Chapter 97 – Kindred

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“You wanted to talk to me?”

In a space that has been brightened to some extent by light source magic, Cleon speaks without hiding his aversion to the three slabs – ‘Black Warfare’.

It was almost nauseating to think of how many lives were twisted and sacrificed because of these beings.

The red stone slab, which seems to be the representative among them, answered, probably feeling Cleon’s gaze.

“Is there any need to hate that much? We feel a great affinity for you. In terms of being avengers who do not choose any means for a purpose.”

Cleon had no choice but to react to the stone slate’s assertion while feeling a strange displeasure at the childish and neutral voice that made it impossible to tell whether it was a boy or a girl.

‘Avenger’.

“…You’re mistaken. My revenge is over.”

Cleon frowned and answered the red slate as if he were on a false leg. Then, the blue slab laughed heartily and talked to Cleon.

“That’s a strange story. Your ultimate goal hasn’t been achieved yet. I’m not talking about warriors.”

I look at the slate, which they talk about as if it’s not Cleon’s ultimate goal.

Of course, the fight with Alvein may have been one of the inevitable happenings in Cleon’s journey his. However, the stone tablets were saying that the revenge against Alvein was not the ‘end of Cleon’s revenge’.

“Don’t you think you want to find the person who banished the hero Lecia from the world and avenge her?”

Iona closed her eyes as if she had guessed to some extent, but in front of Sasha who showed a surprised expression, Cleon quietly clenched her fist and placed her hand on the handle of her red sword.

He was determined to cut down the stone slab if he said any more nonsense.

“Isn’t it quite prudent. If you don’t want to listen to what we’re saying, you can really cut it off. Well, if you cut it down, losing this temporary body won’t change anything.”

“There is only one story I want to hear from you guys. What are you trying to bring in by opening the passage to another dimension?”

“Ah. That story also connects to the story we were trying to tell. It feels good to have a consensus. It feels like we have mutual understanding.”

“You’re sounding plausible, but it just makes me feel bad. But if you’re willing to answer, then go ahead and answer.”

When a sound reverberates in the dark space, as if ridiculing the irritable Cleon, the blue stone slab opens its mouth once more.

“What are you trying to bring from beyond the dimension? It’s an ‘adversary’. It’s a being with enough power to reset the world.”

“As expected, it was bullshit.”

“Is this really bullshit? Do you know how the ancients perished?”

Beatrix answered the stone tablet’s words.

“It is the established theory in the academic world that the destruction of the ancients is generally caused by a war between the ancients that lasted for several hundred years. It is the result of making and using powerful weapons that they cannot control in order to win the war.”

“Sure, he’s the kind of person who could stand in the position of a friend of the Lyla Flamewatch. He’s quite knowledgeable. But you could say he’s half right and half wrong.”

As the red slate spoke, Iona spoke in place of Beatrix.

“A golden comet… Is it?”

“That’s correct. Iona Chevalier. Is that one of the things she learned from wandering around the continent with her father?”

When Iona didn’t answer that question, Cleon turned to Iona.

“The golden comet is a huge disaster that appears in the records of ancient people scattered all over the continent. One day, it suddenly fell from the sky and destroyed the warring nations of the ancient people with their own hands. The record ends in despair that someday a golden comet will end their world.”

“That golden comet is the ‘adversary’ of us ancient people. It is one of the providences of this world, the star system. When someone becomes a threat to the existence of the world, even by twisting cause and effect, the world arranges the ‘enmity of the world’. Enemy`.”

At the words of the green slab, Cleon shuts his mouth.

The concept of the ‘adversary’ had been heard before from the great sage Sophia.

As the formidable enemy of the world, the Demonic Sword Emperor appeared, and was led by him, the transcendent dragon slayer, the hero Lesia.

That the hero Lecia’s victory over the Demon Sword Emperor might have been forever to some extent by fate.

“Resurrect Demiurge completely, summoning a demon powerful enough to be called a ‘false god’ to the world. If you do that, the world will surely give birth to an adversary to get rid of that devil.”

