Chapter 277 – Beyond the Chasm

000

The man who threw Cassius, Cleon, and Amelia over the dimensional gap opened by Exia escaped the royal capital by using a dimensional jump before the light surrounding the venue faded.

When he took off his mask, what appeared inside was a young man who had made a fortune selling adventurers’ mementos to Cleon during the day.

The mask was enchanted to change the voice, so when it was worn, it had a function to change the voice so that it could not be recognized.

It was at that moment when he put on his own ring, looking up at the walls surrounding the royal capital, to report to his master that he had safely completed his mission.

“There.”

Seeing the blade draped over his own neck his, he had no choice but to involuntarily stop his movements.

When I sneakily moved my gaze along the sword body, there stood a woman from the dark horse clan with a face like a ghost and shining eyes.

Wearing her maid’s attire, it was impossible to tell whether she was a real maid or not.

What was certain was that he had the intent to kill the young man.

“Hey, hey. Calm down, sister. I’m just a no-nonsense wizard. I just got out of the capital to practice on the portal.”

The young man laid out her preconceived excuses, trying to calm her down and get out of this situation.

She was only warned that if she uttered her mouth any more, she would cut out her tongue her, as if her seeds her would not be eaten by her already knowing everything about her her.

“I already know something about you, Dimensional Cult.”

When her cold voice hit her ears, the man swung his hand at her, immediately turning her gloomy face into a cold one.

Then, a force field imbued with another dimension’s magical power appears on his hand his, and he tries to blow Ruba away.

Ruba immediately swings her sword before falling, slashing the force field through the barisada encased in her magic her to block it.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to deal with a guy like you.”

While the distance is widened, the man swings his hand once again and tries to escape through the dimension jump.

In an instant, along with the sensation of floating, I felt a strong barrier enveloping my surroundings.

“What…!?”

When a man looks up at the sky in bewilderment.

There, a girl with red hair was looking down at the ground as if she were bored.

“Before returning to the nest, I felt a bad vibe and tried to be on my guard. The guys who have been bothering us for a long time were right.”

Her voice was quiet in her, but for some reason she heard it right away in the young man’s ears.

“Dimensional jump…Why not…!”

“You fool. That’s the power you use to forcibly draw in the rift in another dimension. My barrier, my realm, is the elemental mana of nature that is directly opposite to the dimensional power. The four guys draw in to open the dimensional rift Magical power is powerless in front of true flames.”

When the red-haired girl said that, the man muttered the girl’s true name with a shocked expression.

“True flame… Ph, promise…”

“Your opponent is me.”

At that time, Rubera, who did not allow her to take a glance, immediately jumped at him and brandished a barisada.

If her dimension leap was impossible, all she had left was to fight her head-on and defeat her.

“As I said. All I can do is intervene to make sure he doesn’t run away.”

“I know.”

Promise, like a dragon who governs contracts and promises, speaks as if there are no exceptions to the rules he has set.

Originally, dragons were supposed to intervene in fights between humans on their own will and not influence the outcome.

Rubera nodded and corrected Barisada.

“Before this one moved here, the connection with Cleon was severed. Also, Promise, as you said, it seems their purpose was Cleon.”

“It’s not only that. Amelia is also with you. Another one – the young sage is in the mix, so don’t worry about that.”

“…Shit.”

The man swears and grabs the two daggers he had hidden in his sleeves.

“We will destroy all beings that could pose a threat to the Father of All Things.”

“…A fanatic.”

Ruba responded briefly to the man’s words her, and swung her sword with ruthless force, as if she would not forgive someone who tried to harm someone dear to her.

001

The sound of leaves shaking, the feeling of a refreshing breeze brushing your face. The feel of warm soil and the smell of soft grass.

With the feeling of feeling everything that can only be felt in a place full of nature, Cleon slowly opened his eyes.

The body ached a little here and there, but it was tolerable, and the mind was clearer than expected.

Stretched out on the ground, he slowly lifted himself up and looked around, tightening his arms.

There were rows of trees stretching several times higher than Cleon’s height.

Plants I had never seen before grew green and green all over the ground, each spreading their roots and growing rapidly.

“…Where is this…”

Recalling that he had been at the royal palace party a little while ago, Cleon touched his throbbing forehead of her.

