Chapter 456 – Chapter 456 Yggdrasil (4-4)
People die when their heart or brain is pierced.
They may even die if organs that are below the level of such fatal injuries are damaged.
And furthermore, some die from severe bleeding, and some go even further and die of tetanus from minor wounds.
It could be said to be a single example of how weak humans can be.
Then… How do souls that escape the human shell die?
According to the gravekeeper, it was forgotten.
He said that when he is forgotten from people’s memories, he naturally forgets his memory, and furthermore, the resentment he harbored inside him disappears and returns to nature.
In other words, the soul does not die just by being hit by swords, arrows, and magic.
However….
“Hee! Whoops!!”
“Kuuk… Buy, save me….”
He didn’t die, but he could taste the feeling of dying again.
Even in the soul state, if you are attacked, the sensation is completely transmitted to the soul.
Rather, they feel more pain than when they were alive.
However, the difference is that even if you feel pain in your bones, as long as you don’t pass out, you explained that the spirit is the one that can fight infinitely.
‘It is destroyed by divine-type magic, but Hanbom doesn’t have that ability yet….’
While thinking about other things, I glanced at the party members once in a while.
Park Seon-hee and Park Jin-hee, who are specialized in close range, defend and hold on, and between them, Son Hye-eun, who uses a spear, and Min Ha-yeon, who shoots an arrow, intercept the incoming attack.
And as soon as Park Sun-hee and Park Jin-hee were hurt, Han Bom was pouring heels on them.
I admired the five women fighting fiercely.
‘Wow… You’re better than I thought?’
[It seems to be worthwhile to raise the ability level.]
As Armonia said, if they had not raised their stats and had come, Park Sun-hee and Park Jin-hee would have been pushed back and annihilated as soon as they started.
If so, was the ability truly omnipotent?
The ability level of those ghost gangs was roughly 8-10.
In terms of level, they were on the same level as the women here.
In fact, there was a bigger reason than the level.
[Thanks to the defense experienced in the 1st floor boss battle, they seem to be perfectly aligned.]
The five who had gone through a large-scale battle in defense were fighting in perfect harmony.
In a multiplayer battle, you can never win with your own skills alone.
Especially, no matter how much the quantity is, if it is a mess….
“What are you doing! Kill it fast! No… No! Conquer quickly! You can’t kill me!!”
There are bound to be situations where you can’t fight alone.
In the distance, I saw Ben Crash, whimpering after being hit by an arrow.
The guy who ran away feeling the pain enough to die from being hit in the head with the first shot, continued to bruise the spirits with only his mouth alive.
I thought I’d shoot another arrow so I could feel more pain to the point of death….
“You go out and fight! What are you doing!”
“I can’t see that I was hit in the head with an arrow!”
“Fight without arrows, you idiot!”
“Patient! Patient!”
Rather, Ben Crash was pounding the spirits of the ragtag spirits with excitement, like chopping firewood.
We decided it was better for us to leave it alone.
‘I’m glad it’s an aisle type. If it was radial or flat, I would never have been able to fight like this.’
Thanks to the long passageway, the number of enemies to cover was significantly reduced.
The fighting environment and style were overwhelmingly in our favor now.
However, despite such an overwhelming advantage, there was a fatal problem in the end.
It was a fact that the battle showed no sign of an end.
The reason was that although it could damage the spirits, it was impossible to kill them.
It’s been a while since the spirits fainted or fled, but there were still many spirits from beyond the darkness running after us.
Hanbom heals when there is a wound on the body, and even if the sum of each other is perfectly matched, there is a physical limit in the end.
“Ha, ha, ha!”
In the case of the first-floor defense, there was a break between battles, so there was plenty of time to replenish physical strength.
But now the battle was not giving the opponent a chance to rest.
The spirits writhing in pain were also far away, recovering, and engaging in battle again.
In contrast, our party members swung their weapons and fired their abilities without resting even for a second.
You can still hold on, but there will definitely come a moment when it collapses.
“Oops!”
As Park Jin-hee, who was focused on defense, was attacked, one side began to show gaps.
No matter how ragtag the spirits were, they were still able to judge the situation.
“Catch!”
“Once you catch one! Aaaaagh!”
