Elf Slave Knight 325

Chapter 325 – 325. The Only Way to End Revenge (3)

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When it’s time to die,
It is said that when you suddenly realize that the time to face death has come, you return to the place you missed the most.

Then I… ,

Did you miss this place full of lies?

“Ha… ! Ha… !!”

With the heart pierced by the dark green radiance,

Corte, who was breathing heavily while clinging to Ardena, slowly raised his head and gazed at the scene of Maherit’s palace.

‘When you don’t realize the truth hidden by the priests… , When my father was alive, I was so proud that I was the reincarnation of the first priest.’

Corte muttered to himself as he looked at the inside of the palace, which was crumbling like a pile of stones as if it were being demolished.

Like an immature person who knows nothing,
He recalled his past self, who was excited about being the reincarnation of the first priest who was revered as a living god.

Could this be the Kuma-deung that I have only heard about? The few happy times in my life passed quickly before my eyes.

“… Ardena.”

With a single stream of blood,
The bloody lips contained the name of the high elf warrior chief.

“Yes.”

Holding the hilt of the holy sword,
He answered the call of Corte, who was relying on him.

Ardena’s eyes shone as sharp as steel.

But I was a bit emotional,
Her emerald eyes, which combined her wisdom and clarity, and her hand holding the hilt trembled.

‘Why….’

Ardena, who embraced the former head of the Goddess, who was slowly dying while bleeding her blood, let out the passion of her sadness through her eyelids that were getting heavy.

Clearly, this woman has committed a sin that deserves death,
She must be a sinner who caused a lot of pain and damage to her compatriots….

But why did her hand that held her sword’s hilt tremble so pitifully?

I couldn’t understand.
Why can’t this heart be cut out?

“You have always been by my side. Even though I was so distant and rejected, I did not leave my side, unlike others.”

Ignore and reject
She hadn’t said a word, and she hadn’t even glanced at her.

Nevertheless, her warrior commander, Ardena Valencia, always faithfully fulfilled her duties, and she never left the circle of her cold-blooded sorceress, called the Cold-Blooded Witch by the Council of Yetzirah.

“The priest… He seemed very lonely. I know the pain of losing someone dear to me.”

To never approach
The sight of Corté bristling her sharp thorns was the typical reaction of someone who is sad and lonely.

From that appearance, Ardena recalled her old self, who had stopped eating and drinking and only burst into tears at the one-sided farewell of her master, who had left her side without a word.

“Is it….”

At Ardena’s answer, Corté nodded her head as she murmured in a low voice.

Why didn’t you leave my side
Now she knows why.

Of course, it was too late.
Still, Corte, she thought implicitly, was glad she had solved the mystery before her own breath expired.

“Why did you choose me?”

Ardena asked.

As a means to meet the end,
Why is no one else… She sent her question asking if she had chosen her.

“Well….”

To that, Corte never responded.

Only vague answers,
Despite her question after question, Corté closed her mouth with a wry smile.

‘I was always in the office, and you escorted me with your back against the wall. For so many hours… No, for months on end…. He never left me.’

Corte also knew that Ardena’s hand holding the hilt of the holy sword was trembling miserably.

Every time the hilt trembles,
Because the blade that pierced her heart was also trembling.

Does that mean she has caused countless harms, but still hasn’t completely abandoned her lingering attachments?

He is a troubled character.
Completely cut off from me, like the others,
If she turns her back, why is this woman unable to shake me all the time?

‘I don’t know why either, Ardena. Just for you… I just wanted to entrust my last, my last. It was possible because it was you. I will give you the prestige and reputation of killing the hated traitor who betrayed and killed his fellow countrymen.’

Rumble,
A handful of blood flowed out.

Corte gradually confirmed that his body was beginning to stiffen, and that he was approaching ‘death’.

The Demon King of Explosion, who sentenced many people to death, was also unable to free himself from death.

“Take it.”

Corte moved his hand.

As if poisoned by her paralyzing poison, she struggled with her stiffened left arm, pulling something out of her.

Ardena was not wary of that. In a situation where she was dying, she might launch a mean raid, but Ardena did not stop her action.

“This is….”

The gaze of the high elf warrior chief looked down.

Exactly,
It was an object in her grasp.

On top of the bloody grip,
There was a jewel reminiscent of the jet-black shadow she wielded.
The jewel was bloodstained all over, so it looked as if she had been pulled out of her stomach.

“It is the magic core of an explosion. As an elf, you will never be able to handle it… If it’s your lover, the demon king slayer, if it’s the human who completely created the demon core of the heat wave as her own source, it’s possible.”

