BLACK MOON - Black Magic War Beginning with Jailbreak - [Full story illustration available]
Episode 137: The Ruler of Fantasy Dreams [Illustrated]
"I'm gonna kill you from the start."
Jackass grabs the black wings that emerged from nowhere with his right hand and breathes softly.
Then, a mass of dreams drifting around Elba happened to turn into countless blades.
Countless blades move at a fierce speed toward Elba so as to follow the moving Jackass fingers. A rain of flanking wings instantly struck the body of Emperor Elba.
"Ku... Ku Ku"
Elba's body, unable to cope with the sudden attack, was the food for a blade of blades that constantly struck. The blades relentlessly strike Elba, leaving countless cuts on his body to go. Wings moving at high speeds boast high killing power, and if you keep hitting the wings like this, Elba will not be safe either.
But the countless wings that were hitting Elba suddenly stopped attacking. I thought so, and the wings returned to the hunk of my dream again.
The chunk of dreams then turned into such a giant hand that it completely covered Elba's body. That hand like a giant, shortly after it appeared, held Elba's body and restrained him.
"Can't you even resist? Even with comparable power, the difference in strength is clear."
"Leave me alone. If you want to win this battle, you lose this battle."
"You don't talk great, you have a human face."
Jackass gradually let Elba go, just to keep her quiet and under attack. Elba has only used that power once to say that we are in a dream where we can unfortunately demonstrate each other's power.
"Just die."
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Jackass' attack will then resume without Elba fighting back. He breathed on one feather again.
Then, now a giant fist that emerged from nowhere punches Elba's body downward.
With that in mind, fist rain poured from above Elba. I guess I'm instantly changing the chunks of my dreams to produce countless fistfights. The unceasing fist rain relentlessly hurts Elba's body.
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Every pouring fist was heavy, and every time he received it, Elba was leaking a sorrowful breath. The green cloak that Elba was putting together seeps blood, and the armor he is wearing is snagging, compressing his body. Elba, who is seen bleeding everywhere in her body, was on the verge of dying early in the war.
"What, you want to end up getting killed by an adult... you"
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"... even in your dreams, you feel pain."
"What?"
"No, maybe the pain in my dreams is heavier than reality...... I'm not dead yet"
"Is that Antado M? If you don't want to die, why don't you fight back a little?
"I don't care if you don't tell me, I'm going to"
As Elba clenched his right fist, the mass of dreams around him immediately enveloped his body.
“If you're swallowed up by a hunk of distorted dreams, you'll never wake up again”
That's what Isaac said one day, but not in the case of the surgeon. For the surgeon, the lump of dreams was the most powerful item to transform into all things.
The chunks of dreams that were wrapping Elba gradually grew smaller and eventually melted into his body. It was Elba, full of creation, who was there until just now, but now he was back intact. For the ruler of phantom dreams, the world of dreams is exactly the space where you can do everything you want.
"He would have died if it wasn't for me. I know how strong you are. Well, let me fight back."
"You have to come. It's funny."
Elba's counterattack finally begins. When the emperor puts his hands at his feet, the likes of multiple squirrels surround Jackass.
The twisting, moving twitch was eventually covered so as to envelop Jackass. One by one, the bamboo is covered so as to fill the gap, and Jackass is completely trapped.
The prison created by Elba was shaped like a bud. Jackass, trapped inside, somehow didn't try to get out of there. Like Elba earlier, I guess he's trying to observe enemy moves.
Pattin...
Signalling that the emperor rang his fingers, the buds that trapped the devil began to shrink abruptly. Do you even think about crushing the Jackass trapped inside?
But the buds never crushed the devil. The buds disappeared into Jackass's body as if they were absorbed. Are you saying that Jackass' black magic (Grimoire) was better than Elba's ability?
"What are you going to do?
Jackass sighed in dismay at the unintentional Elba attack. But at that moment, the change happened.
A beautiful, brilliant petal suddenly popped out of Jackass's body. Several flowing petals splashed around Jackass brilliantly.
"Bloom out."
And using Elba's words as a signal, there will be further changes. The whole body of Jackass was bloomed with flowers like cashmere.
The instantly blooming flowers cover Jackass's entire body with glow.
"Kaha!
The demon under the beautiful attack of the emperor bled out of his mouth. Perhaps the body was torn from within by those flowers. Elba's attacks were no longer jabs or anything like that. That's a real special attack that's not out of hand at all.
"That's the emperor. Well, I don't know if they're gonna do it."
"If you let me die to that extent, I'll clap this one out"
Still, Jackass had an extra grin. This is the world of dreams. Everything is different from reality. If you don't strike an attack that will wipe out your opponent with one blow instead of inflicting a fatal injury, you won't win or lose.
"That's what you say. You're dying."
