Episode 134. The Queen (2)
Day 78.
“ah!”
“Queen’s legs!”
Balparok, who was persistently aiming for the lower body from the start, ended up ending one of Grace’s legs.
Grace, who must have been feeling tremendous pain, clenched her teeth and did not take her eyes off Balparok until the end.
“Your will is like steel. Truly my adversary!”
Losing her mobility on the ground, Grace was helpless, but she desperately earned time by believing in the three types of magic missiles.
“Aerial warfare will be against you.”
Balfarok, who looked at Grace, who flew into wealth, with half disappointment and half interest, burst out laughing as she provoked with one of her remaining hands.
rock… song… .
The tactics of those that Grace endured and Samsik attacked were a time-limited operation that ended when Samsik’s mana was depleted, and that was the moment.
Samsik lost consciousness for the last time and was reverse-summoned.
Grace had expected something like this to happen sooner or later, but when it happened, her eyes were far away.
“See you again, Wild.”
As the skull of the three sets disappeared, Balparok extended his fist full of powers towards Grace, and attacks with various attributes including explosions and vibrations attacked her.
Boom, bang, bang!
Grace was pierced deep into the wall of the cavity, as if hit by a giant hammer in a row.
As Grace slid down the wall along with the wreckage of the shattered wall, the crowd and moderator who had been screaming loudly just a moment ago held their breath.
“It’s over… , it is.”
“Yeah, now it’s our turn to worry about our lives.”
woo woo-
Everyone accepted Grace’s death, but only Balfarok remained skeptical.
‘The attacks in the front are futile to lose the mind. Only the last blow was an attack to stop the adversary’s breath.’
No matter how hard you are, it is normal that you do not remain in shape if you are struck by this Champa liquor created by combining dozens of powers.
But the fact that the body is so fine… .
“Did you stop it?”
how?
Balfarok approaches the fallen Grace to solve his doubts.
spatula.
“Well? this.”
A golden flash of light flashed past the edge of his vision in an instant, and his vision turned round and round.
his neck is cut off
Balparok couldn’t help but laugh when he found the identity of what had been cut off his head as he rolled on the floor.
“Kuh-huh, crumple.”
Where his gaze reached, his golden fists were floating.
* * *
After the duel where everyone felt death.
Grace aroused a will to move the golden fist in front of her to the place where her left fist was.
Then, as Soma’s fist moved exactly there, she felt something connected.
When they think that they clenched and opened their fists, the golden fists act as they are. The difference between will and action was faster than when I actually moved my body.
“… It was not a hallucination.”
As Valparok’s final blow was being delivered, Grace inadvertently imagined blocking with her left arm.
Then, the golden fist tied to the belt reacted and moved at Grace’s will, blocking the attack.
In the brief moment of splitting a fleeting moment, Grace recognized that this fist was no different than a part of her own body, and immediately fed it with acceleration and float, aiming at Balparok’s neck and blowing it away.
Even though it was done in a hazy ritual, it was pure luck to have the neck cut off correctly.
“eww… .”
Grace, who continued to think, collapsed due to the exhaustion of her body that had reached its limit.
“Winning, winning. Quinn has beaten Balparok!”
“Aww! Lived!”
While Breele was cheering and drawing the audience’s response, Naradol cut off the leg of a wild boar beast, which had become dust and vanishing, with the ax it was carrying.
“phew.”
Naradol, who managed to cut it off before the effect of the drug spreads, takes out a few tools and begins to separate the meat and bones with familiar gestures.
Some of the spectators who watched the scene looked disgusted and then turned their heads to see Narradol making a fire, grilling meat, and even smoking it.
If you want to eat food, it is much more efficient to buy with points.
“Moderator, will you eat that?”
“No, I’m giving it to Queen.”
“ah!”
Naradol had heard early that Grace had to eat food through three meals, but the reason she couldn’t do so was because of Balparok’s declaration that if she offered something to the adversary, she would be killed.
“Hey, then you die.”
Naradol, who was chopping meat, threw his knife into a chopping board soaked in blood, and looked at the spectator who had just spoken.
“Let’s say Quinn died in a duel today. Then you and I were all headed to the cemetery. If it’s the same here and there, I’ll at least do my part as a human being.”
Then he turned around and saw Naradol using the leftover meat, and some people said it was the right story and went out to help him.
“Yeah, maybe the reason I’ve been sulking lately is because I can’t eat.”
“And it turned out that our pets also had to feed them to be active.”
“You don’t have to know who gave it to you. Let’s all put our hands together and pretend we don’t know!”
The food was prepared under the initiative of Naradol, and after a while, Grace, who was brought to her senses by the strange scent, saw the meat table in front of her tent and quickly covered her face with her hands.
Tears that couldn’t be seen even when Balfarok tore off her arm were running down her cheeks.
* * *
woke up It’s been a while since I realized that. Although the passage of time is not clear, it has been more than two months.
If you hadn’t heard Queen’s voice faintly in the middle, you might have been distracted earlier.
‘It’s terribly dark.’
Not only light, but no mana is felt. I heard that the universe is in a vacuum, maybe this is what it feels like.
