Chapter 197 – Chapter 190 – Wolf and Goddess (1)

Hernán threw himself into the center of the garden.

A collapsing glass ceiling.
A huge wolf landing on a tree.
A wooden pole collapsing with a cracking sound.

And her own child whom Hernan met for the first time.

“Ella!”

Hernan’s body, hugging Ella, fell to the stone floor.
Pieces of glass, wooden poles, and wolves fell one after another where he passed.

“Kurrrr!”

The wolf let out a heavy breath, his silver fur stained with blood.
The ferocious eyes that radiated blue light constantly looked around.

It was as if he was looking for prey to put in his mouth.

“L! Ella!”

I heard Sharpie’s frightened voice and the sound of running footsteps.
Hernán tried to shout out to him not to come in a hurry.

“Idiot!”

“Okay, grab it!”

But Silnia and Potty’s voices came out first.

“Sharpy, you can’t fight at all!”

“My daughter!”

She seemed to step out and stop Marina, but Sharpie seemed to be trying to run this way with her stubbornness.

Hernán hurriedly stood up, deciding that the wolf would only increase the pleasure of choosing who to hunt.
When I lowered my eyes slightly and looked inside my arms, I saw that Ella had passed out.

“It’s better.”

Hernán brushed off the water and dirt from the child’s cheek.
And he swung his arm at the woman closest to him.

“Karine!”

“Uh? Ah!”

As soon as Ernan confirmed that Karine received Ella safely, he pulled out the dagger from her waist.

“Dangerous!”

Marina’s cry was heard from behind, but Hernán did not answer.

In fact, when a wolf the size of a three-story building stares at you and starts talking, everyone tends to listen.

“Fun.”

It was a voice that seemed to open the ear canal roughly and tear it apart.

“Three human females and two demonic females.”

The silver wolf scanned the women.
Then, the children’s cries, which had been quite loud, stopped in an instant.

There was only the sound of heavy breathing, as if someone was strangling him.

Hernando felt the cold sweat flowing and saw the wolf’s gaze returning this way.
The wolf sucked in the air around Hernán, taking a deep breath.

“And an old human.”

Hernan carves every single word the wolf spits into his head and catches the sight that is about to shake.

“It’s a smell I haven’t smelled in a long time. It’s the same as it used to be.”

Seeing the wolf continue to shed sparkling blood, Hernán finally opened his mouth.

“Who are you? If you see a wolf talking, is it a magic experiment?”

Invisible pressure emanated from the wolf that heard the question.

An intense aura that can be grasped by hand.
Even though Hernan, who only learned magic at a superficial level, felt it was not magical power at all.

Nevertheless, Hernán spit out various guesses and tried to hold the wolf’s gaze toward himself.

“It is a great magic. To make animals talk.”

“Magic? Ha, that disgusting sound! It’s old stinky bullshit.”

“An old smell? What do you keep talking about? And…”

-Bang

At that moment, there was a loud noise and the entire facility vibrated.

“Krrrr… I don’t have much time.”

The wolf stared at the ceiling, baring its sharp fangs.

Seeing this, Hernán carefully deduced the identity of the wolf in his head.

A wolf that exudes powerful energy, not magic.
The whole body is in a state of wounds as if a battle was fought outside.
The sound of a battle being waged by a being presumed to be a demon god.

“Human God… ?”

As soon as Hernán’s muttering was over, the wolf lowered his head.
The wolf opened its mouth and spoke with divine authority.

“Everyone stop.”

Hernan felt his limbs tingle for a moment.
For a moment, it felt like someone was grabbing and pulling me.

“Ah! What, why aren’t you moving!”

“This, this!”

After hearing Marina and Silnia’s screams, I heard Carine’s twin sister looking for her mother.

“Mom!”

“Don’t move!”

“Ugh… !”

The moaning of women and children burned Hernán’s longing.
But even in the midst of that, Hernán could hear a confused voice.