Little by little, little by little, when your head starts to organize, the story you were talking about right before that.

About the Exiled Church, and Cassius asking for Amelia.

And- the voice of a man in a robe wearing an animal mask, seen from above the podium.

The next moment, a blinding light enveloped everyone, and they suddenly felt as if the support under their feet had disappeared.

“…Can it be that it fell through a dimensional rift?”

He is the last man he saw.

The type of mask he was wearing was different, but the form and shabby robe were definitely the same as those of the man who made Lesia disappear before his eyes her 10 years ago.

As expected, Cleon clenched his fists as he confirmed once again that Lesia was expelled by the Exiled Church.

If he finds and interrogates them, he may be able to find a way to get Lesia back.

Cleon is a little excited about the fact that the most obvious traces are finally flickering in front of him.

He took a deep breath and calmed his mind.

In any case, he had to return to the royal castle.

And suddenly, looking back at the surrounding scenery, it is completely different from when I entered the 2D rift to stop Jormungand before…

It was as if he was in a dense forest that seemed to be no different from the reality he lived in.

At that time, a little more… What should I say.

If it were filled with only chaos, as if the space was expressed in the mind of a madman as it is.

This was already a space where it seemed that there would be no problem even if people lived splendidly.

However, if you sharpen your magical senses, along with the magical power of the land that fills your surroundings, you can feel the magical power of another dimension.

The existence of that alien magical power, which would not have been felt in an ordinary place, said that this place was undoubtedly the inside of a gap in another dimension.

“I called Caliburn like last time…”

Cleon does so, extending his hand and signaling to Caliburn.

He could n’t help but feel that his connection his with Caliburn was cut off now that he could n’t even feel Galatea’s magic, let alone his own her.

“…Dangerous.”

He was able to get out of that space and return to where everyone was because there was a connection between Caliburn and Galatea.

If he said there was no Caliburn, he had no idea how to open the rift and return to the dimension he lived in.

‘Someone… The connection of magical power is-‘

Cleon does so, and he sends a little bit of magic to everyone connected by the imprint, but the answer comes back soon-

“… Amelia…! That’s right, Cassius and Amelia also fell through the gap in this dimension…!”

Feeling Amelia’s presence beyond her imprint, Cleon remembered the conversation he had with Cassius.

The goal of the Exiled Church was not only Cleon, but also himself and Amelia.

However, her connection to her was so tenuous that she could n’t possibly feel anything that her telepathy could reach.

“…We need to find the two of them. If we don’t hurry…”

As Cleon muttered to himself like that, he took a moment to break through the bush and move forward.

Hearing a rustle from beyond, he involuntarily stops his feet.

If you think about it, this place is in a forest, and in a forest, there should be at least some animal sounds.

He did n’t notice because he was so absorbed in his thoughts of him, but he could n’t even hear the chirping of birds here.

‘…Because it’s a gap in another dimension. Is that natural?’

But, then, what will emerge from beyond the bush now?

With a nervous look on his face his, Cleon held a martial arts stance and was wary of the existence that would appear.

“It must have fallen somewhere around here…”

What appeared with a voice was a small humanoid figure about half his height.

The skin was light green, and the hair-like bundles were shaped like leaves.

And, there were six fingers each, and they were shaped like the stems of plants, not human ones.

So- the plants were shaped like humans, and they were walking around on two legs.

Cleon and it met each other’s eyes and looked at each other blankly for a moment.

“Buy, bu, live and move!”

And, the thing in front of Cleon looked back and ran away in surprise, as if it was unexpected that Cleon had woken up.

“Hey, wait!”

Cleondo, embarrassed by the appearance of an opponent with whom he can speak, moves his feet to pursue him.

Cleon somehow uses body reinforcement through magical powers to follow it as it runs through the bushes at an unbelievable speed.

Thanks to the thick leaves, I confirm that I can see a bright place on the other side of the forest where the sunlight did not come in properly, and I accelerate my running speed and run forward.

And, the moment he walked through the gap and stepped into a bright space, Cleon’s feet his had no choice but to stop by themselves.

What spread out in front of my eyes was a huge town.

No, maybe you could call it a city.

The town centered on a huge tree had several buildings made of rocks and stones.

