Chapter 318 – Changing Purpose

000

“Jin, calm down!”

“Leave it! That damn bug stole my game!”

In the wilderness of thunder that lost its owner, shouts and roars still resound.

However, the owner of that voice was not Edin, but Moose.

Amelia catches her from behind and blocks her somehow.

Moose’s hair was hot, but with Amelia’s powers of the frost hammer, she was able to withstand her heat.

As for her her reverse her, Moose knows that because of Amelia’s magic power her, her power her weakens when she gets close to her, so he tries to shake it off somehow …

While Amelia is strengthened, Moose’s power her is weakened, so she is unable to shake off one Amelia, and is tied to the spot and is struggling.

It was, of course, the gigantic Utgart that sprang out of the ground and tore Edin in half, and Moose expressed his anger.

He who was thought to be dead, and who brought back Sif, who was also thought to have died in a fight with Edin, Gray looks around with sparkling eyes.

“How did it get so big? Did it bulk up?”

[Grey, calm down. Insects do not bulk up.]

Looking at Gray, who doesn’t stop being interested in Hermes’ tackle, Sif sighs and looks at Freyja.

“So. What the hell happened while I was gone?”

“Cleon was seriously injured, so I left it to Peruluca and put him in a small area. But after the battle, I checked and found that Cleon was gone.”

Peru Luca was sitting in her place her with her knees pulled up, her face pressed into her lap, cuddling, and crying out loud.

“Uh, because of me, Mr. Cleon is gone… Mr. Cleon has disappeared…”

Seeing Peruluca like that, Sif puts his hand on his waist her and talks to Cassius, who must have known something about all of this.

“Do something, is the child crying?”

“I know. It’s because I need some time to organize my thoughts.”

Even at Sif’s words, Cassius quietly shut his mouth and sorted out his complicated mind.

First of all, defeating Edin and retrieving his wedge ‘Mjolnir’ was successful.

However, originally Cleon was supposed to be there, and Utgart and Sif did not appear in the future he saw.

‘Did the foreknowledge I saw change, or did I see the wrong foresight from the beginning?’

If so, you start to doubt whether the action you are doing now will produce the right result as a result.

No matter how much the power of foresight was strengthened by the magic of another dimension, if it was possible to predict the perfect future, I could only say ‘no’.

It was then. Peru Luca’s crying suddenly stopped, and he stood up while shaking her knees.

The expression went from the dark and unconfident side of her tear-stained face to her characteristic arrogant glance of her.

Then, the corners of his mouth her twisted strangely, he looked at the huge Utgart, and then, as if physiologically unreasonable, he said ‘Uh’and opened his mouth.

“[My apprentice is so sad that I have a chance to come out for a while. Yes.]”

“Aleista…”

Freyja moved her finger gently with her watchful eyes, then saw an arrow spring from her arm her and catch it in her hand her.

“[Hey hey, don’t be so vigilant, tree monster. We’ve been working hard against the Thunder Lord since before, right?]”

“It’s not you that we collaborated with, but Peruluca, the owner of that body.”

Sif, too, glared at Aleista with the returned Gungnir in his hand her.

“[The evaluation is mint, yes. I was going to tell you where the magic swordsman disappeared from now on.]”

Aleigh Star sighed and shook his head as if tired.

However, the one who reacted the most to his words was Utgart, who was quietly observed by Gray.

[Is that true!]

Suddenly spread the wings and boom! When he thought about it, Gray, who was next to him, let out a ‘Wow!’ Sound and he sat down as if collapsing to the ground.

“[Yeah, to get out of this fucking exile area, you have to find that magic swordsman, right? I won’t talk about leaving without him.]”

Aleista looked back at Gray, Cassius, and Amelia while talking.

“Of course!”

Amelia nodded her head loudly, and Cassius stopped thinking about her and nodded her head too.

“I can roughly guess where Cleon-san went… But, even when I think about the reason, I can’t come up with a reasonable answer-“

“[From my point of view, that guy has a very, very strong image of Yeo-nan. I don’t know what kind of fate it is. Well, anyway, then you can tell me the answer. That magic swordsman is now in the realm of the goddess of death.]”

Upon hearing Aleista’s words, Freya and Sif’s faces darkened.

“The Realm of the Goddess of Death…”

In Freya’s muttering her, she felt some kind of bad feeling about that realm.

“What kind of realm is that?”

When Gray, who got up from his seat, asked Sif a question while sticking out his face her, Sif paused for a while before opening his mouth.

“Literally, it’s the realm of the dead. From your perspective, is it a similar concept to ‘the underworld’ and ‘hell’…?”

