142 – Bye bye # 2

142 – Bye-bye #2

This is a street in Phrygia.

It was a street that was full of energy with people going to the market for dinner after work.

A lot of people gathered today, and a crowded crowd was formed.

No, the procession was longer than usual today.

“Damn it, you know what’s going on and tell them to run away. Hey, don’t rush! Shouldn’t you take the safe with you?”

“Even when the war broke out with Pandaemonium, this Phrygia was safe. Because there was a barrier. But to evacuate outside Phrygia.”

“… What the hell is going on? Did a war break out between the duke’s soldiers?”

People did not know what was going on, so they asked the soldiers various things.

Of course, the soldiers who lead them did not understand the current situation.

He was just faithfully carrying out the order given by the duke, “Evacuate the people outside the castle walls—.”

What type of training is it?

A type of training for evacuating people in a crisis situation.

creepy-.

At that moment, the soldiers felt the hairs all over their bodies stand up.

Because they were people who had some sense of life and death battles and wars, they were the first to notice that something unexpected had happened.

A life-threatening situation in many ways.

Did the soldiers who confronted an army of 100,000 people within 1 kilometer feel this way?

Their limbs began to tremble and they experienced a shriveling sensation between their legs.

“Eh, let’s run away! Let’s run away!!!”

“You have to run away!!!”

“Quickly! Quickly! Residents, please get out of Phrygia quickly!”

The attitude of the soldiers, who had been guiding people in a gentlemanly manner until just now, suddenly changed. The merchant caught in their hands frowned as he let go of the safe.

“Hey, wait a minute! When you run away, even if you run away, you have to take money first—.”

The merchant couldn’t finish his speech.

He had found something rising high in the evening sky.

It was a pillar.

A pillar of black light.

Kwahiah ahhhhh !!!!

Seeing it rise high into the sky, the merchant didn’t know what was going on, but he knew he had to get out of here.

It was an instinct possessed by living things.

All the birds in Phrygia flew up simultaneously, and all the animals, including small animals such as mice and rabbits, began to run wild and escape toward the outside of the city.

“Move! Move!”

“I will go first!”

In an instant, a quarrel broke out.

They chose to abandon all possessions in their hands and flee with only the most precious treasure.

That treasure was life.

They started to run away in all directions like a swarm of bees that had lost their queen, and some were pushed or trampled on.

“uuu-”

Among them, there were also children who lost their mother’s hand.

A situation where children are crying and people who have lost their family’s hand here and there are screaming in urgency.

Then a monk with a golden soul appeared and took the child’s hand.

“Are you looking for your mother?”

“Mom, Mom.”

“Let’s get out of here at once. Holy lady, can you take care of the child?”

Saint Iris listened quietly to Enkidus’ question. She was blind, but she knew better than anyone that something bad was going on.

Saint Iris was a person who was more accustomed to being kind than anyone else.

And because he was such a good man, he could sense that something so evil that the world had never seen had appeared in Phrygia.

In the past, the saintess collaborated with the hunter Garrot to defeat the king of beasts in a place called 「Old City」 and fought the army of demons… .

“This is the first time I have experienced such a scary energy. Has the world come to an end? To be honest, I’m scared. Just enough to want to run away like this… .”

The saintess thought it was fortunate that she could not see her eyes.

It is almost as if the reason Yahbach, the god of light, blinded him was out of compassion to make him unable to see today’s events.

Enkidus more or less agreed with her.

“I thought the small monks had seen a lot, but… .”

A black light ascended and pierced the sky.

It was like a spearhead thrust into the world.

Brigitte, who soon appeared next to her, spoke.

“… It’s a crack in space-time.”

Cracks in construction.

It is a phenomenon that occurs when the world is torn apart, and the cities where this phenomenon was observed were destroyed overnight.

The most recent thing was the thousand-year-old Uruk, and looking back, the ancient cities of Babylon, Sodom, and Gamora were like that.

If all of those cities had one thing in common, they were places where magic was highly developed.

And now, will Phrygia, the city of magical engineering, also leave its name only in history?

