111 – Lightning
Plop―
Dewin’s body, which lost its upper body, lost its strength and collapsed.
It wasn’t long before he smiled with satisfaction.
I can’t see any movement as the intestines spill to the floor, but I’m not sure of victory because of the strange feeling.
A small uneasiness sandwiched between exhilaration.
It was a negligible size, but having already been tricked by Dwynn once, I had no choice but to be cautious.
A purple object that Dewyn himself implanted into his chest.
I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere before.
Frozen my memory, I spat one word out of my mouth.
“… Chimera.”
I remembered that the core of the tattered chimera that had attacked the restaurant turned purple.
To say it’s a mere coincidence, Dewyn is a member of the Church that the Warlock belonged to.
Even Dwin is a spy skilled enough to infiltrate the academy.
Like me, it was worth having a trump card for insurance purposes.
When I reached that point, I ran straight to Dewin.
If it’s really the Chimera’s core, then Dwin isn’t dead yet.
I picked up the spear of destruction that was rolling on the floor and stabbed it straight into the remaining lower half of my body.
Pu-wook!
A spear that pierced flesh.
However, it was not Dwyn’s flesh that was stuck at the tip of the spear.
Dark red tentacles that look like huge blood vessels.
A tentacle similar to the one we saw on Dwynn’s left arm rose up like a snake from his intestines, blocking the attack.
At the same time, flesh began to grow from Dewyn’s upper body.
I tried to swing the spear at the sight of him displaying tremendous regenerative power similar to the battle continuation, but demonic energy suddenly erupted from Dewyn’s body and he had to hurriedly pull back.
I felt a tingling pain on the back of my hand that touched Magi, but the anger rising toward Dewyn suppressed the pain.
Dwyn’s regenerated upper body was not in human form.
Like a monster wriggling in an abyss, his upper body turned into a bunch of tentacles, and his face took the place where his navel should have been.
Dewynn, who raised his eyes and saw me, seemed to have lost his reason, and gnashed his teeth like a beast.
“Kyaaagh!”
Dewyn radiated his mana as if running amok.
The air through which the magic passed through froze.
As if winter had arrived, Dewyn caused a blizzard with simple ‘magical power’.
Whewyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyying!
Intensifying blizzard.
As Dwin’s tentacles danced, ice spears began to fall from the sky like hailstones.
After seeing that, I immediately took out a bean sprout seed from the storage room.
Throwing seeds containing magical power around, he created a cover in the empty plain.
Quaaa!
While the rapidly growing beanstalk blocked the ice spear, I ran toward Dewin.
Because I don’t know if it’s magic or magic, the space coordinates are distorted, so I couldn’t use space magic around Dewin.
If Dwin used the Tattered Chimera’s core, the strategy would be simple.
Destroy the core, or turn the entire body into powder with powerful destructive power like Roel.
First of all, we had to approach Dewin and confirm the location of the nucleus.
Perhaps he noticed my approach, Dwyn spewed tentacles.
I raised my mana and hit it as it was.
The tentacles exploded from the spear he wielded with the body strengthened by the power and magic of the berserker.
“Keuugh!”
A thick demonic energy flowed from the bursting tentacle. The skin that touched Magi melted as if it had been touched by hydrochloric acid, but he did not stop his steps toward Dewyn.
Like a tree stretching its trunk, tentacles rushed toward me from Dwin’s body.
I cut off what I could, and blocked what was left with my arms and legs.
Quaaang-!
A huge pillar of ice burst through the floor.
Predicting the attack from the moment the ground trembled, I drove my spear into the ground and launched myself into the air.
I dodged the pillar of ice by a short distance, then rotated my body in the air and put that power into the spear.
The spear that drew a circle as it scraped the ground cut through Dewynn’s body.
Chwaaagh!
Dwynn’s split body spewed out dark red liquid and instantly stuck back together like slime.
A fleeting moment.
I could find a purple core that wriggled and moved like it was alive inside Dwin’s body, which had been split in half.
