Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Episode One Thousand Seventy Twenty-three: Maria of Benoa (II)

Maria told me about her less than six months in Lyohan, but also the details of how they were able to reach Lyohan before that.

Three men, Ruufa, Gloria, and Asura, took action in the streets of Setuna, and at that time let one who remained in the royal palace board a riverboat that had been prepared in advance. That includes Elina and her mother, Mireille. They also looked for Saris-Ellion, but said they couldn't find him in time. Of course, Faria and Miliu, who remain asleep, are also put on board the ship.

The ship left the earth as soon as the last battle over the King's Capital began. Combining the power of Ruufa's Silfed Feather, Gloria's Mayr Kelvim and Asura's Sky King is as easy as floating and moving a river ship. However, still how far I could fly, the question remained. In Setuna and Ruufa's initial thoughts, we have come to the conclusion that it is not only best to stay as far away from the main battlefield, near Gandion, but that it is sufficient to leave the Gandia mainland.

However, thanks to the hard work of the Luufa's men, the ships carried by the three armed summoners left the mainland of Gandia, crossing the Logner and Zalwarn sides. That's where he said he ran into a giant dragon. Ramles-Sypha Dorrus, the madman of Ethereal Clothes, accompanied Ufiria and appeared on the road. Both Ruufa and Maria seem prepared to die. But Ramles had no fine dust, such as his intention to strike the Luufa, but rather promised to take the Luufa to where he wanted them.

I didn't even have to ask what reason that suggestion of Ramles was based.

It would be Quon.

Quon must have given such instructions to Ramles and Ufiria. There are things that escape Gandhia, like protecting it if it's a Setuna associate and helping them leave the battlefield. It's about Quong. That much could have been done. He never had a personal heart. I can think and act purely for others. It's a boy named Quong who does it so flatly that he throws his life for someone he doesn't know. It was natural, in a way, to think that he was hitting something for Setuna.

He said.

I'll protect you. [M]

I guess that's not just about anything physical.

I'm sure it includes spiritual significance.

And in fact, it was told from Maria's mouth that Ramles and Ufiria had followed Setuna's imagination. They decided, in accordance with Quon's intentions, that there was nothing to leave the battlefield or that they were blindfolded, even though they were surprised when they found the flying ship, this was it.

The rendezvous with the Ramles was to greatly reduce the burden on the three Ruufa's, and the safety was no longer comparable. The ship was anchored to the giant body of the Ramles, for the mighty magical power of the Dragon protected the Marias near perfection.

The anomaly in the Wang capital came from then on, he said.

The Marias witnessed the demonic squares painted in the sky and the sight of the light emitted from the demonic squares penetrating the king's capital Gandion and everything swallowed up in the vortex of destruction. Not only the Wang capital, but the earth around the Wang capital was thoroughly crushed, and Marias, who was shown the likelihood that everything would disappear in the running of light, fell in despair and mourning. There should have been Setuna around the Wang capital, and I had no idea that Setuna and the others would be spared the storm of its breakdown. Everything drinks in the light, it breaks.

It's not just around Gandion.

The light that pierced the king's capital ran a ruinous ray in all directions around the king's capital, tearing the earth apart. Maria and the others saw the Wargrain continent split apart amidst the magic barrier of the Ramles.

Should the world be a doomed sight?

The mood of one of the people on the ship, including Maria, is beyond observation. Whether you cry, scream, moan, there's nothing you can do. I just had to despair.

Then Ramles, with the ship on his back, headed to Lyohan. Why? Because Ramles decided that Lyohan was the safest and just the right place to send the Marias. Ramles says that Lyohan is protected by the kingdom of God, and nothing can invade the land of Lyohan. Without knowing what was going on with the Marias, Ramles reached Lyohan and unloaded the ship carrying the Marias in Lyohan's aerial capital.

Lyohan was certainly spared the effects of “great destruction”.

Lyohan's existing Vashtarian community forces were also destroyed by an unprecedented disaster later known as the Great Destruction, which tore them apart into three main pieces. Lyohan did not suffer any damage.

The reason for this was immediately revealed.

Because, as Ramles put it, Lyohan had a patron saint.

The patron saint's name is Malik.

