◈ 522. [STAGE 25] Look at the moon
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I started modifying the amulet attached to my body in real time and quickly began to regain control of my magical power.
If she had only had three minutes, she could have restored power and reduced the banquet hall to ashes.
But already besieged by my heroes.
We’re not clumsy enough to watch her regain her strength.
Takeoff is not permitted.
My heroes roared and charged from all sides, and the Midnight Night put up a desperate resistance nonetheless.
She tried to bombard the area by spraying the amulet scroll she had hidden in her bosom. but.
“Thorkel!”
“Huh-!”
Torkel, who activated the ultimate [Humans are not born to be defeated], stood in front of the Midnight Sun.
The magic was so powerful that it could even melt the walls of the castle, but Thorkel succeeded in receiving it with his ultimate and with his huge shield.
Lucas and Evangeline burrowed into both sides of the midnight sun as they hurriedly pulled out the next amulet. The Midnight Sun immediately sprayed the talisman at the two, but
Pew!
Lucas believes in the overwhelming magic defense of his new armor [Suwol] and rushes forward.
He succeeded in penetrating the magical flame and sticking close to the Midnight Sun.
Taat-!
Approaching from the other side, Evangeline easily receives magic with her shield and absorbs damage intact with [Damage Save].
The first three attacks, which were most important in the midnight sun, were successfully received by three of my vanguards.
It was game three at that point.
The mage is arguably the most powerful tactical weapon in the world, but
if you can’t get your range, don’t warm up your engine, and don’t have enough fuel.
“Checkmate.”
Die.
The midnight sun was battered by my heroes’ sniping and magic from all directions.
***
Ranked 3rd in the ranks of the Nightmare Corps Commander. White Night, the great emperor of magic, collapsed in vain.
“… .”
It was the moment I approached as I stared at the miserably fallen lich.
sigh sigh… … .
“what… ?!”
A sticky, otherworldly darkness emanated from the midnight sun’s body.
‘This guy can’t be… … !’
Even though I was exterminated, I modified the talisman of the gear nose… … Have you secured a connection with the other world!
The eyes of the bloody Jiangshi who had been lying on the floor spun around and glared at me.
At the same time, a thick darkness covered the air, and a huge white egg slowly began to emerge in it.
Pingrreu –
Tak!
The bright red eyes rotated as if they were swimming over the white eyes, then stopped like a gun aiming at a target.
target is me
A clear sneer crossed the lips of the white night that had fallen to the floor.
“When you go, even if you go, you… I’ll take you to hell together, Ash… … !]
The gigantic eyes began to blink, looking slow, like slow motion.
I could see my subordinates standing on the left and right throwing their bodies to block my path.
And faster than any of them –
Cheek!
Anonymous stood in front of me.
Flash-!
The old steel sword shone dazzling light from the nameless hand that blocked my front.
“Haaaaa-!”
As the hem of the blue dress fluttered, the unknown slashed the light.
The beam of light extending from the iron sword was bright enough to blow away the entire night.
In front of that light, the darkness of the other world disappeared as if it was burning – the eyes of the foreign gods that were open in the darkness also lost their existence.
The pupils couldn’t even close their eyelids, and the attack went back to nothing.
《… You’re not aiming for foreign media, but for the darkness that is the basis of your summons.
”
“to the end… You’re interfering, one whose name has been lost… … .》
Instead of answering, Anonymous jerked his sword downward. And slowly put it into the scabbard.
As she shook off her sword, the shards of light scattered all around us, like a line of defense, offsetting the darkness of the other world.
Huge eyes were still looking at me in the fading darkness.
And-
“… Player.”
The voice rang out.
It was a loud, dull voice, like an insect gnawing on something. I clutched my throbbing forehead.
That foreign-eyed guy… … was talking to me
『You deserve it.』
“What are you talking about all the time… Qualification?”
“Yes. Qualified for Ascension… … You have more than enough qualifications to attain divine status and ascend to the constellation. Haven’t we been fighting for a very long time?”
The white night looked up at those pupils with bewildered eyes, but the pupils roared without paying attention.
“I will help you. Let’s stand in this heaven together. Then your broken soul will be completely healed and your existence will be restored.”
“… .”
“You deserve it. come with me… … .”
“Fuck it.”
After he stopped talking, I raised my middle finger.
Eyes opened savagely.
『What?』
“Fuck it. Oh, or do you have only eyes and no X?”
I growled as I poured out blasphemous remarks.
“Ascension, Divinity, Constellation, Nabal, etc. I don’t need it even if they give me settings that I can’t understand. I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it, so get out of our world quickly.”
“Do you not understand? You now are a patchwork fake! The only way for you who have been shattered to become real again is to gain godhood and stand with us!”
“Who are you to issue me a certificate of authenticity?”
Standing right in front of the boundary of the scattered light, I glared at him.
“I am fake. I am shattered. But how about that?”
『… .”
“I know what I want to do. i know where i want to go My heart is true and firm.”
remember
The child lying in the hospital room.
this world collapsing.
everyone within my reach.
i want to save
This clear wish that I hold in my heart can never be quenched even if the darkness of the other world strikes… … .
It is an unquenchable lamp that enables me to be myself.
I grinned.
“That’s enough.”
『… Is that so?”
The darkness dissipated and the huge eyes also began to scatter.
The guy sighed for the last time. It was an unexpectedly gentle tone.
