Chapter 980 – 980. The Lion and the Four Dragons (1)
Vacuum.
A space where no matter exists at all.
The surrounding conditions were exactly similar to that.
Swept by powerful magical power, the ground cracks, the air is torn apart, and the building is crushed.
The cause is a small sphere.
As the white flower riot created by the nine-tailed fox exploded, an area with a diameter of 300 meters flew completely in a circle around the center of it.
The roads of the capital, the buildings that were half-destroyed, and the corpses of the ghouls who originally lived there but have now become undead.
It disappeared without leaving a trace.
As if it never existed in the first place.
The only thing that could exist there was the nine-tailed fox, the person who caused the disaster, and Eun-hyeon and his team members, who were protected by the goddess’s blessing.
The storm that swept around like a bright white flower burning brightly calmed down after a few seconds.
Only after confirming that the storm had subsided did the goddess’ blessing that had been protecting her team disappear.
“Wow, I almost got lost… !”
Anyes, who had taken the blessing, looked tired.
“Hey. Madame. “Are you out of your mind?”
“… “Who is the lady?”
The nine-tailed fox frowned at the insulting title he had never heard before.
“That technique just now! “If we had made a mistake, we would have all evaporated without even making a sound!”
“Hmph, it’s barely this much. “Isn’t it okay because I was well protected by the goddess’s protection at the right time?”
“Ha, Eunhyun, it’s a shame that guy gave me the signal at the right time…”
“That’s why I wrote it. Wouldn’t he have that level of insight? No way.”
“Sickness. That’s great. Really.”
Anies sighed.
Although her proud attitude was absurd, they knew that the nine-tailed fox had adjusted her power out of consideration for them.
She had never seen the nine-tailed fox’s power, but the reason she thought there was no way her power could be this level was because Anies was also an experienced veteran who had experienced all kinds of battles in this battle.
Thanks to this, the battle ended in vain as all the undead within a 1km radius were blown away along with the building.
However, she was unable to eliminate the necromancer, the source of the Void Stone and Morale (死氣), so the expedition was not over.
Eunhyun glanced at the faces of her team members one by one to gauge their condition.
It wasn’t a very difficult battle, but it wasn’t a battle that was completely wasted either.
“Let’s rest for five minutes and then rush into the palace.”
However, there was no time to comfortably recover both physically and mentally.
“That’s amazing!”
Match! Match! Match!
Someone’s voice repeatedly exclaims in admiration accompanied by strong applause.
Also, it was a male voice I had heard before.
Eun-hyeon and his team members, who were on the verge of letting go of their tension, raised their alert posture by pointing their weapons in unison.
“… Marius.”
Anies gritted his teeth and spoke his name.
It should have been completely finished then, but it was a voice filled with great regret for not being able to do so.
“I see a lot of happy faces. Oh.”
As he scanned the faces of Eunhyun and his team members one after another, his gaze suddenly stopped on Erin.
“Ugh.”
Erin, who made eye contact with Marius, frowned and pulled her body back.
It was an action to escape his sight, but instead Marius fixed his eyes even more on Erin’s face.
She opened her mouth with a bright expression, as if she was seeing her lover’s face again after a very long time.
“It was you, after all! “My companion!”
“Huh?”
“Eh?”
“What?”
People’s eyes all focused on Erin.
This is a story that can only be confusing to those who do not know the discord that arose between Erin and Marius during the previous attack on the Holy Kingdom of Erenia.
It was the first time even Anies and Eunhyeon, who had worked together to stop the necromancer’s attack in the Holy Kingdom at that time, had heard of this story for the first time.
“… Erin? What is this sound?”
Eunhyeon’s voice sounded quite calm, but inside she was panicking.
The crazy necromancer who had been prepared and guarded all of a sudden suddenly showed great interest in his wife, so it was understandable.
“I-I didn’t do anything! That crazy guy is doing this alone… !”
Her partner, Erin, was greatly embarrassed and complained to her own chagrin.
“I said I own it! “You crazy guy!”
She grinned and revealed her disgust as it was.
Marius said, enjoying Erin’s reaction.
“Okay. “That guy was your husband.”
Marius looked at Eunhyeon’s face.
He is a man whom he once knew and who once brought him to the brink of destruction.
“Was he alive? “At that time, I thought he died from the Death Dragon’s breath.”
“… “It’s just that I’m not weak enough to die.”
“Haha, I see! Then… !”
A cheerful laugh that is so easily accepted.
And what follows.
Coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo
“If I kill you, you’re saying I can make her my companion, right?”
The ground was turbulent.
The ground was hollowed out by the nine-tailed fox’s white flower riot, and something huge was slowly emerging from the ground.
“What is that again… !”
Anies screamed as she saw it popping out from the cracked ground and leaning on the ground.
It appeared, scattering a mighty morale that was incomparable to anything seen before, and revealed its presence by flapping its huge wings.
A crumbly wing that was torn apart and lost its function.
Flesh that looks half-melted and rotting, emitting a rotting smell.
And an incredibly gigantic physique.
Coo!
It was the corpse of a dragon.
One special thing is that this gigantic corpse moves on its own.
“Gumiho! That magic from before… !”
“It’s impossible right now.”
The nine-tailed fox shook his head.
The Hundred Flowers Incident is not a magic trick that can be used over and over again like that.
The characteristic of the magic that purifies a huge amount of magical power and condenses it into one point is that to create the attack power, it draws on not only the magical energy of the divine beast within the body, but also the magical energy dissolved in the atmosphere.
The Hundred Flower Riot from before was not the highest power she could produce.
