The Rebirth Of The Hero’S Party’S Archmage [EN]: Chapter 278

Extran Episode 7.

The Forgotten War, the Spider Lord Subjugation Battle (7)

“What kind of trickery is this?”

Facing Shar’kars, Akilea felt a flood of unknown memories flashing through her mind.

‘My body, my head is spinning.’

The warmth and images that always came to mind whenever she thought of her origin had never surged like a storm as they were now.

It was that memory that led her here.

She was clearly looking for her father, but some voice had led her here.

– This way, Aki.

Akilea, who had been staggering for a moment, clutching her head, said,

“You… you’re in my memories.”

“……?”

“What on earth did you do? Have we ever met before?”

It didn’t take long for Shar’kars to notice the anomaly that had occurred to Alakish, or rather, Akilea.

“Do you want to know?”

A bitter smile touched Shar’kars’ lips as he began to circle Akilea.

“It seems a sad memory is surfacing. The one where you were abandoned by your mother.”

“Aki, it’s all lies, don’t listen to such words!”

“Your mother hated you. She treated you like baggage, handing you over to humans whenever something urgent came up.”

Shar’kars’ young body began to bubble and seethe with disgusting matter, expanding grotesquely.

“I don’t have a mother.”

“Hehehehehe, yes, you wouldn’t want to acknowledge her as your mother, would you? Since she abandoned you like that!”

The five heads roaring towards the stars were the product of madness…

The human-like body stretched out large and nauseatingly, but the form of the lower body, extending into a dozen branches, was vaguely reminiscent of a repulsive spider.

And, ah, weren’t the elements that made up that body all haphazardly intertwined human limbs?

“That foolish one hated you until the very end as well. Not surprising. Because you were in the way, she ended up dying by my hand!”

In that storm of madness, that wave of insanity, hundreds of Ains collapsed as their heads exploded.

And hundreds more were infected with madness, laughing like madmen or dancing while muttering bizarre gibberish.

The overwhelming presence of that transcendent form was enough to make even Kasena and Valensidice buckle at the knees; only Akilea was standing upright.

“Lies, it’s a lie… Aki, Alakish, Alakish loved you…….”

Kasena, who had fallen to the ground, gasped for breath as she muttered, but she couldn’t finish her sentence.

She loved her so much.

More than her own life.

It was just that she couldn’t be with her whenever she was in danger; she never abandoned her.

“I will personally embrace that sorrowful heart that was abandoned.”

Akilea tumbled across the snowfield from the spider leg’s strike but quickly regained her footing.

Immediately above her, the second spider leg rose like a cliff, and when it struck the ground, a fierce snowstorm erupted.

The tactic Shar’kars chose was a blitzkrieg [a swift, overwhelming attack] stemming from deception.

At that time, Akilea was overwhelmed by a flood of unknown memories pouring in like a burst dam.

‘This is strange.’

This had never happened before.

Never before had unknown memories so consumed her mind.

Does she have some connection to that guy?

“If we leave her like this, Aki will…….”

At that moment, Kasena desperately thought as she barely raised her body.

Is there no way?

A way to protect Aki from Shar’kars’ lies, a way to let her know the fragments of that memory.

‘Like Alakish back then.’

In that instant, her eyes flashed open.

Even amidst the oppressive pressure weighing down on her whole body, she urgently said to Valensidice, who was healing Frisvia,

“Chairman, Isla, please bring Isla here!”

“Who is Isla?”

“Kasena, what are you…….”

“It’ll only take a moment. And if Aki loses, not only us but Isla will die too!”

Frisvia seemed reluctant to expose Isla to danger but finally gave her permission.

Valensidice, who had received a rough explanation from Kasena, moved to the bridge of the warship base.

After newly manipulating the defense system that operated through Black Yangrin, he then moved to the laboratory.

He pulled out an infant with white hair and dragon horns already sprouting from the central test tube.

The dragon child in his arms was lighter than a fallen leaf. Its eyelids trembled cautiously.

“If I take her outside like this, she’ll freeze to death…….”

Valensidice cast several spells to block the cold, and only after wrapping the child’s body in his cloak did he cross dimensions again.

The battle of the transcendents was in full swing.

