Chapter 298 – Endgame

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Gray’s changed speed, fighting skills, and movements did not come from simple physical strengthening.

‘Blackout’, a magic telegraph armor made of a special material that covers the whole body, is one of the equipment made for special superhuman soldiers that existed in the primitive world.

It is a special object that normally consists of invisible particles, but responds to the wearer’s will by covering the entire body to provide defense and body strengthening effects.

Despite being as thin as paper, in addition to excellent elasticity, it was characterized by being lightweight as well as blocking strong impacts.

However, the most noteworthy point among them is the ‘Apend Stream’, a stream of magical power flowing on its surface.

It changes color in response to the wearer’s magic power, in addition to Blackout’s ability to enhance physical abilities, it circulates magic power on the surface, making Blackout itself a small area controlled by the wearer.

That is, the area around the person wearing the blackout is overpainted as an advantageous area for the wearer.

Within it, Gray can read the trajectory of an attack flying towards him, or neutralize the magic power of others who have entered the small area to protect his body his.

Until now, the particles of the blackout suit had been stored inside the pendant Gray always wore.

It was because there were not a few cases in which the Grays of several generations ago fought directly against the enemy wearing this suit, even more so than the Grays of today.

However, even this seemingly invincible suit had flaws.

In other words, there is a danger that the artificial spirit for control and the wearer’s thoughts will gradually combine, eventually turning into a destructive weapon.

Here, the artificial spirit for control refers to Hermes, of course, and in fact, there were times when the previous Grays almost got swallowed up by Hermes several times.

But each time, Gray killed himself and destroyed his body and reset the situation before he and Hermes were completely merged.

Eventually, Hermes erased the blackout suit from Gray’s mind at some point.

I had sealed the function by putting restrictions on myself so that I would never use this old-era weapon of destruction again.

However, at the end, Gray broke through that limitation.

The condition is the separation of the perfect selves between ‘Gray’ and ‘Hermes’.

As he began to connect with Cleon, Gray was slowly making a change, and as the change reached its most dramatic moment.

Hermes could feel that Gray’s transformation had lifted his restraints.

The reason why Gray and Hermes’ selves were easy to mix was that they were derived from the same source.

The two of them existed, knowingly and unknowingly influencing each other’s thoughts.

Gray and Hermes are now established as completely different beings.

The proof was the two append streams of different colors flowing on the surface of the suit.

“Mo, it’s a strange sword because my body is so light… Why didn’t I take it out when there was such a cool thing until now!?”

[There is too much to explain for that. To put it succinctly, you right now deserve this. That’s all.]

Gray runs through the battle, becoming a silver flash and running at full speed.

Her figure her, as if time had sped up, left an afterimage, making it look like elongated mercury.

“Gray! Don’t dig too deep! Focus on making a breakthrough for now!”

Hearing Cleon’s voice, Gray made a ghastly sound, then kicked one of the Ein Heyars that ran towards him and ran to where Cleon was.

“Okay!”

“It’s not this side, take the side. Just knock out the enemies that come close to Freyja or Peruluca.”

“Okay!!”

He didn’t know if he understood Cleon’s words or if he was just talking because he was nervous.

Gray immediately moves and gives a kick to Einhejar, who is aiming for Peruluca, who is focused on controlling the golem.

After being kicked by Gray, Einhejar flew right into the crowd of enemies.

The shock of strong magic power injected through the soles of his feet explodes inside his body his, causing a huge explosion.

Thanks to this, if the angle was right, several enemies could be knocked down with a single attack.

“So cool…”

Gray clapped his hands as if he couldn’t believe what he had done and looked at Ein Heyar, who exploded.

She seemed like an innocent girl, but the result of her actions was an incarnation of destruction beyond imagination.

Even that Cleon, ‘Is this right?’ Because it was so destructive.

And at the head of the group breaking through the siege – Cleon finally reached the front of the stairs going upstairs.

“If you climb the stairs like this-“

If you go upstairs, there will be a limit to the Einhejars flocking to the narrow passage.

While Cleon thought so, the next moment he tried not to stop his advancing feet.

Thud! A large automata appeared in front of Cleon.

Compared to other Einhejars, there was not that much of a difference in terms of design.

What stood out most of all was its size.

Plus, it’s almost completely black compared to the other guys that are closer to grey.

When Cleon saw it, he felt something similar to the automata that overtook them at the academy.

“No way-“

If Cleon thought so and he swung the black crystal sword Arondite.

The moment it touches the surface, part of Cleon’s magic is absorbed.