“Karine! Hurry up and hand it to Ella!”

Sharpie can be heard stomping her feet to get Ella handed over.
But Karine, instead of moving her rigid body, started by saying that she was ridiculous.

“How are you moving!”

“Me-me and my kids are moving too?”

Forty’s voice, unlike her other women’s, didn’t sound uncomfortable.

“I’m going crazy.”

Hernán barely resisted the desire to turn his gaze toward his family instead of the bloody wolf in front of him.

“Are you really the god of mankind?”

“Where did you come from? Seeing that he doesn’t respond to Shinheon, he’s not just a human after all. There was a reason the wizard hid it in the temple of an old god.”

The wolf said his own thing and stepped forward.

“Well, it’s just a mage’s nasty prank anyway.”

Hernán felt that the wolf’s gaze became cruel.

“It’s enough to tear everything apart.”

“Sharpie! Forties!”

A wolf that brought about an unexpected catastrophe.
Even now, the sound of demon attack magic can be heard from outside.

Realizing the absence of the Demon God who had meticulously managed everything in the meantime, I grabbed the dagger.

“You guys, take the kids out quickly!”

In other words, conversely, if the Demon God regains control, the current danger can escape.
Since the wolf just said there is not much time, it won’t take too long.

Hernán is a wolf with a roaring ceiling and cold blue eyes.
Then I saw the sharpie completely focused on the fainting Ella.

Is the Demon God still receiving information through the Sharpie?

Hernán tensed her whole body, hoping that Sharpie would pay more attention to Ella than he did.

Seeing Hernán running up, the wolf tried to swing his paws at Hernán.

“Courage is imaginary. But…”

Before he could finish his words, Hernán’s body was terrifyingly accelerated.
The wolf’s paws cut through the air, and Hernán dug under the beast’s belly.

“No!”

The relaxed wolf seemed to be taken aback when Hernán was too fast.

Frankly, Hernando was baffled by his speed.

Just in case, I only had theoretical discussions and simple exercises with Marina, because it was the first time I actually dealt with ‘power’ in earnest like now.

Hernán resisted getting rapidly dizzy and rushed to the shiny part under the wolf’s belly.

“Ugh…”

An unfamiliar warm sensation ran down his arm.
Dark energy emanates from his arm and dwells in the dagger.

“Kuuuuu!”

The black dagger pierced the already open wound.
The horribly open wound expanded rapidly.

Now the blood was pouring out so much that it would sparkle instead of glistening.
If it were an ordinary creature, the damage would be enough to cause them to lose their will and energy.

“It reminds me of the old days! The sorcerer was doing something very funny!”

However, the wolf rather straightened its silver fur and swung its tail under its stomach.

Hernan decided that he could avoid it at the current speed and jumped up.

“Ugh!”

At that moment, the vision became blurry and dizziness occurred.

Is it because you’ve been working too hard lately?
Or is it because of using unfamiliar ‘power’?

“Ouch!”

The tail brushed Hernán’s side.
Unlike being wrapped in fluffy fur, the tail gave a great impact to Hernan’s body just by brushing against it.

“Ugh!”

Hernan gritted his teeth and shook his head.
Even in my shaky vision, I could see a silver tail approaching.

Unlike before, the silver tail was wrapped in blue divine power.

Even a simple physical attack was a huge shock.
If it even contained the power of a god, it would probably be possible to die instantly.

-Bang

Hearing another explosion outside, Hernán straightened his posture, ignoring the pain in his side.

Judging from the growing binge drinking, it wasn’t long before the Demon God intervened.
You just have to endure a little longer.

“Kuk!”

But immediately came an intense headache and dizziness in his head.

He tried his best, but his body was already refusing to move at the unfamiliar strength and pain.

The death of a mythical being was hanging over him.

“Hernan!”

The moment I face death, I hear a woman’s voice calling my side from behind.