“Is Cleon a dead sword!?”

When Gray said that, Aleista smiled and replied.

“[No, he’s still alive. Because the imprints on his body are still there.]”

If Cleon died, the stamp of dominion engraved on Peruluca’s neck would have to disappear as well.

However, her neck still had that distinctive ring-like imprint, and it was said that whether Cleon was dying or not, his life itself was attached.

“The realm of the Goddess of Death is a unique place compared to other realms. All other realms increase the number of souls in their realm, and that becomes the realm’s power. My mother also made children like me, and even Edin was a dwarf. He confined the souls of various people coming in from outside to his realm.”

“We Dark Elves don’t have strong fertility, but we still have one child born a year.”

At Sif’s words, Gray nodded as if he understood.

“[However, the number of souls in the realm of the goddess of death does not change. There are no living beings there. The only ones that exist there are the dead and the undead.]”

“They lose their bodies and are souls that need to be absorbed into the spirit vein… But since the spirit vein doesn’t exist, there is no place to be absorbed. So, that realm never grows and never disappears.”

After hearing Aleigh Star and Sif’s explanation, Gray nodded her head, but Amelia tilted her head as if something was strange.

“However, the goal of the rulers in each realm of this Exile Realm… Was to gain the power to escape the Exiled Realm, right? The Frost Queen didn’t seem like that.”

To Amelia’s words her, Moose, who was being held by her, replied with her head bowed as if she had lost her strength.

“Not everyone is like that.”

“Ah… That, over there-“

To her who suddenly answered her own words, Amelia seemed to be struggling with what to call her.

“My name is Moose. To continue the story- our realm. The Flame Arena was like that. This exile realm was like heaven to us.”

“A place like that is heaven… ?”

Freya had learned from her mother about the flame arena where Moose originally existed, so she could n’t easily relate to what she was saying.

A gigantic arena built on top of a land flowing with flame, sulfur, and lava.

The fighters fighting the game, killing and killing again and again every day.

Despite being born in the hearth of struggle, it is set to disappear when all the sparks of life given to it are extinguished.

It burns up the inexhaustible fighting spirit it has had since birth, and enjoys only the heat of battle.

For Freyja, who considers all the other children of Yggdrasil in the realm of the World Tree as family.

Fighting with beings in the same realm-

No, I didn’t like the threat of a ‘battle’ itself.

So, if possible, they tried to shoulder the battles that occurred in their own territory.

He was vigilant to ensure that his family he was not in danger.

To Freya, the arena of flames, which existed only in ‘battle’, was regarded as nothing but hell, not heaven.

“Yes, it is heaven. Our souls burn only in battle. Only then is the moment when we feel alive. A place where we can enjoy it infinitely until it dies is our utopia. Another realm… Or another dimension. If we go out of the gap and return to Sutter’s home dimension, fighters like us who are crazy about fighting will just be rejected. Well, in that case, we’ll just have to fight those who reject us.”

“So, it’s like you don’t want to get out of this gap…”

Gray listened to her and nodded her head in understanding.

“Yes. So after my hometown disappeared, I was going to go through a great fight and disappear cleanly. … That stag beetle got in the way!”

As the emotionally unstable moose flared up again, Sif sighed and shook his head.

Utgart looked at the moose and hid behind Sif.

“The story has gone the other way. So, what was it that caused Cleon to be drawn into that realm? Any guesses?”

“[Didn’t I tell you, it’s Yeo-nan? The only thing that can steal a human inside so quietly that even the owner of the small domain doesn’t notice is the ‘Goddess of Death’.]”

At Arleigh Starr’s words, both Freya and Sif nodded as if they understood.

[Is it that the goddess of death kidnapped Cleon? I finally got the answer I was looking for. Is it possible to use her strengthened body to cut the goddess in half and rescue her Cleon-sama?]

“You’re too hasty, Utgart. Maybe, you took him for treatment. He said he was seriously injured?”

At Sif’s words, Freya nodded her head.

“…Then let’s go find Cleon. We can’t get out of here without him.”

At Amelia’s words, the party except Moose nodded.

“Wait. Surely you’re not trying to get me in there? You barely escaped there, but you’re going back there?”

Moose raises his head slightly to Amelia, who is holding him.

“But you can’t stay here alone. There’s nothing here anymore.”

At Amelia’s words, Moose turned off… And made an annoying noise.

Then, when I meet Cassius’s eyes, I point at him with my index finger.

“Hey! Half-Penny Prophet! It’s because your prophecy was messed up, so take responsibility and bring me a new fight!”

“Oh my gosh… Sure. Is it my fault for not foreseeing this situation?”

