"... Kai-kun, prepare for battle. This forest... is dying already"
"Forest of Ethereal Stars".
The place we reached was told as the strongest dungeon in Chengcheng, only to say that it was a terrible place that also eroded the national territory, already emitting a different atmosphere from the entrance.
Just a deep forest if only on the look of it. But the signs are different. It's like, yes, a giant demon lurks and wears this one. It's like he's after you, such a restless, fearful stir.
Even so, Rhue said this forest was' dying '.
"... the magic of the forest is rapidly diminishing. There's something, something that's going to kill all the woods ahead..."
"No way, is that the seven-star...? If so, wake up already..."
"Lord Rhue, what can we do?
"We'll take the shortest route to the deepest, probably already, the battle has begun"
"Already...... will you make it?
"I'll make it. Kai-kun, I really need a blow. I think it's probably an emergency. With all due force... here, I want you to make a straight path in this direction"
Rarely, when a serious and dangerous situation is imminent in the way that Lue asks me to take the full blow, I also become a Demon King and build my abilities.
A straight, everywhere blow... would be 'Heavenly Break “Ascension Dragon".
I immediately set my sword on the upper stage and concentrate my consciousness.
"Again... you're sure. Lord Caivon is the Lord of that demon."
"Yeah. That's what I'm going to say. Lue, give me the barrier. Everybody prepare for impact."
And he unleashed his full blow into this deep, vast forest.
"This is... the same thing as the grave earlier..."
"Nooo...? So what I saw earlier was a fake grave?"
"I don't even have a sword... but what's that big, beautiful thing?"
Waiting for us to move forward with a piece that looked exactly like Mr. Lue's hair decoration was a large room with a pedestal I spoke of, which I saw in the previous room, stabbed with some kind of sword.
However, as Zinnia said, there was an even more eye-catching, large, seemingly transparent mass sitting behind it, three meters long.
"It looks glowing, but that looks like a chunk of ice. The ice of magic... it's obvious that the magic around us is concentrated on one of those pieces."
"... Nao, Mackenzie. My one eye is the devil's eye, but apparently in that beautiful ice… something is there"
With that said, Mr. Zinnia walks flatly to the ice with Stasta.
Soon after we stopped, we moved to the front of the ice to make sure nothing happened, and then we went to the side.
"... Lord Nao. Maybe I'm the seven stars of our continent..."
"... is this the Seven Stars...?
"Um. Is there no inheritance about the seven stars of this continent? Like the look, or the name. Seven stars were famous in the semifinals I was at."
"Ugh... because you were already liberated... there's hardly any such inheritance here. Only that after many attempts at emancipation, no one returned..."
Yes. I don't know anything about the seven stars in this country either. Only the sealed place and the fact that 'many of the liberators summoned before me have failed in their long history'.
... Then could I have gotten this far... for the first time...?
"... no. It's called the hair decoration thing, it's called the loss of a sword... someone definitely got here. Someone... to this seven stars"
"Uhm... but Lord Nao, I can't abandon the possibility that this sealed being is not a seven-star... I don't think this' woman 'is a vicious being."
... Yes, it was a beautiful woman who was trapped in glowing ice.
An orange brown, beautifully long haired woman sleeps in the ice sadly closing her eyes. If you ask me, I don't see the presence of a woman as vicious.
"... with cute ears. Is it the beast man that lives on the Sardis continent? If I let you out, maybe I can touch your ears."
"What are you swallowing... but what should you do? The Liberator doesn't know how to free the Seven Stars in the first place... Lord Nao, what do you think?
"... something, it feels resonant. At the deepest end of the dungeon, there was a feeling similar to the door that only I could open… I wonder if she was the Seven Stars."
When I gently tried to reach for the ice, I felt some sign and immediately pulled over.
At the next moment, the ice grows even bigger in front of me, floating straight into the universe.
Follow it with your eyes, and there's...
"Ah... prepare for battle! Mr. Zinnia, he's an enemy!
"You... why are you here!
There he was, a man in a red robe floating in the universe and looking down on this one.
You can't even forget it. The man who made Stilia a body that couldn't fight my people.
Hate hatred is the first time I've come to this world that I've clearly identified someone as an enemy, but fear even greater than anger stitches my feet to the ground.
"I see, losing one of your people still doesn't break. Do I still have to crush you, the liberator? Or..."
"Huh! I knew it was the seven stars in that ice. Why are you interrupting liberation! Many want liberation, and yet why!
"Oh, yeah. Many people will want liberation. That would be the shock of stopping this war."
The opponent who met the end of the war after a existence that incited the appropriation of resources by dungeonization now appears to the Seven Stars.
