Chapter 160
Although it was broad daylight, the rain clouds blackened the sky, making it as dark as late at night. On New Year’s Day, when the sun sets and even the moon disappears, complete darkness will arrive in the world.
“Fire.”
As Tureina’s command was given, flames erupted from the fifteen pillars of the Temple of Belachior, from which toxic acid rain poured down in waves.
In the past, a flame more noble than gold rose from this pillar and illuminated the darkness of the world. It’s not like the dark blue flames are swallowing up the light like it is now.
The center of power was the Polantir Altar, which contained a chained, whimpering baby dragon, a boy trapped in an ice rock, and a Beltar stone that radiated the colors of the universe.
“Ah, out, abou out!”
A ferocious darkness overflowed from the central circle of the legal formation drawn there, and soon began to spread in all directions like a dam overflowing.
“iced coffee… … “Destiny begins.”
As the darkness splits and unfolds, the ground eroded by rain collapses and the forest melts.
The power of the spell heading towards the other three peaks, the wave of fear imbued with the dark cold of the tomb, and the temples of the peaks caught in the abyss resonated with this, shooting an unknown darkness into the sky.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo… … .
As tens of thousands of crows flew black into the sky, the ground began to shake violently.
“The omen has begun… … .”
It was also visible to the eyes of the trio as they jumped over the mountainside shining with rainwater. As Valencidis narrowed his eyes, Miria, who was pulling Lane up, asked:
“precursor?”
“You could say it was a rehearsal to start the ceremony at exactly midnight. In terms of magic, it could be said to be a mathematical calculation.”
“I don’t have time to talk… … let’s go.”
The high-frequency noise emitted by the sky-piercing darkness gradually subsided, but soon explosions, shouts, and screams began to echo loudly from all over the mountain.
The power of the spell explodes, severed limbs splatter blood in the air, and the noise of magic, incantation, and spears and swords intersecting flows through the sound of rain.
A bloody battle of clashing beliefs must have begun at the three peaks.
– The seven evil witches will be guarding the three peaks.
Valencidis explained it that way.
It was explained that the seven evils are usually ‘buds’ rather than ‘roots’, and are either full-time archwitches or those with great skill at the level of archwitches.
Yuliana said, pointing one by one to the detailed map of the mountains.
– Rivendell will be in charge of Jiseonbong in the northwest, the Payquirer Corps will be in charge of Yeomgyeongbong in the southeast, and the Martial Spirit and the Witch Association will be in charge of Hwayeonbong in the south.
-Where are we going?
– Shinhwabong Peak, the center of Beopjin. Climb the thousand stairs and obtain Jinryong’s body. And then meet Tureina.
One thousand stairs actually means one thousand steps, not one thousand steps, but a staircase with one thousand landings.
Just knowing this will be enough to guess the height of Shinhwabong Peak, which is twice as high as other peaks.
Following Miria’s guidance, they moved forward quietly, assassinating the guards, but there were limits to this advance.
“It’s an intruder!”
On the other side of the dark stairs, the outlines of countless conical hats were visible, and soon the powers of the spell were concentrated into numerous light sources.
“Move… … !”
Before that power becomes power, before this ability takes shape. before the sound comes out of your mouth.
“… … “Belle Curious!”
0101010001, the chanting turned into a painful scream as it turned into a fierce incandescent flame in the mouth.
I couldn’t kill it. As for me, I couldn’t even make up my mind to kill Tureina.
After neutralizing the witches, corpses came rushing out from both sides of the stairs.
The victims whose hearts were eaten by crow were mostly mountain villagers, but there were also adventurers, soldiers, and demonic beasts.
And a witch with a dark blue conical hat, showing off her unusual presence, was standing at the very back of the defense line. She must be a witch of seven evils.
“I don’t understand, Valencidis. Why are you, who was his greatest favourite? As Friede said, men cannot be trusted.”
Almost immediately after those words were finished, a high-speed chanting of a 3-star spell was performed without even having time to interfere with Bell Curious.
“Regina is an annoying opponent. I’ll take charge. “You go forward.”
