It is my Destiny to be the Savior of the Protagonist

Veronica immediately accepted the map and envelopes.

“All right. I’ll be back.”

It was a cool attitude. She didn’t even worry about it. Ariadne was surprised even after she suggested it.

“Can you decide right away? Aren’t you going to ask for more details?”

“Yes? All… You explained it all.” she chuckled. Ariadne looked at her from afar and said,

“All I explained was that it would be dangerous to go there, you could die, but you could become stronger. Is this enough?”

“You’re… you’re the smartest person I know.”

Ariadne always thought of herself as not very clever. She could only pretend to be smart because she knew the original work. She had a fantasy library that was a storehouse of knowledge, and she had memories of her previous life.

She shook her head.

“Simon is smarter than me when it comes to being smart. Erich’s older brother is honestly at the level of a ridiculous genius.”

“Not that smart.”

“Then?”

“What is necessary, what is important, which choice is better… Lady, you know that well.”

Veronica added with a chuckle.

“And you’re very kind, and fair.”

“Am I nice and affectionate? Are you serious?”

When Ariadne was dumbfounded, Veronica slowly continued.

“My lady likes to give. You always want to do something for me, to the people around you.”

“I do it because it benefits me. I won’t lose.”

“Well. What the lady wants is… too little. Sometimes, of course, something that belongs to the lady… To get it, to try. Then, when he receives something, she is surprised.”

Veronica sometimes thought that Ariadne was desperate.

Just as she believes that she can be loved only if she is useful and useful. She felt such deep anxiety. Compared to a few years ago, she had improved a lot and was quite used to it now, but she still had a long way to go.

‘Anything like this, I could just go back because the lady needs me.’

That she could be strong, she’s rather Veronica. Why was she surprised that she accepted when she gave herself a chance to be grateful for?

“What the lady is proposing… Why is she worried?”

“No, hey, um, do you believe me?”

“Yes…? A lady who is much smarter than me, tells me how to become stronger… Is there any reason not to believe it?”

Ariadne was speechless when Veronica asked, tilting her head. She hesitated, then she managed to say.

“I could be wrong. I may not have known.”

“Why is that?”

“Why…”

“It just came back… I’ve been there, but I don’t think so. It’s something you just have to do.”

“No, then Nika would have suffered in vain.”

“Why are you struggling in vain? That the information is wrong, she’s going to find out… It’s not in vain.”

Ariadne looked as if she had been hit in the back of the head. Veronica’s face was genuinely puzzled.

‘I didn’t expect Nika to trust me this much.’

The reason Ariadne has confirmed her benefactor Lonica as her future ally was because she could trust her. Because she believed, she proposed. Then she learned that Veronica also believed in her. She believed it was a fact that she wouldn’t have known if she hadn’t suggested it. She suddenly turned to the side of the fireplace. If she didn’t trust her, she wouldn’t be betrayed. But if she didn’t believe, she couldn’t have faith. It felt like the world had become a little clearer. Ariadne laughed happily.

“Thank you, Nika.”

* ♦ ♦ ♦ *

Axel was 15 years old already.

There was no day or night in the sky over the polluted area. Whether it’s day or night, a dark, stuffy, grotesque light shines everywhere. If you stay under that light for a long time, your mind would become more and more erratic. Hearing hallucinations and seeing hallucinations, committing suicide or mistaking the person next to him for a monster.

“I want to see the sky.”

Bishop grumbled as he crouched down. The knight, who was collecting useful things from the body of the Elementalist, responded.

“If you look up, what you see is the sky.”

“Don’t do that! Blue sky! Cloudy sky! Night sky! I want to see the sky in a more normal way, billion!”

Something brushed Bishop’s ear as he was shouting and stuck to the floor. Bishop, who only rolled his eyes to confirm its identity, sighed. It was a scale that looked like a blade. The scales of the monster that he caught while going through the ordeal of death because the blade was coated with poison.

“Shut up.”

Axel Valentine, who threw the scales, spat out.

“Shut up if you don’t want to die.”

“That cheeky bastard!”

Bishop growled and jumped up. In front of Axel that was blocked by the knight.

“What?”

“Don’t make a fuss, get to work. Are you talking about knowing where this place is?”

