chapter 1
1. Regressor, Adele Ludmeyer
“…It’s useless.”
The woman’s impression of the system swallowed up by the fire summoned from the bottom of her hell is very different compared to the scenery around her, which is her abjection itself. The sight of her being swallowed up alive by brimstone fire and facing a horrifying end was enough to make those with weak stomachs vomit, but in the end, it was just a familiar scene with nothing new to her. .
“Your struggling has been a pleasure to watch for a while, but as the end approaches, the reaction is not as interesting as I thought. Wouldn’t they run around to save even one more person until the last moment… I expected that, but I didn’t expect them to give up so easily at the end.”
The feeling of the sharp fingernails holding her chin as long as the slender fingers of the Great Devil scratching her cheek was so terrifying that the woman inadvertently took on a sense of victory and sighed over the Great Devil’s face. I thought I wanted to spit at least once. Of course, she was aware of the fact that it was not at all suitable for her, who was born and raised as a woman from a noble family. The displeasure that her Archdemon’s words and actions instilled in her was so intense that her woman, who had grown up with such a noble background, had not even thought about it.
But she was a knight who took up her sword to prevent her destruction and quenched the blade with the blood of countless lives. To her, the teachings of her childhood were just a few vague memories, and now she does not find it difficult to She had become a person who could be moved by her actions.
In the end, her desire to put her childish behavior into practice easily overpowered her woman’s reason. She frowned as if the saliva she had spat out had been quite shocked by what she had done, and the sight of her flowing slowly down the devil’s brow gave her a rather satisfying pleasure, if not too great. It was enough to give.
“Well… Should I accept this level as a light charm like a manicure that a cat in a predicament would do?”
As the great devil said that, he snapped his fingers, and the saliva that flowed down his forehead evaporated in an instant without leaving a trace. Before long, the Archdemon gave a little more strength to the hand that was holding the chin of the woman in front of her, and with the index finger of her opposite hand, began to slowly run her breastbone down. A normal human would have cracked her skin very easily just by lightly scratching her fingernails, but only a pale red mark remained on her woman’s immaculate skin.
“By the way, how long are you going to pretend to be desperate like this… Wait for an opportunity? Even at this moment, there is no way that no one like you is unaware that the precious lives you wanted to protect are disappearing one by one.”
As a woman, it was a fact she knew very well, even if the great demon didn’t bother to remind her. The final screams of those who were burned alive and dying were so full of her pure pain that even she, who heard her ringing in her ears, felt the horror vividly. Even if she didn’t want to know, she had no choice but to know.
“Look at the opportunity? I?”
She was getting tired of talking alone, and the woman’s voice that came to her car was enough to attract the attention of the archdeacon.
“Hmm…?”
“It looks like you’re misunderstanding something… I don’t need to wait for an opportunity to kill you.”
“Yeah…? Did you suddenly change your reaction? It should be fun like this, yes. Your spirit to be able to say such words while helplessly held in front of me is really to the point that I can’t wait to break it right now. Do you know how ridiculous it sounds to say that if I make fun of that pretty body, you can kill me right away, while you’re just in a position where you have to do what you’re teasing?”
With those words, the Archdemon’s hand roughly gripped her woman’s breast, and she began to play with it as if she were judging it. She could not help but frown at her because the sensation went beyond her displeasure and even repelled her. And as she met such a woman’s disgusted gaze, the Archdemon only laughed at her.
“Ahaha…! Still, it seems that there is something worthwhile about descending to the earth like this today. There have been few toys in all of Hell’s history as good as you. After a moderate amount of restraint on the mind, I think it might be a good place to heat my bed… What do you think? I am a very compassionate owner, so I am willing to listen to some of our toys.”
She threw away all her honorifics before she knew it, and as if the woman who looked at the great demon who openly treated herself as her toy and made fun of her with her disgusted eyes, she sighed and laughed. Exploded
“I might feel sorry for you, who must have been looking forward to it, but I’m not really interested in women’s colors… It’s really unfortunate, isn’t it?”
Her woman’s provocation did not elicit any change of expression from the Archdemon. But,
“And…”
The momentum of the explosion, as if bursting out of her woman’s whole body, was overflowing to elicit a reaction from the great devil. The Archdemon, who had received her momentum with his whole body, felt the fear of death from her strong momentum that took her breath away without even realizing it.
For a very short while, she had forgotten the essence of the appearance of a human woman who was so delicate that she could be found anywhere except for her exceptional beauty, which was placed defenseless in front of her without realizing it. It only took one moment for the Prime Devil to recall what that human was like.
The last bastion of mankind. Sword Saint. Dragon Slayer. Goddess of the Forsaken.
Adele Ludmeier.
