Return(1)

A snowfield full of silence.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out on the pure white land where only a snowstorm was raging.

Taang!

Estelle, who had pulled the trigger, rolled on the floor to hide herself, and the emperor, who was left alone, turned her head leisurely.

“You’re making a fuss that’s worthless.”

His voice was relaxed.

Because I can always catch the preliminary constellations that haven’t even finished the test yet.

He was just walking leisurely through the woods.

“I sense your source. You must be taking the test of ascension.”

He read Estelle’s source just by being in the same room.

A small, fragile, and immature source who was just born.

To that little soul who had not yet completed the test, the Emperor said with a smile.

“Do you know what kind of test you want to take?”

“I can’t hear it. I don’t want to hear it.”

bang!

A torch-clad bullet was fired.

It was a blow aimed precisely at the forehead, but the emperor did not avoid it.

The bullets that hit the mask just shattered and disappeared.

“Chit.”

Despite being revealed by the attack, the emperor walked.

I didn’t chase after you.

If he wanted to, he would be able to capture that young Constellation.

“The origins of a Constellation are completed on the battlefield of blood and death. Being a Constellation means the same as inevitably entering such a battlefield.”

“·······.”

“Yes. Constellations are born after eating the world one by one.”

The truth of the Trial of Ascension.

Estelle didn’t even blink an eye.

is not to believe

“I’m not stupid enough to believe the witch’s words.”

“hahahaha. Would I ask you to believe me when I say this?”

He laughed cheerfully and fired the strangely shaped revolver.

The dark red flash drew a straight trajectory and accurately destroyed the tree where Estelle was hiding.

“Oops…!”

“My only interest is Yujin Kang.”

“professor···?”

“Yes. Because his hometown was destroyed because of that test.”

Estelle’s eyes trembled as she ran away.

What did that witch say?

“Do not lie.”

“Why would I lie? Even now, I’m just playing with you.”

“Quit…!”

Quaang!

A bullet condensed to the limit of the sacred fire hit the emperor.

But the flame, like the morning star, only faded enough to scorch the hem of his clothes.

“Even the professor won’t believe you.”

“I know. So I showed you. With the power of Ouroboros.”

“·······.”

showed? what?

The emperor spoke to her who swallowed the answer in question.

“Trust is what it is. It’s surprisingly solid, so it doesn’t break easily due to external factors.”

He laughed at what was so funny.

“But that kind of trust, ‘suspicion’ that sprouts from within, breaks down.”

Ouroboros and Abyss.

Through those two powers, the emperor distorted the time and space where Yujin Kang was.

And through fragmented time and space, it shows his traumatic memories one by one.

A biography of all the suffering he suffered.

In the end, his purpose was to hide the small suspicion of ‘test’.

“Kang Yoo-jin won’t collapse at the level of trauma. The important thing is the message contained in it.”

“·······.”

“Aren’t you curious? What will happen if Yujin Kang turns the world into an enemy?”

He accurately turned his head and looked at where Estelle was.

“I know from my own eyes. You can look forward to it.”

“·······.”

No matter how much he thought about it, the emperor’s voice seemed far from wanting to kill Kang Yu-jin.

On the contrary, his voice was soft enough that I could even like him.

“You’re trying to hurt the professor-“

“I have no intention of killing him.”

he responded promptly.

“No way. If it’s a threat, you’ll have to kill it, but if it’s not, it’s much better to keep it as an ally.”

“Professor, don’t side with the Witchbeast!”

“Yes. He will never take the side of the Witchbeast.”

The narrative he went through was one that could never stand on the side of the demon.

Even if he turned the whole world into an enemy, he was never a great man to stand on the side and fight against the Witchbeast.

“But, I can be on my side.”

He spoke as if to declare.

“Because in this world, I’m the only one who can understand him.”

“·······.”

“And now, I need to know about you.”

The demonic storm he exploded swept the area.

Estelle, who lit the torch and burned it away, hurriedly ran away.

‘Strange.’

His words were strange.

He was displeased that he did not know of Estelle’s existence.

As if it had done something that shouldn’t have happened.

Estelle ran hard to avoid the pursuing emperor.

Fortunately, Ouroboros’ main force did not move for the use of the Abyss.

If I keep running away at full speed, I might be able to escape from his clutches by borrowing the power of the singularity…

“Here you are.”

“······!”

The emperor’s hand stretched out right next to her and grabbed Estelle’s neck.

“Ugh…!”

Pressing her to the floor, he looked closely into her eyes, twisted in pain.

“Looking at how he uses a gun, he must have learned from Yujin Kang.”

“Ugh… kuh…!”

“How come I don’t know you. I can’t understand.”

