666. [STAGE 40] Apocalypse
The moment your eyes become dark.
– I’ll wait here.
I heard the serenade’s voice.
“Kuh…!”
I opened my eyes as best I could. The darkness that covered my eyes disappeared in an instant.
My vision was blurry after being stabbed, and I went into darkness repeatedly, but it was still there.
Not yet… I can’t die. I can’t surrender yet.
The Night Bringer smiled as he looked at me who was coughing up blood.
[Yes… You are not an ordinary human. Should I risk the lives of your people to see your tears?]
“….”
[Come on… shed just one tear. Admit your own weakness. If so, do you know Will I save your people?]
The moment he said that.
I closed my eyes and a single tear ran down my tired cheek.
Seeing this, the Night Bringer pursed his lips in satisfaction.
[Whoops. You can’t do much either.]
“….”
[Looks like you’re afraid of death, right? In the end, you pretended to be great, but you were just one of the common actors playing with the rhythm of foreign media.]
“….”
[Ah. Leave a will. What were you afraid of enough to make you cry? your own death? the death of your people? Otherwise-]
“…No.”
After taking a deep breath and gathering my last strength-
I whispered in a low voice.
“I just cried because it hurt so damn much, you bastard.”
The next moment,
Fu-wook!
A terrifying destructive sound rang out
[…?]
The Night Bringer, who blinked, looked down at his chest in a puzzled way.
There was a magical sword embedded in it, wrapped in black energy… and trembling with excitement at the taste of blood he hadn’t seen in a long time.
It was [Excarnival], a demonic sword that could eat anything
– ejected from the inventory at long range and pierced it into his chest when Night Bringer was careless .
“I have only one thing to say to you from the beginning until now.”
I raised my weak right hand and slowly raised my middle finger.
He raised his lips and let out a mocking laugh with all his might.
“Catch X or something, customer.”
Kagagakak!
The X-Carnival vibrated violently and greedily sucked the black dragon’s blood and flesh.
‘Okay, everything went as planned-‘
I thought with my fading consciousness
[…is this all I prepared?]
The black dragon pulled out the magic sword easily from its chest while muttering as if it was absurd.
The black dragon’s blood-soaked X-Carnival rolled on the floor, and the blood-soaked chest healed at once, as if it had never been injured.
I laughed dejectedly.
‘As expected…’
It’s not even close to this level…
[It’s novel, but it’s shallow. Was this the limit of human depth?]
This time, Nightbringer grabbed the handle of his royal sword embedded in my chest and slowly pulled it out- [Now
then, the guardian of public interest… It’s time to leave the play. .]
He vigorously thrust out his scepter once again.
Pooh…!
What he was aiming for this time wasn’t the heart…
Cheng-Grang-!
…It was my spiritual core.
I closed my eyes with the feeling of my soul being shattered in the deepest depths.
– I’ll wait here. Until the moment Her Highness improves…
‘Sorry, serenade.’
I think I’ll have to make you… cry again…
***
Crossroads.
All the members of the expedition who left to subdue the black dragon succeeded in retreating and were receiving treatment at the temple.
“….”
“..”
The atmosphere was infinitely dark.
No one opened their mouths and remained silent while receiving the medicines, bandages, and healing magic applied by the priests.
What broke the suffocating silence was the high-pitched shout of the girl knight.
“So what? So you just left your senior and retreated?!”
It was Evangeline.
He had barely come to his senses a little while ago because his body was almost torn apart while blocking the black dragon’s charge, and he even suffered a concussion.
And I found out later.
That everyone had abandoned Ash in exchange for a safe retreat.
“What madness is this! Everyone was just watching that?!”
Evangeline looked around and shouted, and all the other heroes couldn’t answer and averted their eyes.
“…It was the judgment made by the lord.”
Lucas lowered his head and answered in a subdued voice. Her face was hidden behind her disheveled blonde hair.
Lucas’ left arm was being treated by three priests.
It was no ordinary burn. The left arm swept away by the Black Flame Breath did not improve easily even after overdosing on healing magic.
But as if he didn’t feel any pain, Lucas said without looking at his left arm.
“As always, there is a way,” he said. If we didn’t retreat immediately, everyone would die.”
“Is that why you’re leaving your senior?! Mister, are you really Mr. Lucas?!”
“You know that. That the lord always prepares a secret plan. I believe in my lord…”
“What’s the secret, then?!”
Lucas gritted it.
“…he didn’t tell me.”
“Then what the hell do you believe in…!”
“The Archduke and King Poseidon… It is said that he spoke to these two. So believe me too…”
“The Grand Duke!”
Stumbling to her feet, Evangeline looked around and shouted.
“Where are you, Grand Duke? grandee!”
Dusk Bringer was next to his knights.
As much as they were called berserkers and as much as they inherited dragon blood… The dragon knights fought on the front line and their injuries were deep.
Dusk Bringer was sweeping the blood-dried hair of those dragon knights.
