Part 2, Episode 249.
-Huh? Captain! As expected, you are safe.
See? If I were the manager, I told you not to worry and to just focus for now.
Now that the captain is back, let’s quickly unpack the main body. I hate this look because it’s so ugly.
I agree.
The defeat of an NPC who is always cited as the strongest among the Seven Strong.
It was indeed a shocking result, but what was even more surprising was that the Sword Emperor was not the only one who was defeated.
“Ah, Captain. You’re here? You were gone, so I quickly tidied things up just in case. If I had known this would happen, I should have enjoyed it more.”
“……Cough, cough.”
“Sorry, sorry. You look like you’re in a lot of pain. Are you okay? It’s a toy I’ve been really fond of for a while… You’re not going to die, are you, old man? Ah, what the… That fun energy of the sun or whatever it was is all gone!”
It is the solar pole. Didn’t they say that one doesn’t last long because of old age?
That’s why humans who haven’t even undergone a complete transformation… it’s a shame.
The time to maintain the solar pole had long since expired, but the King of Power had continued to hold out…
Now, the limit has truly been reached.
There was nothing to regret. After all, his body could no longer fight.
“My body knows itself. Every tendon is severed. Even if I recover… I won’t be able to walk the path of martial arts anymore.”
It was a bitter reality, but I didn’t even feel that petty sentiment.
Because the scenes unfolding around me were too miserable and desperate to simply grieve over such a trivial matter.
Clang! Slash-!
Pfft, pfft! Pfft!
“Ugh, ugh! Help me.”
“Damn it, what am I supposed to do with a difference this big!?”
Even the other races are starting to be pushed back.
Too many of the enforcers survived compared to us.
“No, who the hell are those wretched reinforcements! Why on earth is the first-ever dwarf standing on their side!?”
Behind Kisen Uraku, who had returned to his former self, I could see my allies continuing a disadvantageous fight with a heavy heart.
[A new race, the ‘Dwarves’, have joined the side of the Executor.]
[Beware of the war weapons made by the dwarves.]
-For the Great Lord Cardium!
Exterminate all those unlucky elves!
Let’s show the power of us dwarves!
All those guys who are just tall and have no ability should die!
Boom! Boom!
“Uh, that’s practically a cannon! It’s not actually firing a cannon!”
While others are shooting arrows and magic, someone is just firing cannons.
A hidden force that follows the Moon Spirit Group like the sun.
One of them, a dwarf, joined the war.
Of course, it wasn’t just the dwarves who participated.
Aaaah! Crook crook!
Kraralal!
All sorts of bizarre and strange races I had never seen before were running rampant, and the only thing that stood out the most among them was the dwarves.
Because the ‘ballista’ they created demonstrated destructive power and projectile capability comparable to modern cannons.
[Elf Elder, ‘Alterion Elandriel’ activates the trait ‘Archmage’.]
[Due to the Archmage trait, casting speed is greatly reduced, while range and power are greatly increased.]
[‘Alterion Elandriel’ casts the area-of-effect spell ‘Blizzard’.]
… …
[The casting speed of area-of-effect spells is greatly reduced, while their range and power are significantly increased.]
[‘Alterion Elandriel’ casts the area-of-effect spell ‘Wrath of the Divine Tree’.]
“Ugh…….”
Leave it to me; I’ll go kill those filthy things and come back.
“No! Stay here, Astra. You must help the Apostles. If they are all defeated, that is our defeat. Have you forgotten the revelation given by the World Tree?”
“……Damn it.”
Alterion and Astra’s feet were tied to prevent that.
Because the impact of the two on the war was significant, this was a fatal loss.
And that is not all.
[Casting Transcendence Unique Ability, ‘Serenia’s Holy Light’.]
[The goddess’s holy light burns everything.]
[Uses Wrath of the Holy Light.]
[Inflicts powerful area damage proportional to Divine Power.]
[Damage is doubled for targets that committed evil deeds.]
Swish-!
Whoosh!
“Aaaargh!!!”
“Seriously, I can understand the unique ability, but why are the skills triggering the rebellion effect too!?”
“Maybe the Ogres are evil, but Elves and Nymphs aren’t evil!”
“That is a foolish question. To oppose God—if that is not evil, then what is?”
Arthur, the master of the Holy Sword.
His influence, wreaking havoc more severely than any user in the Executor faction, was truly beyond imagination.
Whoosh- Crunch!
