◇White Dragon Helemerck POV◇
It has been several thousands of years since I received flesh in this world.
…The dragon family has been spreading the rumor that I am an Ancient Dragon that has lived for 10,000 years.
I am not at that age yet though… Well, that’s fine.
I don’t like conflict, so I have been living peacefully at the deepest floor of Laberintos.
I don’t like the fact that the light of the sun doesn’t reach here, but the surface is covered in pitch black clouds.
That’s why I can’t bask in the sun on the surface which is depressing.
This unchanging lifestyle.
A life where boredom reigns over it; days of degradation.
I don’t hate it, but it was giving birth to weariness.
One day strange intruders appeared.
One was a half-vampire.
One was a Hero of the Goddesses.
One was a mage woman with a massive amount of mana.
The other one was…what’s with this one? A man that I feel no power from.
Is he a servant of the Hero?
It was a strange party composition.
They must be what they call adventurers.
I thought ‘well, I won’t even need to waste my time on them’…but from all of them, the weakest looking man asked me to lend my help.
So stupid.
Why should I lend my help to humans?
I ignored the words of the human.
The human must have noticed it would be a fruitless endeavor, so he was going to leave.
That’s good.
The Deepest Floor isn’t a place that humans should be coming to.
At that moment…the youngest dragon from the dragon family meddled with the humans.
‘That child, geez…’, is what I was thinking, but that dragon was frozen in an instant.
The one who did that was the female mage.
(Wa?!)
At that moment, I noticed…
That mage woman…isn’t a human.
That’s…the Great Water Spirit Undine.
But this Great Spirit has…incarnated?
No way… That spell is supposed to have been lost in the eons.
Even I haven’t seen the actual thing.
The ones who can use that lost magic are the Apostles of Evil Gods.
But that was a story of the long past.
There should be no users of this spell living in the present.
But the Great Spirit is calling him ‘Our King’.
The remains of the war between Gods.
The one who freely controls Spirits.
The Great Spirit is obeying this man?
This man is an Evil God Apostle?
No, that’s not it.
There’s another Evil God Apostle.
The Black Knight Cain that has been rampaging in the surface world.
He calls himself the Apostle of Noah.
I have seen him once.
That’s broken.
He couldn’t endure the affection of his God.
An Apostle that has received the favor of an Evil God breaks or perishes.
What about the one in front of me?
From what I can see, he is a plain normal human.
But a Great Spirit is serving at his side.
There’s no way he is just a normal human.
Is this guy the actual Apostle of the Evil God?
No, that’s not the issue here.
The question is whether it is okay to oppose him…
That question crossed my mind, and the next instant, it was blown away.
Five Undines appeared.
I-Impossible!
Great Spirits are the very personification of the raging nature.
A pseudonym of natural calamity.
And there’s 5 of that.
In other words, there’s currently 5 natural calamities in this place.
All of Laberintos is going to be sunk!
A-As if I can oppose something like that!
“Everyone st—”
I was too late.
“Ahahahahahahhaha!”
“Fufufu…”
“Kusususususu…”
“…Fufu!”
The voices of the Great Spirits resonated as if they were having fun.
A torrent of mana that felt like it could engulf the whole Deepest Floor of Laberintos.
It gave me shivers.
No, this is already not mana anymore.
A sinister power that made me think that maybe it is the Anima that Gods utilize.
And then, a ridiculous spell (miracle) activated.
“XXXXXXXXXXXXX (Stopped World).”
A chant of ancient times in Spirit Language.
I have lived for thousands of years, but it is the first time I heard about that spell.
The Deepest Floor of Laberintos was covered completely in ‘white’.
The ground, walls, and even the air froze.
I can’t hear the breathing of the dragon family.
It became a silent…world of death.
(T-That was dangerous…)
I deployed a barrier before being hit by that attack.
Because of that, I somehow managed to avoid falling victim to that spell.
But my dragon family is…
(E-Everyone…is…)
When I look around, I see that all of my dragon family was frozen.
I slowly direct my gaze at the very person that did this.
The one standing there was the Evil God Apostle surrounded by six Undines.
I can barely feel mana from him, but there’s no doubt he is the one that’s the leader of those Great Spirits.
Eyes that could freeze were being directed at me.
(Y-You…) (Helemerck)
The moment I tried talking to that man with a trembling voice…
“You bastaaaaaaard!!”
The young red dragon that got hit by the first spell had recovered.
We Ancient Dragons don’t die so easily.
But…
“Oh my, Lizard, nice to see you being energetic. But you are being rude to Our King, you know?”
The freedom of his body was taken away once again by the Great Water Spirits.
