Chapter 97. Under the Blue Sky
KRAAAA--!
AAAAH--!
Echoes of death and void rang out from all directions.
As soon as Arcosi returned from death, those dyed by Void began to shout fiercely.
“This is driving me crazy.”
Noel looked at the ones becoming void approaching them without even being able to wipe the sweat flowing down his eye rims.
The blue light surrounding the knights began to flicker perilously.
“The, the flag……!”
Rakshar raised his head with a short scream and looked at the flag he was holding.
Blanc and the knights didn't know, but the flag Ulrich handed over did not emit blue light forever.
The light was weakening.
However, it was still maintaining that light, albeit faintly.
For now, that is.
However, it was certain that the range was gradually decreasing.
Those polluted by Void were slowly tightening the knights’ breath and approaching.
“Damn it.”
The knights had no choice but to retreat inward one step at a time avoiding the approaching darkness.
Darkness was deepening.
“……Plant the flag where Blanc is.”
Noel looked at Blanc who was still searching his mental world.
His cousin was desperately looking for a way to move forward as always.
Watching Blanc, Noel made his decision.
“Life debt is paid with life.”
If not for his cousin, Noel would have been dead already.
Because Blanc saved the lives of him, his brother, and his father from the warlock’s clutches.
“This time it is our turn.”
Aubert noticed what his brother was trying to say seeing Noel’s eyes.
His brother prepared for death.
Aubert received that gaze and nodded.
The knights made eye contact with each other and exchanged glances.
They swore.
To bring victory to their war lord, Blanc Cadmus.
Keeping the oath is a knight’s duty.
“Swing your swords so you have no regrets even if you die today! Knights!”
At Noel’s shout, all knights raised their swords toward the approaching darkness.
***
Arcosi pulled out two flags from his body, held them in both hands, and was walking toward where Blanc was.
Contained in his two void eyes was solely Blanc Cadmus. Just one person.
DRIP- DRIP-.
Thick rotten blood fell from the ends of the flags Arcosi was holding.
“Blanc…… Cadmus…….”
The Void Knight returned from death walked to break the Black Wolf that drove him to death.
However, there was one blocking the knight who walked out of the wicked darkness without an inch of hesitation and returned from death.
He was the only knight free even outside the fading light.
“Your opponent is me.”
Simon raised his sword and blocked Arcosi’s front.
The Void Knight of the last life.
And the Void Knight of this life encountered each other.
Between the two, the void gaze and the gaze inside the heart entangled intricately.
“Blanc…… Cadmus…….”
Pitch-black thing fluctuating roughly was seen with Simon’s Mind’s Eye.
Its gaze was fixed on Blanc over his shoulder, but.
“To reach him, you will have to step over me.”
That ominous gaze turned its head and was looking at him.
“Yes, it is me.”
Simon accepted the void gaze, genuinely rejoicing that the ominous gaze fixed on Blanc was turned to him.
“I am here.”
“KRAAAAAK-!”
Two flags harboring death struck down at Simon.
They were Vicious and Langketa’s flags.
***
Blanc was gathering the energy of the Goddesses while traversing his mental world incessantly.
His closed left eye was trembling.
The Seeker of the Blue Star, who obtained the revelation of the Goddesses through the passage Monica Sanctus opened with death, was currently pulling out all the blessings of the Goddesses embedded in his soul.
‘No time!’
Blanc’s left eye was looking at his mental world, but his open right eye was looking at reality.
“Sir Hansen, fall back!”
“Rakshar! Protect the flag!”
The appearance of Rakshar dragging the wounded Sir Hansen to his side was seen.
The flag he possessed was now flickering and fulfilling its utility, looking like a candle right before going out.
“Huff…… Huff…….”
Blanc looked at the old knight breathing roughly by his side.
“……I am fine.”
Hansen smiled with a pale face and said to Blanc.
“The place for a knight to die is the battlefield, so do not mind me.”
Finishing those words, Hansen rushed out holding his sword immediately without being able to exhale comfortably even once.
The formation was collapsing.
BOOM- BOOM-!
Red sparks were flying in the darkness far away.
It was sparks created as the flags Arcosi returned from death struck down and Simon’s sword touched.
‘He shouldn’t have been a person this strong!’
Simon was gritting his teeth and opposing Arcosi’s power that transcended human limits.
If he crumbled here, this huge lump of malice would immediately crawl toward his lord.
‘I see it!’
Simon was trying to find an opportunity by all means while parrying the flags with difficulty.
