Chapter 138 – Power

#138.

“Why..?”

Why do you appear in front of me only at times like this?

Bianca said in a trembling voice with such intention.

Did you hear that voice?

Rai, who was confronting the ogre, glanced back and spat out a word calmly.

“What.”

Why did one indifferent word seep into her heart like this, as if he hadn’t done anything?

I looked around, but Rai was alone.

If I had been with Professor Cristina, of course I would have been with her now, and even if not, I would have to work hard to join her.

Why did you come to save yourself first? I just couldn’t believe it.

“Why! Why did you save me Even though I always hated it that much!”

Naturally, harsh words came out in response to the reaction against himself who was so shaken just by the fact that he had come to save him first.

It was a pity, but I couldn’t pick up the words I had already spoken.

Rai, whose expression hardened for a moment at her own words, soon turned her gaze to the front and spoke.

“Run away.”

As if I couldn’t stand her crying, my heart thumped at her voice, which was both desperate and sad! She sat down

‘Again… Run away?’

Everyone may not think so, but he has already abandoned Rye once.

In the dungeon, she left Lai, who had been encouraging her not to give up, and she got out alone.

I know it’s not her fault.

But I don’t want to let that happen again.

And if he left now, he would really have no face raising his head and looking at Professor Cristina.

Therefore..

“No. I’m not going.”

She resolutely rejected her offer.

“Run away.”

But Rai wanted to run away again.

I tried to make him say that he would do so with all the complex emotions inside him, but he held back and refused.

“No! Why should I run away? I don’t need your help!”

To say you don’t need help is a lie.

But if you don’t do it this far, you won’t understand, so there’s nothing you can do about it.

My will never breaks.

I reflected on it, but I couldn’t help but hesitate at Lai’s actions that followed.

“I told you to run away!!”

Turning to Bianca, Rai’s face was wet with tears.

Why… Is Rai crying?

Was she really that sad when she said she wouldn’t leave?

No, it can’t be.

Isn’t a man named Rai not having a cry because of himself?

“Any reason… Tell me.”

Really, just in case… Has Professor Christina already suffered a catastrophe? Is that why she has lost the will to live and is thinking of giving up her life?

If so, you must block it.

Bianca, who was thinking that way, heard unexpected words.

“I want you… To live. So run away This is my last request.”

Bianca’s brain temporarily stopped.

It’s clearly something I heard with my ears, but it feels like it’s not being conveyed properly to my brain.

As if buffered, the words echoed in her head.

‘Me? Me? Me?’

To interpret Rai’s words, it means that she wants to save herself, even at the cost of her own life.

Bianca wondered if there was an error in her brain that made her come to that conclusion. She thought again slowly.

But nothing changes.

In the meantime, Rai is seen charging at the ogre.

As he was about to follow, the servants grabbed his arm.

“Oh, no! This… Let go of this! We have to fight together. I can’t leave you alone!”
“My lady, you must go!”
“Ha ha.. Ha.. Ha..!”

Her heart pounded wildly at the unexpected information, and she had trouble breathing.

Her brain was also confused and she couldn’t think properly.

In her head, her self as Bianca Yurinas, which had been firmly established until now, and the self of Bianca, born after her meeting with Rai, were fighting.

Opinion to judge calmly and opinion to go to help right now.

Even while my brain was engrossed in such heated discussion, my legs continued to move involuntarily.

Follow the servants to the other side of the rai. To a safe place where there are no monsters as much as possible.

The strongest survival instinct among human instincts reacted strongly only at this time.

Bianca couldn’t help but open her mouth as she watched Rai’s back as her thoughts were paralyzed.

***

“Thank you. Then I will go somewhere else!”

The knight thanked them for their help, but hurried away to save the students who might still be alive somewhere.

“Ironic. Because it is vacation, there is a gap in the armed forces, but on the contrary, there are few people, so the damage will be small.”
“Yes. I see.”

Christina bit her lip as she agreed with Luke Eriks’ words.

As soon as this happened, she rushed out of the building to find Rye, and by chance she met and accompanied Luke Eriks.

But..

‘I’m sure it’s this person.’

It might be an illusion, but my intuition informed me that the professor named Luke Erics next to me was a member of the Church of the Fall.

Every time she joined others, she thought about making it known but felt it was not enough.

However, it is not possible to explain each one individually.

Perhaps, if the other person’s appearance seemed strange, he would immediately launch an attack.

‘There must be a rai…’

Is it just too dependent? Or is it really just an intuition triggered by something?

With her belief that if she had Rye, she could defeat Luke Eriks, Christina was struggling to feign composure even with enemies right next to her.

“Then let’s go. To save the other students…”
“Whoa… That won’t work.”

Creepy!

Cristina felt goosebumps at her sudden, nonchalant words, without a hint of emotion.

At the same time, Christina hurriedly released her magical powers and formed a barrier to the horror felt behind her back.

Kwaaaaa-

A platinum-colored wind whirled rapidly around Christina’s body, instantly isolating her from the outside world.

At that moment, an intense shock shook the barrier.

Kwagwagwang!

“Ugh..!”

Cristina continued to stare at Luke Eriks without losing her focus even in the dizzy situation.

