NOVEL NEXT chapter 84
84. Golden Olive(1)
I did it.
I finally did it.
Phoenix and Air Force One shed tears of emotion.
She finally escaped from her own miserable fate where no one recognized her and was indifferent to her.
Air Force One recalled the terrible past.
Even if it was just the first time he signed a summons contract, he would never have signed it if he hadn’t been gently coaxed by the mage tower lord’s care.
No, even if the other summons next to you didn’t look at you with envy, if you realized a little faster that those eyes were actually feelings of compassion, not envy…
“I don’t care if your name is Air Force One or what it is, from today your name is Chunshik.”
“Keee!”
Seeing the numerous paper abstracts piled up in front of him, Air Force One wanted to die.
The phoenix, who was in charge of some of the countless documents that the mage lord had to examine himself, had to doubt what it was doing and why this hell existed.
“Hey, put these on the desk over there by organizing them by subject by tomorrow morning. If it is burned or lost, four feathers are plucked for each missing green.”
Ah.
I had no idea that spirituality was so cursed.
“Kee…Kieeck…”
At first, I tried to repay the trust and trust of the contractor.
I was able to finish it before the sun rises as I went through the papers one by one with my beak and organized it all night.
And what came back was a mountain of more papers, not compliments and rewards.
“Hey, did you knock out 2500? Then try 2700 too. Did you make it 2900 degrees. Then 3100…”
Far from reducing it, on the contrary, every time you adapt, the other tasks that gradually build up are a series of pains.
What’s more, the owner was arrogant.
“Chunshik, take a picture of me working overtime today.”
“Kikkik…”
Is this… The magic tower master?
Staying up all night has become a daily routine before I know it, and now, when the sun and the moon were up, I couldn’t tell whether the day was up.
Just because you’re a phoenix, you can’t stay without sleep.
“Keeek…..”
After the contract, Phoenix suffered death for the first time.
The first sign of the phoenix, who miserably stuck out his tongue and rolled on the floor as it was, was … Death from overwork.
Normally, death could have freed oneself from all the bonds of this world… But this is not the case for the phoenix at all.
The entire body and feathers were burned again with golden flames and reborn as a new body.
Air Force One, with stronger beaks and claws than before, stiff feathers and sharp eyes, immediately tried to escape through the window.
This is a place you shouldn’t be.
No, it was a place that shouldn’t exist.
I flapped my wings as hard as I could, remembering that the devil’s cave would be even more terrible than this…
“What a dildo manga?”
Chains stretched out from the magic circles spread all over the place, tying the whole body together.
What’s more, the sight of the Master of the Magic Tower slowly approaching with scissors in his hand is truly terrifying.
There was no such thing as a crazy b*tch.
“Because it would be difficult to run away while I am gone…”
Even the wing cut, which cuts off the tip of the wing feathers and prevents them from flying long.
I could never run away.
On the evening of the discovery, 4000 papers reached the front of the perch, and Air Force One finally realized the reality.
This is his home, his workplace, and his grave.
A cage from which you can never escape.
“Kiyiyi…”
I no longer had the strength to resist.
The amount of high-level super mealworms that were given at first gradually decreased, and now it is only three per day.
Three mealworms.
The reason for the cruel distribution that ended with not three lumps but ea instead of pk was the other summoned beasts who were acting cute behind the tower master.
Pretending not to know anything, those reptile-headed summoners who, unlike me, could only follow simple commands, were stealing all of my food.
In addition, this time, the Magic Tower owner started bringing in cats of various breeds, shouting, ‘As expected, a pet is a cute cat!’.
“I like the Ohhohong breed!”
These three cat moms…!
“Kyaaaong!”
He pretended to be cute and charming in front of the Magic Tower, but while he was away for a while, he confiscated his face and became tyrannical to the cats… Chuns… No, Air Force One couldn’t do anything.
‘What can you do, you bastard!’
“What can you do other than get fucking pissed off and throw your papers at me, you fucking bird?”
Despite the cat punch that hits her head, she just categorizes papers while swallowing mealworms wet with tears.
….It’s not me that’s wrong, it’s the world.
I died over 10 times in the first year.
5 Times in the second year
The third year is number 1.
If it’s training, it’s training, but since the fourth year, the phoenix no longer died from overwork.
40 Years have passed like that.
Looking at the unchanging sun that always rises, Air Force One suddenly realized a signal felt far away as it was about to start the day by stirring the reagents ordered by the motherf*cking mage.
Feathers, feathers.
It reminded me of a story the Master of the Magic Tower used to pluck feathers from his tail and use them as ingredients for reagents.
“Ah, if I give this, it seems like it will be a daily thing for the church… But I can’t not give it to you…”
He quietly held out his tail feathers towards the owner of the mage tower, who was looking at the phoenix with a subtle expression.
I gave up, I surrendered. Now is the time when they were suppressed to the point where there was no room for resistance anymore.
“Well… There is a way to find it. Come to think of it, didn’t I say that a witch candidate would come up soon?”
Seodang-gae As if reciting Poongwol in three years, the 40-year-old phoenix, a lab room slave for the master of the magic tower, knew.
It was the name written on several types of papers that were specially treated, not the many, many common papers he had classified.
Jan Estoria.
“First of all, give it to the church, and then ask the witch candidate to carry out the church request and get it back! mmm, I like it!”
Then, tears flowed from the feathers being pulled mercilessly, but nothing could be done.