A chain of spears was inserted into the heads of the two spirits who were rushing at Park Jin-hee, pushing them away.
And while dragging her injured Park Jin-hee behind her, Hye-eun, who took her place, shouted.
“Please treat me first!”
“Yes!”
Han Bom began to heal Park Jin-hee’s deep wound that fell behind her.
I smiled in relief as I looked at them.
‘Wow… It was close. Son Hye-eun is definitely an actionist.’
Even during the previous Shock Rain, the first woman to attack and get her arm bitten off was Son Hye-eun.
It may be reckless, but the aspect of being courageous was strong.
And thanks to that courage, he escaped the current situation.
However….
[Suddenly, physical limitations are being revealed.]
As Armonia said, it was possible to recognize with a cursory glance that the members’ physical strength was the limit.
Even Min Ha-yeon, who doesn’t usually sweat a lot, was shooting arrows while sweating slowly.
Min Ha-yeon, a long-distance supporter, was at that level.
For other members, the situation was much more serious.
They spent time wiping the sweat from their eyes to see if the sweat was obstructing their vision.
Not to mention Hanbom, who usually sweats a lot.
Even if she doesn’t use her body, using her ability will consume that amount of concentration.
Hanbom was sweating like a waterfall.
‘Shall we suppress it gradually?’
[Are you going to use the eyeballs?]
‘No~’
In fact, until recently, she had thought about using Cerberus’ eyeballs to easily subdue him.
But I thought as I drew the bowstring.
‘Let’s use magic.’
[Magic… Are you talking?]
‘Yeah, I need to level up too.’
All abilities are talents, and once they are manifested, they can be leveled up with effort.
If Enel was there, even that would be pierced in an instant, but Enel is not infinite.
‘Aren’t you saying that if you continue to use it and raise the level by at least 1, you can use less energy?’
[This is a wise decision.]
Enel is omnipotent.
It was a story about how important it is to save and save.
‘Okay then, let’s get started. If it’s a soul….’
I muttered to myself and shouted, reaching out to the spirits resting in the distance.
“As expected, the brain attribute works well too!?”
The moment I shouted, a yellow light from far beyond the darkness began to electrocute the spirits like a flash of light.
Jigsaw Jigsaw! Pajijijijik!!
“Keeeee!!”
“Quaaaaah
The souls resting in peace tasted the yellow current and began to disperse as smoke.
“… Uh?”
And the silence that follows….
The battle stopped abruptly, and not only the spirits but also the party members began to look at me cautiously.
I tilted my head, wondering if I had seen it wrong.
“… What?”
It is said that souls do not die.
However, those who were hit by my brain-attribute magic from far away seemed to disappear in smoke.
I stretched out my hand once again and cast the brain attribute magic on the soul who was confronting Son Hye-eun right in front of me.
Paperweight!
“Keeeee!!”
That guy was also hit by my magic, and it turned into smoke and disappeared.
An atmosphere that falls into a deeper stillness in silence.
The spirits that were silent as if falling into the abyss….
“Buy….”
“Buy… ?”
“Help me!! Run away!!!”
Everyone suddenly started running away, pushing each other.
They did not show any companionship or willingness to fight.
It was no different from an ordinary human struggling to survive.
Like people being chased by a horde of zombies, they started running away, pushing each other.
And in the cave, only silence began to flow again.
I was in the middle of that silence.
I stood in the center of it and looked at the women staring at me with a puzzled expression.
“What is this?”
..
..
Even when everyone collapsed from exhaustion, they did not forget to thank me.
I said to the trio who expressed my gratitude.
“I’m sorry I didn’t think I pushed too hard.”
Other women expressed their gratitude to me with sufficient gratitude, but among them, Son Hye-eun was particularly active in thanking me.
“No way! Rather, thank you. It’s all thanks to Suho that we can fight like this.”
“Thank you for thinking that way. Rest for now.”
“Yes.”
Everyone sat down with my words, or lay down on the floor and started to rest.
The cave was not a dirty or repulsive place, but it was not a suitable place to lie down and rest.
But even so, lying down and resting like that meant he had adapted to life here, but it meant that the previous battle was just as difficult.
