193 – Salvation – 2
Eight pupils, or four pairs of gazes, focused on me after I finished speaking. All of them had eyes of different colors, with no resemblance.
Serena’s blue eyes, Christine’s yellow eyes, Charlotte’s blood red eyes, and finally Olivia’s black eyes. All eyes were looking at me alone.
It was not that difficult to read the meaning of the pupils looking at me. In that gaze, I could hardly find the sticky love I had ever sent or the feelings of jealousy right before the explosion.
The emotion filling most of his pupils was astonishment. It was the first time for me to receive that kind of gaze that was not blind love, faith, or jealousy, so I suddenly felt unfamiliar.
How the hell did I get here, how the hell can I raise blue mana, how the hell can I handle divine power, how the hell did I use dimension cutting.
And, how the hell am I burning black mana?
All of them will be full of doubts, full of doubts. Even that Charlotte had a face that couldn’t hide her astonishment, so I could guess the size of the shock she must have received when she saw me.
‘Just do it. How long have you been with me?’
Except for Serena, who is still only 24 years old, Charlotte and Christine have lived with absolute faith in me for quite a long time.
The time Charlotte spent with me had passed 130 years and was approaching 140 years, and Christine had been serving only me for nearly 80 years.
Throughout that vast amount of time, I was a perfect normal person unable to use even a handful of mana. It’s just that the regenerative ability it has is a little seriously superior.
It wasn’t enough that I raised a blue mana equal in size to Charlotte’s, so I used Serena’s swordsmanship, expressed the same divine power as Christine, and even handled black mana.
The one who wasn’t surprised was abnormal.
“How… how, crab…?”
Olivia, like Serena, Charlotte, and Christine, couldn’t hide her astonishment. However, Olivia’s astonishment was slightly different from the other three.
If the other three emotions were astonishment at the fact that I was able to demonstrate this ability, Olivia’s emotion was astonishment at my act of undoing the time fixation.
Yes, because Olivia must have had absolute confidence in her own abilities. I would have thought that I could never solve the fixed time.
“How did you do it?”
got a sword The greatsword, which had the same appearance as the one inserted into Charlotte’s abdomen, was pointed in my hand at Olivia, shining pitch-black.
It was a weight I hadn’t felt in a very long time, and it was a weight I hoped I would never feel again. But in the end, that little wish was trampled on like this, and the buds were broken.
Because this was the sword he had driven through Olivia’s heart the other day when he fought. For me to be able to use this sword again in any way meant that Olivia was also coming back.
“If you’re curious, there’s nothing I can’t tell you.”
I put mana on my sword. The theory was enough for me. No, it wasn’t enough, it was full and overflowing. I was an incompetent human being who did all I could do was cram knowledge into my head.
In other words, if reversed, it also means that now I can graft the theory into practice. I can put all the vast knowledge in my head into practice.
My knowledge was no longer confined to theory.
When I used body enhancement, the passing time began to slow down. Like Serena, and like Charlotte. It was a state that could only be reached by using physical enhancement to the limit.
Even in this situation, Olivia’s actions did not slow down and were clearly visible. Considering the abilities that Olivia possesses, it can only be said that after doing this, the balance was finally reached.
“It’s not something that should be kept a secret anyway.”
Olivia’s wrist, which had been severed due to the dimensional cut, floated up and returned to the cut surface. I hadn’t even expected it to cause damage anyway.
Olivia, like me in the past, is fixed in time, so of course she will restore it. Didn’t I come back intact even though I was hit by a dimensional cut right away?
The reason for my slow recovery was that Olivia was shocked by my appearance.
“Instead, come and find out for yourself.”
He gripped the handle of the sword with both hands. The amount of blue light surrounding the sword body gradually increased. After hearing my words, Olivia had a dazed face for a moment, but her expression soon turned into joy.
“Yes, I will! Master! I’ll go!”
Olivia shouted with excitement and ran at it. A moment later, a sound followed. The distance between me and Olivia narrowed in an instant.
If it had been the old me, I would never have reacted. I couldn’t even think of countering that, and all I could do was accept all the attacks with my body and give up on when it would end this time.
But now it was different. I could clearly see Olivia running toward me, and Olivia’s ecstatic expression, each and every movement.
‘… … Oh, was it a feeling?’
Swinging a greatsword, I shuddered slightly with emotion.
In the past, with the feeling of being dragged around by a sword, the greatsword, which was used more like a blunt weapon with weight rather than focusing on cutting, was now lighter than a toothpick.
It was the first time. Fighting battles using mana, experiencing the feeling of a much lighter and faster body, everything.
I gripped the handle tightly. I met Olivia’s eyes as she rushed from the front. The corners of her eyes curved like a crescent moon, and the ends of her lips went up. A mischievous smile was drawn on his face.
In his hand was a greatsword identical to the one I was holding.
I looked at Charlotte. The greatsword that had penetrated the abdomen had disappeared at some point. Charlotte was trying to stop the bleeding by covering the wound with both hands, which were covered in a subtle green light.
The greatsword stuck in Olivia’s heart was also gone, so the one in that hand was probably the original. The real sword that I used in the past when I pushed Olivia through the dimensional rift.
“It’s clear that Master and I are bound by fate! We will never, never let go! Right, Master? You think so too? You think Master also thinks that we are bound by a red thread that will never be broken? Yes? We will never be apart. did you?”
“fate?”
I laughed out loud at that nonsense word.
Could this really be fate? Could it be that it was fate that an ordinary human being was trapped in time and struggled for a time that an ordinary human could not even dare to imagine, and to fight this kind of fight in the end?
“If that’s the case, I’d like to see the face of the guy who made it.”
Quaang! The greatsword and the greatsword collided with each other. Olivia didn’t use magic, and I didn’t use magic either. It was just such a confrontation, purely fighting with power and power.
“Ah, Master! I can see it! I can see it! Your soul! And my soul! I can feel it! I can feel it! You really love me, don’t you?! You love me and put my soul inside you? !”
Olivia’s voice rose little by little. The two greatswords collided with each other and slowly began to lean towards me. Correspondingly, the distance between me and Olivia also grew closer.
It didn’t matter whether or not he had just fought a fierce life-and-death battle. A body fixed in time will never change.
“You’re misunderstanding something very big, Olivia.”
gave strength to the arm. The body that had been pushed back came to a standstill.
“You already know that I’m not the only one with your soul, right?”
“…”
Olivia kept her mouth shut. I brought out the inconvenient truth that I didn’t want to confirm, or couldn’t confirm, and put it in front of my eyes.
But the silence didn’t last long. Olivia immediately smiled broadly and looked back at me with soggy affection and love.
“Of course, isn’t it? Master gave me a chance. With my own hands, he gave me a chance to tear apart the souls of the worms that tried to separate Master and me! So, of course, you had to do that! “You’re going to tell me to tear your soul in front of this watch, right? I know everything. I know Master’s heart, his purpose, his intentions! Because we love each other! That’s what it is!”
didn’t work either Instead of getting angry, he smiled wryly at Olivia, who only expressed his unmatched love.
The momentary silence that followed my words was nothing else, but the fact that I had spoken to them was so thrilled that it was close to choking.
Olivia was always like this.
Even when I thrust a greatsword through his heart and threw it across the dimension, he whispered that he loved me even as his body turned black and melted away.
With the words that on the day they come back, they will erase everything except the two of us.
“Olivia, if you really think so.”
Infused divine power into the greatsword. The blue mana mixed with the white flame and burned brilliantly.
“I’ll prove you wrong.”