Chapter 344 – Mutation
#344.
Beopbeobung!
Tens of thousands of beams hit Helya’s face hard. The attack, the heat condensed to the limit, easily melted the barrier.
Gaon looked at Isabella, who had awakened at the moment of crisis, with an admirable gaze.
‘Thank god.’
She had been quite in a bad mood lately, so her self-confidence as she was now was pleasing to him.
Her attack only hit Helya without harming her allies. She was so delicate that she didn’t get in the way at all.
Even the heat of the rays was only warm enough to tell how perfectly she was controlling her magic.
Due to Isabella’s awakening, the pendulum of battle that maintained her middle age has completely tipped to one side.
As if the composure she had shown only a few tens of minutes ago was a lie, Helya did not even counterattack due to the blinding offensive and focused only on defense.
Quaang! Kwurrrring!
Rivera wrapped her lightning bolts around her body, accelerating to the limit, hitting her regime at random.
I didn’t miss the gap in the barrier melted by the beam and completely shattered it, striking Helya’s voluptuous body.
“Keuk! Ugh black! Get out of here!”
Helya, who could not completely block her attack, allowed her fists to intermittently, and as if she was desperate, she stirred her hands wildly and poured out her magic.
Of course, her magic only cut through the air in vain, and rather, gaps were revealed, and only cases where one was hit by two hit more.
If time passes like this, she should be able to win without incident by joining Ariel.
There was no way that her party could not know that, and Helya looked around her, thinking that she had to find a breakthrough, and bit her lip. I pushed Rivera, who was lifting.
When the magic that obscured her vision dissipated, she was approaching the gate that connected the Demon World and Union.
She tried to run right away, wondering what she was up to, but Helya screamed in a kind of madness.
“Stop it now! If she even touches her fingertips, I will cause the gate to run wild and blow the whole world tree into another dimension.”
“… Then you will die too?”
“You don’t want to save me anyway, do you? Rather than die alone like this, it would be better to just treat them all as companions.”
We can’t confirm whether or not Helya can really run the gate, but it’s impossible for her to act rashly.
She thought, in her personal judgment, that she might not have prepared herself, but that she was not talking empty words.
Gaon frowned.
‘What should I do?’
This is a story where there is nothing to choose or do. Blowing down the whole world tree meant, of course, that the people inside it would be followed.
If she went to another dimension using such an unstable gate, her body could be split in two and her upper body would go to Union and her lower body to another dimension.
This means that survival cannot be guaranteed.
In the end, Gaon and the others were unable to do this or that and only hesitated. If he couldn’t stop Helya, the gate between the Demon Realm and the Union would eventually open, but she didn’t know that if she acted rashly, she might cause her gate to run wild after being stimulated by her.
The initiative went round and round and it was once again handed over to Helya.
She is also a demon, so her condition seems to have recovered considerably in a short time. Her pale complexion returned to normal.
“If you listen to me carefully, you can save my older brother.”
“…”
When she was silent about her lies that even a child wouldn’t believe, Helya pointed at Rivera with her face asking if she could say no to the situation.
“Kill. Then I’ll save you.”
“Don’t talk nonsense. I have no intention of saving you.”
“Whoops! Isn’t it something you don’t know? Don’t let go of hope People are inherently selfish. Shouldn’t I be a lover and what should I live with? So kill me quickly no Rip off one leg. Then I’ll save you.”
Helia seems to have mistaken Rivera for his lover. Literally, gently tempting with the whispers of the devil is so wicked.
This was especially true when the condition of killing him was alleviated by only tearing off his legs.
Human survival instinct in extreme situations is beyond imagination. To the point where I think it’s reasonable to say something like this that I would never normally accept.
Of course, Gaon’s strong mental strength is not shaken even to this extent.
Seeing that her expression didn’t even change, Helya clicked her tongue dissatisfiedly as if she felt it, and this time she looked at Rivera and made her offer.
“Then how are you? If you kill that man, I’ll let you live. Huh? It’s not like we’re all going to die together like this. It’s good to think well.”
“Hmm…”
Surprisingly, Rivera didn’t answer right away, as if she was seriously thinking about it, and she drooled.
‘Couldn’t be.’
Gaon broke out in a cold sweat.
It can’t be said that he and Rivera are extremely special, but the time they’ve been together so far can be said to be quite long.
I didn’t think I’d accept the offer, since we’d gotten along, and there was a deal about each other.
But soon those expectations were betrayed.
“Are you sure? If you kill that man, you’ll save him.”
“Okay! If it’s you, he’ll like it too. I will save you in a special way.”
“… That’s it.”
As she finished her words, Rivera turned her head and met Gaon’s eyes.
The vertically split eyes of the dragon made it difficult to know what he was thinking. I could see Rivera’s lips parting.
Before even interpreting the shape of her mouth.
Kwaaang!
Rivera’s regime, which rushed at her lightning-like speed, flew in and filled the entire front in an instant.
Without thinking too much, Gaon immediately moved her spear and blocked her attack.
