Chapter 311 – Kidnapping

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Huge explosions of flame, created pillars that rose to the sky, but soon subsided over time.

Where the giant was, there was only the ground melted by fire and ashes blown by the wind.

Debris flew hundreds of meters away and scattered, and various structures that had lost their magnetic power fell from the sky with a thud, thud, and sound to the ground.

At that time, a large cloud of dust rose, and the party somehow managed to come down to the ground under Cassius’ protection.

As soon as Peru Luca reached the ground, she sat down as if her legs she gave out.

“Ha, ha… Oops, did this somehow end up with the Thunder Lord…”

“If you survived the explosion just now, I’d like to give you a round of applause in pure respect.”

At Freya’s words her, Peru Luca also nodded her head.

“Everyone seems to be all right.”

Cassius said so, but Gray shook his head as he looked at Gungnir, who had somehow managed to come down.

“Everyone, no. …Sif…”

Upon hearing Gray’s words, the group’s expressions darkened for a moment, but at that time.

Quaang! When the sound of an explosion was heard again, something buried among the rubble came out vigorously and circled the sky.

Soon after, it lands on the ground and smiles brightly.

Haha!! This is it! This is the battlefield of destruction and slaughter I wanted!”

It jumped out with flames and roared toward the sky with a sword that looked like a gladius in each hand.

When the facial expressions of the group except for Cassius change a little cautiously, Amelia asks Cassius.

“That person is the ally with the last wedge that His Highness Cassius said…?”

“That’s right. ‘Moose’, the last survivor of Sutter’s arena. I have a fragment of ‘Levantein’, which was Sutter’s sword.”

“…A little bit dangerous, doesn’t it?”

Peruluca nodded furiously at Amelia’s words, while Moose’s eyes were actually looking around quickly with madness in his eyes.

“But, this is not enough… The festival called war, which came after a year, is so fast for my stage to come to an end like this!! Anyone is welcome! Let’s fight with me and hold a bloody slaughter banquet !”

The speculation burns, the heat of the flames running down the ground.

“…Every word that comes out of your mouth is dangerous…?”

Cassius, too, broke into a cold sweat at Amelia’s uneasy gaze and averted his gaze at her.

Peruluca also looked towards the moose with worried eyes…

At that moment, the eyes of the two met.

“!”

As if a fight had started the moment our eyes met, the moose started running toward the party with long burning hair.

Haha!

As they ran, the spurs bounced splinters from the ground, and Peruluca, looking at such a moose, crackled his mouth as if frozen in horror, unable to even step back.

Shortly thereafter, Moose instantly closes the distance and tries to attack Peruluca.

Caan-! A cheerful metallic sound was heard, and Amelia’s ice hammer and Gray’s fists blocked Moose’s Gladius one by one.

“What, do you guys want to join the fight too?”

Let the moose vocalize in delight and let its sharp teeth shine bright enough to see.

Amelia and Gray both squinted at her, then timed her to deflect her sword, then turned around and kicked her torso with her feet her, sending them flying far behind her.

“It’s a calming sword! A flame woman suddenly appeared!”

“Why are you attacking us? There’s no reason to fight…”

At Gray and Amelia’s words, Moose haha? She made an expression as if she was talking about something, and as soon as she spread her hands, the gladius disappeared in a scattering of flames.

She was talking while digging into his ear her with the little finger of one of her hands her.

“Yeah, you guys are guys who can fight. Is there any other reason to fight? I think I’ve endured a boring time until this day because the half-hearted guy over there said he’d give me a fight of a lifetime .”

When the party’s gaze turned to Cassius at those words, Cassius only shrugged his shoulders.

“Sure, I said that, but it might be too early to fight us yet.”

However, Moose, who heard Cassius’ words of her, soon showed a vicious smile.

Her shark-toothed grinning hair she shoots upwards, and as the intense heat overtakes Gray and Amelia, Peruvian Luca crawls across the ground to the back of her golem her.

“I’m not the type to be picky about fighting. No matter who the opponent is, if I can happily take each other’s lives, I’ll be satisfied with that.”

“Please wait. For now, we also have patients who need to treat their wounds.”

When Cassius looked at Luca Peru as he spoke, Peru Luca heard her talk and opened her eyes wide as she turned her gaze to her golem in front of her.

“M-That’s right! Cleon…”

Both Amelia and Gray heard the story. When even Freyja approached the golem, Moose blinked and then the flames died down as if steam had run out.

