Chapter 995 – Dear You (1)
Space trembles and time howls.
‘Spider-Man’s Footsteps’ suppressed the turbulent flow of accelerated time with his authority, and blocked the old ruler’s slash. As the touch of time touched it, the stone greatsword disappeared.
“It’s a complicated dance.”
“I know! I have to practice dancing when I get back!”
Fran returned a useless sound and escaped the flow of time with her foreknowledge.
‘Spider-Man’s Step’ is an old ruler with the power to manipulate time.
A high-level power that can at least cope with the Power of Wisdom! For Fran, who has just gained a reputation, it is more than annoying to deal with, and it is a difficult opponent to avoid.
“Poor and great, bloodline of a foreign god.”
However, that kind of evaluation felt the same way as ‘footsteps of the dusk’.
As the attacks became rare, Fran felt suspicious, but stopped to take a tempo break.
“Whoa, whoa… A marathon without rehabilitation is a bit tough… “
Not to mention her burden, it was because Loki’s physical strength, which was also caught up in the turbulent current, seemed to have been exhausted.
Loki said that he had almost completed his powers as a god of all things, but Fran thought that it would take some time for him to adapt, just like a swordsman suddenly raising an arrow.
A lull caused by an accidental agreement. He asked a question about the step of the ground spider.
“My fellow countryman who has just finished his childhood. For what reason do you obsess over the bondage of your tribe?”
“I don’t want to apologize, but I’m sorry. I’ll be grateful if you tell me in a way I can understand.”
“I guess you ask why I fight on the side of the people, kid.”
Said Loki, wiping the sweat from her chin. Fran almost turned her head away, but she remembered that the fight wasn’t over yet and held back.
But she couldn’t figure out what the question meant even if she focused so much on the question and answer. She was Fran, who kept her expressionless, but she said ‘Twilight’s steps’ as if she saw through it all.
“The old ruler is a class, a realm, and a condensation of stars that a being born with a certain destiny reaches. Regardless of each individual’s likes and dislikes and birth, you are already our compatriots.”
“… That I am the old ruler?”
“Right. Since your soul has escaped the bondage of the race, even if you abandon the throne of the World Tree, you will soon break the movement of the stars like me. Therefore I prove Your childhood is over.”
Fran was a bit surprised that the enemy’s tone had indeed changed.
Her presence, as if she were bending her knees to meet her eyes, seemed to be talking to her with her heart.
“This ploy seems to be Yu Hee-sin’s authority. Simple and valid. It appears to hasten the resolution by accelerating the time of those deemed likely to win. It’s not meticulous, but it’s the result of some agony.”
Little by little, respectful to his words——”Spider-Man’s Footsteps,” Which began to have the same level of manners as dealing with an opponent of the same rank, looked at the dimensional wall.
“Therefore, you must have made appropriate preparations to destroy us from the beginning. Even if he had a great godhead, he would have tried to confront his compatriots by being entangled in the bonds of his tribe.”
“… Why?”
“I will ask why you did that. Are you a foreigner? Is it the corpse of your stupid father? What yearning and lack drove you here when you started to open your eyes?”
After barely understanding the question, Fran answered immediately.
“Because Nord decided to do that.”
It would have been possible to set up a grander banner like the destruction of mankind, but Fran revealed his true heart. He’s not the kind of person who has to give long, wordy answers.
“Is it the bond of the tribe? The parasites nesting in that tree are no longer even your compatriots, but even with the status of a ruler, they are trying to go against the order of things like the ‘lord of the deep sea’.”
As if the human body that had been taken away was also disgusting, the ‘Spider-Man’s Footsteps’ sighed.
“… Wait a minute. What did you say now What did the ‘lord of the deep’ say?”
“It defies the order of things and longs for degeneration. It is a product of madness that transcends stupidity. My pursuit of understanding is the same as polluting myself.”
When Loki asked, not being able to listen to the sighs mixed with his self-talk, ‘Spider-Man’s Steps’ twisted his fingers.
“The ‘Lord of the Deep’ has put on the bridle of a species, the skin as life. I gave up my godhood and escaped the sea of stars. I became a worm to be seduced by worms.”
The old ruler’s body, the ‘permanence of daydream’, was abandoned and degenerated into a lower creature.
‘Unmatched Eternity’ seemed to laugh at her appearance, but ‘footsteps of the ground spider’, which revived together, felt fear at the choice of a compatriot who could not bear to understand.
“At first glance, it is a wise choice. An adversary with the power of a god despite being a favorite of chaos who twists fate. You won’t win if you’re bound by fate. It is an inevitable choice.”
In order not to be bound by fate, he was reduced to a human being.
If that’s what you did, it’s understandable.
Understandably, it wouldn’t have been madness.
But ── Her title that refers to her is the god of madness.
The reason the ‘lord of the deep’ became human was not to win. A being that wise would have been able to come up with any number of means to increase the odds.
She could have been prepared to annihilate the gods of the World Tree and the humans who entered her abode with feet of dirt. Regardless of whether that works or not.
But what about the current situation?
The ‘Lord of the Deep’ did not fight to win. Even if he died at the end, he didn’t seem to care. He seemed completely uninterested in life and death, victory or defeat, the resurrection of his compatriots, or the supremacy of the universe.
The thinking and values of the monster have cut off the understanding of the ‘footsteps of the spider’.
Isn’t it a strange behavior, like falling in love with a flying fly and cutting out one’s own flesh and stuffing one’s body into the fly’s shell?
Truly insane.
“Brother. I don’t want to be swept away by the madness of the ‘Lord of the Deep’.”