I don’t know who.
Maybe it’s the voice of all women.

What is certain is that the voice does not wish for the death of a man named Hernán.

That earnest wish.

This narrow and deep space was always full of wishes.
And all of those wishes were directed to herself, the only man here.

It may be the same this time.

“Please Hernan!”

Hernan decided to respond to the wish.

“Hmm?”

The wolf panicked when his tail cut through the air.
Embarrassment soon turned to pain and amazement.

“Aagh! How dare you this rat!”

Beneath the body of the wolf that was mad with pain, Hernán thrust his arm deep into the wound once more.

No, to be precise, I stabbed the dagger wrapped in black, wriggling energy into the wolf’s heart.

“Krrrr… Cool!”

Instead of screaming in pain, the wolf spat out bluish blood.
The moment the trembling wolf tried to do something full of anger.

“Woden! Please accept me!”

A woman’s voice crossed the garden with a deafening explosion.

“Ruiner!”

At that moment, Hernán sensed an intense recoil from the wolf’s body.
Before he could react, Hernán felt his eyes darken with a strong shock.

* * *

“Hernan! Hernan!”

“Hey! Wake!”

Hernán suddenly opened his eyes at the sound calling him.

A huge wolf leaping towards the ceiling and petals flying everywhere.
I even think that it is not a dream in the dreamy scenery.

“Woke up!”

However, at Marina’s voice that followed, Hernán corrected her confused vision.

“Did I pass out?”

“I just fell to the floor. It happened right away when we came and woke you up.”

At least Karine explained the situation in a calm voice.

“They are being evacuated by Potty and Sharpie. We got paralyzed later.”

“Somehow I couldn’t hear the Sharpie and Potty voices.”

Hernán jumped up, ignoring his screaming joints.
Rather, the women panicked and stopped him, but Hernán hurriedly instructed them.

“Get out of the middle of the garden!”

Fortunately, all the women here are people who have traveled together to the Devil’s Castle.
Everyone understood what Hernán meant, even without additional explanation.

-Thud

As the wolf fell, pieces of glass and wood splattered into the spot where Hernán and his women had been.
However, there was no damage to the party who had already evaded behind the desk and chair at the entrance to the garden.

“What the hell is that big-headed bastard?”

Silnia, probably because she didn’t have kids, poked her head out on her desk with a harsh curse.

“Fuck you, Hernan! If I had been bitten, I would have almost made an elf a widow?”

“Since there will not be only one widow, I almost became a widowmaker.”

At Marina’s reply, Karine, not Sylnia, laughed.

“Everyone be quiet and decide what to do! Will you run away Or are you going to fight?”

As in her adventures, Karine spoke the initiative, but the women looked at Hernán instead of Karine.
Even Carine, who spoke her words, was the same.

Hernán skillfully received that gaze and looked in the direction of the wolf.

“Louire! Are you okay?”

The wolf spat out the blonde woman he was holding in her mouth.
The woman had serious injuries in the middle of her belly, visible on the other side of her.

“I… Cool! Go first… Didn’t you?”

“But I could see a gap where I could fit in…”

Her blonde woman shook her head as she placed her hand, imbued with her golden aura, on her wound.

“Noisy and on the ceiling… Put up a shield A flock of pigeons won’t last long.”

As soon as she finished speaking, another explosion and pigeon feathers spread from the ceiling.

“The place is bad. It’s a place where our strength is difficult to use properly.”

With the wolf’s complaint, the translucent membrane flew towards the ceiling.

Countless pigeon carcasses fell on top of the translucent film as it was frighteningly close to the ceiling.

“How long can you last?”

“It’s embarrassing, but I can’t go far in this state. 5 minutes? Or 10 minutes? It could be even shorter. It’s difficult to use divine power, and I’m hurt a lot too.”

Hearing this, Hernan glanced sideways at the garden gate.

5 or 10 minutes is a bit too long to fight the wolves again.

