“…ito…Saito…!”

The voice calling Saito steadily light away, and his imaginative and prescient all of the sudden went darkish.

When Saito opened his eyes… they had been greeted with a large desert.

“…Effectively…um…uh?”

Saito couldn’t assist however rub his eyes and mutter blankly.

“Huh? What occurred? The place is that this?”

Wasn’t I with Louise and the others on the “Holy Land” on the seabed? After opening the “Door”, the Pope declared that the “Magi” so and so’s had such a loopy objective like desirous to invade the “Earth”….

“After that, how did I find yourself on this mysterious place…?”

Talking of which, the place did Louise and the others go?

Tiffania, Henrietta, the Pope, and Julio?

Saito shook his head, sat up, and regarded across the space.

On the time, he was in the midst of the desert with the solar overhead. Trying behind him, off within the distance behind a wavering haze, was an incomparably enormous mountain.

On the foot of the mountain was a snow-white metropolis surrounded by an imposing wall.

However he had by no means seen such a metropolis earlier than. Neither the cities of Halkeginia nor the cities of the Elven nation he was delivered to after he was kidnapped earlier than.

Issues had been making much less and fewer sense.

“The place precisely is that this place?”

Saito sat down in the identical place and crossed his arms in entrance of his chest as he contemplated.

Did Saito get thrown within the desert when he blacked out?

No, how was that potential… Saito instantly denied this chance. In spite of everything, even all these guys in Romalia would have an issue if he had been to die right here. Wouldn’t they want the acquainted Saito in the event that they needed Louise to make use of “Void”…?

“Proper, how’s the rune on my chest?”

Pondering this, Saito pulled out the shirt below his jacket and peered at his chest.

The “Lífþrasir” runes had been not glowing. That horrible empty feeling, like shedding all his vitality, was now fully gone.

“Shouldn’t I be lifeless?”

Since that is Halkeginia, is that this the afterlife?

Please, how might I die now?

Saito shook his head, his complexion pale. The Pope was attempting to make use of the facility of Louise’s “Void” to invade the “Earth”, if he didn’t hurry again, issues might turn into an enormous mess….

However how might he get again…?

Contemplating that, Saito tried to knock himself on the pinnacle with the hilt of Derflinger. If this was a dream, then that may wake him up.

With the uninteresting sound of a “Knock”, stars instantly appeared in his imaginative and prescient.

“…Rattling, how might or not it’s this painful in a dream?”

Saito couldn’t assist however curse as he touched his temple.

On this case, at this level, Derflinger could be complaining, “Why are you so silly, companion”. However not a phrase had come from the mouth of Saito’s noisy pal.

Saying that you simply in all probability ought to open your mouth, thought Saito. Since Saito had collapsed within the metropolis of Eumenes, Derflinger had refused to say something.

“Hey, what’s happening, actually…?

Saito sighed, as he meditated along with his arms throughout his chest.

Then he remembered rapidly.

“Wait a minute, I’ve run into this type of scenario earlier than….”

Lastly changing into conscious of the present scenario, he felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

I keep in mind having such a wierd dream a very long time in the past.

Sure… That was the Water Capital “Aquileia” once I was hypnotized by Louise and fell right into a deep sleep….

At the moment, Saito glimpsed a fraction of a reminiscence from 6000 years in the past in his acquainted rune whereas he was asleep.

“…In that case, am I seeing one other dream of 6000 years in the past?”

Due to this fact, Saito felt assured that this was positively the case.

The dream Saito noticed earlier than was a reminiscence sleeping within the runes of the “Gandálfr”. Saying that, was the present dream a reminiscence sleeping within the “Lífþrasir” runes?

An evil chill couldn’t assist however run up his backbone.

What sort of dream was this precisely…?

After sitting in the identical spot along with his coronary heart filled with fear, Saito noticed a person shadow from the opposite facet of an enormous sand dune steadily come to his facet.

