The Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health Chapter 381

Honestly, Valer thought it was already a miracle that the Northern Castle had held out this long, and that he himself was still keeping his sanity in this situation.

Wasn’t this hopeful enough?

Normally, it would’ve been swept away instantly!

Phew. Letting out a light sigh, Valer turned around. Standing there was Pession, who had just arrived.

“By the way, why are you even here?”

“I heard Arellin came this way.”

“…….”

A person who clearly didn’t belong in a place overflowing with the aura of death.

Hearing Pession’s answer—someone who shone like the sun even in a place like this—Valer froze for a moment.

‘Is this guy planning to die too if Arellin dies?’

Do you even know where you are, coming here without fear?

‘I knew his duties as crown prince stopped meaning anything in front of her, but still…….’

Valer felt a brief moment of sympathy for Emperor Edward, who had raised someone like this as his successor.

Very briefly. About one second.

‘Wait, isn’t this just Ed’s karma?’

The sympathy vanished.

Yeah, he should’ve raised his kid properly. Like I did.

“Then where is Arellin?”

Pession kept looking around, clearly not caring about anyone else. Valer stared at his handsome face for a moment, then replied lazily.

“She’s not here.”

“?”

Pession looked at Valer as if to say, Don’t lie to me.

But why would he joke around at a time like this? He should be glad Arellin wasn’t in a place this dangerous.

Valer shrugged. Pession’s expression grew more serious, then suddenly collapsed into despair.

“Liar!”

But Valer stayed confident.

It’s not like I scammed you.

“Anyway, since you’re here, fight with us.”

We’re short on manpower.

Almost as if waiting for this moment, the magic bombardment from the Sky Tower began to slow.

Meaning the Northern Castle garrison’s break was ending.

“Time to move again?”

“Looks like it.”

“It’s been a while since we fought together, Valer.”

“It’s not something to be happy about, Queyen.”

Valer shrugged and looked up at the sky.

Maybe because he had lived through too many regressions and tangled with too much cause and effect, he had already become half-immortal. With his eyes, he could faintly see the chaotic movements of the hidden world surrounding the Northern Castle.

Energies boiling up from within, like a volcano filled with lava, ready to burst through the surface and sweep everything away…….

‘Someone’s trying to tear it open, and someone else is trying to stop it.’

What would be the end of this fragile world?

At this moment, where merely holding on was all they could do, Valer once again vowed to survive.

───!

Something silent ‘fell’ beyond the Abyss.

“……?”

Only a few noticed the anomaly. Only beings who had surpassed human limits, like Valer, Queyen, and Pession, could sense it.

‘Did I imagine it?’

Then a chill ran straight down Valer’s spine.

───!

This time, he understood exactly what had happened.

The monsters had been ‘deleted’.

 

 

 

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“Have you ever seen a dream become reality?”

When the boy said that and grabbed my hand, I thought he was trying to pull some kind of trick.

“Wow.”

Suddenly, my vision switched.

It was the Northern Castle!

I could see Dad, Pession, my teacher. I couldn’t see the Abyss clearly, but everything around it looked vivid, like watching through a floating screen.

And then it happened. The boy moved my finger and did ‘something’.

A light flick.

“……?”

The monsters where my fingertip pointed vanished without a trace.

They were really gone.

I blinked rapidly, then turned to look at the boy. Finding my reaction amusing, he smiled brightly.

Scary person.

“…How did you do that?”

I asked very politely all of a sudden. The boy, holding back laughter, answered honestly.

“It’s my authority.”

The Apostle of the End…….

End : to disappear or die, causing existence to vanish.
Apostle : a person devoted to a sacred cause.
(Source: National Institute of Korean Language Dictionary)

In other words, someone devoted to erasing existence.

And so, the Apostle of the End spoke to a foolish creature:

“I wanted to hit that dragon once too.”

And the foolish creature understood.

Ah. You had a lot built up.

 

 

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The first to notice the anomaly in the north was the Archmage, Mercedes.

Though also an immortal, his rank had dropped once with the birth of the Nightmare of the Star, and dropped again when he saved Arellin. He was currently the weakest among them.

Maybe because of that, he could feel the foreign authority more clearly than anyone.

───.

No screams. No corpses.

So there was neither death nor resurrection.

Only blank space remained.

As far as he knew, only one being could wield such an authority.

‘Because what he wields is the power of the end itself.’

A being that grew stronger as the end approached, and quieter as it moved away.

Yet he had never once stepped onto the front stage himself.

“……Haha.”

For some reason, Mercedes felt amused and laughed.

Seeing that arrogant dragon take a hit was something even he had never seen before.

 

 

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Cheyen suddenly stood up.

“Lady Cheyen?”

Chloe, who had been comforting her by saying that shielding her eyes from the horrific scene wasn’t a bad thing—rather, a good thing in the bigger picture—looked at Cheyen’s strange behavior in confusion.

Cheyen couldn’t even answer Chloe. She just stared beyond the veil of the hidden world blocking her.

Something impossible had happened.

‘Everything… was erased.’

A power without causality.

Past and future both became ‘things that do not exist’.

Cheyen trembled, like someone who had suffered endless thirst and finally found an oasis.

That power—
that was exactly what she had been seeking.

The Dragon Lair of the Abyss.

Karjien was already in a terrible mood. Being suddenly ‘tamed’—a humiliation that would never happen again in his proud dragon life—had left him extremely irritated.

A world that should just hurry up and end but instead hovered annoyingly between collapse and survival was already infuriating enough. Add being absurdly tamed on top of that, and having to accept it……

‘No matter how I think about it, I can’t just accept this.’

So the important thing wasn’t hiding the fact—
but deliberately not talking about it.

The problem was that he didn’t even know what the effects of taming were, so he didn’t know how to hide it.

Karjien and the ancient dragons were all gathered, racking their brains—

───.

The magic field surrounding the Abyss was Karjien’s domain. Sensing the anomaly within it, his eyes turned blood-red.

‘!!’

His already-thin patience snapped.

“How dare you!”

“Dragon Emperor—!”

At that moment—

A faint blue light spread across the entire Abyss.

The brief silence brought by the sunken air foretold what was about to happen.

When his long-folded wings spread, his true body—like it was forged from constellations—began to glow with a deep, mysterious light.

GROOOOO—!

A being wrapped in mist and glowing blue dawn light—too overwhelmingly beautiful and holy to be called a mere creature.

Like something that had stepped out of an ancient parchment, a higher-order mythical being. All life on the surface instinctively held its breath.

With madness in his eyes, Karjien proclaimed:

【Foolish humans, hear me. What is granted to you is merely a postponed destruction.
Accept gladly the fate given to you as lowly creatures.】

 

 

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Roll. Roll.

I rolled my eyes.

“What do we do about that?”

Did you see him just now? His eyes totally snapped. He’s crazy. He’s not sane.

“Hahaha.”

But the one who looked even less sane was right here. What made it worse was that the boy’s fingers were slowly fading away.

“Ah, this is fine. It’s the price for using my authority.”

It doesn’t look fine at all.

But as if none of that mattered, the boy smiled like someone holding back a naughty prank.

“Shall we do it one more time?”

That thing just now— one more time?