145. Jaca Ancilla (2)
“I’m not going to camp this time. I want to go home.”
“…Going home?”
Claire nodded her head at the unexpected answer.
“My father asks me to come back during vacation. I’ve only been away for three months.”
“…I guess you didn’t want to go home.”
“Yes? Did I do that. …Ah.”
At that, Claire clapped her hands as if she had realized something.
Then he sneakily shows the armband hanging from his arm.
“Even Jaika knows this. The brilliance of Andebarium.”
“Of course I know. It’s an heirloom of the Marquis of Entirus.”
“Actually, I lost it.”
“…Lost it?”
“I’m saying this because it’s Jay Carr’s sister. She keeps it a secret from everyone else. She’s fine now because I found out some time ago.”
Losing the brilliance of Andebarium is a serious problem for the Marquis of Entirus. No matter how much the Marquis of Antirus loves his youngest daughter, Claire, the loss of her heirloom is not an issue that can be passed over.
So, Claire said, she couldn’t return to her house until she regained the Ande Barium’s splendor.
‘… Something is a little different from what I know.’
In addition to the brilliance of Claire’s Andebarium, there were several differences.
She was caught up in the terrorist incident, Marie Ruhelif miraculously survived, but she was hospitalized in an unconscious state.
Like Rose Eiffeltane unfortunately died in a dungeon.
The question arose as to why things happened here that hadn’t happened before…… , Well it’s not that hard to figure it out.
Jayka entered the Quillas mansion as it was.
Qillas Mansion, once occupied by the faction of the Duke of Bamir, has been neglected since the faction collapsed following the terrorist incident. So getting in wasn’t that difficult.
As Jay Carr walked through her mansion, she quietly drew her sword.
“…Was this?”
And if you cut down her floor, a secret space will appear.
Before the return, as Elpis Bamir speculated, a secret space existed. Jayka, who had been investigating the inside of the mansion like this, finally found this place.
If you go down into the secret space…… There is a sword there.
──Kuh-kuh, you’re finally here.
Just an ordinary sword.
However, the story is different if you transmit thoughts in your head as if you were using .
──How do you feel, mortal. Did you like my gift?
“…Well, it’s better than before the regression. But there are things I don’t understand.”
Jay Carr draws her sword as she responds to her thoughts.
She
Even before she returned, she had a rough conversation with him. It is said that he was once a dragon.
A legendary dragon who hated the gods and wanted to destroy the world.
It is said that the residual thoughts remain in the form of the sword.
──Imagine, a lizard that cut off its own tail. Do you think the tail that has already been cut off and the tail that has grown out will have the same shape?
──It must be similar to some extent. But it can’t be the same. This sword is a failure made not to turn back time, but to destroy and recreate the world.
──The world you knew was already destroyed, and a world similar to it was only reborn. Isn’t it an unavoidable error that a few details change in the process?
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“…Can we think of it as coming to a parallel world?”
──What a ridiculous statement. Structurally, it tells a completely different story.
──But as long as you, a foolish mortal, are easy to understand, that will be fine. As the user of the weapon, do as you please, however.
The dragon’s remaining thoughts sneered.
As for what happened…… I decided not to think too deeply.
If I could just right the wrong, if I had the opportunity to do so——I would just act.
In the screen, Jayka and Lucius party are fighting.
But is it because there are people watching by my side? Leaving halfway to others to watch, I’m not paying attention to what’s going on in the mirror.
I was just idly chasing after Jayka, who was fighting a fierce battle.
“…….”
Jaca Ancilla. The boss of this apocalypse, and possibly the biggest victim.
She has already repeated her regression dozens of times.
[Jika] “I won’t let anyone go to the end of the catacombs dungeon…”
The cause of all incidents lies at the end of the Catacombs dungeon. If so, make sure you don’t go there.
The idea itself wasn’t wrong, and it actually worked to some extent.
Jay Carr lived near the Catacombs dungeon and blocked her entry.
But after a while, she becomes a criminal and is chased around, and in the gap between being imprisoned, Andy Parfum eventually causes an apocalypse at the end of the catacombs dungeon.
So, in the next regression, Jayka starts living inside the catacombs dungeon.
The stairs leading to the last floor of the catacombs dungeon are completely hidden, and if there is anyone who goes near them, they send them back somehow.
As more than 10 years have passed…… Jay Carr has a problem with her body.
Even if you haven’t met the ‘fallen saint’ on the last floor of the catacombs, the power of the ‘fallen saint’ dwells in the dungeon itself in the first place.
So, just by staying in her dungeon, her infection level was increasing little by little, and the effect was evident on Jay Car’s body, who lived halfway in her dungeon.
When Jayka hurriedly came out of the dungeon, many people besides her had already suffered from the monsterization phenomenon.
In order to find the cause of the monsterization phenomenon, Andy Parfum enters the catacombs dungeon and eventually meets a fallen saint, and the apocalypse begins again.
