Chapter 211 – Ancient Missing Link (10)
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Fran did not get up from a prone position.
Hiding is resting It must have been because his back was going up and down almost imperceptibly. It had to be.
The red liquid will be a potion. The smell of blood that stings my nose must be because of my nosebleeds. It can’t be all of Fran’s blood. Because Dana wouldn’t have treated me first than Fran, who was in serious condition.
“I’ve been doing this ever since I was wearing a ring on my ring finger. Was she your wife too?”
─Kick-kick. Yerna burst out laughing and asked.
She could see Dana saying something in my arms, but she couldn’t understand what she was saying because she heard it in one ear and then it went out the other, like a video with the volume turned to zero.
Heavy stagnant blood weighed down her feet.
Her temperature dropped and her feet felt heavy, as if she had fallen into mud.
But strangely.
From her body that had cooled as if it had turned into a corpse——only her left eye was as hot as if it had been burned by a pharynx.
… Hoo-wook.
Beast Return’s mana is gone. As my body, clad in only cheap armor, was exposed and defenseless, Yerna blinked at her as if her delighted radio had broken down.
“Why? Is your cute wife really hurt? She knocks me down quickly, and if I treat her, maybe she can survive? There were times when she was so blank——”
While she was saying something, she suddenly raised her eyebrows to the number eight.
It was because her fingers, as she tried to run through her own hair, cut her air. She turned her head as if Yerna noticed the difference in her hand.
Her Yerna’s hand was missing.
“──── Ha?”
Her thumb and little finger remained dangling in her pierced palm. ─Puff! Her blood gushed from her palms as if she had been waiting for Yerna to realize what had happened to her.
But Yerna couldn’t afford to look at her hand, which had been pierced by something.
It was because that ‘something of her’ was still ——floating beside her.
“… Window?”
Her half spear, wrapped in her black mana, was floating in the air.
It wasn’t that the magic granted to the spearhead was activated.
The magic formula collapsed when it was broken by a vine. The 〈 Puppet 〉 given to the spear in the first place is not a magic that moves while entwining mana like that.
Yerna soars at a speed she did not realize, and has no power to pierce the palm of her hand.
──If it’s normal.
─Peeing!!!
The spear rotated 180 degrees and flew into my hand at a speed impossible to even see with the eyes of ordinary superhumans. I pulled the other half of the earth to the spear and put the broken parts together.
– Keying.
Since the fragments of the spearhead were split into dozens of pieces, the junction did not even fit together, but when the light shone, it was joined cleanly as if it were an illusion.
– Whirik. When I let go of my hand, the spearhead spun once and floated next to me. Like a servant serving his master.
“──Kuu!”
─Break it! Light’s mana regenerated her penetrating Yerna’s hand. For the mana of light that the ruins had spent hundreds of years gathering, regeneration of body defects was not a task. Easier than lighting a fire with a match.
And the use of light’s mana was in addition to healing.
“——Kyahahahahahahaha!! Power was fine! But you should have got it right!!”
Realizing the power of my spear, Yerna aroused murderous intent and manipulated her magic.
Powered by the mana of light, the vines spun and rushed like a drill. It was twice as fast as when it first attacked me.
Kwaaaaang—!!
A vine stuck in my chest as I bowed my head. Armor exploded like an old soldier caught in a grenade.
Not a crowd Even with the defense of beast return, the attack, which was fatally wounded, became far stronger than before.
With the strengthening magic removed, the weak body would shatter like a watermelon hit by a hammer, turning Fran and Dana behind them into chunks of meat ground in a blender.
─Kagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagaga!!!
However, I stood firm like a layered cliff and took all the attacks with my body.
The armor was smashed and the contents of the clothes he was carrying splattered like the contents of a wallet thrown into a fan. However, there is not even a single millimeter of retreat. The magic of output that would turn even the armor plate into a rag did not pierce my skin and idling.
I felt no pain, so my consciousness became clear. Like an invalid attacked by madness, I had a vision of the white flame I had seen in my inner world.