“Guh! …Uh, I wonder about that…”
The young red dragon is no match against Undine.
“Our King, what should we do about this arrogant lizard?”
“Right… Let’s replenish the lifespan that I lost.”
The man that was silent until now muttered this and took out the dagger at his waist.
The moment I saw that blade, I was attacked by a fear that felt as if a stake had been driven unto my heart.
What’s with that dagger?!
It was a very small blade.
But the fearsome mana that was coiling around that blade…
It was different from the Holy Swords of Heroes.
It is a weapon that’s too much for mortal hands; a weapon that shouldn’t be in the hands of a living being of the Mortal Realm.
It feels like the weapon of the Divine Realm God that I met just once in the past…
The man that held this dagger slowly approached the red dragon.
“Hiiih!! D-Don’t come here…!!”
The red dragon must have had a bad feeling about this, it tried to escape, but the spell of the Great Spirit wasn’t allowing that.
What in the world is he trying to…
The future shows in my eyes.
A Divine Protection that a Goddess of the Divine Realm gave me before.
The magic eyes of clairvoyance.
It activated and I peeked at the future slightly ahead.
For some reason I couldn’t see the future of that man.
But I could see the future of us.
[Today, we of the dragon family will perish by the hands of XXXXXX]
The moment I saw that, I turned over.
(Please wait!! Please don’t kill my dragon family!)
I threw away my shame and lowered my head to the Evil God Apostle.
◇Takatsuki Makoto POV◇
(Please, don’t kill my family!!)
The voice of the white dragon that resonated loudly in my head.
It wasn’t the voice filled with majesty, but a flustered voice.
Dia and I looked at each other.
“What should we do, Our King?” (Dia)
“Let’s not go any further.” (Makoto)
There’s no need to continue if the opponent has no will to fight.
“Dia, thaw the frozen dragons.” (Makoto)
“Yes, Our King.” (Dia)
Dia gave orders to the other Great Water Spirits.
The ancient dragons regained their breath not long after.
The ancient dragons that had been brought back were looking from afar as if scared of the Great Water Spirits.
‘Is this good enough?’, is what I thought and looked at the white dragon, and it lowered its head as if relieved.
(Thanks. Use my power as you please. I will lend you my help in whatever you need.)
Ooh. I managed to get it to promise.
It was different from planned, but it looks like we will be able to get the help of the Holy Dragon-san.
“Then, looking forward to working with you, Holy Dragon-sama.” (Makoto)
(U-Umu…)
I tried my best in giving it a friendly welcome, but the response was hesitant.
It was thorny just a while ago, but it can’t be helped I guess.
Let’s slowly get along.
“Then, about our plans from now on…” (Makoto)
The moment I tried to continue our talk…
“M-Master, this is bad!” (Momo)
“Hm?” (Makoto)
Momo pulled my clothes.
When I turned around, I saw Hero Abel collapsed with his eyes rolled over.
Wait, eh?!
“Abel-san? What happened?!” (Makoto)
“Abel-sama isn’t breathing!” (Momo)
“…Huh?” (Makoto)
H-Hold on.
What happened?
Could it be an attack of an ancient dragon?!
I hurriedly glared at the white dragon and the dragon shook its head to the sides.
(I-I think it was because of your magic. Leaving aside that vampire girl, if someone were to be bathed by the magic of a Great Spirit from up close, their body wouldn’t be able to endure it.)
“Geh!” (Makoto)
It was me.
Or more like, the magic of Great Water Spirits has friendly fire?!
“W-What should we do, Momo?!” (Makoto)
“I don’t know, Master! What should we do?!” (Momo)
Momo and I were getting flustered, and the White Dragon-san spoke.
(Let’s see. I will heal him.)
When the white dragon muttered this, the body of Hero Abel began to shine.
Red slowly began to return to his pale face.
I could hear his quiet breathing again.
“W-What a relief…” (Makoto)
Abel dying from my magic…wouldn’t be funny.
The world would end.
Althena-sama would kick my ass.
“You saved me there…Holy Dragon-sama.” (Makoto)
When I thanked it, the White Dragon made a puzzled face.
(It has been bothering me for a while now but, what’s this Holy Dragon you speak of?)
It asked me as if confused.
Eh? This white dragon isn’t the legendary Holy Dragon?
Could it be that I got the wrong dragon?
“By the way, can you tell me your name?” (Makoto)
(My name is Helemerck. The ruler of the Deepest Floor of Laberintos.) (Hele)
Helemerck…
That name is the same as the legendary Holy Dragon.
In other words, Holy Dragon was a name given to it in the future, huh.