The reason Dwyn was able to regenerate his body even though his upper body was blown off.
The position of the core in the chest right before the attack was moved to the lower body.
“Kuaaa!”
Suddenly, Dwyn let out a nervous scream. The air froze at the magical energy contained in that scream, and a chill ran through my skin like a blade.
As I tried to swing the spear again, I belatedly realized that my arms were freezing.
Extreme chill surrounds Dwin like a protective shield. The moment I realized that, I pulled my body back without regret.
I opened my distance from the chill and checked the space coordinates once again, but I couldn’t use the space coordinates around Dewyn.
Instead of losing his sanity, Dwyn spews mana like crazy and uses magic.
A situation where you can’t use space magic, the only way to attack from a distance, in a situation where you can’t approach Dwin.
I frowned and thought of a way to attack Dwin.
Everything around was frozen by Dwynn’s magic. Ice spears fell from the sky like hail without rest, and they were refusing to approach due to the extreme cold.
As time goes by, the extreme chill around Dwynn will gradually spread to the surroundings, and the ice spears will continue to fall and pile up on the floor.
Quaaa!
Even more, pillars of ice began to rise from the floor.
Remember the next move while avoiding attacks by using the ice pillars and ice spears as cover.
I don’t know why, but the power of destruction doesn’t work. You can’t even make a dimensional entrance near Dwin, and it’s impossible to approach.
A one-hit, deadly attack against an opponent who is not affected by the power of destruction.
After thinking for a while, I came up with an idea.
Although he maintains his reason, the anger of wanting to kill Dewyn remains.
That became my fuel and I came up with a very simple yet effective method that I wouldn’t normally think of.
Just like how Dwyn dropped the ice spear from the sky, how can I use Dimensional Jump from the sky to fall towards Dwyn?
Of course there will be damage to me too, but for now this method was the best for me.
Since I decided on a method, I moved my body right away.
The beanstalk was thrown around Dewyn and circled around him.
To attack me, a pillar of ice rose from the ground and a giant beanstalk surrounded Dewin.
It wasn’t long before they filled the area around Dewyn with cover so that there was no room to escape except the sky.
A beanstalk grew huge under my feet and I grabbed it and went up into the sky.
Ice spears rained down on me, but Dwynn’s magic did not reach the high places, so I was able to recognize the spatial coordinates.
Change the location of the ice spear that fell overhead to go over Dwyn’s head.
“Kuaaa!”
An angry scream was heard from below.
At that sound, I smiled and raised my head, checked the highest spatial coordinates I could recognize, and set it as the dimensional exit.
Quite high.
The location is several times higher than the rooftop of the academy.
Rather than being afraid, I was first convinced that at this level, I could definitely kill Dewyn even without the power of destruction.
Quaaagh!
As I was thinking that, a huge ice spear pierced the beanstalk.
Looking down, Dwyn couldn’t stand it and saw Dwynn stretching his tentacles upwards and shooting huge ice spears.
I took a deep breath at the end of the beanstalk for a moment. I threw myself down before the huge ice spear created by Dewyn was shot.
Feeling the sound of the wind and the feeling of floating, I made a dimensional entrance where I fell under the force of gravity.
Falling at high speed, I passed through the entrance of the dimension and came out through the exit.
Because the exit was set to the reverse, I got out of the exit and soared higher. I gradually lost my speed and stopped altogether.
A moment of weightlessness.
In that situation, I lowered my head and looked down at Dewyn, who looked like a single dot.
Suddenly, I smiled at the members, wondering how they would react if I told them what I had done.
For Luna… Have to keep it a secret
I think I’m going to get scolded for some reason.
As I began to fall under the gravity again, I gathered my mana toward Dwynn and used the dimension jump.
***
There were many superhumans with transcendental powers on this continent.
Theodore, the leader of the 2nd Imperial Knights, was one of them.
When the knights of the Empire are gathering in the Great Forest after hearing that the sacred gate that guarded the entrance to the Great Forest was destroyed by the Church.