It was only the highest level of power that could be achieved by refining and drawing out the purest magical power in an atmosphere full of polluted mana.
Moreover, since she used up all the external pure magic power available in the previous attack, the power of the next White Flower Yoran will inevitably be limited.
“… “Is it completely possible to control it?”
Riod muttered, his expression hardening.
I remembered the first time I tracked down a necromancer with Eunhyun, Illyana, and Eleanoa.
At that time, all he did was lift the head of the Death Dragon once and use his breath full of death energy once.
In Eunhyeon’s words, he would have had to pay a portion of his soul just for that.
Haha! “Try to stop it!”
But now he was standing on the head of the Death Dragon, controlling it in its intact state.
That means only one thing.
This means that Marius’ talent as a necromancer has improved.
“It’s crazy. Really.”
Anies also ground his teeth as he faced the corpse of the gigantic dead dragon.
A dragon.
It was impossible to estimate how many human lives the necromancy used to control that transcendent being had grown by devouring.
Disaster.
Even calling it that is not enough.
That is evil itself.
The worst thing that eats away at people’s lives and this world, and whose mere existence leads to destruction of this world.
“I’m angry.”
Anyes was furious.
To none other than yourself.
“I didn’t completely kill you back then. “I’m so upset.”
The fact that the evil that had grown to this level could not be completely eradicated, and that the culprit that created such a disaster was in the temple to which he belonged.
I felt so helpless, angry, and ashamed.
“Therefore.”
Ani Es stretched out his hands towards the sky.
“You will definitely die by my hands here today.”
It was a promise to myself.
[You are a goddess!]
The divine power contained in his voice resonated powerfully around him.
[Thy Lamb implores.]
As if answering the plea to the goddess, Anies’ body is colored with pure white light.
[Let us ignore our sins that we failed to take note of.]
The light that purifies the surroundings full of fraud and pollution is a miracle of the goddess that falls on faithful priests who believe in her.
[So that your Lamb can clear the way.]
The vast divinity that flocked to her saint was condensed into a shape with both her hands.
[Please give me a miracle.]
Anies’ prayers were always without set rules.
And it’s very arbitrary.
Sometimes they are insincere and insincere.
From the perspective of other priests and others, one wonders whether there is really such a thing as respect or belief in the goddess, or whether there is really such a thing as faith.
However, her prayers always contained strong wishes and sincerity.
Sometimes, to protect someone, to save someone, to fulfill that responsibility.
She always puts her heart and wishes into her prayers.
Therefore, Vesta granted divine blessings in response to her prayers for her sincere efforts to save the humans of the underworld.
It’s the same now too.
Anies prayed earnestly to correct their mistakes and that of the temple.
She hoped to slay and save with her own mace the poor monster created by the malice of the corrupt and rotten high priests who did not hesitate to abuse their position and power for her own benefit and not for her people.
So the goddess Vesta exercised her goddess miracles on Aniess.
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Gangshin (降神)]
[Cheer up.]
Anies chuckled.
Her voice was not a whisper in her voice.
A voice that I didn’t hear properly, almost like an auditory hallucination.
But Anies clearly heard the cheers of the Goddess incorporated in her miracles.
To her goddess, who had responded to her own miracle, Anyes expressed her gratitude with all her heart.
“Okay. Thank you.”
Wow!
The evil dragon, which had already faced death once, opened its wide mouth and roared.
With a roar that made the air tremble, the fraud that spewed out from its mouth spread out in all directions and tried to contaminate the surroundings.
Whoa!
No Es swung his fist.
She and her assimilated golden lion swung her gauntlet and struck her evil dragon’s mouth with all their might.
At the same time, the dark, dead energy that flowed from the evil dragon’s mouth was purified.
“Hey. Good. “I’ll take care of this bastard.”
Ani Es simply loosened her knuckles and spoke to her Eunhyeon and other colleagues.
The huge golden lion floating behind her showed off its presence, oozing immense divinity.
A pair of gauntlets floating back and forth in the sky assimilated to the movements of both hands were positioned so that they could attack the evil dragon at any time.
“… Sister.”
“Why do you think you’ll lose?”
Gerard called out to her with a look of concern on her face, but Noes smiled and said to Gerard.
“Don’t worry. I will never lose. “Am I the same as that idiot from 20 years ago?”
Eunhyeon smiled bitterly.
“… “My ears are burning.”
This was said about Eunhyeon, who died after a fierce battle while single-handedly fending off a huge number of demonic beasts.
“There are so many things I still want to do. “First of all, my first wish is to play with that guy’s wife, Illyana, and touch Eleanor’s breasts.”
“I can’t allow it.”
“That’s none of my business. Anyway.”
“I’ll clean it up quickly and leave. “You destroy the Void Stones in the palace.”
“Come quickly.”
Eunhyeon left those words behind and headed inside the palace.
A huge evil dragon and a golden lion.
A necromancer and a saint.
Marius and Anies were the only men, Marius said with a hearty smile.
“Do you really think you can win?”
“Just worry about yourself. “You idiot.”
Kaaaaang!
Ani Es slammed his fists together.
As if in response to the movement, a pair of gauntlets floating in the air collided with each other, creating a terrifying roar and impact.
“Bite your molars tightly. “I’m going to get beat up from now on!”
“Haha! If only I could! “You fucking goddess’ slut!”
Anies wasn’t the only one waiting for this moment.
The same goes for Marius.
The crazy necromancer cheered at the opportunity to finally deny the existence of the goddess and tear her to pieces without mercy.
The huge evil dragon and the golden lion collided head-on.
