Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
A spot near the Western continent's northern shores.
The Forbidden Region known as the Lake of Despair was located here.
“Human! It’s a bit cold!”
It definitely felt as if sumr had ended and fall had arrived as Raon fluttered his wings and sniffled. Cale took a blanket out of his spatial pocket bag with a stoic expression and wrapped it around Raon’s neck like a scarf.
Choi Han silently watched this and Cale flinched at his gaze before starting to speak.
“...Do you want one too?”
“No.”
Choi Han shook his head.
Raon quietly snickered while watching them. Raon could use temperature managent magic, but he liked Cale wrapping him like this more.
“Weak human! I need to use temperature managent magic on you!”
Of course, Raon had put temperature managent magic on the weak Cale. Choi Han then nodded his head and looked around them.
‘What the...?’
This made Cale feel upset, but he let it go once the spell ward him up.
He then looked toward the lake with a large whirlwind on it.
The snowstorm raging on top of the frozen lake seed quite scary.
It was at that mont.
“Hmm?”
‘...It's hot?’
Cale’s back felt hot for so reason.
He had felt his back being cold, but never hot.
“Human!”
Cale saw Raon’s front paws push him to the side at that mont. He then felt his body almost flying sideways from the strength in those paws.
Plop.
He fell on the snow.
“...Son of a-”
The mont Cale was about to frown...
“Fire!”
Cale looked at where he had been standing after hearing Raon's shout.
There was a random fireball floating there. However, the faint fireball was burning wildly.
‘No wonder my back felt hot.’
Cale checked whether his back was burnt before putting his hands into his outfit’s inner pocket.
Choi Han who was watching started to frown and took out his sword.
This was a random fireball that suddenly appeared in this place that could be called the coldest place on the Western continent.
It was naturally suspicious, and he had to be even warier of it as that fireball had suddenly appeared behind Cale’s back.
That fireball continued to move toward Cale.
“Shit!”
Ooooooong-
Black aura started to rise up from Choi Han’s sword.
‘Choi Han! I'll tell you sothing! I’ll tell you since everybody eventually needs to know!’
Raon had approached Choi Han before they ca here while saying he would tell him sothing first.
‘Mom and the human told to do whatever I want! I'll tell you about it because I know a secret of yours too!’
He had then heard the story of the Dragon half-blood, Sheritt, and Raon.
It had made him full of anger toward the White Star. He had never hated anyone and wanted to destroy soone like this before.
Everything the White Star did, starting from Harris Village, filled Choi Han with anger.
‘Anyway, that’s how it is!’
Raon tried to speak as happily as possible before flying away while saying he needed to tell Beacrox, On, Hong, and Lock as well before they teleported.
Once Raon was done telling everyone, Choi Han, Raon, and Cale had co here.
Ooooooooong-
The sparkling black aura pointed toward the fireball.
Choi Han was extrely sensitive right now. He would not leave anything or anything who tried to harm his family alone.
The fireball shook as if it was shocked at the black aura, but it continued to move toward Cale.
Choi Han raised his sword and the sparkling aura looked ready to slash the fireball in half.
“Choi Han!”
However, he had to stop his movent.
The golden top’s whip. Cale had that in his hand as he started to speak.
“Choi Han, this is an Elental, an Elental!”
“...An Elental?”
Cale nodded his head at Choi Han’s question as he heard the Wind Elental’s urgent voice in his ear.
‘Chaos! Destruction! Peace!’
The Wind Elental who always said weird things like that was shouting urgently.
‘This is him! The baby Fire Elental! Stop Choi Han! He cannot destroy them! Chaos! Destruction! Absolutely not!’
Cale recalled the Fire Elental he t a year ago but had forgotten about until the Wind Elental ntioned it last ti.
It was slightly over one year old.
‘He must have been desperate! He materialized after seeing you! Peace! Peace! Choi Han, put the sword away! Peace!’
Cale rembered how this Wind Elental that always shouted things like Chaos, Destruction, and Peace had said he pretty much raised this Fire Elental.
“Choi Han, put the sword away. He is on our side.”
“...I understand.”
The shaking fireball quickly flew toward Cale once Choi Han lowered his sword. It then floated around Cale.
Cale smiled at this warmth that felt like he was using a hot pack.
‘Good job! Peace, Cale!’
