chapter 46
46 – #046 We’ll be together forever
Park Ha-young was cursed with petrification.
Although the process was slightly different from what she initially planned, she at least came to the conclusion of ‘sealing the hero’.
“Ha ha ha…”
“Aagh!!”
After catching her breath for a while, Park Ha-young began to thump in earnest.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa…!!”
“Wow, this is how it works.”
I got a little goosebumps watching the area around my heart slowly turn to stone.
“Does it really turn into a rock? The whole body of the hero?”
“Ugh, ugh, ah…”
Park Ha-young’s breathing gradually began to quicken.
She’s like someone with damaged lungs and struggling to breathe… Or really.
The moment it stabbed the heart, the spear blade of the demon pierced the chest along with the heart.
The lungs attached to the heart are also slowly being eroded by the curse of petrification.
“Still, petrification takes place more soundly than I thought. I thought only the blood in the whole body turned into stone.”
From the outside, it looks like a regular mannequin, but I thought the blood vessels throughout the body would turn into a stone, or I thought that would turn into a stone, but I thought it would turn into a stone, but I guess that’s not the case.
Blaze, blasphemy.
Her body is turning to stone.
It is slowly turning into stone starting from the part stabbed by the demonic spear.
The speed was such that the middle part of a very thick cloth was soaked in water and spread through the water when gently sprayed, but it is clear that the water will eventually soak the entire cloth over time.
“Have you ever been to Europe? Later, when I go to places like Florence Cathedral in Europe, I will make sure to compare them. I wonder if the marble statues sculpted by Da Vinci are more realistic, or if you place them next to the statues of Da Vinci that are starting to turn to stone. Wouldn’t it be okay?”
The name is probably ‘The End of the Witch’.
“Retrieving the demonic spear failed, but it doesn’t matter since this is enough for the money. After that, I’m satisfied. A 1:1 exchange is enough.”
The demonic energy remaining in the demonic spear is slowly decreasing.
It’s not completely gone, but I’m a little worried because I don’t know how much demonia will remain in the barding, the only remaining weapon.
“I, release me…”
Great.
While he was about to say something, the curse instantly wrapped around Park Ha-young’s whole body.
I wondered how to hold on and hold on, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a lump of rock.
“…….”
Leaning on the giant’s finger, reaching out toward me, pierced by a demonic spear, suffering with a distorted face.
It’s scary to meet a corpse in this state, but what’s even more terrifying is that this statue is now ‘alive’.
Square, square, square.
I can still hear something gnawing outside.
It is probably the sound of the corpse bugs that are still alive, and it must be that they are struggling to somehow carry out the mission given to them with pheromones: ‘Liberate Park Ha-young’.
However, the giant’s hand was so tight that no corpse insect could pass through it.
As I was trying to breathe, the giant grabbed his hand so hard that even breathing in the confined space was quick.
“…….”
I can’t get out.
If you physically break the giant’s hand and leave, the corpse insects that were right outside will come inside.
Then, the corpse bugs will try to pull out the demon spear no matter what.
Then he will try to find a way to break the curse of petrification.
But if enough time has passed.
If 10 years pass and 100 years pass, with the curse of petrification intact and the giant’s hand still unopened.
‘If all the bugs forget about breeding and try to find a queen, they will no longer be able to find a queen.’
Corpse bugs are over.
Forgetting even the ‘act of breeding’, which is what insects do from birth to death, she will bite off the giant’s hand for the rest of her life, thinking only of the order to free the queen from this giant’s hand.
Even if it turns into stone.
The ‘goddess titan’, an existence whose body is still protected by divine power.
‘I don’t know what state it’s in if I stay inside.’
I can’t stay here forever.
So we have to escape from here.
Not in the direction of destroying the giant’s hand.
“…Should succeed.”
By using magic power to escape.
‘Will it work? It will be If it doesn’t work, I really have to deal with the woman’s situation again.’
Physically, the only way to escape is to break the giant’s hand.
Then you have to deal with the corpse bugs again to save Park Ha-young.
“Please.”
I took out the scroll from my chest.
‘I believe, saintess. If you betray me, you will die, Titania.’
It’s not particularly trustworthy, but if he was afraid of me, he would have followed my instructions.
“…[Transition].”
Jjijik.
Torn the scroll containing divine power.
I even jumped in place while tearing up the scroll as carefully as I could, fearing that I might give Park Ha-young a buff or injure the giant’s body.
Pa-Ah!
