Chapter 184 – Significance

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Feeling the light surrounding them gradually disappear, the group’s vision returned to see the sphere enclosing the emerald tablet in front of them forming its shape again, hiding the stone slab.

The light disappeared, and the illusion disappeared.

However, the party remained silent for a long time, and no one said anything.

In that situation, the one who struggled to open his mouth was her Cleon, who held his face her with his trembling hands.

“Wait… That just… Is that all in the past… ? There are so many words and situations I don’t understand, so I understand-“

When Cleon says that, Mercury nods his head and agrees with him.

“I thought so. If you have any questions, I’ll explain further.”

“Wait! So calmly… No… You were the one who knew all about this from the beginning.”

Cleon raised her voice as she tried to carry on without thinking of her listeners, but then she shook her head.

“…Cleon. I understand your feelings, but I think you’d better calm down for now… To know the exact truth… To be honest, I don’t understand everything…”

Laila also understands Cleon’s confused feelings about her, but she first calms him down.”

“What I just showed you is reproduced based on what was recorded in the laboratory. Even the last communication was before contact was completely cut off.”
It’s the undeniable truth. Mercury was talking.

Things about Lecia and Lilith.

What happened to the world after that?

Eve, Adam. And, the technology that can create humans.

There, as well as sub-species such as dwarves, beasts, and elves.

Lilim. And that she and her paired male instances were created.

Archetype B. A human who was created using Lilith’s genes and excelled in the ability to control dark magic.

What that means is…

A clan of dark horses like himself and Lubera.

“…Let me ask you one thing. Mercury. The ‘reincarnation factor’ that came out at the end… What is it after all?”

Lila has been able to understand most of her to some degree, thanks to her research her and her own knowledge of her.

That didn’t mean she was less shocked.

“Reincarnation factor is one of the techniques for reviving humans that were being studied at the time.”

“Human… Revived? You mean resurrected!?”

Seeing Lila’s shocked expression, Mercury nodded his head.

The revival of humans—no, life forms—was considered impossible, not only in ancient times, but even with modern technology.

Once dead, the soul and body of a living being are separated, and the soul disperses and disappears into smaller conceptual beings along the spirit vein.

When a part of it is recombined and nestled in the fetus anew, it leads to the soul of a new life form.

Therefore, the concept of premortal existence and reincarnation itself exists, but strictly speaking, it is not exactly the same existence.

“A being with a reincarnation factor. When the body dies, even if the soul is separated, it does not disperse into the spirit vein. It remains on the ground until it finds the most suitable body. It carries its own soul and moves on to the next body.”

“…That kind of thing, is it possible?”

Quon questioned Mercury with a face full of fear, even though he felt unspeakably displeased at the blasphemous words spoken in front of his eyes.

For her cleric her, the existence of her technology her beyond her human providence her was nothing short of a threat.

“It was a technique in an experimental sense to the end, but it is possible. However, that does not mean that memories are inherited. It is because the soul is forged and strengthened like a soul hammered into an anvil.”

“Then… Even now, somewhere, there could be an existence that inherited that reincarnation factor.”

“Yes.”

When Mercury affirmed Amelia’s words, the group fell silent again.

The technology of the ancients was far beyond their imagination.

Not only that, but the humans who exist in this succession world, and the subhumans, are the descendants of humans regenerated by the ancient technology ‘Adam’.

The original meaning of existence of the Dark Demon Clan was to suppress the ‘Hero’, a weapon that controls the holy sword with excessive divine magical power.

It was the moment when the creation myths of each human race that existed in various myths and legends all turned into lies and vanity and disappeared.

“In the end, is it not possible to know what happened to Lesia and what happened to Lilith after that?”

When Cleon, who had organized his thoughts of her, said that, Sasha opened her mouth.

“…Lasia-san reappeared after that as the ‘golden comet’ that destroyed the original world. Then, what happened in the meantime…?”

