Chapter 286 – Traces (4)

The scenery of the past overlapped over the ruined lair.

Fafnir murmured as he looked at the goods he had accumulated over an immeasurably long time.

[Needs a successor]

However, all dragons died during the Great War.

Because it was the most powerful, it fought at the forefront, and that’s why it was the first to be knocked down by a concentrated attack.

The evil god, wary of the dragon’s power, went all the way to the place where the hatchlings were hidden and slaughtered all of them.

Fafnir, who somehow survived due to his unique venomous temper, was the last dragon left on the continent of Eurelia.

And he alone can never produce an heir.

Because even a dragon can’t reproduce asexually.

It was no wonder that one of the main agenda items of the Dragon Council was to promote childbirth.

It was because dragons were naturally human beings who were attracted to humans rather than their own kind, so they felt a sense of crisis that if they did something wrong, they might really go extinct.

Anyway, if the dragon race were to finally exterminate Fafnir, how on earth should they make a successor?

I was curious about that, so I watched it still. Time accelerated again this time, showing Fafnir’s move quickly.

It was Fafnir who greedily collected riches, but he was often extravagant, as if he had no reluctance to use it.

But this time, he made up his mind and spent money lavishly.

He began to collect all sorts of rare materials by scattering gold piled up like a small garden.

The appearance of a big hand, which is nothing short of good news for countries that have just finished a great war and are trying to recover.

Instead of handing over the useless goods to Fafnir at the end of the long war, he received a huge amount of gold from his rare.

The next thing Fafnir did after completing the basic preparations was to plunder another dragon rare.

It wasn’t as much as Fafnir, but he wasn’t aiming for the gold and silver treasures he must have stored up.

It was to steal the research records of the dragons, each of which is said to be comparable to the Archmage.

Fafnir, who actively utilized the transfer gate square in front of the Dragon Council, robbed the remaining 99 elders of empty lair.

In the process, the transfer door that was injected with mana that does not match the wavelength broke or malfunctioned… In the first place, I didn’t care because I only had to come and go once.

Is that why everything was ruined?

Perhaps that’s why, even though all the dragon rares have become empty, nothing has been found in the past 300 years.

Because Fafnir has already robbed everything… !

After stealing the magic of all elder dragons, Fafnir immediately embarked on a new study.

A crazy study called dragon cloning.

If there is no worthy successor, shouldn’t it be possible to create one? What if there is no mate? Then stop duplicating yourself.

The choice that came after going through a crazy idea called.

Of course, they all failed.

At first, it couldn’t even pass the crystalline stage, and later somehow succeeded in cultivating it to the level of a hatchling, but the moment it came in contact with itself, its ego collapsed and either died or became an empty shell.

So, let’s thoroughly refrain from contact and raise them, but this time lifespan was a problem.

10 years.

The lifespan is too short for a dragon that is no different from the king of longevity.

Even when contact was minimized, the clone’s personality began to resemble his childhood self.

To put it simply, it is said that only fools were created.

Imagine that the clone, which he created with the expectation that he would steadily subdue cultists and become a hero who would turn the tide like Rahim if the evil spirit resurrected one day, would suddenly take over the world.

No matter how much Fafnir has matured through various experiences, blood will spurt backwards.

Realizing that her own direction was wrong, Fafnir went to Circulate Life to seek her advice.

Because in the past, the circulating life that rooted the alter ego of the World Tree on the continent of Eurelia and made its interior its sanctuary was the only god left on earth.

-You’re crazy, Fafnir.

Of course, I couldn’t get it by asking for advice.

The world tree, a tree huge enough to cover the entire sky, shook its branches. It looks like it’s breathing.

However, the huge dragon with scars did not give up on its will.

[O circulating life. The great ruler of life and the mother of elves. … And my old comrade.]

-Are you a friend to me, a godhead? It’s an arrogant statement like you, but it’s not like you with a dirty personality.

[Do you know the future of this world?]

