Chapter 169 – Episode 168. This Is the Place to Be Buried. You or I (4)
Just as magic cannot be used without mana, sorcery cannot be manifested without offerings.
Everything needs a raw material, and the cycle is to get what you want after burning the raw material.
The image gorge that Astein was using right now—purgatory spirit world was also the same.
This Purgatory Mastery, which he could use alone, was a sorcery that spatialized his images, as the name suggests.
As much as it was a sorcery that used residual blood as a sacrifice, its effect was the best, so it was so powerful that even Astrid could not properly deal with Astain if she fell into that space.
Since blood, the source of life, was squeezed out and cast with it, magic could never be weak, so Astrid, who had nothing but physical defense, couldn’t find another magic spell that was as close to her nemesis as this.
Through such a series of processes, Astain was confident of victory.
You can offer Astrid as a sacrifice, and if you have to, you can offer the collaborators that came with you as a sacrifice.
If that’s the case, it would be nice to greet Astrid with rain.
In Astein’s head, he had already pictured himself as a so-called god who rules over this continent.
It was.
At least until Leopold shattered the blood cup that was well enshrined on the altar and fell.
“Yes, you bastard—!”
Astain’s shouting sound resonated in the small cavity.
At the end of the blood cup that collected the blood of hundreds of people, the residual blood became a stain that soaked the ground and disappeared.
Simsang Gorge, Purgatory Perimeter.
The consumption of residual blood was high, and the top-notch sorcery, which required an enormous amount of sacrifice that Astain could never sustain on its own, was taken away in an instant as soon as the sacrifice disappeared, revealing the original shape of the small cavity.
Now that the sacrifice had completely disappeared, Astain was in great dismay.
All the traps, including the incantation ceremony she had prepared, all demanded sacrifices.
But right now, Astain didn’t have the energy to raise the sacrifice, and that also meant that it was difficult to activate the magic ceremony he had prepared.
Landing with his blood cup smashed, Leopold sat for a while with one knee on the ground, then slowly, very slowly, got up. Even so, it was a somewhat reckless act to jump from that height with bare body, so I controlled the speed by air supply until the middle, and then I fell freely to the point where I thought I wouldn’t die from a fall at this level.
Even so, the shock was quite large, and even though I stood up slowly, a tingling shock ran through my entire body.
“Astrid, are you okay?”
Without taking his eyes off Astein, Leopold slowly walked backwards toward Astrid.
The hardships she suffered were well seen from her rooftop.
Leopold clearly saw the woman who struggled alone but did not lose her fighting spirit.
“I, Your Highness… “
There was a bit of weeping mixed into his voice.
After struggling to stand on her now-feeling ankle, Astrid reached out her hand toward Leopold.
He tried to extend her left arm, but hesitated, then returned to her right arm.
“Astrid, are you okay?”
“Your Highness, the bracelet, the bracelet… “
The bracelet is broken…
The words did not come out easily.
The bracelet that Leopold had prepared for her, full of his heart, had now disappeared without even a trace.
“Your bracelet is broken.”
Leopold caressed Astrid’s bare wrist.
Since it was a bracelet made of platinum, its durability would not be the best, but it was broken to the point of breaking.
I could clearly feel how much Astrid had suffered.
“Give me another one. Don’t worry, I’ll make it again. Now is the time to catch that traitor.”
“With me in front of you, how comfortable you are!”
It is said that the momentum has weakened compared to before, but the energy of residual blood is still there.
It’s not that there aren’t any sacrifices at all, Astain shouted as she pulled out several arrows of her blood.
“There is no reason not to be able to afford it. No matter what you prepared, there’s nothing to be afraid of because I knew roughly how messed up your plan was.”
“This guy!”
Astain’s anger made her face red.
The plans, which were said to have been thoroughly prepared, are interrupted in unexpected places.
The distortions that arose from it eventually ruined the entire plan.
I thought it was certain this time, but it happened again.
“This is enough to kill you guys! Residual blood. Collecting it again is enough!”
Astain let out her roar and fired arrows of her blood.
Arrows slicing through the air, splattering drops of blood—
A white arrow flew in and broke the middle of the bloody arrow.
A black hand appears and snatches the blood arrow on the way.
“Oh, I don’t shoot arrows like that.”
It was Eranya who had come down to the middle of the self-sustaining tower.
