Chapter 238

Velbrok Subjugation (6)

I ran down the corridor on the third floor of the Trix building, shaking off my bloody arms.

A draft was blowing in from the already broken windows, and stars and magic circles could be seen from the ceiling of the half-blown hallway.

There is no time to worry about the battle between Velbroque and Lucy. First, I had to dig into a place with as many features and obstacles as possible, making it difficult for Sylvania to pinpoint my location.

– Whoo Woo-wook

However, there is no way a person about Sylvania could not read my intentions.

As the feeling of gathering magical powers spread from downstairs, I clenched my teeth and prepared for the shock.

– aa

High-level lightning magic, Nemesis.

A lightning bolt struck in an instant, destroying the remaining remains of the Trix Pavilion.

Now, the Trix tube, with almost no intact parts left, collapses once more.

Rather than a broken building, at this point, only the remains of the building remain.

Running among the rubble of an intermittently erected outer wall, I tried to escape the magic somehow...

– Whoa!

High-level space magic ‘space leap’.

Sylvania landed right in front of me, casually using high-level space magic that consumes an astronomical amount of magical power with just one use.

“Khahak, ahhahak.”

With a strange laughter that seemed like boiling phlegm, Sylvania held her wand in front of my nose.

“I don’t know if I could have blocked it once, but the second time looks hard when I look at it.”

If ‘instant death’ hits here even once, I can’t stop it with my Holy Spirit’s magic. Knowing this well, I quickly bent over and kicked Sylvania’s staff away.

However, Sylvania did not care, gathering magic power and thrusting two magic bullets into my shoulder.

As I clenched my teeth and clasped my shoulders and fell into the corner of the hallway, I began to raise the Aspect’s magic again.

Normal magic power can be dealt with. However, Aspect Magic cannot cope.

The greatest characteristic of Aspect Magic. That you can’t deal with it at all, and you can’t deal with it at all.

These are magics that cannot be defended at all, unless it is an exceptional situation where they are defended through the same type of magic.

“Whew...”

If you stand still, you will suffer.

We have to keep attacking whatever we do to prevent Sylvania from casting the Aspect Magic.

I drew out my magic and summoned Mug in an instant.

The rising fire changes into the shape of a bat and spreads its huge wings. Mug, who squeaked and screamed, looked at Sylvania and drew the magic of fire.

Unlike the basic elemental magic, a different amount of fire rises around it. The flame march is headed in the direction of Sylvania, which is gathering the constellation magic.

Sylvania narrows her eyebrows for a moment, then lets out a creepy smile.

Then, just by swinging his wand and using magic power, he scattered all the flames.

The place where the subsequent Holy Spirit magic was headed was towards the mug.

– Kaang!

Aspect magic struck in an instant, ‘Time Prison’.

Mug, floating still with its wings spread out in the air... couldn’t move any more.

When you are in a time prison, the caster’s time itself stops until the caster’s magic power runs out or is terminated. It has to stand still as if it had become a stone.

Of course, Sylvania’s magic won’t run out, so it’s safe to say that if you get hit even once, it’s over.

However, once Sylvania was able to neutralize the Aspect Magical Power once collected.

I’m sorry that I used the mug as a shield, but I was able to get more time to draw out more magical power. Eventually, with the manifested magical powers, a giant wind wolf... Merylda sets her feet again and goes out into the world.

– Whoa, whoa!

– aa

The flow of magic power that spreads out covers the sky of the Trix tube.

After trampling on the ruins of the buildings with the roaring fire, Merylda stood straight and looked down at the small-sized sorceress.

[ Sylvania... ]

Once, a friend who was sitting side by side at the edge of the right mountain and looking down at Aken Island... looked up at the huge wolf of the wind.

Sylvania, who was looking up at Merylda blankly, murmured, with a wand larger than her upper body, at an angle, and a robe embroidered with colorful patterns.

“Oh my goodness....”

There is no life in those eyes.

“Wolf, it’s big.”

There is no room for heartache for not knowing.

Before Sylvania moved first, Merylda raised her magic power. The air around the area was fluctuating due to the magical energy embodied by Merylda.

The moment Merylda’s magic was about to attack Sylvania... ──Merylda’s body was already pierced with a huge ice spear.

[ ... ]

Merylda’s squinted eyes widened. He didn’t even notice the flow of magic.

Ice spear is a lieutenant’s magic.

However, a gigantic ice spear rose from the ground and pierced Merylda’s abdomen, to the point that it was hard to even call this a lieutenant’s magic.

Because of the dripping blood, the surface of the spear is dyed red.

[You...uh...]

“I’m sorry, the spirit... can’t even die. If I were a human, I would have died comfortably from this blow.”

The status of the high spirits is enormous. It is safe to say that just being able to deal with high-ranking spirits can put you in the ranks of famous spirits in that area.

Even such high-ranking spirits can be wiped out by Sylvania with a single blow.

However, the fact that the mana was consumed does not change. In other words, it means that a gap has been created for me to act.

– Kwaang!

