Chapter 236 – 236. Inheritance of Swordsmanship (4)
The line drawn from the left side diagonally up to the right shoulder created a crack, and the severed upper body of the Death Knight fell to the floor.
Clap
As the black Death Knight’s armor collided, the metal sound hit Eun-hyeon’s ears.
Eunhyun felt the gaze of Siete, who was looking at her from the inside of the Death Knight’s helmet, and lowered her head.
“…”
Due to the aftermath of the technique he had used for a short moment, his arm had no strength and his senses had faded.
I didn’t even think about dropping the sword and checking the state of my exhausted body.
Eun-hyeon knelt down on the floor without saying anything and met her eyes with Siete.
As if a roaring flame was fading little by little, Siete’s body, which had become a Death Knight, was fading little by little.
“With this… Can I surpass Master?”
Even though she knew that an answer would never come, Eunhyeon couldn’t bear to ask.
While covering the lack of talent by borrowing the power of the goddess and the power of the god’s arms, the valuable victory that was able to be won was in fact not a victory won by the perfection of pure technology and individual ability.
As the power of the world tree was revived from the beginning and Regina joined the battlefield, the aspect of the fight that had changed rapidly shifted back to the elves camp.
The situation where the power of the dead spirit, which was being supplied with morale through the curse, was gradually decreasing.
As time passed, Siete was in a situation where she was losing her powers.
It did not occur to her that she had surpassed her master on the sheer strength of her own.
Can we say that by winning victory in this way, he was able to surpass his teacher?
However, Siete, who was also unable to communicate, did not answer Eunhyeon’s question.
“Eunhyeon!”
“Teacher!”
The voices of the two women were heard in the air, but Eun-hyeon did not respond to them.
She was just watching her end as she watched the Death Knight slowly disappearing.
[Goddess…]
“Are you okay.”
Eunhyun stopped Eleanor from trying to purify the Death Knight through her purification prayer.
“What happened… ?”
“…”
The appearance of Eun-Hyun, who is on one knee while maintaining her calm silence, and reverently watching the disappearance of the Death Knight whose upper body was amputated.
Eleanor was taken aback by the strange sight.
In a situation where she had no way of knowing what the hell was going on while she and Illyana were away, she realized Eun-hyeon’s expression was very serious and put on a worried expression.
“Media… Perhaps seeing through her master’s soul.”
Eleanor and Regina are surprised to hear Eun-hyeon’s words and shake her shoulders.
‘Master… ?’
Staring at the figure of the Death Knight that was fading away from her, Eleanor hardened her expression.
“Only you… You will never forgive me.”
It didn’t matter how she was able to turn the soul of her Earth into a Death Knight before the Arcena continent was recreated, or why she appeared in front of him at this moment.
Causality doesn’t matter at all.
The anger boiling in her heart turned into a murderous intent against the culprit who made her teacher look like this.
“I will definitely kill you.”
It doesn’t matter that she is in a different dimension cut off from the Arcena continent, in the Pandemonium that exists on the other side of the void.
She will surely find her way and kill her, Eun-hyeon swears.
A promise made to oneself, not a promise made to someone else.
That said, he had no intention of endangering the Archena continent by opening the passage to the demon realm.
There is Illyana here, and there is Eleanor.
People from the Lyod and duke families, brother and sister Erin and Elvin, and Lily and the children from the orphanage.
There are too many people to be responsible for and to protect.
That’s why, instead of calling Mediah this way, Eunhyeon herself has to devise a means to kill Mediah by moving to the Demon Realm.
“No matter what happens, I will definitely kill you.”
-I’ll wait. The day when I will share ‘love’ with you again.
Eunhyeon guessed that maybe Medea had said this with an ecstatic expression on her face.
Just imagining the words and actions of Medea, who has her twisted mindset, turns her insides upside down and she can’t control her emotions that are about to burst out of her head.
[Hey.]
“Calm down.”
