Chapter 248 – Enlightenment (5)

The pure white light that had taken everything away returned the stolen senses to everyone on the vast snowfield, fair and impartial.

The first sense to return was hearing, as the sound of the rough wind was heard.

Next were the sense of smell, as if the lungs would freeze just by breathing, and the sense of touch, feeling the freezing chill.

And finally, sight.

“……”

Everyone could only stare blankly ahead.

Baarma was there.

His torso and right arm had completely disappeared.

Sprawled powerlessly, Baarma lay there.

“Ah.”

“Ah…”

Voices broke out at that unbelievable sight.

A low exclamation from the Allied army.

A sigh full of dismay from among Baarma’s followers.

They all looked ahead as if possessed.

That bizarre and quiet silence…

“Ugh… uaaaa…”

It was broken by the dismayed voice of one of Baarma’s followers.

A groan as if he could not believe this situation at all.

Clang.

Dropping his weapon, he who was staring blankly at Baarma, whose torso and right arm had been blown away whole.

“Uaaaaak!”

As if he could not believe the current situation, he shook his head several times, then turned around and began to run away while letting out a shrill scream.

Too much of an unseemly appearance to be called a follower of Baarma, who had been going around massacring different races during that time.

However, that flight spread fear to other followers in an instant.

“Ugh…”

“Uaaa…”

Followers who showed faith that seemed like it would never change dropped their weapons one by one and stepped back.

A crack created by a very small shock.

A plague called fear occurred in an instant.

“O, our god…”

“This cannot be…”

It spread in all directions.

“It… it makes no sense…”

“Can… not win… I say we cannot win…”

Continuously.

“Uaaaaak!”

“Aaaaaa, why is such a thing…!”

Incessantly.

“……”

It was not a situation where a fierce battle occurred.

It was not a situation where a sword was held before the neck.

Nevertheless, the followers were running away more tenaciously than ever.

To stop them, the apostles who received power directly from Baarma stood in the way, but.

The crack already created caused uncontrollable confusion.

The moment the red wave was seen scattering far away.

“Ah… aaaaa…”

Among the Allied army who were crushed by despair.

A small exclamation flowed as if unbelievable.

“Did we… win?”

“We… Baarma?”

“……God brought victory!”

That exclamation soon became a strong hope and wrapped around the entire Allied army in an instant.

Shouts broke out like thunder.

Tremors spread everywhere.

The Allied army embraced each other without distinguishing races and shed tears of joy.

“Marquis, are you okay!?”

“……I feel like I might die. But it is okay. Because it is not to the point where I cannot walk.”

“Godfather.”

“Rine, you did well.”

“No. If Godfather had not pulled time against Baarma, it would have been virtually impossible to hit with the weapon.”

Alon let out a low sigh.

Soon, the moment he approached Rine and Penia while staggering.

[Heh… hehehe…]

A voice was heard.

A very unpleasant voice.

At that, everyone who was celebrating victory looked at the source of the sound.

There stood Baarma, whose torso was blown away, letting out a smirking laugh.

[Heh heh… the situation eventually became like this before I could call them. It is very regrettable. But…]

Baarma, who was continuing his words as if the blood flowing from his mouth did not matter.

[…I do not particularly feel like being defeated and exiting just like that.]

He brought his hand toward the mouth on his right thigh.

Rip.

■■■■-!?

Jjijijijijik!!

■■■■■■■■■■■■■!!!!

He tore it just like that.

And.

The abyss that suddenly burst out from the torn mouth.

It created a massive circle as if eating the empty air unexpectedly.

Kuguguguguguguguguk!!!!!

Soon it began to absorb everything.

Smirk!

[It is a gift.]

Baarma, with a twisted laugh.

[Let’s see, do well.]

He threw the black abyss he created toward where the Allied army was, and was absorbed into that black abyss.

The moment Alon scowled at that thing which was sucking in everything around like a black hole.

“Marquis!”

Penia, who was seriously contemplating something even in this urgent situation, shouted urgently as if she realized.

