Chapter 120 – Floating Island Battle
About 20 minutes before Dre awakens Principal Lenea’s consciousness.
“A forgotten god?”
[…
Even when asked back by the sword, Almiraz looked far away and did not think of answering.
He just twisted his terrifying skull head around and made a puzzled gesture.
Geomil said furiously.
“Hey. Rabbit.”
[…
“Fuck. If you’re going to finish talking, speak quickly. If you’re going to fight, fight quickly!”
I don’t know what the purpose was, but it was clear that Almiraj had the authority of the floating island.
There’s nothing good about wasting time.
[It’s strange.]
“What?”
[No, it was an illusion.]
Another unknown sound.
Receiving the gaze of a frowned sword, Almiraj this time stared at the bright blue moon that seemed to freeze the sky.
From the empty eyelids of the skeleton, blue flames like the moon flowed.
The light of the moon and fireworks collided with each other, creating a strange sight.
A voice leaked out of Almiraj’s closed mouth as the momentarily overwhelmed Geomil watched.
[You don’t know either.]
“?”
A sword that raises one eyebrow at the sudden remark.
[If even a person like you doesn’t know, is it to the extent that the existence above it only knows the remnants?]
“So what bullshit? A forgotten god is in charge of oblivion. Even if…”
Geomil, who stopped talking and gave off a strange spirit against his will, noticed a sense of incongruity.
He could call the forgotten god without any hesitation, but the god he was about to mention, Sword Work, was different.
Yes, it was the god of oblivion that I was referring to, and he was a deity that actually existed.
A stranger cannot tell an Elunar about the existence of a god.
That restriction is being faithfully followed even in such an urgent situation.
So what is a forgotten god?
God is just a metaphor, is it something else?
In the meantime, Alfred’s eyes were shaking under the enormous pressure of Ryunar on the floating island, but no one noticed.
[They are either defeated or buried.]
“I think I’ve been saying this since before, but I’ll say it one more time. What?”
Quit-quick-quick.
Almiraj let out a creepy laugh at the reaction of the sword.
Hearing the sound of metal scratching his ears, Sword Work bit his lips.
[Don’t you know anything about the forgotten ones…? If so, there is no reason to explain.]
“Are you kidding me, kid?”
[However. Please wait a little bit for me. Did you wonder why they kept them alive?]
Pointing at 100 Murderers who have been skewered by giant hands.
“Because you’re a stranger killer. Isn’t that your hobby?”
[Well. I don’t enjoy this bad taste, but I can’t deny that I do have fun with them. However, it is different. These are offerings.]
“My… Water?”
Swordsman’s dull voice.
[It is an offering to resurrect a forgotten god.]
“…”
[Those bodies imbued with the power of a god are enough to whet the appetite of a forgotten god…]
To be honest, I don’t understand very well.
But to sum up what I’ve heard…
“Your purpose is to resurrect that forgotten god?”
[Yes.]
“What will happen if he resurrects?”
Curleung.
Suddenly, dark clouds began to gather around them.
The floating island’s magic is so powerful that even the weather can be controlled to some extent so there will be no dark clouds.
So, this is an abnormal condition.
It was the instructors and some students who noticed it. And only Almiraz.
[Kuh-kuh-kuh… Is this a conversation limit now? Doing it in this situation is only limiting the conversation…]
“What?”
[No, this is the story. Yeah… What happens when a forgotten god is resurrected? Didn’t I tell you earlier?]
What a shame.
What did you say earlier
I slowly thought about it, but I couldn’t remember the sword day at all.
Almiraj’s staring gaze seemed to be ignoring him, so Geomil suddenly became angry.
“I’m a bit slow in my head, so damn it. Don’t measure, say what you’re going to say.”
[The end of this puppet show.]
Almiraz said, regardless of his reaction.
And what was sword work in the first place? It was an expression of ‘, but soon became expressionless, and in the end, he was sweating profusely.
“…Don’t be ridiculous. It might be a little dangerous, but you’re just a user, and you’re the one who lost even the right to revive because you were abandoned by the person in charge. By the way, you’re done? Even if that’s true, where did you get that much information?”
[That, too, was received from a forgotten god.]
