110 – Goal
I’m dying without a single moan.
Memories and thoughts are jumbled, as if the brain was torn apart by an ice shard embedded in the head.
What was I doing?
It’s breathing, but it’s too weak. Organs that have failed to function roll on the floor.
As if hit with morphine, the pain is blunted. Will the indomitable courage give strength again?
The power of geath forces me to continue my thoughts. Like a conscious vegetative person, moving your body is difficult, but your thoughts never stop.
I also felt dejected, wondering if this is really the end. I don’t have a feeling that my efforts so far have been denied, but on the other hand, I felt relieved.
It took a lot of time. If Estelle’s reinforcements arrive in time, Bella will survive.
If that happens, this world will return to its original flow and meet its predestined ending.
Like the original flow, the end of the world where I no longer exist.
Eyelids slowly closing, the feeling of being sucked into somewhere as if falling asleep, just before letting go of everything.
As if someone forcibly injected it into my head, Luna’s face suddenly came to mind.
A bright smile, warm warmth, and even her unique gait. After that, the faces of the members came to mind like a kaleidoscope.
Although she rolls around in bed and eats sweets, Aria is kind-hearted and cares about her friends more than anyone else.
A colleague you can always rely on, and a reliable Lakar who became your first friend.
Even Kane, who grunts with a troubled expression on everything, but pretends not to know for her friend.
Without me, can they reach a happy ending?
I really don’t know.
Because they were just extras who couldn’t even be mentioned in the novel.
It will be difficult for them to escape from the many tragedies to come.
Even Luna’s family is destined to collapse.
Thinking of Luna’s grief over the loss of her family, her friend, and her lover, an emotion surged up and held her broken spirit by force.
It cannot end here.
I promised to change Luna’s predestined tragedy, the tragedy that a single line of meaningless writing would create into happiness.
I also felt the desire to live. There were so many things I wanted to do with Luna. I wanted to share feelings, memories, all of them.
Unlike the clear purpose of survival created by indomitable courage, ironically, the near-moribund body frantically desires death.
It’s close to human instinct to want to somehow escape the constant pain.
A clash between reason and instinct.
However, indomitable courage is never broken. Even in the face of death, it moves for that purpose.
I was barely able to open my eyes.
Then, even if I tried to raise my body, there was no more strength left in my body.
Judging from the hum and roar of something a little far away, it seems that Dwynn is attacking with magic to pierce Bella’s encroaching barrier.
Thanks to my indomitable courage with a clear purpose of [Survival], Even in the face of death, I remembered ‘insurance’ in preparation for such a time.
Spitting out the blood that was filling up in his throat, he reached for the fingers that were stuttering on the floor.
This finger doesn’t respond at all, and it looks like it’s an eyeball that’s damp.
Unable to distinguish objects due to opaque vision. Fortunately, he only had a few fingers.
As I finally put the back of my hand, which had been torn off in half, to the finger wearing the oath ring, a familiar message appeared in front of my eyes.
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[Ring of oath]
―A ring imbued with the power of the covenant ‘Gias’.
It is a magical restraint and curse, but the shrewd gias gives powerful power.
◆ Current oath
– Repay Ellie’s trust.
– My love for Luna never changes.
◇ Current constraints
– Lost most of his abilities while unable to reciprocate Ellie’s faith.
■ 1 Current oath.
– Repay Ellie’s trust.
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Even the message started to shake and the letters began to disappear. With death clearly approaching, I realized that I had no time, and I did the only thing I could do for the clear goal of [Survival].
Recalling her vow to never change her love for Luna, she thought of restrictions without hesitation.
Restriction – Death when you change your mind – 7P.
-Are you sure you want to confirm the constraints?
One day, the day may come when you will regret loving Luna forever, just as you regretted putting restrictions on Ellie’s oath of faith.
I can’t promise that I won’t regret today. I heard that people’s hearts change. But even if it wasn’t fortitude in the face of death, there was one thought that sounded like complete confidence.
I am more afraid of not seeing Luna anymore than the end of my life.
It is not that I am detached from death. I’m not a hero like Roel, nor a transcendent. But my priority was Luna.
Even if this was my new ruin, it was the best I could do as a coward, desperate, running away, and choosing.
I chose the power I had seen before with the shortened pinky finger that was danglingly attached.
[Battle Continue] – 4P
Among the choices I can make right now, it’s the only option to escape from imminent death.
It would be nice if I could choose something like 9P’s ultra-fast regeneration, 11P’s time regression, and 14P’s Undead, but I didn’t have any points.
It’s unfortunate, but the effect of continuing the battle is stronger than any magic I know, just like the power of Geass.
Like pouring potions relentlessly. The dismembered body instantly regenerated back to its original form.
The field of vision in my left eye returned to normal, the tiredness I felt all over my body disappeared, and I felt the energy filling my body.
A power belonging to [Authority], Not a classification of magic or talent.
I got up off the ground and lowered my head to check my body condition.
The only thing that has changed is that runes are engraved on the back of the left hand as if it were a tattoo.
Perhaps it represents the proof of continuing the battle.
Dwyn seemed to have completely turned his attention to me, who was like a corpse, and was focusing on attacking Bella’s barrier.
