It was a place full of light, as if the darkness had been just a nightmare before.
There was a divinity in that light, like the morning light that instantly repainted a dark, long night, that soothed and purified the body, and a plump full of hope that warmed the body cold out of its core in the dark.
There is no end to that hierarchy when it comes to being in the labyrinth, and even the ground is fuzzy except where I recognize myself as the floor right now.
Mariella thought so, as if she had come to the ground vein.
The labyrinth dug underground to get here.
The demons of the Kingdom of Endalgia, who flattened the people of the defensive cities, and attacked with each other, devoured each other, and the last one left, proceeded to devour the land of the kingdom to this end.
Sucking up the power of the ground vein, creating demons underground, underground.
The path has become a labyrinth and has inhibited the progression of people.
Now I finally know why. I guess it was to buy me some time.
for the Lord of the Labyrinth to come here.
Along the way, he threw his left leg away, left his belly behind, even lost his hands, and finally got here.
The Lord of the Labyrinth who is here now.
Here, the labyrinth 60 hierarchy is a deep place that reaches the ground vein.
I wonder if the magic of a growing labyrinth beyond fifty levels is a place where we can transcend physical distances and dimensions and connect to the earth's veins.
Before Leonhardt and others, who reached the deepest depths of the labyrinth, there was the Lord of the 200 year-old rival labyrinth and the figure of the Spirit Endalgia that united the pulse of the land.
I have been told that the Lord of the Labyrinth is only relative to those who have crusaded the Labyrinth, and know it.
Indeed, he was right, and Leonhardt saw the Lord of the Labyrinth and thought so.
Because he felt the will of the Labyrinth, who continued to reject Leonhardt and others as they marched to reach the deepest depths.
But would you have imagined this?
The Lord of the Labyrinth was devoured by Endalgia, with no hands, no legs, only an unbroken figure of the head and torso that gave even the spine a peek.
Mariella understood through her line that Endalgia, which emits warm light, is a vague presence of contours to the extent that the figure of a person is only slightly recognizable, and is part of the vast force of the earth vein present in the immeasurable depths of a person, unlike the physical depth. The material world in which the Mariellas exist and the spirits, magic and life that do exist there, even if they cannot be seen and touched. The relationship between the world and the terrestrial vein is as if those seemingly heterogeneous and isolated substances and energies were worlds that, at the same time, converted into one another but existed.
Endalgia, which integrates with the terrestrial vein and exists as an administrator, is probably one that coordinates and manages the flow of the energy, Shizuku of Life, that travels through the terrestrial vein and the world. I guess she has used that power to continue to protect the people she loves for every kingdom they live in. The eyes of Endalgia, the Spirit Eye.
But now Endalgia is so weak in itself that it is likely to disappear. Although the naked eye appears to be “devoured” by the Lord of the Labyrinth, Mariella feels it through the line and the present state in the Spirit Eye of Zeke does not mean that if the Lord of the Labyrinth opens his mouth, he will be freed.
With every power as a steward of the earth's veins, existence itself is about to be taken in by the Lord of the Labyrinth.
Whether they take in their own existence or disappear, Endalgia, who loves people and chooses to be with them, will not accept the Lord of the Labyrinth, who desires to destroy them and make this land a land of demons.
The body of the Lord of the Labyrinth, eaten by Endalgia, eroding to the pulse of the earth and being integrated, had been burned and destroyed by the consciousness of Endalgia, which denied and rejected the Lord of the Labyrinth.
Even though it was a painful body that had lost its limbs, the body left behind by the Lord of the Labyrinth was boiling blood, skin burning, collapsing and carburizing, or spilling and swelling up into boiling fluids. Pressure must be fluctuating rapidly in the body, the eyeballs popping and bursting, and bubbles of bubbles and blood blowing up from the edge of the eating mouth.
For the first time in its intense transformation, the Lord of this Labyrinth will not even see what kind of demon it was originally.
But to the Lord of the Labyrinth also flows great power from an integrated vein. No matter how terrible the body of the Lord of the Labyrinth becomes with the power of his own pulse, it is recovered and destroyed by the energy of his companion.
