Chapter 772 – Confinement to the Beyond

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Ventuna joins Cleon and Layla.

And thanks to this, the human camp became even stronger in terms of its numerical superiority. However, unlike Cleon and his party, who had limitations in both physical strength and magical power even if one person increased in the first place, Rex Ignis’ limitations were limited thanks to the constant back-up of magical power from the Magic Tower. It was not visible.

If I had to specify a limit, it would be when all the magical energy in this land is depleted, the moment when it can no longer regenerate.

However, it should not be like that.

We know what happens when the magic power of the land is depleted, both through history and, in the case of Cleon, by seeing it with our own eyes.

It was impossible to turn Helix into a desert.

Rex Ignis, who had already regenerated his severed tail, attacked Cleon on the ground, shouting “I’ll turn you into ashes!” As if it were a habit of his words.

It was a movement that was violent yet unyielding, leaving everything to excitement and heat, with nothing but redundancy, but even that was a threat to Cleon.

That heat, that size. Existence itself burns everything around it, so just getting close is a hardship.

It would certainly be easy to avoid Cleon if he was up in the air, but since he was on the ground and was attacking him as a target, the intention was to let Laila and Ventuna off their feet.

＂Right the timing! Ventuna!”

＂Your magic is activated too quickly…!＂

When Ventuna responded in a complaining tone to Lila’s voice, they both stretched out their hands toward Ignis at the same time.

What is achieved is the harmony of the magical power of fire and storm.

When the flame rose, as if riding on the gathered wind, it became an intense hot wind, literally creating a crimson whirlwind.

＂Blaze Tornado!＂

As Lyla’s voice booms, a whirlwind rises exactly where Rex is, and she rips the flames from his body, tearing his body into flames that only burn the Ignis that Lyla created.

＂Kooooo!!＂

As I watch Ignis let out a scream that I cannot tell whether it is a scream or a roar of anger, I feel that although it is a magic made on the spot, it is quite powerful—

The next moment, Cleon’s Galatea swung with all her magical power, breaking Ignis, who was trapped inside the whirlwind, in two.

The roaring sound stopped, and the whirlwind disappeared in its wake.

Then, Ignis, divided into two parts, from the head to the middle of the body and from the middle to the tail, jumps out and falls to the ground with a thud.

＂Good!＂

Laila raised her voice, clenching her fists at the feat they had achieved, but Ben Tuna wrinkled her eyebrows.

＂… No.＂

As I watched the scene, thinking it wasn’t over yet, the lava-like blood that flowed from Rex’s separated body was sticking to each other and regenerating the body.

＂After all, he is the Spirit King… It’s annoying that he doesn’t have a core… ＂

One of the reasons it was difficult to defeat Rex Ignis was the fact that the core did not exist.

A typical spirit stores a spirit stone in its body, like a heart, as a wedge to tie its existence to this world.

However, even if such a heart did not exist, Rex Ignis was able to maintain existence only with his own power.

Therefore, there were no areas that could be called weak points, and this, combined with Ignis’ regeneration, created an invincible state in which it would continue to stand up and charge even after being knocked down.

“What are you going to do? If we continue like this… There is no end.”

“I know. But…”

Even though she knew there was no end, Lila also knew well that she couldn’t escape from this place.

So, we have to find a way.

Basically, what provides Ignis with infinite magical power is the magic tower beneath their feet.

However, if I could destroy this magic tower, I would have done so a long time ago.

I didn’t have the means to destroy the magic tower yet.

Then, drop Ignis and the Magic Tower?

No, that’s dangerous too.

Because of the heat radiating from his body wherever Ignis went, it was clear that he would cause disaster no matter where he went.

Basically, the only places Lila can open the dimension door are places that have been recorded in advance or are within her visible distance.

Even though I now regret not recording places like the empty plains or the land of ice in the north, I couldn’t help it.

Then – in this situation, the best place to send that guy flying is…

As Lila quickly searched through the book of memories in her head, she thought that there must be such a place somewhere.

A powerful idea suddenly passed through her mind, as if her magic power was ignited.

“There’s a place where you can blow that guy away…!”

＂Hehe… Are they going to create a fiery hell somewhere and pass on the damage? ＂

“Don’t do that!”

