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Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 811

811. [LAST STAGE] The end of the adventure

royalties. crossroads.

Serenade stood on the eastern wall.

Since access to the southern wall was not permitted due to safety concerns, I stood at the closest location, the spire of the eastern wall, and watched the entire battlefield..

And in this final battle, the World Defense Front won..

We succeeded in successfully stopping the monster invasion..

People laughed, cried and hugged each other. People checked each other's temperatures, happy to have survived..

However, even in the face of this happy scenery, the serenade was not as enjoyable..

‘Husband…….’

Because Ash hasn't returned yet.

With the blowing winter wind blowing on her back, her blue hair ruffled by the wind, Serenade put her hands together and prayed..

‘please… … Just be safe…….’

It was then.

flashing-!

Light flashed from the plains east of the Crossroads. Surprised, Serenade looked in that direction..

Everblack, a thorn tree planted on the eastern plains..

A magic gate was formed in the center of Everblack's trunk, which had already lost its vitality and was almost completely dead, and soon the secret ship La Mancha appeared, squeezing through the gate..

Ash, who went out on that plane, must have returned - believing that, a smile appeared on Serenade's face without even realizing it..

But before she could hurriedly descend down the eastern wall, a thunderous shout was heard from the airship..

“serenade!”

Emperor Trahada.

The emperor, standing at the bow of an airship, recognized the serenade on the castle wall and vomited a lion's crotch harshly..

“Gather people together immediately!”

“yes?”

“An accident occurred on the way back, and Ash did not return.!”

For a moment, Serenade did not understand what the emperor was saying..

A belated feeling as if all the blood was draining from her body enveloped her. But her emperor's next words brought her to her senses..

“he will come back!”

“……!”

“If it's him, he'll definitely come back! So we have to keep this passage going as long as possible.!”

Upon returning to Ince, La Mancha ceased operation..

The huge airship crashed to the ground with the same momentum as it had jumped out of the gate. The emperor and five Glory Knights jumped out of the empty ship, almost rolling over..

“Bring people together! We must prevent the passage from closing! hurry-!”

Even though the emperor and the Glory Knights are all unsatisfied,.

I rushed to the gate that was already starting to close and desperately tried to open it..

Serenade ran towards the southern wall without being able to see everything..

It doesn't matter if your leg breaks. It doesn't matter if my lungs are torn.

A little faster, faster, faster……!

Serenade ran desperately without taking a breath and reached the southern wall..

And to the people in front of the southern wall who were still crying and laughing with the joy of victory - he shouted.

“Everyone, please listen! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince……!”

When the crown prince's name was mentioned, the serenade was shouted more earnestly than ever before to the people who turned around in surprise..

“We have to save that person……!”

***

Boom, coo goo goong…….

It sounds like the world is collapsing.

“…….”

Somewhere at the bottom of the spirit world.

Buried in a pile of wood chips and dirt, I blinked quietly..

How far have we fallen??

……No, it doesn't matter how far I fell?

‘It's over.’

I lost my only means of escaping from the spirit world..

Moreover, I fell to such a deep bottom..

And the spirit world will soon completely collapse and disappear..

‘Is this the price of thinking that all battles are over and letting go of your heart at the end?.’

It was an accident that could not be helped, but.

If I had been more thorough, if I had focused on just functionally escaping instead of saying goodbye to people, it might have been a preventable accident..

But I had one last interaction with loved ones I would never see again, and an unfortunate combination of causes and effects led to this result..

‘Still, my life is a high price to pay for being careless..’

My world has been saved, and all my goals have been achieved..

Although it is a pity that I cannot see with my own eyes the true ending that I so desperately wanted to reach.…….

Still, even if I'm not there, my people will reach it on my behalf. Instead, I will live with my will in mind..

‘So, you can face the end with peace of mind.…….’

Thinking like that, it was a moment when I closed my eyes and took a deep breath..

《I'm having one last time, but I'm breaking the mood.》

“……?”

A familiar voice was heard from somewhere far away..

Let's look there.…….

A demon king whose entire body is in tatters. And the former goddess who turned into an ordinary soul. Side by side she was sitting on the white sand beach watching the spirit world perish..

