Chapter 288: Ill Definitely Take It!
Is it… over?
It ended so anticlimactically that I couldn’t believe it.
Judging by the fact that no one is saying anything, it seems like I’m not the only one who feels that way….
There was still an unknown tension lingering in the pure white space created by the saintess.
“Ugh…. Ugh…!”
The hero, who had lost his limbs, groaned in pain.
It didn’t seem like an act.
The saintess had fainted, and the Ice Dragon Iris lowered her head as if she had given up.
Even though everything indicated my victory, the dark unease did not easily disappear.
‘This isn’t like Iris.’Iris was a proud ice queen.
I could understand that she came out to save the hero, but to work with the hero… and then secretly enter the code, and then hit Gayeon in the back of the head?
If I had done something like that because I desperately wanted to win, and then suffered a painful defeat, I would have been so angry that I wouldn’t have been able to speak.
…But I didn’t feel that way from Iris, who had lowered her head.
Yes, something was strange.
It wasn’t the hero’s plan to be defeated so miserably, but something was…
Something was missing in this place.
I carefully laid the fainted Erin on the floor.
The hero saw that and crawled towards Erin.
“Don’t do anything stupid. If you don’t want to see Erin get hurt.”
“Erin!”
“What’s the way out of here?”
“….”
“You don’t want to talk?”
Duvernoy answered quietly.
“…We lost. Erin will release it herself.”
“Is there no other way but to wait like this?”
Where is the mechanical sphere?
“Where did ‘that’ go?”
“It seems that we are the only ones who have come to this white space. My lord.”
“Is that so?”
I hope nothing bad happens.
My unease does not disappear.
“Oppa!”
“What’s wrong?”
“There’s a crack over there.”
“A crack?”
The gap in space was getting bigger and bigger.
What is this crack?
“Did it come all the way here….”Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Iris muttered.
“What do you mean by ‘it’ came, Iris?”
“Transcendent.”
A transcendent?
The one who told Eleanor to guard this place?
Eleanor shook her head at me.
“I don’t know that kind of energy.”
“Then….”
Is it the transcendent on Iris’s side!
The pursuer who made a crack in space and entered was the android pretty girl who had been with us until just now.
Her atmosphere is different from before.
Her head was glowing with a reddish light as if it was overheated, and her eyes also felt like they had gone crazy.
“I’ll kill you.”
“Wait, you weren’t like this until just now!?”
“Oppa!”
“My lord!”
El took the mysterious space distortion with her body instead of me and was thrown out like a soccer ball.
Crap, even if you were hit by a dump truck, you wouldn’t fly like that.
“Ugh…. Ah…!”
“Cecil! Are you okay?”
“Run away, Oppa….”
Huh?
Cecil’s leg… was caught in the space distortion, and disappeared without a trace.
There was nothing below her knee.
Cecil loses consciousness.
“Cecil! Wake up! Cecil!”
“If you stay still, you’ll die, move!”
At that time, Gayeon grabbed the back of my neck and threw me somewhere else.
“Gayeon!”
Gayeon’s surroundings were distorted.
A space distortion that is dangerous just by touching it is approaching Gayeon!
“Don’t worry.”
Gayeon moved lightly.
She got out of the distortion!?
Gayeon, who jumped up lightly, brought her sword down on the head of the android pretty girl.
But…!
The attack doesn’t work!
I couldn’t help but sigh.
“I’ll kill you all.”
“Kuh….”
Gayeon’s stomach was stained with blood.
“Gayeon!”
“Tch, to be defeated by a being with no intelligence….”
Mechanical tentacles extended. It was a confirmation kill.
Everything happened so quickly that there was no time to react.
“Seina!”
Seina had already jumped in.
Seina, who rescued Gayeon wonderfully, launched an attack.
“I will destroy the enemy.”
“Don’t hold back!”
Alremene and Tracyon each took out their weapons made of their own bones.
“Draw sword!” “Draw sword!”
Although the space distortion swallowed everything,
the breaths that the two dragons spewed out created an equal state where neither side was being pushed back for the first time.
In that gap, Seina grabbed her scythe and moved.
“Aura Deployment!”
I grant aura to the space in accordance with Seina’s attack.
「Destruction」… gives my body an irreversible backlash.
Therefore, I will create a protective barrier to protect the three of them!
I injure my arm with Dawn Moon and manifest the Avatar.
I protect the three of them with the most powerful blood art I can use right now.
It felt like I was caught in a storm, I endured the pain of my body being torn apart and maintained my aura.
But….
I had to watch with my own eyes as everyone suffered fatal injuries and fell.
…Are you kidding me?
We can’t even… fight!
“Seina?”
“…….”
“Alremene? Tracyon!”
“…….”
Everyone lost consciousness.