“What is it, you guys… This is incomplete combustion-“

As she said that, she thought that if she cut someone down, a fight would break out forcibly.

When she felt something flying rapidly from behind, she turned around-

Quadduk! With a clatter, a heavy blow landed on the moose’s head her, shattering her part her completely.

As the flames and magma-like blood spread around, Moose’s body collapsed on the spot.

“OMG…!”

When Peru Luca, who saw that, let out her scream, the one that flew right in front of her group was-

A strangely short-handled hammer wrapped around her thunder her.

“Myeon, Nir…”

The moment after the name of the Hammer of Thunder was called, the hammer stopped in mid-air and returned to its original trajectory.

The one who grabbed it was Edin, whose body had been burnt with lightning and fire, turning parts of his body black as ash.

His proud beard his had been cut off by a fire in the middle.

One eye was crushed as if it had been caught in a fall, and the armor was pierced here and there, and blood was pouring out.

The fact that his life did not end even with such a figure is, of course, thanks to the fact that he is the owner of this realm, and the magical power of Mjolnir, the wedge to maintain that realm.

“■■■■──!!”

With blue eyes shining in his eyes, and roaring in anger, that figure was truly the Lord of Thunder.

Even though it’s a ruined appearance, all of the family members have disappeared.

With that power, that monstrous power, and that thunderbolt, the menacing man still had the dignity of a legendary conqueror.

However, that was only the reverberation of that power.

Received damage that exceeded the limit, and torn to shreds of pride.

The party did not sympathize with Edin, who moved like a living corpse, moving as if he were being led by a force that started to run wild, but they did not look at him with contempt.

“That, more than that. That person is dead…?”

Gray pointed to Moose’s body his, where Edin’s Mjolnir had been beaten and his head his exploded.

Lava blood flowed from the top of her neck as she lay face down on the ground, and the flames of her body her gradually grew smaller.

“No, she’s a warrior in the arena of flames. Just having her head her destroyed does n’t extinguish the flame.”

However, at the same time as Freyja said that, the small flame suddenly grew large.

Parts of the face her begin to regenerate, raising the body as if rewinding time.

When the lower half of the head regenerates and the mouth returns, what is seen is a mouth with an expression of joy.

“That’s good… I’ll commend you for that grit, you dwarf poop sack… You’re sure to have blown my head off…!”

At the same time as there were still opponents left to fight, when anger at the person who blew off his head was filled with anger, a flame gladius once again appeared in Moose’s hands her.

“I’ll slash you! I’ll cut your throat, pull out your head along with the spine, and show off to the crowd! The legendary Thunder Lord was just a dwarf after all!Haha!!”

“For a moment!”

Undeterred by Amelia’s restraint, Moose raised her body completely and charged Edin at a speed that was too fast for her to catch her eye on her.

The gladius she held in her hands her swung in two lines from top to bottom.

It was an incredibly heavy blow, even though most of the body of her was made up of flames.

Edin, perhaps because she had no reason left, she did n’t dodge, and blocked the gladius one by one with her hand her and the hammer Mjolnir, with the thick gauntlet remaining in front of her.

Her Mjolnir’s side her had no problems because it had the durability of the wedge, but Edin’s hand her did not.

Blazing flames are the ones with the highest heat in the exile area.

No matter how thick and well-made the armor was, it was impossible to overcome the heat.

Edin’s melting gauntlets and the leather gloves worn inside them are easily torn and burned.

“Haha! Wearing that kind of armor and thinking what to do with me is the problem…!”

Moose’s mocking voice echoed.

Soon, her bare hands her would reach, but Edin rather grabbed Gladius with her hands her, which moved more freely as her gauntlets her disappeared.

“What, what? Is this guy out of his mind?”

If she was an undead like herself, there would be no problem, but Edin was clearly still alive.

Even if Mjolnir’s power her almost removed the limits of her life force her, she would still feel her pain her.

A moose defenseless with both of her hands her blocked.

The moment when a little panic made a gap, the moment I lost my judgment.

Edin’s head went back and-

Quadduk! With a groan, he smashed the moose’s forehead.

“Kwaaaaak!”

Moose is pushed back by the shock and tries to get away from Edin.

Edin, sacrificing her own hand her as her own her, did not let go of her sword her, which she had grasped, and removed her her Mjolnir, which was colliding with Moose’s sword, which had lost her power her.

