Chapter 671 – Discovered
“I… Thought that Hellion would be able to lead Zephyria much better than me. Well, but this… How could Hellion…”
Helena muttered with her helpless face.
In that short time, it seemed like it was confirmed that Claire’s story was not a lie.
“This is wrong. Besides, what the military did to this city is completely unacceptable. I need to talk to Hellion!”
Talking to Hellion?
I was inwardly taken aback by Helena’s sudden, unexpected action. As if she knew how I felt, Claire intervened.
“Helena. Calm down. That… It’s better not to do it now.”
“Why?”
Is it because I don’t know the real reason?
Claire sighed and said at Helena’s unrealistic attitude.
“Helion has been working behind the scenes for a long time to erase your memories from Zephyrian. In fact, there are far more people who don’t even know your name now. Even if you want to talk to Hellion… There is a high possibility that dialogue will not even take place.”
Even if the conversation was successful, it seemed unlikely that Hellion would change his mind after hearing Helena’s words.
“Well, I am Hellion and her family.”
“Family? Does that have any meaning? Helena, if you were my family, you wouldn’t have been imprisoned here for over 8,000 years. Besides, that disaster wasn’t your fault alone. It was the fault of Zephyrian, who exploited the demons to fuel their hatred. This is bigger. It’s not a serious crime that warrants being locked up for this long.”
“Well, still… I…”
Helena has a complicated expression at Claire’s words.
“… Helion is now the ruler of Zephyria with omnipotent power that no one can challenge. That means that if Hellion had been willing, he could have taken you out of here at any time. But he locked you up and There was. I don’t know what that means?”
“Well, that is…”
“It’s been a long time… Helena. There is a high possibility that she is not the same Hellion you remember.”
… Or it could be that Helena just viewed Hellion favorably because he was her family.
“Helena. I also think what Claire said is right. Hellion oppressed countless innocent people just because he was looking for you. But do you think he will listen to you?”
Nora agreed with Claire’s opinion.
“…”
Helena seemed speechless at Claire and Nora’s story.
“Still, if you want to talk to Hellion… It doesn’t mean there isn’t a way.”
Nora said her meaningful words.
“That… What is it?”
“You’re creating a situation where Hellion has no choice but to talk to you.”
“Creating a situation… How…”
“It’s power.”
“Hey, power?”
“Yes, power. Helena. Have you forgotten what happened to Terra? Terra retreated when you became the master of the star. It’s the same thing. If Helena has a power that even Hellion can’t mess with, then let’s talk. Wouldn’t there be room to try it?”
“Hee, if it’s strength… Ah!”
After hearing Nora’s words, Helena thought for a moment and looked at me as if she had come up with a good idea.
‘Even if you give up your position as the master of the stars… Have you recognized the power I have?’
But the words that came out of her mouth were different from what I expected.
“Mr. Bark. Selly! Celestia, didn’t you say that the child sent you here?!”
Helena asked me.
“Yeah… Right.”
I nodded.
“Well… Sally. I need to meet that kid. We have to hurry. We don’t have time.”
I didn’t quite understand what Helena was saying.
Celestia and I fought against great demons together. I have a general idea of what powers and abilities she has.
Celestia is weaker than I.
But I don’t know if there is any way to meet her.
I admit that Celestia’s abilities are outstanding, but that’s at the level of an archvillain.
She doesn’t have the ability to keep Hellion in check.
Celestia said that too… If she had that kind of power, she wouldn’t have had to ask me for help.
‘Or… Is there something I don’t know about?’
It is possible to assume that Celestia deceived me, but…
It’s been 7 years since I met her, if it’s a long time it’s a long time and if it’s a short time it’s a short time. From what I’ve seen of her personality so far, I didn’t think she would deceive me.
I can’t think of any good reason to do that.
Well… Whatever the reason, it seems like Helena is planning to accompany me after Claire and Nora’s persuasion.
‘Rebellion… I honestly didn’t have many expectations…’
She thought that he was just a burden, brought to her out of kindness through her connection with Kaura. But it helped in an unexpected place.
The old sage’s proverb that even dog poop can be used in medicine sometimes surprises me.
“Then, let’s go.”
