Skeleton Knight, in Another World

The man is indisputably the same man who encountered him in the capital of the king of the kingdom of Delfrent.

Having stopped on his feet at some distance, he looks at the other person in silence.

I felt the gaze leaking from the back of the surface cloth poured straight this way, first I opened my mouth.

"My name is Ark. Is it true that your Lord made you the Pope of the Hills, the leader of a series of trilateral invasions?

My query, which resonates in the space of just two and one, reaches the other to a greater extent than I thought.

But the opponent just rocked the tin wand he had slightly, and there's no way to answer this one's question.

"... why.... Why? Why?"

In a church surrounded by silence, only the small and repetitive words of a man - the Pope - strike his ear slightly.

Failing to understand the meaning of the word, I leaned my neck but inquired small.

"Why?

"That tone, attitude!! How come you're so into character and playing and you can do such misconduct!? Answer me! Why!! [Evil Spirit Eating Tooth (Ibilthorne)]! [Evil Spirit Eating Tooth (Ibilthorne)]!"

When his legs dropped back unintentionally to Pope Hilk's attitude, which had changed since he hit it last time, the opponent unleashed a magical attack without letting his hair in.

From the tip of the sceptre shaken by the Pope, three heads of a spooky, immaterial rotten man appeared, and a total of six heads, combined with three released in pursuit, peeled out their teeth and attacked this way.

To the unquestioned attack, I unleashed the sword of the Holy Thunder (Karadborg) on my back, and set up the heavenly shield of Theutates to welcome the attack.

Slashing and tearing with a sword, playing with a shield to ensure handling of the attacking ghost head - - this magic itself was already seen once when I was relative in Rione, so I can deal with it calmly.

But the Pope seemed to have unleashed earlier magic to buy time on this side, and was already in the process of preparing for the next one, showing signs of magic activation at the end of the waving cane.

"Stay! What do you mean by fraud!?

I raised such a voice in an attempt to draw the attention of my opponent to this side at all, in an attempt to know the meaning of the words he had just said to the Pope.

"[Summons/Evil Snake Warrior (Botis)]!!"

But the Pope answered not this question, and instead turned to the ground the tip of the sceptre he waved, and a great magic formation unfolded in the place indicated, and a warrior of the great body appeared from the depths thereof.

I've got my whole body covered in steel and leather gear. That's three and a half meters tall.

To the great sword, which also had the length of his body resting on both hands, his head had a reptile system very similar to that of a serpent, his eyes sharp, two horns and a total of four fangs growing from his mandible protruding toward heaven.

The figure is very similar to that of the Dragon King (Dragon Road) Williars Fim when he was human.

"Jashaaaa!!

With an intimidating roar, its serpent-headed warrior waved the great sword uppermost, swinging it down toward this one who was being chased by the handling of his ghost head.

Zgahhhhhh!!

The noise sounds absurd, and the tip of the great sword wielded by the serpent-headed warrior shatters the stone floor of the church.

The impact of the attack at that time wiped out one of the earlier ghost heads unleashed by the Pope, and he escaped from that range of attack using the [Dimensional Walking Method (Dimension Move)].

But the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) is a light-hearted foothold on the back of his body, and he immediately packs an intermission with this side and waves the Great Sword endlessly - with his own Holy Thunder Sword (Karadborg).

It may not be as good as Grenis' sword moves, but still he accidentally tongued and backed down, perceiving that his opponent's sword power was definitely above his own.

But the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) immediately pressed to flesh this way, releasing his magic there for restraint.

"[Flamebullet (Firevalet)]! [Flamebullet (Firevalet)]!"

Its towing magic is scratched away by the sword wielded by the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) without difficulty, and it quickly packs up an intermission with this side to unleash another attack of pursuit.

The opponent holds both hands of a giant sword. In contrast, even though this side is not waving the opponent's giant sword, it was always turning to defense without jumping into the opponent's nostalgia.

Occasionally, the Pope unleashes a magical attack from the blind spot of the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis), making it difficult to step in.

A bench for the faithful that was placed in the church, which blows shatteringly with a blow of the great sword wielded by the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis), and the moment his opponent's figure disappears from this side for a moment, he leaves the scene without hesitation using the Dimension Walking Method (Dimension Move)].

Repeat the metastasis to avoid standing earthly smoke and narrow its aim to the Pope.

Kickin!!

The opponent was prevented by a hastily erected sceptre in a blow that he waved by poking his surprise and transferring in front of the Pope.

