Chapter 969 – Till Death Do Us Part (6)
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The chaos of the other world was a space that looked like a concept shot of a tourist attraction stitched together with Photoshop.
-Chin.
Landing on the floor where gravity acts in reverse, I found a blue space distortion in one place on the ground above my head.
Odin’s eyes burned to the point of burning.
There was no time to delay. I pulled out a bunch of rune mandalas.
Teeing-! I held up the space that was about to collapse. I came this far, because it was something I shouldn’t have let it collapse before I finish my business.
However, the amount of mana being reduced was unusual.
‘There are only a few minutes left until the collapse. Will it be right on time?’
The burning heat was quite painful. My eyes were burning and I had a headache running up my optic nerve, but it was a good sign.
Doesn’t that mean that the amount of information that would be overloaded like this is captured by the power of analysis? I had to finish the analysis before my mana ran out.
‘I didn’t see this future on my own.’
It is my eyes and my authority that are being relayed and shown.
But I can’t see this far into the future.
Sigurd, to be exact, was greatly influenced by the authority of Odin that I could see into the future nine years later.
Therefore, in order to fully bring back to reality what I saw, remembered, and inherited here, I had to understand the details of the foreknowledge with my authority.
Kwaaaaa!!!!
The speed at which space collapsed accelerated.
It was unavoidable. It was because it was a space destroyed by the ‘Yellow King’, and the nature of the future world close to a dream was weakened by my analysis and understanding.
When a person sets his reason straight and opens his eyes, he wakes up from his dream even if he doesn’t want to.
So the more my eyes analyze it, the more this world collapses.
The sky collapsed, adding weight to the space I was supporting with my mandala.
Nimiral Atlas Meta. I’ve never done anything so bad that I deserved the punishment of carrying the sky on my back. He groaned only in his mouth, clenched his teeth and glared at his eyes.
90%, 91%, 92%…
The end is not far. I raised my leaning body with the last bit of strength.
“Turn it off… !!”
Quadd deuk… !!
I supported the collapsing sky and pushed it away strongly.
It is the forearm of a forearm that is confident that it can overcome even if it is 100 arm wrestling matches with former rulers. The sky was pushed back by my pushing force, and I threw myself into the gap.
“Absolute Perforation Zone.”
I unleashed the most powerful blow I could unleash. The mana of ice and the mana of fire swirled, and
The power is incomparable to that of the first time this technique was used.
– Blame!
He jumped toward the ground holding the spear of storm and lightning, which he completed without Veronica’s help. Gravity seemed to overturn the body, but the direction of its action reversed.
The collapsed sky follows.
It feels like falling through a glass window in a high-rise building. Not only sugar glass, but pieces of space that seemed to be sharper than ordinary glass came crashing down.
If you touch it, it cuts. It’s a waste of mana to parry with [Elden Ring].
I stepped on the fragments of the collapsing space and ran. I ran through buildings, cities, and meadows created by the memories of someone who came to this other world in search of a dream.
From my experience, the remaining analysis rate is 5%.
I did somersaults in the middle to align the angle and blew mana into the spear.
The strength of magic is that it is easy to attack more powerful than my limit. As long as you have mana, your output will go up as long as your body and magic skills can withstand it.
“Suck!”
I generously threw the mana I had been saving.
─Kang!!
The spear that flew like a beam of light hit the distorted space and immediately exploded. I pull myself out of the sphere of influence where space is being torn apart. Even I can’t easily block a space that is cut like that.
I sprayed steam and even made a foothold with Beast Return’s mana, avoiding the torn space.
There was also the aftermath of the ‘Yellow King’ destroying it, so the destruction was instant. The shock wave exploded and the blue space-time whirlwind rushed in with the momentum to swallow everything.
“100%.”
And by looking at that terrible thing, Odin’s eyes were able to finish the analysis a little faster. I let out a sigh of relief and fell straight to the top.
‘As expected, no matter how much money and mana there are, they’re not enough.’
It was because he ran out of mana, which seemed to be so much.
It has to be. Since this was the center of the future world, I had supported the entire world just a moment ago. It might be okay to add a line of Kang Buk-ho’s biography to the myth.
Still, I can’t say goodbye to the kids.
Will it be real the next time I wake up? I fell down through the collapse of the space pouring down as it was. If you bump into it, will it hurt behind you? Maybe it hurts?
─Surrrr.
But I didn’t have time to experience the pain. It was because a pink thread that had flown from somewhere surrounded me and pulled me aside.
As if wrapping a child in swaddling cloths, I was drawn by a friendly thread, and I passed through the gap that opened as the dimension split.
Chow-! Lalilura, who rescued me, said tiredly.
“When it comes to your work, you always have a rough finish. Please fix it, senior.”
With half of her face covered in blood from her spilled blood, Lalilura caught her breath. Lifted up in the posture of hugging the princess, I smiled awkwardly.
“Sometimes I thought I might give up my role as a prince.”
“Ha… As long as your mouth is alive… “
Lalilura, who put me down as if to drop me, sat down as if she had exhausted her strength. As she rolled her eyes, she saw a mountain she hadn’t seen before. Growing up and then almost sitting down as if struck by a meteorite
Just like the fight of the gods, the scale is terrifying.
“You won.”
“Aha.”
Lalilura, who made a V without energy, moved her eyes behind me. When I followed her eyes, there was Fran, who was sitting blankly and staring at the ground.
