R4STWH - Chapter 141
Chapter 141
Having safely reached Zero, I immediately got into position and gathered my mana.
I didn’t need a powerful hit.
If I put too much mana into it, he’d notice, and I’d fail.
'I only have one chance.'
Baeksa and Zero were fighting without holding back, and there were a lot of variables because of that.
Most people would have had difficulty following their afterimages, the speed was so fast. Endless explosions of mana were happening around them.
However, difficult and impossible were two different things. The more familiar one is with a technique, the harder it was to sense the difference, so I purposely chose one of Zero's skills.
'Skill name, Water Snake.'
Immediately upon activation, it shot across the ground at a high speed, and then bounced up after hitting the ground and changing its angle.
And then,
Thwack!
It hit Zero right on the back of his head.
“……!”
I had finally succeeded in whacking him on the back of the head!
Just before I could cut down the staggering Zero, Baeksa seemed to realize something was wrong. He quickly twisted his wrist, and used the side of his sword, not the blade, to hit Zero.
“Guh…!”
I ran after Zero, who was sent flying into the distance with a blast. It was then that Baeksa, who was standing there awkwardly, stopped moving and noticed me.
“You…!”
He was so surprised that he couldn’t even form proper words and just moved his lips.
'Was my surprise attack that good?'
Leaving Baeksa, who seemed overly surprised, I ran towards Zero and began to twist his arms behind his back to bind him.
“Ugh, ugh……”
I smacked him on the back of the head again and said, “Just give up. Surely you don’t think you can take both of us on at the same time, do you?”
Zero stopped moving when he heard my voice. And then, “……Hayang-a.”
He called out my name with a trembling voice. “What, is that some goat-like bleating sound? Did it hurt that much?”
“……”
“Serves you right, you stupid fool! Even if you wanted to beat me so badly……”
After my tirade of curses, Zero slumped down, and Elias, dragging something bloody, threw it near us, and then helped me to bind Zero. “What is that?”
“Melder.”
Elias briefly glanced at the Saintess, who was hiding behind a pile of rocks and glaring at us, then answered my question, “I didn’t kill him.”
It seemed that he had acted in advance, in case Melder would try to escape in the confusion. “Okay, good job.”
The Saintess’s anger was too much to just easily kill him. I wanted to do what she wanted for Melder. I looked around, and it seemed that most of those who had sided with Melder had been subdued. “I thought you were dead.”
Baeksa, who had regained his senses, said in a hoarse voice. “Huh? Why would I be?”
“I received a quest to save you and the Saintess before the seal formation was completed, but I failed. I couldn’t feel your presence either.”
Ah, I see…….
So that was why he had lost his mind and screamed, unlike his usual self. It made some sense. That eerie divine power, created by absorbing countless lives, was extremely dangerous and malicious. If Elias hadn’t been destroying the structures that collected that power, it would have been too hard for me to even get close. So, there was a possibility that my presence had been obscured by that evil power.
‘Or maybe, I was already in the underground cemetery when Baeksa arrived.’
Anyway, we were truly out of time. I turned to look at Crow, who had run over here with the Saintess and said,
“Take the kids and retreat, now. This place is going to be a ruin soon.”
“Huh? What do you mean suddenly…….”
Judging from their reactions, it seemed that they hadn’t received the final quest, as the conditions had not been met.
“Three SS-class monsters are being summoned here. There isn’t much time left. We need to hurry.”
I planned to lure them as far away as possible, to protect those hiding in the underground cemetery, but it was better to evacuate as many as possible for now.
At the mention of three SS-class monsters, Crow was shocked and ran back to his Holy Knights. Elias also ordered the Tenaclad and Lakdel Knights to retreat. Thanks to having run away like this a few times, everyone prepared to retreat quickly by gathering the wounded without too much confusion. The problem was that the first one had already begun to appear.
The final boss monster, the Monarch of Famine (SS), has appeared in the field.
“Damn it…… this, if I had known, if only it hadn’t been like this……”
Zero, who had been quiet all this time, as if he had fainted, said through gritted teeth. “If those three combine, they’ll be as strong as a final boss-enhanced Ermitar. Do you really think the two of you can take them?”
“We’ll manage somehow. Stop worrying and just give up already.”
His face contorted even more after my brusque reply. “I still… I still need to find one more fragment…… like this, I can’t do anything…….”
I roughly put the muttering Zero under my arm, and turned to Elias, “Elias, can you distract that thing for a moment?”
“Okay.”
Elias calmly replied, and picked up a sword lying on the ground. He threw it toward the crack in the sky. Bang!
Everyone was startled by the sound of the explosion, and they turned to look at the source.
“Don’t get distracted, and hurry if you don’t want to die!”
I went to Crow, who was hurrying the knights, and entrusted Zero to him. “Crow, I’m entrusting the First Prince to you. If he tries anything funny, hit him on the back of his head to knock him out. Understood?”
“Yes, Lady Ilesha. I’ll also come back as soon as I have moved all the wounded.”
“Wait, Hayang-a……!”
I glanced at Zero, who was struggling and calling my name. “No. Guarding him is your most important mission. Don’t worry and just go.”
“Understood. Please… be careful.”
“No, no… Hayang-a!!! If you do that, you will die! This isn’t what I… this isn’t what I wanted!”
“What’s there to be so surprised about?”
I checked to make sure that Crow had mounted his horse with Zero over his shoulder, and immediately joined Elias and Baeksa.
‘There are 20 seconds left until the next summon… No, maybe around 15 seconds left now.’
Now wasn’t the time to save my strength. If I didn’t give it my all from the very beginning, we could be facing the worst scenario where we would have to face two or three of them at once.
The problem was that, even though it was already difficult to fight one of them, we had to lure them as far away as possible from the temple.
‘Well, at least there’s the Saintess, so as long as we’re breathing, we’ll somehow survive.’
It was different from the past, when there was truly no one else but Zero, Baeksa, Yumi, and me. Even if we won, we were still worried about surviving. In this world, there was a plentiful amount of resources. Although we had reached the very end of the disaster, there were far more survivors than casualties, and there were more cities that were somewhat fine than the destroyed ones. So, I had to win, no matter what. If we lost here, it would all be such a waste.
‘Delicious desserts, steak, fruit, potage… I wasn’t bored of any of them.’
And above all,
‘I haven’t even made a child with Elias yet.’
A child who would look like him and me, a child that would shine brighter than the most precious mineral in the world. We would become a family, like we had always wanted, with that child. At the end of this fight, finally.
Stat restrictions have been removed.
Strength: 300→785 Stamina: 300→721 Agility: 300→945 Spirit: +999
All trait penalties have been removed.
As the 70-second timer began, I leaped without hesitation.
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