NOVEL NEXT chapter 42
42. Prayer of the Apostate (6)
42.
“Ha, ha, suck, ha….”
Tania lifted her messy bangs with one hand, as if she had been running nonstop.
“Hold on a little longer and the knights will come.”
Due to the nature of the knights, who have to move a lot of troops together, they couldn’t come faster than Tania.
If the Ergenuke Knights or the Royal Knights came and engaged in a pincer attack, it seemed that at least the subjugation would be successful.
It was impossible for a single person.
“… A little bit.”
I gnawed my teeth in resentment.
At first, Tania thought that if she joined the battle, she would be able to defeat Colcasus.
I changed my mind after sharing the sum of the previous one.
This is not an ordinary monster.
Even before the return, there were only a handful of monsters with the same attack power as the current Colcasus.
To the extent that it is thought that the world deliberately brought it out to kill Ellen.
A sore hand loosens her wrist and she swallows her dry saliva.
My heart started beating fast.
Colcasus, who was pinned to the ground, was slowly raising his body with an evil look in his eyes.
If you ask me if I’m afraid.
Not really.
With Ellen behind her back.
My life belongs to him anyway.
***
We must wield the sword for the future.
In the first place.
I thought we never promised anything about the future.
I thought the present was too overwhelming to live a life for the future.
There are too many problems to be solved and problems to be solved.
So, in my head, there was always only the memory of rectifying something.
Running around to solve a case that has already happened.
Live to get rid of sins that already exist.
I struggled to be at least a little comfortable in the prejudice that already exists.
Live all your life.
I always walked like that, looking back.
So even when Elise told me to swing the sword for the future, I laughed inside.
In order to wield a sword for the sake of the future, you have to value the future.
Wouldn’t the future of commoner apostate warriors be nothing but instrumental values?
Because I thought so.
For me too.
Even for me in the past, who would have been much more pitiful than now.
There was a person who promised me a future.
“…… Ah.”
I heard my voice a little lower than then.
The vocal cords vibrate and bring me to reality.
It felt like my heart was empty.
An empty heart with no hatred, no anger, no resentment, no malice.
It started to be filled with promises between the two.
I walked forward.
Because far away, the last moonlit Caucasus was visible.
If the ordeal the goddess created to isolate me is even that wolf, surely destroy it.
To clearly imprint the fact that you are not a warrior who is swayed by the will of the goddess like a piece of paper.
“I want to stop now.”
As I walked, I muttered something to myself that I didn’t know who I was talking to.
“Only move as someone tells you to.”
The three women looked at me in amazement, although some called me by name.
I left my answer behind and gradually picked up speed with my feet and moved forward.
The three pieces of the moon are still floating in the sky.
Even the last moon was so black that it was hard to tell it apart from the sky.
The eyes of Caulcasus, which looked twice as big as the wolves I had dealt with so far, turned to me.
The wolf that pushed the ground roughly reached me in an instant, bursting with the magic of the black monster. Fangs sharp like a famous sword glisten in the moonlight, and the mouth comes to wash my throat.
My sword is covered with a pure white sword.
Not a blade for killing monsters, but a blunt iron for subduing them.
Like a smooth movement of light, the sword drawn diagonally upward strikes the chin of Caulcasus.
Damn it-!!
With a powerful explosion that shook the space, the aftermath of the white mana created ripples in the air like a lake where a rock was thrown.
The floor of the meadow where the Caulcasus was stepping cracks like a spider’s web and explodes.
The body floats high, drawing a parabolic line and sinking to the ground. The head flinches.
A mana powerful enough to make the mind go crazy continues to resonate in the monster’s head.
The monster couldn’t even get up properly for a while.
Keueung, keuk, keueek-….
In the eyes of the monster, fear and fear erode in an instant.
As if my feet weren’t moving properly, I flicked in the air a few times before getting up right away.
A body that was bent over, and hair that stood tall.
And beyond the huge body of the Caulcasus, the slow sound of the wheels of the wagon could be heard clearly.
Soon the knights will camp out to kill monsters.
I didn’t want to inflict any more pain on that monster.
Perhaps it was just a one-sided scapegoat between the goddess and me.
“… Sorry.”
So, I apologized.
Because their situation and mine don’t look very different.
The tip of my sword took the middle of tens of thousands of grips.
Placed on the tip of the sword, Colcasus crouched down even more.
Percussion-
My body leaped lightly off the floor and rose high.
Enough to make eye contact with Colcasus, and to look down upon it again.