Lila responded angrily to Ventuna’s remark, not knowing if she was joking or if she was being sarcastic. She placed her hand on her head once again and began to weigh the risks and difficulty of the method she had devised.

[For a moment. Before you get lost in your thoughts, at least tell me your plan.]

And when Cleon’s cry from below penetrated the thought, he was already engaged in an attack and defense against the resurrected Ignis.

＂Ah, that’s right, sorry.＂

While Lila answered like that, she created a sparkling lump of magic power in her hand.

It wasn’t really an action to prepare some kind of magic or control magic power, but Ventuna’s expression changed as she saw it.

Because it was the coordinates of the key that she handed over to Lila.

＂No way, Lila.＂

＂That’s right. We’re going to blow that guy up at these coordinates. A gap between two dimensions. If you close the passage, the connection to the Magic Tower will be severed, and the surrounding area will be filled with unpleasant colors, so there is no need to worry about damage being passed on.”

It was certainly a place where all of Lila’s worries could be resolved, but it was clear that several problems remained.

“The first thing is… Will it be possible to open the dimensional door to the gap in another dimension without any preparation? Even though there are coordinates, if the magic control is disturbed, it can lead to a completely wrong place.”

“And secondly, will we be able to throw that guy into the opened dimension door… I guess.”

When Ventuna said that after hearing Layla’s explanation, Layla nodded her head as if what she said was correct.

After a moment of silence between the two, a thump comes from below! Bang! As the sound was heard, Ignis, who had been left alone for a while, was seen swinging his tail wildly against Cleon again, and then cornering him in an ignorant way by spitting out flames.

＂Cleon! Ah, really! If you think about it too hard, it will never end!”

Lila said that and twirled the wand she was holding in the air.

Then, the tip of the staff changed into the shape of her spear, and she herself became a single flame and burrowed between Ignis and Cleon.

She was able to ignore Ignis’ fire attacks to some extent, but on the other hand, her attacks did not have much effect on Ignis, so she was completely focused on supporting, but it seemed like she could not control herself when she saw Cleon in crisis.

“Layla, I’m fine… From above…”

＂Which is okay! Sticking lumps of charcoal all over your body like this! Well done to my Cleon…!”

[That’s because you and that windy woman were talking above!]

Galatea’s disgruntled accusation was heard, but Laila seemed not to care and swung her spear widely, creating a wave of flame.

Then, Rex laughed at her fire magic and swung her tail, erasing Lila’s waves.

However, in the meantime, Cleon and Lila were able to move from the corner they were cornered in to avoid Rex’s eyes, and escape from being attacked one-sidedly like boxers cornered.

Ventuna looked at her like that for a moment, and then she tightened her grip on the small stone she had packed in her pocket, then took it out of her pocket and moved her hand as if she was commanding.

Then, the wind blew again into her statue, which was already almost broken in the corner of the disk, and it began to move while making a creaking sound.

It moves around snickering, then lunges at Ignis, who is about to lunge at Lila and Cleon, and melts into his body as if swallowed.

However, thanks to this, Ignis’ movements slowed down for a while, and the effect was to cause irritation.

“Lila! It’s a shift! Come up and get ready to open the dimension door!”

And in the meantime, Ventuna herself descended onto her disc, leaving Lyla to do the work herself.

“I know very well that that is the only way now.”

After hearing Ventuna’s words, Lyla looked at her for a moment, then answered that she understood and ascended to the sky once more, using her magic control to open her portal from her relative safety.

Cleon looks for a moment at Ventuna, who sent Laila up.

“Am I not good enough as a dance partner?”

When Bentuna asks Cleon, Cleon answers by shaking her head as if she doesn’t think so.

“No. … I actually couldn’t believe it when you said that Lila was friends with you when she was little…”

＂Ah… Haha.＂

When Ventuna smiles as if he understands what she wants to say, Cleon looks at her and smiles bitterly at her, but then looks back at her Ignis, who quickly escaped Ventuna’s interference, and grabs her sword.

“I guess it’s just a matter of buying time.”

“If you do anything, you can take it down yourself.”

Ventuna responds to Cleon’s words. The next moment, when she thinks that her back is beginning to break away from the human form, translucent wings created by the green wind spread out from her back.

Cleon realized that, like Aqua, her own body had been turned into a spirit.

I guess she means it too.