“Aww, that bastard must have taken off the bottom. No, unless I do that, I’m 9-four-of-a-kind, so it makes no sense to play with a Q-four!”
The fact that a beautiful, precious feather had barely turned into a gamble was just despair itself, but… I didn’t care anymore.
It was just a time when I prayed earnestly for this hellish moment to pass.
At that time, a signal came from the feather that had been snatched.
The feather, which would normally be used within a few days and not even a trace of it, remained intact outside.
“Kikiiik Ehehehe!”
This was an opportunity.
A unique opportunity.
However, it is an opportunity to make a decision even more carefully.
The last time the phoenix died was 20 years ago, a cataclysm that occurred when the mage lord, that b*tch, was away for over a month without feeding or replenishing magic power.
How could I have known that I would feel the pain of starvation rather than death from overwork?
But if it wasn’t for that, he wouldn’t be making these plans now.
Although the phoenix is famous for not dying, it did not mean that it did not have a lifespan at all.
20 Years.
There was a cycle in which his old body was burned and a new self was born from the ashes every 20 years.
And Air Force One clearly felt that its lifespan was short.
A week to a month at most.
I had to go through a rebellion targeting that time.
It is not death from overwork or starvation, but death at the end of one’s lifespan.
However, this time, instead of burning one’s own body and being born there, one is being born far away, burning one’s tail feathers, a part of one’s body.
This old and weak body will be found as a corpse in this room and give everyone the illusion that he has died of old age.
The only way to get past this infernal nightmare and end the life of a cursed slave.
The day of decision came unexpectedly quickly.
The tenth night without food or water.
Air Force One collapsed fiercely, spreading its wings over the papers that were entangling it.
His whole body was drained of strength and his feathers turned white.
And at this time, he had to burn his body and continue his immortal life, but … Changed.
He quickly moved his consciousness to the distant feathers, to the place where parts of his body were stored separately, with vague expectations that it would be a better place than this place.
After a while, the ceremony arrived safely.
The size of the newly created body was also too small because the amount of flaming tail feathers and stored magic power was small.
Originally, he was supposed to show off his sharp claws and newly born feathers, but now he was given only downy feathers, a very small beak, and an extremely low vision.
“Beep-“
A yellowish first chick woke up in a warehouse.
“Beep… Beep…!”
Jumping, Air Force One, a new chick that jumped from the top of the display case, tried to figure out where it was.
If the newly resurrected place was the warehouse of the Mage Tower, it would have no meaning.
Well, it was something that might end up getting caught and worse.
But there was no need to worry about that.
“Urgent! Emergency! Emergency! Foreign press! A foreign incarnation descends! Coordinates 37.33, 22.43!”
“A place that is only one day away from the city..?! Contact everyone! We have to gather all the Priests, Paladins, and available manpower to stop it somehow! If you can’t stop it now…-“
Due to the fiery sky and the messed up surroundings, the barrier of holy power that maintained the church’s warehouse in the Labyrinth City had been broken for a long time.
And that was luck for Air Force One.
If it weren’t for this situation, I would have been caught by the alarm that went off as soon as I woke up in the warehouse.
“Beep-beep-!”
Carefully escaping through the ventilation of the warehouse, Air Force One shed tears of emotion as it headed for a flock of ducks and chickens sleeping in the far corner of the garden.
Here, here.
I was convinced.
A place where you won’t feel awkward even if you are confident.
It was a place that the magic tower master would never find even if he had doubts and used tracking magic.
There was no magic that could reach this place full of holy power, the opposite of magical power.
There was no better place to camouflage my own death, a heavenly fortress that would block tracking magic.
In the middle of the garden, a chick rubbed her cheek against the statue of a goddess who was extending her hand with a benevolent expression ..
All of this… Couldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the goddess’ care.
Ah, that is the will of the goddess. Her Goddess is her own light and everything to her.
“Beep!”
On that day, for the first time in this world, a phoenix with a sincere heart was born.
And perhaps as compensation for the previous miserable life, life in the garden was truly extreme.
You can eat and sleep as much as you want, and no one has ever forced you to do anything.
“Wow! Sister, look at this! It’s a golden chick!”
“Oh my, was there such a person?”
“Beep!”
It has been a long time since I abandoned the pride and pride of being a phoenix.
Happiness comes when you stick out your beak toward the mashed grains with a cute cry, but what’s the matter!
There is no use in having such a thing.
Just eat, eat, sleep, eat, eat, sleep, eat, sleep…
This is a chicken. It’s a phoenix.
If you become a little stupid, you will be so happy if you live like a chicken in the garden without having to live as a spiritual phoenix like before.
Before being questioned whether he lived too long for a chicken, he completely burned his body and started again as a chick.
It has become a daily routine to offer a prayer of thanks to the goddess after being born again.
Endless faith in this goddess who gave her a new life.
…And that faithful heart was being tested for the first time now.
In the more than 150 years since he hatched from the feathers of the warehouse, countless people have passed this garden and come across him, but there is no one who feels as piercing through everything as that boy now.
Neither the witches I met while living in the Mage Tower nor the Mage Tower Master, my contractor, could ever give me this kind of feeling, so why?
It feels like the whole body is being exposed.
Air Force One read the boy’s twitching lips.
‘Phoenix?’
….Was caught.
The tranquility is broken.
A movement stemming from instinct, that he would be damned if he stayed like this, sprung out without realizing it.
A boy shouted behind a golden chicken that flew up with all its might as it kicked off the ground.
“That, that’s fire… No, chicken, grab the golden olive!”
“Cock-!”