Chapter 564 – Heirs of the Goddess (1)
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Immediately after the curtain rises, Equinox, without hesitation, orders the most powerful soldier in his army to launch a mortal attack. The undead dragon that was sweeping the sky breathed in and focused its mana into the breath outlet. Nords and scum don’t deserve priority right now. The first target to be annihilated was that light-assed girl. Watching the dragon’s breath gather, Letitia just laughed. ‘I like it! Anyway, it’s the first time I’ve used a dragon soul as Einheri! Thank you for the gift Thanks to you, even your disgusting bones are starting to look cute!” “If you can, try it. Golbin Galvo.〉 ─Kuhwaaaaa!! The undead dragon released a breath. At the mana of ruin that covered half the sky, Letitia lightly beckoned. The soldiers of the soul who ran out of the castle in the sky ran at the risk of their lives. A human shield, no, a soul shield. Those souls who jumped in to stop the breath had sacrificed their bodies to protect their goddess. [Waaaaa!!!] An army of souls that protects the Goddess even in the face of death! It was a very holy and noble sight, but Equinox was contemptible. That ‘Einheri’ can be resurrected as long as it doesn’t disappear. However, Letitia did not pay any attention to the life or death of each Einheri, except for those she cared about. She, too, is a living witness of an era that has lived for over 1000 years. The number of souls of warriors and monsters she accumulated through “Hunting” Exceeded 10,000. Even if you lose a few hundred people as a shield, it is a waste of dignity. Letitia fluttered her falcon wing garment and brandished her lance of light as if commanding her orchestra. She spread 20 units of her Val Curie and attacked the undead dragon in the middle of spitting her breath. Valkyrie is the spirit of God. It gains strength according to the owner’s skill and the amount of mana granted. Letitia’s Valkyrie, much stronger than when she destroyed the kingdom of elves 1000 years ago, has already reached the point where she can hunt dragons. The undead dragon, whose wings were torn and its spine split, began to fall. A Valkyrie flew gracefully, ripped off the soul, and returned to the goddess. Letitia looked at her spirit carried by the Val Curier flying towards her and she laughed. 〈Messis Animae〉. It was the true power of the Valkyrie and its intended use. His appearance as a god of death who reaps the souls of those he hunts. The soul in her hands will become her faithful slave and weapon in the palace of Letitia, Freya’s
The power to harvest souls was too lethal against the undead.
If a soldier wages a war of attrition, only the opponent’s troops will increase infinitely. However, an undead without a soul is no better than a golem. This was the reason Letitia was in charge of Narmer-Nile, where black magicians were prevalent.
Because of that ability, Equinox had to hide his residence and refrain from activities.
─Boo-wook!
Letitia, who was smiling brightly, suddenly hardened her face. It is because her soul has disappeared from the hands of her Val Curier, who was flying towards her.
It wasn’t space magic. If so, Valkyrie would have bounced it off with Rune Mandala’s magic resistance. Now it is a power of a much higher order.
‘How can you be so unrestrainedly greedy? I can’t open my eyes and see.〉
As Equinox laughed at the 11 Power Aggregates, a cold light appeared on Letitia’s face.
〈… Have you come to handle the power of creation well? There’s a reason you’ve been hiding like that.〉
Although the power of creation is mighty, it is not omnipotent.
While dealing with the same mana, someone becomes a master-level warrior, while someone ends their life as a third-class wizard.
The power of creation was like that.
It was not the authority possessed by all the gods, and only a few of the gods were able to handle it well. Only gods of the Goddess class or the creative system who were born with talent.
That’s why creating life is ridiculously difficult, and with that power it couldn’t harm life itself, which has a soul. Because the power of creation is the power to create, not the power to destroy.
As for Letitia, if it weren’t for Freya’s authority, she would not be able to revive Val Quirie or Einheri.
However, the opponent was a lich who handled black magic to the limit and controlled life and death with his own power. When Equinox made use of his experience and used his powers, the destroyed undead dragon was revived.
He was still undead, but the wounds were gone.
