Chapter 20: The Horror of the True Engraved Bow (Part II)
In this way, the opponent this time did not go beyond the "boundary", that is to say, it was not a strong person who surpassed this world like Goethe, but a strong person who was still under the laws of this world.
Rank Nine, no, not an ordinary Rank Nine, is a stronger, more formidable opponent, and he needs an opponent with all his might.
After the battle with Goethe, Ishtar made it clear to Ulysses that she would not completely merge with him and become a four-winged dragon tail for the sake of an enemy who was bound to come. At the same time, all the magic that Ulysses had gained from female intimacy since then was devoured by her, and used as a reserve of magic for the final battle.
Ulysses still doesn't know who that enemy is, but even if he wasn't in a state of full fusion, he got too much from Ishtar.
A powerful body, an extraordinary mana recovery speed, and the ability to perfectly blend the powers of angels and demon kings...... It was a complete rebirth, and even if Ishtar's fighting consciousness was no longer with him, he had a power far beyond his past self.
If it is described by the concept of this world, Ishtar is the "door", the door that opens the true posture of the infinite ** realm, and allows him to reach the apex of the laws of this world.
The name of that gate is "Infinity".
Now he is the real demon king of this world.
Now he has the strength to protect the girl who likes him.
Now he no longer allows Yulia's tragedy to happen in front of him again.
So, why does he, who already has "infinity", still doubt it.
He is already the strongest demon king in the world, named Ulysses.
Three identical slender dragon lances roared from different directions, locking onto Lecutoru's head, heart, and spine, believing that any accurate hit would crush Lecutoru's body to pieces—along with Ulysses.
will not hesitate, will not hesitate, as if you will see the end of the arrow when you shoot it, this is the real shooting of Lara, the brave of the sword. As a Phantasm Archer, she can shoot any Phantasm as an arrow. Only she can use the dragon spear that originally existed in this world as a consumable.
Ulysses' eyes also became cold, but it was not the coldness of losing human feelings, but a higher level of nothingness.
Those eyes were indifferent and empty, as if they were connected to another world, and it was impossible to take their eyes off them. If there were ordinary people looking at these eyes now, I am afraid that the whole soul would be sucked through and go to the world that the eyes represented—the world of death.
Several black threads appeared around Ulysses, and then locked onto the three slender silver dragon lances with great accuracy, carving dead black threads into the silver spears before they could get close.
This time there was no explosion, no ice fog, Ulysses just casually waved down the abyss in his hand to convict the crime, and announced the death sentence of the three dragon spears.
It was a trace called "death", a law that even a powerful treasure like the dragon spear could not be immune to, and they were originally just projections, and they had no power to resist in the face of the thread that announced the death of all things.
And being able to easily cast such a line of death is the proof that Ulysses has ascended to the position of a true demon king.
After smashing the three dragon lances together, Ulysses didn't just stay where he was and wait for the next attack. In such a sniper battle, the one who stands in the open is always the most disadvantaged. Whether it's to protect the fairy girl in his arms or to protect the city under his feet, Ulysses must take the initiative.
The black and white wings fused into a staggered stream of black and white light, and in an instant Ulysses flew to the very edge of the city, one of the attacks he perceived.
It's a pity that the opponent's movement speed is incredibly fast for some reason, and it is not even inferior to the current Ulysses. When Ulysses arrived at the sniper point, he saw only a pair of slender footprints.
"Is it a woman?" Ulysses, who inherited a certain strength and also inherited some strange knowledge, could judge the gender of the opponent at the first time through this pair of footprints, and even automatically deduced the approximate height and body shape of the opponent from the position of the center of gravity.
She wasn't tall or strong, but she had incredible strength in her seemingly weak body. Her center of gravity was steady when she shot, and there was no unnecessary tremor in her body from the time she shot to the end, so there was only a pair of footprints here.
When she shot the arrow in her hand, she must have been extremely calm, and even left the sniper site after the arrow, leaving no extra traces.
"Huh?" Ulysses smelled a strange scent, a pleasant scent, as if he had smelled it somewhere.
By the way, this is the fragrance of the fairy family's specialty, the smell of golden orchids.
