Chapter 496 – 496. The Moment of Reunion (3)
Hearing the nine-tailed fox’s answer, Ortas murmured softly.
“… Too bad.”
“Is that a human face with feelings of regret?”
Far from making a sad expression at all, Ortas’ face was very calm, as if he had predicted the choice of the nine-tailed fox from the beginning.
“I can’t help but regret it.”
Slowly release the mana from within the body and begin to surround Ortas.
It’s like Erin transforming from an ordinary human to the figure of a divine beast, the nine silver-white tails that slowly take shape and the fox ears on his head enable Ortas to handle the power of a divine beast and reproduce the appearance of a nine-tailed fox. It’s the same as meaning to be.
Seeing Ortas reborn as a being similar to himself by using the power he had taken away from himself, the nine-tailed fox felt a tingling sensation.
“Because I have to kill the person I loved twice with my own hands.”
If possible, this time, the thought of not betraying her and holding her in her heart was sincere.
That’s why he didn’t avoid the fierce fists of the nine-tailed fox that unilaterally beat him in the face, and he got hit all the way.
Even though she is imperfect, she has been able to handle the power of divine beasts like her, and despite many limitations, she has obtained an immortal life overflowing with her means, and has been able to become an existence of the same class as the nine-tailed fox.
“… MiX bastard.”
The nine-tailed fox frowned at hearing the nasty sound.
She has already been betrayed, and from the moment of her betrayal, she and Ortas are an adversarial relationship that can never be together.
The first button was put in wrongly, but now can we clear up the karma of the past stained with hatred and revenge and build a new relationship?
At least, it is impossible for a gumiho.
Seeing Ortas presenting options he never wanted to do or choose, the nine-tailed fox raised his magic.
“Today… What a sad day.”
Ortas made a look of genuine regret.
The silvery-white nine tails soared into the air, and blue energy began to flow out, and the two divine beasts with the same origin collided with each other’s mana wrapped in the air.
Ugh
At the midpoint of the two divine waters, where the atmosphere vibrates and creates a resonance, a haze is created and the space is distorted.
“Because I have to kill all my people with my own hands while killing the woman I was in love with.”
“Are you going to kill me? Entire… Aren’t they your descendants?”
The nine-tailed fox frowned at Ortas’ muttering that he would kill everyone on Orbis Island, including the royal family who inherited his blood, as well as the Artia knights who escorted them.
Rather than being angry that he would kill all humans, it was more like contempt for the contradictory behavior and way of thinking that he would kill all his descendants and people, who betrayed himself and made countless sacrifices to protect the country.
“Because my identity was discovered.”
If it is revealed that he has been living an immortal life by robbing the body of his descendants as well as the secrets of his entanglement with Shinsoo, it is natural to assume that there will be a great uproar about his existence within the kingdom.
Having this secret exposed is the worst situation for Ortas, and something that must be prevented at all costs.
So even though Ortas put on his heartbreaking expression, he eventually concluded that he had to kill all his people and descendants.
Having already lived an immortal life for a long time, his mind was broken and he went mad, and he was no different from a monster wearing a human mask.
“… Garbage child.”
After those words, the gumiho moved.
[Hujok magic (狐族姚術)]
[Fox fire]
The magical energy of the nine-tailed fox scattered around in the blue air current is condensed to create a burning blue flame.
That number was almost twenty, and it was on a different level from Erinn, who could summon and command four or five fox fires at most.
I pointed my finger at Ortas and set the target, and a total of twenty-five fox fires flew towards Ortas at once.
As if it had a personal will, the flying fox-fires burn fiercely to reduce the body of Ortas, the target, to powder without leaving a single bone.
“…”
Ortas drew his sword from his waistband and charged into the center of the rushing fox fire to burn his whole body.
Ortas’ movement, which lowered his upper body forward and down and evaded all the fox fires with a narrow gap and advanced at high speed, showed extreme speed that transcended human limits.
While avoiding his own fox fire, the nine-tailed fox analyzed Ortas’s movement toward him and realized how he was using his power.
‘All about strengthening the body…’
In a way, it’s a natural way.
Although he robbed himself of the fox orb and the power of the divine beast, Ortas was just a strong human being who had never dealt with the power of the divine beast.
At the time of obtaining his power, Ortas, who had never taught him the power of divine beasts like Erin, could not use his power properly.
Ortas cannot use the magic of the nine-tailed fox, except for a special case where he can use it if he makes a soul oath as a relationship between master and servant, such as the one hundred ghost night that I showed you earlier.
So, the way Ortas uses the power of the divine beast and the magic of the nine-tailed fox is, of course, a way to strengthen his body by investing all his magic in the physical field.
“In a way, you are more immature than that immature.”
She is truly simply ignorant, and her sense of using witchcraft and the magic of divine beasts itself is less talented than Erin.
However, it is also true that such an Ortas is very annoying at the moment.
“… Tsk.”
Even though she evaded the fox fire through the physical elements that were raised to the limit, it did not mean that her fox fire could not do any damage to Ortas.
She said that she was avoiding everything at close intervals, but just being in close proximity to the fox fire, which burned the air, caused Ortas’ skin to burn and inflicted considerable burn damage.
