Episode 317 Life of Salvation (1)
[Ha ha ha. It’s fun. Seeing you say that even now, I don’t know if I should admit it now.]
Basara laughed out loud at Rudger, and then her white eyes widened.
Fuck!
Right after that, petals on the ground exploded and black thorns tried to pierce Ludger’s back.
It was entirely thanks to Rudger’s own reflexes that he was able to avoid it.
Turning around, Rudger frowned at the pain in his back.
I tried to avoid it, but I guess I didn’t completely avoid it, so the thorn left a long horizontal scar on my back.
Of course, the clothes she was wearing were also torn.
Ludger, who was relieved that this was the spirit world, recalled the fact that the condition of the clothes worn by the body outside was not much different.
‘The important thing now is his attack.’
Basara did not use magic.
Since this space itself is his world, he could cause anything if he put his mind to it.
At that moment, Basara’s huge arm swung like a whip.
Cheer up!
The arms that pushed away the red flowers seemed like a black wall approaching at high speed.
Rudger stretched out both hands in front of him, generating mana.
In an instant, five layers of magic barriers were created.
Chae Chae Chae Chae!
However, Basara’s arm easily destroyed the five-layer barrier in an instant like glass.
Rudger managed to avoid Basara’s arm by lowering his body as low as possible while breaking the barrier.
unbelievable power.
Rudger stretched out his bent body and backed away with the recoil.
Basara just looked at Ludger as if he was having fun.
It is a kind of confidence to not do it even though you can launch an additional attack.
Within this space, Basara had absolute authority.
That’s why he watched Ludger’s madness.
To see how far this little bug can struggle.
‘The intention to play with me seems blatant.’
I didn’t know because I had no emotions when I took over Ruifault’s body.
The demon who had feelings was quite vicious.
Of course, I couldn’t be sure because I hadn’t met any other demons.
Rudger stretched out his right hand toward Basara.
The spell was completed in an instant, and the dragon-headed flames flew towards Basara.
Basara blew afterward as if it was absurd.
The dragon’s head, made of flame, snapped off.
‘what.’
Blowing out the candles on a birthday cake couldn’t be easier than that.
At the moment when Rudger hesitated for a moment, Basara stretched each of his fluttering arms by three.
3 on each arm. A total of six arms stretched out like whips toward Rudger.
Unstoppable.
Ludgar calculated the trajectory of the flying hand with his eyes and then created a series of oblique magic barriers.
Rudger did not stop there, but ran forward.
Quaching!
The barrier erected at an angle to maximize the flow of power was shattered too easily.
The ground hit the ground and a shockwave spread, hitting Ludgar’s back.
The surrounding flowers were swept away by the wind, embroidering their red petals in the air.
Rudger tried to run through the gap, but he had no choice but to stop.
It was because something like a black root was grabbing his ankle.
Ludger concentrated his magical energy on a very small area and burned only the roots holding the ankle.
Unbelievable horsepower control.
However, the burned and disappeared roots eventually swelled several times in number and even bound Ludger’s calves.
In addition, the flow of petals scattered around was strange.
As they danced down, they became fixed in the air before they knew it, then stretched thin and long and turned into sharp awls.
All the scattered petals.
And the point where the sharp awl’s head was headed was Ludger.
[Let’s see if this can be avoided?]
“Teacher!”
Flora cried out urgently, but Basara showed no mercy.
Countless petals shot towards Rudgar.
A terrible sight naturally flashed into Flora’s mind.
Flora closed her eyes and tried to turn her head.
However, the softly flowing light made her closed eyes open again.
“Don’t look away. Flora.”
Surprisingly, Rudger was fine.
The figure with the halo behind his back gave off the impression of a transcendental being somewhere rather than magic.
Flora couldn’t take her eyes off Rudger.
“I haven’t heard your answer yet.”
[That strange magic again!]
Basara reacted violently and shouted at Ludger.
It wasn’t just a shout, it was a shockwave attack with tremendous physical power.