A black corn appeared in the middle of the white flame.
It blackened the flame as if it were polluting it. It didn’t feel like being dominated by someone else. I noticed the identity of the black flame.
It was a mad rage that bloomed in my chest.
-Don’t fall into madness, tame your anger.
I remembered what someone had said in my dream. Perhaps those were the words Odin had guessed at this situation, but the advice that came to mind was buried in the rising passion.
─Knapped.
I grabbed the window.
Black mana wrapped around her left arm like a beast return. From her hand to the spear as if it was eroding, it was covered with mana. I swung my spear at the wild vine like a crusher in a factory.
─Damn it!! A suitable attack, reminiscent of broom sweeping, cut the spinning bundle of vines like paper. As if the scene of tearing ivy vines had been inflated a thousand times, vines thicker than a person’s waist fell onto the floor.
A pool of blood splashed out. The bronze mirror bounced off the cut vine and rolled at my feet.
In that mirror, I didn’t have a left face.
Black smoke billowed out, covering the expressionless man’s face as if it had been smeared.
Keying-! Keying-! Keying-!
As if urging, as if expecting, the black mana belched. The catacombs shuddered with the mana output from her left arm.
“… Dana. Heal Fran.”
I just said that with the last remaining reason, and I put my hand on the face that was engulfed in darkness.
As if the light was frightened and avoided, the blackened face felt as if it were touching the soul.
Just like closing the eyes of a corpse at a funeral——I closed my left eye.
─Thump.
… Kuhwaaaaa!!!!
“… Rrrr…”
Black mana rode down her left half and covered her body. Her throat let out a beastly howl. I roared at the top of my voice, not minding the intensification of the earthquake that shook the catacombs.
“■■■■■■■■■■■■■──!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
─Boom!!! He let out a howl that even beasts and monsters could not imitate and stepped on the advance.
The catacombs created by the architectural techniques of ancient civilizations were split in a radial pattern. As Yerna changed her complexion and closed her petals, the thrown spear flew through the wall of air.
1 layer, 2 layers—— It was a defense posture of deploying all forces, including a 5-layer laminated shield and a compression shield.
The air through the window blew the wind through the catacombs, leaving a storm-like aftermath. The catacombs shook with signs of ground collapse, but I didn’t worry about being buried alive.
In the next instant, the ceiling of the catacombs——the rocky ground tens of meters thick flew away without a trace.
“Ahhhhh──!!!!”
─Quarrrr!
A mithril javelin lightly pierced Yerna’s defenses and tore off half of her body. Light’s mana healed Yerna’s body, which was fatally wounded. It was a speed that transcended creatures with regenerative abilities like trolls.
The aftermath of the destruction shattered the ground above her head, creating a passageway to the surface. Caught in the storm, Yerna’s half body was thrown hundreds of meters above the ground while regenerating without dying.
Don’t miss
“Rrrrooooo──!!!!!!!”
I chased after it, jumping several tens of meters in place.
The thought of keeping Franc alive stuck to the corners of his neurons like the corpse of a rat burned in a fireplace, but it did nothing to calm the seething murderous intent and rage.
A hurricane spewed from the underground tore down parts of the Ghost City.
Catching the spear returning to me like a swift marlin, I leaped toward the ruins of the dead.
“Keheuk, kyahaha?! Haha… ?!”
Yerna, regenerated by a demigod in seconds, struggled in her pain.
Even with the mana of light, her clothes couldn’t be regenerated. Yerna, who was naked and rolling on the floor, found me and her eyes widened.
“The arrogant scumbag of Gusin must have brought me to my knees…”
Yerna gritted her teeth and groaned. Her woolen dress covered her nakedness.
“I’ll cut off your limbs and bury them in the corpses of your idiot co-workers and her wife. Until your body and mind completely rot away——I will feed the predatory plants!!!!”
“Rrrraaaaa!!!”
