Chapter 94
Chapter 94
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 94
Chapter Title: The One Way to Take It Down
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Krash's clash with Agareth was unfolding at that very moment.
In the magic circle dedicated to Sephira within the Demonic Realm, a single figure materialized.
Her hair tousled, she let out a small sigh the instant she appeared.
'Am I going to get disciplined for this?'
Her name was Mirvis.
She was a Rank 3 officer of Sephira.
The reason she'd come here today was none other than a request from her master, Crimson Garden.
To her, Crimson Garden was a benefactor.
Back in her slum days, right before she was sold into slavery, it was Crimson Garden who had saved and cared for her.
So if she asked for something, Mirvis would do anything.
Still, with a high chance of facing discipline over this, a bitter smile tugged at her lips.
No, it might not just be discipline—if suspicion arose, she could end up packing her bags and leaving Sephira altogether.
They'd demand to know how she'd heard about Krash fighting in the Demonic Realm, where most magic was distorted.
There was nothing she could do about that.
She'd have to bluff with the best excuse she'd prepared.
'Lady Crimson Garden begged me so earnestly.'
She could have brought it up when the Azure Sea Knights were due to arrive, but Crimson Garden had apologized profusely and urged her to hurry.
Since it was her request, even Sephira duties came second—Mirvis moved without hesitation.
The place she headed to was none other than the tent where Sephira's princess, Seirang Sephira, resided.
Upon her arrival, a figure sensing her presence poked his head out.
"What is it?"
It was none other than Blavi of the Heavenly Nine Constellations.
Born under the Heavenly Death Star, he served as Seirang Sephira's guard.
Until recently, Mirvis had simply thought of him as Sephira's new bodyguard.
Who would have imagined the long-retired Heavenly Nine appearing so youthful again?
Even Mirvis wouldn't have known if not for Crimson Garden.
"I have an urgent message for Lady Seirang."
Blavi glanced at the Sephira rank emblazoned on her chest before stepping aside without protest.
He judged that a Rank 3 officer wouldn't waste time on nonsense.
As Mirvis entered the tent, she spotted Seirang seated leisurely with a book in hand.
She wondered how she could read with a veil covering her face.
Her long fingers turned the page, and she soon looked up.
The moment she saw Mirvis, her pink lips curved upward beneath the veil.
"Nice to meet you, Mirvis. You must have business with this girl."
Hearing her name called, tension flickered across Mirvis's face.
In Sephira's long history...
Only one bloodline in the world could rise to Rank 1 officer.
The astrologer family that divined through the stars—Sephira's own lineage.
Through these astrologers, Sephira had foreseen and countered the World Erosion first.
To respond more efficiently, they gathered talents from various nations with their support.
The result was Sephira's current form as the premier investigative body on World Erosion.
Seirang Sephira was the sole direct descendant of that illustrious Sephira family.
She wasn't called Sephira's princess for nothing.
"Did you know I was coming?"
"The stars don't reveal everything. But when it concerns Sephira, this girl has no choice but to know."
A muffled "ufufu" laugh escaped from behind the veil.
That alone made Mirvis tense up again.
She seemed to know everything for some reason—even that Mirvis was Crimson Garden's servant.
Before Seirang's eerie, mystical aura, she finally parted her lips.
"Since you knew I'd come, I'll get straight to it. There's trouble with the Valheim group inside the Demonic Realm."
"Oh? Trouble for the Valheim folks?"
"Yes. An 8-star Erosion Beast, Agareth, has appeared."
Seirang fell silent at the news.
From her reaction, had she already divined it?
As Mirvis awaited a reply, Seirang slowly tapped her desk with her index finger.
Mirvis grew tense, but Seirang's eyelashes twitched faintly.
And for good reason—she'd been divining the Valheim Knights nonstop since arriving in the Demonic Realm.
'No matter what I try, nothing comes into view.'
That had been her lingering question.
Sephira's astrologers constantly divined the stability of World Erosion in forbidden zones.
Yet for the past few weeks, the Demonic Realm's divinations had grown hazy, impossible to read clearly.
Learning of this, she'd wondered what was wrong and left Sephira to investigate personally.
Then, right on cue, turmoil erupted in the Demonic Realm, and she'd urgently requested aid from the Valheims.
