Episode 470 Crown of Thorns (2)
As if a drop of black ink had been dropped on white drawing paper.
In a world where everything was dyed pure white, pitch-black darkness spread.
The darkness spun like a whirlpool.
It was almost at the same time that the rays emitted by the World Tree met the darkness.
The 6th tier dark attribute magic [Dream Soul] is insignificant on its own.
Because the effect of this magic was that the opponent uses magic and then absorbs it in reverse and disappears together.
The way to make a sound when you clap your hands together.
In an environment where there was nothing, the [Dreaming Soul] was useless.
But the moment the opponent launches an attack.
And the stronger the force, the stronger it is.
The effect of obscurity and darkness is correspondingly increased.
The blow of the World Tree, which blew away the army, was sucked in like water flowing through a drain hole.
For Bentmin, who believed in the power of the World Tree, it was a sight that shattered all the faith and common sense that had been built up over hundreds of years.
The brightly lit surroundings slowly began to regain their original contrast.
Ludgar’s magic seemed to properly block the World Tree’s attack.
However, Rudger himself did not think so.
‘The power is too strong.’
It somehow absorbs the light, converts it into energy, and returns it to the output that maintains the dark soul of obscurity.
The applied force was much stronger than the turning force.
‘It’s all about surviving with the strongest counter in 6th tier magic. Is it because of the power of the World Tree?’
Even though the dam was opened to the maximum, the heavy rain was so severe that the water rather filled up.
If this continues, the entire dam will collapse.
However, Rudger was already prepared for that part.
At the moment when the soul of obscurity trembled dangerously, Ludger measured the timing in a fleeting moment as if one second had been divided into hundreds.
The moment it is slightly twisted, it disappears without leaving even a handful of dust.
Even an error of 0.1 seconds was unacceptable.
“Ather Nocturnus!”
Ludger reaped the dream of obscurity on the verge of collapsing.
As the power to block him suddenly disappeared, the energy of destruction that still remained was fired at Ludger again.
At that moment, the Steel Raven stepped forward.
Steel Raven, who had expanded the shadows covering her body to the maximum, wrapped her wings around Ludger and Hans as if they were protecting them.
The moment the shimmering shadow turned into a dome, a beam of destruction struck above it.
The beam of light, which seemed to pierce through everything, bent and soared high into the sky.
A white beam of light soared toward the sky and blew a huge hole in a part of the cage hanging over the sky.
A spatial distortion force that distorts direction regardless of the total amount of force.
In a way, it was close to being compatible with the storm aura Lutus used.
The reason I didn’t use it from the beginning and saved it like this was entirely to buy time.
‘Because if I used this from the beginning, Bentmin wouldn’t want to target me.’
So I waited for a big attack.
Because at that moment, the world tree becomes defenseless.
Bentmin realized that too belatedly.
That he was caught in Ludger’s psychological warfare.
“Stop!”
Bentmin shouted ferociously.
Wood zombies rose from the floor and blocked the three people running in front.
Vierano, who was about to blow away the wood zombies with the wind spirit, frowned.
“These guys! It’s different than before! I got stronger!”
It was different from Wood Zombies, which scattered like firewood with just a punch.
Surprisingly, the guy who appeared this time raised both hands to block Vierano’s fists and was pushed back, but his body didn’t break.
No matter how much power was adjusted, the difference was obvious.
With Vierano’s warning, the anxiety became a reality.
Pudeudeuk.
Wood zombies protruding through the ground shed yellow eyes.
Previously, they were just human-shaped, but this time, the guys who came up had more distinct features like mannequins, and even wore armor on their bodies, albeit informally.
He even had a sword and spear made of world trees in his hand.
“These costumes are the palace guards?”
Ambella muttered as she looked at the Wood Zombie clad in armor.
Wood zombies moved.
Unlike the time when I just ran into it because I lost my sense of humor, now I started to form a line and start to hit the ball.
When Vierano threw a wind-filled fist, a shield soldier came out and blocked the attack.
As if it was a group of people, more than 10 wood zombies united and supported the power.
As Vierano frowned at the repulsive force, a long long spear pierced through the gap between the shield soldiers and stabbed them.
Ambella swung her sword like a flash, cutting off all the long spears and sweeping away even the shield soldiers beyond.
However, Ambella’s expression was not very good.
“damn. You are much stronger than before.”
Lutus, who shattered the approaching wood zombie with the aura of the storm, also nodded.
“It seems that as time goes by, stronger guys come out?”
Sprouts sprouted over the remains of the broken Wood zombies.
The bud gradually grew larger and fully bloomed, and eventually turned into a tree the size of a man.
And the shape of the tree twisted and turned into a wood zombie again.
No matter how many times you kill them, they continue to rise.
What’s even more terrifying is that these guys grow stronger over time.