The Pope can use short-range transfer magic, just like himself, but pushes his opponent with strength into the sword he wields based on his own experience that if he snuggles in this way he will not be able to use it sooner rather than later.

"Nooooooo!?

Apparently, he is overwhelmingly more on top of himself in power, and the Pope raises his anguished voice as he rolls the red light peeking from the back of the face cloth.

From that leaking red light, there appears to be a visible hostility towards this direction.

"I ask you again, what is injustice? I don't know what you're talking about."

Pushing the Pope with force, he repeats the earlier question while exerting force and subtraction to avoid attacking the opponent.

Then the Pope raised his face and yelled at him close to make a head-on towards him.

"That power! There is no way to adjust the power of such units, no matter how dumb they operate, such as being able to fight a single army with only their own units!! Are you enjoying the game until you do that?

To the words spouted out of its pope's mouth, I loose the power to push myself beyond measure for a moment.

In the next moment, the Pope flies back a lot, and this one reacts to it and tries to pack the time. There, the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis), who was coming back, obstructs his path.

Bacavan!!

A flashy spark scattered between the swords struck by the two, shaking the air of the church.

He slapped his sword several times, shielded the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) blow, flew backwards to distance himself in anticipation of the moment when his opponent's posture swayed slightly, and fired magic at the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) in tow.

"Hmm, that's troublesome..."

What the Pope said and did earlier - and what he meant by that - was that he was still acting in the belief that the world was a game, and that he had been fighting over what he believed was a fraudulent act on game play.

But I'm uncomfortable with what he says and does.

It is a common understanding that no matter how recent a VR game is, the video you see entering the world cannot be identified as authentic.

No matter how beautiful and elaborate the video portrayal is, there is no such function as being able to feel the touch, smell, taste, etc. that I see and feel in this world today.

Such a thing is typical of full dive technology that appears in SF films and so on, but it's not just a product of fantasy yet, but in reality -- no, it's something that I know, but that technology hasn't appeared in the world.

If that's not the future...

I thought that far and felt some sign, and as soon as I jumped off the spot, the church bench made a flashy noise and stabbed me where I was standing until earlier.

But the arrow tip that he cared about his bench, the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis), stepped in from the crossing at super high speed, was shielded in inches to prevent the blow and unleashed magic on the target as he waved his sword against him.

"[Rock Fang]!"

The magic unleashed at the feet of the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) strikes several thorny rocks breaking through the church stone floor, but the opponent escapes the immediate scene and falls outside the scope of that attack.

"Kee-yu......"

"It's okay, Ponta. It's a hassle, but it's not a winless opponent..."

Speak to Ponta, who sounds worried at the neck, so that she can exhale and forgive her with a small breath.

That's how he resumed the idea he had earlier interrupted, putting his opponent's pope and serpent-headed warrior in sight.

The future.

If game technology is established that is confusing with reality and thrown into this other world in a society that has become reality, do people think the place is in the game or do they perceive it as another world?

Isn't the Pope in front of you the answer?

This may seem absurd, but this could have been expected somehow.

There are people in this world who have ever been convinced that there are several transferees besides themselves - the first chief Evangeline, who built the Canadian Great Forest; the first Hanzo, who rescued the Cat Clan from the empire of the time and put them together and named the Blade Heart (Jinsin) clan; and the first Great King, who built the kingdom of the Beast on the southern continent.

It was far before they visited this world, and that was hundreds of years ago.

But in view of the anecdotes, techniques, objects, etc. they have left behind, it is somewhat obvious that they have thoughts and knowledge that are not so different from the years in which they lived.

It was more than seven hundred years ago, graciously, that the first Evangeline, who built the Canadian Great Forest, came to this world, but it was not even three hundred years after the second half of the 1800 years that a country called Canada was created.

Given that no matter what you think, the times and characters do not match, there is a great chance that the people of the future will come this way, as modern humans have flown into the past.

"The basis on which your Lord calls this world a game, what is that!?

I wonder what effect it would have on this call of mine by fulfilling it - - and as such an idea passed in my brain, I was nevertheless asking the question to Pope Hilk in front of me.

"What are you saying? Basis? You mean stupid, you can't even tell the difference between reality and the game!?

The Pope's full voice of surprise and the gaze of contempt clearly visible even from the back of the face cloth.

But maybe that's something we can't do either. Still...

"This world is not a game, let alone an illusion! The inhabitants of this city, whom the Lord has laid in his hands, were born, lived, and killed in the Lord's hands!? You don't get it!

To silence the voice of that side altogether, the Pope raised the sceptre in his hand heavenly high.

