138 – First Battle – 2
ㅡ It’s not your fault.
Consciousness flickers.
ㅡSo please don’t blame yourself.
My head hurts like it’s going to break.
ㅡI just want you to remember me.
I don’t know if this pain is from physical pain or from mental pain. I didn’t have the brains to figure it out.
I just vaguely guessed that if the super-regeneration ability was working, there would be no physical pain, so it was the pain caused by the mental shock.
Perhaps it was because he had been coughing up black blood for so long, he could still feel a clot of blood rising from his throat.
He vomited and reflexively covered his mouth. But nothing came out of his throat.
My eyes were blurry. Is my body still intact? I thought it wouldn’t be so bad to die like this. My head refused to think any more.
I wiped my face with my hand. Two eyes, one nose, two ears, and one mouth. All were stuck together.
A bitter laugh was built up. Are you saying that even after reaching this point, you still won’t allow me to die? My super-regeneration ability seemed to have no intention of letting me go.
I forcibly strained my eyes to keep my eyelids from drooping. As long as I’m alive and well, there won’t be any problems with my body.
All I had to prepare was my will. The will not to let go of the mind like this. Since this is something I started, I have the will to conclude it with my own hands.
I opened my eyes.
The first thing I saw was the blue sky.
“……uh?”
Oh, the question came out.
The last memory that came to my mind vaguely was of Charlotte taking me to a special room in the palace, where, of course, there was no view of the sky.
I thought something was wrong. Come to think of it, it was unclear why the black blood spewing out of his mouth had stopped. Olivia’s curse could only be lifted by Olivia.
Or the purpose of the curse was achieved.
The purpose of Olivia’s curse was to make me come to her. And it was also a curse that would never be lifted until he reached Olivia’s side and was embraced by her.
that it is
hastily got up. No, I was trying to get it up. The clanging of chains resounded, and the neck was pulled tight. Because of the recoil, I fell flat on the floor again.
“what?”
I lowered my sight. He touched his neck with his hand and felt the touch of cold metal. It was a very familiar feeling, but one I never wanted to feel again.
The place where I was was on top of a magic circle that emitted jet-black light. I never thought I would see this scene again with my own two eyes. He gritted his teeth and endured the rising nausea.
black mana. black magic. Olivia.
It was not a dream.
Really, really Olivia was alive.
Olivia, who had thrust the greatsword into her heart with my hand, checked the slowly slowing heartbeat with my hand, and breathed the dying man’s last breath with my hand, was actually not dead.
As soon as I realized that fact, my eyes widened. He forced his rapid breathing to calm down. yeah, it’s still fine It’s not too late. If it was now, there was a possibility that it could be reversed somehow.
Because Serena, Charlotte, and Christine were there too. If it’s those three, it might be something. Might be able to kill Olivia again.
But, what if it fails?
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Just thinking about such a future made me feel breathless. If those three fail, and conversely lose their lives, I didn’t even want to imagine what would happen next.
In a world where everything was swallowed up by black mana, you and Olivia would have to live forever.
“Are you awake, Master?”
Shocked, my body trembled. The feeling of hearing a voice in my ear that I thought I would never hear again was extremely difficult to describe.
It’s been years since I last heard Olivia’s voice. It was a thing in the distant past, now even memories are vague.
gritted it I couldn’t show weakness here. At least in front of Olivia, he didn’t want to. The more I show myself like that, the stronger Olivia will become.
I took a deep breath, forcing myself to calm down so that my inner thoughts would not be revealed. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale.
The act of simply saying the name took a lot of time. It seemed that his lips had opened and closed dozens of times.
The words didn’t come out and just kept swirling around in my mouth. Olivia did not rush me and waited patiently.
He didn’t meet Olivia’s gaze, but his eyes were probably filled with anticipation. As always.
I closed my eyes tightly. I bit my lip and finally put words in my mouth that I did not know for the first time in hundreds of years.
“……Olivia.”
