It was the sound of something shattering.
Neither glass nor ceramics… A loud and eerie sound of something I don’t know breaking to pieces.
With that sound, a notification window appeared in front of my eyes.
[Minerva’s power is destroyed!]
[Unbelievable achievement! As a reward… .]
That was the last thing I could see.
Minerva’s shriek-like scream took away all of my senses, but in the meantime, I somehow managed to escape from her fangs that had been lodged in my body.
“Jihyuk… !”
[Yeseul, go back in!]
When Jin Ye-seul saw that there were large fangs stuck in my body, she tried to come out in a panic, but she went into the shadows of the road with an expressionless expression on my face.
Then, from the shadows, with only her right arm exposed, she grabbed Nidhogg’s deep-seated fangs.
She exerted some force to pull it out, then released her hand as if giving up.
That was then.
Minerva’s venomous breath hit us.
I could feel the poison seeping through the wound, and for a moment it was as if I heard someone scream.
In the meantime, he was in the middle of collecting Nidhogg’s fangs, which had been pulled out halfway.
― uh uh uh
[How dare a doll with neither this nor honor dare touch my body!]
I felt like Minerva’s body was shaking, and then something grabbed her tightly.
After seeing the golem trying to force her mouth open, I was able to quickly sprint and escape.
[go away!]
The gigantic golem shattered in an instant with a quaking sound.
It was when he was careful and avoiding the debris falling over his head.
“Ugh!”
A man with two swords swung his sword as if to protect me from fragments.
Then, the man, Osse Evans, swung his sword at Minerva and threw an intangible blow into her face.
Seeing the scar on Minerva’s face, he grinned and glanced at me.
“Good job.”
And as if to run away, he rushed towards Minerva.
After that, a woman with blue hair fluttering as if following him ran with an ice spear, and Lee Myung-jun, who was covered in lightning all over his body, spit out a roar and rushed at Minerva.
[Where, where are you going!]
Slashes, ice, lightning, blue flames all over the body… Even in the sight of whether even a dragon like her could endure it, Minerva’s eyes were chasing only me.
It was the moment when her amber eyes turned crimson in an instant.
[Addicted to deadly poison!]
[The poison’s power is greatly reduced due to the high resistance value!]
The first thing that came to mind as soon as I saw the notification was none other than Jin Ye-seul.
I quickly found her hiding in the shadows… .
[…] Yesul?]
He could see his right arm turned dark and fainted.
He quickly pulled her out of the shadows, and a foul odor hit her nostrils.
[ah.]
It was the smell of her right arm, which had turned black in that brief moment.
It was as if he had been poisoned by Nidhogg’s poison.
The difference was that Nidhogg’s poison was a moth from the inside, and Minerva’s poison was an acid poison that broke down from the outside.
So, because she had excellent physical abilities, at least the shape of her arms remained.
[Yeseul, come to your senses! hey!]
“… Ah, heh.”
She was struggling to swallow a painful moan.
Cold sweat, pale complexion, and above all, his right arm, which is rotten and stained.
As soon as I saw it, there was only one word I uttered.
[Sbangali!!!]
As if waiting for my call, Sbangali appeared in the form of a thorn bird.
I said, carefully handing over Jin Ye-seul, who was holding him.
[Go and find Ahn Joo-hyuk. It must be a face you know. remember? Go tell him to heal Yesul.]
Sbengali just shuddered without a word, her body made of thorns.
The thorns growing out of his body carefully grabbed Jin Ye-seul’s body.
[go. never let me die… .]
Then, Jin Ye-seul moved and grabbed my arm.
It was a gesture that did not contain any power, unlike her usual one.
“Ji, Hyukah… .”
She gasped and wept.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I ruined everything… .”
[I have nothing to be sorry about.]
I said clasping her hand and holding it.
[You did a really good job. Now I’ll take care of it. So don’t worry and rest.]
“me… Did you really do well?”
He nodded, gently wiping his forehead, which was full of cold sweat, silently at her words.
[okay. You did really well.]
“thank god… .”
After saying that, she quietly closed her eyes.
Sbangali immediately took her and started flying somewhere.
After staring at it for a while, I checked how much time was left.
6 minutes.
Now, after about 6 minutes, the king of thorns is released.
I had to finish it before then.
[Whew… .]
Taking a deep breath, he made another thorn spear and held it in his hand.
Recognizing that Minerva’s attack was working, the Sip Gangs hit her with their feet and fiercely attacked her, but none of them could leave a mortal wound to her.
[Shut up, I don’t have time or mind to get involved with you!]
Minerva shouted that, and suddenly let out a loud roar into the air.
Then, distinct changes began to take place in her body.
A bright red liquid that looked like blood flowed from the crimson-stained area that had been engraved like a pattern.
And it flowed down her scales and became a geometric pattern.
It looked like it was drenched in blood.
– aah!!!
Li Wuwei roared face to face as if he would not lose, and then began to tremble and tremble.
An oriental dragon facing a western dragon.
The pupils seemed to disappear from Wu Wei’s eyes, and then a flash of light came out as if it had been an incandescent lamp.
We had been fighting for such a long time.
[What the hell are you trying to do… ?]
Then, I could see a strangely large shadow falling with a strange sound.
Raising my head and looking up at the sky, I swallowed my breath in admiration without realizing it.
it was fate
A meteorite was falling from the sky.
And it was the power of Li Wuwei, a member of the Ten Rivers, a hero of national salvation, and praised as the incarnation of a female dragon.
― Big, ah ah ah ah ah!!!
Shaking his body as if he was having a seizure, Wu Wei roared as if squeezing his voice.
[huh.]
