BXBX NOVEL Chapter 143
What to give up and what to choose.
The more rationally you solve this conundrum, the higher the survival rate.
But this time I couldn’t.
“Cheuk heck!”
Three wounded and a bottle of the finest potion.
In fact, the best course of action was to feed Rotmiller the entire bottle.
I had to revive him as quickly as possible and take out the potion from the [Treasure Warehouse].
So it was right to treat me with a superior potion and feed the remaining superior potion to Dwalki.
But…
‘Then Dwalki would have died.’
It was difficult to make a rational choice.
I already knew it in my head, but my body fed half of the potion to Dwalkie without hesitation.
As a result.
“Hold on, both of you! Let’s all get out of this damn place!”
The definite future is gone.
Because he couldn’t give up on Dwalki, he couldn’t even guarantee Rotmiller’s life.
Half a bottle of potion would have been enough if he fed it right away, but feeding it too late was a problem.
Simply put, high risk high return.
Because he wanted the whole team to survive, he made an irrational decision that could have killed the whole team.
“Be Bjorn…”
I approached Rotmiller.
Then he continued to check his pulse and check his breathing.
I begged you to hold on.
If this man dies like this, all five of us will die.
’10 minutes.’
After that much time, the dragon slayer will wake up. And right now, the only thing that is fine is the dwarf.
If the dwarf can’t stop it, everything is over.
“Oh yes! Stone chamber! What was Bjorn’s stone chamber like!”
The dwarf guarding Dwalkie’s side looks at me. And we ask about the identity of the stone chamber that we finally found after searching the maze for 12 hours.
Fill your hopes with plenty.
“Elixir? Potion? Is there something like that? Ah, if it was something like that, you’d have it? Then, is it a healing spring or something like that?”
“…That’s not the purpose of that stone chamber.”
“Then something! It’s a place you found after wandering around so hard! There must be something!”
The dwarf asks a question, hoping for an answer.
I know it’s best not to answer questions like this, but…
I took a moment to open my mouth.
“That stone chamber is a trap room.”
“Trap room…?”
“Yes, opening the box will return you to the starting point.”
If the gnome and the priest appeared at the same time, I was thinking of immediately discarding Plan A and using it to get on the portal and escape.
No matter what I do at that time, there is no chance of winning.
“That’s right! Then! Let’s get on this and go home! That’s it!”
“Hikuro Murad, wake up. Even if you can return to the tower, nothing will change.”
There is no such thing as a potion coming out just because you go to the tower.
And going back to the beginning is impossible.
I don’t know if you’re aiming for empty house robbing.
Heading for the portal with injuries?
It’s like an act of suicide.
The priest of Karui, who is presumed to have changed his job with the divine power of the High Priest, is guarding it.
“Oh yes! Priest! Wasn’t there an old priest-like old man in your group? Let’s find him.”
“stop.”
“It seems to me that he must have been forced to follow him. If that’s true—”
“Stop it, Hikurod.”
“How can I stop! They’re both dying, so something has to be done!”
The dwarf shouted, as if screaming at his own powerlessness, and I spoke coldly.
“There’s nothing we can do now. Just watch.”
“Really… is that really the only thing?”
“okay.”
There were three possible numbers.
live all
all die
Or someone dies and someone survives.
One minute and one second passed like an eternity.
And…
“He… how did it go…?”
Dwalki regained consciousness.
***
“Dwalkie! Don’t tell me!”
“Yeah, stay still. As soon as Rotmiller wakes up, take the potion—”
Dwalkie asked again as he watched us pour out several words.
“He is…”
“…?”
“How have you been?”
It seems that it is more important than your own life.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I asked only that one after another.
I pondered for a while.
Should I tell you the truth?
The worry didn’t last long.
“Not dead.”
“Ah…….”
“But thanks to you, the immediate crisis has passed. Leave the work to us and rest.”
“That can’t be.”
Dwalkie shook his head desperately.
“There’s no time… there’s no time.”
“Didn’t you hear me just now? When Rotmiller wakes up, a potion—”
“This is a four potion… it’s not something that can be cured.”
There was a moment of silence at those words, and I calmly accepted the reality.
“……Right.”
I don’t know what method Dwalki used.
However, it is Dwalki who knows the current situation best.
These are the words of Dwalki, who longs for life more than anyone else.
So there’s no point in denying it.
“What are you talking about! It’s the highest quality potion!”
“Yes, that’s right! You don’t know. What kind of thing this is. So, don’t sound weird—”
“Miss Mischa.”
Dwalki opened his eyes and stared at us.
“Hikurod and… Bjorn.”
Only one name was called.
However, I was able to know that I had experienced many deaths while spending my childhood in a hospital.
What Dwalki is about to do now.
“Tell me. I will pass it on to Rottmiller.”
“…Thank you.”
The flickering of a candle whose wick has run out.
As if you want to leave something behind in the world.
As if I want to be remembered.
The one that emits the greatest light at the last moment.
“I have something to tell you.”