I roared and ran. Yerna, who distorted her face with her ferocity, blossomed in her ruined building. Rafflesia-like flowers were in full bloom along a straight line of 100 meters.
─Rurrrr!!
Rafflesia vines grew like ferocious bamboo spears. It was a wide range attack that suppressed the face. There was nowhere to dodge, but I kept running.
Raised the claws of beast return. I swung my blade-like fingernail to the side, which had grown over 30 cm.
“Syaaaaa——!!!!!”
Black smoke and mana spewed out like soot. The prison of vines was shattered by the slash of the claws. The remaining mana in the nails flew to the place where Yerna was.
“Don’t underestimate the lineage of the high elves——!!!!”
Yerna tried to unfold more petals than before. But that goal failed. ─Quad Deuk! The mana threads spewing from my fingers bound Yerna’s body.
It went beyond thread and was almost as thick as a rope. Yerna’s body touched by her thread was wrapped in black mana and compressed. Her blood spattered like a broken water fountain.
“Oh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,?
Yerna had her limbs crushed as if being crushed by her hydraulic press in her 360-degree confined space. I pulled my arm Yerna bounced like a cannonball from her shield of petals.
─Pain! Like the electronic movement of her threads, Yerna’s crumpled torso levitated.
10 meters. 20 meters. 30 meters.
The thread of mana got longer without stopping, and the height to which Yerna fell increased that much.
“No way… ! There is no horseshoe.
Yerna, who was regenerating her twisted body, seemed to have intuited her own words.
Whee ae ae ae ae ae ae-!!!!
I hit Yerna down on her ground like I matched her torn kite to her floor. Like a fishing line wound on her electric reel, Yerna broke her back by bending upside down.
Even that would have been lukewarm compared to the hell he would visit right after.
“Ahhhhh !!!
─Pujik!! As if a water balloon filled with her paint had been dropped, Yerna’s body shattered. The screams of fear and pain ceased as her vocal chords were shattered.
Her splattered blood and flesh began to coalesce. In an instant, the gross mass of flesh formed a beautiful elf naked body. The mana of light left in the ruins was never depleted to this extent.
The body is immortal until her mana runs out.
Her body is
“Evil, bad… ?! Hey, hey hey… !!”
Her clay-like Yerna groped her own face. She doesn’t even try to hide her nakedness. Even though her dress, which she wore while building up her pride, disappeared without even her stitches.
“Aaaaa!!! Hyaaaaa!!!”
Yerna went mad with her visionary vat and cut off the thread that her I stretched out on her.
She must have never felt her pain in her long life. Every 10 seconds she felt like she was being ground in a blender, and Yerna, who was in a state of confusion, used her magic while having seizures like an epileptic.
─Quaaaaa!!
A swirl of water was released in a straight line. A feeling of pressure, as if a whirlpool driven by the deep ocean currents had been regenerated on the ground! It was a huge current that must have weighed several tons.
I aimed at the whirlpool and spread my palms.
I didn’t feel any fear. It was after the rationality that created fear had been paralyzed. The only thing controlling my behavior now was anger mingled with madness.
“Awuuuuuaaaaa!!!!”
Extreme cold radiated from the palm facing the whirlpool.
The coldness stopped the atomic activity of the vortex’s energy in a blink of an eye and turned it into a block of ice. The cold air froze Yerna’s lower body, turning her ice into powder with the output of compression jets exceeding one hundred meters per second.
“Laaaaa——!!”
She stomped on the advance, breaking her ice floor. She slammed her fist into Yerna’s stomach. Her stomach burst open and her spine snapped.
“Don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it don’t do it!!!!!”
Her screaming Yerna wrapped her intestines around her neck and pulled her like a tie. As I slammed her knee into her stomach, her blood-red ice splattered and her torso exploded.
“Rrrrooooo!!!”
Tuquagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagaga-
I hit and hit and hit Yerna’s body. Her head was not aimed. The cruel idea had crossed her mind that she would not feel pain while her brain was exploding.