And Minerva, now covered in crimson instead of black gray, laughed quietly.
Her amber eyes were reddish red than blood, and the horns, which were huge and overbearing from the beginning, had turned even more menacing.
[Where did you do something like that… .]
After saying those words, Minerva took a deep breath.
With that alone, the debris of the surrounding buildings began to shake, and the ground began to shake as if an earthquake had occurred.
“stop.”
Then, Anastasia Lukyyanenko raised her hands wide, and made a strange seal, pretending to wield something at Minerva.
Then, there was a sound as if something was breaking.
It was a sound like cracking ice, and it was like a tree splitting with sap frozen in winter.
Then Minerva’s gigantic body began to freeze, and in an instant she was trapped in the ice.
She, who was previously a stone statue, has now become a statue of ice.
However, Anastasia, who had a cold expression on her face, groaned and bit her teeth after a while.
Every time her expression grew harsh, Minerva’s frozen body began to tremble and tremble.
“hurry… !”
Before she could even shout, the gigantic knight was already wielding Warhammer with all his might.
Just as a frozen flower can be shattered with just the slightest impact, Minerva was a blow full of will to make it happen.
And before Warhammer could reach, Minerva’s tail pierced the knight’s chest.
“Cuckoo… !”
“Mister Richyard!”
someone’s scream.
A huge knight who vomits blood and falls.
Pieces of ice shattered and scattered.
Minerva was just looking at the meteorite falling towards her with an intact appearance.
Soon after, she exhaled violently at the meteorite falling towards her.
No, it wasn’t a breath.
It was simply a collection of pure mana.
She simply compressed the mana into a high density in her body, released it, and shot it like a cannonball.
And just that alone, the meteorite that fell from the sky disappeared without a trace.
[Since a while ago, it was so annoying that I couldn’t stand it.]
With those words, Minerva flew straight to Wuwei.
He tried to avoid it quickly, but his movements were so sluggish that he had exhausted all his energy from the previous blow.
― Craig aah!!!
Soon after, a scream of pain resounded, and hot blood dripped like rain.
Biting off Wuwei’s body, Minerva shook him violently with her mouth shut, as if to cut off the breath of a prey, and each time she did, the dragon’s blood splattered everywhere.
[Now there will be no trouble.]
Minerva, who threw Wuwei away like a slap, muttered in a calm voice.
It was when I grabbed the spear of the thorn and tried to run right away.
[ah.]
With her, our eyes met.
[It was there.]
And her eyes were clearly curved as if they were happy.
Li Wuwei’s blood dripped down her chin and dripped from her slightly opened mouth.
[My dear foe.]
With those words, she looked at me slowly.
To be more precise, he was looking at the king of thorns that surrounded me, not me.
[Sbangali. I see That’s how it was.]
she muttered quietly.
[I dared to cut.]
Don’t chew on it and kill me later.
After muttering like that, Minerva slowly moved her head and began to look at me as if looking at me.
[By the way, dear. How did you become so weak? My legs are shaking. Even my posture is shaking… .]
[…] … .]
I grabbed the window without a word.
The thorn coffin had long since been lifted.
The remaining time is approximately 2 minutes.
At least once is the time to face-to-face.
With that in mind, it was time to try to use the thorn tube once more.
[Maybe 300 years have made you so weak… .]
She couldn’t finish her speech.
Because a pillar of light fell from the sky and swallowed Minerva.
Then, another pillar of light fell one after another and called out the size of the circle of light.
It was Aegis.
“How can you not be late?”
Then someone came and tapped my shoulder.
It was Ahn Joo-hyuk, a member of the Ten River and the only healer.
“That’s Jihyuk-kun, right? Do you remember me?”
I nodded and held out my hand as if to ask him to wait a moment.
Then he made a bow from the World Tree, hung a spear of thorns on it like an arrow, and aimed it at the pillar of light where Minerva was imprisoned.
[…] Will it work?]
He didn’t seem too surprised to hear my voice.
“One of the things I like the most about Aegis is that when it’s worn out like that, even if we attack it, it will work well enough.”
At his words, I let go of the bow string I was pulling without hesitation.
As I watched the thorn spears being sucked into the circle of light, I could see the other ten rivers, each attacking inside.
“The girl is finished with treatment. Fortunately, poison did not penetrate the bones, and thanks to his strong body, he should be able to move as he did before with only a few days of recuperation.”
I could feel the tension in my chin relaxed at those words.
Without realizing it, I sat down on the ground, and he put his hand on my body and said,
“… That’s great. I naturally refuse to touch my mana. Do you need any treatment?”
[Others… ?]
“You are the last. Richyards could stand on the front lines, but… I don’t know Wu Wei.”
[Then I will take care of you.]
I took a deep breath and mumbled that.
It was because he could feel that the king of thorns was loosening with his whole body.
At the same time, I felt a sense of exhaustion, as if my whole body was being corroded.
“Okay then, I’m sorry, but would you mind taking it off? If I wear that armor, my magic or healing won’t work… !!!”
[…] uh?]
Ahn Joo-hyuk disappeared while he was talking, so he let out a dazed sound without realizing it.
Immediately after, the sound of the exterior walls of the building being crushed could be heard from afar.
“… … .”
A woman was looking down at me.
Standing still in a kicked position, she glanced at me and began to slowly pull her legs back into place.
She had a large horn on her head.
As if it had depended on Minerva, it had large and overbearing horns.
“Why are you losing your mind?”
Muttering in a beautiful voice, as if singing, she looked at me and smiled.
“It’s not the first time I’ve seen myself like this.”
Her bright crimson eyes looked at me and ripped long.
Shortly thereafter, her legs flew away, aiming at my face.