123 – girl – 3
“This… inferior, year…!”
Charlotte’s arms trembled slightly. A look of rage oozes from his distorted face. The bloody red eyes radiated a ferocious force.
As the cold metal penetrated through the white corn, my fingers gripped the blade tightly. A red liquid appeared drop by drop on the skin that touched the blade.
The dripping liquid soon became a path of tiny blood, running down her wrist and soaking Charlotte’s uniform sleeve.
The fingers that gripped the World Eater’s blade became tense. He didn’t mind the sharp blade digging deeper into his palm.
The sword body, unable to withstand the grip, began to crumple little by little. As the cuts grew larger due to the forced force, the blood that leaked out became thicker. The stains on the sleeves of the uniform gradually increased in size.
Charlotte swung her left arm roughly. The blade of the World Eater held in that hand was ripped open and crumpled terribly in the fist.
“Realize the subject!”
With a thunderclap, the girl’s body burrowed into the ground and plunged deep underground.
In a pit the size of a human body, I heard the sound of soil and pebbles grinding.
Charlotte, who had exploded dozens of lightning bolts into the hole where the girl had fallen and completely buried the area around her, staggered back a few steps.
The aftermath of the collision between the falling star and the breath of pure mana was devastating.
There was a crater wide enough to fit a castle completely into it, and its surface was as shiny as porcelain from the heat.
The lava that flowed over the ground gathered little by little along the slope. The shiny surface was boiled again by the heat.
Charlotte, who created a teleportation magic circle, transferred herself to the edge of the crater. Then, it gathered all the nearby magma and buried the entire crater.
Charlotte looked down for a moment at the crater, which had instantly changed into a crater of a volcano, and checked the condition of her left hand.
It was the hand that grabbed the World Eater.
In spite of reducing the damage by overlapping several layers of top-notch defense magic circles in that short moment, the left hand did not look good even with empty words.
The burnt skin revealing bright red flesh, the half-cut bones spewing marrow-mixed blood, and the muscles twitching incessantly, complaining that they are on the verge of necrosis.
It had been a very long time since I had suffered such an injury. She had barely been hurt since the time she and the beast named Serena fought desperately to kill each other.
Charlotte raised her right hand and swept her left arm from top to bottom. A green halo of light briefly covered the spot where the right hand had passed.
When the green light disappeared, the left hand, which had been horribly damaged, was restored to its original form.
After clasping and opening her hands for a moment, Charlotte confirmed that her senses had completely returned, and then waved her hands once more to remove all the stains from the sleeves of her uniform.
The fishy smell of blood circulated in the air for a while and then disappeared.
‘If the power of the technique that bitch used was a little higher, I would have had to give up my entire left arm.’
Charlotte recalled what had happened just before the magically created dragon’s form spewed out pure mana.
A ray of yellow light that pierced the torrent of mana from the front and pierced it down toward the ground. What it said was clear.
However, in nearly 150 years, Charlotte had never seen anyone other than Serena use star drop, at least not even a star drop skill.
The same was true of the Royal Knights, a collection of knights praised as the best on the continent, and the S-class adventurers, who were called the greatest strength of the adventurers’ union.
Dropping a star was a skill allowed only to Serena Elizabeth, a human who transcended human limitations.
The puzzle fit snugly. Who the two people the bitch in the basement mentioned were, and what happened to them.
“I know that your years are not dead.”
The magic circle rose again in the air. Her long silver hair fluttered in line with the surging flow of mana.
If that was a being that could truly replicate the skills of an opponent it had once fought with as its own, copying the magic used by Charlotte would not be an impossible action either.
It was right to kill her on the spot before she turned into such a troublesome bitch.
“Right now, can’t you reveal that dirty look?”
The temperature of the atmosphere dropped rapidly.
The surrounding landscape, which had been directing a road to hell with boiling magma and melted earth, changed to a road to hell that was close to cryogenic temperatures this time.
The river of magma hardened as it flowed. The swamp of soil and rocks that had completely melted away was completely frozen.
There was a blue light all over the place. It was a light of a color that could only be seen in the coldest northernmost part of the continent, where even quite a few monsters could not stand it.