The powerful feast of power that seemed to crush bodies.

Feeling an instinctive fear, Isla burst into tears.

Kasena took Isla and held her close. The crying didn’t stop.

“Please bring Aki over here. And just for a moment, just a moment, buy me some time. If you manipulated the warship base as I said, there might be a chance.”

Is there really a way?

Valensidice stared at Kasena for a moment, then sighed and nodded.

“Why don’t you just order me to die? That would be easier.”

The moment Valensidice made that humorous pun, the warship base transferred all power except for emergency power to the combat system.

All the ports still operating on the side of the warship base simultaneously aimed at Shar’kars…

And as countless light bullets pierced that body that was wantonly ravaging Akilea, a momentary gap occurred.

In that instant, Valensidice appeared, took Akilea, and placed her next to Kasena.

Then, with his excellent reverse-engineering skills and bone-setting skills, he disguised himself as Akilea and returned to his place.

Since the presence itself was different, his identity would soon be revealed, but he would be able to buy a very short amount of time.

“Aki, listen carefully. Your mother always thought of you. She gave everything to protect you.”

Kasena barely managed to speak to Akilea, who was raising her battered body, to the daughter of her benefactor.

“In this place where her mission began, she just kept walking, eagerly awaiting the day she could meet you… Even though no matter how much she walked, it was the same routine. She could have stopped walking.”

Unfortunately, so sadly, this is all I can do.

So I have to do my best.

It’s nothing compared to what Alakish did, but if it’s about conveying that heart… there’s no one else who can do it but me.

“But Alakish couldn’t meet you in the end. It’s because of us. To protect me and Rain, from that monster…….”

“Alakish……?”

“Isla… this child… is your genetic sister. Because she was created from the same mother, Alakish’s cells. Here, would you like to hold her?”

Akilea blankly accepted Isla.

Then, as if by a lie, the crying stopped. Isla’s small hand tightly gripped Aki’s finger.

“Alakish wanted to hold you like this so much. She always sang to you and whispered words of love while touching foreheads.”

“…….”

“I’ve done that to Isla a few times too. Isla really likes it.”

Having said that, Kasena ran towards the scene ahead, where Valensidice was becoming battered by Shar’kars’ attacks.

‘Alakish?’

At that time, Akilea blankly looked down at Isla.

I don’t know what it is.

Is it okay for me to be here right now? Shouldn’t I go to fight?

“Ma kiome…….”

At that time, Isla wriggled and muttered like that. For some reason, the scent was familiar, and she smelled it.

In that instant, suddenly.

As if the dam of memory had collapsed.

Isla’s body odor led to the smell of firewood on a winter day and to the smell of cold snow.

‘Ma kiome……?’

That language.

All those smells.

The warmth of holding something precious.

– Ma kiome!

It made the memories, which had been blurry like looking into a broken mirror, clear.

‘Alakish.’

The song she heard when she was wriggling in the egg on a distant winter day can be heard.

The warmth that always held her so preciously can be felt.

The voice that repeatedly spoke to her, who couldn’t say anything, can be heard.

In the egg, she didn’t know what that existence was, but from the moment she broke out of the egg, she loved the father who had the scent of that existence.

The father cried, saying, “It’s not me,” the moment he first met her.

Whenever he said he wasn’t her mother, his expression looked so sad.

Even right before parting in , he said that he could never replace that person.

Until now, she didn’t know the reason.

– Akilea, you need to know your origin. Our origin is the Fire Dragon, but you have a different origin.

Snowflakes landed on her head.

In that quiet resonance, the image of her mother holding her baby dragon tightly and touching foreheads filled her vision.

This is a dream.

A fragment of a dream, a genetic inheritance of a dream that Alakish wanted to enjoy even once in her life.

– The void that exists in your heart, you need to know the origin to fill that void.

Mom, Ma kiome.

The existence that should have heard that first cry of her life, the existence that had longed for that cry more than anyone else.

The name of that existence, Alakish.

“Ma kiome.”

The source of my soul…

Imitating that illusion, she hugged Isla in the same way and touched foreheads.

Countless memories were woven and clumped together, flowing down both cheeks in hot streams.