“Aaaagh!”
At that time, one of the elite soldiers who followed Ambella was captured by Wood Zombie.
Before anyone could save him, the wood zombies rushed in and bit the soldier.
The bitten elf soldier screamed and then began to dry like a mummy.
After a while, the corpse collapsed into powder, and a tree began to grow on top of the collapsed powder.
“This can’t be.”
A colleague who had been fighting together a while ago suddenly became a Wood Zombie and woke up.
The appearance of the Wood Zombies that followed one by one also looked familiar.
There were ordinary soldiers who were killed by roots while trying to enter the castle, and there were also soldiers belonging to three noble families.
“To think that the World Tree had this much power.”
It was an opportunity opened up by Rudger.
However, if things go on like this, I will not be able to do anything about that opportunity and blow it up.
Just as Vierano was about to make up his mind, light green arrows aimed at them.
Lutus lightly bounced back with the magic of the storm, but there was no choice but to be annoyed in his eyes.
“It’s not just about creating soldiers.”
Archers could be seen in the distance, and there were even forest druids using witchcraft.
Still, I was able to push through somehow.
However, the speed began to slow down remarkably, and those who were moving from a certain point had no choice but to stop.
Chaeeng!
Lutus looked at the Wood Zombie who blocked his sword and his eyes lit up.
Although the sword he wielded looked simple, it contained the magic of rotation.
The moment he simply tried to strike back, the entire arm twisted along with the sword.
But the Wood Zombie in front of him endured it.
Ambella was also surprised.
“you are!”
Ambella gritted her teeth as she saw the elf swordsman holding a greatsword blocking her path.
The female elf, who seemed to have been carved out of wood, swung a sword the size of her body at Ambella with an expressionless face.
A careless Ambella managed to block it, but bounced back.
If Vierano had not made a cushion in the air with the wind spirit, Ambella would have fallen among the wood zombies surrounding her.
“Lord Ambella! Are you okay?”
“To be honest, it’s not okay at all.”
“Who the hell is that elf…
”
“yes?!”
Vierano was stunned.
“That means…”
“Yes. is my mother He died a long time ago and was buried in the World Tree.”
Elves who were born and raised in the forest of elves and died in the forest.
They all died, but their genes remained stored in the World Tree through the network of forests.
In this way, it was resurrected again in the form of a Wood Zombie.
“I haven’t been able to properly filial piety once in my entire life, but I never thought I would face it like this here.”
“Are you all right?”
“Are you okay? You should care about that before asking about my condition right now?”
“…..”
Vierano did not ask why.
This is because familiar beings appeared in front of them.
“father. And to your uncle.”
Vierano’s expression sank when he saw the Wood Zombie in the form of the old elder and head of the Dentis family who had passed away.
It wasn’t just the Dentis and Burke families.
The data of successive family heads was being implemented as Wood Zombies through the World Tree.
Elven heroes that exist in the story.
The wood zombies that appeared now were a reenactment of the elves’ history.
Lutus shook his head in disgust.
“Absorb legions and create your own legions. What nonsense is this?”
Lutus thought he was involved in something pointless.
However, if not stopped here, the empire will collapse by the power of the World Tree.
Is it really only the Exilion Empire?
That is a force that endangers the entire continent.
Humans, beasts, dwarves, no matter who.
“Now that this has happened, I can’t think of the future. Even at the risk of bleeding, I have to force my way through.”
“I don’t think that’s as easy as it sounds.”
“What else can I do? If you’re going to do it, definitely do it. That’s where we stand now.”
Ambella nodded as if agreeing with Lutus’ words.
It was the same with other elves.
From the moment they came to the center of this rampaging world tree, they were ready to lay down their lives.
Everyone knows.
To keep one’s life here is excessive greed.
someone will die
It could have been a colleague he had been with, or it could have been himself.
But everyone in this room had one heart.
fighting to keep everything.
Don’t let your precious family, friends and colleagues die.
Do your duty to protect them.
No one in this room has failed in their duty.
Even in desperate situations.
Their will remained determined.
Ambella laughed wildly.
“ruler! let’s go!”
Her gaze turned to Sedina, who was sitting on a throne in the center of the World Tree.
Ella’s daughter.
And the child he named himself.
You look alike.
Ambella thought such a foolish thought, straightened her sword, and stepped forward.
Wood zombies blocked the road, and arrows were shot over them.
It wasn’t just an arrow, it was an arrow made from the World Tree.
With the strength of the heroic elves added, it was an attack that would not last long if only defense was consistent.
Knowing that, Ambella rather chose the way forward.
“Back support? That’s why we won’t kneel!”
At the same time, countless pillars of light flew from behind Ambella’s back and erased the arrows shot by the wood zombies.
Then he went ahead and swept the rear of the Wood Zombie in one fell swoop.
