Chapter 169 – [Hero] Crisis and Silence
The plan, which had been abandoned without knowing the location of the Four Heavenly Kings, quickly surfaced again.
Perhaps now, a unique opportunity has come.
But I can’t do it alone…
“Isn’t this a good opportunity? There are no other sacrifices for me to use my black magic here, and it’s right in the middle of the capital where I can brag about to people.”
She put her hand on her chest and leaned out towards me, as if to take herself.
“Now, don’t you want to kill me and take my body?”
“… After all, you won’t die.”
I heard from Seria.
Ruella’s current body is a lie, and her soul is contained elsewhere.
“Did you hear her? That’s right. Even if this body dies, my soul does not die.”
Saying that, Ruella took something of hers out of her arms.
It was a necklace adorned with a red jewel more than anything else in the world.
She dropped her necklace, holding the string in her hand.
“Then what if this?”
“… That…”
“It is a necklace that contains my soul. Originally, I gave it to the Demon King as a gift, but I received it again a while ago.”
… Are you kidding?
“It’s real. If I break this, I will really die.”
“… Why…”
At my words, Luella put a smile on her lips.
“Shall we make a bet?”
“… I won’t.”
I was almost shaken for a moment, but don’t be fooled.
There’s no guarantee that it’s real, and there’s no way it’ll suddenly make an offer that’s advantageous to me.
There must be something up…
“Let’s compete with me. If you win, cut my flesh and take this necklace.”
“Ugh… Is it ground?”
“If you lose, take your life… I want to go, but I will specially spare you.”
What is it?
I can kill her, but she won’t kill me?
Me… Are you looking at me funny?
Her words, as if teasing her, gave strength to my hand holding the sword.
“I want to know too, how strong you are now. If you were stronger than me… Even Demon King won’t be safe…”
She muttered to herself and glared at me fiercely.
Is this smoke too?
No, I think I felt something sincere…
“I’m sorry, but it’s not really an offer. As long as I’m so determined, you have no choice but to agree.”
“Kuh… Dastardly…”
“Whoa, are you coming here and arguing cowardice with the enemy?”
Yes, the atmosphere has been strangely subdued recently because of Ertina and Sera, but the Four Heavenly Kings are our enemies.
… When this opportunity comes, you must not miss it.
“The place is just right. But if you take too long, your colleagues will come to visit, right?”
“…”
If it doesn’t work out, just like she said, you can just buy time.
Even Yuna or any other woman. If anyone finds out about my absence, they will come to visit me.
If you use Yuni’s elemental magic, you’ll find my location easily.
“Ruler… Did you say divine power? Let me show you that power.”
“Kuh… !”
Can’t escape now
Hopefully I won’t die all at once.
I put her holy power on the tip of her sword and jumped at her.
Tuong!
But before she could reach her, something in her blocked her.
Is it a shield? I can’t see anything, but there is definitely something.
“Oh… Even at this distance, the effect comes.”
Louella slightly frowned and beckoned her, and my body was pushed back by the intangible barrier and pulled back from her.
Is it that my sword can’t even reach her?
There is no chance of even winning.
Have to pierce
A shield must be… !
“Keugh… !”
When I pierced the air with the swords in both hands, I was caught on something and couldn’t move forward any more.
This must be drilled through.
The divine power overlaid on the sword gradually grew thicker, and the sword moved forward little by little.
Enter. Break through
It works… !
Crackle!
With the sound of something being smashed, I was thrown forward at my body.
It came into the realm of Luella.
Now is your chance!
I dove her swiftly towards her.
She looked a bit surprised, as if she really didn’t know how to pierce her, but Luella immediately pulled her black staff from her own arm and swung it, as if she had prepared for it.
Quaang!
The mound of dirt beneath her feet exploded.
Suddenly, the flying debris obscured my vision, and my charge lost its power.
Cooong!
Then, an intangible shockwave hit me again.
It was an unexpected blow, so I rolled backwards.
“Whew… You do a little bit though. I hoped it wasn’t a threat…”
Luella still didn’t look at me as an equal adversary.
Evaluating me like that is proof that you are evaluating me lower than yourself.
The situation itself feels like she’s testing me.
The feeling of judging whether I am a dangerous enemy or not.
If I was weak, would you not consider me an enemy?
That’s so embarrassing
I got up from her seat again and tried to approach her, only to find that she and her shield were blocking me.
I learned the strength I needed earlier.
With divine power slightly stronger than that, I tore the barrier at once.
“Oh…”
Now that her Luella is startled, I run towards her again.
The explosion jumps over before detonating, knocking Luella over the head before she can cast her magic again…
As he was about to cut her, he hesitated for a moment when he saw her in her human form.
Wouldn’t she die if she cut her throat once?
No, this body doesn’t die anyway…
Fuck!
“Keugh!”
“It’s good to sell. I am so worried.”
What did you hit?
She couldn’t see properly, but she was hit by something blunt and pushed away.
Rolling around on the floor, I quickly got up and got up.
“Whew… That’s Okay. It would be a waste of time to find out more.”
