Chapter 105 – Beasts

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Humbaba, a witch who came from another dimension, was the seed of disaster created by humans.

The primitive world was destroyed by the ancient war and the descent of the golden comet, and humanity once disappeared, but a new human being was created by the will of the stars, and the second world, the Succession World, began.

Humans in the successor world also developed in a similar way to humans in the primordial world and prospered as rulers of new planets.

However, if there is a difference between the succession world and the primordial world, the ancients at the time of the succession world—that is, the remains left by humans in the primordial world—exist.

In the ancient Succession World, which began to take an interest in their relics, one great kingdom ruled the entire planet.

In order to make the country richer and richer, and to enrich the lives of the people, I began to investigate the remains of the primitive world, which were incomprehensible to mankind at the time.

Soon, they found a laboratory in the primitive world that exists inside the huge ruins.

It was impossible for humans to even understand the ruins and the research center with their own construction technology, but there was an artificial spirit left behind by humans in the primitive world inside the research center.

The artificial spirits welcomed the new humans and began to pass on the knowledge of the primordial world to them.

How to cast holy swords and magic swords, how to summon spirits, how to make automata, etc…

The king began to trust artificial spirits who gave them knowledge more than any other subjects in the country.

Based on the knowledge of the artificial spirits, the kingdom developed day by day, and the voices of the people who praised the king who achieved the utopia did not stop.

But the king also had concerns.

Right away, there was a limit to the resources of the star, and if his kingdom his, which had already reached its golden age, consumed its resources like this, eventually destruction would come to them too.

It was also one of the secrets that the people couldn’t tell the people that the technologies of the primordial world that enriched humans were ironically accelerating the shortening of the planet’s lifespan.

The king wished to learn from artificial spirits. Is there no way for the human world to continue even if the planet’s resources are exhausted?

The Artificial Spirit replied.

[Including this world, there are many worlds in the world, and there are dimensions that are like passages between those worlds. If you open the rift in that dimension and draw resources from other worlds, your kingdom and this world will be eternal.]

Hearing the story, the king learned how to open the dimensional rift from them, and began manufacturing armor for exploration that could pass through it.

All of the materials requested by artificial spirits had bizarre manufacturing methods and were blasphemous to the extent that some used humans as materials.

Unsuspecting of artificial spirits, the king was obsessed with the mission to save the world and forged the black armor.

That is, the completed form dedicated to 2D exploration [Enkidu].

An outer armor made of ‘Soul Eater Metal’ that swallowed countless souls to complete a world that completely cuts off the inside and outside to protect the occupants from the contaminated magic accumulated in the rift of the other dimension.

Self-healing and evolving ability to adapt to the surrounding environment so that it can operate in any harsh environment.

Referring to the Holy Sword and the Magic Sword, it is an auxiliary autonomous personality tailored to draw out abilities by responding to the rider.

And the weapons mounted so that they can respond seamlessly from hand-to-hand combat by transforming the entire body to long-distance combat.

All that was left was to use this to step directly into the gap in the second dimension, discover another dimension, and establish a connection between the worlds.

And he said that the dangerous work must be done by the king himself, not by anyone else. On the day Enkidu was completed, the king passed on the throne to his daughter and then rode Enkidu and disappeared into the gap of another dimension.

The king, who was also the strongest warrior in the kingdom, would go on an expedition for the world and return with a bright future.

However, it was harsh for them.

From the beginning, such a poor story couldn’t have existed.

As soon as Enkidu and the King enter the dimensional rift and the passage closes.

The artificial spirit that had been hiding inside Enkidu swallowed Enkidu’s auxiliary personality and began to move Enkidu according to its own will his.

Inside the closed world created by Soul Eater Metal, as a human battery to move Enkidu, the king continued to absorb his life force and mana, slowly drying up and dying.

From the beginning, the purpose of artificial spirits was to find another world where there were people who could destroy the world of mankind that replaced their world and connect it to the successor world.

No, it wasn’t even an artificial spirit.

Indeed, even though his body was destroyed in the destruction of the original world, he was an ancient man who had endured countless hours while maintaining only his mind.

Later, he was called the Black Battle, and he wandered through the rift of the other dimension, and he too could not help but be affected by the tainted magic there.

He endured it with only his hatred toward the humans of the Succession World and his resentment towards the stars as the driving force.

After enduring for ten years, he finally found it.

Fire and brimstone. Power and violence. The world of black magic and demons.

Following the delusional beliefs of humans, he gave the name ‘Hell’ to the other dimension.

The moment Enkidu observed Hell, Hell also observed Enkidu.

The five lords of hell approached Enkidu and perceived the malice of the soul within him.

It was a black, corrupt soul that deservedly be accepted as one’s companion.

The king was already mummy and twisted inside, and the moment he reached hell, his life was lost and he was crushed like dust inside.

Burning the king’s inescapable soul into energy, Enkidu adapted and transformed his body to his Hell.

It was like a ‘ritual to bring the devil into the body’.

When the black magic power wrapped around the armor, a black beast with a surface like mud appeared in its place.

