183 – Final Awakening
“Cool!”
Christine, who had been hit in the stomach by the monster, vomited blood from Christine’s mouth. Before the vomited blood even reached the floor, the black blood monsters ravaged and devoured it.
As if that wasn’t enough, they fought each other, baring their teeth. It was to the point of devouring the limbs of his comrades, pulling off their heads and drinking the gushing blood.
Christine raised her divine power by taking advantage of the momentary gap between the monsters. I concentrated the raised divine power into my fist and struck the neck of the nearest monster.
It’s hard to believe that fists collide with flesh! A sound rang out.
However, the black-blooded monster managed to withstand the attack.
While groaning and screaming in agony from his mouth, while hesitatingly backing away from the recoil, in the end, his upper body endured without bursting.
Christine was about to launch her next attack, but she quickly threw herself to the side when she felt a chill behind her back. A clawed hand scratched past Christine’s spot.
I grabbed the monster from where I was thrown with my hand, tore off its upper body and threw it to the left and right, respectively. The missing leg and the missing leg struggled and rolled on the floor.
It was a work that had been repeated for a long time. I can’t even remember how many times I’ve already torn, exploded, and killed the black blood monsters that were charging at me.
First of all, I think I caught a million, including those that were melted using divine power. In this black space, the numbers were just meaningless pieces of data, so it was only speculation.
Christine, who killed three more monsters, looked around. The monsters, who had become much more violent and ferocious than when I first saw them, were flocking here, filling up the empty seats.
After cleaning all the black blood monsters with holy power, it was okay until I exchanged fists with that cult. After that, it was fine when that heresy summoned a new black blooded monster.
Even that was fine until Christine wiped it out. Even when new black blood monsters poured out right after they were annihilated, it was fine for now.
It wasn’t fine after that.
Every time this short moment passed, it seemed like they were adapting, the more Christine killed them, and the more new black blooded monsters were created, the more their resistance to divine power rose.
The black-blooded monsters, which used to melt by the hundreds just by brushing Christine’s arm, were now more likely to attack, enduring at least one blow with their fists.
From a certain moment, Christine couldn’t approach Olivia at all. Because he was in a hurry to deal with the black blooded monster, he didn’t have the time to do that.
Olivia was leisurely looking down at Christine from above, flapping the two pairs of demon wings behind her back. His expression was full of composure.
Such a relaxed appearance itself was a trap. Seeing that, Christine, whose eyes turned upside down, attacked, and immediately a tower of black blood monsters was built in front of him.
Christine’s power was almost the same as when she first came in, but the problem was that the monsters summoned by Olivia were adapting to the divine power very quickly.
The reason was because Olivia was dealing with Christine, Charlotte, and Serena all at once, but Christine couldn’t figure it out.
The fact that the monsters began to rapidly adapt to divine power was only possible because they applied Serena’s ‘concept-cutting ground’.
“Keep it off?!”
Christine gritted her teeth as she felt the pain of a heated knife slicing through her flesh. I turned my head. The teeth of the black blood monster had swallowed the whole arm and were embedded in the left shoulder.
Before he could react, he spun around. In response, my shoulder spun about three turns with a crackling sound. The skin was twisted together, and the feeling in the arms became dull.
The shoulder joint was completely harpooned on the fourth lap. Christine endured the pain and raised her divine power to create a divine explosion. To put those efforts to shame, his body returned to the fifth.
The hips and arms fell off the shoulders.
Hundreds of monsters rushed towards the one who cut off Christine’s shoulder. The monsters fought, fought, and killed each other, fighting for life to eat even one more bite of the severed shoulder.
Christine exploded her holy power around her body to distance herself from the monsters, and then tried to recover her torn shoulder. Having his limbs ripped off was already a familiar wound.
Then, the pain felt in his arm made him vomit blood again.
I hurriedly inspected the wound. The black mana was eroding the ripped off part and interfering with the action of divine power.
Christine hurriedly clenched her fists and tore off the flesh that had been engulfed in black mana. It was no use. The black mana still stuck to the wound and didn’t think about dropping.
Olivia giggled in the air and laughed at such a Christine.
“Did you think you could tear it apart? Are all those who believe in God so stupid? You don’t even know what’s eaten your body?”
“Shut that mouth… shut it up.”
Christine stumbled and clenched her remaining fist. My center of gravity was awkward because my left arm had been ripped off, and a burning pain surged through my shoulder, but that was a good thing.
The fact that her God is still alive.
That alone was reason enough to fight.
“Now.
At the words Olivia uttered, the monsters surrounding Christine rushed at them with unprecedented ferocity.
ㅡ Chaeyoung!
