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38 To the Church of Light (5)
“ I didn’t know it was going to end up like this… … .”
Shion muttered as he looked at Kanedal’s corpse as he fell to the floor with his upper body completely exploded.
No matter how strong he was compared to when he went to the Angelosh Territory, he never thought that he would be able to kill him so easily.
Since the head, heart, and even the nucleus were all blown up with a single blow, there was no possibility of regeneration.
There is a possibility that it can be played to any extent.
‘ In the past, that guy was resurrected instead of revived.’
If so, there was a sufficient possibility that this guy, who was a sign of the same class, would also be resurrected.
“… … Are you dead?”
Olivia approaches from behind and speaks words like a resurrection spell.
Was it even thanks to her spell?
That moment,
Good luck!
With a bizarre sound, the bodies of other causes of death were disassembled and gathered into the body of Kanedal, who had only the lower half of the body, and began to compose a new body.
A technique used by Kezarus in the past.
This time, Kanedal was using that technique.
“ Cuckoo!”
Was it because he died too suddenly and then rushed to drink half-life?
As soon as his body was regenerated, Kanedal spewed out a bowl of blood and retreated at an insane speed, widening the distance from Zion.
‘ f*ck, f*ck!’
A young giant horror in his eyes.
I couldn’t even recognize it properly.
All he remembers a moment ago is that his attack and the man’s fist met, and at that moment, he lost consciousness.
And when he woke up again, it was after the half-life alcohol that could only be used once had been activated.
‘ Strong. Even I can’t even guess.’
I thought it would be tough because I came here alone through the train, but I never dreamed that I would be this strong.
I hope my life will be blown away in a single blow.
At this level, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was just below the seven heavens.
‘ I’m not at a level I can deal with.’
Candale was cool and quick to judge.
Therefore, he also knew that he had no chance of winning in the current situation.
‘ Then… … .’
widely!
With that thought, Kanedal snapped his fingers.
That moment,
damn!
A hole was punched in the ceiling of the train, and the signs on it poured down into the car.
It was the men who had been waiting on the top of the train in advance in case the target would escape.
Kia ah!
Originally, he had planned to attack with those men, but after a while ago, Caindal’s thoughts had completely changed.
‘ They just run away.’
After confirming that his men were running towards his target, the platinum-haired woman, Kanedal soared straight into the hole in the ceiling.
Perhaps the target alone will not be able to deal with all the signs, so it will take some time.
If you take the opportunity to jump off the train… … .
But at that moment,
👌👌👌👌👌👌
With a sound like a snake crawling,
Tickle!
Kanedahl’s body, as he was about to jump off the train, stopped on the spot.
Suddenly, a dark blue chain wrapped around his ankle.
Soon after,
“ Where are you going?”
With a low and eerie voice, Sion, holding the other end of the chain, appeared on the roof of the train.
“ How is that woman… … !”
A voice full of embarrassment came out of Kanedal’s mouth.
“ Because your goals are stronger than you think.”
The moment Shion answered with a grin,
Whoa!
– Why are you so strong… … Aww!
The screams of the signs resounded along with the enormous divine power that erupted from the hole.
“ Ouch!”
Realizing that something had failed in the light and sound, Kanedal let out a moan mixed with despair and cut off his chained ankle.
Then, after shooting hundreds of awl-like magi towards Zion, he desperately threw himself out of the train.
He hasn’t given up on escaping yet.
However, Zion was much faster than his movements.
“ You haven’t answered my question yet.”
Shion, who appeared right next to Kanedal like a vision with darkness, thrust his left fist into his side.
Tuquaang!
The body of the deceased, which bounced off the other side of the fist with the sound of the shells exploding, was thrown back on the roof of the train.
‘… … I can’t escape!’
Kayndall’s eyes tinged with despair.
At that point, I really had no choice but to die.
“ Ahhh!”
After turning the survival instinct that filled his head into a loud cry, he stretched out his hands toward Zion.
Quad Duck!
The morale that erupted from Kanedal’s hands sucked all the energy around him and swelled like crazy, then transformed into a giant snake and shot at Zion.