“grandee! explain it to me please. What is the secret plan you said?”
“…”
Evangeline, who approached the wall, asked harshly, and Dusk Bringer, who had been silent for a long time, chewed slowly and spat out.
“I cannot speak.”
“yes?”
“Because Ash told you not to tell.”
Evangeline snorted as if it were absurd.
“You told me not to tell us? So, it seems to be something quite dangerous?”
“…”
“It’s okay, just tell me this. How high is the success rate of that trick?”
Dusk Bringer closed his eyes tightly.
“…not very high.”
“Then you should have dried up, Grand Duke! Why did you just watch your senior do that?”
“I…”
“At that time, he proudly said that he would be willing to fall to protect his senior… In a moment like this, did he throw his senior into that hell and come out?”
Dusk Bringer’s face went pale.
“What about the Glory Nights?”
Evangeline slipped on the floor as her legs gave out as she turned around hastily.
However, Evangeline, who gritted her teeth and stood up again, found Hecate and the Glory Knights and shouted.
“They said it was the imperial guard. They said that now they would become the bodyguards protecting the prince. Why are you here? Why are you here when you’re not next to seniors!”
“…”
The Glory Knights were swept away by the Darkness Bombardment of the Night Bringer on behalf of Ash, and all of them fell into a blackout phenomenon, and did not recover consciousness until the battle was over.
However, I couldn’t refute Evangeline’s words.
Their mission was to protect Ash and die instead, but it turned out like this… Even with ten mouths, they had nothing to say. Hecate lowered her head.
Lucas got up and approached Evangeline.
“Evangeline.”
“What the hell is everyone doing… what are they doing? In that situation… I don’t intend to save the commander, what the hell are you doing here…!”
“Evangeline!”
Lucas shouted in a stern voice.
“Quench your excitement. We all fought a bitter battle. None of us risked our lives.”
“…”
“In a situation where the subjugation has already failed, the lord only chose the policy with the highest chance of winning. We have to figure out what that means. So, first of all, calm down…”
“Senior!”
Evangeline screeched in a hoarse voice.
“To José, the commander of this front! The Emperor’s Son! Always doing reckless things in front of the most! I mean, you’re such a fool to say that you’ll get sick instead of your subordinates because you can’t see them!”
“…”
“Such a fool has been leading this front and protecting this world. Then we have to protect him too. Why is that person risking his life to protect us? why?!”
Lucas closed his eyes tightly.
With a twitching hand on her forehead, Evangeline staggered and turned around.
“Where is the mermaid king? The Grand Duke says he can’t tell you, so I’ll have to ask the mermaid king.”
Evangeline shouted as she looked around the inside of the temple.
“King Poseidon! Where are you! Don’t just cross your arms behind you and pretend like you always do, come out and explain!”
However, the mermaid king was nowhere to be seen.
After scanning the inside of the temple, Evangeline’s eyes opened curiously.
“What, where…”
It was then.
bang-!
The temple door opened violently, and a soldier rushed inside.
“Agent Commander! Report! Urgent message from observation team and reconnaissance team!”
At the words that followed, all the heroes were stunned.
“At the entrance of the Black Lake… Check out the appearance of the Black Dragon! It just surfaced and landed on the ground!”
Lucas asked urgently.
“Did only the black dragon appear? What does His Highness the Prince look like?”
“…”
“Report! The appearance of His Highness the Prince!”
“That’s… Her Highness’s appearance has not been confirmed…”
“…”
“Instead of that…”
The soldier reported with his eyes tightly closed and a face holding back tears.
“In the black dragon’s mouth… the flag used by His Highness the Prince…”
“…what?”
Knock!
Lucas unconsciously reached out with his right hand and grabbed the soldier’s collar.
My hands were shaking. Through the messy, tangled golden hair, two blue eyes radiated beastly light.
“Tell me straight again. what?”
“Huh, in the mouth of the black dragon… the black flag that His Highness always used was bitten… Both the observation team and the scouting team confirmed….” “It’s
dark now! Possible mischeck?!”
“Oh no. Undoubtedly. Observed with night magic optics. The flag of Her Highness the Prince is certain…”
In an instant, sighs and screams rang out in the temple.
dump!
Evangeline collapsed on the floor.
“Then… senior…”
“…”
“What is this… what is this. What are we doing then…”
Lucas was as stiff as a stone statue.
I couldn’t even move while holding the soldier’s collar. And while gasping for breath, the soldier desperately made a report.
“Commander deputy! Wake up! It’s an emergency!”
“…”
“Listen everyone! We must defend now! As soon as the current Black Dragon lands out of the lake…!”
***
Entrance to the Black Lake.
Shoot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…!
Splitting the surface of the water, a huge black dragon slowly appeared.
The Night Bringer quietly closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
The whole body, covered in scales, sucked in air and swelled up, then returned to its original shape repeatedly.
How could I have breathed the air of the public?
[…It’s still the air so sweet that it’s hateful.]
