166 – A Mess (5)
“Whoa-!”
Lawton opened his eyes with a shrill scream, his consciousness surfacing onto the water.
The first thing he saw when he got up was the colorful sky.
Lawton knew that sky well.
“Are you awake?”
He heard a voice and turned his gaze, which had been blankly staring at the sky.
Sellaim was sitting there with a troubled expression on his face.
“…What happened?”
“How did it happen? You should know that.”
At Celhaim’s words, Lawton looked up at the sky with a blank expression.
The sky was the myriad colors of heaven, his homeland.
“…Did he die?”
“Yes. Absurdly enough.”
Celhaim, who had the same bewildered expression as Lawton’s blank mutter, let out a deep sigh and looked away.
In another place, there were Jicheon-sa, Palal, and Kyurian, who were looking up at the sky in a daze, just like them.
“…I can’t believe he died like this after only 3 days of being ‘born’ after receiving the magic power. How can we face the Archangels…”
Celhaim closed his eyes tightly with an expression of endless agony as if the thought pained him, and Lawton, who still hadn’t grasped the situation, opened his mouth while looking blankly at the sky.
“…What the hell happened to him?”
“I don’t know either. If anything, I can guess that he was hit by that huge something that appeared to us at the last moment.”
At Celhaim’s words, Lawton finally recalled the last moment.
The memory of something flying through the sky and cutting it exactly in half before crashing into the sanctuary in an instant.
‘What the hell was that-‘
Lawton frowned with an expression of utter incomprehension, but soon got up from his seat and spoke.
“Let’s go.”
“Where?”
“Shouldn’t we report to the Archangels? And first, we need to receive the authority of ‘birth’ once more, go down to earth, and prepare again.”
Lawton’s words.
However, Celhaim did not move even at his words and stared at him before speaking.
“…I see. You seem to have gotten up a little while ago and haven’t figured out the situation in detail.”
“…? What are you talking about?”
Celhaim didn’t bother to answer that question. Instead, he began to gather divine power in front of him.
Woooohooo-!
As the divine power resonated, it began to spread widely according to Celhaim’s movements, and in an instant, it began to illuminate a certain landscape.
An empty land with a huge crater where there was nothing.
“…What is this?”
Lawton looked at Celhaim’s face with a questioning expression and then looked around the empty lot several times.
“…?”
Lawton was soon able to confirm that there were a few building ruins in the empty lot.
A moment later, his mouth filled with astonishment.
“…Is this, by any chance, my sanctuary?”
“Yes, it’s your sanctuary. The one you built when you went down to earth 7 years ago.”
“This is crazy-“
Lawton opened his mouth with a curse he didn’t even realize he was saying.
The scenery he was seeing right now was astonishingly empty, and the only thing that indicated that this empty, huge lot was a sanctuary was the castle wall standing far away.
“…”
He looked at the empty lot that used to be his sanctuary with a blank expression.
“…First, let’s go back to the Archangels and report.”
At Celhaim’s words, Lawton looked at the ‘thing’ that he had shown him that used to be his sanctuary with a blank expression for a long time.
“…Let’s do it.”
He took a step, his foot not faltering.
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Meanwhile, Kim Hyun-woo, who had just fired a missile at the Eastern United Clan, was soon able to grasp the situation there through Shadra’s servant horse and its magic.
“…Wow.”
The territory of Lawton, who could be considered the leader of the Eastern United Clan, had completely disappeared, leaving only traces of its former existence.
And it wasn’t just gone. It was completely gone.
‘…I didn’t know it would be this much.’
Kim Hyun-woo thought, looking at the missile that had fallen.
Of course, he had already expected to some extent that the missile would be stronger than the last one, after hearing from Shadra and River that it would be even more powerful.
But even so, he didn’t know it would be this much.
‘…To think that a territory would be blown away by a single missile.’
Of course, the number of red stones Kim Hyun-woo had invested was ridiculous.
