Solo Swordmaster

#766 A long time ago.

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[Limon Aspelder.]

To find the millennial flower.

It was when I went to Amazon.

After going through many twists and turns, Limon unsealed the platinum carving knife and saw Plato’s image contained in it.

[Lastly, I have something to ask you.]

Plato did not leave too many words.

I just put a few words of wishes and praise that I couldn’t bear to say in my life.

However, at the end of the praise, Plato added a word with a particularly serious face.

[As you know, I went to study abroad in the fairy kingdom when I was young. And I’ve met the Fairy Queen a few times because of that relationship.]

Before the Bronze Age opened.

Back when the gods ruled the world and the fairy kingdom was still open.

Thanks to the knowledge he gained while studying in the fairy kingdom, he was able to become the best shaman in history.

Also, in that he was the ruler who obtained the autonomy of the old Greek kingdom from the seven dragons, Plato had a lot of contact with the Fairy Queen.

[That’s why I found out. Limon, you must meet the fairy queen.]

To make a carving knife again.

With the help of the Fairy Queen.

One fact I just found out.

Plato left his carving knife with the words that he could affirm because he had been neutral between the Seven Dragons and Limon for the rest of his life.

[It’s good even if it’s not now.]

[Instead, if a big change happens in the world someday, go see the fairy queen.]

[If that’s the case…]

I wasn’t a prophet.

Even if you don’t know the future.

As a philosopher, narrator, and politician who has lived since the days of ancient Greece.

The old man, who had an insight comparable to that of a sword master, concluded his will with a frighteningly hard face.

[You will know the truth of the world.]

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“Which story should I start with…”

Maybe it’s because I’ve lived so long.

Like looking back at a memory.

It’s been a long time since I looked into the sky with low self-talk.

As if she had finally finished organizing her thoughts, the Fairy Queen turned her gaze to Limon.

“It’s going to be a bit long, but can I start talking about it from the beginning?”

“Do whatever you feel comfortable with… Do it.”

Limon readily replied.

The Fairy Queen is a mythical being.

Excluding respect, being able to talk to her like this was a fortune that could not be bought with billions of dollars.

The more stories I heard, the more I should be grateful.

Having obtained Limon’s consent, the Fairy Queen opened her mouth with a faint smile.

“Limon Aspelder, do you know when and where the ancient spirits came from?”

“I heard you came down from the sky.”

“that’s right.”

Even Limon didn’t know originally.

A myth told about Helios, the sun god, who was the grandfather of the legendary great witch Sir.

Referring to the story of the ancient spirits who ushered in the Golden Age, the Fairy Queen added a word.

“It’s not entirely true.”

“You mean the spirits don’t come from the sky?”

“No, it is true that I came down from heaven. It just means that it came from a far, distant sky farther than you know.”

a long time ago.

At the end close to the sun.

It was ruined by the spirit’s curse.

So, as a result, Ikaros, the Unspeaker who absolutely inscribed taboos on mankind outside the sky.

After that day, astronomy declined and no one paid attention to the sky outside the sky.

The Fairy Queen mentioned.

“—on another planet.”

“…”

“Do you know what I mean?”

“I’ve heard that every star in the sky is a planet like our world.”

“that’s right. And among them, there are extremely rare planets where life exists like this world.”

Took.

The moment the Fairy Queen smiled and tapped the floor with her staff.

A change has happened.

The surface of the lake, which had been calm, started to sway, and a certain image began to be reflected on the clear surface.

Everything is covered in pitch black.

A starlit void.

And in the middle of that void, looking at the blue star that shines beautifully like a jewel.

The fairy queen opened her mouth.

“A long time ago, there was a planet at the end of the universe.”

“The planet was a blessed place.”

“Because there was a comfortable temperature, clean water, rich nature and various species of creatures.”

The video has changed.

the wide blue sea.

A mountain full of animals.

A land full of vitality.

The softly illuminated image was fixed in a particularly rich forest.

“Above all, there was ‘they’.”

and in that forest.

they were living

They look just like the beauties who guided them to this place in the fairy kingdom.

However, there are beauties with long ears and beautiful looks that are much more lively than them.

“The planet’s ancestor race, endowed with a longer lifespan and superior intelligence than humans, and a love of peace.”

when viewed objectively.

The ancestors were great people.

They stayed away from conflict, shared knowledge and supplies with each other, took care of nature, and lived in harmony with animals.

Abundance was always near them.

“And based on that long lifespan, the ancestor race developed rapidly and prospered.”

Originally, the reason why technology takes time to develop is largely because knowledge is lost due to the limit of lifespan or time is consumed in succession.

However, the ancestor race, which had a longer lifespan than humans, was able to achieve much faster development without such difficulties.

To the extent that it has achieved a civilization that far surpasses modern people through its own research and development.

“The only regret is that it was difficult to increase the population above a certain level because the ancestors were single-sex.”

[If it was a single gender, there were only females?]

“Yes.”

[Then how do you give birth to a child?]

“In ancient times, it was obtained from a tree, and after technology developed, it was artificially inseminated to give birth in an incubator.”

[…???]

Why? I heard the explanation, but

the video continued to change

even while Yuna-kyung, who became more unknown, raised a question mark above her head .

The trees in the forest grow thicker.

Between them, tall and complex buildings are built.

