Chapter 710,
Chapter 179. Inescapable Trap (9)
Bolgar and Bradamante collided, leaving a black half moon in the air. A black spirit soared like lava from the ground cracked by the shock wave that spread around the two.
Jin gritted his teeth and looked up at Difus.
Even the sharp horns, black eyes that could never be said to be human, and a smile that seemed to be enjoying the terrible situation.
He couldn’t find the second brother he knew anywhere.
It was already like that at the time they met in the Empire, but now it’s even more painful.
It was because I had to finish him off today.
“Four Horsemen… The sword is lighter than I was worried about.”
Jin’s gaze reached Dipus’ left wing and chest.
The clothes were covering it, but I could feel the fire still lingering in it.
[It’s the result of being careless against you in the last empire. That’s why we prepared a lot…]
Behind Dipus’s back, the fruits where the prisoners were trapped were constantly falling.
Fifty people per one are the trapped fruit. This meant that at least dozens of people were killed or injured every time a fruit plummeted to the ground.
[Maknae said let’s enjoy it slowly.]
There might be a dipus remaining inside that monster.
However, Jin decided to rule out such thoughts. As Mary said, dealing with it with a clumsy mind would only make the situation more miserable.
‘Even if there is an injury from eternalization, the fourth rider is still a transcendent strongman. I have to fight calmly, even for my older brother.’
There was a murderous intent in Jin’s eyes.
“I’ll see if I can really afford that kind of composure when the fight is over, Fourth Horseman. No… It’s the monster that swallowed my older brother.”
[You can only see him barely hiding his distressed expression the whole time, and he knows how to say scary things like that.]
Chee-yi-!
The two swords, which had stopped interlocking, started moving again.
Jin pushed Difus away and unleashed a lightspeed stab, and Difus flew backwards and swung the Bolgar.
A black sword that was huge enough to lose sight in an instant was hitting the ground.
Jin slashed Difus’ sword and rushed forward to prevent him from increasing the distance.
There was no time to bring out the comrades trapped in the subspace.
However, even if it wasn’t a spirit sword, people like Hedo could cut subspaces, so they would come out with time.
‘I have to tie up Difus perfectly so that I can focus on rescuing the prisoners when my colleagues get out of subspace.’
To do so, the mobility of Difus had to be addressed first.
He had to cut off his wings to be able to inflict fatal wounds with Eternity.
Eternity cannot erupt in the form of a sword, so the aspect of the fight must somehow lead to close combat.
“You keep fighting like you’re running away. Do you not have the confidence to fight head-on with me even if you share the authority of the Chest God?”
[I told you, let’s enjoy it slowly. One side will definitely end today anyway, so don’t worry.]
The prisoners continued to appear in Jin’s field of vision as he pursued Difus.
Some fruits were already full of corpses, and in others, people who survived were screaming madly for help.
If Difus took them hostage and started threatening them, there was no way for Jin to stop them.
‘The 4th Horseman can’t take a hostage carelessly. You’re conscious of the fact that the moment you start killing captives, you and your allies are freed. If the plan was to consume the prisoners that way in the first place, it would have turned out that way from the beginning.’
Then, why is Dipus neglecting the prisoners in this way?
It is not hidden somewhere, nor is it kept in a condition that is easy to use as a hostage in case of emergency.
Rather, the fruits of the captive captives were scattered randomly near Riccarton Castle. As if telling them to pick them up one by one.
Thinking that far, Jin felt that Dipus was not neglecting the prisoners, but was ‘arranging’ them.
‘What is it for?’
Suaak-!
Difus’s swordsman brushed Jin’s cheek. His sword also had the power to infect chaos like Rosa, so his berserk heart beat and pushed the energy away.
At the same time, Difus burst a nearby fruit and met Jin’s eyes.
The people trapped inside were shattered along with the fragments of the fruit and scattered somewhere.
[You can’t keep paying attention to other things while leaving me in front of you. If you want all the prisoners to explode like that, you can keep doing that…]
Difus couldn’t finish his words.
It was because Jin suddenly rushed in and cut off his left wing.
Deepus was chased and couldn’t avoid Jin’s sword, which suddenly became faster than he recognized.
[Kuk!]
If it had been a melee battle on the ground, Difus wouldn’t have been attacked like this. Because the sword would have reacted before the head.
However, no matter how fast the flight is, there are many restrictions on movement, and it was only recently that Difus had the ability to fly.
Jin deliberately adjusted his speed by the margins to elicit such a minor mistake. As if he was barely catching up.
