Episode 324
Episode 108. The place where the tree of God used to be (6)
“Sir Yuma! Fall back!”
Even before Aidan shouted, Yuma was already flying.
Cranky!
It sounded like millions of eggs exploding at once. When the hideous crack dividing the ground opened about a span, the entire strata buried in it was cut off, bent, and soared like waves.
Sheltion could not even eject the breath he was holding in his mouth and blinked his eyes in dismay on the tearing ground.
The ground turns over.
Like a book being folded, the ground on both sides of Sheltion rolled up. Sheltion swung its wings vigorously to avoid hitting the ground. It looked like an animal caught in a trap.
Big, big, big! As the wings hit the raised ground, dirt and stone fragments splattered.
Using the impact as a driving force, the bouncing stone pieces each had considerable killing power, so Natalie and Tane swung their swords in a hurry.
Yuma was jumping back and forth on the wobbly ground trying to straighten his stance. Resistance strong enough to break my back no matter where I stepped on hit the soles of my feet.
In an instant, there was a deafening roar. Some wizards mistook it for thunder and looked up at the dark night sky.
But it wasn’t thunder. It was Sheltion’s roar. Because of the roar, trembling was transmitted from the defense barrier activated by the magicians.
Perhaps, if there were no barriers, many wizards would have collapsed bleeding from their mouths, noses and ears.
Yuma, who was out of the barrier’s defense zone, felt a tingling pain all over his body, as if it had been set on fire.
“Suck!”
While running in search of a stable ground, Sheltion’s wings swung sideways and landed on Yuma.
He lifted Ascalon at a right angle and blocked it, but he couldn’t help but get stuck on the ground.
If he hadn’t adjusted his fall position by forcibly turning his body the moment he rose, he would have fallen into a black crack.
A blue cross aura formed in Yuma’s eyes. The Aura Blaird, which was blown immediately after, was broken powerlessly with a clang this time.
Sheltion’s body is as strong as or harder than Seruka steel. When I was convinced of that fact, I was fed up.
I wanted to kill him as quickly and painlessly as possible. However, it seemed that it would not be easy because the outer skin was so hard.
In the way of cutting, striking, stamping, and stabbing with a sword, you will become ugly enough to become a rag.
It is said that it is a dragon that has been betrayed and fallen, but isn’t it none other than a human who made Sheltion that way?
The sword was heavier than when cutting people. Yuma closed his eyes once more and once again shone Ascalon with his aura.
“Explode the accelerator! Pour more magic power!”
Aidan’s eyes were shining white as he shouted. It was a known evil eye that only high-ranking demons, monsters, and top-level wizards could use.
Those white eyes seemed to be absorbing light. The veins in Aidan’s neck were swollen as if they were about to burst at any moment.
The earthquake intensified. It was the result of the wizards rolling their eyes and exploding the magic accelerator. The sour, putrid smell of accelerant wafted through the forest.
At that moment, as if Sheltion was coughing, the breath he had been holding began to leak little by little.
It was because microorganisms were mixed in the accelerator. It was one of the visions of the Phobian family designed to deal with dragons.
The flowing breath melted the ground like a lump of lava and then exploded.
Yuma hurriedly threw the aura sphere to offset the explosion and scattered the aura to erase the falling debris towards the wizards.
Pajijik Pajik! Near the wizards, bright blue sparks flew randomly. As the 53 misinformation radiated hot magic as if it were about to oxidize, the end of the linkage magic began.
Wild blue flames swaying wildly gathered in front of Sheltion.
And seeing what happened next, everyone except the wizards’ eyes widened.
Two giant, blue hands that could be considered the hands of a god floated right in front of Shel Tion. It was formed by the gathering of condensed mana.
‘What is that…!’
Sheltion also looked startled.
The wizards’ faces were pale due to their overwork, but Aidan, who created the ‘hand’, had a triumphant expression on his face.
[You bastard!]
“It’s over, Magic Creator!”
Aidan lowered his staff.
The hand connected to the cane followed the sound as it was and dropped down.
The cracks in the ground were far deep and dark. When Aidan swung his wand again, his blunt, thick, magical fingers dug into the crack.
“Prepare to eat!”
“Prepare to eat!”
As Aidan shouted, the wizards chanted again.
Wow…! Wow!
Then, the two hands floating in the air were pulled to both sides to open the crack. The ground up to several tens of meters underground was completely cracked.
The power of the Yeon-hwan magic, which relied on the dark magical power of the Gray Forest, far exceeded Yuma’s imagination.
oh oh! Sheltion’s roar rang out again, but Yuma leaped high and aimed at his mouth.
Yuma was able to poke the protruding tongue, but the tongue also possessed tremendous strength, although not as much as the outer shell. It was barely enough to give a scratch.
The two magical hands trembled and continued to open the cracks. It did not open easily as if something was caught under the ground. But soon there was a heavy sound of something breaking.
It was like splitting an apple with force.
Once the force was properly applied, the ground suddenly split into two, revealing the body of the Sheltion that had been buried and hidden within.
Yuma involuntarily swallowed his breath. Sheltion’s torso could not be seen straight from the place where the wizards and the rest of the warriors were.
Sheltion’s body was completely covered with something entangled in a circle like a skein of thread. It was the root that made up the tree of God.
tree of the gods. A very mysterious and beautiful tree with only the name will come to mind.
