Chapter 814 – 814. The Mirror’s Self (1)
“Aaaaagh!”
“Me-what is that!”
Something huge rose through the ground with a sudden earthquake.
Not one, but dozens of large tentacles flaunt their presence.
And among the adventurers who were horrified at the sight of those tentacles, the one who showed the most intense emotions was Erin, who had been leading the adventurers on the front line and fighting.
“Kyaaaaagh!? I hate tentacles!”
Erin witnessed with her own eyes dozens of tentacles breaking through the city’s surface and sparked a match.
In the previous expedition with Eunhyeon and the Knights of Artia, the witch who was nestled in the anthill saw Erin and harbored feelings of lust for her.
A monstrous desire to sow her own seeds and breed her demon beasts by using her pure and clean body full of high-quality magic power.
Erin, who read that emotion intact, once, her mental collapsed.
Somehow she endured the repulsive feelings of her lust with her tentacles and handled it with her own hands, but since then, Erin has never seen her multi-legged or slippery slime. I hated it terribly.
“Why…”
It was natural for her to cause a game.
“Why is it here!”
She then recalled her memories of what she had completely finished up in her anthill, and the monster that had given her memories of her nightmares reappeared before her own eyes.
Dozens of tentacles swung and swept around as soon as they came across.
“Quaaaaagh!”
The tentacles crush the ground, destroy buildings in the city, and send debris flying through the sky.
It was a natural story that the damage continued intact to the general public and citizens who were inside the building.
“Kyaaaaah!”
People’s screams filled Erin’s keen hearing.
“No…”
The tentacles that swept around finally slowly approached the building of the Mage Tower, the tallest building in the city, as if it were their last goal.
“No… !”
Erin’s muttered voice over and over again did not reach anyone.
Kwajik!
All she had to do was watch the mage tower wrapped in tentacles getting distorted by the pressure applied from the outside.
The only thing Erin could do was just listen to the screams of the wizards inside the building.
“Can you afford to think of them?”
Ray Nann’s voice, who had come close to her, rang in Erin’s ears.
“… Kut!”
[Wald felt style martial arts]
[Fierce Strike]
A fierce yet heavy blow, reminiscent of a ferocious tiger, thrusting its teeth into the target to tear it apart.
Erin, who felt dizzy, managed to avoid his attack thanks to her uniquely developed sense of crisis.
Erin twisted her waist to dodge Raynan’s fist flying at her, and she swung her Levantine as if to counter it.
However, Ray Nann retrieved her outstretched fist and at the same time blocked the Levantine’s blade with her gauntlet.
It was a critical strike, aiming for a counter at a close interval, but Raynon blocked Erin’s attack as expected.
Raynan kicked Erin in the abdomen as she got closer.
“Ouch!”
She quickly guarded her abdomen with one arm, preventing her from taking a direct hit, but her Erin’s body rose into the air and flew behind her.
Erin, who almost fell to the floor as she was, immediately took her fall posture and stood up from her seat.
When she looked ahead of her again, Ray Nann was already right in front of her.
[Wald felt style martial arts]
[Fierce Strike]
Once again, his punches flew towards Erinn.
Erin couldn’t move even when she saw her terrifying attack right in front of her to tear her wind apart and tear her own body apart.
She tried to move, but her body wouldn’t listen to her.
Her arm, which earlier had blocked Raynan’s kick to her stomach, was swollen and throbbing.
It had only been one hit, but Erin, sure she was broken, decided that she had to hurriedly get out of his attack range.
‘In action!’
Even though she was clearly aware of her attack, even though she knew it clearly in her head, her body didn’t move.
As if the time in the world had stopped except for himself, Raynan’s fist was moving towards him very slowly.
‘How, how?’
What to do.
How can I block that attack?
What can he do
Thoughts do not stop and continue to rotate even in the stopped time as numerous thoughts repeatedly appear and disappear in the head.
Rather, the flow of thought, which was accelerating more than usual, gave Erin an answer.
Erin gathered all the magic in her body and focused it on her own abdomen.
Fuck!
“Big, black!”
In the end, Raynan’s fist hit Erin’s abdomen directly.
I narrowed the distance between her and burrowed into her arms at once, and my neat body blow hit her abdomen and, unable to overcome her shock, flew into the sky again.
Erin let out her breath and felt her mind wander.
Her body, which had been floating in the air, fell to the floor and tumbled to the ground, and her clothes and skin were torn as it was caught on a pile of stones, and even the Levantine she was holding tightly in her hands was lost.
“Ouch… !”
Erin, causing a game, pouring gastric juices out of her mouth, her eyes were open, but she lost her focus.
“Not… Okay…”
Erin muttered, trying to catch her waning spirit.
She is where she is now. If she herself loses consciousness and falls, her fox fire, which had been burning Raynan’s shoulders and widening the extent of the burn, would disappear.
It was the final victory for Erin, who was desperately holding on.
But Erin eventually lost her mind.
As she fell to the floor, panting, her raynon stared at her.
“… I was thinking of ending it.”
She couldn’t
The skill he used, ‘Fierce Strike’, is a punch with terrifying attack power that can easily tear apart even steel or mithril with strong durability.
But Erin’s body, which had been hit by her own fist with her direct hit, was better than she thought.
Originally, the abdomen that hit her directly should have disappeared without a shape.