– The future is the future because no one knows. This is true even for God.

[Didn’t we all feel that God is not omnipotent? Rather, I would like you to lend me your wisdom. How can I complete the Chimera Dragon?]

– It’s impossible. A dragon’s strength comes from its enlarged ego, along with its special body. However, the clone’s ego can’t be that strong.

[… He couldn’t accept the fact that he was my clone and his ego collapsed.]

-Ego is what differentiates you and me, germinates, and blooms with uniqueness. It is extremely difficult for a non-native being to become an archmage, as the distinction between Taa is ambiguous.

[In addition, a dragon becomes a Jackie Chan only by becoming a great wizard. Is it. Were they children who couldn’t become adults in the first place?]

Fafnir nodded calmly. Maybe he already knew.

The reason why I came to the circulating life is just to get certainty.

The leaves of the world tree drooped in response to Fafnir’s reaction, which was like a heap of ashes that had all the sparks of the time when he was rampaging on the battlefield disappeared.

It was as if he was saddened by the change of a comrade who had fought together for a long time.

-… One thing. There is a way.

[What?]

-Dragon is special. In the first place, there is no way that a race that naturally becomes an archmage just by getting old is normal. That’s why you can’t just imitate it.

[Sounds like different races are different.]

– But it is not. Elves, Beasts, Dwarves. All three races have their own characteristics.

[What about humans? What about humans?]

– There may be special human beings, but human beings cannot be special.

A word like an answer. However, he lightly bowed his head, as if that was enough for Fafnir.

[… Thank you.]

Fafnir was about to leave with his back at those words one last time. The circulating life caught him like that.

-Wait a minute.

[What?]

-You asked if you knew the future of this world just now, Fafnir?

[It did.]

-I heard that you are learning the magic of other dragons. If you make all the elders’ magic your own… Even if you don’t open the door to the Dragon Council, you’ll understand a lot.

[Hmm.]

-Fafnir. Black catastrophe. Last dragon. And my old comrade This time I will ask from my side.

[Say.]

-Do you know the future of this world?

[…]

Fafnir, who was silent for a moment, replied in a calm tone.

[I don’t believe in prophecy.]

-Then… !

[However, predictions are a different story.]

At those words, the circulating life swallowed in vain.

There are so many things I want to say, but it feels like nothing comes out of my mouth because there are so many.

I felt it, so Fafnir must have felt it too. However, he did not wait for the circulating life to organize his thoughts.

Silently turning his back, he teleported straight to his lair.

After Fafnir heard the advice of circulating life. He retreated to Lair and began to focus on his new research.

The research process itself was all visible to me, but it was such a difficult process that I didn’t know what I was trying to do at first.

However, it wasn’t long before Fafnir, who established his own hypothesis, started his first experiment and realized everything.

This mad dragon gathered the knowledge of the Dragon Council, gathered information from the entire continent, and created magic that could calculate the future based on this.

If you can create a space that doesn’t exist and enforce certain rules, you can take over a space that already exists and analyze it.

… Of course, that’s just what it sounds like, but in reality it’s never been that easy.

Had it not been for Fafnir, who had been reborn as a more powerful being among dragons through the long great war, had not acquired all the knowledge of the Dragon Council.

And unless you stocked up on all sorts of rare materials and consumed them like water.

Fafnir must have failed. No, he would have failed anyone.

Prediction magic infinitely close to prophecy. It was an amazing feat, but for Fafnir, even this was just the beginning.

He started running the simulation several times to find a way to prevent the world from perishing.

Fail, fail, fail, fail again.

Good gods disappeared or became new evil gods, mortals became playthings for evil gods regardless of race, and in the end, nothing remained.

No matter what variables were put in, the world ran toward destruction. As if that is the fate of this land.

However. Even so.

Fafnir still did not give up. He couldn’t Because this was everything to him.

How much time had passed By the time Fafnir’s lifespan, which was already near a terminal end, had been consumed considerably.

Finally, Fafnir found a way.