Episode 356
The cold air, which makes it hard to breathe, recedes and warm warmth spreads through the frozen arm.
Clap.
The sound of the bonfire resonating pleasantly made Shin Yoo-seong feel the illusion of returning to the base camp.
‘This time. It stopped…’
With the power of Chronoa, the world hardened. It stopped like a black and white photograph, leaving the original color only where the goddess’ warmth stayed.
Of course, Yooseong Shin’s senses were free. A normal accident was also possible. But I couldn’t move.
Bubbly.
In a world where time has stopped, the only free being is the goddess Cronoa.
[It’s the first time since Lorelai that I’ve shown my true self to someone.]
In another dimension, she was revered as a goddess, but if her power was calculated as a risk, what class would she be classified as?
The description of the goddess is different for each tower record, but since the goddess is a contrast to the witch, the average was about 7th grade like Lewis.
But Shin Yooseong knew.
Cronoa was not an existence that crossed the dimension like Lewis, so it is only a fragment like Laplace’s case.
Unleashing such a tremendous amount of power would certainly have been constrained.
‘…Did you use your strength for Lorelai?’
Shin Yuseong asked a question in his mind, and Chronoa just smiled.
[yes. I paid a very high price. Maybe I’ll never be able to talk to Lorelai again.]
The boredom of being left alone was fine.
The duty of the Goddess is to observe, observe, and adjust the changing world. That was all too familiar to Cronoa.
However, unlike herself, who is an infinite being, Lorelai is a finite being. Friendship between a goddess and a human was bound to be as thin as a sheet of paper.
[I really enjoyed my time with Lorelai. Lorelai has knowledge comparable to that of a goddess, but her gaze is purer than any human.]
However, every moment with Lorelei was the best for Cronoa.
It was like opening an eye that had been closed for a long time when we shared a discourse with each other through Lorelai’s knowledge, which was hard to believe for a human being, and received her innocent views.
‘Then you buy me this time…’
A little rebuke and a strong sense of responsibility.
Cronoa, who felt the feelings of Shin Yoo-seong, shook her head and said not to feel guilty.
[The goddess is not a human. We are beings who have to observe the world in an infinite amount of time. If you make a friend rather than a contractor, you will surely not forget it. So this is for me.]
Previously, Chronoa also wanted Lorelai to become her follower. If he had pledged allegiance through a contract, he would have shared his time and spent more time with Lorelai.
But that wasn’t what Lorelai wanted.
[It would have been nice if Lorelai had become my follower, but that must have been my selfish idea. It is harsh for humans to suffer from this kind of loneliness.]
Chronoa held Shin Yooseong’s hand. The sensation lost due to frostbite was completely restored, and the pain in the hand was completely healed.
Chronoa stopped the present to change the future. However, winning that future had to be in human hands.
[Was there ever a moment when you were so resentful of the passing time?]
With this, the contract is over.
When Cronoa let out a breath, the golden breath nestled in the frozen Lorelai. It was the lifespan that Lorelei had dedicated to borrowing power, but it was a meaningless price for Cronoa now.
[Enjoyed. Lorelai.]
The best gift Lorelei gave to Cronoa was the perfect game that allowed her to watch her boring daily life with a human eye.
[hi. My friend.]
Chronoa put her golden mana into Lorelai’s hand.
The black and white world has regained color.
Shin Yuseong muttered as he looked at the ice explosion that hit him.
“Your heart must have been conveyed.”
Blinded by an explosion. white light floods Still stretch out your hand
The will of Shin Yoo-seong, who did not give up, reached. To protect Lorelei, the goddess empowered that will. All that’s left is to stretch out the power you’ve grasped in these hands.
Hwaaak-!
to conquer the future.
Quaang!
White explosions and golden waves intertwine. Wave after wave interlocked, swallowed and shattered. Will made miracles.
“What are you-!”
Louise’s blue eyes were colored with astonishment. You interpreted the nature of mana at the moment of the explosion? Besides, emitting the same wavelength to erase the explosion? No such thing was possible.
Even in the long and long life of a witch, this is the first miracle I’ve ever seen.
Saaaaa-
But miracles have a price to pay. The body of the goddess Cronoa turned into golden remnants and was slowly blown away with the wind.
“Chronoa-!”
Lorelai shouted, reaching out her hand, but there was no turning back. Chronoa just smiled.
“Your sacrifice will never be in vain.”
opportunity was given.
Shin Yoo-seong’s interpretation of mana’s wavelength meant that he understood the nature of mana, and that was the same as finding out what kind of weapon the opponent was using.
On the other hand, Louis did not know what power Chronoa had imparted to Shin Yoo-seong.
This golden wave was Kronoa’s loneliness. It was her thick mana that she had accumulated for a long time watching the world alone.
‘I feel it.’
The power that Chronoa gave was the power of ‘reinforcement’, a piece of Lorelai. To ignite this ability, an ember called Lorelai was needed.
“Lorelai…”
But can Lorelai, who has lost her partner named Cronoa, come to her senses right away? Can I go straight into battle?