“This world is not your world. It is a mistake to think that everything will be as you wish.”

The stone tablet answers Cleon’s words.

“It’s not like that. We carried only our spirits into this tomb and studied the providence of the world for thousands of years. Sometimes we cooperated with you who came from outside – modern humans, and we also confronted each other.”

“From some time ago, we were considered to be the beings who possessed a great deal of knowledge and taught humanity. Seeing this slate containing a part of our minds, they began to call us ‘Black Warfare’.”

“The research has yielded results. We have found a way to descend the enemies of the world in the form we want. As long as the conditions are met.”

The three slabs take turns telling stories, and as their magical energy unfolds, a black hole appears in the ceiling.

It was a gap leading to another dimension that I had seen before when the Beast Beast Shradsel appeared.

Beatrix and Iona both frowned at the fact that Black Warfare was really controlling this ridiculous magic.

“We will once again bring a golden comet to this world.”

At those words, everyone there couldn’t help but open their eyes wide.

“Destroy the world that was weeded out by the ancients, and cause a disaster that resets everything once again on this planet that chose the world created by you.

“Your world won’t come back for doing that!”

At Sasha’s cry, the black slabs shut their mouths for a moment.

But eventually, everyone was laughing.

“It’s not like that. It’s not like that. Barbarian possessed body. It’s possible. To return everything to its original state.”

“Now, the magical power of another dimension overflowing in this tomb is circulating inside this tomb without going outside. Using this overflowing magical power and the magical power installed in various places in the underground tomb, we can recreate the world of our compatriots. “

“That…”

A spell previously used by the Beast Beast, Shradsel, to erode the surrounding world and transform it into his own world.

Due to their tenacity for thousands of years, they created a system similar to that and tried to paint the world over with these underground tombs as paint.

However, there was one fact that they overlooked or ignored.

It was said that a proper world could not be born just by using unstable and polluted magic, like magic from another dimension.

The ancients, no, those who had so much knowledge that they were called black warfare, couldn’t have noticed that fact.

But they don’t care. No, it’s probably better to say that I’ve stopped thinking about it any other way.

Their bodies have already disappeared, and only their minds remain, thinking only of restoring the destroyed world.

There is no way that spirit will not weather. There is no way that soul won’t be corrupted.

That’s why they rationalized themselves and gave up on finding a solution beyond this.

Ionado, Cleonon, and Beatrix too. After realizing this fact, I had no choice but to clench my fist.

It is impossible to persuade them, and the echoes of malice passed down from ancient times have already lingered in countless despair.

It was because he realized that it was the identity of the ‘black battle’.

“I would like to ask you to cooperate as well. Our disciple… No, please be my colleague, black magic swordsman. Cleon. Wouldn’t you also like to meet the golden comet? There is great darkness and potential beyond compare.”

At the voice of the red slabs, Cleon grabs the arondite from the ground and pulls it out, pointing at the slabs.

“I refuse. As you said, as an adversary, if such a calamity is brought to this world, our world will face the same future as you.”

“That’s our long-cherished wish her. But why are you refusing it? Wasn’t it your wish her to meet her?”

“-What?”

Cleon’s body and face her froze for a moment at the words of the stone slab.

“Ah. Then you haven’t realized it yet. That golden comet is your precious woman who was exiled to another dimension and disappeared. It is the ‘Hero Lecia’.”

“…”

The last night in the Valley of the Dragon, passing through Cleon’s mind his.

The golden light that fell through the valley of the village of Abigyuhwan.

A warrior of light that descended from the sky like a shooting star.

“Perhaps it’s because he walked through that chasm for a long time with the magic of another dimension, but his appearance and strength made me doubt whether he was a human like you.”
Next moment.

The sound of keying and ringing in the ears followed the sword attack a moment later.

The swung arondite cuts the red stone slab in half.

The light on the stone slab slowly goes out. However, the stone tablets laugh at Cleon, who is out of breath to the extent that her shoulders move up and down.