“Wait a minute.”
Helena stops me as I urge escaping.
“…?”
“I can’t leave the residents of this city behind.”
“… What does that mean?”
“It means we can’t leave the residents of this liberated city behind.”
“…?”
I thought I didn’t hear correctly, but I didn’t. Suddenly, Helena told a story that had absolutely no reality, and my thoughts stopped for a moment.
“What happens if you don’t leave it behind?”
Are we going to hold a sit-in protest here?
If Helena’s way of thinking is strange, I’m a little afraid that she might really say something like that.
“I’m going to move through space.”
“Space… Movement?”
“I plan to move the city through space.”
“The entire city? Is that… Possible?”
I know that Zephyrian has space movement technology, like Panthera’s magic.
They often used that method when sending troops to the ground.
But moving the entire city…
I don’t know much about Zephyria’s technological capabilities, but it’s still hard to believe that they can space-transport an entire city like this.
“Yes, this city is specialized in space travel. I made it that way from the beginning. If you are on a planet, space jumping is not difficult.”
“It was made that way? Really? Was this city also a great evil castle?”
“It’s not the Great Devil Castle… It’s a liberated city…”
Helena muttered that she didn’t like the name Great Devil Castle.
“The characteristics you are talking about probably refer to the power of the Great Devil.”
“Authority? Ah, you mean the unique characteristics of each liberated city. Yes, that’s right.”
If so, I understand a little.
The Great Devil grants its owner one power. And if this city is the Great Devil Castle, then its power is space movement.
“Is that possible now?”
“Wait a minute. Let me check.”
As Helena said that, she displayed dozens of hologram screens in front of her. She then waved her hand around and appeared to be manipulating the screen.
‘Is this what it would feel like if you directly manipulated the Great Demon Castle?’
Since I leave all control of the Great Demon Castle to Cosmos, I rarely see a screen like that.
“Oh… There’s not as much energy in the core of the liberated city as I thought. It’s barely enough to make a leap. There’s not as much energy as I thought, so it’s going to take a while to prepare for the leap.”
“It takes time? How long does it take?”
“I think it will take about 20 minutes.”
It was shorter than I thought.
It was surprising that it only took that long to prepare for large-scale space movement, but it was not satisfactory in the current situation.
Zephyria’s military must have already noticed that something was wrong with Helena’s barrier… And even 20 minutes was a burden.
“Helena, can’t it be faster? The army will arrive soon.”
“That’s difficult. This is the best when the city’s core energy is low.”
Helena was resolute.
There seemed to be no room.
“Ugh…”
They say it won’t work, so what can I do?
I decided to wait.
Originally, I was planning to dig a hole and escape.
It’s an ignorant method, but… My magical power is easy to materialize, so if I get Suni’s help, it wouldn’t be a problem to create a monstrous drill car.
Well… It takes much less time and labor to move through space than to ignorantly dig a hole… And you can take this city full of pure beauties with you.
Considering that, it was worth taking a small risk.
Has about 10 minutes passed?
Helena, who was busy manipulating the hologram, frowned.
“An entity with quite high-grade magical power is approaching from the northeast! At the current speed… It is expected to arrive within 5 minutes.”
High-level magical power… I think I know who it is.
It was expected to be Karaz Commander Besmore.
He was the only one worth being wary of.
Moreover, if it is in the northeast…
It was similar to the direction I had taken in dealing with the pursuers… The decoy operation seemed to be successful, but it seemed like they had noticed something wrong with Helena’s sealing barrier and were rushing to the Pantheran.
There are still 10 minutes left until preparations for space transfer are completed, and it seems wrong to secretly leave just because we’ll arrive in 5 minutes.
“I’ll go out and kill time.”
There was no one else who could have done it other than me.
“We help too.”
Cloud and Hermann are trying to follow me.
“No, I’m going alone. You deal with the Zephyria army coming this way.”
They say Besmore left his post to chase us, but there were still some military forces left in the city.
There is a possibility that they will come here… No, they will come.
The Rebellion guys then needed to escort Helena, so she could operate her archdemon castle without a hitch.
They weren’t very trustworthy by my standards, but they were the strongest here except me, so I had no choice.