Patting her own shoulder and covering her clenched fist with her two hands, Belldandy and Eleanor comfort her Eun-hyeon.
[Calm your mind now.]
“I know your heart, but now…”
“Yes.”
Eunhyun nodded at the persuasion of the two and let out a small sigh.
“Whoa…”
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, thank you. For holding my hand.”
She untied her tight fists and intertwined them with Eleanor’s hand, which was holding her own.
[… Don’t I even have a word of thanks?]
“It could be.”
Verdandi asked if she was a little sad that she only expressed her gratitude to Eleanor.
After answering her question with her wry smile, Eunhyun turned her head to Regina.
“Regina. Congratulations. You have restored the power of the World Tree.”
“Thank you. But… This is purely the result of the hard work of her teacher’s wife, Illyana-sama. Rather, it is we who have to repay.”
“That will come later. Now…”
The curse-contaminated forest was purified with pure energy by the spirits summoned by Regina, and her vitality was restored.
The war is over, and the Dark Elves are defeated.
Regina said that there were zero casualties in the elf camp and all deaths in the dark elf camp.
“Rather than the fact that the Dark Elves were wiped out, the fact that there were no casualties on the Elves side is really happy and surprising.”
“It’s all thanks to Miss Eleanor.”
“Is it Eleanor?”
“Gathering all the elves in one place and forming a barrier, he led the elves with Derekin.”
“Awesome.”
“Boo, it’s embarrassing, so this only happens when we’re together…”
When he stroked Eleanor’s hair, Eleanor’s face blushed, but she didn’t hate Eunhyun’s touch.
The result of her efforts by squeezing out all of her abilities as a priest was such a proud result that even if Eleanor herself thought about it, she could say that she did her best.
“I’ll go back to take care of the elves before and after.”
“Okay. Suffer.”
As a queen, Regina, who has to take care of all the other elves, is currently the busiest person in this place.
When Regina, who flew into the air using her spirit magic and flew through the sky toward the Elven Guard elves, could not be seen, Eunhyeon asked Eleanor.
“What about Illyana?”
“Maybe it was because Illyana-sama was overdoing it, after the World Tree was restored, she teleported Regina-sama here and immediately fell asleep.”
“It deserves it.”
Eunhyun nodded her head as if she understood.
Illyana’s method is a work that basically requires the expansion of thinking beyond human limits.
Unlike Eun-hyeon, who tried to cover it with her thought acceleration, Illyana broke the limit with her own ability alone, and accomplished her splendid achievement of resurrecting her world tree.
[Anyway, that part seems to have been lent her hand by Skuld.]
“… Are you Skuld?”
[For a short while, I interfered with the lower world. It was probably to help with what the witch child was trying to do.]
“…”
The law that God cannot interfere with the underworld has already been twisted to some extent, a long time ago.
It started when Belldandy was able to descend to the underworld by directly interfering with Eunhyun’s soul.
It was possible because they were both apostles and goddesses.
“Who are you talking about, Skuld?”
Eleanor asked with curiosity at the name of another goddess she had never heard of.
[Skulld is my sister goddess, and she is a goddess who corresponds to her younger sister.]
“Ah… Okay.”
Eleanor gave her a small nod as if she understood.
“But how is that possible? There is no point of contact between Skuld-sama and Illyana…”
[I didn’t directly interfere with the witch child. They interfered with the witch child through me and the child. Isn’t there a part of the divine power received through her child in the body of the witch child?]
“Ah…”
Understanding Belldandi’s explanation, Eunhyeon sighed lightly.
[It looks like Skuld has suggested something to the witch child, but this is… Let’s listen directly to the witch child.]
Eun-hyeon stopped the steps she was walking with her tired body.
“… A suggestion?”
Eun-hyeon frowns at the ominous imagination that enters her head.
It was such an uneasy imagination that he might be trying to make her an apostle of the same goddess as herself.
However, she shook her head and denied it.
There is only one being that a goddess can accept as an apostle.