A flying boat goes between trees and buildings.

Even though it was built in the middle of a forest, not a single tree was cut down or knocked down, and every building is in harmony with nature.

Its appearance was not as developed and splendid as that of Eldorado, but it seemed more cozy and peaceful.

“As civilization has developed, the lack of population has been a challenge in many ways.”

“The ancestors didn’t forcefully increase their population, though. I knew that artificial acts upset the balance of nature.”

“Instead, they made it up.”

“An AI that can make up for the insufficient population because it can think and judge autonomously to some extent.”

the moment I heard that.

Limon made a strange expression.

“That’s not possible…”

“Yes, that’s right.”

nod your head slightly

I agree with that guess.

The fairy queen changed the image of the lake and showed it.

Metal beings that are so familiar to them, who began to appear all over the city where natural and artificial objects were harmonized.

“They were mechanical life spirits created by the ancestors.”

It was a shocking story.

Spirits are the ancestors of human civilization.

It was an existence that can be said to be the source of all technology that mankind has learned and developed.

However, it would have been something only a mad conspiracy theorist would say that such spirits were in fact tools created by an otherworldly race.

no, be honest

If it had been someone else who said this, Limon would have looked at him suspiciously.

In fact, Yuna-kyung was twitching her beak as if she didn’t want to believe it.

But I couldn’t believe it.

she is the fairy queen

He was the lord of all spirits and the only one who could give truth to these implausible words.

“After the spirit was created like that.”

“The world of the ancestors has developed further.”

“Technology that harmonizes with nature has enriched the entire world, not just the ancestors.”

A tree tower grows on the land.

Whale boat roaming in the sea.

Clouds of light rise out of the sky.

It is truly paradise.

From the Golden Age to the present, it was a world where all living things, from humans to animals and plants, enjoyed peace and prosperity, which mankind could not even imitate.

Their civilization has even advanced to other planets.

If prosperity continued as it was, they might have benefited the entire universe widely.

But…

“But then an unexpected incident happened.”

Sseuseuk.

A change has taken place in a peaceful world.

Countless meteor showers fell from the sky, and mysterious doors of light appeared in various places.

Seeing this, Yuna-kyung widened her eyes while Charlotte hardened her face.

Unlike the scenery that was so unfamiliar and unfamiliar until now, the scene was extremely familiar and familiar to the residents of this iron age.

“Dungeons were created and constellations appeared.”

32 years ago from now.

The same scenery that took place when the iron age opened.

When the Fairy Queen, who had been looking at it with a little sad eyes, quietly closed her eyes.

The lake changed again.

“And…”

Crackle.

disappear

The forest is the land and the sea.

Buildings, machines, vegetation.

Animals, spirits, people.

Like a canvas covered with ink.

Or like the record of the video being erased.

Looking at the lake filled with darkness as the beautifully shining planet gradually loses its blue color.

The Fairy Queen continued quietly.

“The planet of the ancestors, Alfheim, has perished.”

for a moment.

…it took a little longer to say the least.

Until I understood what she meant.

[Destroyed…. Do you miss it?]

Dazed.

after muttering.

Yuna-gyeong, startled as if suppressed by her own voice, stuttered.

[…why how?]

“I don’t know exactly what happened. Most of the records of Alfheim at that time were damaged, and there are few complete records.”

[…]

“The only thing that is clear is that a catastrophe that cannot be prevented by the Constellations has occurred.”

A civilization so transcendent that it is difficult to guarantee that humanity will be able to reach it even if it takes hundreds or thousands of years to disappear.

After speaking quietly.

the Fairy Queen added.

“Of course, the ancestors didn’t just disappear.”

“Knowing that destruction could not be prevented, they built an evacuation ship instead.”

“And they decided to leave their home planet and go on a long journey to find a planet where they could start anew.”

Kurleung.

A planet where everything is in darkness.

A huge ship rose from one side.

The darkness clung to the ship like mud, but the ship pushed through the darkness and stretched out into the infinite universe.

No, I was trying to stretch out.

“…even though it failed in the end.”

Was it because it was too late to escape?

Or is it for some other reason?

Not long after leaving Alfheim.

The last survivors of Alfheim, who were on board the evacuation boat, collapsed one by one.

And as even the most beautiful ship owner with wings sitting in the captain’s seat closed his eyes, the evacuation ship lost all warmth and fell into silence.

that’s the end of everything.

A race of ancestors who were more noble than anyone else.

It was the moment when the fairies of harmony (Cosmos Alf) finally went extinct.

“But is it fortunate or unfortunate?”

“The shipowners all died, but the spirits that controlled the evacuation ships remained.”

“So they continued their endless voyage in search of a planet that could be relocated according to the last order left by the shipowners.”

Could it be thousands of years?

Is it tens of thousands of years?

That was enough time to destroy even mechanical lifeforms.

But the spirits did not stop sailing.

Harvest resources from asteroids.

Repairing a damaged ship.

Crafting a new spirit.

He just quietly continued his solitary journey.

“And after a long wandering, they finally arrived.”

Wandering in such an infinite void.

After passing through thousands of burning stars, frozen stars and dark stars, the evacuation ship that has lost its refugees has finally found itself in a faraway corner of the galaxy.

A blue planet that had the light of life just like their hometown of Alfheim.

“This world is Earth.”