Kidnapped Dragons

Chapter 351: Episode 100: At the End of the 1,000-year-long Voyage (5)

Chapter 351: Episode 100: At the End of the 1,000-year-long Voyage (5) The bird on the pole gazed down.

The red eye kept a close eye on the [Origin Fragment].

Even though Myu’s real body was unconscious, the mirror image of [Rationality] thought to itself.

There was a foreign existence.

Although it was normal for foreign mana to come and go, the opponent had an evidently strange course of action. Wasn’t it going around the village as if it was looking for something?

Every mirror image moved based on its ‘instinct’ and that was why instinct was the only disposition that did not exist as a mirror image. The one that always had to control all the selfish mirror images was [Rationality] and Rationality knew it had to hurry in an odd situation like this.

The issue, however, was that [Rationality] could not sense [Unconsciousness].

“Could not find it anywhere.”

The mirror images that had left to find the traces of the disappeared existence returned empty-handed.

“Cannot see it anywhere.”

“It seems to have disappeared.”

Among them was an expert at tracking an organic change as well as an expert at tracking mana but none of them managed to find it.

[Rationality] found this to be an increasingly more dangerous sign.

“Maybe it left?”

It was because not a single existence had left yet.

Even though it was the first time that existence had come here, it knew how to make use of Unconsciousness. It must have gone into other worlds several times so after a deep thought, [Rationality] let out a warning sign.

Beeeeeep— A loud alarm echoed all across the village.

“An infiltrator is here!”

“An infiltrator! Is it that strange guy from before?!”

Some shouted.

Immediately after ringing the bell, Rationality called for the strongest soldiers that existed inside its memory.

“Have you called, Esteemed Overseer.”

The dimensions cracked open in the sky as black ‘bomber aircrafts’ and ‘drivers’ appeared from within. There were 7 of them. The 7 drivers bowed at the bird on the top of the tall pole.

Their name was [Memory Manipulator].

Out of all the dragons, the black race was the only ones that could manipulate memories and convey their wills. As such, they were the strongest and the most horrendous subjugation force that only existed within the mana of black dragons.

No matter how disgusting the infiltrating mana and no matter how disgusting a memory, the [Memory Manipulators] could return all of that to nothing.

Their power had no limit. They could even rampage through other worlds let alone their own.

Rationality commanded them.

Bombard it as soon as you find a trace. It does not matter who dies in the process.

The [Memory Manipulators] revealed their doubts in response because there had never been such an extreme command yet.

“What if the guy comes to this place.”

It does not matter. You guys can bombard me and kill me in the process. That was what Rationality said in response and the Memory Manipulators that always heeded to its call returned a bow.

Not one of them revealed any more doubts, because everyone in this Origin Fragment knew except for one person.

The fall of this world was destined to be from self-destruction.

From a very long time ago.

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Memory was written into a book in an order and displayed on the bookshelves.

‘In an order’ – that was the important part.

Immediately after birth, dragons receive authorities such as [Will of the Ancient One] through the [Will of the Ancient One] of their parents. Therefore, the memory of receiving that authority should be located at the end of this enormous library.

Yu Jitae walked.

His feet were fast and it was not much different from running.

Even though he had been running for four days and nights straight, he was walking like this now because Myu’s personality was tired.

“Hukk, hulk…”

While staggering, Myu followed him from behind. Despite the lack of enthusiasm on its face, it diligently walked forward.

The large library was empty and cold. Since it wasn’t physically cold, this meant that the entirety of Myu’s life throughout her memories was cold.

The temperature was fairly low and even Yu Jitae was feeling cold from it.

Naturally, Yu Jitae was not concerned about the temperature of Myu’s memories. For him, Myu was just a ‘mutant experiment material’ – nothing more and nothing less.

During the process of going back through the memories, he reached out to the books that were especially more frozen and used [Conceptualisation] on them. His authority analysed the phenomenon into specifics.

All those memories were that of a roaming life. He thought it was to be expected from a black dragon that wandered through the dimensions their whole life, looking for a place to settle.

He didn’t bother checking those memories. He had no time to waste doing such useless things.

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After 5 days, the concept of time became vague.

Even after a week, the two continued walking without saying much to each other.

10 days passed with only the sound of their breaths resonating across.

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After walking for almost 2 weeks, Myu’s personality at last crumbled onto the ground from fatigue.

“C, can we take a quick rest before moving on?”

He stopped his feet as he too exhaustedly inhaled for a deep breath. He realised that his body had been drenched with sweat and stopping once made all the fatigue come flooding in.

The mirror image of the personality repeatedly tried to tuck the drenched hair behind its ear to stop them from covering its face. Seemingly frustrated, it moved with rushing fingers and its breath was even more rushed.

“We are only half-way there.”

“I, I’m sorry. I always spend my time lying down so I do not have enough energy.”

“Let’s get back up.”

“I cannot.”

“You can walk a bit more.”

“How would I walk anymore than this? It’s already so tiring…”

“I’m telling you you can.”

“I can’t. Please let me rest a little. After a quick rest, I will try my best to stand back up.”

“…”

“What about you? Are you not exhausted?”

Without saying anything in response, he turned his body.

Ever since a few days ago, he had been hearing some extraordinary sounds from above the ceiling.

The warning bell was well within his expectation but that wasn’t the case for the engine and the propeller noises. It was even more of a problem that there were quite a few of them.

Black dragons had the [Authority] to eliminate, manipulate or substitute memories.

It was probably them that was on the move – the situation was a lot more pressing than he expected.

“In any case, it seems that the entrance of the dumping ground we have blocked with Unconsciousness is still undiscovered,” exclaimed Myu.

“Yes.”

“That is truly a relief…”

Was it a relief?

He had a different approach.

This was a rather strange response.

If something were to happen, ‘personality’ was one of the first existences that had to be found. They should have found personality after three or four days at the latest.

However, they did not look for personality.

How neglected was personality in this world that the

Myu was trembling heavily and seemed like it might faint anytime. There was no frostbite because it wasn’t physical coldness but that was the only difference.

He had to browse the first memory as quickly as possible. Opening the ceiling and going out before that would only increase the chance of being caught by several-fold.

Myu had to endure it here.

“Hang on.”

“…I cannot hang on.”

“You must. And you can pull it off.”

“…I can?”

“Yes. So hang on just a little.”

While desperately trying to console Myu, he checked the wandering memories by the side.

#10, #5, #3, #2…

At last, he found #1.

The final destination should be right before them.

He thought he would be soon reaching the ‘first memory’ of when Myu was in an egg but that was when the two suddenly came to a stop. It was because the mindlessly sprinting wolf suddenly stopped in surprise.

An enormous black wall.

That wall was covering the entire library with not a single gap to be seen.