What used to be ‘Enkidu’ led the demons who became allies and returned to the king’s homeland.

Five giant demons.

Satanael, Samael, Yaldabaoth, Yahweh, and Shaklas.

And at the center of them is the worst and oldest Great Demon Beast.

Humbaba opened a dimensional rift and appeared, turning the world into hell.

Humans faced such a great ruin that they lost almost all the knowledge they had learned.

Utopia ceased to exist and many died, most enslaved to the devil.

Humbaba- The Black Engagement rejoiced.

Even if the life of the planet runs out, if the false humans disappear, it will have accomplished its purpose.

All that remains is to watch the destruction that is coming to them.

However, the Will of the Stars had already learned a great deal from their previous failures.

The adversary called from outside, the Golden Comet, failed because it had too much power.

Already, in this land, humans with many potentials were developing their strength.

As the opponents of the devil, the warriors of the holy sword overcome trials and put the will of the stars into practice with their power to seal the devil.

Humbaba was defeated at the end, and the one who ripped off the black combat soul from the Witchbeast.

In her childhood her, a girl who led her country brilliantly after sending her father through a rift in another dimension, but lost everything to the echoes of ancient malice.

However, a princess who survived the rule of demons and led humans.

With an unbreakable sword in her hand, she slashed the beast’s neck, and she stood at the top among the adversaries of ‘devils’ chosen by the will of the stars.

After banishing all the demons to their original dimension, the princess tried to find a way to annihilate the ancient spirits that dwelled in the Demon Beast.

However, she chose to seal him in the tomb of the ancients because the extinction of her tenacious soul required a lot of sacrifice.

Similar to Soul Eater Metal, it created a stone tablet with the power to hold the soul, and divided the soul of the ancient into three and sealed each one.

The world has suffered so much damage that it cannot return to the days before the demons ruled.

A lot of technology has been lost, and it has become impossible to recreate things that were taken for granted.

However, mankind did not repeat the failure of the primitive world.

He survived properly and stepped on the path leading to the future.

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[GRUWaaaaaooooo!!!!]

The howl of the roaring beast resounded within the barrier that imprisoned him.

Humbaba, who was made perfect once again by using a human battery called Rail in the gap of another dimension, raised a roar of anger.

With only himself and the demons, the previous incident would only repeat itself, so it was necessary to summon the golden comet that destroyed the primordial world once again.

However, everything he had arranged was about to disappear again by the opponents prepared by the will of the stars.

[How come, the will of the stars!! Adjuster of the world! Why do you lead our world so easily to destruction, but don’t let this world do the same!!!]

At the sight of the huge beast with red mud like blood pouring out of its eyes, the magicians who had spread a barrier around them shook their concentration as fear welled up from the inside of their bodies.

“Kuh…!”

As the wizards stumbled, the barrier also gradually lost its thickness.

The tremendous concentration of magic that came out with the roar of hatred was oppressing their bodies as well as their minds.

And there are probably not a few people who are afraid of the fact that the Witchbeast that led the world to destruction in ancient times has descended into this world once again.

When Humbaba takes a step, the place is immediately engulfed in darkness, and brimstone fire rises from the ground.

Its very existence was eroding the world around it.

“No, it’s impossible… There’s no way I can defeat a monster like this.”

Seeing that, the wizard, who completely lost his will, tried to let go of his staff.

If even one of the 13 practitioners maintaining this barrier falls out, the barrier will not maintain its form.

Of course, that shouldn’t have been the case.

The head of the Department of Divinity grabs the hand that is about to release the staff and the shoulder of the magician from behind and blows his magic power.

It was a type of divine magic that calmed the mind, but it was enough to restore the wizard’s lost composure.

“The devil will try to break your heart first. You have to endure. Until they stop the devil.”

Saying so, the chief looked at the four figures who appeared through the dimensional door that opened within the barrier.

Red-haired wizard. A green haired priest. The orange-haired hunter.

And a black-haired magician with a red sword in one hand and a white holy sword in the other.

It was Cleon and his companions.

“Well, come to think of it. Isn’t this the first time the four of you are fighting together in one place like this?”

When Sasha talks while holding the bow, Kuondo and Cleonon reply, ‘Come to think of it…’.

[Five]

Iona tells her not to forget herself and Cleon nods her head.

[Adversaries of the heinous succession world… Puppets of the will of the stars…!]

Seeing those who fearlessly crossed the barrier and appeared in front of him, Humbaba looks at them with burning eyes.

The next moment, the mud from its body she stretched out like a whip and rushed in to catch them.

Each one twisted in the air like a living snake, splitting into dozens and hundreds and pouring out.

Immediately, the four of them dispersed from where they were standing and began to slash the mud tentacles that were rushing towards them.

When the magical arrow collides with the tentacle, and the divine magic explodes, the mud that is aimed at Quon bursts out on the spot.

A wall of flame protected Layla, and as Cleon swung his sword, numerous stems fell from the spot.

“Seeing that you can’t break through the barrier, your strength isn’t perfect. After all, it’s necessary to bring out the nuclear bio-battery and destroy this form.”

