Chapter 741 – #158_Escape (4)
#741
One.
Closed door.
The key he had completed at best had served its purpose.
The smoke screen could no longer cover Siwoo’s position.
As if the cover-up built by Mana and Rinne has also been analyzed, the archwitches who have been watching the situation from above begin to use their hands.
-Bang! Bang! Bang!
Iron stakes fell from the sky and pierced the ground.
The stakes are connected by a long chain, which constitutes a symbol and magic in itself.
The moment the stake sucked in the magic around it at a terrifying speed is about to explode with light….
– Cheekyung!
The blade of the guillotine blown by another witch skillfully cut the chain between the stakes.
The magic that the stakes and chains had been constructing was tangled, and a super-high frequency sound resembling tinnitus was emitted like a dying horse.
When someone builds a huge fire, someone builds a water barrier to offset it.
Someone makes nets and nooses, someone cuts the threads with the blade of the wind.
As predicted earlier, sabotage between each other is unfolding.
There were few direct attacks, but the aftermath of magic colliding with magic was devastating.
-Bang! Kwakwawang! Kwakwang!
Dignity Town started to burn so vigorously that I wondered if the Great London Air Raid was like this.
It was as if he was rolling through a hail of fire.
At the beginning of a full-scale offensive, the low-ranking witches in Dignity Town can be seen running away.
“Siw.”
Rinne walks in front of Siwoo, who has hardened.
This is because she noticed Siu’s expression and noticed that things had gone wrong.
Not only Rinne, but all the participants in this escape play had a hunch about the end.
“Don’t give up.”
In a situation where her eyes were dark, Rinne’s tone conveyed confidence rather than holding on to a vague hope.
Siwoo had hope.
“You can do it.”
He sinks heavily again at Rinne’s words that follow.
“More than this….”
Siu shook his head.
The world is not a novel in which the main character goes as he pleases,
A miracle is not a convenient device that comes to you when you need it.
Rinne said to Siwoo, who gave up everything.
“It was a boring life.”
“…….”
“So many lives have been taken. Trapped in self-righteousness and arrogance, when you close your eyes, the agony of those who became lonely souls at the tip of a knife continued.”
“…….”
“It was a day in which I struggled with a deficiency that could not be filled, and was only alive like a dead man.”
Her small hand covers the back of Siu’s hand.
“And I met you. I could feel the feeling of being warm, showing my shy side, and feeling that I was happy to be with them.”
Siwoo noticed later that it took a form similar to a will.
“If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t have been able to feel the pounding in my heart. Like a wolf tired of just gasping for breath. He must have died as a beast.”
After hesitating for a moment, Rinne looked at Siwoo for the first time and smiled.
It was the kind of smile she had never seen before.
“I love you. Give up this fleeting life.”
In Rinne’s long life, meeting Siu was only a moment.
If life is compared to 24 hours, it must have been a few seconds.
I was happy nonetheless.
Enough to be a reason to die for him.
“So I’ll take over here. While I buy time, somehow find a way to return to the arms of your lover who is waiting for you. That is the last request I leave you.”
“Master… !”
Rinne didn’t hear her answer and turned around.
She breaks free from being pursued and charges at her foes.
A reckless challenge against such a formidable enemy.
The body is not perfect to fight the final battle of life.
As Yebin Smyrna said, whenever she swung her sword, she felt the pain of breaking her body.
I probably couldn’t even last 10 seconds.
But somehow it seems to buy more than a minute.
“Bear it.”
Even though such a future is vividly drawn, the emotions that spread in the heart are strange,
It was a joy incomprehensible to Rinne’s head.
It’s not the joy that comes from egotism and self-righteousness that I’ve felt so far.
It is the joy of having one last thing left to do for your loved ones.
A warm warmth as if she were attached to his heart even though she was physically distant from him.
The warmth that told her that she was not alone seemed to make Rinne stronger.
2.
The last time Rinne earned her.
A black and white magic field spread out around Rinne.
The black-and-white world, which had left perfect black-and-white contrast, was not fulfilling its performance.
This is because it is impossible to take away all the colors of the magical power emitted by so many people.
If it was Siu alone who was here, he might have let go of her hand and given up.
He must have remained devastated and waited for kidnapping and confinement.
But Siu is not alone.
There are six people to be responsible for.
“…….”
The final escape route is closed, and the final key is gone.
The enemy is mighty, and time is running out.
But what is that about?
“Yeah fuck, was it easy until now?”
As Lynne said.
It’s too early to give up.
Because Siwoo still had the role of saving Rinne and escaping.
Reframe the premise to review all available abilities.
There must be a way.
The ability to think explosively accelerates by splitting a moment slows down the perceived time.
However, there is no way for Siwoo’s child.
The dimensional movement ceremony conceived and produced for 5 years had never assumed a case where the ‘door’ would close.
“Ah….”
What flashed through my mind at that moment was the existence of the red branch and Lydia.
More precisely, the concept-type magic she wields.
