Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 233



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Episode 233.

“I knew you could melt my ice.”

It was a smile. It wasn’t the kind of smile someone made of ice would have. I was surprised because I didn’t know she could smile like that.

“Could you have laughed like that?”

“I feel better. It must be your fault.”

“The change of Count… is a fall.”

The Count was holding a sword.

Blood dripped from her sword.

“I couldn’t kill him.”

“yes?”

It is said that as soon as his body thawed, he felt a chill and tried to kill him, but was unable to do so.

“He ran away. He was fast.”

“What, what happened besides that?”

The Count stroked Ronobe’s head as if he were a child.

“I wasn’t feeling well. The effect of the doll you gave me had worn off. Then, as if waiting, the witch appeared. It was a surprise attack. It was a very convenient surprise attack. Thanks to that, I was able to catch it. Normally, I wouldn’t have been able to do it, but at that time, I was really not feeling well.”

The timing was really bad.

The witch’s surprise attack happened at a time when I was not feeling well.

“The witch’s magic was fierce. Even the strongest knight would die. That kind of thing. There was only one thing I could do.”

He said he even thought about just dying.

However, at the end of death, the image of a boy appeared and it is said that he mustered all his strength to freeze everything.

“How is that possible? The Count is a knight, not a wizard…”

“Every knight has a star in his heart. But if he only holds it, he will be eaten by the star. That’s all there is to it.”

Most colors, when mixed together, become black. But when they can be released.

The knight becomes a black star.

The light is the light of obsidian, a soft glow that absorbs all starlight, neither frivolous nor flashy.

Sharp even when split.

“That’s why it’s called chivalry. You’ve probably heard the saying that if you only keep your chivalry in mind and don’t put it into practice, your life will be short.”

“… okay.”

“When the life of a knight is over. You know how people change.”

“I don’t know.”

“You turn to stone. You harden and die. Your bones, blood vessels, and even your skin all harden and you die just like you were originally a stone.”

It was also said that dying while performing all the rites of a knight before dying was called chivalry because it was passed down through word of mouth.

Thud, thud, thud.

I felt the ground shake.

There is someone who calls for a change of Count.

He was the chieftain.

“Please take care of your body and go. I can treat you.”

The Count’s body is still half covered in ice, and one of his arms is made of ice. This can also be treated with Ronobe.

‘If you dream of Gochi.’

It can heal her body.

Of course, it took time.

I haven’t finished my research on the dreaming kochi yet. I don’t know how long it will take, and if the target is a black knight, what changes it might bring.

“It’s okay.”

Sensing Ronobe’s hesitation, the Count took the boy’s hand and placed it on his chest inside the armor.

“omg.”

“Can you feel it?”

The Count closed his eyes.

Thump, thump. Thump, thump. I felt my heart beating. My heart, which had never been beating before, began to beat, slowly but little by little.

“Thanks to you.”

A priest’s tree created by Ronobe.

Its resilience was beyond what Ronobe had imagined.

‘Because I struck down the souls of the great warrior and the orcs…’

I definitely should have done this much.

Even now, the Count is being treated.

A tickling and tingling sensation is starting to appear on the skin that was previously numb. This means that the nerves are attaching. As the wound heals, the ice inside the body naturally melts.

It’s warm. How long has it been since he felt such a warm sensation? The Prince felt a sense of happiness as he felt the warmth once again.

Boom, boom, boom!

“The conversation was long.”

However, it seemed that the opponent had no intention of waiting any longer. The knights and soldiers of Enhyde Castle, who had come to their senses, gathered behind her.

“Are you going?”

“I must go. That is my path. Baron Hopper Jun. You do what you must do.”

“yes.”

I guess you’re talking about the witch of the fall.

“It wouldn’t have gone far since it was hit by my sword. You should be able to find it.”

“Your Majesty. Are you sure it’s okay?”

“He’s strong. My wounds were also caused by him.”

Ronobe asked again.

“Are you losing?”

The Duke of Chang turned around.

“Win.”

However, I did not see Ronobe.

He said, looking at the priest’s tree.

“It’s a nice tree, Baron.”

He walked away, leaving only those words behind.

The priest’s tree still spreads warmth and resilience.

As long as that’s there, it’s okay, said Ronobe, looking at the Count who turned his back and left.

“I am now a baron.”

The changed count, who had been hesitating, smiled faintly.

“You’ve made it big.”

Ronobedo smiled faintly.

I looked up at the sky as I watched her back as she headed to the battlefield. Before I knew it, I could faintly hear the laughter of the chieftain and the voice of the Count. Immediately afterwards, I heard the sound of weapons clashing, but I didn’t bother to look.

