The Amber Sword

Chapter 171 – Ancestral Descendant

Brendel asked the man instead of answering:

“Who are you?”

“Me?” Came the reply.

The man opposite of Brendel suddenly laughed. He placed an upright arm on the throne’s armrest, tilting sideways, and placed his chin on his fist: “I am a fool.”

“What?”

Brendel’s brows furrowed a little.

[Is this some kind of quest? But I don’t recall anything like this in the Dark Forest, or even the other areas in the game. No, calm down, think of how to respond. The first thing to do in the game with a setting like this, would be to continue the conversation…… Hopefully, it’s not some kind of riddle.]

“I am merely waiting for someone to inherit my full Legacy.”

“…… It sounds like I have to go around searching for things again,” Brendel mumbled to himself.

The entire thing sounded like a huge chain quest.

“Oh? Indeed. It seems like you understand quite well of what is to be expected of you. Finding a true successor is difficult, and the bloodline alone is already a strict condition.”

“I cannot refuse, can I? It sounds like a devil’s temptation!” Brendel vented in frustration.

“There is no need to test me,” the man shook his head, “the devils are my enemies.”

“…… Are you really Farnezain?”

Mocking laughter echoed directly into Brendel’s ears.

“Your imagination is rich indeed.”

The youth felt the personality of the mysterious person was too strange for a priest, but perhaps he was one of the four Sages, though it did not seem like he was any of them.

“Who exactly are you?” The youth asked yet again.

“Collect more of the ‘gemstone’ that you possess right now. In truth, I sealed my soul in the Grey Primordial Divinity after my death, but it was shattered into fragments during the great battle, and one of those fragments is the gemstone you hold right now. If you find all of them, you will find all the seeds required to gain my full Legacy.”

Brendel stood up in shock and could not help but yell out, shivering: “You! Y-y-you…… are……”

The mysterious man nodded: “The Silver Elves called me Darnols, the witches addressed me as the Lord of Eternal Darkness and Myriad Realms, but I prefer what you humans call me, Ooinn.”

“T-the Dragon of Darkness……”

“Afraid?”

[There was a video in the end-game where gamers fought again a projection cast by a fragmented consciousness. So this is the human form? But he looks like a normal person.]

Brendel was at a great loss. Going by the history excerpts from the Kirrlutz’s poems, the Dragon of Darkness was a supreme villain amongst villains, and he was a cliche tyrant who wanted to dominate the entire world.

Now the protagonist of the cliche plotline was in front of him.

The Dragon of Darkness was mentioned just a little less than the Goddess Marsha in the game, and he was actually tired of the NPCs mentioning him everywhere, but now that the real deal was in front of him, he could not help but feel all sorts of negative emotions.

Upon the revelation, the cold eyes that stared at him now had made him afraid.

“What do you want to do with this world?”

“I am already dead. You should ask what you want to do.”

Brendel blinked a few times before registering that fact: “Are you really dead?”

The Dragon of Darkness nodded: “You should understand that what you see now is just a stream of consciousness left behind by my soul.”

Brendel always thought that the Dragon of Darkness would surface as the final boss in the game, revived in the final piece of content where gamers would have to face him, but he became relieved that the latter would not come back.

The youth suddenly recalled Tulman and the Card of Fates. Did that old man not do a similar thing about handing his Legacy down to him?

But when he thought of how many times he failed, and failed despite having so many advantages, he doubted himself and was hesitant to accept the Dragon of Darkness’s offer.

The Dragon of Darkness raised a hand, and a golden light shot into Brendel’s body, and his voice boomed:

“Still, it doesn’t matter even if you refuse me. I have made my decision to give you my Legacy; that woman has angered me by giving you that filth. I will even lend you my flames for a while, but perhaps you are too much of a weakling to defeat her. Go ahead and struggle like a fool, boy.”

“Wait……”

Pain flared up in Brendel’s body when the light struck him, and he convulsed involuntarily as he clutched his throat, collapsing to the ground as the Dragon of Darkness’s laughter reverberated in his ears.

“—You have no choice but to face your destiny.”

These were the final words the youth heard before the world faded into darkness.

– System Notification: The destiny of ‘The Fool’ has been acquired.

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