Chapter 124. Witch of the Black Forest (3)
“This is…… absurd.”
The knights sympathized with the words Sten spat out.
Because the spectacle they were seeing was something overwhelming enough to appear in myths.
Armored knights were creating a path cutting down beasts that had turned black.
Where they were advancing stood an evil tree sharply standing as if to pierce the sky.
And beneath it was a woman handling the beasts and blocking the knights.
Every time she waved her hand, the black beasts moved, and at the same time, evil energy of Ma surged and magic circles drawn under the tree blinked roughly.
“Sir Blanc, shouldn't we join too?”
To Sten’s eyes unaware of the full circumstances, it might have looked like the sublime advance of knights trying to pierce the darkness toward the tree, but looking from the view of the Regressor who crossed time, it was not.
Void and Evil.
Things unpermitted by the Goddesses were using this world as a battlefield trying to expand their worlds.
However, all wounds created as they collided would eventually be entirely shouldered by this world created by the Goddesses, and whoever won, it would eventually just be the start of despair.
“C-Count.”
The loyal knight Rakshar found something using his excellent vision.
Simon and Rakshar, who had encountered the Void directly at the highest place in Norington, were feeling that the knights fighting in front were unusual individuals.
Blanc looked in the direction Rakshar was pointing with his finger.
What the knight furthest ahead among those heading to the tree was holding.
It was the eye of a Void Tree.
“The darkness felt back then is spreading.”
Simon also seemed to feel the unusual energy starting from what the knight was holding.
Blanc, observing the aspect of the battlefield, could soon realize what the Void Knights and the Dark Wizard wanted.
The Dark Wizard was trying to protect the tree resembling the Void Tree by blocking the knights.
And the knights stained by the Void were trying to bring the seed of the Void Tree to that tree.
“So that was it.”
Whatever succeeded, it would be destruction for humanity eventually, but anyway Blanc had to choose.
“Everyone prepare for combat.”
The Regressor who crossed 30 years of time hardened his heart.
***
Amidst black beasts and knights with void eyes tangled fighting each other.
It fell down suddenly from the sky.
With a loud noise and a white thunderbolt that seemed to blind eyes.
Only one single knight shining brightly in the middle of the battlefield where all sorts of black things were tangled.
Blanc Cadmus.
Recognized by Aselheit and having inherited everything of the Knight of Godspeed, he appeared on the battlefield in the form he wanted at the place he wanted.
“What is this?”
And took what he wanted.
The void thing, whose cut arm’s cross-section was burned black, faltered and glared at Blanc.
The knight who suddenly jumped down from the sky, cut off its arm, and snatched the Void Tree’s seed.
From over that knight’s shoulder, those bearing blue banners were approaching.
Darkness and darkness.
Void and Evil.
People holding blue banners were advancing forward parting the darkness, splitting things unpermitted in this world.
All dark things standing on the battlefield turned their heads toward the single light shining here.
The battlefield stopped.
And there was the person who made it possible.
“I am Blanc Cadmus.”
The eternal bird that had flown in and settled on Blanc’s head looked down at the dark things with arrogant eyes.
“Speak, your identities.”
Blanc chose.
To permit nothing more to both Void and Evil.
To block the things eating away at this world, drive them, and shove them into their original places.
He was a person qualified to do so, and a person who came back to do so.
Blanc looked down at what he was holding, casually letting flow the void gaze looking at him.
It was a seed about the size of an adult’s palm.
Correctly, opening an eye.
It was blinking its eye ceaselessly, containing the world surrounding it.
“……Return it.”
“If you explain what this is.”
Although Blanc knew well what he was currently holding, he pretended not to know and waited for the answer of the one stained by the Void.
The Void of this era did not know yet.
That Blanc is a Regressor, and a person who came to oppose the Void.
And also that Blanc is seeing through them.
“We are knights of Prince Aleid, and we came to kill the Dark Wizard guarding that tree. Although I cannot explain in detail, I believe Sir Blanc, a Demon-breaking Knight who handles Evil , will make the right judgment.”
Blanc, who was seeing through the pitch-black eyes hidden inside the helmet, felt goosebumps hearing the words of the one stained by the Void.
Because that thing stained by the Void was wearing human skin and acting like a knight.