“Helemerck-sama, thank you very much for saving Abel-san.” (Makoto)
I lowered my head deeply.
(You spared our lives. No need to thank me. Also, it would be better to have that Hero rest for a bit. He must have been pushing himself quite a lot. Fatigue has accumulated. I have made a place for humans to rest at the side of the Spring of Life. Have him lie over there.) (Hele)
There was a super out of place bed at the side of the spring that shines in mysterious colors close to Helemerck-san.
It wasn’t there a few moments ago…
Did it make it in an instant?
Counting the healing magic of before, it seems like the white dragon-san is a user of diverse magic.
I carried Hero Abel to the bed together with Momo.
Abel was still sleeping.
When I looked by my side, I could tell that Momo was also tired.
“Momo, it is okay to rest for a bit.” (Makoto)
“Y-Yes… But you look tired too, Master.” (Momo)
“Yeah…” (Makoto)
It may be because my lifespan was sucked from me, my body has been heavy for a while now.
I want to lie down right this instant.
“I will keep watch.” (Dia)
Dia was the only one who was energetic here and she proposed this.
“Thanks, Dia. Then, I leave it to you.” (Makoto)
“Yes, Our King.” (Dia)
The White Dragon made beds for me and Momo too.
Momo went straight for it and slept just like that.
I slept as if leaning on the bed of Momo and closed my eyes.
I soon dozed off.
◇◇
I woke up.
How long was I asleep?
I don’t have a clock so I can’t tell the time.
There’s still some fatigue left, but the dullness in my body has recovered a bit.
“Suuh~…Suuh~.”
I heard cute breathing from my back.
Momo was still sleeping.
(You are awake now, huh, human.)
A low voice resonated in my head.
Uo! That scared me!
The giant body of the White Dragon-san in front of me made me shake.
I just woke up but this blew away my drowsiness completely.
“I managed to get a bit of rest thanks to you.” (Makoto)
(Umu.) (Hele)
The White Dragon-san nodded exaggeratedly to my words.
Now then, where’s the Great Water Spirit that said she would be keeping watch while we sleep…
“Eh, where’s Dia?” (Makoto)
I can’t see Dia who should be keeping watch.
(If you are talking about the Undine, she has returned to the Spirit Realm. But she said that she will be watching from the Spirit Realm, so if we were to do something strange, she would jump out instantly.) (Hele)
“I see…” (Makoto)
Where’s the Spirit Realm?
Well, that’s fine.
I should thank her later.
Dia has been helping us out a lot.
Now then, I hope Hero Abel wakes up later.
I approach the bed in order to check the state of Abel.
The person on the bed was still sleeping.
I peek at him at a distance enough to check his face.
“Eh?” (Makoto)
My legs stopped.
At the place where Hero Abel was sleeping…
There’s an unknown woman sleeping.
“……Huh?” (Makoto)
I blinked several times wondering if I am still half-asleep and shook my head, but what I was seeing didn’t change.
I once again observe the person sleeping on the bed.
Glossy blonde hair.
Silk-like skin.
Angel-like sleeping face.
The eyes of the beautiful woman slowly open.
“…Hnngh, eh? I…just what in the world…?”
She rubbed her saphyre-like eyes as if sleepy.
Her hair is a bit disheveled because she just woke up.
She said this while I was shocked.
“Makoto-san? Uwa! Why am I sleeping at a place like this?! Moreover, right by the side of an ancient dragon!”
The attire of the woman that jumped off from the bed was that of Hero Abel.
That body was slender from the very beginning, but it looked even smaller than before.
That figure and that face as if going ‘awawa’ was…
(P-Princess Noel…?) (Makoto)
It was the spitting image of the Princess-sama of Highland.
There’s no way that’s possible.
We are currently 1,000 years in the past.
There’s no way Princess Noel would be here.
(So you have woken up, human Hero.) (Hele)
The relieved voice of the White Dragon-san resonated.
But I didn’t have the leeway for that.
“Uhm, Makoto-san? What’s the matter?”
In front of me…
The woman that looks exactly like Princess Noel had a shocked face in the clothes of Hero Abel.
Judging from her clothes and her way of talking, she must be Abel.
That’s why I had no choice but to ask.
“……Are you…Abel-san…?” (Makoto)
When I nervously asked this, her face went ‘ah!’.
She hurriedly looked around and noticed there was a spring.
She ran there and confirmed her own face.
And then, it seems like she noticed.
Her own change.
She returned here looking awkward.
Her eyes were swimming around, and she looked at me with upturned eyes.
Those eyes were the same as Hero Abel.
“Yes… I am Abel…”
She said this while fidgeting a bit and with both hands at her back.
