Chapter 216 – Death Comes Down From the Sky (06)

What Alice needed was no longer mana, but time and rest, so I spent my time looking at the stars outside the observatory.

Just looking at this distant universe fills me with emotion, and I realize how small we are in front of so many stars.

‘There’s still a lot left to explore, even in the world I live in…’

When I thought that, I got goosebumps for a moment.

“…This is the world I live in.”

At first, I thought I had definitely been ‘caught up in the game’.

So, at first, I tried to safely take the first route, proceed as usual, see the ending, and quickly escape this world and return to the original.

But now it was a completely different thought.

‘I don’t want it to end’

Even after all these stories ended, I still wanted to live here with the heroines.

Like Rito and Sailyan, I wanted to get married properly, have children, and live in this world, sometimes looking forward to it and sometimes feeling burdened.

‘For now… I just have to see the end.’

I calm down once again and wait for the time.

After the orbit rotated about three times, Alex’s father called me.

Meteor descent.

Originally, the concept started by dropping [Star Magic], Protecting stars… That is, meteors, with mana to prevent them from evaporating in the atmosphere.

Although it is not a meteorite and cannot send down a living person, the [Star Wizard] Is said to have a star in its body, so it can be treated as a star.

To be honest, it seemed a bit like a play on words, but since this worldview is a world where magic and miracles occur, it was logical enough.

‘Huh? Isn’t that Alice?’

But when I saw Alice floating in front of her eyes, looking at me, I thought it was something, a hallucination, but in reality, her body contained the Alice star I knew.

‘Why did you go outside? Is something broken?’

“Hmm. Can we talk for a moment?”

Alex’s father called me while deliberately clearing his throat.

“Father, Alice…”

“I told you to leave for a moment.”

Since my body is protected by a barrier, nothing much will happen, but it feels strange to see Alice swimming in outer space.

And that’s while wearing only a bodysuit.

“Tell me.”

It must have been a sensitive enough topic to send Alice out, so I looked at my father seriously and listened to the story.

“Listen carefully. You may be called a [Star Wizard] In your own right, but meteor descent is not an easy task. Please reconsider.”

“I already thought about it and told you.”

“In the blink of an eye, you could fall and be pinned to the ground. Even if that doesn’t happen, if the angle of your plunge is slightly off, your whole body could be burned by the flames that crossed the barrier.”

Even actual stars evaporate in the air if they are dropped incorrectly, so the [Star Wizard] Was also at risk of evaporating in the air.

So, they asked me to put on a space suit and descend, but I said I would go down, believing in Alice’s miracle.

If you went down wearing a spacesuit, you had to immediately take it off in a safe place and fight.

If there were enemies there, I would have been defenseless while I was trying to get out, so it was tactically right to go down bare-handed.

“Whew… Alice’s abilities are amazing, but she has to calculate the coordinates in real time to clear the way for you while you go down. Normal humans fall at a much slower speed, but the [Star’s] We use [Magic] Accelerates it to be close to a meteor…”

“I know.”

For the same reason, [Shadow Mask] Could not be used when breaking through the atmosphere.

“So, if I send you down, Alice will also need rest, and since I will be using my mana, I will have no mana. In that case, support from [Star Magic] Will be delayed. Is that okay?”

In other words, I had to endure against the demons without any support.

“Yes.”

“Do you trust my daughter that much?”

“Yes. And I believe it too, father.”

“What if we make a mistake? Just by blinking or missing a moment, you will be in vain, not even leaving a body behind.”

“Because I believe it won’t happen.”

“…Your trust in the [Star Wizard] Is great.”

“It’s about trust in Alice and Alex’s father. I don’t trust my own [Star magic] Right now.”

When I said that, Alex’s father looked tired, but still smiled happily.

“I understand. If you have that kind of determination.”

Alex’s father put the star emblem that was hanging on his shoulder into my breast pocket.

“Good luck.”

* ​ * ​ *

For Meteor Descent, I learned how to set up a barrier from Alice as an attribute.

It is to prevent loss of body temperature and air by installing a barrier over the skin, but the teaching was short, so all I could do was fix the body and move slowly.

‘I can’t hear any sound’

There is no air in outer space, so there is no sound.

So I couldn’t even use my ‘voice’.

In the silence, I turned my gaze toward the observatory, where Alice was looking at me, praying, on her knees where I could see.

‘A girl praying while looking at the stars…’

She referred to herself as a star girl, and while she feared the wolf that would eat her, she also longed for it.

And I was her wolf.