– Aki, whenever I try to talk about your mother, your dad gets angry and says it’s me, so I can’t say anything… I hope the day will come when I can tell you about your great mother.

The sorrow of longing for her hometown, which she had held in her heart all her life, became joy, and joy soon became anger and murderous intent…

The next moment.

A transcendent flame exploded and surged, piercing a hole in the sky where even the dark clouds had frozen.

So much so that the White Spirit Shar’kars, who was about to finish off Kasena and Valensidice, was startled and turned around.

“Shar’kars.”

That explosive heat was instantly concentrated in one place, becoming the sun on earth and brilliantly illuminating this dark frozen land.

That sun was Akilea.

The flames covering her entire body flickered dazzlingly. Furthermore, she was expanding her still immature horns and tail closer to the adult form.

The golden eyes burned more brilliantly and fiercely than any heart of fire.

“I’m going to turn you into ashes right now.”

* * *

‘He doesn’t have the form of a dragon. Doesn’t he know how?’

Shar’kars thought.

‘He has grown close to the adult form, but he is still just a juvenile.’

I am a body that has even won against the adult form of that guy’s mother. He’s a much easier opponent.

“Do you think you can achieve anything you say? Hehehe, I will personally raise you and teach you manners, just like I did to your mother!”

And the legs that had been raised as if to fill the sky scraped the ground, and the spiderwebs subdued the air.

“24.”

But…

Fast. How can he be so fast?

What’s wrong with this, this abnormal speed?

“45.”

He’s dodging all my attacks by a hair’s breadth? The moment my attack touches him, he disappears with smoke.

At best, he’s in a human body, so he can’t have any power.

How funny.

Did he give up power and increase mobility?

“67.”

No, that’s not it. This guy is something… he seems to have a different standard than his mother.

What is the identity of this overwhelming pressure that makes my whole body tremble?

I can’t admit it. Does this guy have a higher rank than me?

“72.”

When dodging, Akilea touched the body that Shar’kars was using for attacks with her palm.

What is engraved on that contact surface is the imprint of power.

A power that burns faintly like a candle, but Shar’kars could not handle it.

Because Akilea had protectors.

“If I stand by and watch someone flirt with that guy, dirt will get into my eyes. To some crazy daughter-fool!”

The spiderwebs that were being deployed in all directions to capture the Red Dragon were cut off by the wind blades that tore through dimensions.

“These things…….”

The spider leg that was about to strike down on Valensidice had its trajectory twisted by a telekinetic bubble.

I can’t completely overwhelm it.

Even if I can’t completely block it.

I can certainly do this much assistance. That’s what Valensidice and Kasena thought.

“Chairman, hurry over here!”

These insignificant…

Bugs that are no threat at all when viewed individually, hiding behind the shadow of the dragon.

“100.”

Right then, the number of imprints engraved on Shar’kars’ huge body became 100.

Akilea stopped dodging.

She stood firmly on the ground, took a deep breath, twisted her ankles, twisted her waist, and moved all the external and internal forces rotating inside and outside her body to her right fist.

“Aki, what are you doing! Dodge!”

That imprint is a sign of magic amplification.

The power to amplify and explode the condensed power when a strike lands, blowing away everything in front of it.

A secret technique developed in the Cheonhwa Sect to deliver a perfect finishing blow in a zero-distance fight.

That secret technique has now been completed in Akilea’s hands to a realm beyond the limit.

Even the masters of the Cheonhwa Sect could only use one of these imprints. But Akilea was a being who had transcended humans from birth.

Ultimate Dragon Transformation Fighting Technique.

Multiple Extreme Points.

With a fierce explosion, the iron fist collided with the approaching spider leg.

In that instant.

The first imprint explodes.

And transfers that amplified power to the second imprint.

The second imprint explodes with the power of the first imprint, propagating that enhanced explosive power to the third imprint, and so on, amplifying it again and again…

This explosive power is increased a total of one hundred times.

The light of the cataclysm stole all the brightness, saturation, and hue from the world.

A powerful explosion so intense that the corneas of those watching burned white and a ringing sounded in their ears.