The struggling Estelle kicked him with her kicks, but he didn’t care.

Grabbing both arms and restraining them, he extended his other hand to the place where her heart was.

“If you investigate your source, you will find out.”

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Just as the demonic grip was about to pierce Estelle’s heart, a bright light burst out and pushed the emperor’s body away.

The Singularity, which had been consistently indifferent to everything, materialized in order to protect Estelle.

“What is it? A guy who should stay put.”

– You don’t deserve it right now.

“What?”

-Haven’t you already made a ‘choice’ in ‘your world’?

“…what are you talking about?”

As if getting fever for the first time, the emperor muttered gloomily.

“My world…?”

The gigantic demon trembled, and the blackened sky let out a tearing scream.

It meant that the Emperor was sincerely angered by the Singularity’s words.

“You’re saying something you shouldn’t.”

He approaches with a faint anger echoing in his voice.

So, the moment the arm covered with demonic energy was about to reach out, the singularity exploded with an intense light and bounced him away.

The power of the condensed holy power was truly amazing, and Estelle did not miss the opportunity and pulled out her sniper rifle and pulled the trigger.

The bullet that pierced the sacred fire, along with the sacred power of the singularity, lodged in the emperor’s mask.

“Tsk…”

As he silently clasped his face and backed away, the Singularity yelled at Estelle.

– Get ready to move!

“yes.”

Estelle surrendered herself to the magic that enveloped her.

If he waited like this, he would be able to move to another dimension.

By the way-

“uh···?”

The emperor raised his head, his mask was broken.

Beyond that, his eyes were exposed.

Those eyes with glowing dark eyes.

A gaze that does not dare to catch even though it contains only one’s own image.

It was a look that was all too familiar to Estelle.

“···professor?”

Then, the light engulfed her.

*

Dimension Avanrat.

Adeline, who rented an empty lecture hall, began weaving a spell following the coordinates given by Laniakea.

Going back through the fragmented space and time, her sense of spirit transcended the physical distance and caught the presence of the two.

“···found.”

It was Yujin Kang and Skadi.

The two of them were together… I didn’t like it a bit, but she steadily took the gate construction to the next stage.

Now that we know the coordinates, it’s time to connect the gates.

It was Encia and Cynthia’s turn to step out because they needed a catalyst, a ‘desire’ to bring Kang Yujin.

“Sia Asia. Get ready.”

“yes.”

“Okay~”

The two people who were preparing responded to Adeline’s signal.

For reference, ‘Sia Asia’ was a nickname given to the two by Adeline, who was too lazy to call them similar names separately.

The coordinates are connected and a passage is built following the image of Yujin Kang that the two come up with.

Indeed, the image of Kang Yoo-jin established between the two is strong, so the passage is built very firmly.

-Ahh. Yujin Kang. hear?

-·······.

It doesn’t even reach the voice.

I swallowed my regrets and focused on building the gate.

Fortunately, the passage was completed without difficulty, and Adeline confirmed that the two entered the passage.

“Whew. Thank goodness—”

Koo-ung!

At that time, the lecture hall shook violently with a great vibration.

An uproar erupted from the vibration so large that not only Adeline but also Ancia and Cynthia stumbled.

“What, what!? What’s going on??”

“… The Witchbeast has arrived.”

Adeline, her face distorted, looked out the window.

Sure enough, monsters were pouring out through the shattered space.

Beasts in the form of snakes and lizards.

It was the serpent of Ouroboros.

Upon their appearance, the two figures who had been sitting silently in the corner of the lecture hall stood up.

It was Roshua and Professor Lafless, brought by Adeline in preparation for an unexpected situation.

“… I couldn’t believe it, but is it really coming?”

“Looks like it’s our turn, Professor Lafless.”

“I guess so.”

they weren’t upset

Anyway, at the time of the ‘space-time glass’, the invasion of the monsters was expected.

The purpose, probably Abanrat itself.

They will know that Avantrat is a place to teach the sympathetic nervous system.

There must have been a strong mental wave spreading throughout the lecture, so you can’t be aware of it.

So their purpose is also clear.

To stop this lecture, to exclude those to whom the knowledge was transmitted, and further to reclaim Avantrat.

The value of the drifting island is enough to make your mouth hurt.

“It’s been quiet for a while, so I thought it would do something, but… This is a bit sudden.”

As Laflis muttered while watching the pouring witchcraft, Adeline replied bluntly.

“Didn’t you do something like defense? Why are you so carefree when Central Police was attacked?”

To that, Roshua replied.

“I did defense. It’s because the situation in Abanrat is unusual.”

Avanrat until recently was not part of the central dimension.

