Chapter 240 – Continued Will
Cough!
Mizar spat out a handful of blood from his mouth and asked me with an incomprehensible expression.
“… Why didn’t you kill me?”
I said bluntly, pulling her hand away from her chest.
“There is no need to kill someone you meet on the battlefield.”
“… Sounds stupid.”
I fed her half of the Hi-Potion that I took out of her arms as she began to slowly lose her breath due to massive bleeding, and then I drank the other half.
Then, the wounds on the body begin to heal at a visible speed.
“Honestly, I didn’t really want to kill a guy who never really fought in the first place.”
When I jumped into the blizzard at the end, I thought I was really lost, but it was okay because I was still alive.
“Because the puncture avoided major organs, you should be able to return to your original state after recuperating for about a month.”
“… They give you a bottle and give you medicine.”
As she said that, Mizar laughed as if she was dumbfounded and said that she would close her eyes for a moment, and then she fell forward.
After catching Mizar’s body her as it was about to plummet to the ground, I observed her battle her status her on the ground.
A battle with Septentrion that occurred simultaneously throughout the battlefield by engaging in an all-out war that involved all the main forces of the Demon King’s army.
Except for Glinda, the strongest among us, the rest were still.
I feel like I want to go help right away, but first I have to do something with the Mizar I’m holding in my hand.
To be honest, I wasn’t in very good shape because I was forced to break through the snowstorm.
Feeling the need to collect myself, I lowered my flight altitude and headed toward the Demon King’s army position in the rear.
***
The time when Kaldrashu won the battle against Mizar and retreated to the rear for a while.
A huge bloody battle was still taking place throughout the Desmond Plains.
“Lento” “Grave” “Largo”
Haha! It seems like that’s the only thing a human mage can do, right?!”
“I think I’m better than you, who can only say vulgar things.”
Sophia is fighting as an equal against Alcor, the same water mage, spouting harsh words.
Kang!!
“Excellent! That level of sword prowess! I’ve never seen it even among elves!”
“Ugh! It’s gross, get away from me!”
Dark nebula sword
‘Kimyeong (啓明)’
Vanessa usually hates bugs, so she can’t hide her disgust towards Merak, who has eight arms like a spider.
“Very good! That’s a pretty good punch for weak elves!”
“…”
It’s been a long time since he met a warrior worth respecting, so he’s very excited and chatty, and Pec deals with him in silence.
“What happened? You’re much weaker than I heard! Demon King!”
Alioz, who constantly mocks and attacks one-sidedly while hiding his appearance in a mirage using the haze phenomenon, and even the demon king Nero, who silently accepts the attack and waits for an opportunity to counterattack.
The battle at Desmond Plain was becoming increasingly heated.
However, from the perspective of Mayer Griffith, who was sitting in a position where he could see the chaos of the battlefield and was planning a strategy and deciding on a strategy, it was not a very desirable sight.
He held up a white phone, moved it one space forward, and spoke.
“Leave Unit 17 behind and have Unit 24 defend the empty space.”
“Yes!”
This time, he boldly jumps into the enemy camp carrying a white knight.
“And Unit 3 moves forward, breaks through the enemy lines in a wedge shape, and then surrounds and kills the remaining soldiers.”
“Yes!”
As the knight moves through the enemy lines, the bishop attacks through the gap created.
“This location would be the best for bombing. The magic corps should move to Beta Point and annihilate the enemy.”
“Yes!”
The situation on the chessboard changes rapidly in real time.
The chessboard, which is a miniature version of the actual battlefield, shows the elf army overwhelming the ragtag Allied forces in most areas, but it also appears to be stagnant in certain sections.
This is nothing short of proof that the Demon King’s army is also waging an all-out war.
“Hmm.”
In order to find an appropriate solution, Mayer, who momentarily simulated 45 victory conditions, asked the SS soldier.
“How many Septentrions are currently waiting?”
“There is Megrez, who is waiting in the rear without going to the battlefield, and Dube, who went to the front once but retreated.”
“With two people, have you cleared the activation conditions? Contact the two people. Have them activate Gungnir.”
“Huh? I heard wrong?”
“No, you heard correctly. Go ahead and activate Gungnir.”
