Episode 255
Two legends with a mighty force like Mt. Tai.
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah looked down at the battlefield with pride.
Both the ground and the sky are full of people.
Even though their entire field of vision was filled with enemies, their gazes remained unwavering and firm.
“Sister. Do you have any potions left?”
Choi Hyun-seok didn’t even blink, just slightly moved his lips.
It was a small voice that only the person right next to him could hear.
Park Hyun-ah snorted.
“I wonder if it’s there.”
“I have one left.” “What can I do? Are you bragging?”
“yes.”
“Let’s see if this kid… survives.”
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah still stared forward expressionlessly.
One person laughed, and the other person got angry.
Now was the time for both of them to pull their weight.
“Do you think those guys are crazy?”
“That’s right.”
“If we do this well, we can probably kill some time. How many minutes do we have left?”
“About 5 minutes.”
“You’ve made it this far, you know.”
When 30 minutes had passed.
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah have almost exhausted their magical power.
If it were normal, I would not have been able to hold out for 10 minutes and would have collapsed.
However, the two held out for more than 20 minutes.
This was thanks to the potion prepared in advance.
□ Top-tier healing potion
Description: The pinnacle of healing potions! Even a dying person might be able to survive with just one bottle of this potion!?
Abilities: Heals wounds and restores a small amount of magic power.
Required Warrior Points: 5,000
A top-tier healing potion worth a whopping 5,000 warrior points per bottle.
Originally intended to heal wounds, this potion also contained a small amount of magical power.
Even though it was a very small amount, maybe 0.5% if you drink one bottle.
It was better than nothing.
“Why aren’t there any magic potions in the warrior shop? If only there were, things wouldn’t be so difficult.”
“How would I understand?”
“By the way, Sister. My mana is about 10% full.”
“what?”
At that moment, Park Hyun-ah’s eyebrows twitched.
Recovering 10% of magic power.
You might wonder what all the fuss is about with only 10%, but that’s nonsense.
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah have an overwhelming amount of magical power, so even if it’s only 10%, it’s more than the magical power of an average hero.
So, it would be correct to say that it is ‘as much as’ 10% rather than ‘just’ 10%.
“What did you do? You scraped the floor a long time ago.”
Choi Hyun-seok has already used up all his magic power.
It is certain because Park Hyun-ah saw it with her own eyes.
But I couldn’t understand how he recovered 10% of his magic power during that short period of time while fighting.
“I used my body to attack from the middle without using any magic power.”
“what?”
“If you drink a potion, doesn’t it go up by about 0.5%? I just kept collecting it without using it.”
The method by which Choi Hyun-seok recovered his magical powers was simple.
First of all, it doesn’t use magic power.
Then, even if he is Choi Hyun-seok, he will face a crisis in an instant.
When you feel like you’re really going to die, drink a top-tier healing potion.
At that time, a very small amount of magic power is restored along with stamina.
They say that a little goes a long way.
As I was collecting in that manner, I found that my magic power had recovered by 10%.
It was clearly a great thing, but Park Hyun-ah’s reaction was cold.
“You crazy kid.”
How dare you think of using your body to fight against a legend and over a hundred thousand elite soldiers.
Even if he’s crazy, he’s not ordinary crazy.
Even if it was a top-tier potion, it didn’t heal all wounds at once.
‘We’ve grown too much to be healed by potions.’
It’s easy to understand if you think of it as a game.
Here is a potion that restores 10 HP (Hit points).
If your maximum HP is 20, drinking the potion will restore half of your HP.
But what if your max HP is 200?
What if it’s 2,000, which is higher than that?
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Even if you only recover 10, it won’t have much of a significant impact on the battle.
‘The highest level healing potion is somewhat effective, but… it’s not enough to save you from death.’
In other words, for Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah, potion recovery is not a panacea, but rather something that buys them some time.
You can survive with just potions and no magic power?
That’s impossible.
A feat only possible with Choi Hyeon-seok, who is skilled in combat.
