Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 53
Chapter 23: The time for the husk perish
“Gigi…Gi…”
“My predecessor, thanks to yours many misbehaviors in past, I am very troubled now.”
I took out my one-handed sword, the Orc Fang Sword, which I’m good second only to the bow (although the word “comparatively” is attached to it) and thrusted at him. Of course, this is a product that has been coated with holy water.
Perhaps noticing the sacred power in it, the ghost of the miko is making a gesture as if backing away. However, since it has no legs, it cannot move, and where his legs were originally there was a large core. Well, even if he had legs, I wouldn’t let him escape.
“So… Won’t you just be quickly defeated!?”
“GIgAGI…SHUTUp.”
As I thrust my sword at him, the ghost stretched out its misty arm and tried to intercept me.
However, I had no intention of launching an attack head-on from the start. You shouldn’t expect me to perform as well as Uru-san!
At the same time as the ghost attacks, I divert my course to the right and while slashing the arm that passed right beside me I ran further to the right.
“YoU ! GyAaa.”
“You can’t hit me like that~!”
While In my mind, I’m breaking into a cold sweat, I pretend that I’m avoiding the attacks with ease, but in actually I’m barely avoiding them. But still I continue running, and running and running.
However, the ghost’s attack were so quick that I couldn’t get close to it, so I just could ran around it.
“Damn… I can’t find any openings…!”
“HYAHYAHYA WHAT ABOUT YOUR HIGH-SPIRIT FROM BEFORE!”
Little by little, the feeling of impatience appeared on my face, and the voice of the ghost gradually mixed with joy. Even if I tried to rush to it with more force, I would be chased away by the misty arm and had to leave that place.
I changed course and ran again. I managed to cut off attacks from the front and the side, but I couldn’t manage the attack from behind and with a loud thud, I could’t hold my position from the impact and fell down forward.
“Ouch!”
“GiHyaHahAhaHah! You CAN onlY clumsy ESCAPE aROUnd!!!”
“Damn…!”
The reason why the ghost didn’t pursue me even when it was a perfect opportunity to put finish me was because he has the intention of tormenting me around for fun.
Enduring the pain, I stood up and tried to run again, but the fog scooped my feet up and I fell down again.
“HAHA, WhaTs WRonG, YoU CAN StiLL RuN, RIGHT?”
“……No.”
“WhaT, Are YOu GiVing UP?”
I relaxed the hand that is not holding the sword.
“It’s already over.”
“……Wh, AT……? ”
I threw the ‘thing’ I had been holding in my hand for a long time.
“……AN EmPty……Bottle……? ”
Right. It’s an empty bottle of ‘holy water’.
I was just pretending to being like that, and it wasn’t like I was seriously struggling at attacking and running away.
While flaunting my sword to attract his attention, I was scattering the enhanced version of holy water around him.
In other words.
??KAAH!!!
“Gyaaaaaaaaa!?”
This place were the core is ‘was made into a sanctuary’.
If it is an evil spirit, the effect of the sanctuary is super effective.
When he bathed in the holy light that overflows from below, the volume of the mist decreased a lot, but it doesn’t seem to disappear just yet.
It’s a pity that I couldn’t defeat him with this, but I still have a few hands left, so there’s no problem.
“Hey, try to eat this too.”
That why I threw at him the [Sacred Flame Arrow], which was made from a magic stone infused with the Fricka’s Sacred Flame magic.
GAAN!!!
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
As soon as it hits the ghost, a golden flame blows up from the magic stone and burns the mist.
But… The ghost was stubborn, and still cling to continue his existence.
“NOT eNouGH, IT StiLL NOT eNouGH … My ANgeR CANt DiSaPPeAR With JuSt THIs……!”
“…”
Anger, huh?
That feeling that he still held to, even if twisted until this form… Perhaps there was something unimaginably bad that made him rampage so wildly.
But. Even so.
“AS If I WILL ACCEPT TO DIE IN A PLACE LIKE THIS…..!!!”
“… What are you talking about?”
I don’t feel sorry for you.
I will not forgive you.
To make him face reality, I took that out.
“You are already dead from a long time ago, right?”
The remains of the miko.
“…!?”
“Even if your anger is justified, when you turned into an evil spirit and caused trouble to the surroundings …… To the Creator God, I decided to destroy you.”
There is no mercy.
There is also no hesitation.
That’s why I took out even more holy water.
