Man is infinite, and his ambition is to slay the dragon

The same is true now, Griffith has never encountered such a situation.

This is an experience that belongs only to you.

[Based on the different choices you and I made, and the different pasts we have, our present and future have completely different events - I can't give you any advice on this, you can figure it out on your own]

(Hey, you are so irresponsible. You asked me to break down the door, and now you are throwing all this mess to me?)

[The problem is that I can't go to your place right now. There is an Eclipse Gate there, and it is an area where the Crimsheed's teleportation cannot be effective. Space magic cannot be used there either. You can only figure it out on your own.]

(…)

This is indeed the truth.

Sieg paused: "...What do you mean my future will disappear?"

"I think Zeref should have told you that you will travel 400 years in the future, to a time when dragons still ruled the world, and kill all dragons except Acnologia in the Dragon King Festival."

"Have you ever wondered how you got back to 400 years ago?"

Hearing this, Sieg looked towards the Eclipse Gate: "...through the Eclipse Gate?"

"correct."

The voice confirmed.

"If you destroy this door here, you won't be able to go back to the past. If you can't go back to the past, the past you've experienced will be greatly modified, which will cause the collapse of the entire timeline. Do you think there will be no problem even if it turns out like that later?"

"...Why do I feel like you're exaggerating?"

Facing the unknown owner of the voice, Zigg raised his eyebrows and asked, "You came to me for no apparent reason and said some inexplicable and bluffing words to me... Do you think I'm easy to fool? Or do you think I would believe the words of someone who doesn't even dare to show his face?"

"If you want to convince me, then at least show up in front of me first. Don't let me, who thinks I don't know much manners, teach you what manners are. Isn't that ironic?"

"..."

The voice from far away fell silent.

Then he laughed softly.

"Well, I really can't expect you to believe me just like this, but I can't appear in front of you right now. After all, you are near the Eclipse Gate. But I can reveal part of my identity first."

"Like Zeref, I met and got to know you four hundred years ago. And four hundred years ago, I was the one you saved."

(The one I saved?)

Sieg's frown deepened.

The owner of the voice continued.

"For you, it may just be a period of time that you have not experienced yet. But for the people who lived 400 years ago, the only thing that I can't give up is meeting you."

"You have to go back to the past, [Wing King] Siegfried, go back 400 years, back to when we met, so that your experience in this world can become a complete process - and when you come back from 400 years later, I will also appear in front of you."

“…I don’t understand.”

After a moment of silence, Sieg sighed, "Even if you say so, it seems that I don't need to cooperate with you to realize your ideas, right? In fact, what you said makes me not want to go back to 400 years ago."

"You will return."

"As long as you still want to kill dragons, as long as you still want to wipe out all the dragons in this world, then you will definitely go back to 400 years ago. You may not be able to imagine it, but the reason why there are almost no dragons in this era 400 years later is because of your large-scale dragon killing 400 years ago."

"You killed almost all the evil dragons that wanted to dominate and destroy humans. Acnologia killed almost all the good dragons that coexisted with humans and loved humans."

"If you don't go back, then all the prey that originally belonged to you will become the prey of Akunologia... You are not the kind of person who will give your prey to others, right?"

"..."

This time it was Sieg's turn to be silent.

Indeed, it would be fine if he didn't know, but knowing that he would kill almost all the evil dragons 400 years ago... Knowing this, Sieg would never give all the prey that should have been killed by him to Acnologia!

He should be the one to kill those dragons!

(Griffith... let me ask you something.)

[Hmm? Are you moved by it? ]

(Just thought of something that I have been ignoring.)

Sieg looked towards the Eclipse Gate.

(You said that because the Eclipse Gate opened, 10,000 dragons appeared on your side, right?)

【Yes】

(But judging from the size of the Eclipse Gate, the number of dragons that can pass through at once...even the lower-ranked dragons like those in our hometown, should only be three or four, right?)

(Those 10,000 dragons didn't appear at once, right?)

「Well, it will take about a month until the Eclipse Gate is destroyed. Hey, you don’t want to...」

Perhaps because the two of them thought in a way that was identical to some extent, Griffith suddenly thought of Sieg's inner thoughts.

And Sieg grinned grimly.

"You destroyed the Eclipse Gate in order to prevent ten thousand dragons from appearing in this era, and the unknown voice just now wanted me to go back 400 years to make fate and cause and effect complete."

"Then what can I do? After the Eclipse Gate opens, I will rush through the gate, go back 400 years and kill all the dragons that want to come over!"

"This not only fulfills your idea, but also allows me to go back 400 years. From now on, I just need to think about how to come back...right?"

[…If I were still in my prime, I would have the same idea as you.]

Griffith laughed.

Zigg's idea was simple.

That is [blocking the spring water]!

Since the dragons came from 400 years ago, then kill all the dragons from 400 years ago! Completely avoid that terrible future from the root!

[But there is a problem with this - how do you get back? ]

[If you open the eclipse door on the night of July 7, you can indeed go back 6 years, but after that, how can you accurately return to our time? ]

"Aren't you guys here?"

Ziggy laughed.

"With you here, Em here, Brunhilde here, and Carula here - I don't believe that with all of you here, you can't find a way to bring me back from 400 years ago. And before, Zeref said that I couldn't complete the decisive battle with Acnologia. I have every reason to suspect that it was because I was halfway through the fight with it when you, who figured out how to bring me back, brought me back."

[Well, that makes sense, let’s do it.]

[Come back first, and we will discuss the specific plan. After all, once you go back to the past, you will not be able to contact us. We need you to survive 400 years ago by yourself.]

"Okay - I don't know you're not here yet, but you should be happy. Since you told me the clues to slay the dragon, I will return your kindness this time."