“But there are still our soldiers on the front lines…”
“They must know how to sacrifice even small things for the greater good. They are willing to sacrifice their lives for their country.”
“… Yes.”
When the SS soldier finally left the command room with a reluctant and satisfied expression, Mayer Griffith lighted her pipe and placed it in her mouth to temporarily forget her fatigue.
“Whoa-“
Before she became a politician, Mayer Griffith worked as an operational staff member in the military.
She was a genius in mercenary skills recognized by everyone in Elvenwood.
The gifted education he had received since childhood to become the leader of the ‘Serpent of Wisdom’ paid off, but Meyer Griffith was heartbroken by the fact that he had to sacrifice his beloved people in order to win the war. I shed a tear inside.
But soon, as if nothing had happened, he wiped away his tears with a handkerchief and muttered as he struck down the black king on the chessboard with the white queen.
“Everything for a better tomorrow.”
***
I left Mizar, who could be an important reference, in the hands of a familiar demon medic, and after receiving first aid with recovery potions and bandages, I headed back to the battlefield.
Perhaps because it had been nearly 30 minutes since the battle began, the dismembered corpses of Allied and Elf soldiers were already strewn all over the plain.
Frowning at the cruel sight, I was about to fly towards Sophia, who was closest to my current location, when I suddenly felt a huge wave of magical energy in the sky.
“What!”
More than half of the Septentrions will currently be stranded on the battlefield.
So, I thought that the celestial magic used in the last battle would be naturally sealed, but as if mocking my expectations, the magic was activated once again.
“Surely, the first shot can be charged in advance…?”
I felt my head go cold at the sudden hypothesis that came to mind.
In the meantime, I guess I wasn’t the only one who felt the signs of disaster, as the soldiers fighting all over the battlefield looked up at the sky in unison, without regard for enemy or enemy.
Immediately after, a dazzling flash of light flashed in the sky, as if lightning had struck.
The moment I saw that white light, all the hair on my body stood up.
According to the testimony of an ally who saw celestial magic in action during the last battle, its power is at least the level of a nuclear warhead.
Of course, it would be an eco-friendly nuclear weapon with no need to worry about being exposed to radiation, but considering its scope and power, it could not be laughed off lightly.
The Allied Forces and Elven Wood soldiers, who were fighting in a chaotic manner, began desperately running towards their respective camps as if they had made a promise.
As long as we didn’t know where the magic would land, there was no longer a safe zone in Desmond Plain.
“Kaldrash! Let’s stop that magic with me!”
At that time, Gabriel, whose smooth skin was covered in scars, as if he had been fighting in the battlefield, came running saying that.
“That? Just the two of us?”
It’s impossible.
Against the large-scale ritual magic used by several 7th rank mages of the same level as me.
Isn’t this completely like David attacking Goliath?
There are degrees of hitting a rock with an egg.
As I was looking at the burning red sky in despair as despair overtook my whole body, Gabriel, with a hard expression on his face, walked right in front of me and suddenly slapped me on the cheek.
Slam!
“??”
When I looked at Gabrielle, clutching her cheek in bewilderment at her completely unexpected pain, she cried out with her tearful face.
“Are you really thinking of giving up without even trying anything?! I know you’re not that kind of idiotic bastard!”
Her sincere scolding suddenly brought me to my senses.
Then she thought back to the curse she had just said.
“… Of course, I’m not that kind of idiot.”
No matter how unexpected something has happened, you are willing to give up without even trying anything.
It looks like something happened to his head for a moment.
I said with a smile to Gabriel, who hit me first and was looking at me with a nervous expression.
“Thank you for hitting me, Gabriel. If it wasn’t for you, I would have completely given up.”
Then Gabriel, who was crying, forced a smile and nodded.
“Yes! That’s how I choose my pet!”
“… When she cries and then laughs, horns grow on her butt.”
“What?!”
Gabriel was surprised to hear what I said and innocently looked at his butt.
Although he looks like an adult, Ozma’s words that he is just a child who has just become an adult by dragon standards seem to be true.
‘Anyway, now I have to figure out a way to stop that.’
The huge iron rod, which appears to have been ejected from outer space through control magic, had a bright red surface due to the tremendous gravitational acceleration it received as it fell to the ground.
