Chapter 407 – Where Lightning Grazed.

Usher, for the first time in his life, saw the dragon king in his eyes and froze. She remembers seeing a dragon on Lantua one day. However, it was the first time I felt like something unfathomable was weighing down my body. Despite being so far away, the sense of intimidation given by its clearly visible presence did not diminish in the slightest.

Even though I only saw it in my eyes, my instinct continued to scream that I would not dare to give it any room for resistance as a life. Even Svadilferry and Hilldisviny leading their respective wagons were just running forward without hesitation. That’s because even the coachmen who control them were staring blankly at the dragon king.

Maybe he really thought it was over here, Usher felt a strange feeling. Doesn’t it seem like the dragon king saw this side for a very short time? Then he wanted Usher fell into the pure white stillness. Even if you move his hands or feet, it doesn’t seem to move, and nothing can be seen or touched, just pure white darkness.

After all, how long did he wait without doing anything?

“…Lion! Master! Are you okay?”

Widely! A woman’s voice was heard along with a hand grabbing her hand. At the same time, when she came to her senses, Usher was able to face Helena, who was looking at him in her slowly returning vision.

“Just now, what happened?”

When Usher came to her senses, she replied with relief.

“After the Dragon King descended, we stopped the carriage for a while because it seemed like an accident would happen if we continued running like this.”
-Kurreuk! Kreuk!

After listening to her words, I looked back and saw that the wagons they rode on and the Hildisvinies and Sbadilferries that were leading them were sitting on the flowing water breathing heavily.

‘Is the water flowing?’
-Shoot it!

As soon as Usher realized that, she heard the sound of water as if she were making a sound the world had forgotten. Running water was not a problem. However, the water of Parzu flowed so slowly that one could not feel it flowing, and reflected the sky like a large mirror.

“It has been like this ever since the Dragon King descended and disappeared.”

As Usher watched, she listened to what Helena was saying and looked in the direction the water was flowing. Even without anyone telling me, I could tell that the place where the water flowed was the place where the dragon king had descended. There was no trace of anything to be found there.

“There is nothing.”

I don’t know if anyone who didn’t know this place would have thought it so strange. He realized that the white cliffs that stretched sideways all the way to the distant horizon had disappeared. Not only that.

“How far have we come since then?”
“After the dragon king spread the light, Hildisviny and Sbadilferries slowed down so they didn’t come far.”

If Helena’s words were true, she was even more ridiculous. If the direction Usher is looking at now is the place they passed, at least a faint image of Parz or a few mangrove clusters they passed by should be visible.

“Then Erika…”
“She doesn’t know who he is, but she can’t say he’s safe, at least if he’s around Parz.”

At Usher’s blankly muttered words, Helena calmly revealed what she had assumed. Yes, it was a catastrophe long ago beyond recognition, with its aftermath reaching here far away. There could be no life that could survive in the center of such a place.

It would never be an exception for a girl called a witch.

“Young master?!”

When Usher realized that, his legs gave out and he collapsed. Helena grabbed him and said something, but she didn’t hear him.

“Again, I…”

Erica couldn’t be saved.
She didn’t catch her either.
Like Belka, who took her bullet for her.
She lost again.
She made the girl die.
She couldn’t keep up

She couldn’t do anything

“Ah ah ah ah ah!”
“Young master…”

Helena was at a loss as she held onto Usher, who was crying and screaming at the end. She couldn’t understand what had made him so desperate. It was just that Kane’s story came to mind, and I could have guessed that it might have something to do with someone named Erica.

‘Wasn’t your lover Belka-sama?’

She couldn’t help but look at Usher with an indescribable expression as he gazed endlessly beyond where her Dragon King had descended in her arms. As Helena still hugged him and tried to calm him down, she realized her sense of incongruity in the scenery Usher was looking at.

‘It’s not just water. Up to the clouds?’

Now that the Dragon King has descended, I can understand that the water is quickly flowing over there, but why do even the clouds in the sky form a dark group and flow toward somewhere?