The android girl’s head and eyes turn redder, as if they had absorbed the blood we had shed.
Why did this happen?
“What… happened….”
What happened?
There was no time to do anything.
Just thinking about why this happened was already pushing my head to its limit.
A transcendent… you say?
“Iris!”
I grabbed Iris and shook her.
“What happened. Tell me!”
“…Transcendent.”
“So, what does that have to do with the transcendent!”
“It’s meaningless… to struggle….”
“Damn it! Weren’t you a Queen, why did you suddenly give up on life?”
“The meaning of my life disappeared a long time ago.”
What should I do?
My strength is not enough.
Even if I borrow the power of someone else, it’s the same, I can’t defeat that thing.
At the moment when a deathly fate that cannot be avoided or blocked was upon us, from outside the crack….
A man in a suit stepped into Erin’s holy war space.
“Don’t be surprised.”
At first, I thought he was a beastman.
Because he wasn’t human above the neck.
However, no such beast exists anywhere in the world.
The man’s face looked like a black cloth-covered egg at first glance, it was round, but the curves changed depending on the angle at which you looked at it.
“Are you… a transcendent?”
“That’s right. I was once human, but I gained a rank and became a god.”
“Did you make the android pretty girl go berserk?”
“Android pretty girl….”
He twisted the corner of his mouth—a hole that was presumed to be that—as if he found my expression funny.
Therefore, I was not in a mood to laugh.
All methods are blocked, and I’m just talking because there’s nothing else to do.
Just the fact that Cecil had suffered an irreversible injury was already making the fire in my heart grow uncontrollably.
I would have hit him if I could.
“Answer me!”
“I moved it.”
I was so dumbfounded that I couldn’t even speak.
So all of this situation was….
It happened because of the transcendent’s whim?
“Isn’t your job to just watch quietly?”
Why did you interfere?
I strongly condemn him.
Even if it’s a life that will disappear in the next moment, I had to say what I had to say.
“Let me explain, there was an unexpected error that forced me to step in.”
“An unexpected error?”
“I wanted to correct you.”
“What?”
“I was the one who invited you to this world. But, unexpectedly, your rank became too high.”
“What does that mean….”
Me….
You’re the one who called me to this world?
“Then are you the Monologue?”
“Don’t be mistaken, I am not that.”
“Then what are you!”
“That is your authority, the power that originated from you.”
“Then…….”
An unexpected error… is that.
“It was my mistake, it’s not easy to admit a mistake and step in directly. So at first, I tried to manipulate you from behind.”
“Manipulate…?”
“At that time, Iris called me out.”
Iris’s shoulder flinched.
“But her hatred was old and weak, she rebelled against me.”
“…….”
Iris… rebelled?
I looked at Iris again.
“Iris?”
“I just… wanted to take revenge on the Empire that took away my loved one.
I couldn’t agree with the idea of destroying everything and starting over.”
“You still haven’t come to your senses.”
What the hell.
Suddenly, all the hairs on my body stood on end.
Something is coming!
“Huuup!”
As the transcendent stretched out his hand, a blue current covered Iris like a giant beast’s fangs.
It was an electrical torture so severe that it was hard to look at it directly.
Iris’s body trembled as if it was vibrating, and even with her eyes closed, I could smell burning.
“Aaaah!”
“Stop it, stop it! Iris is your shrine maiden!”
“Even if she is a shrine maiden, I cannot forgive her for unilaterally breaking the contract.”
Iris slumped.
Iris… was she sending me a rescue signal?
Asking me to save her…!
If you don’t say it, I won’t know, that kind of thing!
“I….”
“Iris!”
I supported Iris.
“Before I die, I have something to say….”
“Wait a minute, don’t die!”
“Your Orc master is alive. In the prison of the Ice Palace… go there.”
“Iris!”
I grabbed Iris and shook her.
“Don’t forgive me.”
Iris breathes her last.
An unbearable feeling surged up.
If only a little more….
If only I had noticed a little earlier…!
“The contract must be maintained.”
“What kind of contract are you talking about after killing her with your own hands?”
“That woman’s vitality is running out anyway, but it doesn’t matter since the correction will be completed soon.”
“Is it all okay because you’re a transcendent? Is it fun to just go around overturning everything as you please?”
“Weren’t you enjoying it too?”
“What?”
“A collapser, as they say in this world, is an irregular who has gained a higher rank as a living being. I too had a similar appearance to you at one time.”
“So?”
“Weren’t you enjoying it?”
“…….”
It would be a lie to say that I didn’t enjoy roaming the world with abilities superior to others.
I was even able to feel omnipotence with blood arts.
It was like a game.
I’m the same kind of person as that guy, a scumbag.
It’s just pathetic to pretend to be righteous now.
“I was enjoying it, I thought it would be okay if time stopped like this.”
