Chapter 559 – Before and After
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Zephyria’s warlock management department and avatar management department manage Pantera’s warlocks and demons.
It can be said that Zephyria also manages a virtual reality game called Pantera, which is being serviced by Zephyria.
Avatar 024 Access Management Room.
In the center of the management room, which was about 50 pyeong in size, there was a large capsule.
The capsule, which appeared to be three times larger than the one used by ordinary citizens of Zephyria, originally had a different function.
Zephyria’s ordinary people had little combat ability, so the skill system provided assistance, but for soldiers who received elite combat training, this had the opposite effect.
So the capsule used by the military was originally a device that allowed one to demonstrate one’s superpowers as easily as possible in Panthera.
Operators were sitting around the capsule, looking at Gregory’s battle screen.
The atmosphere of the operators was not very good.
Because of one strange guy, all the demon avatars in the Demon Castle were consumed.
Although he suffered great losses, he thought that Gregory would take care of not only the Terra Church subjugation team but also the demons in question.
However, the demon in question suddenly turned into an outrageous monster, shocking the operators even more.
“W-what is it? What skill is it? Was there a skill like that?”
“Not in the data!”
“How is something like that possible with an ordinary avatar?!”
“What about location tracking?”
“It still doesn’t work.”
Without time to calm down the shock… All the screens the operators were looking at turned black, as if the power had gone out.
Gregory’s avatar disappeared.
There is silence indoors.
This seemed to be a significant responsibility of the avatar management department.
It seemed difficult to avoid censure.
-Push shush…
The capsule opened with the sound of deflating air, and Gregory, who walked out of it, collapsed and vomited blood.
“Wow!”
It was an internal injury.
The military avatar access capsule has strong synchronization. Because of this, if Pantera’s avatar suffered a serious injury, it also affected Zephyria’s body.
“You guys saw it too, right? What on earth is this guy?”
Gregory, who staggered to his feet, asked the operators with a scary face.
“Well… We don’t know what happened.”
“You don’t know? You incompetent bastards! Is this something you can do just because you don’t know?! Be sure to find this traitor! Even if it means investigating every single person with a Panthera access account!!”
“Oh, I understand.”
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The battlefield became dark.
Hellion looked up at the sky.
At first glance, a huge dragon that was hundreds of meters tall was blocking the sun.
The color of the dragon’s scales was unique.
Every time the silver-white scales fluttered, they reflected beautiful and colorful light.
Aside from its beauty, the huge dragon seemed as if the incarnation of destruction had descended.
The red light that rises around the dragon falls to the ground.
-Kuuuuu…
The earth trembled, and the earth became a sea of fire.
The lives of countless demons and Zephyrians disappeared in an instant.
To stop the dragon, the main gun of the Zephyria space battleship spits fire. However, it is blocked by the dragon’s external energy barrier and cannot go near it.
As the breath erupting from the dragon’s mouth splits the sky, dozens of space battleships are torn apart like paper.
None of Zephyria’s weapons or superhuman weapons had any meaning to that dragon.
Hellion was unfair.
The fact that we will lose this war because of that one lizard.
The dragon’s eyes turned towards him.
Hellion woke up with an eerie feeling.
A dull interior scene is visible.
A long red carpet stretched from the throne where he was sitting.
Long round pillars lined up on both sides.
It was Hellion’s residence created to the taste of warlocks.
Before Hellion woke up, she felt Terra’s presence.
“What about Terra?”
The answer came from a sturdy demon standing immobile next to me.
“They say there won’t be any major changes.”
‘Was it a mistake?’
I think so.
If Terra had descended, there was no way this place would be okay. And it seems like she felt another presence on a similar level to Terra.
When I thought about it that way, the reliability of the sensation I just felt fell even further.
It’s been a while since I had a dream, so I guess I’m reliving a past trauma.
“Hellion.”
Her subordinate calls her carefully.
Of course, it couldn’t have been the subordinate’s personal business, and Zephyria had something to report.
“Say it.”
“… Colonel Gregory’s operation is said to have failed.”
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The Demon King subjugation team succeeded in subduing the Demon King.
The Kingdom of Laun sighed.
There were sacrifices big and small.
In particular, the name of the warrior Bark, who was Ramona’s knight, spread widely.
There was a rumor secretly circulating that he was a demon… But when the Church of Terra dismissed it and said that such a thing had never happened, the rumor quickly disappeared.