However, the root Yuma was seeing now was not like that. I don’t know what it was like originally, but that’s it.
It was dark, black and sticky. Even the smoke continued to rise from the roots, but when I came a little closer, the heat hit me. I couldn’t tell how hot it was.
punishment.
Sheltion wasn’t simply sealed away, she was being punished…
The thought that passed through her mind wasn’t just a feeling.
[Yuma Drake. why are you holding back You guys have a chance.
Come on, try it.]
“…I’ll let you go without pain, Shel Tion.”
[Do people who live a short life of about a hundred years know what pain is? Do you think I’ve been enduring this hellish heat for years in this place?]
“I’m a genius as expected! Sir Yuma It must be covered with roots or something, right?
Is it the same shape as the picture I drew? Hurry up and break the joint of the seal! I will put an end to it!
I will surpass the creator of magic! haha!”
Yuma wanted to run right away and crush Aidan’s snout.
Of course, Sheltion’s corruption was not an evil act committed by the present generation of humans. Yuma also did not think that he would atone for the atrocities of the old humans, but a heavy pity pressed his heart.
It wasn’t something to be excited about. When Yuma’s murderous gaze turned towards the wizard, Aidan cleared his throat and looked away.
After blocking one breath with Sky Split, Yuma continued to condense the aura in her body.
It was to use the storm.
Tens of thousands of solid blue lines wrapped around Yuma’s body. Sheltion’s golden eyes narrowed slightly.
[How do you feel?]
“That sounds like shit.”
[The guilt won’t last long.]
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… As he placed the compressed storm on his chest, the aura swirled around Yuma’s body.
The magical hand was still holding on to the open ground. In order to break the link of the seal, it was necessary to go into a crack that could only be seen infinitely deep.
As I jumped down to the basement where Sheltion’s torso was, my vision instantly darkened.
And Yuma suddenly felt extreme dizziness. It wasn’t because of the tremendous heat of the roots penetrating the surface of the storm.
‘Why are you doing this?’
As I approached the root, my heart pounded. After learning taijutsu from Mantu, it was not easy to stop the two bats even though his body control had improved.
I felt a familiar power again. It seemed like he had experienced it once… It was a much sharper and clearer sense than when he first encountered Sheltion.
It felt as if my wobbly legs would be released at any moment. It was as if a familiar force pressed down on my shoulders telling me to fall down.
[You think you’ve already won, but do you feel sympathy for me! I am Sheltion. The first dragon!]
At that moment, Yuma remembered the true identity of the power he was feeling.
‘The fruit of return…!’
A transcendental or more distant power that Yuma experienced for the first time.
It was the same sensation that dominated his whole body when he swallowed the fruit that Malone had playfully handed him before returning.
The fruit that Mahatrisha gave as a gift to Marlon and Marlon Jacques gave to Yuma, the eunuch, was from the tree of the gods.
There was no time to organize my thoughts.
Sheltion’s head on the ground was falling down, aiming for Yuma. Its head, swung like a mace, was so huge that the sky seemed to close.
As Sheltion’s forehead hit the ground, a shockwave ignited inside. After coming to his senses, Yuma raised the power of the storm and swung his fist at the side of Sheltion’s neck.
It would be unbelievable what a human fist could do. Sheltion’s wooden pole, which was unpredictable how heavy and hard it would be, broke down the basement wall.
A chunk of rock poured from the broken strata.
There were quite a few rocks that fell directly on Yuma’s head, but they couldn’t penetrate the storm.
The rocks all turned to dust before they even touched Yuma.
This time it was wings. Scratching the wall, the wings swung obliquely aimed at Yuma.
As she evaded and slashed the randomly swinging wings, Yuma sensed that Sheltion was getting impatient.
It wasn’t that I was nervous because I was afraid of death.
Even dragons that have lived for more than 10,000 years have suffered over half of their lives tied to the roots of hellfire. Even if it wasn’t the pain of the body, the wounds of the heart were indescribable.
No matter how strong a dragon’s mental strength is, it is bound to weaken. Sheltion wanted Yuma to put an end to his terrible life as soon as possible.
Yuma gritted his teeth and began breaking the links of the seals one by one. Unlike the outer shell, which is as hard as Seruca steel, the link is lightly bent and broken like a soft flower stem.
Each time the link was broken, Sheltion’s struggles weakened. Sheltion’s hot, rough breath seeped into the basement.
“You broke everything! Get out now! The encroachment will begin!”
Feeling the magical flow of the sealing link, Aidan shouted. Sheltion was still panting and hitting Yuma with his wings and neck.
Yuma disarmed the storm and deployed his swift speed to get out of the basement. The time I was underground was only for a short time, but it seemed like a considerable amount of time had passed.
“Expand the encroachment!”
As the wizards opened their magic, the bright magic of the gray forest began to be buried in darkness again.
[Yuma Drake. I said the guilt won’t last long. That’s it. The humans outside would have been able to live if they had given something at first…]
Yuma hurriedly turned around and looked at Sheltion. Sheltion’s entire body, covered in encroachment and turned black, was emitting a bright light as if it were about to explode at any moment.
It wasn’t magical power.
It was an auror. If it exploded after a while, the amount was enough to make the entire gray forest disappear without a trace.
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