Its power is probably similar to or equivalent to Glinda’s magic I saw last time, Meteor Strike.
“In the end, has the time come to use that unfinished magic?”
“What? What do you mean?”
“There is something like that.”
After giving a vague answer to Gabriel’s question, I took a deep breath, unfolded the cloak I was wearing, and took out all the magic stones inside.
This is because since I returned Unlimited Power, one of the warrior’s three sacred powers that provides infinite mana, to the right owner, I am no longer the owner of the infinite mana cheat key.
Having absorbed such a huge amount of mana that it instantly made me feel dizzy, I began preparing the unfinished ether magic.
The name is Char Bomba.
It is the strongest ether magic I can use, continuing the lineage of Little Boy and Fat Man.
Since it consumes almost five times as much mana as a typical 7th tier magic, it was not strange to say that it was actually an 8th tier magic.
Of course, since this is a magic that requires all the mana I have in my body to be used, I have to be prepared to die from exhaustion of mana before using it.
‘But I guess I can rub it to some extent with this.’
With that in mind, it was time to start casting magic in earnest.
“Stop for a moment.”
A familiar voice reached my ear.
“No way! Demon King…?”
We suddenly turned our heads in joy, and what appeared before our eyes was the Demon King with a large hole in the middle of his abdomen.
“What on earth! Who made that?!”
When Gabriel and I were startled and ran to help him, the Demon King suddenly spit out dark blood from his mouth and looked at me with clouded eyes.
“I’m sorry. I let my guard down for a moment.”
“Don’t talk! It will open the wound!”
I urged myself without realizing it and hurriedly searched inside the cloak.
Since I took the most effective high potion earlier, all I have now is a relatively ineffective regular potion.
But it was better than nothing, so I hurriedly sprinkled it into the gaping hole and tried to feed the rest to the Demon King, but the Demon King waved his hand and refused.
“I know my body’s condition best. I was already wrong. I only have about 5 minutes at most.”
“Don’t be stupid! If you go back and get treatment right now, you’ll be fine!”
When Gabriel said that and acted as if he was going to fly on his back at any moment, the Demon Lord said with a bitter smile.
“Gabriel, I have always been indebted to you. Although it was an unreasonable request, thank you for serving as the Four Heavenly Kings.”
“… Uncle!”
When Gabriel suddenly burst into tears and was held in his arms, the Demon King looked troubled and patted Gabriel on the back.
While comforting Gabriel like that, the Demon Lord looked at my face standing next to him.
“Kaldrash, you retreat to the rear with Gabrielle. I will do everything in my power to block that attack.”
“But!”
“I’m going to die soon anyway. If that’s the case, I want to sacrifice this life for the people and subordinates I love.”
Aren’t there still a lot of soldiers left on the battlefield?
“After all, they are someone’s family and children. As the one who forced them here to achieve my ideals, it is right for me to take responsibility until the end.”
The Demon King smiled faintly as he said that, then stood up, holding his spear.
Those two legs seemed to have reached their limit just by standing still, and were shaking like a newborn deer.
However, the Demon King steadfastly straightened his back and resolutely faced the burning red sky.
The Death Star, so close to the ground that it could now be distinguished with the naked eye, was shining ferociously.
Toward that star, the Demon King lifted his favorite song.
His right arm and shoulder muscles are pulled back tightly.
The calf swells, and the magic power squeezed to its limit becomes a sticky black fog that sticks to the window.
Although his body was aged, his strong spirit and traces of martial arts engraved on his body were worthy of being called a demon king.
Just before throwing the final blow that had gathered all of his remaining magical power, the Demon King looked at me with blurred eyes and said.
“Kaldrash, quite a lot has happened to you.”
“…”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t keep my promise.”
The moment I heard those words, all the things I had experienced since I first met the Demon King passed by like a flash.
Aside from Master, the first person to acknowledge and embrace me, who had been used here and there in human society, was the Demon King.
I tried not to cry, but the hot tears flowed out without me knowing, so I cried and spoke with a messed up face.
“The Demon King… Was… Like… Another father… To me…”
Then, the Demon King, who always had a solemn expression whenever we met, smiled warmly like an ordinary grandfather for the first and last time.
“I’m glad you did. You’re asking for my daughter.”
That was the last conversation I had with the Demon King.
