596. [STAGE 35] Struggle (2)
thud!
After receiving the body of the Lord of the Flies with Geronimo’s back.
Standing at the entrance to the hatch, Kelly Bay operated the button, and Geronimo’s propellers, which had stopped, closed upward and grabbed the body of the Lord of the Flies.
Tuhak-!
In that state, Geronimo flew low as if being dragged by the ground.
Fierce flames and smoke exploded from the thrusters that went to the bottom as they tried to float the ship and the monster that weighed it.
Because there was no lift provided by the propeller, Geronimo was floating in the air only with the output of the runaway horse power.
Already with this alone, it was like a time bomb about to explode in terms of magical power, and the ship whose flight balance was broken was being destroyed in seconds.
A huge weight was added to the back.
The unreasonable hull twisted and screamed. The tattered outer armor and parts fell off and rained down on the rear. An extended explosion occurred in the overheated magic furnace.
But it doesn’t stop.
“Ha ha ha… !”
Inside the ship running to its death, Kelly Bay laughed.
Flying with a bomb that could blow up an entire city.
Where can there be a more splendid death?
Laughing heartily, Kelly Bay shouted from the hatch entrance toward the interior of the ship.
“Okay, let’s go! son! To the end of the world!”
“…….”
“I was an ugly father who abandoned you all his life and lived as he pleased, but at the end… Let’s do it together!”
Kelly Bay laughed, her face glistening with blood and sweat.
“…….”
Kellison, sitting in the cockpit, looked back at his father blankly for a moment.
“I hate it.”
“what?”
widely!
I operated one of the buttons in the cockpit.
Then the hatch suddenly opened, and at the same time Kellison pulled Geronimo’s booster.
“Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah?!”
Kelly Bay was thrown out of the ship without being able to do anything with the sudden change in speed.
Kelly Bay, who had been rolling in a mess on the sandy plains to the south, barely managed to stand up with her forehead bleeding.
“Kuh, Kellison, you unfilial son of a bitch! what are you doing now… … .”
Whiik- thump!
Geronimo’s emergency lifeboat fell beside Kellibey, who couldn’t finish talking. Kellison ejected the last remaining lifeboat on the ship.
“Father.”
Geronimo was moving away in an instant.
“You were the worst of all fathers in the world.”
Only Kellyson’s gruff voice rang through the communication.
“but… The best blacksmith and the best miner.”
“No, Kellyson! At least the last time together… … !”
“On this front, this world still needs a father.”
Tuhak-!
The runaway magic furnace forced the ship to move forward almost touching the ground. The thrusters, unable to withstand the weight and deploying downward, exploded one by one.
However, Kellison calmly spoke and increased his speed.
「Survive. And our people… … No, I can ask for this world.”
“Kellison, no, Kelly… !”
Kelly Bay, who was running after Geronimo, fell unsightly to the ground.
In the cockpit, Kellison, who had been watching his father, who had been far away from him before he knew it, smiled.
The bottom of the hull, which had been flying low without touching the ground like a tenacity, finally touched the ground.
At the same time Geronimo leaves the southern fields and enters the forest, causing flames, smoke, and dust.
chijik-
The self-destruct magic, which moved like a flame riding a fuse, gathered in the center of Lord of the Flies’ chest.
“ah.”
Kellison murmured one last time.
“The first tunnel my father gave me, it was so cozy… .”
The small cave of my childhood was suddenly visible over the narrow cockpit of the ship.
The young face of his father, who held the key to the cave door in his small hand… … .
Kellyson closed his eyes.
The gathered sparks touched the spirit core of the Lord of the Flies.
In the next moment, the whole world was enveloped in white light.
***
I held my breath.
In the pitch black night. There was a dazzling light in the far south.
For a moment no sound was heard.
And the next moment, an enormous explosion blew away the forest across the southern plains.
Kwagwagwagwagwagwang!
To break humanity’s defenses, to destroy the world… … .
The monster pushed the soul, body, and fate of his entire race into this one explosion, and the power was enormous.
A huge pillar of light soared along with a cloud of dust.
The forests buried within the range of the pillar of light were all burned in an instant, and the ground around the center of the explosion soared into the air and melted within.
After that, the aftermath hit the crossroads.
Tuhak… … !
The southern wall, where only the skeleton remained, was swept away by the aftermath all at once, pouring out bricks and scattering them. People screamed and rolled across the floor.
The explosion was huge and the aftermath was just a precursor. The flames and gusts of wind from the center of the explosion rushed toward the crossroads, crushing the ground.
The world has been brightly lit.
Ruin crept into the city as relentlessly as the morning sun.
“Seniors… !”
Evangeline came running screaming and deployed her shield in front of me. Behind the shield, I grabbed my flag again with both hands and cried out as if vomiting blood.
“No matter how many times it collapses, I’ll build it up again!”
charrrrrrrr-!
A gray wall of magical power rose like petals and was built in place of the lost southern wall.
I too had gone beyond my limit for a long time, so my heart felt stiff and blood welled up inside. Still, I gritted my teeth and maintained the wall.
Tuhak… … !
However, it evaporates.
Unable to withstand the massive explosion, the gray magical castle walls began to shatter from the outside.
“… Ugh.”
hold on
“Ugh… .”
If you can’t hold on, what will happen?
What is the noble sacrifice of those who gave their lives before?
If I fall here, if I give up, if I let go of the flagpole. What the hell have all the fights been going on so far?
“Aaaaaaaaaaa!”
The surface of the castle wall boils and disappears in droplets.