H-Hero Abel turned into a woman?!
“It may not have been explained the best, but it is as I told you…
“Uguo… That felt terrible…” What I saw within my vision was an endless white space.…
It is not like I was certain, but I did think that we might end…
“Eh? It wasn’t that you came to visit me?” (Furiae) “Aah, yeah…you could say that.”…
There may have been cases when I would begrudge my own lack of strength, but…
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Okay! First thing Makoto is gonna tell Noel when he gets back...
Oi, your historians suck! Seriously, they only had one job!!
Thanks for the chapter
They probably did it on purpose.
You see, I believe at some point, both Momo and Anna/Abel will knows Makoto's secret. And for the sake of the future to not be disrupted, 3 of them created a story that we all know in Makoto's picture book.
I have another speculation that Anna is actually alive since she was also gone missing after found a country.
He brought the picture book along so why would they even need to make up a story. Just use the picture book as the representation of what happened.
The picture book itself could be a paradox. If they use the picture as the representation of what happened, who created the contents of the book in the first place ?
The chicken or the egg paradox?
It is more like the Bootstrap Paradox.
"The Bootstrap Paradox is a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no longer has a discernible point of origin, and is said to be “uncaused” or “self-created”. It is also known as an Ontological Paradox, in reference to ontology, a branch of metaphysics dealing with the study of being and existence."
Source: https://www.astronomytrek.com/the-bootstrap-paradox-explained/
Well, it depends how much of Takatsuki's presence in the past is established, but yeah, the journey of Abel is based on a plan that has no origin.
Presumably, the paradox is resolved with a hypothetical fourth (or possibly second if we seem to be in a stable time loop) "original timeline" where the Savior Abel succeeded and didn't have any time traveler try to mess with the Hero Party at all. The events are still in line with the Heros' general goal, after all. Given that, here are the possible timelines as far as we know:
1. The Savior Abel and the Hero Party struggle until they somehow managed to win. No assassination from the future and no Takki.
2. The Hero Abel gets assassinated and history is changed so the Demon side wins. This one might never have existed and just been merged with the next one though.
3. Takatsuki Makoto is in the past along with the Hero's Party helping them shape history.
4. The story of Weakest Mage as we know it once Takki has finished his business in the past and gone back to the future. This one might also merge with 3 if it's a stable time loop, but there seems to already be some odd differences here and there. Time will tell if they will fall into place and match with history as the Present tells them.
Based on the statue in the present time, history CAN change, and the question becomes, from the reader's perspective, when did it start changing? Which of the timelines are we on?
this reminds me of the anti magic mask that got stuck in a loop in Tensura world.
Thanks for the chapter ~~
Uwaaa the greatest peachpull actually did happen... Well that explains why no one knew where Abel's childhood friend is all along.
I guess all exploits of Abel would be Makoto's then most likely...
Now Noel being Anna's reincarnation is actually true?!
Now Noel hating Abel is quite funny then.
Though it's a peachpull since they once said Gera is Abel's reincarnation lol...
Also Mel's reaction POV is cute... She just want to sunbathe and slack off but pesky humans and demons didn't give her that luxury.
PS.
Now it's 100% that the picture book would be the todo list for Makoto now... Is this Rokujouma once again.........
Will it be an end like that ? Makoto has to return to the Salvation Era and Anna in tears say those words while bidding him farewell :
“Even if we are separated by endless time and immeasurable distance...”
“These feelings will always be with you!”
From Rokujouma no Shinryakusha volume 8.5
Man, that'd be sad
I hope she chases him to the future somehow, since if that does happens Sakurai won't get NTR-ed probably.
Wait, Abel got gender bent???? I was expecting Abel to turn out to be a woman, but whuutttt?? Wow what a twist lmao.
Maybe Makoto will really be taking the role of hero Abel?
Thanks for the chapted!
Man what a twist totally didn't expect that to happen teehee~
Thanks for the new chapter!
Genderbent hero...
Blond hair, blue eyes...
Sword Beam...
Are we sure this isn't just another Fate spin off?
Everything is a Fate spinoff if you squint hard enough.
"It's all Fate?"
*cocks gun*
"Always has been."
Thank you for the translation.
I guess something similar to Run and Ren from to-love ru is going to happen. Which is separation of male and female selves. If it does happen, the future has two routes which is Abel staying and Anna leaving or falsifying the gender for the future generation history.
Lastly just a suggestion but maybe call the magic "Stationary World" instead of "Stopped World". It feels a bit strange to have verb describe a noun instead of an adjective
I think the magic is called "Frozen World" frozen as in stopped, but also cold -> ice -> water magic.
