Chapter 578 – #118_Betrayal (7)
#578
One.
I do ask myself from time to time.
As if you are no longer curious about the back story of a movie you know the ending to.
Every time I roll it in my mouth, it’s a really banal and boring question.
If you ask me anyway.
What is life
2.
There is no perfect magic in the world.
It could be because of his short knowledge and lack of experience, but at least each of the witches Siwoo had watched so far had a weakness.
For example, even that master modified contract magic for combat, so the fuel economy was atrocious, and in the case of Bianca, she was specialized in long-range artillery fire and tried to avoid melee combat at all costs.
No matter how much the difference in hierarchy has a profound effect on the battle, there was always a breakthrough that would create a variable.
Close combat is overpowered by the logic of force.
Long-distance attacks with the highest firepower are blocked by feathers that are close to absolute defense.
In this way, it means that Dorothy, who at first glance seems to be an impregnable fortress, must have the same gap.
Dorothy walks over and swings her sword at Siwoo.
First brush it off.
– Kakaga River!
Instead of hitting it with force like before, it was sent to the window using an oblique slope.
“Oh?”
It seems that Dorothy also felt that the taste of her hand had changed.
The more Siwoo wields it, the more the reaction is reversed.
Therefore, it subdues the Euro River.
– Kkaddeudeuk!
It wasn’t easy.
A force that could be offset even if they collided head-on with all their might.
Deflecting absolute power with technique is virtually impossible.
Therefore, Siu actively used his feet.
In fact, it was only a matter of facing the weapon, bending the knees and twisting the body, avoiding the line that did not block the path of the sword.
And as expected, Dorothy couldn’t keep up with Siwoo’s movements.
This is one of the common characteristics of Dorothy’s combat aspect from earlier.
She doesn’t move
At first, I thought it was just a babysitting due to leisure.
However, the magic formula gradually began to come into view.
I came to a different conclusion while interpreting the complicated magic formula written on the lining of the nun’s uniform.
Magic embodies mystery at the cost of mana.
And the archwitch over the 20th hierarchy goes beyond simply realizing the mystery and modifies the ‘setting’ of the world itself.
Folding the sky and shooting with an arrow, making a promise that has the nature of being fulfilled by itself, summoning an old forgotten god, or making flowers bloom on an empty field….
In any case, it becomes possible to perform such ridiculous miracles.
Similarly, Dorothy’s absolute power is the power to modify the laws of physics from the ground up.
However, compared to the ‘crystals’ that Dorothy used so far, the amount of mana consumed was far too small.
If she used her power to that extent, even the great witch would have to get tired and fall off.
Then there is only one answer.
In other words, there are unavoidable conditions and constraints to maintain efficiency.
There are three keywords to dig into the conditions.
‘The Nun’s Costume’, ‘The Appearance of an Angel’, and ‘The Chapel’.
As you can see from these, Dorothy’s magic is a magic powered by her symbol system.
Just as even nonexistent beings gain strength from overlapping histories and myths, wouldn’t Dorothy’s absolute power require a symbol?
What I noticed here is the nun’s uniform and the chapel.
Focusing on that, he scanned the flow of magic.
“I don’t get tired just by avoiding it~ I can do it all day?”
And realize
Dorothy became the pillar and axis of this chapel through the medium of her nun’s dress.
Not just magically, but physically.
Namely, that she can wield this overwhelming power at her will.
The fact that the chapel does not break under any impact.
The fact that her nun’s uniform can exert tremendous defensive power.
Miracles that are all possible on the premise that she exists as a “Pillar” Standing on the ground.
Dorothy wasn’t controlling her powers to take care of Siu.
At least one of the two feet must be attached to the ground, so it’s just that it couldn’t use fancy body movements.
She must have been hiding her usual languid tone, slow gestures and leisurely fighting style as her habits….
Definitely got it figured out.
– Hard!
Attack again, this time stretching the ribbon.
If I made her unable to stand on the ground, her troublesome absolute power would be sealed off as well.
Dorothy wasn’t nimble enough to snatch the dozens of ribbons that coiled around her like snakes at her fingertips.
However, even if the mighty power of the ribbon, which could squeeze juice out of concrete, squeezed her whole body, there was no hindrance to her movements.
She was not in pain, at least not frowning at her.
No, he doesn’t even seem to care in the first place.
“Do you like this kind of play?”
Ignoring her nonsensical jokes, I tried to pick her up and throw her with all my might.
“Haaaaap!”
Dorothy’s face, which had been filled with composure, hardened.
But Dorothy is trying to stand on this earth.
She also says she is trying to move forward step by step.
Absolute power, as the name suggests, is absolute, so relativity does not exist.
Even if Dorothy’s body weighed only a few tens of kilograms was pulled with a tension of tens or hundreds of tons, if Dorothy didn’t want to, he wouldn’t move.
Dorothy herself knew this better than Siu.
– Took! Dududuk!
As expected, the ribbon could not overcome its own strength and was torn off like a spider’s web.
So what surprised Dorothy was his attempt itself.
He was now trying to get Dorothy off the ground.
