Chapter 201: The Sun of That Summer (2)
It hadn’t been long since John Doe had named this beach, where the sharp sunlight unique to summer suited it best, ‘Yunseul’.
“Excuse me……?”
Lesbos asked back in surprise.
He looked back at the old man who was walking barefoot with him on the sandy beach.
“Are you leaving soon?!”
“Yes. There isn’t much time left.”
“No, but how can Grandfather die?”
The young Golden Goblin clung to his leg and whimpered.
The old man smiled bitterly and stroked Lesbos’ head.
“That is the promise between the God and us. We fill the empty seats of the God that flow through the cycle of seasons.”
“But you’re a Dragon, an invincible being……”
Lesbos whined.
His head was dizzy at the thought of the old man, who had given him his name and taught him how to live, suddenly dying.
Moreover, it was even more so when the strongest being on earth, whom he thought would never die, foretold his own death.
Whooooosh
Such a Dragon would die.
Swoosh
Until the little Goblin was no longer a Goblin, the emerald waves of this beach would continue to be as calm as they were now.
The old man with golden eyes stretched out his left hand and pointed to the sea.
“My power could shake the heavens and the sea. But where in this age of man would I use such power?”
It was the sea that was reflected in the old man, but it wasn’t the sea he was looking at.
It was the world that the sea embraced, and the era that began with the sea.
And now he realized that this was no longer his era.
But Lesbos wasn’t.
“The Demon King! Hero John went to fight him. If Grandfather helps him a little, the Demon King will die easily, and the world will be saved!”
The old man shook his head impassively.
He lowered his hand toward the sea and this time looked up at the sky. Fluffy clouds were floating by, and the deep blue sky, whose depth could not be measured, was reflected in their eyes.
“That would be deceiving a world struggling to break free from its shell. The mission given by God is to protect the world, so how can I use my power as I please?”
“Grandfather…”
Lesbos had a hunch.
That the old man would never change his mind. In that case, all he could do was cling to the one who was about to disappear.
Squeeze
The old man felt the same way.
Originally, he should have disappeared before the hero from another world came, like the other Dragons.
Because that was the ‘Promise of the Seasons’.
But the old man couldn’t do that.
He couldn’t bear to close his eyes and leave this small, pitiful life behind. He wanted to take care of Lesbos at least until he could be on his own.
The old man, who had filled the vacant seat of the god who had been the chart of history, was living by burning his mighty power and absolute strength.
But in the end, the end would come.
No matter how hot the summer, the winter snow would fall in time.
“I’ve remodeled the lair a bit. Only those who have the 〈Sacred Treasures of the Four Seasons〉 can enter through the shortcut.”
The old man continued speaking for the little one who would live for a long time after his death.
“You’ll be fine living alone inside for the rest of your life. I’ve prepared enough for that.”
“I understand……”
“However, I have placed two restrictions.”
Lesbos blinked and looked up at the old man. The old man made a circle with his index finger and thumb.
“First, you can only take out treasures from the lair that weigh as much as one of your arms per day.”
“What?!”
“And second, you can’t go into the warehouse yourself. You can only take out a reasonable amount of treasure through the teleportation circle.”
Lesbos blinked his big eyes.
He knew very well his Grandfather had a lot of gold.
Perhaps because his race was a Golden Goblin, the closer he got to the sea of gold coins, the more at ease he felt.
So much so that the old man had built Lesbos a room next to the golden storage room.
“However, the warehouse will open if you become something other than yourself. The first weight restriction will also be lifted.”
“You don’t trust me?”
The old man didn’t answer for a moment.
But sometimes silence was a good answer. Lesbos looked at the old man’s inner thoughts and lowered his head.
Indeed, from a Dragon’s point of view, there was no way he could trust a Golden Goblin like himself.
Then the old man suddenly asked.
“What do you think of John Doe?”
“He’s a hero! The one who will bring peace to the world! Before, I said I was sad because I couldn’t do anything, but he said there was something I could do.”
“Gold?”
“Yes! I’m going to earn gold with my own power and buy peace. He’s a really cool hero.”
“…….”
The old man lifted one corner of his mouth.
Lesbos at that time had no idea what that smile meant.
And the old man looked back in the direction John Doe and his boisterous party had left and opened his mouth.
“I don’t distrust you. I can give you everything I have. But I fear this world.”
“The world?”
“It’s a land of beasts that can completely strip a naive little thing like you bare.”
Lesbos waved his hand.
“Come on, Grandfather. You know how good I am at business.”
“……Right.”
The old man agreed verbally, but he never changed the two conditions.
🔹🔹🔹
Lesbos leaned against the body of his grandfather, which had turned into a lump of gold, and told them what had happened back then.
Aurelia stared at the Dragon, which she had never seen before in her life, and opened her mouth.
“There are so many Dragons in stories, but I thought it was a lie because there were no official facts found.”
In fact, even the Academy of the Holy See was skeptical about the existence of Dragons.
But now, witnessing the story of Lesbos, who had lived through that time, and the body of a giant Dragon, they couldn’t help but acknowledge it.
“There are still some beyond the Great Wall to the east.”
The two were surprised by Cain’s words and turned to look at him.
Cain drew a roughly squiggly curve in the air.
“They’re slender compared to our Dragons, but they’re there anyway.”
“How do you know about the other side of the Eastern Limit Line?”
Aurelia asked back.