Just the red stones used to blow up the Eastern United Clan alone exceeded 20,000, and the red stones used to make the warhead were separate.
But even considering all that, he didn’t know that a single shot would turn the territory into what it was, so Kim Hyun-woo made a new expression of admiration.
“This is a real success.”
“Really!”
Next to him, Shadra and River, who had been working hard to make the missile, were laughing at each other as if they were very happy that their hard work had not been in vain.
“You both worked hard.”
Kim Hyun-woo praised the two of them.
Of course, even though the main territory of the Eastern United Clan had been blown up, it was still not enough to relax, considering that it was just one territory. However, it was a fact that the two of them had done a great job.
“If you two want anything, tell me.”
Kim Hyun-woo decided to give them a reward and spoke.
“What do you want-”
“That…?”
As soon as he said that, the two of them stopped looking at each other and their smiles disappeared as they spoke.
“…?”
Kim Hyun-woo made a momentarily puzzled expression at the strange atmosphere, but soon smiled awkwardly and said.
“…Well, you know? You have to tell me something that I can do. I can’t do anything beyond my abilities.”
“Hmm- what’s the limit of what you can do?”
“Dude, what’s the limit of what you can do?”
The two asked, belatedly continuing the conversation.
“…I haven’t set a specific limit…just anything that I can do…?”
When Kim Hyun-woo told them after thinking about it, the two of them looked at each other with meaningful expressions.
“That’s enough!”
“Dad would never ask for something you absolutely can’t do!”
“…Oh, really…?”
They nodded as if they had heard a very satisfactory answer and ended the conversation.
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After the Eastern United Clan was blown away.
In a week, the Labyrinth Package would conclude, and Kim Hyun-woo, who had been contemplating how to rescue the Blue Forest’s Shaman,
“Master.”
“Ah, Merilda.”
“I’ve come to report.”
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Soon, instead of entering through the office’s door as if she were accustomed to it, Merilda revealed herself beyond the terrace.
Swish-swish-
Merilda, who approached Kim Hyun-woo with a smile that suggested her mood was great, even from a glance, as her tail swayed, soon began to report one by one on the issues that had emerged from the Players establishing their residential area.
“And this is-“
“…”
At one point, Kim Hyun-woo realized that Merilda was standing right next to him.
Feeling her naturally swaying tail gently wrap around his shoulder and waist, Kim Hyun-woo looked at her.
Lately, whenever Merilda came to report, she had taken to wrapping her tail around him or spending an excessive amount of time flirting.
For example.
“Master, pet me.”
After the report, she would lower her body as if she had been waiting and sit on the floor, asking Kim Hyun-woo to pet her.
“Eung-“
If he petted her head, she would place her face on Kim Hyun-woo’s thigh.
Swish-swish-
“♡”
She would often sway her tail while he petted her and look at Kim Hyun-woo with a somewhat excited moan.
And.
“Ah-“
For some reason, whenever he finished petting her, she would bite his thigh lightly and leave.
“…”
He didn’t know what Merilda was thinking, but to be honest, they were incredibly lovely actions that made Kim Hyun-woo’s heart flutter.
To the point that he wondered if he needed to strengthen his mental fortitude a bit more after that day, his defenses, which had been instantly broken.
And as Merilda continued to lead the charge alone.
On the floor directly below that office, where the heroes’ lodgings were gathered.
“…Did you retrieve it?”
“Yes, Master. I did.”
Loriel handed a box to Lynn.
“Is this it?”
“Yes.”
“…Whew…”
Lynn slightly opened the box and gazed inside before closing it again, her stern face flushed.
“…It’s stronger than I thought.”
“Yes.”
“Well, good work.”
At Lynn’s words, Loriel simply nodded once.
“Then, when do you plan to leave?”
“Three days.”
After staring intently at the box in her hands, Lynn seemed to ponder for a while.
“…In three days.”
She declared, as if she had made up her mind.
“In three days, I will settle the score.”
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