Everything walking between them was similar to the one that had just appeared before Cleon’s eyes.

They had the body of a plant, but they were beings that moved like humans.

Besides, some of them had some characteristics of animals, as if they were modeled after harpies or minotaurs.

They, too, could feel a clear difference in that the animal parts were all made of ‘plant’.

“… What the hell is this…”

Cleon stared blankly at the scene, and he could see that the thing he was chasing had disappeared in the distance at some point.

“… First of all, since the language seems to be communicative, it would be nice if I could get some information.”

Thinking so, the moment I tried to walk forward.

Papabak! With a clatter, the arrow pierced itself in front of its feet.

No, to be precise, it was a branch of a plant that seemed to play the role of an arrow.

If you think that the moment Cleon stopped and stopped his legs, there was a shadow over the sky.

Something jumped out from behind him and blocked Cleon’s path.

It was an existence in the form of a half-human, half-horse.

He had a helmet on his head, and on his human-shaped upper body his, unlike other beings, he was wearing armor made of an unknown metal.

But below that, the horse’s lower body seemed to be made of plants everywhere.

Cleon was able to notice that they were similar to the residents of this town.

“Stop it. We can’t let a strange existence like you into our village.”

A resounding voice came from beyond the helmet.

Existence of heterogeneity.

Hearing that, Cleon could n’t help but be a bit taken aback, but he could n’t help but say that from the color of his skin to everything that made up his body his, in their eyes his, he was the heteromorphic .

Cleon raised both of his arms and acted as if he had no will to resist.

“Wait. I… I’m not really trying to run you through. I’m lost and separated from my comrades… I’m trying to find them.”

“I lost my way…? I saw you running straight from the forest to this place. That kind of lie doesn’t work.”

Cleon tried to treat the other person in a friendly way, but that person seemed to see Cleon as a monster who could communicate with him.

“And… Colleagues. They must be monsters with the same strange skin color as you. Are you looking for them to harm us?”

“I won’t do that. I’m just trying to return to the original world…”

Cleon said that, but the other person didn’t get out of the way as if he didn’t understand.

Seeing that attitude of the centaur plant, Cleon sighs and asks a question.

“Hey. Then you answer me. This is the inside of the rift in another dimension, right?”

“The gap in the other dimension…? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Apparently, he didn’t seem to be able to communicate with her.

“Let me in. You can spy on me. Look. I’m not armed.”

Cleon insists that he does no harm, but-

“It doesn’t matter whether the monster is armed or not.”

The centaur’s attitude was resolute.

“Okay. If you talk that far, I have an idea.”

Cleon says so and tries to bring in Quon’s magic to calm people through imprinting.

OK-

Magic power itself moves, but magic does not occur.

“…Ah.”

Now that the connection between imprints is severed, it is possible to move mana, but realize that it is impossible to borrow magic itself.

“…What were you trying to do?’

“No- to calm down a little…”

“Did you try to knock it out! You monster!”

The next moment, the centaur’s arm moved and an arrow flew towards him once again.

Cleon kicked her tongue and rolled her body to avoid it, but when she glanced back at her, the arrow she fired had enough power to pierce a rock.

Seeing her bloody skills her, Cleon swallowed her saliva and moved her her body her thinking that he had to subdue her somehow.

First, let’s drop the bow that gets in the way.

With that thought in mind, if you try to break into the other person’s arms with your strengthened body-

The centaur immediately jumped up and jumped backwards, aiming at Cleon’s leg her with a burst of fire.

“Tch…!”

If Cleon hadn’t stopped moving forward immediately after clicking his tongue, he would have pierced his foot her and collapsed on the spot.

Now that the long-distance means of magic had been lost, it seemed quite difficult to fight an opponent with that mobility.

“Ha!”

Then, towards Cleon, who had stopped moving like that, when the opponent fired an arrow again, he ducked and evaded it by a short distance.

Even if I couldn’t borrow the ability through imprinting, I jumped into the air thinking that I could copy the movements of martial arts that I had already done countless times.

Using mana as a stepping stone, spinning his body her in midair.

Cleon, who moved over the head of the centaur, immediately swung his legs like a crescent moon and struck them down.

“Keugh…!”

