Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero - Chapter 120



120 – Ella #2

In the ice, Ella’s expression was as calm as if she had fallen asleep.

I didn’t feel any warmth or movement.

‘I can’t believe he died….’

No, it can’t be. If so, the door should have been closed. However, because Ella, her power source, was alive, the door to her underworld was still wide open and pouring out yin energy.

Withstanding the raging storm, he cautiously approached the ice crystal.

“… L, L.”

Why is it so awkward to say those two letters?

20 Years. It was a name that hadn’t been called for such a long time.

I took a closer look at her figure trapped in the ice.

‘Have you grown a bit?’

Her face has changed a little compared to when she broke up. Maybe 3 or 4 years. Compared to her students, she seemed about the same age.

Then, has she been frozen for dozens of years?

In this place, in this look, just alone.

“… ….”

She laid her hand on the ice with her trembling hand.

It’s cold. But it wasn’t ordinary ice. Even when I touched it lightly, I felt that it was very hard. It seemed difficult to break with normal force.

‘What should I do?’

Even if it was possible to break it by force, I had no intention of breaking it. Because then the Ella inside her might go wrong.

No matter how well you break the ice, this place is full of yin energy from the underworld. I can’t stay long here either. It’s a body that doesn’t die easily, so it’s just holding on for a long time, and I could feel the ends of my body starting to harden little by little. A normal person would die in just a few seconds.

Even if Ella was the door to the underworld by her kite, it didn’t seem like she wouldn’t be affected by this yin period.

Should I close the door first? But how? For convenience, it is called a door, but in fact, it is more like a dimension and a dimension grafted together. Can I cut with Ezetus? If you cut, what should you cut?

She thought it would be better to lift her entire ice crystal and move it… A magic circle drawn in blood filled the entire room on the floor, and Ella was at the center of the magic circle.

I don’t know what the magic circle is for. And, of course, I didn’t know what would happen when I removed Ella from there.

It would have been easier to destroy it. Ezetus’ power can cut and break anything.

However, I couldn’t act hastily in a situation where everything was uncertain about what kind of problems would arise if I touched it carelessly.

Thanks to the royal ring, I found the coordinates of the treasury. So, it was possible to come here at any time. I had to make my judgments soberly.

I took a long breath and cleared my mind.

‘… Right now, I can’t do anything for you.’

If Llewellyn, or at least Oznia, were here….

I suppressed my emotions by chewing on my lips.

“I’m sorry, Ella.”

It took 20 years to find it, but the fact that she had to leave at this moment with Ella in front of her, she felt helpless towards herself.

“Wait a minute.”

Just knowing where she is and figuring out her way to get her there at any time is a big win.

I will definitely find a way and come back.

With that promise in my heart, I took my eyes off Ella with difficulty. And I looked around her room. I was wondering if there might be some clues I missed.

But nothing special remained. Gadgets such as torn books and broken laboratory flasks suggest that this was once the workshop of the immortal corps leader, and the dried and frozen bloodstains here and there suggest that terrible experiments were conducted here.

However, most of the items inside the studio were gone, as if an explosion had swept through them. All that was left here was Ella’s ice crystal and a wide open portal.

At that very moment, she felt a piercing gaze from afar.

“… !”

She raised her spear in an instant and bent her head toward where the gaze felt. You can’t see it, but you can definitely feel it. Through the wide open portal, it was clear that someone was looking this way.

I opened my eyes wide and focused my eyesight as much as possible. Just further, farther… At a very long distance, hundreds of kilometers away, I finally saw the owner of my gaze.

A skinny man wearing a black robe. As expected, it was the appearance of the commander of the Immortal Corps.

The reason I couldn’t see it was because I was in another dimension.

Uncountable ghosts flowed behind the Immortal Corps commander like a river, and even at this moment, they were being sucked into his body nonstop.

He looked straight at me and opened his mouth. I couldn’t hear her voice, but I read her lips.