Ardena accidentally received the magic core of her explosion from Corte.

Even though I couldn’t understand the English language at the time,
As if it had been forcibly entrusted to him, he was handed the Demon Core, in which the vast power of the Demon King was concentrated.

Could it be because of the priest’s blood? The magic core held in her hand was very warm. The blood on her magic core stained Ardena’s white fingers and dripped down her fingertips.

“Ah.”

When Ardena was handed over her magic core,
Corte, who transferred the magic core to her hands, began to collapse rapidly.

The limit has now been reached.

Slow breathing, of course.
Her entire body sagged and became like a dead person.

“Finally… Do you have anything you want to say?”

He asked in a troubled voice.

To him,
Corte said.

“Live. Happily.”
“… Yes?”
“Live a happier life than anyone else.”

Ironically,
The Demon King of Explosives, who has wielded death to countless lives, is about to die…
He left the words to live a happy life to Ardena, who gave him the peace of death.

‘You said something that wasn’t like me. I have never been able to enjoy happiness. Lose, lose again… To the subject who only lived a life that he had shaken off himself.’

Happiness is like the autumn wind.

It seems to stay still,
At some point, if you try to find it, it will suddenly leave.

Just like autumn ends and winter comes.

Even if you regret later, the happiness that has already left will never return.

Cortados Liberia.
After repeating happiness as short as spring and misfortune as long as winter, the vengeful demon could finally end its mad revenge only after falling into a rest in the name of death.

* * *

Yushin and Allen waited for Ardena to return.

She didn’t feel insecure.
Because I believed that Ardena would win.

I tried to convey her words of encouragement, ‘Good work,’ while giving her a kind smile to her when she would come back after defeating the demon king of explosions.

“Your brother is too long for your ears.”
“I know. And the same goes for you.”
“Chit…. Trying to get over it again like that.”

Yushin stayed in the ruins giving off a dreary atmosphere while chatting with Allen for a while.

Cities collapsed without a trace.
High-rise buildings with noble dignity and beauty were waiting for the high elf woman on top of the ruins that had become a pile of rubble.

But ‘it’ is

He never waited for Yushin.

“Brother!!”

Allen’s shrill cry.

Allen was the first to sense its presence.

Before long, Yushin, who felt a wave of concentrated power from beyond the ruins, drew out her thunderbolt sword and responded to it as it charged like a raging sword.

“Yushin Gilead eugheu!!!”
Pouring debris and spreading dust.

At the same time as heavy piles of debris were pouring from the air, an undead with red eyes appeared.

Vengeance burning like hellfire,
The undead, forged in hatred and forged in vengeance, swung their swords at Yushin. It was as if a ghost had returned from hell.

“Skeleton gourd!”

The black lightning that rode over the blade struck the greatsword wielded by the undead from the front.

Aaaaa!!!

The power to clash violently.

Yushin and Undead were pushed back at the same time.

However, after reorganizing
The two swordsmen who had been pushed back for a while kicked the ground and swung their swords at each other again.

‘Like a bone, it will quietly return to dust, but at best it was buried alive, and I never thought it would crawl out again… !’

Yushin felt his own sword tremble as he parried Maximilian’s greatsword.

It was almost broken.
If he hadn’t noticed in advance that the power of tyranny was concentrated on Maximilian Dope’s sword, it would probably have been broken.

Without a handful of blood or a single piece of flesh, the undead could not handle the power of the demon lord. This is because the already dead body cannot serve as a vessel to contain power.

However… ,
For some reason, the undead in front of me wielded the power of tyranny as freely as limbs.

“Ooooo!!!”
As Maximilian groaned and swung his greatsword wide, his ground was swept away.

Like a tidal wave crashing on land,
Piles of buildings piled high like hills flew backwards, turning the rugged ruins into flat ground in an instant.

“This skull gourd!!”

Covered in dust from head to toe, Allen let out an angry roar.

Despite the destruction that completely swept the ground, Allen, who had an invincible body, showed off his strength as if nothing had happened.

“I will break all of those twig-like bones with my hands!!”

I don’t know how he came out of that abyss-like abyss intact, but if he kills him again, that’s all.

This time at all,
He intended to completely crush his skeleton so that he could never be resurrected again.

Yushin and Allen simultaneously extended their swords towards Maximilian and charged at the same time.
Faced with two opponents on both sides, the undead raised the bastard sword filled with the power of tyranny and slammed it down toward the ground, shattering the earthshafts that supported the capital of the elves.