The Hero Who Returned From Death Quits - Chapter 219



EP10. The Falling Twilight

I feel it.

All the things that make up my own body. The muscles moving inside my body, the warm blood flowing through my blood vessels. The forces writhing inside my body.

I feel it.

The flow of power that waves within the world. The operating principle that constitutes countless things. The source that causes the phenomena of this world.

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I feel it.

The existence of the Demon King before my eyes. The knots of the cells that made up his body, the power felt within his body, and above all, that feeling of bewilderment. I felt it so clearly that it was almost comical.

This is the scenery that my colleagues, Grandis, and the beings once called the three great disasters of the world have been seeing since the past. And…

I looked at the Demon King and opened my mouth.

“You too, I guess.”

“hmm?”

The Demon King narrowed his eyes. He seemed to be guessing what I meant.

Yes, these sensations that I feel are all things that I had already been looking at before.

Now, we have finally reached this area.

The black magic formula was woven. As if a spider were weaving a web, the black magic naturally followed my lead.

More seamless. More delicate. More concise. More solid. More efficient.

The spells piled up and created black magic in an instant. The darkness was even greater than Grandis’s.

The Demon King opened his eyes wide when he saw that.

“How on earth did you do this in such a short amount of time…?”

It was a short time. When I heard that, I couldn’t help but laugh, and the Demon King’s face hardened when he heard my laughter.

“For me – it’s not a short time.”

Darkness shot towards the Demon King. The Demon King confronted him head-on with black magic, causing a huge collision and causing an explosion.

“What happened? You didn’t use your power? You didn’t have the confidence to avoid it?”

I taunted the Demon King. The guy who didn’t even see me as an enemy was showing such a flustered look. It was unbearably amusing.

The Demon King gritted his teeth and hurled black magic at me.

I summoned a bow.

“It’s visible.”

I felt a black fireball approaching me, burning the sky.

“The essence of that technique.”

I cocked the bowstring, which was empty. I didn’t need any arrows.

The blue magic was attached to the bowstring. An arrow made with the same strong energy as Lena.

An arrow without shadow, without substance, just made of pure power. It is called the spiritless arrow.

The arrow made of steel pierced through the Demon King’s black magic. The spell, which had lost its core, faded away without anyone noticing.

“and…”

Not only that, the arrow continued to advance and pierced the Demon King’s arm.

The Demon King looked at me with bloodshot eyes, his face distorted.

One of the Demon King’s arms had already disappeared without a trace. I looked at the Demon King. There was a chance of victory.

Just because I climbed over the wall doesn’t mean I became stronger than the Demon King. However, at least I could hold out for quite a while if I used all my strength. I don’t know exactly how much stronger I became, but I was able to hold out against the Demon King better than when Saint and Beatrice fought together.

And above all, the Demon King had already poured out his black magic recklessly, and had less than half of his black magic left. Normally, I think he would have been quite rational, so he would not have wasted his black magic, but the Demon King, overcome with excitement, made the mistake of pouring out his black magic recklessly.

That means… I too, have the conditions to face the Demon King head-on and win.

I took up the holy sword and breathed magic into it to create a sword.

And then, I swung the holy sword.

Kang-gi escaped from the sword and headed straight for the Demon King.

The Demon King deployed a shield to block it, but I knew that deploying a shield with black magic was ineffective in the first place.

One of my advantages was that I could handle all the powers and maintain consistent fighting power regardless of what power my opponent used.

If we can continue to wear down the enemy’s capabilities like this, we will be able to win.

However, I couldn’t let my guard down. If the Demon King had a hidden secret, then the reverse outcome could have been defeat.

At least for now I have the advantage.

If things were as they were, the Demon King would attack and I would hold out, but since I have the right to attack first, I have to attack and the Demon King has to defend, which is a very unfair situation from the Demon King’s perspective.

Yes, I thought so.

The number of spells created by the Demon King grew uncontrollably until they were all fired at me at once.

It was not something that had the right of first refusal.

It was a case of giving up the right of first refusal.

While blocking my attacks, he built up countless attack techniques without me noticing them, and then launched a carpet bombing attack that I couldn’t even defend myself against.

I can’t defend it. I realized that.

It was impossible to block an attack that the enemy had practically concentrated most of their power on at once. They surrounded themselves with a strong energy and created a defensive barrier using divine power, magical power, and even black magic, but it was still not enough.

The moment I thought that.

“God’s Barrier.”

A huge light barrier appeared in front of me. The barrier reacted with the Demon King’s black magic and exploded, erasing a significant amount of black magic in the process. As a result, my defense barrier was completely destroyed, but I was able to defend against the Demon King’s black magic without being seriously injured.

“what…”

The Demon King’s eyes became bewildered. On the other hand, I couldn’t help but smile brightly.

Beatrice, who had fully recovered, joined me.

And at that moment, the Demon King was struck from behind by a sword and fell.

It was Saint. It completely penetrated the Black Demon King’s body, and the Demon King began to vomit blood from the corner of his mouth.

And then I felt something strange.

Why didn’t the Demon King know about that attack in advance?

As I thought about it, I was soon able to come up with an answer.

The Demon King cannot use his power for some reason.

…

‘Fuck.’

The Demon King was embarrassed. He couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

How did this happen? Not only was his power continually being exploited, but the enemy also continually used his power to deflect it by some means.

If that were all, he wouldn’t have been so flustered.

The reason the Demon King was flustered was even more serious.

Suddenly, an opponent who I thought had no direct combat power at all started unleashing attacks with incredible power, and soon went over the wall.

It had far more serious consequences than he had thought. Having already overcome the wall once in swordsmanship, he had consistently overcome the wall in other disciplines with that same sense.

However, the reason the Demon King was most confused wasn’t even those things.

What made the Demon King most flustered was that the future of his opponent, who had suddenly chased him to the very edge of his chin, and who might even have been in a more advantageous situation at the moment, was ‘not visible’.

That was something that should never happen to the Demon King or to Laplace.

I can understand that the future for the enemy may be wrong. However, I cannot understand that the future cannot be seen at all.

The Demon King was terrified by that fact. Living beings instinctively feel fear when they are placed in a situation they cannot understand, and even the Demon King was no exception.

But the Demon King was rational, and continued to fight even under such adverse conditions.

He withstood the enemy’s attacks at all costs, defended himself with a shield that he knew was ineffective, and continued to stack up his spells to create a plan.

And that gamble was clearly broken by a human who rendered him incapacitated.

And then, suddenly, he felt a sense of foreboding.

Where is the other one?

The moment he realized that, the Demon King felt a sword strike from behind.

“Cough!”

The Demon King vomited blood. And then his face hardened.

It can’t end like this. If that’s the case…

A huge jinn was carved into the sky.

“Oh, my God.”

The Demon King smiled creepily while spitting out blood.

“I offer a sacrifice.”

…

The girl, whose sword was a mixture of white, black, and red, clasped her hands together.

I never thought that Ainzel could climb over a wall.

However, at the moment when his power was over and he was about to fall into despair, Ainzel climbed over the wall.

No matter what he did or what chance he had, Ainzel could not get over the wall. That was his fate.

However, due to the special nature of the Holy Sword’s power of return, something that was originally impossible happened.

As a result, the world line became distorted.

‘There’s no way you can read the future.’

Since the world line was distorted, the power of foresight that illuminated the future of the correct world line was ultimately useless. It had to be that way.

What happens from now on, no one can know the end.

In that realm of absolute neutrality, the Holy Sword hoped for Ainzel’s victory.

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