Who was it precisely? Whereas being cautious, Saito grabbed Derflinger’s hilt on the identical time.

Because the bean-sized determine steadily approached, its define grew to become clearer and clearer.

The particular person was a petite man, carrying a gown so lengthy that it dragged on the bottom.

He had a head of vivid blonde hair, in addition to a critical, if unremarkable, look.

This particular person was one which Saito remembered.

“Mr. Brimir!”

Saito shouted, The robed man instantly found Saito and slowly walked to him.

Certain sufficient, he was within the rune’s dream from earlier than, the place he met the Founder Brimir.

Saito was assured that what he was seeing now was the rune’s reminiscences.

Shortly, seeing the looks of Brimir, Saito couldn’t assist however gasp.

Brimir had turn into a bit older, his cheeks had been skinny, and he regarded like a distinct particular person from when Saito noticed him earlier than.

Brimir rigorously checked out Saito’s face, then revealed a puzzled expression.

“…Excuse me, who’re you? The place have I seen you earlier than?”

“You don’t keep in mind? It’s me, Hiraga Saito.”, Saito answered. In spite of everything, how way back had it been? To not point out, was the Brimir in entrance of his eyes actually the identical Brimir that Saito had seen earlier than?

“Um, this actually provides me a sensation of déjà vu, however the place have I seen you earlier than?”

At that second, Saito had an epiphany. Proper, I simply must let him see this….

Then Saito gripped Derflinger and confirmed him the glowing runes on his left hand.

When Brimir noticed, his eyes went enormous and he shouted.

“’Gandálfr’! Proper, I keep in mind… You’re the youth from that point!”

“Sure, thanks so much for earlier than.”

Saito bowed his head in greeting, and Brimir smiled barely.

“Oh, I’m sorry. That was once I was dwelling the lifetime of a steady wanderer and was a few years in the past. Effectively, it’s actually unimaginable that you simply haven’t gotten any older than you had been again then.

“I’m an individual from 6000 years sooner or later.”

“Ah, that’s proper.”

Brimir answered with a glance of shock on his face.

“So what are you doing right here? The place is your grasp?”

I, ah, uh, misplaced my manner within the desert… What are you doing right here, Mr. Brimir? Everyone within the village, and Sasha?

Listening to Saito’s query, Brimir’s face stiffened, then he answered.

“She ought to be coming right here momentarily.”

Then, Saito adopted Brimir to a sparsely wooded space, like a small oasis. A tent body and a broken properly had been each deserted close by, in addition to the skeleton of a big animal, which he didn’t know if it was from a horse or camel. It regarded like an deserted village.

Brimir pointed on the mountain in the wrong way and stated.

“Heading north from here’s a land with individuals dwelling in it. It’s greatest to flee from right here since this space will quickly sink to the underside of the ocean.

“Sink into the ocean? What’s this about?”

Saito stated in shock.

“Are you aware? Your ancestors might not know but, however this world is dealing with a horrible, world-ending disaster.”

“What?”

Listening to this, Saito’s mouth fell open.

What did he imply by dealing with destruction?

Isn’t the world dealing with destruction ours, 6000 years sooner or later?

Seeing Saito’s uncomprehending face, Brimir defined intimately.

“Have you ever heard of the stuff known as ’Spirit Stones’?”

“Is it like ’Wind Stones’ or a ’Jewel of Hearth’?”

Listening to Saito’s reply, Brimir exclaimed.

“It’s certainly, ’Gandálfr’, so much. Did you study it out of your grasp?”

“Uh, one thing like that.”

Saito responded warmly.

“That makes this simple to elucidate. In different phrases, ’Spirit Stones’ are the crystallization of the facility of the spirits of this world. The overwhelming majority of them are buried deep underground and nobody has ever seen them.”

This sentence bought Saito considering. Within the time that Brimir was alive, they in all probability didn’t have the know-how to mine ’Wind Stone’ but.

