72. Breakthrough (2)
“hahahaha, really. Are you doing something stupid?”
Isabel looked up at the sky and smiled incomprehensibly.
“If you don’t make it a problem, there’s no problem, but if you make it a problem, it becomes a problem, warrior~”
“It’s not what you’re saying, this f*cking love is real.”
“Will you write some kind words for me, warrior?”
That smiling face, I wanted to stop it as it was.
As she gently lifted the holy sword again, the boundaries around her rose at the same time, as if in proportion to it.
For a while, the strings drawn as if they were about to fly away, and the chunks of metal illuminated by the shimmering flames, each boasting their own ferocity, Isabel gently lowered the Heretic Questioner’s sword next to her with her hand and slowly walked towards me.
It was only about five steps, a distance that could have been reached if I stretched out my sword at any moment.
Why don’t you blow the neck off at once so that it can’t even play again?
The ferocity in her heart dwelled in her eyes, and Isabelle took a step back at that sight… Instead of long, she rather moved forward.
An incomprehensible situation.
“Oh my, the warrior’s eyes are so cruel~”
Isabel was standing in front of me, approaching her with an outstretched hand.
“…What kind of fix is this?”
“I just want to talk~”
But on the contrary, she quietly placed her on my shoulder, and her hand held an unprecedented force.
It was a weight that could not come out of the hands of an ordinary nun, and she could not swing her sword easily because of the weight she could feel as the ground she stepped on was slowly being crushed.
It was an anomaly that would never have happened if a 6-ton African elephant had been compressed to the size of a man.
“If you don’t come this close, you won’t be able to have a sincere conversation, right?”
The whispering voice with the shallow wind in my ear was like a scorpion.
“…And it’s good to take out people separately.”
At the same time as he said that, some of the interrogators who had peeked out sideways turned sideways and left in an instant.
“You-!”
She tried to obstruct her path by forcefully swinging her holy sword, but Isabel’s hand crushed her holy sword’s pommel and blocked it.
At the same time, a repulsive force erupted from her holy sword, and Isabel’s grip lightly burned.
“This f*cking b*tch-“
If the sword didn’t work, he hit her side with her fist and tried to open it up even a little, but I had no choice but to stop struggling at Isabel’s words.
“Actually, did you bother to say that Hydra…Iren today? Even if she didn’t catch the child, it didn’t really matter from a consequential point of view.”
“…What do you mean?”
“Hydra eventually dies today.”
“Don’t die, I’ll definitely stop you-“
“No, I don’t mean that. “
Isabel, flicking her index finger left and right, stood next to me and pointed at the sun in the distance, now almost hidden from view.
“As the sun sets when it rises and the moon waxes when it is full, this unavoidable providence of the universe is called fate. On the other hand, it is called unfortunate fate that the warrior took away the opportunity to return home.”
Isabel pointed to the bushes beyond.
“Today is the last time that Irene’s body filled with divine power keeps her insignificant lifeline alive. Starting today, the balance between poison and divine power will collapse, and I will self-destruct. It is the fate of Hydra to die because it cannot withstand its own poison. But-“
Even though he knew that, why did he try to catch and kill him like this?
Can’t we just relax, even for a moment?
“If you die according to your destiny, then there is no value, right?”
In Isabel’s eyes, the madness peculiar to her foreign press lingers.
“Before the child dies, a mother who is overcome with emotion will change this world very wonderfully only when she dies as miserably, unfairly, and cruelly as possible. That is the value and destiny of that hydra. If you are destined to die anyway, isn’t it the duty of foreign media to use it a little more frugally?”
Then Isabel turned around and slowly walked away from her… I couldn’t stand it.
“You-!”
I suddenly swung her sword at Isabel, who was smiling with her head slightly twisted, but as if not twice, people with shields the size of her body jumped out from behind her and deflected her sword strikes.
Kaga River!
The holy sword bounced off with sparks, but of course the opponent’s shield wasn’t intact either.
The shield, unable to withstand the holy sword, cracked and shattered like glass.
“Did the warrior wield this first?”