"Look! [Evil Spirit Eating Tooth (Ibilthorne)]!"

That is how the Pope proclaims in his exalted voice, waving his sceptre and gazing at the creepy magic unleashed towards him, he plays it with his shield, slashes it with his sword and throws it away, then looks at the Pope again.

Stand beside the Pope with a serpent-headed warrior with a great sword, as if to protect him from that side.

"I can use magic! There's a monster! And most importantly..."

When the Pope, who said so and roughed his voice, abusively stripped his own face cloth with his own hands, he exposed the face of the skeleton that had subsided beneath it to the outside, shining even stronger a light like the soul of a red man that had subsided in his dark orbit.

"This face of mine is, above all, proof that it's not real! How do I know this is real? Hmm? This world was created by PACC and is only a virtual reality projected into the brain"

The faceless skeleton's face shakes with a clatter and speaks to this side in a firm tone.

PACC - a word I've never heard at all, but I'm guessing that's the generic term for a system, or enclosure, that gives him a sense of reality and confusion in his world.

I don't know how many years or decades ahead of me in technology, but with the certainty that this man in front of me would still have visited this otherworldly land from the future, there's no way I know how to tell the virtual reality I've experienced with such technology from the reality of this world, and I can't say any more words.

"I've been playing this game for years and I'm already tired of it, and I just wanted to get it over with and get back to reality. At this time, I would like to request an application to log out of the operation in order to meditate on the fraud, so could you contact me? Hi mine is faulty and I can't log out... are you calling this shit gay at all?

That's what the Pope said, laughing small at each and every one of them, before turning his gaze this way.

"... sorry, but there is no concept of logging out of this world in my knowledge"

When I said that and returned it, the Pope showed it not even in a discouraged breeze, but just with a small shoulder over his shoulder.

"Really...... then! Evil Snake Warrior (Botis)!!"

The Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) flies out again with the Pope's signal.

Gahhhhhhhh!!

You and the Sword of the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) are intertwined, blowing your opponent backwards with a force push on this side.

But the Pope activated more magic into the gap and called a new me (servant) into the Church.

"[Summoning/Evil Bone Demon (Balaam)]!"

A giant black shadow created behind the Pope, from which emerged a magical formation as red as blood, a giant bone demon appeared in the church as it slid out from the depths of the ground.

The head grew two horns like a longitudinal line between a taurus and a man's skull, and from behind the four black orbits the eyes of red lighting hostility stared this way.

The space inside the church is quite large, but if a bone demon - the Evil Bone Demon (Ballum) - suddenly emerges, which is still fifteen meters tall, the sense of oppression is considerable.

When the Evil Bone Demon (Ballum) shakes up a giant song knife in both hands and swings it down to slap it in this direction, it destroys everything around it and stains the interior of the church with earthsmoke all at once.

"Damn, the Pope's opponent is a mess while dealing with two of them on a boulder!

Due to poor vision and inability to activate metastatic magic, I run away from the scene and distance myself, first using the major moves to calculate the defeat of one summoned demon.

I don't have time to hesitate - the Pope has been serious about this.

"[Guardian] Angel of Heavenly Origin (Raphael)]!"

When a huge magic formation is drawn at your feet and you feel a massive amount of magic pouring out of you, you get a decent blow with a shield from the evil serpent warrior (Botis) who came instantly stuffing you there in time, slapping you from your back against the church wall and scratching out the magic formation that was in the process of activating you.

Though the Heavenly Knight was used to try to eliminate the evil bone demon (Ballum) of the giant at once, it did not succeed to summon the Heavenly Angel (Raphael) at its core by consuming only a large amount of magic when used to activate it.

Heavenly Knight's warfare moves are not suitable for activation in these melee wars because of their long accumulation.

There is no way in this situation that a bitter laugh occurs in the back of my helmet without thinking of the action that was not a game: only the magic consumption caused by magic underdevelopment.

"[Sacred Thunder Sword (Karadborg)]!"

Purple electricity runs on the sword that he had with the activation of his combat moves, and his sword body grows more than twice as long as it glows blue and white.

After attacking the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis), he wielded the Sword of St. Thunder (Karadborg) from outside the opponent's interval, slashing one of the opponent's horns.

"Shhh!!

The Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) raises a voice of intimidation and falls back, again with a great sword.

But there, an evil bone demon (Ballum) slapping attack from overhead descends, avoiding it by accidentally rolling, and losing sight of his opponent after being drunk by the massive earthquake that rolled up again with the roar.

