I Got a Fake Job at the Academy - Chapter 723



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Episode 723: The Wings of Freedom (1)

“Ah, finally.”

Surna smiled faintly as she looked at the sky brightening with a cluster of pure white lights.

He felt a soft and warm hand on his forehead.

It was a familiar feeling.

“I remember?”

Arkenis nodded slightly at the clear voice that softly rang in her ears.

“In the past, every time you attacked me, I would knock you down and make you rest your head on my knees like this.”

“What happened a thousand years ago?”

Surna burst out laughing and looked at the sky.

“done.”

“huh.”

“The cage has been broken, and the oppressor that oppresses this world has disappeared. “Now this world will flow in a direction that no one can predict.”

“huh.”

“I don’t know if that’s good or bad. Any human I’ve seen so far could turn bad. Also, the people I have seen so far may change for the better. “It will depend on what the people left behind do.”

“huh.”

“Lumensis guy. It looks good. To have my heart pierced by the canaries in the cage I looked at with such contempt. I guess I didn’t know because I was blinded by greed. “The Holy Grail he arranged will become a poison that stings him.”

“huh.”

“Yes, Arkenis.”

“huh. Tell me, Surna.”

“It was really hard for me. While doing this crazy thing, I thought hundreds and thousands of times about giving up. Is this really true? Will the moment I’m waiting for come? “Maybe it will never come.”

“huh.”

“I did a lot of bad things on my way here. In the past, these were things I would have scoffed at, but now I know. I learned it. Their pain, suffering, and sadness. Even though I knew that, I kept walking. Everyone calls me crazy, but the truth is different. I knew it all. No, rather, is that why you’re so crazy?”

“Surna… … .”

“Arcenis. I am… … .”

Surna asked in a faint voice.

“Did I do well?”

That question really implied a lot.

This is because all of his footsteps over the thousand years he has lived and walked until now have been incorporated.

There was no way I could have done well.

Even though it was for this reason, what Surna did will not be forgiven by anyone.

but.

“huh. good job.”

Only one person.

At least Arkenis, who can understand Surna.

He stroked Surna’s forehead warmly and affirmed his life.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“ha ha ha.”

Surna laughed.

In fact, it was he who knew better than anyone else that he would not be forgiven.

But at this moment, Archenis affirmed his life in order to bear at least some of his sins.

Even though he knew it wasn’t right, he was willing to endure it.

“I thought I would meet an end worthy of what I have done.”

Surna’s only one eye slowly closed.

“This, too… … “It’s not bad.”

Surna’s body, which had been shaking, went limp.

All life drained from his body, and his body was scattered like powder from his toes.

Arkenis caught Surna’s last appearance in her eyes.

Until his entire appearance disappears.

continue.

* * *

Ludger just stared endlessly at the dawning light.

The cage was broken. I could feel it.

People might not feel it, but Ludger, who was sensitive to divine power, was different.

In his eyes, he could see Lumensis slowly beginning to collapse.

Beyond the cage, an imaginary space invisible to others.

There, Lumensis was pierced through the heart, and white powder was flying from the hole in the heart, suffering.

But he can’t break the cage. All I could do was struggle in pain until I was about to die in that space.

‘Finally.’

Ludger lowered his head and looked back.

I felt everyone around me looking at me.

Rather than feeling relieved that this war was over, their expressions could not escape the lingering feeling of the shocking sight they had seen just moments ago.

They wanted to ask Ludger.

but.

“It looks like you don’t have time to answer.”

As Ludger muttered that, a pillar of bluish light erupted from inside the spire.

While everyone was confused by what had suddenly happened, the blue pillars dispersed like a fountain and gathered around Ludger.

Ludger developed and recombined the bluish magical energy gathered around him using magic to draw complex shapes.

What was completed at the end was a gate.

“Because if it’s not now that the cage is broken, there will be no chance.”

Ludger saw the blue swirling gate and took steps towards it without hesitation.

“for a moment!”

“Uh, where are we going?”

At a time when everyone was unable to come to their senses due to Ludger’s sudden actions, there was the only person who was moving.

The girl with ash gray hair was the one who flew towards the gate where Ludger disappeared, without anyone having time to catch her.

It was Line.

As soon as she threw herself at the gate, the door closed like a dot and disappeared.

The people left behind could only watch the scene in silence.

* * *

Ludger walked down the street.

No, should we really call it a road?

Ludger was lost in thought as he walked along the path, which looked like pure white glass, a sheet of ice, or finely crafted crystal.

At the end of this road, there was the goal I had longed for.

Those thoughts seemed to be washed away by a sound coming from behind.

“Wait!”

Ludger stopped and slowly looked back.

I saw Rine there, out of breath, with her hands on both knees.

“Sigh. Mandible. Why, why so fast?”

“Rine. How… … .”

As Ludger was about to ask Linne that question, he remembered the characteristics of her magical power.

“Right. Is your magical power protecting you even here? “It must be thanks to him that he came after me even in this imaginary space.”

“Imaginary space?”

Line, who had barely caught her breath, found it difficult to understand Ludger’s words at all.

“This is a gap between dimensions. A place where nothing is filled, but at the same time everything exists. “We call it imaginary space.”

“Are you here?”

Liné looked around.

Contrary to the seemingly empty name of imaginary space, the place she was walking through was like a tunnel decorated with beautiful crystals.

As she looked at the wall, countless mirrors reflected her image.

Line looked at the scene closely and couldn’t help but be surprised.

Everything about myself in the mirror was different.

“What the hell is this… … .”

“That is your past self. “Based on the memories you have lived up until now, the walls of this corridor show that.”

“teacher. No, Heathcliff. “What on earth are you trying to do?”