“Forgotten Gods is very cheating, just.”
I was forcibly sarcastic, but I could see the sword.
His relaxed and sincere attitude.
I don’t know if that’s true or false, but at least Almiraj truly believed what he was saying.
“Damn it… Don’t say that, you rabbit! A powerful being who can overturn this game just by Advent will become Advent just by sacrificing one hundred mothers?!”
[So this is the place.]
It refers to the land the black finger is stepping on, no, to the floating island made of empty stones.
[The conditions for the descent of the forgotten god are very simple. Just let them feel the energy of God. Of course, the stronger the power, the easier it is to descend.]
“…”
The floating island is a place where a long time ago, ten heroes fought against the true demon lord.
And the ten heroes were presumed to have been bestowed with power by the gods, and it was said that the gods actually intervened.
It is said that the true demon kings were shattered because of their power.
No matter how wide the planet is, Elyunar, where everything exists, is there any place where the energy of God is as strong as this floating island?
Geomil opened his mouth.
“But I don’t feel anything on this island. I’ve met ‘them’ myself, but I can’t feel the energy they radiate anywhere here.”
[It’s the great mage Nerenia’s feat.]
Almiraz, who stopped talking about the sword, looked at the rest of the great mage at the tavern whose walls were destroyed this time.
[I don’t know why, but she gathered the energy of God’s remnant and remodeled the floating island to resonate with the mana and Ryunar in the atmosphere. This island, where the power of all kinds of heroes, demons, and gods has reached, is no different from the best god in itself. It will be a good body.]
“…”
[So, drop the island. There is no way to express the god’s energy as intensely as breaking this mass of divine power and exploding it. Radiate strength, offer offerings. Then… The forgotten god will be resurrected. Through this altar, the remnant of God awakens the spirit, and this island becomes its body.]
To be honest, I had no idea how true that statement was.
But I knew one thing.
“You bastard… I thought you were a rabbit, but are you a bastard? You’re talking bullshit!! Shit! So, what’s wrong with the people of Elyunar on the island getting caught up in such foolishness?!”
Almiraj, who kept silent at the sight of swordwork growling with rage, seemed strangely satisfied.
Seeing that, Geomil became even more enraged and shouted while spitting in his mouth.
“I thought you were a son of a bitch who only touched strangers! But now I see you’re a genocide!”
[I won’t deny the term “Slaughter horse.” However, there is a misunderstanding.]
The index finger, almost the size of an adult male hand, points to the floor.
At that moment, the people on the small floating stones around them fall.
“Aaaaa!”
“Quaaaaa!”
It was the moment Geomil tried to move after seeing people screaming and falling.
Didn’t the black feathers unfold and glide slowly as if the people who were falling had opened a parachute?
“What…”
[Those around me couldn’t drop it to the ground, so I just put it in the sky for now in case I get caught up in an accident. At the time of the floating island change, most humans have already been put down on the ground.]
At the end of his words, when he opened his palm, a small black stone was placed in his huge hand.
“That…”
I’ve seen it.
It was a stone that a troupe had scattered on the streets all day during the festival.
[With this, at least there won’t be people who fall and die.]
Still, it was said that he was thinking of ordinary people.
But…
“So what about the pressured instructors over there or the frightened students? When are you going to let them go?”
[The instructor remained on his own… I admit that the rest is my mistake. She was with her, and she was too close to let her go.]
“What? She is her?”
[Okay. She… She’s the one we need in this plan. She is a person with Ryu Nar who is pure enough to be described as part of this world. Only such a medium is needed to connect the power of the forgotten gods and floating islands…]
Booooong!
It was really sudden.
The air seemed to shake, but the dagger reached the nape of Almiraz’s neck.
It had speed that would normally be unstoppable.
However, Almiraz was not an ordinary being, and he responded.
“I’m sorry…”
The monstrous bunny’s gigantic hand snatched something over the dagger, and the scenery shook and peeled away, and a girl appeared.
Arms that were far too thin compared to Almiraj’s grown-up male torso or her equally thick arms.
At the end of it was a girl with a look that would never be forgotten once seen.
She was Ashita.
“Asita!!”
