After the tears have dried
“Keep up…!”
Libert Vince Rothbane vomited blood.
“father?”
Head in the family,
Top lord in the tower,
Arya had never called him ‘father’ a few times, but those words came out of her mouth naturally.
And Libert, who had been hesitating, collapsed as if it had collapsed.
There was a huge hole in his chest.
It was Libert who threw himself to block Headward’s magic, which was aimed at Arya’s life.
At this point, Leon was still fighting Gale.
And the only one who could detect the magic of the 8th Circle Archmage with the power of darkness was the same 8th Circle Archmage, Libert Vince Rothbane.
no.
Even with his abilities, it may have been impossible to detect the magic with the power of darkness.
He was also one of the geniuses created by the Rothbane family, but he did not have the insight to see through the power of the demon.
He just had a foreboding.
intense sense of crisis.
He had a sense that an irreversible mistake would happen again, a logically indescribable feeling.
That sense of crisis momentarily amplified Libert’s abilities.
It made me feel something I couldn’t feel normally, and I was able to match the timing by freezing all the time around me except for myself with magic.
“It’s a sneak attack! Protect Arya’s little girl!”
The wizards of Veritas who confirmed this belatedly looked around Arya and Libert, but the assassin was nowhere to be found.
“Why, why did my father…”
Arya held the fallen Libert in her arms and gave a confused expression.
Undoubtedly, for Libert, aria was always just a tool to revive his family.
that he is not loved by his father,
No, I even thought that I was being hated.
Since it is a useful tool, I could understand if it was to manage the tool so that it does not break.
However, he did not expect that he would act even as he sacrificed his life for the tool.
Libert frowned at Arya’s reaction.
The expression he made whenever there was something he didn’t like.
If Leon had been here, it would have seemed like she was holding back her tears, but Arya couldn’t understand Libert’s true intentions like that.
Because you can’t see your own face.
Libert’s expression resembling Arya, Arya could not recognize.
“It is natural for a father to protect his children, but are you questioning that?”
“But, but but…….”
Arya’s expression resembled Libert.
And then Arya could understand.
The image of himself reflected in Libert’s clear eyes resembled the expression Libert was making.
He only realized that the expression on Libert’s face, which he had thought he was frowned upon because he didn’t like him, was actually the expression of holding back tears.
“It is all my fault. Why did this happen?”
There was deep regret in Libert’s voice.
At that voice, Arya had to hold back the tears that were about to overflow.
Instead of weeping, he raised his voice.
“medic! Potion!”
A new wizard in charge of managing the potion from afar rushed over and handed the potion to Arya, who poured it into Libert’s chest.
His heart was only spared from being destroyed, but his right lung was completely blown away.
It is an injury that is difficult to recover from potions alone.
When the potion was poured as much as it was available, blood foamed and the lungs began to regenerate, but the bleeding was more serious than that.
An injury that would not be strange even if he died immediately from shock.
In the end, unbearable tears rolled down Arya’s eyes.
Libert, who witnessed it, said with a self-helpful laugh.
“Are you shedding tears for such a father?”
“sorry. I was wrong.”
“Why are you apologizing? you’ve been like this since you were little I have to apologize, but you always apologized first. When I see you, I can’t help but think of her, so I can’t see you as you are.”
“Don’t apologize. It was unavoidable because it was me who took my mother from my father.”
Libert closed his eyes with a troubled expression and shook his head.
“no. I have to apologize. Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to even say it out loud because it’s unforgivable, but who said that? It’s a cowardly act of sacrificing oneself for fear of taking sin into a definite form.”
Who dares to call Libert Vince Rothbane, a blue magic lord of the Philo Empire, a coward?
Arya could instinctively realize that it was Leon.
“After this war is over, the deadline has been postponed once again, but in the end, we are running out of time like this. sorry. I don’t think these words can be forgiven, but somehow I thought it was for her to revive the family.”
At that moment, blood rushed back into Libert’s esophagus.
“I know. You know, so don’t say any more.”
The fourth potion bottle in Arya’s hand was empty.
However, it is still not enough to completely heal Libert’s injuries.
The medic raised his voice in search of the potion and ran around, shaking the bus, but Libert did not waver and reached out and grabbed Arya’s trembling hand tightly.
“Don’t forgive me. Everything I did to you was not the treatment you deserved. I promised her that I would love you just the way you are. I resent myself for forgetting that until now.”
At those words, Arya raised her left hand to wipe away the tears, and then with her usual expressionless face, she gently shook off the hand that Libert was holding.
“I will not forgive you. If you die like this, I will never forgive you. So, I have to live desperately for the rest of my life, paying the price for my sins.”
Libert lowered his hand.
His face was pale.
The hole is not clogged.
Even after pouring a whopping four bottles of potion, the blood flowing through the hole could not be stopped.
“I want to too, but it seems that my time is over. I want to see your face one last time. I’m sorry, but can you come a little closer? Your eyes are closed, so you can’t see your face.”
Libert asked earnestly and earnestly.
But Arya did not grant that request.
Rather, he let Libert go and got up.
“I won’t show you my face.”
Libert always frowned when he saw Arya.
It’s like you don’t like something.
