It is my Destiny to be the Savior of the Protagonist

‘I, red eyes, do not burn with fire.’

Even so, most of them die early because of the fire, it must be because they were suffocated or crushed by the burning. His mind was numb. The spirit beasts were still circling around the rock, looking up at him.

Aim for the boss. That was the last sentence.

‘Where did the cowardice go?’

Unlike the other spirit beasts, where was he who passed by without even looking at him? He raised his head and looked around through the rising flames. Beyond the whirlpool of fire, on a broad, flat rock, the one-horned wolf sat still. Axel realized he had made eye contact with it.

‘He was watching me.’

It’s a boring look. The boy jumped down the rocks where the flames were rolling. It was not easy to plunge into the sea of fire even when he realized that he would not burn. Still he did.

A maddening heat raged. Even the sky seemed to be on fire. Like deep water, it was difficult to walk through fire. Axel gritted his teeth and walked step by step through the sea of fire.

Hot. It’s so hot, it’s like hell here. With staggering steps, the boy crossed the flames. He saw his whole body on fire. The flames that entwine and cling to the whole body.

His father’s sword at his waist melts away.

He hurriedly tried to hold it, but only the molten metal stayed in his hand for a moment before flowing away. Axel looked down at his empty hands and walked again. Tears seemed to come out, but they quickly dried up. While everything he had was burning, only his clothes and dagger remained unburned. What they have in common was that they were items sent by the new master.

‘Are they processed so that they don’t burn?’

He knew it and sent them. Adrian Black must have sent Axel to the Crystal Oasis, knowing that he would not die.

‘Damn it.’

At this moment, if Adrian had been in front of him, he might have stabbed him in the eye with a dagger. He couldn’t kill him though.

‘How? Why?’

Until he learned how he figured out all of this and what the hell he was doing to himself, he would never be able to kill him.

Finally, Axel came to the front of the boss, Kwon Hwa, who looked down on him. Even though he was sitting, he was so big that you had to break his neck to see it. Aiming for this didn’t mean that he had to fight that gigantic spirit beast with a dagger in this flame.

‘Is it taming?’

By what means? It’s stuffy. Concerned, Axel stretched out his hand. He had asked his father.

<What should I do to become a spirit knight?>

<You have to tame the spirit beast and make a contract. If you become a contractor of the spirit beast, you can become a spirit knight.>

<How do you tame a spirit beast? It’s hard to explain to you in words right now.>

<Do you still want to know? Mmm. First of all, you need to measure your affinity with the spirits. Magic or martial arts. And the process is complex…>

The father, who struggled to explain for a long time, gave up when he saw young Axel’s expression.

<The simplest way. For now, I’ll ride and endure. Until the spirits give up exhausted.>

Axel caught the raging wolf’s flame with his outstretched hand. He grabs it like hair and climbs over the great wolf. The one-horned wolf just looked down at him like a fire God. 

Running out of breath, he slipped several times and barely managed to grab hold of it until he climbed onto his back. It was an incredibly wide back. It feels like climbing on the roof of a mansion.

‘Can I say that I rode this?’

It seemed not. Scared, he stepped up, but there was no response. Axel looked around in dismay and found horns extending like blades. The boy jumped up as if running and grabbed the horn.

The coward jumped up. Then he went on a rampage like a wild horse. As large as it was, the aftermath was more than a wild horse. Rocks are crushed and sand rises like mountains. Axel hugged his horn and held on.

‘Ohhhh,’ angry cries soar. All of the flames that covered the body of the spirits stood up.

It got hotter, but the boy didn’t burn. Then the coward began to gallop. A headwind blows as if it would tear your ears apart, and the surrounding scenery elongates.

‘I’d rather be able to breathe this way.’

A gust of wind blew in, blowing fresh air into his thirsty throat from the heat. Axel hung on under his breath. The sun went down and the moon rose. Under the blackened sky, he spewed fire in all directions all night long.

On the white desert, the number of spirits transformed into fire rolled like the fallen sun.

“Keugh.”

It looked like his leg was broken. Axel endured by clinging to his horns.

The sun rose again and the spirit beast continued to glow, and the boy endured. Blood flowed from his hand, which was still holding on to the horn as sharp as a blade.

‘I can’t die in a place like this.’