She'd thought the unrest was clouding the visions.
But Agareth appearing?
It could have led to the unprecedented crisis of an 8-star reaching the walls because the divination failed.
'But an 8-star Erosion Beast causing the divinations to vanish is odd too.'
Agareth's emergence was undoubtedly an emergency.
But asking if it alone blocked the visions? She'd have to tilt her head.
World Erosion was full of variables, and 8-stars rampaging wasn't unheard of.
Each time, Sephira divined and requested aid from the families accordingly.
But not this time—the visions simply didn't appear.
In that moment, a certain boy flashed in Seirang's mind.
One of the Valheim Knights, wielding three skills.
The bold youth who had even asked Blavi for the Heavenly Death Star.
'Could it be...'
She'd felt an inexplicable pull toward him.
She disliked prying into personal fates and hadn't divined him.
But now, she felt an intense urge to know about that boy.
A orb invisible to others appeared in Seirang's hand.
Her eyelids lifted, and her eyes quietly scanned the galaxy-like swirl within.
Soon, her body stiffened rigidly.
'Nothing.'
Anything related to that boy was invisible in divination.
She realized belatedly.
The reason the Demonic Realm's divinations failed was because that boy was coming here.
'What in the world...'
Her face twisted in bewilderment.
He was a boy whose prophetic words mimicked her own divinations.
How flustered she'd been by his remarks.
Now, even divinations about him were blocked.
Flustered turned to stunned daze.
What was this boy that even divinations couldn't touch him?
'This has only happened once before.'
Seirang's gaze drifted skyward, beyond the tent's ceiling.
The divination she'd cast on a god out of impudent curiosity about divine thoughts.
Back then, she'd seen nothing at all.
That was why she'd first taken interest in the boy.
The unwritten rule of the gods.
Everyone except saints had exactly one skill.
He'd shattered that rule—what was he?
She sensed profound suspicion around him.
Some vast current swirled centered on that boy.
Then she realized she still hadn't answered Mirvis.
First things first—deal with this crisis, boy or no boy.
"...Understood. We need to call for help right away. Not just Valheim—I'll reach out everywhere I can."
In World Erosion events, aiding any family was a noble's duty.
If she sent word as fast as possible, she could assemble rescuers within a day.
The response was swift.
But Seirang noticed Mirvis had more to say.
Her expression remained rigid.
"Mirvis, there's more, isn't there?"
She asked in her usual enigmatic style, as if reading minds.
A speech pattern befitting her unique astrologer position, instilling an air of mystery.
Seirang enjoyed using it.
"Yes. As you likely know, Lady Seirang, I'm also requesting aid from Lord Heavenly Nine."
Even Mirvis knew about Blavi.
She'd suspected a link to the boy.
At this rate, did the whole world know Blavi's identity?
"...Blavi is this girl's guard."
She spoke while struggling to keep her composure.
She wasn't used to being thrown off so often lately.
"Yes, I'm just relaying Lord Krad's request. He proposed a deal."
Sure enough, Mirvis had ties to the boy.
A deal again—what now? Dread filled her.
But she nodded as if to say "out with it," and Mirvis approached.
"Might I borrow your ear for a moment?"
"Go ahead."
Seirang offered her ear, and Mirvis whispered something.
Moments later, her body jolted, and she fell silent.
Beneath the veil, her face flushed crimson for some reason.
"Blavi!"
She called him urgently.
"Yes, milady."
"Can you head to the Demonic Realm right now and aid Valheim?"
Blavi blinked at the question.
Then his pitch-black eyes flicked toward Mirvis.
Before that gaze, Mirvis froze like a mouse facing a predator.
For a scholar like her, his pressure felt like death's doorstep.
In that instant, Seirang's hand shot up before Mirvis.
That alone dispelled Blavi's pressure.
"Blavi, this is a personal favor from this girl. Can you help?"
"I'm your guard, milady. I can't abandon my duty on a whim."
"It's fine. Something more important has come up than that duty."
Seirang rose and approached Blavi.
She spoke softly, out of Mirvis's earshot.
"Krad of the Azure Sea Knights—save him no matter what. He might be another shadow on this girl's path."
Hearing this, Blavi bowed his head.
"Understood. I'll go."
