Episode #210. In the end, was it?
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Bang bang Kwagwawang!
“Cuck!”
It happened in an instant.
The fact that Limon cut down Carol who was floating in the air.
It was also the fact that Carol, who had been slashed by the sword, splattered blood and bounced off, destroying several towers and buildings and getting stuck among the rubble.
For a moment, he frowned at the strange feeling he felt at the tip of the knife.
Limon immediately jumped through the wreckage.
And when he saw the traces of Carol who had disappeared before he knew it and the hole in the bottom of the collapsed building, he clicked his tongue.
‘Tsk, was it a bit shallow?’
I was going to cut Carol’s heart at once and end my life.
With the repulsive feeling emanating from Carol’s robes, his body blurred like a ghost and he was pushed back, so he narrowly missed.
‘As much as it is vulnerable to melee combat, it must have been covered with defense items.’
It wasn’t just the power of the item.
The activation speed of the skill that delayed Limon’s sword by spreading the shield again just before being cut.
As soon as he fell, he dug into the ground and ran away.
In addition, even after receiving a fatal wound that should have killed an iron man, he still has the vitality and tenacity that has not ended.
Certainly, one of the absolute rulers of this era, Karl, the magic lord, was not an easy opponent.
If he hadn’t been ambushed by Limon, he would have been able to resist more tenaciously.
But if only if.
Just as the explanation of the loser in war is nothing more than an excuse.
His fate was decided at the point when he appeared in front of Limon without knowing the identity of Limon and decided to become a monster instead of admitting his guilt.
“I’m sorry, but you picked the wrong person to run with.”
Limon murmured coldly.
And instead of a hole in the ground, I threw myself into the thick fog of London.
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“Cool cool cool cool! Hee hee hee hee.”
A sewage system that stretches like a labyrinth beneath London.
In that corner, Carol coughed up blood with the force of spitting out her entire lung.
Then, with trembling hands, he took out a second vial from his bosom and inhaled the golden liquid inside.
gulp.
As soon as the sweet, golden liquid passed down your throat, it felt warm as it spread through your body.
Only then did Carol finally stop coughing up blood, and she trembled as she looked at the wound in her chest where blood was still oozing out.
‘I’ve used two bottles of Elixir, but this much…!’
Elixir, which can only be created by the Creator, is the ultimate recovery item.
Excluding the divine lord’s skill, it was a miraculous potion that could reattach even the most effective limbs.
But to think this is the case even after using two bottles of that elixir.
It was terrifying to imagine what would have happened if even one bottle of Elixir hadn’t been enough.
That’s not the only thing that’s terrible.
Robes with the effect of “Force Shield”, shoes with the effect of “Escape from the Spirit World”, as well as rings with “Diamond Skin”, etc.
All he was wearing were large-supply items.
They were treasures that perfectly protected Carol even on the 100th floor of the dungeon, which had never let him down.
But now, most of those precious items were torn, broken, burned, and almost to the point of being scrapped.
Even the large-supply item, a national treasure level, could not withstand the aftermath of blocking Limon’s sword.
‘If such a thing is possible…’
So Carol naturally had no choice but to realize.
Who was that dark-haired young man who easily blocked the [World Break] and cut himself in one blow?
‘Was it Limon Aspelder?’
Carol gritted her teeth.
Others might have regarded the opponent as a disguise for another monarch.
However, as the oldest player, he knew well, having spent his youth at the end of the Age of Heroes.
That only one person who could commit such an outrageous act with only a sword is the last sword master of mankind.
That made him even more angry.
‘No matter how much he has now fallen, a person who was even called the guardian of mankind fell for the tricks of a witch!’
The gloomy fog has been protecting Londoners all this time?
gibberish!
It can’t be!
He lost his daughter in a dark hour. The responsibility lies with the London confrontation community, and all original sin lies with the witch who created it.
Therefore witches are evil and had to be evil.
If not, what about yourself?
From the opening of the Iron Age until now, what the hell has his life become just to get rid of the gloomy fog!
Crunchy!
Carol burned even more tenacity because she couldn’t admit that fact.
‘You call me a monster because only five people died in accidents?’
Yes, if he hadn’t faked the fog that day, those five might not have died.
But what about that?
After all, that much goes missing every day in the dark hour. Getting rid of the gloomy fog is the way to save more people in the end.
More than anything, the fact that it was Limon who said that fueled Carol’s anger even more.
‘How dare a person who raised a slayer have any qualifications!’
In the first place, Limon was the owner of the Sword Tower.
He is the one who raised the swordsmith Joan of Arc to become a sword master.