The eyes of the mind Simon awakened made that possible.
‘Now!’
Simon was watching the flow.
And finally discovered a big gap in the Void Knight’s movement.
“Haaap!”
Simon Diez’s talent acknowledged by the Void in the last life shone and slashed Arcosi fiercely.
“……!”
Arcosi, having allowed a blow at Simon’s unexpected strike.
His left arm spewed sticky blood and fell to the ground.
‘Done!’
Simon succeeded in inflicting great damage to the Void Knight who harbored all the Void Tree’s gazes.
However.
The place where the knights were setting foot now was not the world created by the benevolent Goddesses where they had lived until now.
It was the domain of Void polluted through the Crack of the World.
“Cough!”
Simon looked down at the flag piercing his abdomen as if unbelievable.
“This is nonsense…….”
Simon had lost his physical eyes, but he could feel.
Arcosi’s left arm he cut off.
That the flag it was holding was piercing his abdomen.
“H-How…….”
Simon slowly collapsed looking at the Void Knight.
“Did not…… permit.”
This place where the knights were setting foot was the torn world and the world of Void that flowed in through that gap.
The Void, the master of this world, did not permit.
Arcosi losing his left arm.
It polluted and manipulated reality, forcibly ignoring the result Simon created.
“Ugh…….”
A black shadow was cast over the fallen Simon.
That dark thing looked down at Simon with a void gaze.
“…….”
Arcosi raised the flag with a dry expression.
And struck it down strongly.
***
“Move fast!”
Edwin leading the main unit of the Cadmus army and heading to Norington felt urgent.
‘What on earth is that!’
A huge and dark sky was pouring down onto Norington, seen in the distance.
Some soldiers were just looking for the Goddesses trembling in fear seeing that darkness.
‘Baron Blanc!’
Edwin was convinced that Blanc Cadmus, Bartomyu’s grandson and his disciple, was in that place.
The sense as a knight who accumulated long experience was saying so.
“What is that?”
There was a single streak of blue flash flashing under the sky collapsing miserably.
It was a familiar light.
Edwin was convinced that Blanc and his knights were trapped inside that collapsing sky right now.
“All forces! Advance!”
He pushed the soldiers roughly and marched toward Norington.
Edwin, entirely distracted by worry for Blanc and the knights.
Therefore, he did not see.
That a red line quickly brushed past above his head.
***
There was a blue thunderbolt filling Simon’s Mind’s Eye.
It roughly kicked away the evil flag filled with void and malice and blocked Simon’s front.
It saved him again.
“Simon, are you alright?”
There was a knight shining with blue light in front of the fallen Simon.
“Baron…….”
Blanc’s hair was undulating as if submerged in water.
“Not too late.”
Blanc swung his sword shining his blue eyes.
Aselheit’s sword was shining bluely.
“Blanc Cadmus!”
The Void Knight returned from death, recognized him and let out a roar of rage.
The Black Wolf who drove him to death.
Blanc Cadmus.
Blanc looked at Arcosi, laughed coldly, and answered.
“Eventually Kamora kills you once again.”
Kamora’s flag is still embedded in Arcosi’s abdomen.
“I will kill you anytime. Knight of Kamora.”
Blanc’s blue eyes shone.
Edwin’s signature technique, Meteor Shower, struck down on Kamora’s flag.
Instantly, a blue thunderbolt pierced through the darkness and burned up to the sky.
“Krrrroooo!”
A fierce blow.
It was Blanc’s blow shot quickly jumping lightly over the sword’s trajectory.
Arcosi could not block Blanc’s sword extending in the blink of an eye.
“Haaaaa!”
A blue line split Arcosi’s upper body and lower body.
The Void Knight created by the young Void Tree was split in half.
The eyes of the Void Tree watching that appearance were trembling.
“Ugh……!”
Arcosi did not receive permission for death even becoming such a miserable figure.
The Void Tree polluted the laws of this world and was forcibly ignoring his death.
Arcosi’s upper body began to crawl towards the severed lower body.
Hundreds of ominous gazes were watching that spectacle.
The ominous black tree was blinking hundreds of eyes incessantly to reverse Blanc’s blow that the Void Knight failed to block.
“……?”
However, the Void Tree’s will could not be conveyed to Arcosi.
“This is also the will of the Goddesses.”
Light harboring the Goddess' will was surrounding Blanc.
The Seeker of the Blue Star trampled on the crawling Arcosi’s head.
“……!”
Thus forcibly conveyed the will of the Goddesses.