He was after me...? No, not to look at it from the mouth.
"... connected?
"I can't do it well, but I saw a slight cut in the head. Well, you'll be connected. I'm here to ask how my beloved Seven Stars are feeling."
"... Nao, can we fight now?
"... Yes"
Seeking out information and finding out the truth is behind us.
I probably have to decide here and now. There's no way we can move on unless we knock him down here and get some information later.
Even Ginia, with more mobility than me, takes the back of a man who floats in the universe with incredible leap power. And then, distracted by that girlfriend, she poked at the gap that was born for a moment, rapidly growing and manipulating the plants that were lush on this occasion with Mr. McKenzie's surgery to create scaffolding in the universe as if it were a spider's nest.
Not if I give you a gap, not if I let you breathe. That magic, that attack, we have to decide the battle before it releases to us.
"You're fast, my daughter"
"It's not just fast."
Mr. Zinnia's sword plunders the robe and a small flame releases to her at the same time as the evasion.
However, the spreads stretched from the scaffolding and transformed plants prevent it, and at the same time Mr. Zinnia, who grabbed it, jumps off the scaffolding and leaves it hanging in the spreading, moving to the other side like a pendulum.
Fast, strong, and used to fighting in action. Obviously not like the last time, I'm not buying time to defend and endure, the aggressive time buyer was certainly distracting that man from me.
"Lord Nao, Nong is also a little impotent. Let's move forward, but we're good."
"Yes, Mr. McKenzie. I'll save my strength... to the limit."
Imagine the blow of Mr. Caivon, who is also my mentor.
Buried with a single blow, even the mighty enemy, the highest and most powerful blow.
Drop Mr. McKenzie off with the vibration of the sword and the flurry of power transmitted to his arms, horrified and felt while he was in his power.
"Top Demon Clan? You got a good handkerchief, liberator. She's better than just a woman human."
"Well, the Lord still sees the power of the opponent."
"Huh!?
You didn't think that he, the magician, would come forward, or that Mr. McKenzie, standing behind a man who was distracted by Mr. Zinnia, would cover each man with a wooden jar as he was.
The medium of the wax is the wand. Quickly move a wooden wand that has sucked its own magic for years, as part of its own body, his hidden balls.
It's his decision that this is how much you have to do to stop even Jinnia's attack.
"Penetrate every inch, Zinnia"
"I'm more clever"
An instantaneous, unstoppable disturbance thrust in the eye pierces and bursts through the mass of twilight many times.
Then there's the man in the robe with both hands and feet precisely pierced.
And he fell from the universe to the scaffold with a distressed voice as it was.
"Brilliant. I didn't know I would avoid only the noodles"
"...... It's weird to be handy. And less blood."
The fallen scaffold becomes the curse that captures the man as it is, and now an even bigger chunk of cuckoo finally crashes to the ground.
Something that weakens your hands!
"Get away from us both! Finish, 'Heavenly Break'!
I wave down a sword that siphons the light to its limits with the intention of erasing all of its curses.
The surrounding walls collapse with the roar, and the silhouette of the chunk of rice becomes smaller and smaller.
Even in appearance imitation, its power has been backed up by achievements so far.
"Lord Nao... don't be alarmed yet"
"All I have left is a scorching Dharma, but I feel signs inside"
When the running of light subsided, the wreckage of the impending collapse was rolling.
But when I tried to chase him, with the big explosion, it splashed on all sides.
And what showed up was - a man who wore out his robe, but stood firm on both feet.
"I'm alarmed, but I guess I'm sad - I'm short on offense. But I enjoyed it enough. I didn't think there was anything I could do about it before... one scale, is that as far as qualities go?
"Oh! Oh, my God, what are you talking about!
"I was going to turn it off... but, liberator, you're still going to swim a little more. But yeah, if you lost one and got this far - now you two?
Ha, ha, ha, ha. I listened too much to the conversation and gave them time.
Rising to space again, but now the wall collapses with an earlier blow, and it doesn't even reach Mr. Zinnia's leap.
Mr. McKenzie has also lost his wand due to earlier magic and has lost his fighting power.
A bad feeling, a feeling of death, an invisible fear creeps into my heart.
"Run, both of you! Behind me! Coming, that one's coming!!
"No! We all run away! Mackenzie, run!
"Chi! Evacuate!"
I don't know what kind of attack. But without Stilia's protection, the same blow, we can just get out of here in time.
"... I'm sorry, but this is purposeful behavior. I won't let you get away with it. I expect you to grow up again."
I can hear the man in the robe from behind. I have to run. I have to leave!
"... for nothing. If you strike straight, you die instantly, if you leave, you just live with a lethal disease."