With a sharp explosion, Serena’s body bounced back for a long time. Serena couldn’t even get the proper landing position and rolled on the floor.
Serena, who had been rolling backwards for a long time, was able to stop in place only after applying the brakes while scraping the floor with the tip of her wind shear. Blood oozes from his palms, which had been torn apart by friction.
As he stumbled and tried to get himself up, his knee momentarily lost strength, causing one leg to break. It was fortunate that, at least, he supported himself with a knife and avoided the catastrophe of falling forward.
“……Is it still not enough?”
Serena muttered that and spat blood on the floor. The inside of the mouth was fishy. Judging by the clot of blood rising from his throat, it seemed that somewhere inside his intestines had been injured.
He allowed so many effective hits that I couldn’t even remember when he got hurt. Serena did damage to that one in her own way, but that bitch had healed all her wounds, so only this side suffered.
Olivia approached Serena with calm steps.
“Huh? You got down on your knees? You mean you’re going to give me allegiance? But what to do, I don’t need a bitch like you. All I need is Master.”
Serena gritted her teeth at the sound of Olivia’s mocking voice from far away, and stood up.
Only the momentum that was revealed was as vicious as the first. He hadn’t lost his fighting spirit yet, and despite the two blue walls staring at Olivia, the will to defeat the enemy was burning.
But Serena’s body wasn’t like that.
Blood was leaking from the cuts that were etched everywhere, and both legs were trembling, albeit minutely. The fact that his knee was bent once was proof that his stamina was starting to run out.
The fingers holding the wind shear were also trembling slightly. This is not a problem of the mind, it is a problem of the body. The force to grip the handle is clearly weakened, so the result is immediately apparent.
Serena aimed her wind shear at Olivia and charged. Then, he became aware of his own body condition. Compared to the beginning, the running speed was noticeably reduced.
Wind shear flashed in the air. The sword was swung dozens of times, but it only flashed once. It was the result of dozens of slashes passing by in an instant.
Olivia did not dodge the attack. I didn’t even accept it. He looked at Serena with an arrogant expression, and just greeted her.
The attack went right in. Olivia’s wrists were cut, her elbows were cut, and her shoulders were cut. The ankles, knees, thighs, and finally the neck were all tumbling down, creating dozens of pieces of meat.
And that was it.
The chunks of meat created by the wind shear slashed and passed by returned to their original form as they floated in the air, ‘as if time were rewinding’.
A little over a second was enough for Olivia’s body to regain its original form. Olivia, who had restored her body, tilted her head with her greatsword in her hand.
“Is this all?”
“…”
That was the biggest reason Serena had never won against Olivia.
Any attack, even the concept of recovery itself, was useless in front of that ability.
Because, that’s exactly the same ability as her master. Olivia herself said it, and Serena instinctively realized it.
As long as Serena couldn’t fulfill her lord’s wish, she couldn’t defeat Olivia.
“Then is it my turn?”
With those words, Olivia swung her greatsword. It was an attack that was neither fast nor threatening, and was close to just flicking the greatsword in place.
“What?!”
But Serena couldn’t block the attack.
Because it was an attack that applied Charlotte’s ‘timeline’. Since Serena can’t read the timeline, it was only natural that she couldn’t parry incoming attacks from the past.
The right heel was completely cut off. It was a fatal blow. The strength in his right leg went out in an instant. Serena stumbled and put her weight on the wind shear to prevent her from losing her balance.
It was a truly unflattering sight. Serena helped herself inwardly.
“You have to stand up, huh? You tried to take my master away. You tried to take my master away from me! Then you have to stand up! Huh? Huh? Ah, really, can’t you? You can’t because I cut you down. Yes. I I must have asked too hard of a favor. It was too hard of a request for an idiot like you, right?”
Hearing Olivia’s ridicule, Serena gnashed her teeth and infused mana into her body to boost her natural resilience, but it was nothing.
No matter how much natural resilience increases, severed tendons do not come back.
recovery magic? could write It’s the end of knowing only very basic concepts, and it’s a level where you can only erase scratches. Serena hadn’t even thought about learning magic.
It was because I didn’t want to set foot in that bitch’s field. It was the same with Charlotte, so she didn’t bother to learn swordsmanship.
Serena forced her weak leg to stand upright. As if to make fun of it, this time a tingling sensation ran through his left arm.
Power drained from his left arm and it drooped down. It was difficult to even lift a finger. A beat later, the pain of all the muscles being shattered rushed in.
“Where do you want to cut off next? An arm? A leg? Or even an eye?”
Olivia didn’t even look like she was in an attacking stance anymore.