It was to restore the corpse with authority and bring it back to life with black magic. It is a half-godlike miracle of black magic that governs the two powers under the proposition of ‘resurrection’.
【Aaaaa!!! Aaaaa──!!】
Where is that?
Equinox, who captured part of Einheri, created a corpse worthy of a strong man with his authority, and even added the stolen Einheri to his army as a Death Knight.
Equinox cannot create life yet. There will come a day when even that can be done, but right now it is impossible.
But what if it’s a corpse?
There’s nothing difficult about that. A corpse is just a mass of protein resembling a human. Equinox magically endowed the corpse created with authority with a soul, creating a soldier equivalent to the soul.
If the soul is fresh and the power to distort Niflheim is combined, even reviving a dead subordinate is easy.
Equinox smiled crookedly. The plain beauty of Narmer, the black magician, whispered to the splendid beauty of the Romanian female warrior as if provoking.
─Puddeuk. Letitia gripped her spear and aligned her Val Curier.
“Should only you do it? Only the outside is dazzling, but the inside is the same as you and me.〉
〈The smell of death can be hidden with just a few perfumes! What are you? Queen of the Underworld? It’s fun! I knew it was a provocation towards me, so I laughed and thought my stomach was ripping! The rat that ran away!〉
The demigods, who seemed to be the exact opposite, but resembled them, burst into death and crashed their soldiers.
Quqwagwagwagwang─!!
That’s not all. Mid-to-long-range magic battles took place between the soldiers who disappeared, revived, and were replenished.
The number of spears of light poured down on Valkyrie, which was different from the first one. The heat of the black magic circle burned the spear and spilled out, but it only scorched Letitia’s hair, which flew faster than her hawk.
The skirmish that made the skies of the underworld tremble was truly the battlefield of the gods.
Although it would be inferior compared to the battle of the Age of Gods, it would have been difficult to see a clash of power like this anywhere in this era.
‘… Whistle!’
The demigods half-opened their eyes while causing a battle of dragons and tigers.
Both of them hit their odds higher, but even if they won, if the souls of the troops were destroyed and their damage remained, the damage would be insignificant. As a commander of the troops, it was a loss that I could not close my eyes on.
If so, wouldn’t there be no choice but to supplement the new asymmetrical force to control the flow of the antagonistic fight?
For example——the soul of a certain Kitai possessing transcendental darkness and negative mana.
Bizarrely, the eyes of the two halves looked down at the ground, reaching the same conclusion.
The new servant they longed for was there.
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‘No shit, nimies! Search for newbies!!〉
When I saw the look in the eyes of the mistresses who were flirting with me after a fight, I immediately woke up.
Those 8 bitches were trying to turn me into an undead or Einheri!
I was trying to take the position of a fisherman because they were fighting among themselves, but couldn’t it be that those crazy bitches were trying to target me as if they were in an item farming race?
This goddamn impotence curse bothers our wives, and now it’s luring out those crazy bitches too!
Damn, isn’t this gaze rape? Men are defenseless against sexual harassment and molestation like this.
“It’s embarrassing to be so loved by the yandere goddesses!”
I screamed out in sorrow at the title that seemed like it would kindle fire, even if I wrote it as the title of a fucking light novel in my hometown.
The bitches, who were busy keeping each other in check, weren’t coming, but they charged their men.
《Gooooocccccc!!!》
【Uryaaaaa!!!】
The fierce courtship of the assholes and Death Knights as white as the soul!
Even if it was a dream, it would be like shit, but it’s even real! The chills running down my spine didn’t go away even when I joked like a soldier with PTSD.
〈Keuk… !〉
Giltard gripped the sword with his giblet arm. Oftum pulled out his chakram to aura as his fists trembled in a literal god-level fight. Nefertiti lifted the whip with difficulty with her nondominant hand.
─Take it!
Then I bit my finger and drew a magic circle on the blade.
1 child. It hurts so bad Sasuke Yi Palum chews his finger every time he summons in the manga, but that was also a manga. Tears welled up as he bit his finger with his teeth.
