Chapter 93 – Heir (3)
It’s like an old man who can’t be honest.
It was colorless to have developed a shadow in advance so that he could help at any time, and the shadow was gathered in the back of the emperor who appeared at the right time.
“… Richard did a great job.”
Although weak, it was the awakening of the Auror.
Of all the routes I remember in the game, it was Richard who awakened his aura in only one route.
Even in the bad ending, protecting Iris, that is, Luke, fighting while awakening the aura, eventually died in battle.
Even though it’s just the first step.
‘Then, shall I focus more on this side of work?’
Seruk.
A shadow returned under my feet.
Just in case, it wasn’t easy to deal with the shadows in the midst of complicated formulas. My eyes trembled slightly from the headache that followed.
Iris could receive magical knowledge through the goddess, but lacked the magical foundation to use it.
On the contrary, I had a body that reached the level of a Grand Mage beyond the Arch Mage. Instead, because he lost his memory, he lost most of the magical knowledge he had accumulated, leaving only his qualities and body.
So, I weave the magical knowledge that the goddess imparts. While waiting for Edwin to bite the bait, I had to extract hundreds of thousands of magic formulas from the necessary parts and create a new formula.
Thus, a technique was created only for ‘exploring the spiritual connection between dimensions’.
However, because it was a technique that cut out only the necessary parts from thousands of formulas and stitched them together very quickly. It was a crude technique to put it mildly.
If the proper technique was something that could be easily solved and used like a middle school math problem.
The technique I improvised asked the same question and derived the same answer, but it was like a description of the solution process that would be required of an undergraduate student.
The goddess who watched this process, Iris said, was astonished at the fact that in a state where she had almost no magical knowledge, the clumsy spell she chose from the thousands of spells she gave her and made her own meaningfully ‘works’ properly. I did.
What does it matter
My head hurts so damn right now.
Seeing my frowning face, Iris, who had been tracing the coordinates of the bodies of the demons contracted with Edwin by granting the power of the holy sword to my spell, carefully looked at me.
“Are you okay?”
“Are you okay.”
Find yourself
Without talking behind her back, Iris nodded her head.
Edwin, who regenerated his cracked upper body, stood up in tatters. He told the emperor beforehand, so he won’t kill you. He kills him and gets in trouble when the contract is broken.
Bang! Bang!
Squishy. Margie, feeling bad for no reason, exploded. There are more demons than any other demons in the corps here. Aside from the fact that the owner who handled it was sorry, the amount of magic that the three demons distributed was unusual.
But.
“Where is this guy?”
Even if it’s an old man who has grown weak, a Master is a Master. He is playing with Edwin as if he were dealing with a child, who creates explosive power by raising and exploding demons as if he is almost going out of control.
When the magi wriggling in the form of tentacles were cut into pieces by the blade of Justia wielded by the emperor, they quickly perished as if burning from the cross section.
Edwin, the subject of the magic, also tore his head as if in a fit of burning pain.
That is a national treasure, Justia.
A product of the favor of a goddess descended from the Arcadian family.
It is not as good as the holy sword that Iris possesses, but it is one of the holy swords that has the power to destroy demons.
I surveyed the battlefield.
Most of his thoughts were devoted to deploying the spell, so he had to put up with a headache that seemed like it would break even though he was simply looking away.
“Almost everything has been sorted out! Get rid of them!”
“Yes-!”
Arnold’s booming voice rang out. Articles that respond to it. The heads of the Demon Legion rolled on the floor one by one.
Among the few demons left, the demons who suffered cut wounds all over the body due to the combined efforts of the knights drove the demons out of control as other demons had done so far.
In front of the runaway guy, the giant knight commander ran. Even with that massive body, faster than any other knight.
“For the sake of the empire—!”
When the commander of the knights shouted and raised his sword, his aura wrapped around the blade like lightning.
“For Arcadia——!!”
A person who goes beyond his own limits and even interferes with the outside world.
The superhuman sword, at that moment, became a huge hammer.
Quaang!
A hammer so huge that even the demons, who seemed to be about 3m tall, seemed small, struck down.
───!!
The sound of breaking the atmosphere. Screams mingled in it. The sound of breaking glass. The sound of the floor breaking. All that noise mixed together.
The battlefield was organized like that.
At the same time.
“… Brother! I found it!”
“What are the coordinates?”
“Here!”
It was Iris who shared magic with me for the ceremony. She handed over the three coordinates through the connected magic pass. Space coordinates beyond the dimension that are engraved in your head.