Then, a chain of bones extending from her hand was blocked by the barrier.

“Bone..?”
“I tried to hold it in for a while, but I couldn’t… Lai. Where is he?”
“That… Why are you curious?”

She heard that she was being targeted by the Church of Destruction, although she didn’t hear it properly because it was related to knowing the etiquette of the aristocratic family.

And when he said that Luke Eriks was looking for Rai, it also meant that his intuition was right.

That made her even more frustrated. If his intuition that he needs a lie is also correct, it means he can’t handle it on his own.

Of course, she had no intention of letting her hands go down like this. He didn’t want to become a burden to Rai by being captured, in case he died alone.

“I can’t put it into words.”

When Luke Eriks did not respond to his own words, he immediately launched a wave of attacks as if he had made a decision.

Crush the wedge—!

Dozens of bone chains protruded from her wide sleeves, and she began pounding the wind curtain.

“Keep off..!”

She kept her barrier for a while, and then took the attack away, but Christina, thinking that it couldn’t be like this, put her veil on her whole body and quickly ran back.

Paaang!

Then her gale picked up and she lifted Christina high in the air.

And her bone chain is koo-goo-goo-goo! She roamed her ground, smashing it with her mess.

“Christina Camelot. Just tell me where Rai is, and I’ll let you go. So speak plainly.”
“I refuse.”

It’s a lie. I have no intention of selling Rai, but even if I did, I would try to deal with her in the end to get rid of her witness.

‘Are there any other church members?’

Really, she was worried that there might be other members of the Church of Extinction besides Luke Eriks, but luckily, it didn’t seem like that was the case.

The wind is freewheeling, and it is easy to dispel its influence. Because that’s what wind is.

It exists everywhere in the world, can go anywhere, and is invisible, so there is no place you can’t dig into.

Therefore, Christina’s mana perception is superior to that of a wizard of her level, as well as a wizard one step above her.

To get away from such Christina, she is said to be at least 10 stars, but that is impossible.

If such a person existed, he would have been caught right away.

‘Let’s do it.’

With Luke Eriks alone, the odds are never zero, no matter how slim.

If this is the case, shouldn’t I do something?

“Whoa..”

Cristina looked down at Luke Eriks from her mid-air and began dispersing her mana with all her might.

Coo coo coo coo…

Then the wind began to blow like crazy, as if a typhoon had arrived in an instant.

Cristina looked down loftily with a platinum-colored wind wrapped around her center, and she looked like a goddess.

But..

Hehe… It’s like that.”

Luke Eriks laughed rather absurdly, and smoked Margie up.

Platinum-colored storms in the sky and black demonic air rose from the ground, forming a contrast.

Jijijijijijijiji..!!

And eventually, the moment the two people’s magic met in the center, it caused a backlash with a powerful shockwave.

Trees were uprooted and blown away by the impact, and buildings shook precariously.

Christina created a storm, but it wasn’t to pour a wide-area bombardment like this.

Her specialty is compression.

Of course, it has infinitely weaker power compared to its main specialty, such as wide-area attacks.

Of course, if other people saw it, they would open their mouths saying it was this amazing, but it’s not their strength yet.

‘Gather!’

With Christina’s strong will, the storm began to compress.

On the surface, it seemed like he was being pushed by Luke Eriks’ demonic energy, but the reality was different.

It is like a beast crouching down to hunt. It is like a bow pulled taut before the string is let go.

“It’s boring.”

At that time, Luke Eriks seemed to be fighting for a while, then stretched out both of his hands with a bored expression on his face.

Then hundreds of bone chains flew at once.

Chirrrr!

Bone chains rubbed against each other, making a terrifying, jingling noise, like a rattlesnake shaking the bells of its tail.

Seeing that, Christina raised her hand. Then she aimed her index finger as if she were shooting her gun, and for a moment her eyes widened and she fired her mana with full force.

Peeing-

Then, at the tip of her index finger, a ball of platinum-colored wind, the size of her ping-pong ball, shot out at imperceptible speed.

And..

Kwa-ja-ja-ja-jajak- wooooong!

It shattered all the bone chains and wanted to dig in, but then it exploded from the center, shattering all the chains.

Then, even Luke Eriks seemed to be surprised by the power, and after a moment of hesitation, burst into madness.

Haha! Okay. Is it the power of compression? I have to do something like this!!”
“How..”

He’s not even sure he has the power of compression, so how does Luke Eriks know?

If he has a way to know the authority of the Church of Destruction, and he finds a way to use it, it is very dangerous.

Cristina had a bit of a sense of what kind of foe she was fighting. She became an enemy of a huge, indescribably vast and mighty organization.

She broke into a cold sweat, but Cristina calmly stole it away and she compressed her wind again.

‘Dangerous..’

In fact, with this blow, she intended to at least hit him somewhat, but it ended up crushing her attack.

This attack consumed so much of her mana that even Christina couldn’t use it that much, so it was regrettable.

“Please don’t die!”

Is it because of the barrier he formed? As I exhaled demonic energy, the dome resonated and reacted and began to amplify it.

They became a chain of bones and attacked Christina relentlessly.

