Ending Maker Episode 414
Chapter 8 – Intensification
As Atalia was distressed by what was happening around the world, Iria had a beautiful, white smile on her face.
After causing chaos in various places, place your strongest pieces in the places where the Worldstones are located.
He finishes the job by stealing the worldstones in one breath.
When Uther and Cordelia return, everything will already be over.
“You’d better hurry, Atalia.”
Because it’s truly horrible to just watch the world fall apart.
Iria raised her hand high in the sky and lowered it toward the ground, drawing a long line.
Like stars pouring down on the royal capital.
Iria smiled brightly again.
I hugged myself, remembering everyone in the broken world.
* * *
As Dahlia had thought, Yuder’s defenses were excessive.
The Holy Nation of Eudellia was protected by three layers of walls, each of which had a powerful barrier magic formed.
The palace was the same.
There were more barriers guarding the palace than all the barrier magics protecting the castle walls combined.
Elite knights wearing exoskeleton armor and 9th-grade angels were also staying in the palace, so in terms of simple defensive power, it was at a level that was in no way inferior to the royal capital or the system.
But that doesn’t mean it’s absolute.
It was a barrier that could not be broken by a stronger force.
“Please save me!”
“Whoa!”
“mom!”
Amidst the screams and cries, the foreign media collected souls with cruel laughter.
Machine-made monsters and elite knights struggled to stop such foreign agents, but it was no use.
The three-layered walls and dozens of barriers were no different from a sheet of paper in the face of the divine explosion.
After destroying several foreign corpses that are not easy to defeat, the walls and barriers are destroyed and the troops enter through the wide open gate.
From then on it wasn’t difficult.
The Holy Nation of Eudellia was thrown into chaos in an instant, and was unable to properly respond to the tragedy that occurred throughout the country.
Foreign news.
A person who shares the same views as the broken world Iria.
A being who once had his own world and was supported by countless lives in that world, but has now fallen into ruin.
He had dark blue hair and was one-armed, holding a sword in his only arm.
Now, only fragments of the world remain.
A weapon created by sharpening it with a single sword.
Having lost his own name, the foreign god, now known simply as Mushin, headed towards the palace of the Holy Kingdom of Eudellia amid the tragedy.
Iria promised.
If you restore the world, I will accept you as my god.
He promised to let me live as a god once again in a new world.
As Musin walked towards the World Stone, he thought of his own world that had now disappeared.
And then a woman caught his eye.
It was not something that I saw with my own eyes, but something that came into my eyes through the power of God.
A young, beautiful woman with long, ash-colored hair.
Although her beauty was outstanding, it was not because of that that she caught my eye.
It was because of the position the woman was in.
“It’s too late, Atalia.”
To steal the worldstone somewhere else.
Deep underground of the palace.
Musin raised his sword and pointed to where the woman, Maia, was sitting.
He unleashed the power of the gods that had destroyed the walls.
* * *
[Maya, you must protect the Worldstone.]
The voice came suddenly.
While the palace chef prepared the pork roast, Maia rented a corner of the kitchen to bake a pie.
It was Dahlia’s favorite apple pie.
Dahlia tried hard to pretend not to like it, but she really liked sweets.
But that doesn’t mean I just like things that are just given.
Dahlia’s favorite level of sweetness.
Maia, who knows the taste better than anyone else, was baking the pie while thinking about Dahlia’s smiling face when she returned.
When will the young master and young lady return?
When will the new romance novel I bought arrive?
Maia, who was looking at the oven while thinking about this and that, suddenly heard a voice in her head and raised her head in surprise, and at that moment, an incredible shock struck the entire palace.
“Whoa!”
The floor and the entire building shook as if an earthquake had occurred.
The cooks and maids fell to the floor, and dishes broke and crashed, making a loud noise.
But that was just the beginning.
As Maia struggled to get up from her seat and was about to ask everyone if they were okay, a second shock, this time from a closer location, rocked the palace.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
It was a clear explosion.
It wasn’t like the roar of an earthquake.
[Maya, you must move the Worldstone.]
The voice came into my head again.
It was the voice of a young girl with a hint of youth.
And the cries of the knights filled my ears again.
“Run away! It’s the enemy!”
“Whoa!”
The maids and cooks ran away screaming.
Maia tried to keep her composure, brushing back her flowing hair.
The knight who had been shouting from afar recognized Maia and shouted.
