Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 405
◈ 405. [Side Story] Flag
1Turn, Raven was in a ‘completely invalidated’ state for 3 minutes..
The thing was just floating in the air, and all I had to do was attack it and kill it for these three minutes..
“worm mummer.”
“What on earth is going on?……?”
The Sword Demon and Spear Demon, who swung their swords and spears at Raven, let out a bewildered groan..
The two's attacks only traversed Raven's waving shadow, as if traversing empty space. He couldn't hit the guy..
“I can't see the spirit core.……?”
“This guy is the body?!”
“It's definitely the main body. But why-”
At that time, Mason, who roughly lowered Raven's body with his claws, gritted his teeth..
《This monster has no spiritual core.……!》
“Is that possible??!”
Even blood-related vampire monsters, although their entire bodies were made of blood and were trembling, still had spirit cores..
The great principle of monsters is that if they lose their spiritual core, they disappear..
But how come Raven doesn’t have a spirit core…? … Is it possible for something like this to exist right in front of you??
- So, I used my mind and soul as a seedbed. They broke and crushed my soul, rotted it and used it as material..
I remembered what he said when he attacked me in the bottom village..
I muttered helplessly..
“It's not a metaphor, it's about giving your real soul.……?”
《Yes.》
At that time, Raven's voice rang out..
Three minutes have already passed. Holy shit!
《I burned every last inch of my soul and used it as a sacrifice. That is why I have already transcended the monsters, escaped the laws of the world, and become a plague..》
Raven, who came to her senses and was released from her incapacitated state, let out an evil laugh..
《How can you stop this level of determination??》
“Pfft……!”
I desperately shook my head. think, think!
How to kill someone who has neither body nor spirit core??
There must be a way, there must be a way-
《Ash, thanks to you I had a dream of the distant past. thanks. My hatred has become stronger…….》
But Raven didn't seem to have any intention of giving me any time..
《Have you used all your prepared moves, human? Now, it's my turn..》
Raven's smog-like shape was compressed in an instant.,
《Swallowed by nightmares, sink, drown in the memories you fear most.……!》
Sighaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Like a burst sprinkler, droplets poured out in all directions..
It was not something that could be avoided. Like marble melting in acid rain, my mental barrier melted away, and a black shadow penetrated my mind..
‘I got hit.’
I laughed bitterly..
It was then.
‘uh?’
wobble-
Suddenly, I felt like someone was hugging me from behind.…….
***
“majesty.”
My shoulders trembled at the voice I heard from next to me..
“Why are you doing this, Your Majesty? Are you drunk already??”
“Uh, huh? what?”
Before I knew it, this place was a mercenary guild bar..
Look to the side, Jupiter is sitting.
The one-eyed veteran wore a familiar mischievous smile. Holding a cup filled with strong liquor in one hand and a smoking cigar in the other. He crossed his eyebrows next to me..
“This is difficult. You decided to be my drinking partner all night today, right??”
This scene,
I remember seeing it.
“Jupiter!”
I urgently grabbed the veteran's shoulder with my hand. Jupiter’s only eye widened..
“majesty? Why are you suddenly like that?…….”
“stay here!”
I looked around and gritted my teeth..
“You must never go to the front lines! got it?”
But when I looked towards Jupiter again.
Before she knew it, she had collapsed on the castle wall..
Blood pouring from the chest that was punctured by the blood bullet magic..
“…….”
In front of me, devastated, the nightmares I had seen before replayed one by one..
“Prince!”
“His Royal Highness!”
Old Girl and Skull are laughing and running,
dump! patter…….
Like a withered old tree, all of its blood was sucked out and it died, struck by blood magic and shattered into pieces..
“eat a lot. This is our tribe's traditional dish..”
Kureha's whole body smiled kindly while serving me a meal.,
Kwaduk, Kwajik……!
It twisted and deformed grotesquely, turning into a giant wolf monster, then collapsed and died..
“You are an indispensable person in this city..”
Margerita said that to me sitting on the bed in the mansion and went out..
“Don't overdo it in the future.”
And she fell down with an arrow.
In front of the goddess statue in the temple, quietly.
And again.
Godhand was seen sitting on a bench in front of the alchemist's workshop, smiling shyly and waiting for his lover. With a flower in one hand.
Ususoo…….
The next moment, he was gone.
Withered flowers scattered everywhere.
“Damn, I knew it would be like this…….”
At the collapsed forward base.
Ken, with a tearful face, is slaughtered by the legs of black spiders..
The fresh blood of people soaks the earth..
death. death. death.
The guilt that I will have to carry with me for the rest of my life once again filled the horizon. I knelt on the floor, unable to breathe..
《Look.》
At that time, a voice came from above. I barely managed to raise my shaking head..
《Don't avoid it, look at it. These are all the lives you took.》
“Ray, Ben……!”
There was a raven in the sky.
In a world filled with death everywhere, the plague lord reigned alone in the air as if he were a black sun..
《To kill your mind more definitely, I personally infiltrated your mind..》
“Well, thank you for your concern.……!”
《It seems to be holding up better than the first time. Have you developed some resistance? Or was your guilt that shallow??》
Raven let out a low laugh, then whipped her body around and poured black rain again..
《Well, it doesn't matter. Just repeat it thousands and tens of thousands of times until you completely collapse.……!》
Every single drop of water it poured out was the death of my comrades..
I closed my eyes tightly. I didn't have the confidence to endure it even once more, let alone thousands of times..
at that time.
click-
The sound of an umbrella opening rang out.
