Chapter 225 - Episode Twenty - High Elf Sorcerer, Devin (13)
I could see an eerie swirl beginning to form on Thanatos’ translucent face.
I felt as if my eyes were met with Thanatos’ vortex. I felt as if I were being sucked into the center of the vortex, and a shiver ran down my spine.
“Guh……”
I was about to reach for my wand, but decided against it and looked at Devin.
“Hey, I told you not to use magic. Is your memory bad? You Marren!”
Devin said with a smile on his eerie, magic-covered face.
“Abel! Please take out the Mea! If we don’t do something, even Abel……!”
Mea cries out with tears streaming down her face.
This is not good, it’s not good at all.
That elf’s magic power was so weak and admitted that the High Elf was outmatched by the Marren, the same day he declared that he will play a trick, his pride must feel like trash that he took hostages, but his persistence is incredible.
If I make a move, he will do everything in his power to harm Mea, knowing that he will die later.
However, there was no way I could get rid of the Great Spirit without magic.
Suddenly, Thanatos, who was stretching his arms out to me, stopped moving.
It was a strange movement as if he was suddenly suspended by a thread.
Thanatos slowly lifted his head and stared into the air.
I raised my head as if caught by Thanatos. I felt a strange magical power.
It was different from any magic I had ever felt before.
I felt my blood drain away.
“Hey, Devin! Get down from there! Hey!”
“Hahaha! What are you talking about?”
“You gonna drag Mea into this? You idiot! Get down! That’s not a good height! Jump! Ceasefire!”
“You think I’m going to fall for that old trick? You’re miserable! All you can do is desperately hang on to your scythe! Hahahahahahaha! Lick the sole of my shoe and maybe I’ll believe you. That is, if you can make it up here while avoiding Thanatos!”
The vortex of Thanatos’ face gained speed as it whirled around.
Suddenly Thanatos turns towards Devin, extending two sharp arms from his sleeves as he heads towards him.
“Tha, Thanatos! Why are you coming over here ……! H-, hey, stop! Stop! Guh!”
Devin pushes Mea away from Thanatos.
Thanatos bends his sharp arm and gently holds Mea, then extends his arm and dexterously places her on a nearby branch.
He knocked Devin off the branch with the side of his sharp arm.
“Gah! Thanatos …… Why! ……”
Devin fell through the air.
And finally, the thing I had been on the lookout for appeared right near Thanatos.
It appeared very close…… or rather at, the level of Thanatos.
It was too big. It was so big that it almost covered my vision as I looked up at the sky.
In a word, it was like a fish made of huge stones. It didn’t have a face, but instead, its entire body was carved with magic circles and formulas and the like.
I had heard about it several times in pictures and folklore.
In the Dinrat Kingdom, this magical beast is often used as a symbol of fear and disaster, and is called Apocalypse.
It is a legendary beast that is said to have once almost destroyed the world.
“Hey, you’ve got to be kidding me. …… This is a huge viper, with this the level rised too high”
-Apocalypse, a magical beast that looks like a fish made out of a giant stone.
It is said that the Apocalypse appears once every ten years, wanders off, wreaks havoc, and then simply vanishes.
It hasn’t been seen since about a hundred years ago, but …… No one would have imagined that it was with Altamir in the Witch’s Tower.
Its danger level is, of course, unknown. It’s not something that can be measured in Bs or As.
The formula engraved on a part of Apocalypse’s body flashed.
The next moment, several large stone needles shot out from the glowing part of Apocalypse’s body and pierced Thanatos.
The needles were also engraved with some kind of magic formula.
Even though Thanatos was pierced through his body, he extended a large number of sharp blades from inside his cloak and stabbed back into Apocalypse’s body surface.
A number of large wounds appeared on Apocalypse’s sturdy body surface, and pieces of Apocalypse fell in a heap.
The part of the body that had been cracked by Thanatos’ attack was glowing with a poisonous purple light.
He might have given it some kind of curse.
However, the scale was too different. It didn’t seem to have done much damage.
As soon as the formula on Apocalypse’s needle flashed, Thanatos’ cloak flattened as if it had been subjected to a powerful pressure, and lumps of metal fell out of the cloak.
“I-, if you’re going to keep this stuff down, you might as well start at the beginning. ……”
As the adventurers climbed halfway up, the Apocalypse must have come into view.
They are definitely trying to cut off our path of retreat and take us down.
“…… At any rate, I’m glad Mea is safe. Looks like she’s saved by Altamir’s bad character.”
I turn my attention to Devin, who is falling.
I’m sure that Tanatos was the first to notice the existence of Apocalypse, and he knew that Devin’s life was in danger, so he knocked Devin down.
He also let Mea go without hurting her.
I was grateful to Thanatos, who was now a piece of cloth hooked onto Apocalypse’s body.
Suddenly, my vision caught sight of Devin falling.
Devin was holding his staff as he fell into an awkward position.
What he was going to do immediately popped into my mind.
I half-reflexively pointed my wand at Devin.
“Wind!”
Devin shouted, making a magic circle appear.
Using wind, hoping to soften the impact of his landing.
I waved my wand and redrew the magic circle.
The wind blows as if to push Devin back. Devin fell headfirst, slamming his chin into the branch of the beanstalk with great force.
“Ago! Gah!”
He spun around and fell.
Devin’s body hit branches, trunks, and everywhere, sometimes scraping and screaming as he fell.
“Ogg, oggeh! Gogah! Hoberu!”
I spit on Devin as he fell, covered in blood.
Then I quickly looked at Mea.
“Mea, are you alright!”
“Me-, Mea is fine. B-But that’s not the point! Up …… up ……!!!”
At that moment, the cry of Apocalypse echoed.
It was a terrifying sound, like a harbinger of a natural disaster.
The lush green grasslands that covered the ground contrasted sharply with the eerie rocky mass of Apocalypse that covered the sky.