"Pretty shitty......, totally at the other pace"

He leaks such a soliloquy, tries to narrow his eyes at the tip of his earth-smoking standing vision, and tries to find out what the other person's signs are.

"[Evil Spirit Eating Tooth (Ibilthorne)]!"

"[Fei Long Slash]!"

As we welcome the three ghost heads that suddenly pop out of the earth smoke, we unleash a shockwave of warfare moves to sweep away all of them and activate magic according to an even more unexpected intuition.

"[Flame Snake Invitation (Flame Viper)]!!"

When magic strikes at the same time as fire powder strikes the surrounding area, and a giant flaming snake appears, it circles around to draw the path of fire around itself, and then jumps in silently as if it were aimed at prey with a sickle in its sickle as it stands up for the earthquake that inhibits its sight.

"Greece aaaaaaa!!!

But before I intuited, there seemed to be an Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) hiding on the other side of the earth smoke, and the Snake Head Warrior, entwined by the Flaming Snake, burned his whole body, whilst raising the voice of the Terminator to try to escape its curse, but the Flaming Snake turned the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) into ash with his whole body even more without allowing it.

With the arrow tip, the wind pressure looming from overhead, which I thought was finally over the end of the unity, a giant song knife smashes the serpent of flames, and several of the pillars of the church are caught up in its impact and blown away, and the roof of one of the towers, which has lost its support, collapses like a loose pocket at the bottom.

"[Summons/Evil Snake Warrior (Botis)]!"

"Shit!?

As the roar of the collapse of parts of the Church echoes, I accidentally tongue myself to that voice of the Pope, who again grinds and clears all nerves to explore the signs around me.

When he felt something approaching from the left and flew aggressively to avoid signs of it, he caught the appearance of a new Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) approaching by darkening the shadows from the earth smoke.

The pursuit of the evil bone demon (Baram) by his giant songknife flies towing magic towards him trying to take a distance.

Leave the scene by releasing [Fei Long Slash] in tow without an effective hand on that attack of an overwhelming evil bone demon (Balam) that destroys the surrounding area and relentlessly turns everything into rubble.

Occasionally, the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) leaps out of the smoke and waves a sword in this direction, disappearing into the smoke again, aiming for the next opportunity, and so on.

Fine church architecture because of it, but if you can't replace your belly on your back, wave up your sword and activate magic.

"[Thunderstorm Heavy Rain (Lightning Damper)]!!"

With the sudden change of barometric pressure, the sky stained black peeking from the large hole where the collapsed former tower of the Tabernacle was located, and eventually countless thunderstorms fell from the black cloud onto the roof of the church, some of which destroyed the Tabernacle Tower and the tip of the tower, broken from its roots, let it rain as debris around.

The prospect is that without the roof, this massive amount of earth and dust will also be shed by the wind.

But there didn't seem to be much time to wait. The only solution to the fundamental status quo would be to stop that Pope at any cost.

The Pope has summoned another in addition to the Evil Snake Warrior (Botis).

Besides, you can handle multiple summonses up to the nasty Evil Bone Demon (Balaam) and even unleash a magical attack on yourself.

Even if he were to change his perception of this other world as a reality - no matter what he thinks - for this occasion to be included in the discussion.

If that's the case, he will continue to play the game in a world that he believes in, just like he does now.

His words and actions at that time were stubborn, and yet full of certainty.

I even had the feeling that I was listening to his words, rather, that I was assuming this world to be real.

Speak to Ponta at the neck while attacking the attacking Evil Snake Warrior (Botis) and Evil Bone Demon (Baram).

"Ponta, can you follow his signs?

"Kiyun? Kiyun!"

Ponta, who showed the color of understanding in his own words, releases his body, which had been tightly wrapped around his neck until earlier, and circles around his neck to explore the signs around him.

"Ki-yun! Kiyun, Kiyun!!

Convinced that Ponta had captured the presence of the Pope, he was running ahead of Ponta as he showed a certain direction to swell and alert the tail of the great cotton wool.

In this thick earthen smoke, the opponent cannot use metastatic magic in the same way as himself.

Then...

When he managed to strike the song knife of the evil bone demon (Balaam), and took the evil serpent warrior (Botis), who came poking at the gap, with the sword of the holy thunder (Karadborg), and found the Pope's shadow on the other side of the slightly thinner, clearer earthsmoke, he pulled a thousand cuts of the water bottle that was on his waist with one empty hand, throwing it towards the Pope.

"Ponta! [A wind blade (cutter)!!

Ponta, who accurately reads the intent of his signal, activates the magic he's been practicing on the company's ruins.

"Kyuuuuuuu!

