Book 1 Chapter 448
448.
The two great heroes and one hero who had gathered to subjugate the fragment of Erebus.
And six hero cadets charged towards Erebus.
Arion, at the very front, ran through the sky.
“He’s incredibly fast.”
Torua, riding on a staff, exclaimed in admiration.
Lunia, riding in front of Torua, said.
“Because it’s Arion! But why do I have to travel on Torua’s staff?”
“We can’t help it, can we? Your friend is moving with a junior from our school’s summoning department. And Lienya is flying with Ulta.”
“That’s not what I mean, I’m perfectly capable of… without Torua’s help…”
“You wouldn’t be able to keep up, would you? You’re a firepower idiot, specialized in firepower.”
“Firepower idiot?! I’m perfectly good at other magic too?”
“Yeah. But not as good as me, are you?”
“Ugh?”
Torua smiled faintly, looking at Lunia who was looking forward, clenching her fists, and showing an annoyed reaction, and then blew air into her ear.
“Hoo-!”
Lunia covered her ears, her face flushed crimson, and protested.
“W-what are you doing?”
“You seemed nervous.”
“I wasn’t!”
Torua giggled and said.
“It looks like you want to be helpful, but you just need to focus on attacking. Arion must have wanted that too, which is why he brought you into the party.”
“…Yes.”
She answered, looking at Leo, who was at the front of the party, with a slightly annoyed expression.
‘Can I still not stand by his side?’
Lunia knew it too.
The same went for Eiran and Eliza.
‘Excluding Leo, we, who are second-years, are still not enough to join this party.’
Even Torua, Ulta, and Lienya were not enough to accompany Arion and Melina.
However, the three graduates could at least support Arion and Melina.
The reason why Lunia, Eiran, and Eliza, who couldn't even provide support, were chosen by Arion was because of a single magic.
“You completed the Flame Emperor? That’s amazing! Luna would have been really happy if she knew this.”
During the training camp.
Arion was genuinely moved to hear Lunia say that she had completed the Star Magic, Flame Emperor.
Lunia was flustered, wondering if it was really something Arion needed to be so moved by.
“Isn’t the Flame Emperor magic that Luna created to counter Erebus’s flames?”
“That’s right.”
The incomplete magic, Flame Emperor, left by Luna.
Lunia had completed that magic, but in truth, she didn’t know much about the magic [Flame Emperor].
All she knew was that Leo had told her about the magic spell formula recorded in Luna’s grimoire, stored in the Shan Empire, and that it was a magic Luna had failed to complete during her lifetime.
Lunia also understood well what Luna meant by the unquenchable white flame she wanted to create.
“Didn’t she intend to defeat Erebus with this magic?”
Thinking that Luna had ultimately failed to achieve that goal, Lunia decided that she must complete this magic.
“Yes. But there was another, larger meaning.”
“What was it?”
“There were five spells Luna wanted to create with a special heart.”
At Arion’s words, Lunia and Eiran pricked up their ears.
No matter what anyone said, Luna was the progenitor of the Great Nebula, whom the elves most respected and loved.
So, when Luna’s story came from Arion, who was Luna’s colleague and friend, they couldn’t help but pay attention.
“One is a magic that makes flowers bloom. That magic contained everything of Luna, and Luna herself was most proud of it.”
“I know.”
“It’s the textbook of Star Magic.”
Lunia and Eiran both knew that fact well.
“The second is Stella Radius.”
“Ah…”
“The magic that defeated Zerdiak.”
“That magic is Luna herself. She created it while thinking of herself shining brightly like a star.”
The dazzling flash of starlight, Luna’s unique magic.
It was the very symbol of Luna that even Leo’s Bible could not contain.
“The third is Doomsday.”
It is a magic that still boasts its reputation as the strongest magic in the world.
“Luna had a personality that couldn’t rest until she thoroughly destroyed everything that stood in her way, so she created this magic…”
“Arion. You don’t have to finish that sentence.”
Lunia said hurriedly.
Lunia no longer wanted the Luna in her imagination to be ruined.
But the reactions around her were different.
“Ooh! Indeed, she had a similar personality to this bad-tempered pointy-eared person!”