At that time, Valencidis stepped forward, spreading his iron fan.
Forcibly changes the wind flow. The wind forged by the crescent-shaped blade tore the flesh of the corpse crow’s hosts that were charging from both sides to shreds.
Taking that as a signal, the witches who had given it to me by Yuliana were also fighting back with waves of death coming from all directions, and I was running forward as crazy flashes of light and explosions came out.
‘Let’s go together till the end, we don’t have time to exchange such sentimental words.’
Because the dark abyss covering the distant skies above Shinhwa Peak was gradually becoming darker.
‘I have to go.’
I desperately moved my feet in the rain and wind. The joints of my entire body, which were not yet fully intact, creaked painfully.
‘I have to go to those guys.’
The hem of Ceresia’s clothes fluttered wildly in the extremely strong wind and she almost lost her balance more than once, but she didn’t stop walking even for a moment.
-About!
– Boss!
What if I happen to harm Aki’s body? Since it has to be offered as a whole living sacrifice, the possibility of that happening is said to be zero. What if you start the ritual sooner due to stronger resistance than expected?
‘Tureina.’
What if Payquirer quickly conquers Yeomgyeongbong with its overwhelming force, moves to the center of the legal battle, Shinhwabong, and kills Tureina?
‘Hurry, you have to hurry.’
Towards the back, the noise of croaking crows and the commotion of magical energy clashing gradually receded into silence, vaguely buried by the sound of rain.
Shoot… … .
It was as if there was a hole in the sky, and I couldn’t even see 5 meters in front of me due to the rain pouring down so hard.
At some point when I was running down the stairs through the rain, a pillar of darkness that had been shining faintly on the other side of the rain curtain quickly became blurred.
Miria, who has much better eyes than me, said.
“Southeast… … “It’s Yeomgyeongbong.”
“Yeomgyeong, Yeomgyeong, Yeomgyeong, Yeomgyeong.”
This is a signal that Milone Alter Gaumris has conquered the mission area and neutralized the legal formation. Indeed, Payquirer… … It’s incredibly fast.
You have to hurry.
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Heavy moisture presses down on my shoulders, and body heat rapidly escapes from my drenched body.
‘This damn creative psalm… … ‘How much have you weakened your bodily functions?’
Every now and then, every time I blew away the crows or witches that stood in my way with a pillar of fire, my stamina depleted even faster.
“Damn, damn… … .”
For a moment, when my vision became blurry, my foot slipped as I was walking down the stairs and I almost fell, but Miria immediately grabbed my arm.
“Hold on a little more! “Not much time left!”
Meanwhile, the Beltar God Stone radiated light towards Tureina, who was watching the cataclysmic situation in front of the Polantir altar with a bear bag in her mouth.
「Ru shi han ter… … “Proceed with the ritual of destiny.”
“The sun hasn’t completely set yet.”
“Kirhak, the body will be unstable, but it is better than not being equipped, so start immediately.”
The sorcerous crows sitting next to Tureina flew into the wind and rain, fluttering their feathers, and conveyed their message to the henchmen stationed throughout the mountain range.
“Isn’t this too early than planned?”
It was a time when May, the witch of seven evils who guarded the hill of the Thousand Steps, raised her eyebrows when she saw the string spread by the crow.
“hmm… … ?”
Far down the stairs, a series of dry booms rang out, and soon the source of the commotion was revealed. May’s eyes widened.
─He is the dragon’s protector!
─Prevent them from approaching the Shinhwa Peak!
The witches who stood in their way either covered their mouths and fell down when they wanted to chant, or were hit with stone blades and thrown down the mountain path outside the stairs.
“Miss May!”
“What happened?”
I heard that you were struck by the Changmyeong Psalm.
However, no matter how powerful the eyes are, there is a limit to human vision called blind spot.
When May raised her hand, a long, tearing sound was heard and a dark shadow was cast over the area. It was a three-eyed monster.
It was only for a moment that the monster birds that appeared in the air with strong winds swooped down towards the boy.
“Get away from me———!”
When the boy shouted, panting wildly, blindingly intense flames burst through the ground, burning the bodies of the monsters in an instant.
