Chapter 420 – Eyes of Flame
000
The flash could be seen with the naked eye anywhere in the kingdom.
A huge pillar of light soaring high into the sky.
The fluttering pure white particles scattered like snow crystals and fell to the ground, and the people who fled from disaster and the nobles who watched the situation in the capital from the castle.
Seeing the light breaking the black hemisphere-shaped shell, I could feel the premonition that something was ‘over’.
“Sue, the pylons…! Are disappearing!”
I heard someone shouting like that.
As he said, the stems of the black crystals that had penetrated the ground turned into black particles and disappeared.
As if it could not hold its shape, as if it had been burnt to ashes.
“Could that be… The light of the holy sword?”
The Duke Regent, who was watching the scene from the royal castle, was also taken aback by the sudden light.
Those who participated in the war 30 years ago, including him, before the invasion of the islands, which could be called the final battle, would remember.
The day the fate of the capital and the empire were reversed.
A golden light that rose from the emperor’s castle, the stronghold of evil.
Although the color is different, the sensation felt from the light, and the dance of the group of lights that seemed to envelop the world as if dyeing it, were the holy sword of the hero Lesia, which gave hope to the people of the kingdom who were in that place at the time.
It also resembled the light emitted by Caladbolg.
The Duke of Regent must have felt it as well, and his memories of the past his momentarily flashed back and he was at a loss for words for a while.
Today, there are so many things that remind him of his youth, including the dark giant and the light of the holy sword.
However, he immediately clenched his fist and ordered the remaining kingdom troops in the castle, who were waiting.
“Deliver to the Kingdom Army! Close all checkpoints in the capital and make sure that the criminal Princess Amelia cannot escape from the capital! If anyone helps her escape, you can treat them all as treason! Strengthen the barrier of the ! We must make it impossible to escape through the dimensional door!”
As soon as such an order was issued, the kingdom’s soldiers moved busily.
“Do you really have to do that?”
At Cassius’ words his, the Duke of Intelligent shut his mouth for a moment, then he looked back at the young crown prince and spoke.
“It may be safer for her to protect her on our side than to leave her alone. Considering where the hatred of the people who have been hurt by this will turn…”
“…But he won’t accept that.”
Regarding Cassius’ words, Li Gent nodded as if he knew.
“Even so, it’s better to keep order in chains than to be merciful and cause chaos.”
Cassius could not say anything about his words.
Cassius also felt sorry for Amelia, and she wished to let her escape if possible.
However, the more you listen to Regent’s words, the more you understand that for the sake of the current kingdom’s well-being, his words are right—no, he’s right.
He had neither the strength nor the voice to stop them.
In the end, Cassius could not help but feel resentment at the fact that he himself was a human like them.
001
“Awesome… Is this his power his now?”
The existence wearing a black robe covered his mouth his with his hand his.
The corners of his mouth his, visible between his fingers his, twisted upwards in joy.
“Are you satisfied?”
Another character – Otis, laughs at his colleague’s reaction as well and talks to him.
“It’s a level that barely passed the acceptance line. Otherwise, there’s no reason to spend 30 years in the dark.”
“For us, it was only a brief moment.”
At his words his, the being covered in a robe smiled and smiled.
“The effort it took to construct your bodies and settle your souls. All of that will be rewarded. Otis.”
“I hope so… Did you get any harvest?”
The man in the robe speaks while raising one of her hands her.
In his eyes his, it was as if the ‘highest room in the royal palace’was placed on top of that hand.
“Ah, of course. The king – no, the kingdom itself has been sown with the seeds of great chaos. An incompetent king who has taken off his mask. A nobleman who only cares about himself. The people who have been complacent in a false peace. Anxiety factor…”
And, his fists his clenched.
“It is time for the wise to notice what great deception this kingdom consists of. And soon unrest will sprout. The vassals will focus all their attention on securing ‘her’ because they need a ‘public enemy’ – the glue to the rift.”
“Ah. Is she that pitiful princess?”
Although Otis had already heard her story from her black robed companions and made some predictions about her future her.
I really couldn’t believe that an incident like this would happen centering on that princess.
“What are you going to do now?”
“We have to continue preparing for her her. We return to her her base her. But … I see. If her her kingdom her does n’t take her, it will further confuse her situation her . Helping her with that is would n’t be bad.”
“Are you going to intervene directly? If so, I’m going to-“
When Otis tried to move as if his body was itching at the black robe’s answer, he raised his arm to restrain his comrade.
“No. It’s still too early to intervene.
“If you say so.”
Perhaps trusting his colleague his, Otis nodded and took a step back.
“It’s fun. While I was separated from you, planning and making preparations. How I missed the days under his command his.”
The man in the black robe trembled with excitement as if his words his were not false.
Otis nods as if agreeing with him.
“It’s so nice to have comrades who share the same goals and ideals. It’s different from monsters that follow the strong without intelligence. If that person comes back here, we can definitely achieve our goal.”
And it is to open both arms wide and declare it proudly.