The shattered shards flew, leaving long streaks of blood on Isabel’s cheeks.
“To say that the hero was attacked twice, I really can’t help it.”
Isabel gestures towards me slowly.
“A warrior who violated the goddess’s oracle, was unclean, and swung his sword at the same church member twice…”
The sound of weapons being drawn resonates savagely.
“Conquer. A limb, maybe one or two… Isn’t it something you can’t help?”
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Kwakwang!
A huge explosion sound was heard from the temple far away, and the vision brightened for an instant.
An instantaneous but enormous release of divine power was detected.
Undoubtedly, at the signal flare that signaled the start of the fight between the hero and the heretic inquisitors led by Isabelle, Yan stopped turning his head.
“That idiot…”
My eyes trembled, but I couldn’t stop.
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Even at this moment, the siege continued to narrow.
The 200 people identified at the first detection are at the level of aegyo.
“What the heck, did you rob all the tribes from the north, south, east, west, and west of the church?!”
In the darkening forest, the number of torches in the distance exceeds 500.
The only place to escape seemed to be on or in the lake.
Normally, it would have easily flown over the lake with magic or it would have crossed over while frozen, but the holy power filled Iren’s body interfered with the magic and he couldn’t keep it properly.
“Yan, if we keep going like this, we’ll run into each other.”
Frighteningly after Floren’s words were finished, grass insects flew up and animals ran through the cluttered forest to avoid people.
“As expected, even if there are more or less conflicts, should we break through at once? No, if you do…”
The moment Yan, who was holding onto the staff tightly, was in trouble-
“That’s right, wizard.”
Irene, who was lying on Floren’s back, suddenly pointed to the grass and muttered.
“If we continue like this, we will be surrounded. But you can avoid it by going that way.”
“What? That’s…”
At first glance, at the place where there are twenty torches, Jan muttered what nonsense he was talking about, and as he was about to turn his head, Iren’s eyes met.
Eyes full of starlight, full of confidence.
“How do you do it, Yan?”
Yan couldn’t bear to let go of those eyes.
“Let’s go… To the right.”
Of course, all the preparations were made for it, and magic and various objects were prepared so that it could be manifested right away.
Now that we have prepared decoys as well as dazzle, you might be able to escape even if you get caught at least once…
…I wasn’t sure.
Considering the Heretic Questioner’s pursuit ability, it might be overkill, but…
“…If it gets caught, it gets caught.”
Without any reason, he just believed the child’s words and slipped to the right.
Soon after, the flickering torches came nearby.
The silver armored interrogator approached the group in the bush and roamed around, wading through the bush as if he was about to strike his sword at any moment.
The distance was less than three steps, and even the sound of breathing stopped.
However, the Heretic Questioner passed by without feeling anything.
Impossible.
After a while, when the interrogator left and she let out the breath she had been holding back, Irene pointed in front of her again.
“This time, take 20 steps from the front and sit down.”
Unwittingly moved by Irene’s words, Yan and Floren witnessed a strange sight again.
It’s like magic that no one finds themselves in a place that should be called right in front of their nose.
“Next, stand next to the rock, stand there for 5 seconds, and then move forward naturally. Then…”
Yan looked at the smiling Irene as if she were playing hide and seek with her.
“Turn around behind the tree…”
I felt a sense of deja vu.
A possibility that I have never seen before, that I have only heard about in passing, comes to mind.
His actions and confidence as if he had seen the future, and even the divine power that filled his body.
“The saintess’s future prediction?”
She blurted it out without realizing it, then shook her head at the nonsense.
A matter that was in direct violation of the oracle passed down to the church, even if that was the case, to say that the church was trying to kill the saintess was an overstatement.
It was impossible, but… Has there ever been another person so loved by God?
…No.
….Not even one.
“It doesn’t work that way, this side is uneasy… here…”
Iren’s eyes weren’t looking at reality.
Yan looked in disbelief at the eyes that read the future, not the present.
And-At some point, Irene’s words stopped suddenly, and Yan, who finally had time to look around her, could feel her body’s strength go away at the unbelievable sight.
“I passed…”
When I looked around, there was no one there.