When you see the exit of the ruins, suddenly the door closes.
"... ever... ever"
"... Huh! setup, isn't there somewhere"
"Originally, this was also an enemy land..."
The air changes. I don't know, it's like I feel when I'm sick, an unsavory, unsavory breath.
Iron-like, poorly understood taste fills the lungs.
"... Lord Nao. At least, by the side. The will of Nong et al. will surely be taken over by the next generation"
"... I guess I couldn't..."
Footsteps sound. No longer floats the universe, and a man appears as if he trampled without the will of this one to fight back.
"... Liberator, get away from there. You're gonna die, too."
"Then I'm not going anywhere"
"... then we have no choice. Let's hope for the next liberator."
At that moment, Mr. Zinnia, who was next to me, rushes out.
I hugged the man in the robe, and I heard a little whine -
"... thank you only now, Father"
And the next moment - a gust of wind blew out of her body with the running of light.
"Suicide bombing magic!? Oh man, what the hell did he teach you!?
"Huh! Mr. Ginia!
Severe roar and. Ruins that collapse.
Her blow glances at the light of the day when the ceiling collapses.
From there, as I said I could get out, she lays down slowly pointing with her fingers.
However, even such a blow to her life and death, the man continued to be Jen royal without breaking down his posture.
"Bad forelife. I'm sorry, but let me go first."
"Wait!"
For a moment in her too miserable way, the man in the robe goes out first in the gap where her leg stops.
Oh no... even Jinnia's open live-life...!
"... Operation first, I should have told you... because I'm not good at talking"
"Ginia, I need a healing pill now."
"I can use some magic without my cane... close your eyes a little."
Will this be the end of it?
From an empty hole in the ceiling, there is no sign of an attack.
Is it waiting for us to come out?
... I don't like it. At least I won't let it just unfold the way you want.
Stand in front of closed doors and save your strength for the good that no man is imminent.
Then, through the broken door in front of a running stream of released light, we went outside where inevitable death awaited us.
"... Now it's time to give up"
"Why did you try to keep only me alive? I know you want something from the liberators, but I don't like doing that. Here, I will resist with my people to the end."
"... when you resume? Protecting the two of us who can no longer fight?
"... right. Besides... you don't understand. When we're done here, someone who will inherit our will will will hunt you down. That's not even for me, strong, strong, really strong anywhere. As long as that person is around, your plan won't be fulfilled."
"... well. I heard good things about that. Who is it? I'd really like to see you."
Take the sword. I thought I'd tell you already. Like saying this is the end of the conversation.
Mr. McKenzie heads to the woods, holding Ginia who can't move and can move even if he can't fight.
"Hey, what... the forest is changing shape... there shouldn't have been such a straight path"
His grunt reached his ear, and the man looked down on me telling him to keep talking.
But at the same time, I found a sole other than a man floating in the universe.
"Yes, you'll see a future that's not near. To defeat you, that man..."
"Kuk - I'm looking forward to that. Are you coming to see me from the other side?"
Yeah. Maybe in less than two seconds...
At the next moment, the surrounding scenery is covered in dust with a roar.
But I did see it. I... look like that man with two wings spread over him!
The waved down blow was stopped by phenomenal reactions and stubbornness.
But that was it.
To kill the person who crashed, he relentlessly pulls off his limbs and covers each of them with ice, poking a blade through his remaining body.
By the time the smoke scratches out, a man with limbs just remains stitched to the ground.
"... why not die"
"... this surprised me..."
I'll block your mouth with ice, and now I'll ice your head off.
But the light in his eyes never went out, and he gave me a delightful look.
"... one hair or was it too late? Nao, this must be the enemy."
"Huh! Yes! It's an enemy, probably on this continent, the biggest enemy!
"... right. What about the injured? Lue and the others are on their way over here right now. I'm the only one who flew ahead, but I can do the least I can do."
"If that's the case, I'm hiding in the woods right now"
Nao you look really worn out, reddening around your eyes, loosening your hair, full of creativity, etc.
I would have fought with him, with deep respect, with old Mackenzie.
"... I knew you were Zinnia"
"... Yes, it's me! I fought hard!
Zinnia was there as her wings broke from half, her arms unnaturally dripping, and her legs strained.
With a much more discerning look than before, a joyful face, Ginia comes here supported by old Mackenzie.
"Ho ho! You really came! I didn't know you'd make it to an occasion like this, either! Kai, you saved me, you really saved me!
"... Grandpa Ken. You look pretty pale."
"What, a little magic just made up for what wasn't enough with vitality. Sleep and you'll be cured."
"! Oh, no, Mackenzie's life expectancy is gone"
"Hey, what the hell! Not so much. Wow, Ginnia's not excited. Just calm down a little."
