chapter 98
98 – The Last-3
“It’s coming.”
The sky became dark. All light fades.
It didn’t get dark simply because the sun set. We have installed torches and magical lights throughout the village so that we can understand the situation.
In general, light is stronger than darkness.
No matter how thick and dense the darkness is, it cannot drive out a small candle. Even if the light does not reach the end of the darkness, the darkness cannot drive out the light on its own.
Darkness does not exist. It’s just the absence of light.
I saw such obvious common sense collapsing before my eyes.
The materialized darkness is driving out the light. Torches, candles, and lanterns are going out helplessly.
The wind does not put out the fire. The cold air does not extinguish the fire, nor does the fire go out on its own because there is no more fuel to burn.
The darkness is rushing in, approaching as if swallowing up all the light.
“Well, what is that…?”
Claire trembled as if she were afraid.
The black magic energy rippled like a huge tsunami. At the forefront, a black dog-like figure was clearly visible.
The surroundings became noisy. Soldiers and teachers were watching the situation in horror.
However, there were some who were not shaken by such fears.
“It’s not much more than I expected. Is that all?”
Katharine covered her mouth as if it was funny.
“It’s a prelude. If I were to be more specific, I’d say it’s just a light shooting of an arrow before the fight begins.”
“Well then, I guess it’s as good as what I set out to do. Shall I start first?”
Xenia received Katharine’s words.
“No. If you don’t have anything prepared, I’ll start first. I was really close to exploding right now!”
With Xenia holding down her writhing magic, she was getting ready to throw it.
The more prepared a wizard is, the stronger he is. The warlock was similar, but for a true wizard, the variation in strength was different.
Because magicians were the ones who achieved the impossible by concentrating miracles that could not be accomplished in 364 out of 365 days into just one day.
Contracts and restrictions were tightly attached. After today, she won’t be able to use magic for at least a few months.
Setting conditions in advance so that an attack that can only cause damage to a ‘monster’ can be used ‘in advance’ using magic ingredients that can only be obtained by investing a huge amount of money and time, so that it can only be used at a specific time and in a specific place.< Br>
It was the wizard’s ability to control that, and Xenia was quite a skilled wizard.
“First, take one step!”
The sky flashed. A huge chunk of ice floated in the sky.
Soon the ice chunk fell into several pieces and separated. The chunks of ice floating in the sky soon split into thousands or tens of thousands of pieces.
That poured out.
“Kwamiagaaaaa!!!”
A huge scream that made it difficult to believe that the being that had made it was a living thing was tearing apart the lumps made of demonic energy.
“Wow, I shouldn’t have to compensate for that, right?”
Xenia joked.
The city was collapsing. The village was collapsing.
Nevertheless, the wave did not end.
The monsters in the shape of rotting rats were slowly getting closer.
“It looks like it has been somewhat restored. Shall we begin next?”
“If it’s not too much… That’s too much, so let’s hit it just once.”
When permission was given, Katharine held up her hand.
Her immense magic, which she attempted to destroy Cordoba, could not be used again. Because she destroyed the ‘Holy Relic of Baal’, a lot of the magic energy she absorbed must have already been lost in the process of using that attack.
Nevertheless, its destructive power her could not be ignored.
The enormous army of darkness that was so enormous that resistance and reaction seemed impossible to the eyes of ordinary people, was slowly collapsing.
“Waaaaa!!!”
Morale rises.
It is a tremendous and tremendous magic that would be impossible for ordinary people to even see once in their lifetime.
There is someone at the academy who can use that. We are fighting together with them.
The students and soldiers at the academy confirmed that fact with their own eyes.
But, that’s not the end. It can’t be the end.
“Katharine, you have to deal with all the miscellaneous bastards. You know what I mean, right?”
“Of course I know.”
They are gradually getting closer. They began to approach the temporary shelter set up around the academy.
It was impossible to let everyone around this town into the academy.
In order to minimize the area that had to be blocked, it was necessary to gather as many people as possible, but the risk was too great to pack refugees like cargo.
“Fire back, start!”
Now, their shapes are starting to emerge clearly.
Those who could use magic fired magic wildly, and those who could shoot arrows fired arrows with their bowstrings.
Those who could wield divine power offered prayers. From above the heads of the priests, light erupted and attacked the monsters.
“It’s fun.”
Katharine snorted as she looked at the waves of monsters, as if it was laughable.
Black magic had as many advantages as its disadvantages. So, even though it was actually a banned technology, many people tried to learn it.
There was the fact that he could easily become strong, and that he could become strong by using things as conditions of a contract that those who were normally strong could not offer, but in other aspects, he sometimes revealed his tremendous strength. >
“Eerst is a place at the edge of the land where humans can live.”
Despite numerous arrows, divine power, and magic, the monsters continued to push in.
It wasn’t all meaningless. The skills of the teachers and students who guarded the academy, as well as the skills of the soldiers, knights, and adventurers who guarded the nearby village, were not bad either.
There were not many people who could be said to be the best on the continent, but each one of them had the skill or potential to become an ace if they entered a rural village.
They were not incapable of defeating even a low-level monster in the form of a giant rat.
Nevertheless, they came in endless waves.
If one died, two took their place. When three died, six took their place.
In front of the monster that was running endlessly like a wave, Katharine stood tall.
“There… There are quite a few monsters. Too many to count.”
Monsters are creatures that are greatly influenced by demon energy.
Just as humans are made up of blood and flesh, they are made up of demonic energy. Of course, from the moment of birth, one is bound to have stronger magical energy than an ordinary human.
Both its sharp claws and tenacity are unreasonably strong compared to humans.
In fact, it wasn’t that difficult for humans to become stronger than monsters. Humans can grow by using weapons and learning magical powers, but monsters have no choice but to stagnate at a certain level.
However, it was not easy to create a human with a level of power similar to that of a certain level of monster.
It was no different from a human fighting a mosquito with the strength of a well-trained knight.
Compared to monsters, which appear endlessly as long as there is a puddle of water, and even if you kill one monster, the next one pops out, humans were far less productive.
You must undergo training for at least 15 years, and there are few people who have the potential to be ‘similar to or stronger than a monster.’
However, it was not a warlock.
“On the topic of bugs.”
Katharine stood proudly and clenched her fists. I bit my lip.
“Kuuiaaamiagaa!”
Monsters in the shape of human-sized rats, covered in black demonic energy, with rotting flesh and red bloodshot eyes.
All those monsters stopped standing tall.
“Well, like that…”
The students at the academy trembled in fear together. Some low-level warlocks trembled like monsters and stared blankly at Katharine.
It’s not that hard to know that someone is strong. Among these, there was no one who did not know that Katharine was strong.
However, feeling that someone is strong is different from feeling that ‘this person is strong’ just by reading or hearing from people.
Right now, there is no one among the academy students who does not know that the princess is strong, but very few of them will know how strong and how strong the princess really is.
Anyone who has not directly encountered the speed of the sword, the power of the sword, the perfect swordsmanship, and the faith in her her eyes her her only knows that she is strong through her her writings her her her.
The same goes for Katharine.
Many people knew that Katharine was a terrible and evil warlock. Some of the students and teachers were even involved in the military conflict between Catherine and the princess.
However, not many people knew exactly how strong a person she was.
“Kill each other.”
With one simple command from her, a large group of rats start biting each other
It shows the difference in class. It shows the ordinary monsters who were simply born as demons how enormous what she did to achieve evil and what she sacrificed to achieve demons was.
In front of a warlock named Katharine, the low-level monsters were unable to properly perform even a ‘simple disturbance.’
And after that, the real forces appeared.