Blazing
All the abilities that were originally conditional have been changed to always-on.
Now, if cut by his sword, the body was severed, and if struck by the sword aura of the holy sword imbued with divine power, recovery was impossible.
Even so, if you run away from him, can you escape his influence?
[This is an area designated as a sanctuary.]
Bunkering is totally awesome, isn’t it?
Seriously, this is a piece of cake.
“Phew, I really made the right decision siding with the Executors. You really have to choose your side wisely.”
With a tank, healer, and ranged DPS all grouped together, they can’t break through.
The place where the descent of the sanctuary unfolded was a gentle hill overlooking the surroundings in the center of a vast plain.
It wasn’t steep enough to be called high, but that was enough.
Allies inside the sanctuary were blessed, while enemies crawling out from outside were crushed by debuffs.
At that moment, the hill is no longer just terrain, but becomes an impregnable fortress.
Grr- grr-!
Boom!
“Hehe, hehehe. Kill them all! Will you still not come out, Annihilation!!”
“Damn it, this is just too much!”
“That crazy bitch, seriously…….”
However, retreating to the outskirts was problematic due to the Death King’s legions of death positioned on all sides.
Countless undead, large and small, were getting in the way, and it was the opposing users who were at a disadvantage if their feet were tied down.
[Activates the Transcendence Trait ‘Ruler of Death’.]
[The rank of the Commander-in-Chief is overwhelming. The soldiers under his command overcome death and rise up to the present world.]
[I succeeded in overcoming death.]
[It is reconstructed into the form of a skeleton soldier capable of exerting greater power.]
Grrrr-
Clatter- clatter.
Unlike them, for it’s the end when they die, those damn things come back to life.
Above all, I don’t have the confidence to make a frontal breakthrough.
It was overwhelming enough with just the beasts of the abyss and the users, but the Demon King’s legion commanders were all huge and powerful.
Kwaaaaang!
“Where did you bring that damn Bone Dragon from again?”
“You should have acted like this during guild wars. Why take your anger out on innocent people like us….
“……What did you just say? Kill, kill…… Kill, kill that ugly bastard first!!”
“Hiiik!”
If you dodge the ballistas falling from the sky along with the undead army, a Bone Dragon will now fall like a meteor.
What if you manage to escape even in the midst of that?
Heeeeeeng- Whooooong!
You’re playing like shit.
“Damn it, just kill me. Seriously, it’s disgusting.”
“Just slit my throat!”
It was maddening to see the mounted Death Knights chasing after me with their rapid mobility and swinging their swords.
[Casting Signature Trait, ‘Suppress Heresy’.]
“Kill the heretics! Even if you die, it is to be of at least a little help to Kashin’s path!”
“Kameen!!”
“Die!!”
The fanatics, the Kasin Cult led by Anastasia, are driving out their enemies to the very end, but only where they are.
There was a limit to the area they could cover on this vast battlefield.
“Gasp, gasp…….”
Harrington fired arrows ceaselessly while being chased, but before he knew it, he was on the verge of being caught.
The executives, including the fanatics, were completely exhausted.
He staggered between the challengers and the monsters, using the greatsword stuck in the ground as a cane and gasping for breath.
and…….
“Lord Lucia! Are you alright!”
“……It’s okay. Move aside.”
“But, you have reached your limit… You are dealing with too many monsters all by yourself.”
Lady Rcia…….
“……Do not look at me like that, Queen. If not me, who can stop the Abyssal Transformation? Can’t you see, Queen, the land that has reached its limit? It has already been swallowed up.”
“…….”
“If I can’t stop it anymore…… If I can’t…….”
Lady Rcia!!!
Even Rcia, the greatest warrior of the nymphs, is staggering and unable to maintain her balance.
The other races are at their limit, their forces are being pushed back, and the three Chilgang who participated in the war are unable to fight.
Even the users are being overwhelmingly pushed back, and the opponent is growing stronger due to the intervention of forces following the Moon Spirit Order… … .
“……It’s over.”
It’s all over, f***.
“It was a fight that shouldn’t have been started in the first place. It was obvious we were going to lose.”
“But the people who haven’t arrived yet…….”
“Kaiser? Annihilation? Do you think things will be different now? Those guys ran away. They fled because they knew they were going to lose.”
The situation for the opposing camp was that user morale had already hit rock bottom.
Bang! Ka-kang! Bang!