It means that the structure of Dorothy’s magnetism magic ‘Descent’ was discovered in that short moment.
She has lived for hundreds of years and is not a battle-hardened witch, but a fledgling who, to her eyes, is nothing more than a newborn baby.
“No way. Did you notice?”
However, after a moment of surprise, Dorothy smiled again with a relaxed eye.
It must have been a pity for him who had worked hard for so long, but he was not the type of person whose loopholes would be revealed just because he understood Dorothy’s magic.
In the end, in order to break Dorothy, who became a pillar, she has to take her feet off the ground, but in that state, absolute force is already working.
In order to destroy absolute power, there is a fatal contradiction that in the end you have to overcome absolute power head-on.
“I’m pretty~ I’m heavy, so I can’t?”
After hearing the news that he had definitely fought hard against Bianca, he was no stranger to it.
She would have had to go through quite a bit of trouble to deal with Siu, who was so tenaciously clinging to her desires that she could only attack from a distance.
After the small appreciation, the development was a very boring effort from Dorothy’s point of view.
– Hard! Cacan!
Dorothy recklessly pushes forward, and Siu struggles to receive it.
It’s just a mystery that you can fight this far with a method close to martial arts, not magic….
That’s it.
He was gradually running out of money.
“This is really annoying. It’s even more annoying because you can’t kill it.”
As he struggled to get the sword, his spear gradually went down.
As if it was difficult to lift him, the tip of the spear was scraping the ground before he knew it.
As you know, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary formal dress.
While Dorothy is still standing on the ground, he is scratching the chapel.
Could it be that he is scratching the floor and aiming for the collapse of the magic circle through the red force field?
But it’s not even close to that.
No matter how much vital energy he exerted, it was impossible to affect the spells spread throughout the vast chapel.
Have I not been able to see through to that point?
Or, even though I already noticed, was it my intention to grind the whole chapel floor with the feeling of sharpening an ax and making needles?
“They said they couldn’t do anything even if they clung like that~ Rather than that, answer me~ You’re like a crazy bitch talking to herself.”
This time, Dorothy, who had been throwing her sword with a bit of force due to Siwoo’s interruption, suddenly found a sense of incongruity in her own words.
Come to think of it….
Why does it stick like this?
The war situation was overwhelmingly advantageous, so it was considered insignificant.
However, Shin Si-woo is not an idiot.
No matter how confident he is in close combat, he also has a decent ranged attack ability.
Is it really because of egotism that they stubbornly insist on melee combat in this situation?
Look into his eyes
At the same time, he felt a chill run down his spine.
The light in his eyes shining in the black helm was not that of a man who had given up on battle or was driven to despair.
These are the eyes of a predator lying down in a bush and glaring at its prey, calmly watching for an opportunity.
What did you miss?
Are you saying that in this situation, there is an opening that he can target?
Even the strongest witch she had ever met could not break through her absolute defense and attack Dorothy.
No injuries, no blood loss.
If you just fight like this, the battle will become a very repetitive labor with no thrill.
“Fear not!”
So, like my chant, Dorothy has never been afraid of battle.
Not to mention Siwoo, who must be in the lower row.
And for Siwoo, who had accumulated combat experience by crawling out on all four limbs, such carelessness was such a good prey.
Above Dorothy’s head, as before, a pure white ring appears.
Huge wings made of tens of thousands of feathers fluttered, dispersing magical energy unlike any before.
Even with such strict restrictions, it consumes a huge amount of mana, so even Dorothy cannot maintain it for a long time.
Dorothy’s idea was simple.
I don’t know what he intends, but if he presses down with more force, that’s all.
A foolish trick will eventually break before an invincible shield.
Siwoo’s attitude, which had been focused on defense, changed to offensive.
At the same time, the feathers fluttering in all directions from Dorothy’s wings slowly fly to Siwoo.
At first glance, it looks sluggish, but each strand is loaded with absolute power.
Even if a meteorite comes flying in front of it, it will silently fly with the same speed and power without any resistance.
Indeed, his spear, which had unnaturally evaded the feathers and stabbed it, headed toward the ground.
Dorothy was sure of victory as he watched the tip of the spear, flying in an unreasonable trajectory, pierce the ground.
“Caught.”
But.
The moment when Siwoo punches the end of the spearhead he had planted in the ground with all his might.
-Ridge! Ridge! Ridge!
The ground collapsed with three overlapping transverse waves.
There was no ground left for Dorothy to stand on the ground that had been broken like a piece of cheese that had gone through a cutting machine.
Dorothy’s eyes lifted in astonishment.
Red sparks rose like geysers as her bangs fluttered.
It is a condensed storm of distortion rising from the cracked ground.
The nun’s uniform, which lost its place of footing for a very short time and lost the protection of the chapel, could not resist the storm that could be called the artifact’s natural enemy.
Feathers and angel rings that disappear as quickly as they appeared.
Siwoo, who turned around and pulled out the spear, was caught in the aftermath and took off his armor, which was distorting like cooking foil.
A spear was driven deep into Dorothy’s abdomen, revealing a gap in her completely defenseless state.
