52 – The Falling City (2)

Ardel quickly ran out of the castle.

However, I thought that there would be no point in just running like this.

I kind of fell in love with her as we chatted, especially since I didn’t know exactly where she was going, where she lived, and where she was hanging out.

If so, I’ll ask.

As soon as Ardel went out of the castle, he spread out the stalls and grabbed the merchant who was doing business.

“Hey, do you know who Luna is?”

“Oops, knight.”

As soon as the merchant saw Ardel, he immediately bowed.

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Just by looking at his outfit, he knew he was an apprentice knight, but even so, it was not a status that a merchant could ignore.

Even if it’s an apprentice, a noble is a noble.

I dared not treat him comfortably as a commoner.

“I don’t know, but there is someone who might be familiar with that information. It’s a big hand that rules the whole area… .”

“I am not looking for someone special. Every time I go around the mountain looking for a child to play with.”

“Ah, then it shouldn’t be hard to find.”

The merchant indicated the direction with his finger.

“There is only one mountain close to this city. There will be a few more mountains if you go a little farther, but the child won’t go dangerously far.”

“Right.”

“I hope you find it helpful.”

Ardel, who had just arrived in Antony, would not have known that there was only one mountain near the city.

It was a small thing, but it was a big help.

Ardel, who was trying to express his gratitude to the merchant, even gave advice considering the urgent situation.

“Thank you, and get into the castle as quickly as possible. Now, unknown dangers are about to come from outside.”

“Is that so?”

“It doesn’t matter if you take care of the people around you or take all your belongings and evacuate quickly, or inform the people around you.”

The merchant was taken aback by these words, but nodded.

Since Anthony was in such a bad mood, he easily believed even if he warned that something was about to happen.

Besides, it was strange that he didn’t believe the words of an apprentice knight, and not an insignificant gossip.

After looking at the vendors hurriedly organizing the stalls, Ardel starts running again.

The direction of the mountain was obvious to his eyes.

When I got there, I saw a small village that had sprung up under the mountain.

Again, Ardel asked the people staying here for information.

“Do you know anything about Luna?”

“Oh, you mean that kid?”

This time, someone I knew immediately came out.

The child seems to have lived here.

A handsome looking young man brought up a story about a child.

“I don’t know why you’re looking for that little boy, Knight, but have you done something big?”

“I’m personally worried and I’m trying to find it. There is no such problem.”

“Ah, I see, Luna went to play in the mountains. I saw it with my own eyes.”

It seemed like something I feared would happen.

Why would you go to the mountains at a time like this?

I sighed as I looked at that mountain full of ominous things under the dark sky.

Can not help it.

I’ll have to search the mountains to find it.

While walking, I look at the people gathered around me.

Even though they live next to the big city, it was not easy to see the article.

Even if it’s just an apprenticeship.

Seeing the knight who suddenly came to the village, Ardel felt a half-mixed look of curiosity and wariness, and did not forget to warn him here.

“So that everyone can get inside Antony’s castle as much as possible.”

“Yes? What are you saying all of a sudden, driver?”

“I don’t really know, but something big is going to happen that is dangerous for everyone outside the castle. If you want to live, you must evacuate.”

Although the villagers were confused, they calmly accepted it.

It’s because of the recent bad atmosphere.

“It’s been ominous these days, but something big is about to happen.”

“I have to follow the knight’s words and enter the castle.”

“I also lost sleep several times, but now I have to evacuate to the city.”

“How many people are missing? I heard that the daughter of the woodcutter Kevin disappeared without a mouse or a bird knowing?”

Meanwhile, someone raised their hand.

He was a young man with calluses all over his body, as if he had done a tough job, but the naivety that remained on his face was impressive.

“Did you say you were looking for Luna?”

“Yes.”

“I know where the kid is wandering around inside the mountain. I can guide you.”

“If you can do that, I would be grateful.”

For Ardell, it’s a well-deserved help.

The young man confidently went ahead into the mountains, and Ardel followed suit.

…In this short time, Ardel hoped that the child would not be injured or killed.

**

We were able to gradually approach the city.

You can see the densely built buildings and the large fortress walls surrounding them.

Many private houses and small buildings continued around the wall.

It was still quiet.

No, to be precise, even if he died right away, he was attacking little by little only on a scale that the entire city would not notice.

“Get Asher down.”

“Are you okay now?”

“In a different way.”

As soon as I got down to the floor, I wrapped myself in magic.

It wasn’t the use of demonic energy through the sacrifice of a dagger, but the closer you approached the city, the more you collected the overflowing demonic power little by little.

Still, rather than mana, magic was the power to pull out the limits of the body.

If I moved my body with mana enhancement, I would collapse right now, but Magi was able to do it.

Even if Asher didn’t want to, he quietly let me down, perhaps because he decided to trust me.

Raise your head high in the sky.

“…It’s a black magic that’s very similar to the method I used.”

It is not an exaggeration to say that the magic required to reach the transcendent is ignorant.

If such demonic energy is put into a human body in real time, it will quickly collapse and do nothing.

Even if I was an immortal in the past, I couldn’t handle it.

You only die once or twice, how can you survive dying once every second?

So, at least for a while, I had to put the demons somewhere else.

