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Decisive Battle (4)
Deodeudeude……!
The ground shakes. Falling rocks tumbling down the cliffs of the valley as if an earthquake had occurred.
As Dallan ran through the strangely shaped rocks in the rugged valley, he recalled the conversation from earlier.
‘Are you okay alone?’
‘It will just take time. ‘At least move quickly.’
The bartender’s face as he answered his question indifferently.
‘If you die in a place like this, there’s no promise between us. The corpse of the previous Feather Witch will rot forever in the underground palace.’
‘Tsk, anyway, I’m just a little talker. Don’t worry, even if you dig a rat hole like Tateangkat, he will still be alive.’
The appearance of an ancient dragon that casually accepted the bruises of a witch who had been with it for a long time and revealed its true brass-colored form.
When I inadvertently turn my head and look back, the massive body of the true dragon rises from the mountain valley beyond with a huge roar.
[――――!!]
The air trembles with the power of the words, and the red sky waves like a lake.
Dozens of dragon breaths crossing in the sky.
Red and blue magic deflecting each other, and a greenish-brown straight line twisting and penetrating between them.
━━━━━━!
Mystery erases mystery.
Dozens of waves of power are torn apart by the sentence of words.
Scales and teeth falling off. Giant bodies falling with torn wings.
Turning their backs on the battle in the sky filled with screams and spells, the party covered the valley without losing their initial speed.
“Over there!”
Someone shouts out after discovering the light between the cracks in the rocks.
Rumble─
Pass through an irregularly shaped passage like a portal at once.
“I will entrust you with avenging Dallon Visalina.”
With the sea of sticky blood and the mountain of corpses in front of me, I run once again with the determination of a dwarf.
「Domain Open: The royal family’s giant army that unleashes resentment」
Kugugugu…!!
The barrage of giant soldiers, twice as large as before, began to pound the walls of the Palace of Destruction, which was once Sun’s domain.
[—-!]
“okay! That’s it, Akasha!”
Thanks to the cheers of the dwarf on top of the giant soldier, the fully grown Blue Dragon’s breath froze the earth overflowing with lava.
Cold and heat collide and shells land on armor.
Pretzel Gwang! Blah blah blah!
As I passed through the passage once again, carrying the gunfire and heat on my back, a terrible smell filled my lungs.
“Now it’s our turn.”
Felber spoke from atop a mountain peak covered with corpses, looking down at the blood and ooze flowing like a river.
“We were never able to win in the Vampire Count’s territory. “It’s time to continue the fight against those who have risen from the grave.”
“You talk like you almost won, old man. “If anyone hears that statement, they will misunderstand it.”
“Uh huh. Wasn’t there a big difference in weight classes at the time? “I’ve reached the 6th rank, so it’s real from now on.”
Woooooo……!
Beneath the haunting castle of the dead that embroidered the sky, the archmage who ascended to the top of the demi-god with only a spell began to raise his magical power.
Ugh!
A magic circle that builds and spreads from beneath your feet.
The sound of a spell pulsating between magical powers rising like a golden haze.
“Elle. Memento Raclia.”
Graceful golden curves are engraved on the bone fragments and internal organs that cover the ground.
Hundreds of types of hieroglyphs fill the spaces between lines and expand their scope.
「Full opening of the realm: The hand of the earth that winds ahead of the spring」
The power of the realm extending in all directions is concentrated on the young wizard who was assisting by the side.
Using the concept of memory and existence as the earth, we go beyond reading the past and future and fix the desired point of view in the real time zone.
Unlike in the case of turning a growing boy into a grown man, the secret technique cast without overdoing it takes several years.
His blonde hair, which had become shaggy after a long fight, was neatly trimmed.
A young man dressed in the brown robe of a magic tower over neat formal attire raised his hand and began to make a hand sign.
“Elle – Memento Elegus”
「Full opening of the realm: Earth’s hand that rewinds the spring」
Will I follow in the footsteps of my teacher who ascended to the top of a demi-god and rise to the same position within a few years?
The double-layered golden magic circle resonates and begins to distort and play with the timeline of the area.
