Chapter 503 – 503. Great War of Gods (4)
Yoho’s huge body, which had been fighting a fierce battle with Eunhyeon, Riod, and Gerard, began to lose its shape little by little as it became translucent.
The Yoho, which continued to recover damage no matter how many times it was attacked, had finally reached its limit.
That meant that the fox orb sealed in the Orbis ruins, which had been constantly supplying Yoho with magic power, had been broken.
Ugh
Then, a wave of powerful magical power emitted from the entrance of the ruins instantly covered the surroundings.
“This… !?”
“… Great.”
Gerard, who directly experienced some of the neat yet dense power of the divine water flowing out, was astonished, and Leo also muttered with a surprised expression.
Those spirits are the pure magical essence that the nine-tailed fox has gathered and carefully preserved for hundreds of years.
There was a big difference from the magic that ordinary humans deal with, and it is natural to feel and be surprised by its power.
Eunhyeon turned his head and stared at the entrance of the ruins.
“You succeeded.”
This phenomenon means that Yuria and Alex, who entered the ruins, destroyed the sealed fox orb and released its magical power.
When Su Lake Yoho, who was guarding the ruins, completely lost his form and disappeared, a calm wind blew over the instantly calm land.
“End of all battles! And quickly figure out the condition of the injured!”
Even after the battle was over, Riod continued to give instructions to his men because his role was not yet over.
Unlike Riod, who was busy checking the status of the royal family and whether there were any serious injuries among the members, Gerard collapsed on the floor as soon as Yoho disappeared.
“Whoa…”
The floor shook, and Gerard felt the calm wind suggesting the end of the raging storm. Gerard drooped as if exhausted.
“Are you okay?”
“Ah, brother… What… You just have to endure it. Still… It doesn’t hurt as much as before, as if my body would burn.”
But Gerard’s expression was not as good as his words.
Right now, the burden of physical fatigue is being relieved by Eleanor’s barrier.
What Gerard was feeling was not physical fatigue, but mental fatigue consumed while controlling the power of the Shinsoo.
Eunhyun looked at his condition with a sidelong glance and smiled.
Even though he sat on the floor as if exhausted and showed signs of fatigue, Gerard’s face looked quite bright as if he was satisfied.
“Are you satisfied?”
“… No. I am not satisfied. But… Unlike then, now I can see the front.”
Gerard smiled bitterly.
In the past, it was a life she had decided to throw away while consuming the magic of a giraffe.
He thought he had no choice but to stop Ray Nann, who had a clear difference in strength, and his former comrades, who had now turned into enemies, with his own hands.
But what about now?
Although it is said that not even half, let alone one-fourth, is capable of exerting power, it is very special to be able to control the Kirin’s mana, which was originally used at the risk of one’s life.
It was natural for him to feel proud of his own growth, which was moving forward little by little.
Eventually, after taking a break for a while, Gerard rose from the floor.
“Nice…”
Due to Eleanor’s barrier, his burden was relieved and his recovery was gradually progressing, but as soon as the myth of his brain was dispelled, the muscle pain that attacked his whole body was formidable enough to be ignored.
“Where are you going?”
“Yes? That’s right Miho…”
“No.”
“… Yes?”
Gerard opened his eyes wide at the unexpected restraint and looked at Eunhyun.
“Miho-sama… Are you saying not to help?”
“Uh, why? Where Miho is now…”
Erin should be there as well.
Why doesn’t Eun-hyeon help them?
“This is a matter for him and him to solve. We can’t interfere.”
“But older brother, Miss Erin…”
“Because Erin is no different from the official successor who inherited her powers.”
In fact, the nine-tailed fox probably didn’t want Erin’s intervention at all, but Eun-hyeon’s judgment was that getting Erin involved would be the last line.
“We just made the conditions the same and that was it.”
On this island of Orbis, Ortas, who is constantly supplied with magic power through the fox marbles stolen from the nine-tailed fox, can display fraudulent abilities that are tantamount to being semi-permanently immortal.
With that condition broken, it’s only a matter of time before the balance of the fight changes in an instant.
“You worked hard.”
Then, Eleanor, who was being escorted by the Knights of Artia, approached Eunhyeon.
Although she was not separately injured in the battle with Yoho, Eleanor immediately restored Eunhyeon’s body using her divine power.
