Episode 257
decisive battle
In an instant, Batu’s eyes turned cold.
[So what can you do?]
-strength.
Azazel could now see that they had all crossed over.
at last.
No matter how strong we pretend to be, humans are still humans.
A foolish being who can even throw away his life without any hesitation if he can fulfill his desires and dreams.
-It can give you strength. A power that can turn the world upside down. Dragon and demon. If these two things are mixed, don’t you think something really interesting would happen?
[…] .]
There was silence for a very moment.
[good.]
Batu answered like this.
-okay. I made the right choice. If so, will this body step forward and help? !
[But my body is mine.]
-… ?
[I will use the power you offer. If it’s a power I can’t handle, there’s no need for it.]
This is your last remaining pride, is it?
Azazel couldn’t help but snort, but he knew that eventually the guy would have no choice but to completely fall for it.
-good.
With that said, finally.
Tsutsutsu!
The mystery began.
* * *
What on earth should I say about that?
Demon dragon?
okay. I thought it would be better to express it that way.
A dragon, a being that is not a demon.
A being composed solely of irrationality, but exuding destructive power.
That was the current Batu.
Kwaaaaang!
Batu kicked the ground violently and launched himself. A violent earthquake shook the ground, and a several-meter-high pillar of sand rose from the spot where the footprints were made.
A violent force that seems to sweep away everything in front of it.
The air around me was so hot that I couldn’t breathe, as if I had entered a lava field.
But it wasn’t that kind of momentum that caught Elric’s attention.
eye.
Contrary to his vicious spirit, Batu’s eyes were colder than ever.
This meant that it was possible to deal with mysteries through cool-headed judgment without being deprived of reason.
“I am a bastard.”
Chepeshu looked into Batu’s eyes and muttered briefly.
“A guy with eyes like that will definitely be at the top no matter what he does. Trials, hardships, adversity… No matter what comes his way, he is someone who will stand firm and overcome in the end. “If my birth had been a little better, my fate would have been completely different.”
Chepeshu used Elric’s body to fix the sword.
It was to fight the guy running this way.
“Do you know what they usually say about a guy like that?”
“What do you say?”
Elric also raised his magical power as much as he could.
Exciting!
Exciting!
As his heart began to beat like crazy, the blood he also received from the dragon circulated at a furious speed. The heart with the magic gem harmonized perfectly with the dragon’s blood, so the efficiency of his magical power was incomparable to that of others.
at the same time.
Whihwihwihwi!
The blood mist that Elric had sprinkled a moment ago began to swirl around him.
Then, something else slowly appeared behind me.
That was something Elric knew well.
Dead giant.
A summon that Chepeche summoned when he used Azazel in the world of images.
The difference is that Elric was unable to summon the dead giant in its entirety due to his lack of understanding of summoning, so he used an expedient method.
The flesh that made up the dead giant tangled like tentacles and wrapped Elric’s body.
Clap, clap-
What was wrapped around the legs became gaiters, and what was wrapped around the body became armor.
He had a hideous appearance, as if he had been covered in the flesh of undead such as zombies or ghouls, but because of that, he also had a vicious spirit that was no less fierce than that of Batuu.
Kukukuku… !
As if he had become a real giant, his entire body was filled with immense power.
Corpse armor.
Transformation into a giant.
With the explosion of the corpse, the second secret technique that Chepeş boasts was activated.
If you can’t control a giant right away, wouldn’t it be okay to become one with the giant and use its power?
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“Warrior.”
When the corpse armor covered half of his face, Chepeshu answered:
“I’m referring to those who were born with the same fate as that guy.”
Kwaaaaang!
Batu’s strike and the dual swords clashed violently.
As the corpse’s armor was shaken by the shock wave, some of the flesh fell off, but soon a mist of blood settled on the spot again as if nothing had happened, regenerating the damaged parts and making them even stronger.
Excited!
The more it happened, the more rapidly Elric’s heart beat.
The more blood provided, the better. More magical power was transmitted, and the hardness of the corpse armor was supposed to increase exponentially.
Ga-ga-gag-
Batu’s great sword slipped downward, sparks flying upward.
Whoop, whoop, whoop-
Chachaechaechaeng!
In an instant, several battles of agreement took place between the two.
“In the first place, warriors are like that. Since you are destined to walk the path of a hero, the path you always take is a thorny path, and you end up in danger at every turn.”
Chaaaaang!
That’s it…
The great sword barely scratched Elric’s right cheek. Blood flowed down the shattered helmet.
An attack that could have killed me if I had been a little late in tilting my head to the side.
However, Elric showed no signs of embarrassment and fiercely swung the sword he was holding in his left hand.
It was a sword that had been frozen with a handful of blood and a seal of the winter world, so it was very sharp.
Kwasik!
The tip of the sword pierced Batu’s collarbone. Although the dragon’s scales prevented it from digging deeper, the flesh was revealed hideously between the torn scales.
“If you overcome that, you will become a hero and will be praised forever, but… The problem is that few people reach there. “There are usually two main conclusions from people like that.”
Wedge, wow!
Elric’s sword crossed Batuu’s chest this time. This time it was deeper than before.
The secret story of <Boramae’s Weather>, <Beak>.
Now I can see how I should use it.
“I’m either frustrated or corrupted.”
But just because he was Elric didn’t mean he was safe.
Unlike when Batu gave up his chest, the hand extended in this direction strongly grasped Elric’s left shoulder.
Wood clatter!
The giant’s flesh, which even Azazel could not easily break, was shattered. His strength was so great that even Elric’s left shoulder was crushed.
evil!