So Arya always avoided her gaze when she saw him.
couldn’t make eye contact.
my father is afraid,
I feel like I hate myself.
But it wasn’t.
The expression on his face was not the anger expressed because he was disliked, but the sadness of the mother who was associated with him.
“If you want to see my face, do it after the tears in my eyes have dried.”
So, I didn’t want to show sadness on the expression I would show my father again.
“I won’t allow the last hour.”
Libert’s time is up to here?
who decided it
god?
Then Arya raised her staff, saying that she would freeze even the god’s time.
In general, creatures affected by the Freeze Magic die instantly.
The blood flowing in the blood vessels freezes, causing shock death, literally freezing the whole body and making it impossible to move any more, or necrosis of cells.
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Just like some animals go into hibernation when winter comes, even after being frozen for a long time, the body fully recovers its functions with minimal side effects.
Cause it to Libert.
With a hole in Libert’s chest, he opened Libert’s time itself and waited for Leon to return.
In that case, Leon would be able to resurrect a patient who was about to die if he hadn’t died.
The problem is Libert’s injury.
The survivors of the freezing magic that Arya had observed so far were the result of poorly applied the freezing magic.
Rather than being completely frozen, it was possible to endure the cold for a long time by minimizing the consumption of energy by slowing down the organism’s metabolism by freezing magic.
However, in the case of Libert, the injury is already serious.
Merely slowing down your metabolism will not survive.
Therefore, Arya was planning to stop the time by freezing Libert so that he would not die from other factors.
Luckily, it was a story far from hibernation, but a story that was feasible nonetheless.
A kind of frozen sleep.
It is a technology of the concept of treating a disease by freezing a person with an incurable disease that cannot be cured in the present age and thawing it in the future when medical technology is advanced.
However, Arya realized it at a level far beyond that realm.
absolute zero.
He had decided to lock Libert’s body entirely in a time crystal that had frozen even time.
In essence, the determination of time deprives the meaning of all matter and energy within it.
Because the principle of time determination was nothing but big freeze, which means the end of thermodynamics, and heat death that made the medium that transmits all materials and energy unable to interact with each other by the expansion force of dark energy.
Here, the necessary ability for Arya was to freeze only ‘time’ while maintaining the materials that make up Libert’s body and the bioenergy to be used after the resurrection.
It was something that had not been possible until now only with her magical resonance, the Perennial Snow Field.
Frozen magic swirls around Arya, who raises her magic.
She didn’t break the heart circle and create a new light ring, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t interested in quantum magic.
‘Leon told me. The name of the magic I am dealing with is Inplaton. It is to deal with the force of freezing by expanding time and space as a medium to deal with the force against gravity.’
To the last, Inplato is a force that mediates anti-gravity.
Then, if the power can be handled precisely, it will be possible to expand only time while leaving space as it is.
According to the theory, Arya extracted only pure Inplaton from her magical powers.
If a very small amount of graviton is mixed with it, the inplaton will begin to expand space using the negative energy of gravity emitted by the graviton.
In order to avoid it, Arya had to use only the magic of freezing, completely excluding graviton.
But,
‘I don’t have enough mental strength.’
Arya is a genius who became a 7th circle wizard at the age of 18.
However, the magic that only freezes time with her magic power was insufficient.
But she didn’t give up.
He received as his heart the new magical powers floating around while controlling the Inplaton, the magical power of freezing, anti-gravity, and dark energy.
and at the end,
Whoa, whoa–!
Arya’s heart began to generate an eighth magical ring.
“Freeze time.”
Arya staggered as she looked at the time crystal that completely covered Libert.
“succeded······.”
If we wait for Leon to come like this now, we will be able to save Libert’s life.
However, Arya quickly looked around the battlefield with a cold expression on her face.
It was only after he regained his composure that he could think of the assassin who had driven Libert to death, who was aiming for him.
But the assassin is nowhere to be seen.
Perhaps it was not difficult to infer that the opponent was hiding with a kind of power that transcends magic.
If it was Arya just before, it would have been impossible to find the assassin hiding with the power of a demon, no matter how long time had been given.
But now, the story is different.
Arya, who reached the level of the 8th circle, could feel the sensation as if new eyes had been opened.
It felt as if time and space, that is, the flow of time and space, could be grasped.
“There.”
It wasn’t that difficult to find the enemy hiding itself by causing destructive interference to the probability wave of matter with the power of darkness.
“Freeze time.”
Arya points into the air and raises her finger,
Quad Duck—!
A huge pillar of ice rose and the figure hidden in the darkness was revealed.
“Uh, how do I get my position…!”
Headward tried to shatter the ice that covered his lower body with 8-circle wind magic, but the wind couldn’t melt the time.
If Headward had been a genius in wind magic, he might have used entropy to recreate frozen time, but unfortunately he wasn’t a genius.
“You will be punished in eternity for what you have done.”
Headward struggled desperately with a look of horror on his face, but the ice that covered his lower body, the time crystal slowly climbed up his body and eventually covered his whole body.
Time is a relative concept.
Arya awakened only his consciousness in the frozen time.
It will be a prison of time that makes you fully feel the time of eternity, as if the world accelerated to an infinite speed.