In other words, if the deaths of Richard I and the English people who were killed by her can also be traced back, Limon is guilty of original sin.
Where was the sword?
Vlad, a swordsman who worked with a black magician, and Gandhi, a swordsman who caused World War II.
Most of the sword masters who caused the most terrible massacres in the Age of Heroes were Limon’s disciples.
Also, the number of people Limon cut down to protect the world was more than enough to fill the sea.
On such a subject, now you are siding with the Blue Dragon Princess and the witches and slandering yourself as if you were a saint!
‘You look like a disgusting hypocrite!’
Carol gnashed her teeth at Limon.
But apart from that seething rage, he couldn’t help but feel bleak. Rose
, the Blue Dragon Princess of the Seven Dragons, the legendary
great witch.
And even Limon Aspelder.
If it was one person, it might have been possible to overwhelm or even compete.
However, it was impossible to deal with all three of them at once with severe injuries like now.
‘If only I had more strength…!’
That’s why Carol couldn’t help but lament, resent, and yearn.
Even though the name is called the absolute, the powerlessness of being unable to stop the wicked witch’s machinations.
Rose and Limon are swayed by evil without being able to distinguish between right and wrong.
And the power to purify this London against them.
That was the moment.
[The Constellation that signed a contract with you responds to your earnest prayer.]
[‘The Cyclops Who Sees the Truth’ proposes to renew the contract. If you agree, you can gain the strength to get out of the current crisis.]
[Do you agree to renew the contract?]
“…!”
Carol opened her eyes wide.
Even he, who had been exposed to all sorts of information about constellations and players as a magic lord, had never heard of a system message like this.
So the first thing that came to my mind was suspicion.
However, the suspicion quickly disappeared, and what filled the place was a burning longing.
Anyway, by signing a contract with the Constellation and receiving power, Carol, who had risen to the ranks of the absolute, now had no reason to reject the contract with the Constellation.
Above all, in order to gain the power to get rid of the wicked witches in London, he could make a contract with a demon, not a Constellation.
“Yes ha…!”
That’s why the moment I tried to answer without hesitation.
Carol stiffened.
It was because he saw a semi-transparent figure floating vaguely beyond the system message floating in front of his eyes.
Brown hair in a pigtail.
A cute dress with frills.
Even a teddy bear in his arms.
The appearance of a young girl whom he could not forget even if he tried to forget it shocked Carol.
“Oh Amelia?!”
A young daughter who had already been lost decades ago.
At that time, seeing the ghost of a girl who looked the same as the last time he saw it, Carol shuddered.
“Amelia Amelia!!!”
Regardless of her injury, Carol jumped up and hurriedly ran to her and tried to hug her.
But it’s just a futile effort.
Carol, who was stunned at the sight of the girl passing through vainly without being caught no matter how much she shook her hand, opened her eyes wide again.
Because another blurry ghost appeared behind the girl holding the teddy bear.
“Until you, Sophie?!”
A woman with brown hair.
After losing Amelia, Carol was stunned to see his wife, Sophie, who died in a car accident after recklessly searching for her daughter.
“Why are you and Amelia here…?”
The person I’ve been wanting to see for the rest of my life.
However, it was a while to see the ghost of his wife and children, whom he never imagined he would see again in this way.
Carol suddenly opened her eyes.
“is it! is this fog? The witches were binding you, Sophie, and Amelia’s souls with their wicked tricks!”
With the realization, it is hot hatred that soars again.
It was a grudge against the witches who took away their wives and daughters from them and tormented them even after death.
“Don’t worry, Sophie! I must get rid of the witches and free you and Amelia…!”
The moment I tried to look back at the system message again to repay that grudge.
Carol hesitated.
And he made a confused expression.
“…why?”
“Why are you looking so sad, Sophie?”
“Why don’t you smile at Dad, Amelia?”
It’s been a while since I’ve been embarrassed to see Sophie and Amelia looking at me with sad faces without any answer.
He immediately felt a surge of resentment.
“I am for you…!”
Carol, who inadvertently raised her voice, was shocked.
Amelia gets scared and withdraws.
Sophie blocks her way as if she were protecting her daughter.
More than anything, it was because the faces distorted by his own anger and hatred reflected in the eyes of those two people informed him.
The reason why Sophie and Amelia appeared in front of him.
And the reason why they look at themselves with such sad eyes.
“You mean I… am wrong? Was it all just selfishness, and I hurt innocent people with wrong misunderstandings and reproaches?”
Still no answer.
But just by looking at their sad faces, Carol knew the answer.
He was Sophie’s husband and Amelia’s father.
“…is it.”
Carol put on a dejected expression.
