41. Annihilation (3)
At first, Judas was taken aback when the flames soared and engulfed him.
“Kuh… ?!”
I reflexively raised her arms to protect her body.
But nothing happened.
The unique scarlet flames that surrounded her did no damage to herself.
I couldn’t even feel the temperature, it was just an ordinary light.
He quickly realized and was relieved.
The recently acquired attribute of ‘Full Moon’ gave it the effect of being immune to all fires.
‘It was thanks to the characteristics…. After that, I’m glad I didn’t know that they hid such a number….’
I expected artifacts.
However, there was no artifact of this scale and convenience within the expected range.
Artifacts that allow non-magicians to use high firepower magic usually require complicated usage.
Anyway, it’s immune, so I waited inside.
Make Cain sure of victory.
Even at the moment when he turned around after sighing in relief, he endured it silently.
It was a bit cowardly, but it didn’t matter.
This isn’t a game, it’s a war.
Survival and victory are the highest values.
I don’t need the rest.
Like a predator hiding in the grass, I waited for a very short moment for a long time.
And finally, the moment Cain bent down to pick up the sword.
I jumped out and stabbed him in the back.
Blood poured out as he pulled out the sword.
“Keah-!”
Judas cut off Cain’s arms before he could react.
Took, Cain, who had lost his arm, fell helplessly to the floor.
The surrounding troops did not dare to intervene.
The scarlet flame is the symbol of Balak.
It wasn’t enough that he survived the flames, he survived the first magic bombardment.
How can I defeat such a monster?
I was consumed by fear.
They had no choice but to watch their commander defeated.
Judah pushed Cain with his foot and laid him straight.
Red eyes, upright even right before death.
Glaring at himself, he coughed up blood.
Cain said with a bitter smile.
“Such a monster… It wasn’t….”
Judas asked, putting the knife to his neck.
“You. Me….”
I wanted to ask.
When I see Cain, a feeling close to disgust stirs inside me.
However, the voice uttered a different question.
“Do you remember?”
Do you remember yourself?
That sounded like the words of someone who thinks he should be remembered.
Cain coughed up her blood again and looked up at Judas.
I couldn’t figure out what he was asking.
Judas also read her thoughts by his expression.
“… Right. I ask you one more thing.”
This is a question purely from my own point of view.
“Didn’t you feel sorry for Elijah?”
I was just curious.
Did she feel sorry for Elijah, who abused her as her illegitimate son, even for a moment?
The answer that came back was as expected.
Cain laughed as if it was absurd.
“Bussing…. This body is like that….”
She didn’t listen to her arrogant reply and stabbed her in the neck.
This is how Cain died.
At that moment, Judas felt something akin to a sense of release, something coming out of her.
A very light and liberating feeling.
She wasn’t in a situation to look back and think about what it was.
There are remnants around.
Judas looked around.
Upon meeting the cold, sunken golden eyes, the defeated soldier flinched as if pierced by her spear.
“If you surrender, your life is….”
The moment you say that.
Someone rode a horse behind the defeated soldier.
I’m so used to that look.
It was something he didn’t want to see here, so Judas was stunned for a moment.
The knight who rode the horse smiled and said.
“To be mesmerized on the battlefield. Have you already forgotten the lesson?”
There was nothing Judas could do except look at the knight.
*
The golden stems that grew out of the ground seemed to pierce the sky.
As if it were a flower that brings people into bloom, people were pierced through and inserted into each stem.
But it wasn’t the stem.
It wasn’t even a flower.
It was golden fire, and it was Elijah’s magic.
“God… water….”
Someone’s dying words scattered in small pieces.
Among the corpses in full bloom around, Elijah was looking down at her Levi.
Lewi was half buried in the soil.
Looking up at Elijah with empty eyes.
“… I didn’t know such magic existed.”
“Sure. I knew it after I tried it this time too.”
Levi, like Cain, had a solid anti-magic defense.
His personal strength was weak, he was far more thorough than Cain.
It was useless in front of Elijah.
She overturned the ground, causing a tidal wave of dirt and rock.
The point where the tidal wave headed was the procession of troops led by Levi.
It started with magic, but from the middle it wasn’t magic because of inertia.
Thus, the magic obstruction field was meaningless.
Even after entering the magic obstruction field, the tidal wave continued to advance and attacked Levi’s army as it was.