“Your Majesty! Get out of the way!”
That was right.
If the enemy invaded, you had to evade them.
There was an evacuation plan prepared by Lord Yuder.
If you hide in the bunker beneath the palace for a while, you’ll be fine soon.
Maia, who had forced herself to control her emotions, took a step forward.
The knight ran off again as if he had no time to take care of Maia.
What on earth is going on?
Who came in?
Will Dahlia be okay?
I went out on patrol along the border.
Dahlia is the commander of the royal knights, so is she fighting now?
My heart kept pounding.
My hands kept shaking with fear and worry.
[Maya!]
The girl’s voice filled my head again.
And Maya could understand.
Young god Atalia.
It was a being that the young master and young lady had once spoken about.
The Lord of our world.
Thank you to the person who provided the starting point to stop the tragedy that has been repeated over and over again.
Maia clasped her hands together and knelt down in prayer position.
But Atalia stopped Maia from doing so.
Now was not the time to be doing that.
[Excluding Yuder and Cordelia, you and Dahlia are the only ones in the Holy Nation of Yudelia who can access the Worldstone.]
[Yuder made it so.]
[Maya, you must move the Worldstone.]
[There will also be a transmission device prepared next to where the Worldstone is stored, so move the Worldstone.]
Maia nodded, breathing heavily at the urgent voice.
It was a scary and fearful thing, but it was something the Lord had commanded.
It would be of utmost importance to implement it quickly.
But there was still something I couldn’t ask.
Atalia said that in times of emergency, only Maia and Dahlia can access the Worldstone.
But why did he give this order to Maia herself?
Dahlia-
“Dahlia, Dahlia, are you okay?”
[Still alive. Hurry up, Maia!]
Quagga River!
Again there was a loud noise and an explosion.
Maia swallowed her screams and leaned against the wall to catch her breath.
I heard that Dahlia is still alive, although the word ‘still’ is attached to it.
So it was okay.
The only thing I could think about right now was God’s command.
Maya ran.
He called out to some of the knights who were moving busily by their names and made them follow him.
For a moment, I didn’t even think about what had happened.
Loud noise and explosion.
A scream that sounds like an auditory hallucination from afar.
“Your Majesty. Your Majesty. Your Majesty.”
Maia kept her wits about her as she called out to Uther, seemingly ready to break at any moment.
I ran and ran underground, heading towards the room where the Worldstone was hidden.
It was the room that Yuder had told me about before.
Now you can go inside.
Open the door and follow the Lord’s command –
———————!
The sound drowned out the sound.
At that moment, a loud noise erupted and Maia lost consciousness for a moment.
explosion.
No, it is an action of some force that is not enough to be called an explosion.
“Ugh… … Ugh… … .”
When Maia barely opened her eyes in the rubble, she found herself shedding tears without realizing it.
I felt an excruciating pain in my leg.
Debris that fell from the wall.
My left leg was crushed.
My whole body was covered in wounds from flying shrapnel.
“Ahh… … ahh… … .”
Maia bit her lip, swallowing back tears.
I tried to shake off my fear and come to my senses, but the pain and the situation did not allow it.
It was near the room where the Worldstone was hidden.
A huge hole appeared in the wall where it had not existed before.
Even though it was underground, light came in.
Is it connected to the outside?
How did a hole like that suddenly appear?
“Your Majesty, are you okay?”
Maia nodded reluctantly at the familiar voice of the knight.
Ralph.
One of the knights of the Cordelia Order who guards the palace.
Of the three other knights with him, two were up, but the other one was nowhere to be seen.
“Ugh. Black.”
Maia swallowed her tears and tried to force herself to sit up.
I had to carry out the Lord’s orders.
Ralph came over to support Maia, and the two knights who had just managed to stand looked back at the hole that had suddenly appeared.
And then the two people’s heads were cut off.
To be exact, something dark blue popped out of the hole and passed between the two people, and then their heads fell to the floor.
It was a monster.
A four-armed monster that I’ve never seen before.
It looked like a human, but all four of its arms were swords, and its entire body was covered in a bug-like shell.
Ralph turned toward the monster and drew his sword.
The monster charged at Ralph.
Maya saw what happened afterwards.
Ralph’s back broke.
Ralph’s arm and waist were cut off simultaneously by a giant sword wielded by the monster, and he was split in two and slammed into the wall.