[Jaka] “…It’s not enough just to block entry. We need to get rid of the root cause.”
Realizing that in her third return, Jay Carr decides to attack the catacombs dungeon on her own.
In the end, you should know what a fallen saint is. She needs the strength of a warrior, but she uses her third return as a consumable to find out what kind of being she is said to be able to kill.
Jayka participated in the training camp and attempted to clear the Catacombs dungeon several times, and at the end, she barely reached the ninth floor.
But Jayca…… She failed to capture the ninth floor.
[Corrupted Spirit] “Did you guys wake up my master’s sleep?”
[Corrupted Spirit] “I can’t easily pass over the sin of entering a saint’s bed. I’ll give you a nightmare worse than hell.”
The 9th floor boss of the Catacombs Dungeon, a fallen spirit.
The spirit that followed the saintess in the past has fallen as much as she could and is guarding the stairs leading down to the 10th floor.
The student knights led by Jayka are defeated by the fallen spirits.
[Corrupted Spirit] “I’ll show you special mercy. So that I can take your humble honor.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “You adventurers think clearing a dungeon is the highest honor? I’ll give you false memories of clearing the 9th floor here.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “And then go back and become a hero who completely conquered the dungeon. Don’t think about coming here again, you’d better forget everything and live.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “If you break this promise, then you really will lose everything.”
Jayka returned as it was.
Once it became known that the Catacombs dungeon had been completely conquered, the number of people who entered the dungeon certainly decreased.
Since Jayka had already achieved the honor of clearing the dungeon, Andy Parfum would no longer go to the Catacombs dungeon.
I heard that the knights I accompanied were committing suicide, but…… , It was trivial compared to what an apocalypse would happen.
Because protecting the world and protecting Andy Parfum was Jayka’s original purpose.
So Jay Carr lived up to her promise, but she couldn’t last more than 10 years either.
In the end, the number of infections accumulated and a person turned into a monster occurred, and a large-scale investigation was started again.
Jayka had no choice but to break her promise and tried to head to the catacombs dungeon where her fallen spirit resided.
Then,
[Claire] “You broke your promise?”
[Claire] “I told you. You’re really going to lose everything.”
During her third return, Claire, who had participated in the training camp, was reborn as the “Abyss’ Servant” And scattered Apocalypse in this world.
Before Jayka can turn back her time one last time, she steps through the catacombs dungeon to find out how this happened, and she somehow gets to the ninth floor again.
There she faces the fallen spirit again.
[Corrupted Spirit] “You mean Claire? That child was dead from the beginning.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “I killed it and replaced it with a plausible fake. It could be said that it was something with Claire’s memories.”
[Fallen Spirit] “If he had kept his promise, that child would have lived as Claire forever. It’s all because you broke your promise, Jay Carr and Sylar.”
In summary, it is as follows.
1. As long as the catacombs dungeons have been revealed, the countdown to monsterization begins.
2. If someone does not clear the Catacombs dungeon, Andy Parfum, who is interested in it, attacks and becomes a ‘Henchman of the Abyss’ and scatters Apocalypse.
3. If someone neglects the Catacomb Dungeon without clearing it, an investigation team will be dispatched and someone will be reborn as the ‘Henchman of the Abyss’ and scatter the Apocalypse.
4. If you try to clear the Catacombs dungeon, one person who reaches the 9th floor will die at the hands of a fallen spirit and be replaced with a fake one. If the promise is broken, this fake will be reborn as the ‘Henchman of the Abyss’ and scatter Apocalypse.
The most effective way to stop the apocalypse would have been to cover the catacombs dungeon again, but
Unfortunately, the lord of Count Findelnerca is interrupted, and even that fails.
Only the hero can solve this situation, but Jayka can’t find information about her hero anywhere.
It’s not called the ‘forgotten warrior’ for nothing.
There is a reason why Tia is called the ‘cursed clan’ rather than the warrior clan for nothing.
Information about the hero has been controlled for a long time.
The hero’s information has long been thoroughly erased by the demon king’s cunning tricks, and there is nothing left except for the fragmentary information that ‘the party of forgotten warriors defeated the devil’.
Jeika, who can neither cover up the catacombs dungeon nor find the hero, has only one choice.
Sacrificing.
[Senior Jika! Why are you doing this!]
Lucius shouted after receiving Jaca’s sword in the winter.
I suddenly came to my senses at that cry.
[Senior Jayka…. It’s a nostalgic title.]
[Stop it, Senior Jika!]
[Sorry, Lucius. It’s unfortunate, but I’m not the Jayka you know. Jayka has already died long ago.]
[Yes? What does that say….]
[I am nothing more than a monster in the form of her Jayka.]
Jay Carr swings her arm for a swipe of her.
The clothes she is wearing are ripped, revealing large wings of wings from her back.
It was a grotesque wing. Not devil’s wings, angel’s wings, or dungeon’s wings…… Its wings look as if they were made by weaving tentacles together.