However, just like when Ortas’ face, which had been turned into dough by a one-sided blow, flowed from the ground of Orbis, the magical energy of the dense divine water flowed into his body and restored all the damage he had suffered.
It is this that is annoying.
Ortas has taken an ignorant way of ignoring his minor wounds while minimizing all damage close to his fatal wounds.
Anyway, those minor wounds should be restored with the magic supplied from the fox marbles sealed in the ruins of this island, just like now.
Ortas, who is less talented than Erin in handling divine powers, but boasts an overwhelming difference in terms of physicality, in a sense was the most annoying.
Gumiho is also a spec that transcends human limits in terms of physical elements, but I did not think that his swordsmanship, which had lived a semi-permanent life by stealing the body of a descendant who had been bitten for generations, would be stagnant in those days of his life.
Finally, Ortas evaded all the twenty-five fox fires created by the nine-tailed fox, charged at the nine-tailed fox, and swung his sword.
The nine-tailed fox twisted his back to get out of Ortas’s attack trajectory and immediately burrowed into his arms and tried to hit his abdomen with his elbow, but Ortas also skillfully raised his other arm to block the nine-tailed fox’s attack. .
As soon as each other’s attacks missed and were blocked, the two widened their distance and faced each other again, staring at each other.
“Whoa…”
“Give up. Miho. You can’t beat me right now.”
It is not a bluff, but a clear reality of the present.
Currently, with the help of Eunhyeon, Illyana, and Erin, the nine-tailed fox was able to make a new fox bead and resurrect it as a bowl, but the newly made fox bead is not filled with a large amount of high-density mana.
On the other hand, in the case of Ortas, the fox orb he stole from himself was filled with the dense magical essence he had accumulated for hundreds of years.
In terms of the difference in proficiency in terms of who can use witchcraft more skillfully and powerfully, nine-tailed foxes are overwhelmingly higher, and the conditions of physical specifications are similar to each other, but due to the difference in basic magical power, nine-tailed foxes are at a disadvantage.
Ortas saw right through the situation of the nine-tailed fox.
That’s why he raised his sword and aimed at the nine-tailed fox, confident in his victory.
“… Whoops.”
In the midst of this gap full of unfavorable conditions, the gumiho laughed nonchalantly.
He lamented how he had fallen into such a situation, how he had met the wrong man and had completely twisted Shinsoo’s life.
“… What?”
Ortas felt strange when he saw the Gumiho’s smile.
In this situation, it is clear that he has an advantage and is sure of victory, but he is smiling with a relaxed expression on his face, so it is questionable.
“Have you hidden your trump number?”
“No.”
The nine-tailed fox calmly shook his head and denied it.
It was really resentful and embarrassing, but the nine-tailed fox readily admitted that he could not defeat Ortas in his current condition, which had not yet fully recovered.
“I can’t beat you right now. But…”
The gumiho smiled and continued.
“Ortas, you made a very big mistake.”
“… A mistake?”
I immediately understood that the nine-tailed fox’s words were not bluffing.
Since he was Ortas, who had been with him for a long time in the past, he recognized that the now laid-back attitude of the nine-tailed fox was not a lie out of bluff, but the truth.
That’s why her attitude was so reluctant that Ortas had no choice but to frown at her.
“It was your mistake that you were transferred to this place with me.”
“…”
The fact that he is now confronting the gumiho alone like this is a fatal mistake he made, the gumiho declared.
Then, as she wondered who was left where she and the nine-tailed fox disappeared, Ortas immediately remembered a man.
“… Is it that man?”
With a mystical technique that is more surprising than magic that interferes with reality, he reveals his identity and the story of the past, and uses some means unknown to him to revive the nine-tailed fox he killed himself. A man with an inside.
It’s Eunhyun.
“… No use. My hundred demons must already be moving to kill him, my descendants, and my people. Furthermore… There is another Guardian Beast created using your beads on this island.”
Even if they manage to deal with all of their hundred demons, it is impossible to subdue the Guardian Beast, which boasts of powerful military power by directly receiving the mana of the divine beast.
“No matter how perfect an immortal is than me… I can’t subdue it, which is no different from the alter ego of the divine beast…”
“Well. Will it be so?”
“… What?”
The nine-tailed fox sneered at Ortas, who wrung his eyebrows and questioned him.
Ortas knows nothing.
He may have known that Eun-hyeon was an immortal, but how he lived an immortal life, who he commanded to move, and even the fact that he has now transcended humans and become a superior being.
Regarding Eun-hyeon, who has been thoroughly hiding her identity and abilities, Ortas must have only grasped fragmentary information based on rumors she heard.
“That clever and smirking guy, the guy who was going to take advantage of the situation where I was confronting you alone like this, couldn’t have made any preparations.”
Ortas knows nothing.
From the moment he was transferred by the nine-tailed fox and became alone with her, from the moment he left the ruins, his defeat was certain.
Gumiho never heard of Eun-hyeon’s future plans.
However, I was strongly convinced that even this situation had been thought of by Eunhyun.
If not, Eun-hyeon’s intentions, which he handed over to him to confront Ortas alone by handing over an artifact imprinted with ‘simple teleport magic’, are not explained.
That’s why the gumiho is sure.
“Ortas. It is your defeat.”