Standing between the three dimly lit moons, he aimed the tip of his sword at Colcasus.
To be precise, it was aimed at the pasture floor below the Caucasus.
I put the soil of the barren and bloody floor, which was mostly barren with few grasses, at the tip of my sword.
From my heart, on my shoulders, on my wrists, and overlaid on my sword, white mana.
A few drops of deep blue mana from the past mix with the whiteness to create a blue color.
I held the sword in reverse with both hands and held it high.
‘Well, that’s very good. Nothing could be better than this.’
Siretti’s voice rang in my ears like an auditory hallucination.
I looked down.
The knights were forming camps in unison to subdue the Caulcasus.
Colcassus made eye contact with me in the air and let out a cry that scratched his throat.
I started reciting the phrases that came to my mind.
Not for the goddess, but for me.
“… The days when we have to struggle with things that are not our sins are over.”
Mana floating in the air clings to my body.
The wolf’s blood on his clothes also oxidizes.
“When the time comes when you don’t have to do anything, then.”
The split moon, the dark sky is colored with light like dawn.
The white and blue mana vibrated at the tip of my sword and grew in size.
The floor of the quivering pasture.
The free mana floating in the air also caught up with my sword and was absorbed, and the reverberations of the remaining mana rode the sword towards the handle and spread dizzy upwards.
By all means.
Like the blue petals of that day.
“At that time, find your freedom too.”
Kuhuhhh-!!
With a final roar, the Colcasus spurred off her floor and rose to the surface as she swung her sharp front claws at me.
White and blue.
The rose-like mana that Sairetti put into my hand plunged vertically.
Pierces the chest of Colcasus.
The ground from the meadow to the temporary lodging was shattered and turned upside down by the explosion of condensed mana.
The brave day.
I put a flower that no one can forget in the wilderness.
***
The ground turned upside down.
Magicians each used high-ranking protection magic to protect their allies, and Elise and Flavor also had to use protection magic to protect the knights.
Even so, a few knights who lacked skill managed to protect themselves while crouching.
“… ….”
When the deafening sound of explosions and blinding flashes faded.
On top of the unscathed corpse of Moonlight Caulcasus, the essence of the moon was placed in the form of a rose.
A deep silence descends.
Elise Ergenuc’s confidant and vice-captain, Peto Ezac.
Peto couldn’t understand the current situation.
“…… This.”
As for Ellen’s skill, she hinted to Elise that she knew she had some strength.
Now, the skill of Ellen, which Peto witnessed with his own eyes just a few seconds ago.
Beyond what can be called simple ‘strength’.
“It’s a miracle….”
It was a miracle.
A warrior who has no skills so far and knows how to get good grades.
Anyway, he’s just a commoner hero.
If he had skills to brag about, there’s no way he wouldn’t have made an official move until now.
I’d rather have other nobles enlist their children to form a new expedition….
All the demands that had come from Elise’s side, which seemed plausible at first glance.
It felt so insignificant and stupid that it was not worth remembering.
How could you call such a person incompetent in front of him?
How dare you say that you are half a hero?
Peto, who was proud of having gone through all of the prenatal battles and had deep knowledge as the vice-captain, couldn’t even figure out what Ellen was trying to do from the middle.
The white mana and the blue mana were mixed, and it took the form of a sharp flower like stems and leaves.
In an instant, it pierced the heart of Colcasus.
That also did not shed a single drop of blood, and only penetrated the monster’s mana.
It was an inaction that could only come out of a textbook, to the point of having to argue for days saying that it couldn’t be possible.
Peto looked at Elise.
Elise was also looking at Ellen standing in the meadow with blank eyes.
Ellen’s shirt was no different from not wearing it because it had been worn away by her excessive concentration of mana.
His upper body was covered with tiny wolf claw marks.
On the old steel sword, there was still a white glow of mana that was shining little by little.
In one hand, he was holding the upper body of a scarecrow that seemed to have been picked up from the floor.
The image of an old warrior was engraved on Elise’s chest.
She remembered him with an unforgettable image.
The blue rose that Ellen flowered was more beautiful than any warrior’s sword.
“…… Ah.”
Ellen’s eyes suddenly turned to one place.
At the end of that line of sight was Flavor Heartpone, the Commander of the Royal Knights.
Whatever happened, he was wearing a tanned cloak and met Ellen’s gaze.
Ellen slowly moved her steps towards him.
Flavor took off her fancy helmet and waited for Ellen, revealing her bare face.
Although he smiled at Ellen, pretending to be normal.
The corners of his mouth trembled a little.