Cassius answered the moose with a nod of his head.

“Okay. But the condition is that you will quietly help us after this.”

“That’s what I decide, you jerky bird-“

As Amelia closed Moose’s mouth with her hand, Cassius shrugged his shoulders and looked back at Freyja.

“To go to the realm of the goddess of death, Yggdrasil-nim’s power is needed.”

“…I know. He is the only one who can freely open the door to all other realms.”

At Cassius’ words her, Freya looked back at her party and wondered if it was okay to take them all back to her realm.

Apart from Cleon’s companions Gray, Amelia, and Cassius.

Sif, a dark elf who handles black magic, Utgart has become gigantic.

Peruluca, with Aleista remaining inside her body… And, the most dangerous thing is, of course, the flame fighter, Moose.

Should she generate heat and catch fire, she could cause great damage to the forest and its inhabitants.

“… To save Cleon, we need her power her.”

When Cassius spoke as if he knew what Freya was worried about, Freya narrowed her eyes as she spoke.

“The safety of that and our realm is a whole other story. Can you properly control it?”

“If Amelia is attached.”

At Cassius’ words, Freya let out a sigh and looked at Amelia and Moose.

“…I get it.”

“Thank you.”

After hearing Cassius ‘answer her, Freyja took her petals, which she had received from Yggdrasil, in her hands her.

Then, when she blew her magic into the petals, a large tree trunk grew from there, drawing a circle in the air.

“…I invite you to our hometown. Strangers. Don’t let me point my bow at you guys.”

001

After hearing the maid’s story, Cleon left her room with the maid to talk with the goddess of death – Illenu.

“Illennu, like me, is losing her memory of her. But she seems to have vaguely sensed something from Cleon… So, I brought you here to treat you.”

“In the first place, why did you lose your memory? Did you get a shock from something when you were ejected into the exile area?”

The maid, who heard Cleon’s words of her, shook her head as she seemed to remember something about her, feeling frustrated with her own memories of her that were still foggy about her.

“That part… I think it’s still in my memory, which is still gone. Anyway, I think talking to Illenu… And reminding him of you is the first thing.”

The hallway the two walked through was a familiar shape somewhere.

It’s a long and colorful corridor, but it’s a dark shape somewhere.

How many doors can you see?

“…This mansion, I think it’s similar to the one we first met…”

“… Probably, that’s right. Illenu herself lost her memory, but so did her cathedral her… Perhaps, the scenery engraved in her soul her created the realm.”

Cleon heard that and nodded his head.

“Then, there is some hope. At least in the soul, there are traces of memories of us.”

“…”

The maid stopped her feet at Cleon’s words and turned to Cleon.

At the maid’s sudden stop, Cleon tilted her head and looked down at her.

“…No, it’s the same person as expected. So.”

The maid must have sensed the meaning of Cleon’s gaze at her, and she spoke cautiously.

“…You mean ‘Cleon’ who traveled with you?”

“Yes. When we were traveling together… ‘Cleon’ helped us a lot. We went through dangerous things many times, but Cleon never gave up and showed us hope.”

The maid’s words seemed a bit strange to Cleon.

It wasn’t that I was specializing in encouraging or encouraging people that much.

Perhaps, Cleon in that world might have had a brighter personality.

“So- I, such a Cleon…”

The maid was about to say that, but she was hot and came to her senses her, and she smiled shyly and waved her hand.

“Ah, it’s nothing! Even if it’s me, I’m not the person involved… I almost said something strange.”

“…”

Cleon couldn’t find words to say to such a maid, and he had no choice but to watch her turn around.

“…Let’s go, Illenu is probably… In the cathedral right now.”

“The cathedral… Perhaps, the one who fought that vampire…”

The cathedral in Cleon’s memory had already been corrupted by vampires, and was a space of black magic with no sense of sacredness at all.

Having fought in a place like that, the vampires were so powerful.

I think of the same thing now, but it was already in the past.

“That’s right. There’s an inverted cross embedded in the ground… And there’s a piece of vampire flesh attached to it.”

“…The flesh of a vampire!?”

If there is such a thing, shouldn’t it be removed right away?

Though thinking the same thing, the maid said as if she expected such a question.

“Of course, Illenu also destroys the flesh piece whenever he finds it. But it regenerates after some time. Most of Illenu’s time is spent monitoring the cross and preventing the vampire from regenerating.”

She felt somewhat ironic when she thought that she was the goddess of death, and that she was doing such a thing.

Even she was a reminder that she was one being bound to this realm.

The two of them proceeded to the cathedral where Illenu was waiting.

He was still unsure if he would be able to protect her and free her from the things that were holding her back.