If Park Hyun-ah had tried to endure in the same way, she would have been lying peacefully among the corpses on the floor a long time ago.
“Anyway, isn’t this a success? I think I can easily hold out for another five minutes.” “Holding out for an hour doesn’t necessarily mean success. The minimum time needed for a successful operation is an hour.”
In this operation, one hour is not necessarily a guarantee of success.
Rather, it can be said to be a time to judge failure.
If we can’t hold out for even an hour, the operation will fail.
So, hold out for at least an hour.
This is what it means.
“The good news is that they haven’t noticed that the main temple is under attack yet.”
So far, things are not bad.
Enemy forces are still held here, and the clock is approaching an hour.
The longer you hold out, the higher the chance of success for the operation, so this is a good situation.
“If those guys keep getting scared and don’t come in, then they’ll definitely succeed.” “Stop nagging. You’re going to fall.”
“yep.”
“Right now, if we fall, we’re finished. Squint your eyes and look with the mindset that you’ll be defeated if you move even one toe.”
“Ugh!”
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah raised their eyes even more fiercely.
If it was a neighborhood bully making it, it might not be a funny threat, but when a legendary powerhouse decides to do so and shows his murderous intent, such a threat becomes an excellent means of coercion.
Time passed like that.
Finally, at the moment when it was approaching an hour since the battle had begun.
Kwaaaaaaaah-!
Suddenly, a tremendous amount of magical power emanated from the capital city of Gratiam.
The magical power was embodied and rose up like a pillar.
“What is that?”
“I don’t know either.”
The magic that surges from Gratiam.
Park Hyun-ah could tell right away that it was the magic of one individual.
The amount is equal to or greater than one’s own.
She was still glaring at the enemy in the same posture, but she couldn’t help but feel cold sweat running down her back.
“There’s no way I wouldn’t know someone with that kind of magical power… What is it?”
Park Hyun-ah’s magical power far surpasses that of a legend.
If you simply look at the ‘amount’ of magical power, it is comparable to Hemis during his prime.
Of course, I haven’t seen any humans that come close to that level, let alone at a similar level.
Even the demons
Among them, with the exception of the previous Demon King, there is no one with magical power like that.
“Over there. It looks like that guy that appeared next to Hammer Girl.”
“That’s right.”
A young man wearing the pure white robes of the Deusis Church.
He appeared out of nowhere and spoke with Kinley Fusell.
“It doesn’t seem like they’re allies.” “Is it Gatren’s secret weapon?”
That’s when the enemies moved.
Kinley Fusel and Gelling Mustan.
The elite knights, including the two legendaries, began to fall back.
“Sister. Are those kids jumping around?”
“Stop it!”
It was clear that he had noticed that the main temple was under attack and was going to provide support.
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah ran out at the same time without saying who would go first.
Fortunately, I managed to hold out for the promised hour, but I still don’t know if I completed the mission.
We had to hold them off a little longer.
Paaang!
The two who ran out curiously were bounced out at the same time.
A man appeared out of nowhere and brandished a cane.
“Where are you going?”
The man stared at the two with sharp, slitted eyes.
“It’ll be hard to drop them.” “Huh… Did you happen to destroy any teleportation gates in the city?” “I destroyed about three while fighting, but I don’t know if they lead to the main temple.”
“Tsk, I missed it.”
Park Hyun-ah clicked her tongue.
There must be at least dozens of space travel gates within that huge city.
It was foolish to expect that the three that were accidentally destroyed would head towards the main temple, their destination.
“We’ve already wasted enough time, so let’s just deal with this guy quickly with a joint attack. That’ll be more beneficial.”
After thinking for a very short time, Park Hyun-ah nodded.
Choi Hyun-seok is right.
If you try to chase the enemy here, you will end up with neither one nor the other.
It would have been better to focus on taking down the man in front of me.
“I haven’t heard of any other legends remaining in the Holy Empire besides the No Answer Trio.”