“Ribera. Come to your senses! It is a lie!”
“You have to see that. Did you kill me if I had any complaints?”
“Shit!”
Gaon, who spat out curses at the attitude that seemed unconvincing at all, started dealing with Rivera with all her might.
Helia let out a sadistic laugh as she watched the two fight fiercely.
“Ahahaha! That’s it. That! How ugly! How dare you scar my body? I know I can’t die gracefully!”
Whether it was because he didn’t succumb to her temptation or because he slapped her on the side, Helya poured out more anger than necessary on Gaon.
As such, the aspect of the fight took another form.
***
“Um… !”
“Are you awake!?”
When I opened my eyes, I saw a woman.
Her woman, with her hair worn long, in an unusual style with her different colors inside and out, looked at her anxiously, her emerald eyes blinking.
With her familiar face, the man she alone admires. She was a woman named Rin Icho who always clung to Hyugaon.
Ariel met her eyes blankly for a moment, then remembered what she had been through before she passed out and took her gun back with a flash.
“Everything, how did you get here… Rather, where is the succubus queen!”
“Calm down for now. I will explain the current situation.”
Chorin soothed Ariel with her unique atmosphere and proceeded with her work so far at an appropriate speed, neither fast nor slow.
“… That’s how it happened.”
“It is dangerous. I have to get my hands on the gate somehow.”
“Do you have any other method?”
“You said earlier that Chorin-san’s magic was connected to the World Tree, right?”
“Yes. That’s right. Thanks to that, I was able to open the road to the root.”
Ariel rechecked her own hypothesis.
It may be said that she is fortunate, but because the variable called Surin intervened in her middle, her body was not transformed into a succubus.
That’s why she was still able to wield her authority as an apostle of the World Tree and a high elf.
Of course, she only mutated, but the damage from the previous fierce battle did not recover, so it is difficult to make sure she is perfect, but that’s it, if you get Chorin’s help, it might be possible somehow.
In the first place, if the gate connecting the Demon Realm and the Union was using the World Tree, it could be completely eliminated.
Ariel watched Gaon and Rivera face each other from a distance, and after she glanced at Helya, who laughed wickedly, she used message magic to talk to Chorin.
– Mr. Chorin. We will use the world tree to suppress the gate. Can I use that magic right now?
-The tree of the Sephiroth?
-Yes. It’s my first time doing something like this, so I’m not sure. To increase the success rate even a little, we need Chorin’s help.
-… All right. If I can be of any help, I will do my best. Please wait a minute.
-Great. Signal me as soon as you’re ready.
Ariel, who had a little time to spare until Chorin cast her magic, looked up at Gaon, suppressing her pounding heart.
‘He really came.’
Of course, I know that Gaon came not for her sake, but because of her other party.
However, it was a great comfort to her that the man she secretly loved came running to her at the moment of her crisis anyway.
It was so difficult for her to control her emotions that the mental training she had accumulated over the years did not help.
And after a while, she stared at Gaon, unaware of the passage of time, and her Chorin’s voice was heard.
– Ariel! Ready!
-Ah! Great job. I’ll ask you right away!
-Yes! It’s now!
Wow!
Green green magic burst from Chorin’s hand, and the tree of the Sephiroth appeared through the summoning circle formed on the ground.
Ariel immediately grabbed the tree and used it as a passageway that gave her deep access to the World Tree.
In her case, an apostle of the World Tree, unlike other magicians, it is impossible to realize images.
This is because the path connected to the World Tree occupies the place where the image should be located.
Guardians belonging to the Healing Church are similar.
If this is the case, you might think that the side that serves the god is weaker than the others, but instead, the followers can use authority.
The authority that Ariel possesses is the unity of the object and the self.
Born from the World Tree, she can become part of the World Tree again at any time. She became one with the World Tree, and the authority she wielded was no different from that of a god.
If it wasn’t for Helya’s image-embodied illusion dreamer who changed the environment and cut off her connection to the World Tree, she wouldn’t have been so easily defeated.
The moment she merged with the World Tree, her mind went beyond the normal level and reached the level of a god.
She sees the invisible and makes the impossible possible. Ariel contemplated her world tree there, trying to maintain her own self.
And the moment she found what she was looking for, she immediately gave her will and punished her thoroughly.
The tentacles that clung like parasites and formed the gate were crushed by the divinity of the World Tree and perished.
The moment Ariel accomplished her goal, she immediately released her powers and returned to her own body.
“Whoa…”
The moment she returned to the material world, she felt a powerful sense of exhaustion weighing down her entire body.
She took a deep breath and moved her motionless head to look above her to see Gaon and Rivera pushing the bewildered Helia.
Just then, Gaon wrapped a strange jet-black energy at the tip of her spear, and with the barrier, Helya’s upper and lower body was split in two.
“Kyaaaaah!”
Her pain was so great that Helia let out a loud scream and rolled helplessly across her floor.
It was the moment when the long battle came to an end.
