Far before Kate and Tina returned with Heavenly Cherry Blossom School. Even more so than when the kites ran through the turmoil. Still before Tina took office as Demon King. Neither the Empire of Entesia nor the State of Luxerion, no, when most of the countries of the Enesian continent did not exist.

This was back then. The end of the rebel war. days before the battle, which will be the final showdown. In a room with a certain fort, a pure white young man, or Ixphos, was bending his knees and baring his breath.

"Ho ho! Huh... Huh... Huh..."

"Ikes! Don't fall down! If you fall, everything will go bankrupt! Aur! Hurry up and get me some healing pills!

"Yes!"

Seeing Ixphos fall into a depression with a bright blue face, Jake hurries to send instructions to his surrounding companions. The battle is over now. Almost there, where the Mars Empire can be defeated.

However, the power of Ixphos was necessary in order to win the final match. It was difficult for him to fall, either in a strategic sense or in the sense of spiritual support in a situation where he was surrounded by millions of troops.

"Hey, give me a break..."

"Don't make a weak noise"

"Whoo!

Justitia pushes a vial of recovery pills forcefully into the mouth of Ixfoss, who was held up by Jake and sounds weak with a bright blue face to make him drink.

The reason he was roughing up his breath was simple, because he used his magic to the extreme. As such, the Ixphos after drinking is slightly, but breathes well.

"Ha... ha..."

"Sister...... treat him a little more gently?

"Hmm. This guy's fine now. Surprisingly sturdy body."

"But I'm so glad you're being nice to me..."

His face is still bright blue, but Ixfoss seems to have recovered, thanks to taking the finest recovery pills the rebels have, or enough to slap him lightly. With this, in five minutes, we'll be able to move. Jake, still holding on to Ixphos, asks him where he was in a hurry for such a light-hearted slap.

"Ikes. Light mouth is good. Where's Lord Lexide?

"Oh, yeah. He said he'd join us."

"Good! Put a blue circle in Lord Lexide's formation! The numbers are five!

Ixfoss, who regains his blood as he sees it, looks at Jake, who starts sending instructions, slowly, but rises.

They're all moving. I couldn't be the only one resting here, I couldn't. but the boulder still seemed a little impossible. I fluttered quickly, his body twitched, and wobbled.

"Oh, whoa..."

"Oh, hey!

Yustizia rushes to support Ixphos' body, which rocked. She also said that Ixphos is important to bring her recovery pills first. Well, he's my beloved husband, so naturally.

Even more from the other side, the heavenly youth supported Ixphos, which was thus supported by Justizia. He had a laid-back vibe somewhere similar to Aura's.

"Ikes, just rest in the chair. Exactly. The Rhine Emperor still hasn't moved."

"Oh...... sorry. Hermes, who are you?

"Hmm. I'm not showing any anxiety because your Lord is here."

Asked and answered by Ixphos, who sat in the chair, he was a fairly young, almost wrinkle-free hermetic than he was when he traveled with Kite.

Earlier heavenly youth, his son. That is, he was the father of later Aura. The name is Aur. He was the young man who went to pick up the recovery pills at Jake's behest first.

"Right...... so, Jake. Where do I go next?

"... yet, can we go?

"Yeah. I can still transfer"

Ixfoss, with his complexion back, nods to Jake's inquiry. What Ixfoss was doing now, in the simplest terms, is metastasis. That said, it wasn't a metastasis with magic used by Kate and Tina, it was a special spatial metastasis, one of his special powers. It was repeated many times.

But Jake didn't really believe in Ixfoss' response. Anyway, it wasn't just once that I fell. In the last few days, Ixfoss had fallen, probably in enough numbers for both fingers.

Whenever it also increases in number, its interval is shorter. It didn't even fall 10 times in a row at first, but it had fallen three times earlier.

But now, it wasn't a good place to end. The operation is still on the way. I still need to have my metastases done again and again. It also uses a certain amount of power in parallel. So as it showed, as Jake continued to look into Ixfoss' eyes, he shook his head, as he surrendered.

"... sorry. Pretty tough, 'cause we have to do spatial quarantine together..."

