winter era

Chapter 36 The reason for the strong will

"As I said, don't have too much darkness about this world."

It wasn't even confirmed whether Niya had left through the gate, but the old man with crystal glasses gave Kaos a malicious smile.The wrinkled face was full of the pleasure of a successful prank.

It's too distorted, this bad old man's mentality is so distorted that even Kaos would feel uncomfortable.From the beginning to the end, everything dances on this old man's chessboard.Kaos' thoughts, Niya's thoughts, and everyone's thoughts never escaped the old man's eyes from the very beginning.Maybe he didn't think about it that much at all, he just made the most of his rhetoric.But the result was unusually obvious.

Kaos jumped into the old man's net like a moth that threw itself into the net.There is not even a little room for escape, and it is easily held in the hands.

"Everything is in your plan, isn't it? Fooling me really gave you great pleasure. An old man has such a mentality, be careful about shortening his life." Squinting his eyes, he looked at the old man with his fingers crossed on his robe, Kaos had a gloomy face, and a frightening cold light burst out from a pair of gray-black pupils.

"I'm really curious where your willpower comes from. Little monster, can you tell me the source of your will?"

But the principal did not answer his question directly.Instead, with a strange face and an ominous smile like a night owl, he poured himself a cup of black tea with the silver teapot produced in the elf alliance era in his hand, and blew on the hot air on it.That elegant and indifferent look made Kaos grit his teeth.The creaking sound of grinding teeth caused by anger slowly echoed in the principal's office.

"For things like human beings, there are three views. The outlook on life, values, and ideas, these three views constitute the basis of human consciousness. Human consciousness basically revolves around these three views. But what about you monster? ?Do you have an outlook on life? Do you have values? I’m afraid your outlook on thought doesn’t exist, right? You deny everything, and all values ​​are zero in your eyes. Other people’s lives, other people’s thoughts, how the world is like, you Don't care at all, right?"

Like a truly peaceful old man, the old headmaster squinted his eyes and caressed the golden silk-inlaid teacup, feeling the heat brought by the warm black tea.Unhurriedly, he calmly questioned a certain great wizard.

"Compared to that inexplicable Paradise organization, I am more curious about Kaos, your own existence. There are so many organizations that want to overthrow the empire, how old is Paradise? Even the sages of the Imperial Mages sometimes want to deal with that The empire is just too lazy to do it. So what is more valuable is your existence. Your message sequence is wrong."

"You mean to say that my judgment is useless, right?" Kaos tugged at the bearskin coat on his body, his frail face was flushed with angry dark red, and he stared sullenly. Opposite the old principal.

"It's not like it seems, but the fact." The old headmaster took a sip of his black tea and shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

"Because you have never been aware of your abnormality. So when you judge something, you will first remove yourself. Think about it, as long as you are a normal person, you will not give up the wealth you have and put yourself in danger, right? An inevitable A terrifying existence that will become a sage or a small organization that comes out of nowhere, which one is more important?"

"Are you trying to say that I've been conditioned wrong all this time? Don't be kidding. People like me—"

"No, no, I said that what you are wrong is not the thinking environment, but your self-proclaimed." The old principal's deep-set eye sockets had unstoppable malice, and his old orange-peel face was full of mockery.

"A monster like you, how can you call it a human being? You obviously don't even have human feelings, and you obviously don't fit in in this world. If you are an ordinary person, facing your emptiness mental environment is either suicide or insanity. Right? But what about you? You're alive, and you're alive more firmly than anyone else. It's so strange, you monster."

"Did you bring me here just to quarrel with me?!"

"That girl is your friend, right?"

The old headmaster on the opposite side sat calmly on the leather chair, tapping on the mahogany table with his fingers, which were far more plump than Kaos.That cozy look completely ignored Kaos' anger.

"I really don't know what kind of luck you, a gloomy boy, got. You rescued a little girl at random and became the head of the Rost family. You don't really believe the little girl's words, do you? What, she is just a temporary head of the family or something. In fact, the entire Rost family was emptied by that horrible little girl."

"I don't care what you say, Sky Sage."

The golden scepter in the pale young man's hands creaked, and his gray-black eyes were filled with the deepest anger towards the old sage who had been hiding in front of him for an unknown number of years. "Are you teasing me? Are you fooling me? All kinds of inducements to get me here in the end? Just to see my anger?"

"Don't speak so harshly, Kaos." The headmaster pushed his glasses and looked at the trembling young man in front of him with a sneer.

"The more angry you are, the happier you will be?"

"——! You bastard!"

Gritting his teeth, Kaos glared at the old principal in front of him, and raised the golden scepter in his hand high.

In his mind, he quickly sketched out the rune array that he used the most and consumed the least. The space trembled under the consciousness of the great wizard, releasing the hidden power behind his superimposed body.A layer of pale silver light intertwined, and in the blink of an eye, it gathered at the top of the scepter to form a ball of light that disintegrated everything.The spell that could penetrate the entire school building was aimed at the head of the old headmaster without any deviation.And because of the great wizard's anger, the ball of light became more and more blurred, causing the decorations in the room with a history of hundreds of years to faintly spread out layers of decomposed debris.

"Thirteen layers of division network plus 27 layers of consciousness shackles. From the perspective of a great wizard, your dissociation spell is absolutely irresistible." The sky sage raised his eyelids, looking at the top of his head that can dissolve the entire school The spell from a corner commented casually.The wave that seemed to be able to turn the world into dust couldn't even splash a trace of tea in front of the old principal.

