Book 1 Chapter 735
It was deep into the night when Leo returned to the clock tower.
Chen Xia, settled on the sofa, served tea and said,
“Since you’re already this late, can’t you just stay the night here?”
“Xia. You grow taller if you sleep early.”
Leo, hearing Lisinas’s words, chuckled.
“He’s a lost cause. He’s probably already fully grown.”
Chen Xia glared at Leo with a protesting look.
Leo, completely ignoring her gaze, sipped his tea.
Lisinas gently stepped on Leo’s foot and said,
“I understand how you feel, but please go back for today.”
“Can’t I stay a little longer?”
“I’d like to talk with you more, but… from now on, it’s adult time.”
“Ah.”
Chen Xia showed a slightly flustered expression and hastily bowed her head.
Seeing that, Leo stood up and opened a door that could lead anywhere, opening the path to the Knight Department.
“H-have a good time.”
Chen Xia bowed and hurriedly returned to the dormitory.
Watching her, Leo clicked his tongue.
“Kids these days have such wild imaginations in strange ways.”
“Why? Isn’t she cute?”
Lisinas chuckled and savored the tea Chen Xia had prepared.
“This is good. Bihardo also made good tea.”
Lisinas, lost in old memories for a moment, set down the teacup.
“So? What happened while I was gone?”
“How much do you remember?”
“My memories are fragmented. Some are vivid, but since I was in an incomplete spirit state, I have no other memories.”
“Then it would be faster to start from the beginning.”
Saying so, Leo told Lisinas the story of what happened after his reincarnation.
The story of being born into the Plov family and enrolling in Lumern.
The subsequent school life.
The existence of the Hero Record.
The story of the world of Arion, Luna, and Dwenno before meeting Lisinas in the world of heroes.
And the process by which Arion, Luna, and Dwenno appeared in the current world after meeting Lisinas.
“So… it was the Record System.”
Just as expected of Lisinas, the King of Wisdom, she immediately understood the origin of the Hero Record after listening to Leo’s story.
“Did you know about the Record System?”
“Yes, it’s one of the divine powers passed down from the Age of Gods. I’ve seen something similar before, though I never imagined it would be implemented like this.”
Having said that, Lisinas looked at Leo.
“You defeated Silathuna, the Giant King… and even a fragment of Erebus. That’s incredible.”
“I put in some effort.”
“You must have been so frustrated. To be reborn after all that hardship, only to be treated as if you never existed in history.”
“At first, it was incredibly frustrating. But since I proved my existence with my own hands, I don’t care anymore.”
“If it were me, I would have been deeply saddened the moment I knew my existence had disappeared from history. I would have been very angry too.”
“It’s all resolved now. It’s not that important.”
“No, it is important.”
Lisinas looked directly at Leo.
“History is very important. You can learn many things from history.”
“Your way of thinking is certainly different. I was just frustrated about being forgotten after all that hard work.”
“Is there any other reason why I’m the leader?”
“Yes, yes. Leader. I will follow you forever.”
Lisinas chuckled, watching Leo shrug his shoulders, and rested her chin on her hand.
“How is it? Trying to play my role? Is it very difficult?”
“It’s so difficult, I’m crying from longing.”
“You should have done better when you had the chance.”
Leo clicked his tongue, watching Lisinas’s faint smile.
“Well, you’re doing a great job on your own.”
“It’s thanks to learning from you.”
“Whoever taught you, they taught you well.”
“No. I learned well.”
Leo and Lisinas exchanged playful banter.
Then.
Knock-knock-
Someone knocked on Leo’s room window.
Leo looked at the window and saw Elsie peeking her head in.
[Leo, you have a visitor.]
Seeing Elsie’s face, Lisinas was surprised and jumped up from her seat.
“Shadow Spirit Elsie?”
[Ah, nice to meet you, Lisinas. Of course, you’ve seen me before.]
Elsie slightly lifted her hem and greeted them with a bright smile.
Seeing that, Lisinas looked flustered.
5000 years ago.
It was surprising enough that a Great Spirit who had vanished in the battle with the King of the Undead still existed, but the spirit before her, with an innocent and gentle demeanor, was the complete opposite of the gloomy and sharp image in her memory, making it difficult to adjust.
Watching her, Leo said,
“This is Elsie before she met us.”
When telling Arion’s story, Leo had omitted the details to quickly convey the situation.
“Her personality is very different.”
“Elsie also went through what the Guardian of the Celestial Heavens experienced.”
After briefly hearing about Elsie, Lisinas closed her eyes and let out a deep sigh.
Arkon, the Guardian of the Celestial Heavens, whom Lisinas had intended to include in her party.