When he finished recovering, as did Elba, Jackass's counterattack began. Now instead of turning a chunk of a dream into something, Jackass tries to wrap Elba's body with the chunk of a dream itself.
Elba, too, tried to seal Jackass's movements with the same hands. Neither will the emperor be shut up anymore.
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Eventually, the emperor and the devil were both swallowed up by a chunk of dreams.
From there, often silence dominates the world of dreams. What happened to the two people who were swallowed up by the chunks of their dreams?
Bass, bass.
Breaking the silence was the sound of something winging.
A swarm of white birds appeared from a dream mass wrapped in elba, and a swarm of black bats appeared from a dream mass wrapped in jackasses.
The white herd and the black herd, when they appear, begin to advance towards each other.
Countless birds and bats bump into each other's bodies, and the two flocks gradually go smaller. The two different herds had not yet retained their original appearance.
The white herd had at some point turned into a scratchy elba. Similarly, the black herd became a scratchy jackass. Even if you hit a similar attack, the damage dealt is the same.
The two phantom dream rulers, who have recovered once more, resume the attack shortly after resting. Great tsunamis, tornadoes, and inexhaustible weapons. In the world of dreams, you can quickly produce what you imagine.
That is the privilege granted to the ruler of phantom dreams.
But no matter how long they continued to attack, there was no settlement, and the two forces were completely antagonistic.
"Apparently, me and your powers are mutually reinforcing"
"You don't like it."
"Even if you don't like it, that's the truth. If this happens, you and I will lose."
"This is a dream world, isn't it? I can twist as much truth as I want."
"Well, that sounds really devilish."
"It doesn't look like you're sparing any time."
At the end of the conversation, Jackass began to make a different move. Previously, Jackass had grabbed one of his wings and breathed.
But this time, he began to spread his hands slowly.
Then the twelve wings I could carry on my back opened wide and Jackass looked many times bigger.
And Jackass's characteristic pale eyes glow suspiciously. Not only that, but even the pale jewels on the necklace top I wore glowed equally.
"... Something's coming”
Elba sensed that Jackass was about to launch an attack with a different dimension from what he had ever done.
Elba also went into some action to prepare for an unknown attack.
As he gradually waved up his right hand, a barrier emerged from nowhere enveloped Elba. To respond to attacks from all directions, the barrier that wrapped Elba changed shape to an egg shape.
Niya...
When Jackass had a creepy grin, from the twelve wings, the black wings began to fall out in unison. Eventually, all the wings disappear from Jackass's back.
A bunch of black wings dance around Jackass, and each of them begins to dazzle.
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After a while, regularity had begun to emerge in the movement of blades clustered with light. When a shining blade moves, a line of light is left in its trajectory. Thousands of blades moving regularly seemed somewhat patterned.
The muscle of light drawn by the wings extends everywhere through the world of dreams. Still, Elba didn't understand what Jackass was trying to do.
Jackass painted a supermassive magic formation in an infinitely spreading world of dreams.
The immense magic formations depicted by the light extend as far as they can see. The world of dreams, which was dim, had begun to shine bright, by the magic of light.
It was a time when few people used black magic (Grimoire). This was the moment Elba first witnessed the magic formation.
Jackass was trying to activate black magic (Grimoire) that no one could imagine. The magic formations that Jackass portrayed were so enormous that even Belle, who lived in the modern age, had never seen them before. If you try to portray this immense magic formation in the real world without interruption, it will be enough to completely overshadow the city of Elixirs.
From the muscles of light running into the world of dreams there were always countless little lights popping up like shooting stars.
I sew between the chunks of my dreams, and the light muscles go on. The sight was a very beautiful one, but Elba felt a dangerous atmosphere somewhere.
"It's time to settle."
Gokuri...
Elba felt a life-threatening threat to Jackass's black magic (Grimoire). To prepare for the incoming Jackass martial arts, Jackass multiplied egg-shaped barriers and increased his defense.
"Unlike reality, the world of dreams doesn't affect our surroundings no matter how much we smash it. There's no other battlefield like this, is there?
"The world of dreams is never a place to fight. A place to connect with people's memories."
"Leave me alone now. I don't think I'll ever hear from you again."
"I'm dying!
"Die... over."
As soon as Jackass says so, more dazzling light emanates from the magic formations stretched out to every corner of the world of dreams.
That light covers the entire world of dreams and deprives Elba of his sight. What the hell is going on in a dream world filled with light? Elba couldn't guess and measure it.
"What the hell is going on..."
I don't know what's going on in the dream world, but I was only certain Elba was still safe. Jackass set something up was a fact he didn't want to deny, but nothing extraordinary has changed except that his vision has been taken away.
After a while, the dazzling light that had covered the entire world of dreams disappeared.
