Chapter 215

Episode 215: Life is cruel (10)

“We have to go there right now...!”



The Inquisitor reflexively took a step back.

Beetle.

However, her body shook helplessly. This was true even though the sanctuary had been lifted as there was no need for it. The aftereffects of using too much force at once were etched into my body.

She rubbed her hot face and scratched her face.

Coo!

“Oh, it’s ruined.”

It was the same timing as Meister monotonously thinking along with the sound of something ringing.

Feeling a chill on the back of his neck, the Inquisitor turned his gaze back to the sea.

Kiaaaaaaaaa!

The monster was howling, with a hole in its neck and the inside of its shell being whipped up by a small bullet.

Grumbling.

However, if there is anything new that has been added, it is that something pure white has crawled out from inside the wound.

“...head splitting?”

A head resembling a turtle, but thinner, with thinner, smoother lines, protruded from the hole.

It looked like a new head was growing out of the small wound. Even through the darkness of the night, the white, shiny scales feel somehow ominous.

“No, that’s closer to a snake.”

However, if it was truly a turtle head, the two heads would not look any different. Furthermore, there is no reason for the turtle’s head and neck to become shriveled, as if the inner core was missing.

The pure white hair spiraled around the neck and head of the turtle that was about to hang down. The turtle’s head leaning against its pure white head looks like well-dried leather. There is not a single movement.

“...Let’s run away first. “There is no way to attack that thing anymore.”

“good. “I stay here.”

“That’s right. Will you do the same, hero?”

However, there is one thing that can be known for sure from all these scenes.

“...I am.”

The fight here is not over yet.

“...I am.”

Also, behind her are soldiers who are just leaving the castle walls.

“What will happen to this place if I leave here?”

The soldiers will be crushed to death if they don’t stop the monster’s advance.

* * *

Meanwhile, at that point, the beings on the castle wall had not yet fired the first gun.

I ran forward to retrieve the two-hender that was lying on the floor. Since my longsword was broken, the only weapon I could use was the Twohender, so I had no choice.

Chii Iik.

The sword that had just been swallowed by the lightning was extremely hot, but that was easily overlooked.

Whether my palms were ripe from fighting while holding a weapon heated by lightning, or from catching the lava poured out by that demon with my bare hands, that was it.

The faceless demon made a laughing sound, putting only one of its three pairs of arms together and interlacing its fingers.

Kurrrrrrr—!

Oh, of course, but it’s not something you can swing around like that.

Not only is it unbreakable, but the True Two Hender is also an iron sword, and metal attracts lightning. Damn it.

So I quickly grabbed the two-hender, put it in my inventory, and ran away. Whilick. The hem of my coat curved along my body.

bang!

Lightning struck behind me just in the nick of time, and my body, which was sitting down with my foot on the coat, hit the ground hard.

My bent knees gained momentum and shot forward. Now it is a lava field again.

Kwak-ga-ga-ga-gak!

Meanwhile, a rush of rock spears came from in front. As I entered the lava field, it was a bonus that thorns sprouted half a beat late wherever I stepped.

The viciousness of forcing me to go at maximum speed and making it difficult to avoid the rock spear flying in front of me is very genius.

However, if you think that I can’t deal with it with my bare hands, you are mistaken.

I felt like I was straining my brain and used my magical powers with extreme precision.

The goal is to protect your hands by using only a very minimal amount of magic power.

widely.

Then I grabbed the first rock spear that came to me. It was similar to the feeling of catching an arrow.

I grabbed the spear that was trying to pass by as it rubbed against my palm with even more force and swung it.

The rock spear, which spun quickly like a pinwheel, bounced off everything else.

Is it because the intensity is similar? Rather than unilaterally destroying them, they were chipped away at each other and quickly became tattered.

Well, I never wanted to use it for a long time, so it doesn’t matter.

I hit the rock spear that was about to break into the flying volcanic bomb, then pulled the volcanic bomb down and at the same time lifted myself up from the recoil.

The thorn barely pierced my heel, and my floating body kicked another volcanic bomb.

I jumped up in the air using only the strength of my back core, landed in a place where there was no lava, took out the dagger I had in my inventory, and threw it.

Rumbling. The cloud cried.

Quang!

Just in case, I did.

I threw it at the debris of the building as high as possible, and it wasn’t long before lightning struck the place.

The electricity spreading through the floor stung, but it was worth it.

I avoided the shaking earth and the lava giant’s fist, keeping an eye on where I could insert my dagger.

slam!