So was Abel just cross dressing or was she disguised with magic that got washed off by the undines? Inquiring otaku wants to know.
If it's a disguise that got washed over by the Undine's magic, wouldn't Makoto have noticed sooner? Especially since Makoto helped carry him/her to the bed.
So, when Makoto returns, maybe Anna gets sent forward to be Noel also. She falls for Sakurai on the rebound. Lol
Abel(Anna) just being Noel's ancestor and them being look alike would be dull
...Well. There we are. I coulda sworn we got a description of Abel's chest being toned somewhere, but that doesn't really matter at this point. Well, unless he was turned into a woman somehow. Then I would have questions. Rather...Althena gave a pretty face her blessing without minding man or woman, huh...?
Lots of people called this, though with how many men are also very attacked to Takki, I have to wonder if they weren't raw readers that were just disguising their spoilers. I certainly can't remember any notably feminine gestures from Abel before the reveal.
Oh, also we obliterated all the ancient dragons. That's neat, I guess. We've obtained the Holy Dragon as an ally. Well, more like we coerced her into it, but who sweats the details when it comes down to slaying the Great Demon Lord?
Well, there was someone thou. But i didn't remember they disguise it. Before I read the Raw, There was comment that Abel is a woman. Even the time travel thingy was commented beforehand (i don't remember who and what chapter it was). I thought it was a joke, cause it was impossible to happen, not until I was given the links to the raws By a certain someone. In the previous couple of chapters.
I don't remember that sort of comment, but I do remember a lot of people talking as if Abel's a girl long before the reveal. Even as a guess, it should be more theory and less certain.
It's in the "they thought it was obvious because it's in hindsight" category of spoilers.
I believe time travel thingy commented long before we even finished the wood country arc
@simple
Well yeah, that time travel thingy. before I was just reading until I encounter that comment. So i thought to myself that's kinda interesting, so i started, well predict what will happen based on that comment. Then it did happen.
well it's kinda sus that how can it be so accurate. Or just me overreacting or misinterpret it😔
Tbf, people on syosetsu has been predicting on time travel ever since Makoto random comment with Noel's story, where hero Abel supposed to left Anna and goes somewhere. We've also given clues of the statues changing bit by bit after all.
There's also the guy with riyo arash pfp who did passive-aggressive spoiling by hiding spoiler comments in a bunch of seemingly random predictions. Only with hindsight you realize that it's a spoiler, since there's no way of knowing certain information at that time.
Tbf? 😅, what does Tbf means? Sorry I don't quite understand this 3 letters from.
Well first paragraph: yeah i still remember that , that I'm freaking suspicious about that statue.
Second paragraph: I agree with ypu there.
To Be Fair
Ahh, thanks. sorry about that i seem can't understand words like that 😢
The description of Abel's chest was mentioned in Chapter 227. Along with the description of him being possibly mistaken for a girl (which is probably what prompted Makoto to check in the first place). I'm personally still questioning Noah's statement about how Althena just gives her blessing based on how the recipient looks. Althena's reaction at the time reminds me more of Furiae's reaction when she realized that Makoto was present while she's clinging on Sakurai in her effort to needle Noel.
I'm with you on the "no particularly feminine gestures by Abel" thing. Personally, the way Abel acted reminds me more of Sakurai, at least after Abel worked past that depression.
Nah, there were some who secretly gave spoilers, but I think most guessed after we got time travel confirmation based on Makoto is going to be Abel theory, so when we actually met him, people assumes either he's secretly a reverse trap or got genderbend.
This just turned into the cheapest kind of predictable harem trash. Who the fuck desires this shit? I'm out.
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You literally only just realized this now? At chapter 240? lol
Obviously if I was wary of harems in general I would not have started reading this story at all. But that doesn't mean every single character needs to be a love interest, jesus, this is just pathetic. You may have forgotten if you've been reading this daily for a while, but this story used to contain other male side characters doing their own things and having their own romance. It's a pretty recent developpment that everything other than big pp mc is ignored.
Anyway, combined with the complete lack of thought the author put into this time travelling shit, it's just the final straw, it's not like I had a sudden realization.
If you're out, then stay out and stop bumming everyone else out.
We've been through this in other WNs too. There is no reason to announce you're dropping a story other than to take the sails out of other readers that want to keep reading.
A bit slow on the uptake for that realization, isn't it?
This has been one from the start. Might want to get your eyes checked. And maybe your reading comprehension while you're at it.
Brother, you are on chapter 240. You have as little right to say that as everyone else here.
Just press f in the chat.
*cocks gun
Always has been