“I’ve done everything I could. The rest is the battle of the changelings.”

So, Ronobe had to fight his own battle.

‘crash.’

I had to find that girl.

The mastermind behind all this.

Ashwald said the crash was intended to take Ronnobe’s life.

‘You even asked for a change of Count. Did you know about the affairs in the North?’

That might have been the case. It seemed like he had some strange information power.

“More than that.”

Ronobe transformed into a crow and flew up.

The frozen castle melted. The melted ice turned into water and was absorbed into the ground or formed puddles.

Ronobe gathered them together.

Anna’s magic is to condense moisture in the air using blood. It is based on freezing, but it is also possible to collect moisture without freezing.

“shrinkage.”

It compresses water using the same principle as an oil pump. It would be advantageous if you fought at Enhide Castle, but he’d probably run away. In that case, it’d be best to be fully prepared.

“good.”

In an instant, the surrounding moisture was gathered and compressed into Ronobe’s hand. The highly compressed water formed droplets and floated around Ronobe. In an instant, it transformed into a crow and flew up. The water droplets circled around him together and the moment they flew up, he sniffed with his bear nose. The change of Count had clearly cut the fall. If so, there would be a smell of blood.

‘Other than where the Counts fight.’

The other side.

The smell of blood that cannot be hidden in a place that disappears particularly quickly.

“Found it.”

Tracking down a beast is not a difficult task for him, who lived as a hunter. Even more so if he uses magic. Tracking down a wounded beast is not difficult.

*

“Fuck, fuck!”

Northern sky.

Even though the season is signaling the passing of spring and the arrival of summer, the chilly north wind caresses my skin and tangles my hair.

The woman who advances while being irritated by the northern sky is a wizard of the empire.

It was Federica, the witch of the fall.

Long, thin black hair.

Her lips tinted purple and her face full of decadence had the charm of a beauty you might see in a brothel, but her face, dotted with pain, was not hazy, but rather irritated.

“You bitch! You bitch I’ll chew you to death!”

The one Federica was cursing was, of course, the northern count who had hurt her.

Federica’s side was still being eaten away by the cold, frozen wounds she had left behind. The wounds were frozen, cracked, and not recovering. The extreme cold was destroying the wounds at the cellular level. It was similar to frostbite, but it was incomparable. It was her curse, called the Queen of the North, that could not be cured in a short period of time.

That is the miracle that the changeling Count possesses.

A chill that cuts through.

It was a miracle that was manifested solely for the purpose of killing orcs, with extraordinary resilience.

“Ugh.”

But when that miracle reached people.

It becomes a very fatal curse.

“Shit! Shit! Shit!!”

Federica tried with all her might to get away from the North.

Her magic is falling.

But for some reason, she was flying through the sky as if it were natural, and it was a manifestation of the enlightenment that the magic of falling gave.

Falling means falling.

However, Federica spent many years practicing her magic and realized that the definition of falling was fixed in the narrow-mindedness of human thinking.

Is falling to the ground the only thing that counts as falling?

Human despair is also a fall, and falling into the sky is also a fall. Falling is ultimately falling. Whether it is the ground, the sky, or the heart, falling is everywhere.

Falling is a scary thing.

It was only natural that Federica, who could handle that fear, could move freely between falls and crashes.

“You bitch! Just die. Why did you freeze me too…!”

The surprise attack was successful.

He bribed his closest aides to clearly see her condition and thought it was the right time. However, what Federica did not expect was that the power of the Count was far greater than she had expected.

It was a talent too precious to be in a small kingdom the size of the palm of one’s hand.

Who would have thought that a knight who was barely on the verge of death would freeze the entire castle?

‘I wondered why the imperial idiots left this place alone…’

There was a reason for everything.

Even I myself came back from the brink of death.

“But why… did you suddenly become normal?”

When they froze together and then thawed and came to their senses, the Count of Change had cut himself with a somewhat normal face. If he hadn’t noticed it quickly and used magic to dodge it, his upper and lower bodies would have been separated.

‘The condition of the changed Count’s body is not something that can be fixed overnight. It cannot be recovered with a potion.’

She was becoming living ice itself. The Countess, who couldn’t even eat, was a living corpse just waiting for the day to die.

But then suddenly he came back to life.

“I don’t have enough information. I don’t even know how long I was frozen…”

There was a lack of information.

First, I had to recover my body and gather information again before swallowing up the North.

“That way, we can find the guy who killed Cloud.”