“Thank you.”
Eunhyun, who felt warm consideration for relieving the exhausted stamina and tense muscles from intense movements, smiled and thanked her.
She got rid of the summoned sword and tried to hug her body tightly, but she hesitated for a moment when she thought of her sweaty body covered in dust.
“You really do have strange thoughts every once in a while.”
Recognizing Eun-hyeon’s feelings, Eleanor smiled bitterly and embraced her in Eun-hyeon’s arms.
She appreciates the little consideration she gives for herself, even though she knows that she doesn’t care.
“Will Erin be okay?”
“It will be fine.”
As if he was alone, he overturned the conditions of the other side and made the inferior situation equal.
Besides, he will fight alongside the nine-tailed fox, so he won’t be defeated easily.
Above all, Eun-hyeon was well aware of the level of Erin she taught herself.
“Because I taught you.”
So, Eleanor smiled at Eunhyun’s words, who were confident that Erin and Gumiho would win.
“I guess so.”
“First, wait for the princess and Alex to come out of the ruins…”
When you tried to move immediately by conveying the following plans and instructions.
“Everything, Captain! The sky… !”
An Arthia knight who was still moving after the fight with the hundred demons looked up at the sky and shouted.
Eunhyeon and Eleanor, who heard a voice full of embarrassment, also looked up at the sky at the same time, and found something floating in the sky, so the two hardened their faces together.
“That…”
A huge orb made of pure blue magic.
Upon seeing this, Cha Han-sung, a member of the Artia Knights, muttered involuntarily.
“… Won Ki-ok?”
The gigantic blue sphere that covers the sky and blocks the sun emits bright light just by existing, providing dazzle.
“That… What the hell is that?”
“…”
As Eleanor hardened her face, she asked her Eun-hyeon next to her, but she couldn’t answer her question and she found Eun-hyeon’s face covered with embarrassment.
Belatedly, Eunhyeon also realized that she hadn’t imagined this situation at all.
“I wonder if something happened to Erin and Shinsoo…”
“No. That’s not right.”
Eun-hyeon immediately shook her head to deny the bad imagination that had popped into Eleanor’s head.
If I had to explain, that wasn’t something Ortas created.
“… You have done this.”
“Yes?”
Eleanor put on a puzzled expression at Eunhyun’s muttering as she let out a small sigh at the sudden unexpected situation.
She was about to ask what was going on, but Eun-hyeon opened her mouth before she did.
“Eleanor. Heal Gerard right away.”
“Are you going?”
“I had no intention of going, but… I guess I’ll have to go And tell Riod to get everyone here to board the sailboat of Count Tyrnis.”
“Right now? But…”
In the car that had just finished the battle, everyone was in a state of accumulated fatigue, and expressed concern on their faces that they were moving too hastily, but Eun-hyeon, who gave the order, was adamant.
“I have to leave this island right now. Because…”
If that blue orb floating in the sky collides with an island, it is obvious what will happen to this island.
“This island is about to disappear.”
It seems that the gumiho intends to destroy the island itself.
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The situation changed so suddenly.
As the fox marbles were broken, Ortas, unable to receive the magical power of the infinite divine beast, hardened his face.
“Your expression is very nice.”
Revealing his identity, he saw Ortas’ face showing an agitation that he had never seen before, and the nine-tailed fox sneered.
At the same time, he continues to stretch out his hands toward the sky and absorbs the power of the divine beast that covered the entire island of Orbis.
“Why… What the hell have you done?”
“I must have destroyed the fox orb.”
“Somebody’s asking that… ! Why are you so nonchalant! Miho!”
Ortas, who raised his voice for the first time, blushed indignantly.
At the same time, I couldn’t understand the attitude of the gumiho who didn’t get angry, and the frustration in this situation where I couldn’t understand anything was gradually amplified.
“The fox orb is destroyed. Why aren’t you angry!?”
Ortas couldn’t understand.
To the gumiho, the fox beads are as precious as their own lives.
The marbles, which were stored and stored neatly and cleanly after several hundred years and condensed the power of the high-density divine water, were a source of power for the nine-tailed fox and a transcendental object that presented a time equivalent to eternal life.
The reason why Ortas didn’t even show signs of agitation, let alone imagined that he would lose, despite the nine-tailed fox’s resurrection, was because the fox beads he had robbed from the nine-tailed fox belonged to him.
