Chapter 362: My Choice, My Ending.

Chapter 362: My Choice, My Ending.

Territory deactivated. Territory Dispute completed in favor of individual [Sunfang Dragonewt, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor] and [Violetshock Kirin-Dragon, Fargryneill Qilinus Kargryxmor]

Oh no, the living room! The furniture!!!

Urgh

I humbly apologize, Svena, but we had no other choice! Are you hurt? Anybody else? Haati, Josine, Lorena?

Gosh my head. My body. This effing arcane corruption, man.

I cant believe the living room was large enough to accommodate a giant dragon. You people really did consider even this, huh?

I want to sleep already urgh.

But I forced myself to stay conscious. I had to. It wasnt done yet. I had to keep on moving.

Kuurgh I groaned, although to others I probably was growling. My dragon voice was significantly rougher, after all.

What happened?! Is something wrong with Lady Hestia?! I heard Haatis voice resonate, followed by the katzune rushing over to me, worry wrinkling her youthful face.

Haati, Josine, Svena, Lorena. Priscilla shouldnt be working right now. Thank goodness I didnt accidentally crush them.

[Arcane Fever] and [Mana Stress]! She had to use up the finale phase of her symphony spell. Svena! Tasianna called out to my second maid, to which the latter immediately nodded and acted on it.

Understood! Haati, rush into the storage and bring out as many fulinoe leaf bundles as possible. Lorena, we need tea. Hot mana water, please. As much as possible! Svena began issuing her orders. Josine, I need you to get the dragorades we prepared out, now. All of them. Tasianna, Ill get the meat ready. Ill need your help after youve cooled her down.

Good work. Everybody, for our lady!

Yes! Haati and Lorena shouted in response, while Svena and Josine were already moving to the kitchen. Tasianna, on the other hand, began producing two [Winters Golem] to have them hug me.

From the look of their quick responses, it looked like Tasianna and Svena had prepared an emergency plan after what happened at Griffonpeak. [Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Finale)] had only happened once before today, and that application nearly killed me due to [Overheat]. If Mother hadnt come, I didnt know if Tasianna could have saved me.

Did that affect her that much? To the point she and Svena planned out an entire pipeline for when it happened again? Just to treat my condition? If so, then I really couldnt believe I deserved to have these people in my life. Honestly, even if I was their master, this sorta care was still heartwarming.

Brrr. I shivered from having the golems further cool me down, all while Renee couldnt help but literally collapse on one of the still intact couches. She looked around the room, making me realize if the nexus part of the subspace wasnt connected with the living room, I probably wouldnt have fit in. Right now, it was cramp and I could barely move.

Well, it was an emergency escape, after all. The leviathan, whether it was intentional or just accidental, nearly wiped us all out with its tail slam. If Tasianna hadnt reacted in time and shoved me into the subspace, I probably would have been crushed. I couldnt even move my body, after all.

[Exhaustion (Moderate)] was such a killer. Mana and Stamina were both at zero due to the finale. Lightheaded, a pained chest from a broken solar core, and also the fact I lost a finger. Well, I was doing well enough. I was more worried about Neill.

Renee, Tasaianna, and I were inside, but Neill, well, she stayed outside to protect the [Room] runes. If they had broken, then we wouldnt have a way to get back to Elyonda right now. My closest fast travel point would be in Estralia. That was two countries away from Yeos. It was an unfortunate weakness of my nexus teleportation, since the [Room] runes had to be intact and working.

I could forcibly open any of my [Room]s while I was inside the subspace. The nexus connected all openings, after all. However, if the runes werent preserved, I couldnt fast travel. Obviously. If you destroyed a fast travel point in a game, you wouldnt be able to go to it anymore.

So, while we were safe inside here, Neill was outside still in danger. Since I had no idea where Neill was, opening the portal up wouldnt be too good, even if I could forbid unwanted visitors and even water from entering this place. It could be inconvenient for my sister.

