Chapter 140 – Success

Episode 140 – Succession

Back a little bit in the past, Deborah continued to look outside the fortress while fighting monsters.

‘Wouldn’t it appear now?’

She was looking for Luan.

When she heard that she had gone missing in the dark during the day, her heart sank.

No, she really got down.

The heart that had sunk into that deep abyss was still spewing out sorrow. Tears start to flow freely from my eyes.

Belated regret followed.

If I had known this would happen, I would have stayed by your side instead of avoiding you. If I had known in advance, I would have been able to become one squad with the help of my teacher.

This is a punishment from heaven.

A punishment to myself for daring to reject it even though I was given so much happiness.

But that makes me resent it even more.

If you want to punish someone, why punish Luan when you should just give it to the person involved?

Because causing pain to someone you love is the best punishment? If that is really the case, it can be said that Heaven made the right choice.

Right now, she was in so much pain that she wondered if this would still happen even if Master died.

Every minute and every second felt like living in hell.

‘Please. Please come back.’

There was no longer any thought about the crisis in the fortress in Deborah’s mind.

Only Luan.

I am so full of worries about my loved one that there is no room for other things to come in.

It was that moment.

Ahh!

A huge slash stretched out from the ground and split the clouds.

Deborah felt an intuition of something.

As if to prove her prediction, a familiar silhouette appeared along with a flash of light.

A man wearing a mask made of flames and holding a silver long sword. Although the atmosphere and characteristics were quite different from usual, Deborah immediately recognized that it was Luan.

“Ahhh…”

My vision is blurry.

She sat down, feeling hot tears streaming down her cheeks.

“Luan…”

He was alive.

The heart that had been rotting in the abyss was immediately brought up to the ground, and sadness was replaced with joy.

Laughter freely flowed from her mouth.

“Ahaha…”

The priest who has rushed to see the strange behavior of laughing with tears in his eyes and looks embarrassed.

For her part, she is probably worried that Deborah has gone crazy due to the unbearable situation.

However, Deborah did not care at all about the priest’s reaction and only looked at Luan as if she were fascinated.

In that gaze, Luan raised the sword.

Paaaaa!

Light shines.

The pouring sun penetrates the sword, and enormous flames soar, forming a brilliant sword body.

A sight as if the sun had descended.

Soon, the sword was swung and a red trace was drawn in the sky.

Deborah made a promise.

‘I don’t avoid it anymore.’

I won’t avoid Luan for fear that my true intentions will be revealed. Rather than losing and regretting it later, I would rather just die in hope.

She was determined not to change even if she was not chosen by him and had to wander by his side for the rest of her life.

*

As soon as the sword was swung, a red line was drawn in the sky.

Kwazijijik!

A slash of flame explodes on the ground.

Everything splits along the passing path and melts in the tremendous heat.

Behemoth belatedly noticed the attack and tried to respond, but an ax aimed at that moment revealed a loophole.

Sigh!

In the end, he was cut by a slash and suffered deep fatal wounds from his shoulder to his hips.

─Kaaaaa!

The Behemoth went crazy in pain.

As he struggled wildly and swung his fists, he suddenly aimed his horn at the fortress and shot out a sphere of condensed magic energy.

It was the last struggle to save as many lives as possible.

In the end, just before the magic sphere attacks the fortress.

“Yaaaaap!”

Leona blocked the attack with her blazing shield.

But no matter how strong she was, she couldn’t withstand the Behemoth’s blow. In an instant, her shield shattered and she flew behind her.

Still, thanks to that, the struggle ended in failure.

─Kuo… Wow!

Behemoth looked up at Alfred with a look of resentment.

“This nooooom!”

At the same time, Bruno rushed in with Ilgal.

Crumbling!

To finish her off her, she seemed to have drawn out her all of her magical power her, and with a thunderous blast, she swung her ax and struck the Behemoth’s head her of.

It is so powerful that the cow’s horns are crushed first, its skull caved in, and its neck, unable to withstand the impact, turns more than 360 degrees and breaks.

Behemoth’s red, bloodshot eyes close and his massive body his falls to the ground.

Wow!

The weight was so great that a weak earthquake occurred.

“It’s finally over.”

After successfully completing his mission, Alfred said this and let go of his long sword.

The silver long sword, which had completed its function, turned into a handful of ashes and scattered in the wind.

That seemed to represent Alfred’s situation.

“Thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to achieve my long-held wish. Now I can go to the goddess’ side.”

-… Thanks goodness.

“Thank you for saying that.”

I felt Alfred’s soul in my mind gradually disappearing.

At the same time, control of the body is taken over.

And just before he completely disappeared, his last words echoed in his head.

-Don’t blame the goddess too much. He has high expectations for you. He asked me to tell him he was sorry. Haha!

“… Yes? What does that mean? Alfred? Alfred!”

I was surprised by the unexpected words and asked back, but I couldn’t hear anything from Alfred, who had already disappeared.

I bit my lip tightly.

‘Don’t complain? Are you having expectations? ‘Are you sorry?’