Prolonged and repeated destruction and regeneration.
What does the Lord of the Labyrinth want at the end of his reproach bitterness, after his unacceptable sorrow?
- We have to get out of here.
Mariela felt that she had heard the thoughts of the Lord of the Labyrinth through a thick line connected to the earth vein.
(Same as that story...... Emily and the others called "The Story of Endalgia" and……)
Mariela remembers "The Story of Endalgia," which Emily and the others used to read in The Tree Leak Day.
A pathetic demon who lived quietly with the Spirit Endalgia and the animals, but was chased through the woods because of the arrival of the Hunter of Naruto.
In an attempt to regain their place, the demons who attacked the hunter's village were driven to the Devil's Forest by the grief of Endalgia, which had lost its hunter, and the strong will to protect its children, so that they could never return to the land.
The Devil's Forest is much larger than the Kingdom of Endalgia, which has become human territory, and there is ample place for the demons to live. You don't have to stick to such a small land to live enough.
That's what Mariella thought when she heard that story.
But now that I've seen the Lord of the Labyrinth.
(What the demons wanted back was a place to spend time with Endalgia, not this land...)
They say that it is a demonic stone that dwells on demons.
Even though the filth and magic of the world solidify and become demonic stones, and the filthy magic solidifies and creates demons, and demonic stones arise there, it is assumed that filth arises from men.
Human malice is hate, jealousy is fear, anger is desire.
The demons that arise from the stiffness of "filth" that never gets hungry and dry can't help but hate people.
Had it not been for humans, they would have lived with the animals of Endalgia and the woods as more serene creatures.
Demons are incompatible with people.
If demons and people meet, there is only one way to destroy or isolate them.
Endalgia loved the hunters and chose the humans.
So I can't stay with the demons anymore.
But I couldn't destroy the demon. I couldn't kill my former companion.
So I isolated the demons. From the hunters' village. from the Kingdom of Endalgia.
It must have even been Endalgia's compassion.
But I can't convey that thought to a pathetic demon. When he was dumped, he might have felt like he was taken away.
- We have to get out of here.
Even if they were tightened out of the hunter's village, they would have been watching opportunities all along in the Devil's Forest. All along, all along, just a few memories that would have been fun to take over and share across races.
- We have to stop, we have to stop Endalgia...
Even now, a pathetic demon eaten by Endalgia with the same emotions as when he attacked the hunter's village, trying to assimilate with all the veins of the earth.
In the presence of the Lord of the Labyrinth, whom I had not imagined, the eyes of Endalgia opened as Mariella and the others stood still, losing their words, waking up from the slightest sleep. Just like Sieg's Spirit Eye, the green eye only opens one of his left eyes. But his eyes just opened, and he felt filled with the gentle colour of a young leaf sprouting on a dead tree in winter.
- Well, you came. My dear children.
For the Spirit Endalgia, who lives for a long time, the Siege with the Spirit Eye, Mariella, who connects through the line, and every soldier in Leonhardt and the Labyrinth Crusaders, the human being who lives in this land is equally my son. That loving smile was pouring down on everyone.
Endalgia turned to everyone with a mother's smile that delighted her children's growth, and when she clouded her expression with great sadness, she turned her gaze to the Lord of the Labyrinth, who devoured herself.
- This kid no longer has..., no, since that day 200 years ago, nothing left to call thought.
On the frenzied day of the Flood of the Devil's Forest (Stampede), is it the price you have gained for eating more than human and companion demons, or is it the result of 200 years of repeated regeneration and destruction? I guess you don't understand that the days ahead will not come when you can live with Endalgia just because there is a remnant of your emotions left in the Lord of the Labyrinth that you want to "reclaim Endalgia".
There is no hand, no leg, no torso, and at the end of the birth of this demon, which is only eaten by Endalgia, there is no future left for the Lord of the Labyrinth but to eat and kill Endalgia, and to be replaced by the Lord of the earth's veins. If it were replaced by the Lord of the Earth's pulse, would it be able to withstand anything that would leave no shards of consciousness rubbed so far?
