The Great Sword is not the Main Body!-Chapter 71: Black Knight Kalt (4)
"Rubia Unni!"
A lukewarm liquid flows into my mouth.
The divine energy, long dormant within me, stirs and stimulates my body.
I twisted my stiff neck and opened my eyes.
"Unni! P-please, wake up!"
"Priestess... Time is urgent."
"This... what in the world..."
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the black sun, floating high in the sky.
It was the same black sun I saw in the revelation.
The symbol of the end.
I exhaled a trembling breath and turned my head.
A long red carpet made of blood stretched before me.
From the point where it all started, the ground was overturned, and everything had been destroyed beyond recognition.
It would be easier to explain if I said the Karahan Mountains had dropped by about 50 meters.
I shook my head and stood up.
Though I had been torn apart by Kalt and reduced to a pitiful state... somehow, I was completely restored.
For a moment, I felt disgusted by my monstrous body.
Still, shaking off the feeling, I led my stiff body and followed the red carpet.
"Unni...?"
"Priestess, be careful—"
"How are the employer and the employee the same? Hey, Rubia! You can’t go alone!"
At that moment, the blood staining the ground began to mix with shadows.
The shadows started to squirm relentlessly and stab at my legs.
I stepped on them, leapt high, ran, and even used divine energy, but no matter what I did, they kept piercing, cutting, and tightening around my legs.
"Ugh...! Y-Yuria!!! Help me!!"
"What is this...? Is this the remnants of shadows?"
"Ah, damn it! This is such a pain."
Anxiety deepened.
My breath became heavy, and my steps quickened.
What started as walking turned into running.
With each step, blood burst from my legs, and my body began to tear apart.
Still, I pushed forward, relentlessly.
"Does it only affect living creatures...? The roots summoned by my master... they’re fine...?"
"It seems so, but I’m not sure... Hephaestus, stay inside this space. It’s dangerous."
"Hey! Rubia, you crazy girl! Get in here now! This place is safe, right? Eh? What’s that... eh?"
And then, at the end of it all...
Noah, wrapped in the crimson energy,
and Kalt, who was no longer human,
became nothing but shadows themselves, continuing the battle.
The shadows covering the sky poured down upon Noah.
"Noah Unni!"
Tentacles made of shadows, flipping the earth, entangled Noah’s body.
"Noah...?"
Thousands, tens of thousands of blades shot from Kalt’s body, aimed at Noah.
"Goddamn it, now is not the time! Yuria! Go ahead! Hurry up!"
Noah.
Threw herself into that hell.
She moved towards Kalt and swung her sword.
She sliced through shapeless shadows, cutting them down.
With every swing, blood sprayed from her body.
The blood, impossible to believe from her small body,
was like blood being squeezed from a heart,
creating a red carpet in its wake.
From the point where we started, all the way here.
Right in front of us.
Without retreating.
Standing firm.
She had made it here.
The sound of my companions’ breathlessness filled the air.
A terrifying roar reverberated through the Karahan peak.
Kalt’s scream echoed across the sky.
Noah’s scream reached our ears.
At the same time, the world fell silent.
Yuria’s tree roots lifted me up and raced toward Noah.
Charlotte’s flames repelled the shadows aiming for us.
I focused my divine energy on healing Yuria and Charlotte while pushing the shadows back.
Noah’s image was imprinted in my eyes.
From a distance, she looked unharmed.
The crimson energy surrounding Noah appeared to be just black.
But the reason it had a reddish hue was all because of Noah’s blood.
Her once healthy arms were now twisted, broken, and torn.
The skin looked like it had been hastily stitched up in a strange manner.
Her fingers were gone.
Her legs were the same.
Her once neat and cute long hair had been reduced to barely shoulder-length.
Her spine was protruding through her back.
And yet.
She was still fighting.
The bloodlust wrapped around Noah’s body, like Karpeng’s, was forcing her to move.
Noah, whose life should have already been cut off,
was being pushed by bloodlust.
She swung her greatsword.
She cut through Kalt.
The battle, moving at speeds that were almost impossible to follow with the eye, continued.
Blood droplets floated in the air, rising before touching the ground.
Before new blood droplets could rise, before they even took form,
Noah’s body moved.
Her greatsword swung.
Each swing produced dozens of cracks.
Even with all our limbs intact, we were slower than Noah, whose broken body was rushing faster.