It's lame. Nao, you, Ginia, and Grandpa Ken.
It's alive. It seems like a miracle that we're having this conversation right now.
Who is the person who caused it?
"I'll ask you just in case, Nao. This is the man who attacked Mr. Stilia and left the front."
"Ah... you know about us"
"Oh. I heard it directly from her. Everything that's ever happened."
"... you met him. Stilia... you were able to talk properly."
Again, it's this guy. It is this man who has transformed the power of nuclear energy, which is close to contraindications, into a real contradiction, into the power of destruction.
I feel like a man with his head covered in ice and who shouldn't even be able to breathe properly is still looking at me over the ice.
"... Again, not out of standard. I didn't know we were going to defeat him in an instant."
"But I haven't been able to kill him. You take your limbs, you pierce your heart, you block your mouth, but you're still alive."
"That's why... you're telling me it's undead?
"... I'll do a little research"
Eyes peeking through a torn hood. And distorted mouth. But the whole story remains hidden.
Then, with this power, I will be able to reveal who you are, and I will change the ability of the sword and put that figure in my sight.
[NAME] Yoruki Shosho Jung (Shousei)
[Race] Transcendent/Immortal
[Occupation] Liberator/Cleric
[Level] 899
[Title] The original liberator
Those who serve God.
those who enclose infinite lives
[Skills] Science Magic Instructor Creation Sealing Spiritual Manipulation
Stunning at its displayed content, it sighs of relief at the same time.
It's not a ghoul... it's someone else.
But there was no doubt that this guy was from Japan, too.
"... apparently we need to listen to all the circumstances from this guy. But when it's done, I'll figure out a way to kill it. He's the one who should never be left alive."
"Hmm...?
"Oh, that! If Mr. Rue is on his way here... I'd like to ask her about this."
Then, Nao, you took the familiar hair ornament out of your nostalgia and showed it to me.
Definitely, Lue's hair decoration... its one crack.
"Nao, where did you get this?
"Behind the ruins, it was the key to opening the last door. If she knew anything..."
"No, this is originally from this continent. I'm listening to my original owner. Can I take care of that?
"Yes, of course it is. So... it looks like Mr. Rue has nothing to do with this place."
Is this the key? Did you know that one crack would be the key?
Being familiar with this ruin? Who the hell is this guy?
"Full of mysteries... right"
"... Yes. But I paved the way. Now we're going to be able to give Stiglia a good report..."
They're on their way here now. If you go straight at speed, you'll get there in less than half a day.
By then, this one needs to be somewhat ready.
"If you're not dying, don't hesitate. Nao, can you pick up your hands and feet rolling over there?
"Ha... yes. You're relentlessly variant...... I can't believe this isn't even dead"
"... you lived and endured so well with such an opponent"
Put your hands gently on his head, who has picked up and collected his hands and feet by surprise.
"Nao, you. Really got stronger. Mind and body."
"... Yes! Thank you very, very much, Mr. Caivon."
Ginia approached Hyoko after only a little treatment when he started crying and was confused by the unspeakable guilt that only a girl really seemed to see because her hair was getting loose.
"Dear Kaivon. Please stroke me, too. We've collected a lot of information."
"Haha...... it's true. It is because of Ginia that we live. She was very, very helpful."
"Ha, well. Ginia, as a guild person, I'm sure there are parts of Oink that piss me off. But what Zinnia did was very splendid and proud. I just want you to take care of yourself a little more if you can."
Put your hands on the golden hair.
I stroke up the head of my daughter, who once took away her real parents.
Even though I feel a little bit more complicated about accepting it happily, I'm convinced that it's also an emotion I should swallow.
"Well done, Ginia. Great, that's great. When Lue gets here, we need you to heal your body."
"Huh! Yes! More, more strokes, please! Praise me! This is what it feels like to have your parents praise you."
"Huh!? Are you Mr. Caivon's daughter after all?!?
"No, that's not what I'm saying... it's a little complicated."
"How good would it have been if Master Caivon had been his father..."
Even if the air drifts out just a little soothing, you should finish the job first, put together all the limbs and bodies you can take and ice marinate them, and activate the Dark Demon Instruction, turning them into lumps that will never melt.
"... now you should never be able to move unless I disarm you. I'll have Lue sealed tighter when he gets here."
"Seal... yes, seal! Mr. Caivon, behind this ruin, there were seven stars there! We have to make sure of that!
"! Well, there was that one too! Nao, show me around."
Words Lue was saying at the entrance to the woods. If that thing had anything to do with the Seven Stars, it would mean that something is starting to go wrong.
I left him to guide me and push the rubble behind the ruins.