Chapter 66 – Ah~ It’s Ruined~ (8)
Ruined, ruined, ruined
Damn it, Violence ended up resurrecting the former hero. She must have intended to resurrect the strongest warrior and make her a puppet with her own abilities, but if that was possible, the immortal dragon, the original owner of her powers, would have tried it right away. What’s more, the hero suddenly stabs Violence with a sword! Violence had to stop the bleeding in a hurry because he didn’t want to die here, but in order to survive from the former warrior who was trying to kill me, emitting divine power several tens of times stronger than the current hero Luke, I finally tried the Pundun-Agarisul! The summary of the last episode is here!
“A human from another world?”
“Literally. I’m a human who lived in another world, not this world. Until one day, Luminus suddenly summoned me to this place.”
At my words that followed, (former) warrior Celestial Arcana, Selena for short, straightened her eyebrows a little. Given the setting in front of me, it was obvious that if I couldn’t convince the strongest person with words, the entire play would collapse. I compared the knowledge she knew with the knowledge I knew, and before I figured out what was wrong and where the misunderstanding was, so that she wouldn’t refuse to talk to me, I would consider myself as another person created by Luminous, not a partner of Luminous. Introduced like a victim.
Selena’s behavior from a while ago was as if she had been used by Luminous. However, the Luminous Goddess I knew was not a god who used people and threw them away when they were no longer useful. Especially if it was a god who was originally human like her. Figuring out where the hell she got her information from and what misunderstandings she had along the way is a top priority.
“Ruminus called you…? Why?”
“Hey, wouldn’t it be fair to ask each other questions once?”
Sureureung.
“Do you think you’re in a position to ask me questions?”
The blade aimed at his neck, the dazzling divine power emanating from it made his throat feel sore. But more than that, the sense of intimidation emanating from Selena’s body was such that even an immortal dragon could not help but shrink. However, since I extracted the emotion of fear myself, it was irrelevant to me, who does not feel fear even in the face of my own death. I nodded calmly and replied.
“Of course, it would be very easy for you to kill me. But then you’ll never get the information you want. Of course, you’ll want to get revenge on her, but you’re just as curious, right?”
The reason she doesn’t kill me right now is because of the information I have. However, if you say you have no intention of telling this information, they will kill you, and even if you tell them all the information you know, they will kill you saying that you have done everything you need. In the end, in order for me to survive here, I have no choice but to attract her as my ally in the process of telling her the limited information I know. Also, my fighting sense is pretty bad, but I tend to be proud that I’m not that bad in this area.
“Why did I have to do this? Why did she choose me? What did I do wrong? …Right?”
“…!”
Selena looked quite perplexed when the things she usually thought only in her head came out through my mouth. Since I often use Whispers of Corruption, I can see this much at a glance without even trying. No matter how strong a warrior in the world is and even if he is the strongest human who beats up even a demon dragon that is said to never die, in the end, the substance is human anyway. Reading her thoughts was no longer difficult for me, whose routine was to read people’s minds and stir up and corrupt the dark minds within them.
Perhaps Selena doesn’t know everything, and only a fraction of the information. Among them, she must have assumed the ‘role of a former hero’ herself. When she learns that the journey she, along with her companions, risked her life to the best of her ability, was planned to fail anyway by the goddess who ordered it, she would be infuriated. Will be.
The futility of her own efforts, and the fact that her friendship with her peers and the results of her own work may all be lies made by her own hands, these things boil in her with her anger and hatred. There must be something.
“I know all the reasons. Because I continue to work under her. To ensure that this play succeeds safely, adjusting the surrounding situation from within and disappearing as a handful of dew on the sword of the protagonist that will come one day, that is my role. .”