“Do you want to die! You stupid cat!”
Arion laughed gleefully, seeing the commotion.
“You seem to be enjoying yourself.”
To Driana’s question, Arion nodded.
“I wonder if others saw us like this.”
At that answer, everyone except Leo widened their eyes.
“Did the great heroes also act like this every day?”
“Oh, no way.”
“I don’t think so.”
Lunia, Ar, and Driana whispered.
“It sounds like it would have been fun.”
When Kal said this, with his clasped hands behind his back, Arion nodded.
“It was fun.”
Eiran asked, looking at Arion who was smiling wistfully.
“What was the fourth magic with a special heart?”
“It’s a magic called Innocent.”
“Innocent?”
“Isn’t that the magic Master Kyle used?”
At Arion’s words, everyone recalled Kyle, whom they had briefly met in Dwenno’s world some time ago.
“Yes. It’s a magic Luna created for Kyle.”
“It certainly was a beautiful magic.”
Lunia smiled brightly.
Listening to Arion’s story, Leo recalled that time.
‘Ahem! Kyle.’
‘What?’
‘Come here and sit down. I’ve made a spell for you.’
‘It’ll be another useless spell. I don’t need it.’
‘What’s wrong with a magic that makes flowers bloom!’
Kyle sighed softly, watching Luna glare and growl, then sat down in front of Luna.
‘What kind of magic is it?’
‘It’s a magic created by utilizing your mana attribute. The name of the magic is Innocent.’
‘You said before that purity and I didn’t suit each other at all.’
‘Yeah. You don’t. But Dwenno said that in some ways, you’re too pure, like an idiot. I got inspiration from that.’
‘Do you want to suffer at the hands of a pure idiot? You damned pointy-eared person.’
“Ugh, what is this!”
Luna struggled, watching Kyle pinch her cheeks with his hands and pull them left and right.
She was overcome with anger and tried to fight back, but Kyle’s arms were much longer, so she could only continue to be teased.
Recalling the past, Leo gave a bitter smile, and Arion also burst out laughing, apparently remembering that incident.
At that moment, Eiran asked with a very excited face.
“By the way. If Luna gave Kyle a magic with a special heart… could it be that Luna had feelings for Kyle… is that not the case?”
Eiran, whose cheeks were cupped in her hands, pricking up her ears, seemed overjoyed just by thinking about it, and she didn’t know what to do.
“Eiran certainly has a rich imagination.”
“Indeed.”
Lunia and Ar chuckled.
At their reaction, Driana said.
“Compared to you two, with your eccentric personalities, Eiran seems to have a very girlish side, doesn’t she?”
At Driana’s words, Lunia and Ar raised their eyebrows, and Kal clicked his tongue and said.
“You’re also a girl that age, aren’t you? You, the pervert, are the most abnormal one.”
Arion shook his head, watching the four squabbling.
“Luna probably didn’t have such feelings for Kyle, did she? They used to fight all the time.”
“I see.”
“They’re just like us.”
The others showed expressions of ‘Well, of course,’ and Eiran was disappointed, her ears drooping.
“So the fifth magic is the Flame Emperor.”
“Yes.”
Arion nodded at Lunia’s question.
“The Flame Emperor is a magic Luna developed to block the black flames.”
“To block?”
“Yes. Because Dwenno and I fought on the front lines. It’s a magic created to protect us.”
Arion gave a bitter smile.
“It was a magic created, saying she couldn’t tolerate anyone dying.”
And in the end, it remained incomplete.
‘Indeed, if the Flame Emperor had been completed, fate might have changed.’
Leo let out a bitter breath inwardly.
He recalled Luna, wailing and blaming herself in front of the deaths of Arion and Dwenno.
For Arion, it would have been fortunate.
‘Because Arion would have collapsed at Luna’s scream.’
Lunia wore a solemn expression, listening to Arion’s words.
She had never imagined that the magic passed down to her after 5000 years contained such feelings.
***
‘I must fulfill Luna’s will.’
Now Lunia also knew.
First Arion fell, then Dwenno fell.
Third, Luna followed her friends.