The will of those who created this world.
“Return to death. One dyed by Void.”
The dead must return to death.
As Blanc applied force to his foot, the void-polluted Arcosi’s face was slammed into the ground, and his head exploded without even being able to scream.
Arcosi was liberated from the Void.
“Now it is your turn.”
The Seeker of the Blue Star receiving the Goddesses’ protection raised his sword and shone his blue eyes fiercely.
The young Void Tree creating the Crack of the World.
If left alone, eventually this world would walk the same end as before regression.
“I am one who returned solely for this moment, right now…….”
However, the regressor raising the sword now was one who came to stop that.
Things in Blanc’s chest began to burn.
Last life.
There were deaths Blanc Scar kept deep in his heart.
The blonde maid who tried to send young Blanc out of the mansion but eventually died hit by an arrow.
The gray Half-Werewolf who died to protect him in Baywood.
Mercenary captain Ulvent who sacrificed for members in the battle first encountering Void.
The Night Watchers who sent him away smoking the last cigarette in the Gorge Where Even Tears Dried Up.
And even the brown-haired woman whose heart he pierced and killed personally.
“Solely for this moment, right now…….”
Blanc heated his heart hot and accepted hundreds of void gazes.
“I have returned!”
Aselheit’s sword Blanc was holding was emitting deep blue light and trembling.
White thunderbolt harboring Goddesses’ protection emitted deep blue light and flowed down along Blanc’s sword.
At that moment.
There was a pink young bird that flew through the dark sky and gently landed on Blanc’s head.
“Return to your world! You evil thing!”
The Immortal Phoenix guided by the Goddesses blessed the single sword stroke of the regressor who jumped over 30 years.
Goddess' blessing, regressor’s will, and Sun’s blessing were together on Blanc’s sword.
Aselheit’s sword containing all that resonated loudly.
Inside the collapsing sky.
A blue thunderbolt struck down.
“My world shall burn white!”
Blanc Scar’s remorse.
And the blue thunderbolt harboring Blanc Cadmus' will split the Crack of the World.
Hundreds of eyes embedded in the young Void Tree opened wide.
They had no mouths, but screamed with eyes instead.
Blanc’s sword containing the Goddesses’ will split the Void Tree.
-Thing not belonging to this world. Return.
Darkness started from the ground and darkness started from the sky were splitting.
The will of the Goddesses spread to this land.
“Disappear! First Void Tree!”
***
“Baron Blanc!”
Edwin led the remaining Tolome Knights personally and ran up toward the highest hill in Norington.
“Oh my heavens…….”
What was reflected in the old knight’s eyes who ran up panting was something terrible.
Countless dug pits and hundreds of corpses scattered around them.
“Sir Noel, Sir Aubert!”
And Tolome Knights fell huddled together around the flag between them.
Edwin ran toward them hurriedly without caring about face.
“Sir Noel!”
“Lord Edwin…….”
Edwin lifted the exhausted fallen Noel and checked his condition.
Noel, the Lion of Tolome, covered in sticky black blood all over his body.
“I am fine…….”
Noel continued speaking with difficulty.
“Blanc…… Is Blanc alright?”
Edwin snapped out of it at Noel’s words, raised his head, and looked forward.
“Baron Blanc!”
At the highest place in Norington.
Blanc was kneeling on one knee leaning on Aselheit’s sword.
Edwin handed Noel to a nearby knight and ran like the wind toward Blanc.
“Baron Blanc! Are you alright?”
Blanc turned his eyes with difficulty and looked at his teacher.
“Sir Edwin…….”
“Yes! Baron Blanc!”
Blanc barely spat out a word between cracked lips.
“How is the color of the sky?”
Edwin raised his head to look up at the sky at Blanc’s question.
The dark and evil sky surrounding Norington until just a moment ago had disappeared like a lie.
Instead, in that place.
“It is blue. Baron Blanc.”
The blue sky created by the Goddesses was settled.
Blanc, who didn't even have the strength to lift his head, smiled as if relieved hearing Edwin’s words.
Next to the smiling Blanc, a pink young bird was sitting.
The huge and dark tree stump where the bird was sitting.
Remains of Void that would never regain darkness again.
The young Phoenix placed it under its feet and was holding its head high arrogantly.
Norington’s sky regained blue light.
Blanc, the only regressor in this world, eventually cut down the Void Tree.
Regressor of the Liberation Front.
Blanc Scar, the successor of the Cadmus family.
He completed the mission.