Head Collector Cloud.

Revenge because that guy died? That wasn’t it at all.

“The guy who intercepted the guy I was going to kill.”

It was just a lost rage of revenge for having lost one’s enemy.

That was when.

“Do you know Cloud?”

Ouch!

Federica is in the northern skies.

I was floating in the sky above where the broken border was visible. I was flying pretty high just in case. Who am I to talk to here?

‘wizard!’

That wasn’t even an ordinary level.

This is because the difficulty level is basically limited to wizards and above, although it can vary depending on the magic knot that flying itself possesses.

Usually it’s about becoming one with magic.

Because only those who have glimpsed a glimpse of Magi can use it.

Despite her confused mind, Federica’s response was quick.

“The sun is falling!”

It was Federica’s Arcan who redefined the definition of fall.

The sun, not the fall to the ground.

It was a fall that got closer to the sun.

The subject’s concept of fall is reversed, and gravity becomes fixed to the sun.

“Huh? What is it?”

No matter how much a knight or magician is called a genius who can fly and crawl, he cannot escape the sky, go into space, and live close to the sun. People die from lack of oxygen even if they go to high altitudes. The same goes for sturdy knights and magicians who handle miracles. The nature of the human species does not change at all.

And not just gravity, but falling. The kinetic energy of falling into the sun is a force that is difficult to resist even if you can fly.

“asleep!”

“Wow!”

Only then did Federica look at her opponent and she was startled to see the crow-like wizard. But that was only for a moment. Even if she had used transformation magic to turn into a crow, she could not resist her own Akan.

“Kyahaha! Kyahahahahaha!”

The crow is flapping its wings, trying not to be dragged into the sky. Seeing him flapping his wings frivolously makes me feel like the stress I felt from the change of Count is going away.

Federica’s mood suddenly lifted. For a moment, she stopped to admire the unsightly crow. Suddenly, a drop of water flew near her and ice began to form, freezing Federica.

“Huh, is this all you can do?”

Crunch! The ice on Ronobe shattered with a single wave of Federica’s hand.

“Compared to the changeling Count, you’re so weak! Are you trying to freeze me with something like this?!”

Her hands glowed faintly.

She is a master of falling. She is a witch of falling who can accumulate the kinetic energy of falling by falling from cliffs even on a regular basis. Because of her eccentricities, she is often called a crazy woman even in the empire, but she can always exert great power by instilling the power of falling that she has accumulated into her body.

Whirlyrick, chuck!

“Ugh!”

But even she, like that, failed to notice the sticky thread embedded in the ice. It was a clever move. She managed to break the ice, but the thread inside stuck to her body. It was a sticky and tough thread, so she couldn’t break it off no matter how hard she tried.

“This, this!!”

“Phehehe! How do you like the sticky, thick thread I made! Phehehehehe!”

The thread was connected to the crow. No, the crow had transformed into a human form and was holding onto the thread, so Federica and the magician. No, Ronobé began to fall into the sun together.

“This crazy bastard! He’s trying to kill me too!”

“I don’t know what kind of magic it is, but I can never die alone!”

Not only that.

Ronobe instantly created a group of soulfish and tied them together with strings to prevent them from rising higher into the sky. No matter how high they fell, the power of the school of soulfish swimming stronger than them could somewhat neutralize her magic. Ronobe didn’t know much about her magic. It was just a part that he had guessed, but it was a certain method of destruction.

“Federica, the witch of the Fall. I’ve come to get you. You’d better bow your head obediently. If you don’t want to see a bad sight. You’ve been trapped in the ice for quite some time. How about being trapped in a cocoon this time?”

“…Who are you?”

“The White Wizard of the Kingdom. Ronove de Hopper. Baron.”

Ronnove de Hopper.

Federica’s eyes sparkled.

“It’s you! You who stole my prey! I’ve come to kill you too!”

“I have a lot of questions for you too.”

Ronobe, who had tied the golhonyu fish with thread around his waist, rubbed both of his free hands. He spat out compressed oil from his mouth, and a faint light appeared on his palms, and a mouth with its tongue sticking out appeared.

“Homo.”

At the same time, the Honmun of Ronobe moved.

“Cool milk.”

-Cool milk.

-Cool similar.

“!!”

Cool milk.

A frozen oil arrow that can create up to five at a time. It was created in the palm of one’s hand and double-spelled to create a stronger and larger quantity at once. It was a useful magic in aerial combat where body control was unavoidable.

“Second trinita?”

Federica was also shocked to learn what Ronnove had done.