At Cleon’s sudden, eccentric movement of her, the centaur aimed his bow at the sky, but, startedled by the speed of the movement, he let go of the bowstring and blocked his kick her with both arms.

However, as a result, the bow in the centaur’s hand fell to the ground.

“This…!”

The centaur was taken aback, but gave up his bow and tried to retreat to Cleon’s direct attack.

He immediately turned his body her 180 degrees and tried to kick Cleon with his strong hind legs her.

Cleon expected that, so he slipped between the centaur’s long legs and immediately kicked it up.

As a result, Cleon’s kick hits the opponent’s chin, knocking his head back with a strong impact.

When the helmet on his head comes off-

Cleon had to open his eyes wide involuntarily.

Holding his head his and shaking his head as if to shake off the shock he received, as expected, there was a human with light green skin.

However, long blue-green hair and pointed ears. And light green eyes.

Her well-groomed features her, rare among humans, and her lively appearance of her.

It was because it felt like an elf in a legend.

That too, she was a female elf.

“…This… Intruder…”

A plant with the upper body of an elf and the lower body of a centaur, Cleon put up with the overload of information in his head his any longer.

I wake up and take a stance in front of the opponent who wants to fight again.

[Until there.]

From somewhere, a voice was heard stopping the two of them.

Cleonon, as if she too was taken aback by the sudden voice, turned her head in the direction of her voice.

At the end of the line of sight was a huge tree in the center of the village.

“Up, Yggdrasil…”

When her woman bowed her head toward her tree, as if to apologize, Cleon just glanced at her.

[Take him and come to me. Freya.]

“…All right.”

Cleon said that it was the existence of ‘Yggdrasil’ who gave him orders.

I looked at her after understanding that the woman in front of her eyes was her her name her, her her Freyja.

Freya quietly picked up the fallen helmet and bow, put them back on, and looked at Cleon.

“…Follow me.”

Although she made no apologies for attacking her one-sidedly, Cleon decided not to argue with her.

From her point of view her, it was true that she herself was clearly foreign, and from her skills and disposition her, it was clear that she was the one who protected this village.

Cleon nodded her head and decided to follow her into the village.

As they walked down the street, they felt huge stars from left and right, but thanks to Freya being nearby, others didn’t interfere much.

Perhaps, if Freya hadn’t been with them, they might have ended up in the same fight with others.

And when he walked along a little long road and stood in front of the biggest tree in the center of town, Cleon couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

It was because I was overwhelmed by the enormous height that seemed to stretch far beyond the sky.

[Good job. Freya. Go back and heal your wounds and get some rest. I will call you if necessary.]

“But Lord Yggdrasil. This monster-“

[He is not a monster.]

Freya glered at Cleon for a moment, but as if she could n’t disobey Yggdrasil’s command her, she trudged away from the tree.

Cleon, he looked up at the great tree he had called him.

Soon after, she noticed a cluster of lights coming up from the root of the tree.

Then, little by little, the cluster of lights began to take on a human form.

Before Cleon’s eyes, she could see an adult woman appearing like an elf, just like the centaur she had seen earlier.

Long hair down to the buttocks, and pointy ears.

Like Freya, she has a beautiful face and large breasts that symbolize the abundance of nature.

In addition, the skin color of her was different from those I had seen while coming here, and it had a similar skin color to Cleon.

Her body was covered in clothes that looked like a dress, and she was wearing a crown of laurel trees. She had magical powers so strong that she felt like a goddess.

However, Cleon was able to notice that she was a kind of spirit, not a god, seeing that she was the magic of the earth, not the divine magic.

She cautiously moved closer to Cleon, and as he was about to greet her first, she put her face against Cleon’s body her and sniffed her.

“Now, wait. What-“

When Cleon gets flustered, she smiles a little and steps back from her.

“I don’t know if it’s a human smell I’ve smelled in a while. Welcome, a stranger from my hometown. I am a being with roots in this realm. My name is ‘Yggdrasil’.”

“…Hometown?”

Cleon looked at her, understanding that what she was talking about was her hometown, the dimension in which she lived.

“Yes. I am, like you, an exiled being from a dimension. A person who once changed the world by covering it with his domain.”

It’s an explanation I’ve heard somewhere.

“It’s a race called the World Tree.”