Thankfully, Neill had [Hestias Retainer] and was one of my fans, so I would know if she was dead or not. Still, it didnt tell me if she was mortally wounded or not. That was the reason I was anxious.

Dont worry about her. Renee suddenly spoke to me, pointing at her eye after she took her helmet off. Yours were wiggling around a lot. I guessed it from that. Hehe. Your sister is tough. She might seem reckless, but she gets things done, as you could see with how she dragged herself back from a blackout just to shoot that [Freikugel].

And an extremely accurate one at that. Sure, I lost a finger, but she shot off one of VifiYoks arms. Right. Renees right. I need to calm down and believe in her. Shell come when it's safe.

Tasianna then went to bandage up my finger. It wasnt bleeding much, due to [Abnormal Status Nullification] having [Bleeding Resistance Lv. 10], but leaving the wound open would make regrowing it later a bit harder. Necrosis meant I had to work harder.

Moments later, Josine and Haati began bringing out dragorades and fulinoe tea. Stabilize my arcane corruption and to help me regenerate mana to recover from [Mana Stress]. I really should tell Tasianna how invaluable her garden was, considering how much of those plants she had been growing.

The three of them then dumped all the water into my mouth. Inelegant, but I needed quantity, right now. Speaking of them, Josine and Haati were a bit nervous when I opened my jaw. Figures, since I was a giant dragon. Theyd seen this form before, since they frequented Mothers den when I was training with her, but there was a difference from seeing me from afar compared to me breathing down on them, up close and personal.

Renee was then served some of the tea, before sizzling steaks and shishkebab began coming from the kitchen. Svena and Lorena were cooking up food to help out my Stamina recovery.

Honestly speaking, they werent anything special. Salt and pepper for seasoning then medium-rare. Both were better chefs than this, but, as I said, quantity was more important right now. I had to eat.

Still, eating and drinking wouldnt remedy my condition immediately. It helped, but I still felt nowhere close to combat ready. The finale truly was a finale, considering I now had ending fatigue. Really bad, since I still had a role to play for the raid.

After around three more rounds of meat dishes, I felt something poke me in the back, before I heard somebodys voice in my head.

[Managed to keep the exit safe.]

It was Neill.

HumanizeUrgh!

[Humanize (Moderate)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

I didnt have a dragon-sized exit out of my subspace. Getting in was one thing, due to [Room]s formless entrance not exactly conforming to physics. However, getting out was quite a bit harder since I installed normal, human-sized doors. As such, I had to either become a dragonewt to get out, or use mana to change these doors sizes.

Regardless, Tasianna chastised me like crazy the moment I transformed back and vomited out blood and all the food I was about to digest. 2% of my Health just vanished just like that. Internal damage caused by the fact I used mana while in [Mana Stress].

Arck! Just like before Urgh, my organs feel like theyre gonna explode.

Unless [Arcane Corruption] got to moderate, I didnt have to worry about my body exploding. With all the fulinoe tea Id drank, it shouldnt be a problem. Everybody wanted me to sit this out, but I had to see this through. Sure, I couldnt fight, but I wanted to see if that demonkin was dead or not.

Tasianna vehemently disagreed, arguing I should just rest until I could participate in the rest of the plan. I had to cast [Ramuh] or something on the leviathan, after all. It was the wiser choice, sure, I understood that. Still, my irrational side just wanted to see things to its end. Find some finality considering my finale couldnt kill that girl. How did she survive something like that?! She looked like a corpse.

If youre worried about her, Tasianna, then you dont have to. Come, let her out, Neill argued in my favor after she transformed back into a dragonewt, seeing as she didnt want to show her true form to anybody other than the three of us who fought with her. However, seeing her in this form made me a bit sad, seeing as I couldnt heal her clearly broken arm, right now.

Seeing my sister acquiesce, Tasianna let out a sigh and told the others to start producing dragorade again. She placed any finished fulinoe tea into her potion vials and placed it in her satchel, before she helped me walk out of the subspace.