And among them, it was definitely Hanbom who was struggling the most.
I approached Hanbom with a worried heart, and she immediately started avoiding me by waving her hand at her.
“Oh, don’t come!”
“… ?”
Hanbom blushed and started talking gibberish as she tilted her head, wondering if she might have been frightened by the magic.
“That… That is… I am sweating a lot right now.”
“… ? I know that just by looking at it.”
It was barely visible even if I didn’t have to say it.
She tends to wear hot pants and a white T-shirt due to the nature of mid-spring, but her clothes were wet enough to show through her body.
Even the ponytail tied behind her was wet and heavy.
She was definitely wearing a much more sweaty look than she had ever shown.
Hanbom closed her eyes tightly and waved her hand.
“So, don’t come.”
“Ah, I haven’t seen you for a day or two….”
I approached her with a smile as I saw Hanbom making a fuss about her, but….
Hanbom began to look at me with a slightly straight face.
“Don’t really come. Please….”
“….”
She seemed to really hate it.
I smiled at her and nodded her head.
“Okay. Well, there you go. Even the wind will crush you.”
“Huh… Thanks.”
Hanbom shuddered at my wind magic, and she jumped and danced happily.
I smiled while watching such a midsummer.
‘I’ll teach you wind magic later when I have time. It would be perfect as a substitute for an electric fan.’
There won’t be any problems since he still accompanies me, but even if there is a situation in the future where he is away from me, at least I didn’t want to make him suffer from the heat.
As I was using her wind magic on Hanbom from such a distance, Minhayeon came up to me and opened her mouth in a dejected way.
“No matter how hard I tried, I ended up solving everything with one magic shot.”
“A… It was just a match.”
While using the brain attribute magic earlier, I was able to learn one more about the brain attribute magic I didn’t know.
It was true that brain-attribute magic was very lethal to spirits.
[The lightning system and the holy system are not the same, but the root is the same. So it seems to have had a great influence on the spirit.]
‘Still, I didn’t know it would be strong enough to destroy it.’
[Maybe lowering the power will stop it on the big impact line.]
I deliberately held the sortie hard and shot.
It was because he was using magic with the goal of leveling up in the first place.
Perhaps a spirit that had strong anti-magic power before dying would last much longer.
Min Ha-yeon looked at me quietly and began to be silent.
Something… He had a very sullen expression.
“What’s the matter? Were you hurt earlier?”
“It’s not like that… Just… I was thinking about what I should do to become strong like you.”
At first, I wondered if he said it out of jealousy, but that wasn’t what Min Ha-yeon was worried about.
“It was good at first. Getting help from you By the way… I don’t know anymore because I keep getting help. Is this really good?”
It was a burden, not jealousy.
A creature never feels burdened by any help if its own life is at stake.
However, as she gradually gets used to the life-threatening situation, she begins to recognize the burden she used to take.
It seems that Min Ha-yeon has gradually entered that stage.
And the look… It felt really dear to me.
I murmured as I hugged Min Ha-yeon from behind, not paying attention to the gazes of others.
“Don’t worry too much. It’s just the beginning. There will definitely be plenty of opportunities.”
“… Is that so?”
“Then. If you don’t come, don’t worry too much, I’ll bring you by force.”
“Tooth… It will help you in the end.”
Min Ha-yeon turned her head away while holding her in my arms and started looking elsewhere.
He said while stroking her hair.
“If it wasn’t for Hayeon, I would have died on the 0th floor.”
“You? Do you think you got through it well?”
I said while shaking my head at Min Ha-yeon’s grumbling.
“I must have been fooled by Midsummer who returned.”
“Ah….”
From Min Ha-yeon’s point of view, I was a person who was unaware of her return.
And she had the experience of chasing me hard to save me from the 0th floor.
I hugged the hesitant Min Ha-yeon from behind and buried her lips in her ear and whispered.
“You are my lifesaver. So you can pamper me for a while.”
“… You are, really.”
Min Ha-yeon looked at me and started smiling at me, as if her depression was finally resolved.
And Hanbom, who was watching the two of us, grumbled and opened his mouth so Min Hayeon and I could hear.
“I don’t even think about hiding it anymore.”