Brimir regarded down on the floor at his ft.

“The facility of the ’Spirit Stone’ sleeping within the floor will erupt internationally.”

“What did you say!”

Saito couldn’t assist however shout.

Are you saying that the “Wind Stone” already went uncontrolled earlier than in Halkeginia 6000 years in the past…?

“If this occurs, the earth might be turned the other way up and humanity will lose the land they will survive on,” Brimir stated bleakly.

“Even after this occasion that occurred 6000 years in the past, the identical tragedy will occur in Halkeginia….”

Luctiana stated the “Nice Catastrophe” that killed half the Elves, might it actually be that the “Wind Stones” went uncontrolled.

“However I’ll completely not let this occur, completely not.”

Brimir, with a glance of reduction, stood up.

Trying intently on the metropolis stretched throughout the foot of the mountain.

“That’s…?”

“It’s the capital of the Elves. An important metropolis protected by the ’Nice Will’.”

“That’s the capital of the Elves….”

The towering snow-white partitions had been constructed across the mountain and had been actually just like earth-style building. It was not the identical as Nephthys’ “Adyl”.

After 6000 years, modifications in architectural kinds had been inevitable, thought Saito. Nevertheless, to have the ability to construct such an unimaginable metropolis 6000 years in the past, the Elves positive had been fairly wonderful.

Saito watched Brimir face the Elven metropolis and lengthen his fingers.

“What are you planning on doing?”

“Doing what I must do to ensure that my tribe to outlive. I solely got here right here for that function.”

Brimir stated with a stiff face.

“In an effort to survive….”

Mouthing that sentence once more… at that second, Saito was all of the sudden alarmed.

He puzzled why Brimir got here right here, and what he was going to do subsequent.

In an effort to survive, what do you must do… isn’t that the identical as what occurred in Halkeginia 6000 years later?

Every combating for land to reside on, as if repeating the efficiency of historical past 6000 years in the past….

The legend of the “Nice Catastrophe” that destroyed half of the Elves. And as Derflinger had stated, Sasha, as Gandálfr had killed Brimir… What did this sentence actually symbolize?

All of the clues got here collectively in Saito’s thoughts.

No, it could possibly’t be…!

It was solely now that he found the reality concerning the enormous mountain vary towering on the opposite facet of the desert.

Remembering what Mom Sea stated on the “Dragon’s Nest”, the place the place the weapons that had drifted from Earth arrived at, was on dry land 1000’s of years in the past. A number of thousand years in the past, “One thing” modified the encompassing panorama, inflicting the “Holy Land” to sink to the underside of the ocean.

As for that “One thing”, it was….

“Mr. Brimir, don’t inform me you’re planning to destroy that Elven metropolis!”

“That’s proper. For my tribe that lacks energy, that is the one method to survive.”

Brimir answered in a hoarse voice.

“Please don’t do that. When you actually do that… the struggle will final for 1000’s of years.”

“I gained’t. In the present day, all Elves will disappear from the face of the earth.”

“Don’t joke round… Isn’t Ms. Sasha an Elf!”

Listening to Saito point out Sasha’s title, a pained expression appeared for a second on Brimir’s face, and he weakly shook his head.

“It’s already too late, that is the one manner.”

“Why…?”

Brimir, holding up his fingers, started chanting the runes of the “Void”.

At that second, acute ache flowed from Saito’s chest.

Saito couldn’t assist however moan and kneel on the bottom.

“…shit…rattling…”

A blinding mild appeared over Brimir’s head as he chanted the runes.

That mild… was similar to Louise’s “Explosion”, thought Saito.

Nevertheless it was not “Explosion”… it was a a lot, way more scary spell.

Maybe it was the instincts of a Void acquainted, that permit Saito sense this.

If such a horrible energy had been to be launched, it might simply destroy a metropolis.

Brimir’s voice sounded notably clear, as his consciousness steadily light.

“As a result of there’s no manner for us to know one another.”