In the underground labyrinth of the academy, the first time I encountered the black battle.

They said that their purpose was the same as Cleon’s, and that they could meet Lesia again, so they told them to help Demiurge’s descent her.

It was said that by doing so, the golden comet, Lesia, could descend as its opponent her.

However, if that happens, due to the powerful power of the golden comet, the world will once again follow the destruction that the original world suffered.

“Do you know about the golden comet? Mercury.”

When Cleon asked, Mercury slowly nodded and floated an illusion of illusion in the air.

There, surrounded by brilliant light, I saw a swordsman with a sword equipped with 12 wings of brilliance.

It had a similar appearance to the angel that Quon had transformed into before, but it had powerful magical powers from head to toe and wore golden armor that shone like the sun.

Cleon is holding a sword—

The holy sword of the sun, gold, and hope with a blade that extends in 8 rows.

Looking at Caladbolg, I was sure it was Lesia.

Underneath the armor of that ruthless realizer of punishment, there is a savior who drinks with Talchek, prays with Esca, adventures in ruins with Sofia, and laughs and chats with Luti.

If only I hadn’t been thrown into the dimensional rift by those guys who don’t know why.

She would not have to wear armor like that and wield her holy sword to destroy humanity.

Like an object of fear, or a reset device for mankind. He would not have had to do anything resentful from the ancients.

Cleon didn’t know what expression she was making inside her armor her.

However, she couldn’t be laughing. Slashing people, destroying castles. As it radiates the light of the divine sun that sets the house on fire.

She couldn’t be laughing.

“The golden comet is-“

The moment Mercury, who had no way of knowing Cleon’s feelings for her for the overflowing Lesia, was about to start talking like that.

The vibration that shook the ground resonated even in the research center deep underground.

“What is it? An earthquake?”

“No- there was a crack in the barrier surrounding the valley. Something from the outside, forcibly entered inside… It’s heading towards the top of this research center- Crystal Tower at high speed.”

At Mercury’s explanation, Cleon and the party met each other’s gaze.

“…A raid?”

“At least it doesn’t seem like a friendly existence… I’m sorry, but please ask the ground. I’ll do my best to restore the barrier here. I’ll send you to the ground at once by dimensional jump.”

When Mercury manipulated the instrument panel, a magic circle spread beneath the party’s feet.

It was a pattern similar to the dimensional door magic Layla used, but a little faster and more powerful vibrations of magic hit the party.

“Wait! I’m still going to ask-“

Cleon’s words were swallowed up by the shock of the metastasis.

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“… Oops!”

Back on the ground, the bright sunlight enveloped the party.

In front of him, a succubus girl with black hair – ‘Lilim’ stood expressionless with her feet on the back of ‘Gabriel’ who had fallen to the ground.

“Grandma!”

When Amelia raised her pendant in anger at Lilim’s behavior, her enormous divine magic condensed her and at the same time, armor mixed with brilliance appeared all over her body her.

In her hand her, a hammer of purification to crush, crush, and burn demons.

It was so fleeting that Amelia leaped in front of her and brandished her hammer before anyone could stop it.

Lilim gathers dark magic in her hand her, and the claw-like mass blocks her hammer her.

Black magic and holy magic collide, scatter, and explode into the surroundings in response.

“Kuh…!”

In that situation, Amelia didn’t want to destroy her mother’s hometown her and the village where her grandmother was located, so she unknowingly lowered her magical output her.

As a result, the balance of the confrontation collapsed and Amelia was pushed back by Lilim’s black magic.

“Arondite!”

At that time, the blue crystal swords flew aiming at Lilim’s neck her.

When Lilim twists her body to avoid it, she takes advantage of the gap and Sasha, who comes closer, swings her dagger.

“…”

A situation where the body is twisted and the balance is lost. Her eyesight her was on her side her and her hand her was blocked by her her Amelia her.

However-

“Sasha!”