Regardless of his individual strength, he was a hero with incredibly strong mental fortitude.
She thought that even a Great Spirit would be affected if they experienced something that could break such a hero.
‘Especially a young spirit.’
She understood why he hated the world at the time.
Despite that, Lisinas, recalling Elsie who had ultimately dedicated herself to the world, smiled and extended her hand.
“Nice to meet you, Elsie. I’m Lisinas.”
[It’s a great honor to meet you! I wanted to make a contract with you.]
“…It would have been nice if we met a little earlier.”
Elsie smiled brightly at Lisinas, who showed a look of regret.
[I don’t think there’s any need for regret! In the end, thanks to all of you, the world was saved and we can meet like this!]
“If Luminus were here, she would have liked you a lot.”
Lisinas, thinking of her sworn ally, looked at Leo.
“Leo. Do you know what happened to Luminus?”
Seeing Lisinas asking about the whereabouts of her sworn ally, who was sealed with severe injuries after the battle with the King of Gluttony, Leo handed her a necklace adorned with a brightly shining jewel from his pocket.
“Orb of Light…”
“She was sealed until I left.”
Leo continued speaking, looking at Lisinas gazing at the necklace.
“She saw the current era, so don’t worry too much.”
“That’s a relief.”
Lisinas smiled with relief at his words.
“By the way, didn’t you say you had a visitor?”
[Yes, a visitor for Lisinas.]
“For me?”
As Lisinas looked surprised,
A fairy flew in through the open window.
Golden dust scattered with every beat of its wings.
Fairy King’s wing dust, valued as treasure by alchemists.
Lisinas was startled when she confirmed the other party’s face.
“My goodness! Silode!”
[I’m so glad to see you again! Lisinas!]
Silode flew into Lisinas’s embrace, shedding tears.
“You’re alive until now!”
The reunion with a being who remembered her in a world where 5000 years had passed brought great emotion to Lisinas.
Sharing thousands of years of reunion, Silode was truly happy.
“You’re a proper Fairy King now. Katariyu was worried you’d lose your temper because of Luna.”
[No matter what, I can’t keep up with Luna’s personality.]
“Good job. There’s no need to learn bad things.”
‘If Luna heard this, she’d go ballistic, but you say it so casually.’
Leo spoke while watching the two conversing.
“Silode.”
[Yes, Kyle.]
“Is there any anomaly with the fragment of Erebus sealed in Fairy Land?”
The atmosphere turned serious at Leo’s question.
[No. It’s still sealed. There’s no particular movement. Why?]
“It’s not that.”
Just as Leo was about to speak,
Slam!
Leo’s door was roughly opened, and a beautiful, genderless child with gray hair and eyes tumbled in.
Seeing that, Elsie and Silode instinctively hid behind Leo and Lisinas.
As sensitive spirits and mythical beasts, they were overwhelmed by the aura emanating from the being before them.
Lisinas tilted her head slightly.
“Gods wouldn’t like gray, would they?”
“You recognized it at a glance?”
“I’ve met many gods. Fundamentally, they are gods, but they seem a bit different.”
It was when Lisinas narrowed her eyes.
Rian, who had fallen to the floor, got up and looked at Leo.
Then, with a scream of ‘Keeeeeek!’, he covered his face and moved as far away from Leo as possible.
[Wh-why is that person acting like that?]
Elsie asked in a frightened voice, and Silode, who had been hiding in Lisinas’s hair, cautiously said,
[Is that person really a god? Even if they were a god, I don’t remember any being that insane.]
[Are gods generally crazy?]
[Yes.]
‘Piboa would have been wronged if he heard this.’
Leo remembered Piboa, the only god in his memory with normal reasoning.
He clicked his tongue.
“Ahhh! It’s too bright! King of Wisdom Lisinas, who guided Kyle! And even the familiars who accompanied that journey! Yes! This is definitely a museum! The world’s greatest museum! Ah! This place must be preserved forever and today must be declared a world holiday! And designated as a public holiday to celebrate this day! The public holiday period should be specifically one week! Yes! A week would be good!”
“It seems like you’re getting crazier as time goes by.”
“Ah! The sun! The sun is coming closer! It’s more brilliant than usual! If I stay like this, I’ll go blind!”
“Wear sunglasses.”
“Aha!”
Rian, following Leo’s advice, put on sunglasses.
“Ohh. This way, I can see Leo-nim’s face clearly… No! To see Leo-nim’s face, you’re putting these black glass shards in front of my eyes! What sacrilege!”
Rian threw away the sunglasses and knelt before Leo.
