Abandoned Priest at the Hero’s Party

Interlude 2. Star’s Visitor

How many cycles have swept this world, he doesn’t know.

Time was meaningless to the desperate demon king. The lifespan of the Demon King who transplanted the cells of the primordial body was close to immortality, just like the primordial body. That endless time was just meaningless to Gelier.

In the end, the beginning, as always, is made by the ancients, and the endings are also taken by the ancients. The process has no meaning.

In a world where the beginning and the end are decided, what does the middle mean?

All living things originated from the primordial body, and their behavior was remarkably identical. The intelligent races hunted or domesticated the non-intelligent races, and gathered together to deal with other intelligent beings.

There were times when I couldn’t rely on my own abilities and tried to lean on something else. That belief and faith, each time, created beings called gods.

– Grimu too.

Even though born of faith, they mistake themselves for the rightful masters of this world.

The poor people who could not save even a single believer from annihilation called Grimudo the Demon King.

-You are the evil of this world.

either way

or say it

A world created by flesh.

A world that will return to flesh.

A cycle that never changes and repeats itself over and over again.

Where in the world are there good and evil?

survival. There is only struggle for survival. Primordial beings promoted their own growth and survival, and countless intelligent beings also struggled to survive.

Grimudo did not deny that he was the Demon King. He was born intelligent, but he was the ugliest traitor on the side of the ancients.

– Grimudo, our idol who disobeyed God!

So he didn’t even consider himself worthy of worship.

– We, the Lakshmir faction, will follow you.

those who have been abandoned by God. Those who disobeyed the will of God and were expelled.

Even when those who were branded as ‘evil’ and suffered a blow to their divine powers began to worship them,

All those reverences were almost completely ignored. He was called the forerunner of the demons, but no fear or worship reached him.

Those who call him the enemy will not be able to withstand the cycle, and neither will those who worship him as the primordial demon king.

However, while he closed his eyes and closed his ears, several changes came down to this world at the same time.

human. Shorter lifespan than elves, weaker than orcs, lower stamina than beasts, and worse than Valkyrie.

They all have their shortcomings, but they all have their strengths too.

The newly born intelligent race suddenly came up with an idea.

One day, someone saw the prisoners and fell in thought.

Beast people are not good at using magic. However, they can use their magical powers to strengthen their bodies.

An unnamed sorceress who had seen manipulating magical powers in a way that is commonly called sign language thought.

Could humans possibly handle magic in that way?

Another day, someone else looked at the elf and fell into trouble.

Watching the magic to transform the surrounding elements into spirits and use them, I suddenly realized something. Such realizations have been accumulated in the history of mankind, and one day, they appeared in the name of martial arts. There are people who can create magical power by exploding and compressing their own magical power.

Unlike the old minds, who had to depend solely on God and their own innate abilities,

Through training and hard work, I was able to throw off the yoke of birth.

Some people only created magic strength, while others created their own magic strength by capturing images.

When they came to the fore of history as they were called Masters, Grimudo was silent.

Whether it’s a sword master, a spear master, or a polearm master.

Compared to the primordial body, it was still nothing but dust.

This was also thought to be a fleeting flower born in numerous cycles.

No matter how splendidly bloomed flowers, it is natural for them to wither over time.

“An ancient god?!”

For the first time, the elves rejected Grimudo’s common sense. They achieved their first victory in the battle between the ancients and the intelligent. Although it did not cause any damage to the primordial body, just surviving was a more valuable victory than anything else.

“can not believe it. Did that really exist?!”

An unnamed Old God answered the elf’s prayer at the time of the cycle.

Its seeds grew into trees large enough to cover a city, protecting all the elves from circulation. It was the moment when the existence of the Old Gods was proven, and the moment when the common sense of Grimudo was broken.

The civilization that people today call the super-ancient civilization is crumbling,

Even if they were buried in the cycle, humans and the path they invented, called martial arts, survived.

The saved race, not to mention the elves, also survived to some extent. They neither knew nor documented what destroyed the ancient civilizations, but they revived from destruction for thousands of years. Once again, civilization was established and began to flourish.

However, that was not the case in Grimudo’s eyes.

A long time ago, as a visitor called the ancients came to the planet Pyros,

Through the distant sea of stars, another guest came from beyond the sky.