I was so scared that I jumped up with my upper body up. what!

“You two, what are you doing here??”

《That's what I'd like to ask.…….》

The Demon King muttered shakily, and the Goddess covered her mouth and laughed..

“The spirit world will soon disappear. How did you end up here, Ash??”

To the two people who said they were preparing for a peaceful end, I smiled and explained honestly..

I made a mistake at the very end. I missed the secret ship that was the only way to escape..

The goddess listened to my story and tilted her head..

“But why are you staying here??”

“yes? No, it's actually over.…….”

I smiled bitterly and placed my hand on my forehead..

“It was ultimately my mistake to let go and miss the opportunity to get my royalties back. therefore…….”

“Just because you made one mistake, are you going to give up everything??”

The goddess's voice became a little stern..

“Even if there is not much time left, even if you lose a lot of precious things, even if it is so hard, so tired, and even if it hurts so much,.”

“…….”

“But you still haven't given up. That's why I was able to come this far..”

The goddess looked directly at me in a dazed state and nodded..

“Your life isn't over yet. Then you have to fight. As it has been until now.”

She no longer had any divinity. Her unknown majesty remained.

The goddess stood up making a sound. The Demon King also struggled to raise his broken body and stood up..

The two people who approached me held out their hands. I suddenly grabbed both of their hands. But, he still sat down..

I muttered shakily..

“But, there is no way... … How do I get back from this bottom?…….”

“It seems stupid.”

The goddess smiled and winked at the sky..

“The goodwill you have shown so far will become your path..”

“…….”

“If you search with all your heart, there will always be people around you to help you. The good intentions of those people... … Have a little faith.”

Then the devil said.

《As you promised, it was the best stage and the best show..》

The devil laughed briefly and gestured towards the sky..

《So shouldn’t we give the best curtain call that suits him??》

“……!”

《That's the applause you deserve, player. Go enjoy it to your heart’s content.……!》

After that. As if it was a promise.

The two of them lifted me up with all their might..

Neither the goddess nor the demon king had any power left to send me flying into the sky. however.

You had enough heart to raise me from my fall.

Taat-!

I kicked the ground, gritted my teeth, and flew up into the sky..

I used the last of my remaining dragon power to create wings. And like climbing up a waterfall, I began to climb up through the collapsing world..

“The adventure is not complete until you return home..”

The goddess's voice rang faintly from behind..

“Complete your adventure, Ash.……!”

I soared..

I waded through the collapsing mounds of dirt, breaking the falling pieces of wood, and desperately flapping my wings through the swirling waves..

But it didn't last long before I ran out of strength..

As the spirit world was disappearing, magic was also disappearing. The dragon power I used also quickly lost its output..

Before the world falls, how far can my struggles reach?.

I looked up at the sky thinking,

“……!”

I opened my eyes wide.

Twinkling shooting stars were falling towards me.

No - it wasn't a shooting star..

It was a number of tribal gods..

To save me from the fall, countless tribal gods rushed down to the collapsing world..

Although it is said that everyone is destined to go to the afterlife with the extinction of the spirit world,.

To save me, willingly…….

《Let's fly, friend.》

They found me and fell toward me, holding my hand one by one.,

《one more time!》

He just threw me upwards..

《one more time-!》

From hand to hand, from hand to hand…….

One more time, you made me fly.

Leaving behind the completely sinking and disappearing earth of the spirit world, I continued to soar into the sky..

consolation.

consolation.

consolation……!

This time, ancestral returnees appeared in front of me as I continued to soar. They were holding each other's hands and floating in a circle in the sky, waiting for me..

Among them, the woman who reached out her hand to me - Dustia, the mother who gave birth to me, smiled brightly and shouted..

“When entering the spirit world here from Inse, a gate was opened on the stem of the Everblack.?”

“……!”

“It looks like the same gate was used to escape your secret business through royalties. And now, the door that is open at the end of the stem is holding on without closing.!”

Taat!

My mother grinned as she held my hand..

“Those little hands have grown so big.”

“mother……!”

“Go ahead, the world is waiting for you!”

The returnees lined up holding hands gathered their strength and spun around like a clock..

