Chapter 267 – 267. The Witch and the Devil (3)
“… Whoa! It’s been a while since I moved my body!”
Anies, who released the strong spirit with a relieved expression, continued to deal with the beasts while maintaining only the golden gauntlet embodied with divine power.
No matter how unique it is on the continent, even if it has the ability to manifest a part of a god in the underworld, it is not possible to maintain it continuously for the duration of the fight.
The longer the duration of the spirit god, the soul and body containing parts of the god had to endure the load of that power.
The time Agies can last for only about 10 minutes.
However, during those 10 minutes, the difference in power that Agies showed while overwhelming the magic beasts was a moment that was intensely imprinted in Derkin’s mind.
A one-sided development in which he received the attacks of the monsters head-on with his bare hands, and mercilessly rips, tore, and explodes.
Along with Riod, who eliminated the enemy with fierce sword strikes, Agnes’ raging avant-garde never broke through even after overturning the numerical inferiority.
Looking at the scene, Derkin thought.
“Did I or you really need to come?”
“Still, I couldn’t have pushed in at this speed without your shots and my assistance.”
“It is, but…”
Derkin’s role as a lieutenant within this team is to assist the vanguard through long-range shooting.
In the case of Alice, who exerts her power by attracting elements that exist in nature with the help of spirits, there was a limit to her ability to exert herself inside the dungeon.
For this reason, Alice gathered the elements of wind and was in charge of supplying and powering Derkin’s spirit arrows.
An arrow pierced the beasts’ torso and head in a straight line, inflicting fatal wounds, boasting extreme penetrating power.
“Alice, that was… If you are a strong god…”
I inadvertently recalled the image of the golden lion floating above Agnes’s head.
The collection of divinities that were protecting a woman with the same appearance as a small girl came as a huge shock to Derkin when he first saw it.
“That… No, he… Was it God?”
“No… That… He said he is not God.”
“Then… ?”
“I don’t know the details either. However, the golden lion that appeared earlier as Lord Agnes’ spirit…”
Alice had asked in Agnes the same questions she had in the past that her husband had.
-That’s not what our Goddess looks like. He just gave me the miracle of blessing that best suited my prayers.
If many people misunderstood the true form of the goddess Vesta as a ‘golden lion’ after seeing Agnes’ spirit, the goddess Vesta might have been very indignant in the divine world.
-There is a guy who used it as a motif. It’s because I drew and embodied the strongest guy out of all the impressions I know.
Agies had muttered as he looked at Riod.
“You fight together as the strongest person in the vanguard, and the swordswoman in her presence is used as a motif to embody the figure of the golden lion? Then… Does that mean he is stronger than Eunhyeon?”
Hearing Alice’s explanation, Derkin made a surprised expression.
In his memories, his strongest being was Eunhyeon.
Since Eun-hyeon was the only one who had experience with the human race, it was impossible to compare the level of Eun-hyeon’s powers among humans.
However, she did not think that Regina, the next queen of the elves, and Eun-hyeon, who taught the elves of the Elven Guard, would be among the weakest among humans.
“I don’t mean that.”
It was not Alice who answered Derkin’s question, but Gerard, who was dealing with a small number of magical beasts approaching from the rear to protect the two.
“Certainly, Hyun-hyung is the strongest among us, but isn’t he different from the outside? Look. That heavy, ferocious impression. At a glance, isn’t it a visual that reminds us of a lion, a predator in the wild?”
Gerard continued his words while glancing at the figure of Leo, who was active in the line of battle, wielding a sword.
“In the past, I was a bit better, but as I grew older and became middle-aged, instead of losing my strength, I became fiercer and more solemn. When people saw Brother Rio de, they all thought the same thing about his first impression. A man with an aura that naturally flows from his head to his toes, saying, ‘Oh, this person must be filthy strong.'”
“… Surely.”
When we first met through Eunhyeon’s introduction, we recognized at once that Derkin was an unusual man, just like Gerard said, to Riod, who was seldom surprised and maintained a solemn expression with a calm expression.
“Besides, hyung hyung always hid his identity while claiming to be an assistant to us. He used to cosplay as the underdog and eat the bad guys, who would have thought he was the strongest guy out of all of them?”
“… Did Eun-hyeon-nim in the outside world lead such a life?”
“Yes. What… Yes.”
“…”
If you think about it, the appearance of Eun-hyeon, who reunited after the passage of nearly 350 years, was quite a different impression from when he first entered the village of the moon.
If she had a brighter and more active feel before, Eunhyun now has a calm and relaxed impression.
When he returned to the village of the moon again, the reason why Derkin couldn’t immediately recognize Eun-hyun’s appearance, which had not aged at all and maintained an unchanging appearance, was because it was so different from Eun-hyeon’s appearance in the past.
“Um, anyway, I understand how his spirit was realized.”
“Looks like we’ve arrived.”
Seeing that the entrance door to the depths ahead was open, Riod, who had cleared all the demon beasts in the front line, opened his mouth.
“The traces he left behind continue here.”
“Whoa, it seems that the monsters here have all been sorted out. Do you want to take a break for a while?”
“I think it’s better to go help right away if possible.”
“I agree. What about three people?”
At Agies’ question, the three people in the back row nodded as if they had nothing more to ask.
The two avant-garde people who moved the most violently upon entering this dungeon were still showing no sign of getting tired, but the three people who had relatively less physical strength could not have expressed their intention to reject the opinions of Riod and Agnes. .
“Good! Then let’s go in!”
After confirming the intentions of the team members, Agnes went into the depths of the dungeon where Eunhyeon and Illyana would have entered first.
“Huh…”
After inhaling enough air to fill her lungs, she lowered the floor covered with divine power as hard as she could.
Kwaaang!