“That! It looks different but it is similar to an aberrant gate!”

“……!”

“Seeing it, only a proper space is not constituted, the essence is the same as an aberrant gate!”

“Then if we enter there!”

“Yes, we can try! But!”

Penia looked behind while distorting her brow.

There was the Allied army looking blankly at the abyss flying toward here.

Can I do it.

A doubt that came to Alon’s mind for a moment.

However, the worry was not long.

“Reverse Heaven (逆天).”

At Alon’s murmur, his body was wrapped in a white radiance.

At the same time, Alon, who created an ice seal on his back along with numerous stars rising above the sky.

Hand Ice Seal (手氷印).

Tenfold Binding (十結).

He immediately formed a seal and tried to stop the path of the abyss as it was by expanding mana, but.

“Tch…”

Regrettably, it only stopped at twisting the path slightly further down.

The abyss continued to suck in all the surroundings.

Kwagagagagak!!!

Before reaching the Allied army.

The abyss that was slowly being driven into the floor began to dig into the underground while smashing the ground.

Naturally, the ground where Alon, Penia, and Rine were standing also collapsed downward in an instant.

The three began to fall after losing balance.

Magrina and Liang’a, who were looking at that sight, were seen trying to forcibly move their frozen bodies.

It was the same.

Nangwon and Ria were also looking down in shock.

Ar also spread her small wings that she could not even fully spread yet.

But.

“Do not come!”

Their actions were stopped by a word from Alon.

Soon, Alon, who was staring blankly at the children looking down at him.

He delivered final farewells to each of the children using Reverse Heaven which was not yet turned off.

“Marquis! I think we have to do it now?! If we are sucked in like this, we cannot even recover our bones! From now! We have to do it from now on!”

At the squeezed-out shout of Penia, who was falling together.

“Hoo…”

After barely smoothing his breath.

He recalled the formula she talked about before.

He formed a seal without stopping Reverse Heaven.

Along with that, in the abyss where there was nothing until a moment ago.

A violet world began to be constituted slowly as if shapes were being matched.

“It… it is working!”

Penia, wearing joy while seeing the slowly constituted world.

Alon spat out the phrases Penia said in order while gritting his teeth.

At that, the abyss slowly began to be decorated as a purple world.

The floor was created.

The sky was created.

The building was created.

The creature was created.

Actually, it was just calling shapes according to the laws Penia grasped, but.

It felt like creating a world.

Alon, who was spitting out phrases continuously like that.

“Marquis! I think you have to do it a bit faster, the size of the abyss is slowly decreasing. We must complete it before that power completely disappears!”

He looked outside at Penia’s urging.

As she said, whether the abyss Baarma threw had reached its limit, the gray sky was seen overlapping with the abyss between the spaces Alon was constituting.

A strange situation where time and space were twisted in a mess.

Alon spat out phrases even faster while seeing that sight.

At that moment.

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■-!!!!!!!!

A chilling voice was heard as if to tear the ears of Alon, Penia, and Rine.

The three raised their gazes at once.

They could see, along with Penia’s voice full of shock.

“Ma, it makes no sense.”

■■■■■■■■■■■-!!!

“……!”

The appearance of a hungry ghost with pure white skin, stuffing its body between the black space-time.

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“It makes no sense. Can this be possible?”

Penia, whose eyes were wide open as if it were an absolutely impossible thing, murmured blankly.

“……!”

Similarly, Rine, who used all her power to control Agathon, also scowled while seeing the hungry ghost squeezing its body into the space-time that was being reconstructed.

The moment Alon, who was forming a seal, also realized the situation had reached the worst.

“It is a shell!”

“What?”

Penia shouted.

“That hungry ghost, it is a shell where no reason remains! Actually no intelligence is felt! The appearance is also very different from the one seen last time! It was probably caught in the remnants of space-time!”

Alon examined the appearance of the hungry ghost even while operating the seal with a head that felt like it would explode.

The hungry ghost was already crossing more than half into the space-time while tearing the space he was constituting.

