196. The Crisis of Desperation
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Pasasac!
Ice crystals form and chill spreads around Anastasia.
Characteristics she possesses through openness. The characteristics of ‘ice fire’ were greatly strengthened, and even the surrounding atmosphere was spreading.
Sasasasasasak!
Her overwhelming presence pushed away even the darkness mixed with the flames that covered all sides, and numerous ice fragments began to decorate the atmosphere.
The number of ice shards easily exceeded hundreds or thousands, and even the darkness mixed with sparks was dyed with pure white cold.
“… … .”
Sekhmet narrowed his eyes at the appearance of the two who appeared with the unexpected invasion of the realm.
He did not even look at Cheonseong, and only saw Anastasia, who had opened her power. And just by feeling the size of that power, he felt his own body tremble despite being an alter ego.
‘Is that Anastasia?’
I noticed it the last few days.
When faced directly with the human power that corresponds to the main axis, there was also a unique aspect.
Still, I expected Anastasia to come.
So Sekhmet’s reaction was just that. There was not even a hint of surprise.
“… … .”
Sekhmet’s slight reaction made Anastasia’s eyes subside even more, and she flung herself without delay.
Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha!
Fragments of ice embroider the air gorgeously and are fired at the same time, and Anastasia’s model disappears like an afterimage.
A shard of ice that seized Sekhmet’s arms.
Anastasia spreads her dream with ice shards so that she cannot escape anywhere. Even the reaction of Sekhmet, who responded at the center, was markedly different from before.
ㅡ!
At the same time as he reached out his two hands in front of him, the black flames soared up and embraced Sekhmet’s entire body as if it were on fire.
There was no sign of exploding the atmosphere or of a huge explosion.
Chae chae chae chae chae!
Afterwards, when the ice shards rushing in from all directions tried to tear apart Sekhmet as it was, it exploded as soon as it touched the flames, spreading chills.
And in the meantime, the new type of Anastasia that had disappeared appeared in front of Sekhmet.
good!
Anastasia, who had reached Sekhmet’s front with a single step, drew her sword without hesitation, and slashed it out as if slashing it from below.
I’m sorry!
With a bizarre rupture sound, as if the space itself, which had been dyed in darkness for a moment, was severed, Sekhmet’s outstretched arms exploded at once.
Pooh!
Large amounts of blood gushed out from the cross section of the severed arms, engulfing the atmosphere.
“…”
Even so, Sekhmet closed his eyes and did not even open his mouth.
Rather, the black flame surrounding him burned more intensely, and he slowly closed his eyes.
I’m sorry!
When Anastasia’s sword cut through the air again, the extreme cold tried to save Sekhmet.
jjaeaeng!
Sekhmet’s body, enveloped in black flames, was no longer slashed by her sword. It was flying rapidly through the air, as if being pushed away by force, like a hard crystal.
“…!”
At that moment, Anastasia’s eyes were completely indifferent, and the moment she wanted to bend down, she kicked the ground.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!
It forms one huge trajectory as if countless pieces of ice were shot out.
And at the same time, at the forefront, Anastasia catches the trail of Sekhmet’s black flame floating in the air with a sword at once.
Kaaang! Caan!!
Right after that, a sound that was hard to believe that a sword and a human body had collided resounded continuously, and Sekhmet began to quickly embroider the space as if using that power.
Roaring!
As if the trace of black flame burned the air, it left a trace of the movement beyond speed, and Anastasia rushed right after it with a strange rupture sound that cuts through the space.
Shasha shak! Caang! Blasphemy!
Even though the battle unfolded within a few seconds that the criminal could not catch up with, it was like a one-sided attack.
The singularity was that Sekhmet never tried to compete with Anastasia.
At the same time, Sekhmet’s entire body began to explode very little.
The severed arms burst open again up to the shoulder, and spew frozen blood into the air as if a section of the face had been ripped off.
Even so, there was not the slightest painful agony from Sekhmetro.
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Just as his durability was further strengthened through absolute hardening, Sekhmet developed a stronger black flame all over his remaining body.
and meanwhile.
Han Chun-seong, who hurriedly approached Leonhardt, could not bear to open his mouth.
“… … .”
Even though Anastasia erased the black flame at once, the condition of Leonhardt in front of her eyes was terrible.
His arms and legs were stained dark red as if they were being burned, and his face, which looked like he had been through terrible pain, was no longer the Leonhardt he knew.
His gun-like eyes became blurred and he seemed to lose his wit, and he didn’t even know where to start and how to touch them while facing each other.
“Turn it off.”
Then, as Leonhard groaned together through his blurry eyes, he thought that there was no time for hesitation.
With a glance at Anastasia, he quickly grasped the situation. The apostle in human form with red hair and Anastasia were in fierce confrontation.
In that composition, Anastasia’s obvious superiority. It looked like it would be over in a matter of minutes, let alone participate.
‘I have to treat Leonhard.’
While thinking about it, on the other side of the space, Anastasia released her powers and could see traces of the space she had broken.
The same realm as Leteia expanded the realm. Anastasia intervened by forcefully twisting the realm. Then it might be possible to get out of it.
“Leonhard… Hold on a little longer, a little longer. I will treat you right away.”
