279. Savior (5)
#279
[Adeshan. Dangerous.]
“Huh!”
Adeshan opened his eyes. She quickly raised her head and looked around her. The sight of her barracks, surrounded by her own desk, her tactical map, and her tent, came into view.
“···here is?”
Only then did Adeshan realize that he had dozed off while lying face down on his desk. My limbs felt drowsy, as if they had been soaked in water. She tried to close her eyes for a moment, but it seemed she was sleeping deeper than expected.
A faint ray of sunlight was shining through the gap in the tent. Judging by the sound of birds chirping, it seemed like it was a bright day. A day had passed since Iril was kidnapped.
“What the hell…”
After washing her face, she drooled. Just like yesterday, it was the same today. The voice of an unknown woman rang in her head.
‘What do you want to say?’
After going to the North with Ronan, it seemed like they spoke to each other at least once a day. What the woman said was similar every time. She advised people to be careful, saying it was dangerous, or gave advice that they needed to be a little more cool-headed.
In the beginning, it was difficult to even hear voices properly, but somehow the symptoms were getting worse. The arm she had used as a pillow was completely wet with cold sweat. She was just about to get up from her seat. The entrance to her tent opened and a familiar boy walked in.
“Gwae, are you okay?”
Adeshan’s eyes widened. The bright red hair, like a tulip, caught my eye even during the haze. She said.
“Aser? Why here…”
“I came here after hearing the news that Sister Iril was kidnapped. “I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help… I heard about the situation, so you don’t need to explain.”
Asher said he had just returned from the southern front. Recently, I was able to leave the place thanks to completely breaking Nebula Clazie’s momentum. He and Lorhorn and other wizards did not stay in one place, but traveled around the battlefield to provide support.
“Did you have a bad dream? “The complexion…”
Asher suddenly asked with concern. Adeshan’s condition was worse than expected. Her darker eye shadows and duller hair were evidence of her hard work. She said Ade Shan shook her head.
“are you okay. Thank you for your concern.”
“You, don’t push yourself too hard. Sister Iril will be fine.”
Asher stuttered. Ade Shan asked a question in her strangely confident tone.
“Did you see something this time too?”
“It’s not like that… I just had a feeling it might be like that. I’m pretty sure he’s still alive. yes.”
“Haha… I’m a little relieved if you felt that way.”
Adeshan laughed weakly. And she let out a small sigh of relief. Sometimes Asher’s claims based on intuition had a high probability of being correct. It was an ability that arose after peeking into the world of giants in the Dragon City.
Suddenly, I remembered the first time I went to meet Iril with Ronan. I still can’t forget her sweet smiling face and the way she stroked her younger brother like a child. She really seemed like she was friendly. She twitched her lips and muttered softly.
“…Please, I hope so.”
I couldn’t even imagine the emotional pain Ronan was going through. Absence of more than a day was also increasing concerns. Of course she trusted Ronan, but she couldn’t help but worry him to death.
‘I shouldn’t be like this.’
But it was impossible to remain helpless forever. He had to do what he could, as always. Sleeping for an hour is enough. Adeshan straightened his clothes and stood up.
“Let’s go out first. Until Ronan returns, we can do what we can…”
“hey.”
She was about to say something. Suddenly, a cracking voice was heard from behind. Asher was startled and jumped up from his place like a cat.
“Hehehe!”
“Bah, Balzac?!”
Adeshan’s eyes widened as he turned his head. Balzac, the younger brother of the Shadow Prince, was staggering and out of breath. His condition didn’t look very good with blood dripping all over his body. Long red lines that appeared to be stab wounds were drawn all over his body, including his face and limbs.
“What on earth happened? Everyone, take the potion right now!”
“Shut up and take it.”
Adeshan tried to take out emergency medicine, but Balzac shook his head and stopped him. He stretched out his arm and held out something. A needle filled with his blood was placed on Ade Shan’s palm.
“This···!”
“In the middle of the paradise forest… there is an entrance to their headquarters. “It’s a nameless lake… but you’ll know it when you see it.”
Adeshan’s eyes widened. Balzac described exactly what he had seen during his reconnaissance. Nebula Clazie’s headquarters and encounter with its leader. And our compatriots were massacred in an instant.
“Everything… has returned to shadows. “No one survived…”
Balzac trailed off. If he were so inclined, he would have liked to go into more detail, but he did not have much time left.
dump. Balzac, who had been staggering, eventually sat down. I managed to fly away, surviving on the essence of fresh blood that remained in my body, but it seemed like that was the end of it.
“Hey, come to your senses! Balzac!”
Adeshan supported him. Her Balzac head was shaking as she shook it, her strength completely gone. She had a habit of saying that she would rather die than receive help from humans, but at this point, nothing mattered. A voice that sounded like it was being squeezed out came out between parted lips.
“Be careful… this cult leader is a monster you can’t even imagine. “I can’t win, not only my brother, but even that Navardose woman…”
“If you have blood, you can live, right? “Go ahead and drink my blood!”
Adeshan rolled up his sleeves and held out his arms. This is what it would feel like to have a conversation with a candle just before it goes out. However, Balzac refused even the offer, including the potion. His five senses, which he had long ago lost, were telling him that the end was near.
“Hehe… it’s dark.”
Balzac muttered quietly. Tuk. Her swaying head dropped. Adeshan called his name once more, but there was no answer.
“What the hell is this…?”
Asher cried. There was no room for revival in the eyes where the light had completely disappeared. It was a very meaningless end for the second-in-command of the vampires. Ade Shan, who had been silent, opened her mouth.