As it was, it was about to smash her body her, hitting her again and again.

“Damn it, you dwarf bastard…!”

“Haaaaagh!”

The moment Moose tries to escape the attack with a voice of bewilderment, when Amelia’s scream is heard.

As Moose fights, Amelia, transformed into her dragon powers her, wields her thunderbolt hammer and strikes Edin in the arm her.

Thinking that the sound of bones breaking and the sound of lightning resounding at the same time, Edin rolled his body several times at the impact.

His head his cracked open, and his body his smashed, the moose staggered and fell to his one knee his.

“Are you all right?”

“Big…”

Amelia looks at her expression as if she’s worried about Moose.

As before, Moose’s eyes were filled with rage as she began to regenerate.

Cassius’ voice came from behind Moose and Amelia.

“It does n’t matter if he fights, but he’d better be careful. Right now, he’s like a machine fighting while forcibly extending his life because of Mjolnir’s power.”

“Uh, what should I do?”

“How… To…!”

Moose glared at Edin with her glowing red eyes as she raised her body back up as her body her burned.

Edin, too, must have broken the bones in her body her from her attack her just now, but she stumbled and got up.

“I have to cut off my limbs so that I can’t move anymore! It’s okay if I don’t even have life left to maintain!”

“J-Are you serious…!?”

Moose, who spat out her cruel words her, did not rush forward with the flame sword he created once again.

On the spot, she threw the sword of flames with strong force.

“Haha! If you get close, you will be forcibly caught, so you can kill it like a dart from a distance!”

Looking at Moose like that, the others became fed up, but the attacked target was to hit all the swords with Mjolnir.

“You bastard! Cut me down and die!!”

“Oh, that’s ridiculous…”

Peruluca looked up at Cassius while looking at the moose’s violent fighting style.

“…Can that person continue to regenerate like that? If that’s the case, I should have left it to him from the beginning…”

“There is a limit to the regeneration of a flame fighter. The only way to increase the number of regenerations is to kill a fellow member and steal the flame of life. Moose was the strongest fighter except for Sutter, and he must have stolen the flame of many lives. I mean, there are limits.”

“Uh, that’s right…”

At Cassius’s words, Peruvian Luca nodded her head and tried to continue her work, which had been interrupted by the sudden intrusion of Moose and Edin.

He approached the golem, still in wolf form, and raised his hand, using golem control magic to open the surface and flip it back.

Cleon, who was kept in a small inner area to prevent his condition from deteriorating.

When Peruvian Luca carefully reaches out and pulls out the cow realm surrounding Cleon-

“…Uh?”

The vitality that should be felt inside the small area was not felt at all.

“Now, wait…!”

Unable to hide her bewilderment, she quickly tried to release her small realm, but it was a small realm that had been created in a form close to runaway, so it took time for her to release her small realm, as Dhampir’s power was exhausted. It took

In the meantime, several unpleasant thoughts passed through her mind.

The fact that life force is not felt from the inside means that Cleon’s life reaction in the small area has disappeared.

‘Sir, no way, when the golem was attacked, the shock from the inside…?’

As Aleista had said, if anything happened to his body her, she took full responsibility for it.

When the worst circulates in your head, the shell of a small realm that slowly melts away.

And, as soon as he began to see the inside, Peruluca’s eyes widened in surprise, in addition to embarrassment.

“Uh, uh, …? Huh…? Why!?”

Freya and Gray both had no choice but to turn their eyes to that flustered voice that made them stutter.

“Muh, what’s going on? Is Cleon-san dead?”

“…”

Freya is silent and looks at Peru Luca, but Peru Luca answers by shaking her head.

“Uh, no… It’s gone.”

“No…?”

Freya asked if she couldn’t help but be taken aback by those words.

“So, Mr. Cleon, who should be in the small area, is gone!”

“…What?”

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Cleon opened his eyes to the soft sensation surrounding him.

“Ugh…”

It was a familiar feeling, fighting hard, passing out from injuries.

And when I woke up, on top of the bed.

When I slowly opened my eyes feeling a sense of relief that I was able to safely return to everyone’s side this time as well.

He knew that he was not in the inn shared with everyone in the capital.

The bed I was lying on was much larger than the one in the inn, but the surroundings were cold silence and the interior did not feel alive.

And, compared to the bed he was lying on, the ceiling and walls were too old, like ruins.