Kalt, too, was faster than Noah.
But Noah, undeterred, relentlessly charged and bit into Kalt.
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Tears flowed from her eyes, scattered by the wind.
They merged with the blood droplets,
sinking into the shadows, creating another carpet.
As I followed the blood-stained path on Noah’s back,
Noah’s arm was severed.
Her body froze.
The bloodlust that had forced Noah’s body to move dissipated.
I heard Kalt’s laughter.
But despite that...
Noah.
Extended her leg and moved forward.
Her body swayed.
Her hand pressed to the ground.
Her hand, with no bones left, could no longer support her body.
Neither her elbow nor her shoulder could hold her.
But she didn’t stop.
She turned her head, digging her chin into the ground.
Her chin popped off, so she scraped with her teeth.
Her teeth broke, and she scraped with her gums.
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Noah’s body, crawling desperately, was pierced by the shadows.
Yuria’s roots surged ahead more fiercely.
The flames that kept the shadows at bay flared, pushing all the surrounding shadows away.
I knelt and prayed.
For the first time since becoming a priestess.
I prayed with all my heart.
And then,
[What do you wish for?]
A voice resounded.
It was familiar, but I had never heard it before.
The power to protect.
The hope to dream of tomorrow together.
The ability to save the one I love. Everything.
[For whom?]
For Noah.
Only for her.
[Yes.]
Eight pairs of silver-white wings unfurled behind me.
[There’s no need for a price.]
The wings, spread wide as if to block the black sun, enveloped Noah’s body.
The shadows that pierced Noah’s body disappeared.
The remnants of the shadows that had engulfed the area scattered.
The black sun slowly began to ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) fade.
I heard Kalt’s monstrous roar.
Yuria’s attack shot out.
It passed through.
Charlotte’s flames rushed toward Kalt.
It passed through and kept going.
My divine energy, too, did the same.
Despite attacking hundreds of times, nothing worked.
Then, thousands of tendrils, split into countless branches, charged toward us.
Charlotte’s flames resisted.
Yuria’s beasts, her plants, fought them off.
My divine energy pushed them back.
"How the hell do you attack... How did Noah...?"
"AAAHH!! F*ck this! Rubia!! Can’t those wings do anything?! AAHHH!!"
Noah’s body twitched.
Her remaining left arm groped for the roots.
She struggled to raise her body with her skinless forehead.
Even in this state.
Her body, already a broken mess,
on the verge of death.
Even in her already dead body, she still searched for the sword.
The greatsword lay behind her.
Charlotte’s sword was the same.
"Sword... is there no sword? Anything... anything I can swing... Ah...!"
Even in this situation.
Even while looking at Noah in this state.
I despised myself, helpless and revolted by how I had to rely on Noah.
I was useless, pathetic.
And yet, I still searched for the sword.
Then, from between the roots, Hephaestus’s arm shot up.
"Here! The sword...!!"
A familiar sword was held in Hephaestus’s hand.
Luchi’s sword was in Hephaestus’s hand.
Hephaestus kept handing Luchi’s sword to Noah, whose hand was twitching.
With the last of her strength, Noah’s left arm weakly lifted.
Charlotte’s flames surrounded Noah’s body.
The plant vines that had risen covered her body.
I focused my divine energy, directing it into Noah’s body.
Noah’s arm rose completely.
Yuria looked around at us and swallowed nervously.
She nodded.
"Fck! Dammit! Fck! Hurry up... just, anything! Do it-!"
Hundreds of beasts leapt from the roots.
Sharp thorns rose.
Vines, leaves, and flower petals scattered around.
The speed increased.
The roots moved so fast it was hard to keep my eyes open.
They reached Kalt.
And as Kalt’s hand shot out with shadows,
Noah’s arm slowly dropped.
The sword, weakly swung, tore through Kalt’s shadow.
Through the torn shadows, Kalt’s body was revealed.
The sword was embedded in his heart, with veins rising from it.
Yuria’s thorns shot out.
Charlotte’s flames ignited.
All the divine energy we had left swung forward.
There were no screams.
No roars.
No sounds of tearing flesh, or things breaking.
Just silence.
Clang-
Kalt’s sword fell to the ground.
The black sun shattered.
The sky opened up.
Warm light enveloped Karahan.
And then.
Noah’s hand.
The sword in her hand.
It fell.