That explosive flame covered the entire body of the monster who had received the old title, dazzlingly and massively covering even the frigid land beyond that monster.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

The immense heat completely extinguished the nearby blizzard, and the snowfield covering the earth melted away at once, turning into a mud pit.

‘What is this……?’

Valensidice blinked.

As far as flames are concerned, doesn’t it far surpass the flame magic that Rain Ludwig handles…

‘I heard he received two more orbs…….’

It was truly touching.

Has that baby dragon already been able to draw out the power of a true dragon to that extent?

It’s unbelievable that he can overwhelm an old aristocrat to this extent.

“Aki, it’s not over yet!”

Did he abandon his main body at the moment of the explosion?

Shar’kars, in human form, escaped from the explosion and unfolded a net of heaven and earth.

That barrage of spiderwebs struck Akilea, causing her to roll across the muddy ground where the snow had melted.

「This, this is absolutely impossible, what on earth, how did this……!」

That body was also nearing its limit.

He was even more battered than when he was caught off guard by Rain Ludwig.

Except for his left arm and head, there were no remaining body parts.

‘The flames clinging to his body.’

A shiver ran down Kasena’s heart.

‘It’s because it keeps gnawing at his body until it burns away the rest.’

That’s why Shar’kars had to cut off parts of his own body like that.

“Now’s the time……!”

Kasena untied her hair tie.

Engraved on that hair tie was a series of runes, and she transferred those runes directly into the air.

At that moment, Shar’kars’ body was enveloped by bubbles of light.

“……?!”

This was the black sun Karen Den’s sealing technique, traditionally inherited by the Page family since the first Emit Page.

Kasena combined that with the knowledge she had received from Alakish and Rain Ludwig to create an even stronger combination.

So that the same thing that happened to Alakish wouldn’t happen in a moment like this.

So that she wouldn’t have to sacrifice someone with the word goodbye.

“Shar’kars! You were going to taxidermy me?”

Inside the bubble, a steel framework appeared and began to devour Shar’kars’ body.

Just like Alakish’s body had done.

When Shar’kars tried to struggle and put strength into some part of his body, an intangible wedge formed inside the bubble pierced that joint.

“I’ll give you back those words. I’ll seal you!”

Originally, she wouldn’t have been able to seal Shar’kars with her immature power. He would have torn it apart long ago.

“It’s revenge from ten years ago!”

But it’s possible now.

Now that that arrogant guy has suffered so much damage that he’s bewildered.

She used to be so powerless, but now!

「──────!」

Shar’kars shouted something, but it wasn’t heard here due to the elasticity inside the bubble.

“What? I can’t hear you!”

At that moment, the bubble exploded.

Shar’kars’ body and soul were covered in wedges of light, steel, and fire, and plunged to the ground.

His fingertips seemed to twitch one last time, but after a little more time passed, all movement disappeared.

The presence that had overwhelmed the surroundings also disappeared, and the surroundings became quiet for a moment.

“…….”

Akilea approached him and quietly looked down at Shar’kars’ new tomb.

The flames that had been shining brightly outside her body slowly began to subside. Her horns and tail also shrank again.

What is she thinking with that tender heart right now? Is she telling Alakish that she has finished what you couldn’t do?

Kasena hesitated, not knowing how to speak, and finally opened her lips.

“Aki…….”

“I’m not sad.”

“Huh?”

“My memories have become clearer. Mom was always by Aki’s side. In every moment with Dad, when I was adventuring with Kasena too.”

The young dragon spoke calmly and smiled brightly, but perhaps because she had not yet become an adult, she did not know how to hide her tears.

“So I’m not sad at all.”

Tears flowed down her smiling face. Even after the smile disappeared, only tears continued to flow.

At that time.

The heat haze caused a momentary hallucination in Kasena’s vision.

Don’t cry, Aki.

Kasena is worried.

On Aki’s forehead, which was lowered.

Alakish touched foreheads and whispered like that with a kind smile…

* * *

“You must never waver in the face of any temptation. You must not open your eyes or listen. You must not deviate to the left or right but go straight on one path.”

Mirmgardia warned for the fifth time.

She was worried about her sister.

Setsunen, who had firmly engraved that warning in her head, smiled brightly.

“Don’t worry, Mimir! Your sister will bring Dad back soon!”