That appearance was something too different from the appearance of Void Knights in the past life.
‘……Aleid, just what have you done?’
Although Blanc knew Prince Aleid was related to the Void since the Void Tree descended on Norington, there were no things this human-like in the past life.
Except for some special ones like the Void Knight Simon Diez, they were merely disaster-like things that just killed humans and made the world void.
Not moving with clear consciousness and purpose like now.
Something was going awry.
However, Blanc did not show it and brought the Void Tree’s eye to the knight.
“From my view, this is also suspicious no less than Evil?”
The Void-stained knight silent at Blanc’s question.
The knight who was silent for a while raised his head.
His void eyes were glistening with a vicious purpose.
“How dare you!”
Blanc, having grasped the intent of the one stained by the Void, burst what he was holding in his hand without hesitation.
Blanc Scar of the past life had always burned himself to block the void gaze.
And now was the same.
The emotion called anger heated Blanc’s heart and was burning the Void.
The Void Tree’s seed blinking its eye ceaselessly exploded miserably inside the angry Regressor’s palm.
“……!”
“Do you think I will leave you to do as you please?”
Blanc offered a single word implying many things.
However, the knight stained by the Void could no longer receive Blanc’s angry gaze.
There was a silver line slicing the neck of the void one.
The pitch-black stained void gaze crashed to the ground by the single sword strike delivered by the knight freed from darkness.
“I leave it to you. Simon.”
“Understood. Count.”
Blanc turned back, sending a signal to Sten.
Sten was very surprised seeing the spectacle of the knight’s head falling, not the Dark Wizard, by Simon, but decided to follow Blanc’s words for now.
In the battlefield where everything was uncertain, Sten decided to believe only the words of the knight his father acknowledged and who saved his brother.
“Brotswav!”
“Sharply!”
As Sten’s order fell, the dwarves clumped together forming a formation and charged toward the ones stained by the Void.
The warriors of Brotswav, who were destroyed by the Void in the past life, raised their axes toward the Void in this life.
If Aleid handling the Void made something go awry.
“I too will do so.”
Blanc, the only Regressor in this world, just had to do so too.
Blanc, leaving the Void Knights to Simon and Brotswav’s warriors, rushed toward the woman controlling Evil together with the Demon-breaking Knights.
As Blanc rushed at her, black beasts everywhere bared fangs and clung to him, but these were Demon-breaking Knights superior to anyone in dealing with Evil.
Moreover, there was one more knight following behind them.
“My world shall burn white!”
Assinsao Family’s White Thunderbolt containing demon-breaking energy proved the reason for its existence.
The knight who lost honor by killing the last Assinsao escorted the shining lightning and opened a path.
-Go. My Lord!
Blanc did not turn his head toward Barzio.
Blanc wanted that, and Barzio also wanted that.
He just moved forward to find out the truth of things that dyed this world darkly.
Since it was a battlefield narrowed as much as possible by those stained by the Void, Blanc and the Demon-breaking Knights could approach the woman wearing a black veil quickly, and.
“Hyaaaap!”
Fabiano took out the whip wrapped around his waist and swung it toward the woman wearing a black veil.
Fabiano’s whip, bending in and out like a live snake, instantly wrapped around the woman’s body.
“Do not move!”
The whip, recognizing Fabiano’s immobilization command, shone with ominous characters and constricted the woman.
At the same time, the female knight with blue jewel eyes smashed the wicked spells protecting the Dark Wizard and held her sword to her neck.
A drop of blood starting from the woman’s neck flowed down along Tarania’s sword.
The Regressor, having cut the neck of the Void and holding a sword to the neck of Evil, finally reached in front of the giant tree.
“Who are you?”
Thus, he could ask the question he wanted so much.
The woman wearing a black veil hearing Blanc’s question smiled slightly and looked at Blanc.
“The person who cut the void tree that was in Norington.”
Void.
The word Void flowed out from her speech.
With this, he confirmed the fact that the Void was known to the Order, the Torch Knights, and even to Dark Wizards.
The Regressor succeeded in approaching reality.
“Answer who you are!”
To approach one step closer to the truth, Blanc shouted strongly toward the woman in front.
Anger and desperation were contained simultaneously in Blanc’s shout.
“I am…….”
From behind, screams and sounds of swords clashing were heard ceaselessly, but Blanc listened only to her voice.