“…”
In addition to the fact that I helped her, I also let her know that she was destined to die anyway, so that she would change her mind and prevent me from killing me, while at the same time realizing that the information I had was of more value than she thought. Emphasize the fact implicitly. She knows everything she doesn’t know, and under certain conditions, if she’s willing to tell me, she won’t kill me. Even if she really succeeds in taking her revenge on Luminous, the pleasure of her revenge is fleeting. Soon she will have to carry her question for the rest of her life as to why she was the way she was. After all, she can’t kill me to get information from me.
“How much do you know?”
“I know everything, from the circumstances of the people who are entangled in the thread of fate in this story, including you and me, to how this story begins and how it will end. Also, why I have to go through this.”
“So, what do you want?”
“First of all… Soon, the current generation of heroes chosen by Luminus and their party will arrive here. Your successors and their companions. We need to go somewhere quiet with them. You are so vigilant. To a secret place, out of sight of the ‘higher ones’.”
“…Good night.”
Selena replied as she straightened her sword in her hand. Holding her handle with both hands, pointing her blade to the floor, she slammed the blade of light into the floor before I could warn her. At that moment, her dazzling light spread across the floor and took the shape of a magic circle, and at the same time, she felt the sight in front of her eyes blur, and at the same time, a pain like rolling over her acupressure board spread through her body.
Damn it, my holy power is my weakness!!!
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In a world that lost its light due to the total solar eclipse and fell into darkness, the dazzling light emitted from the sword of the former hero was enough to be called the sun. The dazzling light engulfed the former hero, Baron Ragnar Armageddon, and the party of warriors heading in the direction the light was seen, flickering even more dazzlingly, then quietly disappearing. The light disappeared, and the moon that covered the sun moved away again, but those who were wrapped in the light had already disappeared with the light.
This was a kind of divine magic developed by Selena that uses divine power as if it were magic. The simple body strengthening that Luke deals with was a technique that was more complicated and demanding than the free operation of divine power that Rag or Armageddon could use, which was incomparable, and at the same time, it was the only feat that only Selena could use. Using her divine magic, Selena transported Ragnar Armageddon and those he spoke of to a secret place where those she hated could not see.
She already knew that in a world created by God, there would be no place left unnoticed by the Creator, but in fact, God was not truly omnipotent and omnipotent beings who knew everything. And as far as this place goes, she never knows. Because this is not in her plans.
Selena looked back at the man she had brought under her own power, her man she presumed to know the information she wanted to know. He was healing her burns all over her own body, extracting her mana from her fragments, which he felt a very familiar aura of.
“Cough, Cough! Ugh… Damn it. I’m really going to die.”
“…Are you okay?”
“Damn it, if you’re going to use divine power, please warn me in advance. This body is a human who received power from the immortal dragon you defeated, so it’s very vulnerable to divine power. It hurt because I didn’t prepare in advance.”
“If you knew in advance, does that mean there is a way to prepare?”
“Of course there is. Rather than that, Luke’s party… Passed out. Rather, it went well.”
At her man’s words, Selena turned her head in the direction he was looking. He said, her own successor and the current generation’s hero. And… Luminus, another victim being used by her. But seeing the stunned Luke and his companions, Selena couldn’t help but feel her doubts.
“Are you really sure that this person is the hero of this generation?”
“Huh? That’s right. That needlessly handsome guy is the hero Luke, and the rest are his companions, the warrior Gordon, the ranger Hawk, the wizard Viola, and the priestess Elia.”
“Come to think of it, I haven’t heard your name yet.”
“I’m Ragnar Armageddon. I’m the head of the Baron Armageddon family. You can call me Ragnar, which is a convenient name, or you can call it Radon for short. Rather than that, Luke, who has a weakness for divine power, I’m fine, but what if the guy who claims to use divine power faints? That’s it. It’s really just a sigh.”
“…I think this guy is too weak for a hero.”
When Selena asked, expressing her doubts, the man who introduced herself as Radon sighed and shook his head.
“Well, he’s pretty weak for a hero. Well, that’s okay, let’s move on to a more important story. For now… I’ll listen to your story first. That way, you’ll know what you need to know and what I have to tell you. Tenni.”
