Chapter 1081 – God’s Wrath

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Whatever the process, it was an undeniable fact that the expedition party had obtained a powerful defense mechanism called a female wyvern.

In fact, even though there was a barrier, the wyverns that came down as if to start a fight no longer showed up.

“It’s more effective than I thought?”

As Lila said that, she looked at the wyvern walking next to them.

And, he must have glanced back at Melusine, who was controlling the wyvern.

Melusine still looked like she couldn’t shake off her complicated feelings.

As Lila said, it may be much better than the barrier in that the wyverns no longer come close –

In the end, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was forcibly borrowing the power of a poor being whose brain had been taken away.

“I am a proud knight of the Fairy Kingdom… This is all for the greater good… Ugh…”

That’s why she couldn’t help but rationalize to herself, holding her head and muttering those words as if she were chanting.

“There’s no need to feel so remorse…”

Seeing Melusin’s disgustingly serious attitude, Lila sighed, shook her head, and looked away.

At the end, there was Kuon, who was maintaining the barrier in place of Melusine, who had stopped maintaining the barrier of the barrier stone in order to focus on controlling the wyvern.

“What do you think, Kuon? If you feel like you don’t have enough magic power to maintain the barrier, let me know right away. Let’s switch with someone else.”

“Ugh. It’s still okay.”

When Kuon said that, he actually seemed a little relaxed.

Among the group, it was Kuon who had the best compatibility with barrier stones and magic power, and was also skilled at barrier arts.

However, the party’s hope is that her magic power, which she consumed in the previous fight, has not yet fully recovered, and that she needs to keep her magic power intact for the future battle with her returnees or guardians. It was one of the strategies.

So why did Lila give up some of that strategy and try to take the wyvern with her?

The answer is that, as she told Melusin, a kind of ‘feel’ acted on her.

When it comes to ‘feeling’ or ‘intuition’, it is easy to think of it as a kind of gambling judgment with no basis, but that was not the case in Lila’s case.

Even within the special terrain of Laplace, Wyvern, and the Four Dragon Mountains – the only place untouched by the guardian.

If Laplace’s true purpose is ultimately a rebellion against Adam along with the downfall of ‘Darwin’, who is currently leading the regressors –

He himself would have to prepare some kind of weapon.

If you solve the problem with the help of the expedition from start to finish, you will not be able to eliminate the expedition that will ultimately interfere.

Lila guessed that the key was ‘this wyvern’.

Thump, thump.

When Lila saw the female wyvern walking helplessly, she felt a little pity in its unfocused eyes, but that was it, it had nothing to do with what she had to do.

That is, protecting the party while Cleon is away and joining him safely.

For that reason, even if she had to face some criticism, Lila could not even twitch an eyebrow.

“Okay then, let’s keep going like this and break through the canyon! I think we can speed up a little!”

As Lila raised her voice with such enthusiasm, Attis glanced at the disciples of the expedition following her.

They were also a little down because they had thrown away their luggage, but-

I seemed to have regained some motivation in the unique situation of moving forward while being escorted by a wyvern.

“Oh!”

Some people even raised their hands in response to Lila’s words.

“Weren’t you my disciples…?”

When Artis asked with an expression of disbelief, they also cleared their throats and lowered their hands.

They are simple guys.

“Well, are you okay? You don’t want to stay in a gloomy place like this for a long time.”

“I agree. I think it would be better to get out of here before the sun sets.”

Schrödinger, who no longer had to be scared as the wyvern no longer appeared, and Kshat, who was worried about Fleur’s physical strength, agreed with Lila’s words, and Quartz nodded quietly.

“Everyone seems to have the same opinion. Don’t worry. If a male wyvern in heat suddenly appears, you’ll be fine as long as you don’t try to do anything with this wyvern!”

“You are raising a flag with very specific words…”

It was the moment after Sasha muttered that to Lila, who seemed to have said something pointless.

When her ears twitched, Sasha said ‘Hot’ and looked up at the sky.

And-

“Be careful! Mr. Schrödinger! Go back a little!”

“Huh?”

Something huge was falling like a comet towards us from there.

Shooooo!!

Cooung!!

“Aaaaah!”

The ground shakes.

The air rang, and stones fell from the cliffs blocking both sides of the road.

The feeling of an intense feeling of pressure pressing down on the whole body was a little different from the general ‘magic pressure’.

“Ugh, the barrier…!”

In a state where the body cannot be properly supported, a loud noise spreads out.

In the meantime, Kuon could not help but break into a cold sweat after seeing that the barrier he had spread with the barrier stone had been broken by a strong physical blow.

