Side: Ludia
“Hmph, to think you’d abandon your comrades and run. It seems your skills lie only in your words,” Evil God Abaricia spat out as he watched Yamato and the others ascend into the sky.
“Well, how can you be so sure?”
“You two are pitiful, aren’t you? You must never have imagined you’d be abandoned here.”
“Are you stupid? Yamato would never abandon us, that’s impossible!”
“Indeed.”
“Even if you are a god, you can’t possibly understand human emotions, can you?”
“Ho… I thought only that brat was too talkative, but it seems you too have exceeded your bounds. Then from you… no, you were just saying that brat wouldn’t abandon you. Then, rather than simply killing you, it seems more interesting to capture you and behead you before his eyes.”
His thoughts are truly villainous.
I can’t believe such a being is a god.
Well, since he’s an evil god, maybe this is normal?
Anyway, I’ll defeat him here, so it doesn’t matter.
“If you think you can. Flam, Ludia, let’s go!”
“Yes!”
“Okay!”
With Mana’s words as our cue, we fly freely through the sky.
Since we can’t afford to get too close carelessly, I’ll first fire off my Unique Magic, Red Light Blaster, and then follow up with Red Light Breath!
Guh! I can’t cancel out these light spheres, can I!
I can shatter them with Assault Blazer, but this is a single-shot Unique Magic and repeating it would be difficult, so I can only use it at crucial moments!
Good thing I made it usable from any of my limbs!
“Take this!”
Mana is also deflecting the light spheres with Diamond Rainbow Dust, but she’s not quite able to nullify them.
Since he mentioned capturing us, I suspect he’s holding back, but even so, not being able to nullify them means this is truly dangerous.
“Mana!”
Flam’s Tidal Disaster has been nullified, but it seems to be difficult even with his Flare Light Arrow, so we should prioritize evasion.
But that last one was close.
If he hadn’t used Flare Light Arrow, even if it wasn’t a direct hit, Mana’s arm might have been blown off.
“Thank you, Flam!”
Now Mana is unleashing Thousand Stream, but she’s clearly not at her best without her summoned beasts.
However, if the summoned beasts were here, they would likely be the first to be taken down, or perhaps they would have been too scared to fight, which might have been even more dangerous.
I didn’t anticipate this situation, but I’m still glad I didn’t bring them.
“You’re quite capable. However, don’t think you can keep dodging forever. For us, as long as you don’t die, that’s all that matters. I’ll go easy on you, but increasing the number of attacks is easy, you know?”
Abaricia’s leering, smirking face makes me furious.
But as he says, the density of his attacks is increasing, and it’s impossible to keep dodging forever.
“Take this!”
I no longer have the luxury to attack Abaricia, and I re-equip Assault Blazer each time to shatter the light spheres.
However, my stamina and magic power are draining, and the accuracy of Assault Blazer is also declining.
Though I only glanced, Mana and Flam seem to be in the same predicament.
Flam is at a greater distance than us and seems to be evading, but Mana is at a similar distance and, lacking her summoned beasts, her offensive power is inferior to mine.
Still, her ability to handle the situation is impressive.
“Ludia! Right!”
“Huh? Whoa!!”
Perhaps due to overusing Assault Blazer, my concentration faltered for a moment, and a light sphere struck my right arm directly.
It was fortunate that only my right arm was affected since it was a direct hit, but my right arm was lost to the light sphere, and now more and more light spheres are converging on me.
“Ludia!!”
“This…! I won’t let you do this!!”
I successfully managed to deflect them all by coating my remaining left arm and legs with Assault Blazer, but I’m at my limit…
“To endure this even after losing your right arm is commendable. But you must be at your limit, right? You seem like a good candidate to capture first… huh?”
However, Abaricia, who was fully intending to capture me, suddenly changed his demeanor.
He seemed to have sensed something and turned his gaze to the sky. Did we buy ourselves some time?
“What is this magic power? Don’t tell me… it’s the brats!?”
“That’s why I told you, wasn’t it? It’s impossible for Yamato and the others to run away.”
“We stayed behind to create an opening for you to unleash a blow that will definitely defeat you!”
“The magic Yamato and the others are about to release will absolutely work, even against you. It’s a god-slaying blow!”
Whether he believed our words or not, I don’t know.
But Abaricia no longer seems to be paying attention to us.
As proof, one of the five-headed dragon’s heads unleashed a breath far more powerful than the first one.
However, Mina is going with me to defend against that breathless.
If we can just block that, Yamato and the others’ magic will surely pierce Abaricia.
Believing this, we descended onto the rooftop of a nearby building.
Side: Yamato
“Athena!”
“Yeah!”
We stopped ascending at an altitude of about 300 meters and prompted Athena to fully transform into her dragon form.
In a few seconds, Athena became a Shining Crystal Dragonian, with Mako riding on her back.
Prim and I readied our weapons in front of Athena, and further ahead, Mina assumed a shield stance, deploying Wide Mirror Shield at maximum output.
“Mana and the others are handling Abaricia’s attacks well, but with us gone, the density of his attacks has increased, so they won’t last long.”
“Understood, all at once!”
Mako is keeping an eye on Mana and the others, but it’s understandable that with five people gone, the attacks will concentrate on the remaining three, making it tough to manage.
Naturally, I have no intention of wasting any more time. With all my power, I’ll unleash this Layered Magic, Dragon Resonance Magic, or perhaps Dragon Layered Magic!
“Let’s go!”
Mako, the starting point, deployed the Dian Kecht rune in front of Athena.