Once we were outside, I immediately took a step back as I noticed where Sis placed the runes. It wasnt an island, but our floor was made out of sand. It was just a small, floating patch of sand, really, kept together with dragon paths. Considering how drenched the sand was, it looked more like mud, really.

I got caught by a tsunami after I escaped the initial impact. The shockwave flung me into the water, and before I could recover, another tsunami caught me, Sis explained why it took so long for her to appear. Without the storm, everything was okay. I could swim out, but then I couldnt find any land. So, I just stuck some sand into tiles and voila.

Neill then kicked it, letting us know it would crumble at any moment.

Good thinking. Renee showed her a thumbs up, causing Neill to slick her soaked hair back, looking proud of herself.

As Tasianna picked up the runes and placed them back in her satchel, I looked around, trying to find that demonkin. The Territory was canceled in our favor. Which means shes either dead or

The latter. There, come. Neill picked me up in a princess carry and flew up with Tasianna. Renee, on the other hand, was using her gargoyle to fly since the storm wasnt around now to toss her around and disturb her flight.

While we flew over, I looked down into the clear blue ocean, also noticing some of the clouds had dispersed, letting sun through. However, in the distance, the fight between my mother and Karhalantheel still waged on, reminding me I couldnt relax just yet. Also, the fact I looked like a horned purple alien due to arcane corruption was kinda frightening.

Noo

After a while, I could hear a weak voice echoing through the constant waves. The further we flew, the more it became more audible, until I finally saw the flooded remains of the island groups.

Naturally, the one I bombed with my meteor strike compltely gone. What would happen to an island if a comet were to hit it, right? Even if it somehow was still sorta intact after my attack, no way would it be after the leviathan slammed its tail. Speaking of that tail attack, it seemed like Mother noticed it and was now attacking him even more aggressively.

Come on, you big bastard, get up! Youre a damn soldier! Youre still too damn weak to meet Father at Ilsaphones! Come on! This is an order! LIVE!

Bare of plants and vegetation, the surviving islands looked dead. Only sand or mud. And on one of these islands, a purple-colored burned corpse with metal fused on it was shaking the body of that demonkin maleHeeRlak next to a fallen palm tree. Looking at the corpse, it was missing an arm and had no electric arms, in addition, red sparks flew around the chest and stomach area.

Before I got swallowed by the tsunami, I saw the girl fish out her companion. Well, whatever was left of him. If you ask me, those two are walking corpses, Neill snorted as we landed, eying the pleading demonkin as if she was the worst enemy ever. Her [Identify] blocking item is off. We can appraise her, and it doesnt seem like shes too long for this world. That [Arcane Corruption] is eating up her body.

I didnt use [Mana Eyes] right away, instead, I checked out what Neill meant with what remainined of HeeRlak, only to stop my steps as I saw how deformed his body was. I could see his chest going up and down, evidence of his breathing, but for how much longer was the question.

His limbs were ouuuf; outside of his left arm, his remaining limbs looked like they were pulverized. Bloody meat chunks with splinters of bones inside them, easily torn away, was the most apt way you could describe them. His torso and head wasnt doing better either, as I could see ribs piercing through his skin and pieces of his skull falling onto the ground with his blood.

The man demanded medical attention right now, otherwise, he would be gone in the next few minutes. I didnt need to appraise him to understand that.

Not to mention

NoUrrragaaahhh! A part of the burned corpses, VifiYoks, shoulder suddenly grew in size like a tumor, only for it to burst open like a balloon. ARRRCK!

As I had witnessed back then with the garm matriarch, once your [Arcane Fever] worsened to moderate, your body might just begin exploding from all that contaminated mana. That open, bleeding hole in that demonkins back was another reminder of that fact.

Jeez. She really is a lost cause, too, huh? Well, I might not have taken her life somehow, but I couldnt see that dimension capture item anywhere. It probably was destroyed in all that mess. Haaaa I should have guessed, but thank goodness.

