I Became the Hero Who Banished the Protagonist chapter 140

140. The sword that cuts the stars (2)

When I was pushed, I thought of Camilla’s face and voice. Georg pushed the monsters away with his shield, and smashed and crushed their heads with his mace. The monster’s blood and fur dried up on Mace’s pendulum. The attack of the monsters pounding the wall did not intensify or abate. It just piled up and piled up, like a river rushing toward a blocked bank.

“Convoys, do not slow down even for a second!”

The quiver fell to the floor. A cannonball that someone missed rolled down the slope of the wall. Those who take the offensive are in no hurry, but those who defend are in a hurry. If a monster gets hurt, it’s fine even if it dies, but it doesn’t matter if a person gets hurt. Georg gritted his teeth and shook off the monsters. Wounds accumulate. His skin was torn, and his claws and teeth pierced his body.

“Captain. I will take turns.”

“Save your strength to say let’s change and swing your sword next to you.”

The vice-captain approached with a sword, but Georg did not back down. The thought that he had to protect him and return alive without regrets moved Georg. The vice-captain bit his lip as he looked at Georg, who was screaming on the front line even as he was bleeding.

“I’m ignorant, but I still hold on to it honestly.”

Georg’s eyes widened at the sound of a voice beside him. With his wry smile, a weary Isis stood there. She must have been quite busy, and her clothes, which she had been new to, were soaked in blood, soot and dust, and were tattered. Isis immediately spread her healing powers. The wounds that had eaten away at her body completely disappeared, and the wounded who struggled on the floor regained consciousness.

“The condition is not normal. Then, before the battle is over, they are exhausted.”

“I can burn out, but you can’t. You don’t die just because you use up all your mana.”

Georg looked away from Isis as if he was sorry.

“You were the last one with Illroy, right?”

Georg said that, then closed his mouth. He wasn’t a child desperately looking for his parents, people were only looking for Illroy in a battle where Illroy wasn’t there.

“I will come. Illroy must be fighting a tough battle alone. He was lost in meditation and what he was looking at, he looked very distressed.”

“He was always carrying loads that he couldn’t handle alone.”

Georg said as he dropped a monster down the wall. Then he hit a monster flying toward Isis with his shield.

“I want to tell you that you don’t have to come. Illroy is fighting an unreasonable weight.”

“A person who is willing to sacrifice himself for him is a job. Even if you tell them not to come, they will come, the hero.”

Georg let out a small breath at the trust in Isis’ eyes as she said that.

“It reminds me of the old days.”

“It’s not a very happy memory. Either for you or for me.”

Isis directed her gaze to the far wall. Even now, people are getting hurt and dying. How many more can we treat in the future? Isis deliberately did not check the remaining amount of his mana. His magic power would not run out, so he brainwashed himself and proceeded.

“Hold on a little longer. Illroy will definitely come.”

“Go, because you can always endure until you come.”

“… Don’t die.”

Georg snorted at Isis’s words as if he was worried. What does a guy who wouldn’t be strange even if he collapsed with all his might while walking said that?

“I don’t know who cares about whom.”

At that time, before Isis took a step. All creatures belonging to that space looked up at the sky at the same time. Human time was running out. And what should have been the time of the monsters was approaching.

“… Can you see that?”

“Yes. I don’t want to see you that much.”

To be precise, the monster’s hour did not come. The time for everything was ending. The world was a huge species, and the stars flying through the twilight were pendulums. Deng, when the bell rings, the world ends. The most terrible and beautiful form of death drew the tail of the spiral.

“It looks gorgeous.”

All battles have stopped. Not only the battle, but all movement had stopped. The world has fallen into silence. It is so quiet that you can hear the sound of a single leaf falling.

“His messenger is coming.”

The sound of something muttering broke the silence. It was an ancient, half-human, half-beast monster that was confronting Quenore. The ancient monster wasn’t just a lion. Quenore was struggling with his half-dead body. Thanks to this, I was able to suppress the rampage of the ancient monsters without any hindrance, but even this was not a situation that could last for long.

“You guys are finished. Even if you kill us all right away, your defeat, your destruction has already been decided.”

The monster trembled as he said that.

“We don’t want our victory. All we want is your defeat. Your destruction is our victory, and your destruction is our glory.”

“You guys talk too much.”

“Have you ever loved and truly worshiped someone? Other than praying to your humble cross or book.”

Quenore frowned, and the demon raised its head. Looking towards the sky full of tense silence like the dawn before dawn, the monster opened his mouth wide and took a deep breath.

Kwoaaa!!!

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Its roar, like a horn, awakened creatures on the battlefield. A faint, low-pitched roar as if meeting the approaching apocalypse. The monsters agreed with him, and you and I both looked up at the sky and let out ferocious cries. It was the prelude to announce the beginning of destruction.

“This is the end!! We live forever and you guys will die!”

The monster’s offensive has begun again. This time it was a completely different momentum. If before, it was like a river slowly accumulating on the bank, now it was like a raging wave pouring down from beyond the collapsed bank and hitting the river bank. The soldiers and knights who were already overwhelmed by the comet’s appearance could not withstand the stronger offensive.

“You say you are prepared to die, but have you ever really been prepared for death?”

Chuckling, the monster laughed. The monster did not step out on its own and watched. Quenore gnashed his teeth and raised his mana. A muffled voice erupted from Quenore’s mouth.

“Raise your sword!! Face the enemy!!”

You have to push your fears away. You have to give it faith. Belief that you can overcome. However, the already frightened soldiers collapsed without giving any due resistance. Only Quenore and Agnes swung their swords with the will to fight. The corpses of monsters were constantly piling up around the two, but the two of them couldn’t solve everything.