Of course, Brigitte was like that.

“Judah… .”

The fact that a pillar of light rose to the point of tearing apart time and space meant one thing. It meant that someone had transcended, and the resulting magic and energy were tearing through space.

Not to mention, the karma of evil that was strong enough to make my skin tingle and vomit came out.

Brigitte thought this meant one thing.

“Judas… .”

Eventually, the time has come.

Brigitte burst into tears.

I vaguely expected that a day like this would come, but on the other hand, it was also true that I vaguely thought, ‘Wouldn’t everything work out?’.

Because the Judas Brigitte knew always overcame problems by displaying bizarre wits or superhuman strength in situations of crisis.

As if receiving love from all the luck in the world.

I wondered if it would happen again this time.

Even more so, the children came from the future.

Of course, everything would work out this time as well——I thought so, but it seemed that it was only Brigitte’s hope.

“You idiot… !”

Brigitte shouted at herself and at Judas somewhere.

No, can he hear his own voice now?

So, when he was very sad, Enkidus said.

“Brigitte. Not everything is clear yet. Judas may be alive. What we need to do now is… .”

Enkidus looked around.

People screaming and starting to evacuate.

The rift of the torn dimension.

I thought it would be better to make a calm but quick decision about what to do.

* * *

“… First of all, we have to close the dimensional rift.”

said Iris.

When everyone’s eyes focused on Saint Iris, she desperately calmed her trembling hands and feet.

Her throat was choking and her breathing was rough, but Saint Iris opened her lips as she recalled her memories with altruism that she had to save people somehow.

“When Uruk was destroyed… , The rift in the once torn dimension is getting bigger… . Finally, from Gehenna, Nocturne’s world, a relentless army of evil… They say it spilled… .”

Nocturne, who appeared after tearing apart the dimension, sent an army from his world to the Sabah world.

People fought against him, and the rift was barely closed by the sacrifice of Philemon, a man called the saint.

The man who sacrificed himself in this way accumulated good karma and finally ascended to heaven and became one with Yahbach, the god of light.

This is the story of the church.

That’s why the Church of Yahbach was also the place that recorded in the most detail what happened in Uruk a thousand years ago.

“We need to close the dimensional rift. A crack is like a hole in a dam… . The more you try to get out of it, the bigger it gets. Then the army will come… .”

This Phrygia will become Hell.

No, it could have been not just Freesia.

Now that there are no heroes so great as to be called saints, who the hell can stop Nocturne, the god of evil?

“Do you know how to close the cracks?”

Enkidus asked Saint Iris.

Soon after, Saint Iris nodded.

“for now… .”

“good. Iris, let me guide you to that black pillar of light.”

Saying that, Enkidus looked at the black pillar.

It was definitely larger than before.

His goal is to take Saint Iris to that place.

Having a goal made my head feel a little clearer.

“I’ll go too.”

Brigitte, who had stopped crying, volunteered for this job.

Enkidus looked at Brigitte with worried eyes, but Brigitte had already made up her mind.

“You will need strong firepower, a wizard. As long as all the citizens have evacuated anyway, there is no need to suppress their power. And I’ll see for myself what’s going on over there.”

Brigitte’s main specialty was strong firepower.

At those words, Enkidus was very reassured.

“good.”

“A party of magicians, martial artists, and blind saints. The balance of the party looks strange, so of course you need a avant-garde, right?”

Then, a familiar voice was heard from somewhere.

When I turned my head, there was a woman standing on the roof of a building with a greatsword as huge as a house pillar on her shoulder, looking down at everyone.

“queen!”

Brigitte shouted in joy.

Quinn was one of Brigitte’s closest friends.

Full-bodied, coo-uung-.

After the queen leaped and landed, she held out her hand towards Enkidus and Brigitte.

match-.

The soldiers who were evacuating people cheered as they saw them holding hands.

“The warrior party is in one place!”

“It will work out somehow! Because they are the ones who defeated the Demon King!”

“There is hope!!! Because the saintess is also with us!”

