The Greatest Warrior of All Time Returns-Chapter 433

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Chapter 433

It changed as if another color were being painted over the world.

The pure white snowfield collapsed as though space itself were slowly burning away, scattering like a mirage.

The biting cold vanished, and the flurry of white snow completely dispersed.

After that, the curtain that had imprisoned everyone in the Spirit Corridor also began to slowly scatter.

Those who had been blocking the assault of the rampaging water spirits and resisting so that the curtain could not absorb spirit mana looked at the gradually collapsing curtain and, without realizing it themselves, shouted in cheers.

“Elder Azure Star! The curtain… the curtain is lifting! The spirits have started to retreat!”

One spiritist, who had come running in a hurry with an unconscious spiritist slung over his back, shouted.

Azure Star Algran Tevne, who had summoned high-ranking spirits and was somehow holding back the rampaging spirits, looked up at the sky as if bewitched.

“So it’s true… they really subdued the Spirit King….” 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

“See, old man? What did I tell you.”

“……”

He had heard the story, but seeing the situation with his own eyes made it feel absurd.

A mere human.

And a young man barely twenty years old at that.

The idea that he had subdued a Spirit King was impossible to believe.

Of course, since he had not seen it himself, there might have been other factors involved.

But judging from the current situation, there was no other conclusion to draw except that he was the one who had ended this crisis.

He let out a hollow laugh.

“Hah… well now. I suppose I should hand over the title of Star as well.”

“Bah. If you say something like that, what does that make me?”

“What else would it make you? Why are you meddling in the affairs of spiritists?”

“A spiritist, you say? That guy isn’t someone who’ll end at just that. Didn’t I tell you? He’s the one who fought three bearers of the Star title with a single sword and won.”

“……”

Hearing it again like this only doubled the absurdity.

Azure Star, Algran Tevne, cautiously asked,

“Just asking in case.”

“Go on.”

“That guy… is he really human?”

“Sometimes I also wonder whether that guy is really human.”

“Recover the injured! You lot estimate the extent of the damage! And you lot head north! The cause of this incident was there…!”

Azure Star forced away the absurd feeling and immediately issued orders.

Despite being old and even possessing the title of Star, he saw no possibility of winning against a Spirit King and had been busy focusing only on defense.

At this point, he even began to doubt whether he truly deserved the title of Star.

“Stop those useless thoughts. That’s what I think. There is no such thing as a useless human in this world. How he obtained such power is still a mystery, but there must be some reason.”

“Hah….”

Those who had given up trying to understand accepted it quickly.

And before long, the troublesome grandson who had suddenly disappeared earlier returned with the others.

However, among them, the figure of Leon Cascadia was nowhere to be seen.

* * *

I sent the others back.

We had prevented the resurrection of the fallen spirit Glaysia.

But Elraim still remained.

She stared blankly at the place where the core had been.

Whether it was fortunate or not, no one had yet come to the place where she and I were.

Even though it had been destroyed, this place itself still gave spiritists a sense of rejection like a location where oxygen was overconcentrated.

That was why I had immediately sent the others away.

“Jin.”

At my call, green wind gathered around.

With the curtain gone and enough time to materialize again, the highest-class wind spirit Jin appeared beside me, taking the form of a valiant eagle.

“Is this good enough?”

—Thank you, benefactor. For saving Lady Elraim and sparing her life.

“A promise is a promise. But the contract ends here. From here on, you handle it yourselves.”

—Lord Sylphid is also very pleased. He says that if you return to the lake in the future, he will reward you further…

“That’s enough. I don’t want to see you spirits for a while.”

After saying that, I approached Elraim.

Looking at her blank expression, I spoke.

“I’m not interested in hearing your sob story. Seeing how you rampaged alone without a contractor, your contractor’s condition is obvious without even looking.”

—……

“So don’t say anything and return to your place. I refuse to have another uncontrollable existence added to the Cascadia Demon Realm.”

If even the spirits became corrupted and rampaged, then at that point there would be no choice but to purify the Demon Realm itself, ecology be damned.

Naturally, the Duchy of Cascadia would suffer considerable damage.

But that was better than increasing needless casualties.

—Migl… Migl…

No, this woman—

“Ah, that’s enough. I said I don’t want to hear it.”

She, who had been standing there in a daze without even resisting, slowly rose.

—Let us go, Lady Elraim. Lord Sylphid is waiting.

—Shut up… it’s not… it’s not over yet. Migl. I have to save Migl.

She tried to move again.

That was when it happened.

Fwoooooosh!!!

A rather strong wind suddenly surged, and a green-colored being revealed itself.

—Give it up, Elraim.

I didn’t expect them to appear here.

I looked at the being with a surprised expression.

“How did you get here?”

—I borrowed a bit of the method she used to materialize her existence here. Of course, it’s only for a very short time.

He smiled gently and bowed his head to me.

—Thank you for helping us, benefactor. We spirits will not forget your grace.

“Then take that one and go back.”

—Sylphid… Sylphid! Wait a little longer! Migl still—

She shouted desperately.

But Sylphid looked at her quietly and then slapped her across the face.

—Ugh?!

Maybe because they were the same kind of spirit, the blow landed.

—Get a hold of yourself, Elraim. He has already reached the end of his life.