「Domain Resonance」
「Seven Seven Twin Wheels Opening Hall」
「All-in-One-One-Purpose」
Kugwagwagwa-!!
Hundreds of golden cannonballs fired towards the corpse giants approaching from afar.
At the same time, the magic power surrounding Dallen and Lucia Sienna’s bodies instantly transports the three to another space.
“Take care of yourself…!”
The support that was transferred through space and could not be conveyed until the end.
However, it feels like the feelings were conveyed without any loss.
“let’s go.”
Dallen, who pulled out his axe, walked toward the glowing exit in front of him.
Once again, the feeling of disparity in space and time trembles. After passing through the short passage, I entered a spacious hall.
Tsuzuzuzu…….
A feast of falling starlight.
A narrow, single road about ten meters wide that intersects in the shape of a cross under a celestial sphere densely covered with hundreds of thousands of stars.
“Dallen, this is the white-eyed seer….”
[We have arrived, mortals.]
A sharp thunderous sound filled the lower celestial sphere far away.
Dallen threw the ax without hesitation. The ax that cleared the space faded and disappeared, soon appearing hundreds of meters away.
[Moving under my master’s mysterious arrangement…Aaaaah!]
The destination where the ax blade flashed was in front of the bird-headed monster’s beak.
Flames flash with a dull friction sound, and the huge body of the devil floats away like a leaf caught in the wind.
[Quaaaaa!]
The great devil flew away with an ax in its beak and fell into the void next to the cross-shaped road.
Lucia tilted her head as she heard the screams getting further and further away.
“…What was that?”
“A bird head who is good at flattering.”
“yes?”
“An archdemon directly under Enaxagus.”
“…ah.”
She nodded.
***
After the obstructionist disappeared, the party was able to properly look at the hall covered by the celestial sphere.
There wasn’t much free time. Even at this moment, Enaxagus is occupying the seventh area and is constantly trying to take control of the core of the barrier.
The moment he succeeds, the entire city will turn into hell and face irreversible destruction.
Even if that wasn’t the case, it was right to hurry for the sake of the comrades left behind in other halls.
“…I can’t find it.”
But despite the urgency, it was not easy to find clues.
Even though there must be a new exit, there was no trace of it anywhere.
This hall, with a cross-shaped path hanging between the celestial sphere above and the void below, was the hall where Aliat, the white-eyed seer, resided in the Diamond Palace.
A banquet hall of stars singing time.
A prophet’s abode fixed on the ground in the shape of the realm that swallowed up the incarnation of the water god Sisella.
“There must be an exit leading to another hall, or at least a passage to the seventh area…”
“At least there is no possibility of it leading to another hall. Unlike the other transcendents of the Diamond Palace, Aliat’s domain was not inherited, but was hers from the beginning.”
Sienna said as she looked down at the vast void below the crisscrossing road.
“The reason other halls were eroded by the appearance of hell is probably because the original owners of those areas no longer exist in this world. Even if it is inherited properly, there are bound to be some gaps.”
“……what?”
“But Aliat, the owner of this celestial sphere, is a monster who has been living since before the creation of the city. “Even Enaxagus would not have been able to contaminate it, and of course he would have been taken out last in the fortified twenty-six halls.”
“…….”
Lucia turns her head to Dallen with eyes that ask, ‘What on earth is this spellcaster talking about?’
However, there was nothing wrong with Sienna’s opinion itself.
What does it mean that the five or six halls that were originally supposed to be loosely connected were merged into a great hell?
There was a clear reason for the actions of Enaxagus, who created this monstrosity, and it was not that difficult to read his intentions backwards.
“As soon as Enaxagus took over the Diamond Palace, he brought in most of the demons and fortified the halls.”
Dallen continued, scratching his chin.
“What he needs is time.”
hour.
Dallen and his group were not the only ones who were pressed for time.
If you think about it from a different perspective, for Enaxagus, Daelon would have been a person of interest who had often interfered with his plans.
And while all of humanity’s might was converging on the labyrinth city of Falcion, he must have had only one thought when he saw that such a person of interest had disappeared.
‘I guess I figured he was growing his strength somewhere.’
Preparation to overcome the hierarchy of simple transcendents and deal with evil spirits and their great hell.