“Are you in despair at the fact that the existence you longed for became the culprit, the worst slayer, and disaster that destroyed the world in the past?”

“Demiurge will soon descend. When the vessel of the gods is ready…”

The light slowly faded from the other two intact stone slabs as well.

However, signs of their existence do not disappear.

As they said, the slate is only a temporary body and contains an alter ego, but in reality they must be lying somewhere in this tomb.

In the next moment, the sacred sword Arondite held by Cleon and Ariadne held by Beatrix became unreasonably heavy, and it seemed impossible to move from the spot.

“Kuh… What…!”

[Do you think we brought you here without any countermeasures? Both the holy sword and the demonic sword are products of ancient technology. We are the Ancients who developed those technologies. When a weapon with great power is directed at us, the means to counter it are prepared in the past.]

Arondite, Ariadne, and Iona, who try to move them with all their might, but do not dare to move them.

To make matters worse, the rift in the other dimension they had opened disappeared and the magic of the other dimension spread in all directions.

The ceiling was contaminated and slowly corroded.

If I keep going like this, the ceiling might collapse and I might end up like corpses in the Cursed Room.

“Cleon!”

The next moment, at the voice of Iona calling him, Cleon reflexively turns to her and extends her hand to her.

As usual, the moment Iona and Cleon’s hands met, Iona transformed into her pure white sword her and lifted her up, creating a powerful magic barrier that absorbs Cleon’s magic her and spreads it to Sasha and Beatrix. Covers all, including

It was almost the same time the barrier was deployed that the huge debris that had fallen hit the barrier.

[Mixed blood between humans and weapons… It seems that our control is not working for you. If so, how about this?]

At the same time as the words of the stone slab ended, the arondite that had been stuck in the ground popped out by itself and flew somewhere.

There, a human who looked like a lumpy shadow rose from the ground and grabbed the flying Arondite.

Then, using the power of the holy sword to maintain her defenses of her, she moved toward Cleon, who was bound.

[You and I are essentially the same kind… I thought we could understand each other by removing that mask of hypocrisy.]

Before long, the three eyes floating in the shadows were emitting red, blue, and green light, just like the broken slabs.

The shadow of the black battle approached Cleon, and she in an instant she tried to swing the arondite.

The arrows of light and the magic of blue flames flew at almost the same time.

The shadow wields an arondite to lightly block the attack, but the three pupils move behind Cleon at the same time and look at the two girls who attacked them.

Sasha and Beatrix were glaring at the black battle with faces of unprecedented rage as they smoked the scent of magic from their respective hands.

“For seniors…”

“For my brother…”

“I can’t even lift a finger!”

It was Sasha who jumped forward using explosive acceleration.

In her hand her, she held the fairy dagger she had received from Lyla earlier, and in the other hand, she held an arrow of magical power in reverse.

As the power of her imprint her strengthened, Cleon could see that her strength and agility her had increased to an extent that was incomparable to her before, perhaps thanks to the growth of her original ability her.

If you only look at the instantaneous acceleration, it should be faster than yourself without using magic.

With the sound of her air ripping, Sasha, who had reached the shadow’s front of her, swung her arm around her and pierced the magic arrow with her right hand into the shadow’s side.

The shadow tries to cut off Sasha’s arm with her with the Holy Sword, showing her insignificance to her.

That was Sasha’s goal her.

The next moment, when the magic arrow in his right hand her bursts out like an explosion, an intense light radiates out, blinding the shadows.

Her shadow her, as if in pain, hesitated and stepped back from her, while Sasha quickly retrieved her right arm her back her and stabbed her left dagger into the shadow’s abdomen her.

A mass of shadow like blood flowed from the black incarnation of engagement.

[Kuh… On the subject of a low-level savage spirit…!]

The shadow instantly healed both the wounds on its abdomen and its eyes her, and then slammed Arondite to the ground.

Then, the fragments of the glass sword scattered in all directions instantly changed into another holy sword and surrounded the party.