Line couldn’t understand why Ludger came to this place.

“We have a lot to talk about, so let’s talk about it slowly while walking.”

Ludger took a step forward, and Rine hurriedly followed behind him.

“As you know, I am the illegitimate son of Holy Emperor Bretus, and the Holy Grail arranged by Rumensis as a vessel to contain himself.”

Every time Ludger passed by the wall of the Crystal Corridor, his image was reflected like a mirror.

Ludger’s appearance on the wall illuminated from various angles was different.

The appearance of Heathcliff, the illegitimate son of a prosperous man.

The appearance of Ludger Celissi, a teacher in Seorn.

Machiavelli holding a long gun.

Moriarty wearing a monocle.

The appearance of Van Helsing armed with all kinds of weapons.

Other than that, various things Ludger experienced during his life passed by one by one.

Liné looked at the scene with eyes that seemed somehow mesmerized.

‘Those are other sides of my brother that I didn’t know about.’

After passing by like that, Ludger stopped for a moment.

Reflected on the still wall was the image of Ludger as a child, looking to be around 7 years old.

“Seonghwang was not happy with me. Because I was so good, he was jealous of my talent. All my blood relatives were like that. “They tried to kill me because I was an eyesore.”

“that… … .”

“There were various ways to do it. But, having received the blessings of the gods, I did not die easily. Then one day, under the pretext of going on an outing, he took me to the back of the fortress.”

Rine saw a scene from the past reflected on the crystal wall.

It was Ludger, who was pushed on his back and fell down an abandoned well.

“For several days, no one came to visit me.”

Miraculously, the Ludger that fell down the well didn’t have any broken parts.

No matter how blessed he was, he could not bear the overwhelming hunger.

okay. If this is going to happen, let’s just die.

Let’s die and be free from pain.

What Ludger found while making such a promise was a very small piece.

A fragment buried in pitch-black soil at the bottom of a well, with only a small portion exposed.

Ludger found it shining in the moonlight and picked it up with his hand as if he was fascinated by something.

A piece that appears to have fallen from some kind of disk.

A piece that has no meaning in itself.

Ludger was strangely drawn to it.

I don’t know why. Maybe it was just a whim right before he died.

And soon, the moment when the moonlight is in full bloom under the well.

The fragment of the relic held by Ludger created a hole in the air along with light.

Little Ludger’s eyes widened in surprise.

The bluish hole was only about the size of a hand mirror.

It was a mirror that you couldn’t enter, and could only be used to look at something.

But young Ludger saw a world through that hole.

At that moment, a goal appeared in Ludger’s mind.

It was like a kind of instinct imprinted deep in my bones and soul.

Let’s survive.

And let’s make sure to go back.

As if someone had blessed Ludger, who had made that promise, a girl with blonde hair appeared at the top of the well.

That was the last scene this memory comprised.

“Rine. “Everything I have done so far was just for this moment.”

Ludger took a step forward.

The corridor that seemed to go on forever finally reached its destination.

At the end of the crystal corridor was a blue door, like the gate that Ludger first built.

“Wander the continent, changing identities, collect relics, destroy cages, and pierce the heart of Lumensis. “It wasn’t just an additional process for this.”

When the Cardinal used the Holy Relic on Ludger.

That was the reason why Ludger remained unharmed even after being hit by the holy relic.

In the first place, his goal was not something grandiose, such as turning the continent upside down.

From before until now.

His goal was always one.

“And finally, I arrived.”

As Rine followed Ludger through the final gate, she had to cover her eyes with her hands, frowning at the momentary light that stung her eyes.

What Rine saw after lowering her arms was an incredibly surprising sight.

Baaaaang!

The sound of car horns ringing in your ears. Lots of people going here and there. From buildings soaring into the sky to electronic display screens that change rapidly.

“This place… … “Where on earth are you?”

Liné felt dizzy as she saw this for the first time in her life.

“Where I was born. And where I had to return.”

“… … .”

“egg plant.”

Ludger started walking.

His torn clothes and wounds were quickly repaired through magic.

Liné, who was extremely nervous, froze and clung to Ludger’s side.

“Wow, look over there.”

“Are you a foreign model?”

“Your hair color is pretty.”

People passing by glanced at Ludger and Line.

Liné shrugged her shoulders at the sight of people and the language she was hearing for the first time, but Ludger just walked quietly as if he was not interested.

As I walked, I came across a housing complex where people were living together.

Ludger stopped in front of a house located in a deserted alley.

“W-Where is this place?”

“It’s a fortune teller. “You wait here.”

Ludger left Line behind and went inside.

The fortune telling house was lined with brass incense burners and several Buddha statues, and there were many paintings hanging on the walls.

Ludger felt an indescribable emotion at this sight.

A place I hated, but at the same time was familiar with and desperately missed.

Ludger took a deep breath for a moment after standing in front of the sliding paper door installed inside the fortune telling shop.

After gathering his thoughts, he opened his mouth in a calm voice.

“That’s me.”

“Come in.”

Permission was granted. Ludger opened the paper door and went inside.

There, a woman who appeared to be in her mid-30s and wearing a hanbok was sitting there, staring intently at me.

The moment Ludger saw her face, he clenched his fists without realizing it.

A woman whose face was slightly older than Ludger remembered opened her mouth.

“Sit down.”

Ludger sat down and faced her.

How many minutes passed before we exchanged glances without saying a word?

Ludger was the first to speak.

“Long time no see.”

“Today, my fortune told me that a very welcome guest would come to visit, and it was true.”

woman.

Before Ludger became Heathcliff, his mother from his previous life spoke with an expressionless face.

“What is going on here with my son who left home?”