If he died, he couldn’t keep his father’s will. Besides, before seeing the face of the man named Adrian Black, it seemed that he would not be able to die even if it was unfair. Half of it was love for his father and a sense of duty, and the other half endured to come. When blood flowed from the teeth he bit into, and the white of the blood was indistinguishable from the red eyes.

The movement of the coward stopped. The boy smiled bloody white. It was his victory.

* ♦ ♦ ♦ *

A luxurious carriage stood on the outskirts of the Great Desert. It appears to be a carriage belonging to an aristocratic family, but the crest was covered. It was a wide and large wagon. There was even a bed in the wagon, so it was perfect for travel.

Veronica was dozing in the inner corner, while Simon was checking his report in the other corner. Lucy went to themarket.

She was away at the time. Ariadne Eldeer sat by the window and she was looking out of it almost every five minutes. The Archmage looked at her with a curious look on his face.

“I thought you came to see your grandfather, but your real purpose was something else.”

“It is true that I came to see my grandfather. I came with both purposes.”

After throwing the main character in front of the scare, she couldn’t wait calmly at home. Just in time, there was a Western Mage Tower close to the Great Desert. The Archmage was staying there to teach the wizards at the request of the royal family. Ariadne made the excuse that she wanted to go see her grandfather, and she ended up here. In addition to Veronica, she had a lot of escorts.

“It doesn’t seem like you are sponsoring lightly for play. Seeing you come here to meet me and wait.”

The Archmage sighed deeply. He and Rebecca knew that Ariadne sponsored the boy because she was interested in red eyes. As for the reason why she became interested in the red eyes, and the existence of Axel, she appropriately explained that she had seen the records in her father’s laboratory.

Ariadne put on an apologetic expression.

“Sorry. It was the first mission I entrusted to him, so I was worried.”

“What’s so dangerous about digging up seven-colored crystals? Everyone around here makes a living from it.”

The Archmage grumbled. He didn’t know that scarification was sweeping the Great Desert. It was normal to know that the volcanic eruption caused cataclysms, but not to know where they had disappeared.

“Nevertheless. He is a child.”

“Oh, my dear. Why do you always forget that you are a lot younger than him?”

The Archmage clicked his tongue. Ariadne laughed awkwardly.

“Archmage, it’s class time soon.”

A servant waiting outside knocked on the carriage door and said, The Archmage grumbled and stood up.

“I must go. Don’t stay too long, come back before the sun goes down, sweetheart.”

“Yes, grandfather.”

The Archmage returned to the Mage Tower.

Ariadne stayed glued to the window. She knew it happened in the original story. She also knew that there was no way the main character would burn to death. Far from burning to death, she knew that he would become the master of a spirit beast. She was anxious to confirm.

‘What if the development of the original story changes because of my intervention?’

They made it as similar as possible, but there were still many differences. So she hesitated and even sent a hint. In the original story, it was the truth that Axel realizes on his own. Based on the children’s books he read as a child and the things he got while wandering with red eyes. It seemed that teaching him openly would hinder the growth of the main character, but if she left him as he was, she was worried that something would get twisted and fail.

‘And if it’s the same as the original… It’s so painful and dangerous.’

The protagonist in the original story only realizes that he was not burned after gouging out one of his eyes and throwing it away. Even after realizing it, he didn’t know what the cowardice phenomenon was, so he tried to tame other spirit beasts that would soon disappear. Only after the elemental spirits that they rode and endured at the end of their lifespan disappeared did they notice the existence of the leader. In the novel, Axel returned with the loss of one eye after that, and Robert Black called a priest to treat him and nurse him throughout.

‘After that, the main character began to feel like his father in earnest.’

From Robert’s point of view, since his pawn had tamed the notorious Coward and became a Spirit Knight, it was just that he couldn’t roll it roughly like before.

‘…If possible, I hope it ends without plucking out your own eyes. I hope you don’t go through the hardships hanging on to the wrong spirit water.’

It’s just an opportunity to become entangled in the villain. He didn’t have to go through anything like that. Except for being the main character of the novel, he’s only a 12-year-old kid, and she hoped he didn’t have that horrible experience.

‘I’ve taught you the cowardice phenomenon, and sent you hints, so you’ll be back in a better state than the original.’

Ariadne checked out the window once more. And jumped up.