That thought may have been the basis for Enaxagus attacking the Labyrinth City directly instead of continuing the invasion by increasing his strength from the outskirts of the continent.
From his point of view, it would be the worst development for Dallen, who had completed his preparations at a time when half of the continent had been swallowed up, to return and join forces with the Labyrinth City.
In that context, the man who had already completely captured the city but made additional preparations for Dallen, who might return, was truly a master of strategy.
In any case, the fortification of the Diamond Palace and the Twenty-Six Halls was just to buy time from his point of view.
In case Dallen returns, a defense line has been created to block him while he takes complete control of the seventh district.
‘And one of the basics of fortification is to narrow the passage into one.’
No matter how impregnable a fortress is, the entrance itself is necessary.
However, the entrance is fundamentally a weak point of the fortress.
It is natural that the defense of a fortress with only one drawbridge and gate is stronger than that of a city that is open to the north, south, east and west, as well as secret gates and side roads.
That may be why Enaxagus cleaned up all the passages in the hall that were tangled like a loose spider’s web and forced the passage by combining more than twenty halls into just four.
‘If fortification was the goal, the great hell that eroded the hall would have served as a fortress protecting the passage. If so, this must be the last one.’
If this is the last of the twenty-six halls.
The passage to the seventh area must also be hidden somewhere here.
The problem was that the core of the barrier was a place that Dallon himself had never seen.
The remains could only be found after the city was destroyed, but while it was operating normally, it was a place that could not even be found because it was hidden somewhere.
Except for the twenty-six transcendents, the exact location is not known even to the high-ranking nobles of the Diamond Palace.
As he looked up at the heavens while rubbing his aching temples, Parn’s story suddenly flashed through his mind once more.
‘After destroying the Diamond Palace, Enaxagus ascended high into the sky.’
Enaxagus ascended into the sky and brought a red whirlpool down to the city. The moment my thoughts reached that
point,
the ax that struck the demon with the new head was held in my right hand.
[Wow! The hero of the prophecy! I will bury you with the axe!]
I throw the axe away, ignoring the birdsong echoing from the bottom of the void.
Hwiri───
The place where the disk of light is heading is the exact center of the celestial sphere, where hundreds of thousands of stars twinkle above.
───Quick!
The moment an ax thrown with all its might lands in the center of the heavenly sphere, ripples erupt and a hidden space is revealed.
A part of the dark universe peeled off like the skin of a fruit, and a gaping hole appeared in the sky.
Coo coo coo coo…!
A strange energy pours in from the hole and swirls around the heavens.
An evil magical power that weighs down the air of the heavens from top to bottom, as if trying to crush everything in this place.
In my squinted vision, I saw a swirling red energy just above the hole. It was a red whirlwind that was said to have been spread out by Enaxagus, who had ascended to the sky.
You have to overcome this pressure and get up there. Just as I was thinking that, the distant sound of birds quickly became closer.
[Even the monotonous struggle ends there, you are the protagonist of the prophecy!]
Boom!
A large body rising from the void and landing on a criss-crossing path.
It was a bird-headed demon that fell down after being hit by Dallen’s axe.
The devil, who looked like a mixture of a bird, a human, a snake, and a lion, was chuckling even as blood was dripping from his head.
It opened its beak wide, licked the blood with its forked tongue, and shouted.
[What you are looking at is not the physical sky, but an imitation of heaven! This is not a place you can climb to just because you have wings! It is a place that cannot be accessed unless the original is the law of ascension. Now that law has already been broken by the master’s power…]
“It’s a story about the elevator being broken.”
[…L What?]
“As expected, if you catch the mid-boss right away, you will lose. “If you give it enough space, it will teach you the clues on its own.”
[…You’re talking nonsense with your foolish tongue!]
The Great Devil spread his arms and wings wide. The magic power of the celestial sphere. It was a harbinger of a spell.
Dallen chuckled and lifted his foot.
「Realm Advent: Waterfall rising upside down」
The moment I lightly stamp my foot, the concepts of up and down are flipped over.
「Reversal」
When the bird-headed demon saw Dallan starting to float, he forgot to cast a spell and opened his beak wide.
“…caw?”
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