‘The star girl praying for the wolves’

There was something poetic about it, but also very out of place.

Of course, Alice has grown up to be considered a girl now.

My body was flying and moving so slowly that it was boring, but with the slight momentum I received at first, I was being pulled towards the ground, little by little, out of the gravitational equilibrium point.

You shouldn’t rush. Because the orbit is misaligned.

And Alice needs to know my location.

Alice’s ability Her Her, which is similar to Melissa’s [Perpetual Engine Drive] And Inori’s [Shadow Predator], Is unlocked in 5.0.

[The girl who sees the stars]

I didn’t learn any particularly powerful magic.

In any case, there was no case where [Star Magic] Was lacking or its power was low.

It’s just that Alice can now accurately see my location without any special beacons.

Believing in Alice’s ability to find my star no matter where it was, I exchanged a look with her while slowly feeling myself ‘falling’.

‘Trust’

If you don’t believe in it, you won’t act like this. He must have put on a spacesuit and descended safely somehow.

However, because he trusts Alice, he falls like this with her bare body, taking only the bare minimum.

‘It begins’

In the vacuum of space where I couldn’t even use my ‘voice’, I felt the guidance of gravity pulling me.

I feel a slight sense of discomfort near my head, and slowly this bright blue star begins to get closer.

I started to be dragged at a snail’s crawling speed, but before I knew it, it became a slow walking speed, which then turned into a running speed, and now I started to fall completely.

As I saw the Aurora shining in the distance, I briefly put on the [Shadow Mask] On my face.

Of course, the coordinates on my face quickly became misaligned.

Huuuuung-!

I didn’t feel any heat. Because there isn’t that much air yet.

But slowly, when I start to feel resistance starting to push my body away.

All the air I had breathed in at the observatory was gone.

“Ah.”

My concentration was broken and my thin barrier was shattered.

I recharged myself little by little by absorbing the weak air, established my posture properly, and waited for Alice’s guidance.

I feel it. Alice’s eyes began to read the constellations on my body.

I was just a naked young man right now, but Alice created a hemispherical barrier in front of me.

There hasn’t been much need for protection yet, but only after a few seconds.

Howling!

Flames began to rise from outside the barrier.

‘The angle of entry… Is good…!’

The falling speed is getting faster.

Since a person’s terminal velocity was fixed anyway, he couldn’t fall that fast.

However, when I thought about sending out the stars from my body with a barrier like now, Alice recognized me as a new star.

I was accelerating once again.

A star falling in the air using the star’s mana itself as a problowjobnt.

‘I myself become a star’

It’s fast.

When I see the continent that seemed small quickly grow and expand beyond the burning barrier, I can feel the speed at which I am falling.

It becomes a single shooting star and splits the air.

The flame became a tail, cutting through the night sky and drawing a line of brilliant light in the sky.

Literally a split second, a short period of time before I fell and hit the spire.

For a brief period of less than a second, star mana overflowed from my body.

Finally, the moment my body, which had fallen at an angle, touched the spire.

Releases the star mana remaining in the entire body.

Kuwaaaaang-!!

The star’s mana liberated from me becomes a star on my behalf and strikes the earth.

That star becomes a scourge that strikes the earth and blows up half of the Duke’s castle.

Even a strong triple wall could barely collapse after dozens of days of pounding with siege weapons, and it could not handle the stars that fell from the sky, and even if it was blocked by installing a complex enclave, it would inevitably collapse if struck with more force than that.

Tsuzuzuzu…

As I heard the sound of the enclave being forcibly demolished, I realized that this plan was a success.

In the aftermath of the explosion, I slowed down and stepped into the collapsed duke castle, or rather, the demon castle of this world.

And there wasn’t even the slightest burn or scratch on my body.

“Thank you, Alice.”

It felt like the stars in the sky were smiling at me.

It was hard, but I felt like I could see a star smiling while saying that it was a success.

“Just rest. I’ll praise you more later.”

Tiring!

– Global event [Last Survivor] Begins –

– Survive until help arrives –

“Marian. Inori. Melissa. Golem No. 2. Cylian. Holyo. Kay. Seri. Eric!”

As I saw countless demons flocking to replace the demons that had just evaporated in the bombing, I opened my [Shadow Pouch] And pulled out the holy sword.

A holy sword shining against the background of a collapsed spire and a large number of demons that overwhelm it.

I raised the strength of my whole body, forcibly suppressing the warning that my survival instinct was telling me that I would die if I continued like this.

“Come quickly! I’m dying!!”