Her shrine in her hand was waiting for her to draw her string, holding a light brown arrow again.
“Is it a witch war? Then I should wear it.”
Vera Sien was slowly descending, fluttering the hem of her dress.
“Now, four to one. Is this enough, Astein?”
Leopold hugged Astrid tightly and glared at Astain.
A cold chill cooled her head.
Seeing Astrid hurt so badly, her head, which was filled with anger, cools down very coldly.
“The crime of plotting to overthrow the Einhafen Empire and taking the lives of the crown prince and the future crown princess. I will ask you right here and now. Sinner Astain.”
She pulled out her sword.
The magic bracelet on her wrist rang, and the three swords lit up.
“Abandon the thought of dying gracefully.”
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【Bar… Shall I borrow it?]
Astrid couldn’t read all of her thoughts, but she felt her emotions.
Astrid was in quite a shock right now. The gift he had received from Leopold after a long time had been destroyed and disappeared—even though he had promised to give it again, it could not be of the same value as the one he received the first time, so it seemed that he was very sorry for the disappearing bracelet.
Besides, the fact that she was so helplessly toyed with by Astain was quite a shock to Astrid.
Her former warrior who boasted of her undefeatedness, who boasted that she would have to kill her magic before she could use it, was so helpless that she might have really died if Leopold hadn’t appeared like that. It was a big shock to her.
Shocked by the unfamiliar defeat, Astrid was unable to speak.
【Uh, um. I’ll change… ?】
He didn’t say anything, but he seemed to agree.
As the channel changes, the hook sight changes, and now the feeling of the limbs has materialized.
‘… Please take care of me.’
Leaving her voice clear of despondency, Asti glared at her.
Did she say that she was a blood cup, or maybe it was because her energy still remained even after she shattered the glass cup full of that blood into pieces? Astain was fighting well.
Leopold’s sword strike drew a sharp line with a golden trajectory.
Leopold’s sharpened sword, which drew a line rather than slashing the surface as if it would stab at any weak corner.
And arrows flew around him from time to time.
Apparently, since Leopold and Astain are fighting close together, even as Erania, support fire is somewhat ambiguous.
Since it was a fair party, a nabal, and that was not an important situation, I thought that it would be better for Asti to have as many allies as possible, and that it would be better to open the iron door that was firmly closed.
“Eranya sister, Veracien.”
At Asti’s call, Erania and Veracien looked back at her at the same time.
“Can you open the door to Jasaeng Tower?”
At the same time, Asti bounced off the ground and picked up Snow Flower Junior, who was lying on the ground.
With no decorations on her handle, what was literally a massive block of iron, it was held in her hand, and her moderately pleasing weight forced her to grip her greatsword.
“Outside, Emily, Ashley, and Violet will be here. We push it at once.”
“Yeah, that would be better. I think I gave away too much power.”
“Because it doesn’t help anyway.”
After signing a contract with Astein, while delegating her powers, Berashien regretted it only now, thinking that she was needlessly handing over too much. It was already too late, though.
Seeing Erania and Veracien head towards the entrance of the Jaseng Tower, Asti glared at Astain while holding a greatsword.
It was the same with Asti, who had to settle with Astain.
It is said that the justification lies with Leopold, but it would be correct that Astiga and Astrid make the final decision.
If so, it doesn’t matter if both of them give it at the same time,
Asti wrung the sword she grabbed behind her head with all her might.
Swordsmanship, I don’t know. I do not know. I remember it, but it is vague.
Rather than that, I feel more comfortable with her punching, so that would be better.
“Your Highness, bow down!”
As soon as I shouted at Leopold, I saw Leopold lie flat on his face.
Seeing her fall down like that with just Asti’s voice without even asking why or looking back…
Didn’t wait any longer
The greatsword, which had been wound as hard as it could, flew through the atmosphere.
There’s no way that Astain would fit this much, but I didn’t expect that anyway.
And not to be outdone by that, Asti’s boots kicked off the ground and ran out.
Asti, who ran as fast as he could, helped close and flew up into the air, kicking Astain with all his might with his two feet.
– Wow!
Something like a dark red curtain blocked her kicks.
It was fine.
That much was expected.
‘Emily told me.’
– If it doesn’t break, just beat it until it breaks.
That was it.
