The spear’s roar is a remarkably strong yet simple technique.
Compared to other techniques, it has a much lower level of difficulty and relatively low consumption, making it one of the useful techniques.
As it’s the roar of the ‘spear,’ it’s a technique that uses a spear, but honestly, if you know how to use it, you can use it with other weapons just fine.
Yena’s dagger spins.
Emerald mana flows through the dagger, and her heart continuously aids the flow of mana.
Yena, who has managed to take a pretty solid form, takes a deep breath.
As Yena concentrates, she shoots me a side glance.
“…Why are you laughing?”
“Well, I don’t know.”
[LOL ROFL HAHA]
[Cute, it’s cute]
[Who is doing what to whom?]
[Yena receiving teachings from the Master]
[Noob?]
[Lily watching her grown disciple, LOL]
“Whew… Haa…”
The spinning intensifies.
With a resolve to pour everything into this one strike, cold sweat drips down Yena’s face, and her hands tremble.
The mana has grown to an overwhelming degree.
“If you mess that up, it’ll blow up.”
“I’ll regret it…!”
I say!
As she releases it, the unlaunched roar of the dagger is cast.
Though still incomplete and a weak hit, thanks to outstanding specs, that weak attack has closed in quite significantly.
‘Was this how he felt?’
He was very frustrated with me, yet when he succeeded, he showed satisfaction.
Feeling a bit more confident, I quickly asked him to tell me the special move, and he picked up the spear and said this.
“We have a long way to go.”
“The road is long, isn’t it?”
“…Wh—?!”
The roar sweeps over me.
More accurately, it sweeps over the spot I had vanished from.
Before I knew it, I had moved behind Yena.
Yena hurried to recover the dagger she had just released to retaliate, but it was already too late.
“This feels like déjà vu—”
“Good job.”
Whoosh.
The sharp spearhead pierces through Yena’s heart.
The blue mana that filled Yena’s body scatters, and her eyes return to normal.
At the same time, she vanishes into particles.
Lilyyyyyy─!
The sight of her reaching out is a bit pitiful.
[LOL HAHA ROFL]
[Yeah, it’s over~]
[Just used it and mercilessly killed her, LOL]
[Yena-chan T_T]
[Lily is really something]
[History repeats itself, LOL]
[What déjà vu?]
[But there was a result]
[The Awakening Yena-chan did look kind of cool]
[A bit disappointed with the myth]
[Lily! Lily! Lily! Lily!]
[Playing with rankers]
[For real, LOL]
“I wasn’t playing around. The last technique itself was excellent.”
“Because you know.”
I lifted the arm that was gripping the spear.
A pretty battered arm.
It looked like I had perfectly dodged the roar, but with the combination of accuracy and mythical power, it created destruction beyond imagination.
If it had been just a little more complete, wouldn’t I have been able to sever an arm?
[So, is this basically deception?]
[Ah, haha, just try a little harder]
[Yena, you did great anyway]
[Agreed]
[Yena’s grown up, wow]
Well then…
Shall we start wrapping things up slowly?
■
“…It’s over.”
Miho watched the entire situation unfold with a blank expression.
Failing is impossible.
It can’t be.
Bluering’s power has been a granted ability for a long time while serving as a priest.
The powers used on Bluering’s physical form are comparable to a god.
Even having relinquished all that power, Yena was unable to unleash her strength and ended up dead.
No, it’s not that she couldn’t.
She performed far better than what she and Blen had anticipated, and the reason she was forced to call for help was simply because she was in danger.
She gave up all her powers in exchange for that…
‘The opponent was just too strong.’
That being called Lily was on a different level.
Not merely overwhelming.
There wasn’t even a geographical advantage.
In every aspect, Yena was expected to win, but there was just one problem.
‘Experience.’
Lily had more combat experience than even Miho, who had lived for over 300 years.
Yena seemed to have fought quite a bit as well, but compared to her opponent, she was like a newborn baby.
Weapon, mana, strength, power, abilities…
Lily responded to everything Yena used as if she had seen it many times before and countered by combining her own abilities accordingly.
Whoosh!
Yena vanished.
“I guess I could never win from the start.”
Miho let out a hollow laugh.
She thought about intervening directly, but the flow of battle made it impossible for her to do so.
‘If I had gone there, I would already be dead.’
That battlefield was a fight between beings that were impossible to confront.
“Where did such a monster come from?”