‘What?’
‘It is very difficult for a Fire Elental to materialize on its own in this cold weather! He truly is a strong Fire Elental that will carry on the will of destruction!’
Cale's face contorted oddly into a frown.
The Fire Elental that got close to him made itself slightly larger and started to burn wildly. Seeing that fire made Cale think about the Elentalist connected to the Fire Elental.
‘He said that there’s a person he wants to contract, right?’
That person was Sully, the grandson of the innkeeper at the nearby village where Cale stayed last ti.
He was talented enough to see the Fire Elental that had wanted to walk Cale out last ti.
Cale recalled what the Wind Elental had said about this Fire Elental's relationship with Sully.
‘The human I want to contract with keeps ignoring . Treats like a furball. I am a great and mighty fire! Help contract with him. I want to create seas of fire everywhere! Chaos, despair, destruction of darkness! We must destroy it at all costs!’
That was what the Fire Elental had supposedly said.
Furthermore.
‘The World Tree-nim said I have a high chance of burning the lake and to return when I beca an adult. I cannot go. I have a house I stay in. It is the contractor’s house. The contractor keeps having nightmares.’
He had said those things as well.
Cale's expression turned odd. The Wind Elental started to speak again at that mont.
‘The Fire Elental has sothing to say! I will deliver his ssage!’
The Wind Elental delivered the ssage because Cale could not hear the voice of this shaking Fire Elental.
‘Longing for the fiery thunderbolt and a sea of fire. Proficiency in sea of fire completed. Create a sea of fire for darkness and chaos. I am a great and mighty fire capable of destruction. Respect Raon Miru very much. Extrely respect the Fire of Destruction, my role model. Love.’
Cale sighed at this Fire Elental’s words that had not changed since last ti and started to think.
‘He said he thinks he can destroy Dorph's darkness attribute, right?’
Unlike the other Fire Elentals, this one said that he was able to destroy Lion King Dorph's darkness attribute. He would be very helpful.
Cale could only see a materialized fire, but that red furball road around Cale who was deep in thought.
It was at that mont.
“Ah.”
Cale clapped as if he suddenly rembered sothing. Cale started to speak as Raon and Choi Han who were quietly watching him reacted to his clap.
“Fire Elental, I thought you couldn’t co here?”
The Fire Elental had said so last ti.
‘The World Tree-nim said I have a high chance of burning the lake and to return when I beca an adult. I cannot go.’
But that Fire Elental was at the lake right now.
Was this okay?
‘Ahem, hem. It is fine as long as he doesn’t get caught! Chaos, destruction...feigning ignorance!’
The fireball shook along with the Wind Elental's nervous voice.
It was at that mont.
“...M, my goodness!”
The Lake of Despair. Soone seed to scream from the lake covered in a snow storm.
It was an oddly familiar voice.
“Ahhhhh! Nooooooooo!”
The scream slowly ca closer. Cale turned toward the direction of the noise.
On top of the frozen lake's surface... There was soone running toward them from the place covered in the snowstorm.
“Oh!”
Raon who realized who it was fluttered his wings as if he was happy to see the person.
Cale stood up as he had been sitting down after falling to the ground earlier. Choi Han who walked up next to him was smiling gently as well.
“Elf priestess, long ti no see!”
Raon happily greeted the person running toward them.
The person quickly running over was Adite, the Elf priestess. Cale tried to happily greet the Elf who was quickly running toward them while wearing the sa baggy priestess robe from last ti.
“H, how-!”
However, Adite looked like she wanted to cry.
Cale flinched after seeing her pale face. Tasha and so Dark Elves were behind her, but he could not greet them.
It was because of Adite.
“S, sea of fire-!”
Adite said that before suddenly stopping and keeping her distance from Cale while rummaging through her sleeve.
Clang clang.
Cale heard the sound of coins clanging before the young priestess took out a handful of coins. She then almost ran over to Cale and started to speak.
“H, here’s the money! Please! Not the sea of fire!”
Her pupils were shaking with anxiety.
Cale quietly looked at Adite before looking to his side. His side felt warm.
The fireball was floating there.
Cale turned his gaze again to look past Elf priestess Adite's shoulder to see the others approaching him.
Tasha and the Dark Elves were looking at Cale with odd gazes.