Rudger stared at the approaching storm with petals.
The halo that flowed from behind eventually formed the shape of a large tree.
Tree of the Sephirot.
The formidable power emanating from it disintegrated Basara’s shockwave.
Basara’s face contorted with irritation.
“indeed.”
Ludger looked at the scene and shook his head.
“It’s written like this.”
Now he wasn’t using magic with magic power.
It is pure imagination to use.
First of all, this is a spiritual world.
There was no way that the total amount of mana was fixed in the mental world.
If there is a limit, it must be the person’s mental power.
That’s why Rudger handled power in a way befitting the spirit world.
After using magic several times, it was a sense that I finally got hold of.
Now all that remains is to sharpen it.
“You are not the only one who has an advantage in fighting in the spirit world.”
A person whose only weakness was the total amount of mana.
Because I’m no longer swayed by that weakness.
“Will you please stay away from my student first?”
Rudger lightly stretched out his hand toward Basara.
Basara felt chills from that simple action.
That’s it.
A blow that annihilated himself, who possessed the body of Ruifault, in one blow.
A dazzling light flowed from Ludger’s back, and the image of a huge Buddha statue came to mind.
Is it because it is a mental world with no limits?
Its size and majesty were much larger than what it had seen from the outside.
To the point where Basara, who had already grown huge, had to look up again.
That stimulated Basara’s planting.
[Do you think I’ll be defeated!]
No matter how great your strength is.
Here I am the king and I am the god.
Basara inflated his body and grew even bigger.
The swaying body became muscular, and horns sprouted from its head.
The three pairs of arms were put back together, but much thicker than before.
[Here, I am a god!]
The Buddha held out his kidney toward Basara.
Basara also stretched out his fist as if he couldn’t lose.
Wow!
Two great forces collided.
However, unlike before, Basara was not pushed back.
Rather, Basara’s power was a little stronger.
A smile formed on Basara’s lips.
[Have you seen it? Yes, even that clever attack doesn’t work anymore!]
“Definitely. One time will not be enough.”
Rudger gave a kind warning to Basara, who was arrogant.
“Then how about a thousand times?”
[What?]
Before Basara could even ask what that meant, a change occurred from the Buddha statue.
It is not that the appearance of the statue itself has changed.
after that
The mantelpiece behind it began to take on the shape of a hand.
Countless hands were created behind the statue’s back, as if it had spread a fan wide open.
“Can you stop all of this?”
「Potalaka’s thousands of
eyes
」
Basara gritted his teeth and extended his arm.
The muscles in his arms expanded as if they were about to explode, and he threw his fists one after another at tremendous speed.
Countless shockwaves exploded in succession in the air.
Along with a deafening roar, dark red lights and pure white radiance flickered one after another.
The ground turned over, and countless flower petals spread outward in concentric circles.
It’s a fight that can be seen as a confrontation in a myth.
The fierce contest of strength gradually gave one side the victory.
[How…!]
Basara threw out as if resisting with his fists, which had multiplied several times, but he couldn’t block all of his thousand hands.
Gradually, the blows began to come one by one, and it was completely pierced.
Once it was breached, the attack came at once, as if a dam had collapsed.
The pure white flash beat Basara’s body like a drum.
Flora just stared blankly at the scene.
The fight between the gigantic demon and the gigantic bizarre statue in a different sense was unbelievable even after seeing it.
More than that, it was her beauty that caught her attention.
Countless palms running through the air.
It was like magic that was completed to the limit one by one.
okay. It’s magic.
Flora’s eyes were now seeing that as magic.
Because the eyes that see magic were telling me that.
Following that, Basara’s body was thrown far away with a huge impact.
Basara, who had stuck to Flora’s shadow and couldn’t fall, was pushed away.
Along with the shock of the push, the fragrance hit me.
A sweet yet fragrant fragrance that calms the mind.
It was the first time I smelled Flora, but strangely, I could tell what kind of flower it came from.
“Do you know about lotus?”