“… Where is Judas!?”

warrior party.

They have been people’s hope since ancient times.

Unlike the people who were happy, the expressions of Brigitte, Enkidus, and Queen were quite solemn, though.

Woo woo woo woo woo-.

At that moment, the space next to Brigitte distorted with a strange feeling. wet? Everyone was wary, but wizards wearing white cone hats soon appeared behind the portal that was created in the air.

They wore white robes and old cypress wands, and the brooches on their necks and shoulders were decorated with butterflies.

“Walpurgis.”

Brigitte frowned.

I never thought I’d meet the people I didn’t want to see the most at the worst timing.

The white wizard Friede wearing a cone hat said to Brigitte.

“You go forward. People will let us save it. If you open a portal out of the city, it’s not a job to evacuate people.”

It was embarrassing, but it was right.

And the white wizard, Friede, is a wizard who is excellent enough to be awarded the color.

Brigitte felt relieved to have such an older sister, even though it was a terrible relationship.

“Now, everyone, go inside the portal!”

Gudrid, the wizard of Walpurgis and Brigitte’s older sister, shouted at the people. Soon, the wizards of Walpurgis and the Mage Tower cooperated to create dimensional gates here and there.

The procession of people began to decrease as if the clogged blood vessels were pierced, and at the same time knights in white armor rushed in from another dimension.

“Holy Lady.”

They were the “Knights of the Holy War” of the Order.

An organization founded a thousand years ago, it was a knighthood founded by the saint’s companions who fought Nocturne a long time ago.

The maddened Roland, who made a brilliant achievement when fighting the demon king Sabrenak two years ago, was also a man belonging to this group.

All the Knights of the Temple, including him, had accumulated enough training to be called human weapons, and the tip of their spears was always what could be called ‘evil’.

The morale of the wizards and soldiers rose even more as the specialists of great evil appeared through the dimensional door.

“It’s awesome!”

“Are you going to start a war!?”

“I never thought there would be so many Templars in one place! Not only Roland, but also Archbishop Turpin!”

“cool… .”

Soon, a man wearing a platinum helmet with a cross on it appeared and bowed to Iris.

“Saintess, two battalions will participate in this battle first… , If we cooperate with the white wizards, we will be able to send more troops from the Saints to this place.”

Saint Iris had sent a letter to the church after meeting Judas in this city. It was the doctrine that war would break out at any moment, so we should always be alert.

The saintess thought that Judas was like a bomb on fire, so she didn’t know when it would explode.

“I could see that black pillar from the headquarters of the church. I came closer and saw… .”

Paladin Roland looked at the black pillar and broke into a cold sweat. There were wizard Brigitte, famous monk Enkidus, and warrior queen around him, but it was not at all safe.

Of course, as long as they had many eyes, they couldn’t look frightened.

Either way, I’m only prepared for death.

Then Brigitte spoke.

“Sister, I will ask you one thing.”

“… … .”

The white wizard, Friede, was slightly surprised at the word request.

When I wondered what she was going to say, Brigitte spoke without hesitation.

“When I give you a signal, open a portal near that pillar. It wouldn’t be strange if anything happened on the way there, so I think it would be better to go directly through the portal.”

Brigitte’s judgment was correct.

From now on, this place was in the middle of the age of mythology, where nothing was strange.

No, something happened already.

“all… Moon is… . The moon is setting.”

“It’s not just the moon. The stars are disappearing. The sky is just… It’s just getting black… .”

There was no one in the world who could be called ‘light’.

People were frightened by the darkening world, as if someone was trying to put a lid on the night sky.

darkness.

It was a primal fear that humans could not overcome until the moment they died.

Seeing that, Friede let out a sigh.

“… I tried too, but it didn’t work. You can’t open a portal close to that pillar. In that land, the flow of magic power is not constant… , My magic and skills are far from enough.”

The white wizard Friede couldn’t open the dimensional door.

That meant that none of the wizards in this world could do that.

However, Friede’s expression became very serious.

“Brigitte, you can do it.”