This was especially true for Tasha who had a gaze that seed to be asking what he did or what kind of scam he pulled this ti. The other Dark Elves just looked confused.
Cale looked at all of them before starting to speak to the Elf priestess.
“...It's an Elental.”
“Ah.”
It was a deep gasp.
Adite looked back and forth between Cale and the fireball next to Cale before slowly putting her coins back into her sleeve.
“...How shocking. But it looks like I don't need to empty my ergency fund.”
The mumbling Adite looked toward the fireball.
She had rushed over here without thinking about anything after seeing fire next to Cale. Adite calmly observed the fireball now that she cald down a bit after learning that it was an Elental.
The fireball shook at that mont and Cale heard the Wind Elental’s voice.
‘The baby Fire Elental is saying, ‘The World Tree-nim told not to co here, but I had to et Cale Henituse-nim because of an issue with my contractor. Adite-nim, I ask for you to understand.’’
‘...What the...? It can speak regularly too?’
Cale’s level of trust in the Fire Elental and the Wind Elental fell drastically. However, Adite started to speak.
“The young master-nim needs to et with the World Tree-nim. You can chat with him later.”
The floating fire slowly turned faint and disappeared. Cale’s warm side returned to normal as well.
‘The Fire Elental told to let you know that he would wait until you co out of the lake! Chaos! Despair! Destroy the White Star!’
Cale nodded his head at the Wind Elental's comnts and started to speak to Adite.
“May I et with the World Tree-nim right away?”
“She has been waiting for a while.”
Adite smiled gently and guided them to the World Tree.
“It’s been so long!”
Cale reached his hand out toward the World Tree whom he had not seen in a while as Raon ntioned.
This tree that still looked like a normal tree at least seed to have more vitality than before. The branches and leaves looked healthier than last ti.
Shhhhh.
Cale closed his eyes and his palm touched the rough surface of the tree.
- It’s been a while.
Cale started to speak the mont he heard the World Tree’s voice.
“That does seem to be the case.”
The World Tree had sacrificed three of her branches to tell Cale three things last ti.
Find Raon's parents.
Find the Water of Judgnt.
There is soone else who has gathered multiple ancient powers.
The information she gave him last ti had been quite helpful now that he thought about it.
"I have many questions to ask you.”
- It is I who has many questions to ask.
“It looks like we’ll need to chat for a long ti.”
Shhhhhhh-
The leaves of the trees surrounding the World Tree started to shake. It looked as if the World Tree was laughing and nodding her head at Cale’s statent.
“Ah.”
Cale asked the question that popped into his mind before they started their serious conversation.
It was sothing he could not find out through Lord Sheritt or Choi Jung Gun's moir.
“Is there an ancient power related to ti?”
The White Star had managed to find out Cale and Choi Han’s identities, as well as the ti the tree in the underground area had died.
He was asking about that power.
- I do not know about such an ancient power. But I do know of multiple powers related to ti.
Cale’s eyebrow twitched.
There was a chance he could find out the identity of the White Star’s power.
It was at that mont.
- Don’t you have one as well?
“...Excuse ?”
Cale flinched.
He then grabbed the chest area of his shirt with his other hand.
- That clock in your inner pocket. I can hear the ti moving in it right now.
The clock from the God of Death.
It was the letter telling Cale to decide whether to go back or stay here.
That clock was still quietly counting down.
Sothing nobody had found out about was now revealed.
“Human, what is going on? Does your heart hurt?”
He heard Raon's voice as the World Tree continued to speak.
- Death is a gift to the God of Death.
The World Tree had instantly figured out that this letter was from the God of Death.
- The God of Death is soone who is experienced in making deals. The Vow of Death is sothing that is only beneficial to the God of Death.
“...Only beneficial to the God of Death?”
Cale moved closer to the World Tree. He pushed his hand tighter against the tree as he placed his ear on the trunk.
He heard a voice in his mind.
- Isn’t it obvious? It is beneficial to the God of Death because anybody who goes against the vow will be in pain, be cursed, or die. Would a God let people borrow his powers for free?
The World Tree laughed as if she was asking why Cale was asking such an obvious question.
- The God of Death cherishes heroes, but is willing to sacrifice a few to save the masses.
Cale suddenly got the chills.
- It looks like it is you this ti.
The World Tree was still laughing.
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