He was obviously the one holding the sword, but he felt strange because he felt like he had lost the initiative, but the hero decided not to care. In the first place, she was at a level inferior to that of ordinary people outside of combat. She is not an opponent who will succeed if she threatens to take the initiative. If she was as strong as her, I could estimate how much her opponent would be by looking at her opponent’s form, and this man named Radon was better than the fallen warrior over there, but I can’t say that he is stronger than the immortal dragon. Level was non-existent.
However, he was the first human who did not show the slightest bit of fear even in the face of the intimidation radiated by himself who had defeated the immortal dragon dozens of times. Until he knows the information he knows, he can’t be killed, intimidation doesn’t work, and there’s no reason to ruin it when the opponent comes out cooperatively. Having thus concluded her, Selena began telling him her own story.
“…When we entered the final showdown with the immortal dragon, my colleagues and I did our best to face each other. The founder of the Mage Tower and Great Sage, Alace, the oldest forest keeper of the elven forest, Weed, and Saint Maria of the Luminous Church. At that time, it was a group of people who were called the best in each field, including me, so no one doubted our success. But…”
“The immortal dragon, as its name suggests, would not have died.”
“…That’s right. Obviously, he was vulnerable to holy power like you. Not only me and my colleagues’ weapons, but also applying holy power to everyone’s attacks and attacking, he fell to his knees so easily. But for some reason, he fell to his knees. Didn’t die. Clearly, even though his whole body was in such a tattered state that it wouldn’t be strange even if he died right away, he continued to rise. Even if his arm was burned by Maria’s divine power and his bones were exposed, he was hit by Weed’s arrow in one eye. Even if it’s far away, even if Alace’s magic bends his legs in an impossible way due to his body structure, even if I split his stomach with a sword clad with divine power and pour out all his internal organs, he didn’t die and got up. The sight of him rising again without dying was truly indescribable horror.”
“Those who don’t die even when killed, and those who cannot come back to life no matter how strong they die. The outcome of the game is obvious.”
“I know exactly. You’re right. At first, we overpowered him to the point of futility. It was easy for us to defeat an immortal dragon, as each of us had outstanding abilities, and we were well matched in our journey so far. However, no matter how many times he was defeated, he rose again, and as the battle turned into a long battle, I started to get tired one by one. My comrades fell one by one, and in the end I had to fight him alone. A bloody battle that lasted for days with a guy who didn’t die even if I killed him. , It was a crazy thing no one would ever want to do again.”
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For Selena, who was her dead body, it was a nightmare that had happened only a few days before, so the memory of her came easily into her mind. In the battle of those who exceeded a certain level, a momentary mistake was defeat and death. The immortal dragon did not die no matter how many times it was defeated, and its momentum, far from weakening as time passed, became more and more ferocious. No matter how much she beat her divine power to death, after a while she rose up again to face the attacking guy, and eventually Maria, the first saint, lost her life because her divine power ran out.
After losing her Maria, the strain on her Selena increased. This is because she had to apply her divine power not only to her own attacks, but also to the attacks of her allies, Weed and Alace. Due to Maria’s absence, Selena quickly got tired of her, and because of that, she accidentally tripped over her feet, and at the moment when her immortal dragon struck her, Weed sacrificed himself to protect her. Selena was hit instead.
Another of her companions was lost, and Alace and Selena attacked the immortal dragon even more desperately for the sake of her sacrificed companions. However, even the ultimate magic that Alace applied by burning his life span and his body’s magic circuits could not completely annihilate the immortal dragon. The immortal dragon slammed its huge foot down at Alace, who had fallen and was bleeding from the overload of his magical power. That was the end of her last companion Selena had ever seen.
Left alone with her, Selena never gave in and faced the immortal dragon with all her might. She crossed the line between life and death many times, attacking all the weak points of the immortal dragon, but it rose again nonetheless. The battle continues, in which her only rest was the death of the immortal dragon and the coming back to life. Finally, the moment when Selena, exhausted by her apologies to her dead comrades, gives up everything for her, Luminous The goddess told her how to seal her immortal dragon.