And, of course, the most chilling thing is Schrödinger, slumped in his seat and looking straight ahead.

Looking at the huge body that appeared in front of him with a blank face, he couldn’t breathe properly.

If Sasha’s warning had been even one second too late, she would have been crushed by those huge feet in front of her.

Feet with ugly-looking claws, legs connected to them that look like the body of a giant tree, and gray scales.

Sharp eyes that show traces of a long time, and two pairs of horns growing on the head.

Its widespread wings were so large that they surrounded the entire canyon and blocked the group’s path.

“Dragon, Gon…?”

Someone there couldn’t help, but mutter something like that without realizing it about the being that appeared in front of them.

The subdragons that exist here are ‘wyverns’. A lower race that looks similar to a dragon but has absolute differences in strength, intelligence, and magic.

However, it suddenly appeared in front of the group with its red eyes flashing – and broke the barrier of the barrier stone with just its landing. It looked so huge that it did not appear to be of the same species as any of the Wyverns we had seen here.

“KURaaaaa!”

When a huge howling sound rings out, everyone in the group who had stopped thinking due to the sudden incident will instantly come to their senses.

The first to act would have been Kuon.

In place of the broken barrier, she reduced its size and opened a barrier to protect the party once again.

Having increased its strength by using more magical power, it will not break so easily this time.

At the same time, those who could fight, including Lyla, Melusine, and Quartz, stepped forward to protect the other party.

“Lila… The mouth is the source of disaster.”

And if Quartz quietly says so.

“This is my fault…? No, maybe it’s my fault…”

Lila will also think deeply about the words that came out of her own mouth.

And the group sees that the gaze of the suddenly appearing giant wyvern has moved away from the humans and returned to the female wyvern who was walking next to them.

“… Are you really targeting female wyverns?”

“Yes!? Phew, it’s too early for Lady Fleur!”

Kshat is embarrassed by Laila’s words.

“What were you imagining!?”

Both she and her girl had long since graduated from maidenhood, but even so, her walls were not warped enough to see a wyvern mating before her eyes.

“KAA, SHU, WIAAAFE…?”

And then, an unfamiliar crying sound was heard in the ears of the companions who had not forgotten nonsense even in a crisis situation.

That was what flowed from the mouth of the huge wyvern that appeared in front of them.

The party will be even more embarrassed by his reaction as if he is speaking some kind of language.

A wyvern that speaks language?

As expected, since it has a huge body, does it mean that its intelligence is also higher than that of other wyverns?

“W-what are you saying…? Try to answer something, Melusine…!”

“Is that possible…! I’ve never studied anything like the wyvern language!”

Melusine responds angrily to Lila’s unreasonable request.

It may be questionable whether wyverns even have language in the first place.

At that time.

“What are you doing with these humans, wife…?”

This time, a sentence that even the companions could understand came from behind the group.

And that too, in a familiar voice.

When those who came forward look back to see who said those words.

There was Sasha, looking at the wyvern in confusion.

“Sasha? Do you understand?”

When Kuon asks that question, Sasha answers by nodding her head.

“Ah, should I say I understand… Should I say I understand…”

[Exactly, that is what I understand, not you? What he said was ‘ancient language’. It is also something that was only used in very ancient regions.]

And inside Sasha, Ruben gave her an answer.

[I never thought I would meet him in a place like this…]

Ruben says something a little confusing, whether he misses it or is annoyed.

[Sanacia. Change with me. Let me tell you a story.]

“Yes, yes…”

At Ruben’s words, Sanasia nods her head and closes her eyes.

Then, her body sank for a moment, and then she opened her eyes again.

Her eyes become sharper, and her ears grow more pointedly on top of her head.

Members of the original party, including Amelia, were able to immediately notice that she had switched with Ruben.

And even compared to Sasha, she walked forward with a fairly confident gait and passed the group.

As she stands right in front of the wyvern, she speaks to the huge wyvern that is only looking at the female wyvern without looking down at her.

“It’s been a long time, Arctus. I never thought you’d be stuck in a place like this. You’ve become quite shabby, too.”

“… Arctus…?”

At the words she put into her mouth, Artis flinched and reacted.

Because I have heard of the name Arctus.

Arctus. It is one of the great ministers of the past, when the existence of ‘God’ was still widespread in the human world and became an object of faith.

Ruben, the god of hunting, Utu, the god of family, etc.

Primitive ‘wild gods’ who were born with their images and beliefs derived from the characteristics of wild animals.

One of them, Arctus, is a deity with the appearance of a ‘wyvern’ and the area he oversees is—

“Arctus, the wild god of invasion and reproduction…?”

