# 174
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“Damn it! Einrich…!”
Going over the gate was a bad decision.
Even if you regret it, it is already too late. Einrich had already crossed the gate, and the dark clouds hanging over the sky had become even darker.
Heaven was plunged into darkness due to the continued deaths of the apostles who supported the world.
Einrich is dead.
With this, there are two remaining apostles.
“Aaaah-!!”
Armagan shouted as if screaming and rushed towards Daeseong.
Lemuët also began chanting an incantation in an angry voice.
《Gracious Lord! Please give us the power to destroy evil!》
Huuuung-!
The almighty power unleashed by Lemuët enveloped Armagan’s new form.
The moment when Armagan, whose entire body was engulfed in golden flames, was about to swing his long sword with a ferocious force that was completely different from before.
Daesung said, holding out his finger wearing the ‘lord’s ring’.
“Come out.”
[The five spirit knights answer the lord’s call!]
[The knights will fight with their lives for the lord for the next 30 seconds.]
Kugugu-!
Five ghost titans appeared on the battlefield and surrounded Armagan.
The Spirit Knights’ weapon, as large as the temple that Daeseong had just destroyed, fell towards Armagan.
“go away!”
However, he was no match for Armagan, who had Lemuët’s omnipotence at his back.
The long sword passed over a wide radius and cut down the spiritual bodies of the knights.
Passs-!
Breaking through the scattered knights like fog, Armagan quickly approached the castle.
bang-!
The moment the cross sword of < Annihilation > and the long sword of Armagan collided, an enormous explosion exploded.
bang-! bang-! bang-!
What follows is an attack and defense so fast that not even the shape of the blade can be seen.
As swords clashed with swords and explosions that shook the ground erupted in succession, a strong wind like a shock wave erupted.
“…!”
The swirling whirlwind cut the surface of the earth like the peel of an apple, pushing Lemuët’s body backwards.
When I briefly lowered the arm I had raised to block the fierce wind, Daesung and Armagan were already gone.
Lemuët, who was quickly looking around to find the two, realized that they were exchanging attacks in the sky, not on the ground.
bang-!
As always, the explosive explosion and shock wave distorted the shape of the clouds flowing in the sky into a mess.
“If it weren’t for you, our great work could have come to fruition!”
“It’s none of my business. And when you fight, I wish you would just shut up and fight.”
“This barbaric thing…!”
Weapon and weapon collide at speeds easily exceeding the initial speed.
At first glance, it looked like a whistle, but each time the sword wind blew, small wounds appeared on Armagan’s arms and legs one by one.
What is this gap? Is it because the almighty power given by Lemuët is weak? Or is it because the White Devil is so strong?
no.
‘It’s because of that black star…!’
Armagan gritted his teeth as he barely managed to block the endlessly flying cross swords.
The black star that has been fixed in the sky since a while ago absorbs energy.
‘If we just do that, we can completely narrow this gap…!’
However, if you take your eyes off this devil even for just 0.01 seconds, your head will be blown off.
Wow!
The cross sword’s path narrowly passed by Armagan’s face.
A red line appears on his cheek and blood spurts out.
If you continue to be pressured like this, you will eventually be the one to collapse.
At that time, a drop of cold sweat mixed with blood ran down the bridge of Armagan’s nose.
phut-!
“…!”
Suddenly, a white flash of light shot from the ground passed between the two.
Daesung and Armagan, who were fighting like crazy, widened their distance from each other and turned their gaze upward.
And… Kwaaaaang-!
A white flash passed right through the black star in the sky.
Pieces of black stars engulfed in sparks poured down like rain.
Hwareuk-.
The system message that appeared before his eyes made Daesung feel uncomfortable.
[‘Time of the Black Star’ ends.]
Meanwhile.
Armagan looked down, feeling a vitality building up in his body that had not been there just seconds before.
Lemuët was seen relieved as he saw the falling pieces of the black star.
‘Thanks to…!’
Armagan, with a smile of conversion on his face, rushed forward with even more force.
Daesung narrowed his eyes as he felt the fierce fighting spirit coming out of him.
‘As expected, what should I do from that bitch?’
Daeseong stepped back while maintaining an appropriate distance and summoned Gungnir.
And the moment the distance to Armagan narrowed to the point where one person could barely pass by.
[Gungnir’s second special skill, < Oppression >, is activated.]
Kwakwakwakwa-!
A golden wall appeared from all directions and immediately trapped Armagan.
next.
Pa-ang!
Daeseong activated the special skill < Intercept > and threw Gungnir toward the ground.
Special skill < Intercept > that unconditionally hits the specified target.
The holy spear that flew through the air roughly was aimed precisely at Lemuët’s ‘abdomen’.
“…!”
At the same time, Lemuët’s eyes widened as he saw Gungnir flying in with a loud crash.
Clink-!
The long sword wielded by Armagan shattered the wall of < oppression >.
‘Divine power can be offset with the same divine power! But Lemuët…!’
Armagan quickly rolled his eyes and looked back and forth between Gungnir and Lemuët.
“Guardian spirit of Elysium!”
Lemuët was not embarrassed and quickly placed both palms on the ground.
Quad deuk-!
The land, which had been smooth and flat, rose in strange shapes and became a barrier.
Sigh-!
The spear blade pierced the surface of the wall and stopped right in front of Lemuët’s eyes.
“Hi…!”
Lemuët, whose heart was pounding for a moment, shook his shoulders with a pale complexion.
My eye almost got pierced, but I survived anyway.
