The Regressor and the Blind Saint

Chapter 67

left the barracks

It was decided after deciding the superiority and inferiority of the moment when he tried to fight right away.

Gartea is the commander of the Demon King’s corps. Vera knew the savagery of the commander. do you just know Have you not even witnessed him in person?

An opponent who cannot guarantee that he will win a fight right away. Enemies are everywhere. What’s more, the only weapon he had was a short, short dagger.

In such a situation where it was right to plan for the future, Vera felt no shame in running away.

Those left behind were more important than his pride, so Vera now knew it and ran away.

Vera stopped running until he was a long way from the barracks and on the way to Doban’s smithy.

My heart was pounding at what I had seen before. The accident was all messed up.

Gartea the Fortress Destroyer.

The Demon King’s first rider.

Vera could only now realize its true identity.

‘The king of the three countries… .’

It’s Garthea.

A ‘huh’ laugh escaped Vera’s mouth.

‘… There is nothing that can’t be done.’

Assuming Todd was Gartea, there were definitely things that fit.

‘Gartea was the first to appear in the land of the Union.’

The first event that occurred after the Demon King called out was the collapse of the Western Kingdom Federation. It was that Garthea who did it.

In his previous life, his origin was not revealed until the end, but if you think about it with what you have seen with your own eyes, the answer will come right away.

Gartea was the king of the Union, and the ministers of the three countries who knew their identity were all dead, so it must have been unknown.

However, what I don’t understand is that.

‘… The union of previous lives was not unified until the end.’

Garthea was Todd.

Todd wants the unity of the Union.

For him, he wants to get rid of Doban and the kings of the other four countries.

That is clear, why was Todd from his previous life silent? Why are you making such a blatant move this time?

Vera was able to find the reason in himself.

‘… Because I intervened.’

Perhaps because Seongguk intervened, Todd’s heart was rushed.

Such a guess came to mind.

Vera recalled Todd’s condition he had seen in the last barracks.

‘It was unstable.’

Todd couldn’t even properly maintain his own body and was constantly breaking and regenerating and suffering.

It is not known exactly, but the magic that Todd was practicing must have been the one that received the power of the demon king into his body.

It must be a spell that accepts that energy and becomes Gartea.

Build a home in your mind.

‘If it is completed when the Demon King calls out.’

If Todd had been silent until then.

‘… If reason disappears as soon as the magic is completed.’

If the reason was that Todd, who had finally completed the spell, destroyed the Union.

I could explain Todd’s silence.

In addition, there was a part that made sense if we assumed that it was about Doban.

‘In order to maintain the division of the Union during his silence, he would have had to kill Doban.’

Without Doban, the alliance would remain divided until the completion of the magic, so from Todd’s point of view, Doban must have been a person who had to be killed.

Vera accelerated his thinking and put together the clues.

A causal connection between the fragmented clues, and it into a single event.

Vera, who was still contemplating, suddenly felt that the case was cut off at one point.

Vera’s expression crumpled.

‘… I can’t explain the magic sword.’

Todd becomes Garthea. Why did Doban have to die? I could infer all the reasons why Aisha had to pick up the magic sword, but only one thing.

‘If Doban is killed by Todd, the completion of the magic sword is impossible.’

It was a reason that coincided with the reason why he had speculated that Aisha was going to have trouble in the first place.

In the end, it was the master who had to complete the demon sword, so if the master dies, the demon sword will remain unfinished forever.

At the end of the woven case, the doban must strike the magic sword to be completely finished.

But if you draw conclusions from the conjectures you’ve made, that part is still blank.

‘I’m sure I missed something.’

what you missed

something I hadn’t thought of.

An event that will create the hatred of the doban and the resentment that will be engraved on the demon sword.

Vera’s accident rewound. The events that we slowly weave back to the original piece.

There were several processes of putting the pieces together and unlocking them again, but there was no result that led to the completion of the magic sword.

Awkward-.

Vera’s fists clenched.

There was a rush of urgency inside.

I have to go back right now, I need to prepare.

It was because he was angry at himself for not being able to think of a single thing in this situation where Todd, who does magic, might come up from below.

Thoughts clouded by impatience began to carry on thinking of other means.

‘… Face Todd like this.’

His gaze turned to the direction of the barracks again.

If you don’t know what’s going to happen anyway, you throw it all in vain and kill Todd.

Make everything never happen in the first place.

Vera, who continued to think like that, suddenly felt something called ‘anxiety’ soaring while estimating the odds.

He is not in perfect condition right now. One dagger he had was the end of his armament.

If you can’t defeat Todd while fighting in this state, what will happen then?

What will happen to Doban, Aisha, Renee, Norn and Hela who are right behind this?

pause-.

Vera felt himself taking a step backwards without realizing it.

Renee dies.

The thought made me terrified.

Suddenly, the last-minute she had ever seen rose above Vera’s accident.

The heart’s beating grew stronger. breathing became rough.

‘I’d rather run away… .’

How about waking up everyone in the forge right now and planning for the future?

… the moment you think.

thud-.

Vera felt his heart tighten.

“Suck… !”

rattle. Vera’s body shook. His body crawled to the ground, staggered by the unwitting pain, and Vera knelt on the floor.

Vera’s hand went over his left chest.

The cause of the pain was immediately known. It was an oath engraved on the soul.

[I will live for the saint.]

That oath was reacting to the thought that had just come to mind.