Everyone knew that Cain was from the western island nation of Airian. It was strange that he seemed to know so much about the East.
Cain shrugged.
“Because I’m a hero.”
The meaning that he didn’t want to talk about it was clearly conveyed.
“……Yes.”
Aurelia didn’t ask any more questions, and Lesbos was preoccupied with the body of the old man he had met again after a long time.
“I knew he died here, but this is the first time I’ve actually been inside, so this is the first time I’ve seen him.”
The restrictions that had been put in place to prevent Lesbos from giving all of the lair’s assets to John Doe had been blocking his way until now.
It would be over when he died anyway.
Even though there was only one wall separating them, it was sad and painful not to be able to see him die or his body at the end. He didn’t want to know, but Lesbos knew better than anyone.
“Grandfather, it’s been a while.”
At that moment.
Clank, clank, clank
The huge, Dragon-shaped mound of gold began to split apart. It was as if some immense force was pushing the gold away.
[‘Summer’ opens its mouth wide.]
It would probably be like the open mouth of ‘Summer’.
Wooong
The gap that had formed in this way.
Inside the thick layer of gold, there was a single golden jewel the size of Cain’s fist.
It wasn’t gold.
It was a great mystery forged from gold that had been refined and refined again.
[‘Summer’ says that it’s the heart of an Ancient Dragon.]
Wooong
‘Summer’ sparkled.
Even Cain couldn’t help but be surprised by the identity of the object that had only been considered a legend in stories.
“You mean a Dragon Heart?”
[‘Summer’ says yes. He says that if it’s his heart, not just any other Dragon, he’ll be able to wield the power of omnipotence.]
Aurelia and Lesbos were also surprised and looked back at the jewel.
At that moment.
As if to dilute everyone’s disbelief.
Thump
The heart of the long-dead Dragon began to beat. At the sound, Cain reflexively glanced at Lesbos’ chest.
‘The sound is the same.’
The heartbeat he had heard from outside the island.
The sound of the heart he had heard when Lesbos had transcended being a Golden Goblin and become an ordinary human boy.
And even the Dragon Heart.
As Cain wondered, Aurelia approached him and said.
“Hero. With that, you can do anything. You can heal the sick who flock to the Holy See, and you can easily defeat the Demon King.”
“Cardinal?”
“Or it seems like it could be put into Mimesis as a power source. If you shoot a main gun with the magic power that originated from the dragon heart, what on earth could withstand it?”
Aurelia began to spit out endlessly what she could do with the dragon heart.
When it comes to people, it’s only natural to be mesmerized by the heart.
[‘Summer’ shouts that it’s so huge that it can even affect World Line Fixation.]
[‘Summer’ says it will increase it by at least 0.7%, although not exact.]
[‘Summer’ says that if not, absorb it into his holy sword, which is his manifestation.]
‘It’s the same.’
Whether it was the cardinal of the Holy See or the 〈Sacred Treasures of the Four Seasons〉, they were out of their minds and uttered words at the sight of that enormous golden heart.
“You are all wrong.”
Cain said calmly and covered their mouths.
“Order is important.”
Cain stretched out his hands and grabbed the dragon heart.
Two━geun.
It was thrilling.
When else would he feel such a strong and enormous energy? It contained a power incomparable to anything before or since.
Chuck.
But as soon as Cain saw the dragon heart, he didn’t even think about how to use it.
“Take it.”
He handed the dragon heart above him to little Lesbos.
The guy blinked his eyes.
“Aren’t you going to use it, hero?”
“Why?”
“Yes?”
Of course, Cain thought he would take and use the dragon heart left by his grandfather according to Aurelia’s words or the will of the constantly shining summer.
But Cain didn’t.
“It’s not mine.”
“……!”
“At least it’s the last trace of your grandfather, so it’s wrong to say that someone else took it or used it.”
Aurelia flinched as if waking up from sleep at that moment.
She hurriedly drew the sign of the cross, trying to clear her mind.
[‘Summer’ freezes at Cain’s obvious words.]
[‘Winter’ clicks her tongue. At the same time, she is proud of Cain.]
Hug━.
Cain put the dragon heart in Lesbos’s hands and said:
“You are the rightful owner.”
“Hero…….”
Lesbos, who had always lived a life of being robbed and sacrificed, felt like tears would burst out.
Even he himself naturally thought that Cain would use it, but in the end, Cain made the most correct choice.
“It’s up to you how you use this. It’s your life to live the way you want.”
Two━geun.
At that moment, Cain heard.
The sound of Lesbos’s heart and the sound of the dragon’s heart are the same.
━The heart was under a hint that even the slightest greed would make it grow thousands or tens of thousands of times larger.
In front of the split golden corpse.
A translucent human figure appeared.
Lesbos ran straight to the familiar figure.
“Grandfather!”
━I saw you in the future I saw, but I wondered if you would be a hero like John Doe, but it’s been resolved. You are a person with no greed in my heart.
He habitually tried to stroke Lesbos’s hair. But it just passed through like smoke.
The old man who appeared smiled bitterly as if there was nothing he could do, and bowed his head toward Cain.
[The hero’s righteous heart transcends the reward that has been maximized!]
━It’s nice to meet a real hero. I’m this good-for-nothing’s grandfather.
[28% of the world smiles brightly.]
━And long time no see. Season.
It was the lingering thought left by the dead dragon.
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