It seemed gross just by looking at it, but for some reason, it had a divine appearance.
A truly transcendent being is right in front of your eyes.
I feel that way.
[I am a monster, Lucius. It’s something you have to kill.]
Jay Carr flaps her wings.
Not a means to fly, but used as a weapon. Its overwhelming weight and freely transformable wings are nothing more than weapons.
Quaang! A roar rang out.
In the rising dust, Ron is revealed to raise his shield.
[Kuh….]
Ron is somehow blocking Jayca’s wings, but her face is full of pain. She somehow manages to block it, but she feels pushed back in the strength fight.
[Lucius, don’t hesitate.]
Looking at her, Lapiska says.
[That’s a monster. It is in the form of senior Jayca Ancilla, but it is no longer the Jayca Ancilla we know.]
[The possibility of returning to normal….]
[No. Since it was not Jaca Ancilla from the beginning, that is.]
It’s different from the infected they’ve seen so far. Lapiska made Lucius strongly aware of that fact.
Lucius takes his heart and raises his sword.
[Okay…. Let’s defeat the monster in the form of senior Jayka.]
The battle begins in earnest.
Monsters from the abyss appear from the mucous membrane that spreads like a mass of cancer and covers the inside of the building.
The appearing monsters of the abyss rush at Lucius and the others, just as they followed Jayka.
After Lapis Car finishes them off, Jay Car takes them down with her wings.
Ron managed to block it with his shield,
Rose casts her spell.
[.]
Flames of hell erupt from Rose’s hands.
Flames hit Jayka, burning the mucous membranes on the floor. And Lucius also jumps forward along with the flames.
However, Jay Carr was hit by the flames with her body casually and blocked Lucius’s sword.
[…] It’s okay.]
[I heard that she became Lapiska’s younger sister, but she hasn’t grown up yet.]
Jay Carr swings her sword, deflecting Lucius.
Lucius tried to swing his sword again, but it was too late.
It was inevitable.
A new sword appeared from the other hand of Jayka.
“It’s started.”
Andy muttered after seeing Jayca’s second sword.
“It’s going to be hard to win that way.”
At the same time as Andy said, Jay Carr swung her sword at her side with her left hand.
When the flustered Lucius steps back, he raises the sword in his left hand and swings it like a slash,
If he wanted to avoid even that, the sword in his right hand aimed at Lucius’ side in succession.
Lucius gradually steps back.
When Jay Carr’s right sword, aimed at his side, escapes, Jay Carr turns his back and throws it away. His wings fly towards Lucius’s head.
Just as Lucius was desperately trying to block his wings, Jay Car twisted her back again. This time he swings his left arm in a low stance, bending her to the knee.
Lucius somehow blocks the left sword aimed at his leg with his knee guard. Then, his right sword aims at the foot and the thigh this time.
[.]
The moment Jayca was about to stab Lucius in the thigh, what happened was an explosion. Rose quickly casts her magic, trying to keep her sword from reaching her.
Using the explosion, Lucius somehow gets out of there and distances her, and Jay Carr repositions her again.
Jaca Ancilla, second-in-command of the 4th grade and vice-captain of the Student Knights.
She is a warrior who uses her twin sword skills as her main skill.
If Er A is a character who uses multiple skills at once through And , Jay Car is a combo character that continues her sword strikes.
Both of them have the same point of being continuous attack characters, but the ark is different. By using several of her skills, Errea can choose to play offensively or defensively, but she has no such option with Jay Carr.
The fact that she held a sword in both hands was the only choice for a combo.
You can of course inflict more damage if you hold and wield a sword with two hands than if you hold and wield a sword with one hand.
However, rather than such instantaneous strong damage, she chose a series of attacks with shallow power, so she wielded one sword in each hand and wielded it.
The same goes for defense. The balance is much better with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.
The very fact that she discarded her shield and picked up another one of her swords meant that she was ignoring her defense.
[That’s not enough to kill me, Lucius…. Maybe it wasn’t enough for you as a first year student.]
Jay Carr looks at her with a look that makes her want to let out a sigh.
The Jay Car in front of Lucius is a fake Jay Car, but she is no different from the real Jay Car in that she has inherited her memories intact.
She has enough skills and experience to occupy the second place in the entire 4th year, and with her monster transformation, she is much stronger than the real J-Car.
Let Lucius grit his teeth and correct Jayca,
A gunshot sounds.
Countless bullets fly towards Jayka,
Jay Car jumps behind her as if he thought he couldn’t stop them all.
As if predicting the landing spot of Jay Car, her sparks fly.
.
The magic I have seen so many times flies and gives Jayka an electric shock.
[…] Not yet.]
A voice resounds like pure white snow.
Catalyst tinged with the light of the night sky shines as if trying to reveal its presence,
Behind it, a turret with a machine gun is showing off its presence.
[Because we are not alone.]
Tia said.
“……That’s the turret I gave you earlier.”