When Quon calls out Sasha’s name her. Another magical beast appeared out of thin air and fell from the sky to the ground to bite Sasha.

“Flame Spike!”

Just before her vicious claws and cursed fangs touch Sasha, the thorns of flame that extend out bind the black magical beast and burst it.

“Cleon!”

“Amelia! Get off!”

The next moment, Cleon pulls out the sword from his waist and runs at full speed, returning behind Lilim.

He made eye contact with her still with her back her bent behind her.

-Still.

The feeling of piercing something clearly passed through Cleon’s hand her.

It was so fragile. It was so natural.

Something that I don’t know whether it’s blood or magic flowed down the demonic sword.

Pounding, pounding. The heartbeat felt at the puncture site made the subject feel alive.

“Ah…Ha…♡”

A shrill laugh was heard.

It was sweet and alluring, but at the same time, I felt an inexplicable sense of kinship.

Cleon’s Galatea pierced Lilim’s white belly.

It is located in the center of the navel where the vulva is engraved.

The only exposed part of her low-exposure clothing of her.

Neatly. It is by penetrating all the organs that exist in the middle.

If so, who was laughing?

Why is she laughing

“Cleon… Mr. Huhufu…”

[Cleon!]

The next moment, Lilim ignored her penetrating wound and moved her foot to approach Cleon.

With each step she takes, her blood her drenches Galatea’s blade her.

As if time had stopped, when everyone else was unable to move.

“Ishtal… Told me to wait until the time came… But ah… I can’t stand it any longer. I don’t think I can…”

Still, drop, drop. The tone is cut off, but it is mixed with excitement somewhere. When Lilith, who does n’t die while shedding her blood her, approaches Cleon-

She stretched out her arms and hugged Cleon’s body in her.

It was Cleon who couldn’t resist it either.

“Why…!”

“That’s right… You and I. From the beginning. A being created to be connected. From the moment I knew of your existence. To that soul. Once again. I fell in love. Because that was my mission.”

Release slowly, slowly. She says so

“For the first time. From the time I recognized the world. Even if I was far away. I could feel its presence. Even if I was forced to fall asleep. This feeling never changes. I want you. I seek you. I want to get close to you. I want to be connected. One minute. . 1 hour. 1 day. 1 month. 1 year…”

Others were not immobile. It was impossible to move.

“I’ve longed for it… 5,000 years. Only you…”

The high concentration of black magic mixed from her blood her binds everything around her and steals her consciousness her.

Others did not ‘recognize’ Lilith’s movements of her, and control of her body of her was taken away from them without even realizing it.

“What are you talking about…! I, you-“

“You… Saved me. I was in a sleep that was close to eternity…”

Lilim’s hand slowly climbed up Cleon’s arm of hers and reached his temple of hers.

“…Now is the time, once again with me.”

Next moment. Something like black lightning erupted from her fingertips and shook Cleon’s head.

However, it was not physical. From the ‘factor’ deeply engraved in the root of the soul, which can be said to be the origin.

To Cleon, it arouses non-existent memories.

[Demon sword, Pandora…]

[You- Lilim…? I, for some reason, know your name…]

[…I see. In the kingdom… [Adam] Has…]

[To stop him, we need strength… Absolute power. For him, I-]

[The Emperor of the Empire-]

[“No!!!”]

The moment when memories like a torrent flooded Cleon’s mind.

What burst out was the screams of the girl and the demonic sword.

A human spirit that squeezes sacred magical energy from its entire body and escapes from the bondage of black magic.

Quon runs in, pushing Cleon away from Lilith.

“…”

Above her head her, a rotating golden halo made an imperfect noise.

A pair of ‘wings’ sprouted from its back her, but emitted weak light.

“Angel. Self. Maintained…?”

“Haa… Haa… Ugh… Ah…!”

Quon raised her voice as she endured her pain while holding Cleon, who had been shocked by her head her, suppressing her magical powers her as an overflowing angel.