"Ahem ......" seemed to be stimulated by the scent of golden orchids, and Lecutoru, who was in Ulysses' arms, opened his eyes with great difficulty, and then issued the highest warning to Ulysses:
"Quick, get out of me, or you'll be responsible for what you've done......"
"It's coming!" Ulysses didn't have time to answer the fairy girl in his arms, because a new round of sniping was coming.
This time, there were more than dozens of Crimson Hounds, and these magic arrows, which were mostly made of pure energy, did not require a physical body, so they were not so restrained by death. In fact, when you see these terrifying red streamers, it means it's too late.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Without giving Ulysses any chance to fight back, the Crimson Hounds exploded themselves, turning the corners of the city into an explosion field.
An unprecedented huge mushroom cloud appeared, more than a million tons of material turned into nothingness in this round of concentrated bombardment, and the heavy walls of the city of a thousand dragons were blown out of a huge gap of nearly one kilometer, and a large amount of river water began to pour into the city, forming a man-made flood.
The flames that had not yet disappeared evaporated a large amount of river water in an instant, but soon more water poured in, and the power of water and fire clashed fiercely, making the corner of the city vapor and turning into a rolling hell.
The black and white streamer flashed and left the city with the white fairy girl.
The silver figure hidden in the corner of the city carried the transparent longbow on its back and chased after it without hesitation.
The real battle really begins from this moment.
............ Ulysses didn't leave the city and fly away in one direction without a goal, he chose the same wilderness that Relu had fought not long ago, a battlefield that had long since been devoid of grass.
There, he can accurately determine the location of his pursuers and can use some attacks that cannot be used in the City of a Thousand Dragons.
Again, this is true for Lala, the Sword Brave who pursues him. Somewhat contrary to what Ulysses had imagined, she didn't really attack recklessly, despite being tasked with having to kill Lecutorou. Otherwise, whether it was the Crimson Hound or the Dragon Lance, the power would be enough to annihilate the entire Thousand Dragons City in an instant.
Getting the most out of battle at the least cost is the fighting style of Lara, the Brave of the Sword. Even if half of her body has been swallowed by the black swan and is coming to an end step by step, she has not given up this basic principle.
Her hands were stained with blood, but it was all the result of her calculations. She doesn't really sacrifice anyone, but she doesn't hesitate to make a choice on the scales.
As a result of hesitation, indecision, wavering on both ends of the scales and even standing idly by, she has already learned too many painful lessons. In order to save more people, she has to make a choice, otherwise many times it will be an ending that no one can save.
That is the justice she chooses, even if she is disgusted and cursed, she will not hesitate to do it.
The people she saved often resented her madly, resenting her for saving everyone, but never thought that if she didn't make a choice, then it was likely that no one would be saved. From the standpoint of the rescued, the brave should have the strength to save everyone, but they never thought that many times it would be an impossible task.
Heroes and brave men are not gods, they are all strong people who have come out of the mortals, and they have no obligation to save everyone. In these thousands of years, he has been doing this desperately, no matter what the price is, he will not give up, even in the face of the invincible army of the undead, it is no one else who rushes with his body, it is Lala, who was once a human being.
She has saved more people than any hero, and she has defeated a hundred times more monsters than the revered Heroes of Light and Dragons, but she has been erased from history by humanity, and even her name has become taboo and not recited.
Even so, she was still fighting. She is not truly invincible, she suffers as much as she hurts, she bleeds like a weapon in her body, and she has to pay the price of her life in order to defeat certain enemies. No generation of sword warriors has a good death, and the best outcome is only to be swallowed by the curse of the black swan and die in infinite pain.
However, she persevered in all this, and when humans did not know it, she was active in the darkness again and again, destroying and threatening the world and human aliens again and again, risking her life to fight.
She never had time to rest, even if she fell on the battlefield, she couldn't rest in peace. As soon as the world senses a crisis, the Fantasy Garden will open, and she must re-enter the battlefield, choose her own body, pick up the True Seal Bow again, and fight with the curse of the black swan.
This is the fate she chose for herself, the justice that Lala the Brave of the Sword insisted on.
(To be continued)