“I don’t like fighting directly with my body!”

As Ventuna said that and swung her arm, a blade of intense wind pressure was created along the trajectory of her arm and she flew toward Ignis.

Ignis, who felt an invisible gust of wind assaulting his body, thought he was going to dodge it, but on the contrary, he brought his short front leg towards the blade.

Suddenly! He dug into her arm about half its width, looked at it swinging, and smiled.

“Not enough power.”

＂Tch, pervert bastard…＂

When Ben Tuna complained like that while looking at Ignis, who judged whether the attack was a threat to him by directly seeing it.

Towards Ignis, who was charging towards us, he created dozens or hundreds of blades and began to cut him apart.

Meanwhile, Lila, floating in the air, draws information from the coordinates displayed in front of her and draws a dimensional map in her head.

＂Space restraint. Strengthening concept fixation techniques. Entering the realm of denial of existence. Void connection negative oscillation established.”

How should Lila have accepted the thought of her grandfather, who sealed the key prepared for Lila in a gap in another dimension to achieve her family’s secret wish?

Of course, it may have been a good decision to think that anyone who was not qualified would be blocked from the entrance.

Except for the moral part of sending her granddaughter to such an alien world.

However, now, Lila was very grateful that she had left behind the coordinates of such a space.

Opening a gap in another dimension is possible even without coordinates.

However, as I said before, the gap is always changing and unstable, and even if you come back to the place you entered, it is difficult to return to the original location and time zone.

Even if you recklessly travel to a new place without a destination, it is similar to getting lost because you don’t know the return route.

However, if it is clear where you need to go, you can establish the path leading to it in advance.

If you use the same route when entering and exiting, you can return without problem.

“… Got it. The road to the coordinates…!”

And, when Lila squeezes her hand, a small gap of space is created above her hand.

This gap was the hole through which the key could move to the sealed gap in the other dimension.

It’s small like this now, but if Lila unfolds it, it will be able to turn into a door large enough to swallow a person – no, that huge figure.

The problem is – of course that guy doesn’t want to go through that door either.

Do you have no choice but to unfold it and force it at the moment it rushes in? Just as Laila was thinking.

“Lila! Open the door on the disk!”

When Ventuna’s voice was heard, Laila saw the blue spirit stone that Ventuna was holding in her hand.

＂You, that is…!＂

Lila looked surprised for a moment when she realized that it was Aqua’s broken spirit stone, but she soon nodded her head as if she understood and opened the portal onto the disk of magic – and behind Ignis.

Because Ignis was also able to acknowledge the door, he became angry while making a gnashing sound of teeth.

“Foolish guys. You open the door to a gap in another dimension and want me to go in there?! There is no way! Rather, I will throw you into it!”

Saying that, Ignis once again charges towards Ventuna and Cleon.

However, Ben Tuna stretched out the Aqua Spirit Stone she was holding in her hand.

The water spirit stone, which had swallowed up Ventuna’s magic power with all its might, suddenly released water as if a strong wave had arisen.

＂What!＂

Ignis looks genuinely surprised, but Ventuna feels as if all of her magical energy is being sucked out, and her legs begin to shake.

[Ahaha, did you know that you would be safe after using my heart?]

From somewhere, the sound of Aqua laughing was heard, but there was something that kept Ventuna from falling, and those were Lila and Cleon.

And, her magic power was flowing towards her from Lila, whose magic channel was connected to her.

Laila herself was her forgotten conduit

“For a moment! Wait! Damn it, I can’t go against the flow…!”

The three people ignore Ignis’ pleading words and send him across the gap in another dimension.

Finally, when Ventuna fell to her knees on the ground, as if her magic power had been exhausted, Lyla and Cleon looked at each other and then nodded.

“… Thank you, Ventuna. Leave the rest to us.”

After hearing Laila’s words, Ventuna responded with her eyes as if she was so tired that she couldn’t even nod her head.

“Let’s go! Before he comes back!”

And when Cleon and Laila follow Ignis and throw themselves into the dimension door, the next moment.

As the open dimension door closes, the area above the Magic Tower becomes quiet, as if the intense battle just moments ago was a lie.

“Now I can’t even move a single step…”

Ventuna quietly closed her eyes and fell asleep, feeling the wings disappear from her heavy body.