“That bastard started a fight first!”

“So what’?”

“So what is it? So you want me to stay still when the fluffy kid is acting like that?”

“Don’t you know him?”

“Do I need to know him?”

“Can’t you see that guy’s eyes? How long has it been since you were a piece?”

“It’s been three months. Why?”

“Somehow, he wanted to say a damn thing about Bishop.”

“What? You child…”

Bishop, who had been screaming with a blood clot around his neck, froze for a moment. Something like a spider leg made of blades protruded from his chest when he stopped.

“Uh, uh.”

Bishop tried to grab his leg with trembling hands, and fell down. It was an instant death. And behind his fallen body, dozens of fluorescent eyeballs were revealed through the weeds that swayed like seaweed. The knight spat out his curse words and drew his sword.

“Damn it, if you don’t want to die, don’t talk!”

The arm holding the sword trembled. He had wounds all over his body. He honestly didn’t have the strength left to fight further. Since this mission began, he hasn’t slept less than 3 hours a night. There were too many monsters. A new labyrinth appeared nearby, and it was endlessly crowded. Knight glanced at the corpse of the Elementalist he was searching for a while ago. The Elementalist was killed in the attack last night. After the Elementalist died, everyone died rapidly. They fought and ran all night long. Only three spirit knights who survived until morning were able to survive alone in the contaminated area. And one of them just got up and died.

‘I guess I’ll be next.’

The knight made up his mind as he watched the group of monsters approaching silently. In an instant, Axel jumped past him.

“Scared.”

When he called the name of the Spirit Beast, flames ignited the blade of the sword. Axel, holding a sword wrapped in fire, said as he headed towards the group of demons.

“Stay next to him. If you don’t want to die.”

“Uh, uh.”

Knight clung to the side of his bag hurriedly. He followed, and he burned, bright red flames brightly lighting the gloomy sky. Axel, holding the sword, jumped into the flames. Knight swallowed his gulp as he watched the sea of fire spread before his eyes. Rumors about Black Rook, the red-eyed owner of scarlet shoes, spread throughout the association. So he was not surprised even though he was only 19 years old and cut down the most monsters in the raid that lasted all night. But now this situation was a bit surprising.

‘Even during that attack, he was conserving his strength?’

It wouldn’t be strange if he stretched out from exhaustion, but he still had this kind of strength. Axel was rather making a bigger and stronger fire than last night. Every time you swing the sword, long sparks fly. A shadow flickers in the flames. Axel in the fire ran amok like a fish in water. The body of the tribe monster that touched his sword caught fire. The fire did not go out until it burned the monster black. Dozens of monsters all turned to ashes in no time. Axel, who killed the last monster, took the sword. Even if he put in a coward, the remaining sparks burned all over the place. Ash powder flew like snow on the updraft created by the sparks. Knight looked at Axel, who returned to his stunned face.

“Didn’t you run wild like this last night?”

“Then they would all die of fear instead of monsters.”

The knight, speechless, shut his mouth. It was a spirit beast that was so powerful that it was suspected that it was of the level of a great spirit, but its strength itself was a weakness. If you take it out, the surroundings would become a sea of fire. Regardless of whether it was a monster or a human, the fire that burns up eats up all directions. That’s why Axel Valentine didn’t take out the spirit water completely. He would take out only some of them, wrap them around a sword, and write them. Another drawback was that the corpses of monsters that could be used as money by using various materials did not remain properly. Because it all burns up. Axel searched the ashes with the tip of his sword to see if there was anything useful. There was nothing to salvage except a few pieces of bone and burnt scales.

“Hey, Luke. Isn’t this mission strange?”

The exhausted knight muttered. Axel didn’t respond and picked up the dagger that was still intact among Bishop’s charred corpses. He was embarrassed when Bishop, whom he had been living with for seven years, died. He was quite shocked, even though they were not friendly, let alone indifferent. Now, when a person died, the corpse was first checked for useful items. Anything was valuable in a polluted area.

“Isn’t it strange? I’m used to what kind of missions the association guys give me, but they still give me missions that I can accomplish somehow. Because we have to be alive to make money.”

“But this is not it. Even if you look at this, it is impossible in the first place.”

No matter what the mission was.