602 – 7. Jealousy is my strength (102)
A girl who had been fainting for a long time woke up.
Now that the showdown with the vampire is approaching, this fact should be good news more than ever. Because the existence of the ‘Great Wizard’ who can tear the ‘boundary’ and handle the power of the Thunder God was worth it.
Aren’t vampires even in a state where they can only produce half of their strength?
Of course, the opponent was a legendary monster that almost burned the entire continent. Even half of that strength was enough to unilaterally overwhelm the ‘Great Witch’, but now she had lost even the aid of the barrier.
A chance has finally come to end the endless confrontation.
There was no reason why anyone wouldn’t make this judgment. It was a really long battle, and there was enough probability that each small variable would pile up to determine victory or defeat.
But the angel of war didn’t seem to want to reap the scales yet.
In exchange for returning the girl, it took away the party’s greatest strength.
The Great Witch carves letters of light in the air and screams her evil.
“What the hell are you doing… That’s why I said that brother-in-law Jigan is like her family! I’ve raised a child…… !”
“What nonsense, kid… No, old man!”
Elsie also hurriedly rushed forward while holding the pitch-black rod.
The reason why she raised her words midway through was purely because the level of the great witch’s spell was higher than expected. No matter how crazy you are, the strong are weak to the weak, and the strong to the weak is a way to gauge the opponent’s level.
It was like some kind of survival instinct. Elsie took a step closer to the true identity of the Archwitch in that short moment.
So join us. Because she was an enemy she could never handle alone.
The pitch-black rod draws a trail of light like a brush. When the blue thunderbolt dyed her drawing paper drawn by the great witch, a bloody long spear pierced like a bomb.
Boom, bang, bang!
Remnants of magical power scattered like a halo of light whenever an explosion erupted. It would have been a very beautiful sight from a distance, but from the battlefield, there was no more terrifying scene than this.
The multiple layers of defense are being torn apart.
It was the worst. For wizards with mediocre physical abilities, a shield made of magic was like the last barrier.
But what if even this breaks?
It meant that it was difficult to handle the opponent. Of course, you should consider escaping as your top priority, but this is inside the barrier with no exit.
I had no choice but to calmly prepare for death.
There was no better reason than this for the two women who had not even regained their proper reason to join forces.
On top of a geometric figure, another geometric figure is placed.
The speed at which Elsie, who had risen to the rank of the great wizard in ‘Vigilance’, created her formula was incomparable to the previous one. The collaborator she was even with was a woman who saw the end of magic.
So the shield should get thicker and thicker to be normal.
If only the enemies weren’t ‘vampires’.
The archwitch’s face became more impatient.
“I can’t stand it at this rate… First one?!”
The archwitch’s eyes were showing mixed emotions as she shouted that.
Worry, anxiety, trouble.
The fallen man was clearly defenseless. If even now the vampire changed her mind and tried to end her man’s life, there weren’t many ways to stop her.
Maybe I should overdo it.
That was connected to the second and third emotions.
The last move remains.
Abandoning the safety of the great forest and the southern kingdoms, bringing the main body of the Great Witch to this place.
The power of the master is great. Even the ‘vampires’ who regained their strength, hadn’t they been defeated in a battle hundreds of years ago?
However, the archwitch’s body was also the core of the barrier that imprisoned the vampires.
If the Great Witch calls her main body, the vampire will take advantage of that chance and steal her main body.
Then everything was over.
A vampire who used the power of the Seven Sins without restriction was a disaster itself. This was also a fact that the Great Witch knew better than anyone else, having witnessed the southern part of her sea of fire with her own two eyes.
To the point where she hesitated to make a decision even when her life was in danger.
Then the girl raised her voice and shouted, holding on tightly to the cone-shaped hat that was about to be blown away by the shock wave.
“…… I told you to wait! I’m coming back!”
For a moment, the archwitch’s eyes were filled with suspicion.
Where the hell?
Wasn’t she the one who fainted just before her death? As for when the hell she made such a promise with her man, she had no way of knowing as a high witch.
However, the question that flowed after hitting the archwitch’s throat was a little different.
“How?!”
She collapses in a wreck, and then she suddenly possesses another personality.