They came to this land to see a gem called intelligence that blooms very rarely in the universe.

– Indigenous people of this place. We didn’t bring you any malice.

Dragon. Neither a God nor an Old God, but the greatest transcendental species that could hardly be called a mortal.

Perhaps the only species in the world that does not originate from a primordial organism. They came to Grimudo from beyond the Milky Way.

– Our mission is the manifestation of intelligence and the revival of civilization. I was traveling through space for that.

– You are a very powerful being. May we consider you representative of this star?

Grimudo shook his head. He was his own representative, not anyone else’s.

The existence of an extraterrestrial dragon called a dragon was also a surprise to him. The ancient demon king, who was a scholar before he was a demon king, felt an interest in the existence of dragons.

So, we suggested that we share knowledge with each other.

The polymorph method developed by Grimudo was passed on to the dragon. By modifying the method, they were able to hide their gigantic bodies and transform themselves into humans or other races.

Other than that, Grimudo talked about the history of this star and the existence of the primordial body. In return, the dragon taught Grimudo the power of magic. After analyzing the situation, they realized that this star was not as friendly to life as they thought it would be.

-Unbelievable. Does this whole Arctic are the ancestors of all living things on this planet?

-What do you think? Can you annihilate or seal it?

– Impossible. Not to mention extinction. Defeating a creature of this size would be absurd, and even if we had the ability to do that, would it be subjugated?

The primordial body was too large and gigantic. No matter how the dragons gathered the power to annihilate them, there was no way they could just die. If a primordial body stumbles even once, an unspeakable calamity will happen to the entire planet.

You have to defeat the primordial body to block circulation and help the creatures, but what is the meaning if the terrestrial creatures are annihilated in the midst of battle?

No, trying to kill something like this in the first place was a difficult story in itself. Even a dragon under heaven was difficult to touch.

– The same goes for sealing. If you can’t seal this huge thing at once, you’ll definitely struggle and resist. Then, in the worst case, the planet itself could become uninhabitable.

-I had high expectations for this planet, but it was a disappointment.

– Still, you don’t know. Maybe one day they will stand on an equal footing with us.

– Let me tell you some magic. Then we’ve done all we can do.

They originally had different races, ideologies, and thoughts, but they followed Grimudo and abandoned the existing race.

To those who were rejected by the world as demons, the dragon approached and conveyed the power of magic.

Although he delivered magic to all other races, the dragon favored the demons. Some dragons fell into polymorph and even had demons and children. Then, some dragons remained until the time of the cycle and watched the rise of the ancients.

-Unfortunately, these stellar creatures prefer unity rather than self-existence.

last cycle. In the history that people today call the day the ancient kingdom fell,

A few dragons with a long lifespan, although not comparable to those of the ancients, directly watched the scene. They were thinking of saving some, if not all, of the Earth’s race.

-If that’s their choice.

– We just respect it.

-Dragons cannot impose our values on other creatures.

However, the regression instinct was an instinct that was too strong to be suppressed by reason.

Even if you can resist with reason, you earnestly want your body to go to the primordial body.

Just as a person who has used drugs once cannot quit drugs, it is almost impossible to go against the regression instinct only with mental strength unless the mental strength is really strong.

The number of those who put their minds to rest, put on an ecstatic expression, and rushed towards the harvester, was worthy of being called an absolute majority. The number of people who smiled and ate the harvester without swinging a knife exceeded half of the population. The dragon watched all these spectacles and left this star.

Humans, demons, beasts, and other intelligent beings all held hands and were eaten by the harvester.

Even the Undead was no exception. Even the dead could not escape the bondage of the flesh.

In a sense, it was as if they had chosen the ancients. At least the dragon interpreted it that way.

The dragons were not primitive, and the harvesters who were only a part of them could have been defeated.

However, because they were not a land race, they were dragons, so they did not interfere with people’s choices. These great races left the Pyros, considering themselves unnecessary to this planet.

Seeing all this, Grimudo was neither disappointed nor discouraged.

He sank deep and deep, because there was no place for him to sink any further.

This man, who had been in despair since time immemorial, had no place to retreat.

There was no place to fall further, no place to sink further, no place to go deeper.