“Leo-nim. This sacrilege… I will atone by removing my own eyes…”
“You’re being particularly dramatic today.”
“I can’t help it! Isn’t the King of Wisdom Lisinas by Leo-nim’s side?!”
“Are you talking about me?”
Lisinas asked with a somewhat reluctant expression, and Rian nodded.
“Yes. Lisinas, because you are by his side, Leo-nim shines even brighter!”
“Why Lisinas?”
“Isn’t the King of Wisdom the one who gave light to the once dark Leo-nim? The one who guided Leo-nim onto the path of a hero!”
Leo, with a nonchalant expression, grabbed Rian by the back of his neck.
Then he roughly tossed him to one side of the sofa.
However, Rian immediately went to Lisinas and presented her with a statue.
“King of Wisdom, could I have your autograph?”
“……”
Lisinas reluctantly signed the autograph, and Rian smiled happily.
“This will be added to my collection.”
Rian, truly happy, put the statue into his spatial dimension and then introduced himself.
“It is an honor to meet you, the great King of Wisdom and King of the World, Lisinas. I am Rian, the administrator of the Record System.”
Shedding the fanatical demeanor from just moments before, Rian politely introduced himself.
“I am Lisinas.”
“I wish to seek your wisdom, the embodiment of wisdom.”
At those words, Lisinas looked puzzled.
“Gods, while not omnipotent, are omniscient. Why would you, a terrestrial being, need to seek wisdom from me?”
“It is true that gods are omniscient, but that is only with regard to transmitted knowledge. I am ignorant of knowledge that cannot be transmitted.”
Rian, kneeling, spread his arms.
“Furthermore, knowledge and wisdom are different. You know that best.”
“Are you asking me about… the records of the ancient gods?”
“Yes. Their records are not found in the divine realm.”
“Ancient gods? What is that?”
Leo asked in confusion, and Lisinas replied,
“It refers 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 vanished with the beginning of the Age of Calamity.”
“Aren’t gods fundamentally eternal and unchanging beings?”
“That’s right. But they are not immortal.”
Lisinas answered calmly.
“Eternal and unchanging is merely a divine power. Even gods lose their existence before beings that can nullify that divine power.”
That being, of course, was the primordial evil, Erebus.
“Just as even the immortal Erebus loses its immortal divine power before your Purity attribute.”
Leo crossed his arms.
“So, you know about these ‘ancient gods’ you mentioned?”
“Probably.”
“What do you mean, ‘probably’?”
“It means it might be passed down in the knowledge of the dragons.”
Lisinas tapped her head.
“I have a Record System in my head, though it’s not perfect.”
“What?”
“I told you earlier. I’ve seen something similar to the Record System. Of course, this was made by dragons, not gods.”
Saying so, Lisinas looked at Rian.
“So, what are you curious about?”
“You are well aware that the Flame of Destruction has existed since the beginning, right?”
“Yes. That’s why he’s called the primordial evil.”
“Before the Age of Gods began. The primordial evil lost its power for a moment. At that time, the gods completely pushed the primordial evil out of the world.”
“I know that too.”
This was completely new information to Leo.
“I’m curious if that monstrosity swallowed anything at that time.”
Hearing Rian’s meaningful words, Leo understood what Rian was asking.
“Swallowed something?”
Lisinas looked puzzled, and Leo said,
“Ice that doesn’t melt.”
“……?”
“I found ice that doesn’t melt, like a flame that doesn’t extinguish.”
“What?”
Lisinas’s face hardened.
Leo then told Lisinas about the hypothesis Rian had proposed after he witnessed the unfrozen ice.
After hearing that story, Lisinas opened her mouth.
“If, before the Age of Gods, besides Erebus, there were other evil gods… and Erebus swallowed those evil gods. Perhaps one of the fragments could have been reborn in the form of that evil god?”
“That’s right.”
“……This is serious.”
Lisinas took a deep breath.
“Then let’s find out. I don’t know if it will work well, though.”
Saying so, Lisinas stood in front of Leo.
“Why?”
“Put your hand on my right chest.”
“Are you crazy?”
“Do you think I’m asking you to touch me because I like it?! To open the Record System in my head, I need my Dragon Heart!”
“And then?”
“Did you forget I gave you my Dragon Heart?! You are the master of my mana! Whether you like it or not, your body must touch my Dragon Heart!”
Lisinas scrunched up her face.
Leo, seeing Lisinas like that, scratched his cheek and placed his hand on Lisinas’s right chest.
Along with it, black mana began to flow from Leo’s body.
Gooo-!
As Lisinas’s mana enveloped Leo, Leo’s vision went black.