“Yes. It’s me, Master. I’m Master’s disciple, Olivia. Did you also remember me? Right? I am very happy. You don’t know how long I’ve waited to hear my name called by Master’s voice again. Master also wanted to call me again. Right? Right? It’s been such a long time since I’ve called you by a name, so you’re so moved that you’ve been waiting for such a long time? It’s okay. I can understand, Master. I must have hesitated for a long time because I was so happy. Do you think we look alike down to the smallest detail? It is indeed our fate that we must be connected. It is such a destiny. Ah, to be able to hear my name through Master’s mouth again. My heart beats with joy. I feel like I’m going to explode and die. Master, can you call me one more time? Yes? Yes?”
There was only pure joy close to madness in the voice that spewed out his emotions like a rapid-fire cannon. I didn’t want to see him like that, so I lowered my eyes as much as I could.
“What happened.”
“Yes? What is it?”
“You’re dead. I killed you with my own hands…! I’ve confirmed that your heart has stopped and you’re not breathing! But why, how on earth are you still alive!”
My emotions were so strong that I raised my head without even realizing it.
A pair of eyes staring at me met. Jet-black eyes and jet-black eyes. Jet black hair and jet black hair. They were similarities, as if they had been excluded from each other.
Those jet-black eyes contained only love for me. I couldn’t find any other emotions.
A voice full of love answered my question, which seemed to pour out all my emotions.
“Because, of course.”
Olivia grinned.
“Because I love Master. How can death at least separate Master’s love from me?”
Along with that answer, a slender finger stretched out. But that finger couldn’t reach me. It was because the loud voice resonated everywhere and shook the magic circle.
“Get your hands off my lord!”
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Jjoong! A dull rupture sound was heard, and the magic circle that was wrapped in jet-black light vibrated greatly. Olivia’s face hardened.
“Oh, really. Annoying.”
Olivia raised her eyebrows and turned her head. My gaze naturally followed the direction Olivia was looking. At the end of his gaze was Serena.
Serena is bleeding from her head.
The ponytail of the color woven from melted gold, which had not been stained by any enemy, was a mess with all sorts of soot and red liquid.
Blood flowed from the horizontally slashed forehead, almost covering the left side of the face besides Serena. His clothes were dusty, and in places there was a liquid the same color as the one running down his forehead.
The skin on the exposed limbs was full of residual scars. For some reason, the wind shear in her hand trembled, and the mana around her body flickered precariously as if it would disappear at any moment.
“Serena?”
“Master! Are you all right!”
Even though Serena was in a situation where she was covered with all sorts of scars, she had been worrying about me first. I always wore a mask because I was so fine, but Serena always worried about me first.
“Why is my master your master? Do you want to keep talking nonsense from earlier?
As Olivia waved her arms, dozens of pitch-black thorns attacked Serena. Serena’s breathing rapidly quickens as she cuts through the thorns with her wind shear.
It was because of the black mana. The black mana that created those thorns is losing life force in real time.
It was fortunate that he did not die immediately upon contact with the black mana. Judging from this fact, it seemed that Olivia’s power had not fully returned.
Olivia must be stopped.
I tried to stand up with that thought, but the chain around my neck caused me to fall over the magic circle once more. Olivia stroked my hair kindly.
“No, Master. Master has to stay here. We can’t let Master wander around on his own. Will you understand?”
“What do you mean, stop talking bullshit and release it. Right now.”
“Oh, Master is also true.”
This time, Olivia grinned.
“Why me?”
“Master, I will rescue you now!”
Serena had reached right in front of the magic circle where I was trapped in that moment. The wind shear was wielded using the mana encased in the blade as power.
Olivia, who had just looked at me and smiled, was expressing her annoyance at Serena as she turned around and blocked the wind shear with one hand.
I couldn’t follow that fight with my own eyes. I was dumbfounded.
“Just die quietly, why do you keep acting like this. Do you think you guys can beat me? Really?”
It was only then that I was able to see Olivia’s appearance. She looked just like Olivia in my memory.
A miniskirt that sticks to a black shirt made of plain fabric and reveals the outline of the buttocks. The stockings wrapped around the legs leading underneath them, and the feet wrapped in stockings as well.
And a greatsword that pierced the heart obliquely downward, forcibly drawing attention. It felt like memories of the past were being forced into my brain.
Serena growled at Olivia.