The Great Devil, who was enticed by the appearance of a woman who seemed to have given up on living on her own, spread the three pairs of wings on her back to spread the distance, albeit belatedly. Only then do you realize that it is too late.
“It is true that I gave up on living any longer. In this place today, I will share the fate of many people who died at your hands. But I didn’t make that decision out of fear of you.”
The solid line that ran from the arched demon’s shoulder to her side cracked and spilled with blood, and her body was cut in half. Adele continued, knowing that her words would not reach another demon.
“I can only apologize to the unknown person who gave me another chance after failing once… But I don’t have the confidence to live on any longer with those who lost their lives because of my miserable failure. Even if I tried to praise him for being a hero or something, in the end, this would have been the limit for a person like me.”
After finishing her words, Adele looks up blankly at the red-tinged sky and lets out a sigh filled with her many emotions.
Would you have wanted to take on such an absurdly heavy mission just because you were yourself?
Could it have been her fault that, when she was only 12 years old, she was born as a daughter of a ducal family and tried her hand at swordsmanship that was not appropriate for her?
If she said this, it would have been obvious that the cry of the knights walking the path of her sword, hardening themselves every day on her continent, would have been focused on her, but Adele would rather have put herself on her sword. What would it have been like without talent? She thought she used to do it now and then.
Even if you look at her empire as well as the entire continent, all of her records are smashed, and she reached the level of a sword master at the age of twenty-three, which can be seen as unprecedented, and the expectations she followed followed her. It was just embarrassing to be there. She just liked to wield her sword, she didn’t want to use it to take the lives of others.
Of course, it could be said that saving someone else’s life with one’s own sword is definitely rewarding. Basically, in order to save one life, isn’t it a place called a battlefield where you have to take another life?
As the amount of blood flowed by her self increased, Adele felt that holding the sword was becoming more and more difficult. She started killing people in earnest when she was less than twenty-five, so bearing the weight of her life would be far more difficult for Adele than simply raising her own level. I had no choice but to
And after facing the end of her world, retaining her worn-out spirit enough to wear her down in the process, what greets Adele as she opens her eyes once again is her familiar ceiling, Ball Lud Meyer. It was her own room at the time. After experiencing a return to her past, Adele began to push herself with only one mission: to stop her apocalypse and save her people.
She has the knowledge of the future she knows and the level she has achieved in the future. Adele, who did not allow herself even a short break to achieve her single goal, to stop the mad cult bastards by bringing in everything she could mobilize as an individual, did not allow herself to take a break. We were able to succeed in achieving our initial goal. Even though she was only her first target.
After her constant whipping of herself, Adele, who eventually reached the end of her giving up her life on her own, resents her transcendent existence for sending her back to her past. Didn’t. No, she didn’t.
If she had been a little more wary of the beings of Hell, she wouldn’t have come to such a disastrous end. Therefore, Adele had no choice but to blame her complacency.
With her sword laid horizontally and her eyes closed, Adele began to concentrate the runaway mana that was circulating her entire body twice as fast as usual at the tip of her sword.
Her goal is to sever the connection between Earth and Hell, while killing herself.
Running mana in her body was the last resort for a knight to use when aiming for a return with her life at the cost of her life. Although the body collapsed due to the runaway mana, the mana runaway was a technique that allowed the mana to wield more than twice as much force as usual even when he held the minimum for that brief moment.
And since only knights who were prepared to die could use it, the majority of knights knew how to use it until the end of their lives, but could not use it.
Even if it wasn’t so, there was confidence in the current Adele, who was stronger than in the first round, even though she had no one to follow her. The confidence that if she was herself now, after exploding her mana, she would be able to collapse even the completely connected passages between hell and earth.
That was the best Adele could do as a failure for anyone who would survive and live in this ruined world.
When Adele, who had refined her will, conceived the idea of ‘cutting’ and swung her sword at the same time, nothing like a huge sword shot of light occurred. There was only a faint feeling of relief that she had cut something on her fingertips.
Adele’s body, exhausting all the mana she had exploding with a single sword, fell behind her, and at the same time, the sky, which had been dyed red reminiscent of blood ever since it was connected to hell, gradually began to regain its blue color.
And even for just one moment, the life that had been set on fire to devour her world cooled down in an instant, and along with it, even the brilliant light in Adele’s eyes quickly disappeared. But Adele’s face, as she died, was covered with a faint, peaceful smile.
‘As expected, the blue sky looks good…’
And so the second life of a hero named Adele came to an end. At the same time, the connection between Hell and Earth, which lasted for over seven nights, was completely severed, and those left behind in a world that lost heroes gained a future.
No, it should have been…
“Did he come back again…?”
The hands of the clock start turning once again.