Having regained his sight, Elba looks around in a hurry, but spreading there was a view almost the same as before. The magic formations also remain brilliant, surrounded by lumps of dreams.
"... you ran away?
There was only one change. It was that Jackass could not be seen around. In the dream world without Jackass, there was a creepy tranquility.
"Wasn't that black magic (Grimoire)...? Why we need to escape...... that blade wasn't a signal of attack"
Elba couldn't hide the upset from the assassin who disappeared without killing the subject. Jackass would certainly have been trying to set up some kind of grand moves then.
Jackass was always using his back blades when attacking. Did you really just take Elba's sight in order to escape?
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However, the discomfort that Elba had would soon be scratched off. As Elba glanced around, it became clear that certain changes were happening.
The change was in the magic formations that were spreading throughout the world of dreams.
The rays of light that made up the magic formation were beginning to scatter as if they were paper blizzards. The magic formations that were strewn all around him scattered away as they looked around.
The sight was like powdered snow falling down.
This was the beginning of the end. While I was in love with that beautiful landscape somewhere, there was a new change in the world of dreams. The world of dreams was beginning to collapse, not only in the magic formations, but also on one side of the perimeter.
As the stacked brick walls collapse and go, the world of dreams collapses without sound. Even the chunks of dreams that cover this world collapse and go.
The wave of collapse was gradually approaching Elba.
"I didn't know I could do this kind of artistry... did I? If we set that move up, what exists in this world will collapse without exception. Is that why you ran away?"
Elba was flabbergasted to see the world beginning to collapse. The big trick Jackass set up with all his wings was to crumble this world.
And Elba soon realized why Jackass had escaped. If we stay in this world, even the sorcerer will disappear.
"No, if that demon and my powers are mutually reinforcing, we might be able to stop this collapse"
It was Elba, who had been taken abandoned in disquiet, but had not yet given up hope. During previous battles, Elba was reminded many times that her powers were mutually reinforcing with Jackass. If the forces were mutual, there was ample chance that we could stop the collapse of this world.
"Ho ⁉⁉ə"
By this time, however, the chunks of dreams had already stopped listening to Elba. He was an emperor desperate to stop the collapse of the world, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not use magic.
Are you saying that in this dream Elba is no longer the ruler of phantom dreams?
You're saying, "He was more powerful..."
Eventually, even the multiple barriers protecting Elba were about to be swallowed by the wave of collapse. As if to mock Elba, the wave of collapse is just that far away. No one can stop this collapse anymore.
When the wave of collapse reaches, the egg-shaped barriers collapse from the outside in sequence. This proved that Elba's power did not extend to Jackass.
"Here..."
Elba reaches forward with her right hand, trying to resist something.
But even the extended hand began to collapse.
Then, the wave of collapse reached Elba's body. The emperor's body was slowly starting to scatter from his right hand, like a paper blizzard.
No longer have the ability to hit it. The wave of collapse relentlessly erodes Elba's body.
"You can't die..."
Even his mouth finally collapsed before Elba finished saying his final words. Then it didn't take that long until the whole body of Emperor Elba disappeared.
The emperor's final cry echoes in a world that collapses without sound.
Even that got swallowed up by a silent world. No one exists in this world of dreams anymore. Has this brought the assassination of the Emperor to a close?
"You said Elba War earlier, didn't you?
"Yes, a great war broke out between the Imperial Army and the rebels, involving the people. I hear the emperor lost his life after that spectacular feud."
"Hum... makes me laugh. Who the hell told you that story?"
"No way... are you telling me the truth about the Elba War right now?
"That's right. Historical reality is different from reality. History as it is recited by the winners who survived in future generations. That's not necessarily the truth. I guess he wanted to dramatically tailor the assassination of the Emperor.
Only there was a battle between me, the emperor, and the devil. The dictatorial politics I had at the time had certainly tormented the people. But Gigi's experiment with possession actually “involved the people." It was the different shapes that made her sacrifice, too. Maybe the result left behind was the right one, but the way it was done was extremely dangerous "
History can only be written by the winner. That was one of the things Elba wanted to tell you.
The war known by many humans living in modern times as the "Elba War” did not really exist. The person who said Gigi, who laid the foundations of the present world, must have made up the story in a grand way.
"Wait a minute, please. Is that the unbelievable truth?
"I'm not done talking yet. On the contrary, I haven't actually finished talking about that fight yet either. Don't be in such a hurry, we're just getting started."
The Elba War did not exist. Sure, that truth may be shocking, but for Knight, that wasn't enough to say it was incredible.
The Elba War may not have existed, but it is true that the Elba Empire came to an end by the rebels.
Naturally, "incredible truth” was not the truth about the Elba War. Elba should have been defeated just now, but what do you mean the battle is not over?