My body shimmered for a moment and the moment I closed my eyes, I felt my body suddenly go down.
“Hello?”
“…Hey!!”
My body was free-falling downward, and Titania, perched on a branch, waved her hand at me.
Koo-woong!
I was slammed to the floor.
Thanks to the divine power, it didn’t hurt enough to die, but it felt like phantom pain, so my head was dizzy.
“…You.”
“They told me to come forward if necessary, but there was nothing to do.”
Titania came down from the branch and landed on top of me.
“And when do you kill all those things? I can’t do that. That kind of thing.”
“…….”
Grabbing Titania and putting it aside, he raised himself up to see at a glance the corpse worms clinging to the body of the giant crouching at the bottom of the cliff.
“Wow…”
“It’s terrible, really.”
“It reminds me of when I fought the Demon King.”
The body of a giant of several tens of meters is covered with so many corpse bugs that I wonder if I add a little bit of exaggeration to the size of a billion units.
Square, square, square, square.
Like scratching a fingernail against a stone wall, the corpse bugs try to bite the giant and make a wound.
In particular, most of the corpse bugs were concentrated in Park Ha-young’s sealed hand.
“It looks like it’s infested with cockroaches.”
“Could cockroaches be able to overthrow the country if they boil to that extent? They will soon perish and die.”
Jjijik.
The sound of something being crushed and exploding reverberates everywhere.
It’s hard to see because there are so many corpse bugs, but the insects are the same entity, and once they hit the head and block it, they move forward, biting with their mouths.
Corpse worms crush and crush each other, scooping out the corpses of their comrades and moving forward toward the giant’s hand.
“I roughly expected it from inside, but I didn’t know it would turn out like that.”
“You expected it?”
“Yeah. I thought it would be like that. Among the magic the devil used, there was something similar to that. It was an illusion magic.”
Just thinking about it is terrifying.
“Summoning something unknown whether it was a ghost or something and making it bite people, they stuck together, were crushed and exploded, and just like that. Just thinking about it was truly horrifying.”
A sight that I really do not want to think about again is unfolding before my eyes.
“Titania. I hope you can help me with one.”
“What can I do to help?”
“Can you summon the fire spirit?”
“Fire? Burn it all up?”
“It should be incinerated. All those corpse bugs.”
“Um…Then how about doing it like this?”
Titania held out her hand to me.
“You make a contract with the fire spirit and then summon it. And then burn it all up with it.”
“I’m not an elemental mage?”
“I’m the fairy king, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to support you that much.”
Titania shrugged her head.
“Promise me instead. It wasn’t the entire Fairy Tribe that fought for the Demon King Army, it was the individual deviation of the Fairy Queen.”
“That’s something the Goddess Church has to decide, not me.”
“It’s a position where you can control the Goddess Church.”
“Okay.”
I held out my hand to Titania, and Titania climbed right on top of mine and blew a small breath.
Wi-ing.
I thought red sparks flew on my hand, and soon something like a butterfly of flame began to rise above my hand.
“Is this the end?”
“Uh.”
“How can I do it?”
“You just have to give instructions. It’s a temporary contract, and the strength of the flame will change depending on the power you have.”
“I don’t want that much.”
Hwareuk.
I took a small ember from the flame spirit and lit a branch on fire.
“Can you use that to set the giant’s body on fire?”
“Uh. It’s okay.”
“Aren’t you insulting the deceased?”
“It is Park Ha-young who humiliates the deceased, not me.”
I grabbed the torch and closed my eyes.
“We’ve already had one funeral before, but we’re going to have another funeral. Brother.”
If the previous funeral was a funeral for the soul.
It is a cremation for a giant whose body is left without a soul now.
“And this is right.”
That older brother is a Buddhist.
“…The lights go on.”
Hwareuk.
I threw a ember at the giant’s body, teeming with corpse bugs.
Hurry up.
The small embers began to spread around, soaking up the body oil of the corpse bug.
Hwareuk, Hwareuk.
The corpse insect caught on fire set fire to the side again, and the body of the dead corpse insect caught fire as well, and the fire gradually began to spread throughout the giant’s body.
Turn it off.
The giant let out a groan of pain, no, as if he was delighted with something.
Smile.
That must have been my misunderstanding.
The one with the distorted face and smiley mouth.
Kung.
His spine collapsed, and the giant hit his head on the floor.
His two hands, tightly wrapped around his chest.
In the flames.
From within the giant’s hand, the demonic energy did not come out at all.