Chapter 3 – 003. Appointment of Apostles (3)
Cut and cut again
When the number of beasts he cut exceeded 200, he gave up counting and began to focus only on killing the beasts.
As numbers are numbers, from forward, backward, sideways, to attacks coming from above by jumping, I sliced them one by one while detecting attacks from all directions as well as from the direction.
Kyaaaek!
The screams distorted by the demons’ pain continued.
Fortunately, there was only one type of monster, so I didn’t have to worry about dealing with it.
The monsters that were changed by human contamination no longer maintained the human frame.
It didn’t change its limbs or appearance, but it chose quadrupedal walking despite having human limbs that were longer than those of normal beasts.
Reason does not exist in the eyes of the monsters who run at Eun-hyeon while salivating like beasts looking for food.
A species that could not be found at all even in the category of monsters.
The ‘variant’ itself, in which a human turned into a monster, was a special case that had not been seen before.
Contrary to that, it was really like dealing with a group of beasts, so Eun-hyeon didn’t have a lot of headaches and just cut through the demon beasts one after another.
Blasphemy!
“Uh.”
The sword he was holding in his hand soon shattered.
The sword that slashed hundreds of demons had finally exhausted its durability and died.
It took only a few seconds for Eunhyeon to clone a new sword through his powers and put it in his hand, without even having time to think about it.
“Keugh…”
One of the demons bit Eunhyeon’s left leg, and as soon as she tore off the flesh and applied strength to her jaw, Eunhyeon’s sword was lodged in the beast’s neck.
Key profit!
The Witchbeast died in vain, and the strength in his jaw was loosened.
After shaking her legs to get out of the beast’s mouth, Eun-hyeon quickly kicked the beast’s corpse and hit another beast that jumped towards her and rushed towards her.
As it was, it rushed forward and overlapped the abdomens of the two monsters that collided in the air, penetrating the sword, and cutting them with force.
At first glance, it seemed that Eun-hyeon had the upper hand as he slaughtered the beasts at an astonishing speed, but it was not without Eun-hyeon’s damage.
Even if only 10 seconds have passed in real time.
The amount of activity of Eunhyeon endowed with the power of time acceleration was as if more than 2 to 3 minutes had passed.
The fatigue that was burdening the body accumulated so easily and quickly that it dulled Eun-hyeon’s reflexes.
As time passed, small scars began to appear on Eunhyun’s body.
The armor had already been bitten and scratched by the beast’s teeth and claws, and was not maintaining its proper shape.
Rather, it was in tatters and was barely hanging over Eunhyun’s body.
Even as he slammed a sword into the ground, lost his armor, and violently tore off the cumbersome armor with his hands, the slaughter of the attacking beast did not stop.
“Keuuugh!”
Unable to respond due to accelerated physical fatigue, Eunhyeon had to sacrifice her left shoulder to the beast’s teeth again.
With the sword of his right hand, he pierced the eyes of the witch who hadn’t let go of him with the sword in his right hand, and cut him off with force.
And although they didn’t aim for the small gap that had opened up between them, dozens of monsters rushed towards Eunhyeon.
“Ah!”
His arms, legs, shoulders, thighs, sides, etc., Were bitten and ripped off.
The grip was so strong that it was impossible to imagine that it was a human base.
There were arms where flesh was ripped off and bones were visible, and parts of the whole leg were torn from the right knee to the lower part.
The unspeakable pain was such that a normal person could die of shock, but Eunhyeon managed to maintain consciousness.
Swallowing the screams she had almost vomited back into her throat, she activated her powers.
When the power of time reversal was activated, Eun-hyeon’s torn flesh and lost legs were restored, and he cut down the beasts who were busy coveting his own flesh and bones.
Without giving them a chance to rest, the Witchbeasts continued to charge.
Even though he could afford to breathe, all the muscles in his body complained of fatigue, but if he stopped these limbs and let go of the sword, the only thing left for Eun-hyeon was death.
Even though dozens of swords were broken.
Even though her clothes were torn and her flesh was torn and eaten.
Even though the muscles that showed movement beyond the limit could not hold on and were cut off.
Eun-hyeon initialized his physical condition with time reversal and did not stop the slaughter by using thought acceleration and time acceleration again.
