294 – The World After Defeat – 3
The action was so sudden that Erica, Iris, and Claudia, who were next to her, didn’t have time to stop. Rize strode forward.
The world eater, who still had a sneering smile on her face, greeted the human woman who boldly stepped forward with mocking applause. Clap, clap, clap, the sound resounded emptyly.
“You are really brave. For what reason did you come here?”
“I won’t listen to you anymore, you said. Listening to it, it sounds like you’ve already won everything.”
“Oh, it wasn’t bravery, it was not knowing the subject. It’s a sad thing. Even if I tell you the truth, you won’t listen. What would you do if it was true that I won?”
“Stupid. I didn’t believe you bragging that Delta was dead.”
The ridicule on the face of the World Eater grew even thicker.
“Believe it or not, it is your own freedom, human being. But bear in mind. As the time to deny reality increases, the frustration and despair at the moment of witnessing the truth will also increase.”
“Have you seen the truth? The only truth I believe is that you are lying and that Delta is still alive.”
“You don’t know anything. Your defeat is already predetermined. Do you think holding the strange power left by that human as a memento will change something? Does he think he can kill me if he uses that power?”
Instead of answering, Rize raised the dagger that had started to have frost on its surface.
“You fool. It’s a pity that I can’t face the truth because I’m buried in the impossible. Don’t you know that unfounded beliefs are just fictions made up of speculation and delusion?”
“There is evidence. Because I saw what kind of person Delta was.”
The blue dagger felt cold. Whoa, the breath that flowed from my lips turned into white breath and scattered into the air.
“Because I saw what he did, I saw what he knew, and I saw what he was going to do. Therefore… ….”
The dagger, covered in frost and completely white, shone briefly.
“I will fight. Until Delta returns.”
The Eater of Worlds was happy to laugh at the answer. While the dragon, who changed into a human form, smiled like a human, the rest of the people slowly stepped forward.
Kai Killia gnashed her teeth and aimed at her holy sword, while Floretta and Luna held the holy relic. Stella and Selene went behind the popes and imbued their maces and rapiers with divine power, symbolizing the sun and moon.
The other three captains of the Knights of the Silver Dawn stood next to Rize. Minerva and Nyx moved next to Caicilia, drawing a magic circle on the tip of their wand and in the air, respectively.
Then, Eclipse whispered to her younger brother Laura, who was blankly in her place, clenched fists trembling.
“Do you want to fight with me too, kid?”
“…… Of course. I don’t want to be locked in the back by myself. I want to help in any way.”
“What would you do if you could?”
“Really?!”
Aurora looked at the group of lights in front of her eyes as if they were springing up. Eclipse nodded slightly.
“I can give you a chance. It is to overlay one of the possibilities of your future on the present. But… ….”
The tail of her horse faded slightly.
“Remember, once you overlay a possibility, you will never have that future. If you fought with a sword this time, you’ll never be able to wield a sword again, and if you fought with magic, you’ll never be able to use magic again. Divine power will be the same. That’s the price to pay for the future with a human body.”
“… ….”
“Will you still do it?”
“I will.”
Aurora answered immediately without even a moment of hesitation.
Can’t you ever wield a sword again? Can’t use magic in the future? Does not matter. After all, such power has no regrets or desires.
What Aurora wants is not to become stronger, but to gain the strength to fight that guy in the form of Delta at this moment. So what happened after that was fine.
ㅡTalk.
Eclipse, confirming the strong will in his golden eyes, lightly touched Aurora’s head.
“It will happen.”
As soon as those words were finished, all of Aurora’s mana circuits were opened, and blue light poured out from her fingertips. Everyone else, startled, looked back.
Especially Minerva, even after the rest of her turned her head again, she couldn’t take her eyes off her aura Laura.
“How… ….”
“It allowed me to dwell on one of the possibilities of that child, which has now disappeared.”
“One of the possibilities, say…… ?”
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Minerva looked at the blue mana overflowing from Aurora’s body. If this is the case, even if you enter the magic tower right now, it will not be inferior.
“My child, keep in mind that this is only a temporary power. Her body won’t last long. And when all the power is gone, the child—”
“You will never be able to use mana again. I know. It doesn’t matter though. If I can tell Delta that I fought alongside them, that’s enough.”
Finally even Aurora took Minerva back to the vicinity of Caicilia.
The World Eater who saw that scene even destroyed the weapon in his hand and shed ridicule. It was an attitude that seemed not to be nervous at all, even though the requiem was dwelling in each weapon.
“Women who decided to lay down their lives for a man who was already dead…… What a touching story.”
The World Eater lightly snapped his fingers.
“I knew your intentions well. If so, where do you put your power to work? Do you know if I can go to the same place as that man?”
