Chapter 501
I was able to get to Fort Mokna soon.
My mind was complicated. What should I say when I meet Liana, and is the elimination and purification work going well?
There were many things to ask and things to check.
However, upon arrival, the atmosphere in Fort Mokna was more than calm and ominous.
“Looks like something went wrong.”
“… … It looks like it.”
A suspiciously large number of soldiers stood on the walls of the castle.
As if preparing for battle.
And, I don’t know if it’s a revelation of a sense of urgency or not, but some ominous feeling of foreboding ran down my spine to the point where my skin tingled.
I ran through the base and jumped up the wall at once.
“Eh, Your Highness the Demon King… … .”
“line… … . Hart?”
Standing on top of the wall were not only soldiers, but also Liana with a serious expression on her face.
As if she hadn’t thought that I would arrive at this timing, Riana’s expression was filled with bewilderment and guilt.
“What is the situation?”
“me too… … . I don’t know either… … . I don’t know… … .”
Liana’s complexion was pale blue.
A field spread out on the outskirts of Fort Mokna.
Closer to the horizon, there was someone walking in the moonlight.
staggering, staggering.
Dressed in colorful priestly clothes and covered in blood.
What the hell did he do with that hand, both hands covered in blood.
As if possessed by something, Olivia was approaching Fort Mokna on the horizon.
“this… … . what… … .”
Olivia, who has left to exorcise evil spirits and ghosts, approaches Fort Mokna as if her mind has been overwhelmed by something.
Ghost energy was flowing from his whole body, as if steam was rising.
* * *
Olivia has the ability of a divine spirit.
As far as I know, Olivia has an innate resistance to mental interference or obstruction.
But Olivia is being controlled by something.
Clearly, that trait didn’t refer to immunity. Does that mean that even Olivia is a vengeful spirit powerful enough to subdue her spirit?
Seeing Olivia, who had left on a mission to exterminate and purify the demons, stagger back in a miserable state, all the soldiers on the wall seemed to feel grotesque fear.
I don’t know specifically what happened.
However, Olivia’s mind is suppressed by something.
Liana was staring at the scene with a frozen look.
Did the paladins and priests who went out together die?
In Olivia’s hands?
“I will solve it. No one interferes.”
“… … okay.”
At my simple instructions, Liana nodded with a firm expression.
Jumping off the castle wall at once, I walked toward Olivia approaching from the horizon.
Olivia, who approaches me with cloudy eyes, immediately raises her head and looks at me.
The focus returns to those eyes.
It was far away, but I had no choice but to know at once what the emotion in those eyes was.
distorted face.
trembling lips.
fear.
anger.
Hatred.
Only such negative emotions were being read.
A black aura begins to seep from Olivia’s body, who looks at me with obvious disgust and hatred.
Olivia has mastered the power of Tuan, the god of innocence.
Although he didn’t use it often, he also mastered the opposite power, Kier’s power.
Since he was devoured by a ghost that has already died, is he using the power of corruption?
Olivia, whose whole body is entwined with black energy, takes a step forward.
It seems like when did you stumble?
Olivia took a powerful step and charged towards me.
Olivia, who has leaped a great distance, leaps again.
With a movement like a beast, Olivia charges towards me in an instant.
First practice after becoming a master class.
He hadn’t imagined that it would be Olivia possessed by a ghost, not a monster or anyone else.
What happened to Olivia?
Can I come back to my senses?
can i do that
I was confused though.
I spent a long time learning how to find immobility in the midst of confusion and fear.
My head is complicated, but my heart is calm.
What to do right now.
To subdue Olivia, who has gone mad.
Other than that, there’s nothing I need to worry about right now.
“Whoa… … .”
choose to breathe
Calm your mind and focus.
By controlling and refining the flow of magical power to the extreme, the mana that is released needlessly is compressed to the limit.
compressed and compressed.
I don’t use it anywhere except to strengthen my body.
Olivia’s arms, stained in black darkness, rushing at me like an animal and stretching out her arms, I shed them with my bare hands.
-Cards!
Arm to arm clashing, along with an eerie sound.
“Something like a demon… … .”
“Big… … !”
“How dare you touch who?”
I hit Olivia’s stomach with all my might.
– Jjaeok!