“It was fun to talk to you as a person who has been watching you for a long time, player. Your final battle heading towards destruction… … Let’s watch until the end.
”
I chewed and spit out towards the disappearing eyes that let out what sounded like dry laughter.
“Because I will do everything in my power to ruin your fun.”
The pupils completely disappeared, and the darkness also lifted.
What broke the silence was the voice of the dying midnight sun.
《… Why?”
Looking back, the white night asked, coughing up blood. It was an expression of pure curiosity.
《Why did you decline that offer?》
“… .”
“You’re fake too… … Like me, someone else’s memory is patched… … While nothing more than a chimera.》
“… .”
“Why? Don’t you want to be real? Ash?”
After letting out a small sigh, I slowly raised my hand and pointed to the sky.
“What do you see, white?”
《… ?]
The white night looked up curiously and looked at my fingers.
and… I noticed the finger pointing at it a beat late.
It was the moon.
During the battle with the Midnight Sun, a hole was punched through the outer wall of the Hotel Crossroads. The moonlight that had just passed through the dark clouds was shining down through it.
Facing the pale moonlight, I murmured.
“Isn’t it beautiful?”
“It’s beautiful, but what… ?》
“It refers to the beauty of the moon, and it doesn’t matter if the hand belongs to a real person or a fake Pinocchio, doesn’t it?”
《… !”
Hands are not important.
look at the moon
It doesn’t matter if I’m real or fake.
As long as my heart to save this world is real.
“It is the heart in the flag that matters, not the flag.”
therefore.
It doesn’t matter if I’m a being born of lies. It doesn’t matter if it’s an ugly piece of shattered rags.
Because my heart in this is true.
Baekya looked up at the moon with a blank expression, as if he had been stabbed in the back of the head, and then said
“Ha ha…” … .”
He let out a dejected laugh.
《Ash Truly, you are right.》
“… .”
《Real or fake, it was only a finger pointing at the moon.》
The wizard who was a soya who entered the body of a cloned black night in the white night.
Whether it was the black night, the shooting night, or the white night, the wizard, who didn’t know what it was, let out a laugh mixed with blood and tears.
《I was spending my life in vain to become a real finger, to become an eternal finger.》
“… .”
《I really wanted to know what life I wanted and even what I wanted to point out… I don’t know properly… … .》
The light in Jiangshi’s pupils suddenly went out.
“If you make this world fake. I’m up in the sky too… … If only I could go to the real world. Then I thought I could be real instead of fake.》
“… .”
“Even if I did that, I would have been a fake forever since I didn’t even know what I wanted to point out.”
Even the laughter mixed with tears gradually faded.
“It’s funny, it’s funny. Eventually I… … .]
Putting her head in the mud of the blood she had vomited, the Midnight Night muttered one last time.
《What did I want to live for? … .》
For what.
Until they gave up their lives and became undead.
Even while holding hands with the demon king and begging foreign media.
Did you want to be real?
“now… I’ll remember… … no… … .》
Without remembering it.
The white night was desperate.
“… .”
I looked down at the fallen enemy general’s corpse, then slowly raised my head again.
The pale moonlight was shining straight on us.
***
The party is over, but the battle isn’t over.
In addition to the Lich who entered the Crossroads, the rest of the Lich Corps was waiting near the plains south of the Crossroads.
If this party is a trap, they were in hiding, fully prepared to hit the crossroads outside when the midnight sun sends a signal.
The movement itself was covert, but the preparation for this situation was obvious. So our scouts had already figured out their location.
Above all, the white night to send a signal has already been removed.
Waiting for the signal of the master corps commander, my troops, who bypassed the Lich Corps, who were only vigilant on the crossroads, attacked the rear.
The Lich Legion, made entirely of wizards, possessed the most powerful firepower among all monsters.
However, as I have said many times over and over again, it is a story when the basic conditions are met.
Fighters who fail to reach the runway do not even have a chance to crash.
To my heroes who were approaching in an instant, the Lich Legion was annihilated without even being able to resist.
It was actually more difficult to demonstrate proper combat power now that all of the corps commanders and elite units to give command had been removed from the crossroads.
“… .”
After canceling the magic that the last lich was trying to emit with a shield and taking it down with a spear.
Evangeline, who was looking down at the fallen Richie, spat out.
“Will there be a monster on our side someday?”
“… .”
“I am the Lich Archmage… It was good. They gave me armor and gave me a lot of help… … I thought maybe we could really transcend peers and become allies.”
Evangeline murmured as she looked down at the armor while wearing the snow white the Midnight Sun had given her.
“But in the end, you meant to burn our world… I defeated it and won, but something is strange in my heart.”
“… Maybe one day it will come out.”
I thought of Salome again.
I thought of Alexander. And I also thought of the midnight sun.
All of them were enemy generals who could have been on our side.
Someone was really on my side, someone understood each other but had to fight and kill, and someone eventually tried to betray me, so I took the lead first.
Who are the enemies left after this?
But one thing is for sure.
“But we are at war.”
Basically, we are enemies to fight and kill each other.
“Never forget that, Evangeline.”
“… .”
“let’s go.”
I took the lead while comforting Evangeline, who kept her mouth shut.
“The real war begins.”
The first battle of the third year.
Rank 3 Nightmare Corps Commander Magician White Night and Lich Corps.
The fight ended like this.
And from now on.
Incomparably tough and difficult… … The final year begins.
