himself courteously.
“I am Lisinas.”
“I wish to seek your wisdom, who is the incarnation of wisdom.”
At his words, Lisinas made a questioning expression.
“Even if a god is not omnipotent, they are omniscient, aren’t they? Is there a need to seek wisdom from me, a being of the mortal world?”
“It is true that gods are omniscient, but that is only limited to knowledge that has been passed down. Regarding knowledge that has not been passed down, they are ignorant.”
Lian, kneeling, spread his arms.
“Moreover, knowledge and wisdom are different. You know that fact best.”
“What you want to ask me… are you referring to the records of the Ancient Gods?”
“Yes. Their records do not remain in the divine realm.”
“Ancient Gods? What’s that?”
As Leo made a questioning expression, Lisinas answered him.
“They refer to the gods who opened the Age of Gods. Of course, some of those gods existed until the end of the Age of Gods… but they all perished when the Age of Disaster began.”
“Aren’t gods fundamentally eternal and unchanging beings?”
“That’s right. But they are not immortal beings.”
Lisinas answered calmly.
“Eternity is merely a divine power. In the presence of a being that can nullify that power, even gods lose their existence.”
That being was none other than the primordial evil, Erebus.
“Just as even Erebus, an immortal being, loses the power of immortality before your attribute of purity.”
Leo crossed his arms.
“So you know about these Ancient Gods or whatever they are?”
“Perhaps.”
“What do you mean, perhaps?”
“It means it might be passed down in the knowledge of dragons.”
Lisinas tapped her head.
“I also have a Record System in my head, albeit a crude one.”
“What?”
“I just said it earlier. That I’ve seen something similar to the Record System. Of course, this one was made by dragons, not gods.”
Having said that, Lisinas looked at Lian.
“So, what are you curious about?”
“You know well that the Flame of Destruction has existed since the beginning, right?”
“Yes. That’s why it’s called the primordial evil.”
“Before the Age of Gods began. The primordial evil lost its power for an instant. At that time, the gods completely pushed the primordial evil out of the world.”
“I know that too.”
This was a story Leo knew nothing about.
“I am curious if that abomination swallowed something at that time.”
Leo understood what Lian was asking, hearing Lian’s significant words.
“Swallowed something?”
As Lisinas made a questioning expression, Leo said,
“Unmelting ice.”
“…?”
“I found unmelting ice, just like an unextinguishable flame.”
“What?”
Lisinas’s face hardened.
Leo then told Lisinas about the hypothesis Lian had presented after he had witnessed the unmelting ice some time ago.
Hearing that story, Lisinas opened her mouth.
“If there were several evil gods besides Erebus before the Age of Gods… and Erebus swallowed those evil gods. Then one of the fragments might have revived in the form of that evil god?”
“That’s right.”
“…That’s serious.”
Lisinas took a deep breath.
“In that case, let’s try to find out. I don’t know if it will work well, though.”
Having said that, Lisinas stood in front of Leo.
“Why?”
“Put your hand on my right chest.”
“Are you crazy?”
“Do you think I *like* telling you to touch me?! To open the Record System in my head, I need my Dragon Heart!”
“And?”
“Did you forget that I gave you my Dragon Heart?! You’re the owner of my mana, you know? Whether you like it or not, your body has to touch my Dragon Heart!”
Lisinas wrinkled her face severely.
Leo scratched his cheek, looking at Lisinas, and placed his hand on her right chest.
Along with that, black mana began to flow from Leo’s body.
Goooooo-!
Then, the moment Lisinas’s mana enveloped Leo, Leo’s vision went dark.