He opened the tent flap and strode out.
Watching his back, Seirang exhaled shortly.
"Mirvis, that's all, right?"
"Yes."
"Head to the Sephira tents and rest. Better to stay until it's resolved."
Mirvis bowed at her consideration and left the tent.
Gazing at the sunset sky, she pondered quietly.
What exactly was in the third drawer of her desk to elicit such a reaction from Seirang?
Boom!
Agareth's bone arm, now fully shed of its cloak and transformed, slammed the ground.
Its sheer size unleashed tremendous force.
The earth split, shockwaves like an earthquake erupting.
But compared to its true power, this was nothing.
Clad in dark armor, Agareth's attacks had no range limit.
Any shadowed area was its domain.
Moreover, the darkness brimmed with every curse imaginable.
Touch it, and you'd be devoured by maledictions.
That wasn't all.
The Lordship that grew stronger with every Erosion Beast corrupted by its darkness.
Lordship amplified Agareth's power endlessly.
But right now, Agareth couldn't fully tap into it.
Because Lordship's foundation was corrupting Erosion Beasts with darkness.
After Krash blinded its real eyes, Agareth lost darkness control.
It could no longer corrupt beasts that way.
Thus, as the Vanguard Knights culled them relentlessly...
Lordship's effects eroded without replenishment.
Which meant Agareth was weakening.
Yet even so...
Agareth was an 8-star Erosion Beast.
Its bony body, head aside and fully extruded, rose on two legs.
The colossal form, easily hundreds of meters tall, plunged onlookers into despair.
No wonder its upper body vanished into the Demonic Realm's thunderclouds.
Whoosh—
Torrents of black rain soaked the Vanguard Knights.
In that moment, its arm extended toward the ground.
The target: Krash.
Blinded by Krash, Agareth harbored the deepest grudge against him.
"Krash!"
"I know!"
Responding to Lilish's warning, Krash sprinted at full speed.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Agareth's arm repeatedly pounded where Krash had stood moments before.
A split-second delay, and he'd have been crushed.
Then the grounded arm cracked open.
From it burst human-sized bone arms.
Nearly thousands swarmed toward Krash.
Each brimming with viscous killing intent to melt flesh.
Sparks flew from Krash's forehead.
Sixth Sense fused with Lioner, unleashing Thunderclap to heighten reflexes and evade the bone tidal wave.
Boom!
An explosion erupted behind, felling another arm.
Lilish's Crushing Orbit Sword.
It briefly stalled Agareth's assault.
"Hoo!"
Seizing the gap, Krash regulated his breath and clenched his left fist.
In it was the darkness he'd seized from Agareth.
Lordship's curse included.
But to use it, he needed to reach the mantle around Agareth's neck up in the sky.
Obviously, climbing there was tough, and Agareth wouldn't allow it.
He needed another's help now.
"Sister Lilish, can you sever Agareth's legs?!"
"Its legs?"
Lilish, panting, heard Krash's shout.
"You've thought of a way to take it down?"
"Yes. If I can reach its neck."
Lilish looked up at Agareth.
Its upper body was obscured by clouds.
The Vanguard Knights' movements had slowed noticeably.
Their stamina was nearing its limit.
Hold out until One Sword arrives?
Even that was wishful thinking.
By the time, the Azure Sea Knights hadn't even reached the walls.
Holding until One Sword in this situation was near impossible.
Then gambling now, while some stamina remained, might be better.
"Got it."
Krash had risked everything to create this opening.
If not him, who to trust?
"Vanguard Knights! Target Agareth's left leg—now!"
And she'd take the right.
"Krash, give it everything you've got!"
Lilish shouted and charged, aiming for the leg.
Far thicker than the arms.
Constantly shifting as it pursued Krash.
Agareth was no stationary turret but a mobile beast.
Plus, Erosion Beast regeneration.
No wonder the arms Lilish shattered were slowly healing.
Even Lilish couldn't guarantee toppling such a leg amid attacks.
'But.'
Her much younger brother was fighting so hard.
Should the strongest among them whine here?
'I'll shatter it.'
Any thought of stalling vanished.
To repay her brother's best, they'd fell Agareth here.
Lilish Valheim.
The moment her eyes gleamed blue.