Chapter 258 – Qzatquizail (2)

Chapter 258 – Qzatquizail (2)

Bubbles filled Juan’s vision.

Aside from a dark purple liquid, there was nothing else around him. There was no light or heat other than the cold liquid. The only heat was Juan’s flame.

However, Juan felt as if he had brought a candle into the deep sea. He felt as if he was in incomparably deep waters, and he had no idea if there was even a surface he could swim toward.

‘Qzatquizail.’

Juan could instinctively tell that he was inside Qzatquizail. Juan could feel the crown trembling with joy after finally finding its owner. It seemed as if it couldn’t wait to return to its original place so that it could replenish itself.

‘Don’t even think about it...’

Juan concentrated and strengthened his control over the crown. The fluctuating flame quickly settled down, but Juan found all this to be suspicious. Gerard possessed half the crown, but he still got buried by Qzatquizail’s will.

Gerard’s traces were also suspiciously diluted and difficult to find. Juan couldn’t help but think that perhaps Gerard had decided to help Qzatquizail by giving up the remaining half of the crown.

“Hah.” Juan chuckled as if he was mocking himself. The anxiety that was about to overwhelm him vanished. There was no point hesitating at this point. There was no way he could stop Gerard or Qzatquizail from waking up now.

Gerard would definitely resurrect and do the same thing over and over again, even if he were to stab Gerard with Elkiehl.

Therefore, Juan decided to leave Gerard alone until he summoned Qzatquizail into this world. It was all so that Juan could deal with the two of them at the same time.

‘At this point, it’s ridiculous to be afraid of Qzatquizail’s awakening...’

Qzatquizail’s heart was the crown, and Juan was the crown. Juan chose not to deny such a fact. After all, he knew that even though he could break, he would never collapse.

Juan decided to reveal his location amidst the depths of the abyss.

“Let’s burn it up!”

Juan’s flames burned fiercer, and the bubbles around him got fiercer. The surrounding liquid also started to boil violently as the temperature rose. The heat quickly spread, and the blood that had cooled turned red.

Juan didn’t stop there.

He had already become the flame itself, so he shouted, “I have returned!”

Lub Dub!

The surrounding liquid made a move. Juan could hear the sound of a heartbeat from far away, and it was so loud that it sounded like it could make the entire universe ring.

He could feel that Qzatquizail’s domination was successful, but he still couldn’t let his guard down because he was sure that Gerard would have come this far as well.

The world in front of Juan was suddenly illuminated. Juan was astonished by the massive space that appeared in front of him, but he soon realized that he was looking right at Qzatquizail’s eyes.

Beyond Qzatquizail’s eyes were a strange universe surrounded by an unfamiliar night sky, multitudes of stars surrounding a void, stars that burned inexplicably hot, a massive unknown planet, and clouds of gas. It was a scene that Juan had never seen before.

Juan was certain that the empire was smaller than a speck of dust compared to the vastness of the universe in front of him.

And then there was Qzatquizail...

Qzatquizail spanned half of such a vast universe. What appeared in Juan’s world was just an extremely small part of Qzatquizail. Qzatquizail was so huge that Juan couldn’t help but wonder if it was still alive.

Unfortunately, Qzatquizail’s body part here belonged to just one head of the nine-headed dragon.

Juan suddenly felt sick while facing the vastness of a universe. He knew from his knowledge that the world he was ruling was extremely small compared to a universe.

However, Qzatquizail’s sheer vastness was so overwhelming that he felt sick.

‘No, I must not be agitated...’

Juan gnashed his teeth and tried his best to stay calm. His goal was simple—to close the Crack which had invaded his world and keep the world safe from Qzatquizail.

Juan tried to control Qzatquizail as much as he could by any means. As he expected, the Crack which had broken into his world appeared in his eyes. Juan moved Qzatquizail and pulled it close to the Crack.

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It was more difficult than he had expected. Juan couldn’t help but gasp for air.

All of a sudden, he heard a whisper.

There was still a lot for them to talk about. She hadn’t even greeted him yet, and she still had too many questions to ask.

Sina had to meet Juan again, so she decided to wait and watch until the very end.

“This is it! This is where we’re going to die!”

Nienna roared and leaped into the monsters’ midst.

“You are legends! Sing your songs, warriors!” The Northern Army roared and began singing a battle folk song. The lyrics seemed to have gotten lost amidst the shouts, screams, and curses, but the fighters on the battlefield felt a strange sense of unity while singing.

Nienna tore a monster apart and started singing with the warriors. The song was a battle folk song with a hundred and twenty-two verses. Nienna could still remember how she taught Juan to sing this song.

“Today is the day we write the hundred and twenty-third verse of this song! The songwriters are us!”

The monsters faced an unprecedentedly fierce wave of attack.

The warriors were tiny, skinny, and weak compared to the monsters. However, the sight of them singing and attacking at the same time reminded the monsters of colonies.

The colony of creatures terrified the monster. They felt a primal fear that any creature would feel in an emergency.

All of a sudden, a huge shadow loomed over them.

Entalucia mercilessly poured her fire over them, and it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The primal fear quickly spread within the ranks of the monsters. The monsters of the Crack started running away to hide. They were able to do this because Black Aldebaran wasn’t controlling them any more. Some of the monsters even chose to hide within the Crack rather than face the Northern Army.

When the monsters started running away with their tails tucked, the Northern Army became even more ferocious.

Nienna didn’t miss the golden opportunity to slaughter them all.

“Kill all those cowardly bastards!”

***

Juan felt as if hundreds of millions of hands held and restrained him. The hands covered his eyes, his ears, and his mouth. They were preventing him from using his senses.

A sweet dream was trying to captivate Juan. Once Juan was captivated, Qzatquizail would then be able to achieve its original will.

However, a song reached Juan’s ears. He woke up startled.

He had almost fallen asleep, but the song woke him up.

‘This sounds like the battle folk song that Nienna taught me.’

Juan could still remember how he had a hard time memorizing the entire song overnight. In the end, he didn’t manage to memorize half of it, not to mention the entire song. However, he had memorized the song’s tune and beat.

Juan started humming to the song without realizing it. The voices started to fade as his humming synchronized with the sing leaking out from outside the Crack.

Juan slowly composed himself, but he still couldn’t move.

***

“His Majesty is saying that your voices are too quiet! Sing louder!”

Nienna was singing louder than everyone else, and a monster would fall to the ground with every syllable she sang. Nienna had no intentions of letting even a single monster escape.

The Northern Army pushed the monsters toward the Crack.

The song could be heard vividly throughout the battlefield.

Pavan wasn’t aware of the song’s lyrics, but he came up with his own lyrics while humming and swinging his sword. Of course, his singing wasn’t really doing anything significant because his pitch and beat were off.

Sina swung her sword while anxiously staring alternatingly between the tentacle and the Crack. Juan was in there, and he was the one who was trying to close the Crack.

‘What happens to Juan if the Crack closes while he’s still in there?’

Sina’s heart started to pound madly against her chest as her anxiousness shot to the roof. However, she couldn’t do anything other than cheer for Juan and shout as loudly as she could, hoping that Juan could hear her voice, even though he was in the Crack.

“Juan! I’ve made it clear to you!”

‘...that even if the entire world thinks you’re a monster, I will always believe that you still love mankind!’

***

“Sina...” Juan’s eyes snapped open.