As she blankly watched the situation go by, Mayyal, who did not know her friend was gone, screamed at her.
[Yes, Ashita Lacia, or should I call you Virnus?]
“This, this…!”
[Your eyes are full of hostility… Why? Considering what I’m going to do, your hostility is reasonable, but you don’t know my plan yet.]
Noticing Ashita’s invisibility, which even Dre hadn’t noticed, blocked her attack.
Asita shudders at the fact, but doesn’t stop staring at her.
Almiraj catches Asita’s ferocious glances, but gently squeezes her frail arm, knocking her dagger off her arm.
[Why?]
“Eh… Eeeee… Da, you…De, dre…!”
I couldn’t get her words right, but I could clearly feel her anger.
Almiraj’s eyes of blue flame narrowed slightly.
[Are you talking about eight strangers? Yes… He… Became pitiful.]
There was a certain expectation in Ashita’s eyes.
Even if he fell from that height, he might have survived, and he might have survived because of the black stone that this monster saw earlier…
But no.
Dre is strong.
There was no way this terrorist monster would intentionally let such a dangerous existence live.
All sorts of emotions swirled around Ashita.
Hate, anger, sadness, and regret…
The reason Ashita’s heart roared even stronger than those of the girls who equally distrusted Almiraj’s words from afar was that he fought over stupid things before disappearing from this world.
“Ah ah ah ah ah!”
She screams with all her emotions and tries to attack Almiraj by strengthening her slender arms.
Almiraj, who was staring at it, shook her head as if he understood.
[…I see, that feeling…]
“Leave him.”
The destructive greatsword of the sword that came close to me was about to put Almiraz in half.
Almiraz, who jumped to avoid it, threw Asita anywhere.
But then her blue currents wrapped around her and gently laid her down on her ground.
The sword thing said, not even glanced at her, wary of her almiraj.
“Are you careful putting it down?”
[Because she is important.]
“Is that so? But can I tell you that? Huh?”
[Well… Even if you knew that, I don’t think you would harm her.]
Sword work shut his mouth.
If Almiraj’s words are true… If we manage to get that Asita out of here, won’t he fail?
However, Geomil gave up the unsuitable idea and snorted.
“Oh is that so? But isn’t that it? Even if you drop the floating island, if you die, isn’t it all good sandfish?”
“…”
“And I mean. Listening to your explanation, I think the power of the explosion on this floating island is a joke. No matter how strong we strangers are, are you confident enough to survive an explosion like that? I’m telling you, I’ll destroy all those gliding magic tools.”
Almiraj did not respond to Geomil’s threat that you would not be able to live either.
Instead, she only had a few floating stones come down.
There was a swirling blue portal between four pillars on a floating stone large enough to ride a dozen or so people.
“A warp gate?”
[Since I seized the authority of the floating island, the authority of the warp gate also belongs to me. It has the advantage of not having unnecessary extra obstructions, but it can help make escape easier.]
Let’s break it.
Geomil made up his mind to do so, but the floating stone of the warp gate was already flying far into the sky.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t chase and destroy it, but there was no way the stranger killer in front of him could just stand by and watch it.
‘You damn rabbit…’
So, to sum it up, if we leave this guy alone like this, a forgotten god will descend and overthrow this ‘board’, and all the preparations are ready?
And are you on the verge of escape?
Even if you want to expect reinforcements, the floating island is far in the sky, and the warp gate is also controlled by Almiraj.
Most of the attacks of the strangers were special, so they wouldn’t reach the floating island.
The whole situation was working in Almiraj’s favor.
‘Do you think I’ll let them do whatever they want…!’
The voice of the witch Emily, who was struggling with the pressure, caught on to Geomil, who was burning with fighting spirit.
“Continental Sword…! He’s dragging time…! The more you drag the time, the stronger the blue moon will become, and your power will be limited…Ugh…!”
“What?”
Come to think of it, what is that blue moon?
I thought it was an abnormal phenomenon caused by the powerful Ryunar, but according to the witch, it seemed to be something dangerous.
No, do I need to worry more?
‘Isn’t it simple? If I beat him, it’s all over!!’
Geomil raised his greatsword and charged at Almiraj.