“···calm down. “I’ll gather the people right now.”
Unlike Asher, she quickly regained her composure. Balzac’s sacrifice could not have been in vain, and that was the position that a field commander should be. She concentrated her mind and was about to send a message to everyone.
Kang!
Kang!
Kang!
The alarm bell, which only rings in emergencies, rang loudly. Adeshan turned his head. The cries of soldiers followed.
“Ha, there’s something in the sky!”
“emergency! emergency! “It’s not our magic!”
The sound of stamping feet and grabbing weapons was spreading like wildfire. The two people looked at each other once and quickly ran out of the barracks.
The cool morning air lifted my bangs. I could see soldiers moving in unison and war horses running wild with their front legs raised. Asher’s face turned pale as he looked up at the sky.
“Well, that is…!”
Two huge magic circles completely covered the barracks. Geometric patterns and unknown letters arranged in a circle were writhing as if they were alive.
“···no.”
It was a magic circle that I had seen many times before. Asher let out a sigh mixed with despair. The second advent was about to begin.
****
“I want to remove that curse.”
“···Curse?”
Ronan raised his eyebrows after hearing the savior’s words. Now that I think about it, he forgot about it for a while. Normally, if a curse was placed, it could be lifted. After trying hard to suppress his emotions, he asked the question again.
“Everything left? really?”
“okay. However, it is impossible in my current state. “For a perfect solution, you have to go to the source.”
“Source···? “What is that again?”
“That’s where we’re going now. We’re almost there now. “I’m not in good shape, so please speed up a little more.”
The Savior patted Ronan’s buttocks as if he were a coachman. He was honestly quite embarrassed, but it was worth the time just to have the possibility of escaping the fucking curse.
Oh yeah. I’ll go quickly. Ronan’s thighs, strengthened by mana, swelled to the point of bursting. bang!! As he ran across the ice, the savior’s neck was thrown back.
“Wow!”
“Hold on tight!”
No further conversation continued. Every time Ronan hit the ground, the gap of tens of meters narrowed.
“What a…colt…!”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t hear you very well!”
It seemed like the savior was swearing something behind him, but his weak voice was lost in the roaring wind. Before long, Ronan reached a dead end and stopped in place.
“Whoa, here?”
“Huh…Huhuh…Okay…”
The Savior nodded. He seemed grateful that his neck had not been broken by the wind pressure. Ronan looked up at the gate in front of him and frowned.
“···I don’t feel very good.”
The huge stone gate was tall and wide enough for even a dragon to walk through. Adren’s immigration checkpoint seemed to be roughly this size.
On the door, which seemed to be at least 10,000 years old, were all kinds of sacred beings, such as gods, angels, and animals, carved in relief. Ronan tilted his head.
“Why are there so many pieces?”
“···Its role is to suppress the internal energy from coming out. “According to today’s common sense, it is similar to a magic tool.”
The savior answered. When he turned around, his face was stiff as if he had been frostbitten. Are you really afraid? The savior, who had closed his eyes and caught his breath, opened his mouth.
“···Let’s go in now. “Get your blood on the door.”
“Blood?”
“okay. Maybe it will work. “Because you are my only blood relative in the world…”
The savior hesitated. I don’t know what he was talking about, but Ronan did as he was told. Drawing blood is not work. When she bit down on her thumb with her fangs, red drops formed. That was the moment he rubbed the drop of blood onto the stone surface.
-Kugugugugugung…!
The stone gate began to groan and open. A rush of air filled with an indescribable smell came rushing in. At the same time, Ronan’s brow furrowed.
“What the fuck…!”
It almost hurt my eyes. The hallway leading inside the stone gate was sparkling so bright that it would be an understatement to describe it. Nebula Clazier’s mana, the most dense I had ever seen, was floating in the old air. The savior said.
“Calm down.”
“Do I look serious now?”
“You shouldn’t be surprised already. Now, let’s go forward.”
Ronan slowly walked inside the stone gate. This is what it would feel like to walk through a tunnel made of the Milky Way. thud! As soon as I passed the doorway, the stone door closed. There was complete darkness, but the mana sparkled so brightly that there was no problem seeing the surroundings.
Fortunately, this hallway wasn’t that long. After walking for about ten minutes, an open space unfolded before my eyes.
In the center of it all, there was a large chunk of ice that looked like it had been copied from a floating glacier off the coast of Heiran. Ronan’s eyes widened as he reflexively looked at the ice.
“That’s…!”
Something huge was buried in the ice. It had the shape of a huge human and seemed to have died a long time ago.
The beautiful muscular body, like a master sculpture, was completely white. The only head sticking out of the ice had its eyes closed. There were as many as four pairs of wings that were messily broken and trapped in the ice.
“giant.”
Ronan muttered without realizing it. What was in front of me was undoubtedly a giant. A being from the sky above, like Ahayute or Duaru.
I wondered why something like that was here. Her head felt dizzy and she felt like throwing up. The savior, who had been silent the whole time, opened his mouth.
“okay. This is what people call a giant. “Invaders from a distant universe…now they have lost all their souls and are nothing but a shell, but they still possess an electrifying power.”
“Nimi…what on earth happened a long time ago?”
“I’ll tell you now. The identity of the strange martial artist you were born with, and your foolish younger brother’s plans. “Why did this happen?”
The Savior nodded slowly. His face as he looked at the giant contained all the joys and sorrows of humanity. The savior closed his eyes tightly, then opened them and spoke.
“It all started here.”
