Episode 183 Hades and the Scarlet King
The rampaging Scarlet King boasts immense magical power and intimidates those around him just by existing. He is the embodiment of the word overwhelming power.
Serua and Sink, who had just arrived, lay on the ground and just endured, while Gladio, unable to move, also suffered from the pressure.
“By any chance, is that the Scarlet King?!”
Selua felt overwhelmed by the presence that far exceeded her expectations.
My limbs tremble at the thought of having to defeat that thing. My heart was screaming that I had to run away right away.
Sink remembered his role as a knight and stood in front of Serua.
The wounds he sustained in the battle with Gladio have not healed, and his magical power has not recovered. He may not be able to fight properly, but he still came this far to fight, so he can't run away.
"Sink, let's run away for once."
"But...I won't let you escape."
What Sink turned his attention to was a huge tree dragon, Cursed Blood Tree Forbidden Dragon Leyline Apophus. The gigantic Scarlet King's familiar was glaring at him, and there was no way he could escape.
And the blood magic of the Scarlet King Sherry is encroaching on the sea of trees, and there are no places left to escape. It's only a matter of time before the entire Sea of Trees becomes the Scarlet King's domain.
If this continues, death is certain.
When I thought that, all the sense of intimidation suddenly disappeared.
“I thought magical power suddenly erupted, but this is it?”
What appeared from the sky was the king of the underworld, shrouded in pitch black.
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Time goes back a little.
Shuu, who was entrusted with Selua and Sink from High Rain, was searching for Iris while flying. However, at this point, Iris has been blown to the southwestern tip of the continent. To be honest, Shu was confused because he couldn't feel any magical power at all.
"Where did he go?"
If the magical power disappears, it means death.
However, Iris is immortal, so this is impossible. If that happens, the next possibility is that it has gone beyond Shu's detection.
So I tried to touch the necklace to communicate with Iris, but just in time I received a message from Iris. Shu touches the necklace and starts a call. Then, a translucent display appeared in the air, and Iris' face was reflected on it.
“Iris?”
“Ah, Shu-san.”
"Where are you now?"
``It's probably near Fairyland.'' It was teleported away. It was the Immortal King's domain, so we are moving there for now.''
"Just be careful. The Immortal King has been confirmed to have disappeared, but that doesn't mean he's dead."
``It's okay because I'll just go back to Fairyland!'' ”
"I see..."
"I'll wait for Shuu-san to come back."
"Understood"
When I answered that, the great tree began to collapse. At the same time, heavy and deep magical power is released. The collapse of the Great Tree signifies the release of the seal, which means the return of the Scarlet King.
Even from Shu's position, he could see the huge body of his vassal, Cursed Blood Tree Forbidden Dragon Leyline Apophus.
"The Scarlet King has revived here as well. I'll go back after cleaning up some problems. I've mastered teleportation, so I should be able to go home soon."
“I understand.”
"Oh, and-"
I was about to tell you not to move in that direction because you have no sense of direction, but the communication magic was cut off. It must have been cut from the iris side.
"...I'll tell Alerianne to come pick me up."
Iris is a woman who moves even when I tell her not to. She has no sense of direction and moves on her own, somehow believing that she's okay. She also said that there would be no point in advising her in correspondence.
After settling down for a while, Shu headed to the Hiou.
Furthermore, she was later found lost in the southwest sea by the sea fairy mermaids of Fairyland, but that is another story.
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At the same time, the continent of Surada was in danger of extinction.
In the east, the Scarlet King was born and destroyed many cities with his fierce hatred and blood magic. However, an awakened magician turned his body into a seal and overcame the crisis.
On the other hand, in the west, the Hades and the Helllords went on rampage, and a nation with great military power was destroyed.
The ``King'' monster with such a circuitous connection had an encounter.
"I see. Is that the Scarlet King?"
By erasing the blood magic with death magic and absorbing the magical power, the surrounding pressure disappeared.
Serua, Sink, and Gladio, who seemed to be out of breath, were sweating profusely and feeling relieved, probably because they were finally freed.
"You...you're bothering me too!"
“I’m sorry but I have to let you get in the way.”
In response to the Scarlet King's anger, the Cursed Blood Tree Forbidden Dragon Leyline Apophus roars. Then, she powerfully twisted her huge body and attacked Shu. However, Shu immediately releases her death magic and causes the Cursed Blood Tree Forbidden Dragon Leyline Apophus to rot away.
Even the Cursed Blood Tree Forbidden Dragon Leyline Apophus, who had the ability to absorb magical power, was unable to deal with the demonic power of death, and turned into ash and scattered.
Additionally, Shu tried to steal the Hiou's magical power using death magic.
"Oh! This much!"
However, the Scarlet King used blood magic to turn the surrounding plants into his followers and attacked Shu. The trees run wild like living creatures, trying to pierce you with their sharp branches and roots.
At this point, Shu immediately activates the teleportation magic he obtained.
Space magic is time magic. Instead of jumping through space, you move in three dimensions. However, it jumps through time. A move that would normally have taken several seconds was completed in an instant.
Shu appeared behind the Scarlet King and tried to pierce his heart with his right arm wrapped in death magic.