“Then I hope you will accept this reset decision without regret.”
“Wasn’t your goal to kill me?”
“There are already too many things that have gone wrong. At first, it was a minor error, but later, even if I put in the code, the reset procedure was not performed….”
“Did you know that that girl didn’t want to kill people?”
“It doesn’t matter. All children eventually follow the will of their parents.”
The transcendent’s hand pointed at me.
“This world is mine. It’s my own little cradle, I can’t let you destroy it.”
“Aura Deployment!”
“The mistake will be corrected here.”
The moment I pulled the trigger of blood arts.
The android girl twisted me along with the space.
I’m going to die.
In the overwhelming fear of death,
I was….
I was remembering the women I had passed by like a slideshow.
From the neighbor lady who taught me how fun it was to mix bodies—she had a big ass—to now….
I think all of that made me who I am now.
To die at the hands of a weapon that can reset the world.
It’s a grand finale that doesn’t suit me.
I saw the moment my body was torn apart.
I saw it scattering into a thousand, ten thousand pieces.
It’s the sight that the men who had their women stolen by me wanted.
I can’t give up.But no matter how much of a scumbag I am….
There’s no reason to just take it.
Now that I’m about to say ‘Take the price for acting as you please’, do you think I’ll nod and disappear cleanly?
I’ll struggle to the end.
That’s the ending that suits me!
“Please get up.”
“You are!”
Huh?
My body is fine!
Even my strength is surging as if I had woken up from a good night’s sleep.
Everyone who had fallen with fatal injuries has been resurrected….
The only one who can do this is….
“Saintess!”
“…….”
“That person is not a saintess.”
Eleanor said.
“That saintess serves the star and the goddess of healing, Estelle herself.”
“Could it be that Eleanor called her out?”
“It took some time, but the saintess’s body was suitable as a vessel….”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Why are you interfering! Estelle!”
The black transcendent shouted.
“You are the one who interfered. X, I have only saved those who were toyed with by unjust violence with my own hands.”
She’s a real goddess….
The sacred goddess who possessed Erin’s body.
Just the halo was making me feel like my whole body was being purified. Erin, who was enveloped in white light, was even floating without touching the floor.
She clasped her hands together as if she was praying.
“Now, give up your obsession. No matter what you do, this world is now….”
“Shut up! Shut up! I have taken care of this world for the longest time. Even after everyone got tired of it and left. I deserve it! It’s my own little world!”
“No, I too have been watching this world all along.”
The… the transcendents are having an argument!
In the meantime, I hugged Cecil.
“Oppa…!”
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah…. I was scared.”
“Let’s just trust the goddess.”
She’ll save us.
I’m going crazy with happiness because the goddess of justice, who appeared like a judgment in this absurd situation, is here.
“To even try to use your own daughter, who destroyed a civilization long ago and fell asleep after completing her role, for a reset… How far are you planning to become pathetic?”
“My daughter still follows my orders.”
“She wouldn’t want to. Wouldn’t she? You are forcing her to obey your orders now…. She’s crying. That child is.”
“It’s not for you to interfere.”
“X, we must focus on harmony according to the will of the supreme goddess, Nimuel.”
“Harmony is order. And I am the one who governs that order. I will fix the order.”
What is he planning to do?
Now that we have a transcendent on our side, there’s no other way but to back down….
I saw for a moment where his gaze was directed.
“…If I just kill the shrine maiden!”
“Eleanor!”
I threw myself and blocked the transcendent’s attack.
Even if this body burns, as long as I protect Eleanor!
Surprisingly, there was another person who had the same thought as me.
The hero, Duvernoy.
“Huuup!”
The hero wore a band of light all over his body and parried the transcendent’s attack.
His arm was blown off as a price for parrying the god’s attack, but the hero, who was being supported by the goddess mode Erin, was different.
His lost arm was restored in an instant.
The hero turned to me and said.
“Let’s have a temporary truce, Geum Taeyang.”
“Okay.”
The hero has become an ally.
And at the best possible timing!
The Hero coin is reliable when dealing with bad guys!
“Kill her. Daughter! Destroy her without a trace!”
It’s coming!
The space distortion that made us all struggle!
Estelle reaches out and stops it with her holy power!
“Whoa! The goddess is awesome!”
Estelle was surprised and turned to look at me.
“…Please be surprised normally.”
“Super lucky!”
The goddess seemed to have given up and looked back at X.
“My power is limited to blocking it like this. Can you stop it with your power?”
“Yes!”
I wanted to hit him anyway.
“What can you do in this situation?”
“I’ll take your daughter away first! I’ll name her 「Uhyo」!”
“You’re going to give my delicate machine such a crude name?”
“If you’re a fan who’s been watching me until now, you should know.”
I, in these moments……
I will definitely take it!