Chapter 41: Fragments of Memory (1)

Under the impact of super magical power, it is like a puzzle that collapses like a puzzle and is a different space formed by magic around it.

Protected by a complete magical shield, I was able to stand unscathed in the midst of this tearing magical storm. Of course, at the cost of my mana, my mana was also diminished at a very fast rate. In the constant collision of magical attacks, the field of vision has been filled with dazzling light and deep darkness, and it is impossible to know what state the two are in the battle, whether they are still fighting fiercely or have been buried in the endless explosion.

Fragments of light from the collapse of space flew around me like meteors, and I suddenly felt a kind of headache. Did you take a beat? No, it can't be, my magic is still abundant, and I will definitely not be harmed until it is depleted. In order to be safe, I still confirmed my own state, and there was nothing abnormal after using magic to examine my situation, so what was the feeling?

Soon, I found the source of this abnormal feeling, which came from a memory in my mind, but this memory did not belong to me when I was human, nor did it belong to me after I became a skeleton. To be exact, this memory did not belong to me, but was poured into my mind as if it had been forced.

Images of the past form an endless gallery of swirls that entrangles me, where I become an element of light born in nature.

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For a long time when I was born into this world, all I could see with my eyes was pain and destruction.

I am one of the elemental spirits born in nature, yet I am different from all my kind. They were born to protect, but mine was born to destroy.

It was a natural disaster about a thousand years ago, and for some reason, the instantaneous increase in solar radiation somewhere killed almost all living things there, but in this land that had been reduced to ruins was born an ominous lifeform, an anomalous light element.

I think my birth may have been just a momentary mistake by the Creator.

By concentrating light sources, I was able to form a body, and as I slowly became conscious, I began to wander aimlessly. Soon, however, I was amazed by the vibrant world in front of me. Marveling at its beauty and richness, marveling at its variety and prosperity, I have been deeply in love with the world ever since.

But I, who was conceived by taking countless lives, was destined to be full of sins from the moment I came to this world.

All elemental spirits draw their power from the elements that give birth to them, and I am no exception, inheriting the heat and radiation from the sun.

It's just that this power is fatal to other beings in this world. Trees with lush foliage are set on fire, flowers and plants are burned, lakes that inhabit all kinds of life are reduced to death, and land that brings endless life is scorched. Everything burned out because of my arrival, and the world I loved was going to be destroyed by my own hands.

Bearing the curse and resentment of the dead life, I am constantly walking on the path of destruction on one side and regret on the other.

Countless nights, countless nights, I wailed in front of the bright stars, cursing the gods who had born me into the world.

In the end, what is it for, if you want me to protect this world, why do you give me the power to destroy, if you want me to destroy this world, why do you give me the emotion of love?

However, no matter how painfully I asked, there was no answer.

Yes, there is no answer, because I am something forsaken by God that should not exist in this world.

In this way, in order not to allow myself to continue to destroy the world I loved, I decided to destroy myself. However, for me, who had no physical body, but was only a spiritual being, suicide was simply impossible, so I could only imprison myself in the cave of the volcano, and for the endless years day after day, I remembered the scenery that I had only seen and then I had cut off with my own hands, waiting for my heart to slowly freeze and die into fossils like the rocks around me.

Maybe then I'll be in no pain.

I never believed that I could have a future, and I never expected that I could still integrate into this world.

Until, until the man appeared.

It was the fifth year that I had imprisoned myself, and because I had destroyed so many things, it was inevitable that I would be hated by others.

In order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy, a team of adventurers came to my volcano again and again to destroy me, only to die before they could get close to me.

This time, however, the group of adventurers who came to conquer me was different, with crimson necklaces around their necks that I had never seen before.

Resisting the deadly light I unleashed, he approached me step by step.

During my five years of seclusion, I was hoping that someone would free me from my misery, and that moment I knew had come.

I had always thought that I was fully aware of death, but when I really felt the imminence of death, I still had a strong desire to survive, and my body instinctively began to attack the adventurers.

I'm so sad, even though I'm in such pain, I still want to live.

In order to defeat this formidable enemy that I had never encountered in my life, I left the cave where I thought I would stay forever and went to the sun that I had not seen for a long time, so that I could derive infinite power from the sun.

However, these adventurers are more powerful than I thought.

To this day, I still remember it vividly.

"Shield of the Celestials!"

A warrior flicked off the spear of light I had projected.

"Veesed, block the light, cut off its source of power."

"I'm already doing it, don't rush me!"

The emaciated but undespised necromancer raised the bone staff in his hand.

"Endless Eternal Night!"

With the activation of powerful dark magic, the sunlight seemed to be completely swallowed up, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness of ignorance.

"Let's work harder, victory is close at hand!"

The man in the green suit, who looked like the captain, shouted in an imposing voice.

Subsequently, I was defeated.

"Suffer death, Catastrophe-level monster!"

The necromancer named Veesed stretched out the terrifying staff of death to me, and the power of darkness slowly gathered on it, so I must not be able to withstand the next attack.

"Wait a minute!"

Just as the power of darkness was about to unleash on me, a man blocked Veesed's staff.

"What are you doing, Lukes?"

"Don't kill it, it destroys a lot of things, but it's not something evil."

A man in a green suit walked slowly towards me.

"No, what are you going to do, stop, you're going to die!"

I screamed in horror when I saw the man unsuspectingly approaching me.

"Although I have done a lot of terrible things, but your heart is still kind, my natural ability is emotional perception, so I can feel your true inside, don't be enslaved by power, you can control your power."

Ignoring my warning, the man smiled warmly.

Maybe the years of training have made me able to control it, or maybe the weakness of my body has made the light I release less deadly, and for the first time in my life, I feel touched by another living being.

I looked at the man who was close to me in amazement, only to realize that his eyes had been burned by the bright light of contact at a quiet distance.

"Why, do this? Your eyes ......"

"It's just a loss of a pair of eyes, but I have a very powerful priest in my team, so don't worry, don't you think I'm still alive? You've done it, and you're in control of your power. ”

Obviously he was hurt a lot, but the man was smiling so happily, what a strange guy.

"Why do you do this for me who is so sinful?"

"Because, ah, every life in this world is born to seek love and be loved, so from this day on, don't lament anymore, let me be your companion."

"Companions? But I ......"

"You, you don't have to blame yourself, what's your name?"

"I don't have a name."

"You can't have a name, so if you don't dislike it, let me get you one."

Lux thought seriously for a moment.

"Then let's call you Geaus!"