Chapter 276
One of the fragments of primordial magic that she had dropped was a seed. That seed had fallen into the underground of the Castrello Kingdom and had grown this much. While drawing and holding all the moisture of the kingdom. It had grown to the point of being connected to the existence within the concept of the World Tree.
That’s why this place had become a desert.
Roina closed her eyes. She could feel painful and bitter emotions. And also, the emotion of welcoming Roina’s return. This fragment of magic had simply waited for her in that place for a long time. It was probably similar in nature to Fides.
“Why are you in pain?”
The World Tree didn’t speak. It simply took that form and remained silent. But Roina could feel its will. That there was a black snake eating away at the tree.
Roina bit her lip and, as if playing a song with her fingers, refined her golden energy and found that snake. The snake, which had been crouching and eating away at the tree like an insect, was terrified and tried to escape, but was soon caught by the golden energy.
Roina clenched her hand as it was, and pulled out that snake. Her power was growing stronger with each relationship, and the current her was someone who could do this much at once.
“Disappear.”
Following her words, that snake, which had been pulled out of the World Tree, disappeared like smoke. The group, who had witnessed that wondrous process, could only look at her with awe-filled eyes.
“A black snake that eats away at the world…”
At that moment, Neilla murmured.
“I’ve read about it in mythology books. The World Tree supports the world surrounding us, but sometimes a wicked black snake eats away at that World Tree and destroys order, bringing chaos and death to the world. Could that… be that snake?”
Her beautifully shaped shoulders shrank. It was the awe of a human facing a divine being. The other group members were the same.
Roina simply stroked the World Tree with sunken eyes.
“Yes, yes… This World Tree seems to have wanted to protect humans from that snake. As part of that, it trapped them in magic stones. Because then the snake couldn’t invade the hard magic stones.”
“So that’s what happened…”
Everyone nodded in agreement, when Ernst, who had been collapsed, suddenly opened his eyes and got up, saying,
“Then, then now that the snake is dead, are you going to release the humans trapped in the magic stones?”
“That’s right. But before that…”
Roina’s eyes clouded as she looked towards Camillo. She laughed awkwardly, haha!
“Me, I’m not real, am I?”
“Huh?”
“What are you talking about…”
The group turned to her with shocked eyes.
“Actually, after thinking about it, I realized that the price for cutting it down wasn’t the loss of my memories. It seems like I didn’t have them from the beginning.”
Roina closed her eyes with a somber expression. She had felt something was strange from some point, but the sensation she had ignored, thinking it was nothing, was now vividly felt. She was a clone made of a part of the World Tree.
“This tree, which has watched the birth and decline of Castrello, probably didn’t want this country to disappear.”
“So, you brought me back to life? By scraping together various fragments. That’s why I’m such a patchwork, and my memories are like this.”
Roina just remained silent. At those words, Ethan, as if something he had been holding back had finally burst, shouted.
“That can’t be true!”
Camillo looked at him with bitter eyes.
“Earlier, when I heard the story about those clones being continuously created, I thought. Could I also be a clone?”
“That, sister, please, the only thing I have left is you…”
“You have something left.”
Camillo said firmly.
“Save Castrello. If you want to atone, do it properly. Don’t just linger and whine like that.”
Ethan paused, stopping at those words. His pupils widened, and his fingertips trembled.
“Ah,” Camillo exclaimed and raised her hand. Her fingertips were fading.
“It seems like I’m going back to where I came from. Me.”
“Sister…”
“Remember what I said. Since my physical body didn’t even leave a trace due to that magic bomb back then, only this sword will remain here.”
She handed the sword she was holding to him and continued,
“Take it, avenge this country’s enemies with this sword. Rally the people’s righteousness. I know there’s already an army of women organized to reclaim this country. Make them knights. Carry on my will.”
In the end, Ethan couldn’t hold back his tears. Without any sobs or wails, the tears he had been holding back and suppressing inside fell drip drip.
Holding the sword and looking at the sword’s owner, Ethan’s eyes were bewildered. He tried to hug Camillo, fumbling, but that heartless woman only left behind a cheerful laugh and disappeared bit by bit.
In the end, as she had said. She left the world, leaving behind only a sword.
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