The only comforting thing is that my body exists. For example, if you fumble your head, you can touch the mysterious horns, which are joined by magic.
breakage.
‘Ugh.’
However, like a female cat that has just given birth, holding her finger every time she touches it is not particularly rude.
Anyway, whenever I wonder if I’m alive, I touch the horns like this. Isn’t pain the proof of life?
‘Heh.’
When the trait is activated, I would do some training, but nothing was reacting, so only a boring time passed.
… One day, a change was felt in the horns. Exactly, it’s a slight pain.
What do you mean, the feeling of tapping your forehead with your elbow?
It bothered me, but it didn’t hurt too much or there was no way to stop it, so I left it alone.
… After a few days, the pain spread all over the body.
Tung, Tong, Tung.
This regular pain, for some reason, was a very familiar feeling.
‘Isn’t it similar to the heartbeat?’
Upon realizing it, the pain and resistance of the horns disappeared.
… I suddenly realized
‘The problem was me.’
I was unconsciously rejecting the horns. That’s why the horns also considered me a threat to themselves.
The pain felt around the horns may have been the horns’ cry to stop accepting themselves.
admit it Wearing horns all the time was a burden for me, no matter how individual the awakened society was.
The arrest rate of villains with distinct external characteristics is overwhelmingly higher than that of general villains.
‘It bothered me.’
According to the spell book written by the Elder of the Demon School, the horns must be removable. Whatever the content, the root is ‘summoning’ magic. But looking at what is going on now, it seems that the detachment is wrong.
‘heart.’
The horns were already playing the role of my heart.
“ah.”
voice comes out
“Great. Ah, okay. let’s go together I did it if you regretted it, I have no regrets.”
In fact, if you have horns, the problem is when you work as a dark nexus, but when you think about it, moving while hiding your appearance is enough.
If it’s too late, you can use one of the crew members as your surrogate.
The horns vibrated briefly. are you smiling
“Well? Five… .”
Immediately afterward, I saw myself in a cocoon in a third-person perspective on one side of my field of vision.
small. Is it a fetus?
What used to be crooked has grown rapidly with the passage of time and became who I am today.
“Are you born again?”
In the process, the horns were constantly supplying me with mana that became the driving force for growth.
A race that only grows with mana? that’s perfect
“It’s the devil.”
My anxiety ended with a feeling of negative thoughts in the horns.
“Isn’t it?”
Burr.
“Okay, then.”
He was a demon species known for possessing powerful powers and a constitution that transcends dimensions, but he was told that he was destined to be bound to all kinds of contracts by birth.
I’m also busy preparing for the Gblin battle, but I hate wasting time getting caught up in something.
“Can’t we just go out soon?”
Even though she was still in middle school, she was worried about what would happen outside, so when I said that, I could feel a huge rejection from the horns.
“Even if you look fine, your body is not complete, so if you leave now, will you die? uhm.”
As I swallowed my drool in discouragement, the horn made a suggestive suggestion. If it’s a moment, I can show you the outside.
He waved his hand when he heard something incomprehensible that he was putting my soul, which had been separated before being united with him, into reality.
“just do it.”
My vision flickered with a feeling of being sucked in, and the entire cavity was visible beneath my feet.
‘yes?’
Surprisingly, the appearance of my soul was that of a middle-aged body before the return.
‘Did I have a beard like this?’
It’s been awhile since I rubbed my chin and felt a sharp sensation for the first time in a long time.
I saw the Queen being thrown into the wall by the attack of Balparok.
‘her?’
That was the end. My soul that came out quickly returned to the cocoon.
“I have to leave now.”
I didn’t see it in detail, but it is certain that Queen is in crisis.
bur.
“Is what you just showed me in the past? Already winning and resting? Are you sure?”
Burr.
The ordeal of not killing him makes him stronger. I was worried, but I was more confident that Queen would overcome it.
“Okay then.”
Burr!
“Is it the soul-like judgment that inherited the ninth horn?”
What a bullshit all of a sudden
The answer that came back to my question was a long story about a demon who wandered in the afterlife.
“Is that the original owner of this horn?”
burr.
The narrative about the origin of the horns was quite interesting, but not enough to stimulate my romance.
However, the story about the properties of the horns that followed had to be listened to.
“Wait, so you’re not the first horn summoned?”
Burr.
To summarize the thoughts sent by the horns: It is said that this demon, who played a great role next to a man who was bitten as a giant in the afterlife, had one attribute in each horn, and the sixth horn was a curse.
However, it is said that the reverse of my curse deflected it and the ninth horn was summoned.
It was all a mysterious and surprising story, but most of all, the most surprising thing was that my constitution was enough to reverse even that great demon’s power.
Well, I’ve heard a lot of people say he’s worse than the devil.
“So, what are your attributes?”
burr, burr.
“divinity?”
The horn added that the demon had previously become a god with multiple planets, and the ninth horn was created when he reached the level of a god.
what are you talking about
“God and Nabal, Gblin George help me.”
Burr!
After the feeling of humiliation passed over to his thoughts, he recited the power he possessed one by one.
“Oh, I should have told you that! It must have been ambiguous between us. Let’s do well in the future.”