Choi Hyun-seok spoke and naturally stepped forward.
This was because his condition was better than that of Park Hyun-ah, who was completely out of stamina and magic power.
“Oh, don’t you recognize me? Choi Hyun-seok.”
“Do you know me?”
“Didn’t we just talk 30 minutes ago?”
“uh…?”
Choi Hyun-seok blinked.
30 minutes ago.
The only person he had spoken to in the past 30 minutes was the Pope.
“No way… the Pope?”
“What nonsense are you talking about? The Pope is just an old, senile old man.”
The corners of the man’s mouth trembled.
The phrase ‘old man’ seemed to have struck a chord with him for some reason.
Park Hyun-ah continued what she wanted to say without paying attention.
“And it’s not magic either. I’ve seen the Pope before, and he didn’t seem to have any hidden magic power. It’s just a moderate amount of divine power…”
Park Hyun-ah suddenly stopped talking.
The man felt both magical and divine power at the same time.
Since both are human powers, it was not uncommon to have both powers at the same time.
What really surprised Park Hyun-ah was the nature of the divine power she felt from the man.
“Similar…?”
A divine power that is relatively weak compared to magic power, but is at the level of a cardinal.
That quality matched the divine power he felt from Pope Orban IV, whom he had only seen once.
“You. Are you the real Pope?”
The man nodded with a smile.
The shock on Park Hyun-ah and Choi Hyun-seok’s faces grew even deeper.
“What? Can a human suddenly become young?” “You didn’t use magic to pretend to be old… right? If you did, you wouldn’t have been caught by now.”
There are limits to hiding oneself with magic.
It’s been several decades since the current Pope ascended the throne.
In all that time, you never once dispelled the spell or was detected?
It’s impossible.
More than that, the Pope did not have the power to use such magic in the first place.
Until just thirty minutes ago, he was just an old man with a lot of divine power.
“What on earth did you do?”
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t figure out the Pope’s trick.
The Pope nodded with his characteristically benevolent smile.
“Are you curious?”
“huh.”
“I’m going to die soon, so why would I care about anything?”
A staff filled with heavy magical power was swung.
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah ran out at the same time.
“f*ck…! I’m going to die!”
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Kinley Fusel.
She quickly headed to the main temple, recalling what had happened a moment ago.
“This is Pope Orban IV.”
A young man who identifies himself as the Pope.
Kinley, of course, did not believe it.
“Don’t make me laugh. You’re the Pope. The Pope is just a senile old man.” “A senile old man… How rude. If I were the Pope, why would I say such nonsense?” “That’s enough. Reveal your identity. Is this another card the Pope has hidden? Or… .”
“stop.”
The man held out his cane.
At the same time, Kinley’s eyes widen.
A tremendous magical force came from all directions as if it had mass.
“Ugh… you…!”
“Now is not the time to argue. The Great Hall is under attack.”
The man took the order out of his bosom.
It was the last order written before handing over the seal to Quan O’Briel.
“Sir Kinley Fusel. Sir Gelling Mustan. Lead your knights and rush to the great temple listed in the order immediately. Every second counts.”
Only then did the magical power that had been pressuring Kinley disappear.
She took the order, gasping for breath.
I checked and it was confirmed that it was the Pope’s order.
“What are you doing? Why don’t you go quickly?”
“… Shit!”
Kinley had no choice but to head straight to the main temple.
‘That guy. Is he really the Pope?’
Although it was only for a moment, the force the man displayed was tremendous.
No matter how tired you are, you can’t help but be treated like that.
‘Even if it was normal…’
Even if you are in top condition, victory is impossible.
To be honest, I don’t even know how much longer it will take to hold out.
The man’s power was that overwhelming.
‘Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-ah. I guess I’ll never see those guys again.’
Anyway, this annoying bad relationship is over now.
Just like yourself.
No, two people who were much more tired than me.
They will never win against that man.
Thinking so, Kinley walked towards the great temple that was before his eyes.