With the explosion of a pure white flash, the fragments of the wood zombies that were scattered were scattered in all directions.
Beyond that was Ludger, who was flying in all directions with a flash of light wrapped around his back.
6th tier light attribute great magic.
[Infinite light sky]
Endless pillars of light poured down like showers.
Rudger consumed a huge amount of artifacts and mental power just by bouncing the beam of the World Tree once, but he couldn’t stop there.
Ambella could also feel that will.
“My lord! Go!”
One of his vassals threw himself at the Wood Zombies and caught them.
Even knowing that he could not be an opponent of Wood Zombie, who was called a hero of the past, he gave his life so that the householder could go even one step further.
“It was so much fun!”
Another vassal released all his powers and rushed into the Wood Zombies gap.
Wood zombies attacked him from all sides and bit him all over.
Even in that situation, he laughed and decapitated the Wood Zombies.
“…You foolish children.”
Ambella didn’t notice it.
I didn’t shed a tear, I didn’t grieve.
However, that mindset took over and spurred on the running steps.
The siege of the wood zombies broke through, and that’s how Ambella and Luthers Vierano escaped.
Except for those three, none of the other vassals escaped.
Burke’s retainers and Dentis’ retainers.
The branches of the world tree swayed.
A beam of light shot through the gaps in the sparkling leaves fell vertically like a judgment spear.
Golden spears that pierce the infinite light spring that Ludger shot.
Lutus stepped forward and opened his aura.
Wind attribute Aura Tempest.
The typified aura of wind created a huge whirlpool.
The whirlpool collided with the golden spear and scattered light in all directions.
“go!”
Vierano and Ambella stepped on the pillars of the World Tree and quickly ran upwards.
The surface of the World Tree rose up in bumps, and new Wood Zombies appeared and fell like debris towards the two.
It seemed that they were made in a hurry, but they weren’t heroic elves.
However, there were so many of them that I felt as if the world was collapsing.
Vierano assimilated with the wind spirit and soared high.
Following his will, other spirits joined in.
Dozens of wood zombies burst or bounced with every punch and kick of Vierano.
However, the number of replenishment was far greater than the number of breakdowns.
heavy overload.
At this rate, it would be crushed by a huge amount and fall down.
Vierano made a decision.
He canceled the assimilation with the wind spirit and passed it on to Ambella.
“you….?”
“Go!”
The appearance of Vierano, who shouted so, was hidden by the wood zombies and became invisible.
Ambella, who received the power of the spirit, climbed vertically as if running up the World Tree with a stiff face.
With everyone’s help, Ambella, who eventually reached the throne, gazed into the deep groove at the center of the World Tree.
Sedina was sitting as if asleep in the thorn prison guarding the throne.
That child is Ela Plante’s daughter.
And the child he gave his name to.
Ambella raised her sword and swung it.
Caang!
Even Ambella’s sword did not cut the hard thorns.
But Ambella did not give up.
Naturally, he retrieved his sword and swung it again with an explosion of power.
If not once, then twice.
If twice doesn’t work, three times.
If that’s still not enough, try a hundred or a thousand times.
The more he swings his sword, the more it strikes the thorns.
Ambella felt her grip tear.
A repulsive force that could not withstand even the hard palms that had been squeezed for a long time.
But Ambella laughed rather happily.
It was because the thorn tree prison was cracking little by little.
“Stop!”
Bentmin Leafre ordered the World Tree to stop Ambella.
As Ambella was about to swing her sword, a thorn from a thorn tree stretched out and pierced her.
There was nothing to do but avoid the sudden situation and go to sleep.
Impaled by a thorn, Ambella’s arm was severed below the shoulder blade.
Blood splattered with pain.
“Huh!”
But Ambella’s eyes did not die at all.
She took a stance with her greatsword gripped with her one free hand.
“This poisonous thing! Are you trying to swing your sword in that state?!”
The moment Bentmin was about to stab Ambella with a thorn again, she shuddered.
Bentmin’s gaze slowly turned to one side of the cradle.
There, with both hands on the cradle, was Bellaluna, glaring this way.
“You cannot forget me.”
At the same time as Bentmin’s cry, Ambella’s sword swung.
Quagga Gagagak!
Thornwood Prison, which had withstood several attacks so far, was broken.
Ambella smiled as she confirmed that the object blocking her path was gone.
“…I did all this, but I can’t believe I’m not the main character.”
Someone accepted her body as she slowly leaned sideways.
It was Ludger, who rose from under the shadow of Ambella.
“Good work.”
“It’s done… starting with that kid…”
“I know.”
Rudger laid Ambella down slowly and walked towards Sedina.
Sitting on her throne, she looked like a sleeping princess.
“Wake up, Sedina.”
Rudger said that and held the crown of thorns around Sedina’s head with both hands.