Urud and Skuld, including Belldandi, are also goddesses who are divided into three sisters, but I have heard that the three goddesses of Norn are treated as one god even though they are three.
It is for this reason that Eunhyeon not only accepted the authority of Berdandi, but also Urd and Skuld, and became an apostle of the three goddesses.
In other words, as long as Eunhyun is recognized as her apostle, Skuld cannot bring in other apostles.
Soon, after reading Eunhyun’s thoughts, Belldandi shook her head with a wry smile on her face.
[Whoops, it’s not the kind of suggestion a child thinks. But… In some ways, they are similar.]
“Just in case, like I did, Illyana’s soul…”
Despite Belldandi’s words of reassurance, she couldn’t help but harden her face at the thought of such a possibility, considering how much her restraints hung in her own soul tormented her. Was
[We will never do that to the child and the children around him again. So…]
Belldandi gently hugged Eunhyun’s head and continued talking with an apologetic expression.
[Please, trust me this time and listen to the story of the witch child?]
“… All right.”
Eunhyun reluctantly nodded her head.
Soon she took Eleanor’s hand and resumed her steps where she had stopped.
“Let’s go…”
“Yes.”
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After the conflict, the expedition of the elves to return to the village of the moon ended after taking three days.
The event that destroyed a village of more than a thousand Dark Elves with less than a hundred Elven Guard elves warriors without a single casualty was described by some elves as horrifying, while others described it as a miracle. Did.
Dealing with the corpses of the Dark Elves who lost their intellect as they mutated into zombies due to the curse was a more arduous and difficult fight than dealing with the Dark Elves who lost their fighting spirit through surrender.
“Ah~ you’re here.”
The three of them, Eunhyeon, Eleanor, and Elvin, who had returned with the elves, went straight to Alice and Derkin’s house.
Illyana, who was recuperating on the bed leaning against the wall, smiled happily when she saw the faces of the three.
Seeing that Illyana looked healthier than she thought, Eunhyun let out a small sigh of relief.
“Whoa…”
Quickly, I headed to the bed where Illyana was lying, and she struck a merciless beetle on her forehead.
“Ah!”
As her forehead turned red from her heavy shock, Illyana frowned and rubbed her forehead with both of her hands as she glared at her grace.
“It hurts!”
“It’s easy to laugh after doing such a reckless thing.”
Illyana smiles at Eun-hyeon’s behavior of nagging her as she hugs her upper body tightly.
“I guess you were worried about me?”
“Not a little, but a lot.”
“Huh, we’ll leave now.”
“Thank you for taking care of me. Alice.”
“No. She couldn’t belittle the benefactor who restored the World Tree. It was only natural.”
Accepting an elf male as her husband, Alice, who was speaking completely as a resident of the elf village, seemed very proud of the current situation.
“Haha! Alice is right! The three of you are no different from benefactors who protected our elves!”
“Derkin suffered a lot too. Until her Illyana’s body gets better, she’ll take care of her for a little bit.”
“Of course! Then we’re done…”
Derkin, who readily accepted Eunhyun’s request, took Alice and left the room where Illyana was recuperating.
“Brother!”
“Hmm?”
Seeing the elf girl pull the hem of her robe in her hand, Elvin turned her head away with a puzzled look on his face.
Eris, the daughter of Derkin and Alice, looked at Alvin with her eyes full of curiosity.
“Do you want to play with me?”
“…”
It was okay to refuse, but it was difficult to answer that I knew it blindly, so Elvin looked at Eun-hyeon’s face and asked for her permission.
It was only after Eunhyeon smiled and gave her a small nod, that Elvin nodded her head and led Eris by the hand and left her room.
“We get along well.”
“I know.”
Eunhyun nodded as if she was interested in Eleanor’s murmur, and then turned her head to Illyana.
“Illyana, do we have something to talk about?”
“I thought you would ask.”
Illyana glanced up at Belldandi, then she nodded her head with a satisfied expression.