I smashed the floor with a ‘one-point explosion’ and hurriedly jumped to the ground.

Sylvania looked tired, looked at the hole I had drilled, and jumped off with a light gesture.

The moment Sylvania went underground, hiding in the blind spot of my sight, I pulled out my dagger and tried to stab her in the back.

It was a surprise attack that was completely out of sight, but she used defensive magic to deflect the dagger as if she had eyes behind her back.

– Kaang!

When my hand was deflected by the shock of the defensive magic, Sylvania, who took advantage of the gap and swung back, grabbed my collar.

The rising magic wrapped around my body, and when it pushed me with great power, I was drawn to the floor by the aftermath.

Sylvania stabbed me in the stomach with her knee, clenched her throat, and pushed her bloodshot eyes up to the front of her nose. Still, more blood flowed from the wounded body.

“Did you think you were going to win a close fight? Is it because I am a wizard? Ahaha, that’s great. It’s great, it’s great. Even in this situation, you were rolling your head to steer the battle in a different direction. I was scared, afraid of death, in a situation where it wouldn’t be strange to run away all the time... I was thinking of a way to win. It’s amazing, it’s amazing. It’s a shame to kill If it wasn’t for this world, if it wasn’t for such a dark future... you would have been a great person.”

“...”

“Uhhh... sad... so sad... it’s sad that someone like you has to die. There must be many amazing and wonderful people like you in the world. It is so futile and sad to know that everyone has to die, that one day we will have to struggle in that endless darkness...”

I smiled and then burst into tears... Like a maniac, Sylvania talks with my eyes closed in the changing emotions.

The tears I had just shed have not dried up. Raising the corners of your lips.

“So, I will kill you.”

“Specify.”

– Kwaang!!

A huge shock that emerged from my arms covered the whole area.

‘Shock reinforcement wave ball’. It’s one of the magic tools I’ve been saving to the end. Sylvania covered her eyes with her flapping collar and furrowed her brows in shock when the crystal ball in her arms broke.

Naga won’t fall because of the defensive magic applied to the body. However, he succeeded in obscuring his view.

As it was, I collected the dust scattered on the floor with my fist, and scattered it in Sylvania’s eyes.

Sylvania, who closed her eyes in a momentary scream, took a few steps backwards. Sylvania, who had lived her whole life as a dignified wizard, was certain that she would not be accustomed to such street battles.

As it was, I pulled out my dagger and gathered my magic power. I tried to express the spirit expression as it is, but the spirit expression engraved on the dagger did not respond.

“Whew..”

“Ahhh!!”

He pulled out the dagger, but blood was still dripping from his shoulder.

Sylvania unleashes the Holy Spirit Magic in her opposite hand, somehow clenching her teeth and returning the wound on her shoulder to its former state.

“Big, ah! haha...”

The wounds have disappeared, but the aftermath of the pain remains. Even if you turn back some time in your body, the memories of that pain are not going to disappear. The sensation remained like a phantom pain, and Sylvania continued to sweat in a cold sweat.

In the meantime, Ed was slowly getting up, bleeding profusely.

Until the very end, hiding his trump card... His calmness that leads to vigilance by doing his best. It is no longer human.

However, the blow he just delivered must have been the trump card that bet everything. If he definitely beat Sylvania, but couldn’t finish it with one blow... In the end, it’s just a pointless struggle.

Still... Ed Roth Taylor forcibly lifts his upper body and gets himself up.

Now, Ed Roth-Taylor was far more zombie-like than Sylvania, but his eyes still burn with the will to survive.

the will to survive. only that one

Even in the battlefield where bullets come and go, and in this academy where magic comes and goes. It was only that thought that made him stand with his feet on the ground until the end.

“I hate people like you the most.”

Edgar speaks in a sputum-soaked voice.

“You think that the future you observed is everything, you know it all? So did I.”

He was the one who knew all the scenarios that existed in < Failed Swordsman of Sylvania >.

However, nothing went as planned.

The history of this world that I thought was going to go the way I thought it would go, without a single exception, every one of them went their own way, betraying their expectations.

This goddamn world is full of all kinds of anomalies and variables, and even though I thought I had figured it all out, it spreads out on my own.

Life doesn’t go according to plan.

So there was a lot to lose.

So there was something to be gained.

Death is always on the way.

In a world where it is natural... in that hell road where bullets fly and dig up people’s flesh... There was a time when I looked up at the cloudy sky with dead eyes.

The nightmare didn’t go away, I was stuck in a corner of the room, and I lived for a long time because I was just breathing.

He did not want to hold anything in his hand because he was afraid of losing it, and he was sure that he would reluctantly survive in this achromatic world.

But.

Aiming for just one diploma, without getting involved with anyone, his determination to live a quiet life was overshadowed.

The camp, which used to be just a temporary residence, has become attached to the camp, and you may feel like you don’t want to leave.

I don’t want to worry about a girl who is a good-natured spirit, so I’m going to have to live with myself.

