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Part 2 Chapter.11 With new life
“Among the dragon’s holy relics, there is sothing called the flower of the spirit.”
“… … .”
The na was straightforward. The flower of the spirit. The hibiren flower seems to have sothing more to it.
“Where is it? “It is difficult to say that it does not exist now.”
“No, there is. there is… .”
“there is?”
“It blooms in the basent of the sacred site. The person who wants to use it takes it and eats it, so you can eat it and feed it to Rurin. You lose your mind and co into contact with Lurin. “You will be able to look into Lurin’s inner self.”
“Is there such a magical flower in the world?”
“Yes, even if it is not a situation like this, if you use it, you can look into the person’s inner self. Even what you think of yourself.”
“Oh that’s sothing… . I want to use it, but it’s scary. So what about that underground place?”
“close. I’ll guide you to the entrance. But it won’t be that easy. “Since ancient tis, the sanity of visitors has been tested imnsely so that no one can enter the basent of the Holy Land.”
“Uhm, it doesn’t matter. “I will bring you that flower, even if it ans grinding my bones, whether it’s ntal strength or anything else.”
“… … Well then, I understand. “It might be possible since it’s you.”
The elder nodded and guided .
As a result.
I ended up going down a spiral staircase in a dark basent. And this place is a sacred place.
Magic cannot be used in this space.
If I couldn’t use magic, I’d be an ordinary human.
Is that why you said it would be difficult?
When you have doubts and go down to a certain level.
Suddenly, we arrived at a point where the stair passage was blocked. And from there, it felt like my body was freezing.
The cold never seed to go away.
As if he was telling to just go ho.
Extrely cold and confined space. The elder told us to go down to the 5th floor. This is the second floor.
What does that an?
I don’t know.
I searched everywhere, braving the cold, wondering what kind of device was there.
But soon it beca difficult to move my body. My body was freezing. That feeling when your body temperature drops to an unbearable level and your fingers freeze.
In the feeling of becoming frozen fish.
The space in front of the stairs was still the sa, and light began to co in from the opposite direction I had walked, tempting to live if I went back.
It was a crisis that ca out of nowhere.
Really out of nowhere.
But Lulin’s life is at stake. Even if I died, I couldn’t go back. Because I definitely needed that flower to resist the providence of nature.
Without it, Lulin won’t wake up.
The elder said he might never wake up.
Sothing like that.
This pain is nothing compared to that eternal pain.
never.
I gritted my teeth and endured the pain.
As a result, about 5 hours passed.
Normally, he should have already frozen to death, but strangely, he did not die.
Even though he did not die, the pain continued.
In that situation, I endured for another 5 hours.
Finally, at the 10th hour.
With no feeling in my body, the space blocking the stairs disappeared and my frozen body rolled down the stairs.
Cradangtang-!
Maybe he lost his mind like that.
When I opened my eyes, I was on the stairs and my body had recovered.
It’s amazing.
The problem is how much I was losing my mind. It was impossible to understand because it was a space where even the clock had stopped.
I can’t help but feel worried about Rurin.
As ti went on, the only way forward was for .
And soon I was able to reach the 5th floor that the elder had ntioned. Was that the end of the ordeal?
The stairs continued further down. I don’t know what lies at the end of that abyss. I didn’t really want to know.
Anyway, my goal is just the 5th floor flowers.
When we entered the 5th floor, there was a large space. But there are no flowers.
No, there was a passage.
However, the passage in front was blocked by boiling lava. It is absolutely impossible to jump into that passage.
Even if a dragon jumps, he will fall into the lava of the Great Sea.
And the elder said that even dragons cannot fly here. The lava in front of you is probably a dragon.
Thanks to this, this enormous space is boiling over.
So, you have to go through this lava and go through that passage to get a flower?
No matter how you look at this lava, it looks real, right?
If I go in, I’ll die? As before, freezing can at least preserve the body, but if it burns and lts, there is no preservation at all. It just turns into ashes.
First, I took off my top and lightly touched it to check if it was real lava or an illusion.
At that mont, the part that touched it lted away and my upper clothes caught fire and ca up. I was startled and quickly pulled my hand away, and my upper clothes burned up and disappeared without shape. The heat I felt the mont I took my hand off my top.
This was lava itself. The lava itself, really.
And that mont. Suddenly, a light flashed from the stairs. It’s as if they’re tempting you by saying that if you want to live even now, it’s better to go back.
Let’s think.
He didn’t die just now.
But there was trendous pain. And now I thought that even if I didn’t die, I would have to experience my body burning hundreds of millions of tis all the way to that passage.
I once heard that the most painful act of dying is burning to death.
“Heh. “You’re laughing.”
Then the pain.
Experience it once. It would be good to experience hell before you go there.
If only I could save Lurin even if I had to die a billion tis.
I jumped into the lava.
In an instant, the feeling of my entire body lting took over my entire body.
-Overwhelming pain!
“Kaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
A scream ca out spontaneously. When a floating sensation ca to , with no words coming out and the feeling of not being able to breathe.