[Somebody said that the bugs that invaded my old workshop are you guys again? How the hell did you get in? I should have all the keys here… Oh, that’s right. A girl from the royal family survived. Did she use that woman’s ring?]

I intentionally didn’t look in Ella’s direction and opened my mouth quietly.

If he noticed that there was any connection between Ella and me, he would definitely try to use it.

“… Have you been hiding in a place like this before?”

[Huh? Can you hear my voice from this street? Aha, I must have read your lips. Unfortunately I can’t hear what you’re saying because that’s impossible. However, since I have come this far, I should say hello in my own way.]

Into the hands of the immortal corps commander, dense black magic rushed.

And the dark magic laser that shoots. But faster than that, my body was already rushing towards the immortal corps leader.

While spinning the spear, he hit the laser hard with the tip. Originally, it was impossible to block magic without mass with a spear, but the power of Ezetus, which cuts even things that cannot be cut, made it possible. Because in order to cut something, you have to touch it first.

The trajectory of the laser was bent at a right angle and slammed into one wall of the workshop. At the same time, I jumped through the portal. As the density of the yin energy grew thicker, the energy of the underworld that rejected the living was terribly constricting my body.

It was the moment to make a choice.

Soon, the blade of Ezetus pierced my heart.

“aaa!!!”

Feeling the pain and dark magic exploding from my heart, I covered my whole body with black armor.

Utilizing the black magic exploding like a flame as counter-resilience, he jumped out at once.

Boom!!

The ground that couldn’t withstand the strength of my legs exploded, and I was shot forward at a speed faster than an arrow. The surrounding scenery passes by in an instant.

The distance to him is about hundreds of kilometers, but there is no problem. If you focus all your mana without considering the damage around you, you can reach it in a few minutes at full speed.

It just went well. I’ll hear how to subdue him here and save Ella!

The immortal corps leader shook his head with a tired expression.

[Crazy bastard… It’s burdensome to still fight that guy with an imperfect body… Tsk, I wanted to collect more for the next few days, but I can’t help it. I have no choice but to be satisfied with this level.]

As the Immortal Corps leader waved his hand, the dark door opened behind him. I don’t know if it was his own power or Ella’s power, but he opened the dimensional door with his own power.

The ghosts who had been procrastinating together escaped somewhere through that dimensional door. And the immortal corps commander also flew towards the portal.

[I can’t be bothered by you right now. Wait until i’m done I will deal with you even then!]

He’s trying to escape!

The moment I confirmed that, I slammed my legs into the ground and jumped up towards the sky with all my might. Thanks to the instantly heightened field of vision, the surrounding situation became much clearer.

I saw a group of ghosts filling the horizon, and the shape of the immortal corps leader standing in the center.

I gripped the spear pole tightly and pulled his arm back as far as I could. His muscles swelled and he threw the spear forward with all his might.

A shockwave exploded, and the spear flew faster than sound and flew towards the commander of the Undead Corps, cutting through space.

[What… !]

Quaguaguagwang!!!

The moment the spear hit, the ground around it collapsed as if an explosion had occurred, and dust swirled around it.

After the dust disappeared, what was visible was the image of the immortal corps commander who had lost his left arm up to his shoulder.

His upper body, peeking out through torn robes, looked like a skeleton with only bones remaining.

[This, a monster… ! How did you collect the ghosts in this underworld, but how do you blow 20% of them in an instant? It took about a day to absorb it all! Damn… !]

The commander of the Immortal Corps walked towards his portal with his left arm missing.

I couldn’t miss it. The moment I landed on the floor, I automatically retrieved Ezetus and sprinted toward the portal.

The tremendous detonation and shockwaves that accompany it while running were not due to dark magic, but to speeds exceeding the speed of sound. Just by running, the ground around me was destroyed, and the spirits rushing at me were caught in the shock and bounced back.

The moment the immortal corps leader entered the dimensional door, the door began to shrink rapidly.

I hurriedly threw myself into the portal before it closed completely.

Immediately, my vision was stained with darkness.