Maia sank to the floor again.
The monster saw Maia like that.
He walked towards Maia with a face whose expression was unreadable.
* * *
The goddess of the nine heavens and nine gates said.
[Cordelia cannot fully utilize her divine powers. Her soul is here, but her true spiritual and physical essence is in the Pleiades.]
Uder understood too.
Archangels, including Cordelia, were beings of a combination of spirit and flesh.
Therefore, in order to fully manifest divinity, an archangel’s body, a true embodiment of spirit and flesh, was needed.
[But you, Yuder, are not like that.]
It was the same for Uder, who left his main body in the Pleiades.
But the Goddess of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates saw the two cases differently.
This is because the path to reaching the realm of the gods was different in the first place.
“The nine heavens and the nine earthly gates.”
Not just a simple martial art, but a method of cultivating the soul in preparation for the elevation of one’s being.
The path to ascension.
In order to raise the level of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates, not only the growth of the soul but also the growth of the body to support it was necessary.
However, this was because the practitioner of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates was still a being subordinate to the flesh.
The true highest state of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates was to become a transcendent being through the ascension of the soul. If one reached a state like that of the goddess of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates, it was possible to display complete divinity with only the soul.
Moreover, it was important that the Nine Heavenly Gates were not subordinate to the world.
The origin of the gods was ultimately the world they belonged to.
If the gods were gardeners, then the world was a garden where gardeners resided.
That is why the power of the gods was bound to weaken drastically the moment their connection with the world was lost.
Just like foreign media say.
‘But the nine heavenly gates are not like that.’
The divinity of beings who became transcendent through the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates was not originally based on a specific world.
The soul of the one who practices the Nine Heavenly Gates is itself considered the world, so those who have acquired divinity through the Nine Heavenly Gates can display divinity without being bound by the world.
But Uther couldn’t immediately greet the goddess’s words with joy.
Although Uther himself opened the sentence, it was only to that extent.
‘There is a post-syntax.’
Simply opening the sentence wasn’t the end.
In order to take advantage of the nine heavenly gates listed so far, one had to reach a higher level.
The fact that the current Uder was not a true god but only a quasi-god was proof of this.
[It’s as you think, but it’s too much for your current level.]
[But I will help you. With my help, you can do it.]
Uther felt both joy and bewilderment at the goddess’s suggestion.
Although the Goddess of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates had been very friendly to Yuder himself from before, it still felt like there was such a thing as goodness.
But this assistance went beyond that line.
This was something that the Goddess of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates had to personally demonstrate her divinity.
Why is that?
What could be the reason for her to suddenly become so proactive?
I was curious, but now was not the time to ask.
I wasn’t in a position to ask for help either.
“I understand. I will follow the will of the goddess.”
Yuder, who answered politely, relayed the story of the Goddess of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates to Cordelia and the witch, who had been fidgeting since a while ago, not knowing what was going on.
“Yes, I see what you mean. If you can manifest your divinity, Uther—and if you can give us the proper acceleration when we depart—we should be able to reach the Pleiades in time.”
To put it simply, it was about building a rocket that would fly using Uther’s divinity as fuel.
Uther nodded and looked at Cordelia, who held Uther’s hand tightly and said.
“Please. But don’t overdo it. Okay?”
“okay.”
Uther, who smiled playfully on purpose, kissed Cordelia and closed his eyes.
There was no time to bathe and prepare for the ritual.
Even though it was a bit urgent, I had to manifest my divinity right now.
“Let’s get started.”
Speaking softly, Yuder began to open the gates of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates one by one.
First question.
Jay Moon.
Third question.
Sacrificial rite-
As each door opened, pitch-black energy surged from Yuder’s body.
It was the power of the ‘black moon’, the essence of Uder.
And finally when Yuder opened the sentence.
The goddess of the nine heavens and nine gates emitted divinity.
He led Yuder’s soul to a higher realm that Yuder could not yet reach.
Uther could see.
A pitch-black moon sitting alone in a starless night sky.
And the true divinity of Yuder himself that resides within it.
The essence of existence.
Yuder’s own soul.
Uther reached out his hand towards the black moon.
The essence of Yuder, who was residing in the black moon, reached out to Yuder.
The true opening of the divine.
A pitch-black energy surged up like an explosion and engulfed the Witch’s Forest.
