Episode 48
is unpleasant.
It was that feeling that I felt when I entered the mouth of the janjae.
The energy that I was tired of facing before returning.
All of a sudden, my face was contorted.
[Disgusting. Really.]
The same goes for Set.
[It should also be called a remnant, but in essence it is too similar to him. really…It’s to the point where the unpleasant memories come back to me.]
“Tsk.”
I clicked my tongue briefly and saw the storm engulfing me.
It certainly protects me from the remnant’s miasma, but even this won’t last long.
‘I’ll have to solve it quickly.’
There must be a core that keeps him alive somewhere here.
The World Tree tried to break this core for a long time, but couldn’t.
It was because he had already been encroached on too much by him.
But I’m different.
He succeeded in approaching her and obtaining the most precious branch.
All sorts of tentacles were wriggling inside it.
Gooey slime flowed from its tentacles, and all sorts of bizarre creatures were coming toward me with their mouths open.
[…] …They are servants of demons. Monsters born from the shadows.]
“It doesn’t look very strong.”
[Of course, what was summoned by the remnants could not be in a normal state. obviously not weak But the problem is that those guys will be endlessly resurrected inside this remnant.]
“Hmm.”
[Be careful. Each one of them isn’t a big deal, but if they pile up, you won’t be able to deal with them.]
“What’s good.”
After listening to that, I listened to the staff quietly.
Then he memorized the order he had prepared.
“< Circle Expansion >.”
Circle expansion using storm.
Then, he chanted the prepared magic as it was.
“< Divine Gate >.”
The first magic to use after returning.
It’s a magic I developed independently.
but.
‘Ah damn it.’
My stomach started to turn over due to overload.
In a way, it is natural.
This magic was created based on the days before the return.
Of course, the level of difficulty is so high that it cannot be compared to ordinary magic.
…okay.
One of the Great Demon Spells I made in preparation for this situation.
Divine gate.
-Kieek?!
A white circle appeared behind me and suddenly began to emit bright light.
The Demon God’s servants who touched the light turned to ashes and disappeared.
[…] …Huh?]
Seeing that, the set widened their eyes and looked at me.
[What is it? Why are they disappearing?! Aren’t things going to disappear so easily?!]
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to answer her words.
“Cool.”
[Michael?!]
I could feel the familiar smell of blood in my mouth.
Her body is breaking down due to the circle overload.
For some reason, it seems to keep doing this after the regression.
Of course, it’s such an important thing that I can’t help but overdo it.
‘…I managed to meet the conditions by mobilizing all possible means.’
A mythical staff that was created with an extremely large amount of mana and the amount of mana that Urd treasured.
With this, I barely met the minimum conditions.
To be honest, I can’t even do this twice.
[Are you okay? Doing too much… …]
“It’s okay to overdo it.”
However, there is no other way to solve this situation.
It was something I was determined to do from the beginning.
‘The radius is not that wide and the amount of mana consumed is high. Will it survive 10 minutes at this rate?’
If it was used in conjunction with other magic, even that would be reduced to 5 minutes.
Even this is about this by using all kinds of means.
‘It’s a long way to go.’
Really.
How long will I have to use this method and overdo it while shaving my body?
However, he succeeded in activating the ‘Divine Gate’ anyway.
Precarious, but maintainable.
Even with that, I can only get rid of these vulgar things in a narrow radius, but anyway… ….
“It’s useful now.”
Before returning, I really made all sorts of spells.
Among them, not a single spell worked for the demon himself, and even the corps commander was on the edge, but it was not meaningless.
It is clear that each and every one of those magics helped save as many people as possible.
“Move right into the set.”
[Am I really okay? No matter how you look at it, your condition… ….]
“It’s okay. It was expected from the beginning. Leave the protection against miasma.”
[Yes! Leave the miasma block to me. I’ll do it somehow!]
I nodded at Set’s words and sped up.
Strength Haste.
I added multi-casting, and that wasn’t enough, so I used Blink to break through at random.
How did you speed it up that much?
[Mihail!]