“… … !”
With just one blow, in an instant where you don’t even know when the calculations were completed, you can create such a blow?
May smiled in remorse even as she felt her eyes tremble. Because the multiple chanting of the four-star spell combined with her six witches was over.
Just as he was about to unleash a force so strong that it shook the air towards the boy, a silver light flashed in the corner of his vision and the witches screamed.
“What… … ?”
The swordsman who glided out from the shadows and quickly defeated the six witches with her agile yet calm movements was Miria.
It was a surprise attack that perfectly took advantage of the loophole at the moment the chant ended.
May, whose side was pierced by the tip of a sword, vomited blood but did not let go of control of the spell.
“We can’t let his wish be ruined… … .”
The huge wave of destruction that was aimed at the boy was turned right below him, right at his feet.
“───!”
Since the Age of Origin, a corner of the one thousand steps that had led humanity to the peak of God began to collapse cruelly, accompanied by an eardrum-shattering rumble.
The ground, weakened by the erosion of the abyss, collapsed, forming a landslide, releasing a strong earthy smell.
I could have been caught up in the collapse. No, it would have been swept away. If only the hooked iron rope thrown by Miria hadn’t wrapped around the boy’s arm at that moment.
‘The tree we are holding on to cannot support the weight of the two of us…’ … .’
The tree with its roots exposed in the weakened ground looked as if it would be caught in a landslide at any moment.
The moment Miria realized this, she immediately threw herself into the cliff created by the collapse. Sigh, the boy’s body was pulled upward using the principle of a pulley centered on a tree.
The boy, who had almost been thrown down the stairs, looked down and gasped in embarrassment.
“Mi, Miria!”
“Stop worrying about it and go to Aki!”
Miria pointed to her other hand amidst a flurry of rocks, mud, dust, branches, and by-products of all kinds of large and small landslides.
“I’ll catch up with you in no time!”
Another iron rope extended from the grip and was tied to a rock that had not been caught in the landslide. The boy swallowed painfully and got up and ran.
It seemed like the altitude had already reached its limit, but at the end of the far field of view, the 1,000 steps ended and the great fire temple of Bellachior rose up.
He moves his body to its limit and lets out a scream-like cry.
“Aki───!”
At the Temple of Belachior, when Tureina recited the primordial spell, the negative energy that was forming the square became so dense that it was suffocating, and the temple, no, the entire mountain range began to shake.
At the same time, the moment when the Beltar God Stone emerged, emitting an unholy light, the moment when that light was woven into vines that were not vines, and attached to the body of the young dragon and the frozen boy like a tumor.
The moment the baby dragon cried pitifully, the temple’s gate, which surrounded the multiple barriers, was thrown into charcoal by the fierce flames of divine destruction… … Flames shot out from within the flames.
“A-baat!”
The flames, concentrated in the shape of a stone statue, flew out, leaving a red lingering glow in the air, and struck the exact center of the Beltar Stone.
「Da ken ro… … This… … ?」
On the surface of the God Stone, which could not even be scratched by any steel, a crack appeared with an ominous sound.
It was the next moment that the stone statue returned to its original form and burned fiercely.
Then, the Beltar Godstone, an unidentifiable sinister spirit residing within the stone, howled wildly… … .
「Gu, gu guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa… … !」
In the dimension of reality, instead of pulling back the misshapen vines that had spread to the young dragon and the boy’s rock, a disgusting miasma poured out in a gust of wind.
“No, no…” … !”
A lifelong wish, a wish spanning hundreds of years, was now before my eyes… … .
The boy spoke as he waved his hands around in a daze, as if trying to hold on to the ancient power that was scattered as a handful of dust in a gust of wind, or as if trying to maintain the magic power that was connected to the three peaks.
In the flames of transcendence that burn fiercely and consume the temple, I stumble as if I will collapse at any moment.
“Tureina… … .”
The name of my first student, whom I thought I would never be able to call again, and the name of the girl who had given up saying that even if I called it, there would only be an echo, in a voice that was so sad that I could not help it.
“… … “You stupid little boy.”
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