“You. You are the guide of the Immortal Liang who advances through the night of fear. As the standard bearer of the Hundred Ghost Nights, become a harbinger of the disaster to come! Will O Wisp!”

However, Beatrix’s magic was completed faster than a rush of glass swords.

Her magic her, manifested from her after she finished her chant, was that the same blue flames as before appeared everywhere in the space, flying at high speed, swallowing the appearing glass swords and melting them from the inside.

While the shadow is taken aback by the sight of her, Sasha leaps behind her, and she fires four arrows in the air, shooting them at the four corners of the ground where the shadow is stepping on her feet.

“A shower that binds the feet…!”

The arrows of magical power become the apex as if attracted to each other and create sides. Eventually, the surface of magical power rising toward the sky from the edge becomes a wall and traps the shadow.

[Left tricks… Such a barrier… !]

Just before the shadow was about to do something, a group of blue flames that engulfed all the glass swords and emitted intense light were gathered in one place like a whirlwind, guided by Beatrix’s gesture to her.

As it is, it flies as if it is being sucked into the barrier created by Sasha.

The intense heat of the flames burned the shadows and melted the glass sword.

[Quaaaaa!!!]

The shadow screams in pain, but the inside of the barrier is already filled with blue flames. I couldn’t see what was going on inside.

Before long, the flames explode. The barrier created by Sasha can’t stand it and breaks.

With the shadows scattered in all directions within it, only the handle of Arondite remained and fell to the ground.

A dark space that became quiet in an instant.

Sasha and Beatrix took deep breaths and looked around her, but she couldn’t feel any signs of it anymore.

Beatrix quickly retrieved her Ariadne and confirmed that she could move it.

“Sasha, take care of Arondite’s handle.”

At Cleon’s instruction, Sasha nodded as well and picked up Aaron Dite, who was slowly regenerating her body her.

“The black engagement…”

“There’s no way you’ll die from this. It’s a double body created by splitting your mind. Unless the main body disappears- no, unless the soul disappears. It will try to interfere with us again.”

[But first I have to find a way out of here.]

Cleon also nodded at Iona’s words, but the current situation was not so good.

It was impossible to move while maintaining the thick magical barrier, and the cracks in the ceiling were slowly spreading and trying to collapse the entire tomb.

The next moment, when a vibration resonates on the ground, the shadows that were still prevalent merge again, and this time, the appearance of a beast so gigantic that it can easily swallow a human appears.

As before, three-colored eyes appeared on the head of the monster with a long snout.

Seeing the beast full of her madness and murderous intent, Sasha had no choice but to back away slightly.

[The use of a human form and holy sword was mercy towards you… Yu-hee ends here…!]

That time when everyone clenches their teeth and spins their heads to try to overcome this situation somehow.

Only Beatrix looked up at the sky as if he noticed something.

“Senpai! Trust me!”

“…Bea?”

Then, Beatrix shot a pillar of blue flame towards the sky, pouring almost all of her magic power into it.

It instantly vaporized not only the barrier Cleon had been making, but also the hand her wielded by the beast of shadow, and it was poised to pierce through the ceiling and reach the ground.

[It’s pointless! This is an isolated space… Your magic does not reach the ground!]

“There is no need to go there. This is a signal flare.”

As the shadow said, the pillar of flame stopped midway.

But the next moment, a strong shock exploded from the other side of the ceiling, and there was an existence coming in from the outside.

A mage clad in the magic of red flames, looking down while holding a staff with a spear tip in her hand.

It was the Lyla Flamewatch.

“Layla…?”

“…The evil group is having a tea party together… It’s not the same atmosphere.”

The next moment, when Sasha swings her hand, the entire space where Cleon is is wrapped in a dimensional door.

[What! Kuk, four years!]

The next moment, Layla creates her own portal and passes through it, freeing herself from the shadows that extend her demonic hand towards her.

The shadow looked at it and emitted intense anger, roaring so loudly that it resonated throughout the basement.