Agnes scattered the aura. His magic power was gradually decreasing, but his inactivity was increasing in inverse proportion to him. The void of magic and aura was filled with a sword. Agnes let go of the sword and grabbed the knight by the scruff of the neck, who was staring blankly at the approaching monster, and threw it backwards. As the knight rolled across the ground, he saw a sword flying in front of him.

“If you’re going to throw away your life like that, hug even one more monster and die.”

A writer called a knight. The queen clicked her tongue and turned her head away. A desperate scream was heard from behind her. The sound of her drawing her sword and slashing monsters was heard again. The sound of an iron sword cutting through the air and the sound of tearing fabric. The sound of death entwined with that of a monster and a human. Among them, Agnes was able to make out the sound of the knight who had just saved her life being decapitated.

“Block it.”

Agnes looked ahead nonetheless. Looking back, he cannot lead the living. He shouldn’t fall You have to endure and overcome.

“Will you be my wall, Quenore?”

A huge monster had collapsed at the feet of Quenore. With a precarious step, Quenore approached the Queen’s side and stood.

“You think you can stop the comet, Your Majesty?”

Agnes looked straight into Quenore’s eyes without looking up at the sky. That was her answer, her will, and her faith. Quenore could only nod her head as he looked into her unwavering eyes. Still, the queen looks ahead of her. She despairs, she doesn’t look at the ground, she sees a comet and doesn’t ask for her help.

“Don’t ask me again.”

The curtain of aura spread. The approaching monsters disintegrated and collapsed into pieces. At that moment, Quenore became the Queen’s most loyal subject, not Evernode’s monarch.

“Would you like to become a wall?”

“I will follow your orders.”

Quenor turned her gaze to her half-man, half-beast, who smiled. In words, soldiers and knights can no longer rise. All you can do is protect them and fight until they rise. Agnes and Quenore exchanged silent words and grabbed their swords.

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“Damn it.”

Swear words came out. Cora’s condition was not good. The medics who came running were contemplative. The situation was even worse. Eugene’s gaze wandered between the wire and Cora.

“… To battle… Concentrate.”

Blood trickled down the corners of Cora’s mouth as she struggled to formulate her words. Eugene tried to use his mana to seal her wounds and stop the bleeding. The wound is deep. I need to transfer it, but the wires are so messed up that I can’t transfer it. There is no time to bring a stretcher. Eugene herself, herself, must evacuate her.

“I’m moving… If you break away from the front line, you will jump down the wall.”

“Shut your mouth. There is no one to move you now.”

I tied a cloth that compressed the affected part. Eugene staggered to her feet, carrying Cora on her back. Maybe it was because she was wearing her armor, and her weight pressed against Eugene’s legs and waist.

“It’s heavy. Did she gain muscle mass? You worked hard.”

“… Shut up you madman….”

The blood is sticky. The blood was lukewarm. The blood that escaped was raw. Eugene was trying to reassure her Cora. She was, to be exact, she was trying to reassure herself. To live Both of you can survive if you don’t panic.

“The battle line collapses!!”

The collapse of the battle lines was clearly audible. The soldier died and the knight fell. Eugene involuntarily turned her head away.

“….”

A monster is standing where a human used to be. The way to go is blocked. Eugene took her back step with her cora on his back. Demons surrounded them. Magical power formed in Eugene’s hand.

“Put me down…. You run away quickly.”

I ignored Cora’s words. Eugene tried to defeat her monster by shooting crude magic. The magic did not reach them though. Eugene widened his eyes, unable to accept the death in front of him.

Bang-!!

And then, the monsters flew away. Eugene blinked her eyes at the monster that suddenly appeared in front of her.

“Go.”

The monster, Natalie, waved her tentacles and looked at Eugene. She said that little evidence that she was a person now survives. Black hair. And only the shape of the puppet with limbs, which served as the basis, faintly proved Natalie’s true face. At Eugene, who was staring blankly at herself, Natalie shouted in a shrill voice.

“Come on!”

Eugene took her step. Monsters rushed at the prey, and Natalie pierced the attacking monsters with her tentacles. The monsters on the top of the wall were being cleared, but the monsters that Natalie was blocking from below rushed to the wall all at once and scratched the wall. Natalie stretched out her tentacles, clearing the way for Eugene. Just once, Eugene gave Natalie her gaze and ran down the castle wall.

Why me?

Natalie beat the monster until Eugene disappeared. At that moment, she felt as if something within herself had changed. Natalie still didn’t know that the feeling she felt the moment she confirmed that the two of them were safe was a sense of relief.

“… It happened.”

But that’s enough, Natalie could say. A body that is constantly being destroyed. This body cannot be maintained forever. The longer you keep it, the more it collapses and becomes closer to a monster. Tentacles bit off. Natalie shook her tentacles wildly to shake off the monster. The regeneration of severed tentacles was slow. Perhaps one more truncation would stop playback altogether.

“But with this….”

Trying to stop him, Natalie bit his lip.

I barely found it. Now I think she knows how and what to move for. Why should I live, I think I can see vaguely. Her situation was telling her to stop living her life. I was saying your life would stop here.

“… I want to live.”

Natalie muttered as she knelt down. For the first time, a will came into her head. She forced her tentacles out. Moving her limbs, she raised her body.

Live. Struggle

Her instinct to erase the commands entered into her head said so. She bared her teeth, raised her claws, and resisted her oncoming death. As Natalie screamed at her monster like her child burst into tears,

From far away, a light rose that dispelled the darkness of twilight.