Even Eun-hyeon, who seemed to have such an overwhelming advantage, finally came to her limit.
Even resetting the physical condition with his authority came to the limit of mental power.
It’s been a long time since the fatigue of the body accumulated due to the time acceleration in the initialized body reached its peak, and the eyelids were closed on their own, and it was difficult to maintain consciousness.
There was no place in his body where he did not scream, but his distant mind was so tired that he could not feel pain or fatigue.
Eunhyeon no longer had the strength to hold the sword, and his legs gave out and he fell to the ground.
He leaned against the wall, trying to force himself to move.
He thought of a body that no longer moved his fingers and did not listen to itself.
‘Under… At least I tried to hold out until the kids killed the Emperor…’
I was thinking of my colleagues who went up the hall, unable to erase the mixed feelings of regret and regret.
The magic beasts who tried to bite Eunhyeon stopped all at once.
As if time had stopped, the hardened beasts suddenly began to writhe in pain.
Kyaaek!
Eun-hyeon didn’t know exactly what had happened the moment she saw the mad beasts falling down one by one.
Soon he realized the meaning of the beasts’ deaths, and smiled broadly as he looked toward the stairs above the hall.
‘You did it.’
Convinced that his allies had killed the emperor, the source of the contamination.
Feeling like I had finally solved my long-cherished wish, I quickly got up and went to the place where my colleagues were.
“Uh…”
My body didn’t listen.
He even noticed that his breathing was slowing down.
Instinctively, Eun-hyeon could sense that this was the end.
‘Okay. I’ve lived a long time.’
Probably from the moment I became an apostle of the three goddesses of destiny. She has lived for over 400 years.
Finally, as Belldandy made her go through the rite of the apostleship, she hugged herself and remembered her words of apology.
[Sorry. Sorry. Someday… It’s fine if you resent me.]
Eunhyeon smiled as she recalled Belldandi’s apology in her fading consciousness.
‘I don’t hold grudges.’
There were difficult times, but there were also many fun and happy times.
In the era of chaos called the Great War, he has had countless dirty experiences of killing people.
[Hey. Keep in mind. This authority is also ‘power for you’, but its ultimate purpose is ‘salvation of others’.]
Still, it was true that she was proud of her colleagues as she gradually grew up and became a hero.
[You must never be the ‘Lord’. Your role is to ensure that the fates of the heroes flow normally. It is a device created by the combined efforts of the three goddesses of our destiny. To put it in your own words… Yes, you are never the main character. It’s extra extra.]
‘The extras, the main characters I raised.’
The end was just as the fate Belldandy had read, a miserable end that was not affected by the Authority of ‘Creating Destiny’.
Eunhyeon did not think that her death was miserable.
He thought it was a process of completing all the roles and preparing for the end, so he even had a feeling of relief.
[I will always watch and pray from above, so that the heroes of the underworld can properly grow and prevent all disasters, so that you can carry out our mission properly without collapsing.]
‘Wouldn’t this be enough to be praised?’
While thinking about how to use human standards to discuss the goddess’ standard for success, Eunhyeon kept thinking of Verdandi’s words.
[Go. Regardless of your mission, keep in mind that I always wish for your happiness.]
‘Ah…’
Just before her consciousness goes out, she sees the face of the witch who tried to convey her heart to her.
‘I’m sorry, I’m really sorry.’
Eunhyeon’s ceremony ended there.
That’s how the extras exited.
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“This… Crab… What… ?”
The witch, who did not stop moving even as she dragged her one leg that hadn’t healed from her wound, reached the central hall of the imperial palace where Eun-hyeon was to remain.
But when she saw the situation in the hall, she said with her speechless look.
The corpses and bloodstains of tens of thousands of witches clearly showed what had happened here.
And the witch led her sick body and moved busily to find her Eun-hyeon, who would be at the center of the massacre.
“Where are you… ?”
Perhaps because her voice was too low, there was no answer to the witch’s question.
Cried the witch, squeezing her voice once more.
“Where are you? Answer me! Hyuna!”
Again, no sound was heard.
“Hey! Don’t play around… ! Am I really mad?!”
The witch’s legs gave out and she sat down on the floor.
“Uh… ?”