Now, isn’t it the yard where I passed out after being electrocuted again? No matter how good the body looked on the outside, there was no way that the inside was the same.
Indeed, ‘how’.
Even in this shape, can she come back even after being ruined and injured to this point?
Ahead of that pessimistic outlook, the girl’s reaction was plain.
“…… Somehow.”
Cleaning her teeth, the blood vessels throughout her body were ripped apart, spinning her mana. The condensed rings in her heart were spinning like crazy, creating new magic formulas.
Only one dimension.
It was a step forward that had been experienced many times, but the formula that added a new unknown to the equation was spewing out an enormous amount of formula and solution. And even the equivalent output.
Many wizards aspire to this state. He even risked his life for this.
However, only a few people could reach it.
Because they are eaten up by the darkness of the ‘borderline’ and the inner desires that have been tightly hidden.
Originally, Elsie probably couldn’t reach it either. However, because of one of her men who dared to find the girl who had become her lost child, she was able to stand in this position again.
He is a man with a knack for turning the impossible into the possible.
“Somehow, I will come back… I threw my fiance into this dangerous place.”
So I have no choice but to believe.
As soon as she made up her mind, her magical shield shattered, and the girl’s body, swept away by the explosion, rolled to the ground. The man lying on his face was still motionless.
It’s just that blood is flowing from underneath her.
A broken medicine bottle was digging into her man’s veins.
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When you open your eyes, an unfamiliar landscape emerges.
The confused mind blurs the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. Like slashes on a sandy beach, his reason blurred with each step he took.
Memories, memories, memories.
Why did I end up like this?
As I stood far away and ruminated, there was a scene that rose like fog.
A woman with auburn hair.
She must have been a precious person, but why is her face covered?
“Ian, using stimulants does not cure the body.”
It was a request in a high-pitched voice.
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The memory of holding my hand for a long time while handing me medicine flashes through my mind, as if I couldn’t shake off my worries in the end.
“No matter how strong a stimulant is, it can’t bring a seriously injured patient back to life. I just need to calm down for a moment… If your condition is more serious than that, there is a possibility that you will not be sane even if you come to your senses.”
A state in which consciousness is present but the brain refuses to wake up.
Is it like sleepwalking? Perhaps he had such feelings.
“…… Don’t overdo it, please.”
The woman’s tone at the end of the conversation was very moist.
How bizarre.
I wanted to see this woman’s face. Even in her disenchantment she rummaged through her memories of her woman, as if planting the seeds of her feelings deep in her heart.
A few days ago, a month ago, and a few months ago.
In the past, until the day I entered the academy.
Are you sure this is the end?
No, it wasn’t. There must be more…….
Just like that, the moment I daze and sink below the horizon of my consciousness.
“How was your dream?”
A dry tone hits the eardrum, and the blurry world regains its color at once.
The earth was as dry as the man’s voice. The only thing that paints an unpleasant color on top of it is the countless corpses.
It was a wilderness.
It is desolate to the point of questioning what kind of human being could hold such a landscape in their hearts.
I was standing on top of it.
In a world where not even crows cry, the man’s voice felt like a stone. The only variable that causes ripples in a calm lake.
“Have you reached your goal? I don’t know if I’m satisfied now.”
My gaze slowly turned to the back. There, as always, a man with tired eyes was sitting on a rock.
With my sword in my arms.
“It’s time to leave.”
Then the man glanced up at the sky. It was a clear sky with nothing in it.
The golden eyes that used the desolate scenery as drawing paper looked like fireflies at first glance.
“Go away, it’s none of my business from now on.”
It was still a nonchalant tone.
No, maybe the battle with the old ties excited him.
Nevertheless, he was a trustworthy man who deliberately came to his senses. As he said, it was time to go back soon.
My eyes naturally turned to the sky. Memories from the outside permeated the place that had been empty a while ago.
Scenes where men consistently gain the upper hand.
Yes, this was the last one.
I subconsciously asked.
“Can I fight like that?”
It was a short question.
However, it took some time for the answer to that question to come back. For about a few seconds, an unfamiliar feeling spewed out between the lips of the man who had been silent.
“…… What?”
That was a valid question.