275. Bloody Despair – Strange Despair (7)
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“……”
It was a strange existence that came into my eyes with my head up.
An existence that emits even more strange darkness even in the dark. It was as if he was shrouded in thicker fog, obscuring himself.
Even so, the purple light that gave off a friendly eye could be seen clearly.
So, oddly enough, it looked like a human.
Something that couldn’t be human took on a human form… .
“ah.”
A creaking sound leaked out of his mouth.
And it was felt.
The strange darkness I saw now. That it was the exact same darkness as the darkness that penetrated Karite’s chest a while ago.
Yes, that darkness is Karite… .
Between the senses that everything catches the eye has stopped.
“In the end, are you here too?”
A clear voice came through the strange darkness.
The apostle uttered human language. It wasn’t just talking, it was a natural tone, as if it were a complete human being.
That’s why it was different from the apostle he killed a while ago.
Chubuck, Chubuck… .
I looked at my hand holding the spear, keeping my eyes on the strange darkness that was slowly approaching.
rattle.
The trembling arms were still there. And it wasn’t just the arm shaking.
My body was shaking as if I couldn’t accept what had happened.
—-I couldn’t protect Karite.
As I gazed at the bizarre darkness slowly approaching, my vision blankly caught Karite in my arms.
‘Why… did this happen?’
Karite wasn’t meant to be like this.
Suddenly, the words I had spoken came to mind.
‘Maybe I did something wrong.’
I didn’t mean to tell you not to leave my side.
The words I gave to Karite suddenly felt like they were digging into my heart.
if i hadn’t said that
No, if I hadn’t chosen her before and put her in the same group… I wouldn’t have come to this worst situation.
With Karite’s skills, she would have been able to survive among the raging gargoyles.
Because I tried to act with her, Karite is now… .
“Agar Castle.”
Suddenly, I heard a voice calling my name.
A strange darkness shimmered and approached me.
“You, too, must have ended up here.”
Even the voice I heard was extremely strange. It sounded like an apostle was judging me.
As if you knew me earlier, as if you knew I was going to be like this now… .
Even so, it was only for a moment that I gazed at the strange darkness.
The mysterious darkness turned towards Karite, who held him in his arms even though he felt that he was the true body of the apostle.
“…”
…his eyes darkened greatly.
facing the death of others.
In my lucid dream and in reality, I faced the death of a cadet caught up in an unexpected accident.
And even with that now… My heart was so different.
My heart that tried to accept and respond calmly.
I couldn’t do that anymore.
“…….”
Slowly, a strange feeling filled my heart.
Hatred, anger, murderousness, regret, self-reproach… I didn’t even know what kind of emotion it was because of the mixed emotions.
However, the apostle who ate a human corpse a while ago caused death. It was different from the emotions I felt while watching it.
‘Something… .’
It felt like everything in me would be swallowed up by this rising emotion.
That’s why I felt like I wouldn’t be me… It was the first time I felt it.
My heart was about to melt with my emotions even with the muddy and sticky swamp.
“…!”
Then, suddenly, I opened my eyes.
pounding… .
I could hear my heart beating, albeit very faintly.
The sensation he felt because he was holding Karite in his arms was not an illusion. It was transmitted through my ears and body as an obvious fact.
Karite’s heart is still beating, and her life is not over.
she wasn’t dead
The accident that had stopped suddenly began to return to its original state.
Even so, it was dangerous if Karite, an extremely dangerous condition, was not treated immediately.
‘There is no potion.’
The last remaining potion was used to heal my body a while ago.
There was no room immediately.
tight!
He bit his trembling lips until blood gushed out, erasing the agitation at once. I remembered what I had to do by somehow correcting the accident that seemed to have stopped.
Seruk.
Karite’s model was carefully set down through the darkness.
There is no more time to delay. time to think like this.
The time when I felt that the stopped time was flowing again.
Smack!
As soon as I put down Karite, I was already flying through the darkness.
ㅡ!
At my footsteps, the darkness that spreads everywhere rises like a big explosion. However, almost all agitation in the trembling vision, arms, and legs disappeared.
The heart that had melted between soggy emotions suddenly turned into one heart.
Saaa… !
As if the intense will that filled the heart like a bloom was conveyed to the window, the air currents of the Surana docks, which were manifested in an instant, began to rush strong enough to burst the darkness.
My broken heart started thinking of what I had to do.
how to stab a window,
Can I kill that strange darkness?
I instinctively felt that that apostle was stronger than the berserk apostle. I don’t know what kind of power the opponent has, or what type it is.
However, I had to finish the apostle in a short time with the most threatening attack I could show.
Shuuk!
At the moment when a strange darkness shimmered along the trajectory of the spear that tore through the atmosphere, I suddenly stepped on the darkness forcefully as if twisting my ankle and lowered my upper body as if sticking to the ground.
good!
The sight was rapidly shooting as if crawling on the floor with the sudden darkness.
As if excluding the heart he was originally aiming for, the trajectory of the spear was bent downward at once.
Fu-wook!
The spear that changed its trajectory in that way was able to pass through completely.
For a moment, the darkness was not greatly disturbed by the primary sweating airflow. Even so, the spear edge was clearly pierced.
softly… !!
Trampling on the thick darkness on the ground, I forcibly straightened my accelerating body.