- Let this poor boy go, please.
Endalgia mouthed her wishes, looking in turn at Siegmund, who takes over the blood of her beloved hunter most colorfully, and Leonhardt, who has led and fought them so far. As he answered that wish, Leonhardt nodded forcefully and gazed at the Lord of the Enemy Labyrinth.
"Poor................... Was this what our enemies wanted……………"
Leonhardt groans pompously before the Lord of the Labyrinth, who probably doesn't even have the power to fight, who has no other means but to eat and kill Endalgia.
Until he looks like this, is it a sentiment similar to pity that he feels for the pathetic demon who tried to regain Endalgia?
"Siegmund, free him from this business and save the Spirit Endalgia."
"Yes."
Siegmund responds to Leonhardt's call.
For this reason I must have regained my spiritual eyes and come to this land.
Such certainty was present in Siegmund.
"Sieg, this"
Thank you, Mariella.
Mariella hands Siege a single arrow placed in a crate.
It was the last thing my master left me to use. It was bracketed in a Raptor.
I'm sure it should be used now.
Wooden arrows that don't even have metal arrow butts are shredded from the 'Wood Leak Day' holy tree.
Spirit Endalgia is the Spirit Queen of the Forest.
Perhaps the Queen of the Spirits of the Holy Tree.
So this arrow doesn't hurt Endalgia.
If Sieg with the Spirit Eye uses it, it will be possible to defeat only the Lord of the Labyrinth, who is assimilating.
Gilli and Sieg squeeze the bow.
Sieg's Spirit Eyes lead the Spirits together.
To help the Queen of the Spirit Endalgia.
(Spirit Endalgia, did you lead me...)
Sieg asks Endalgia in his heart. I was wondering if Mariella woke up exactly that day when Zeke was transferred to this labyrinth city because of her guidance.
It's not just that I met Mariella. The day he was brought to the Devil's Forest as a slave by the son of a merchant, the Spirit of the Forest led him to save his life, and possibly the moment he crushed his Spirit Eye by Wyburn, even the fact that an arrow accidentally defeated Wyburn seemed like some mysterious guide to Sieg.
If so. If it was even due to the will of Endalgia, or the veins of the earth, that I could meet Mariella.
(To guide, I thank Mariella deeply for her fate. -)
Siegmund pulls a bow. With as much magic power as you can have and deep, deep gratitude.
Seeing the sight, he said, as if it were a rainbow, he saw the light surrounding Sieg's arrows and thought:
The spirits' desire and power to help Endalgia, the Spirit Queen of the Forest Spirit, gathers in a Siege's connected arrow amplified by the power of the Spirit Eye. Sieg's body, injured in repeated battles, transcends its limits to a collection of powerful forces that are even difficult for man to see, screaming as if his joints, his muscles, even his bones were crushed.
(Just hold on to this arrow...)
Sieg's flesh, forged up in the days of training, responded brilliantly to his wishes, and Sieg's shooting emitted brilliantly a positive shot of a hunter handed down with cotton in his blood.
As if it were a giant comet with a rainbow color, an arrow of holy trees flying together the light.
That one shot, which is rightly fired, takes the power of the Spirits to the center.
To the Lord of the Labyrinth, devoured by Endalgia.
- We have to get out of here.
- That's enough. I don't mind if I give it back. Guys, we're waiting.
Was it the talk of demons and Endalgia?
- Guys………?
- All this time, you missed me. It's okay now, come on, let's go back to everyone.
The light overflowing from Siege's arrows of emitted spirits flooded with strength and tenderness to envelop the Lord of the Labyrinth, and in the blinding light the Lord of the Labyrinth disappeared into the light as the mellow and accumulated snow dissolved into warm water.
- Everyone…… of, is returned……….
The Lord of the Labyrinth had disappeared without a trace after a blinking, dazzling, but not eye-opening, strong glow, just a gentle light could disappear. And in the midst of a quiet light, wrapped in a calm light, the Spirit Endalgia smiled calmly.