A gigantic one-eyed wriggling was caught in my field of vision. At least twice the size of an adult.
It was beating violently, just like its ominous appearance.
[Demon god’s eyes! After all, that was the body! If it’s enough to annoy that child, that’s the only thing left.]
‘About 3 minutes left.’
I was able to shorten the time as much as possible thanks to running while consuming the staff’s mana at random.
The remaining circle strengthening time is 3 minutes.
You need to destroy that quickly.
-Keruk?
At that moment, the eyes that sensed me shone.
Instead of thinking like a guy who moves instinctively, I tried to pressure me by moving the servants around me.
However, the Divine Gate, still operating, blocked their movements and extinguished them.
But then.
-Kick!
it laughed
Its eyes drew an arc as if my actions were insignificant.
Then, without the slightest hint, the attack flew at me.
a narrow gap.
Kwajik!
[Mihail!]
Set succeeded in blocking the attack using the storm, but it was not perfect.
He grimaced at the tingling feeling he felt in his right shoulder.
‘They pierced the magic.’
That said, the attack I just made is different from the miscellaneous things I’ve dealt with so far.
Is this real?
The monster that oppressed the World Tree.
‘Two minutes.’
The time remaining until the temporary circle collapses.
I calculated the time and immediately concluded the magic formula.
There is no time.
I was taken aback for a moment, but even here, somehow, it was within the predicted range.
Perhaps sensing that his attack had worked, he started aiming at me more earnestly.
‘He’s a pretty quick-witted guy.’
As soon as it is blocked, it immediately corrects the path and attacks.
At the same time, the more time you take, the more advantageous you are.
I’m sure of everything.
As soon as Set shut up, he blocked the eye’s attack.
In the first place, she was originally the one who managed the storm.
He is several times more skilled than me when it comes to blocking.
Kwajik!
I pierced through the storm and avoided the attack that reached my nose with Blink.
But in the meantime, time is passing.
1 min.
Little by little, I could feel the circles inside my body becoming unstable. A crack appeared in the circle that was temporarily established.
But for a moment.
-Kiduk!
It removed the tentacles that were protecting it.
one.
‘now.’
I immediately broke the signal stone I had prepared.
At that moment, the signal stone was broken, and at the same time, a rapid sound of arrows was heard.
Wedge!
-…?!
The shot of jihad outside.
The arrows of the elven lord pierced even the hard hide of the remains.
The arrow not only pierced the leather, but also cut off the tentacles covering the eyes.
The guy was startled and took a moment to stop and approached right in front of him.
30 seconds.
Now, the point where the temporary circle is really on the verge of collapsing… ….
“young.”
I got right in front of him.
What’s certain is that this guy can’t be destroyed in the usual way.
Especially if it was the main body of the guy who was eating the world tree unlike the other low-level guys.
But am I not a ‘general being’ by any means?
He stretched out his hand holding the staff.
The energy of the World Tree is imbued with it.
Remnant you don’t know
“Couldn’t it be that the world tree was just being beaten without any preparation?”
-…?!
It couldn’t have been.
Even if the struggle before the return failed and the co-destroyed.
It didn’t make any sense.
Ugh.
The mistletoe of the world tree slowly began to resonate inside him.
And accordingly, I began to memorize the order.
And probably the last day in this temporary circle, I chanted the spell.
7th circle. own order.
“< Yggdrasil >.”
A spell of the 7th circle that was once created with the name of the World Tree.
‘Fuck.’
My stomach turned over twice.
It was more painful to cheat that had already been messed up once.
He coughed up a bowl of blood and bent his knees.
But no matter what my condition was.
In the staff, an incomparable amount of mana began to flow.
Hwaaak!
“…Yes, take it to your heart’s content.”
It’s the last anyway
No matter how much mana he spent, what use would it be?
I’m nothing else, I only need you.
and….
“Ahh.”
A familiar voice resounded, and the seeds buried beneath the eyes began to grow.
The world tree did not stand.
Even at the moment of being eaten, the last hope was left.
maybe someday
May the children he protects find this little sprout.
