The Barbarian of the Academy - Chapter 370
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8.
An army pouring down with darkness.
Numerous monsters and abyss worshipers attacked the warriors..
Of course, they are no match for the warriors..
Even if Ulan and Noah were absent, there were two strong masters here, and there were even a great wizard and a saint..
However, the reality was different from expectations..
“whoops, whoops!”
After cutting off the monster's head, Ian calmed his breathing. Then, back to back together, he addressed her to Bella..
“……Isn't it a bit strange?”
“Yes, the body is quite heavy.”
Ibella nods immediately.
As he said, her entire body was as heavy as wet cotton. And that's not all. Even her bottom has turned into a swamp and her feet are sinking.
This had never happened before, so Ibella frowned and muttered..
“Did Abyssal Erosion have this effect??”
“I do not know. The saintess is struggling, so for now she can only wait..”
Ian glanced back as he cut off the head of an ambush worshiper..
Laurea makes her eyes shine brightly.
She is currently trying to find out the weaknesses of opponents by using the power of her projection eye, the eye that sees through essence..
how long has it been like that?
Laurea stared back and forth between the darkness of the abyss, the monsters, the worshiper, and Lacus, then let out a short sigh..
“little how?”
“did you find out anything?”
“Yes, the darkness surrounding us is a bit different from the darkness of the abyss I've seen so far..”
“what, how, is it different?”
“If the previous darkness was literally as dark and empty as the darkness of the night, the present darkness is like an endless swamp..”
Laurea swallowed dryly. Then, with trembling eyes, he muttered.
“……It's to the point where I believe it's the abyss itself where I briefly stepped into..”
It feels as if the abyss beyond the gap has been poured out as it is. At Laurea's reply, Dillia narrowed her eyes..
“Yes, the sound, this, simple, abyss, erosion, phenomenon, no, must mean.”
“Could it be that the door to the abyss opened and a little bit of the darkness of the real abyss flowed out??”
Then Perticia cast a guess.
Since the content made sense in its own way, Dillia also nodded as if agreeing..
But Laurea shook her head..
“Probably not. If that guess is correct, then there should have been a similar phenomenon before Lacus appeared..”
All the incidents that hit the current party began with the appearance of Lacus. In other words, it was highly likely that Lacus was the culprit of the situation..
“and…….”
Laurea shuts her mouth for a moment..
She turned her gaze to see Lacus in the distance. Soon after, her eyes began to vibrate violently..
After a while, Laurea stopped looking at Lacus and looked away. Then, as if letting out a short sigh, he muttered.
“That's different from the monarchs you've been through.”
“yes? what does that mean?”
“Each of the Abyssal Lords we've dealt with has something in common. It is the ability to observe the forces that make up existence..”
The power that makes up existence, the source).
It was the same when she faced Parus, the ruler of the swamp, and when she faced the giant king Largtan, Laurea clearly felt the existence of the source..
On the other hand, Lacus did not see it..
To these words, Dillia retorted as if she was talking out of nowhere..
“That's because the source, somewhere, is hidden..”
“that's right. Didn't Noah say that? Lacus hides his source in the gaps of unrecognized space..”
Perticia added a detailed reason.
and one more. Mentioned an existence whose origin could not be seen other than Lacus..
“Also, if it was a being without a source, Asteban was the same, right? Because you fought with us not as your body, but as a double body..”
Lord of the Undead, Asteban.
When dealing with him, the warriors suffered considerable hardship. It is because he drove the warriors into a corner while hiding the source..
The current situation was the same as then..
So I said it like a rebuttal, but Laurea shook her head..
“You said it wrong. What I was trying to say is not simply the presence or absence of a source..”
“huh? then what is it?”
“I'm talking about the essence.”
All things have their own nature.
The essence of Farus, the ruler of the swamps, was a swamp into which one could fall endlessly, and the essence of Asteban, the lord of the immortals, was an eternally incorruptible desert..
The nature of the giant king, Largtan, whom I dealt with recently was also a huge mountain and a rock..
“Thus far, the similar nature of each monarch's tinnitus has been observed..”
So Laurea guessed.
Since Lacus is also called the Eye of the Abyss, it is believed that it must have an eye-related essence..
But the expectations were completely wrong.
“However, the nature of Lacus was different..”
“how was it different?”
“that…….”
Laurea looked at Lacus again and hugged her trembling shoulders. Then muttered in a voice as trembling as his shoulders..
“……the abyss itself.”
“what?”
“If I had to say it, I think I just took the whole abyss beyond the gap and brought it..”
Laurea shuddered once..
As if I remembered the time I fell into the abyss.
In response, Perticia gently hugged Laurea with a worried face, and Dillia summarized her words with a frown..
“Anyway, it's not easy, it's an opponent, it's a thing.”