One of the basic magics used by the magician position, an invisible blade of wind, drew the exact track and splashed the water bottle in front of him in two, sprinkling the liquid in the contents around him as he intended.

"Become, water!?

The pope, properly covered with that liquid, wipes with his hands that liquid hung on his own face for a suspicious face.

But at the next moment, eyeballs emerged in the Pope's empty orbit, and flesh regenerated into his body, which was only bone within his sight, and eventually a slightly ordinary man with dark hair in a luxurious coat stood before him with a strange face.

But it was just a bundle...

"Ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

The man suddenly suffered scratching his face.

The man who was the pope raises the roaring interrupter of the beast, rolls it around on the spot, and eventually wakes up his upper body, trying to sue something by running that blood and staring at him with his open eyes.

But the man's hair dyed bright white and fell out one after the other, eyeballs. As his shriveled cheeks peeled and the flesh in his body contracted and withered, words slightly leaked out of his mouth, which began to tremble and play a crisp and dry sound.

"... now you can... go home..."

With a slight breeze, I frown unexpectedly at the words of such a last pope, who is likely to be scratched off.

"Now the Lord can log out of this world..."

When he fell before his words, as his head, which had become like the Pope's white mummy, nodded, he built a pile of white ash on a pile of rubble, as if he had ever solidified the ashes and shaped them, and the remaining Pope's sceptre rolled down with a loud sound.

Soon afterwards, both the figure of the snake-headed Evil Snake Warrior (Botis), who was relative to himself, and the figure of the immense bone demon, the Evil Bone Demon (Ballum), disappeared as if they were illusions seen in smoke.

The object that bathed the Pope was hot spring water, a spirit spring that gushed at the foot of a dragon crown tree (Road Crown).

The same situation as myself, the same appearance as myself - and then I guess the weakness of the Pope's body is the counteraction of the emotions I once tasted in that Dragon Crown Tree (Road Crown) Spirit Springs.

After coming into this world for about a month, I wonder how long that action, which I felt magnificent inside, had left me without returning my emotions if I saw that Pope's reaction.

The man who was Pope Hilk was in a physique that, like himself, felt no emotional load.

Plus, believing that this world was a game, I didn't doubt it, so I guess those living in this world didn't have any particular emotions or thoughts, and used it as a raw material for their own technique as a mere NPC degree.

But if he really believed this world was a game and the people living there thought it was NPC, would he have reacted so much when his emotions were shaken back?

Perhaps the Pope had come to a point where he could not already accept his own deeds, turning his back from the facts, although he had rarely realized somewhere that this otherworldly reality was not a game?

Or in living in this world for so many years, when a small wave of descended emotions grew to such a magnitude that his spirit could not stand - there is no way to ask the Pope, who has already become ash and lost his form.

And I accidentally shuddered and flaunted my shoulders at the fact that maybe this Pope's appearance was that of my future.

"Kiyun?

Without moving on the spot, staring at such a mountain of ashes in front of him that he was once pope, Ponta leans his neck in surprise at the neck, licking the pepper and the other side of his face.

Maybe he's trying to cheer me up.

"Ark? If you're here for a second, reply."

When I accidentally heard a voice I was accustomed to hearing from behind me and looked back, I saw the front door of the church open and a shadow coming in from there with the usual signs of tampering.

Next to its long shadow is also following a slightly smaller shadow, with the beast ears of its head flourishing.

As such, the earthen smoke in front of him gradually clears and the light of day falls from the wide open opening of the collapsed ceiling.

Coming in completely transformed into an abandoned church are two people, Ariane and Chiyome.

Ariane looks around at the spectacular destruction marks of the church, and then looks this way with her eyes like she said something.

Chiyome walks slowly as he moves his cat ears busily, as he explores the signs around without alarm.

What would have happened if I hadn't been around them when I came to this world?

─ No, I guess that doesn't make sense to worry about it here.

Shake your head (wearing it) small and exhale loudly.

I met them in this world and still live with them in this world.

I picked up the sceptre in the possession of the Pope, who was rolling at his feet, and showed it to them by putting it up.

"Lord Arian, Lord Chiyome, the Pope has taken over from me!

When she said that and looked back at them, Ariane glanced at her shoulder small and even naturally looked like that.

Chiyome moves her cat ear wide with a pat, and when she does this, she stops by and peeks into the cane.

This world is a world that I deserve to live and live in - if I admit so, that world will be my place - and that will be enough for now.

When he delivered the sword he had pulled into his sheath, he advanced his foot under Arian in a slow foothold.