With such a desire, he left behind a cessation of his own existence that was eaten away by remnants.
“Promise…I kept it.”
The spell I memorized now was only for the World Tree alone.
It was originally created to make Jihad shake off all regrets and make a fresh start… ….
okay.
This could also be called a kind of ‘eulogy’.
“Thank you.”
The World Tree’s voice rang out.
Instinctively feeling a sense of crisis, Janjae struggled and tried to change the situation somehow, but it was too late.
Ugh.
Seedlings started to grow.
An evil that was not even recognized by the world tree, but grew excessively at some point.
Originally, I couldn’t erase it.
“Thanks to you, I was able to fulfill my long-cherished wish.”
This time it was different.
A sprout becomes a tree.
“The long burden has also been relieved.”
Endless vitality burst out from the tree and began to entangle the remnants.
The trees started to sprout leaves, and the grass started to flower.
So life covered death.
and….
-Gaaaaa!
I raised my staff to finish him off one last time.
Until now, it was to restore what was stolen by the World Tree.
And now.
“It’s an outburst.”
I prepared and drove everything like this. It’s okay to vent your anger on the way, right?
“Go away.”
I just grabbed the staff and smashed the guy who was about to jump out of the tree.
Kwajik!
and that’s it.
That blow ended the guy who was barely surviving.
* * *
“Ah.”
Jihad removed his hand from the bowstring he was preparing to draw at any moment and looked at the spectacle in the distance.
The giant snake was collapsing.
It’s not just a collapse.
Amid the collapse, new life began to bloom and brightly lit up the dark night sky.
What a longed-for moment this is.
Liberation of the World Tree.
How long has the great mother waited for this moment when she regains her life and begins anew.
In that way, the remnants disappeared and the bright light that had been shining in the air flew into the place where the World Tree originally was and was absorbed.
Kugoong!
The withered World Tree regained its blue color.
A group of lights of the World Tree that the elves of the ancestors saw a long time ago.
Everyone in this forest witnessed the moment it reappeared.
The land that had been devastated and collapsed due to the remnants was filled in an instant.
New life grew in the place where the dead grass and trees had been, and the fairies and elves welcomed their mother’s return with tears.
“Haha really…Jihad
smiled as he turned his gaze to the king’s armor in his hand.
It was remembered in a moment.
Mikhail What the wayward agent said.
– Of course I have to get it back.
He sneered and said it wasn’t even funny.
– The World Tree is restored. I will shake off the remnants and stand up again.
And then… ….
-The next is up to you.
Mikhail’s expression when he said that was very strange.
Like retrieving old memories.
With a complex eye.
I didn’t know what he was talking about then, but now I seemed to know for sure.
“He told me to look ahead.”
ok look ahead
Shouldn’t we forget the powerless past and do our best in the future?
He was right.
Jihad smiled brightly in the group of lights falling from the sky.
* * *
「Thank you.」
After completely removing the remnants, I was called into her world again.
She looked much better than when I first saw her.
Of course, it wasn’t that easy to see that it was still an expression.
“If it weren’t for you, there would have been a possibility that he would have eaten it as is. Thanks to you, it didn’t happen.”
“I know.”
Of course it worked.
There was almost no possibility of solving the problem for herself or for the elves or fairies.
At least at this point it was.
A much more comfortable look though.
“I can finally take care of my children. Now I can take care of the forest again and make it impossible for the prey to reach out to the world.”
“Yes Yes Thank you.”
as many as possible.
Because right now and in the future, there are infinite possibilities to receive.
Well, I have no intention of spending time receiving unnecessary thanks here.
Let’s get right to the point.
“Besides that, I kept my promise, so now it’s time for the World Tree to keep it too.”
“Yeah, that,”
she continued with a nod.
“But I thought about it for a bit, and it seems that it won’t pay off.”
“…yes?”
“I am a being who will surely repay the kindness I received. The ‘essence’ formed in me is certainly a precious thing, but it is less precious than my life.”
She said with her eyes shining.
“I’ll give you something more valuable.”
A great mage who transcends by regression