Yooseong Shin looked at Lorelai.
Lorelai gazed into the empty space with a hard-to-read expression on her face, then wordlessly clenched her fists.
“I couldn’t even say my last goodbye. But… there is no need to be sad.”
Meeting and parting are inevitable.
“Meeting, parting, and destiny are all part of a story. I loved her story.”
Lorelai was not a child to grieve over a breakup. She was the pride of England and the Oracle of the Clock Tower.
“So… the back part of the story, please. Please have a nice ending on my behalf.”
Lorelai smiled even through the sudden breakup. He conveyed his gratitude to his short but long-time friend, not a tearful greeting, and conveyed the future to Shin Yoo-seong.
“Αἰσχύλ.”
The chant that Cronoa told me about.
“Σοφοκλ.”
This is her knowledge.
“Εὐριπίδ.”
will.
“Even though she left, the power of Chronoa still remains with me. This is proof that her pieces stayed in the world.”
When Lorelai stretched out her hand, the goddess’ protection wrapped around Shin Yooseong. It’s only for a moment, but what Shin Yuseong has is Chronoa’s perspective.
Mana rose from Shin Yooseong’s body like the scent of a flower.
I even felt a sense of refreshment in the open field of view, and the flow of mana separated from my body was visible at a glance.
Shin Yuseong
‘s eyes were colored golden with the changed nature of mana. Instead of fluttering wildly, the golden river danced softly like silk.
“…Well, now I get it. A woman called a goddess broke the rules and spread her divine protection for humans… She’s more fickle than a witch.”
Louis, perhaps thinking that it was worth dealing with now, spread out the subspace and took out her wand.
“Then it would be polite to do your best on this side as well.”
Luis grabbed the cane and tapped it lightly across the icy floor.
That was the foreshadowing. Red and blue lines were drawn in the ice cave, which was just a natural object, and started operating like a giant magical machine.
“If you borrow the power of the goddess, I have an arrangement. In the basement of Ruin Castle, the mana and negative emotions stolen from the people of Volterra lie dormant.”
Louis used his cane as a straw to absorb the ‘negative power’ sleeping underground.
The malice that bloomed in human pain and suffering was the true raw material and strength of the Witch of Winter who hated humanity.
“Go to sleep now. It is winter’s benevolence to life that causes the leaves to fall and the flowers to fall.”
The witch has revealed her true form. Her blue-tinged hair turned into perfect silver, and Louis’ blue eyes turned white. It looked like a cold winter.
Nevertheless, Louis, who had the same face as Adela, recited a technique Shin Yoo-seong had heard about.
“Aria.”
The wind got stronger and the shattered ice shredded the undead that got caught up in it like the blades of a blender.
“Aria.”
The climax to the snow opera.
The familiar silence and silence that came for the most heated moments.
Damn-!
The twisted subspace swallowed Shin Yooseong. Lewis confined the opponent and created a sharp ice blade in a space that extremely compressed mana.
“…my ice blade is harder and sharper than any metal. The human body will not be able to withstand it.”
Lewis swung his index finger around as if he were stirring black tea with an insensitive face.
“It’s unfortunate. You were a pretty likable person. Although I wanted to make it a doll.”
In the subspace where Shin Yooseong was trapped, cold ice blades were swirling like a blender. It was impossible for humans to survive an attack that could tear even a crystal golem to shreds in 10 seconds.
However, when the subspace opened and Shin Yooseong appeared, Louis couldn’t help but laugh.
“This is what the heck…”
Shin Yooseong’s body, wearing a black uniform with long hair hanging down, was clean without even the slightest scratch.
Even Aden had to block Louis’s attack without any damage.
“No need to be surprised.”
However, Shin Yoo-seong felt that all of this was natural.
“Chronoa and Lorelei broke up for this moment and gave me their will for the future. …but you didn’t sacrifice anything?”
Unlike the noble sacrifices made by Cronoa and Lorelai, Lewis’s power is nothing more than a prerogative of the weak. What is the meaning of the power that harasses and exploits people who are weaker than themselves?
“okay. Compared to you, who built your strength by bullying the weak… Adela, who trembled in fear and was courageous to the end, is much stronger.”
Tong-shin
Yoosung lightly took his foot off.
Louise’s face was in front of her.
I felt my body tremble at the speed beyond the limit that I had never shown before. Everyone’s courage and sacrifice must have been for this moment.
“Now… stop…”
Shin Yoo-seong stretched out his hand.
For the first time, the aloof Witch of Winter showed a despairing expression.
“You are-!”
Layers of transparent barriers were belatedly built up, but Shin Yoo-seong, who was covered in golden waves, shattered when he touched them.
With the fear he once felt, Louis saw Shin Yuseong and Aden overlapping.
Shin Yoo-seong glared at Louis, who was holding his collar like Aden at that moment.
[Volterra]
“Adela.”
[Give it back.]
“Give it back.”
With the hand wrapped around the blessing of the goddess, he pierced Louis’ heart.
