Chapter 740 – #158_Escape (3)
#740
One.
Sometimes humans feel small in existence when faced with something so huge.
For example, tsunami.
A natural disaster that shakes the roots of the multi-ton breakwater and sweeps away the city.
For example, nuclear weapons.
A talented person who is predicted to one day regress human civilization to a primitive level.
However, if the power of one god is like a great witch who goes against the laws of nature and reaches the state of reversal.
It’s not easy to have that kind of experience.
This is because the Great Witch is a transcendental being who survives both natural disasters and nuclear explosions without difficulty.
Therefore, it has been a long time since Siwoo felt this kind of emotion.
Even though she felt the gap and the wall, she never felt helpless that she couldn’t do anything.
However, the colorful magic field that fills the round sky of several kilometers in radius awakens a long-forgotten sense of helplessness.
It was good to see that the core forces of Hexsenacht were gathered in the sky.
Even if you face them one-on-one, they are likely to sweat or lose.
Even if Master is by my side, I feel helpless, unable to find a sharp answer.
Could Siwoo be able to do something alone in this situation?
Is it a situation where you can talk about resistance or flight?
The hand holding the red branch is drained of strength.
Like the last of mankind waiting for a meteorite impact. He was just staring up at the group of lights of destruction that were approaching moment by moment.
At that time.
-Fuck!
“Calm down.”
The stiff back smash awakened her spirit.
Looking behind her, there is Rinne, who remains calm as usual, with her sword drawn.
“Are you going to give up like this?”
Even in a dark situation, words with unbroken will soon restore some of the listener’s cool-headedness.
Even Zlata, who had just opened her mouth in panic, wiped away the saliva that flowed from her mouth.
“It can’t be.”
Re-strength the loosened grip.
Give up? It doesn’t matter.
Barely using magic at the level of an apprentice witch,
Even during his slave days, when he had to use magical powers because he didn’t have a brand, he faced the 21st rank Ea Sadalmelik.
In terms of simple risk, there won’t be much difference from then.
“If you’re reckless, you’ve won.”
Besides, isn’t there a lover who will be waiting for Siwoo?
There are too many people who will shed tears due to death to give up without trying anything.
“What, what, what!”
“As you can see, it’s fucked up. It should pop out.”
“… You can run away from this, right?”
“I have to try.”
Alice, who jumped out of the situation dressed roughly in an unexpected situation.
“Sister! You know I really love you, right?”
“I want to be with you in my next life too!”
“Manya! You’re a miser, but you’re actually a good friend! I will never forget the days I spent in bed with you!”
“Malisha, you are unlucky, but I was actually jealous because you have thicker double eyelids than me! Sorry for not being honest until now!”
Mana and Malisha filming a new wave drama while wiping away tears and runny nose.
“Mr. Siwoo…. I won’t resent you. Still, it was nice to see your face at the end. If I had known it would be like this….”
Even Ye-bin, her face pale and resigned somewhere.
“Quiet.”
Rinne, who took control of the uproar in the crowd with one word, said to Siu.
“The Archwitch of Hexsenacht forms a clique.”
In such an urgent situation, if you bring up an obvious word anew, it means that there is a connotation in it.
Like Siwoo, who has a good head, he immediately deduced the situation with the clues that Rinne gave him.
“Then, there must still be hope.”
“Yeah, it’s too early to give up.”
Certainly there is still hope.
As you know, Hexsenacht is divided into hardliners centered on New Clifford and moderates centered on the top of Solidus.
Also, about 20% of them are moderately neutral.
In other words, it means that the overwhelming power visible to the eye is not a heavenly aspiration that moves in perfect order with the same purpose and command system.
In this vertical city, isolated in Dignity Town, Siu and Rinne are literally golden rats in a dock.
Rather than the process of capture itself, it is inevitable to focus on the field work.
Being in different factions, and also within those factions, profit and loss calculations to somehow increase their boat must be constantly being made.
Another fact that should not be forgotten.
Like Lydia and Linnaeus, exploits are created passively through mutual distrust.
The unwritten rule prohibiting acts of violence inside Hexsenacht has been broken.
Rules, once broken, will spread distrust between public officials that is already rampant.
He secretly knows that if he runs away, distracted by the treasure in front of his eyes, he can be accidentally caught up in a wide range of magic flying from behind and ‘accidentally die’.
As proof, the approach of the enemies towards Siu and Rinne is not as fast as expected.
Rather, it was the witches who lived in Dignity Town that were approaching quickly.
They have been keeping in check with passive magic events in order to aim for a ‘tang’, or to put a spoon on a little bit.
-Puuuuu! Beep Beep Beom!
The sparks that rose with a shrieking sound exploded in the air like white phosphorus and hit the medicine shop.
The burning flames spouting white smoke are actually alchemy magic created by burning white phosphorus.
“Look at that bitch Carla? He gave me cheap medicine because he was next door!”
While Zlata shouted with a cold voice of resentment.
Zlata’s neighbor called Carla’s awkward use of magic was great trolling.
Alice alone was able to shake off the 16th level fireball at most, and the remaining smoke spread through the alleys and served as a great smoke screen.
Of course, it was unreasonable to ostracize a high-ranking witch like that simply by cheating her eyes.
However, on Siwoo’s side, there is a witch who specializes in concealment and Rinne’s joint magic.
