Became The Son Of The Final Boss [EN]: Chapter 271

271.

Time seemed to have stopped.

The movements of the surrounding soldiers slowed down.

The air flowed and rippled as if it were visible.

Very slowly.

I bit my lip tightly.

Blood burst forth, filling my mouth with a bitter taste.

“Don’t rush,” the demon said with a smile, as if he were my teacher, waiting for me to summon Aquilus.

It was humiliating.

To be kept alive by the grace of the enemy.

I felt despair at the sight of the demon leisurely blocking Phoenix’s attacks while constantly keeping his eyes on me.

‘If Belucci’s subordinates are this strong, how powerful is Belucci himself?’

The four subordinates he created were changing the course of the war.

Our absolute powerhouses were tied up, and the Purification Flame camp’s undead, with their high average strength, gained the upper hand.

As time passed, the number of fallen Imperial soldiers steadily increased.

On the other hand, the undead did not die easily.

And the Southern Barbarian Alliance were, quite literally, fanatics.

No matter how strong the Imperial army was, no matter how high their loyalty, they could not overcome the mental state of fanatics who were deeply immersed in a pseudo-religion to the point of madness.

They did not fear death.

They didn’t even care about having parts of their bodies cut off.

Even knights who had trained for a long time, or those who had broken through the limits of humanity, called Sword Masters, were still human.

Humans instinctively fear death.

But the fanatics were different.

“Kuaaaa!”

They charged at the Imperial soldiers, screaming strangely, and the Imperial soldiers, their faces pale, thrust out their spears.

‘Opening the gates was a fatal mistake.’

Aroon sighed.

Aquilus was not summoned, and the mana maintaining Phoenix was gradually running out.

The fact that Phoenix’s form was gradually disappearing was proof that he had already exceeded his limits.

-Mana is running low.

I couldn’t answer Phoenix’s words.

The demon strode closer.

I squeezed the last bit of mana from the mana stone.

‘Aquilus!’

It was far from enough mana to summon the Spirit King, but I felt like I had to do something.

If I couldn’t stop this demon, we would lose the battle, and defeat in battle would mean annihilation.

I wasn’t the only one here.

Countless Imperial soldiers.

And my father, Olivia, Gale, Ken, and even Lillian… my family, as well as my loyal subjects.

I couldn’t let them go so easily.

The pain spreading throughout my body grew more and more intense.

“Aquilus!”

When I called Aquilus again, blood spurted from my mouth.

My mind was becoming increasingly blurred, but soon a refreshing breeze brushed against my cheek.

Gooooo!

As space distorted, the demon smiled even more intensely.

“Very good. Just like that.”

The demon burst into wild laughter, not knowing what was so good.

Soon, explosive magical energy flowed from his body.

The magical energy washed over me.

As if a net made of several strands of thread had passed through my body, lines appeared where I was hit by the magical energy, and blood burst forth.

The lines grew larger and larger, and the wounds deepened accordingly.

I didn’t even have the strength to stand on my own two feet.

But even so, I didn’t stop calling Aquilus.

‘Everyone will die.’

The reality before my eyes made me forget the mana stone that had run dry.

I desperately clung to the Breath of the Wind, immediately injecting the mana that accumulated with each breath into the summoning of the Spirit King.

My body felt not like a human body, but like a passage connecting the Spirit Realm and the Middle Realm [the mortal world].

The mana spread throughout the Middle Realm was entering the Spirit Realm through the passage that was my body.

Gooooooo-!

The wind grew stronger and stronger.

The demon’s magical energy grew along with the strengthening wind, as if he were playing a duet.

Kwaaaaaaaang-!

When the wind covered the sky, Aquilus appeared.

At the same time, he collided with the demon’s magical energy, causing a massive explosion, while blue waves surged like tides through the cracked space.

I couldn’t avoid the oncoming waves.

“Huh?”

The moment I widened my eyes with a dumbfounded expression, the wounds on my body disappeared, and even the mana stone vanished.

-Aria greets the master of the covenant.

I knew it instinctively.

What appeared behind Aquilus was Aria. An Undine [a water spirit] who had newly ascended to the throne was summoned.

And her waves healed me, and even healed everyone on the battlefield.

Swish-!

The Imperial soldiers whose bodies had been damaged stared at their bodies in disbelief, and the soldiers who had been driven to the brink of death also rose to their feet.

And the undead were melting away as if they had been hit by holy water.

Phoenix and Aquilus were driving the demon back.

And Aria was also pressuring the demon with hundreds of water droplets.

What was surprising was that even with the attacks of the three Spirit Kings, the demon was constantly spewing out brown orbs to defend himself.

I stared blankly at the battle for a moment.

‘There’s no mana consumption.’

The reality I realized soon was shocking.

The three Spirit Kings were unleashing tremendous power, but I wasn’t consuming any mana at all.

‘The mana stone…’

The mana stone had disappeared.

Instead, the surrounding mana was constantly flowing into me and immediately being injected into the Spirit Kings.

‘Has it really become a passage?’

I knew the concept of drawing and using natural mana.

But it was so absurd that I never thought such a state was possible.

I looked down at the ground.

The ground that held all kinds of blood, the corpses of the undead, and the corpses of soldiers.

Gooooooo-!

The ground trembled.

According to my will, the last Spirit King slowly revealed himself.