Elric had to force himself to swallow the scream that was about to burst out without him realizing it.
It was horribly painful.
But what’s even more unpleasant than that.
Tsutsutsutsu-
Along the wound area, Azazel’s magic energy was attempting to infiltrate again.
“When you go through hardships, you usually lose precious companions. Then, of course, the warrior’s spirit is bound to wear out. That’s why I’m frustrated.”
Elric activated the Winter Seal while gritting his molars to the point where he thought he might break like this.
Paaaa-
Damn it!
Azazel’s magic energy that attempted to infiltrate was frozen with cold.
No, it didn’t end like that.
The cold air blowing in so fiercely that the air, which had been heated by Batu’s magic, became cold, even moving towards Batu.
Reverse infiltration.
Frost gradually settled on Batu’s body.
Seal of the winter world.
Secret art.
Absolute zero.
Click!
In an extreme fight. Elric was able to realize that he had stepped into a new realm without even realizing it.
It feels as if something tightly wrapped around me has broken. I felt like I had come out of my shell.
North wind and cold snow.
Beyond the two powers that create ‘winter’, there was something else. Only then did Elric realize.
And that this is the secret that Otto Hahn told him to keep.
Faaagh!
A blizzard swept through all directions.
A place where strong winds have disappeared.
All around me was nothing but ice and blowing snow.
It seemed as if only Elric and Batu had fallen into the world of snow.
Winter (冬).
They were the only ones experiencing such a season.
“Also, sometimes temptation comes from all over the place. Because that power would be so fascinating to others. There are many people who offer to give them power or encourage them to sit on the throne. That is why the hero eventually falls.”
Chepeshu looked happily at Elric, who had now fully realized what ‘winter’ meant, but did not stop explaining.
There, Elric couldn’t help but ask a question.
[then.]
Elric and Batu pushed each other vigorously as if they had made a promise.
[What am I?]
Red snow fluttered from the spot where Elric was in his right posture, and dark red energy flowed from the spot where Batuu moved again.
At that time, Batu tilted his head back slightly and spit out something he had in his mouth.
Puhwaak!
It was the dragon’s power, breath.
“You are not a hero. They are noble and pure beings. But you’re kind of… “Isn’t it difficult to say things like that if you have a conscience?”
For a moment, Elric’s face distorted without realizing it.
After explaining it so well, why is the conclusion so different?
Then, I raised my foot high and hit the ground hard. With the sound of “kwaaang,” the broken ice surged upward, creating a wall of ice. The breath that flew like a beam of light swept left and right and disappeared.
Batu, that thing doesn’t even look like a human anymore. While grumbling like that, he screamed at Chepeshu.
[What am I! What’s wrong with me!]
“Is your conscience okay?”
I had nothing to say as he responded in such a serious voice that it seemed as if he had no idea how to tell a joke.
The problem was that Elric himself did not have the confidence to say anything in protest.
[shit! sure? Am I some kind of demon lord?]
“That’s not it either.”
[sure?]
“Descendants of those who were ‘warriors.’”
[What was it? What is that again? I’m not kidding.]
Elric asked again, wondering what kind of nonsense this was, but Chepeshu’s explanation continued.
“And the descendant of what was the Demon King.”
Pop.
Elric’s thoughts stopped midway.
At first glance, I had an idea.
In fantasy. A being that was only seen in illusions of the past.
father.
“This is what people in the past usually called a being that possessed both sides.”
Elric swallowed dry saliva without realizing it.
“It’s called God.”
“… !”
Elric stopped thinking there. As if possessed by something, the winter seal that had once been shed was activating without the owner’s permission.
“‘Winter’ is a harsh season in which all living things shrink and fall into a deep winter sleep.”
At that moment, afterimages were passing in front of Elric. An illusion that could only be seen when absorbing seals in the early days.
This was an illusion created by the seal of the winter world.
A mental landscape that Otto Hahn might have seen someday.
“Beings that are not properly chosen are always forced to embrace hunger, shiver from the cold, and close their eyes.”
What Elric was seeing was animals walking around with tired faces in the middle of winter with flurries of snow.
One of them, a fox, could not find food for its cubs, so it searched endlessly at the foot of the mountain. Eventually, it got so tired that it buried its face in the ground and was breathing hard.
The branches were bare, and the grass was dry and crumbly. All you can see is frost on fallen leaves and icicles hanging from tree branches.
Therefore, the meaning of ‘winter’ is <death>.
It was for this reason that the deadly cold snow and the deadly north wind followed winter.
and.
Colleagues used to jokingly say this about Otto Hahn, who symbolized winter.
You seem to be driving death.
But every time that happened, Otto Hahn grumbled and said:
There are flowers that bloom even in winter.
“But the flowers that grow upright within it will bloom beautifully.”
There was a flower blooming on a tree branch that I thought was bare.
It was sparkling so beautifully, like a real flower in bloom.
It was a snowflake.
“The snowflakes at this time will be more colorful and beautiful than any other time.”
The numerous flowers he had seen in the Temple of Flowers were in full bloom around Elric. They broke and flew around, sending Elric back to the real world.
It was a fantasy that had already ended.
Somehow, Elric felt as if the scent of snowflakes was still lingering in his nose.
So I stretched out my hand towards Batu, who was running towards me again. There was something new I realized while looking at the snowflakes.
Seal of the winter world.
Secret art.
Seoljungmae (雪中梅).
Right at that moment.
So so so so-
Colorful snowflakes bloomed over Batu’s frozen wounds and then burst.
thud!
Between the fluttering flower petals, there was the sound of Batu falling.
Wizard who swallowed talent