“Yes, we have no chance of winning with our own strength. I have to call ulan somehow…….”
Currently, even that is difficult..
Even the spirits couldn't get out because of the curtain of the abyss that rose with Lacus..
Overhearing their conversation, Pertisia pursed her lips as if to say something..
“there, in fact…….”
“why? I have something to say?”
“no it's nothing.”
However, he soon shook his head. Then, without a word, he glanced at Lacus. Meanwhile, Pertisia wasn't the only one keeping an eye on Lacus..
Ibella, who was swinging the sword in the lead with Ian, also suddenly turned her attention to Lacus..
“that…….”
It was because Lacus approached the Abyssal Gate while the monsters and worshipers of the abyss were driving the warriors..
Then, as soon as he stretched out his hand, the size of the door began to increase little by little. The moment I saw this, what Noah said suddenly flashed through my mind..
「The good news is that the Abyssal Gate isn't perfect yet..」
In order to make an incomplete statement complete, three conditions are required, and in the current situation, two conditions are already satisfied..
There is only one remaining condition.
Only the true abyss manifests its authority.
And, according to the party's guess, the closest being to the true abyss is Lacus..
‘Putting all of this together…….’
I quickly figured out what Lacus was trying to do by ignoring the heroes..
immediately after waking up.
Ibella took a deep breath..
Then, awakening the senses of the whole body one by one, I raised all the remaining auras..
“Ibella?”
Ian, who noticed this, looked at her with surprised eyes. It was natural. It is inevitable to be surprised by suddenly pouring power into a situation where even if you use it sparingly as much as possible, it will not be enough..
“Why? even if it's suspicious…….”
Ian tried to guess the reason for Ibella's behavior in his own way. But Ibela's actions far outweighed that..
“Ian, I'll ask for your back!”
“yes? Oh no! Wait!”
Ian shouted with a bewildered face at the sight of Ibella kicking off the ground and running like a flash..
But Evelyn didn't stop.
‘definitely dangerous.’
The more I closed the gap, the stronger I felt..
We have to stop him right now. Otherwise, something irreparable will happen. So, without hesitation, I expanded the scope.
‘reach!’
Eventually, the moment Lacus entered the realm, he put the power he had raised into his sword. Then he aimed his left chest and stretched out his sword..
hooked! Kwajik!
A dull sound followed.
The sensation of the cold weapon penetrating the skin was decided through the fingertips. Is it a success? Bella's complexion brightened for a moment, but she quickly hardened..
“Then and now, it's always you guys who get in my way.”
Lacus's dry reaction.
At that moment, Evelyn realized.
He knew that what his sword had pierced was not Lacus' heart, but only his palm..
No, it would be accurate to say that Lacus was aware of Ybela's attack beforehand..
“But it didn't reach me this time.”
Then a mocking whisper was heard.
And with this as a signal, Ibella widened her eyes. It was because Lacus, who had been quite a distance, reached right in front of him without any sign of anything..
perok!
Severe blows that followed.
Ybela managed to block it, but she couldn't absorb the devastating power..
“nope!”
and the result. With a short moan, this Bella leaped into the air and landed in a corner..
“Ibella!”
Witnessing this, Ian and Laurea hurriedly approached her. Lacus murmured coldly towards such warriors..
“The cataclysm is ahead, do not interfere. After I open the door anyway, I'll swallow them all without leaving a single one behind..”
After that, he turned his body without paying any attention to the warriors. He just puts on a face full of joy with the door of the abyss in front of him..
but that's for a while.
A new intruder has appeared.
[Aaaaaang!]
A white object that flew through the moment.
It was none other than a white wolf..
The guy aimed at the scruff of Lacus's neck and exposed it, but unfortunately couldn't reach it..
“Is it your guy this time?.”
It was because Lacus, who was aware of the attack in advance, pulled his body back. Then he suddenly made a strange expression. As if realizing a new fact.
“Ah, now that I think about it, you are also one of the oddballs. I've never been against Jim in the repeated time.”
Laughter spilling out of your lips.
After a while, Lacus returned with an expressionless face, as if he never smiled..
“just useless.”
Deity of the Desert Church.
Demons outside the standard. Rudric's family, etc..
It is called by various names, but even so, it is only one family. The weight of a monarch is not light enough to be attacked by someone of that size..
[Grrr! kuaang!]
On the other hand, Baekrang did not stop the offensive..
Perhaps thinking that it was not enough on its own, it soon split into numerous entities and began to choke Lacus..
“Tsk, after all, a beast is a beast. Do you think that increasing the number of heads will solve the problem??”
Lacus laughs coldly while facing the wolves flocking from all sides. Then he blinked, and countless eyes sprouted from the veil of the abyss that surrounded him..
──────!