I don’t know what all of them are talking about.

But one thing is certain: the emotion I felt upon hearing those words was not relief or relief, but extreme anger.

What I went through wasn’t so simple that all my emotions could be relieved with just an apology.

And it will be even more painful in the future.

It was an apology that was worse than not making anything.

While suppressing my anger, I suddenly felt a persistent gaze and turned my head.

I made eye contact with Bruno.

For a moment, a chill ran down my spine, but he didn’t do anything for some reason.

Only then did I realize.

‘You know who I am.’

He must have sensed my presence in the phoenix and dragon flames felt when using the replica sun sword.

I slightly lowered my head and then hastily turned my back. I had to avoid at least having my identity revealed to others.

Belatedly, one word penetrates my ear.

-See you later.

When I looked at Bruno again, he walked away as if nothing had been said.

I tilted my head, thinking that there might be any trouble, so I shook off my worries and hurried towards the dungeon.

I was going back the way I came.

“Oh, right. There was that.”

I suddenly remembered something and checked the status window.

As promised, an unfamiliar skill that I did not know was added to the unique skills tab.

[Photonization – Transforms the body into photons in an instant. It is not restricted by physical phenomena and moves at a speed close to the speed of light.]

“Oh!”

Obtained the Dog Fighter skill.

*

“I’m glad you came back safely! “I’ll get less criticism from the dean!”

Bruno welcomed us back to the fortress.

With a hearty laugh, he slaps my shoulder hard and I feel like I’m going to dislocate it like this.

Bruno especially massaged my shoulders for a long time.

“You two should talk to me.”

“Yes? Me?”

“Okay. I have something to say. Let the others go. “You must be very tired, so you should rest.”

Isis flinched at Bruno’s instructions.

I guess the way he glances at me makes me feel bad about leaving him alone.

It’s too overprotective.

“Sister. Go first. “I’ll talk for a bit and then I’ll leave.”

“… Huh. Okay. “I’ll come see you at dinner.”

This was a subtle pressure on Bruno to make it through dinnertime.

Whether he knows it or not, Bruno just smiles.

As the group left, Bruno tapped their shoulders again.

Paang!

“You. “What was that earlier?”

“That one from earlier?”

“Okay. They also use divine power. The last attack seemed difficult for even me to block. Are you really a paladin?”

Bruno seemed secretly pleased.

If I said yes, I was ready to swing the ax at any moment, so I quickly shook my head.

“It can’t be.” As you will know when you receive a detailed report tomorrow, we were trapped in a strange dungeon. There I saw Behemoth’s corpse, and the sword stuck in its head spoke to me. I caught it and that’s what happened. “I can’t do it anymore.”

“Hmm… The Paladin’s thoughts must have been there. What a waste. Tsk…”

The sight of him clicking his tongue as if regretful is eerie.

As he was secretly on guard and ready to jump at any moment, Bruno suddenly gathered strength in his hands.

Wooooow!

A huge amount of magical power is condensed in an instant and draws a sphere. The blazing river had the power to blow down a mountain.

“What is it like?”

“Yes?”

“How do you feel?”

“Hmm… It’s amazing.”

“Is that the end?”

So what else is there?

I didn’t know what he was talking about, so I looked at his hands and face his back and forth, and Bruno clenched his fists to show his strength and spoke plainly.

“This technique is an application of the magic spirit. “Shinma Geukyeong is a technique that started with one question.”

“Doubt?”

“Okay. Normally, people release the magical energy inside their bodies to the outside and then concentrate it to form strong energy. But why should we? You know that the further away your magic power is from your body, the harder it is to control it. “Then wouldn’t it be more efficient to concentrate in advance from within and unleash it as strength?”

“That…”

It’s an idea I’ve never thought of.

In fact, if you really look at it, Danjeon is already a lump of strong energy formed by concentrating magical power.

So what ordinary people do these days is to unpack what they have gathered, send it outside, and then put it back together again.

Truly efficient behavior.

After gaining enlightenment, I immediately tried to concentrate the magic power in my body, but Bruno quickly stopped me.

“Stop.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“I said this, but there’s a reason people haven’t tried it. This technique is very dangerous. If you make a mistake, the balance of magical power will be broken and the body will explode.”

“Did you teach me such a dangerous technique?”

“You haven’t told me yet. “You tried to experiment on your own.”

That is definitely true.

Only the rough mechanism was mentioned and the exact technology was not revealed at all.

When I became calm, Bruno continued.

“Well, actually, knowing the rules doesn’t make you completely safe. It just lowers the chance of failure.”

“I beg your pardon? Is that true?”

“Don’t worry too much. It won’t hurt that much. Don’t you have regenerative abilities anyway? Anyway, I’ll tell you from now on. “Focus.”

Bruno explained the story in a serious voice, which was not typical of his usual personality.

With all of that clearly engraved in my mind, I left the commander’s office 30 minutes later.

Then I was able to make eye contact with Deborah, who was quietly waiting for me nearby.