chapter 841
841. [Western Front] – Humanity’s Strongest Power (117)
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-Zeon’s breathing stopped.
-Roxanna’s life is in danger as if she will die.
-Leria’s right leg is missing.
-Ben Gale’s left arm is gone and the bleeding is serious.
… … .
The moment Cheonsung broke Sekhmet’s sealing ceremony and entered reality, Anastasia felt a wealth of information.
What is the situation?
She realized it right away, even without trying to understand.
The coldness that immediately spread everywhere told me everything.
Suddenly!
I immediately gritted my teeth and an endless hatred filled my heart.
‘… … It’s late after all.’
Although they say they found the answer fairly quickly, it was not enough for the officers in reality.
Because the nine apostles were too heavy a burden for them to carry.
Therefore, by immediately opening up the area, the nine apostles who threatened numerous officers were first largely defeated in their own territory.
For a moment, I concentrated my strongest will on the ice sword.
‘Cold temperature.’
A slash of extreme cold that cuts through the entire space and cuts down even the nine apostles. Even at the moment when the space was cut in one go, thinking was accelerated while preparing for an unexpected situation.
Saaa… … !!!
As the cold air spreads, it explodes from the entire body and the entire space freezes.
The cold-bloodedness that has now been revealed through the slash.
There is no way the nine apostles, whose strength has now decreased significantly, can avoid it.
I was at close to perfect strength, but the nine apostles were weaker than when I first encountered them.
‘So, this is the confirmed future.’
But my intuition was speaking.
There was no way the nine apostles would face death so easily.
That monster that has brought about a huge disaster will continue to do strange things even on the verge of death.
‘I won’t hurt anyone anymore.’
Isn’t it different from a car that was cutting off space even in an accelerated accident?
■■■■■■■■■■■■■!
Pure white flames ignite the apostle’s entire body, spewing out flames even in the realm of extreme cold.
It was difficult to see that power as the power of the nine weakened apostles.
‘However, flames like that can never prevent cold weather.’
ㅡ!
As expected, as soon as it was hit by the cold effect, the white flame was seen quickly disappearing like a fading ember.
It only disperses a small amount of residual heat into the atmosphere.
Immediately after, as the accident was accelerated by the cold cut that tore off half of the apostle’s body, my eyes blurred even more.
‘Why do you give yourself up so easily?’
Even if he had become that weak, he didn’t have the strength to die instantly from my own strength.
“Extreme flame!”
Immediately after, a strange sound came out of the mouth of the apostle whose body was torn apart, and I caught it with my eyes.
‘You weren’t looking at me… … ?’
I thought I was looking at cold weather. He’s probably trying to counter my power.
But that wasn’t it.
It was clearly me that the apostle’s eyes were focused on, but it wasn’t exactly me.
“… … !”
A being right next to me.
‘Han Tiansheng!’
The remnants of white flame, scattered helplessly in the air in the face of cold weather, suddenly spewed out the utmost flame.
In an infinitely accelerated train of thought, numerous thoughts crossed my mind in an instant.
Even if you manifest coldness with will, it is too late.
Even if I express cold energy as if protecting my body, it cannot completely envelop Han Tiansheng.
RURRRRR!!!
The flames that had already reached a close distance burned the space as if they were engulfing Han Tian-seong.
Then I only had one move.
“Absolute zero.”
The moment you open your mouth to develop your skills.
Even my voice froze.
ㅡ!
Immediately after, a ray of chill spread as if covering everything in the world, and eventually even space and time stopped, enveloping everything.
In the meantime, he moved his hands urgently.
And, covering Han Cheon-seong, who was unaware of the situation, he immediately erased the power of absolute zero, as if it were extremely abridged.
Everything except me freezes, and this alone has a profound effect on all living things, to the point of death.
I couldn’t let even the extremely short time of one second pass.
Tight.
I chew my lips and retrieve the power I forcibly unleashed.
As I deployed the skill in an instant and immediately retrieved it, my hand that erased the space encountered the white flame.
Chi-ik!
Although the extreme cold that appeared from my hand could not erase the extreme flames at once, it eventually succeeded in erasing them all.
I force myself to regain consciousness and swallow down the terrible pain burning in my hand.
‘Such pain!’
While he was trapped in the sealing ceremony, it wasn’t even a pain compared to what other officers endured despite risking death.
“Major Anastasia!?”
“are you okay.”
Hearing the voice of Han Cheon-seong, who was greatly surprised, he let out a chill and grabbed his consciousness.
The nine apostles can no longer be seen.
I felt that intuitively.
At the end, he suddenly tried to burn off his last strength by targeting Han Cheon-seong.
Sarah.
I took a step forward and released my power again.
“Second opening!”
In the realm made of cold, the hand holding the sword was strengthened by overlaying it with even more powerful cold.
Slurp… … !
Hundreds of ice flowers began to fill the space of the dark area at once, following their own will. The power contained in each ice flower was incomparable to anything before.