It was a speed that was invisible to the eyes of those who had trained it enough, but Almiraz avoided the sword attack by moving only his feet and aimed at the neck of the sword with his huge arms.
However, the sword work was not easy.
He pulled the giant sword from the position he was swinging, changed its direction in an instant, and swung it at Almiraj again.
Almiraz, who avoided kicking in the air, landed lightly.
“How come you talk a lot, you rabbit. Were you doing that to pass the time?”
[…
“Let’s ask why you talk so much. That blue moon is…”
But even before the question was finished, Almiraz spoke in vain.
[It will end soon anyway…]
“Don’t be ridiculous! Whoever wants to end…”
His anger was blocked by Almiraj’s intimidation.
More than that… Said Almiraz, his blue eyes shining.
Speculation.
Even Swordsman, who was ranked 4th in the overall ranking of strangers who had killed all kinds of monsters and names, made it impossible for him to flinch.
[Do I need to say more?]
“…No. I don’t need it.”
This guy needs to do his best.
If you save your strength, you will never be able to overcome this situation.
With that determination, Geomil opened his inventory in the air, pulled out another sword, and attacked Almiraj.
***
In the meantime.
In a place where a powerful force was felt even as the scenery changed moment by moment, there were those who exuded a huge presence.
They were called gods.
“Hey, hey… Really? What kind of kid was the blue moon?”
Heston was restless.
“Cthul… What was it? Are those mythical guys?”
“They’re not all forgotten.”
To the being in the shape of a great sword who asked what kind of Shinhwa guys they were, a Plnaga with the lower half of a snake and the upper half of a human said as if giving a face mask.
“Even if you use all the causality, you have to send all users to the floating island. Otherwise…”
“It’s impossible.
It was Heston who refuted Flnaga’s words.
Contrary to her anxious tone, she had a clear understanding of the situation.
“Even if the causal rate is consumed, as long as the moon has risen, the children cannot be sent to the island. Also, even if they can be sent, there is no child on the ground that can break through the enormous restrictions surrounding the floating island and stop Almiraj.”
Heston sighed and continued.
“Those three who have the potential to stop Almiraj went on another quest.”
“There are other rankers.”
“I don’t think that even those kids will beat Almiraz now… As I said before, we can’t send them there, and even if we send them there, there’s no guarantee we’ll be able to stop Almiraz, right? Almiraj is a formidable enemy, so they will have to use great strength, and if they accidentally destroy the island with that power…”
Besides, Almiraz did not tell the whole truth.
Almiraj, an abandoned user who knew something that even the gods couldn’t figure out, no, thought that he was abandoned and ignored whatever the gods did, sneered at him.
It was unbelievable that a single user had been preparing for a little over ten years, and things grew out of control.
Plenaga, who knew very well that if left alone, could really be the end of everything, or start over, said arguingly.
“Are you going to stay still? It might ruin what we’ve been doing all these years.”
“It’s just my strong sword that can actually stop it.”
At the great sword’s words, Ple Naga frowned at her.
“Are you trying to solidify the merits at a time like this? Now is the time for everyone to join forces to stop it.”
“…”
But there was no way.
The timing and method for Almiraj to invoke the forgotten god was unexpected and sure enough even for the near omnipotent.
But among them.
Only one deity was at ease.
As the other deities who noticed it looked on, he said.
“Isn’t there still one person you can trust?”
“What?”
“Half of us are in a frenzy, but the reason why the other half is oddly quiet is to see him one more time. Half and half. Equal.”
His expression, which always seemed bored, showed that he was having fun for some reason.
He is the god of equality. He was an all-nist.
As he said, the deities who would normally be anxious, take out quests to try something, or meditate on fun are oddly quiet.
Half of them were frolicking in a super-dangerous event, but the other half seemed to be waiting for something.
“Allnist. What is that…”
“The stranger who was chosen by the love hearts is still there. He is not present at that altar, but I feel that he has not fallen to the ground.”
Flanaga’s expression changed.
It was a face that saw hope.
“Yes. There are still eight days of strangers left.”
It was funny.
A stranger who recently came to this world is hope.
However, Ornist felt freshness rather than a sense of danger.
“When will you come?”