As if a rock was blown away with a single punch, Olivia rolled dozens of times across the field with a heavy impact and fell out.
can’t use a sword
Because I can’t kill Olivia.
“Geuuuuuuuuuuuuu… … .”
Olivia, who bounced off for a while, staggers back to her feet.
It was an attack to stun, but I should have hit it harder.
“ugh… … .”
Olivia covers her face with one hand and begins to let out a suppressed moan.
“Ouch… … . flaw… … . Hehe… … . Hehehehe… … .”
It was a strange cry.
Bright red tears flow from Olivia’s eyes.
Is that the suffering of the ghosts who dominated Olivia?
Or is it the agony of having to fight with me unwillingly?
Or both.
Black smoke rises from Olivia’s body.
In the smoke gap, something resembling a human figure appears and disappears repeatedly.
As if too many ghosts dwelled in the body, and the body could not bear it and was released.
“Ugh… … . ugh… … . ugh… … .”
Olivia’s appearance was pitiful, terrifying, and hideous.
I don’t know if Olivia is suffering or if the ghosts are suffering.
“Ugh… … . Ugh!”
-Kiaaaaaaaaaa!
-Kurrureurreung!
As the black smoke rising from Olivia’s body roared loudly, the grass in the wilderness was pulled out, creating a huge shockwave.
-die.
-die.
-die.
-help me.
-why me?
– I want to live.
-Uhhhh… … .
And that wasn’t all.
The shock wave didn’t just create a gust of wind, but also gave me a strange auditory hallucination, like thousands of people whispering in my ear at the same time.
Although it was very brief.
Head.
It seemed to explode.
Olivia was right in front of my nose while I was stunned by the enormous whisper that almost took me out of my mind for a moment.
– Kwakang!
When Olivia’s outstretched fist hit me, I had no choice but to be thrown back several tens of meters with a heavy impact.
– Chii Ik
“… … .”
Blocked.
Even though I blocked it, the part of my wrist where Olivia’s fist had struck was black and dying.
The power of Kier, the god of corruption.
When I killed Leberier Ranche, I used the corrupted Tiamata to kill the one that was constantly regenerating its wounds.
Contaminated by the aura of corruption, Lebarrier Ranche could not recover from his wounds and passed away.
Olivia’s attack, which uses Kier’s power, tries to break through my magic barrier and corrupt my body.
– Woo-woo-woo!
Finally, while summoning Tiamata, focus your holy power on the wound.
Recovery is not impossible, but it is certainly slow.
Kier’s power suppresses Tuan’s resilience.
My wrists feel cold.
Olivia is strong even in the first place.
-Keuhuhheuk!
But now I felt like I was facing not just one Olivia, but tens of thousands of enemies who hated me and hated me at the same time.
The hallucinations do not stop.
The hatred and resentment that hit my ears, and the screams of those who don’t want to die, disturb my head as if it were a curse placed on me.
You have to focus on fighting.
Olivia must be subdued.
However, I can’t hear what I need to hear.
The agony that seemed to numb my hearing and the grudge that disturbed my mind suddenly gave me a dizzying feeling, as if it were actually trying to invade my mind.
-bang! Kwakang! blah blah!
Olivia’s physical offensive doesn’t stop either.
Attacks loaded with the power of corruption penetrate my defenses and cause my body to rot in real time.
If you reverse the power of Tuan, the god of innocence, it becomes the power of enormous corruption.
It was an unholy power that would burn away just by touching the skin.
The reason I can withstand this offensive is because of Tiamata’s power.
Perhaps, it was clear that the demons possessed by Olivia strengthened both Olivia’s physical capacity and Kier’s divine power.
Although Olivia’s divine power was naturally strong, it wasn’t to this extent.
-Sureuk!
“… … !”
The Tiamata in my hand disappeared, and it was in Olivia’s right hand.
Me and Olivia share Tiamata.
A bizarre situation was unfolding in which Olivia was taking the Tiamata I was holding.
That wasn’t the end of it.
-Kureung!
Black lightning fell from the sky, and Tiamata, which was releasing divine power, instantly changed into the shape of a cursed sword.
Demon Sword Tiamata.
Olivia, holding it, rushes in.
There is no such thing as time to fight for supremacy using Tiamata.