Then, with his eyes filled with the sight that came into his field of vision, he kicked the ground again.
The strange darkness surrounding the apostle sways gently.
good!
The moment I ran through the space at close to speed, I noticed that the apostle’s body was rapidly recovering.
The darkness in the space fills the darkness pierced by the blade.
Still, there was no commotion.
This time, keep your upper body as it is, and stab the spear as if you were going to strike it diagonally.
‘I can’t do this much.’
The first sum bent the trajectory of the spear downward like a surprise.
If that’s the case, the attack this time should also be changed to something difficult for the apostle to respond to.
Then, the accident went crazy by giving a change in speed naturally.
good!
Before entering the range of the spear, the airflow was concentrated on the leg that had stepped off the ground.
And the moment when it was expressed strongly as if bursting the air current concentrated on the next step.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!
While the darkness was expanding as if passing by my eyes, I was being shot like light.
Saaa!!
Even though the airflow of Surana Wharf first burst and tried to erase the strange darkness, the strange darkness surrounding the apostle did not disappear.
Through the slightly shimmering darkness, I realized how high the rank of an apostle was.
Still… it didn’t matter.
hooked!
After penetrating the darkness like that, I straightened my body that had been running through the darkness like a glide.
A vivid touch felt from the hand holding the spear. The feeling of piercing the skin was clear.
There was no such thing as counterattack from the apostle.
There was no time to even think about what the apostle was aiming for.
‘I have to stop breathing right now.’
In an instant, the body runs through the darkness again.
There is a feeling that the spear edge is piercing. Then it’s not that my attacks won’t work.
Even now, in my vision, I could see a strange darkness swirling around, filling the body that had been pierced by the spear blade.
He completely changed his mind from before.
‘If you want to recover endlessly… .’
It pierces through the whole body and kills it.
There was no choice but to kill it so that it could not be reproduced.
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Woowook… … … !
The sound of the spear piercing the skin burst into the darkness as if resonating.
Originally, it was supposed to be a single stab, but it pierced the body countless times and resonated repeatedly, so a strange sound like this burst out.
Even as he passed through the spear countless times, his nature made changes that were close to a thousand changes.
Sometimes the power contained in the blade changed, and the speed at the moment of throwing the spear or the purpose the spear aimed at changed bizarrely.
The airflow contained in the blade of the spear also did not diminish in the slightest.
No, rather, it seemed to be getting stronger even as the short time passed.
hooked! Chow!
The bizarre darkness was greatly shaken by the explosive air currents bursting from the blades.
That was Vermian, who had revealed himself earlier.
“… … .”
Even as I received the flood of spears tearing apart the space countless times, my eyes captured the existence of spears.
ㅡChanges in Han nature.
By driving Karite to the crossroads of death, he tried to capture the changes Han Chun-seong would show.
I knew that no matter what kind of pain or trial was given to Han Chun-seong’s body, Han Chun-seong would emit countless lights and express his will.
That’s why I aimed for Karite this time.
A person’s heart breaks easily.
No matter how strong the light shines, if it spreads to the surroundings, it cannot overcome it.
And the result is now.
It seemed that his will was broken and he was overcome with despair. It was just as I thought when I saw her body trembling while holding Karite.
But suddenly it changed.
■■■!!
He unleashed an onslaught that was incomparable to the momentum that drove the apostle.
The two shining golden eyes, full of soul, were completely distant from the Han Chun-seong I was looking at.
It was like looking at a completely different being.
I try to put a change in each attack.
Rather than simply being engulfed in selfishness and attacking blindly, I realized my subtle reaction and aimed at something that I thought was the weakest.
How should I express this?
The will that I thought had been broken suddenly arose.
They try to kill me with a stronger attitude.
[not dead]
Then, I narrowed my eyes at Leteia’s thought.
Fuuk… … .
There is no sensation felt between the blades penetrating the whole body.
And Leteia said only one thing.
I put my eyes on Karite, who was lying in the darkness in the distance. There is no sign of feeling.
obviously aiming for the heart.
Naturally, I assumed that my darkness had pierced my heart, and this was the result.
But for some reason, Karite is alive.
“I see, isn’t he dead yet?”
I wondered what the reason was for my broken heart to stand up again, and it was a very easy reason.
It’s because you’re not dead.
“…!”
That moment. Unknowingly, I turned my head.
■■■■!
I saw a storm-like air current suddenly engulfing the space where my head was.
Seruk.
I kept it in my eyes while gently widening the distance.
Faced with blood-stained lips and Han Chun-seong’s face that changed like a demon, my thoughts changed without my knowledge.
‘is it.’
I vaguely understood why Han Chun-seong looked like hope.
If you are soft and gentle, you can never become hope.
I had to be able to stand up for myself even in the face of insurmountable crises, adversity, and despair.
The face of Han Chun-seong, who stood up from halfway despair, was the first face he had ever seen.
“…”
like… .
It’s like a demon that ate a human.
His eyes full of flesh and blood seemed like if he could kill me, he would have killed me dozens of times with just his eyes.
‘Good.’
And I liked it for some reason.
Yes, I had to stand up more if there was hope. And I had to see if he could rise from complete despair.
Seruk. The car was about to completely cut off Karite’s breath by gently lifting her hand.
“…Opening.”
The terrifying sound of flesh crushing reached my ears.