I Obtained Sword God Level Talent - Chapter 30

No Flower Blooms for Ten Days

Ariel adjusted her posture.

Perhaps thanks to the miraculous power bestowed by heaven,

She instinctively knew what she had to do. She knew what sacrifice was needed to replenish his depleted primordial Qi.

Kneeling.

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Hands clasped together.

And bringing her clasped hands to her chest,

She opened her small lips and spoke,

“Oh, God.”

“……?”

Bewilderment filled Lancelot’s face as he watched Ariel’s actions.

Helios Magic Tower.

Senior mage, Ariel la Helios.

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She was a mage. He had seen her use ice magic with his own eyes, that was an undeniable fact.

And yet.

“Oh, Goddess of Life, who judges life and death.”

Why…

…was he seeing a saint’s halo around her?

“Please have mercy on this lamb.”
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Woong—!

“And grant Your child another chance.”

Lancelot’s jaw dropped.

What Ariel was performing… wasn’t life magic.

It was divine magic. A product of ‘miracles’, something only a select few chosen by God could perform.

“I offer you my flesh and blood… Please, save this pitiful lamb.”

Pitter-patter! Plop!

Starlight began to adorn the space around Ariel.

Lancelot couldn’t believe his eyes. It was as if the light possessed a consciousness of its own, moving back and forth between Ariel and the collapsed Frey. It felt like it was carrying some kind of energy.

Swooooosh——!

Once again.

A dazzling heavenly light poured down upon Ariel.

Frey thought to himself.

‘…What is this?’

Like a kite with its string cut…

…his severed consciousness had returned.

However, his body wouldn’t move.

It was as if his mind was ‘awake’, aware of its own existence, but his body was like a monitor that had been turned off.

The strange phenomenon didn’t end there.

‘Hi! My name is Ariel. What’s your name?’

Memories.

Reminiscences.

A distant past.

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A forgotten promise.

A young girl’s dreams filled his mind.

‘Frey! Today, I’ll teach you how to make sugar cookies.’

Young Ariel, with her charming smile, was an adorable child. She was always clinging to Frey like glue. As if she couldn’t stand being apart from him even for a moment.

‘Frey! What’s your dream?’

Time flowed quickly in his memories.

The Ariel from his childhood had grown into a young girl. But she still always sought out Frey.

‘Me? Ehehe… My dream is to be a priest. A cool priest who helps those who are sick and struggling.’

Whenever they talked about dreams, she always wished to be a ‘priest’. It was a fitting dream for the kind-hearted girl who couldn’t just ignore those who were suffering.

‘Frey! Let’s play together today. Ehehe, I really like you!’

And then, one day.

‘F-Frey! I… I… I awakened a blessing! Two of them!’

Ariel, who had come to find Frey, couldn’t contain her excitement.

God’s blessing, that glorious opportunity, had found the young girl.

‘One is (Divine)…… And the other is (Ephemeral Talent). I wonder what it means? Ehehe. I hope it’s a good blessing.’

Time passed again.

It didn’t take long for the innocent girl to discover the true nature of the blessings that surrounded her.

‘Frey…… I’m… I’m going to die. Around the age of twenty, just like a doll with its strings cut, I’ll suddenly… die.’

One day, Ariel visited Frey, tears streaming down her face.

Frey, at the time, couldn’t say anything.

He was jealous of her for awakening two blessings and ended up saying hurtful things.

‘I… I’m going to become a mage.’

A few days later, Ariel, with a pale complexion, spoke with a determined expression.

When he asked her why she had given up her dream of becoming a priest, she simply smiled and answered, ‘Just because.’

The blessings Ariel awakened were (Divine) and (Ephemeral Talent).

(Divine) was a blessing possessed by only one person in the continent,

Sullivan, the Pope of the Holy Church, the leader of all religious orders. Many players complained that it was practically a ‘unique trait’.
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The reason she became a mage, despite being destined for the path of a priest, was only one.

Frey.

And (Ephemeral Talent)……

‘A trash trait that no one chooses.’

The reason was simple. If a character was destined to be deleted at the age when all their abilities would flourish, who would choose such a trait?

‘Ariel.’
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He had thought it was strange. That’s why he had persistently questioned Ariel. But he never imagined he would learn the truth like this.

Ariel wasn’t destined to be an archmage. She was just an ordinary girl, facing death… someone who had accepted her fate with equanimity.

Lancelot, who had been silently observing the strange phenomenon, struggled to sit up.

Even someone as oblivious as him could easily sense that what was happening was out of the ordinary.

“Ariel… What… what are you doing?”

“…….”

There was no answer from Ariel, who had a golden halo behind her. She just turned her head slightly and smiled sadly.

“Everything will go back to how it was.”

“……!”

Lancelot couldn’t say anything at her sorrowful smile.

Her eyes at this moment eerily resembled those of a certain man. Her smile was so similar to that of her so-called longtime friend.

“…….”

Frey, and Ariel kneeling before him.

The morning sun shone brightly on the two of them.

The sunlight, reflecting off Ariel’s white clothes stained with blood, scattered dazzlingly. It was a scene that resembled… the birth of a saint, not a mage.

“……You know,”

Ariel looked down at Frey, her eyes filled with sadness.

His pale, unmoving face stabbed at her heart.

“To be honest, when you said you lost your memories of me, Frey… I felt a sense of relief.”
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Woong—!

A golden, unknown energy began to wriggle.

“I’m sorry that my actions now contradict our promise from long ago.”

Rumble——!
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“My last wish… was to live with you at Helios Magic Tower, but it seems like I was being too greedy.”

Swoosh……!

The energy that had been trembling violently burst out from Ariel’s back. Like silk woven from light, it seeped into Frey’s nose and mouth.

Drip.

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Clear tears streamed down her pale cheeks.

“I love you. I really… really loved you. And I probably always will. Forever.”

One last time…

Ariel prayed to heaven, expressing her wish. She shamelessly wished upon the God she had rejected and defied.

Please.

As promised in the distant past,

May Frey forget me and live on.

[(Highest-Order Divine Magic)]

[(Sacrifice)]

Fwoosh——————!

Light blossomed. Like a flower that had bloomed late in midwinter, the light faded after a short while.

No flower blooms for ten days.
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The last snow-covered petal fell softly.