Like a pond whose bottom was exposed in a drought, the magic wall evaporated in an instant, and now it was as thick as a sheet of paper.
My whole body, which had squeezed mana all the way to the floor, was numb and numb. It feels like my body doesn’t belong to me.
Still, I persevered. I cried out and endured.
‘I don’t want to lose.’
Those who are still alive and in my arms, and those who have already collapsed and remain in my memory.
Still, I don’t want to lose… … !
Coughing up blood, hanging from the flagpole as if half-fallen, in my staggering ear-
“Prince Ash.”
Suddenly, a soft voice rang out.
“Please, until the last moment, that flag… .”
Her pale green hair waved as she walked out in front of me.
“Don’t let go.”
It was Skuld, the elven queen. She winked at me. The green eyes widened and opened over the four teardrops marked with diamonds.
I blankly watched her fresh smile.
“Best World!”
The next moment she put her hands on the floor and cried out.
“Your daughter, at a fair price, asks for her last inheritance… !”
Skuld’s arms turned into tree trunks. The transparent skin became rough and hard, and leaves sprouted here and there, and before long they burrowed into the ground.
Do-do-do-doo-doo-duk!
Immediately behind my magical wall, the roots and trunks of huge trees rose simultaneously. Huge trees intertwined with each other eventually formed a splendid temporary wall.
It was right after that that my magic wall dissipated and I collapsed to the ground.
Evangeline caught me from falling, and I leaned on my shield knight’s shoulder and watched the miracle happen in front of me.
Shoot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa… … !
endure
The fortress walls, made up of huge tree trunks and roots, grew again and put forth new leaves even after being burned and destroyed.
The fire and gusts outside the walls were relentless and greedy, but the wooden walls were more patient.
The ancient protective magic formed on the wooden wall protected everyone behind the wall until the very end.
When the explosions and roars that seemed to never end stopped, the wooden walls survived without collapsing.
The charred walls of the castle all at once crumbled to the ground and collapsed. At the same time, Skuld, who had endured by spreading the wall to the end, also collapsed powerlessly.
“Skuld!”
Belldandi screamed and ran out.
“Berdandi… sister… .”
Skuld, held in Belldandy’s arms, had turned into a very old tree.
The skin all over her body dried up, and her appearance, which looked a little younger than her sister, changed to that of a complete old man.
Her hair, which had been the color of lively green, had become as dark as dried leaves.
More than half of the body assimilated into the tree and burrowed into the ground… … she was dying like that.
An elf living an eternal life, especially a legitimate heir to the blood of the fairy royal family.
He devoted all his life force, blessings, and future to protect the Crossroads.
“Our people, no… .”
Skuld let out a long breath and slowly closed his eyes.
“This world… please… .”
“… Skuld?”
Belldandy muttered in disbelief.
“No, no, no… okay please… .”
Belldandy held Skuld tightly in his arms and kissed his younger brother on the forehead.
“I was wrong, my sister was wrong. So come back… … . I will never leave you again, please… … .”
In the end, Belldandy let out a long cry.
“Don’t leave me alone… .”
Except for the sobs of the elven princess, no sound could be heard in the area.
Heroes and soldiers covered in blood stood facing the southern wall with solemn faces. And they bowed their heads one by one in that direction.
“…….”
I leaned on Evangeline’s shoulder and looked around with a bewildered face.
The crossroads caught up in the aftermath of the explosion, starting from the southern wall, devastated the entire southern part of the city. There were no intact buildings, no towers left.
All of them were razed to the ground.
this… is it a win
Is this the price of survival?
‘How many died?’
How many lives did you give up… … .
Am I alive here now?
‘no… !’
I shook my head in a daze. I let go of the boiling feelings of self-blame.
Because I know.
Those who gave their lives for the front here don’t want me to think this way.
May the front line be maintained through their sacrifice, and may the precious comrades move forward together… … Because he knows that he threw his life like straw in hopes of that.
So I tried to give everyone hope somehow. As the one responsible for leading the mess, I tried to clear things up and give everyone a break.
and-
Woo woo woo!
It was then.
In the air behind my back, magic particles vibrated along with an ominous sound.
“…….”
Gritting my teeth, I turned to the wave of magic particles that emitted blue light.
Flash-!
and… The ‘door’ was opened.
It was a giant teleport gate.
Wow!
Then, he opened the huge door with both hands and—
[My origin is… … It’s not like a nightmare… … !]
The shape of a woman made of flies appeared.
During the civil war with the Lord of the Flies, it was the midnight sun that was forced to move somewhere due to the teleport used by the Lord of the Flies.
“… under.”
I muttered in amazement.
“This is a bit too much, really.”
[I was originally a resident of this world! The demon king didn’t resurrect me, he just accepted me as his subordinate!”
The white night, which was made up of flies and had a spooky shape, shouted with its compound eyes flashing.
“So, even if I get swept away by things like the other side of the other side, in the end I can find my own path and return to this world…” … !]
Every time she spoke, flies combined with the darkness of the other world spread out in all directions, covering the dark night sky with glittering colors.
The heroes and soldiers reflexively grabbed their weapons and looked up at the sky. But everyone was feeling it. So did I.
This… .
[… What, where did the Lord of the Flies go? Could it be that he is already dead?”
… It’s over.
“Then I can definitely declare it.”
At the place where the Lord of the Flies fell and froze, the midnight sun picked up something.
It was a royal scepter.
Holding the insignificant scepter in the hand of the giant fly as if it were precious, the midnight sun went mad like crazy.
“Now, I am the new Lord of the Flies… !]
It was game over.