“Shut that mouth!”
“Who are you to do this or that to me?”
Olivia struggled with Serena while holding the wind shear blade with her bare hand, then condensed black mana into a blade with her other hand and swung it in an instant.
Afterimages were left behind as the jet-black blade passed. All I could confirm was that afterimage.
Unlike me, Serena seemed to have somehow read the trajectory of the attack, but since the wind shear was tied to Olivia’s hand, there was no way to counterattack.
How many times Olivia swung her sword in that brief moment was not within my realm of knowledge.
But what is certain is that, judging from the scars left on Serena, it was the fact that in that short moment, at least ten attacks were fired.
Blood splattered from a deep cut on Serena’s arm. My thigh was dented, and my calf’s boots were torn. His side was blown off and his face was also scarred.
Serena’s body staggered slightly, perhaps because her life force was sucked from being attacked by black mana. Even though Olivia didn’t seem to be giving her all that much effort, she was noticeably falling behind.
Serena gritted her teeth as if trying to hold back the pain. However, it failed to correct the gradually twisting wind shear.
If it was really the old Olivia, if she had regained most, if not all, of her prime power, no matter how Serena she was, she wouldn’t be able to defeat Olivia.
Olivia swung her arms wide. Serena’s body twisted and flew for a while before landing on the floor. A huge amount of black thorns fell on it.
“If you want death, I will let you do it.”
Suddenly, a quiet voice was heard from the sky. It was Charlotte’s voice.
I raised my head. The whole sky was burning red. The heat was palpable even here. Olivia must have sensed it too, so she looked up at the sky and muttered something in a chilling voice.
purgatory.
It was also a purgatory of unprecedented size.
The fact that that magic had been activated meant that Charlotte was also confronting Olivia. I tried to find out where Charlotte was, but I couldn’t open my eyes because of the heat.
“Do you think you’re going to kill all of your own people?”
Olivia’s words jumped to my senses. Come to think of it, where is this place? I took a quick look around. Under the magic circle holding me down, I saw the familiar-looking royal palace.
More than half of the palace had collapsed.
The fact that there was a castle was in line with the saying that this was the capital of the kingdom. I thought the three of them followed Olivia because Olivia kidnapped me under the curse, but it wasn’t.
Charlotte was thinking of putting purgatory down on top of her palace.
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Just by existing above it, just by being created above the sky, the earth burned. The building evaporated because it couldn’t melt, and the very existence of humans was denied.
Even the black blood that engulfed the capital was swept away by purgatory and evaporated together. The ground bubbling and soon began to evaporate and disappear like the buildings built on it.
Hell descended upon the earth.
Everything in the world was consumed by fire. The type and hardness of the material had no meaning. Wood, stone, and metal were equally mortal before Purgatory.
Olivia did not show any reaction even when she saw Purgatory descending towards the ground. Rather, he approached me, pointed his finger at the fire, and opened his mouth excitedly.
“Teacher, look at that. Don’t you think it’s really useless? Even doing this doesn’t have any effect on me. You know how to beat me and rush at me. Ah, how can you be so stupid?”
Olivia chuckled. And, I snapped my fingers.
Black darkness opened its mouth wide at the place where hell had fallen. It was a near-perfect darkness with no debt.
Purgatory, which was about to descend to the earth, was sucked into its dark mouth, and that was the end.
Only then did the burning light disappear, revealing Charlotte floating in the sky and glaring at Olivia. It wasn’t as good as Serena, but it was still a mess.
Her silver hair, which had been completely bathed in moonlight, was disheveled, and her uniform was covered in dust, with dark red stains everywhere. One side of the glove disappeared, and his bare hand was exposed.
‘Wait, come to think of it, what about Christine?’
Purgatory, the magic Charlotte had just used, was an attack with enough power to burn down the entire capital of the kingdom. If Christine was nearby, there was no way the mana nullification wouldn’t work.
But the fact that Charlotte used magic.
Ominous thoughts crossed his mind. He immediately shook his head and erased the ominous thought. No, it couldn’t have been. I hope it can’t be
And as if to prove my relief, an explosion of divine power exploded over the horizon.