Not only the flesh, but also the internal organs and bones, as if they had been eaten by a ferocious tiger.
Despite being hit directly by such an attack, the reason why her belly was able to keep its shape properly is because right before her attack took a direct hit, Erinn concentrated her mana into one point and raised her defensive power. .
In the end, she couldn’t block all of Ray Nann’s attacks, but she was able to avoid fatal wounds after canceling most of her attack power, which was close to her one-hit kill.
“You mean, ‘If you can’t block it at all, let’s minimize the damage.’ You’re a fighter that doesn’t match your appearance.”
She has the pretty appearance of an innocent, love-hungry girl, but in Raynan’s eyes, Erin has the nature of an outrageous brawler.
Ironically, even that talent was innate.
Now that she was just in her 20s, she was a young-looking woman, and it was the first time she had ever held herself up like this.
Despite the physical gap, she didn’t have too many of those who did damage to her.
If it was her physical specs or the gap in strength, of course she had no choice but to lead herself, but her agility and body elasticity that she exerted momentarily surprised Ray Nann from time to time.
Besides, what about the magic power she possesses?
The amount of neat and clean magical power she holds in her body is dozens of times greater than that of ordinary adventurers of her age.
‘If only it was a little later… This must have been the lumbering she would become a hero.’
That she was here, that she met herself, was Erin’s worst misfortune.
Because she will end up like this without even seeing the flower bloom.
What a waste.
She thought she was on her own.
“… I thought she had abandoned it.”
Raynan surprised herself that she still had feelings left to think about this.
She was the humanity she threw away while slaughtering countless humans and growing the powers of the demons she contracted.
[What are you doing!? Hurry! Come on kill me! Haha!]
Belphegor rejoiced that Erin, who had given her the pain of throwing herself into an inferno, had finally passed out and was rolling across the floor like her mop partner.
“…”
However, Raynan hesitated for a moment and made a different choice than Belphegor.
She turned her back on the fallen Erin and slowly raised her steps towards her magic tower.
[… What are you doing?]
Belphegor’s words were the same as the first question, but the meaning was completely different.
If the former was cheering for being able to brutally kill the opponent who had caused him pain, the latter question now was an accusation that he couldn’t understand his actions.
“…”
Raynan did not answer Belphegor’s inquiry.
She just silently moved her steps toward her original goal, the Magic Tower.
[I asked what you were doing!]
However, at the continued questioning, Raynan finally opened his mouth.
“… Even if you leave it as it is, it will surely die. Right now, it’s more important to get rid of the mage tower and wizards, which were our original purpose.”
[This is ridiculous! Just grab that bitch by the throat and crush it!]
Does it take a few seconds to prioritize other things?
Belphegor was furious.
It was unacceptable that Erin, who used her fox fire, which burned her own strength and soul, was left unattended.
[You and I have shared a contract! Then fulfill that promise!]
Ray Nann, who stopped her, frowned at her.
“The contract you and I made was to provide me with the souls of the slain humans in exchange for power. Don’t interfere with anything else.”
A give-and-take relationship that is just that.
Killing Erin and taking her soul was, of course, a promise Ray Nann had to fulfill as part of her pact, but he refused.
The souls offered to Belphegor are the souls of the humans he has killed.
However, it was entirely up to Raynon to choose whether to kill the target human or not.
It was just an obscene pun that demons usually use when possessing and playing with humans, but Raynon was rather using this point himself.
[Why don’t you kill me! Until just now, that girl is the most dangerous, as you thought! Did you feel any special affection for that girl!?]
“It’s a special affection.”
It’s not like that.
In fact, she couldn’t explain well to herself why she acted on her whim to leave Erin alone, who could kill even Raynan at any moment.
It was strange when you think about it.
Because Erin, who dared to block herself alone, was dealing with Reynon seriously.
Originally, it would have been more profitable to ignore her and achieve her original purpose of killing her mage tower and many wizards.
After all, there was no reason for the monsters to hang out with Erinn until they reached the city through the ground.
Still, Raynan took Erin seriously.
She doesn’t even know why.
“Mum… Dance…”
“…”
Raynan stopped her in her tracks.
In order to confirm the owner of the voice that summoned her, she turned her back and checked behind her.
“Ha…”
At some point, Erin, holding the Levante in her hand, was struggling to stand up using her staff.
She gasped for breath and clutched at her throbbing stomach, barely getting up and poised, looking so precarious.
Despite the fact that her blurred focus would already obscure her vision, she showed a strong will to hold on to herself until the end.
“… Is it.”
Raynan belatedly realized why she had acted on her whim in front of Erin.
“You are ‘me’.”
Erin resembles her past self.
Even though she knew that it would be impossible, even though she felt the difference in her strength, she never gave in. Her past self.
The appearance of shining the qualities of a hero who struggled to protect and save people until the end.
“… It’s all pointless.”
It was a difficult past that she, in the end, had given up on herself, along with her humanity and future, and did not want to recall.
“… If you want to die like that, I will kill you.”
[Haha! Okay! It should be!]
Belphe Gor, who confirmed Ray Nann’s determination once again, cheered, saying that this time he could truly enjoy Erinn’s death and her soul.
When she tried to charge towards Erin, who was in jeopardy even standing right now.
[Nine-Digit Transcendence Magic]
[Heavenly Punishment]
The heavenly punishment arrived and tore the sealing barrier that had stolen magic from the wizards in the city.