“Also…!”

The automata that attacked Cleon and Beatrix at the previous academy were the same type of automata used during the war against wizards in the past.

An object created to kill magicians only by absorbing the enemy’s magic, converting it into its own, and releasing it later.

“Kuh…”

If the weapon used was Galatea instead of Arondite, it could have been cut with its own hardness, but Arondite is a crystal sword that breaks easily when Cleon’s magical energy is lost.

Cleon quickly retrieves the weapon before it damages the Arondite and distances itself from the giant automata.

“Cleon, bow your head!”

Cleon, who immediately leaned down at Freya’s words, saw a mistletoe arrow fly from behind him, aiming precisely at the joints of the giant automata.

This is because it was an unspoken rule that the joints of this type of enemy were made weak in order to be able to move the body.

Freya must have learned that knowledge while dealing with the Einheyards who invaded their territory.

Freya’s powerful arrows, which normally pierce steel plates, lodged themselves in the joints of the automata, but did not penetrate.

To that extent, it must be said that his gloves are thick.

However, this did not mean that Freya’s arrows had no effect.

Freyja’s arrow, which was deeply entrenched, did not break, and caught the guy’s menacing movement.

“I blocked the movement for now… But this guy is blocking the passage.”

Cleon kicks his tongue out and realizes he can’t make it to the stairs unless he knocks the guy out of the way and gets him out of the way.

“Okay…Then here’s to my Gungnir…!”

When Sif confidently tried to take a step forward.

“What is this big guy!”

When I thought that a voice full of curiosity rang from behind, the wind sliced ​​past Sif.

No, it wasn’t wind, it was a silver seal.

“Oohhhhh!”

Gray raises an unsuitable scream and kicks at the automata.

As before, if mana is injected into the automata through the append stream-

It made a sound… And the injected magic was scattered to the surface, and Gray’s attack was nullified as it was.

“Uh, huh…?”

[Your offensive power is mostly formed by the magic flowing through your body. This automata absorbs mana, so your attacks won’t work. It can be said that it is like hitting a rock with an egg.]

“Eh, I’m a beat late for talking!?”

Gray’s thin legs, defenseless as the attack was nullified, were caught by the arm of the automata.

As it was, Gray’s body His, swung like a stick, swung! After hitting the ground with a clatter

“Gray!”

Cleon’s worried voice echoed.

“It’s okay, it’s okay…”

Even though she said that, Gray staggered as if the shock remained inside her body.

“Really…! So leave this to me…”

If Sif tries to throw Gungnir this time-

A huge fist swung from behind her and blew off the automata’s head.

It was the fist of Cleon, the giant golem summoned by Peruluca.

[Sorry. It took some time to come because it was a little far away.]

When the golem Cleon’s voice resounds like that, the automata try to attack her party by swinging her limbs at will, as if her head her had been blown off and she was blinded.

“Go, go! Cleon!”

Peru Luca’s voice echoes as if cheering for her golem, and the golem’s arms massive grab hold of the automata’s arms.

Quadruped! It twists it in an impossible direction with a roar, ripping his arm her off her shoulder her.

[It’s nothing except that it has a large body and the ability to absorb mana…]

The golem Cleon tried to rob her own hand her as she dropped her automata’s arm and set it down on her ground.

Then, with a thump, the golem Cleon’s hand collapsed.

[…!?]

“Ah- that’s right, even the golem is moving with magical energy. It must have absorbed the magical energy of the part it touched, and only that part collapsed.”

When Sif let out a calm, analytical voice, Peruluca quickly re-injected her magic into the absorbed part and repaired her hand.

“I-I’m going to move again somehow with this…”

[Thank you Summoner. However, since the passage has been opened with this, everyone can climb the stairs.]

“Freya! Retrieve the fallen Gray, and Sif climb up first with Peruluca!”

“Yes!”

Freya moves quickly at Cleon’s instructions, and Sif leads Peruluca by the hand and goes through the stairs.

When Freya returned and started climbing the stairs with Gray on board, only Cleon and the Golem were left underground.

However, the size of the golem Cleon was so huge that it was impossible to pass through the passage normally.

[Go first. I will follow.]

“…Is it possible?”

At Cleon’s question, the golem nods his head.

Her answer was as if she to believe in herself.

“…”

Cleon left the golem behind and jumped into the passageway to climb the stairs.

The golem looked back and looked at the Einhejars following them.

Encountering his fists, he braced himself for battle.

Only the sharp sound of metal remained underground.

