Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Earlier God seemed to have targeted Waltz and Lucia, but the angels seemed to only aim to stop them.

Is that why the hunter is still alive when he says he is confronted one-on-one with an angel?

"... I understand that"

In front of a hunter who had lost his will, a female angel who had stopped acting in the same way uttered such words in a respectful manner towards the transparent sphere he had taken out at some point.

"I'm going home from this."

Apparently, he was in conversation with the Lord by magic or something, and the return order was given.

... I mean, the task she was talking about is done, is that it?

It was when such a female angel tried to use metastatic magic.

"Get my family... what's going on?

A hunter who asks an angel if it's because of too much agitation, without paying attention to a dagger who fell to the ground and has nothing to gain.

"Sorry, we haven't heard that much, so we can't explain it."

An angel answered the hunter's question only mechanically.

And

"See you at another time..."

With his head bowed and greeted, the angel shifted and disappeared.

Dossa...

Hunters entering the ground.

Then the waltzes come there.

"... Mr. Hunter..."

Waltz speaks to a hunter who has no light in his eyes and sits around somewhere like a crisp marionette.

It should be noted that the waltzes did not come late.

It seemed that the hunters were fighting one another with angels, so they did not speak up.

But because of that this time, I think I missed the angel.

A hunter who doesn't respond to the waltz voice he's been talking to.

But against her like that,

"Mr. Hunter!!

Lucia screamed out loud.

"It's not over yet, Mr. Hunter! We haven't checked to make sure everyone's okay, have we?

Then the light returns to the hunter's eyes.

"... oh... yeah. Right. It's still too early to give up...!

Hearing Lucia's words, the hunter apparently realized, up to this moment, that he had given up without even looking at the results.

"Ugh! Go find everyone!

Lucia offered her hand to the hunter, and the hunter shook her hand back.

Waltz, who saw such an exchange between the two,

(Lucia... something, aren't you getting stronger? Various...)

Soon he turned his questionable expression to Lucia, who looked peeled off.

And the Waltz and the others come to the Count's mansion after circling the entire town of South Fortress.

... the journey to this point was scattered.

Burning houses and buildings with no traces left.

Big explosion marks all over the stalls that crushed Peppan.

Earlier, Waltz and the others didn't know what South Fortress looked like.

Especially for a hunter from this city, he couldn't stand the way his hometown was becoming doomed, holding his chest down from time to time, and he was limping.

Was the blood seeping out of your lips and palms out of the remorse caused by the destruction of the town... or was it to excite yourself that might still stop?

But still, I guess I didn't stop there because I wanted to make sure my family, the people I knew, and the people in town were okay.

And she returned with her own feet unto her house.

"Huh!!

But that seemed to be her limit.

Lucia losing words to that sight.

Waltz also had an unfortunate gaze.

What came into their eyes.

It's

"... Wow...!!

... was the figure of the Count's mansion, which had disappeared without any trace.

A hunter crying out loud.

Not knowing what to say to such a hunter, Lucia was tearing her teeth together so powerfully that the color of her fingers on both hands turned bright white.

Something you can't help, even if you have the strength.

Seeing that, he seemed powerless.

And Waltz... couldn't talk to the hunter.

Then about an hour later.

Waltz finally speaks to the hunter who is squatting (groaning) with his eyes bright red and his knees held.

"... Mr. Hunter..."

Waltz, who doesn't know what to cut out, simply mouthed her name.

... then,

"... everything is gone..."

The hunter starts talking in a plundered voice.

"... back in the day, I used to get out of the house... Father and mother are overprotective... Eh..."

You remembered your parents, hunters stuck in words.

"... and... the gatekeepers and... all the knights... eh..."

"Uh... Um... Mr. Hunter?

... Waltz hangs his voice as he clasps his face for some reason.

"Just one word... will you listen to me?

And Waltz never said his will.

"It's not Lucia's word, but guys, you might still be safe...?

"Eh..."

A hunter whose face shivered with tears and snot accidentally looks up at Waltz's face.

"Uh, have I forgotten? The emergency escape passage we built before."

Previously (two weeks ago), when the first 800,000 soldiers came to South Fortress, it was about a passage connecting underground space to South Fortress.

At that time, if the waltzes could not stop 800,000 soldiers, they would have evacuated the hole to the ground.

I hope that's utilized this time to escape the Angels' attack...

"And did the hunter see it? Somebody's hurt or dead."

Even though there was rubble, there were no bodies, even though they circled the city.

Even if he was alive somewhere, it wasn't weird.

"Oh, yeah!

Now realizing the matter, the hunter stood up, occasionally running towards the exit, which was at the Count's residence, hitting his body with rubble.

(Truth is, I should have told you a little sooner...)

Waltz thinks that as Waltz turns his eyes to a mentally worn hunter.

Sometimes I couldn't speak to the hunter who was disappointed when I saw the Count's mansion, but above all, if everyone was dead, I couldn't speak from the fear that I couldn't take responsibility for what I hoped to say.

"I totally forgot too because the town was broken..."

(... I guess I wasn't so impressed...)

Both the hunter and Lucia had forgotten about the massive trap that spread beneath the South Fortress, and Waltz leaned his head.

"Well, shall we go after the hunter too... but before we do"

That's what Waltz said, his eyes turned to the ring that was still floating in the sky as he blew up the flames.

"Lucia? Using metastatic magic to erase the arr... after all, it's hard, isn't it?

Now, with metastatic magic, the ring will probably never come back.

But for once, Lucia has completely run out of magic and lost her mind.

"Hmm... maybe not impossible, but I don't know what's gonna happen"

"Right... but when we're underground, when that ring falls, we can't deal with it..."

