Chapter 665 of 704
Chapter 664
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I am currently practicing this, but the biggest problem is that enemies are surrounding me from all sides. In a precarious tightrope walk, I was caught by two enemies at the same time. Although it looks like a strange form of wrestling on the front line, I am not the deepest in the front line. Due to the heavy rain, it was not easy to see, but I saw flashes of the void trajectory in the distance and saw the corpses of the slain monsters everywhere. Eren, who jumped into the battlefield from the beginning, is much further ahead of me. While cutting through waves of monsters and sweeping them away with the Void Sword and Raphthor, she had already entered the Diana area. Even though Eren recklessly went deep without any escort troops, she had Raphth and Ramment to support her recklessness. It is more dangerous on my side, where I have an Immortal attached to my tail. However, as we entered deeper into the Diana area, it became increasingly difficult to choose between breaking through the monsters behind us and the monsters in front of us. The only reason I was able to come this far was ironically because of the saturation of magic spells aimed at me. The magic spells that were fired without properly securing my line of sight were sweeping away the monsters that were blocking my path. The magic spells that were trying to kill me were killing the monsters that were trying to kill me. I was a walking bombing zone, so I was actually moving forward while dodging the flames and heavy rain. While Eren trusted the Void Sword and Raphthor and moved forward, I became a spearhead that broke through the attacks that were trying to kill me. However, I couldn't afford to be complacent. If I didn't run, the Immortal masters would catch up to me. The Allied Forces were advancing quickly towards Diana because of the rough pursuit of the Immortal and my breakthrough. Although it was already destroyed, the location of Diana's warp gate was already in my head. All I had to do was guide the Immortal towards the warp gate and run. It seems easy at first glance, but I have to run through the most dangerous area on the battlefield without being caught by the enemy. Something was watching over me, but I didn't know how long it would last. And then, I saw a huge explosion of flames in one place in Diana. "What...?" An explosion occurred in the distance. I was able to see the scene because a huge amount of raindrops suddenly disappeared." Translation: Due to the massive explosion, the raindrops that were pushed away soon turned into steam and shot up into the sky. The shockwave of the flames from Raphth pulverized the monsters, and the dark blade flowing from the Void Sword accurately bisected the warp gate. Not only was one of Diana's warp gates disabled, but the origin of the monsters had become a barren field. Ellen was doing what I was planning to do with the Immortal alone. I knew Ellen was strong, and even stronger with two awakened relics. But could she really do it alone without the knights of Shana Phele she usually traveled with? I heard that Ellen had become even stronger after her last fight, but was it to that extent? Ellen destroyed one of the warp gates like a ghost rampaging through the battlefield and disappeared into the rain. If I were to face Ellen in her current state, would I attack first, or would I deal with the monsters first? I couldn't tell. But getting too close to Ellen was dangerous. And the Immortal might even attack Ellen instead. In that thought, as I tried to jump in a different direction from Ellen, a strange black energy burst out from another location. It was a place close to the heart of Diana, just like where I, Ellen, and the Immortals were. I'm not sure if the expression "burning darkness" is accurate, but the burning darkness was definitely sweeping through the monsters in the heart of Diana. I was not the only one in the vanguard, and the Allied Forces had more than one front line. Something was breaking through the front line of the Allied Forces and they were following behind. I could tell without looking for long. It was definitely Ludwig. I didn't know the limit of the power he gained from black magic. However, just like me and Ellen, he was standing at the very front of the battlefield. There was a strong determination in his footsteps, unlike Christina. A strong determination that ending all of this was the top priority. There was a warp gate in the direction Ludwig was going, and just like how I could see Ludwig in the pouring rain, Ludwig was also too close to me. I had to avoid him. Just like how it was dangerous to face Ellen on the battlefield, it was also dangerous to face Ludwig. Everything could wait. Breaking the gate of Diana was the first priority. When Ludwig swung his greatsword, the black magic sword energy that was generated with each swing destroyed the monsters and opened up a path. The ominous pressure emanating from Ludwig's form was reminiscent of a berserker. The Allied Forces marching along the path Ludwig opened were all afraid of that ominous power. Due to the heavy rain, I couldn't see the entire battlefield. And