It was Ludger’s voice that came from close by that brought Flora’s spirit back.
Rudger, who kept his eyes off Basara, who had flown far away, said with his back to Flora.
“Originally, the lotus flower has a strong impression of floating on water, but it is different. It actually grows in the mud of a filthy bog. Nevertheless, the flowers that bloomed by the kite have a beauty that is not stained with mud.”
There is a saying called Yijeyeom-oh (離諸染汚).
It grows in mud but does not get stained by mud.
No matter how absurd the world may be, it is not stained by it.
“Flora. I want you to walk that way too.”
without being shaken by anything.
I wanted to walk on my own path.
“Isn’t it too much of a waste of a child for you to give up just because of such ignorant people?”
“Teacher…”
Flora could not take her eyes off Ludger’s back as she listened to him.
It was only discovered belatedly.
Part of Rudgar’s clothing has been ripped off, revealing his bare back.
something like a tattoo on it.
“That’s on the back…”
“Ah. You mean this?”
Rudger guessed why Flora was doing this and smiled bitterly.
I didn’t want to show it, but it ended up like this.
“Teacher, I can’t believe that pattern…”
“Yes. You are right.”
A tattoo on Ludgar’s back.
No, it was a stigma, like a scar that could never be washed away.
That is also the stigma used by the Church of Lumensis to engrave illegitimate children.
“Why did you do that…”
Rudger replied to Flora, who trembled in disbelief.
“Didn’t you tell me? I’ve been through something similar to you.”
“That’s…”
This.
It’s not on the same level.
Flora was almost branded, but not actually branded.
This is because her deceased mother did her best to protect her.
But the memory of that day still haunts her.
It was a wound that could not be healed for Flora at a young age.
But what about Rudger?
He had the full brand on his back.
Considering the size of the torn clothes, it must have covered more than half of the back.
Ordinarily, the Church of Lumensis stigmatizes illegitimate children before they are eight years old.
That said, Rudger had carved that stigma at a young age.
“never mind. It is all past anyway.”
“That’s not the problem!”
Flora covered her face with both hands.
I was ashamed of myself.
I thought I was the only one who suffered this pain.
I’m the unluckiest person in the world
No one can understand my pain.
I thought so.
Tears ran down Flora’s cheeks.
“I didn’t even know that, to the teacher…!”
“stop.”
Flora, who was about to shout something, was interrupted by Rudger.
“Flora. I didn’t come here to fight that monster to see you suffer. It’s not even more that I came to see you crying. Even so, are you going to insult me with tears?”
“Keep.”
Flora bit her lip and held back her tears.
“Answer me.”
“…What is the answer?”
“I asked if I wanted to go out again.”
At the word outside, Flora hesitated for a moment.
“What if I say I’m leaving…?”
“As long as you don’t give up, I will help at any cost.”
“If I really don’t give up, will you help me until the end?”
“Of course.”
Flora asked in a tearful voice.
“…why? why do you do that? It doesn’t matter if you don’t have anything like me. I shouldn’t have been born in the first place.”
“Oh my God…”
said Rudger, turning to Flora.
“There is no one who has to be born.”
The moment she saw those unwavering eyes, Flora’s heart completely tilted to one side.
“Even though it is difficult right now, you will definitely have a reason to live in this world. I bet you.”
Flora couldn’t hold back her tears.
With her head down, she managed to resist trying to sob.
Flora earnestly asked.
“Then…please help me.”
“However much.”
Upon hearing the answer he wanted, Rudger turned his gaze to the front.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
A roar erupted from beyond the horizon of the red flower field, shaking the heavens and the earth.
The red petals exploded and scattered in all directions.
Basara, who had lost a part of his body and was in a state of disrepair, raised a huge body.
[This is my world! It’s a place where I can do whatever I want!]
Glimmering white eyes glared at Flora, who was sitting behind Rudger.
[Flora will never get out of here!]
Rudger thought it would be easier to understand.
“Then I can just smash you here.”