“Ku, on…”

[Quon! Don’t suppress her magical power her, release it outside! That way others can move too!}

When Galatea’s voice reached Quon, Quon nodded her head with difficulty, releasing the mana she had been holding back.

The mighty angel’s magical power swept across the valley, and soon the others who were unable to move were able to move.

“Quit…”

Not only that, but even Lilim, whose existence itself could be said to be the essence of black magic.

Under the influence of the discharge, he was staggering and unable to control his body her.

“Why. He’s interfering. He’s my, Emperor. My, half. My, ‘Hero’…”

“Cleon is not the Demonic Sword Emperor… ! Cleon is our precious—”

“Noisy. Half-angel. Dog of the throne.”

The next moment, Lilim’s piercing wound opened like a portal to hell.

What came out of it was-

“No.”

Aruru’s voice, which was able to move, trembled and murmured.

What protruded was a black greatsword that was even taller than Lilim’s height her.

“Demon sword…!?”

Lila is also surprised by it.

No, if Lilim was also from the Dark Demon clan, there was nothing strange about him having a demonic sword.

However, it is the output that is the problem.

When Sasha looks up at the sky, dark dark clouds hang over the blue sky of the valley where the sunlight was visible.

To the extent that it can change the surrounding climate simply by appearing.

A demonic sword with black magic that can twist the world.

“Eat it. Pandora.”

What the great sword was aiming at was Quon, who had been exhausted thanks to the release of divine magic.

A while ago, Quon recalls the situation in which Ain was targeting him.

Back then, Cleon had protected him.

Now, if you get out of here. Cleon is in danger.

If so, I-

“Haaaaa!!!”

As Quon crouched down to protect Cleon, the girl’s voice echoed and her hammer her swung.

It was truly a divine blow itself.

Lilim kicked her tongue but blocked it with her greatsword and glided to stand properly on the ground.

“Is that greatsword… Really a ‘Pandora’?”

“… That ignorant hammer. When you hit it, you must have felt it. This child. Crying. A precious person of his. That he was taken away. This child was always crying inside of me.”

“…”

Amelia glared at her as she squeezed her hand her.

However, she seems to have made up her mind soon and jumps out in front of her with strength in her legs.

Amelia wielding a hammer the size of her own, with slender limbs that by any measure seem to lack her strength her.

And, just as she became her her and her her symmetrical her. Lilim freely moves a powerful and gigantic greatsword.

The two wielded their weapons with all their might without retreating an inch, and were only making attacks that could surely end each other’s lives.

Besides, Lilim wasn’t the only problem.

Beyond the pierced barrier, he must have felt the magical energy of the huge spirit vein.

Demonic spirits that can fly jump over the valley and try to invade the village.

“…Lyla-san! Aruru-san! First of all, we have to do something about those monsters!”

Sasha, who was the first to confirm it with the hunter’s mark, pointed her finger at the sky, and Raila and Aruru nodded her head while holding her weapon to her.

In the next moment, Layla’s body turns into flames. Aruru jumps on top of her, arranging her holy sword like a stairway to the sky.

“…Amelia…!”

When Sasha called her, Amelia answered her Sasha with a hard nod of her head.

“I’m fine…! Take care of the monsters…!”

Amelia and Lilith’s fight was so intense that it was not in a state that could be easily touched.

Sasha hears Amelia’s answer her and raises her bow toward the sky, her face made of her determination her.

“It’s okay. La. Great. Confidence.”

“You, the kingdom… Are a demon that threatens my comrades! If I don’t defeat you… Even for the sake of my uncle and mother!”

Hearing Amelia’s cry-like cry, Lilim shut her mouth for a bit, and then she raised the corner of her mouth.

“…Aha. Darkness in the heart. It’s sprouted properly.”

“Kuh… Haaaaa!”

In the meantime, Galatea transforms into a human and gives Caliburn to Quon.

