Episode 163
Allen woke up to the sound of the earth shaking. I was afraid to pick up my armament, and I heard a murmur from the surroundings. Allen hurriedly ran out of the house.
The landscape of the city I encountered was different from what I had known.
The floor collapses.
Buildings began to crumble into cracked roads and open basements.
Armed soldiers and believers rushed out of the building. They rolled their feet like they didn’t know what to do.
Outside, Enelia, who first detected the abnormality, was there.
Enelia opened her mouth. She didn’t say a word, but her face showed that she had to leave the city immediately.
The collapse was still accelerating.
It was clear that we had to get out of here immediately.
I didn’t think deeply about it, but from this alone, I was able to guess that the earthquake that lasted for several days was the cause of this incident. But… .
“Even an apostle, run away!”
“If it’s not now, it’s too late!”
Those around him who recognized him shouted.
Realizing that they had little chance of living, they shouted to run away. In their minds the apostle’s survival was more important than them.
It is enough for believers to be filled, but apostles are the only ones.
If he dies, there is no one to prove the end of the future.
Enelia did not rush him. You can make an opinion, but you must not influence his decision.
It was an act of forgetting the position of the maid.
Allen looked around for a moment in the midst of an emergency.
Earth shaking and buildings collapsing. An apostle who is in conflict with a shouting believer.
What should I do?
‘It doesn’t matter if I get out of here/
Leaving this place will not shake the position of the Apostle of the Ring Bridge.
In other words, you are the only one The dry waves and crumbling iron won’t die in this situation either, so you can just step back and come back later.
Because they want it too.
“Vestla.”
“Is the trump card I mentioned last time valid in the current situation?”
Allen put aside the futile thoughts. The future relationship of the circle religion, the non-communal line to be gained from this, and even the political position of one’s own.
There are issues that need to be addressed and issues that are not.
This was the latter.
“It can happen even under the current circumstances, but do you really want to do it now?”
In exchange for using this, she said she would be out of her mind for a few days. That period she said she didn’t even know. She and she’s not even sure if she can stop this earthquake.
But even in the Witch’s Forest.
Even in the previous Dragias family.
She always acted like there was a way.
She hesitated for a moment, as if something was going on, but after a huge roar, she finally made a decision. she floated in the air she said quickly.
“I don’t have time, so I’ll keep it short. You, I have to wait until I wake up. please.”
Before Allen could answer, her blade shone. Seven of the twenty-four characters engraved on her sword body glowed and flowed in a fading halo.
「I – eihwaz」
defense.
「Y – Algiz D – Turisaz (|gijrisaz)」
self-protection. door.
As each letter was added, the brilliance increased. The believers who were shouting at him also kept their mouths shut and looked at him.
Expectations and hopes for what-ifs flowed from deep in their eyes.
Her voice was like singing, like some kind of magic, and there was something that made people listen.
「F – lagniz B – berkanan < - kaunanj
flow. growth. Initiate.
After a while, she uttered one last word.
「I – Isazu (「saz)」
stop.
At that moment, the beam of light coming out of the sword exploded in an instant and shattered.
Allen was forced to breathe in the pressure emanating from the sword for a moment. The intimidation was so great that it shook his mental power, which had been strengthened by the baptism of the stars.
To the extent that it was only natural for the old woman to plead herself at the last minute, no, to the extent that Allen felt her warning was weak.
And the oppressive feeling disappeared at the same time as the halo scattered around.
Allen thrust his sword into the floor and grabbed his trembling arm.
‘For a moment… .’
I felt superior to the beast king.
If you feel stronger than that evaluated within three fingers of the arm, above it.
‘Douglas Abel, the leader of the Knights of Berserk… Shan Miyak, the strongest warrior among the Eight Rivers, said to have disappeared suddenly somewhere.
Allen had never met the two of them, but thought that pressure alone could not exhaust him, at least not as much as they did.
As Allen raised his head, the Milky Way flowed over the darkened city.
The twinkling lights spread across the city in an instant, sucked into this crack of mine.
Silence arose.
“••• Is it the end?”
“Sah, the apostle did it!”
“It is also an apostle!”
Others barely grasped the situation and shouted.
Even those who did not understand English quickly raised their hands and praised Allen’s name as the earthquake subsided.
“••• Confucius, are you okay?”
Enelia realized that Allen had lost her strength, so she approached cautiously and supported her.
I couldn’t show myself falling down or being supported while others were watching. Allen, with her help, called Bestla into her.
‘Vestla, how much power is this… . ah:
You said you’d lose your mind for a while.
She had no answer.
No matter how many times you call
The sword’s functions, including increasing the size of the sword, remained, but her voice was not heard.
Allen felt a moment of emptiness that the voice she had been with for more than a year had disappeared, but the situation was not yet over.
Even after the earthquake was over, the buildings that had collapsed and collapsed, and the holes in the basement that were still open were still there.
At that moment, a believer standing in front of the collapsing building had eyes terrified.