"But for a sage, you are far from qualified. You are still far behind, Kaos." A dry smile appeared on the old principal's face like an orange peel, and he pointed at the ready-to-go Kaos snapped his fingers.

There was a crisp 'pop', as if a thunder had exploded in space.The mind blast, which can have a strong impact on the spiritual power of a great wizard, immediately exploded in this space.Kaos only felt as if his head had been swung by a sledgehammer, and he suddenly lost a small part of his intuition.He staggered two steps and leaned against the wall to stop his desire to faint.But before he could take a breath, the imprisonment from the alien plane protruding from the wall firmly grasped Kaos' shadow.He couldn't even resist, he could only let the empty palm penetrate his shadow, nailing his body in place, unable to move.

Soul shock and alien plane confinement, two spells that are not too difficult, the old headmaster nailed Kaos firmly in place without even uttering a word.The effect of the mind blast made Kaos unable to remember his spell defense array and runes, leaving only the most basic thinking system so that he could communicate with the old principal.

It is estimated that this is the old principal's mercy, otherwise he would have become a drooling idiot by now.

"Calm down? Do you know the gap between us? If you can't calm down, there is no way for us to communicate. Although we haven't been able to." The old headmaster closed his eyelids and shook the silver spoon. Shaking black tea in hand.

"Then let's talk about your friends. That Niya, if you look at it according to normal human aesthetics, she is definitely a beauty that is rare in a hundred years, isn't she? And she is also a rare loyal dog. Even after so long For many years, I still keep the same request for you. I am afraid that if you ask her to give up everything in the Rost family and let her die, she will die full of complaints, right? Although she will complain, she is indeed true to your order executed."

"You are a 20-year-old young man. You are a beauty who is impossible to resist, but you are not at all tempted. Is it better to say that you don't have a penis? Or that you have completely developed that aspect What about serious problems?"

"..." Even if Kaos faced this kind of problem, the zombie's face was subtly distorted.

"I don't bother to answer. It's not impotence anyway, right?" The old principal, who had always been in a dominant state, looked at Kaos who was imprisoned in the shadow and kept silent, and didn't want to use any magic to get the answer.Instead, he shrugged his shoulders naturally, and let the question go.Because he knew the answer he wanted from Kaos' past performance.

"On the surface it is announced that the shadow has devoured a part of your soul, leaving you with a lack of personality. It is normal to suppress feelings. But you can't fool me, little monster. The shadow cannot swallow a person's soul, it can only It devours the things that are strongly suppressed and chosen by the master. It cannot devour anything except the things designated by the master. And the reaction of swallowing is also determined by the things that are swallowed. You give up the shadow because of two sides Uncertainty, right?"

"You monster gave up your qualifications as a human being, and used a pure spirit to support the existence called 'Kaos'. Use a pure spirit to manipulate the body. The reaction of the body has nothing to do with the superior spirit. Pull the thread Puppet, you have treated yourself like steel, like a puppet, just for the dream in your heart that seems like the end of the world."

Looking at Kaos in flamboyant attire on the wall, the corner of the old headmaster's mouth curled up into a vicious smile.Kaos lowered his head from the very beginning of the conversation, hanging on the wall in a cross-like state of suffering, without saying a word.

"Are you really a human? Are you still a human? It's terrifying, your existence is simply terrifying. Even if I imagine your existence, I feel frightened. What is it that makes you have such What about your will? What is the spirit that supports you? What is it that supports the individual of Kaos to become so frightening? Even a sage will feel trembling from the bottom of his heart when he sees your spirit? What are you? Monster? What sustains your will?"

"...Do you still need to ask about that kind of thing?"

"Because I want to go home!"

The flame, lit up.

An invisible flame was completely ignited in the space around Kaos.

Even the sage couldn't maintain his incomparably perfect posture, but subconsciously spit out a string of characters and built dozens of defensive positions around him.And he himself looked at the great wizard in front of him in amazement.

It's burning.

Everything burns under that will.

Not burning in the material sense, but burning in the spiritual sense.Everything began to distort, and everything began to sublimate.The scrolls began to become more beautiful, the books became more delicate, and the surrounding space became more exquisite, as if everything had become beautiful.But the world is literally burning.

"What's wrong with me just wanting to go home? I deny everything about me in this world, I deny the root of this world. I want to go back to my hometown, I want to face my parents, I want to see my family , I want to see everything that the world takes away little by little.”

The great wizard in the center of the attack looked at the sage in front of him, and squeezed out a string of words of resentment in the burning world.

As if the shackles didn't exist at all, he easily broke free from the shackles of the alien world by swinging his arms.The will contained in the gray-black eyes burst out completely, and the invisible but qualitative stance even directly blasted the crystal glass in the room into powder, and even shattered a few stances arranged by the sage.The flame-like spiritual will completely turned the amazed sage into a shocked expression.

This kind of power can be done even by admonishing wizards.But this monster doesn't have any means or magic, it simply uses its own spiritual will to change its surrounding environment.Although mages do this all the time and use this method to change the world, what is this kind of spirit?
Monster?Alien?Or... fantasy?

"I can bear even the most painful ordeal. I can bear even the greatest torture. Because those are just false things. What can they really do? Kill me? Crush Me? Shatter me to pieces and torture me? Then let them come. Whatever is fine. Even if my soul sinks into the abyss forever, I will return to my hometown. Even if a finger can It’s okay to go back, I won’t die here even if I die.”

Looking at the admiring sage, Kaos gritted his teeth and said firmly.

"The ending of dying here, the ending of dying in this foreign country, this is the only point, I will never admit it."

(End of this chapter)