It was easy after that.
After burning the wizard first, he pierced the others with golden fire.
The result is this landscape.
A golden flower that blooms through a corpse.
The land was turned upside down by the tsunami and turned into a mess.
Lewi said in a hollow voice.
“Unreasonable…. This, this is nonsense…. How can one person have that much power… ? Why, why something like you….”
Insulting words muttered blankly.
Elijah was indifferent.
Before, unknowingly, leaves piled up in her heart.
Not anymore.
That’s why he didn’t point out the fact that it was more unreasonable for those narrow-minded and stupid people to ignore and abuse themselves just because they were born with direct lineage.
All those issues are trivial now.
With Judas by your side, everything else is secondary.
“Lewi. Did you try to kill Judas?”
“By the way.”
“So, you won’t die gracefully. I have to become a sacrifice to let the world know. If you try to touch mine, what kind of ending will you face?”
“… What? Ha, ha ha, ha ha ha-!”
Lewi, who laughed hard, burst into laughter.
It was genuinely enjoyable and fun, so I couldn’t help laughing.
Elijah looked down at him as if he were looking at her worm.
“Elijah, ah! Elijah!”
His voice was very exaggerated as he spoke like a sigh.
“I never thought you would really feel that way! And that, of course, against him! Will he really think of you that way?”
Elijah snorted at her childish alienation.
Does Judas think the same way about himself?
Are they of the same mind?
Of course.
Elijah was sure.
I was not confirmed in my language, but it didn’t matter.
There is a transcendent link between Judas and himself that does not need to be explained in words.
It is natural that others do not understand.
There is no need for others to understand, and there is also a wish that others do not understand.
Because the connected line is only for the two of you.
It’s just unpleasant to interfere from the outside.
“You can never get along with him! Do you know who that guy is? As soon as….”
-Hook!
The rising golden flame flew like a whip and pierced the back of Levi’s head.
Sparks come out of its mouth.
Perhaps as a reaction to being born with a weak constitution, Levi was good at speaking.
There is no need to listen to such people.
If you listen to it for nothing, you may be swayed by unnecessary information.
Well, his feelings for Judas will never be swayed or shaken.
Whoever he is is fine.
The scope of anyone, well.
I don’t know.
In the first place, he knew that he was from the lowest class and accepted it.
Now, he has risen to a position that is difficult to ignore due to his origin.
Can you imagine the terrifying scope, that he set eyes on another woman while he was away from you?
That’s enough, you can take a look at it once.
Of course, I would find out who the other woman was by burning the whole continent, locking up Judas, and interrogating her.
You can take care of everything else you need, including meals.
Thinking about it, I thought it would be pretty good if I just did it for no reason.
Elijah continued her delusion and smiled unconsciously.
Seeing her act so childishly, she really couldn’t deal with Judas rationally.
She didn’t hate herself like that.
He touches her ring and smiles happily.
‘Mine….’
In case of emergency, she said to give a signal unconditionally, but it is quiet.
I got the promise and he should be safe now.
Now is the moment to go see Judas.
“!”
A wave of magic shimmered in the air.
Elijah quickly teleported behind her to distance her.
She was right where she was, her scarlet lava falling in a parabolic arc over her.
The lava that fell to the floor exploded.
It bounces back in all directions.
Elijah put up a curtain of fire, and she stopped the little lava from flying.
Around that time, far away, someone arrived via teleport.
Elijah saw him and laughed involuntarily.
A chilly laugh, clearly different from the one he made when he thought of Judas.
A joy close to madness.
You don’t know how long I’ve waited for this moment.
“Archduke Balak. Why did you come now?”
“… Elijah.”
With a hard face, Balak appeared before Elijah.
“I wanted to kill you first.”
Elijah decided to end the war today.
*
“To be mesmerized on the battlefield. Have you already forgotten the lesson?”
A knight dismounts from a horse.
Judas stared blankly at him.
‘Why…. You….’
A question muttered inwardly.
I already know the answer.
He was originally a knight and servant of Balak.
I have only been ordered to Elijah’s training center.
What he taught himself was only a kind of trade.
Even though I knew it, I wanted to deny this reality.
The leader of the knights of the Bebel family.
“This is the last class.”
Gawain blocked the way of Judas.
