◈ 406. [Side Story] Flag (2)
The flag in your hand is as hot as fire and as heavy as a thousand pounds.
This is my banner.
The cost of the lives of those who died following me, which I have to bear.
《So?》
Raven appeared in front of me again before I knew it and shouted.
“In this mental world, what can you do with that flag? A weapon would be able to stab me, and an umbrella would be able to clear this rain! Isn’t that flag completely useless!”
“You don’t know what, Raven.”
I grinned as I grabbed the flagpole with both hands.
“With this flag, I and my people… I can fight forever and anywhere without giving up!”
I hoisted up the flag and shouted,
“This is the Imperial… no.”
He shouted with all his might and hit the ground.
“I declare it as my territory-!”
My ultimate skill [Imperial Declaration] was activated in the mental world.
Whoaaah-!
Gray walls were not created in the spirit world.
Instead, the dazzling sun rose in the blackened sky, the dark clouds cleared, and the heavy rain stopped.
Under the clear sky, Raven looked around in bewilderment.
“What? why… ? Is my mental world being invaded by your imagery?”
The answer came from behind me.
“This is your first job, so you don’t know, Raven?”
Salome appeared staggeringly and smiled with a pale face.
《Infiltrating someone else’s mind is like building a bridge between you and their mind.》
《… ?”
“You still don’t understand?”
Salome stretched out her hand and pointed around.
“Right now, our mental worlds are connected. In other words, since you attacked Ash’s mind… … That means Ash can attack your mind.”
“What?”
“If you tried to kill the other person, you should have been prepared to be killed. Isn’t that obvious?]
I tightened my grip on the flagpole.
Whoa!
Then my territory expanded and the surrounding landscape began to change.
Not my past – Raven’s past.
with the memories he suffers the most. with his nightmares.
His human form began to pass by. Raven panicked and tried to stop it, but my flag was already planted in this world.
this is my territory
“no! no! Don’t look, don’t look!]
“You don’t like it?”
You read my memories too, you bastard. Only the most painful part of me persisted and stretched.
So- wouldn’t it be fair to exchange each other once?
《Don’t read my memory-!》 We
saw Raven’s human days in front of us, colorless with the desperate screams.
His dreams, frustrations, pains, and corruptions were vividly unfolded.
《Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,
facing his most painful past, Raven’s shape began to tear.
***
When I came to my senses, it was real.
I don’t know how long the struggle in the spirit world has been. I gasped and looked around.
Already, the Crown and Nightcrawler troops are disappearing, turning into black shadows.
It seems to be resurrected at a different point after death is confirmed, as when dealing with them in the past.
And there were others whose entire bodies turned into black particles.
“Cool!”
“Did you sleep well, sir?”
It was a sword demon and a spearman standing in front of me as if to protect me.
The two peaked monsters were all covered in blood and their skin was melting. It seemed that he had suffered from Raven’s plague.
“… Sword Demon. Mr. Changgwi.”
“Don’t make that face. We too are eternal… … .”
“I will come back to life in the bottom village. If the guest doesn’t get rid of that pestilence, he’ll fall ill again from the plague spreading in the village… … .”
“If you are a guest, I believe you will do it. Be sure to kill that plague bastard.”
I asked after watching the two of them die horribly.
“Why do you trust me so much?”
The answer was simple.
“You treated us like people.”
“Even before and after the world came to be like this, there were very few people who treated us as human beings.”
The two monsters smiled with melted faces.
And then I couldn’t breathe anymore… … It turned into black smoke and disappeared.
I turned my head to the side after looking at it in a confused way. Likewise, I saw a huge beast whose body was half melted while protecting me.
“Mason.”
When I called, a smile crossed his face, who could no longer tell whether he was a bear, a lion, or a man.
《That’s it.》
“Is there anything else you want to say?”
《Already done.》
“What about Lucas?”
《… .]
Mason, who was at a loss for words, burst out laughing.
《How much easier would it be to live in the world if you could get an indulgence just by changing your mind at the last minute?》
“… .”
“I am still a traitor to the MacGregor family and an enemy of the Crossroads. I strayed from the way of man long ago,”
Mason murmured in a dying voice.
“but… But in the end, I want to die for something beautiful.”
His eyes, the light of life fading, turned to me.
“Your flag is beautiful. majesty. So.”
Mason’s body slowly fell forward.
《Please don’t let go until the end… … .”
Kung-
Mason fell forward and stopped moving.
“… .”
he was my enemy
But he was the one who died for my flag.
So I decided to remember Mason.
Looking around at the party members who died protecting me, I suddenly turned my head back. It was because the last party member’s painful moans were heard.
“Ha ha ha… … !”
“Salome?”
Right behind me, Salome was down.
As I approached, Salome smiled with a pale face and a quivering mouth.
“Haha, you pretended to be strong on the outside, but in reality, why is your heart so weak… You almost died while covering me with an umbrella… … .》
Only then did I realize.
Salome guarded my mind while the other three guarded my body.
Raven showed me my weakness – the deaths of my comrades in the form of nightmares, and Salome helped me overcome those nightmares… … It showed the appearance of other colleagues who overcame the death that followed from the nightmare and stood up.
Thanks to you I was able to get my flag back.
“lol. how is it. I was pretty helpful though… … ?”
“… .”
Salome is a mental body.
When the mind is restored, the body is healed, and when the mind is damaged, the body is also damaged. such a being
This guy tried to help me in the mental world… … It has become a mess.
“Be more careful than that… .”
Salome said urgently.
《Because Raven isn’t over yet… … .”
“… ?!”
At the same time, the nightmarish corps commander’s unique fraud arose. I glanced over there.