“No way!”

Helena recalled a frightening home. However, if that assumption were close to reality, it was not the time to be like this.

“Sir Kane! Sir Kane! Are you there?!”

She called Kane, who had climbed onto the wagon, to check the status of the other personnel immediately.

“What’s going on?”

Fortunately, he put his head right under the wagon, and Helena said.

“Now is not the time to be like this! If my thoughts are true…!”
-Guuuuu!!!

Before she could finish her sentence, something happened. A low-pitched sound that resonates in the world, but that’s why the explosion and shaking of the ground tell us how dangerous it is. Waves bobbing to and fro.

Even the clouds that were flowing somewhere were pushed to the other side in an instant, revealing a blue and clear sky. But they were sure that was not a good sign no matter what anyone said.

A faraway place revealed by the clouds. It was because I could see a huge mushroom cloud soaring high in the sky from a place I couldn’t even get a sense of.

“I can’t believe that.”
“The dragon king’s breath, the aftermath has just begun.”

Helena couldn’t believe what she said, and she felt cold sweat soaking her clothes. After the first dragon king descended and disappeared for a while, I wondered if the scale was too small compared to the legend. Yes, according to those records, the moment they saw the dragon king, they should have died to be normal.

So, a legend is a legend, so she thought it was an exaggeration, but now she realized why they were able to survive. For some reason, Regin had shot her breath toward a faraway place, not the place where she descended.

Parzu’s disappearance was just the aftermath.

“Start the wagon! Now is not the time to rest!”

Hearing Helena’s words, Kane shouted at her, and he grabbed the reins of Hilldis Vinny and Svadil Perry, who were all exhausted, and slammed them. What no one raised an objection to was his position as a paladin, but it was all intuition.

That no one could survive unless they fell farther from that great cloud.

-Whee Oh Oh!

They hurried the carriage, but the wind, like sharpened knives, had already caught up and raged at their backs, and Helena, who kept her eyes on the back of the carriage, could see it.

“The waves already…?”

Waves approaching this place from far away. She realized it wasn’t a wave until it caught up with them.

“…Earth?”

Mixed with water, it looked like a wave at first glance, but it was the land overturned by the aftermath of the explosion. The moment Helena recognized it, she realized that she had little chance of returning alive.

Since the land of Parz is made of sand and mud, it is not impossible to survive, but it is true that the possibility is small. The moment when Helena closed her eyes and hugged Usher at the sight of it finally attacking her.

“‘Any pain…'”

A voice that came from within. The moment Helena opened her eyes in surprise, she could see. Usher, who thought she had lost her mind, had seized her and raised her shield. Even though the boy’s shield was too small and ugly in front of a huge wall that came towards them.

“‘…I hope you can protect it’!!”

The shield scattered bright light, and the light soon became a huge shield to block the wall that was attacking them. She stared blankly at the incredible sight.

‘Why am I doing this?’

Actually, Usher couldn’t understand why she was trying to block the wall that came this far. Neither Belka nor Erica were already here. She thought she had nothing to protect her anymore.

It was only after he met Helena’s eyes looking at him that he seemed to know why he was doing this. Although her memories with her were limited, Helena was one of the few links between Lantua and this place.

Donar and Sif, Medea and Ludmilla. Maybe it wasn’t a long time, but we played together, laughed and cried. People who still live in his memory and may still be waiting for him.

Krikaliev, difficult to understand and unique, but a strong teacher who accepted him as a disciple and saved the girl together. Jeremiah, although it was her brief encounter, she told the story of her life and gave him advice.

Belka and Erica. The more I think about it, the more sad and painful it is, but that’s why I can’t give up all the more. Even the memories of smiling at him with a lovely look and whispering in an infinitely sweet voice.

“You know… I still have too many things I want to protect.”

So Usher laughed along with the tears. Helena couldn’t help but watch as if he was bewitched as he blocked the wall, shining alone in the pouring darkness.