Chapter 209 – To Save You (01)

“I’m going to avoid it. Are you okay?”

“Yes.”

I couldn’t fight in my current state anyway.

If it were a battle in the spirit state, Teacher Rebecca should be able to use divine power, but she uses divine power in an area crowded with demons?

It’s literally an act of frantically attracting aggro to kill me.

Teacher Rebecca kept disappearing and coming back in between, and it seemed like she was checking the correct coordinates while going back and forth between hell and the real world.

“This way.”

Teacher Rebecca confirmed the traces of demonization in the real world and guided me as we moved to a place where demonization had not occurred. As time passed, I felt my body’s senses becoming weaker.

In other words, you are gradually becoming accustomed to this body… The body as a yinma.

‘It’s dangerous’

I couldn’t tell how many days had passed, and moving in a spirit state can cover a long distance in an instant, but on the other hand, you can also have to go back a long time to take one step, so I couldn’t ‘t ‘t tell just the distance.

Anyway, if you enter the duke’s castle, the area where the demon world and the real world are already unified, you will be able to find the exact distance again, but for now, you have no choice but to trust only Teacher Rebecca and move .

The number of demons was increasing, but luckily they were soon sacrificed and were seen heading to the real world, so the more they entered the dukedom’s territory, the more the number of demons decreased.

“Are you okay?”

“It’s okay…”

I kept feeling like I was losing consciousness.

Unlike Rebecca, who was already a complete ghost, my soul was still tied to the body, and I never thought it would come this far… Literally across half the continent.

In a way, it felt like it was becoming increasingly difficult to control because the signal was bad, but sometimes I was worried that if I closed my eyes, it would just happen in my body, so I was forcing myself to move without being able to rest.

“I can’t accurately check my sense of time either. I have no idea how many days I spent in hell and then returned to the real world.”

A hell where the sun never rises and sets, burning red due to geothermal heat… It was impossible to check the passage of time in the demon world.

If we had any biological signs, such as being hungry or falling asleep, we would be able to get some sense of it, but since we are both in a state where we only have souls, that is difficult, so we don’t know if we have been wandering for several months now or if not even a day has passed.

‘I’m thirsty’

A dream demon is basically a being that absorbs human sexual energy and survives.

Previously, the position of women increasingly addicted to sexual desire was strongly felt, such as becoming sensitive to the smell of food when hungry, but now it felt like nothing around them was as if humans no longer existed.

Is it because I have ignored my instincts for so long that my senses have become dull, or… Is it really that there are no living beings near the Duke’s house?

“Hold on.”

I encourage people to use their ‘voice’ to gain strength.

“What is certain is that a considerable amount of time has passed by now. Perhaps… Ophelia has already…”

“…”

“Is there a way to go back?”

I nodded to Teacher Rebecca’s question.

There may be a slight penalty, but if you just release the trance, you will be able to return to your normal body.

But such a minor penalty was not the problem.

‘If you give up here, Ophelia will die.’

So, I forced myself to come to my senses and walked along with Teacher Rebecca.

“Here.”

And I was finally able to arrive.

Just as a castle standing on a mirror-clear lake appears both on the water and in the real world, a castle is located in the same shape on both sides based on the mirror called the ground.

The duke’s castle that I remember was like a castle where people lived, even though the inside was decorated with blood and flesh, but the duke’s castle now had an ugly appearance worthy of being called the devil’s castle.

A castle where the blood flowing from the spire thickly soaks the castle walls and flows down to the floor.

And, on the other hand, a castle where blood, bubbling like lava, defies gravity and flows backwards into the spire.

The castle where blood flows normally was the castle of a duke in the real world, and the castle where blood flows backwards from below is probably the same space that exists in the demon world.

Even though the sun was now high in the sky on both sides, the sky was as red as twilight.

In the meantime, Teacher Rebecca was already translucent, straddling both worlds, as if split in half.

“This is the Duke’s castle.”

I finally saw it.

The Duke’s castle where demons disguised as human beings roam around in knightly armor, and countless demons are flocking from the other side.

I was able to find demons chasing someone, changing directions as if they were chasing something running away.

‘I found it’

“Thank you for your hard work, Rebecca. You can go back now.”

“I’ll help too.”

“This area is extremely dangerous.”

The Duke’s Castle, now properly called the Devil’s Castle, was so dangerous that I gave up trying to enter it last time.

“A body sworn to protect the students of Celestial Academy… No, a soul.”

A subtle divine power was emanating from her body.

When she first saw her, she was distrustful of her surprising nature, but once she got her help at the Academy, she …

She even had respect for her because she saved Melissa, saved other students, and took care of everyone around her without abandoning anyone.

So I couldn’t leave this respectable school nurse alone.