“baby… pee… .”
Raven was there.
Although it was in a shrunken state incomparable to before, whether it had been hit or not, it was still scattering the energy of the terrible disease. I was getting my momentum right.
“You, only you… I will definitely kill you… … .》
I smiled and stood up in front of him.
“We’ve come to share embarrassing memories, Raven.”
“Don’t talk nonsense… !]
Raven seemed terribly humiliated to have her past exposed. The smog-like figure trembled.
But I wasn’t.
Let’s read his past… … I felt pity for him.
“You and I look alike, Raven.”
《… What?”
Raven said that he was ridiculous, but I was sincere.
he and i look alike
While trying to protect people, he bumped into a wall of reality and chose to become a monster himself to change this reality.
A weak, weak coward
who tried to give up being human .
There is only one difference between him and me.
Was there a hand to stop it before it became a monster?
I had good people who made me remain as a person at that moment. There were colleagues who stopped me from crossing the line.
But Raven lost all of his colleagues.
So I remained human and Raven became a monster.
“If I didn’t have my colleagues, I would have become a monster like you.”
Living as a human being is difficult.
It is a job that requires you to hold on to your sore legs and climb the endless stairs of oath, morality, and law without end.
So the weak give up the difficult path and become monsters.
An easy downhill road where you can live without any further worries… … fall by itself
I was weak too.
That’s why I tried to break the flag. I wanted to become a monster, not a human.
But now I realized it again and decided again.
now never again… … I will not let go of this flag.
“Don’t be proud, human… !]
When I looked at him with pitiful eyes, Raven bubbling with contempt.
“Don’t let it rot. I will definitely rot… … Even the last piece of your flag! I’ll make everyone rot like me-!]
Raven rushed at me again.
However, due to the conflict in the mental world, I already had a sense of how to deal with him.
Both body and soul are gone.
For Raven, ‘spirit’… … The ‘mind’ remains.
You have to attack it.
I closed my eyes and woke up.
Kiyiing!
With a blue flash, the [Evil Eye of Command] was activated, and my will penetrated to control his mind.
but.
Crying!
Failed.
Now that the system window is down, the success rate of [Evil Eye of Command] is not displayed.
I was just recklessly ignoring the odds and trying to attack.
“doesn’t care.”
Wiping the blood from my nose, I smirked.
“I’ll do it until I can.”
Currently, this is the only way to attack the guy I have.
If so, until you succeed.
It just keeps attacking without stopping… … !
《Do you think I’ll just watch, you fool!》
Raven’s black mist swept over my body.
His plague was definitely out of specification. My mental barrier melted and the body, which had been enduring with the cure-all effect, began to take a hit.
But it’s worth holding on to.
In the first place, my mental system defense and poison defense were almost invincible. It was tolerable enough even though it was gradually being eaten away by the plague and collapsing.
“Raven. You evolved into the Plague itself.”
Preparing for the next [Mystic Eye of Command], I grinned.
“In other words, your means of attack now is the plague. yes?”
《… !]
Raven abandoned everything and transformed into a transcendent plague. In the process, all other existing means of attack were lost.
in other words… There are no other patterns for him other than letting his opponent rot.
“Would it be faster for my body and mind to rot, or would it be faster for you to pierce my soul?”
It’s such a simple fight.
Kiyiing!
A flash of blue flashed before my eyes again. And just as he infiltrated my mind, I tried to infiltrate his mind.
Crying!
Failed.
Blood wells up inside. Does not matter. Hold out.
Flashes again and try next time.
Kiyiing!
Pachichik… … !
failure.
hold out
My head is pounding. I feel like my stomach is burning. Is this pain a rebound of failure? Is it his plague?
Does not matter.
If this is the only move I have, I’ll just swing it until it works.
jump… … .
awesome… … !
Raven’s mental barrier was also incomplete, probably because of the previous situation. I clearly sensed the incontinence of the guy’s mental strength to block my attacks.
one more room.
one more room.
one more room… … !
“Cool cool cool!”
I vomited a handful of blood.
Raven sneered at me as I stumbled holding onto the flagpole.
“You stupid bastard! You’re repeating your name. Are you going to commit suicide by consuming what you could have endured if you stayed still?”
“Yes.”
《What?》
“It doesn’t matter if I die.”
Taking a deep breath, I prepared for the next [Mystic Eye of Command].
Seriously. I am preparing for death now.
I was not the only one
who raised the flag to kill monsters and protect people .
Although it was a flag raised by myself at first, many people gathered under the flag before I knew it… … .
All of them joined hands and raised the flag together.
To protect each precious world.
‘My flag already belongs to everyone.’
So even if I tried to break it by myself, I couldn’t break it.
Even if I’m gone, it will definitely lead to everyone.
I saw clearly how everyone stood up with their flags.
Just as I inherited the will of the dead. Even if I die here, our flag and will- will continue.
My death is not game over.
The game continues. As long as those who inherit my flag don’t give up.
As I recalled the faces of my trustworthy colleagues, a smile formed on my lips without my knowledge.
my pretty people
I can’t let them get this filthy plague.
“Raven. I can’t let a dangerous plague like you unleash on the world.”
you must die here
It would be great if what I could do with my life would be to destroy you together.
I’d be happy to do that.
Kiyiing!
I used the next [Mystic Eye of Command]
and damn… !
Finally, there was a huge crack in Raven’s mental barrier.
《Kuh… ?!”
He flinched backwards and stepped back.
I ran the back of my hand over my blood-stained lips and raised the corner of my mouth with a smirk.
“Let’s die together in this hell… !”