That dark sky is black magic, and it is also a great circulation device.

The role of collecting and gathering all the demonic energy that is created under the ground.

Later, the magic could be moved according to the command of the black magic caster.

I swallowed my saliva.

Enormous demons were gathering there.

If only I could seize it.

Everything would be very easy.

However, this is only possible if you make a contract with the Great Devil.

No matter how immortal I am, the demonic energy will escape during the time I die.

It’s a sweet temptation, but it’s too irrational for me to take the leap to become a transcendent here.

And at the same time I was sure.

That’s a method only possible for me with the power of an immortal.

Or, only beings who reached the brink of transcendence, such as the King of the Dead, could use it.

If not, most warlocks will not be able to withstand the magic for a few hours and will die.

Even if you reach transcendence for a while and can use power close to transcendence, you will eventually collapse and die.

The Black Tower Master is using a method that cannot be used unless he is an Undead.

What does that mean?

Like me, you’ve secured a plan to become an immortal.

Or that there is a way to take away my immortality.

I know how to do it, so I’m going to try it.

And then I didn’t understand.

How the hell do you steal immortality?

It is a power that is completely vested in me.

“Argal? I always feel it, but when you’re in trouble, you just stand there blankly, like you’re really dead.”

“…is it?”

As I was still looking at the sky, Changseong pointed out that.

I nodded and repeated my analysis of black magic.

I couldn’t understand.

It took a very long time to prepare to fully utilize that black magic.

After the thorough help of the demon king, I finally completed it and reached transcendence.

The Black Tower Master didn’t have that kind of leeway.

He probably made this decision after seeing me back in the capital.

The time on the way was too short for that.

There will be vulnerabilities.

If only we could find that vulnerability, this could have been solved with futile ease.

The location to find the vulnerability is the center of the city.

You just have to find it in the center of the dark sky.

“…Is he dead?”

Looking at me, who fell into trouble again, Chang-seong muttered that.

…It’s rude to ask if you’re dead in front of a normal person, Changsung.

Strictly speaking, isn’t it rude to an immortal who doesn’t die?

“Let’s go again.”

Covered my face with black magic.

If your guess is correct, you shouldn’t be discovered by the owner of the Black Tower.

We must quietly analyze our vulnerabilities from the center of the sky.

It doesn’t matter if there are no vulnerabilities.

My black magic skills were better than the Black Tower Master.

There were always plenty of ways to get in the way.

You jumped into a fight you can’t win, Black Tower Master.

Even if the city is hit close to extinction.

you will be defeated

**

“Just for today, I want you to live here. Warrior.”

Following the recommendation of the Knight Commander, the hero was quietly staying at the Knights’ quarters.

The commander of the knights summoned the knights and promised that they would start the moment the Golden Knights gathered.

Believing that, she stayed still.

Even when I saw the demonic storm erupting in the distance.

endured quietly.

“I can’t sleep, but I need to.”

Only then will you be able to fight with all your might in the upcoming battle.

Mistakes are not allowed for her.

How many people can die in one mistake.

No matter how much the weight was lifted, the enormous responsibility still weighed on her.

“I need to sleep… . Relax today… .”

believed in everyone

Reinhardt and the other girls who visited the city.

Argal, who is assumed to be staying at the church now.

She trusted everyone and slept peacefully.

When the hero closed his eyes and went to sleep.

The world has turned.

That dark sky swallows the surroundings like a storm.

The city is visible only in ruins.

Under the city there was only death.

Whether eaten by the undead.

My head exploded due to black magic and I died.

All those sacrifices were made down here.

Perhaps because it was a disaster that occurred very quickly, the city seems to have no defenses.

There were no survivors.

Everyone is dead, only corpses remain.

She felt a sense of deja vu.

It was a dream at that time.

I felt that it was similar to the dream I had at the time of fighting the warrior who had become a transcendental warrior after receiving the holy sword and the one who burned the capital.

if there is one thing different.

In this dream, she was not there.

There is only one survivor of this catastrophe.

was the perpetrator

“We are almost done.”

“Sah, live… !”

– Poaak!

With a gesture of nothing, he brutally killed the last person who survived.

“It’s annoying.”

Argal looked at the destroyed city as he murmured, as if the killing just now had no inspiration.

The floor was covered in blood.

A mountain of corpses covered the area.

He reached out to the sky.

The magic that the sky held was so huge that even the hero was afraid.

More than anything else, a power that was incomparable to a catastrophe seeped into Argal’s body.

In the process, Argal repeated death without rest.

Even if your heart explodes, even if your head explodes.

Even after death, Argal’s body was restored.

Looking at such a phenomenon, the hero came up with a certain possibility.

“Porridge, isn’t it?”

But she immediately denied it.

The current Argal she knows is not an immortal being.

Even if they were injured, they remained as they were unless they were treated.

If he could restore his entire body the moment he was so close to death, Argal would have been willing to die even once to restore his body that had exhausted its lifespan.

But Argal never did that.

Even as she nodded.

Horrible to look at these scenes.

Unlike the capital, which at least spared civilians.

The warrior who looked at the cruel scene where no one survived.

His strong trust in Argal could only be shaken slightly.