Then, for a moment, water began to fill the canal. Magma that comes into contact with water creates cloudy steam and then cools down.

Considering the experience of accidentally stepping on lava in a waterway and almost falling into it, it wasn’t a bad thing.

If the amount of water is not large enough to cover all of the magma, it is better to solidify it so that it does not fall into the channel.

In addition, this will reduce the radius at which lava spreads through the channel. The lava that comes into contact with water will harden on its own and become a wall.

Considering the future, this is still better.

I shuffled my feet, ignoring why the water was cold. The boots that skimmed the stone floor soon flew through the air.

bang!

A couple of volcanic bombs hit where I was.

[It’s so cute that it looks like a guinea pig just avoiding it from earlier. Oh, you know it’s a guinea pig? [It’s a rat this big...]

Guinea pigs are not from the rat family, but from the rat family, so it would be wrong to call them rats, you ignorant devil.

I held my breath, remembering the guinea pig that one of my friends had.

If he had heard that, he would have told me to stop acting stupid and get the hell out of the way because it would make me feel ignorant. it’s a shame.

Pow!

In the meantime, my body, which had made its way through the lava, gave a flying kick to a lava mob.

I wanted to give him a drop kick, but I wasn’t confident that I could use the landing technique properly—and more than anything else, the floor was made of lava—so I gave up.

Of course, as if to make up for it, I stepped on the body of a mob that had fallen after being hit by a flying kick. Quang! Volcanic bombs and rock spears that had been stuck in the back precariously exploded, splashing lava.

Magma turned into a thorn in the air and aimed at me just in the nick of time.

Grrrr!

That’s not all. The lava giant changed his strategy from swinging his fist to throwing up as if he couldn’t get it to work.

Wow, the lava poured down like rain and targeted my upper body, which I could not protect.

[If you give up now, we can specially raise you instead of killing you, Grethen!]

“Get out.”

But I’ve already been through too many shitty moments to give in to something like this. Just today, the moment I was struck by lightning was even more embarrassing, so I said everything.

My body leapt forward to avoid the pouring magma. The few drops I couldn’t avoid melted my clothes and caused deep burns on my shoulders, but I was able to endure it. Being struck by lightning was even worse than this.

[Haha, yes. Actually, I didn’t even expect you to accept it.]

At that time, the demon in the middle of the lava began to move.

Will you come in person? A ray of hope rose in my heart, which seemed like it would be defeated by a long-distance attack.

[What were your expectations? Couldn’t you have suspected it instead?]

A volcanic bomb flew out instead of me.

Holy crap....

Quang!

What was more annoying was that it was quite different from regular volcanic bombs.

I pursed my lips as I watched the volcanic bomb rolling around, covered in thorn armor that had grown enormously – was it a thorn ball?

If it had been a filtered game, a few swear words that would have been changed to ♡♡ lingered on my tongue. It was almost laughable that I had pledged to cut down on swearing.

[Tell me if you feel like you’re going to die. Because I have to preserve it.]

Um, ah. Is one eye ripe?

I strengthened my legs and shoulders, thinking that I was going to have an eye-opening experience.

If you ask me why it’s so painful, I don’t know.

I think it’s too late to find out why. Fighting the devil is now closer to inertia than determination or resolution.

An inertia that is no different from taking a step towards the illusion of an ending.

Sigh.

So, even in a situation that only made me laugh, I stood up and pulled out my pierced shoulder. The spot where he was pierced by the sharp piece of wood is bleeding.

[But it’s surprising that you still have the strength to stand up.]

Sigh. Kill the guy who designed one of the few Great Evil raids to be completed in just 1 try. Make sure to kill the operator who tells you to break the new raid without any strategy.

I somehow covered up my dejection with a joke and took out a dagger to stop the bleeding.

The dagger, which had become red after being dipped into magma and then removed, was placed on top of the wound.

Chi profit.

Soldering burnt wounds. It has been a treatment for bleeding that has been around since ancient times. Or not.

[Aren’t you human? Could humans have such a tough life?]

Even though the nociceptive level has controlled the pain, does it still feel bad?

I let out a hot breath, feeling a new anger at that fact. Beetle. Even though I couldn’t feel the pain, the damage was steadily accumulating in my body, so my body shook for a while.

[Well... I guess that’s when I can suppress my anger over the bowl.]

But I can’t stop. I couldn’t stop.

‘I get angry when I’m wronged.’

As I said before, we have come too far to stop now.

‘Then I will kill that thing.’

I’m sorry.

I heard a metallic sound from somewhere and my hand clenched into a fist.