He is an ancient wild god who fell in the distant past, for which not much information remains.

At first glance, the area he oversees may seem inappropriate to loudly offer up faith in today’s human society dominated by reason –

People at a time when they were expanding their power and establishing a society and nation by repeatedly fighting with the outside world.

In other words, not only in the primitive tribal society, but also in the history of repeated power struggles, Arctus was also a being who received great faith.

Of course, it is ‘breeding’ and ‘invasion’.

Increasing the number of allies was one of the most important means in war, and invasion was also rationalized as a war to first deal with enemies that threatened survival and protect the family.

Arctus was once revered as the father of a huge empire.

Among some theologians, there were those who suggested that Arctus and Ruben, who presided over the realm of hunting, were marital gods.

In the fact that the number of wars fought between the believers of Ruben and the believers of Arctus exceeds 10, it is accepted as an incorrect interpretation beyond the minor.

Both Ruben and Arctus ultimately lost their faith and disappeared into history as they entered the Age of Reason due to the rise of the Church of God’s Protection.

Regardless of Artis’ knowledge, Arctus looked down at the arrogant girl who called his name.

No matter where or how you look at the people standing there, they are human beings.

However, the smell coming from that body was enough to bring back unpleasant memories in Arctus that were more than a thousand years old, so he lowered his face to be at eye level with Sasha.

Grrr, I’ll let out a cry filled with her hatred and anger and tell her.

“That look, that energy. And that annoying way of speaking… I can’t forget it if I try to forget it. Ruben…”

To others it might have been nothing more than a growling cry, but to Sasha and Ruben, they could understand its meaning.

“I think you look quite shabby, trapped in such a vessel…”

“Unfortunately, I am not the main body. Although I am connected to the main body… The contained in this little boy is only a ‘part’ of the main body.”

Ruben responded to Arctus’ words by shrugging his shoulders.

“Unlike you, I still have people who regard me as an object of faith.”

Hunters in Sasha’s hometown village.

The method was twisted, but thanks to them, Ruben was still able to maintain his glory as a wild god.

Most of them are relatively better than the wild gods who are worshiped by the demonic beasts of the race they rule.

“Are you still maintaining your name by receiving millet-sized faith from such an ungrateful being?”

Arctus will react as if he is tired of Ruben’s words and the present.

However, he soon shook his head and at the same time, with sharper eyes, spoke to Ruben.

“I have no intention of resolving the issue of meeting after more than 1,000 years. You understand that it is not a relationship like that. More than that, I have something to ask you. Why is my wife with you?”

“Your wife? I guess I misunderstood what I heard earlier because it’s been a while since I heard ancient language?”

Ruben looked back at the female wyvern for a moment at Arctus’ words.

“Could it be that you gave birth to this female among the wyverns that exist in this canyon?”

“That’s right. In order to maintain my faith and existence, I created numerous sons and daughters. She is the mother of my descendants in this canyon. She hasn’t been seen for a few weeks, so I had my child look for her.”

Arctus’ voice saying that may not have been recognizable to others, but—

In the past, as a god of his caliber, Ruben had a secret that he would not reveal to anyone, but he was able to feel ‘something’ mixed in Arctus’ words.

And at the same time, he showed an extremely helpless appearance that was not seen in him in the past.

“Are you… Blind?”

“…”

Arctus is silent at Ruben’s words.

Of course, for Arctus, who has the body of a wyvern, the eyes are only a sense organ.

Since their senses of hearing and smell were several times better than those of humans, there was absolutely no need to rely solely on sight.

But – if he had ‘vision’, he would have noticed in an instant that the woman in front of him was not normal.

“—Has its existence become so diminished? It’s a pity.”

Ruben sounded a little disappointed, different from before.

Mixed in that voice is a very slight pity… And fear of the decline and extinction of ability due to lost faith that may come to oneself as well.

The reason his eyesight weakened was simple.

With little faith gathered, the body collapsed, and among them, he was the first to lose his ‘sight’.

That’s why Ruben secretly saw that female wyvern.

He looked back at Arctus, as if he had decided something.

[Now, wait a minute, Ruben─]

Sasha, who was able to read Ruben’s thoughts first, made a voice that seemed to try to stop Ruben.

“Your wife is alive now, but she is dead. Someone stole your wife’s brain.”

─, She confesses the truth that no husband would be able to bear to hear.

Arctus, who heard those words, held his breath for a moment to understand the meaning of those words, and then-

“KURaaaaa!!!!!”

Naturally, it lets out a huge roar and emits red magic pressure blooming with anger from its entire body.

God’s wrath.

It was such an overwhelming sight that anyone who saw it could not help but think that way.