It was just what Laniakea had recently moved from the end of the wire.

There was no choice but to be relatively weak in defense, and there was even space-time glass, so there was no way to block it.

“Hmm…but it’s ambiguous to go out and fight.”

If you go out recklessly, you will be swept away by a rift and fly away to another space-time.

However, unlike the side where they couldn’t even hold a sit-in properly, the beast side was very calm.

It was because Ouroboros’ ability to handle the world line perfectly protected his subordinates from cracks.

“For now, join forces with others…”

Adeline, who had completed the spell that was almost shaken, was about to add a plan, but her spell was shaken by the mental wave that spread from the outside.

“oh···!”

It was a wavelength that strongly interfered with Adeline’s sympathetic nervous system.

The owner is, without question, Ouroboros.

“Ah, the spell…!”

I hurriedly tried to clear my consciousness, but I didn’t have the ability to endure it in front of Ouroboros’ powerful mental wave.

Cynthia and Encia, who were thrown out of the ceremony as the summoning gate that was being deployed was broken, fell to the floor.

“Aww!”

“Ako!”

Due to the recoil of the catalyst disappearing, even Adeline was separated from the composition of the spell due to the recoil.

The summon gate embodied in the classroom trembled nervously, and eventually dispersed like smoke and disappeared.

“What? Why is the gate suddenly gone?”

“what’s going on!”

Without access to the sympathetic nervous system, the two were taken aback by Adeline’s abnormal reaction.

However, it was difficult for Adeline to come to her senses at the onslaught of Ouroboros, who seemed to be going crazy.

Adeline’s power is obviously strong, but she alone could not actively respond to external forces.

This is because the ability itself has a strong character for someone’s assistance.

“Uh… what is that?”

“Huh? Light?”

At that time, I saw a streak of light rushing through the window.

It sprang up from the other side of the fragmented space of Abanrat, and flew in like a wedge, removing Ouroboros’ mental attack in one fell swoop.

“who···?”

Only then did Adeline, freed from the mental attack, look out the window.

It was like seeing a light that took on a human form.

Shining silver hair and the hem of the robe fluttering like the night sky.

The moment they saw the pair of wide spread wings, Roshua and Lafless opened their eyes wide.

“uh!!”

And Ensia was startled by Roshua’s sudden exclamation.

“What, what? Why are you suddenly like that?”

“It is ‘the most holy sky’!.”

At Roshua’s calm voice, the rest of the group’s eyes turned to the sky.

the most holy sky.

The Empress of the constellation called the First Star.

As they witnessed the lofty star that was greater than anyone else with their own two eyes, Encia and Cynthia’s eyes were filled with admiration.

“Gee, really…?”

“That one…”

But she didn’t stay long.

It flew up into the sky and confronted Ouroboros, who was trying to squeeze in here.

While everyone watched in dismay, only Adeline was sitting alone, sweating.

The magic of the summoning gate was broken.

It was the ‘worst’ situation in the present, with Kang Yu-jin and Skadi already passing through the gate.

If the gate closes while moving, you’ll be trapped in that gap forever.

“It was a big deal.”

Cold sweat dripped down like a waterfall.

*

When the coordinates were successfully set, the summons were made immediately.

In the aisle of the summoning gate created by Adeline, Skadi twisted her body in the gate’s gravity pulling her whole body.

“Ugh, this is how it felt. It’s strange.”

Skadi, who had never experienced a summoning yet, seemed unfamiliar with the unique sense of being pulled somewhere else.

It definitely felt different from teleport or warp technology.

Unlike other movement magics, the Summoning Gate, the origin of which is a monster, creates a passage through time and space in a straight line.

“It’s nice though. I’ll try this now or sometime.”

Fragments of countless worlds filled our surroundings as we floated up and flew away.

Looking at the fragments of the world shining colorfully like the stained glass of a cathedral, Skadi touched her red cheeks in rapture.

“Can’t you touch it?”

“You must not move while summoned.”

Then, if you leave the gate, you will be caught in the gap and trapped forever.

Sudden action was strictly forbidden.

“Ego… but when we go back, can we take a little rest… eh?”

“·······?”

However, I suddenly felt a strange shaking in the passage.

The colors of the four sides repeated reversal and reversal, and the aisle began to vibrate, and before long, the attraction that had been pulling us in was cut off.

“What, what? Why are you like this all of a sudden?”

“…it looks like there’s a problem on the other side.”

The rattling aisle now began to narrow as if it were squeezing.

It is certainly.

The connection is broken and the aisle is closing.

“It looks like the Witchbeast was at work.”

“Are you a witch?”

“It looks like you expected Adeline to use the summoning gate.”