“Resurrect the empire – destroy the kingdom. Destroy ‘Adam’, the creator of this world full of hypocrisy. And we… Become his faithful four horsemen. Let’s compile the Apocalypse.”
002
Layla, who was blown away to a snowfield somewhere far from the royal capital, somehow managed to return to the royal capital while being obstructed by the Exiled Church Berche.
And, in order to protect Cleon and his comrades, he took out the trump card he had hidden to defeat him.
Using Avatar magic, Layla, who became a magic warrior of flames, confronted Berce with agile and powerful blows.
As a result, the fight between the two was on an equal footing – no, Layla was slightly ahead of her.
Berche’s method of attack is a melee that contains magic.
Layla could wrap her staff in flames and use it like a long weapon, so of course there was a big difference in her reach her.
Compared to Berche, who doesn’t show much magic other than manipulating time using unusual techniques.
Lyla’s reason for this was that when an attack was made against her, she could only transform that part into full flame and send it away.
Berce’s body was covered in burn marks everywhere, and of course it was dark.
Blood flowed from the place where it was hit by the staff or cut by the blade of the spear at the tip.
However, there were only shallow wounds to the end, and they did not lead to large enough wounds to decide the outcome.
‘What is the purpose of wasting time? It’s annoying…’
Even Layla, though she had plans in her head for how to fight against opponents her magic her magic her could not overwhelm.
For wizards, ‘time’ always catches their ankles.
No matter how good a mage is, there is a limit to the amount of magical power and recovery, so if you fight little by little without being able to overwhelm your opponent with one blow-
An absurd situation in which an opponent of inferior skill is exhausted and defeated may occur.
Compensating for such a shortcoming, though, is a colleague.
‘Cleon… Please be safe…!’
Thinking that way, the time when I once again rushed at Berche.
When you feel the thump and vibration of the ground-
In the distance, in the direction of the royal road, a phenomenon occurs in which a ‘cloud of white light’ soars into the sky.
“That’s… No way, Caliburn!?”
Being Layla well aware of Caliburn’s power, she could see it and know what it was.
Berche looks back at it and frowns.
“Did the situation on the side of the capital be resolved first… That’s unexpected.”
And, at the same time, Layla confirmed that the communication jamming barrier spread throughout the capital was shattered by the light of the holy sword, and she sensed that Cleon and others were receiving magic passages.
If this is the case, we will be able to understand each other’s situation using the imprint.
Besides, if something changed, he needed to respond to it and be there.
“However, you cannot head there. Until your will is broken, I will hold you here.”
“A perverted bastard… Ha…”
Layla sighs in exhaustion, and the flames wrapped around her slowly dissipate from her body.
At the same time, her attire also reverted to the easy-to-move Lila that she was wearing at the beginning.
‘Is it magic power depletion?’
Berche thinks while looking at Layla.
She said, ‘She had great talent at a young age, but she wasted her talents on her hubris and the wrong company. After all, she is more suited to join our church.’
Berche seems to think that Lyla is quitting her battle, but she loosens her stance.
And the next moment she was about to speak to her to invite her to join her Order of Exile once again.
With the Layla Flame Watch at the center, a barrier is created that blocks the connection between the outside and the inside of magic—in other words, a barrier that prevents magic communication from happening like before.
“…What is your intention?”
“What… I just don’t want to show them… Or tell them what’s going on.”
Having said that, Lyla let go of her staff and knocked her to the ground in the snowy field.
And with a gesture of her hand that seems to lift something-flames rise above her hand her, something appears.
It was a book decorated with red, squirming flesh.
As soon as Berche sees it, she feels an eerie sensation running through her body, fear of something unknown.
“Is it a magic book…! What the hell is that, that hideous form!”
“It’s a magic book. The name is… Ah. It doesn’t matter much. It’s very different from the original. If I give it a new name… I wonder if it’s ‘Kamalamikon’.”
Berche does n’t know what’s going on with her words, but she’s obsessed with the idea that she has to get rid of her first.
However, that was the time.
Those eyes met Berche’s her and hers as two glanced from the book she was holding in her hand.
At that moment, Berche noticed that it was a blasphemous object made from some kind of life form.
The sound of something rolling in Berche’s ears came.
In the next moment, Berche felt her body harden as a great fear overtook him.
“What, ji…!? What the hell is that…! What the hell, what unforgivable creation did you create!”
“It’s just a new form of Familiar created by fusing demons and sorcery books. Because the devil’s core has a high magical conductivity.”
Yes.
The Dreadspawn Laila now holds in her hand her is Kamala’s drupe, which she has captured and tried to minister to.
A ‘familiar that allows you to efficiently use only the specific magic recorded in the magic books’ created by fusing the magic books with taboo secret techniques.
Thanks to this, Kamala has lost even her ability to speak, and even her ego her is thin, but she can’t die the way she wants.
‘Well, though I’ll have to stay with the book forever.’
Moreover, since her core her has been taken away, even if she is sent back to Hell, she will always follow Lyla’s orders when resummoned.
It is an eternal slavery contract that will not end until Layla dies.