Siu has so far only used the distortion field of the red branch as a ‘magically deadly radioactive force field’.
However, the use of ‘distortion’ to deal with the concept shown by the red knight, the original owner of the red branch, is limitless.
By mixing the techniques of life and death, they were able to create an immortal army that would resurrect even after death.
It was possible to make a narrow rainwater tunnel with a width comparable to that of a large plaza.
He was able to distort the distance between Eloa and Siu to separate them.
An all-powerful courtesy that can accomplish anything if you broaden the scope of its use.
The red branch Siu was handling was less than 50% of his original performance.
But there was a reason for this.
Siwoo is not an idiot, so he tried several times to use this distortion ability.
The problem is that the concept-based magic is at the opposite end of Siwoo’s existing style.
The realm of intuition and senses, not the realm of calculation and reason.
Siwoo, a former mathematician, had very different ways of dealing with systematized magic and ambiguous ideas.
And Siwoo now saw the battle between Linne and Lydia.
Of course, you can’t understand the magic of the 23rd hierarchy just by seeing it at first glance.
Nevertheless, it is important to witness the framing of the methodology for dealing with ideas.
Would it be possible then?
It is not necessary to deal freely with the notion of distortion.
For example, what if you could distort a originally closed door into an ‘open state’ for a moment?
“This….”
Siu, who was buried in his own world, felt a thrill.
Enlightenment toward a new level facing an unprecedented crisis.
‘Ain’, who has achieved a cataclysm, shakes and a dangerous-looking staircase is placed in front of Si-woo.
The golden stairway reaching up to the sky is the image and philosophy of Siwoo projected onto Ain.
Even if it’s reckless, even if it’s a weak weak compared to a powerful enemy.
Struggle without giving up hope….
Struggle for life.
Siu realized instinctively.
These stairs are dangerous.
If you stumble while climbing, or the moment the stairs collapse, you will surely fall endlessly into the abyss beneath the golden stairs.
Even so, without hesitation, he stretches out his feet and runs out.
Every time you climb the stairs, your thinking expands as if you are expanding the horizon covered in thick fog.
The inspiration and realization that disappeared as fragments into the unconscious because they could not recognize and understand it float through the darkness of oblivion.
It was a concentration that far exceeded the ability of humans to filter information.
While he was suffering from a headache that seemed like his synapse was on fire, it became unclear whether he was climbing the stairs or just running on flat ground.
3.
It’s only been a minute since the fight started.
“Whoa…. Whoa….”
Rinne’s body was full of wounds.
In fact, this itself was close to a miracle that Linnaeus created using her rich combat experience.
Based on explosive momentum, they dug into the neutral zone where there is subtle tension between hardliners and moderates.
If you use strong magic, you can cause damage to other factions by inducing a subtle line of sight and wasting time.
However, this kind of behavior is to buy time.
-Wheein juice!
A sharp spear flies into the side of Rinne, who can’t open properly because the blood on her eyelids has hardened.
Two arms identified but not moving.
Rinne tried to twist her body to avoid at least an instant death.
-Kwaguawang!
The blade of the spear flickered away with a huge sound like a thunderbolt.
Unexpectedly, Rinne, who never imagined that she would help, sees a witch in a nun’s uniform.
“Dorothy… ?”
“Did you owe one? I don’t know if the day will come when I will pay it back.”
She gave a light wink and a bold laugh.
Dorothy straight away swings her sword, shedding her rallied spear.
If she is Dorothy, who boasts absolute defense, she will be able to take longer than Linnaeus.
“Witch of the search?”
“Why does Dorothy… ?”
“It doesn’t matter, kill them both!”
They are witches who are agitated by sudden betrayal, but it is clear that they are heavy widows.
Dorothy and Linnaeus were on the defensive side by side.
“It doesn’t look good to be cornered as soon as you appear cool~”
Between the surge of magic and the great witches who gave up their backs defenselessly for that magic.
-Shoot it!!!
It rained.
The thick stream of water is incomparable to the heavy rain of Hexsennacht that sometimes falls like showers.
Dignity Town is covered with heavy rain like a thick curtain that fills your mouth and nose with water just by breathing.
“What’s this?”
“The magic field… ?”
Besides, it wasn’t just raindrops.
Particle magic with almost no killing power, but each drop has a powerful abrasion ability.
Every contact breaks down your defense system like a sugar cube melting into hot coffee.
Self-defense was no exception.
From those who have just entered the 20th hierarchy to some witches in the 23rd hierarchy, their self-defense is reduced without exception.
This caused more confusion than it seemed.
Unidentified, unidentified magic neutralized the defense ability.
This may be the work of moderates, hardliners, or insider traitors.
It is as if the tension between the exploits, which were already wary of each other with sharp eyes, was amplified to the maximum.
“Great! Now let’s bounce!”
Taking advantage of that gap, Dorothy wrapped her around Rinne’s waist and descended on her vertically.
Her enemies did not notice that there was a blonde witch following her.