"I know I can't... but just a little more, please"

"Oh, I know. If I rest a little longer, I'll be back."

"Sorry."

To Ixfoss' words, Jake bows his head. Another thing he does is one of his powers, which is said to be spatial isolation. Read it as it is, and as the words say, isolate the space, and make it less aware of the situation inside.

But the use of these special powers, like normal sorcery, requires magic. It is true that it produces results much more efficiently than the sorcery of the same lineage, but still consumes the corresponding magic, depending on distance and scale. His fatigue was due in large part to the constant use of this spatial quarantine, especially on a huge scale. So Jake exhaled deeply after Ixphos disappeared alone for the operation.

"... I really wanted to wait a little longer... to expedite the decision on the operation. Lord Justiel, prepare for the use of the magic cannon at the top of the fort."

"Okay."

Justiel. With a very similar appearance to Justizia, she was the sister of Justizia. Formerly a researcher at the central laboratory of the Mars Empire with his sister Justizia, she also turned to Ixphos because she learned of the existence of an inhumane and tragic experiment and even more so because of the departure of her sister.

"... are you all ready?

To begin preparing for the battle, he drops off Justiel, who worked on his last preparations, and speaks out to the rebel executives and powerful men that Jake was rallying around.

No more time left. I would have liked to have waited a little longer for the enemy deserters, but Ixphos was the better limit. So at the same time as giving instructions for all preparations, we will communicate the decision of the operation.

"Lord Glaia. Thank you for your patience."

"Oh...... even though it was already out of contract, that idiot still fascinated me so much that I got here. Then let's join this battle with the rest of our will. That said, I'm not really involved in the fight. Out of balance."

"Still, thank you."

Jake bows his head to Graia, who will actively take care of sweeping the miscellaneous fish even though he can barely help. She's the one who made it through this fight. Therefore, the words were full of sentiment.

So, even more, a few days. Jake tells Ixphos that he's all set for Ixphos, who no longer takes healing pills but remains bright blue in the face.

"Ikes. All set"

"What about those guys?

"Now Lord Hermes is evacuating us to underground structures."

Those are the evacuees who have been relying on them to evacuate Ixfoss. The battle is already close, and this fort is going to be used for the shovel - or the attack has been hiccupied for about a week now. It was a rush, but they decided to evacuate it to the underground evacuation zone they had created knowing the enemy's raid.

"… with signals, solve the spatial quarantine in turn. I note everything in order, like it's okay for me to die. In this order, disarm."

"Don't say anything, come back without dying."

With a bright blue face, Ixfoss smiles brightly that doesn't make him feel it and tells Jake with a laugh. The smile is like the sun, something that appeases everyone. Everyone was finding hope in this Hell's Age.

"Well...... that would be hard. Whatever we do, we go to the center of the enemy. It is a direct assault on the main force led by Emperor Rhine. If I could go home alive, it would be your word."

Jake, to be honest, stabbed me wrong at this time. But he was going to defeat Emperor Rhine. So, with the last intention, I bowed my head to Ixphos.

"Thank you, Ikes. Thanks to you, I had hope... so for tomorrow's hope, I won't die. Don't you die, too."

"Whoa!"

Ixphos nods, laughing at the words, unaware of the slightest lie. That way, Jake leaves Ixphos, whose magic drain is no longer extreme enough to move, behind the scene.

Naturally, I can't put Ixfoss in a situation like this on the battlefield. It was his people who greeted him that way out of the room.

"Aur, don't bother Lord Glaia."

"I know, Dad. You can't give a girl a hand because there's no father, no me, no Jake."

"I won't let you out. Because my mother scolds me so much... Lord Glaia. Please say hello to my son."

"Mm-hmm. Well, the rest would be sweeping the miscellaneous fish, mostly switching fights with the guy. It will be safest, mainly because of support from above."

To Hermes' words, Glaia nods. Aur, like his father Hermes and daughter Aura, was good at the magic of the healing system. That's why I decided to go back to battlefield with Graia and follow my people.

In that way, everyone was ready, and in the fort, only the warriors remained. Well, the number of those warriors is tens of thousands, so I didn't have the impression that there were no people there. Among them, at the gathering place of the executives, Justitia came with something like balls.