He didn’t even believe the confession of Rose, the blue dragon princess, or the slander of Limon, the hero of the past.
However, even as such, Carol had no choice but to admit her own stupidity in front of her daughter and wife, whom she had missed all her life.
What has your life been like so far?
It’s been a while since I’ve been in the middle of a long time, and I’ve been in the middle of a long time.
Carol sadly raised her head.
After staring at the two ghosts, he looked back at the system message and quietly opened his mouth.
“Reject the contract…”
No, I tried to open my mouth.
That is, until he suddenly shuts himself up and a certain doubt wells up in his mind.
can you believe this?
Could this also be the work of witches?
How far can you trust these two, who have become mere ghosts just because they were a wife and daughter in the first place?
‘…This?’
Anyway, it was too late to give up now.
Limon won’t let him live, and the only way to confront him is to accept the opportunity given by the Constellation.
‘What is this!’
You just need to defeat Limon. Then you can avoid ruin and enjoy wealth and glory as an absolute person as before.
No, you can go beyond that and become the king of this supreme world.
rattle.
Carol trembled.
It’s definitely your own thoughts, but not your own mind.
Even if he rejected his will to admit everything and give up, somewhere, endless whispers and seething anger were shaking him.
As if something is trying to erode you.
For a while to struggle in the confusion.
Carol gritted her teeth until they were crushed.
Then, suppressing the mayhem that tried to erode him, he shouted in a tearing voice.
“Reject the contract!!!”
System messages finally gone.
However, the confusion that overtook Carol did not disappear.
Or rather, as if angered by the decision, it eroded him more fiercely and made him open his mouth.
In his chaotic mind, he spontaneously composes a spell and creates a skill that even Carol herself does not know.
‘This skill?!’
Carol, who instantly realized the effect of that skill thanks to 『Magic Ultimate』, was shocked and tried to block it.
However, despite his desperate efforts, he couldn’t stop the activation of his skill.
“Chaos Scream.”
‘no!’
Hey hey profit!
right after that.
A ripping sound echoes all over London.
Sophie’s and Amelia’s ghosts began to dissipate with distressed expressions on their faces.
Hundreds of items that Carol had installed all over London to destroy the gloomy fog.
It resonated with his skill and shook the London battle world, and was also taking a hit on the ghosts that were summoned as a result of the battle world.
‘No, no!’
“Contract of…”
No matter how much I tried to stop the skill, the noise was getting louder and louder.
Carol felt chills as she listened to the words that came out of her own mouth along with the system message that resurfaced as if it was not enough.
It is a force that even the so-called absolute cannot dare to disobey or understand.
It was because he was able to intuit that the 10th class spell cast by a being who transcended humans was twisting his will.
So he realized
Whose power, emotion, and will that is manipulating oneself come from?
‘…As he said, did I already become a monster?’
“Renewal…”
Carol closed her eyes tightly.
A life lived doing anything for revenge.
Now, he did not even distinguish whether it was the life he had chosen or whether the vengeful spirit was his own.
And when he finishes these words, he will now be reborn as a perfect monster and lead London to destruction.
With everything stolen from the being he believed had given him the power to avenge himself.
There is only one way to stop it.
‘I’m sorry, Amelia.’
Carol slowly opened her eyes.
And when he saw the suffering girl and the ghost of the woman surrounding her, he made a sad face.
‘Take good care of Amelia in Heaven, Sophie.’
slowly.
Pull the wand very slowly.
Forcibly moving his trembling body uncontrollably, he put the tip of his staff to his chest like that.
Poo-wook.
I pushed in with all my might.
The wound that had barely healed halfway with the power of the elixir opened up again, bringing terrible pain.
Carol didn’t stop there.
Even in the midst of chaos, using the [Magic Ultimate] to the limit, I just put together a single skill by gathering spells.
“Yeah ha…!”
Did you realize that intention too late?
Hands paroxysmal trying to pull out the wand, confusion running through my head.
And a tongue that moves to spit out words as quickly as possible.
However, even in the chaos where his body and mind ran wild beyond his control, he steadfastly completed the spell.
As a great magic lord.
As a teenage guild master and,
above all, as a husband to a woman and father to a girl.
To stop the monster from appearing in the world and to take at least some responsibility for the sins that have already been committed.
‘I will pay for my lack of sins in hell, so please ask me to do the next job. Count Rose.’
“『Great…Elemental Break』!!!”
The moment when he let out a loud roar after forcibly regaining the initiative by biting his own tongue with his teeth.
Kwagwagwagwagwang!!!
An explosion of blue light emanating from Carol’s heart engulfed his body.
