Ending Maker Chapter 89
Ending Maker Chapter 89
Chapter 30 - The Maddening Couple #2
Bandaisel was strong.
Bandaisel held no title, but it was a demon with an epithet.
"Physical abilities, overwhelming."
"Magic abilities, weak."
"But magic resistance, strong."
"True name, unknown."
As they exchanged words, Bandaisel clenched its fist in the distance and spat out a curse.
"I will drag you wretches to Hell. I will make you realize how merciful death truly is!"
A demon's words carried power.
Bandaisel's declaration was akin to an oath. If they lost to it, Yuder and Cordelia would truly be dragged to Hell and suffer all manner of torment.
But instead of being afraid, Yuder and Cordelia clicked their tongues.
"As expected of Bandaisel. Its vocabulary's lacking."
"It's a musclehead."
Fortunately(?), their voices didn't reach Bandaisel.
Bandaisel muttered another curse, and Yuder turned to Cordelia and spoke.
"Cordelia, you're past level 50, right?"
"Huh? Yeah. I should be, right?"
Her original level had been in the low 40s, but she'd gained nearly 10 this time.
"Then let's do this."
As Yuder quickly explained the plan, Cordelia, who had been listening with wide eyes, soon broke into a bright smile again.
"Wow, that's seriously wicked."
"And you like that?"
"Yeah, I love it."
Yuder smiled back at the grinning Cordelia, then turned toward Bandaisel again and spoke.
"I'm counting on you."
"Yeah. Be careful."
Because they needed someone to buy time.
Yuder took a deep breath, roused the energy of the Nine Heavens Nine Gates once more, and activated Black Wind Arrival.
He became a black gale and charged straight at Bandaisel.
ROOOOAR!
A fierce wind blew.
Within the wind that coldly wrapped around his entire body, the pitch-black wind danced together with a golden whirlwind.
Cordelia didn't watch that sight for long. She turned around and ran toward Lena.
"Lena!"
"Cordelia! We have to help Yuder!"
Lena, who had evacuated Kaplan and the bellagio Luke to a safe place, ran toward Cordelia and shouted.
Cordelia immediately nodded.
"We do. So Lena, listen to me. I have a plan."
Boom!
At that very moment, a thunderous sound erupted.
It was the sound of Bandaisel smashing the ground with its massive warhammer.
Cordelia flinched for an instant, but she didn't look back.
It was Yuder.
He was the incarnation of martial arts with the Heavenly Martial Body.
So he'd be fine.
No, he would be fine.
What mattered now was using the time Yuder had bought them as productively as possible, even by a single second.
"Lena!"
Cordelia grabbed Lena's wrist. Lena, who had been about to run toward Yuder, hesitated and looked back at Cordelia, then nodded.
'Lena isn't normal right now.'
That was what Yuder had said.
'She can't use her angelic power.'
Lena had already been using angelic power since Hero Legend 1.
In other words, it was no exaggeration to say that most of Lena's combat strength came from her angelic power.
But even so, she was Lena.
Before she was an angel, she was a powerful archmage.
'So she can do it.'
All the various spells Lena had used in Hero Legend 1.
Yuder and Cordelia both remembered them, and Yuder had told her which ones were needed for this battle.
"You can do it, right?"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Amid the successive thunderous sounds, Cordelia asked.
Lena immediately nodded.
"I can do it."
"Then let's begin!"
RUMBLE!
The sound of the ground collapsing echoed from afar.
Cordelia gritted her teeth and looked back, then felt relieved. The black gale was still drawing a beautiful trajectory together with the golden whirlwind.
"Haa."
Cordelia, who had unknowingly let out a sigh of relief, immediately shifted her focus. She activated Witchification and simultaneously chanted a spell to activate the Witch's Grimoire.
"Open the Book!"
At the truly intuitive command, the Witch's Grimoire activated.
The book, which had been hanging at Cordelia's waist in a shrunken state, instantly grew several times larger, becoming a book bigger than Cordelia's upper body, then floated up into the air and opened.
"Find Spell!"
As Cordelia's touch reached it, the grimoire's pages began to turn rapidly.
What she wanted to read was the last page she could currently open.
The spells newly unlocked as her level passed 50.