(Well, even if it falls, there's no more stuff to protect...)

Waltz I think with my eyes on what a burning city looks like.

However, it is not necessarily that the underlying ceiling will not collapse due to the impact of the fall of the ring, so it was necessary to deal with it before entering the basement.

"... by the way, what, you think you can shoot the beam?

Looks like Waltz came up with something.

"Beam will do as many shots as you want, okay?

... They can do nuclear weapons-class attacks as many times as they want.

"Then can you look through that ring and shoot me in the beam?

and waltz pointing directly above.

"Yeah, fine."

So said Lucia, holding her hand against the sky.

"Erm. Wait a minute."

And after stopping his sister, who was now about to shoot a beam, Waltz took a few beef jerkies out of the cargo container and included them in his mouth.

"... are you there?

Waltz pointing only one beef jerky at Lucia who seemed to want something somewhere.

"... but it's important to your sister..."

Lucia, who knows he's always stuck around in battle, said reluctantly.

"Important... no, it's definitely a problem without it, but there's still a lot..."

And, Waltz opened the cargo container and showed Lucia the contents.

"Plus, there's still plenty in the item box that the hunter has."

It should be noted that the source is the Mid-Eden dryer.

... Of course, I bought it for taxes.

"... uh... yeah. Well, just one."

That said Lucia received a beef jerky from Waltz.

... Note that don't tell hunters who are desperate to find their way down from the rubble to the basement.

And after eating, Lucia waved her hand toward the sky again.

"Shit!"

Dgowwwww!!

... Lucia fires a magenta-colored beam about 20 m in diameter from her palm (the palm of her), as if Waltz were to shoot a charged particle cannon from a no-motion.

And a beam that penetrates the ring without difficulty.

If this had happened, if the ring had met in good health, Lucia's offense would not have passed so easily.

(No, you don't have to be so strong... but you're shooting me in the corner!

Waltz also decided to start his own work.

After activating the antigravity reactor in a boosted state, Waltz generated supergravity on the axial line of Lucia's beam, especially on the part where the beam was penetrating the ring.

... then wind, clouds, flying demons, and huge fragments of rings flowing rapidly towards it.

(Wow... this is going to thin the air around here if you don't get it faster)

If we stay like this, it could also mean that we have caused a natural mutation as a result of protecting ourselves... etc.

So waltz to further increase the output of gravity control for hasty processing.

Then finally,

Goggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!

For the first time, the ring collapsed towards the beam (...) and went (...).

"Lucia. Move it like you know it!

"Yeah!"

Then the gradually moving beam, and the gravitational control of the waltz moving accordingly.

It is as if you are vacuuming dust in the form of rings.

(Hmmm... if you don't speed up more, the ring is going to fall first...)

buoyancy (lifting force?) Did you lose it, or a structure that doesn't now hold its shape as a ring begins to fall.

"Lucia, you can move it faster. I want to put it on before it crashes, please."

"Yeah, okay! I see!"

Then the firing position of Lucia's beam rapidly moved away from her palm...

And far from her,

Gowwwww!!

... the beam blew up.

No, I didn't exactly blow it up.

It got thicker suddenly.

And a beam about 500 m in diameter hits a structure over it.

"Take this!

And Lucia scolded the beam.

... results,

"Hey..."

(This... doesn't make sense that I was there?

In an instant, more than half of the rings left were gone.

"Can I do this?

"... right... I think it's perfect..."

Again, I feel Lucia's magic is extremely strong compared to before she passed out, Waltz.

"Yeah!"

Lucia waved her tail happily behind Waltz's concerns.

It finally helped my sister, I guess that's what you think.

So the waltzes came back to the hunter because there were no more obstacles in the sky.

(Nevertheless, who the hell was replying to the letter sent by Wang Du with transfer magic...)

Waltz didn't know when and why the Count's mansion collapsed, but until about two or three hours ago, a letter from Wang Du toward this building was delivered by transfer magic (?) should have been.

(And you replied that there was no abnormality, right?... Have you lost your correspondent's mind... or...)

Because it was a possibility he didn't really want to think about, Waltz decided to stop thinking once.

As we go through the debris for a while, we see the hunter.

Then she seemed to have found a buried entrance and exit, removing the rubble as she was desperate.

"Mr. Hunter, I'll help you"

That said, once we float the hunter and Lucia, the waltz blows the debris around us.

"... I'm sorry"

A hunter down on the ground broke open the iron door that led to the basement.

As far as what's going on inside from the table, there seems to be no collapse in the aisle.

"... go first"

With that said, a hunter without hesitation advances to a dark passage.

"... it's dark, but you can come in often... hunter"

"... I'm sure you're worried about everyone."

Lucia squeaks unintentionally at the hunter as if he were jumping himself into an empty creepy mouth on the ground.

It should be noted that it was she who created this passage.

"Shall we go too?"

"... yeah."

You don't like the dark, Lucia grabbing my sister's arm, but you seem to have made up your mind.

And Waltz and the others set foot in the passage to the basement.

There was no such thing as demons or traps in the underground passage leading to the underground.

Especially since it was the waltzes who made it, there was no way there was such a thing in the first place.

However, the lights (LED lights) that were supposed to be installed were off, which was something Waltz couldn't solve.

After a few kilometers or so, the command room for controlling the ground trap I had tried and installed came to the (...) place.

Then the hunter stood in front of a certain thing.

Look at that, sighing waltz and Lucia laying her eyes down.

What happened?

"... Altair."

Waltz mouths the name of him (or), even though he may be outside the kingdom.

... Yes, it was like blocking a cave, and a large mass of metal shaped like a door was sitting there.