My mother nodded, giving strength to the hand holding my arm..

“It's okay to fail. It's okay even if it breaks. Even if you don't have the power to turn back time, you will be able to stand up again. therefore-”

My mother laughed with tears in her eyes.

“Live on, keep on living……!”

I smiled and nodded vigorously..

The circle of returners who had been holding hands and rotating spread out in a straight line, transmitting power to the end. At the end, I bounced up into the sky just in time..

I flew close to the black thorn tree, which was now completely collapsing underneath. And two men were waiting for me halfway up Everblack..

“This troublemaker idiot…….”

“How much are you going to upset your brothers??”

The two older brothers, Larque and Fernandez, who had been waiting with their swords and staffs inserted into Everblack, grumbled and injected power into their respective weapons..

“give me my avalanche.”

“Give me my spark too.”

The two each held out a sword that radiated sword energy like a snowstorm and a staff that radiated magical energy like embers..

Taat!

I grabbed them with both hands and at the same time.

Wow!

My two older brothers hit me hard on the back..

With exhilarating pain, I soared even higher into the sky. The sword and staff held in both hands radiated sword energy and magic, adding to the momentum..

“For those who challenge the sky, falling is not a shame. It's just a process that you have to go through..”

My two older brothers shouted behind me as I walked away..

“No matter how many times, how many times I fall... … If you still have the courage to try again!”

then.

I will be able to fly again.

With the words of my two older brothers in my heart, I shot upward..

Now the upper part of Everblack.

As we reached a high altitude, the surroundings rapidly became colder. The sword and staff could no longer emit sword energy and magic and gradually stopped..

At that time, a vivid warmth enveloped me..

As I looked around, I suddenly saw four red dragons flying around me as if they were protecting me..

The gigantic dragon is no longer there, broken into small pieces..

The mothers of my heart, scattering long scales along the trajectory and splitting the sky like fireworks..

《Now you know what we're gonna say?》

The first Dusk Bringer asked playfully:.

I smiled broadly, nodded, and answered.

“I love you!”

A satisfied smile crossed the four dragon's faces. I shouted once more.

“I will love you, with all my might……!”

Four red dragons approached me and took turns kissing my forehead..

Each time, warmth spread through my body, and the dying flame in my heart regained its strength and burned itself out..

Lastly, the 2nd Dusk Bringer approached me - the Archduke transformed into human form and left a long kiss on my forehead..

And smiled brightly.

《Because your tomorrow will definitely be clear……!》

Dusk Bringer has moved away.

After sending me upward, the four remaining dragons behind me quickly disappeared out of sight..

The disappearance of the world, which started from below the earth, had soared into the sky and was following me. I gritted my teeth and increased my speed..

And at the top of Everblack-

《It's here!》

The succubus queen was waiting.

“Salome!”

《This way, this way! into the tree!》

I entered Everblack along the passage secured by Salome..

The inside of the tree had turned into a wide cavity..

And, at the far end of the cavity… … A strange magical door was open, slightly different from the gates I had seen so far..

It was a gate opened through a dimensional transfer technique. And the thorn tree maintained the path to the gate that divided the space like a red cross section, even with its crumbling body..

The passage between the spirit world and reality is already closed..

The tree was desperately holding on with its already dead body in order to secure a path leading to the gate that would open and close only once..

《I won't bother saying goodbye anymore.》

Before I could say anything, Salome had tied her parasol around the cloak on my back..

《Because we'll meet again soon... … Above all, a good dreamer knows when to wake up from a dream..》

“Salome……!”

《Don't worry about me! Come on, come on! Fly away, popular man.!》

Going to school-!

Salome's parasol flashed a dazzling pink light and shot forward, and I followed, helpless..

《waiting for you... … Because there are a lot of people who want you to be happy!》

Salome smiled like a bad boy and waved at me..

《So - cheer up!》

In an instant, we were far away from Salome, and a dazzling flash of light filled the area..

thud! Kugugugugung Palace-!

The extinction of the spirit world is accelerating, coming right under my feet..

Even though his entire body was destroyed from the roots down to the collapse of the world, Everblack tried to maintain the passage until the very end..