—That can’t be!! Migl… Migl couldn’t have died…

—No. He is dead. From the moment you recklessly made a contract with him. An ordinary human cannot endure being the contractor of a Spirit King.

—But he’s breathing! His heart is still beating—

Her hurried voice gradually grew quieter, and then fell silent.

—Elraim. Come to your senses. In the Spirit World, we checked your condition through the Mirror of Spirits. The human called Migl that you saw was already dead. You were being deceived by that bizarre ancient spirit.

You were being deceived into believing he wasn’t dead.

Elraim clenched her teeth.

—That’s impossible!!

She shouted urgently.

—Enough. Just how many more problems do you intend to cause in the Middle World? Heaven has been watching for quite some time. What you’ve done has already crossed the line.

At those words, Elraim ground her teeth.

—Those bastards…!!

At that moment—

“Right. To your eyes, we must seem like beings of that level.”

With a chilling voice, Elraim’s eyes widened.

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When she hurriedly lifted her head, what reflected in her eyes were four pairs of pure white wings.

“God’s messenger… Gabriel.”

It was as if the world had stopped—no one moved.

The archangel who had revealed himself looked completely different from when I had met him before.

His face was terribly cold.

“Elraim, Spirit King of Water. What you have done violates the laws of God.”

—Shut up! You hypocrites!

She shouted in fury.

But her resistance was suppressed in an instant.

Chains of pure white light bound and restrained her in the blink of an eye.

“Have you not already exhausted your strength? This is not the Spirit World, and without the power of that grotesque thing, how long do you think you can resist here alone?”

In Gabriel’s hand, a sword made of light slowly appeared.

“According to the law. Elraim, Spirit King of Water, who has wounded the origin of the world. I will execute you.”

—W-wait! Gabriel! She was deceived as well!

Sylphid urgently shouted, trying to stop him, but Gabriel, with an endlessly cold face, pointed the sword of light at Elraim’s neck.

“Any last words?”

—Kill me. If Migl is dead… then I too have no value in existing. Rather than that, kill me and let the next generation of Spirit King be born.

Gabriel looked at her with boundless disdain.

He grasped the pommel of the sword with his other hand and fixed it firmly.

Sylphid tried to stop him, but when Gabriel spread his wings strongly, chains of white light blocked his path.

—Wait! Gabriel! She’s still confused—

“Do not forget the duty held by the Spirit Kings, the origin of the elements. Those who monopolize the rights and neglect the duties do not deserve to hold that position.”

At Gabriel’s icy words, Sylphid clenched his teeth.

That sword Gabriel held was a divine artifact capable of destroying even the origin of spirits.

If she were struck by that blade, it would not merely mean losing her form—she could truly die.

And so, just as Gabriel was about to put strength into the sword aimed at Elraim’s neck—

Crunch… crunch.

“Kyaruruk! Little sister! This is tasty!”

—Grrrrrrr.

Feeling a gaze, he suddenly turned his head and looked this way.

Beside me, the newly born youngest spirit.

Grivy, sitting atop Tiamet’s head, was busily chewing with her mouth while grabbing a handful of popcorn and stuffing it into the creature’s mouth.

Like something just born, it looked as though it was filled with curiosity about everything in the world.

“Leon… Cascadia. When did you arrive?”

Gabriel looked at me with a surprised expression.

Well look at that.

What nonsense.

“The archangel didn’t even notice I was here? If you’re going to sell a lie like that, who exactly do you think will fall for it?”

At my question, he narrowed his eyes.

“Ah… this is troublesome. Even if you are the parent of the Immaculate Archangel, we cannot grant mercy to a Spirit King who has broken her duty…”

What nonsense is this guy spouting?

“Finish what you were doing. It’s none of my business now anyway, so you deal with it yourselves—”

“Oh my. If you respond like that, I won’t be able to carry out the execution either. After all, you are the husband of my sister and the one my youngest sister has taken a liking to.”

Since when did Luna become your sister?

Gabriel shamelessly spoke as he pleased, his face thick with brazenness.

The endlessly cold expression he had worn earlier had already vanished.

At Gabriel’s attitude, Elraim and Sylphid both looked at him with expressions that clearly said, What the hell is this bastard doing right now?

But whatever absurd performance he was putting on wasn’t the important thing.

“Before that. What did you just say?”

“What do you mean?”

“Just now. The parent of the Immaculate Archangel?”

“Oh! How did you find out even Heaven’s secrets?!”

He shouted as if startled.

That, too, was an act.

This bastard never intended to kill Elraim from the beginning.

The reason he appeared was what he had just said.

The Immaculate Archangel.

He had come to inform me that Elpiria had come to be called that.

“Who decided that?”

“Well… that is…”

“Who decided to turn someone else’s precious daughter into an archangel?”

At my question, he gave a bitter smile.

At this point, it was obvious he had appeared under the pretext of Elraim just to deliver that message to me.

“There is no time. The seal imprisoning the monster from another dimension has been broken by more than half. That thing will begin moving directly now.”

Gabriel dropped a bombshell.

After we had worked so hard repairing the seal… what?

“We must prepare. If we are to kill it, we will need her power.”

Was he seriously telling a father to send his daughter onto the battlefield?

Inside my head, I heard the sound of something snapping.

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