No matter how different the firepower is, the situation is full of citizens inside their city.
There is even Siwoo, whose value increases only when captured alive, so it would be difficult to bombard indiscriminately without even recognizing the target.
“You two, do you remember the magic you used before? Please use it right now.”
He quickly gave instructions to the two and covered his entire body with armor.
Review immediate formations for breakthrough.
Alice, capable of high firepower projection and omnidirectional protection, is the avant-garde.
Supporters and roles to be protected, Mana, Malisha, Yebin, and Zlata are the lieutenants.
Perhaps the most dangerous rearguard was Linnaeus himself.
The dimension transfer ceremony Siwoo envisioned was closer to a kernel that directly interfered with and pierced the door than a key.
It was a method of forcibly establishing a passage with the present world without obtaining permission from the immigration office.
To be honest, the investment efficiency was not high as it was an idea from the time of slavery when I knew nothing.
‘Door’ is the essence of dimensional magic built by Keter, but it is no different from hacking it from the front without bypassing security vulnerabilities.
Of course, the situation is too urgent to find the next best solution now.
I have no choice but to believe it because it is a magic that I have spent 5 long years on my own.
“First of all, you have to take your time. I will complete the magic based on the formula given by the Witch of Rescue.”
Siu said while scanning the thick papers, which were about the same thickness as the phone book, with his eyes.
It is a task that was originally scheduled to consume about a week, but as long as the work is twisted, I cannot afford it.
I tried to memorize all the dense information contained in it.
If it’s a novel, it’s close to impossible, but if it’s a magic formula, it’s not.
Magic is a science with a series of flows.
There is no need to skim through all the trivial parts.
Catch the flow, grasp the context and remember.
“Will it really work?”
“It has to be.”
“Even if I finish it…. How are you going to get to the door?”
“First of all, we will spend our time here, and as soon as it is completed, we will jump into space together in front of the door. Until then, it’s better to be surrounded by as many witches as possible.”
If you jump right in front of the door, you will naturally come into contact with the sea where ships in the deepest part of Hexsennacht come and go.
In that case, the population density would be drastically lowered, and there would be a high possibility that the bombing would fall at the cost of some losses.
Seawater will act as a buffer to reduce damage to the city.
It was better to move quickly through the residential areas of Dignity Town and use other witches as cover.
“And if they knew there was a way to escape, they would be more aggressive.”
However, compared to Gehenna, even a border town is a witch’s den.
They weren’t just waiting for cover, they were witches before that.
If there is a number like this, it is not an existence that can be ignored.
– Quaang!
The condensed air covered the apothecary shop at once.
A drug store that has become more dusty than any other demolition equipment.
The shadows of the party who made an emergency escape amid the thick white phosphorus smoke and dust follow.
Innumerable baptism of magic pouring down from all sides without a chance to be vigilant for a moment.
No one shows an active intention to engage right now.
Rinne alone is a person who is reluctant to outcasts and exploits, so I just throw a stone at her from a distance while securing her safe distance.
However, it is the number that matters.
Dozens of deterrence projectiles flew in ceaselessly.
Even if you don’t see clear results right away, consumption accumulates like clothes getting wet in a drizzle.
“Endless change!”
If it wasn’t for Alice, who can use mercury to perform omnidirectional defense, she would have been busy cutting out the pouring sparks without paying attention to Siwoo’s interpretation.
We must continue.
He continues to calculate while busily walking around Dignity Town so that his location is not identified.
The attack from the outside is left to Alice and Rinne as much as possible, while concentrating on completing the dimension shifting ceremony.
My brain swells hot like a soufflé at the calculation beyond my limits.
“Please do it quickly! I’m having a hard time!”
“Don’t interrupt. I will help.”
Alice’s cries of crying in 30 seconds.
The voice of Rinne, who added while splitting the magic with the sword wind.
It doesn’t reach Siwoo now.
As the concentration reached its limit and blurred vision and hearing, all Siwoo could see was a huge structure floating in the black space.
A tree that takes the form of a fractal and reaches high into the sky.
Substitute the magic into the information of the ‘door’ that Dorothy handed over.
-Click click click
The feeling of unlocking a lock with a clothespin.
Then, with the clear sound of metal meshing, he holds the key in his hand.
“It’s done… !”
Siwoo, who escaped from his own world, immediately tried to approach the door using coordinate movement.
If you can get out of the present world and get near the clean surface, you can escape to Gehenna with your citizenship card.
With these coordinates Dorothy gave me, it’s probably somewhere in the Pacific Island, so I’ll be able to jump right in.
-Goo-gu-gu-gu-gu-gung!
But.
With a roar that seemed to shake the world, an accident began.
The source of the roar is the huge gate that surrounds the round sea of Haxennacht.
The border of the golden door, which was normally half-submerged and only showed a silhouette, is dyed in a deep black color.
At the same time, huge ships caught in the aftermath are torn to pieces on the violently seething waters.
“…….”
You can tell without having to say it.
Because I saw it in Siwoo’s eyes.
An essence of dimensional magic that creates pocket dimensions and maintains the foundations of the world.
A door that has never been closed in history has now closed.
The magic formula that Dorothy saved at most became a piece of toilet paper, and the dimension transfer ceremony that Siwoo created at most became useless as it had to be calculated by overturning the premise.
To put it a little easier.
Now the story is really over.
damn shits going down 😳