As the Night Bringer said that, the wounds on his whole body were slowly recovering.
No… it wasn’t to the point of recovery.
In the real ‘night’ of the real world, the Night Bringer’s body became larger than it was originally and exuded an even greater sense of coercion.
It was as if his whole body was merging with the night.
The world has already been covered for seven days and nights.
In the middle of the night, the Night Bringer slowly opened his eyes.
In the pitch-dark darkness, two golden eyes opened — fourteen in turn.
Seven pairs of golden eyes.
All of them have been restored, even the heads that were destroyed in the last battle.
No, far beyond the level of recovery-
Nightbringer realized that his power surpassed that of his prime. That hateful red dragon army… It was only natural that she, who guarded the ‘day’, was not there.
The balance has been broken and the balance has already collapsed.
Instead of lamenting at the void without an opponent, the Nightbringer smiled and opened his mouth slowly.
[Then, where should I declare war on royalties?]
Then black flames swarmed into the huge mouth with tremendous magic power.
The shabby black flag, as if it had been sewn on his mouth… burned and disappeared in an instant.
The six heads of the Night Bringer also slowly rotated, each collecting magic power.
Hook….
Mana and hatred were condensed during a long breath that made the black dragon’s entire body swell and swell.
Night Bringer slowly and carefully loaded her breath.
And at some point you reach the critical point.
Two haaaaaagh-!
The seven heads fired their breaths to the north at the same time.
The tremendous shockwave caused all the surrounding forests to bend back and evaporate as waves rose on the surface of the Black Lake.
It looked like six heads were adding strength to the breath fired by the middle head. The breath whirled and honestly flew northward.
And –
***
crossroads. above the castle wall.
“The black dragon that haunts the Black Lake… is preparing a breath?”
Upon receiving the report, Jean Valen of the City-States Alliance felt bewildered as he touched his beard.
It was an exhibition now, and manpower to manage the walls on site was always needed.
The kings took turns standing on the wall and encouraging the soldiers to lead, and today it was Valen’s turn.
Valen, whose heart had been broken a long time ago, was contemplating when to leave the front line, but anyway, there was little time left until the Black Dragon’s direct invasion.
So, until this time, he had made up his mind to stand on top of the wall.
But suddenly, this report came flying.
“Isn’t it a distance of three days on horseback to reach the Black Lake?”
“Yes, but…”
“A direct attack on us from there? Even the Lord of the Flies can’t do that. That he had a different purpose-”
That was then.
The mages and alchemists standing in front of the artifact on the wall screamed in unison.
“Report! Detect an unknown heat source approaching from the south!”
“what?”
“The speed is… so fast! Ridiculously fast!”
“How fast…”
“We’ll reach the wall soon!”
The blood drained from the faces of Valen and the soldiers.
The wizards and alchemists hurriedly fled, one of them shouting.
“Avoid Ballen Ball! Now-”
The next moment.
It seemed that the dark world was brightly lit, but the rushing black flame and breath of magical power pierced the southern wall of the Crossroads.
In an instant, the bodies of everyone on the wall floated in the air.
The walls brought from New Terra, the ecliptic of the Everblack Empire, were strong.
It contained all the defense magic passed down from ancient times, and it was no exaggeration to say that the building technology and smelting technology were the culmination of all human wisdom.
Wow…
And the Night Bringer’s hatred was above all that magic, skill and wisdom.
Wow!
Finally, the spear of flame and magic that broke through all the resistance pierced the castle wall.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Thrown into a corner of the castle wall, Valen opened his eyes in a daze and watched the people swept away by the breath’s reach turn to ashes in the dazzling light.
Kwakwagwang! Kwagwagwang-!
The breath that pierced the walls dug into the fortress city.
The breath fired in a straight line penetrated the crossroads in an oblique shape slightly missing the center of the city.
Buildings that were directly hit by the breath were reduced to ashes on the spot, and buildings that were brushed exploded all at once and sparks flew in all directions.
After that, the aftermath of the storm blew up, and the roofs of buildings, the tiles of the roads, and the leaves of trees all shot up into the air.
…The breath that felt like an eternity actually only lasted for a few seconds.
His breath stopped, and Valen, lying in the rubble of the castle wall, realized he was still breathing.
“…”
Even though he was far away from the scene where Breath penetrated the castle wall, Balen was in a state of bruises and burns all over his body.
When Valen shuddered and shuddered, his body covered in blood and
ash looked around the city. The fortress city of Crossroads, engulfed in the flames of the enemy, was shining brightly with the flames.
The noise of the explosion, the screams of the people, and the roaring sound of the fire engulfing the city rushed into my dazed ears.
“…haha.”
Valen laughed.
Tears didn’t come out of my eyes that were ripe with the heat, so I just laughed.
***
I saw a beast coming out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on its heads blasphemous
names .
Count them, and the number is the number of sinners, six hundred and sixty-six.
***
The world was perishing.
