126. Even the holy sword will survive
“Uh, what should I do?”
[You are a saint! Can’t you use healing power?]
“I can’t use it!”
It would be nice to be confident. It’s just deplorable to see the reality of a different world where she proudly holds the status of a saint because she can’t even use heals.
Cream is the one with the best ability to heal others in our party, but she is sick right now. Choco also has excellent regenerative powers, but it was another matter for her to heal others.
It’s me, a demonic sword with the power of darkness, so if I do anything, I’ll make things worse. I couldn’t do this or that, but I heard a husky voice.
[······Huu, connection restored.]
“Muffins!”
It’s usually a voice that doesn’t have a presence, but it’s nice to hear it like this again. For some reason, Muffin, who had been silent since entering the dungeon, showed his signs again.
As soon as she came to her senses, the blade of the Holy Sword, whose holy power had been depleted, began to glow again. Muffin looked around her and said in a trembling voice.
[I’d like to hear an explanation of the situation, but I don’t think this is the time.]
Her eyes were on the cream that Choco was hesitantly supporting. Her god’s blessings fell upon her again, her whirling pillar of light enveloping the cream, but she was still breathing heavily.
It didn’t seem like even the mansin’s protection could easily wash away the darkness that was covered by Cream. Originally, it is true that it is a protection, it easily blocks attacks from the outside, but cannot easily heal the wounds inside.
[I’ll try my hand, won’t you put me on the part that’s been engulfed in darkness?]
Choco did as he was told. He leaned her cream against the back of a suitable rocky monster, and then, with a rather clumsy posture, she brought the white blade of the Holy Sword to Cream’s shoulder.
Following her instructions, Choco lightly cut Cream’s shoulder. The part stained black with darkness cracked open, and a handful of black dead blood poured out between them.
[Huh!]
“Kyaaak! What are you doing!”
And, just as the black blood had drained enough, the muffin in Choco’s hand emitted a terrifying light. What is it, betrayal?
The lightning that started almost from the shoulder blades burned Cream’s arm. Because they were engulfed in darkness from the beginning, they were in a state of black necrosis, so there was not much difference in appearance.
“I believe, but the master is like this…!”
[Calm down and look over there.]
Somehow, when Choco’s eyes flashed a dangerous light, Muffin calmed him down with a slightly urgent voice. Once Choco followed her words and turned her head, her eyes widened.
On Cream’s arm, the light of her dazzling divine protection gathered to an incomparable extent to before. Black, rotten and burnt dead skin cells fell off one by one, and new immaculate flesh rose above them.
Although she did not reach the regenerative power of a pure-blooded beastman, her recovery speed was surprisingly fast for an ordinary human being.
[I just burned the darkness dwelling in the hero’s body. Now that the power that interferes with divine protection is gone, her recovery should be much faster than before.]
“Oh, I didn’t even know that…. Sorry.”
While Choco was embarrassed, I carefully watched the changes in the cream. Certainly, her recovery was much quicker than before after the darkness had been removed from her body.
When one arm was restored to normal, the light of God’s Protection moved to the other side and began to heal the other arm that had been amputated as well. Normally, she would have poured the divine power of her source directly, but now she’s passed out.
[But why can’t it wake up?]
The mansin’s protection fell on her and her wounds were healing, but Cream was still unable to open her eyes. It’s a green light that breathing is much more comfortable than before.
[I looked at the hero’s body for a while, burning the darkness, but it seems that someone has rapidly drained his vitality and used it. Um, a normal person might have turned into a vegetable, but since the hero is strong, won’t he wake up after a few days?]
Then Choco started glaring at me like he was going to kill me.
“Hey!”
[No, that’s why…]
I kept my mouth shut. Of course, even before I came, Cream was very tired from fighting the enemies, but it wasn’t to the extent that she couldn’t wake up like this.
I thought I would be as careful as handling a piece of glass in her so as not to consume her as much as possible if something happened to encroach on the cream.
Why did you run wild while using so much energy? I couldn’t understand my own actions. The sense of omnipotence that had once engulfed reason was now only a faint trace.
“Really……!”
Choco’s furry hair began to stand upright. At the end of it, lightning flashed and the body trembled, which was a sign that it would soon transform into a beast.
Unlike the usual guy, he turns into an uncontrollable beast due to anger. The reason why Choco can’t argue properly is not because she has nothing to say, but because her reason has become dull as much as her wildness has become clearer.