He thought When he finished his remarks, the enemy’s reaction would most likely be a level of rage.
It’s okay if you lose your cool like that, and it’s okay if you fail.
With that kind of sincerity, ‘Tread of the Skirmisher’ spoke.
“The ‘lord of the deep’ will try to take the human. There will be no interest in anything else, and we here cannot prevent the outcome of her madness.”
“… …”
“Therefore, fellow countrymen. You give up on that human being and get out of her place. If you finish shedding your soul and become a ruler again, you won’t be obsessed with that person’s life and death—”
The ‘footsteps of the ground spider’, who had been saying that, noticed it.
“… ᚨᚺ?”
His eyesight was lowered. Not mentally, but physically.
The two legs that had grown in the temporary body were gone.
His leg was destroyed without realizing it by a boulder that penetrated through the cracks in his consciousness with unparalleled strength and speed.
It’s not a big blow. Even before evolution, he was not a race obsessed with the body or suffering. The problem was that he was not aware of the process of losing 1/3 of his body.
He was ambushed even though he was not vigilant. In fact, this time, the “Footsteps of the dusk” Really stopped thinking.
─Quaang!!
That carelessness pricked Fran even more. In the blink of an eye, Fran approached and swung her [Rare Earth] Greatsword. The ‘step of the ground spider’, which came to its senses immediately, counterattacked.
He cut his nose with his eyes open, but he assumed that the ‘footstep of the spider’ would not matter.
Fran’s weapon, [Rare Earth], Was a fleeting weapon that compressed the golem summoning technique to the limit. It is a tactic that uses a mass weapon that lasts less than one second to deliver super-powerful blows repeatedly.
So, it doesn’t work for ‘Spider’s Step’, which deals with time. Even if you leave the surrounding time accelerated even a little, that ignorant weapon will disappear as soon as it enters the realm of authority.
‘Have you lost your cool in anger?’
I thought so for a while.
He released the flow of time condensed from within. Even though he lost his cool, it was because he had scolded himself for having the guts to make such a foolish choice, and that response was the correct answer.
Tsuwaaaaa!!!
A torrent of condensed flow of time overflowed.
The special move of “Spider-Man’s Step” That kills an enemy of the same rank that is almost impervious to authority. It was an attack that even the old ruler would have dried up like a mummy or crumble.
Ignoring the law is the power of authority. It was not at all surprising that a man who controls time would manipulate space-time to this extent.
So what really surprised me was Fran’s response.
Jumping into the torrent of time, Fran created a small star using the
It is small enough to barely cover the body. Compared to the feat of the god of creation, it is infinitely lacking. Some might see it as a very large lump of metal.
But no matter how small, a star is a star.
─Zuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu, that is!!!
Fran took off the epaulette that was worn like a brooch and threw it onto the surface of the star. Huldfolk’s epaulettes reinforced with holy water. It was an artifact that had the effect of blocking an attack only once.
Of course, it would have little effect on enemies of the level of the old ruler, but it doesn’t matter.
Stars live about billions of years.
For the stars that fill the universe, a long period of time that humans cannot bear even if they have thousands of artifacts is a daily occurrence.
Wooooo!!
When the epaulettes that had exhausted their effects crumbled, the little star completely turned into a pure white mass of plasma as if it had reached its limit.
And at the moment the tempered star was about to eat the air, Fran swung the blue-tinged Mjolnir at the star like a blacksmith smashing an anvil.
Kwagwagwaaaaa!!!!
The scorching heat and destructive force as if thrown by the sun made the ‘footsteps of the ground spider’ scream and get caught up in it. Before he had time to exert his power, the weight of the stars hung him.
The hand he held out to fight back had already fallen off his arm.
Bang!! Kurrrr!! Gurrrr.
─Boom!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
As soon as he tried to wield his power, a bluish-hot hammer flew and smashed his head into the ground. As if I was looking at all his thoughts, I couldn’t get a single body movement the way I wanted.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.”
And another weight that felt very light rode on his body.
Franck he did not look at the old ruler he had stepped on. She said, looking only at the soul of a poor child who was screaming in pain, whose body and soul had been taken away by the “Footsteps of the ground spider.”
“I will give you a funeral. Bye.”
What ‘Spider-Man’s Footsteps’, who had barely regained his senses, saw was an iron hammer filling his eyes and a metallic forearm holding the hammer.
The arm of a golem wielding Mjolnir.
That was the last sight that ‘footsteps of the dusk’ saw.
─Quaang!!!!!!!!!!
The containment dimension crumbled like glasswork in the final blow.
Only a huge crater and the bone powder of a grown-up child were the traces left in the world by the ‘Spider-Man’s Footsteps’. The victorious Frank retrieved the golem’s arm and Mjolnir without being overjoyed.
“… Loki. Do you know where Nord is?”
“Uh? Uh, what? That, above, I know the location… Yo?”
Loki couldn’t even afford to embarrass himself by stuttering his words and using honorifics.
─Uksin. Her body, which had already become stronger beyond hope of recovery with potions, complained of fatigue, but Fran stood up while whipping it casually.
“Uh, what are you going to do… Yo?”
Loki hesitated and asked.
Fran, who was wiping the dust off her, took a deep breath and smiled.
“I think I should go see it. Ehehe… Will you take me?”
“… Yes, yes.”
Loki nodded his head. A smile that floated across his delicate face, never giving the slightest hint of a smile. It was a smile that was quite déjà vu for her.
‘… That’s right. Odin’s sister was a god of wrath.’
Isn’t the aptitude of a new throne unshakable?
Thinking of his own successor, Loki quickly opened the dimensional door.