Vera was taken aback by the sudden onset of pain, then bit his lip and vomited.

‘… You must not run away.’

It is against this oath.

Running away wasn’t for Renee.

Turning away from those who would fall instead of fleeing from the rest of the place was an act that went against René’s beliefs and the premise of keeping the most natural principle.

Why is this, which has been silent the whole time, only reacting at this moment today?

There was no such question.

Vera knew.

The reason he is now reacting to this is probably because he has ‘recognized’ that it is wrong, and has deeply engraved it into his heart as a series of events he has experienced since leaving Seongguk.

fast-.

Vera’s teeth were broken. His eyes were trembling full of anxiety.

Vera, who had lived his life for himself, knew no fear, but now he realized the fear of loss.

was an outsider.

Vera stared blankly at the ground, realizing that he could no longer turn back, nor again, at any moment.

The moment when all the accidents that have been going on all the time are cut off, and the direction of where we are going to go becomes blurry.

Tickle-.

The sound of the second hand moving rang out.

Vera’s head was raised.

Tick-.

ringing again.

Vera jumped up and grabbed the dagger in reverse.

‘Did you notice?’

Did the armies of the three countries come to notice their infiltration?

As I was thinking about that, I heard the second hand moving once more.

Tick-.

Vera heard the sound and suddenly remembered that the sound was familiar.

dizziness.

A bizarre familiarity that should be expressed that way.

Tick-.

The sound was coming from the thickets of darkness.

Tick-.

There was no sign. There was no sound of footsteps. There was just a ticking sound.

Tick-.

Suddenly, Vera’s steps turned forward.

Actions driven by instinct, not intentional actions. It was something I was not aware of.

Tick-.

For some reason, the thought of chasing after this sound that popped into my head made me walk in the dark at will.

Tick-.

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On the dry soil of midwinter, Vera’s feet fell.

Tick-.

As the distance got closer, the sound got louder.

Vera’s body seeped into the dark forest.

Tick-.

Soon after, the world turned upside down.

Wow-!

Vera took a gasp. The accident that had come to mind until just before began to find its place at once, and it was a breath I took.

Vera’s all senses began to ring the alarm at the bizarre phenomenon unfolding before his eyes.

The world ‘flowed’.

the sun and the moon intersect the world flickers

Barely stripped trees sprout in an instant. wrap the leaves blooms collapses again

Green leaves appear on the soil floor, and then it disappears.

A total of 3 repetitions.

Twelve times, counting the number of times, Vera, standing in the midst of the swift passing of the seasons, held his breath and watched as they appeared.

Tack-!

The sound of footsteps full of impatience.

What was reflected in Vera’s vision as he turned to the source of the sound.

‘… Aisha.’

It was Aisha Dragnov.

A body that is bigger than it is now. The golden short hair that was draped over her shoulders went down to her waist. Aisha’s behavior as she ran while holding a sword in her arms was a shame that it could not be said as a joke.

Her entire body was red as if her whole body had been immersed in blood.

Dirt dust on top of it.

You don’t know if it’s blood or tears running down your cheeks.

Aisha, who was running in the dark, suddenly twisted her feet and slipped through Vera.

thud-.

“Ouch… !”

A dull sound and a suppressed moan.

Vera shrugged his shoulders in amazement at the sound of Aisha, who had fallen through him, and then changed his mind.

‘… hallucination.’

What I was seeing now was a hallucination.

Again, his gaze turned to Aisha.

“Ugh… .”

Aisha, who had grown older, was making a sound that was not known whether it was crying or screaming. His body, which was constantly shaking, harbored a pathetic trembling.

Vera stepped forward and reached out to Aisha.

The outstretched hand… , couldn’t reach Aisha and passed right through her body.

Vera’s eyes narrowed.

‘Something.’

What is this phenomenon?

While thinking about that thought, Aisha, who had sharpened her teeth to the point of making a crackling sound, muttered.

“… I will kill you.”

Startle. Vera’s fingertips trembled.

“I will kill you… .”

Aisha got up. The exposed eyes were full of blood and glistening.

Key-!

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Ominous cry.

Vera’s gaze later turned to the sword Aisha was holding in her arms.

‘Magic sword… !’

Vera’s breath stopped with a ‘jaw’.

The devil was crying.

“all… .”

Aisha’s muttering continued.

“… I will kill you.”

A dark red light drenched in the demon sword.

Aisha staggered and walked out.

It penetrated into the dark forest.

The moment Vera stared blankly behind him.

shit-.

Cracked in space.

damn-.

The sky was twisted. The ground was shriveled up. The open forest began to be torn apart in several directions.

Cheek-!

What followed is a world that is broken in all directions.

After that, the forest where Vera was originally came to mind.

“Ugh… !”

Vera’s breath stopped at the sensation of losing consciousness, and the moment Vera opened his eyes again, after closing his eyes tightly to shake off the sensation, he saw.

Startle-.

It was a monster wearing a robe.

Vera thrust his dagger forward. lowered the body. lit up the divinity.

An attitude of immediate confrontation followed the sudden appearance of the monster.

Vera’s gaze pierced the man.

A worn-out robe that should be called rags. Deep darkness descended inside the hidden hood. and.

‘… watch?’

A large pocket watch hanging from his neck.

Tick-.

The clock’s second hand moved and there was a sound.

The sound of the second hand that I had heard before.

As Vera made a surprised face at it, the man raised his right hand.