Pababak, whirik-
—… … I admit it. Vargans. To think that even after giving it your all, we still haven’t been able to decide the winner.
“H-haa… I’m going to die from exhaustion. I don’t even have the strength to speak, so shut your mouth and come in, you bastard.”
“……I’m reaching my limit now, too. I think it would be better to choose between aiming for the big one or stepping away for a while…… but there’s no way you’d choose the latter.”
You know it well.
“Phew. I knew this would happen, so I was prepared. Let’s go in.”
At least the Sword Saint and the Empress.
The two were fighting on equal footing against Volkarn Black, who had become the Black Monster itself after becoming a complete being, but…
It could never be a single drop of refreshing rain to replenish the parched morale.
Tight-
The reason Ast was able to take in all of this, even though he was on the verge of death.
“What is it like outside? Is it the same as your thoughts? Were your struggles, your sacrifices… meaningful?”
It was thanks to this damn bastard’s consideration.
No, the purpose must have been mockery, not consideration.
I wanted to show you that everything you did was meaningless, nothing more than the frantic struggle of a worm.
I wanted to retort right away, but I couldn’t bring myself to utter the words rising to the tip of my throat and swallowed them instead.
“……Fuck.”
Even he couldn’t think of a way to resolve this damn situation.
But the world was cruel.
Lady Rcia!!
“Ah, no. If Lady Lucia collapses…… I won’t be able to stop the Abyss Flower anymore…….”
“We must evacuate Lady Rcia! Provide cover, hurry!”
A shrill scream was heard from somewhere, and suddenly the air changed.
When Ast and everyone here instinctively feel a sense of foreboding at that alien sensation.
[The Abyssalization of the battlefield has progressed beyond a certain level, and the Powerful of the Abyss detect your location.]
[A terrible energy stares at this place. They sense an alien energy.]
[Danger! You could lose your life.]
[The eyes of the abyss open.]
“ah.”
Users let out a sigh upon seeing the notification sound that broke the silence.
Kugugugu-
As the battlefield shook, an ominous energy began to creep up and climb up my feet.
It wasn’t just the users’ feet.
The alien races gathered here, and the users alike, began to be swallowed up one by one.
There was no friend or foe identification in it.
Grr-!
“-F-Fall off! I-I have no intention of becoming the abyss… …Aaaargh!”
“P-Please spare me, Cardium.”
“-Ah, no… …at this rate… …Aaaargh!”
“Fuck what is this! Why is everyone suddenly acting like that!?”
“Run, run!”
Forces following Cardium, including the dwarves.
“Ah… this won’t do. Being controlled by the abyss like this… Th-g
“Baltrin! Endure! You are a proud Knight of the Villand Order! As one who serves the World Tree, to become a filthy abyss… Baltrin!? Damn it!”
“At the very least… let us bring it to an end with our own hands.”
And even the opposing races like elves and the Leta tribe.
The abyssal process began to proceed equally for everyone, without exception.
The sight was more terrible than imagined.
An area equivalent to one-third of the vast battlefield was stained with an ominous darkness like crawling insects.
Saa-
All the sounds of the battlefield, which had been absolute pandemonium, disappeared.
Even the white noise that one is unavoidably bound to hear in life disappears, and no sound is heard.
The moment I got goosebumps from a strange sensation, as if one of my five senses had vanished.
The surroundings were in turmoil.
Gulp.
“The floor is collapsing!”
“……They have come.”
The darkness encroaching upon the ground surged violently, emitting a terrible aura.
Soon it split in half, and a huge eye opened.
[The eyes of the abyss have opened.]
[The passage to the abyss has opened.]
[The mighty of the abyss, the immortal master gazes upon this place.]
[The mighty of the abyss, the master of wrath gazes upon this place.]
[The mighty of the abyss, the master of destruction gazes upon this place.]
[The Dark Knight of the Abyss gazes at this place.]
[The Guardian of the Abyss gazes at this place.]
The phrase that originally should have stopped here.
one…….
Crack- Thump.
Appearing after forcibly tearing open the huge Eye of the Abyss, they looked down at the surroundings and let out a chilling, maniacal laugh.
[Kuh, kuh-huh… … Khahahaha! Finally, finally the time has come!]
[Ah, how refreshing. These energies of death… … such good air.]
“Ah, ahh…….”
“……I’m screwed.”
It was the moment when the mighty warriors of the abyss and their legions finally descended upon Abtartel.