From her mouth, a growl that was closer to that of a beast than a human voice began to leak out. This is really dangerous.
[Hey, wait. Calm down!]
My body is made up of solium even if it rots, so I’m not afraid of physical attacks, but my divine power is different. Solium is degenerated, and the ability to absorb the divinity of the metal that makes up me is also gone.
Of course, after being repaired by the elder lich, my resistance to faith also increased, but no matter how strong I became, I was not confident that I could completely block the holy power of the star saint.
“Because of you, because of you. Master…”
Hmm, besides, it looks like I was pretty rough with Choco when I encroached on Cream’s body. Choco’s eyes glisten and her body trembles, ready to turn into a beast at any moment.
Just as I can’t eat cream normally because of the protection I bestowed upon the warrior, Choco, who is also favored by the stars, is also beyond my ability. No matter how strong she becomes, there are always limits.
Just as I was thinking of fighting against it by spewing ghosts, a threadlike voice put the brakes on Choco’s actions.
“Gund, Lizzie, Ma.”
It was a quieter voice than the flapping of wings of a grasshopper, but people with sensitive senses like us could not fail to hear it. In an instant, her firearm returned to Choco’s eyes, which were clouded by her wild nature.
“Master?!”
But when we looked away, Cream was still soundly asleep. Compared to before, he was in a much more comfortable state, but he still couldn’t come to his senses.
Are it an hallucination? It’s hard to believe that either me or Choco clearly heard the voice. She somehow let her anger cool, Choco let out a sigh and let her arms hang down.
“Ugh, really. I look after you because of you.”
[Ha, who looked after who?]
If I continued to fight like this, I, who had no host, would end up robbing it unilaterally, but befitting the virtues of a great demonic sword, I was bluffing. Choco laughed at me like that.
“Looks like you can easily hunt now? My instincts have never been wrong.”
[Damn it.]
Anyway, Choco doesn’t seem to be bothering me anymore, so I’m glad that’s the case. Choco, who stared at Cream for a while, soon transformed into a beast and started cleaning the messy underground cavity.
It looks like I’ll have to stay here for a while until Cream wakes up. After swallowing the monster’s corpse in moderation and removing the uneaten parts, Choco laid the cream in a wide space.
And I, too, encircled her cream with her beastly body to protect her from falling asleep on her cold floor. Soon, the eyes of the beast with dark black fur slowly closed.
[······We’ll hear what happened next.]
[What, why don’t you ask me?]
[Yeah, it seems like you’re the culprit behind this incident- I don’t think you’ll explain it properly.]
Muffin sluggishly dragged her horse by the tail, and soon after, he laughed and put out the blade’s light. She didn’t say anything more when the sword left her mind either.
A sleepless mind is uncomfortable. Everyone will have to wait until they wake up again. A night that got dark. An underground cavity with a faint bloody smell.
In the dazzling moonlight, I stared at the sleeping girl leaning on the animal’s body. It may have been an optical illusion caused by the scattering of light, but it felt like Cream’s lips were warming up.
“My, turn it off.”
*
And there was a sword that was forgotten in everyone’s memory.
After Karbal seduced the baptized and left, Aries lay sprawled on the cold floor and waited patiently. She is her master and may her companion, the mighty of the day, return.
However, if the wait was colorless and people wanted to approach, most of them were ghosts or handymen who roamed this dungeon. And most of them were burned helplessly as they tried to grab the shining sword.
[Hero ·······. Are you okay?]
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There is no magic sword that would normally bite each other like that, and there is no one around, so it’s lonely. Only worries and sighs grow in silence.
The hero of this generation was special in both good and bad ways. However, the nature of the holy sword that follows the hero has not changed even if he has recently had doubts.
So she waited. She prayed May my master return, may the hero not be hurt.
[This is…?]
Suddenly, an ominous sensation came over Aries.
Regardless of my original intention, the brilliance of the Holy Sword became as bright as possible, and the blade began to weep. Like a frightened little beast puffing itself up in front of a predator.
It was a reaction that she herself could not understand and could not suppress. Every time a wave of strange and ominous power swept through the dungeon, the holy sword’s spasmodic reaction also increased in intensity.
[Demon King? No, no.]
However, even the wisdom of the Holy Sword, which has been living for hundreds of years, could not determine what it was. Its spirit is similar to that of the Demon King for a moment, but there is a marked difference from the Demon Lords she has met so far.
Fireflies and the sun are often compared because they emit the same light, but bugs smaller than a finger and stars larger than a planet are actually completely different. She felt the same way.