He’s trying to take responsibility for a merchant who has a lot of wounds, and he’s doing a fraud that doesn’t suit him.

He hugged her shoulder and swore to comfort a magician who was insanely stronger than herself.

I look at the night sky and fall into a sense of nostalgia.

Running around the hunting grounds busily.

I have a strange sense of confidence in my ability to grow.

While watching the growing hut camp, I hum humbly.

As I look back on the footsteps I have walked, I feel a sense of useless pride.

I’m fed up with life that stretches out in unexpected ways, in unexpected ways.

It’s just natural to struggle to survive.

That was the life of Ed Roth Taylor, who lived on this Arkken Island.

“Such cheeky noise...”

Dripping blood, Ed Rothtailer is a marvel that he’s alive and moving.

However, he is still alive. Even if he is pushed to the limit to the point where he has to put all his strength into taking even one step, he is living in the present moment with a clear breath.

“It’s a sound that only bastards who have ever lived can say that.”

I’m not saying it’s irresponsible that everything will work out. The present unhappiness will someday be resolved, and the pain of the past will be replaced by the pain of the past. There is no unrealistic consolation that your life will always end with a happy ending.

However, Ed Roth-Taylor is terribly loathsome of those who pile up a lot of unscratched lottery tickets and say they don’t have money.

no matter what others say.

At least Ed Roth Taylor lived his life that way.

“You... you, what...”

Sylvania, who grunted, raised her magic power again. Although the aftermath of the pain still haunts my mind, I decided that the first thing to do was to end Ed, who was standing with his legs crossed.

Anyway, there’s no way left to resist Ed Roth-Taylor more.

The Del Heim hourglass saved only one life, but the final blow of conversion that risked it all could not save Sylvania’s life.

Now, it’s really just a living corpse waiting to be killed by the last blow.

To deliver the final blow, Sylvania wrapped the magical energy she had raised in her hands. Dozens of ice spears that rose. Even if only one hit was allowed, Ed Roth Taylor would be killed.

In that way, dozens of ice spears flew in to save Ed’s life, but...

– Kaang! Whoa ah ah ah!

– Whoops!

What rose was a huge flame that covered the whole area.

Spirit Ceremony – Fire Flower

A blooming flower of fire fills the lobby of the Trix Hall, melting all the ice spears in an instant.

Ed Roth Taylor knows the true identity of the Spirit Ceremony.

It is a high spirit ceremony that draws out the power of the high fire spirit Takan and engraved it with cosmos embroidery on the cloak of the elemental master Yenica Palerover.

The moment he knew his identity, a girl was landing with a shawl waving in front of Ed’s nose.

The pale pink hair of Yenica Palerover, which was flown through the Lieutenant Wind Spirit, flew once in the flames.

Eventually, by swinging his arms downwards, a number of spirits enveloped the Trix Hall.

A procession of pouring magic bullets. The great sage Sylvania quickly activated his defense magic and blocked them all without difficulty.

Jenica Palerover takes advantage of the opportunity, sprints towards Ed Roth-Taylor, and hugs him as if supporting him.

While holding Ed, who was in a crippled state, with almost no strength in his body, he closed his eyes tightly as if his heart was aching. He clenched his teeth like that for a while, then summoned Lieutenant Wind Spirit Callax.

Sylvania notices as a giant Archeopteryx-shaped wind spirit quickly burns the two of them down. That girl is about to retreat quickly with the wrecked Ed Roth Taylor.

At this point, Yenica Palerover had already noticed. The Great Sage Sylvania is not a one-on-one match to win.

“Where...!”

However, the magic of the giant fire lizard Takan causes a huge explosion once. I don’t think the attack will work anyway. to cover the view.

It may be impossible to beat Sylvania, but a strategic retreat is possible. The elemental force of Yenica Palerover is unmatched in its quantity.

Eventually, when the smoke was removed with magic, the Yenica Palerover on Callax’s back recovered Ed and was running away.

Aerial view of Aken Island. Yenica Palerover, holding Ed’s head tightly in her flapping collar, was glaring at Sylvania from afar.

Sylvania, who felt that gaze clearly... stood still for a moment, holding her wand at an angle.

The many forces of the spirits also disappeared when Yenica completed her retreat.

In the Trix Pavilion, where only rubble remained, there was only silence.

“...”

Sylvania, who was left alone, bowed her head for a moment.

Sylvania has also observed Yenica Palerover several times. However, I feel that Sylvania’s appearance and behavior are slightly different from what Sylvania observed.

Is it an illusion? Or is it the result of some inevitable action?

The spirit, which had been settling little by little after being imprisoned in a prison for a long time, is engulfed in greater pain.

“Uhhh...”

Sylvania, who was holding my shoulder with a bizarre sound, took a deep breath. It seems that the pain of the dagger stabbed by Ed Roth Taylor still lingers on his shoulder.

Still... little by little... little by little... the pain that used to cut the bones subsides.

“Yeah... still... there are a lot of variables to be removed... still... a lot of work to do...”

The aftermath of the madness that came up again was still eroding her mind.