The last thing which could inconvenience mother, that blasted dimensional trap reserved for me, was gone. I could finally take a breather, to the point I just fell onto the ground in relief. I wanted to check out myself. It was done. It was our victory.

You However, my body tensed up the moment I heard VifiYoks voice. The girl staggered up, almost falling back on the ground before pushing herself back up. I want a deal. Youre Aurenas Champion, right? I want a deal. I need a miracle.

You gotta be kidding me.

Desperation. Renee pulled out her flamberge and put her helmet back on with that mumbling, before moving in between me and the demonkin with Sis. Tasianna helped me back up, on the other hand. The death of a Warbringer sounds more convenient for us.

You broke my horn, you little shit, Neill growled, tapping her lost horn with a frown. Hestia, dont think about it. We help them now, they will come back later on. Like a pest.

I glared at the dying Warbringer. You arent wrong.

This was our chance to get rid of one Warbringer. Even if temporary, killing a level 150 enemy would be a major win for me purely for the experience. Showing mercy for an enemy who had no qualms in killing and kidnapping us was foolish.

Please. However, despite the heavy resistance, the demonkin girl stumbled further forward, undeterred. A sorrowful look, that of somebody who was about to lose something important, was plastered on her skinless face.

I thought you were the realistic type. The sorta person who understands war. Do you really think we could afford that? I retorted, fully agreeing with Renee and Neill. You cant offer us anything. I already know the pope is the damn Prince of Envy. Dont even try divulging that. You have nothing to offer for our help.

Do I really?

Huh?!

A chill went down my spine as the demonkins head snapped up, glaring at us as she pressed her hand on her chest. The red lightning began to increase, zapping and sizzling louder and louder.

Youre probably curious how I survived right? Well, hold ya breath, mate, cause you did kill me with that attack. To the point you activated [Original Sin: Satanael]s effect. Her mood did a 180, returning back to that abrasive personality of hers she had during our fight. The rebel doesnt kneel before the false gods injustice, to nothing short of death. A lifesaver for a certain cost. Well, too bad, Im still gonna die now due to arcane corruption and I cant stop it but that also means Im blowing everything up.

You little! Neill clenched her fist before quickly picking me up. Fly! We need

Zoom! That sound was followed by a trail of red lightning. The demonkin re-appeared before us and immediately collapsed onto the floor, coughing up blood.

I snap at yer butts! I will use up my last remaining mana to kill us ALL! Or, ya can spare me the pain of this shit and just eff me off already. Blow up by yer own accords. She pushed her body up, only to fall to the side, breathing heavily. Yer know the Twin-Elemental Lake? Created after Plesia enacted the first and only divine punishment. The humans say we blew up the dungeon core to destroy them. Well, on our side, we say the humans did it to kill us. The Water Goddess punished them. With all the propaganda So what's the truth? Dunno. Dont care. The dead aint here anymore.

What the hell was she talking about?

Well my little giftthis red lightning came from that place. Not natural. Forced into me. The ruinous power of the fallout of a dungeon core explosion and a gods divine punishment. If it gets set off, ya wont escape that easily. Understand?

You psychopath Tasianna blurted out before pulling out our [Room] runes.

Dont. See whos faster? Yours or my trigger finger? Tasianna stopped herself as VifiYok began to tear a chunk out of her chest, causing the lightning to even zap us. The device keeping it in check melted, however, I can keep it under control until you leave. But, under one condition

What the fuck? What is this sudden intervention? Who the hell is that?

I didnt really know who that was, whoever it was just watched their spell stun the SS rank leviathan before they returned into their house. Mother didnt let this moment go and quickly shot a frost breath at her enemy before piercing its sides with a humongous ice blade.

KRRUUUUUUUARRRRGHH! You could even hear its agony-filled screams from here.

Mother then shook the leviathan up and down before she bit into its head, crushing the leviathans skull before severing a portion of its snake body from its rest. She then slammed the half she was holding into the icy ground and roared in the sky.