“Like I said before, I have a way out, but if Rebecca catches her ankle, we won’t be able to get out and we’ll both get caught.”

Teacher Rebecca frowned slightly indignantly at my cold words, but she knew that if she didn’t run away now, she wouldn’t be able to run away when her demons flock in.

“So you just leave it to the students?”

“Yes. Please believe me.”

Teacher Rebecca looked back at me with a slightly surprised expression.

“I am the student you raised.”

“…”

She reminds me of the woman I once met with, the priestess Beace, who helped me.

On the outside, she seemed like an unreliable school nurse who was thoughtless and only liked sexy things, but now we know that she always acts for the sake of her students.

“I must come back.”

“Yes.”

“Actually, in my trance-like state like now… I’m anxious because I feel like I’ll fade away just by coming next to me.”

It’s hard for me right now because I feel like I’m losing my mind.

“But, does Aren have an idea? Just like she saved Melissa.”

“Yes.”

“…I will believe it.”

Teacher Rebecca’s appearance begins to blur.

Watching her move to the real world to avoid the pursuit of her demons, I confirmed that she had returned and took a step forward.

“Hmm…”

A heavy force of gravity that I had not felt before is acting.

‘Was my body this heavy?’

She was so exhausted that she wanted to throw her face on the ground and pass out, but she once again ignited her will and pulled herself up.

It spreads the wings on its waist, wraps itself around my neck, and gathers its strength.

“Cheer up.”

Give yourself power through your ‘voice’, and use that power to shout out.

“Ophelia!”

The name of her who has not yet given up amidst the countless waves of demons.

And, as I take a step forward, I also jump into the waves of those demons.

Numerous demons were screaming and chasing someone, and weaker or smaller demons were being trampled to death, but countless demons were moving like a pack of rats that had lost their senses, following the prey they were chasing.

The moment we finally arrive here, near the Demon King’s Castle in the Demon World.

Chin.

I put my hand on the outer wall.

Bloody thorns sprouted and my hands became covered in blood, but I continued to increase my abilities.

“Ophelia!!”

It’s this way.

Feeling the noisy footsteps of demons rushing into this place, I took a deep breath and concentrated my concentration as much as possible.

‘Here… It’s possible!’

This is where the rules of the real world and the rules of the demon world apply at the same time.

Although it is weakened, if the ability itself is not nullified.

I placed my hand on the other side of the shadow reflected on the Duke’s castle wall in the real world and used the thorns that dug into my fingers to pull out the ink made from blood on my fingers.

Sigh!

With the pain of having my finger cut off in half, I come to my senses and see the crack created by my blood before the dream demon’s soul disperses.

Shaking from the pain, he grabbed the bloody bar that was torn in all directions with both hands and forcibly tore it open.

My [Shadow Pocket]!

Cheeeeek!!

The moment I picked up the contents of the [Shadow Pocket], I felt a burning pain in my hand.

The energy of the Holy Sword of the World Tree was nothing more than a nightmare, and even if touched in a non-hostile situation, the pain was such that my arm would melt.

“Huh… Huh…!!”

But despite that, I was able to hold it.

Even in the pain of my hands burning and my arms disintegrating in real time.

Wow!!

The cries of demons echoed from all directions, and numerous demons arrived here from beyond, which we did not recognize.

Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching from inside the Demon King’s Castle and the sounds of footsteps rushing from outside, I waited for an opportunity.

Finally.

Blame.

I aimed for the moment when small footsteps stopped in front of me.

I looked down on Ganghwa.

The wooden sword’s indestructible effect prevented the item from being destroyed due to the effect of reinforcement failure, but it could not prevent the reinforcement value from dropping to 0.

When you have experienced the side effects of reinforcing reinforcements about three times and are despairing that even +16 reinforcements have ridiculous odds.

By chance, quite by chance, I discovered the rules of reinforcement.

Above +10, the reinforcement is reset, but below that, in single digits, 1 reinforcement is simply subtracted.

So I changed my mind and tried a different way.

Stack Overflow.

The probability of going from +0 to +1 was set extremely high, but the probability of failure was not 0, so it was possible to make a sword.

– Holy Sword of the World Tree +65535 –

– Indestructible –

– Aren exclusive weapon –

– Attack power 0+65535 –

– It resides in your body and can be summoned from any state –

– Ignores all defenses of demons, ensuring optimal damage in any condition –

It was not as good as the previous wooden sword.

In numerical terms, it has been reduced by two-thirds.

But this was enough.

“Ophelia.”

I sent her her her her her her last ‘voice’ her her her.

Lie down? No.

“Stay the same.”

Because you, the heroine, will never get hurt.

Like that, I’swung’her her her sword her with both hands.