I didn't have the luxury of assuming that just because it wasn't raining, I could see everything. -Kwakakak! The protagonist jumps and defeats monsters that cause the ground to tremble. He finally arrives at a warp gate, which is medium-sized and pouring out monsters from a dimensional hole. He destroys the monsters that come after him with the power of destruction. The protagonist decides that breaking the gate of Diana is the first priority and avoids facing Ludwig or Ellen. He destroys the warp gate with his maximum power and runs away from the monsters. The protagonist and the Allied Forces continue to destroy the warp gates of Diana. The heavy rain makes it difficult to see the entire battlefield. The warp gates of Diana are being destroyed one by one. The Allied Forces have reached the last gate before it is destroyed. As the number of gates decreases, the number of monsters pouring out of a single gate increases. However, the total number of monsters decreases as the gate numbers decrease. The protagonist and his allies have surrounded Diana and are gradually reducing the number of monsters. The heavy rain makes the mission more difficult, but they are determined to succeed. The last remaining warp gate becomes increasingly large and a huge, unfamiliar monster emerges from it. It is a dragon-like creature from another world, and it is the final disaster. The protagonist and his allies must face it to complete their mission. The creature unleashes a devastating attack, and the battlefield falls silent. "And it breathed out a black breath that erased everything it touched. With each time the creature opened its mouth and exhaled its breath, there was no sound of impact, explosion, or anything. It simply disappeared. 'What is that...?' Herryott was frozen in shock as she witnessed the unreasonable destruction caused by something that suddenly appeared in the rear of the battlefield. Even Cliff, who had sliced through countless immortals, and Liana were the same. Numerous magicians were pouring their magic onto the shape that even looked dangerous just by looking at it. However, it passed through them all. Lightning, flames, explosions. It was as if they couldn't even touch the creature that took on the form of the night. The flashes pouring from the magic stars couldn't touch it either, and they only passed through it and exploded behind it. It had a form, but no body. It could be an ethereal form of an enemy. That's why Herryott shot a powerful light with the power of exorcism, but it only passed by. It was a monster that used a power that was too different from what they had seen so far. 'What... is that?' The monsters were all different. There were monsters that flames couldn't penetrate, and monsters that magic couldn't penetrate. But that thing exhaled a breath that erased everything it touched and let all attacks flow away. It was as if it existed in a place unrelated to the world's logic. Herryott expanded her field of vision to observe the creature. Even if she looked closely, it was a shape that she couldn't understand. And she saw it clearly as it let all the magic pouring onto it flow away. What was projected from the body of the dragon from another world was similar to the shape projected by Ellen's Void Sword. If the Void Sword Lament was a night's blade that cut everything it touched, that thing could do what the Void Sword Lament could do on a large scale. That's why Herryott could only realize what power Ellen's sword had. The Void Sword doesn't cut everything it touches. It erases everything it touches. It was just a misconception that it cut everything it touched because it was a blade that thinly spread the void. That thing could realize what the Void Sword does by breathing it out. A dragon with the form of the night. That's why it can't be touched by the logic of the world. But it can destroy the world. Why does something like that exist? How do you kill something like that? Just when Cliff awakened to the Master Class and overcame the crisis of the Immortal's attack, something so terrifying appeared. In the end, everything we did was meaningless. It felt like it appeared to ridicule everyone in the world. And a crack appeared in the space in front of that creature, revealing another huge form. A dragon of overwhelming size and a giant weapon, Titan, capable of withstanding that size. A moment when the Titan, which had left the battlefield and was minimally recharged, appeared to face that despair." "Not destroyed, but the part where the dragon's tail touched disappeared. The time that had been supporting the morale of the alliance army crumbled like it was nothing, as if asking what it had been all this time. Although not everyone could see the sight properly, they could feel the tremors and the despair that the Titan collapsing caused. 'How...what...what are we supposed to do?' Immortal disappeared, reappeared, Titan was deployed. Is that all there is to it? When something like that appears in the end, what are we supposed to do? Were all of these things actually something that couldn't be ended? Liana and Herryott could only feel a sense of emptiness that went beyond despair. -Swoooooosh. It was raining."