– Kwakang!
I had no choice but to receive it in Alsbring.
Just like in the past, the times when Olivia was an overwhelming force that was incomparable to me have now passed.
I got to the master class, and Olivia didn’t.
In addition, I am different from those who normally attend master classes.
Because I can enhance my magic power with extreme efficiency, I can produce more powerful output than other master classes with the same amount of magic power.
In addition, it possesses an overwhelmingly powerful amount of magical power.
So in terms of power, I overwhelm.
– Cards!
“Geuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… … .”
Olivia, pushed back in the sword-to-sword battle, groans like a beast and is pushed back.
In strength, in output, I am ahead of Olivia.
The problem wasn’t that.
“crazy… … .”
The aura of corruption flowing from the cursed Tiamata was rotting my body.
Is this how it feels to die in real time?
If it’s my enemy to deal with that power, there’s no problem.
Kill it before it becomes a long battle. That’s it.
I can’t kill Olivia, and in the long run, my arm will eventually break. That’s it.
– Jjiing!
“Ugh… … !”
And, the roar of the spirits that came periodically like a wave seemed to hit my mind as well as my ears.
Not only physical attacks, but also the power of the corrupted divine power and the curse of the souls.
If he were a normal person, he would have gone mad or died if he had been attacked by just one of those three.
You can’t kill Olivia.
But if you don’t kill me, I might die.
-The Demon King… … . kill… … .
In the distance, such an echo could be heard from the earwax that came riding the wind.
A group approaches from the horizon of the field.
-Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
don’t ghost
Standing on the Phantom Steed, I could see the knights gliding across the field.
Death knight.
They all looked like they had just died.
The paladins dispatched for the purification ceremony died.
And, by the power of Olivia and the ghosts, he was revived as a Death Knight.
At one time, Olivia and I had a hard time dealing with a Death Knight in Laziern, the capital of the Levina Kingdom, where the demonists appeared.
As time passed, Olivia now had the power to create such a Death Knight with her own hands.
However, he is only using that power to attack me.
Dozens of ghost horses run towards me.
At that time, it was too much to deal with even one prayer. Even then, it was Olivia, not me, who dealt with the Death Knight herself.
Time has passed.
Like Olivia being able to control the Death Knight beyond killing the Death Knight.
I can’t compare myself back then, and now that I’ve returned from Lizaira, I can’t compare myself to before I went there.
“Suck!”
– Woo-woo-woo!
– Squeak!
Before the rushing Ghost Horse could react, I cut both the Ghost Horse and the Death Knight at the same time. Divided in an instant, what had been Edina’s Holy Knight just a while ago was split into two.
In the end, the grisly thought ran through my mind that it was nothing more than killing a former ally twice.
It wasn’t just the Death Knights that had to be dealt with.
– Kwakang!
Still, the real enemy I had to deal with was Olivia Ranze.
Olivia’s leg strength kicked me with her weight as she came running from behind, and I was thrown off and I rolled on the floor.
The shock wasn’t felt too badly, but the side of the hit was sore.
The shock is not the problem, but if you are in close proximity to Olivia, corruption will proceed.
The Death Knights turn and charge with bizarre mobility.
I got up again and grabbed Alsbringer.
Alsbringer is an object that lends strength to enemies who are stronger or outnumber you.
I am stronger than them
However, Alsbringer still lends me strength when there are more enemies than me.
The moment when I was about to draw a fleeting picture of how to overcome and deal with the bizarre mobility of the charging ghost horse with a sense of elation, and how Olivia should subdue it.
– Flash!
Lightning colored the world.
-Kurrureurreung!
As the thunderstorm tore the world apart.
– Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!
Lightning started pouring down towards the Death Knights.
The flesh of the Death Knight, who has just died, bursts out, and the bones, which can be said to be their real bodies, start to turn red-hot and gradually turn to ashes.
Let’s turn our gaze towards the wall of Edina. With a face contorted in despair, I saw Liana reaching out her hand.
No matter how dead and resurrected, it feels like I killed an ally twice.
Liana also feels the same as me. No, she seemed to be feeling worse than that.
The despair and guilt of having lost comrades who had been together for a long time due to what she had done, and having to deal with their humiliated deaths with her own hands, could be seen in Liana’s eyes.