In the distance, I saw the scene where the magma soaring into the sky had hardened as it burst out like a fountain. Pieces of petrified magma clattered and fell onto the frozen ground.
Snow and frost covered the frozen lava fields. The land, which had been dyed orange and yellow, had changed to blue and white.
“Otherwise, I will take your head by the ends and divide her body and head into two pieces.”
As soon as he could finish his words, the frozen magma was shattered and a girl’s figure jumped out.
The imitation of the World Eater that Charlotte tore apart with her bare hands was nowhere to be found. Only the greatsword embedded in his heart was moving in sync with the movements of his body.
The image of Charlotte was reflected in the two wide-eyed black eyes. The girl’s legs lightly stepped on the frozen ground.
Even though it was driven into the underground bedrock, dozens of thunder spears were pierced, and a huge amount of magma covered it, it did not have any scars, and even soot was not visible.
“Kick-kick-kick.”
The girl let out a giggling sneer. A tendon formed on Charlotte’s forehead when she noticed that the laugh contained obvious mockery.
“Did you finally lose your mind? It’s a fact that you know from a long time ago that your mind isn’t sound, so there’s no need to do such trivial things. Just looking at it makes me feel uncomfortable.”
“You couldn’t kill me with so much magic. I’m alive and well here. What do you mean you know your subject? You don’t have the ability to do that. You who said that couldn’t figure out your subject.”
The words were close to provocation, but they were also words that could only be affirmed. No matter what the process was, it was true that Charlotte couldn’t kill that girl in the end.
“Jim doesn’t lie.”
The magic circles floating in the air swayed and merged into one. It was a multiple chant that Charlotte had devised herself.
One magic circle is divided into dozens of smaller magic circles, and each chant is partially recited to complete the casting beforehand, and then the magic circle is combined into one to use magic.
Even after reciting the chant, it was possible to put the cast on hold, so it had the advantage of preventing the opponent from correctly predicting the timing to attack.
On the other hand, since the number of chanting equal to the number divided by the magic circle had to be cast at the same time, the chanting would often get tangled unless the brain was very smart, but it didn’t matter to Charlotte.
“If I say I’m going to kill you, that’s pretty much the truth.”
The temperature, which had fallen lower than the northern frigid regions, was finally beginning to sink to the extreme.
Even if the magic circle wasn’t completely merged, magic that could drop the weather to a temperature lower than that of the north with only mana leaking out.
absolute zero.
If purgatory is magic that materializes a hell made of fire and lava in the world, absolute zero is magic that materializes a hell made of snow and ice in the world.
In the dark blue sky, the proportion of black gradually increased. The blizzard that had been raging was slowly abating.
It wasn’t because the weather was warm, it was because the temperature was too low. The snowflakes in the sky froze before they even came down to the ground.
All matter within reach of magic, both animate and inanimate, ceased its activity. Except for Charlotte and the black short-haired girl.
All of the very finely mixed moisture in the air froze and formed a mist made of whitish frost.
The sunlight shining down from the sky was not enough to melt the chill that froze the world itself. In the first place, he couldn’t even pierce the cloud of ice.
All matter that reached absolute zero turned into a block of ice, like the essence of eternity that would never be broken.
Finally, even the last ray of light could not withstand the extreme temperature. Darkness covered all directions.
All the spaces that absolute zero affected were torn apart from their original dimensions and torn into something separate.
Everything my eyes could see was bruised.
All the concepts that make up the world creaked, unable to withstand the cracks that came from the space being separated into two.
“My words are the eternal truth.”
Charlotte clenched her fists.
The quarantined space was instantly compressed to a size smaller than a pinky fingernail, dragging all the objects contained within itself.
Including the girl trapped inside.
For a moment, I was slightly wary, thinking that I might tear through the space itself like some wild beast, but it seemed that it was useless.
Charlotte counted to herself.
3 seconds.
The compressed space, smaller than a little fingernail, tangled here and there, shaking like crazy.
2 seconds.
A sphere of perfect appearance was created.
1 sec.
The trembling stopped.
0 seconds.
Charlotte snapped her fingers.
The compressed space was pulled out of the world again.
