Chapter 247 – Enlightenment (4)

What Liang’a felt when she first saw Baarma was fear.

A desperate fear that froze her body and turned her vision white just by looking at him.

Despairing fear.

However, there were two reasons why Liang’a could move even amidst such horror.

The anger boiling within her body was strong enough to overcome that distant emotion.

And it was because of the sight of Alon, who had made a contract to give everything in exchange for killing Baarma, moving urgently.

She knew how great what Alon had done was.

Because he had restored the World Tree, which had clearly been shattered by Baarma’s hand, to a perfect state that no one could dispute.

Even if Liang’a was not very knowledgeable about the world…

She could not help but realize at once how great of a feat it was…

How immense the power of the god she had contracted with was.

However, immediately after creating the World Tree, Alon appeared vulnerable to Baarma’s attack.

Because he had his eyes closed even while Baarma was rushing toward him.

And the moment she judged that even the massive mechanical hand falling from the sky would not be enough to stop Baarma’s movement.

She immediately gathered strength in her feet.

Ordinarily, it would have been impossible to reach the front of Baarma.

Even for a Kwiin race member born with innate superhuman strength.

Because the distance between her, who was mixed among the refugees, and Baarma was too far.

But that was only the case when Liang’a was an ‘ordinary Kwiin’.

Kwaaaaa-!!!

After kicking off the ground, Liang’a’s vision changed in an instant.

In a split second, she brushed past refugees and soldiers.

The moment she took the next step, she passed by commanders and kings.

The moment her last foot planted on the ground.

Where she stood was beneath Baarma.

Looking up, Liang’a gathered strength in her feet once more.

What she saw was the massive body of Baarma, which was despair itself.

However, even before that fear, Liang’a strengthened her will.

And she recalled.

That night when she wailed like crazy.

The time when she shed tears while devouring the half-rotten corpses of her kin.

This moment when she could take revenge on Baarma…

The fact that she had been waiting for it all this time.

Recalling all emotions and memories, Liang’a released her limit.

Mana erupted explosively.

It was certain that if she moved even once in this state, Liang’a’s body would not be able to endure and would shatter.

However, even though she knew that…

Kwaaaaaaaaang-!!!!!!

She jumped without hesitation and shot toward his heart.

[A trivial creature…]

Liang’a’s attack succeeded in stopping Baarma’s movement, but failed to cause any significant damage.

“Kuh…”

Immediately after scratching Baarma’s skin, Liang’a was caught in his massive hand and looked at him while letting out a pained groan.

A gaze looking down at something extremely insignificant.

A face that invoked instinctive fear.

“Heh…”

However, even though she faced such a Baarma, the girl…

No, Liang’a smiled.

She already knew.

At least, she knew that she could not deal with the Baarma before her with her own power.

She knew that all too well.

Therefore, her goal from the beginning was only one.

To successfully stop Baarma’s attempt to interfere with Alon.

And her goal was achieved quite certainly.

Liang’a turned her pained face and looked at Alon.

Alon was there.

Alon, who was enveloped in a pure white glow, unlike usual.

Watching that sight, Liang’a felt both joy and apology.

Joy that Alon would take the revenge on Baarma that had not yet been completed.

Apology for being unable to keep the contract she had made with him any longer.

Unfortunately, Liang’a’s body was at its limit.

Because she had pushed her body past its limits, it was virtually a miracle that she was even alive.

However, she could smile.

At the fact that Baarma would eventually fall.

At the fact that she had at least landed one blow on Baarma.

While looking at Baarma, whose expression was growing fierce, she closed her eyes with a smile on her lips.

“?”

She felt a strange sense of floating.

The stifling sensation of being caught in Baarma’s hand had disappeared.

And the pain that felt like her whole body was shattering was no longer felt either.

The moment she squeezed out her last bit of strength to open her eyes in wonder, she saw…

“…Bo, ss?”

“Yes.”

It was Alon.

He was holding Liang’a in his arms while enveloped in a pure white glow.

“Thank you.”

After handing Liang’a over to Rine, who had approached his side, he murmured something to her.

Then he immediately turned around.

Thump!

Before he knew it, Baarma had arrived in front of Alon.

With his eyes wide open, he pulled his leg back to kick Alon, who was standing calmly.

At that sight, everyone was stained with shock.

“Dan…”

The moment Magrina, who had been in shock until a moment ago, instinctively reached out her hand.

They saw.

Crack, crack…!!!!

Baarma’s body freezing at a rapid pace.

And.

“Thunder God Form.”

At the low voice, the sight of Baarma’s frozen body being shot out just as it was.

Boom! Kwagagagak! Boom…!!!

As Baarma’s body, which was bounced off in an instant, rolled like crazy on the ground and crushed his followers,

“U-uaaaah!”

“Aaaaah…!!!”

The terrified screams of the followers resonated.

Baarma’s ice body collided with a pillar of the World Tree that had been shattered.

In the chaos where grotesque screams were rampant.

All the eyes of the Allied forces gathered on one man once again.

To the man who had easily sent Baarma flying, whom no one seemed to dare approach.

At the same time, they…

Uuuuuuung…!

Their god, who had filled the gray sky with a milky way before they knew it…

To hope, they sent their awe.

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The shining things embroidered in the gray sky formed a milky way.

■■■■■■■■■■-!!!!

As screams that felt like they would tear ears apart resonated in all directions,

Baarma kicked off the ground and began to charge toward Alon.