Biting my lips at the heat that swelled in my heart, I carefully picked up Leonhardt’s model.
I had to do what I had to do now.
“Keuk!”
Seeing that even the slightest touch made her feel terrible pain, the spiral air current wrapped around her leg at once.
‘There were two apostles who came.’
There must be another apostle besides the one that Anastasia is dealing with.
But even knowing that… I couldn’t be in this space like this.
Seruk.
I threw myself into the distorted space while holding Leonhard’s body, whose eyes were weakly closed.
‘If we continue like this, Leonhardt will die soon.’
I had to entrust that apostle to Anastasia and save Leonhard. If Leonhard died, the future of this world would be nothing.
It was a risk I had to take.
ㅡ!
I spurred the ground and threw my body toward the distorted space.
My heart was colored with tension to the point where the previous sense of crisis was overshadowed, and I felt even urgency.
Chiing-!
It was the moment when I escaped the space distorted by darkness.
“Oh, did you suddenly appear?”
“what?”
Among the cadets who seemed surprised by my sudden appearance, I immediately turned around and tried to head straight for the infirmary.
good!
It was the moment when I was about to jump with my feet on the ground of the park.
“Leonhard… … ?”
Facing Yumia, who was staring at me with astonished eyes from a distance away, it seemed that my body had frozen as it was.
“… … .”
As if the feet that were about to leap were bound, they could not be separated.
…I could feel right away that it wasn’t like that because I was looking at Yumia.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!
It felt as if the atmosphere around me was trying to weigh me down.
It felt as if my heart was coldly sinking amid the indescribable, intangible pressure that seemed to squeeze my whole body, and the feeling that my body was about to be pressed to the floor.
‘Apostle… .’
I realized that this must be the power of another apostle. And even the level of the apostle’s power was felt.
‘This… is not an apostle I can deal with.’
Was it complacency in my thought to take the risk? It felt foolish to leave Anastasia’s side.
But even in those moments.
When I saw Leonhardt’s terrible condition in my sight, my fear-filled heart broke at once.
Not thinking that the apostle would target Leonhard, not me, was the biggest mistake of all.
I had to endure it.
‘Anyway… !’
tight.
My lips burst and bitten, and I expressed the spiral airflow that I could express to the limit.
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!
As if resisting the intangible energy that oppresses the whole body, the spirals that rise from the whole body scatter widely and embrace me tightly.
And it was just one moment.
Teeing!
As soon as the energy that bound me seemed to have weakened even for a moment, I tossed the Leonhard I was holding and shouted loudly.
“Yumia!! Leonhardt!”
Right after that, that was the end and everything I could do and say.
I can’t completely shake off this intangible aura that surrounds me to fly with Leonhard.
dump.
The moment I see Yumia who urgently accepts Leonhard in her arms, at the same time my heart is stained with relief… …
—-Flash!
My vision was bathed in complete light.
Countless refracted light disturbed the field of view, and exploded as if flickering.
Stagger!
Without even a sense of direction… I had no choice but to suffer as it was.
“… … .”
Right after that, all of the surrounding senses were blocked. I didn’t feel anything.
At the same time, I felt that even the huge energy that had been oppressing me had disappeared. While absentmindedly feeling the taste of the fishy blood flowing from my lips, I instinctively took out the spear and held it up.
good!
Even as I felt the weight of the spear in my hand, my heart sank deeply.
“damn… .”
All white space.
What came into my eyes was just a space surrounded by light. Nothing is visible because of the light, and it is not even distinguished.
And I’ve already experienced something like this a few times.
ㅡThe area unique to the Apostle.
That even this space has entered the sphere of influence of the apostle’s power… .
Seruk.
Even as I endlessly applied strength to the hand holding the spear, my heart was pounding like it was about to explode.
The horrible figure of Leonhardt he had seen a moment before did not leave his eyes.
‘Even if I’m a little careless, I’ll die.’
The 4th level Leonhardt would not be much different from me now.
Even so, even Leonhardt had suffered so horribly.
“… … .”
Through light breathing, I raised my spirits and prepared for the surprise attack, but I forcibly held my mind.
‘I have to endure.’
Even though I felt desperate, I had to have hope somehow.
And there was a breakthrough.
Until the time Anastasia comes to find me after killing the apostle she just encountered.
Then it will only take a few minutes.
When I made up my mind to express a spiral airflow on the blade, I was determined by the familiar blue light that wrapped around the blade.
Still, there was no feeling of reciprocity.
A strange feeling, as if only I was cut off and separated from the world.
And it was a moment.
swish
Involuntarily, I twisted my body.
It was an act driven by instinct, and it was an act that even I was not aware of.
Fu-wook!
Still, a terrible pain shoots up from your shoulder.
“Cool!”
The pain pierced my left shoulder, and I spurred on the ground quickly, but I didn’t feel anything.
not even visible
…But my left shoulder was already pierced through.
There was a small hole in my shoulder, and I couldn’t bear to let go of the hand holding the spear while moaning in terrible pain as if it was being stabbed as it was.
“…”
I have no next
I had to struggle to recall the piercing sensation of that moment.
If you don’t respond next time, you die.
And if my instinct had reacted to that just a little while ago, I could find a way to live only if I somehow realized it.