Obviously resembles the Demon King, but he is so peculiar, bizarre, and unchanging that he cannot be compared to him. It was something that no mere mortal could dare to measure.
[Kuu·······!]
Aries gritted his teeth at the strange sensation that came over him whenever it exerted its power. The more he did, the more worried he was about the hero, but he couldn’t figure out what the situation was and he had no choice but to wait.
Unlike her goddamn sword, she didn’t form a soul bond with the hero. Invulnerable powers. It was the backbone that supported her holy sword, and at the same time, it was also a barrier that prevented her from forming a relationship with any hero.
So all she could do was wait. For a long time, strange waves spread one after another, as if the blasphemous being was exerting its power, and then it calmed down.
[Are you finished? The hero will be fine…]
And the moment Aries muttered that somewhat relievedly, the collapse of space began.
Because of her experience, she immediately knew what was going on. The core that maintained the dungeon was broken. As a result, the dungeon lost control and began to deviate wildly.
The ground shuddered and Aries’ sword body jumped straight into the air. As if a child had scribbled at random or scribbles, cracks cracked open in the air, revealing a black mouth.
It’s dangerous. This is really dangerous. There were several times when she was caught up in the collapse of her dungeon, but at that time, there was an owner who would take care of her.
Damn it-
However, there is nothing by Aries’ side right now. There is only a crack in space that tries to devour her by opening her mouth in a monstrous way.
Aries did not have various abilities like Carval. All she does is just not break. So even if she fell through the cracks in that space, she wouldn’t disappear, but she would be infinitely farther away from her master.
‘That’s not okay.’
Aries gritted his teeth. She was a sword In fact, she shouldn’t have been black to begin with. There must have been a time when she was her person too.
Perhaps her life was dazzling and splendid, just like her good and noble character. However, no matter what she was, the current Aries was a sword. Unable to do anything without her master.
She, however, never questioned this kind of life. Serving the hero, helping and guiding them, finally helping them defeat the demon lord and saving the world is her greatest joy…
‘Really?’
Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice from inside Aries asked a question. Clearly, it was her own voice, not anyone else’s, but Aries was somehow unfamiliar with the sound.
Even while she was immersed in her thoughts, the cracks in her space blew them apart at a rapid pace. The jagged slashes made it look like a monster with bared teeth.
‘Is that really your will?’
A crack in the space that stretches out from the outside. A strange voice came from inside. Aries seemed to be going crazy. Her usual doubts and her doubts were running out of control in the face of extreme situations.
Cream’s not a hero at all. Evil deeds, broken taboos. And I didn’t want to compare her, so I intentionally pretended not to know her, but her power, which is one level different from other heroes, is extremely worthy of a hero.
Aries forced her dizzy mind to calm down. When she thinks of the hero of this generation, she naturally sees the demonic sword attached to the tail of that thought in her mind, and her irritation-like heat surges up and burns away her idle thoughts.
[Yes, I have something to learn from you too.]
Aries ignored his inner voice, which still spoke in an unfamiliar tone. Although she still doesn’t have good feelings for the magic sword that took away her position as the hero’s first companion.
There was definitely something to imitate in that frivolous and weightless attitude. Eliminate distractions. I face the cracks in the space rushing towards me. For some reason, certainty soared.
Yes, the trembling waves emitted by that blasphemous being might have awakened something inside Aries.
[I’ll go now.]
Aries didn’t know who she was before she was alive. Her identity was unclear as the identity of the sword and the identity of the soul dwelling in the sword were mixed.
However, because her heroic existence supported her ego, Aries always had an indomitable will. She accompanies the hero’s journey, if only she can defeat the demon king and save the world.
It was okay that she was no longer human. Even if she was a weapon that could only be wielded in someone else’s hands, she could be satisfied if the owner was a hero.
[My hero.]
The sword was incompetent. The sword was just hard. Because the owner, the hero, was already the most versatile incarnation in the world, the sword possessed only one ability.
However, the soul dwelling in the sword did not. Even if she forgot about herself, as long as she existed in this world, Aries’ will would not be broken.
In the end, the logic of the sword is simple. Cut if you can. That’s enough.
– Activate Inviolable (EX).
It is not broken even by the harsh winds and waves of the world. In the end, it has to be the world that is broken.
A crack touched the holy sword. Aries’ determination shone white, and her nothingness that swallowed her everything split in two in front of him.