The 2nd Imperial Knights were on standby in the capital.
Like other Imperial Knights, there were many members who wanted to go to Daesilim and earn merit, but they had no choice because Theodore, who had the lowest rank, was forced to wait at the Imperial Court.
‘I wanted to go too.’
If it wasn’t for the academy seniors, I would have argued a little bit. Among the leaders, there was no one who was not from Transcendence.
Since trivial matters are taken care of by the Metropolitan Guard, I just sat there and waited….
That was the hardest thing for a knight.
“Hey, stop moving your legs.”
At the point of the adjutant who was filling out the documents, Theodore threw away the knight training book he was looking at.
“I think I became a sword master to do this!”
“I heard that there is no one in the group who is not a sword master…. Are you going to do it with just that?”
“Shut up, Leo.”
When Theodore, who had nothing to say, cursed, Leo shrugged his shoulders.
“Still, waiting for a mission is more comfortable than going to a fight, isn’t it?”
“What are you doing because you are comfortable with your body!!!”
When Leo was digging his ear hole at Theodore’s cry, someone hurriedly knocked on the door and came in.
“Captain Theodore!!! Urgent news! The Crown Princess is in danger of falling into the church’s trap!!!”
“What! Such a thing! Let’s go out immediately!”
Theodre, who had been buried in his chair, raised himself up with joy, and Leo joined in.
“Hey, haven’t you heard the strange rumors somewhere? Why is someone in the academy dangerous?”
“Isn’t that what I heard?”
As Theodore looked at the member with a disappointed look, the member who brought the news took out a piece of paper from his pocket and held it up.
“It’s real! The information just came from Modest!!!”
“What?! Modist? Then it’s real!”
If you are a modeist, it is a secret information guild that is famous even in the Imperial Knights.
If information came from a place that even aristocrats received through screening, it couldn’t be dismissed as simple rumors.
Leo, who was timidly sorting out the paperwork, hurriedly got up from his seat at the name Modist, took the paper from the member, and read it.
“Due to the betrayal of the knight escorting the crown princess, we are currently battling the church outside the capital. A quick request for support. The current location is 35 km north of the capital….”
Leo shouted at Modist’s seal, which boasted a clear presence under the paper.
“But, Captain! Head out right now… !”
“Okay, everyone on the move! I’m going to rescue the crown princess!”
At Theodore’s cry, the members who were sitting with bored expressions stood up.
***
As the 2nd Imperial Knights departed, Estelle and Amber followed them while maintaining their distance.
“Oh, he must still be alive, right?”
Amber asked in an anxious voice.
“… You will be alive.”
It wasn’t long before Ross, but Estelle was sure why.
It didn’t seem like Ross’s story would end here.
Didn’t he even call himself a prophet?
Amber, who continued to ride after the knights, suddenly got chicken skin on his skin because of the cold.
Amber looked at Estelle with a curious look at the sight of the knights advancing, slashing the ice spears falling from the sky, without a moment to feel doubt.
“It’s Dwynn’s magic.”
After Estelle explained that, she waved her hand, and the ice spear that fell on Amber and Estelle disappeared.
The speed of the Imperial Knights, which were moving ahead, decreased. Amber, puzzled, looked forward, saw someone raising their hand and pointing to the sky, and moved their eyes to follow.
The full moon that drives away the darkness.
Someone was floating there.
I couldn’t see it in detail due to the distance, but it looked like a person holding a long spear.
Perhaps she saw something, Amber rubbed her eyes with the palm of her hand.
“… Loss?”
Amber’s eyes widened at the sound of Estelle’s voice from next to her.
‘You didn’t see anything wrong?!’
When Amber raised her eyes to the sky again.
She could see.
As if falling from the moon like a shooting star, a flash of red color falling from the sky….
Kwaaa!!!
A belated, earth-shocking roar.
A huge shock exploded and dust covered Estelle and Amber.