However, a plant controlled by blood magic intervenes and dies in its place. As a counterattack, tree branches approached like whips. Shu looked like he would be blown away by it, but he evaded it with teleportation again.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
"Tsk...that's troublesome."
"Die. Disappear. Get out of my presence!"
Sherry the Scarlet King is ruled by madness and sadness.
The disappearance of her lover, who had even turned into a monster and was revived, was engraved within her as a deep anger. She, no, she was being swayed by her emotions, which she didn't know if it could be described as anger.
Living creatures called humans think with their souls, but it is the body that receives those thoughts. The body expresses emotions by secreting various chemicals. In other words, the expression of emotion is restricted accordingly. Even anger that surpasses the fires of hell cannot be expressed if the chemical reactions that express emotions disappear. This was a stopper in a sense.
However, the Scarlet King is a monster that creates a magical entity using only its soul. Furthermore, unlike ordinary monsters, he has a strong identity of being originally human. When he feels the same emotions as other people, those emotions come out much more strongly than when he was a person.
Even she can no longer control her emotions.
I can't come back alone.
She had gone crazy at the end of the seal.
The runaway blood magic erodes the earth and swallows the sea of trees. The earth, which was given the life of blood, became a follower of the Scarlet King Sherry and began attacking Shu.
"This...! It tastes really bad!"
Even though death magic continues to take away lives, plants attack one after another. Not only that, but an earthen spear with a conspicuous vein-like pattern shoots out from the ground and tries to pierce Shu. Its attack density is reminiscent of rain, and evasion is not an option.
Shu grabbed the fragments of the earth spear that had been shattered by killing him with death magic, and immediately assembled a three-dimensional magic circle. The name of the familiar magic is ``Gluttony Black Crystal Belze Material''.
It's a divine curse magic that explodes annihilation energy due to antimatter.
Normally, it would be fired with acceleration magic, but if you do so in a place like this where the attack density is high, it might explode at close range. So, he set up a teleportation magic and threw the Gluttony Black Crystal Belze Material directly at the Scarlet King's feet.
The Scarlet King is covered with a magical barrier so dense that it is dyed black. However, it is smaller than the original magic barrier. Since I have something to rely on from High Rain, I can't afford to cause more damage.
“How about this?”
There is probably an amount of heat generated inside that is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of nuclear weapons. This is the amazing thing about magic; it can activate physical phenomena under ideal conditions. If you create a magic formula properly, the results will be as expected.
There is no living thing that can survive a direct hit from Gluttony Black Crystal Belze Material.
As a finishing touch, Shu used death magic to kill off all the internal energy. He feels a considerable amount of magical power building up within him, but it is too little for him to have killed the King.
In other words, it showed that the Scarlet King was still alive.
“Did you protect it with blood magic after all?”
"Break, break, break. Everything, break, die, perish!"
"That's not normal anymore."
Perhaps he wasn't able to control his emotions, and he became more and more out of control.
It seems that his ego is already collapsing. However, in response to his emotions, his blood magic was also going out of control, and the situation was out of control. Blood magic is once again eroding the earth and even creating new plants. Perhaps his affinity was born while he was sealed, and his fighting style was not typical of an immortal.
Shu deploys the three-dimensional magic circle again.
"The two from earlier also ran away...or rather, they ran away. That's perfect."
There are three types of techniques: micro-scale magic barrier, acceleration, and weighting. It was ``Rain of Light'', a divine curse-class magic that rained down a heavy and fast magic barrier from the sky.
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Before they knew it, Serua and Sink were far away from the sea of trees. Even though it's far away, it's still within the range where the Sea of Sealed Trees looks small.
It was right at the spot where countless lights were trailing down from the sky.
“Where is this?”
However, there is no way that she would know such location information, and Serua has doubts in her mind.
Then the answer came from behind me.
"It's a little far from the sea of trees."
Serua was the first to react to that familiar voice. He quickly turns around to see who it is.
As I expected, Enji was there.
She thought Gladio had killed her, but she was still alive. That's a good thing. And beside her was Gladio, who had passed out. He was bleeding a lot of blood from his abdomen, and Enji was tending to it.
"I see you're safe."
"Somehow. I had to run away, but I survived. After all, he's a big deal. He beat me after training for a hundred years or so."
"Then, as expected..."
"It must have been his own belief. Only his secret feelings are real. No matter how he does it."
That was something Serua could understand.
When I fought Gladio, I felt like he wasn't really trying to finish me off. He was just asking a question to Sink, who he could have killed if he wanted to. Looking back now, I think it was as if I was confirming something.
"Besides, Enji-sama, what happened to us?"
"Ah, that's right. I used magic to get you all out. From there."
Where Enji pointed his finger, countless lights were falling like rain.
It is reminiscent of the light that destroyed Adibara, and it is about to destroy all the plants in the sea of trees. If I had been there, I wouldn't have survived.
"It's a battle between monsters and monsters. I never thought the legendary Scarlet King would go this far."
"Really... can I really defeat it?"
"Well, I'm starting to lose confidence as well. I'm also concerned about the monster that's fighting the Scarlet King."
Enji's doubts are reasonable.
The rampaging Scarlet King is a disaster in itself, and it's difficult to even get close to it. I was very curious as to who was fighting against such disasters with disasters.
However, the answer comes from an unexpected source.
"...That's Hades."
It was Gladio who woke up.
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