The triple spell magic through spells, seals, or runes is called Trinita. However, Ronobe only strengthened the spells spoken through multiple chanting. This is called Second Trinita in the Empire’s technical term, and it is a high-difficulty technique that even wizards cannot easily do. It is a technique that should be at the level of magic, but when Ronobe used it, Federica could not help but be surprised.

More than a hundred arrows appeared at once.

The energy contained in each one was not something that could be easily seen. Although they were only arrows, Federica felt a strange sense of discomfort.

‘You must avoid it. You must not block it.’

That’s what it felt like.

It was a kind of feeling, but a wizard is someone who follows his feelings more than anything else. And Federica’s choice was one of the excellent choices that slightly extended her life.

“The stationmaster’s fall!”

The magic she used as soon as she saw the arrow was to cause the force field to fall.

It causes everything within a certain radius around it, including incoming projectiles, to fall to the ground. Thanks to this, Ronobe’s Yusal fell before he could even get close to her.

Of course, just before falling.

“oil painting.”

-oil painting.

-Yuhabu!

Don’t forget to use oil paints.

Federica’s fall was not affected by the blast, which was reinforced by the double-glazed window, so she didn’t suffer much damage, but it was chilling. Ronobe tapped the soul gate on his right palm as if he was somewhat disappointed.

“Aren’t you doing it right? Do it like you practiced, you little punk. Look at that left-handed guy. He does everything he’s told to do. You should do as well as that left-handed guy, you little punk!”

-Baby Bebe Bebe

It was almost bizarre to see the guy arguing with my palm. The way he was lecturing me while hitting the tongue that grew out of his right palm with a soybean was a crazy guy that even Federica, who was called a wizard and had done all sorts of strange things, rarely saw.

‘Magic is real.’

But the magic he uses is real.

Each and every one of them is incredibly powerful.

‘The sun’s fall has been prevented.’

The school of fish swimming hard, attached to the guy’s waist, is proof of this.

Then there were two ways left. Federica immediately made a gesture. She put her hands together and spread them out as if interlocking her fingers.

Suddenly, the air became tingly and a wave of some kind spread out. The tremendous magical aura made my bones shiver and even the sky seemed to darken.

“Zero fall.”

That was when.

The force tearing upward and pulling downward on Ronobe’s body grew stronger.

“Kyahahahahahahahahahaha!!”

Federica’s black hair blows in the wind and her raucous laughter rings out.

“Be torn apart by the waves.”

Yeongrak is a magic that simultaneously manifests the opposite side of Federica’s downfall.

In short, it is a tug-of-war. A force that pulls from the sky, a force that pulls from the ground. It is a force that simultaneously manifests a fall that tears even the atmosphere. The target who becomes the string in the center cannot go up or down, and his body can only be torn apart by the force of the fall that increases.

Federica can fly through the sky with this power, but it is a dangerous power that can tear people apart when it is strong. An average knight’s body will be torn apart in an instant, and even the black knight, the Margrave, felt a sense of crisis from this technique and risked his life to freeze himself and the entire castle.

A wizard is someone who can destroy a castle alone. Federica was confident of victory, as she had a history of using this magic to burn down a castle in one blow.

“Your mistake is that you didn’t kill me the moment you saw me! Gyahahahahaha!”

Federica’s bright laughter soon stopped.

“Why… aren’t you dying?”

Surprisingly, Ronobe was still there.

No, it wasn’t like that.

There was no human boy, but a giant bear was floating in the sky, enduring Federica’s magic.

“Tekkai!”

It was no ordinary grizzly bear.

A grizzly bear strengthened through soul offerings.

It was a gray bear with max defense.

Ronobe shouted, showing his normal appearance despite being transformed into a bear.

“Thunder on the ground.”

– Ground thunder.

– Ground thunder.

A gray bear’s forepaw striking the air.

Twist – The atmosphere ripples like ripples, and a huge pressure spreads across the sky.

“Trinita…!”

Great power.

Just by the power itself, Yeongrak is torn apart in an instant, and even the station master who was protecting Federica is destroyed in an instant.

“Gyaaaah!”

Federica’s insides were shaken by the power of the thunder that tore through all magic and even shattered the sky, and she vomited blood and passed out, hanging on to Ronnobe’s thread.

“Whew… ugh.”

Even Ronobe wasn’t all right.

Trinity through the Holy Communion.

Just using it is quite a burden on the body.

But the effect was excellent.

After descending to the ground, Ronobe drank the potion and returned to Enhide, covered in a cocoon dreaming of Federica.

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