“Hyiii…!”
Even though the ghost took the shape of a foggy haze, it was frightened enough that I clearly understood Its mind state, he started to look around for a escape route. Looking for a breakthrough.
And then looking at me…To my side, or more precisely to my behind, and let out a pitiful voice.
“Aaaaaaa… Sigyine, help me…!
Hearing a new name, did another enemy appear? I thought so, and looked back.
Standing there was… Fricka.
It seems that their battle is over because he had no more power left to manipulate the roots. Before I knew it, the battle behind me was quiet, and I could see Uru raising her hand towards me.
To Fricka I asked with my gaze “What does it mean?” but she just shook her head saying ‘I don’t know.’.
…… Well, that’s right. Actually, if I were to be told that’ I was a co-conspirator’ here, I wouldn’t be able to believe in anything…
“… I don’t know why or in who you are misunderstanding me with, but…”
Fricka walks slowly towards the ghost.
Uru was diagonally behind her, so that she could deal with anything just in case, so I decided to watch over for the time being.
Without being being attacked in any form, she arrives in front of the ghost.
The ghost tried to attack… Or not, trying weakly to cling to her, it stretched out his arm… And on the verge of reaching Fricka.
“I have not a single drop of intention of helping you.”
“…!!!”
As if struck by lightning, the movement of the ghost suddenly stopped.
“Or rather, I resent you my bone marrow. Please just perish quickly.”
“Ah……Ah……??”
Stared at by cold eyes, the ghost trembled at the raw hostility that was hit head-on, and little by little, little by little, Its haze diminished in size.
……I wonder if Its heart was broken with that.
If the person It thought was his last hope? said that to to him.…… It’s not like I don’t know how he should feel, but I won’t show him any pity.
“Rion-sama”
“Huh? Ah yes.”
I didn’t know what to do when Fricka hold out her hand to me, but I quickly realized that she wanted the holy water I had.
When fearfully I gave it to her, she immediately opened the lid.
“Even so, I have only one thing to thank you for.”
“…? ”
Drop, drop. Fricka sprinkled holy water on the ghost that had completely stopped resisting, and spoke the words that in a sense, would become the sharpest blade.
“Thanks to you, I was able to meet Rion-sama. So thank you.”
“??”
And like that, not even looking at him who was on the verge of death. She was thinking of someone other than himself. He just stared blankly at the person who was trying to finish him off.
I don’t know what he was thinking at the end, and I don’t need to know, but the thing that was a miko quietly disappeared from this word.
“Umm, Rion-sama… I ended up taking the final attack… But is that all right?”
“Oh, it’s okay. You must had been much more difficulties than me.”
The me, who was just annoyed for a few days, can’t be compared with Fricka, who had her life derailed and distorted by the 300 years of history of that village.
Rather, does this alone is enough to make you feel better? Aren’t you troubled by the lack of a stress outlet? I’m starting to get worried.
“No, I’m fine. Like I said earlier… Considering that I met you, it might actually be a plus in total.”
“…I-Is that so?”
Sure, I did various things, but… Did I do something that would cancel it out…?
It’s a very questionable question, and I was so embarrassed by being told that straight, so I averted my eyes.
“……Hmm?”
And by lowering my gaze, I found something like a small black stone on the spot where the haze had disappeared.
I picked it up and it was?
“Ugh…”
?The Soul of the Forest King
The soul of a hyuman that ruled over a certain forest.
An anger to the point that makes the body burns and the emptiness of despair is sealed in it.
[Indestructible attribute] [Can only be processed by a miko]
“Rion, what’s wrong?”
Were they wondering why I let out a such strange voice? Uru, and after a little delay, Fricka also looked at me.
I didn’t even tried to hide it, and showed the item that I picked up to them.
“”…””
And both of them frowned their eyebrows.
“… Fricka, do you want this?”
“I don’t need it”
An Immediate response. Yeah right.
It’s written as the soul of the forest king…… But no matter how you look at it, it must be the soul of the miko that disappeared just now ……
I don’t know why I got something like this… Even I who wants to collect anything if it’s an item, honestly don’t want this.
However, even I wanted to break it, it has an [Indestructible Attribute] attached to it, and I’m afraid that if I pretend I didn’t see it and throw it away, there will be another disaster. And to process it into any item will be mentaly disgusting.
Hah… I have no choice but let it rot it in a corner of my item box…