"It was only to this extent that I was able to do it. Even so, I struggled a lot."

"To what extent?

"Well, we have as much power as we can transfer everyone in this fort. Everybody ready?

All that remains is a very small number of people who need to take care of the immobile Ixfoss and manipulate the magic cannons mounted all over the fort. I don't even have a Magic Gun escort. Justiel was supposed to do it alone. Not so long ago, they were cornered.

Therefore, some of the faces going into battle included Justizia. And so they all nodded at each other, and finally, the final showdown began.

Then, about 30 minutes. Jake's ploy was a brilliant success. Well, it's an ambush operation where tens of thousands of units of troops to an otherwise unthinkable hub are transferred. Confusion was natural.

Normally it was impossible, and Ixphos was also impossible from the situation before it. It was a successful ambush operation only if there were magic artifacts created by the great geniuses proud of the Mars Empire: Justizia and Justiel.

Therefore, when he entered the enemy's main unit, the enemy panicked greatly and was unable to deal with the situation properly.

"Rebel Jake!? < > Justitia!? And that crimson..."

"Metastasis!? Why did it take effect? The space should be quarantined!?

"Assault, all armies!

While the enemy is in disarray, Jake orders an assault at once. You no longer have to shy away. Anyway, they are enemies as far as I can see. You didn't have to hesitate, and if you wait, you'll just kill him.

What Justizia brought was a prototype of a magic item that was said to be < > in the later world. Therefore, even the enemy's main unit, which is prohibited from entering by metastasis, could be transferred.

Ixfoss, who had recovered to such an extent that he could move, watched from inside the fort. The disassembly of all the spaces used eliminated the use of magic, and the effect of the healing pills brought back magic.

Well, even if it's because he's back, in the end, he's the one whose offense is the tease. I was supposed to stay in this fort either way because my legs were tight.

"... if only I had the strength."

"Does Ikes want to fight?

"I'm not... but we're all fighting."

Ixfoss answers the query with a sad face, not turning away from his scathing companions. It was once the assassin girl who had targeted his life from various far-flung causes who spoke. She's like that, but with all the twists and turns, she was here as a caretaker for Ixphos. That's how a girl decides when she sees it like that.

"... Um..."

"Hmm?"

"Shortly before this battle, from a woman with the same crimson eyes and long silver hair as Ikes, I took this..."

"Book?"

Look at the book the girl gave me, and Ixphos tilts his neck. It was written in a letter that the girl had never even seen, but the moment she saw the letter, a surprise surfaced on Ixfoss' face.

"... this is... long hair of silver... mother? Well, Dad... Thanks, Dad! Thanks, too, Reesha!

"No, um..."

Reesha smiled and thanked me as I read the book and turned to me like I was a little lit up. What was written in the book was the use of special powers to sleep in his blood,. Among them, even the method of attack using the power of blood, which he could not know without being able to be taught because he was unable to do so, was described.

If we could make something like this, it would only exist in his clan. And to Ixphos, I could understand who brought it to me. And if so, whose instructions is it?

"Okay! I'm coming!

Ixfoss was badly regarded by his younger and genius sister than no good, but as a result of desperate training under the leaders Hermes and Justizia to protect those he wanted to defend during the battle, almost everything was at a stage where the power of blood could be used. So it's easy to use if you even know it exists later. The basics are together.

"Yes. Um... go home alive for my brother and for me. Because if Ikes dies, he'll lose my job."

"Whoa!"

In response to Reesha's words, Ixphos nodded with an extraordinary smile and disappeared with metastases. He's ahead of us, naturally, but his people keep fighting.

Even for my brother. Reesha's reason for targeting Ixphos was one of this brother's. Her brother, who had given to the Mars Empire, was killed by the rebels in a certain battle. She also defeated the assassin because of her brother's enemies.

The fact that she gave me this was also a sign that the obsession had melted. Therefore he smiled with an extraordinary smile.

Thus, Ixfoss, who did not have the power to fight, entered the battle, and the final showdown began in a true sense.