Of course, it was not a situation where we could narrow the distance at once if we wanted to. I just used the number I had saved for now.
“You bastard, get rid of the nonsense. You’re threatening me with a hostage? Do whatever you want, let’s see who gets behind first. Do you think we came to Riccarton without that much determination?”
The actual allies’ final agreement on the operation was to eliminate Dipus even if the worst case came and all the hostages died.
[After that. He’s good at lying and good at cheating. But to bring out a move that was hidden because of a group of hostages.]
Dipus’ left wing began to regenerate.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t hit at all. Right before the blade touched, Bradamante was momentarily immortalized.
However, unlike when he was cut in the Empire, the energy of eternalization did not penetrate deeply. It was because it was opened in a hurry and the cut was shallower than before.
[Your choice just revealed that you need a minimum amount of time to fully use the fire. I will respond more carefully. So take care of yourself, maknae. If you want to win. You can’t destroy me and my mother with that kind of human mind.]
“That’ll have to wait and see. But the guys who talked to me that way are all in the other world, 4 riders. Do you think you and the bust will face different outcomes?”
Difus was widening his distance again.
Due to the eternal flower attached to the left wing, the flight was noticeably slower than before.
However, as the number of checks increased, the pursuit was still not easy.
For some reason, as the chase progressed, the two of them were slowly moving away from Riccarton Castle.
As soon as they arrived near the Black Forest, which was engulfed in marriage, Jin recognized that there were not many fruits that imprisoned prisoners around.
‘Now is the right time to rescue the prisoners. The companions must have escaped the subspace, but is the alliance’s fleet still there?’
At that moment, I felt a huge energy from the side of Riccarton Castle.
it was hedo He and his companions finally broke through the subspace and escaped to Riccarton Castle. As soon as Jin checked his energy, he fired an orange flare.
It was a signal flare meaning that he was safe and rescued the prisoners first.
Dipus immediately recognized the meaning of the flare.
I didn’t feel anyone else approaching this way, even though the orange light briefly colored the sky.
[You seem to have taken my advice lightly to stay awake. Wouldn’t it be better to give up the prisoner and attack me with your colleagues?]
“That’s not for you to judge.”
Hedo and his colleagues were the biggest reason Difus lured Jin away from Riccarton Castle.
In the current state, he thought that he could not handle the joint work of Jin and all of them alone.
Jin was also vaguely aware of Dipus’ intentions, but moving away from Riccarton wasn’t a bad choice for Jin either. It was possible to avoid the situation where Dipus threatened with the lives of prisoners.
Above all, Jin was confident that he would not lose even if he had to fight Difus one-on-one. Even if he hides a lot of power.
[I thought you would answer like that. Even knowing it was a trap in the first place, he would have come all the way here. Anyway, this should be enough.]
Suddenly, Difus stopped flying. Black trees towering like pillars covered Jin and Dipus.
[I want to ask you one last question. You, the youngest,… the comrades and captives you brought. Which of the two of you wants to live and return to Tican safely?]
-[It’s frustrating now. This is why you and Joshua only got beaten by the maknae every time. This is a bigger crisis than ever. Because my mother can’t move, and there’s a good chance that the fire that’s burning me won’t be extinguished until the youngest comes. It means that if there is a battle, I could be pushed by the youngest.]
-[You could lose?]
-[Yes, so we have to make a plan. Even if I lose, Runcandel won’t lose.]
A conversation between Illina and Deepus before the operation began.
The board that Difus planned at that time has just been completed.
Whoa!
The black trees scattered into particles, and all directions were instantly enveloped in black mist. The fog did not dissipate even with a black wind.
‘I don’t think it’s a space. what?’
Although he couldn’t confirm Dipus’s appearance with his own eyes, Jin aimed his sword at him without missing his energy.
After a while, the fog suddenly lifted.
And when he checked his surroundings, Jin realized that he was not standing in the center of Riccarton.
Looking back, I couldn’t see Riccarton Castle and the trees holding the prisoners.
‘…Teleportation? Could it be that the fog was a portal?’
It was correct.
Just now, Difus unreasonably used the power of the evil god to open the dimensional door and teleport.
He had his feet on the ground, not in the air. I saw the left wing, which had been cut and regenerated by Jin earlier, fall to the ground.
[The answer seems difficult. But whichever you want to keep alive, you can’t go save them right now. This place is quite far from Riccarton Castle…]
Saying that, Difus raised his greatsword Bolgar.