“…Where is this? Everyone…”

Just in case someone answers, Cleon puts his monologue in his mouth and speaks it out.

At that time, he noticed that the wounds on his body were not covered with bandages, but black cloth.

“…This…”

The moment he touched a material he had never seen before.

Hearing the sound of a door squeaking, he quickly turned his gaze toward it.

There, a woman appeared, wearing a black dress and a black mask covering her eyes.

Her silver hair her was shining even in the dark, and what she could feel from her pale skin her was ‘nothingness’.

No emotional change was felt in her.

In addition, she felt an terrifyingly strong and dark magical aura from her.

Her black magic was comparable to that of Edin, who confronted her in Valhalla, or even more so.

Cleon naturally had no choice but to be wary of her.

The next moment when she tensed the muscles of her body and tried to somehow increase her mana.

Her body her, which was about 10 steps away, came to Cleon’s nose in an instant and pushed her face her.

At the sight of her suddenly filling her vision her, Cleon freezes in bewilderment, but she gazes at her piercingly at her her, within reach of her nose to nose, her lips to her lips her.

Seeing her attitude as if she were seeing something strange, Cleon couldn’t make up his mind on what to do.

“…”

After a minute or so of looking at each other like that, the silence felt heavy.

Soon, she just removed her face without even telling me what the action meant.

Then, in a cold voice, he spoke to Cleon.

“You. What’s your name?”

“…Cleon.”

When she asks herself her name her, Cleon responds obediently, but she shuts her mouth for a while after hearing the answer-

“──Cleon.”

As if to recall, he muttered.

“Where is this place? I, I must have been fighting Edin… And whoever you are, can you hear the answer?”

Hearing Cleon’s words, she kept her mouth shut for a moment, then opened her mouth as she sat down on a small chair in her room her.

“This is my realm. My cathedral. A world of ashes and wandering thoughts, where everything except me and you is made up of the dead.”

“…Then- you must be the ruler of this realm, the goddess of death.”

At Cleon’s words her, the goddess of death nodded her head.

“…Why am I here?”

“I thought you would die… I brought you here. If you die here, you will be resurrected as undead.”

When Cleon heard her, he felt a slight goose run down her spine.

“…Could it be that I am undead now?”

At Cleon’s question, she shook her head.

“Mysteriously, he survived because I gave him a little life force. Originally, he was supposed to accelerate his death.”

“…Were you trying to kill me?”

“Because you looked comfortable there.”

“It’s useless… Don’t do that next time.”

Cleon talked to her, feeling a little bit of her anger at her, and she nodded her head knowingly.

“…I understand that there is no malice. But… I have to get out of here alive and return to the original world.”

“Such stories are all too commonplace here. None have succeeded… But yes, you have slain the thunder lord’s colossus… There might be a chance.”

When Cleon heard the story, he took it as the fact that the party had safely defeated Edin and let out a sigh of relief.

“…Then, send me back to where my comrades are now.”

“That’s not okay. Your treatment needs a little more time. If you try to cross the door to another dimension with that body, you’ll just die on the way.”

Cleon frowned a little at her words, but what was in front of her was the ruler of a realm that, like Edin, created and ruled an entire realm.

After nodding her head helplessly, she gets up.

“Everything will be better in a day or so. Your life force seems to be more persistent than I thought. Call me if you need anything.”

“…Call me? How?”

At Cleon’s question, she just tilted her head as if asking what she was saying.

“Goddess.”

“Goddess. …That’s right, but I’m not your believer, isn’t that a title? Your name?”

“…Things like that are meaningless. In this world, a name is only needed to be engraved on a tombstone.”

After she said that, she turned around.

“And I don’t know my name.”

After saying that in a slightly chilled tone, she left Cleon in the room and went through the door.

“…What a strange guy. Even the ruler of this place.”

After Cleon muttered, he lay down on the bed, worried that the group would know that he had disappeared.

As she said, it was because Cleon’s body his was close to its limit.

Besides, everyone’s vitality was still felt in the imprint, and if this signal reached them, they would know that they were safe.

When he closed his eyes to focus his mind, Cleon’s consciousness gradually faded away.

Meanwhile, her death goddess, leaving her room her, raised her hand to her mask her covering her own face her.

“…Cleon. Why did you name him. I…”

It felt like something was blocking the flow of memories.

She somehow held onto her shaking spirit her, and headed in front of the inverted cross, where the cathedral’s power was concentrated, to bring Moose back.