Cordelia quickly recited the spell. Through the Witch's Grimoire, she directly injected new magic into her mind.
And at that moment, Lena, who had run to the spot Cordelia indicated, activated her magic.
"Create Golem!"
The spell of golem creation.
After gaining the power of a Holy Angel through Ancestral Regression, Lena had used this specialty so rarely that many people did not know it, but her true forte was creating magical constructs, including golems.
"Arise! Arise and fight, my child!"
Lena had already expended a great deal of mana fighting alone against the Hell monsters swarming the tower.
But she didn't hesitate.
She poured out all her remaining mana and made Cordelia's plan a reality.
"ROOOAR!"
The ground surged upward.
That was how it looked.
The ground that had collapsed from the great collapse Cordelia caused took shape and raised its body upright.
It was a massive stone golem made of countless pieces of debris.
"ROOOOAR!"
It was huge, truly huge. It easily exceeded 30 meters, and might even approach 40—no, 50 meters in height.
Moreover, it wasn't just tall. Its entire body made of rock was reminiscent of a heavily armored knight clad in full plate armor.
Thud!
With a single step, the ground shook.
Bandaisel, which had raised its warhammer to smash Yuder, reflexively turned around, and Yuder burst into laughter mixed with admiration.
"GRAAAH!"
The golem roared and charged at Bandaisel.
Perhaps because of its enormous size, it was a slow charge, but its sheer bulk was overwhelming.
An immense pressure closed in on Bandaisel.
"Don't make me laugh!"
Bandaisel shouted as if crushing its fear, readjusted its grip on the warhammer, and charged straight at the golem. It was to smash the slow creature's head.
It was truly a clash of monsters.
But Yuder didn't watch. He forcibly turned his gaze and confirmed Cordelia's position. As if their minds were connected, Cordelia also looked back at Yuder.
'Ready?'
'Ready!'
Right after exchanging glances, Yuder looked at Bandaisel again.
Either way, it was indeed a demon with an epithet.
The sight of it leaping high and swinging its warhammer at the golem's head was like a scene out of mythology.
CRASH!
The golem, its head half-smashed by Bandaisel's blow, staggered backward with a loud noise.
Bandaisel continued to pursue the golem, raining down consecutive blows.
"Hahahahaha!"
A golem that was all size and nothing more was no match for it!
Every time Bandaisel swung its warhammer, a part of the golem broke away.
At first, the golem at least made a pretense of counterattacking, but eventually, all it could do was retreat while being beaten.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Loud impact sounds rang out in succession. The golem, which had lost not only its head but also both arms and shoulders, kept retreating until it finally returned to the place where it had first started.
"Now it's over."
It was the very moment Bandaisel, having spoken coolly, drew back its warhammer.
Lena, who had been maintaining the abnormally massive golem with all her strength, suddenly reached out toward Bandaisel. She released the last bit of mana she had set aside.
"Paralyze!"
One of Cordelia's specialties, a paralysis spell.
The distance was far.
It wasn't even direct contact.
Because of that, Lena could paralyze it for at most a few seconds.
But that was enough.
At the moment Lena reached out, Yuder climbed up the golem.
He became a black gale, soared into the air, and unleashed a full-power strike at Bandaisel.
Black Dragon Cross Strike!
A massive black cross originating from his fist slammed into Bandaisel.
But it was too much to ask. It was impossible to bring down Bandaisel with this current strike.
Yuder knew that too. That was why the purpose of this attack wasn't to defeat Bandaisel. The goal was to push it back.
SHRAAAK—!
The black cross pushed Bandaisel back as it advanced.
Paralyzed and helplessly shoved backward, Bandaisel was slammed into the spot where the golem had risen.
Boom!
Having flown nearly several dozen meters and been slammed into the ground, a great thunderous sound erupted.
But Bandaisel's body was abnormally tough. A fall of this degree couldn't finish it off.
In fact, the moment the paralysis wore off after the fall, it immediately tried to rise.
Yuder saw that. And he saw something else too.
"Cordelia."
She was standing there. Having reached level 50, she had acquired Double Casting and added Echo of the Spell to it.
With a single spell, she activated four magics simultaneously.
"I've been waiting."
At that moment, when her fangs gleamed through Cordelia's radiant smile, the Hell monsters charged at Bandaisel.
