December 3, 3458.

Date, a village at the eastern end of the region called Newer.

It is a village overlooking the Daté River and is inhabited by about 20 people of the so-called <>.

Jin and his team had previously traveled north to Naminthe, the town where <> was born, but they had stopped their search there, so they did not know about the settlement of Dathe, where barely a few people remained.

Also, even the magic brain of Horai Island, <>, knew that there were still people living around there, but he did not dispatch <> to the area, but only observed from the sky.

This was also because of the apparent rejection of the people of Battaghtaluf when Jin and his group had visited there before. We decided to leave it alone.

In the village of Datte, the sound of a baby crying echoed.

"Oh, a baby has been born!

"There is a baby in this village, too. ......

"This means that the house of Markitas will be able to survive for one more generation.

Dathe village, like the others, was a marginal settlement, and if things continued as they were, there was no doubt that it would disappear within a few decades.

"Oh, my baby is healthy!

Galvani, the head of the Malchitas family, looked at the new life with narrowed eyes.

* * * * * *

"Who is this Master Lardus after all?"

Galvani muttered to himself as he stared at the baby in his daughter's arms.

"......"

But his daughter, holding the baby in her arms, gives no answer.

It was sad to see his daughter as a doll, but his grandson was cute.

And although she is such a daughter, she takes good care of the child, so there is no problem for now.

If there is a problem, it is the slow growth of the children.

But Lardus, who visits about once a year, seems to take it for granted.

And when the child named <> turned ten years old, Lardus performed some kind of magic. As a result, Golbert's mother, who looked like a doll, came to her senses.

However, even at ten years old, Golbert looked at most three or four years old. When Galvani mentioned this to her, she said,

No, it's okay. I'm sure he will be more than we can imagine. I have a feeling."

"Why do you think that?"

"It's a mother's intuition."

Galvani sighed.

In such an environment, the baby grows up fast. .......

But...

In the year 3459, a natural cataclysm occurred, causing space to vibrate. But almost none of the inhabitants of Ars notice.

Then, on April 1.

A hole in the space around Mount Funisys, in the northern part of the Hariri Desert, opens up.

It was only a few millionths of a microsecond in time, but during that time, this world was indeed connected to the other world.

There was a spirit life form.

For them, even a millionth of a microsecond is only a few minutes.

This is because there is nothing to <>, nothing to <>.

A world where nothing changes, it is as if time has stood still.

One of the mental organisms, weary of such a situation, looked into the world of Ars through a hole.

To be more precise, it stuck a part of itself into Ars and tried to see what was going on.

(This is a great ......!)

The world of Ars was a flood of information.

Compared to their dead world, the world of Ars is a treasure chest full of life and ever-changing matter.

Unlike their world, where there was nothing to compare and the flow of time was vague, there was a clear flow of .

And this had an unexpected result for .

The mental life form, which should have transcended the concept of time, came under the influence of Ars' time.

In a time shorter than a moment, even <> could not retrieve the protruding part, and the two worlds broke contact forever.

(......! *@@;+~｜￥("'}" = {......)

A part of the spiritual life form was detached and drifted to the world of Ars.

He realizes that he will not be able to exist for long if he stays in Ars, the material world, because he has more intelligence than an ordinary human being, even if he is only a part of it.

(......$?　We can't stay like this! (Translated* + not good ......)

Some of the spirit life forms drifted around the world of Ars and managed to find a place to stay.

And .......

(Oh @ here is +; cozy. (Is this a juvenile organism from ......?)

A part of the spirit life form decided to inhabit a baby it happened to find.

The baby was covered with a much thicker free-magic element (ether) and sub-free-magic element (ether) than the other life forms around it.

(We have to stay here for a while and wait for an opportunity.)

Mental life forms are basically immortal. It was supposed to be so, even if it is only a part of them.

But .

(...... absorbed?)

A baby becomes a toddler...... after four years in the world of Ars, some of the spirit life forms found themselves becoming less and less present.

(Hmmm, this larval body is absorbing the I. ...... interesting)

Since the idea of life and death had been transcended, the part of the spirit life form was not surprised and panicked.

Rather, I feel joy in knowing that I will not have to spend eternity.

(I don't think my knowledge will be useful in this world, but ...... well, that's okay.)

A further part of the knowledge possessed by a part of the spirit organism is absorbed by the larva.

At the same time, a part of the way of thinking and personality was also absorbed.

And eventually, the part of the mental organism disappeared without a trace, leaving only the infant organism .......

* * * *

Golbert, what are you doing?

"Fixing the golem."

The mother's question was answered by a toddler who looked about five years old. But he is fifteen.

"...... You don't have to do that. No matter what you do, the collapse of civilization is inevitable.

But we can delay it, can't we?

Golbert, what is the point of delaying the collapse?　After all, we all end up in the same place. Then it is better not to waste time."

The elder of the Dathe village laughed at Golbert's words.

Newell had long since become the land of the fallen, all of whom were trapped in a kind of madness that made them hate the world, even while they were trying to make the world seem better.

Even in Daté village, most of the people are obsessed with nihilism, and only a few of the Markitas family do not approve of it.

Golbert could not have grown up in such an environment and became a somewhat condescending character.

In addition, Golbert's growth was unusually slow.

Even though he was 20 years old, he looked like a toddler, which made the other members of the family creepy and they kept him away from them.

This may also have contributed to the distortion of Golbert's character.

When he turned 50, his mother was already gone.

At that time he looked about 10 years old, and although people around him looked at him weird, he realized that he probably had a longer life span than others.

He used this time to absorb knowledge.

He had read almost all the books in the village and understood the structure of all the broken tools, machines, magical tools, and magi-machines.

However, even this knowledge could not cure his distorted personality.

For a time, his father took him away from the village. When he returned, he had accumulated more knowledge and had become more isolated.

He was more and more solitary.

I'm leaving this village.

"......"

He declared this in the year 3536.

He was 78 years old. He no longer had a biological mother or grandparents, only an elderly cousin.

Therefore, there was no one to stop him, and he never returned to the village where he was born.

At that time, there was a man of mature age who came to pick him up, and he was said to look a lot like Lardus.

Eighty-seven years later, the village of Dathe was uninhabited.