Armagan, who saw that scene, also unconsciously felt his heart sink.
No, I was about to sweep it away.
Faba Park-!
If only a red air current had not suddenly been released like a thorn from the spear blade and hit Lemuët’s face.
“Ah-ah!! Ahhh-!!”
Lemuët, whose face had been horribly mutilated, let out a scream in his dazed mind.
A tangible thorn of magical power was digging deep into her left eyeball.
The corner of the mouth was torn so long that the back molars were clearly visible, and thorn fragments were sparsely visible from the uvula to the larynx.
“Lemuet-!! …Ugh!!”
A desperate cry came out of Armagan’s mouth, but the cross sword was raised as if it would not allow even that.
Behind the cross sword that roughly pushed away the long sword, a white devil was showing a cruel smile.
“Where are you going? “You have to fight me.”
“this guy…! this…!”
Meanwhile, Lemuët’s screams continued with no sign of stopping.
Lemuët, who was crawling on the floor, coughing up blood welling up from his uvula, tried to recite a spell.
In order to demonstrate the omnipotence of a saint who can completely recover from any injury, no matter how serious it may be.
However,
“Gwaek…. Kwak, gasp…!”
The vocal cords were ruined by the thorn bomb just now. No voice comes out. Only strange moans come out.
Armagan’s wrist, which was struggling to push the cross sword, trembled.
A feeling of extreme helplessness enveloped him.
“Why…”
Behind the devil, the heavenly landscape submerged in a sea of fire came into view at a glance.
The corpses of the dead apostles are rolling around on the ground in such a gruesome manner that it is difficult to open your eyes and look at them.
Even Lemuët, the remaining colleague, twitches, covering his torn face.
This is no longer heaven.
Hell.
“why…!!”
Ka-ang!
Armagan, whose strength soared beyond his limit for an instant, briefly repelled Daesung and broke out of the deadlock.
It could have been possible to take advantage of the opportunity to quickly reorganize the posture and continue a counterattack, but Armagan did not do that.
Instead, he looked up at the heavenly sky obscured by dark clouds and shouted at the top of his voice.
“why! why! Even in a tragedy like this, how can you not show your nose at least once?”
It was a shout to the main god whom he had so much reverence and respect for.
“Your lambs are dying! The world you have cultivated is now falling into a sea of fire! But why doesn’t the Lord let us hear his voice?”
Transparent tears quietly flowed down Armagan’s cheeks.
The first apostle who did not break down despite any hardships and trials shed tears for the first time after ascending to the throne of the apostle.
I couldn’t see ahead. There was no hope in sight. I didn’t have the confidence to get through this tragedy.
Armagan shouted, widening his eyes with a deeper resentment than when he looked at the white devil.
“Why on earth… wow!?”
Fuuuk-!
Blood foam flowed from Armagan’s mouth along with an unpleasant sound.
He slowly lowered his head and what he saw was a cross-shaped sword sticking out of his stomach.
“If you had fought me while I was looking for the Jushin or something, I could have lived for five more minutes.”
After the White Devil’s taunts, Armagan’s consciousness quickly sank into darkness.
***
Tuk-.
A lump fell next to Lemuët, who was lying in a state of disrepair.
She moved her remaining eye with difficulty and confirmed its identity.
neck.
It was Armagan’s neck, his face distorted and stained with tears.
With shiny, bright red intestines in its mouth.
“….”
There were no screams or tears.
Lemuët looked at Armagan’s neck for a moment with emotionless eyes, then turned his head again and looked up at the dark colored sky.
Tuk Touk-.
Thick raindrops fell and wetted her empty left eye socket.
The drizzle soon turned into a torrential downpour, followed by a rumble! A thunderstorm roared along with the sound.
Although the rain was falling so heavily, the sea of fire encroaching on the ground became more intense, as if it would not let up.
fall.
That one short word lingered in Lemuët’s blood-stained vision.
“In the end, that bastard didn’t appear in front of me until the end.”
Before we knew it, Daeseong had come down from the sky and was standing next to Lemuët, making a sarcastic comment.
He looked back at Lemuët, who was gazing vainly at the dying world.
“I guess it means that the person you believed in and followed is barely that much, just talking about the cause and all.”
“….”
“It’s a good thing I left one eye.”
Daeseong bent his knees, squatted down, and lifted Lemuët’s hair.
Thanks to this, she, who had been struggling to only look at the sky, was able to clearly see the destruction of heaven.
“I can’t just watch this and go. “You will watch your world collapse and then die in the fire.”
“….”
With the death of all seven apostles except Lemuët, heaven was no longer able to support its existence.
What would happen to the Earth without the sun and moon? The same goes for heaven.
Damn it -.
Like a crack in glass, a spiderweb-like crack appeared in the vast ground.
Soon, the earth splits randomly, and the inner core within it spews out red-hot fire.
The mountain of fire rising from the edge of the horizon was rapidly spreading towards us, obliterating the surface of the earth and drying up the rivers.
Leaving the collapsing world behind, Daesung ascended to the sky and escaped through the gate.
“….”
Lemuët slowly got up and saw the approaching destruction.
I couldn’t hear any sound, perhaps because my eardrums were blown out by the loud noise of everything collapsing.
Tears flowed uncontrollably from her remaining right eye, but the boiling heat made them dry before they reached her chin.
Lemuët thought as the world collapsed without leaving a single speck of dust behind.
I regretted being immersed in flames.
It would have been better if I didn’t even have my right eye left.
…do.
A small light flickered briefly somewhere in the vast universe.
Another star has set like that.