Shoot ahhh-
The raindrops didn't touch my body.
I looked up to the side in confusion. OK.
《hello baby?》
Salome was standing there..
They gave me a bright pink umbrella that didn't fit in with this black world at all. He looks brightly smiling.
“uh?”
《no…….》
Raven and I were both confused..
“Salome……?”
《Damn girl! How do we get here??!》
《joy. Even if you look down on the dreamer, you are not looking down on him too much.?》
Salome crossed her arms and shrugged her shoulders..
《Raven, you punctured Ash's mental barrier. Of course I can use that hole too..》
《this… … What a succubus! don't disturb my work!》
Then Salome, still holding the umbrella over me, placed her other hand on my shoulder..
《ash. I want to hold you under my umbrella forever, but unfortunately. Everyone has to get caught in the rain someday.》
Salome laughed bitterly.,
《So, look straight ahead..》
click!
I folded my umbrella.
《If you have to watch it anyway, watch it till the end, straight ahead..》
Shoot ahhh!
A downpour of nightmares swept over my body..
And what unfolded was a painful memory no different from before..
Jupiter was dead. Falling on her walls, blood pouring from her chest where she had been pierced by a bullet..
I turned my head involuntarily at that terrible sight. At that time, Salome, standing next to me, shouted.
《Don't look away, Ash.!》
“……!”
《This is the world you created. This is the path you have walked so far. therefore.》
Salome's voice was stern, but warm..
《Look at me! till the end, properly!》
I grit my teeth and clenched my fists.
I looked ahead again.
OK… … It seemed.
He lays Jupiter's fallen head on his lap and whispers something to Jupiter... … Junior's appearance.
Jupiter died with a peaceful face. Junior held Jupiter's body and sobbed for a while..
and.
and…….
Junior wiped his tear-stained face, straightened his body, took a deep breath, and.
With a determined face, as if he had decided on something.
stood up.
-the scene has changed.
Body Bag and Burnout were seen wailing while collecting the bodies of Old Girl and Skull..
The two young elves cried for the world to go away, and…….
Hold each other's hands tightly.
Wiping away each other's tears.
stood up.
-the scene has changed.
I saw Kureha's dead body, which had turned into a monster..
Kuilan lightly hugged the corpse..
Kuilan, who was looking down at his dead brother with sorrow, eventually slowly got up..
And then he went forward to bury his brother..
-the scene has changed.
Marherita, who had been shot by an arrow, was laid out in front of the statue of the goddess..
Thorkel adjusted his helmet, held a toothed kitchen knife in his right hand, and tied a broken table to his left arm..
And then, as if ready to fight again, he got up covered in blood..
-the scene has changed.
Lily was sitting alone on the bench.
Even though the lover who tried to surprise him with flowers no longer comes. She sat on the bench in front of the workshop, and she stayed there quietly..
She was staring at the metal flower in her hand..
After holding that flower tightly to my chest,.
Lily struggled to get up and moved from the bench to the wheelchair..
The task seemed very difficult for her who could not use her two legs. But Lily gritted her teeth and whined, but still sat down in her wheelchair..
And dragging a wheelchair.
Somewhere - somewhere in this harsh world.
moved.
-the scene has changed.
I was reading a letter that came to me. The letter, written in crooked and sloppy handwriting, was written by a child..
Ken's younger brothers.
The children I decided to take care of after Ken died in the tutorial..
3Living expenses were being remitted in the name of the prince, and one of his younger brothers sent a letter..
- What kind of knight was your brother??
I responded carefully..
- Sir Ken fought braver than any other knight in the world..
- To protect the world. to protect you.
- Neither I nor Crossroads will forget his bravery and dedication..
Then, a reply came.
- Then, I will protect the world like my brother.!
That pure sentence written with sloppy brush strokes.
I looked down and held back my tears for a long time..
……Again, the scene changed..
Margrave Cross, an old man in armor whose entire body had been eaten by rats, appeared..
“How about it??”
The Margrave stared at me with his bloody face..
“To the extent of sacrificing what is most precious to you to protect this city... … Was it worth it??”
“…….”
I didn't answer right away.
Instead, I turned my head and looked to the side..
On crutches, with bandages wrapped all over my body.
With a brightened face, Evangeline was seen walking across the spring garden to the center of the city..
“……sure.”
Before I knew it, I was standing up too..
With two shaky legs, I barely managed to stand up..
“Margrave. The Margrave told me before he died. Crossroads here is called the city on the grave..”
I turned to face the margrave..
“It is a derogatory term for many people killed in action, but it also means that people live on even if they are in the grave..”
A faint smile appeared on the blood-covered face of the old man..
okay. Now I finally realize it again.
Facing my guilt. After seeing the people behind him, I finally realized, although it was a while later..
people die.
But the meaning continues.
Those left behind carry the burden and move on again..
So - it continues continuously..
human history. A person's will. a person's dream.
“It's a little late, but now I realize.”
I raised the flag, and people gathered under the flag.
If people died for that flag.
What I have to do is not break the flag.
It's not about despair. It's not about being frustrated. It's not about regret or blaming yourself..
No matter how painful it is. No matter how much I want to run away.
must take over.
Remember clearly what they died for... … We must bear the will of our lives and raise the flag again..
Because that is the responsibility and duty of the person holding the flag..
“I will say it a hundred times, a thousand times. margrave.”
I reached out to the right..
“This city. And this world.”
Then, in an empty space where there was nothing… … A brightly shining flag was created.
Clutching it tightly, I cried out.
“Worth protecting... … There is!”
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