Yes, it's about that youngest four heavenly samurai, Malik-Majik.

When Maria came along like that, neither Setuna nor Rem were able to block the surprising, less open mouth.

Maria said she couldn't believe it at first either, but she actually understood it by face-to-face with Malik.

Malik-Majik was not originally human. He was a god of sorts, called the drifting god, who obtained flesh by encounter with Fariah-Baldish, and behaved like a human being. It returned to God again because of the judgment that Lyohan would not have been able to protect him if he had not made that decision, and that Lyohan would have been doomed away by “great destruction” for overtaking Vashtarian onslaught.

Anyway, Lyohan was protected by Malik, who revealed himself as God, and Maria and the others were to live in Lyohan.

That was about two years ago.

Then for six months, Maria stays in Lyohan.

Of all the events that have taken place in the course of six months, it is not what we have to tell Setuna, she said. But that's all I have to tell you, one thing.

"Faria became a goddess of war."

Setuna was no more shocked than she thought when Maria, who had laid her back on the lab chair, told her as she lay her eyes down. On a bench, groaning.

"Yes..."

I know why.

If Faria was alive and she was in Lyohan, I couldn't think of any other options. Lyohan will surely seek a goddess of war, and Faria will accept that. If she's strong enough to be too responsible and highly conjectured, she must think there's no other way out than to do so. In fact, maybe there's no other way. In order for Lyohan, who has lost his spiritual pillar of the Great Faria, to live the world after the Great Destruction, he needs a successor to the Goddess of War.

With that in mind, I can imagine that Faria would be a goddess of war.

"You're not surprised, are you?

"Well, if you hear that Faria is in Lyohan, you can imagine, right?

"... yeah, well, yeah"

"Because Master Faria is like a chunk of responsibility"

"You're right. You're right..."

Maria seemed strongly sympathetic to Rem's words. Rem, of course, stays in a wheelchair. The wheelchair rests next to Setuna's sitting bench.

"That kid is too responsible, and he wants to carry everything in, all by himself. All the while I was in Lyohan, she was desperate to fulfill her duties as a goddess of war. How can I behave correctly as a goddess of war? What shall I do to guide one of Lyohan? I hear the goddess of war was too great, so it must be very difficult to carry on after that."

But Maria distorts her expression spicidly.

"All this time, it's like they're hunting me down, and I couldn't watch it."

The position and responsibility of the goddess of war, she says, is about to be crushed by heavy pressure.

"I wanted to help you do it. But, you know, I can't do it then. Anyone but me, I can't. I can't help her. She doesn't need any help. That kid is not weak. Rather, it's strong enough."

Maria's Faria review shoots at the target. Faria is never a weak person. If you divide it by classification, you'll be in a strong person. But that's not everything. Human beings have weak parts, brittle parts. No matter how strong you are, you can't be completely indispensable. That would no longer be human. A human being is an imperfect creature. No matter what kind of person you are, there is always something missing.

Even the quon that Setuna sees as the perfect person, yes.

He has the fatal drawback of not being able to deduce the minds of others.

As well as that, Falia has weaknesses. On the surface, there are brittle areas that are never visible.

"It's so strong it's too pure, that it's going to break one day. We were worried. Then she thinks it's her fault to make her worry like that. What do you think will happen then?

"Can you even worry..."

"Yes. If you're worried, you'll be burdened. Worrying about Faria becomes contraindicated. But, you know, that's not gonna solve it, is it?

"... oh"

"Somebody's got to be there for that kid... there's only one person who can do that"

Maria raised her face, lying down. Blue eyes look at Setuna.

"You're the only one left, Setsuna."

"... yeah"

"So you should go to Lyohan. I need to fly right away and support Faria."

"Right... right"

Denial, I didn't.

Setuna herself, listening to Maria's painful appeal, was eager to fly right away. I wanted to come back to Faria at this moment and support her. It may seem a little thought-provoking that only I can support her. Still, I can't help but think so. I have to believe that. Her words. Her thoughts. A number of scenarios through the back of the brain.

Setuna thought of Faria, staring into Maria's eyes. I missed you. There was so much I wanted to talk about. I want to apologize. I want to tell you something.

Thoughts are going to Lyohan.