The rest of his gaze on Allen didn’t seem to hear the building collapsing. Just before he hit the building, the building stopped.
At the same time, all the walls and buildings that have collapsed or have fallen have started to disintegrate.
The walls and floors of the building were separated by small blocks of stones, and debris fell to the floor. The decomposed stones were turned into small pieces of stone.
“••• Broken metal.”
fourth prophet.
As if Allen was right, the fragments of the disintegrated stone went back into the ground as if to fill the hole.
After such a long time, by the time the dawn came from the east, most of the buildings in the city had disappeared except for the castle).
As he was looking around the city that had become like a wasteland, a female devotee ran towards him.
As Allen drew her sword and balanced herself, Enelia naturally retreated back.
“Apostle! Heh, hoo”
“Speak slowly. What’s going on?”
“The prophets are looking for you!”
First, the hurdle has been crossed.
The hut survived the earthquake. It was strange to see that only one hut was left in the middle of the collapse of the surrounding buildings, but Allen felt it was natural.
‘This must have happened before the return.’
But once you’ve overcome it, you can’t escape.
The door was still open this time.
Inside were both dry waves and broken iron.
As Allen entered, Enelia followed. She didn’t say anything, whether the dry tide had recognized her qualifications, whether she thought it was useless for her to speak to the current situation.
“If you pay this much, it’s cheap.”
His body was shrunk overall.
I was able to clearly notice that the size I used to be large had become smaller… , in a way it was natural.
‘It is an exercise of such power.’
It did not end with simply building walls or lifting minerals above the ground.
The building that was about to collapse was stopped, and all the stones and iron inside it were separated into small pieces, and without stopping there, all gaps in the ground, which were presumed to be the cause of the incident, were closed.
If he paid the price for that delicate work, he would have been right.
It was his right and responsibility to use his lifespan.
Allen had no right to meddle.
“Then why did you call me?”
The sight that Allen saw as he came all the way here was that the believers calmed the confusion and began to help others.
There were people who were not injured in the riot, but there were a lot of people who died or were injured.
“If that’s how it happened…”
“That’s what I’ll tell you.”
The dry waves that stopped the crumbling iron’s words looked the same on the outside, but deep in their words, anger was felt.
“That wouldn’t be bad either.”
The broken iron nodded and folded his arms.
After a few moments of awkwardness with his slender arms, the dry wave that looked at him began to talk.
“Estodor, those corpse-smelling bastards are the cause.”
Allen was not surprised.
A few days ago, I was puzzled.
Estodor had been stagnant for several months, leaving only the last seal.
So it must have been the same when Estodor Bondan was destroyed before the return, and when the old man pretending to be an apostle that Allen had killed appeared.
But how could they get the airship and escape?
‘Only one.’
Estodor can’t break that seal either.
So they simply thought.
“The earthquake that rang for several days wasn’t the collapse of the ground beneath the city, it was their work.”
If you can’t open the seal, let’s break it.
“Unless the basement is completely empty in the first place, it is not easy for the ground to collapse.”
Broken iron supplemented the description.
“I just checked the fourth one filling the basement and found that there is a huge passage under the ruins.”
Estedor was trying to recover the non-colonial ship after destroying the entire ruins by dropping them underground.
“It turns out that the attacks so far were also a feat to cover the eyes.”
It was successful before the return, but in the end, the ring bridge that remained after losing the battle got the airship and left.
This time they failed, thanks to Bestla’s actions and the sacrifice of a broken iron that didn’t miss it.
‘Then it’s clear what’s going to happen now/
Gugugugung-
A sound radically different from what an earthquake occurred.
“The undead has attacked!”
“Except the wounded, prepare the rest!”
“Apostle, tell the Prophet!”
The operation was only half successful, so I had no choice but to annihilate them in battle and then try again.
Even in the tense atmosphere, the dry wave had an unchanging tone.
“The apostle, along with the fourth, pursue the trail and punish those who have done it.”
“Then what are you going to do here?”
The faint worry in Allen’s words changed her unchanging expression.
She looked at him with a cool smile.
“Until the Apostle and the fourth came, who do you think blocked this place alone? I want to say that, but…”
Having said that, she returned to her original expression and looked at Inellia.
“It would not be enough to stop them from coming in with determination. If the Apostle’s handmaiden helps, I’ll make up for it later.”
When Allen nodded, Enelia also left without saying a word.”
“Then, I wish you good luck.”
She pulled out a coral cane from the floor and ran out of the hut.
Inelia also bowed her head to Allen once and followed her. The crumbled iron went out and opened her mouth.
“Are you afraid of high places or dark places?”
“No, I’m not that afraid.
“Is that so? That’s good.”
he waved his hand
The floor of the hut shook, and pieces of stone and iron began to split sideways.
There was a hole where I didn’t know how far it would go in front of Allen and him.
“You’ll have to go a little deeper.”
The golem jumped down with the horse.
Allen smiled and threw herself into the dark hole without hesitation.
Now was the time for a counterattack.