Suddenly peace arrived.
“huh?”
The body that looked like it was about to lt away was perfectly fine, and the lava that still seed to be boiling was as cozy as the temperature of a hot spring.
“Is the temperature nice?”
I don’t know what it is.
First, I walked away. I was able to reach the passage without much resistance. And I found a flower blooming there.
I guess this is the one called Spirit Flower.
The flower was blooming gracefully in deep thorny vines. So I stretched out my hand. A thorn pricks my hand.
But it wasn’t even pain. There are scratches and blood, but it’s actually rather ridiculous.
I plucked the flower without hesitation.
And then I crossed the lava again and ca up the stairs. There was no pain whatsoever during the climb.
“The elder has been there. Is this right? “How long did it take ?”
“uh. “About a day?”
“What about Lulin?”
“The situation is the sa as before you went down the stairs. So what about flowers?”
“Here it is.”
“… “What about the pain of cold?”
“It was no big deal.”
“What about lava hallucinations?”
“That wasn’t a big deal, was it?”
“The pain of the cold is testing your patience, and the lava is testing your ntal strength to see if you can really sacrifice your life to pick the flower. You are the one.”
“What is that… .”
“Then are you going?”
“Are you going?”
This thorn that scarred the back of my hand?
“Nothing happened?”
“… … Right. The thorn tests whether you desire this flower with a pure heart. If not, the thorn’s poison will eat away at you. “It is a poison that even a dragon cannot withstand.”
“… … “Are you speaking of pure heart?”
“Yes, if your purpose is to abuse this flower, you will die.”
“That’s so bloody. No, that’s not the problem now, is it? “Now that we have it, we can use it to bring Lurin, right?”
***
Lulin felt like he was floating in the air.
A space with nothing.
I was floating in that space.
There is no feeling whatsoever.
I didn’t feel anything.
I couldn’t move my body and all I could see was darkness.
I had no idea what was what.
I couldn’t rember anything. The space in front of is dark. And my mind was a pure white blank page.
-Who am I?
A fundantal question dominates Rurin’s mind. I tried hard to rember sothing, but I couldn’t rember anything.
No matter how you think about it.
A blank page with nothing on it.
As if the aning of existence had returned to nothingness.
-I don’t know.
Lulin just gave up on the idea. The more I did, the deeper my body was slowly sucked into the abyss of darkness.
-I don’t know?
-What do you not know?
It was hard. The more I try to rember sothing, the more it feels like everything goes blank.
Let’s think that even asking who you are seems aningless.
The body beca increasingly shrouded in darkness.
Lulin’s body was gradually returning to nothingness.
Accident circuit diagram.
Body too.
Even the darkness around you.
Everything went to nothing. A mont when the consciousness of existence fades.
Lurin felt tired of the darkness and closed her eyes. When I closed my eyes, another darkness ca.
This darkness becos even more nothing.
-Lurin.
The mont when even your mind is about to be sucked into that nothingness. For so reason, a familiar word entered my mind.
The voice that said those words was also familiar.
But still nothing ca to mind.
-who?
Lurin asked in her heart.
-Lurin!
Then the voice got louder. It was a voice that was desperate for sothing. I just said two words.
It was a voice so earnest and so desperate.
Lurin was sucked into nothingness as soon as she closed her eyes.
I opened my eyes to that voice.
The surroundings are still pitch black. But in the darkness, a small blob of light was moving.
A different sight from before.
-Who are you?
Lurin spoke in her mind again. My mouth didn’t drop. As if I was only allowed to say this.
-Lurin! Wake. Don’t you know ?
A voice heard again.
-I do not know.
Lulin answered from the darkness.
-It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. Let’s go back!
Let’s go back? Where? Even if that wasn’t the case, it was a path back to nothingness.
-Muro?
Lulin said so.
Then the voice began to sound very sad.
-no. The place you should return to is my arms. Don’t you think? The tis you spent with . Don’t you rember? I have to think of it. Lurin!
Poom?
Lulin felt sothing warm from the word embrace. Even though I was empty, I felt the warmth of those words, as if they were filling my body.
-Lurin, co to your senses right away. Think of a na. Your na is Lurin. And my na is El! It’s Ellesion!
Ugh.
Lulin suddenly realized that he felt pain all over his body. Until just now, I was just absorbed into nothingness without any sense.
Better than the na Rurin.
As soon as I heard the na El, an intense pain ca over . It’s as if it’s a na you should never co up with.
-L.
-L.
-L.
-L.
Law of nature.
Providence of nature.
natural flow.
Going against it is a shortcut to nothingness.
Ugh.
The pain that ca to Rurin beca more severe. But the feeling that the na El filled Lurin’s body!
It was lifting Lurin out of nothingness.
-I am.
-I am.
-I am Rurin.
And the na El.
It was a na that was more precious than one’s own life. It was a na that one could give without hesitation if one were to ask for one’s life.
The na El was so precious to that I could shake off the whispers of this space telling to forget everything and return to nothingness.
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