Unlike the other worlds of the central dimension, Abanrat has weak external defenses.

It means that now, when the space-time glass is open, the Ouroboros army is in a state where it can somehow plan an invasion.

I didn’t want to assume it was the worst, but looking at the current situation, it seemed like the most reasonable case.

“Well, then what should I do? I don’t even know how to use space-time magic…!”

Anyway, I can’t use that either.

The magic that can manipulate time and space is 10 circles.

This is possible only for those who have realized the ‘extreme’ of magic that no one has ever reached.

Of course I couldn’t, and it was impossible for Skadi as well.

“Professor Skadi. Do you believe me?”

“Yeah? What else is that-“

“I asked if you believed me.”

I looked into her eyes with seriousness.

The exchange of intentions exchanged without words continued through the gaze.

The purple eyes slowly filled my pupils, and eventually smiled bashfully.

“believe.”

“Then lend me some magic.”

Skadi willingly entrusted her magic to me.

Previously, it didn’t take long because it was something I’d done once while casting Imma Mangryang in Central Police.

“Hold tight.”

“Yeah~”

That said, hold on really tight.

Leaving behind her as she hugged me with both arms, I pulled out my revolver and increased my mana.

Kiyiyin-

Indeed… the 9th circle mage’s magical power was truly enormous, and even just turning on the engine was enough to make my heart ache.

The chamber rotates along with the magic power and forms a circle.

4 pairs of rings with outer and inner diameters combined. It interlocked with the circle of the heart, causing a tremendous jolt of magical power.

“「Concentration」···「Refinement」”

Gather consciousness and add detail.

What I’m going to do from now on is to reconstruct the spell by connecting the disorganized channels of time and space.

Originally, space-time magic was a trick in a realm I couldn’t use, but as I passed through countless time periods, I was able to understand the characteristics of ‘rifts’ to some extent.

A crack is a gap in space-time that has been separated.

If you can only grasp its structure, you can ‘interfere’ with space-time even if you can’t ‘manage’ it.

“Are you good at mana? You can control 9th circle level mana by yourself…?”

“Please be quiet.”

Today’s work requires a high level of concentration.

It’s because I have to make a road accurately without being swept away by thousands of streams.

Now this was an act that was tantamount to going back to Niagara Falls naked.

ugh…

The collapsing passage was reestablished, and movement that had stopped was slowly resumed.

Skadi made a fuss about using 10 circle magic, but this is not the case.

It’s just an excuse to imitate.

If the 10th circle magic is to make a whole tunnel, then I’m just digging up dirt and pushing it out to make a small tunnel.

“it’s okay?”

“···no.”

Not okay at all.

My head felt like it was about to explode because the space-time coordinates and the value of the magic formula went wild.

But I had to do it. Because I can’t be trapped here and become a lost child.

Calculate, dismantle, and connect with magical power.

The moment I placed the cracks one by one like putting rocks together, the revolver’s circle changed.

“Well?”

The four pairs of rings seemed to shake, but soon they began to fuse into a ‘pair’ of rings.

The ring of soft blue light began to transform, and it eventually became a circle that scattered light of a brilliant spectrum.

A pure and honest light that cannot be compared with existing circles.

It was the pinnacle of beauty that even I admired.

“It resonates with the magic of time and space.”

“What is it?”

“That gun was the main axis of Yeonsan, wasn’t it? It seems that a change in nature occurred while moving the magic here.”

She looked at the revolver wrapped in a colorful circle with her eyes shining.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before!”

“Are you good?”

“Is it good? Of course! It means that you can draw and use the vast amount of mana of space and time!”

In addition to the increase in mana, she made a fuss about the fact that space-time magic does not react to the outside world, so it is a power that is not subject to anyone’s interference.

“indeed.”

After all, it sounds like my mana has increased.

The output must have been as much as the durability of the gun could withstand, but it was a situation that I felt like I always lacked mana compared to the ability I had.

Is it such a blessing to fall for Ouroboros’ trick?

A smile came out of me without my knowledge.

“Professor Skadi.”

“yes?”

He looked at her and lowered his head.

“thank you.”

After all, this was only possible because she trusted me and entrusted all her magic to me.

If she hadn’t helped, I wouldn’t have been able to interfere with time and space, and I wouldn’t have been able to create this anomaly.

It was only natural to express gratitude to her for willingly giving away her life-like magical power.

“···ah?”

“This is thanks to you.”

Then her eyes widen, and her face turns red.

Then, as if avoiding his gaze, he hugged me and buried his face in my waist.

“Daddy, I’m going fast.”

“Yes.”

Leaving behind her shy voice, she increased her movement speed.

Now, it’s our turn to strike back.