Certainly, as Penia said, it was very different from the appearance of the hungry ghost he fought last time.

The bulk had become stupidly large compared to then, but the movement was very slow.

The face was clearly the hungry ghost he handled before, but only basic survival instinct was surging on the pale pupils.

“We must push it out somehow! It is unstable because we made the space artificially even though it was not made naturally! If even that fellow pushes in, the entire space will collapse!”

“……I will somehow…”

“You cannot, Marquis! If the Marquis stops the operation of magic here, the world that was barely being made will collapse again! If that happens, it is all over! You cannot return to the original timeline!”

Penia began to operate magic immediately.

However, her expression was not good.

Penia already knew.

The fact that with her own strength, she could not send out that thing which had already crossed more than half.

Alon deliberated for a fleeting moment.

His head, which was already using Reverse Heaven, was in a state of overload.

In fact, it was already at the limit.

Nevertheless, Alon had one method not yet used.

A clear way to send that hungry ghost out from this space without collapsing the space right on this spot.

But the reason Alon hesitated was exactly because of that risk.

Alon’s body was already at the limit.

If he went one step further here, he could survive, but.

In the end, he had no choice but to unconditionally obtain permanent damage.

Therefore, the moment he was deliberating.

“Hoo…”

Alon made a decision.

And the moment he was about to spit out words.

“Godfather, I will try to do something.”

Rine’s calm voice echoed.

“It is impossible for you now.”

Alon answered without a shred of hesitation.

If she were in a normal state, it might have been possible.

However, now it was not.

Pluton, which she could summon limitedly, was also too rushed to use now.

The Agathon obtained this time was the same.

But despite Alon’s dissuasion, Rine wore a calm smile.

“Do not worry, Godfather. Because there is a way.”

Turning her body in front of Alon, who was forming a seal.

While turning her back to the hungry ghost that was tearing into this space and entering.

Kwagagagagak!!!

She began to shoot out golden coffins in all directions.

The golden coffins shot out in an instant drew a dizzy magic circle.

They formed a massive film between Rine and Alon.

At that, Penia, who was standing on Alon’s side and watching this sight.

“Lady Rine!? What is being drawn now are a severance formation and a sealing formation!”

She was shocked as if she realized the identity of the magic circle.

“……Rine, you!”

The moment Alon also widened his eyes.

Rine, who was looking at him with a calm face, soon whispered small.

“……It is nice.”

“What…?”

“Because I can see Godfather’s expression.”

Soon she smiled widely as if relieved.

“Honestly, I was a bit jealous of Seollang.”

The golden coffins were forming a dizzy magic circle.

Blocking the space between Alon and Rine while adding speed and speed.

“Stop, Rine.”

“Don’t worry too much, Godfather. I’m not falling into time and space. Baarma’s power is already spent, so where I’ll fall is simply beneath the World Tree.”

The golden coffins building the barrier to sever the space covered Rine’s feet.

“You do not need to sacrifice yourself.”

“No, I must do it. Since that fellow will crawl out instead of falling into space-time, I must hold on to it well.”

The golden coffins covered Rine’s knees.

“I do not want to sacrifice family.”

“Is that so.”

“Yes, so…”

“That is why.”

The golden coffins covered Rine’s waist.

“What did you say…?”

“Godfather. I also do not want to see family being sacrificed. Especially Godfather, because you are my family who is more special than anyone else. And.”

Subsequently, the golden coffins covered below Rine’s chest.

“Rather, this is what I want to do.”

“……어째서?”

“That is because, just as I think of Godfather.”

By the time the golden coffins covered around Rine’s collarbone.

Rine, who wore a pure, clear smile where not even a bit of regret was felt.

“Because I, too, want to become someone special to you, Godfather.”

She whispered quietly.

“We will be able to see each other again. Because time does not flow inside the sealing formation. So.”

Soon.

“Even if hundreds of years pass.”

In the moment the golden coffins completely severed the space.

“I will be waiting.”

Until you find me.

Along with her final voice.

…The incomplete violet world was completed.