Red lips containing the truth Blanc wanted so desperately began to open.
“The person who made what you just broke.”
“And what you are seeing now.”
The woman smiled and said, “And what you cut down at the highest place in Norington.”
As her smile deepened, Fabiano’s whip heated up red.
Sticky Evil was contained in her words, actions, smile, and everything.
Fabiano and Tarania could instinctively feel that the woman currently in front of their eyes was the biggest, most massive, and oldest of any Evil they had faced until now.
Even the Evil of Tiday engraved on Blanc’s shoulder was bowing its head to her.
“Who are you? Why did you go around spreading Evil to young women in Baltimere? What does it mean that you made what I cut down?”
Blanc, having barely grasped the edge of reality, did not hide his urgent emotions.
However, the woman wearing a black veil did not lose her smile even at the moment she was captured by Demon-breaking Knights.
That was a mark of composure and leisure, and.
“Although I do not know if you, chosen by the Goddesses, will believe it, the only thing I can say is one.”
A smile meaning she had a prepared move.
“It's just that I made this tree to block what we summoned.”
“Count! No more!”
Along with Fabiano’s scream-like shout, the whip wrapping the woman began to melt down rapidly.
“Thank you for buying time.”
“Wait!”
Despite Blanc’s urgent shout, with a single gesture of her hand, the magic circles installed under the tree resembling the Void Tree began to blink wildly.
Tarania drew the sword she was holding against the woman’s chin without hesitation, but.
Her substance was nowhere to be found, and she only cut the empty air with nothing.
She was not captured.
The moment Fabiano and Tarania turned their heads to find the disappeared woman, Blanc felt the existence of a massive thing starting from under the ground.
The Black Forest was shaking.
“Everyone get down!”
Along with Blanc’s shout, the earth shook and the ground soared.
At the massive tremor sounding like the earth howling, everything planting feet in the Black Forest lost balance and fell.
“What is this!”
Franz was horrified seeing the giant shadow soaring as if to cover the sky amidst the rain of soil pouring over his head.
“Only now I can barely move.”
The woman wearing a black veil, having appeared again at some point, smiled as if satisfied looking at the massive roots soaring from underground.
That smile was a mother’s smile looking at a grown child.
The tree resembling the Void Tree took out its roots planted deep underground and stretched with all its might.
Wooooooo.
Finally standing up on its own, the giant and evil tree was enjoying itself, moving its roots to its heart's content.
Under the moonlight, the evil tree danced.
Those watching the scene transcending common sense, where a tree pulled out its roots planted in the ground, were merely frozen unable to do anything.
“……Simon! Sten! Return!”
Even at the moment everyone stopped, Blanc, having seen many unbelievable scenes dealing with the Void in his past life, was constantly thinking and judging.
What that cursed tree moving over there wanted.
That thing enjoying itself swinging roots had been attacked and threatened by the Void until Blanc arrived.
The tree based on evil things intended to pay that back without a shred of hesitation.
“……Let’s go!”
Simon, hearing Blanc’s voice coming from far away, quickly gathered the dwarves and began to flee from the ones stained by the Void.
It wasn't that they were fleeing out of fear.
ROAAAAR-.
They were fleeing to avoid the aftermath of the massive anger that would start from them.
Although the cursed tree had no mouth, it screamed its anger toward the sky to its heart's content and raised the thickest root it possessed high into the sky.
That root soared high as if to touch the moon floating in the night sky.
And when it reached the highest point it could go up to, it stopped moving.
And poured down.
The sky collapsed.
BOOOOOM!
The massive anger started from the sky soaring from the ground struck down fiercely with the momentum to split the ground in half, mercilessly crushing the ones stained by the Void.
From where it struck down, a massive wave of soil started.
While everyone was out of their minds watching that overwhelming spectacle, only Blanc was looking at the woman wearing a black veil.
Even at the wave as massive as a house approaching with a roar, Blanc’s gaze was fixed only on the woman wearing a black veil.
“We will have business again.”
Her smile looking at Blanc was beautiful but cruel as much.
From above the heads of Blanc and the knights, the sky started from the ground was collapsing.
“Who are you-!”
Looking at the edge of truth slipping out of his hand.
The only Regressor of this world howled.