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Kurreung…! As the sound of thunder resounded, the door of Mimir- or Cassius was blown away with an explosion.

When Amelia was startedled by that loud and sudden sound, she looked toward the door.

Edin was seen glaring at Cassius and herself, her eyes and the hammer in her hand her glowing with rage.

“Mimir…! You rotten bastard…! How dare you trick me!?”

Cassius, who was quietly sitting in a chair reading a book, looked at Edin approaching him without showing any sign of surprise.

“Fake, I don’t know what you mean.”

“Don’t pretend! I already know that you weakly fired the Thunderbolt Spear and hid the others in order to save the girl there…!”

At Edin’s words his, Cassius smiled, bending his eyes in the shape of a crescent moon, the only pattern he could see.

Then he calmly answered Edin.

“I can see the future. In that future, I just did n’t kill this girl because I saw her empowering you. It just was n’t worth it to the others.”

At Cassius’sly words, Amelia looks a bit, but Edin does not easily erase her doubts and anger her and comes to Cassius’side her.

Every time he walked, his eyes and ears were sore from the roar of thunder and lightning.

“Losing trust is fleeting, but restoring it requires a corresponding price… You have already received my suspicions. To erase that, you have to pay the corresponding price.”

Its impetuous personality her seemed to have not healed even after thousands of years.

The Thunder Lord pointed Cassius with the tip of his hammer in a fiery blaze.

“You’ve been telling yourself all this time that your vision of the future isn’t perfect. That girl doesn’t look strong enough to help my legion. What I need is a strong guy who can face an army alone and can break down a wall. He has to be a capable guy.”

“She actually dealt with your people alone. She dealt with an army.”

Cassius said so, but Edin snorted at her.

“It would have been impossible without the protection of the Frost Queen. Tell me, Mimir. If that girl is that strong, then she can take her to war, right?”

“I will never cooperate with you…!”

Amelia says so, but Edin points his hammer at Amelia and yells at her.

“Shut up! Your soul will be used to create the special Einhejar… At that time, your will doesn’t matter.”

“…Ugh…!”

Amelia heard the story and bowed her head, clenching her fists.

In this situation, what could he do with limited weapons and mana?

Then, at least, it would be wiser to rescue Cassius.

Amelia bites her lower lip two or three times, then she hesitates.

Meanwhile, Edin seemed to be about to wield her own hammer, Mjolnir, at Cassius.

Eventually—Amelia opened her mouth first.

“…Wait…! I see… I will… Cooperate with you… Please stop killing him…”

At the sound of her powerless voice her, Edin looked at her, then at Cassius.

“…From what I’ve said that far, it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one left. But don’t worry. Like I said before, your will doesn’t matter.”

Edin seemed to have already made up his mind to execute Cassius, drawing her lightning into her hammer her.

That was the time, Quaang! What made the entire fort shake with the great impact.

“…What?”

Edin looked down at the ground for a bit as her lightning her, which she had gathered from the shock earlier, scattered.

Immediately, Cassius’s room opened, and an Einhejar came in and looked at Edin.

Edin just met her eyes without saying anything, but Edin stared at him as if he could read Ein Heyar’s mind her.

Soon, she frowned and threw the hammer she was holding at the Ein Heyar.

“Damn it! Useless bastard!”

Edin’s reason for shouting like that was simple.

It was because he had just received a report from his subordinate that Cleon and his party had broken through the underground encirclement and went up to the first floor.

“You seem to have a problem. Edin.”

At that time, Cassius’ voice came from behind.

Edin looked back at him.

“Tell me, what should I do?”

“You have her as your champion her, fighting her intruders her. She knows them, so they won’t be able to attack her easily.”

“…!?”

At Cassius’ words, Amelia looks at Cassius with a face of astonishment.

What is this man talking about?

Are you telling me to fight Cleon and his crew?

“Should I even use it like that… “

And Edin nodded while stroking his chin, as if he thought that method would be effective.

Edin gives orders to Cassius.

“Take that bitch and follow me. You’ll need to do some minimal preparation before the fight.”

“All right.”

As Edin turns her her body her, Cassius throws Amelia off her healing magic her and raises her up.

“Let go, let go. Your Highness Cassius. …I cannot fight Cleon.”

When Amelia tries to resist somehow, Cassius whispers to Amelia.

“…Listen Amelia. She will fight him, completing her final stage in this exiled realm’s fight.”

So, she put a hand on her shoulder as if to trust herself.

It was to lead Amelia and follow Edin.