“Come to think of it, Hernan. Were you very fast? Can you use magic?”

Silnia’s question contained anticipation.
Was she impressed by the way she drove the wolf?

However, it is unknown whether she will be able to use the ‘power’ she used earlier.
Right now, it’s too much for me to just fix my eyesight.

If so, then there is only one option.

“Let’s step back from the garden for now. There are too few obstacles in this garden to fight huge opponents.”

Carine quickly asked a question at Hernan’s words.

“Shall we hold a sit-in in the place where my studio and the stairs connect? There are many things to use as weapons or obstacles in the workshop.”

“Let’s go down and think about it. Everyone goes to the door when I count to three…”

Hernan was speechless before he could spit out the number and looked at Karine.
It was the same for Silnia and Marina, so Karine was the only one with a puzzled expression.

“Why are you looking at me? Anyway, you guys will follow Hernan’s orders, not me… Wow!”

Carine pulled her skirt down under her, freaking out as her own feet lifted off her floor.

“What? Why did my body suddenly… Kyaaaaagh!”

“Karine!”

Hernan caught Karine by the ankle as she flew through the air.
However, Carine’s body flew to the center of her garden, taking Hernan with her.

“Ah!”

“Ugh!”

Their bodies landed roughly on the stone pavement in the middle of the garden.
Hernan was relieved that there were no sharp objects on the floor and pulled Karine into his arms.

“Woden! Did I tell you to bring it quietly?”

“It’s decent enough…”

The wolf opened his mouth to Ernan and Carine, who embraced each other, averting his eyes from the woman who was touching his wound.

“Silver hair. Did you say Carine?”

“Are you talking about me?”

“Yes. Karine, the King’s illegitimate child, became a hero after receiving my power. But where did my strength go?”

Carine’s body stiffened at the sound of the wolf’s growl.

“Sir, is it possible that you are a war god? A royal guardian deity?”

While Carine hugged Ernan more, the blonde woman also called someone.

“And the one over there is my Saint Marina, right?”

When the blonde woman finished speaking, Marina’s surprised voice was heard.

“Hey, Goddess? Are you a real goddess?”

“Long time no see. However…”

The goddess looked at her Marina, squinting her eyes.
At first, Marina’s face was a mixture of surprise and delight, but soon her face turned blue when she received that gaze.

It felt like a criminal standing in court.

Seeing that, Hernán gritted his teeth and took out his words.

“Are you the goddess of mercy? Is this wolf a god of war?”

The goddess beckoned her Marina to come closer, then she looked at Hernán.

Her eyes, which were mild but possessed the authority of a god, looked closely at Hernán.

“There are so many things I want to ask you. However…”

– Kwak Kwang

The pigeon carcasses piled up on the translucent membrane of the ceiling were set on fire at once.
A group of colorful lights fell on top of it and hit the protective barrier.

“As you can see, there is not much time left before we can be kicked out of this place.”

“Let’s just wipe it all away. It’s what a drunk guy does anyway. You don’t have to pick them up!”

The goddess smiled bitterly as she perched on the wolf’s paws.

“Our wolf is a bit impatient, isn’t it? It’s always like this. Of course, I tend to disagree with this beast. But…”

The goddess raised her head to the sky beyond the ceiling.

Following her, Hernando raised her head and saw a single black dot in the middle of her sky.

From that point, when the attack magic fell again, the shield vibrated as if it would collapse at any moment.

The goddess quietly opened her mouth, wiping the golden blood from her hair.

“Even with the Goddess of Mercy, wars happen. Do you understand what I mean?”

At those words, the wolf glared at Hernán and the women with his eyes shining.

Although he is the god of mankind, he is less welcoming than the god of demons.

Hernan nodded his head as he heard the footsteps of Silnia and Marina running behind her.

“Even if there are war scenes, war doesn’t always happen. May your mercy be full here.”

The Goddess smiled against the background of the roaring sound above her head.