As Layla says so, she uses flight magic from the wall of flame to spring out and create a huge ball of fire that bursts into her tentacle-producing legs her.

Then, a big explosion occurred, and the mud in the leg part evaporated, and the part could not maintain its shape for a while.

The clay quickly regenerates and recovers before losing balance.

“Chi-it, this regenerative monster type monster is the most annoying…”

Lila clicks her tongue and raises her altitude to use her more powerful magic.

“Prometheus Gate!”

A red magic circle appeared in the air, spewing out countless spears of flame, trying to tear Humbaba to shreds.

But the head in the shape of an ominous bird turns toward Lyla, opening her mouth her.

A spear of flame went into her snout her, but as if she did n’t even care.

And when Lila quickly lowered her altitude, moving away from the direction those eyes and mouth were looking, at the eerie feeling that overtook her whole body her.

A huge mass of magical energy compressed in her mouth she began to take shape, and with a roar, she fired the main cannon of magical energy like a huge pillar.

It was to tear the entire magic circle with its enormous mass, erasing the magic, and, although momentarily, puncture the barrier that had imprisoned him.

“What, what is that? Breath? This guy isn’t even a dragon-“

Lila gives out a panicked voice, and everyone outside her looks up at the sky and holds their breath.

If, instead of pointing toward the sky as before, if it were directed toward the magicians maintaining the barrier—

No, more than that, if you head to the place where people are evacuated-

No one could easily have predicted the worst.

A cold sweat runs down Laila’s back her.

If he thought that if he had been a little lower in altitude, he would realize that this fight would cost the lives of many people just by choosing the location.

“..Haha…”

A dry laugh came out of his mouth. Have you ever fought with such pressure and responsibility before?

If I naturally turned my gaze towards Sasha and Kuon with a feeling that I was about to be weighed down.

Sasha was activating her imprint her as much as possible to parry numerous attacks targeting Quon using her magical arrows.

Under Sasha’s help her, Quon continued to purify her surroundings to protect others from being polluted by the magic of the rift in the other dimension, while at the same time adding strength to Cleon with her magic auxiliary her.

With the help of Quon, Cleon runs in all directions, finds the weak part of his magical power her, and swings his holy sword to intensively attack that part, trying to create a gap for Humbaba somehow.

In Quon and Sasha’s eyes, he didn’t feel the weight of Layla’s own her.

The reason was clear at once.

No matter how huge and powerful the existence in front of me is, no matter how frightening it is.

It was because the two of them had an ally that they thought was stronger and more reliable than anyone else.

“…”

Lila realized that the support of their hearts was making them strong.

And maybe.

In the fight against the verse coefficient whose memory is ambiguous, she was able to use dragon word magic without hesitation.

The next moment, Cleon raised his head at the response of the huge magic power he felt in the sky.

There, Layla could be seen chanting something of her own with her her magic circle spread out in eight directions around her.

Unlike dragon magic, it is limited magic that can only be used with the catalyst called Luti’s scales.

Perhaps it was n’t just Cleon who felt the magical response, Humbaba also raised her head and looked in Layla’s direction her.

When her mouth her opens again, the mana gathered in her mouth her takes shape and tries to transform into her breath her.

This time, Layla did not move from the spot and continued to create her magic her.

“Cleon!”

At Quon’s cry, Cleon flew up at a speed close to the speed of sound and kicked the beast’s chin from bottom to top.

But even so, the correction of her trajectory wasn’t enough of her, and Lyla was still within range of her breath.

“—Therefore, this is the proof of our existence. The eyes of those who possess the secret art of flame. We are the watchers. We are the flames of destruction. We are the members of regeneration.”

“Lyla! Avoid!”

Klein’s cry was indifferent, and the spray of her black magic her hit Layla’s body on her.

Everyone had no choice but to widen their eyes, because Layla disappeared inside Humbaba’s breath of her.

Only her staff her, which she was holding, fell to the ground.

Everyone, including Cleon, watched the situation with their mouths shut.

However, the corner of the witch’s mouth goes up and she speaks with a fishy smile.

[First of all, one… The girl who made me go against my heart with low-level magic…]

“Would you mind not killing me?”

The next moment, Layla’s voice rang once more in the air.

With the sound of fire burning, red flames spontaneously rose and increased in size, just like when flame magic was activated.

“Mado, Flamewatch.”

Yet. The flame transforms into a human form.

There, the ‘Flame Wizard’, burning red with his entire body turned into flames, was literally looking at Humbaba with burning eyes.

“Lyla… Is it?”

“Then who would it be?”

At Cleon’s murmur, Layla shrugs her shoulders and smiles.

“…It’s the first time I’ve seen magic.”

“That’s right. Originally, it’s a magic that shouldn’t be used arbitrarily… But I used it because I trust you.”

Layla looks at Cleon and lightly swings her hand her.

Then, in her shadowless state, a flame arose many times more powerful than the magic she used to use, burning the surface of her Humbaba.

[GRUaaaaa!]

“I’ll burn you with full force. Along with my weakness.”

Lila looks down at her ugly beast in her cold voice.

That figure was the ‘incarnation of flame’ itself.