“Then… Shall we begin. Execution by the most blasphemous flames.”
Layla looks at the immobilized Berce with cold eyes.
The magic book floating a little above her hand opened by itself, and she felt the pages unravel.
At the same time, the chain of magical power that the magic book possessed broke out, and something like a line was drawn in the sky of the space covered with barriers.
While watching that scene, Berche continued to hear the sound of something rattling and rolling.
Each time she heard it, she felt the growing fear gripping her.
“Ah. Aah.”
Let Lila quietly open her mouth and speak like a song.
The voice echoes through the space and covers Berce.
The voice slowly became faster, gradually louder, slowly as if it was engulfed in madness.
It repeats like a grand choir so loud it can tear your eardrums apart!
[Oh! Oia! Oia! Ooh!]
“Keep, uh…! Stop… Stop…!”
When Berce grabs his head, the veins are visible, so clearly that you can see his temples his protruding from the unbearable strain.
The strain on his mind and head he could no longer bear.
“Ia. Ia. Mugurunahu ■■■■.”
The name of the blasphemous existence that inhabits the dimensional rift is called.
Through the ‘temporary passage’ created by the power of the magic book, it chases the blasphemous who called its name, and the existence is revealed.
The lines floating in the sky spread up and down.
And what could be seen beyond that was a huge eye. Red eyes. It had eyes that sparkled like garnets, but they weren’t pretty at all.
The eyes looked like drops of blood, and sometimes like pieces of bright red meat.
It looks down at the ground and moves around.
“Pomalhaut Ungaa and. Nafuruta-kun Ia.”
And, if those eyes catch Layla and Berche at the same time.
As if he had the will – no, as if he had the malice.
And as if he understood everything, his eyes narrowed like crescent moons.
Berche could understand that they were laughing at themselves.
“Stop, stop! What are you thinking, bringing such an existence into this world! Haha!Haha!!”
Berche’s body his heats up at the same time as the constant ringing of messages in his head his, the intrusive rattling sound, and something in his brain his exploding.
No, I didn’t even know that my blood was boiling.
Looking down at the ground, the snow has already melted, and even the soil and rocks beneath it begin to melt.
“Hee, hee hee!”
Only madness remains. Reason is gone, and his mind collapses.
Layla didn’t feel any sympathy for Berche.
Eventually, when the eyes that appeared in the air opened wide, the part that looked white was actually the bright part of the star.
Berce noticed that the part he thought was the pupil was a black spot on a star.
Then, the swirling heat gathers above the sunspot.
Lila called his name her one last time to conclude her ritual.
“Limited Outlaw Summoning Spell. Living Flame. Your name is ■■■■!”
In the next moment, the intense heat gathered in front of the eyes coalesced into one, forming a line of flame.
As it is, it extends in a straight line towards the Berce that those bizarre eyes were looking at-
The moment it touched his body His, Berche’s body was instantly engulfed in fire, as if spontaneous combustion had occurred.
Berche’s screams could not be heard, already, because his body his, along with his mind his, was turned to ashes the moment he hit the fire.
“…Ugh!?’
But the next moment, Layla feels that the existence of another dimension summoned by the magician is not satisfied with burning Berche, and she continues to pour flames toward the ground he was standing on.
“Kuh…! Listen to me…! You’re a summoned beast!”
Seeing that the flame injected into the ground melts the ground, penetrates the surface and melts the leylines, the surrounding area slowly sinks. Layla looks at the magic book in his hand her.
“Kamala…! Help me control it!”
The eyes clinging to the magic book blinked, and she stopped the endless pages she was turning over.
And, because of Lyla’s oath her, her magic book her, which had no choice but to help her, closed itself, and forcibly disconnected the magical connection between Lyla and her other-dimensional existence her.
In the end, when the mana necessary to maintain existence disappears, the hideous eyes that appeared will gradually disappear, and even the flames he exhaled will subside.
Seeing this, Laila sighed.
The next moment, I heard something bubbling and boiling—
“Aww!”
Quickly deploys a powerful magic shield that surrounds you.
If you think that something like heat rose from the hole created by the flames.
Kwaaang!
With a huge explosion that hit the eardrums, an explosion of flames enveloped the area where Layla was standing.
Even the barrier that protects Layla is such an intense explosion that she slowly melts in the heat.
Soon after, even Lyla was engulfed in the light of the flames at the place where she was standing-
A cloud like a giant mushroom rises in its place.
…
A few minutes later, after the explosion and the dust had settled, Layla, covered in her black ash her, was standing there sadly, with a frown on her face.
She was able to survive thanks to her use of incarnation magic once again before her magic barrier was shattered.
Although it was a mistake to cover up the ashes that fell from above her head her as soon as she dispelled her magic her.
“…As expected, it’s a dangerous magic. I don’t think I can use it just like that.”
Lyla realizes the power of the beast she wields in another dimension, and hides her her magic book her in her hand her again in the flames of her hand her and hides it in space.
And then she took a deep breath. It is to extend her own magic channel her.
[Ah- can you hear me? Cleon. How did that go?]