Shrrrr
The mana of light was depleted. Healing the body’s defects is costly. Enormous mana had to be filled with Yerna’s organs and her flesh and blood, who were dying without rest dozens or hundreds of times without being able to be used for attacks.
The mana of light that he hadn’t seen before was now clearly visible. Mana is reduced. Hundreds of years of time, unashamedly like a river, evaporated at a tremendous speed like a sea where the sun crashed.
“Kyaaaaa!!!”
─Two-kwang!! I grabbed Yerna’s ridiculously bouncing head and slammed her against the wall. I ran through the broken wall like millet cans and shredded Yerna’s head on the ground. Red paint was drawn like a line on the road.
“Hiyaahoaooa, ah ah ahhhhh !!!”
With her broken arm, Yerna ripped off her body. My upper body rolled on the floor unable to withstand the strength of my mouth. ─Rumble! When her body, which could only be seen as her corpse, stopped, Yerna had already regenerated her entire body.
“I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!!!!”
Scrubbing her hair, Yerna chose her escape.
Yerna crawls on her land on all fours and flies through the sky using her mana like water. Instead of tugging on her mana thread, I chased it and leapt.
As the black mist gathered at her feet, her posture stabilized as if she were standing on the ground. Mobilizing the steam sprayed from her feet, I pursued the fleeing Yerna.
Seeing me chasing her, Yerna went mad as she tore her hair.
“Don’t come, get out of here!!!!!! Please don’t come!!!!!!!!!!!”
Yerna raised her hand to the sky. The light has gone from the sky. It completely changed from the night sky of a different world where the stars were clearly visible, and a black sky with no light spread out.
─Keeeeeing!!
A pure white ball of light appeared in the black sky.
It was a magic that absorbed and compressed all the light in the sky, from sunlight to starlight, and converted it into flame. Yerna shuddered at her as the wind blew her wild hair.
“The inferior species who committed the original sin, what kind of shame are you trying to kill me!!! Humans have no right to enjoy the inheritance left by the gods!!!! In my eyes, the country of human beings scattered all the way to the horizon is just a garbage dump where garbage produces garbage!!!!!”
The sphere of light amplified exponentially as it absorbed the mana and natural light supplied by Yerna.
The brilliance of her light intensified each time Yerna spattered her spittle as if her head had been ruined. It was undoubtedly the most powerful magic that Yerna could use.
“Rrrr…”
I grabbed the spear floating beside me. I hung it like a staff and raised her mana.
─Kooung.
A magic circle appeared behind me. It was a simple magic circle with only one runic letter floating inside the circle. It rotated black and unknowingly increased in number.
When I counted the 6th, it was already 9.
When I counted the 10th, it increased to 20, and before I even counted all 30, it became 50, and 50 became 90. The sky was embroidered like a mandala, and over 100 magic circles roamed the pitch-black sky.
“… Ahhh.”
Yerna despaired as her drool dripped from her bloody mouth.
She noticed that she was completely outclassed in terms of magic firepower, numbers, and speed of deployment. My magic, which was activated several beats later, was stronger, faster, and perfectly completed than Yerna’s.
I lowered the corners of my mouth, which had exposed my fangs, and waited impatiently for the final flame.
─Thump! Yerna’s magic was completed.
“… Ahhh. Aaaaa!!! Ahhhhh !!!!!!!!!!! “
From the sky blacker than the night sky, Yerna screamed as she tugged at her hair.
“Die and disappear uuuuu!!!!! 〈 Umpire of Celestial〉!!!”
【──Eptirleiða Hævateinn.】
Magic collided.
The falling sun and 99 firestorms in reverse flow mingled to light up the dark sky.
The antagonism was not even fleeting.
The sun of Yerna was consumed by my spark like a match thrown into a furnace. A red scarlet fire that could even ignite a scream stretched out, covering the space where Yerna was like a branch.
I lowered the spear I was using like a staff in the sky of thought.
There was not even a handful of ashes that fell to the ground.