Lunia could hardly imagine what Luna must have felt at that time.
‘Though I am lacking… I must protect everyone with Luna’s magic.’
Lunia steeled her resolve.
Meanwhile.
They had already reached the vicinity of Erebus.
Whoosh-!
Flames erupted from Erebus’s body.
At that moment.
Flash-!
Arion stomped his foot hard.
At that moment, Arion, clad in a golden aura from head to toe, transformed.
“Kwooohhhooooooo!”
Arion’s roar echoed once again.
The powerful howling instilled courage in the party members’ hearts.
As Arion drew his sword, the golden aura concentrated at the tip of the blade.
With it, Arion became a flash of gold and sprinted towards Erebus.
Boom-!
“Kwooohoooooo!”
The hero’s sword cleaved Erebus’s chest.
Arion landed on the ground, his eyes flashing.
“Melina!”
At Arion’s shout, Melina grabbed Leo’s hand and rapidly flew high into the sky.
The moment they reached high in the sky.
Melina brought her hands together.
Humming-!
A massive magic circle was generated.
The surrounding atmosphere shimmered with an unimaginable amount of magical power.
“That’s an incredible amount of magical power… What kind of magic is it, exactly?”
Lunia asked as she prepared for attack, and Torua, chanting a spell, glanced up at the sky and replied.
“Disaster, Dragon of Creation. It’s Rhodia’s unique magic.”
A grand magic that governs the surrounding nature.
Whoooshhooooooooo! Crash-!
A massive typhoon enveloped Erebus.
Eliza muttered, seeing it.
“It’s a perfect upgrade from Abbad’s Tempest.”
“Of course it is. If Mr. Abbad’s Tempest is a magic that causes natural disasters, that magic is one that controls natural disasters.”
It was, literally, a grand magic belonging to the strongest nature-based magic.
Crash-!
Groooan!
Erebus struggled to avoid being swept away by the colossal typhoon.
However, Disaster only prevented Erebus’s movements but did not inflict significant damage.
Melina smiled faintly, seeing that.
‘It’s okay. This is enough.’
Melina’s role was merely to bind Erebus to that spot.
“Leo.”
Melina called Leo.
“Lisinas’s magic.”
At her words, Leo raised his hand.
“Raruel.”
Flash-!
The Great Spirit of Light, Raruel, was summoned to Leo’s hand.
As Leo activated his spiritual power, just as the Spirit of Radiance did long ago.
The Spirit of Radiance transformed into a bow of light.
Leo grasped the bow of light and drew the string.
Humming-!
An arrow was nocked at the end of the string.
Melina smiled brightly, seeing that.
‘Long ago, the light shot by the King of Wisdom, expelling the wicked and evil.’
Leo spoke its name.
“Punishment.”
Flash-!
Crrrrraaaaack-!
The arrow of light pierced Erebus, causing a massive explosion.
Crrrrraaaaack-!
The typhoon that had held Erebus vanished.
In the midst of the massive crater, black magma was scattered everywhere.
Leo narrowed his eyes, seeing that.
A terrifying power.
But not only Leo and Arion, but even Melina couldn’t understand the current situation.
“It seems… excessively weak, doesn’t it?”
Leo clicked his tongue at Melina’s mumble.
“Indeed.”
“Yes?”
“His seal has been broken, but his consciousness hasn’t awakened yet. He’s merely wielding power instinctively.”
“That means…”
Melina’s face hardened at Leo’s words.
“Yes. It hasn’t even begun yet.”
The magma squirmed and then transformed into the shape of Erebus’s face.
The moment Arion saw it and raised his sword.
Flash-!
Suddenly, Erebus’s eyes opened.
Arion’s face, whose eyes met Erebus’s, stiffened.
-Hee hee hee hee hee.
A sneering sound flowed from Erebus’s mouth.
-Is it the gods’ shallow miracle, those detestable gods?
Kwooohoooooo-!
The surrounding atmosphere changed drastically.
Whoosh-!
Erebus’s body burst into flames again.
Boom-!
Erebus sneered at Arion, exuding an oppressive aura incomparable to moments before.
-Are you prepared to see the world burn once more? You phantom of the past.