Sieg said to the owner of the distant voice.

"How about telling me your name if it's convenient for you? That way I can go back and see you again."

"......【Belserion】"

After a brief silence, the voice spoke a name.

"Let's go back to around 400 years ago and look for this name."

"I'm looking forward to our first meeting."

66. Preparation for opening the door

So, that night.

Just when the entire royal city was cheering for the impact of the first day of the Great Demon Fighting Competition and looking forward to the second day of the competition.

After saying something to the people in the guild, Sieg and Daohua continued to use the excuse that they were going out shopping and returned to the Crainhild together.

And in the meeting room——

"Why! Do! You! Make! Your! Decision! Again! on Your Own!"

Sieg, who came back with Daohua, is now being strangled by Stella.

The plump legs tightly clamped Sieg's body, the slender but powerful arms tightly clamped Sieg's neck, and Stella's body with rich fruits was tightly pressed against Sieg's back - it looked like she was going to strangle Sieg to death.

Patting Stella's arm, Sieg, who was having difficulty breathing, struggled twice: "Let go, Stella... I'm going to die... I'm really going to die..."

"I'd rather you were strangled to death!"

Stella said this angrily, and at the same time locked Sieg's neck even more tightly, making Sieg's face red.

Xue Cai walked up to help Ziglar pull Stella's arm: "Sister Stella, if you keep pinching him, Senior will really have to go to the healing hot springs to be resurrected."

"He deserves to die once!"

Letting go of her hand, Stella sat down at the conference table with an unhappy look on her face. "Although we all said that he should make the decision and we would support him, what kind of decision did he make this time? He wanted to go to four hundred years ago to kill a dragon by himself? And we don't even know when he can come back?"

"It's true that I'm being too willful~~~"

Xijing Ningyin smiled and added fuel to the fire: "Well~~~ It's understandable that Stella is so angry. She seems to have been preparing a surprise for Sieg recently, and now you just said this, it's normal for her to be angry."

"surprise?"

Sitting up while rubbing his neck, Sieg glanced at Stella in confusion: "...It's still early for your birthday, right?"

There is no such thing as birthdays on the Crainsheed. Although on your birthday, others will borrow the kitchen to prepare a cake for you, and the dinner on that day will be more sumptuous, but that's the best of it.

And Sieg didn't even get this kind of treatment.

He himself has forgotten the day and month when he was born, so what's the point of celebrating his birthday?

So he just goes with the flow in this regard and always takes advantage of other people's cake.

"It's not a birthday!"

Stella glared at Sieg but didn't continue.

Mainly, it’s hard to say.

It couldn't be that she was making intensive preparations to lock him up in a room where he couldn't come out unless he had sex with her, right?

"It's not your birthday? What kind of surprise is that? Could it be that you have become stronger again and want to practice with me? Sure, let's go to the training ground later."

"..."

Seeing Sieg who seemed to be itching to do something, Stella was so angry that her lungs almost exploded.

Xijing Ningyin on the side was trying hard to hold back his laughter, and the projections of Griffith and Em also had strange expressions on their faces.

Seeing that everyone seemed to have something on their mind, Zigg was even more puzzled: "I've only been off the ship for a few days, and you're already hiding secrets from me?"

"Surprises must be kept secret from the person involved. Who would tell the person the contents of a gift before preparing one?" Xijing Ningyin said with a smile, "Well, just wait and see. Stella will definitely give you a big gift later. Let's get back to the point. Do you really plan to go back 400 years by yourself this time? Do you need to bring someone with you?"

"No, I'm going to go alone."

Sieg shook his head. "After all, the important reason for me to go back this time is to make my experience on this planet complete. Judging from what Zeref and the man named Belserion said, I should be the only one who went back 400 years ago."

"If we bring other people with us, something unexpected might happen. When we come back, it will be easier for you if you only bring me along."

"After I leave, I hope you can immediately start researching how to bring me back. Since the Crimsheed has previously had information about sending contractors back to the past, and there are two time magic users here, Griffith and Carula, it shouldn't take you too much time to bring me back."

Having said that, Sieg looked at Griffith and Carula.

Griffith nodded slightly, while Carula looked embarrassed: "Of course I am willing to help Master Sieg, but my time magic can only do limited things like [Time Rewind], [Time Pause], [Time Speed ​​Up], etc. I can't think of how to send you back 400 years ago."

"There's no rush. You can take your time to study it, whether it's a year or two. After all, I was also busy slaying dragons 400 years ago. If you brought me back too early and I didn't kill all the dragons from 400 years ago, I would probably be sulking~~~"

Sieg smiled and said, "As for when I'm not around... Sister Ningyin, Xuecai, I'll trouble you with all the matters on the Klinghild. Miss Brunhilde should also be busy figuring out how to bring me back, so I won't trouble you."

[Although I don't think this will have any impact, I still thank Mr. Sieg for his understanding.]

[However, the Eclipse Gate cannot be opened at this stage, right? According to Griffith-sama's description, it requires a sufficient amount of magic power and the twelve zodiac star keys to open the gate.]

"We can provide the magic power here. At worst, we can use the fuel of the Crinshid to make up for it, and then slowly replenish it later. But the star spirit key of the Zodiac..."

Zieg was in a dilemma.

Griffith gave the answer: "If I remember correctly, Lucy should have ten swords in her hand at this time? Except for Libra and Pisces, the remaining ten are in her hand. Go ask her to borrow one... maybe it can be used?"

"As for the remaining two...I don't know if she has found them yet."

"Do you know where the remaining two are?" Sieg looked at Griffith.

Griffith shook his head. "If it was five years later, I did meet a Celestial Mage who possessed the Libra and Pisces keys, but right now... maybe she hasn't gotten the key yet."