The residents and nobles of Ramona’s territory returned to their original home, Ramona’s territory.
Since it was not touched by a demon or a demon lord and there was no damage, it was able to quickly recover to its original appearance.
“Are you saying you’ve met Bark before?”
Hilda asked, her eyes widening at the fact that Bark was friendly with an elf.
“If what he last said to me is true, I met him a few years ago. He looks completely different from what you know. He has a similar face, but he is much taller.”
“What if it’s a big person?”
“Is he this tall?”
Priscilla stretches her hands straight up.
“You mean it’s that big?”
“Yes, the muscles on his body were so great that even when he couldn’t stand with other people, he looked two or three times bigger. I don’t really know why he appeared here like that, but…”
While walking down the hallway of her mansion while talking to Priscilla, Hilda found Sion.
“Zion. Is Karen still in her room?”
Bark disappeared, and Karen was living a disenchanted life.
“Yes, Hilda.”
Hilda visited Karen’s room with Priscilla.
-Dripping…
There was no response.
It’s always like this lately.
Hilda just opened the door.
Karen was hugging her knees and lowering her head in her dark room.
Ever since Bark disappeared.
“Are you still doing that?”
“…”
Karen had no reaction.
Hilda lifted the blackout curtain covering the window. Karen’s haggard appearance was brightly revealed.
“Karen, don’t you want to know where Unho is?”
Karen flinched when she heard Priscilla’s words.
Unho was the real name that Bark revealed at the end.
Karen raises her head and looks at Priscilla.
“Did you hear his last words? He said he wasn’t real. In addition to the use of divine power at the end, I think Unho was in a state similar to an incarnation. He originally went missing in the Slover Labyrinth of the Kingdom of Barulas. “
Karen was listening to Priscilla.
“Has it been about 8 years? There was a rumor that a Saint appeared in Slover. My close friend Judith also went missing after going into the Slover Labyrinth with him.”
When a woman’s voice suddenly interrupts, the eyes of those in the room move in that direction.
A beautiful paladin was standing in front of Karen’s door. Terra’s stigmata can be seen on the back of her left hand.
“Lord Hestia.”
She didn’t promise to gather here.
Hestia also seemed to be worried about Karen, who was confined to her room.
“I heard that the saint’s name is Unho. What if he is a real saint? The goddess may have predicted that the devil would appear here and sent him.”
Her blind faith in Terra led to strange speculations.
“… Karen, I’m going to the Kingdom of Barulas. What do you think? Do you want to go with me?”
Karen’s dull eyes begin to come to life.
Karen nods her head slowly.
Hestia was still worried.
She didn’t trust him.
She was so dazed that she couldn’t say anything and sent him away.
She also wanted to meet Bark again.
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Bianca looked in despair at her stigmata carved into her lower abdomen.
It was a bad joke.
“Ha… Why are you doing this…”
The stigmata had great meaning in Terraism.
His final appearance was not that of a demon, but that of an apostle of the goddess.
Because of this, there was great confusion in the Church of Terra… But in the end, those with stigmata were treated fairly.
His students Karen, Hilda, and Caria, as well as the Holy Knight Hestia in particular, rose to a position that could not be tampered with even in the Church of Terra due to their stigmata.
Bianca Except for her…
The Church of Terra doesn’t know if Bianca has stigmata.
She wasn’t brave enough to open her belly and show her stigmata.
The fact that Bark was a demon was over… And since he participated in the demon lord subjugation team, he was treated better than before.
Still, it is true that they are treated worse than those who have stigmata engraved on the back of their hands.
Why did he make the stigmata on her lower abdomen that he gave to other women on the backs of their hands? .
‘You probably didn’t do this just because you got stabbed by me, right?’
Or maybe it was just to prevent Bianca from gaining her power again in Ramona.
There were many people who believed in Terraism, and it seemed like there was no way Ramona could not take power again if she put the stigmata first.
‘There’s a bit of a foxy side to me…’
How could he, who was a demon, create stigmata, which are considered sacred in the Church of Terra… He was truly an unknown human being.
I heard that Karen and Hilda were leaving for a place called Slover in the distant Kingdom of Barulas in search of him.
‘… Is it really alive?’
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A few days later, a group of women, including an elf, quietly left Ramona and headed to the Kingdom of Varuras.