To be precise, they were Hell monsters that Cordelia had raised with necromancy.
"RAAAGH!"
"GRAH!"
"SKREEE!"
Dozens of Hell monsters, shrieking loudly, charged and piled onto Bandaisel's body.
Since they had originally died by being crushed, few of them had intact limbs, and because Cordelia's necromancy was clumsy, it was no exaggeration to say that simply charging was all they could do.
But what mattered wasn't their combat power anyway.
"You vile wretches! No, you wicked wretches!"
Bandaisel roared in fury and tried to rise to its feet.
The Hell monsters were ultimately nothing more than zombies. It could sweep them away with a single swing of its steel whip.
Cordelia knew that too. So she didn't waste any time. She snapped her fingers and activated the spell she had newly learned.
"Corpse Explosion."
Corpse explosion.
The Hell monsters clinging to Bandaisel exploded in a chain reaction.
With more than dozens of Hell monsters exploding one after another, the power was truly immense.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Bandaisel's screams could be heard between the explosions. Because of that, Cordelia turned to Lena to finish things off.
"Lena."
At the small call, she responded.
Creating the giant golem that couldn't even fight properly hadn't only been for the purpose of excavating the monster corpses Cordelia would use.
"ROOOAR!"
The golem let out a final roar and took a step. It moved its body directly above Bandaisel's head.
Despite the immense explosions, Bandaisel saw it.
It instantly realized what Yuder and Cordelia's plan was.
That was why it could not help but shout.
"You, you demon bastaaards!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The thunderous sounds of the corpse explosions buried Bandaisel's voice. Lena recited the final spell.
"Cancel Create Golem."
The art of golem dissolution.
The countless pieces of debris that had formed the body of the giant golem approaching 50 meters poured down onto Bandaisel's head.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions and falling rocks.
Between them rang Bandaisel's wretched screams.
Thud!
The massive boulder that had formed the golem's head rang out with a final thunderous sound.
Bandaisel, buried beneath the small mountain of rock, could no longer even be seen.
"Haa... huff..."
Lena, who had wielded immense magic, collapsed in place and gasped for breath.
Despite the biting cold, her entire body was drenched as if she had been caught in the rain.
And Cordelia leaped up from her spot. She cheered as she looked at the white ring floating near her chest.
"Got him! Yahoo!"
Having shouted cheerfully, she ran pitter-patter toward where Lena had collapsed.
"We got him! We got him, Lena!"
She was fresh, cheerful, and lovely.
Because of that, Lena unknowingly smiled, and Cordelia threw her arms around Lena.
"I'm so happy! Lena, you're the best!"
Lena was slightly flustered by the overly friendly attitude, but she soon hugged Cordelia back.
She had no way of knowing why this girl liked her so much, but either way, thanks to her, they had overcome a major crisis.
"Cordelia."
"Yuder!"
At Yuder's call, Cordelia leaped up again and threw her arms around Yuder. She seemed about to burst into giggles, but then suddenly glared at him and spoke.
"You were seriously bad. You're like an actual demon. How can you be this wicked?"
"And you like that?"
"Yeah!"
Cordelia, who answered immediately, showed a bright smile again.
And Lena, who had been watching that sight, let out a faint smile.
They hadn't known each other long, but they were an adorable couple who made you smile just by looking at them.
'Yes, everything worked out.'
Not only had they closed the Hell Gate, but they had also swept away the hundred or so monsters that had already emerged.
On top of that, they had even brought down Bandaisel, a demon with an epithet.
So it was enough.
It was sufficient.
The two of them had saved the world.
No, it had to be that way.
Lena, who had deliberately turned away from the completely collapsed Endymion and the half-destroyed Bladebeak Canyon, looked at Yuder and Cordelia again.
Looking at the fantasy—no, to some, clearly maddening—couple, she smiled once more.
* * *
And that same evening.
At the outskirts of the ruins once called Endymion.
Lena's words became prophecy.
"Uh... so you said... problem solved?"
"Yes, it's problem solved. Since Endymion has disappeared, demons will never appear in Endymion again!"
Before the bright and lovely smile, the Fairy Queen could no longer hold out.
With an elegant smile on her face, she clutched the back of her neck and collapsed.