Soon, the trembling in Dwalkie’s voice stopped.
***
My mother loved the sea.
The unknown thing called the sea that I have never seen but only heard about.
I couldn’t understand it when I was young, but as I grew older, I got to know it.
“Because I can’t have it… there is something I want even more.”
There are things like that sometimes in the world.
Because I don’t know, because I’m not allowed.
that looks even more dazzling.
“You were that kind of person to me.”
I was lucky.
enough for a minute.
I met nice people and explored.
We talked a lot and comforted each other. The empty seat that was thought to never be filled has finally been filled.
That’s why I had to say it.
“Thank you all for being my teammates.”
Something I hadn’t said in a while because it was cool.
Words that have always been postponed, promising later.
But words that will be buried in my heart forever if not now.
Squeak.
Dwalki looked ahead with blurry eyes.
“Aaaaaaa! Don’t say that! Huh? Dwalkie please…”
The woman he was craving for was crying.
I didn’t want that.
Squeak.
Move your gaze sideways.
“I myself… thank you for being my friend. Thank you for joining the team I created…”
A dear friend looked at him and smiled.
I was grateful for the way he smiled while shaking his beard.
And I’m sorry.
One day I decided to go to the smithy to play.
I can’t even keep that promise.
Squeak.
Move your gaze again.
“Rioll Warb Dwalkie.”
The last was a rival and a longing colleague.
Unlike himself who is a coward, he is a warrior who has always fought to the end and protected everyone.
He gazed at himself with calm eyes.
“I apologize. I misunderstood you. You were a better wizard and colleague than anyone else. And the choice you made was noble and noble.”
The man who was always stingy with praise.
The warrior who never put words in his mouth speaks.
“It was an honor to be with you.”
I was overwhelmed and felt relieved somewhere.
He was recognized for the first time.
I heard that it was an honor for a great warrior who lived like a hero in the story.
I, who was only half a wizard.
It decorated a page of the journey he was going to step on.
There won’t be enough time for this.
Yes, it should have been that way…….
‘Why am I…’
I feel resentful.
It is unfair.
I’m afraid.
It’s futile.
‘Why…….’
That was death.
To be erased from someone’s next page.
“Isn’t there something more to say. I’ll step aside if you wish.”
Soon the warrior spoke, and only then did Dwalki realize the reason for this feeling.
“Aaaagh! Dwalkie! Don’t die! Please huh?”
There are people in the world who sometimes shine.
To me, that person was you.
I haven’t said that yet.
But…
‘It must be greed.’
Effortlessly erase selfishness.
I know there is no chance now or forever.
Because her journey won’t end today.
It should not remain as a dark shadow in her future life. If it’s truly for her, that’s the right thing to do.
So, Dwalki opened his mouth.
“Bjorn.”
“……Do you have something to say to me?”
“exactly.”
The only thing a departing person can leave behind.
“You’re not quick-witted. Please don’t look away any longer.”
The warrior did not ask.
You must already know what I mean.
He is too smart and wise to be called a savage.
“Answer me…….”
“Okay.”
Dwalki, who finally got the answer, smiled brightly from the bottom of his heart.
But is the permitted time up to here?
“……He woke up.”
The warrior’s eyes grow cold.
The heart that had stopped beating at this.
Dragon Slayer Regal Vagos.
He fought back even at the cost of his life, but he was never able to overcome it.
It’s just…
“Win… can you?”
“Don’t worry I will definitely return alive.”
With that word, Dwalki took all her anxiety away.
Even the worry of a meaningless death was
erased
. ..
Slowly.
I close my eyes.
The sound fades away and the darkness deepens.
I think in the thoughts that are gradually dulling.
If I have lived a heroic life,
so if my life is recorded in a book, even if it is short.
The last sentence to be written What is this?
A rather plausible phrase came to mind.
It may not be a very suitable expression for a wizard’s end, but…
‘It’s not bad.’ Team Banpunyi
‘s
sorceress Liole Warb Dwalki, after protecting her precious comrade from one of Orculis’s members, the dragon-
slayer
Regal Vargos— a
fierce warrior
.
is
permanently
increased
by +1
.
Tong Seong-myeong didn’t share it, but it shouldn’t be that difficult to find us.
If he wanted to retaliate, even the city would never be safe.
That’s why…
New Plan A.
We devised a plan to defeat him.
When there was a ‘Guardian of Balance’.
I decided that there was no chance unless it was this moment.
But what was the result?
Throb-!
The warrior’s heart beats low.
New Plan A failed.
The battle with him He remained, but he couldn’t save them all.
There was no paradise in the place he fought against.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know it.
Because there’s no way such a good place would exist anywhere in the world.
My heart beat-
!
But…
“Hikuro must prepare to fight.”
“I know.”
Standing up using the mace as a staff.
Those who are left behind will have their own work to do.
Breathe and cross the aisle. Stare at it.
It was raising itself through a shell that was wide open like a flower petal.
“…….”
It was time to end this damn fight.