“The bullsh*t.”
Caecilia jumped out first. A golden light followed closely behind the rushing figure. The Eater of Worlds swung her fist as if she wasn’t even worth using a weapon.
A shock wave burst through the air. Cai Kilia tried to block her shockwave by holding her holy sword sideways, but even though she blocked it, she was slammed into the ground from her back and pushed away for a while.
“It’s so…… ! Cool…….”
Kai Killia, who had barely stopped, tried to stand up from her seat, but fell face down on her floor. Her right leg didn’t hold her strength. She checked the wound.
Her ankle was bent 180 degrees.
“Are you really trying to kill me? Aren’t you trying to be cute to play with?”
At the same time, Floretta and Luna tried to step out at the sight of her holding her hands behind her back and making fun of her, but her breath vomited one step faster. Popes hastily spread the holy barrier.
The jet-black breath collided with the golden and silver curtain of light. The veil was being shattered at an incredible speed, and it evaporated in less than two seconds.
The popes left the moment the veil melted. Breath narrowly brushed the side. Just by rubbing it, the flesh melted away, exposing the muscles and bones.
“Is that all there is to it?”
While Floretta and Luna began treatment while gritting their teeth and holding back moaning, Stella and Selene moved their feet. Stella stood head-on, Luna hid in her shadow and aimed at her blind spot.
“…… !”
It was useless.
The weight aimed at the head was caught very easily in the palm of my hand. The rapier was likewise very simply held in the palm of the hand. The requiem contained in it vainly headed for the fake essence.
The two of them struggled to pull out the weapon they were holding onto, but the World Eater’s hand didn’t even move even though Stella and Selene were struggling at the same time.
“That sucks. I am about to yawn.”
The arm holding the weapon moved lightly. Stella and Selene’s bodies returned to their original positions, creating a large pit with a cloud of dust.
Worrying that the two might get caught up in it, the captains of the Knights of the Silver Dawn narrowed the distance. Lize was in the lead, Iris was next, and Claudia and Erica were on either side.
The World Eater moved before Rize, who stood at the forefront, could even swing his dagger. His hand grabbed the blue dagger and threw it aside.
Rise and Erica collided as hard as they could. The bones at the site of the impact were shattered with a terrifying sound. Rize was his shoulder blade, and Erica was his thigh bone.
Seeing that the two of them collapsed without a proper resistance, Iris gritted her teeth and swung her sword. The power to cut through the essence of the crude longsword trembled slightly.
“What did I say?”
However, the next moment the World Eater was out of attack range.
The same shockwave that blew away Cecilia hit Iris. Iris vomited her blood and flew away.
Finally, Claudia’s greatsword was about to reach the throat of the World Eater. The one who ate the world, who sent his soul with a false essence, pushed the tip of his greatsword.
ㅡPoowook!
The handle of the greatsword pushed back pierced Claudia’s chest. He pushed the swinging sword and pierced the human chest not with the tip but with the handle.
“Ah, magic. If that’s the case, I’ll have to step back so my colleagues won’t get caught up in it.”
Claudia fell to the floor, and the World Eater moved into an empty space. It was because he saw the three remaining humans preparing magic in the distance.
As if to look somewhere, the head slowly moved up and down. Minerva, Nyx, and Aurora used magic at the same time.
A huge Meteor crashed from the sky, black flames swallowed the earth, and the remaining space was filled with mana spears that were difficult to count.
“Is this all?”
The World Eater calmly admired his magic with his hands behind his back, then opened his mouth.
A pitch-black breath erupted from his mouth.
The arms of the three people who briefly brushed against the breath evaporated in an instant. Aurora held her evaporating arms and suppressed her groans, while Nyx and Minerva shuddered in pain.
Soon after that, the magic fell, but the world eater just walked out of the living hell with a normal appearance.
“Now it is your turn, Goddess.”
Okay, the sound of him snapping his fingers came again. Then, the black space that contained Eclipse shattered into pieces.
Eclipse, barely freed, landed on the floor. Before the battle, from the first snap of his fingers, he had been confined in a black space.
“What are you doing? If you don’t treat me quickly, you’ll die?”
The World Eater had his chin down. Popes, Minerva, Nyx, Aurora. No one here could heal their wounds.
Eclipse hurriedly opened its curtain of light. His vaporized arm returned, his broken bones glued together, and his twisted body restored.
The wounds that could not be healed no matter how much healing magic and divine spells were poured upon them healed as soon as they touched the veil spread by Eclipse.
Because that’s how the world’s laws are.
“Look closely, humans.”
Gathering the wounded together, the World Eater began walking slowly towards the Veiled Eclipse. In his hand was a sword that had the appearance of a nightmare without wings.
“To see your goddesses defeated.”