Pow pow pow. The sounds of a fierce battle were heard from the distant castle walls.

‘I’m going to tear that bastard to death somehow...!’

That’s another reason I can’t stop.

‘Fuck it, so get angry! ‘Take control of yourself!!’

A body that looked like it had been hit by lightning twice and was completely cooked stood upright.

“kill.”

Where is the two-hender? Oh, did you put it in? okay. I think it’s in inventory.

“devil.”

My body took a step forward again.

[There’s no way I’m going to watch that happen.]

‘Fuck you!’

Quang!

Suddenly, an enormous pressure hit my entire body. I had no idea what had attacked me.

It might have been a lightning strike or something else.

The accident was cut and stitched several times without even a scream coming out. I felt like I had skipped time.

Even the pain was so distant that it did not give any sensation. The world is white.

“...!”

[─But the entrance to the pantheon has been completed.]

Boom. So few seconds. Or a few minutes. My mind finally returned and I wandered around the world. Above my sense of distance, I vaguely feel that something is weighing down my body.

I saw that my family’s vision was blurring and pressing on me.

[Now even the hero can’t stop it.]

What crushed me was the hand of a huge rock.

...under.

I burst out laughing without even realizing it.

[Let’s go, devils.]

It was an unwinnable battle from the beginning.

It was a fight that could not be won in the first place.

[Because the destruction of the East will begin from today!]

I stared blankly at the back of the faceless devil. A black temple proudly revealed itself and countless swarms of demons pouring out of it.

I guess what he was preparing was something similar to an infinite summoning circle. If I had known this would happen, I would have gotten rid of the ritual altar first, even if it meant giving up my whole body.

‘Damn it. Hey, are you still on standby?!’

...Or even if I had known, would I have been able to get rid of it? I lowered my fluttering eyelids, remembering the futile attempts I made every time.

‘That guy doesn’t know the mechanism, so even if he does that, it’s not you!’

Is that possible? Even if I knew, I wouldn’t have been able to stop it.

I was convinced based on the fact that my whole body was weak and didn’t even seem to have limbs.

No matter how much I want to stop that, I can’t.

[It starts with this city. Kill every human in the city.]

Yeah, I can’t stop that.

Because I am weak and

that thing is too strong.

That thing broke the balance to the point where it was absurd, so I couldn’t win.

‘If we keep doing this, we’ll all die! ‘Not just you and me, but everyone in this area!’

Shii haircut. Is this a game? This, this, this....

My sadness at the lack of force grew, and then I felt bitterness at the unfairness and absurdity.

Why do I have to go through this shit? The most vivid anger melted and flowed over my distorted skin. Why do we have to fight this unreasonable fight? The emotions that had taken shape passed through the dark corners of my eyes and flowed down to my ears and down the back of my head, avoiding my ears.

It was the only organ in my body that did not listen, as if its nerves had been blocked, and that reflected my intentions.

‘Are you saying you don’t care!?’

But even that seems to be slowly getting out of control. It feels like the extremities of my limbs are missing and it is now difficult to even move my head. In fact, even this thought is the same. My hair keeps turning white as if I stayed up for three days and nights.

A thought is not a thought and a thought is not an accident. It’s hazy. I want to sleep.

‘Fuck shit shit!’

...If I sleep like this, I’ll feel comfortable.

‘Damn it. ‘Get up, get up!’

...If I die like this, no more.

‘wake up!’

...ah.

[I am the pantheon. What should we do with that?]

[You get ready to fight. Because my anger will awaken soon.]

I barely lifted my eyelids as Seongju’s words came to mind. “Because the lives of all those evacuating are at stake with you.” There was still work left for me to do.

[Yep.]

I did it because I had to, so I squeezed out the last of my strength. At that moment, the rock’s hand has stopped pressing me and is moving aside. The sky was opened.

Okay.

A flare appeared in my empty hand.

[Huh?]

Tak.

I moved my arm backwards so that the bottom of the flare hit the ground. When the trigger was activated, the flare started operating.

Piyuuuuuung!!

[Wow! Lord Pantheon, that guy has moved!]

[What is it yet?]

At first glance, I had that thought. Are there any people left worth coming here? Will the warrior group come here because they have enough energy left?

But... it doesn’t matter even if there isn’t one.

Even if they can’t help me... at least they will know the danger of this place through the flares.

pop!

The light shot into the sky exploded.

That was the last scene I saw.

“...You had a hard time. “Now... you can rest.”

My vision was cut off along with the gentle consolation.

There was a clang. There was a sound of something breaking.