Due to the strong vibration that shook the inside of the dungeon, the wind of dust blew away, and all the beasts’ eyes were focused on Agnes, who had suddenly intruded.
“This body back!”
After Anies, who courageously took the lead and attracted the eyes of all the beasts, Riod followed and inspected the inside, and found Eun-hyeon standing in front of the entrance to the deepest part.
“Are you all right?”
It was difficult to determine even the presence or absence of wounds from the appearance of Eun-hyeon, who was covered in the blood of the beast.
However, the way she stood with her sword clenched and exhaled roughly seemed to express with her whole body that she was still alive and well.
“Aigoo! What are all these demon corpses? Older brother!”
“Are you okay!?”
“Eunhyeon!”
As Gerard, Alice, and Derkin went into the depths, they found the corpses of the beasts boasting an enormous number around them and Eun-hyeon standing in the center, and made a look of surprise.
Finally, he found Riod and his party at Eunhyeon’s side and opened his mouth with a happy expression.
“You came quickly.”
“Older brother! Come on over here!”
“No, Illyana is in the deepest part behind here. Until Illyana eliminates the Dungeon Master, she must stop the monsters from entering the deepest part here.”
“I like that it is simple.”
Thud!
Agnes once again kicked the floor with all his might and lifted the huge, broken rock.
“Huh?”
“Uh… ?”
“… ?”
His colleagues put on a dumbfounded look at the eccentricity of Agnes, who lifts a large rock that is five or six times his own, despite his fragile and petite appearance.
The sight of them lifting the rock with both hands, holding it up on their shoulders, and starting to walk towards Eunhyeon one step at a time is beyond bizarre, even bizarre.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
With each step he took, the floor vibrated and the interior of the dungeon vibrated and shook.
“Hey, you can’t… !”
Eun-hyeon, who noticed her ulterior motive, tried to stop her with a shocked expression on her face.
“Oh get out of the way!”
“Such a bitch… !”
Suddenly, Eun-hyeon threw a huge chunk of rock toward the entrance guarded by Eun-hyeon, and Eun-hyeon swears and dodged her body to the side.
Kwaaang!
The entrance was firmly guarded, but a huge rock was thrown over the remains of the stone gate destroyed by Illyana, blocking the entrance.
Eun-hyeon frowned and shouted at Agies’ unexpected eccentricity.
“This is how the Illyana inside can’t come out…”
Eun-hyeon paused for a moment and was unable to speak.
If you think about it, this reckless behavior of Agies is more rational than you think.
If you want to prevent the monsters from entering the deepest part, just block the entrance.
The portal, which is constantly summoning monsters here, will naturally disappear as the supply of magical power needed to maintain the portal is cut off if the dungeon master that exists in the deepest part is removed.
In other words, the fact that this portal disappears means that Illyana has subdued the Dungeon Master in the deepest part.
The rock blocking the entrance can then be destroyed and the entrance reopened.
“… Are you a genius?”
Why did she not think of this herself?
[Who would have known that such an ignorant way would solve a child’s troubles…]
After reading Eunhyun’s thoughts, Belldandy only sighed with a complicated expression on his face.
“Ruler! Is it solved!?”
“That, yes…”
Eun-hyeon, who nodded involuntarily with a shy expression, cleaned up all the demons around her and joined her teammates in the direction.
Anies, who looked at Eunhyun’s physical condition, nodded slightly.
“There are no wounds.”
“… Big brother, how come you seem stronger than before?”
“Tina? I’m in the middle of growing up right now.”
After endless repetition and mastery of the swordsmanship left by Siete, Eunhyeon, who was gradually making it her own, could feel that her swordsmanship was improving even further.
“How about competing with me later?”
Liod, who had an interesting light on Eun-hyeon’s growth, became curious and asked Eun-hyeon for a challenge.
“Let’s do it once when we find some free time after work. For now…”
Reorganize the formation of the team while staring at the monsters that are all aggro.
“Let’s deal with those first and then have a dinner party.”
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After dealing with the demon, Bifrons, who was the dungeon master, Illyana went back the way she had walked.
“Looks like you arrived on time.”
Feeling the waves of multiple magical powers felt in the depths, as the party rejoined Eun-hyeon in time, they confirmed that they had passed the dangerous hurdle and smiled slightly.
Being connected to Eunhyun as her apostle’s family, Illyana, who was able to feel his presence, traced the divine power in her own body and was able to confirm the health of her Eunhyun.
Soon after, he saw a huge rock blocking the entrance and frowned, not knowing what was going on.
“… What. This?”
“Uracha!”
Quaang!
Along with the voice of a young girl, the rock blocking the entrance shakes violently and begins to crack with a ‘jerk’ sound.
Soon after, he kicked aside the debris that was crushed and fell to the floor, and smiled when he found Eun-hyeon standing still to greet him.
I was very happy that Eunhyun kept her promise this time.
“It’s over?”
“Huh. It was cooler than I thought. He was also a demon. That one? Are all the witch beasts finished?”
“This one too. It was too bland.”
“It’s gurachine~.”
“Be quite.”
When Anies tackled Eunhyeon, who answered calmly, Liode pulled Agnes by the collar and pulled him towards him.
“Let’s go back.”
After declaring that everything was over, Illyana happily embraced Eunhyun’s hand as she reached out to her.
“Okay. Gotta go And Hyuna.”
“Huh?”
“Promise, can’t we forget it?”
-Just once, if you listen to my order on the bed, I’ll forgive you.
“Egg… Okay…”
[Whoops.]
Even though all of her work was over, it was a moment when Eun-Hyeon Man became sharply depressed about her own future, which she could not imagine what would happen to her.
Belldandy looked at Eunhyun and Illyana and smiled.