Holding her hands up, an icicle in the form of a greatsword began to form in her hand, looking like she was about to perform a ritual sacrifice. She then pierced the blade into the monsters skull, digging it right into the ground before she took flight, twirling her body up as the ice rose like a twister. Once it was done, she stood upon this monument, this sigil of her victory over an SS rank leviathan.

[Divine Quest: The Champion of Yeostar] completed. You have done well, Champion, please accept your reward

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor] has risen from [Level 25] to [Level 27]

Attributes have increased due to level up

Acquired 1500 skill points

Congratulations! Your efforts have rewarded you with the privilege of unlocking the Unique Job System. Your Jobs timeline have all been integrated into a single Unique Job which you can mold and evolve with

Due to your combined Jobs, you have unlocked the Unique Job [Idol Tyrant Fledgling]. Please use a [Crystal of the Divine System] to assign three development Jobs to influence the growth of your new Job

Your reward from God Yeostar will be sent at a later date

It was sadly not over yet. I still had a patient to cure. The victory march could happen after all of this was resolved.

Arms. Identify bone shards, remove them. Find a shoulder blade. Take this as the origin. Tear off the remaining arm regrow. Slight healing for the intact left arm. Now, legs. Tear off then regrow. Regrow once again for the other leg. Now, check to make sure the brain is stable. Hopefully he didnt get any brain damage, cause I really had no idea how to fix that.

This wasnt the explosive and exciting ending a hero should be having. It was quiet for me. Doing one good thing, even if the recipient was the enemy. It was my choice, and this was the ending I chose for myself. This was the path I had decided to handle everything.

Next time, just pay for the damn pastries. We at Aurora are always willing to sell to polite customers. I told VifiYok as I finished the operation to save HeeRlaks life.

She kept silent, her face expressing her doubts and bafflement at how all of this was going. Never known peace, huh?

So, I stretched my hand around, drawing the attention of the girl to it. So then why not join us? My party, the Aurora, I mean.

Ya are actually stupid.

No, I mean it. You arent fighting this war just for yourselves, right? If you had, you would have just escaped, instead of ruining your honor by asking an enemy to heal your friend. Even if you died, you would have not died as a traitor, because at this point, I can and will make you a prisoner, I stated, unnerving her. That is why I am asking you. I believe you are honorable and will honor your debt, so will you join me freely, or must I force you?

What an ultimatum She looked at my hand before forcing herself up, her breathing rough. You really are crazy But, maybe, I was right. Maybe you could help us

Hestia!

However, before VifiYok could answer, Neill dragged me away from her just as something flew at where we stood, sundering the small area of the beach into two pieces. The waves rumbled, causing some of the salty water to enter my mouth.

PFFFFTTT! I coughed up the water, which only caused me to vomit out blood and fall onto the drench sand. It shouldnt have been a problem, but this sudden disturbance caused the fatigue to reactivate, draining my body of any remaining strength.

Shit! Damn headache!

HESTIA! I could hear Neill call out to me as I forced myself up, eyes wobbly and unfocused. Unfortunately, who I saw was the last person I wanted to see right now.

Ghorush I eked out as the leonid stood before us, wobbly on his feetfoot and completely blooded. He picked up both VifiYok and HeeRlak and without saying another word, jumped on a shark-like golem to flee.

Shit! You won

Grruuck! I fell onto the ground again, this time feeling like the world was turning around. I couldnt even focus my thoughts.

Hestia! No, no, no, no, no, Sis! Stay with me!

Tuck me in, big sis. Sorry for being a burden at the very last moment Scheie VifiYok, please, think it over.

And with those last thoughts, I fell unconscious.

A note from AbyssRaven

So ends the Champion of Yeostar arc. A sea noodle is dead, turning into exp for Mama dragon, the defeat and disfigurement of Ghorush, Vifi'Yok, and Hee'Rlak, and the decimation of the Grimgarian army. Hestia nearly succeeded in her Fire Emblem moment of recruiting an enemy with Talk-Talk no Jutsu, but failed. Saintess Eshe's morales still lives in her.

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