I gritted my teeth and gathered all the last strength I had left in me and shot up. I flew as if I was climbing up a collapsed and narrowing passage..

At some point, the weapons given by the two brothers, the warmth given by the four dragons, and the parasol given by Salome were all destroyed, annihilated, and disappeared..

The dragon's wings, the dragon's heart, and the halo of power that hung like a crown above its head have all disappeared..

I climbed up the passage, breathing heavily, with the body of an ordinary person..

The gate is still far away.

I'm out of breath and my vision is blurry. It's so hard that I want to give up right now and collapse and die..

But, it's not over yet.

Because the people who supported me didn't give up on me..

I don't give up either.

I fight with this world and myself.

little bit more.

little bit more……!

***

royalties.

Plains east of Crossroads. Everblack stem.

“keep the gate!”

“Everyone rushes in-!”

“I have to hold on somehow!”

Everyone on the World Defense Front was hanging on to the open gate in the tree, trying their best to prevent it from closing..

The wizards who unleashed miracles of earth-shattering power, the knights who split mountains with their swords and blocked dragons with their shields, all have lost their power..

Now everyone is just an ordinary human.

All such ordinary people can do is hold on to each other and hold on..

People put their hands on the closing gate and tried to somehow slow it down. I struggled to push the gate away with my hands, shoulders, back, forehead, and whole body..

“gotta stay on course……!”

The magic door has become narrower and narrower, and no ordinary person can prevent it from closing..

“until that person comes back……!”

However, because so many people gathered their hearts and minds and desperately resisted,.

The gate closed noticeably slower than the original speed. But it only slowed down, and the lockdown itself continued to progress..

“Hold on-!”

People screamed together and held on..

and.

“oh!”

A young man who once had clairvoyance looked into the passage and shouted.

“It's the prince.!”

“what?!”

Let's all look inside, it was real.

Ash, who had struggled to climb up the passage, was running to the last end of the passage. And then there was a blinding flash of light and destruction right behind it..

“majesty!”

“This way, come on-!”

The gate got narrower once again..

People gritted their teeth and held on even though their grips were torn apart. Everyone shouted desperately as if they were coughing up blood..

“little bit more……!”

Ash's eyes filled with vitality as he discovered his people..

And at that moment, the entire passage behind him and under his feet disappeared into white..

Ash lost his balance and was about to collapse..

That moment,

widely!

The branches of the tree stretched out provided a foothold..

It was the last will of a tree that lived only for people..

“……!”

Stepping on the platform with his toes and catching the falling silt and wood chips with his whole body, Ash jumped into the air at the end of the passage..

But - far.

Even though I desperately tried to close the distance and jumped up, the distance was still far. It felt as if a vast cliff had stretched out in between..

and.

“Husband-!”

Serenade jumped directly into the gate..

“lord-!”

Then Lucas also jumped in..

“Seniors!”

“Prince!”

“majesty-!”

Evangeline, Damian, Junior, and everyone else.…….

They threw their bodies into the air, grabbed each other at the same time, and stretched out their hands towards Ash..

Ash desperately stretched out his hand towards the hands of ordinary people blooming like flowers.…….

-widely.

Each other's fingertips stretched out from the other side of a distant cliff that could not have been reached originally.-

Sure enough, they caught each other..

***

“sorry.”

I barely managed to spit out in an exhausted voice..

“It's a little late.”

Under the stem of the now completely closed Everblack.

Covered in dirt and blood, we all made it out of the gate safely..

While hugging me and stroking Serenade's sobbing back, I changed my words and said, "Oops.".

“No, this is not the time to say sorry..”

I raised my head and looked around..

“thank you.”

And to everyone who surrounded me and waited for me... … He smiled brightly.

“I went there.”

Everyone rushed to me at once..

He hugged me without even thinking about who would go first. Everyone's hands were entangled and wrapped around each other's shoulders and backs, seeking each other's warmth..

Surrounded by so much warmth that seemed to never let me go again, I was breathless but happy at the same time..

I cried with people.

Also, I laughed with people.

We cried and laughed and held each other for such a long time..

***

It was a really long adventure.

***

It was truly a wonderful adventure..