Athena spat a Magma Light Breath towards the rune, and I, shrouded in Wing Burst and Feather Ring Light, superimposed the Maha Jarg rune to protect the rune.
At that moment, the five-headed dragon’s breath was fired towards us, but Mina’s Wide Mirror Shield intercepted it head-on.
Mina’s Wide Mirror Shield, imbued with all her strength, reflected some of the breath, which then pierced the city of Arrogancia.
The first shot of breath stopped there, but surprisingly, a second shot was immediately fired.
“Still… I won’t give up!!”
Mina braced herself once more with Wide Mirror Shield, but perhaps due to the recoil from fully defending against the previous breath, the shield’s integrity was weakening.
At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before it’s broken through.
However, the Wide Mirror Shield wasn’t broken from the outside, but from the inside.
“Mako! Please take care of Mina!”
“I know!”
The reason Wide Mirror Shield broke was because Prim and I, back-to-back, spun spirally after receiving the Magma Light Breath imbued with the Maha Jarg and Dian Kecht runes, and charged into the five-headed dragon’s breath.
The five-headed dragon’s breath is indeed powerful, but it cannot match the Magma Light Breath layered with the Maha Jarg and Dian Kecht layering techniques.
Rending that breath, Prim and I charged towards Abaricia.
When I glanced at Mina, it seemed Mako had guided her to Athena’s back with Telekinetic Magic, so I felt relieved.
“Wh-what are you doing!!”
“This is our ultimate, most powerful attack! If you regret anything, regret yourself for fighting us with a playful attitude, calling it an extra!”
“Nothing can pierce this blow! Not even a god!”
From the Magma Light Breath, Dian Kecht was released, and Mako and Athena manipulated it freely, focusing it on Abaricia and severing all five of the dragon’s heads.
Simultaneously, Maha Jarg gathered into Prim’s Crimson Wing, forming a giant lance that enveloped me and Prim. Then, with the overlap of white flames, it transformed into a long, fiery crimson spear, continuously rotating spirally around us.
And as Abaricia was caught off guard by losing all five of his heads at once, defenseless, that spear Dragon Layered Magic, Holy Wing, and Brunnhilde pierced his heart without missing.
“Im-impossible… I, a god… defeated… by mere… mortals…!?”
“You were arrogant and started this fight playfully, that’s why you lost.”
“He’s right.”
Abaricia, on the verge of death, suddenly heard a male voice.
“It’s fine to deem your own world a failure. But you thinking of dragging our world down with yours is unforgivable. As per the judgment from above, you will disappear along with your world.”
“I… was… abandoned…? I, the superior… god!!”
From the conversation, I could tell the voice belonged to another god.
He is likely the creator god of the Helios Orb, revered as the Father God.
“A superior god wouldn’t try to drag other worlds down with them. Nor would they give up on their own world before that.”
“How dare you…! Don’t lecture me!!”
“I have nothing more to say to you. As the judgment has been passed, you shall vanish.”
“I… will… eventually… become… a… being…!”
Mid-sentence, Abaricia vanished into ash, along with the five-headed dragon.
His last words were likely his ambition, but due to that ambition, he couldn’t accept his failure and, consequently, destroyed himself.
So, Abaricia was on the verge of destroying his own world.
And he envied the Father God, intending to drag the world of Helios Orb, created by the Father God, down with him.
I don’t know what his relationship with the Father God was, but inferring from Abaricia’s words, he must have looked down on the Father God.
As a result, he was defeated by guests like me and Mako, and residents of Helios Orb like Prim and Athena, and received the judgment of annihilation.
It’s pathetic, but the end for arrogant and selfish beings is the same, whether they are human or god.
“Thank you. With this, the Helios Orb is stabilized, and its destruction has been averted. Once you depart, the Gradia Continent will return to its original world, and the Rival Continent and Erev Continent, the original continents of the Helios Orb, will be revived. However, time has been stopped for these two continents for the past 200 years. I would be happy if you could help them develop.”
As Mako predicted, the Gradia Continent was indeed a continent from another world.
Moreover, it had pushed aside the Rival Continent and Erev Continent, the original continents of the Helios Orb, which was beyond my expectations.
And the fact that time had stopped there likely means the gods were protecting those two continents as well.
With two continents in addition to the Heavenly Tree, it’s no wonder they couldn’t move.
“Once we have some leeway, we’ll do our best.”
“That’s good. Of course, we’ll start with your surroundings. Ah, and the seal on the Heavenly Tree Labyrinth will also be lifted, so if possible, I’d like you to conquer it. I also have something to tell you if you do.”
“Understood. It will likely take time, but we’ll try.”
“Yes. Then, please be careful.”
I still had more questions, but since there were no more answers, I supposed he had already departed from this place.
“It’s over.”
“Yes, this series of conflicts involving our guests has finally come to a close.”
Regardless of Abaricia’s objectives, it all began when the Divine Emperor was transferred to the Gradia Continent.
The Divine Emperor forcefully ruled the Gradia Continent and extended his reach to the Philia Continent.
As a result, the Solemn Empire, harboring ambitions, went rogue, leading to the birth of the Retysentia Empire, Libertarian Federation, and Valentia Union Kingdom, stabilizing yet unsettling the situation on the Philia Continent.
However, that Philia Continent was also unified under the name Amister-Philias Federation Celestial Empire. Today, by defeating the Divine Emperor, the root of all problems, and Evil God Abaricia, the Helios Orb has finally been liberated.
In this world, I will continue to live.
Along with Prim, who is by my side, and my beloved family.
Now, let’s go home.
To the Philia Continent, where my family awaits.