The witch saw Eun-hyeon lying against the wall at the corner of the stairs and struggled to move her steps again.
As the distance between her and Eun-hyeon got closer and closer, the witch saw her Eun-hyeon’s condition and hardened her body.
“Hyunah? Isn’t it?”
Clothes that have become rags enough to be called clothes. Where did the armor such as boots, gauntlets, and mail go? Eunhyun’s body was only visible with bare limbs.
Looking at the two swords right next to both hands meant that the man did not let go of the sword until right before he collapsed.
“Am I, am I kidding you for coming so late?”
The corner of Eun-hyeon’s mouth, with her eyes closed, had an arc drawn for some reason, telling her that she was feeling satisfied until the very last moment.
“What makes you smile so much…”
The witch howled as she hit Eun-hyeon’s chest with her fist, which had now completely stopped.
“You said you were alive to hear… You said you would listen to me!”
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The young man, whose entire body was soiled with dirt, scratched his head and looked at the pit in which he was buried with a puzzled expression.
“Ugh, dirt in my mouth…”
He frowned, spat out the dirt remaining in his mouth, and looked up at the brightly shining night sky with a confused expression.
“Why am I alive?”
She couldn’t understand it again because she remembered that she had definitely met her death in the hall of the imperial palace at that time.
“No way…”
[Your sister just gave you the ‘Goddess Protection’.]
I came up with the only possibility as I searched through my memories of 400 years ago.
“Is it true?”
As if she couldn’t believe it herself, Eun-hyeon continued to mutter.
“How should I look at those guys’ faces…”
The man, who couldn’t imagine what kind of expression he would make when he saw himself come back intact, put on a puzzled expression.
But at the same time, Eun-hyeon was proud of the fact that her colleagues and protagonists ended the war with the empire and made a wonderful peace.
“Am I free now?”
Now that Eun-hyeon had forcibly created peace by preventing the Empire’s secret strategy and twisting the fate of the upcoming continental chaos, Eun-hyeon felt that she had completed her mission.
However, Eun-hyeon, who sensed the divine power imprinted on her soul, confirmed that the graces bestowed by the goddesses were not withdrawn and remained intact.
“The position of an apostle is the same…”
He remembered the faces of goddesses who did not know what they were thinking, even though he felt a little regret for his situation of not being free.
“Come to think of it, it doesn’t make any sense right now. There’s no way you’ll answer me now, and for now… Shall we try to understand the situation little by little?”
Because he recalled the promise he had made with his fellow witch before he died, he set the current goal of meeting his colleagues once again.
The man realized that 20 years had already passed while he was buried in the grave, and he reached his destination after a long journey without much trouble.
“You you…”
Faced with his former colleague, now one of the great heroes, the man scratched his head shyly and smiled awkwardly.
“Ahaha, long time no see. Could you please put me to sleep?”
“Uh, how…”
Surprisingly, the witch, who was the man’s companion, still maintained her appearance in her prime even after 20 years.
She couldn’t shut her mouth like a witch had gone through something she couldn’t be.
The man asked her question again, puzzled, when her witch had no answer.
“Are there any vacant rooms?”
The man looked embarrassed and asked the witch.
The witch, barely awake, sighed heavily and took her deep breath before answering the man’s question.
“There is.”
“Oh, really?”
“There is. I’ll give you a room. I’ll give it to you. I’ll give you rice too. Therefore…”
“Therefore?”
The man tilted her head as he saw the witch who was hesitant to say something.
The witch couldn’t make eye contact with the man properly.
She closed her eyes tightly, as if she had made up her mind, and finally put the words she had stored in her heart into her mouth.
“Don’t go anywhere again! This new X!”
“Cheuk!”
As she spoke as hard as she could, the witch’s legs moved and kicked her man’s crotch as hard as she could.
Unable to dodge her witch’s kick at the unexpectedly violent reaction of her witch, the man forced himself to endure unspeakable pain and squeezed between her crotch.
“Uh? Gwa, are you okay?”
When the witch opened her eyes and realized that her body had reacted to her old personality, she hurriedly patted her man on the waist.
The man gritted his teeth and suppressed his moans.
I was convinced by the pain and shock of just now.
That it exploded