-According to the covenant of the beginning, I respond to your call, master of the covenant.

They were the Earth Spirits who were almost always silent.

It had been a long time since I heard the voice of the Earth Spirits.

The king of all Earth Spirits.

Even if he didn’t reveal his name, the name naturally came to mind.

‘I didn’t have to put so much effort into naming them.’

I named Aquilus and Phoenix myself.

Even that could be said to be a kind of predetermined future.

Aria already knew her name and told me, and ‘Noel’ was the same.

The mud that stretched out in many directions grabbed the demon’s body.

“I will be waiting in the not-so-distant future.”

His voice was different from before.

The brown light flowing from his eyes momentarily froze my body.

‘Belucci?’

* * *

“Kahahahat!”

Belucci burst into loud laughter.

“Isn’t he a human with more talent than I thought?”

The highest-ranking demons he had created were capable enough to do their part even if released into the Demon Realm.

In particular, one of them was a demon higher than the highest-ranking demons, a Demon King candidate created by taking a portion of his power.

Belucci felt joy as he watched Aroon summon the four elemental Spirit Kings and kill such a demon.

He felt tension that made his body tremble.

If he were to lose here, even his main body in the Demon Realm would be in danger.

And if the main body in the Demon Realm were to take a hit, the other Demon Kings would never miss that opportunity.

He could fight again, risking annihilation.

Belucci burst into a series of wild laughter at the excitement that fact gave him.

“I will make the boundary clear.”

Belucci now thought that everything was complete.

The humans who would drive him into crisis were all prepared.

Mage.

Swordsman.

Spirit User.

He released magical energy only up to the border that humans called the Kingdom Alliance.

He made sure that magical energy never flowed beyond that.

It was to give hope to the humans.

Belucci knew very well that the emotion humans felt most strongly when they broke through their limits was hope.

All they had to do was kill the Demon King Belucci.

In order to instill that hope in the humans, Belucci only conquered the Kingdom Alliance and never invaded other places.

There was no particular reason to do so.

‘After cleaning up all the Purification Flame Order guys and taking care of the various affairs of the Empire, he will come to me.’

From a human’s perspective, that time may be long, but waiting was a very familiar thing to Belucci, who lived an immortal life.

In his boredom, he even hoped that the humans who would drive him into excitement would come later.

Because the taste of waiting before fighting a tense battle was also very good.

“I will wait. For this enjoyable time.”

* * *

I looked up at the sky.

The battle was gradually coming to an end.

Now, all that was left was the battle between Olivia and Karen.

The demons were all annihilated.

The reason why my father, Gale, or Lillian couldn’t interfere in the two’s battle was simple.

Interfering rashly could actually disrupt Olivia’s flow.

‘Olivia is at a disadvantage.’

Aroon was anxious as he watched the two’s movements.

Olivia was relentlessly pushing forward, but it seemed disadvantageous to him.

“The Crown Princess has reached a high level.”

It was my father.

The war had already ended in victory.

And Aria had healed everyone with a single wave.

The injuries of my father and Gale, who had struggled against the demons, were nowhere to be found.

“Father.”

“You don’t have to be anxious. Karen is strong, but her depth is shallow.”

“What do you mean by shallow depth?”

“I felt it when I fought Karen. The amount of powerful mana and the speed at which she draws out her Aura Blade are fast, but the proficiency of the swordsmanship itself was unbelievably shallow.”

I exclaimed, “Ah.”

‘It’s the side effect of the system.’

The system also had a stat called proficiency.

It was a stat given to skills, and it had to be raised compulsorily.

High proficiency was essential to raise the skill’s rank.

Repetition was the most important thing for proficiency.

I remembered feeling quite bored when I received the benefits of the system.

The amount of mana increases, the level rises, and the skill’s rank also goes up.

But you don’t truly understand the skill.

Olivia is different.

No, those who do not receive the benefits of the system are people who have learned swordsmanship itself for at least ten years or a lifetime.

That was how they became strong.

“Swordsmanship with shallow depth is bound to reveal weaknesses to orthodox swordsmanship. As the battle time passes. Olivia was barely pushed back at first, but now Karen is actually panicking.”

At my father’s words, I watched the two’s battle once again.

Indeed, sweat was beading on Karen’s face, and her expression was not relaxed.

“You have a good daughter-in-law.”

My father chuckled.

He had been laughing more often lately.

“As of today, the Purification Flame Order is over.”

At the same time as my father’s declaration, Olivia’s sword grazed Karen’s neck.

“Keoeok!”

Blood flowed from Karen’s neck.

Olivia’s sword stretched out with pure white light towards Karen, who was staggering back.

Pshuk-!

“Keuek!”

Olivia’s sword pierced Karen’s heart.

Olivia pulled out her sword and stepped back.

‘The death of the protagonist…’

As I watched Karen fall to the ground, I felt an unknown emotion.

“Waaaaaa!”

At the same time, the soldiers’ shouts erupted.

Olivia took a breath and raised her sword high.

Following that, my father’s voice echoed throughout the battlefield.

“The leader of the Purification Flame Order has been killed by the Crown Princess’s sword! The Calpheon Empire has once again achieved victory.”

It was the end of the drawn-out war.

And Lillian descended from the sky.

Lillian’s low voice was heard.

“We need to prepare again.”