Scattering pitch-black divine power in all directions as if he would truly kill him.

The mouths that had been frozen until just a moment ago opened wide all at once.

And.

Uuuuuuung…!!!

Black divine power that began to condense bizarrely gathered in his mouths in an instant, then was fired in all directions.

Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

Divine power that was fired in an instant, devouring even his own followers as if he would not leave a single thing nearby.

That hegemonic divine power already flying in multiple directions was something Alon could not have blocked normally.

No matter how strong his magic was, with his mana, he could only block a single stream of divine power flying forward.

Yes, if it had been normal.

But, it was not so now.

Crack, crack, crack…!!!

His technique…

Reverse Heaven made that possible.

Ten ice hands appeared behind Alon, and he formed a seal in an instant.

It looked like the Six Ice Seals using hand seals that he usually used, but it was not.

Because all ten hands were now forming the same seal.

And.

Ice Hand Seal

Ten Ties

“Crystal, Ice and Snow, Form, Fame of the Snowy Mountain, Necessity of the Blind.”

Alon chanted an phrase that was very familiar.

Ice Crystal Halberd – 改

Glacier

To the gray world,

Crack-!

The glacier arrived.

The divine power fired toward the Allied forces froze.

The glacier that blocked Baarma’s attack, not content with that, trapped all the followers there within cold ice.

“Thunder God Form.”

The seal of Alon, who created that ridiculous sight, changed once more, and his body vanished for an instant, then…

Kwaaaaaaaaang…!!

He became lightning and struck Baarma’s torso.

[Kuaaaah…!]

Baarma, who was suspended in mid-air without being able to offer any resistance.

Even in that brief moment, he tried to gather divine power by opening his numerous mouths once more.

Unfortunately, he was stopped by Alon, who flew in again.

And with that…

Pajijijijik…!!!

A bombardment began.

Each time the brilliant lightning moved, Baarma’s body, which was about to fall to the ground, rose into the air.

A chilling sonic boom spread through the glacier.

“Ah…”

Everyone stared blankly with their mouths open at that overwhelming sight.

The Allied soldiers who had fallen into despair.

The commander whose hands were trembling.

The kings who were frowning with a sense of betrayal.

The followers who worshiped Baarma.

The believers who could smile even when facing death from him.

Everyone…

Merely looked at that scene.

Thus,

[Kuh-!]

Baarma’s body fell in a mess.

The moment it shone brilliantly under the milky way that had covered the gray world.

When Alon, who was wielding lightning, formed a seal again, Baarma’s body that was falling from mid-air stopped.

And.

Pajik… pajijijijik…!

The milky way faded…

The milky way that had been embroidering the gray sky shattered into fine pieces like light.

The radiance surrounding Alon’s body vanished in an instant, and…

“Cough!”

Blood erupted from Alon’s mouth.

A situation no one had foreseen.

However, he did not panic even while coughing up blood.

‘…Is this the limit?’

He merely stared blankly at the side effects of Reverse Heaven that were vanishing from the sky, letting out a tired sigh.

The law of the technique of Reverse Heaven he had created was simple.

‘Reversing the laws of magic.’

That was precisely the technique of Reverse Heaven, and at the same time, the law that Alon’s technique possessed.

The moment it was activated.

By applying it to Mana Burn, which burned all mana, he could grasp mana close to infinity in his hands.

But the problem was precisely Alon’s mana hole.

His tiny mana hole was far too narrow to handle the mana being continuously created at a terrifying speed through Reverse Heaven.

However, to maintain Reverse Heaven, he had to constantly use magic.

The result of those side effects was precisely the mana spheres like stars floating in the sky.

Simply having hammered mana in a crude manner.

He fought by constantly creating hundreds and thousands of spheres that did not take the form of magic, but Alon’s body easily reached its limit.

Alon closed and opened his eyes within his blurred vision.

His head, which had processed dozens of calculations in less than a second, throbbed hotly as if lava had been poured into it.

His eyes were stained red with burst capillaries.

Deep red blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth.

His physical condition was not sound due to having hammered in mana and magic as much as he could.

Grin-!

Baarma, while suspended in mid-air, twisted the corners of his mouth while looking at Alon just as he was.

Since it was clear that Alon had reached his limit.

On the contrary, Baarma…

Although he had been struck, it was not to the point where his life was in danger despite those numerous attacks.

[I will kill you…!]

He wore a deep smile.

However, on the contrary,

Chuckle-

Alon, who confirmed Baarma’s sneer, gave a similar smile.

Alon’s aim from the beginning was not his death.

Because he had already predicted that he could not kill the guy even if he dealt with him with overflowing mana.

What Alon had aimed for in the first place was…

Giving Baarma as much impact as possible.

And merely fixing him in place.

Delivering the final blow to him was…

[!]

Not himself.

Baarma, who intuited that the situation was strange, quickly turned his gaze behind Alon.

And then he discovered something.

It was a massive cannon.

Enormous enough to swallow someone like Baarma whole.

A massive cannon connected to the World Tree.

And.

“Outer God Weapon, Agathon-Arise, full deployment complete…”

Spoken by Rine, who moved her hand toward Baarma.

“Activate.”

With a very small murmur.

[No…!]

As Baarma’s scream erupted…

■■■───────────────!!!!!!

A pure white light swallowed everything.

Even the gray sky.