The movement of the wolf pack stopped with the moment of opening eyes. After a while, Lacus waved his hand, and all the wolves broke up like smoke and scattered into the air..
And the main body of Baekrang, who was hiding in the alter ego, also rolled on the floor like a doll with threads unraveled..
“It's a really pointless result..”
Even after doing this, Baekrang couldn't even brush the tips of Lacus's hair. Around the time when Lacus was once again ridiculed by this fact.
The smile suddenly disappeared from his face..
“……!”
Eyes that change little by little.
It had to be. While I was paying attention to Baekrang for a while, someone who hadn't been there until just now had arrived close to Lacus..
However, there was a different reason why Lacus' expression had to change..
“haha!”
Heavy breathing from behind.
Beads of sweat ran down his white cheeks to the tip of his chin and ran down the blade. Eventually, the droplets of sweat reached the upper body, which was spreading red..
It was none other than Lacus's chest..
“Cunning Sword……!”
Lacus's pupils sway slightly.
What formed on its surface is a golden aura that shines noblely even in the darkness of the abyss..
It was the sword of the Sword Princess..
The momentary gap created by Baekrang.
The flash of light that pierced his teeth made a hole in Lacus' left chest. Having succeeded in the ambush with all her might, Ibella took a deep breath to calm her fluctuating lungs..
“Whoa! Whoa!”
realm and realm. boundaries and borders.
Furthermore, it is a sword of insight that pierces space and even thin moments of space. Red blood spurted out from Lacus's chest, which had been properly penetrated..
The culprit behind this result, Evela's eyes, shone brightly for an instant. But at that moment, Lacus's hand suddenly moved like a flash..
“……! kook!”
A single-word scream that came out without my knowledge.
In a momentary suffocation, Ibella tried to tear Lacus's arm off..
However, Lacus was unmoved, rather slowly lifted Ibella into the air..
“indeed. This was a hit I missed quite a bit.”
Lacus nodding his head in amusement.
The expression of bewilderment on his face had disappeared. As if the surprised expression earlier was just entertainment.
“But this is a bit difficult. The human body is inherently weak, so it is not easy to restore it..”
Lacus covered the hole in his chest with his torn clothes and laughed wryly. Then he glared at Bella, scattering his cold eyes..
“Originally, I was going to deal with it after opening the door, but I changed my mind. After all, it's better to get rid of the annoying ones first..”
“Cuckoo! Queue!”
“Lee, Isabella!”
At that time, Ian, who belatedly recognized Ibella's crisis, hurriedly kicked the ground. It was to rescue Ibella from the hands of Lacus..
but couldn't.
“shit! Move!”
Abyssal monsters and worshipers who noticed his approach blocked Ian's way. Then Laurea and Dillia also joined forces..
Unfortunately, however, their help did not reach Ibella..
gulp!
It is because Lacus's followers, who grew up in the abyssal veil, ate the divine spells and magic. By the time you cut off all distractions.
“oops! Queue!”
Evelyn's complexion grew pale..
Lacus whispered softly as he looked at Ibella, who was in pain because he couldn't breathe..
“Farewell, Jim's nemesis.”
Of course, he could have broken his neck by straining his grip right away. But it would be more enjoyable to strangle her until she runs out of breath..
A smile bloomed on Lacus' lips at the cruel thought. After a while, the moment the focus of the blue-green eyes slowly disappeared.
“……?”
Lacus' eyes widened slightly..
question. surprised. Eyes tinged with bewilderment. That would be the case, because Bella, who was about to pass her breath, suddenly fell to the floor..
“Cool, Cool! ugh!”
Isabella in agony on the floor.
On the other hand, Lacus was puzzled. Because he never let Ibella go. But how did he break loose and cough?
When I suddenly had such a thought.
Lacus' eyes widened slightly..
“……!”
I finally realized.
That the arm holding Ibella had been severed with a single knife. Lacus muttered in a daze at the sudden change that came before he was even aware of it..
“when the hell…….”
who did this?
Lacus meant to say that.
But before I could say a word out of my mouth, the scenery split in two..
Wood deok! Kwajik!
The red flash that fell from the sky split her body in two. Lacus' body, which had been cut in two, collapsed as it was, and Ibella, who had been coughing violently, let out a sigh of relief..
“Cool! ha ha!”
If I had been strangled a little longer here, I would have surely died. Ibela, who had barely returned from the end of the line of fire, grabbed the sword again..
Then, just as I was about to say thank you to Ian for helping me in the short term.
“Sorry for late.”
I heard an unexpected voice.
Ibella widened her eyes at the voice she never imagined hearing here..
“Ooh, Ulan……?!”
“Rest assured now. because i came.”
Along with a voice that reassures your heart just by listening to it, bright red eyes solemnly illuminate the darkness of the abyss..
It was the arrival of the awaited reinforcements..
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