Dozens of ice spears hit the barrier directly from the sky, and tentacles emanating from Dewyn’s hand entangled the barrier.
It was a seemingly dangerous situation, but while the encroaching barrier was maintained, Bella was close to being invincible.
I don’t have time to relax, but I have plenty of time to organize my thoughts.
After removing the oath ring from the severed finger and putting it on the middle finger of my right hand, I immediately used the remaining 3Ps as well.
Choosing to continue the battle was unavoidable due to the situation, but the power I would choose this time was something I had been thinking about for a long time.
[Berserker] -3P
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[ Ross ]
Age: 20
[Abilities]
Strength 2.1 / ▲0.2
Endurance 1.9/ ▲0.6
Instantaneous power 2.7 / ▲0.2
HP 2.7 / ▲0.7
HP 2.1 / ▲0.1
Innate Ability
Luck 1
Charm 2
Intelligence 8.3
[Talent -*Indomitable Courage]
*Activated by Gias
– Gain the courage to work hard without giving up on the goal you have set in spite of any adversity, temptation, or difficulty. It is the armor of will and the fortress of reason.
[Talent -*Magic Amplification]
*Activated by Gias
– Temporarily explosively amplifies the magic you have.
[Talent -* Berserker]
*Activated by Gias
– Instead of falling into madness and losing reason, you gain powerful power. The closer you get to death, the stronger the power you gain.
[Boss Skill – Continue Battle]
*Activated by Gias
– Get out of the danger of death during battle and continue the battle.
You get a high penalty when the power ends for as long as the power lasts.
[Personality]
◇Sense of defeat
[Power]
◆ Check ‘Yonghari’ setting book
– Start language Yonghari
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Gias’ explanation says this.
It is a magical restraint and curse, but the shrewd gias gives powerful power.
Perfect Gias.
After thinking about what that might mean for a long time alone, I came to a conclusion.
If the power of a geath, which has a disadvantage close to a curse, is offset by the power of another geas, wouldn’t it give ‘perfect strength’ that complements each other’s strength by meshing like gears?
Having reached that conclusion, I came up with a plan.
The indomitable courage I had before is the power of Gias, which allows me to maintain reason in any situation.
And berserkers were powers like a double-edged sword that allowed the user to gain strong power instead of falling into madness and losing reason.
If the effects of Gias’ Fortress of Sanity and the effect of losing Sanity of Berserkers meet…. What kind of synergies will arise?
It was almost like a confrontation between a spear that can pierce anything and a shield that can block anything.
That’s why I was confident. I created this view of the world, but it was a world in which probability was arbitrarily applied.
The artist’s imagination was the closest to probability. That the probability can be predicted.
A spear that pierces anything must create a ‘result’ that will pierce it unconditionally, and a ‘result’ that a shield that blocks anything will also be blocked.
If probability were applied to indomitable courage and berserkers, I would be able to obtain the ‘result’ of both.
With the feeling of someone forcibly stretching my heart, I naturally realized how to activate Berserker.
My heart warmed up with my will and started beating like crazy. The power of madness swept through the blood vessels throughout his body.
As a result, thanks to my indomitable courage, I did not lose my reason. I just felt a very intense rage that I couldn’t control.
Feeling the strong beating of her heart, she picked up the spear of destruction that was rolling on the floor and turned her body towards Dewin.
Indomitable courage and berserkers want Dwin’s death. Once the goal is set, intense hostility draws out speculation.
He kicked the ground. My body, unable to adapt to the intense power I felt inside, rushed toward Dewyn on its own.
―――!!!
Dwyn, who had been concentrating on attacking Bella’s barrier by making dozens of ice spears, turned around in surprise at the sound of the gong behind him and immediately counterattacked.
Dwin, who was blown away by the impact, looked at Bella from the side of his eye while rolling on the floor.
Golden eyes met mine with intense emotions.
Bella moved her mouth with an urgent expression as if to say something, but due to the nature of the encroaching barrier, no sound was heard.
I wondered what she was saying to her pleading expression and shedding tears, but the fight wasn’t over yet.
After confirming that the encroachment barrier was still in place, I threw myself back and charged Dewynn.
Dwyn, who had balanced himself, stretched out his tentacles. He wielded the Spear of Ruin, but no tentacles burst from the power of Ruin. However, the cut tentacles were cut off by the spear blade.
Once again confirming that the power of destruction does not work on Dwyn, I reached out to the regenerating tentacle.
As soon as my hand touched it, the tentacle began to climb rapidly up my arm like a vine to my head, as if trying to trap me.
It’s either scary or not scary. Rather, only the cold anger that he would kill Dwynn somehow filled his head.
With only one hand, he held the spear of destruction again. The heart beats and all the power and magic within the body is put into the spear.
I didn’t need help close. It wasn’t a perfect posture, but strong power alleviates many conditions.
A javelin thrown with such force that it tore off all the muscles in its arm.
The tentacles eating away at my arm became shackles, and Dewyn could not escape and hit the javelin.
Boom———!
Dwynn’s entire upper body exploded, and pieces of blood and flesh splattered.
A satisfied smile formed on his lips at that appearance.