I have to attack. I need to kill that thing. My body couldn’t move the way I wanted it to. The limit was to hold on without tipping over to the floor using the wind shear as a support.
“If you don’t want to answer, I’ll decide. Yes, I’ll cut off your fingers little by little. Never, never kill me. Because you tried to separate Master and me. Because you dared to covet my Master.”
Olivia raised her greatsword.
“Pour it out.”
At the gesture of Charlotte who finished the chant, a rain of mana fell. Wherever the raindrops touched inorganic metal, a huge explosion occurred.
Olivia snorted and dispelled the magic. The blue mana, which had lost its center of gravity, was swallowed up by the black mana and disappeared in midair.
Charlotte bit her lip. The bloody red eyes moved busily, examining the situation around them.
The black mana that engulfed the entire nearby space left only a distance of less than 10 meters from Charlotte. Everywhere he could see was black magic and black mana.
Right now, Charlotte’s blue mana barrier was preventing complete encroachment, but considering the mana consumed to maintain the barrier, it was only about 10 minutes at the most.
Wriggling, Charlotte’s left eye witnessed something. I clenched my fist. The blue mana emitted light, and the mana split into thousands and disappeared into each timeline.
Inside the twisted time, black mana and blue mana collided and gnawed at each other. Charlotte repelled all of Olivia’s attacks. Except for just one place, just one timeline.
Charlotte’s response was a little too late.
“…!”
His right arm snapped and broke with a gruesome sound. It was because of the damage caused by not being able to block magic in the past timeline. The past has changed, so the present has changed as well.
Blood was flowing, but there was no sensation other than pain in the arm. It felt like I was dangling a piece of meat rather than an arm.
The battle between the two meant that. It’s not a battle where you only have to worry about the present, it’s a battle where you have to care about the past as well.
Healing magic was not used. Black mana was eating away at his right arm, so it was obvious that even if he used healing magic, it wouldn’t work. Even if you cut off your arm and try to make a new one, the same will happen.
The black mana must have eaten away at the newly sprouted arm.
“It’s hard? It hurts? My heart hurts even more. My heart hurts even more when I have to be away from Master. Compared to the pain I’m experiencing right now, that doesn’t even add to the pain axis.”
“Shut that mouth.”
Charlotte raised mana. Now, the time to prepare for the aftermath of mana exhaustion was coming.
The mana potion was useless. If I had to drink a thousand without stopping, the duration of the magic barrier around my body would increase by about 1 second, but considering the efficiency, it was better not to drink it.
There was no way an attack that used a level of recoverable mana like that potion would work on that crazy bitch.
“A monster like your bitch will love my father-in-law? Stop talking nonsense.”
monster. Charlotte was an expression referring to Olivia. From Charlotte’s point of view, that was a year worthy of being called a monster.
It’s because it completely destroyed my timeline.
The monster had no past, no present, and no future. Just at this moment, at this moment, Olivia standing in front of her eyes was all that existed in time.
Everything in this world remains in the past in the past. Didn’t Charlotte recall her past self when she first looked at the timeline through the dragon’s eyes?
But that monster was different. That was exactly the same existence as Olivia at this moment, whether it was 10 years ago, 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago.
And 10 years from now, 100 years from now, even after 1000 years, she will be exactly the same as Olivia at this moment.
Olivia’s entire timeline was killed by that monster herself. Because he killed both his past self and his future self.
That was why Charlotte couldn’t read the timeline of that year. Even with the dragon’s eyes, it was impossible to see things that did not exist.
why did you do that? Of course it was because of jealousy. Charlotte was sure.
It must be that he was jealous of the traces he left behind in the past and the traces he would leave in the future, leaving only the present and killing everything else.
“gibberish?”
Olivia took a step forward. The movement of black mana hitting the blue barrier became more intense. Randomly crossing the timeline, I bumped into it without sparing my body.
“ㅡ!!!!!”
A crack formed in a part of the mana barrier that couldn’t withstand the impact any longer. It was caused by the momentary oblivion of the fact that his right arm was damaged while blocking the black mana while looking at the timeline with the dragon’s eyes.
With his broken right arm, he couldn’t reinforce the defense wall in time, so it was only natural that the aftermath would explode.
In that brief moment when Charlotte realized her mistake, the rift had grown out of control. Black mana crossed the barrier and crept inside.
A trickle of blood flowed from his mouth. It was because the burden on the body increased rapidly.
“Did you think someone like you deserved to say something like that?”
Olivia laughed at Charlotte. Before Charlotte could draw a new defensive magic circle, black mana rushed in from beyond the rift.
That was the moment.
The three souls pulsated slightly.