Chapter 0 - Prologue: A Fairy Tale of an Angel (2/2)
After much trouble, the youth selected the pole.
He easily carried and swung it around.
The youth spoke humiliating words to the dwarfs and left.
“Thanks.”
The youth returned to the land of angels.
The angel’s spear and shield shattered, and the youth was victorious.
“I’ve proven myself as an angel, so give me the duties of an angel.”
The defeated angel stepped down, and an archangel appeared.
“If I say reject this request, then you will just beat me up.”
“You already understand.”
“If you defeat me this place will be destroyed.”
“I don’t care.”
“I care. I will be greatly humiliated.”
“What does it matter that you are humiliated?”
“Angels are never humiliated.”
The archangel thought for a moment and spoke.
“We have a grape vine which blossoms only once every hundred years. There will be chaos if even one blossom is stolen. Can you guard this tree?”
“If I am the guard, nobody will dare to steal the grapes!”
The youth guarded the grape vine for over ten years.
You could not find a single insect which infested the tree in this place.
One day, the youth overheard the words of other angels.
“I heard that child still guards the grape vine.”
“Nobody had ever stolen from the garden for the past ten thousand years!”
The youth grew furious.
“They tricked me! They made a fool of me. Angels should never be humiliated!”
The youth immediately ate all the grapes.
He was still angry, so he caused great havoc upon the group of angels.
“You guys tricked me. Angels are all liars. I don’t want to be something like an angel anymore.”
The youth left the land of angels.
The angels mobilized their troops to capture the youth.
However they could not capture the youth.
The angel of fire ended up burning down an innocent mountain village.
The angel of water appeared and flooded an innocent sea front village.
The youth laughed until his stomach hurt.
“Haha, you’ve lived all your life in the sky, so you don’t understand anything down here at all. You should feel ashamed of yourselves.”
The archangel approached a hermit angel that lived amongst the humans.
The hermit angel criticized the archangel.
“You’ve tricked the child.”
“I admit it. Still, we cannot leave the child be.”
“The Dwarf King just sent word of complaint that a weapon was stolen from them. Archangel, if you help we can settle this easily.”
“What should I do?”
“Give me an umpaloton stone. Also, retreat your troops.”
The archangel listened to the hermit’s request.
The hermit sought the Dwarf King.
“Please use this umpaloton to create unbreakable shackles and chains.”
The dwarfs heeded his request.
The hermit angel turned into a dwarf and packed the shackles and chain, and he called the youth.
“I came here to make a bet with you.”
The youth who enjoyed bets agreed.
“The bet I made with dwarfs was fun. Speak.”
“Let’s bet who can race across this burning desert faster.”
“Let’s start on the east side of the desert, whoever reaches the west faster is the winner.”
Ready, start!
The two dashed at once.
The youth used all his strength to run across the desert.
The dwarf who had short legs could not catch up to the youth.
The youth didn’t accept the other’s loss.
“Let’s make a different bet.”
“Fine. How about an eating contest?”
“Fine.”
A hundred servings were prepared on a grand table.
Ready, start!
The dwarf and youth began to eat from both ends of the table.
The youth cleaned through the plates with great speed.
However, the dwarf ate not just the food but the table and plates as well with the power of fire.
The youth felt it becoming increasingly difficult to eat due to his fullness,
however the dwarf’s speed of consumption only increased.
“There are always three rounds to a bet.”
“You are correct. I will come up with the bet this time.”
“Fight me.”
“That is unfair for me. However, if you agree to put on these shackles, then I will agree. This is very heavy so it will make the fight fair.”
“That much is no big deal for me.”
The youth put on the shackles on his arms, legs, and around his neck.
The dwarf spoke.
“There must be a reward and punishment to this bet. If you lose, you will need to wear those shackles for the rest of your life.”
“Fine. However, if I win, I will kill you.”
“Ready, Start!”
The youth used his pole to attack the dwarf.
The dwarf wielded a similar pole to fight against the youth.
No matter how much they attacked one another, the pole didn’t break or even bend.
The two fought for over three days, and still there was no victor.
The youth felt tired and quit.
“I lost.”
“Then as promised, you need to keep those shackles on forever.”
“I don’t want to.”
The youth tried to run away, but the shackles were already locked onto his arms and legs..
“Why did I lose?”
The youth asked very angrily
The dwarf dragged the youth down into an underground cave of the desert and explained.
“The first race was actually not your idea but mine.
No matter how fast you could run, you could never be as smart as me.
For the second bet, there was no way you could possibly win against my fire.
For the last fight, you were fighting against yourself.
No matter how strong you are, you cannot possibly defeat yourself.”
“You tricked me!”
The youth tried to break the shackles,
However the shackles were unbreakable.
“The first two results were unavoidable, but you could have still won our third bet. I will keep you tied down here until you realize the truth….”
The youth cried.
“Everyone just keeps tricking me.”
“Yes. That is because you are too strong.”
“That is not my fault.”
“You’re right. You are not at fault. But you were traveling down the wrong path in life.”
The dwarf suddenly disappeared.
The youth fell asleep waiting for the day he would be freed once again.
The first hundred years, he wished to leave this place.
The next hundred years, he thought he should apologize to the angels and dwarfs.
The following hundred years, he thought he should live the rest of his life dedicating himself to the one who would save him.
However, nobody came to free the youth.
The youth gradually grew furious.
So, on the next hundred years, the youth had a change of heart.
He would have his revenge when he left this place!
And on his last hundred years,
He thought about how he could kill the person that locked him in this place,
and how he could destroy the world.
The youth changed his heart to be not an angel, but a devil….