But wouldn’t it be better than having your head shattered and your brain dripping? After enchanting the mithril spear with runes and magic circles, I took a deep breath with the breath of the golden sun.
Until now, I had been saving my trumpeted special moves by aiming only for kill angles, but it was an angle that would ruin me. It feels like hitting a minion with a bow, but isn’t there anything more important than life?
I didn’t want to become a living witness of the saying that saving money is shit.
‘Should I kill him, Nord?’
Yeah don’t hold back The professor slayer in me.
That was when I took a long breath.
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Qurrrr—!!
Tyrsi used all of her remaining mana to create a dome of ice that enveloped our group.
Death Knight and Einheri pounded the wall roughly. It wasn’t magic enough to break it right away, but Tyrsi bit his lip and groaned as if the shock was transmitted to her.
[Ruaaaaa——!!!]
At that time, Einheri, who seemed to have no reason, started attacking the Death Knights.
It is a fight between some of the farming soldiers who have been expelled. It must be the intention that if you kill the enemy soldiers first, you will be able to hunt comfortably. If you snatch it with the power of creation, I will resist with runes, so I’m trying to physically move it.
─Thump thump thump thump!!
Thanks to this, even though the blow came in, Tirshi’s ice dome gained a moment’s time before it was shattered.
“… Coke.”
Having used up all her mana, Tyrsi coughed and threw away the wand.
The crystal of the wand was broken due to mana exceeding the allowable amount. Tirshi, whose eyes dimmed, wiped his mouth and came to me and hugged me.
Said Elizabeth with her wry smile.
Yes, you Gildart bastard. Also, you have an eye for it. I was at a loss for words at that stupid thought. Because our mage’s actions don’t fit the situation? No. On the contrary, the reason was that it was too suitable for the situation. “… Nord. You know what I’m about to do, right?” It was the eyes and voice that trusted me. I nodded. “… Are you trying to use Earlier, it was what I was trying to do against the devil’s fantasy. All the conditions for But in return, Tirshi’s ego disappears. The soul may remain, but it is no longer Tyrsi. Just as you wouldn’t call a corpse without a head alive, you couldn’t call a doll that had lost all memory and no self-consciousness Tirshi. “Nord, don’t you want to?” “Absolutely.” “Me too. But… If we don’t, we all die.” Tirshi said firmly. That’s not wrong. The plan I prepared is also disposable, and it is only one exit plan. As I once told her, even if I acted like a flawless superhuman, her limits were obvious. “… If I just try, you might be able to survive.” In other words, I just need to make Tyrsi her tool like Diavolo did. If you do that——there will be a way out of this situation. “If I had known this would happen, I would have done the next thing besides the kiss. I decided not to regret it… I’m doing this again. I guess I was meant to be that way my whole life.” Tirthy smiled softly. As she turns her eyes away from the ice dome that is starting to crack. “Then, bye. As you may have noticed——it was my first love.” She lifted the hem of her robe and raised an aristocratic salutation. She laughs, against the backdrop of the roaring dead on the ice wall behind her. Was it like that? “Then, when we get out of here, we’ll get married.” I calmly accepted her confession. “… Yes?” “Ah, of course I’m a bully with no conscience, so I’ll have to wait… Do you still love me?” “To? Swimming?” “Let’s ask her friend, Lady Hennesis, to officiate. Well, if he says he’s no good, then there’s the princess and Cornelius in the back. I will make you happy as long as you wait.” I hugged Tirshi as if snatching him from the waist. I recited a farewell comment while maintaining my form, but our wizard, who turned it into a confession, accepted my kiss with blank eyes.
〈Hwiik~♬〉
Oftum whistled. Stay quiet for a while
She turned the mana with the momentum to bury it. The wind whirled around me.
There is no need to leave mana. The storm spun around me with exhausting momentum. He put his hand on Tyrsi’s chest. It looks small, but when you touch it, it has quite a sense of volume.