Fwoosh!
Lily, with her flowing blue hair, approached.
Even though I was seeing it with my own eyes, it was hard to believe.
Not even Bluering could compare, let alone Yena, who had just been defeated.
But for some reason, it didn’t feel like we were going to lose.
It’s an irreverent thought, but even Bluering…
“That being said, even Bluering…”
“But it doesn’t matter.”
“The plan has already begun.”
─I shall begin.
■
I approached Miho.
She looked confused but still seemed to be holding on to some secret, not letting her guard down.
“Where is the priest?”
“If it’s Blen, he’s at the center of Bluering. Our beginning and our end.”
Also…
“It is also the start of disaster.”
“Disaster?”
“That’s right. Bluering suffers, and that’s the reason we have to use our kin.”
“……”
“Just to clarify, we did not spread the disease or harm Bluering. If we had, we wouldn’t have been able to keep Bluering’s powers.”
[Story is unfolding]
[Boss hunts are where stories get real, haha]
[Let the cringe story commence]
Decades ago, I stepped down from the priesthood and began living in peace.
In fact, I could have continued as a priest, but there were capable individuals, and I just wanted a quiet life.
“Someone like that is causing this situation?”
“…Please listen.”
[Hahaha]
[LMAO]
[Oh, come on, just listen to the story]
Bluering’s forest was peaceful.
It was a place that functioned well on its own, even without delivering messages or healing someone. I lived there, rarely going out except every few months.
A place where no one could visit due to the hallucinatory barrier.
That was my home.
Then one day…
“Someone has come.”
“Oh, hello!”
The one who broke through the barrier was a small raccoon beastman with black fur.
When he appeared through a barrier that only the current priest or himself could breach, I was suspicious.
So, I asked how he got in.
The child replied,
“I just came in, you know?”
“……”
“I couldn’t understand. This barrier was created with powers received from Bluering. It cannot be breached without a similar level of ability.”
[Lily can do it though]
[Seriously lol]
[Isn’t this just stalling? What’s the priest doing?]
[Let’s just kill him and be done with it]
I wanted to figure the child out, but even through Bluering’s powers, I couldn’t obtain clear information.
All I could ascertain was that, unlike the usual bright mana of raccoon beastmen, he possessed black mana.
The conversation became even more meaningless.
The child had a pure thought process, knowing nothing.
“And so, several more months passed, and I received shocking news from Bluering.”
“I just heard shocking news from Bluering.”
“Someone is eating me away. Find them.”
“I couldn’t identify who the others were, but one person kept coming to my mind.”
“So this time, I went to find that child.”
“We had become quite close over the past few months, so I knew where they lived.”
When I got there…
“…Miho? Why do you look like that?”
“……It was terrible. The dark energy flowing around that child was eating everything about Bluering.”
A child who, despite being devoured by dark energy, still didn’t lose their brightness.
I acted before I could think.
“I managed to trap the child with my power, but it was just a matter of time. Not long after trapping them, the seal started to be eaten away too… I tried to find a way, but in the end, I couldn’t find one. Then Blen─”
“I think it’s about ready.”
“……”
Miho’s expression, which had genuinely been one of concern just moments ago, turned cold.
I’ve allowed enough by now.
That priest named Blen must have done all he could too.
[Ha ha ha ha ha]
[Let’s stop listening]
[You already knew, right?]
[Do you think Lily would fall for such an obvious trick?]
[Ah ha ha, just spit out the reward already]
[Lily cutting off the haters right away, ha ha ha]
“…Even if you realize it, it’s already too late. While you were doing that, the plan was already in motion.”
Fwoooosh─!!
A towering pillar of light rises, visible even from a distance.
That is the sealing spell using hundreds of sacrifices.
Of course, the target is that child captured by Miho.
“You can’t stop it now, but it might be wise not to interfere. This is for everyone.”
“For everyone… or is it just for two people?”
In the end, they used sacrifices to prevent an unavoidable evil. That’s the story.
The two who planned this aren’t the ones becoming the sacrificial lambs.
If they really wanted to stop it, the two priests should have been the first sacrifices.
“I said it’s pointless. Even if you kill me here, stopping the seal is impossible─”
“Go ahead.”
“…What?”
I drew my spear.
The spear emitted a bluish light unlike my magical power.
“Go ahead. Do your worst.”
I wonder if the spear can hold up.
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