“Help Quon control his power…! I will try to do something with Cleon.”

Caliburn is booming. If you send a positive signal by giving off light.

Galatea took a deep breath and placed her hand on Cleon’s body in her.

“…Cleon… Please, please…! Don’t get eaten by that kind of thing…!”

She speaks weakly like never before, and Galatea kisses Cleon on the forehead.

Soon, she changes her appearance from that state to a single sword.

All the dark magic that was felt inside it had moved inside Cleon.

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In front of my eyes, the golden hero was violently clashing swords with the jet-black swordsman several times.

Calladbolg and Pandora.

An existence at the pinnacle of the holy sword and the demonic sword, respectively.

And the hero and magician who wield it. No, the enemy of the world called the ‘Demon Lord’ by some.

Demon Sword Emperor.

The warrior’s party was exhausted and was already unable to move.

Most of the emperor’s subjects died or surrendered. Even his last weapon his, Luti Os, was unleashed and attacking his forces his.

Both the Kingdom Army and the Empire Army poured all their strength into the final battle, and nothing after this existed.

So that. The end of the fight between these two.

No one doubted that the battle between the kingdom and the empire would come to an end.

“Why do you, even though you have that kind of power… Do you use it to make people unhappy…!”

Lesia cried out in a bitter voice.

The demonic sword emperor burned, stole, and trampled on everything.

Even if you have enough power. Despite having the power to protect, care for, and encourage everyone.

“Because we need even greater power…! To change the laws of this world… Even greater strength! To bring her down from her throne her!”

“Sounds that I don’t know the English language…! Haaaaa!!”

“You are the one who has such power, but why do you obey the world!”

“I, to protect the world… For a world where no one cries anymore…!”

“It’s arrogance…Unless the world itself changes, such a world will not come!”

There was no case that the correct answer came back to the two people’s question and answer.

However, as they consumed each other’s strength and mana, they could see that the end was slowly approaching between them.

And that was the final ‘1st match’.

“Eat it! Pandora!”

“Kaladbolg!!”

A blow of power that consumed each other’s everything.

Mana consumes mana, and the body gets caught up in it and perishes.

However. At that time, Lesia saw the vision of her colleague behind her.

Sophia’s magic.

Esca heals.

De-checking is power.

Add it to Lesia.

In the final showdown, compared to the power the two drew out, it might be a really small drop.

Even if the body has already reached its limit and can no longer move.

Unbreakable ties arouse their will.

A new power to Caladbolg.

And. That was the biggest difference between the Demon Sword Emperor and the Golden Hero.

The demonic sword the emperor’s armor split on the spot and his body his was swept away by a torrent of divine magic.

“──”

I felt the illusion that he had called someone’s name at the end.

Pandora flies away in shock.

The Demonic Sword Emperor, who lost his neck to the bottom, collapsed on the spot.

“Ha, ah…! Kuk… Cool…!”

Despite winning, Lesia sits down on his knees.

She moved slowly, as if crawling on the ground, and put her hand on the remaining, cracked helmet of the Demonic Sword Emperor, on which her life was still attached.

“…Your victory. Hero. You, you, protected your world. This time.”

The helmet slowly cracked, shattering completely, revealing the face hidden within.

Warriors and demons.

The country girl and the emperor of the empire.

For the first time then We faced each other face to face.

“…”

Black eyes, black hair. His face with the physical features of the dark horse clan.

Lecia clearly etched that face into her memory her.

And, due to the excessive use of magical power, I watch his body disappear into powder.

He lost consciousness and collapsed on the spot.

──And that scene. With a third eye.

Cleon was watching.

Last. Seeing that the face of the demonic sword emperor who appeared just before disappearing was the same as his own.

…Soon, I turn my head.

In the far-out darkness, he was different from what he usually wears, splendid yet strong. He was wearing a thick, huge black armor.

He was looking at Cleon with a cold expression.