He broke through the wall of countless people with just a few words of a child without any collision.
A lie that happened without battle, magic, or anything.
All the flickering torches passed behind them and soon the surroundings became so quiet that only the sound of insects could be heard.
Irene, who came down from Floren’s back, moved her step by step, then stopped her steps with the field of reeds in front of her.
Yan stretched out his hand toward Irene.
“We have to go quickly. Although we have broken through the siege yet, there is a possibility that the pursuing groups will come after us…”
With the wind blowing and swaying reeds in front of her, Irene lifted a branch and drew a line toward the floor.
Joo-wook.
“…This is the end. “
“… Huh? What?”
“It’s the limit I can go hehehe. I’ve seen countless futures, but this is my last.”
Irene laughed bitterly for some reason, and a trickle of black blood flowed from her mouth and landed on her floor-
Chiiik.
Along with the acrid smoke, the ground it touched burned up in an instant.
The hydra’s venom instantly turned the green reed field black. Floren, who was close to her, stepped back, covering her nose and mouth.
“This is…”
“This is an unavoidable fate.”
It is now the limit that the divine power filled with the body can endure.
I sat down on my half-loose leg.
When you can no longer handle the miasma that has grown stronger as time goes by, you have finally reached the future you have seen countless times.
I tried to overcome my inevitable, innate destiny, but the end was always the same.
Your future lying on the cold floor in any place and in any way.
“You can never change your destiny…”
“So, what should I do?”
However, unlike Irene’s self-deprecating smile, Yan’s face was very hard for some reason.
“Because you die here. Is everything over?”
“Yes, this is my end.”
“…..Then why did you run away?”
“If you stay there, a future you cannot handle will come.”
A place I avoided in the hope that a distant future that no one else could see, a future where the whole world would be polluted and curse each other and bite the gods would not come.
“Ah, sorry. Have you made a pact with the wizard? I’ll give it to you now. Was it hair, fingernails, and blood?”
I bit off the tip of his fingernails, pulled out a strand of his hair, and tried to put the blood that flowed from his mouth into the bottle he handed me, but it wasn’t the bottle, but Yan’s piercing palm.
Smash.
The blood on Iren’s mouth spurted in the opposite direction.
“Yan!”
Surprised by her sudden action, Floren screamed and it was Jan’s cold eyes that greeted Irene with her head raised.
“So, you’re going to die in a place where no one is watching and be comfortable alone? Do not be ridiculous.”
A tightly bitten lower lip and trembling cheeks.
“Then what will happen to him? What the hell is going to happen to that idiot who is standing up against the church right now to make you run away!”
“….I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
“Don’t apologize. I’m not the one you should apologize for.”
God’s love or whatever, leaving Irene sitting on her floor, Jan turned her body.
It is different from the predetermined fate.
“Floren, I’m going back.”
“…Yan.”
“I will go back and save that fool. Hundreds of Heretic Questioners? Does not matter.”
“Sorry…”
“Is this the destiny that the goddess foretold and led? Then there’s nothing special about being a goddess.”
Contrary to the direction he had fled so far, Yan moved his steps back to the place where he first started.
“Death or life, I decide my fate.”
Irene stared blankly at Yan’s back.
Destiny goes wrong.
Such a future did not exist.
The future has been tangled up and twisted and confused beyond recognition, but one word kept ringing in my head.
I can’t help it as much as my innate destiny
“…My destiny is my own.”
Irene looked at her own hands.
“Please…”
Her body was now numb, but there was still something she could do.
“Take…All…Give me.”
His voice is so small that it is drowned out even by the sound of insects.
“Please take me back!”
An angry cry erupted from the collapsing body.
Yan, who was walking straight ahead, stopped and finally looked back.
It wasn’t a child with a self-deprecating smile accepting a predetermined fate and dying alone… A crybaby was there.
“I have to go to apologize. So, take me back!”
It was nothing more than a face ruined by crying, and for some reason Yan thought that appearance was not bad.
“What, you can make that kind of expression.”
She stretched out her hand towards Irene.
Again, back to the place you ran away from.
Go back.