I dismantled the magic that I had developed. Charrrr. With a sound, the entangled magic circuits are released.
At the same time, the headache that plagued the overloaded head completely disappeared.
Chew.
Chew.
Edwin had already taken the shape of a round mass, instead of a human form, struggling to regenerate the places where the demons were tightly united.
Even that, to the point where you don’t know when the soggy Magi will come loose without being able to connect the seams.
In order to prevent such Edwin from slowly regenerating, an elderly Auror Master holding a brilliant sword inadvertently cut through his body.
…
I calmed down the overloaded magic furnace and stared at the old man’s back.
No matter how old and weak he was, his strong back was as strong as ever.
He looked really weak now.
I felt sorry. No matter how much Edwin was the scum of the world, the old man was Edwin’s father.
He asked Edwin to keep cutting the knife over and over again to prevent it from regenerating.
“Hey. Geno.”
Emperor, not Claudius II.
To the name I used once when I was young.
The old man’s arm, which had been raised, stopped abruptly.
He didn’t answer He didn’t even look back, he just lowered the arm holding the sword.
What is it
Why did he call
Seeing her asking like that, I smiled bitterly.
“Let me go.”
“… I will.”
“… It’s okay if I do.”
“Sounds that are not even in the heart.”
Joy.
The emperor, who snorted like that, raised his sword again.
Both I and the emperor know that I have to tie the knot myself, so my words are really just words that I asked once.
“Ah, ah, ah, father… That’s me. Father son. First. First job…〉
Soon after, the guy who intuited that his tough lifeline would be cut off began to cry out for his father.
However, the old emperor would know that it was an empty cry with no meaning.
Like that, immortality that was clumsily completed with power borrowed from others was worse than none.
Because once he dies and every time he is resurrected, he loses his identity.
If you have a doppelganger.
If the doppelganger kills the main body and takes its place, and if the people around you know about it.
Can a doppelganger be real?
Can other people who were originally acquaintances of the person really treat the doppelganger even if they know the truth?
The current Edwin is a demon who has covered that outer shell.
The emperor knows that.
Even so.
So cleverly, even the unpleasant voice that sounded like scratching iron was returned to that of the old man, and he clung to the old man sadly.
The sword raised by the emperor trembled.
I clicked my tongue.
No matter how much he said he would do it himself, even if it was necessary because it was to conclude this work himself, it was harsh to ask an old man whose lifespan was about to end to cut his own child’s throat.
“Abji, father, father. Help me. Help me…”
The emperor’s trembling arm was pitiful to look at.
Even if I get cursed at after doing it, is it right that I am the best?
With that thought in mind, the moment I raised my hand to finish.
“Edwin.”
“Yes, yes, yes father.”
The emperor who quietly called his son’s name, and the guy who answered urgently and made his remaining eye shine.
When you try to raise a shadow, disgusted by rolling around looking for a way to survive.
“Sorry.”
“… ㅇ-?”
Flash
A flash flashed once.
The one that imitated Edwin’s voice stopped breathing without even answering.
The emperor’s aura burning more fiercely than ever.
It seemed to me that the old man was burning his last will to live.
“…”
I shut my mouth for a while. Because I don’t know what to say. However, I moved my magic power again. Because it wasn’t over like this.
The tracking of coordinates had already been completed.
Edwin’s soul slowly escaped from the dead body of Edwin.
That’s the soul of the one who gave it to the demons for a contract.
I quickly pierced him with the [Line] That I had given [Tracking] To.
In order for his soul to be transmitted to the demons beyond the dimension according to the contract, the dimension shift through the demons’ contract was ‘executed’.
Iris, who had finished preparing beforehand, raised her holy sword.
The dimensional door opened in the process of executing the contract, the soul of the guy who goes beyond it, and my magical power attached to it to connect the present world and the Pandemonium beyond the dimension.
Coordinates found there. Iris’ strike set up the ‘path’ that connected the three demons so that they could strike. It was a road made by “Granting” Five things: “Tracking,” “Pronging,” “Interlocking,” “Induction,” And “Filling.”
The holy sword fiercely sprinkled light.
Even I, who was standing next to it, felt the heat tingle my skin.
The corpses of the Demon Legion, which had polluted the Great War, were oxidized by the light spread by the Holy Sword.
Iris took a step.
Cooong.
The air shuddered.
The holy sword.
“Condemn——!”
Shone brilliantly