Only those who possess the power of the divine beast can enter the ruins where the fox beads are sealed.
Of course, gumihos are among them.
Ortas, who thought that only a nine-tailed fox could defeat the Yoho who had been made her watchman and enter the ruins, was convinced that he would never lose as long as she was here with him.
Besides, she never even considered the possibility that she would destroy her fox orb, which she had accumulated her power over hundreds of years of effort.
So Ortas was confident of her own victory.
“The orb you took from me has been destroyed. Do you want me to be angry?”
The nine-tailed fox laughed at Ortas, who had already lost his soul and reason and couldn’t properly discern what was going on.
“Certainly, I couldn’t have imagined this situation either.”
The means to destroy the fox beads was Eun-hyeon’s arbitrary act.
Perhaps she was mindful of the possibility that she would not accept, so she did it without telling Gumiho about the plan.
If it had been in the past, he might have slapped the person who said it hundreds of times as soon as he said that he would destroy the fox orb containing the power he had been collecting with great care for hundreds of years.
“It’s better than I thought.”
Is it because it has already been stolen once and left his hand?
Even after realizing that the fox bead had been destroyed, the gumiho did not feel any emotion of anger.
“On the contrary, it feels good to be able to see your mentally ruined face.”
“Miho!”
“Something immature! Stop Ortas!”
“Okay!”
Like the nine-tailed fox, Erin, who had been absorbing all the magical energy of the high-density divine water floating in the air, immediately threw herself at the cry of the nine-tailed fox.
Erin, who had absorbed the power of her divine beast and increased her physical abilities more explosively than usual, stood in front of Ortas, who had lost her reason, and she deflected his sword.
“Move!”
The sword attack that was wielded along with his anger did not show the high-quality technique that he had shown until now.
An attack that is only fast and strong is not a threat to Erin, who has been trained to deal with many strong attacks.
‘More than before… Easy.’
The conditions of Ortas and Erin, who are only showing their anger at the nine-tailed fox behind Erin, have become equal.
Rather, between Ortas, whose mentality was shaken, and Erin, who regained her cool, ironically, it was Erin who had the upper hand.
The nine-tailed fox laughed at Ortas, whose attacks were blocked by Erin, who had been overwhelming him until now.
“Funny. I only destroyed what was taken from me. You are the one who gets angry again.”
The reason Ortas is indignant is simple.
It was because he now completely considered the fox bead he had stolen from the nine-tailed fox as his own.
And because he knew better than anyone else the value of the fox marble that had made him immortal, when Ortas faced the fact that the fox marble was broken, he lost his temper and ran amok.
Kaaang!
Just as she deflected all of Ortas’ disorderly sword attacks with her rapier, Erin stopped when she noticed a dark shadow on her floor.
“… Uh?”
It was a very foolish act to look elsewhere during the battle.
He raised his head upward, looking dazed at the situation, as if something huge was blocking the sun.
The huge blue orb that seems to cover the island, blocking the sun, is a crystal of pure magical power that absorbs the power of the divine beast that was scattered outside when the fox orb is broken and condenses it into one place.
If that thing descended and collided with the ground, I could imagine what the damage would be without even getting hit, and Erin’s spine trembled.
“Mi, Miho. That doesn’t seem like much… ?”
Erin, who hurriedly turned her gaze and looked back, saw the expression of the nine-tailed fox shed her smile as if she was happy about what was fun, and she broke into a cold sweat.
Ortas, who lost his reason, wasn’t the important thing.
In fact, realizing belatedly that the most dangerous being was behind him, he hurriedly tried to stop the gumiho, but the gumiho did not intend to listen to Erin.
“No. It’s not like that. Is this right.”
“Right now, there are not only Hyeon and Eleanor-sama on this island, but a lot of other people too! Don’t use that now!”
“Oh, I don’t know! He’ll take care of everything!”
The nine-tailed fox lowered both arms, which had been raised high in the sky, and lowered a huge blue sphere that floated high in the sky onto the island.
[Nine-tailed fox’s unique ability]
[Annihilation Jade]
“Everyone disappear along with this hateful island!”
The aggregated orb, created from the condensation of mighty mana with the power to annihilate an island, fell on Ortas’ head.