“What, what?”
Still in a standoff, I hesitated at her sudden words.
“You can’t kill me.”
“That, isn’t it…”
Have you heard of a moment’s troubles?
No, I can!
“I can not. It won’t even hit the shield, so let’s attack it.”
“Kuh, I know you can’t do that… !”
I jumped at her and swung her sword.
The first attack was blocked by her arm, and my holy power did not reach her arm, which was wrapped in black mist.
It wasn’t without a reaction.
You can feel her body slowly fading away.
But that’s it.
Immediately, the skin regenerated, and when the divine power melted the skin again, it regenerated again.
Her skin, which had flowed down and then rejoined, looked very disgusting, but it was clear that the damage did not seem so great.
I don’t think you can inflict lethal damage unless you attack directly.
The second attack was swung without hesitation like before, but Luella lightly dodged it.
The third, fourth, and several subsequent attacks she either dodged or blocked with her black mist.
“You know? That attack has meaning only when it touches my body. It has no meaning as it is right now.”
“Kuk, aaagh!”
Bung bung.
My attack only cut through the air.
“Whoops… Weak.”
“Keuuugh!”
Blocking my sword with one hand, she gently pushed my chest with her other hand.
Tok.
Slightly pushed back, I hesitantly lowered the knife.
Really… Does it make no sense?
“First of all, that power itself is not enough. Can you stop with just this…”
She shook away the black mist that had gathered in her arms.
The dispersed mists coalesced back into her body, presumably as something that came out of her body.
“You did a good job watching. It looks like my colleagues are coming soon, so I’ll just leave.”
“Wait, wait… !”
But despite my cries of hers, Luella lightly jumped over the high wall and threw it away.
“Eric!”
Uni’s urgent cry echoed through the alley.
Breathing in her breath, she jumped in front of me and lifted me up from the fall.
“Eric! Are you okay? Where are you hurt?”
“Oh, no, I’m fine…”
“Lu, Louella… Did she fight her?”
She confirmed that it was urgently confirmed by her spirit, turning my body around with a trembling voice.
“Eric!”
“Eric!”
Following her, Seria, Arin, and even Jeren followed.
“What happened?”
“That is…”
I gave them a rough outline of the situation.
“Why did Luella suddenly…”
“Okay, it seemed like you were going to do it. That… Whether I am a threat or not…”
As a result, maybe…
“… Being alive is, then…”
“Seria!”
Arin hurriedly stopped Seria from giving her correct answer.
“… No, because I know…”
If I were a threat, I would have used my hand somehow.
The fact that she did not take any action against me and withdrew was in itself a testament to her evaluation.
I am no threat to the Demon King.
I am… Still weak
“More… You have to be strong.”
“Eric…”
Uni looked at me with her complicated face.
Would she have been different if Yuni had been there?
What if Seria and Arin were together?
It is a meaningless assumption.
The only thing that matters is that I’m not strong enough.
“… Let’s go back.”
I needed strength.
Stronger power.
Yuni talked to me and comforted me the whole time she was leaving, but her eyes were on me, not her.
Seria, Arin, and Jeren standing in the middle.
You need strength.
You need more divine power to overwhelm Luella’s defenses.
And the source of my power…
I looked at her face.
“Eric…”
No, never quite like that.
Never.
But somewhere in my heart, a dirty desire was wriggling.
***
“Do you still care?”
Yuni asked anxiously, placing her hand on my cheek.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t been able to satisfy her properly today.
It was a crappy time, I think.
“Sorry.”
“No… Eric isn’t bad.”
Yuni must have sensed that she wasn’t in the mood to do more, so instead of begging me more, she lay down beside her.
“… Did you miss a lot?”
“Huh.”
In the end, I couldn’t bring her down.
What should I do if I don’t get enough even after training so much?
Stronger power.
A stronger divine power was needed.
To do that, you need to be more excited than you are now, but to do that…
I looked at Yuni for a moment.
An imagination that comes to mind.
But I just couldn’t get that much out of my mouth.
That means… You can never say anything like that.
However, why am I getting excited about such a situation?
“… After all, isn’t this enough?”
“Oh, no… That…”
It was true.
At least with the current trend, it seemed like she would never be able to beat her.
“It’s not enough.”
But with her poor acting, she couldn’t fool her.
Uni pondered over her for a long time before asking me.
“Eric… When are you in the best mood?”
“I, I…”
When you feel the best.
That’s definitely when it’s bonded with Yuni.
“Whoops… Really? Happy.”
Yuni smiled brightly at my answer.
“But… Isn’t that all?”
“…”
I couldn’t answer
How could you say something like that to her?
Saying something like that of her betraying her.
“Are you okay. I can understand Eric no matter what his tastes are. So tell me… ?”
Never… I can not say.
As I kept her mouth shut, Yuni held out her shoulder to me.
I put her shoulder… She asked lightly.
“Yes…”
Yuni is my lover.
Yuni, she cannot be taken away.
“… Eric.”
As I firmly shut her mouth, Yuni looked at me with a pitiful expression.