Thud! Kugoong! Charleureu— keying!

Christina began her movement, avoiding anything that could be avoided and cutting off anything that could be avoided in order to minimize the consumption of her mana.

‘I have to go to the office…’

It wasn’t just Christina who was vaguely waiting for the identity of the member of the Church of the Abolition to be discovered.

Rather, when he appears, he anticipates that the stage will be within the academy, and draws a huge magic circle near his office.

With one signal from himself, the magic circle will be activated, and if so, he can be defeated.

As soon as those calculations fell, Cristina held out as much as she could to avoid giving the impression that she was inducing, and she continued moving little by little.

“Okay. Run away! Lai so that he can see!”

Luke Eriks rather increased the frequency of her attacks as if Christina was wandering around and hoping to reunite with Rai.

Chanang! Kigiging—Kagagagak!

As if there was no limit to his magical power, he continued to attack by spewing thousands of bone chains from his sleeves.

‘The magical power is so fleeting.’

There was about half of it left, but in order to defeat him at once, I had to leave enough power to attack even after activating the magic circle.

That’s why Christina headed for the faculty building where her office was, adjusting her body so that it didn’t come into contact with her body.

Wedge liquid-

“Oops!”

While I was looking away for a moment, the bone chain came close to me.

Kwaaang!

“Kyaa!”

A huge bone chain struck the barrier, and Christina let out a scream at the impact, bouncing her feet a few times on the ground, flying and staggering to her feet.

“It’s okay.”

And she did just that, so she was finally able to get to Professor Dong.

Percussion!

At the same time, Luke Eriks also landed lightly in front of Christina.

“I guess I need to make some adjustments now. I’ll kill you if you don’t. But… Even if you don’t have at least one arm or leg, it won’t be a problem, right?”

He snapped his finger with a sadistic grin, and the moment his bone chain flew off.

“I’m sorry, but… You’re the one who dies!!”

Cristina pressed her straight to the floor, releasing her mana.

Whoops!

The ground pulsated once, as if the sound of a heart beating loudly, and then a magic circle came to mind.

“What. This..!”

Luke Eriks probably didn’t expect the magic circle to work normally in the land eroded by the Demon World.

‘Idiot… There’s no way I can make it so easy to destroy.’

There’s no way you wouldn’t be prepared for an emergency in the first place. Cristina didn’t intend to dispel the mystery, so she immediately cast an additional spell of her own.

[Vortex!]

Among the magic that Christina can currently perform, it is the highest level of magic. She usually has to recite long incantations, but she is a magic circle for that.

The Qugwagwagwa-

“Aaaaa! Christina Camelot!!”
A huge hurricane appeared in an instant and swallowed it, forming a small orb.

As the size decreased, the influence decreased, but the power rather doubled. A vortex the size of a building compressed to a level slightly larger than a person.

You wouldn’t have to imagine how strong the power that resided there would be.

Thud! Kugoong!

In the middle, the sphere shuddered to see if he resisted, but even so, all that came out was the black demonic energy that was pulverized by the vortex and scattered into the air.

She was pretty sure she was dead, but Cristina held the vortex for five minutes without letting her relax.

“Haaaaa..!”

She then took a deep, rapid breath at the tip of her chin, reaping her magic.

‘Her magic power has run out…’

Squeezing all her strength, her knees bent spontaneously from her tremendous exhaustion.

The moment she is about to sit down.

“Tina! Careful!!”

A nostalgic, but at the same time, an urgent voice was heard.

At that warning, she raised her head and saw a long black column of light extending from the ceiling of the dome to a deep pit dug by the vortex.

That buck-

And a skeleton with pure white bones crawled out of it.

Rich.

An immortal body that can only be achieved when a wizard in a high state sacrifices countless lives to form a vessel to contain the soul.

Without a robe, only her white skeleton was exposed, the bastard rattled her jaw joint and pointed her finger at her defenseless Christina.

[Die.]

He rested a lot because there were only bones left, and his voice was unpleasant, as if scratching iron, but it was definitely Luke Eriks.

Death sentence.

At the same time that sounded like that, her bone chain wrapped around the black demon moved toward Christina.

“Ah..”

You die like this

I naturally felt that way.

Maintaining the shortest distance in a straight line with his heart, he had no strength left to avoid the approaching bone chains.

Even so, there is no way that a lie that is hundreds of meters away can knock it out.

‘It’s unfortunate.’

Now, the only thing left to do is to find true love and enjoy happiness, but to die already. The world is so unfair.

Hi.. Lai.

I say goodbye inside and close my eyes…

So-

An indescribable sensation and at the same time a warm yet sweet body odor wrapped around his nose.

At the same time, I was able to realize that someone was embracing and holding me.

Every time I open my eyes, from the time I wake up in the morning to the time I go to bed at night. And I see the face that I kept thinking about right before I died.

“Tina. Are you okay?”

Eyes full of worry. Rough breath. And a heart beating like crazy.

She was so surprised that she jumped to her own heart at the beat.

She opened her mouth with a faint laugh at the emotion reversed in an instant from the fear of her death.

“Why are you here so late? You idiot.”