‘Execute!’
Now all I have left is the time to execute the apostle.
***
The officers who had previously engaged in a bloody fight with Sekhmet had no choice but to watch the situation unfold.
When Anastasia and Cheonseong, who had disappeared, suddenly appeared in space, all the officers who had been engaged in a fierce battle were greatly relieved and relaxed.
“ha… … .”
“Ugh.”
“I’m finally alive.”
Everyone was already at their limit, and there were even officers for whom it took a lot of strain on their bodies to force the opening.
“… … .”
And among them, Leria held her breath and looked with utmost concentration at the last, the last end.
‘Nine apostles.’
Beyond the special apostles, I knew that there were nine apostles who were handling the flames that currently existed in this dark area.
Otherwise, nothing else could explain its existence.
And during the bloody battle that lasted over an hour, less than two hours, I felt death.
Can’t win.
They say they can’t resist with their own strength… … .
Above all, the other officers felt despair at the disappearance of Anastasia.
No one can inflict fatal wounds on that apostle.
Even if it was possible to achieve equal numbers and erase the flames emitted by the apostle, it was extremely difficult to cause any real damage to the apostle’s body.
Stand!
Saaa… … !
But now.
The reality reflected in her eyes was extremely unrealistic.
The apostle, who burned his entire body and released even stronger white flames, was helplessly cut off by his limbs.
No, even saying it was cut off was not enough.
‘It’s freezing right there.’
The apostle who controls fire cannot even properly restore his frozen limbs.
Apostle, who had not suffered even the slightest stab wound due to the strength of me and the other officers, has his limbs cut off and, like a dying ember, tries to force himself against Major Anastasia.
But the results were very obvious.
Major Anastasia’s movements, which move as if erasing space, cannot be seen with the naked eye, and at every moment, the apostle’s limbs are cut off or the unfinished body that was restored is cut again.
However, it was as if his breathing was slowly being tightened.
And I knew why that was.
“ha… .”
The breath that slightly flows out of the corner of my mouth freezes and settles down.
‘So that no harm comes to us.’
With repeated caution, we press hard while erasing all areas of the apostle.
Even though it would be possible to end the Nine Apostles in one go by taking even a small amount of damage, Major Anastasia was considering every possible number of cases and was trying to completely put an end to the Nine Apostles’ lives.
‘This is the difference in class… … .’
Even in pain, I realized in a daze.
It is now too much for me to even open up. By the way, Major Anastasia is against the five high-ranking officers, including me, and the nine apostles that the Golden Knight fought against.
They showed a huge difference in power, as if they were crushing each other with only one body.
dump.
Then, my eyes caught Lieutenant Cecil sitting down in a daze.
“S-sorry.”
She seemed so helpless that she couldn’t even stand up straight, but I understood her without realizing it.
Actually, I felt the same way.
Nevertheless, I forced myself to stay conscious and carefully widened my opening enough to cover Lieutenant Cecil.
“There’s nothing we can do, we’re all limited.”
“… Yes, Lieutenant Cecil. “I have no choice but to rely on Major Anastasia.”
When even the usually strict Captain Ben Gale agreed, my eyes suddenly went to a certain place.
A little ahead of us now.
There, Han Cheon-seong was seen working very hard to open the door.
It looks like he’s leaning against the golden window and blankly watching Major Anastasia’s activities.
‘What on earth happened?’
I couldn’t tell right away.
However, it seemed clear that he, along with Major Anastasia, was trapped in an unknown territory. That’s why it looks like he used such a lot of force, and even looked like he lost a lot of strength.
“… … ?”
For a moment I rubbed my eyes.
Something was strange.
Han Tiansheng’s mana was extremely low, as if it was clearly empty.
To the extent that just maintaining openness for now seems like a limit.
however… … .
‘What on earth is this trace of absurd presence?’
It was as if the person itself had changed.
It is said that the power itself was almost empty, but Han Cheonseong’s presence was actually much greater than before.
The moment I thought about that and felt that my senses were twisted.
Grrrrrrrrr!!
A huge heat wave erupted as if it was burning the space.
“… … !”
“Everyone prepare for danger… … ”
In an instant, both eyes widened and the officers’ voices rang out simultaneously.
However, most officers, including me, soon had to face an unrealistic scene.
A heat wave broke out.
The roar of a huge white flame that seems to tear apart the dark area… … .
In an instant.
Everything seemed to freeze in itself.
As if it never existed from the beginning.
As the flames die down, extreme cold fills the empty space.
Swish!
Without realizing it, my gaze was drawn to the elegant figure swinging the ice sword as if shaking it off.
Sarah.
Even the noble appearance of Major Anastasia as she turns around, leaving behind the remnants of the nine apostles, where not even ashes remain.
“Everyone has worked hard, let’s focus on coming back from now on. And the officer’s body… … “I’ll take care of it.”
I had to just nod my head blankly at the calm, almost mysterious voice.