At that moment, the first thought that popped into her hero’s head was not the hope of ‘finally defeating that guy who took away her precious comrades’, but ‘if there was such a method, why didn’t you tell me right away’? It was anger.
If, from the beginning, the fact that he would not die even if he attacked with divine power and the way to seal him, he would not have had to lose his friends who had traveled with him for many years.
Even if she wanted to argue with that fact, she couldn’t afford it. In the meantime, the immortal dragon was raising the ugly light again in the empty pupil and raising the tattered giant body that was nothing but the scars that were no different from a corpse, and Selena asked Luminus about that fact after sealing the immortal dragon. I made up my mind to For the sake of the sacrificed comrades to defeat that bastard, I decided to deal with the immortal dragon first. The reason why he didn’t tell us how to seal it right away was because there were circumstances that couldn’t be said. Concluding that, Selena lured the immortal dragon to a nearby temple.
And after defeating the bastard once again at the location of her underground shrine, Selena raised her divine power to the limit and sealed her bastard in the underground shrine. From the beginning, she struck the giant’s huge body into a large space that seemed to have been arranged for that purpose, and completely sealed the body and the only entrance with a chain of light illuminated by divine power.
Having succeeded in sealing her immortal dragon, Selena left her temple again and asked the goddess Luminous. Why didn’t I tell you how to seal him in the first place, why did you tell me that only when all of my friends were dead and I was about to give up everything? While fighting the immortal dragon, she vomited all the accumulated resentment into the sky. Cried out
However, there was no reply from her.
The voice she used to hear when she knelt on the floor and prayed couldn’t be heard no matter what she tried.
Why doesn’t the goddess answer? A word popped into the hero’s mind.
Tosa Gupaeng.
Hounds that are no longer useful are disposed of.
Hopefully it can’t be Even though he denied it, the fact that her voice could not be heard again was the most certain proof. If she hadn’t been abandoned, there was no way the luminous goddess would not answer her own call.
On the fifth day, when she waited for the voice of Luminous but no answer came back, Selena headed to her warrior’s tomb. She cut down the immortal dragon’s hundreds of followers, and out of Maria’s compassion, into a huge tomb built with their weapons as tombstones.
Selena started digging a pit there. With a meaningless expectation that Luminous’s voice might be heard again before she finished what she was doing, she very slowly dug out the dirt on the floor. However, even after a pit large enough for her to enter was created, Luminous’s voice was not heard.
Selena says that while she was fighting herself as a warrior, she once drove her partner from her hand to the ground instead of her tombstone, then went into the pit and lay down looking up at the sky. Then she closed her eyes and used her magical powers to cover the soil around her over herself. The weight of her soil over her own body stifled her, choking her breath, but no Luminous voice was heard as she lay dying.
When she opened her eyes again, she was standing in a pitch black space with nothing. There, Selena met her ‘her she’. The fact that she was thoroughly taken advantage of and abandoned by her Luminous, and with her who let her know that he was merely an expendable part of the story she created.
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“…What’s her name?”
“She introduced herself as ‘Hel’, the goddess of bones and corpses. And it was from her mouth that this world was a play made by Luminous, and that I was but an expendable character in it. That the world goes according to the story of her play, that my comrades sacrificed in vain, and that I buried myself alive was all just a story she planned. Everything she did, the friendship between me and my colleagues, and the fact that it was all a puppet play that was not even funny under the thread of fate she wove! No matter what I did, I could not forgive Luminus for using and throwing away everything without incident! That’s why I accepted Hell’s offer to get my revenge on her! By ruining all the plays she had planned! “
“…”
After hearing all of her story, the familiar cry of ‘It’s ruined!’ Echoed dizzy in my head.
I had a hunch. That I was sleepy.
Very seriously too.