‘Jinto’ was the franc.
After defeating her old rulers and probably blocking the pursuit of ‘Wheewang’, she flew all the way to this island and gave us the last help.
“… I called several times, but no answer. Sure——”
I received the words she hesitated and couldn’t utter.
“Like a golem or a doll?”
“… Fran It was clear that her sister had died. Because it was such a fierce battle, we couldn’t identify the body, but we saw the souls of the survivors disappear.”
I helped Ralilura and approached Fran.
She sat there blankly like a doll, and her reaction was vague, as if her eyes were invisible. Her eyes were closed as if they had collapsed from a strong impact on her face, leaving only a barely circular shape.
Her limbs are irreparably broken or missing. A little while ago, he made prosthetic arms and legs with golems and moved them.
Her tousled hair and clothes are smeared with soot.
But even with that face, she was still the franc I knew.
“Ah, ooh… “
Looking at me, she suddenly focused on her eyes, and she reached out her hand to me.
But her franc fingers didn’t have enough left to hold me.
“… Thanks, Fran.”
I carefully pulled her twitching hand or her forearm and pulled her into a hug.
“I wouldn’t have come this far without you.”
Me, Lalilura, and the survivors were one step short.
Our objective was successful because of the franc.
I pressed my forehead against her forehead.
“I love you. Enough to die.”
“… Ehe, heh.”
The doll-like expression returned to life a little. I hugged her, and she hugged me and rubbed her at least normal face on her neck as if she was longing for it.
“Me too, Nor… “
Fran laughed with a dazed expression, closed her eyes like that, and never opened them again.
In her originally cold body, only the flesh and bones of her francs remained, but the soul we recognized as her was nowhere to be found.
“… Senior.”
Lalilura called me. It wasn’t out of curiosity or sentiment.
─Tuduk.
Where she pointed, her sea was cut off. It was so heavy and light that the whole world was ripped apart. The sky, the sea, and the horizon collapsed like a cabin disintegrating in a typhoon.
It seems to have been abandoned in a universe where the stars died out.
Everything except Aikiven Island and the sea around it turned black.
“… Really, the past nine years have been a fleeting dream.”
Did I really feel it now? It was a voice full of emotions.
In this era, Lari Lura took out her very precious, clean handkerchief and wiped her Franc’s face with it. She wiped off the caked blood and dirt, and bandaged her wound.
Even though the world was ending, Lalilura took care of Fran like that.
For some reason, what comes to mind is the King of Britannia entering the coffin.
When burying the dead, it is the law to leave the coffin clean before closing it.
Lari Lura tied all the bandages like that, and hugged her seemingly sleeping franc.
“She won’t ask how her deceased sister came here. I don’t think even her seniors know about it, and it’s not something important enough to ask now.”
The important thing was that her francs came to our aid, and thanks to her, our goal was achieved. Looking at me with her dead francs in her arms, Larry Loura smiled.
“You did it, old man.”
She wasn’t fooled enough to be glad that she had made it.
It’s not just because death in a daydream is taken seriously.
Lalilura, who spends her 9 years of memories, and speaks to me here of her own will. She is a different person from the Ralilura of nine years ago.
Even Lalilura would have known.
The same goes for Elizabeth and the other survivors.
When the dreamer wakes up, what happens to the characters who can only live in the dream?
I know the answer. There is only extinction.
Just as there are no daydreams that cannot be awakened, the bonds we meet in dreams disappear along with dreams.
So, what mattered was how they would accept the ending.
“Larilura, I—”
“Shh.”
When her franc broke, Larry Lura put her finger to her lips as if she were asking.
“Don’t say anything more. Got it?”
It was a smile that even felt playful. So there was nothing I could do but close my mouth and nod heavily.
If the last person in this world said that, what would I, a stranger, have the right to say?
Chwaaaaa!!
Around the island wandering in the black space, all the seawater poured into the void. The coast surrounding the island exposed the deep ground as if it had become a cliff, but there was not a single marine life there.
The dream is over The end of the future has come.
This ending is by no means a happy ending, no matter how you look at it.
‘But it’s not even a bad ending.’
Because it wasn’t even an ending in the first place.
This world is but one chapter in a long, miserable, terrible finale.
From now on, it was up to me to decide whether or not the ending that I, the girls, and this world would have had was a happy ending.
And, the key to a happy ending was obtained.
The time I spent with them in the future and their deaths had meaning.
I will make it.
“… Ego, the senior is also true. You got dirt on your shoulders.”
Waiting for the end like that, I looked back without thinking when Lalilura called.
The thoughts I had been immersed in a while ago were too deep to make me wonder at her absurd words, and Lari Lura’s power of action was faster than mine.
“… …”
Something soft touched his lips, then fell.
“… Whoops. It’s revenge for breaking up with Fran unnie on a sweet note.”
Her eyes widened as she placed her hand over her mouth.
“I’ll take good care of the past me, senior♡?”
Kissing her goodbye, Lari Lura took a step back from her, and she smiled brightly and waved her hand softly in her usual way.
All those landscapes degrade and disappear like Polaroid photos deteriorating in the rain and wind.
Just like that, a curtain of darkness and silence covers the world as if ending a play–
“──Did you enjoy your trip?”
I heard the words of Sigurd chanting.