I put the mana of beast return into her body. Just be careful not to break or injure yourself.
“… Puha, ah?”
Tirthy drools as if enchanted by her deep kiss. I licked the saliva from her mouth. Our sorcerer was so shocked by such a thing that he couldn’t budge.
Eyes like a rabbit on the verge of being eaten by a beast.
But, funny enough, the rabbit, which is well suited to this snow field, was eager to be eaten. I smiled because those cute eyes were so cute. And said
“Do you trust my brother?”
Tyrsi opened her eyes wide, then shrugged and nodded.
“… Yes. To the extent that I will forgive you even if I die.”
That’s an honor. I smiled.
Of course, I had no intention of letting Tyrsi die. After finishing all the work, get out of hell, pick up this rabbit with a normal body and mind, and do it yum yum jjeom until his stomach bursts on the bed.
The rotation of the storm reached its maximum.
I put the heat and cold on my hands and accelerated the rotation. As the dome of ice was shattered, the dead charged, but they couldn’t break through the storm, and they were pouring magic on their way back.
The storm had subsided and all around me was as silent as the eye of a hurricane.
To the culmination of that quiet energy, brain power was added.
──Absolute sky area.
Qrrrrly—
The hammer of lightning that once killed even Thor’s
Even though it was clumsy, it was lightning that even burned half of the body. Einherigo is a Death Knight, and no matter how much you try to float it, a single bamboo spear will suffocate you.
〈Puuuuu…〉
Of course, that’s me too. I had only a small amount of mana left, and my attention was focused on my fantasy lightning show. In other words, I’m impatient to get behind. Even if one of the Valkyries over there throws a spear, it is an angle that will be hit.
But I stood tall and shouted.
He used all the remaining mana to strengthen his vocal chords and let out a roar. The snowfields of Niflheim, which had been disturbed by the sound of a battlefield, trembled as if resonating.
─Stand up!
The war situation stopped as if it had stopped. The battlefield of the ghosts who killed and killed stopped as if time had frozen. Not surprising. After all, the two people controlling them just stopped fighting.
〈… Did you call me?〉
Letitia laughed coquettishly and answered like a child. Her eyes seemed to be looking at her darling, but she was by no means looking at the equal. She is a world apart from Tyrsi.
Rather, right before stuffing a baby animal, she looks like she is trying to satisfy a sadistic desire. She’s very fucked up.
I asked, using even that anger as fuel.
When I asked that question, anger welled up in my stomach.
——British professor Kurapika said.
What she feared the most was not death, but that this anger would weather away.
I guess he was the right professor. Because there was a sense of urgency to listen to those words.
“Are you the one responsible for distributing the maddening dye in Nidavellir?”
As I said once, anger is expendable.
If you consume it unnecessarily, the concentration will decrease, just like carbonated drinks lose steam.
So I’ve been holding back my anger until now.
Before leaving Nidavellir, Fran cried in front of her father-in-law’s tombstone.
On the wedding day, the memory of the day when Fran’s family had no one to sit down with.
I buried all the anger that came from there in my heart with the heart of the old secret sword.
〈… Aha.〉
Letitia opened her eyes wide, and she smiled as if she noticed something.
The demigod wearing a helmet said teasingly while crossing his legs in the sky.
‘It’s about the size of short-lived slaves who lack the skills to make things… Wouldn’t it matter if a few thousand died?〉
Those words marked the end of a long period of endurance.
I quietly closed one eye.
Anger hit the critical point. Tyrsi took my hand.
Ready up. I let out a wild laugh.
Grab the spear, match the timing——
──Now.
… Kuhwaaaaa!!!
A pillar of light from the icy sun plunged down on Tyrsi.
The light froze my body holding her hand stronger than the cold of Niflheim. However, I did not feel the slightest bit of cold in the mild wind pressure even at the word severe winter.
I’ll say it again. Anger is expendable.
Because the forager’s anger burns like fire.
Shuwaaaaa!!!
A rage that burned more than an aura overflowed, and dark and negative mana gushed from my body.