The last effort he made by consuming even the reputation he had.
Aww!
The red snake with a stronger ship than the last strike Kezarus had done in the past is aiming only at Zion’s neck.
Unable to withstand that power, the surrounding mana screams and burns.
Tuoung!
On the other hand, Zion’s fists lashed out at the approaching snake were very humble.
An ordinary fist that does not feel any power, not even Heukseongha.
It looked so dangerous that Olivia would scream and run if she saw it.
But the moment when such Zion’s fist and the snake launched by Kanedal touch each other,
A completely different scene unfolded than expected.
Gold, like a spider’s web, that starts from the part in contact with Zion’s fist and spreads to the entire snake in an instant.
The red snake split into hundreds of pieces along the gold is smashed and disappears as it is.
That’s not enough,
Quazy!
Zion’s blow that stretched out through space wiped out the entire lower body of Kanedal.
“ aah!”
The moment a huge scream erupted from the sign’s mouth, Kwaduk!
Suddenly, Zion, who appeared right in front of him, stomped on his chest strongly.
With him, Sion slowly opened his mouth, letting Kanedal’s screams resound once again.
“I have a question for you.”
In fact, it could have been completely erased with a single blow, but the reason I dared to keep it alive was because of the question that popped into my head.
“ Why are you targeting Olivia Bright?”
In the chronicles, Olivia was not attacked during this period.
No, he had never been attacked by a demon until just before the Great War broke out.
The fact that the contents have changed means that the movements of the related monsters have also been completely reversed.
“… … .”
Kanedal stares at Zion without answering him.
Even so, as if it didn’t matter, Shion asked the following question.
“ The Church of Light that exists in Rezero. Does this have anything to do with it?”
Even though these guys were able to kill Olivia in Hubris, they dared to take her time to Re-Zero.
That means, there is a high probability that this attack was planned by the demons hiding in the Church of Light.
“ Besides, it seems that this attack is not the purpose in itself.”
If it were, I would have dealt with Olivia in a much easier way than this.
at that time,
“ Ah ha ha ha!”
Kanedal, who had been trampled on by Zion, exploded in madness.
“ Did you think I was going to answer you? It’s really stupid.”
Blood begins to flow from his eyes, nose and mouth.
“ I have only one thing to tell you.”
Kanedal’s eyes slowly draw arcs.
“ Wherever you struggle in perdition, man.”
The light completely disappeared from his eyes as the meaningful words flowed from his mouth.
He killed himself by destroying his own nucleus.
“ Destruction… … .”
Shion muttered like that and looked at Kanedal’s corpse, which was slowly disappearing.
In the previous question and answer, Caindal did not answer, but Sion had obtained what she wanted to some extent.
The subtle reaction that Kanedal showed whenever he spoke.
Through that reaction, Sion was able to convince herself that her guess was true.
In fact, from the beginning, the question-and-answer itself was started not because I wanted to hear an answer, but to look at the reaction of such a Kanedahl.
‘I smell something.’
It was a journey that started with a light heart just to learn the contents of the oracle, but it seemed that things could be bigger than I thought.
‘ As soon as I get to Rezero, I’ll have to make contact with the eye of the moon.’
Sion’s eyes deepened as she looked at Olivia coming up to the roof of the train through the hole she had drilled.
* * *
Office on the top floor of Cheongseonggung Palace.
“ Whew… … .”
A big sigh escaped from the mouth of the 5th Princess Diena, who was sitting there.
Her appearance was very disturbing.
“ Utekan is dead… … .”
It’s been over a week since I heard the news, but Diena still couldn’t get over the impact.
Of course, it wasn’t like mourning for his dead brother.
Because there was no such thing as a bond between them from the beginning.
“That too to Zion.”
How did Shion, who went to deal with the replacement monster corps, end up killing Utekan?
It was a very questionable situation, but there was something more incomprehensible than that.
“ How the hell did you kill him?”
hordes of giants.
It was a place full of forces supporting him enough to be called Utekan’s realm.
How could Shion, who led only his own bodyguards into such a large crowd, kill Utekan?
After that, in just a week, Sion even took under his control most of the major tribes of the giant horde.
