Chapter 298: Completion (19)

Chapter 298: Completion (19)

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Beatrice swung her sword towards us, aiming at Luna who was holding a spellbook.

"Your opponent is me."

I burst my mana to block Beatrice's sword.

Aryandor said nothing, just watched the situation.

"Full Moon."

Beatrice used her sword technique, releasing a burst of golden sword energy, and simultaneously used time magic.

Sword energies came at Luna from multiple directions.

"Behemoth."

A giant elephant, Behemoth, emerged from the ground, taking the brunt of Beatrice's sword energy with its massive body.

"Puuuh...!"

Behemoth staggered under the impact of Beatrice's sword energy but wasn't seriously injured and quickly regained its footing.

Beatrice continued her assault.

"Northern Swordsmanship."

Watching this, I manipulated my mana.

"Lich."

At my command, a skeletal reaper appeared behind Beatrice.

Clank

Its chains wrapped around Beatrice, entangling her before she could use her sword technique.

"Luna, how much longer?"

"10 minutes... no, 15 minutes should do!"

I nodded at her response and looked forward.

Beatrice struggled to escape the Lich's grasp.

Then, I clenched my fist and directed it towards Beatrice's back.

"Huff!"

Mana exploded.

Kwaang!

Jars behind us shattered.

The number of jars decreased.

!

As the jars shattered, the space echoed, and cracks began to form in the ceiling.

The more jars broke, the more the space itself started to collapse.

Aryandor looked from the cracking ceiling to me.

"Rudy Astria. What the hell are you doing?"

I replied,

"What does it look like? I'm making sure you're completely eradicated."

"Even if it means your death?"

"Huh?"

Luna reacted to Aryandor's words, her eyes widening as she looked at him.

"What are you talking about?"

Aryandor, looking at Luna behind him, continued,

"When Beatrice's time magic and Rudy Astria's spatial magic disappear, and all these jars are gone, this dimension will collapse. Yes, then we will obviously die. But what about you? How do you plan to escape?"

The key to moving through this sacred place is space, time, and dimensional magic.

With that magic, one can come and go from this place.

"Are you saying you're willing to die with us? Is that it, Rudy Astria?"

Aryandor chuckled.

He wasn't wrong.

If space and time magic were to disappear together, I would have no way to leave this place with my own power.

Of course, with Haruna outside, she could get me out of here if she entered, but that would defeat the purpose.

The whole reason for luring them to this place was to separate Haruna and the others.

If Haruna entered, they wouldn't just let her go because they could prevent us from leaving if they wanted to.

This was also why they couldn't leave right now; if they tried to stop me from leaving, they'd be stuck here too.

But I had no intention of dying here.

I turned to look at Luna, who was looking back at me with an anxious expression.

"Luna, it's okay. I won't die."

"Rudy..."

"Have you ever seen me lie?"

"No..."

I smiled and patted Luna on the back.

"Trust me."

Seeing my smile, Luna pressed her lips together and nodded.

"If you're lying, you're really going to get it from me..."

"Of course. Oh, let me know when the magic is about to end. I have something to do."

Beatrice raised her sword towards those jars.

Bang!!!!

She shattered the jars, and the space began to warp.

I looked at Aryandor in front of me and frowned.

"Yeah, make that face. Were you waiting for Ian Astria or Haruna to save you? Thinking one of them would come to your rescue?"

Aryandor scoffed at me.

I looked down on him with pity.

"That look... that damn look... don't look at me with those eyes!!! Why does everyone look at me with those eyes..."

Ignoring Aryandor, I opened the spellbook Luna left behind.

Flipping through the pages, I spoke.

"Aryandor, do you know? Spatial magic, time magic, dimensional magic, all of it was made by humans. It wasn't anything divine."

"What?"

"Magic created by humans and the future shown by humans. You gave up on that. The future isn't something crafted by a God. That's why I think you're pathetic. Even if it was made by a God, you shouldn't have given up. Especially if they were truly precious to you."

I opened a page in the spellbook and infused it with mana.

"No, time magic... the future... it's something humans can change..."

"You still don't get it."

I looked behind Aryandor.

Beatrice had shattered the last jar.

The dimension trembled.

Boom

Cracks formed in the ceiling, and the entire space wavered.

I focused on Luna's spellbook, noticing the massive mana leaking out.

Then, a strong gravitational force emerged around me.

It was a concentrated gravitational force, gravity magic.

But it was a bit different.

Its power was much stronger.

I channeled my mana into the spellbook.

"Then, let me show you."

The strong gravitational force occurred around my body.

"Huff."

I endured it with my body.

"What are you doing?"

I saw it.

Ordinary magic could affect space.

Astina's gravity magic.

Strong gravity can twist space.

Astina showed me this during our duel.

She couldn't handle it as spatial magic, but I'm different.

I have experience using spatial magic.

If there's a tremor in space, I can feel it precisely with my body.

I focused all my senses.

On the twist in space caused by gravity.

Focused on it.

"Ah..."

Aryandor just stared blankly.

"To leave this place, you just need to handle one of the three: space, time, or dimensional magic, right?"

I reached out my hand into the twisting space.

My surroundings wavered.

"That kind of thing... That can't possibly work... Such nonsense..."

"Didn't I tell you? It's all magic made by humans."

Being able to handle space or time magic isn't because of some divine selection.

Because it wasn't magic created by a God.

And everything made by humans has its flaws.

If I could create a similar twist to the one used to enter this place, couldn't I also leave?

I increased the gravity with my mana, creating a twist similar to the one when we entered.

"Ah..."

My surroundings wavered.

I looked forward.

At the crumbling dimension and Aryandor, who was in despair.

He didn't try to stop my magic, nor did he think of escaping the crumbling dimension; he just stared blankly at me.

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