Absolutely unbelievable fact.
“ I heard that the giants who were opposed to the 4th Prince gathered immediately after entering the large crowd. In addition, it is said that he received help from monsters when fighting the giants on the side of the 4th Prince.”
Lloyd opened his mouth to Diena.
“ Maybe… … Are those monsters an army of monsters?”
“ We haven’t figured it out yet, but it’s very likely. Of course, Prince Zion’s side is claiming that the monster corps has already been annihilated in the steel fortress and that other monsters appear in the large group.”
“ That’s something you can cry about… … !”
Diana, who was answering him, stopped talking.
Her eyes slowly began to tremble as if she realized something with him.
what if.
really if.
‘ What if all this was Zion’s intention?’
What if he chose a corps of monsters, got them, sent them to the hordes on purpose, and then lured Utekan to death?
What if everything was planned from the beginning, up to the conquest of the giant horde that followed?
‘ No, I can’t.’
Diana, who had thought about it that far, shook her head to clear the thought.
It was too much of a leap, and it was virtually impossible to plan and move everything.
And whether it is true or not, as a result, Shion obtained the giants of the large cluster and gained an absolute advantage in the future competition.
If the ‘World Conference’ was held in this state, it was very clear that Zion would occupy the throne.
‘It can’t be like this.’
Diana, who had frowned as if contemplating something with that thought, opened her mouth again to Lloyd.
“ I must hurry to visit the fairy forest.”
* * *
La Morde is the largest train station in the City of Lights.
In La Morde, which was created after one of the saints in the past, the paladins and priests dispatched from the Church of Light were busy moving.
Their faces look very urgent.
No wonder they were facing an emergency right now.
“ What happened to the young girl who decided to come from the Hanrison family?”
“ No news yet.”
At the words of the third-class paladin who commanded them, Findry, one of the paladins sitting next to them answered with a dark face and shook his head.
“ Hey, where did you go? … .”
A bewildered voice came out of Findry’s mouth.
It started after the disappearance of a young girl from the Cross family, one of the contestants of the saint’s contest yesterday evening.
She did not appear after the scheduled time, and the Church of the Light, who was suspicious of it, immediately started a search, but could not find any traces of her even after searching all the routes.
And starting with that, it began to become clear that the other contestants of the saint’s contest also disappeared one by one.
The trains they were known to boarded were empty, and the traces of those who were known to travel on foot, in wagons and horses were cut off in the middle.
Simultaneous disappearance of the contestants of the gender race.
In this unprecedented situation, the Church of Light declared an emergency, and that was the reason the Paladins including Findry were here.
“ What about the new arrivals other than the Hanrison family?”
“… … There is not. All the participants in the city right now are either people who originally lived here or those who had arrived before yesterday evening.”
At the paladin’s words, Findry’s words were even more distorted.
Even though the gender contest was not held, the disappearance of the participants was a very serious matter.
Among the participants were several women of high-ranking aristocrats, and if they made a mistake, they might have to bear all the responsibility they had lost.
“ We have to find the missing people somehow. Just in case you don’t know, the waiting personnel are permanently stationed here, and the rest are all traced back once again… … .”
He wanted to avoid that situation, so it was time to give instructions to the other paladins with hardened eyes.
“ There! Look over there!”
One of the priests sitting next to him, with a surprised face, quickly pointed somewhere.
People’s eyes turned in the direction his fingers were pointing.
“… … !”
Soon after, something slowly approached this way from the far end of the track in their sight.
Rumble! Rumble!
train.
It was a train.
A solar train arriving here from the capital Hubris.
However, the condition of the train was very disastrous.
One side disappeared and the roof was torn off. There were no strong compartments, and countless wheels were missing.
It’s amazing how it moves.
In fact, as if its lifespan had expired, the speed of the train was gradually decreasing.
and,
“ I, that… … !”
As such a train drew closer, the eyes of those who discovered something began to widen even wider.
“ Participant… … is a participant The contestants of the saint race have arrived!”
Two figures sitting side by side on the roof of the engine room of a half-broken train.
It was Shion and Olivia with a tired expression next to him.