Swordmaster of the Red Light District - Swordmaster of the Red Light District chapter 238

Encounter (2)

238

“Not much left.”

“…”

Ray stayed still, not agitated.

The woman looked at Ray like that and narrowed her eyes.

This was a space only allowed to Harsia’s successor, and Rey certainly inherited a lot of his progress.

However, the source and basis of the existence of Leila was far beyond the woman’s expectations.

It is by no means a naturally occurring entity. It was also not an artificially created entity.

That, if I had to explain it, was the existence of a concept similar to that of an ‘Apostle’.

The woman’s eyes gleamed softly.

“It’s… Dare.”

A swarm of pale lights flowed over the blackened earth.

The woman was really quietly angry.

“I have given you the legacy of Harsia.”

Koo!!

The landscape that filled Rey’s vision was distorted like a piece of paper.

Rei felt trouble in the undulating space.

I don’t know if he had resisted the barrier from the beginning, but since his whole mind was already encroached upon by the barrier, Rei had no means to resist the woman who was in the barrier.

Rei forcibly kept her composure and quietly shut her mouth, and the scenery that filled her vision soon returned to its original form.

When Rey turned her gaze forward again, the woman was still sitting calmly on the throne.

“It must have been quite urgent.”

He must have faced a very serious threat.

That is why it must have been given the legacy of Harsia to the individual who performed a special miracle.

However, even taking that into account.

“You are strange. You are very strange.”

The woman was sure that some variable that even the transcendental beings did not anticipate until the existence of Rei was born.

Without such assumptions, it would have been impossible for something similar to an apostle capable of such autonomous judgment to exist.

“For you…”

The woman looked back at the information she had received from the legacy she had left on the world.

Looking back at Rey’s steps, the woman affirmed.

“You don’t have a leash. You could have made a different choice.”

Ray couldn’t fully comprehend the meaning of the woman’s words, but he sympathized with the story that she might have made a different choice.

Rey had plenty of options.

For Rey, who fell into this world alone without any proper information, hundreds of thousands of options were laid out in a difficult way.

But… In the end, Rey stood here at the risk of scrapping all of her life.

So, the woman superimposed someone else’s image on Rey, even though she didn’t want it.

“How much… you don’t have much left, too.”

“…”

Rey read the slightest emotion from the woman’s expressionless face, but she didn’t know exactly what it was.

Rey, who was worried, answered the woman’s words this time.

“Yeah, not much left.”

“You’re afraid.”

“I’m not afraid of death.”

“No way.”

The woman ridiculed Rey in a very cold tone.

“Your eyes are full of regret.”

“…”

Ray didn’t want to keep this story long.

Rey responded by shrugging her shoulders once.

On the contrary, the woman was happy with Rei’s awkwardness, and also dug it up.

“Answer me. Are you afraid of death?”

“…”

“Are you afraid of death and pessimistic about your fate, yet you dreamed of a miracle?”

“…”

“Did you dream of a miracle, harbor small hopes, secretly envision a future that will never come, and then wake up from the dream and ponder regrets alone?”

“…”

Ray’s brow furrowed harshly.

Unable to appeal to anyone… It was never pleasant to expose the raw winds and emotions that were buried deep in my heart.

Yes, Ray dreamed and hoped for a miracle.

While pretending to be sober in the world, he sometimes tossed and turned in bed to envision a warm future that came miraculously.

The woman exposed and denied Rei’s wretched and secret desire.

“It is an unfulfilled longing.”

the woman asserted. could assert

“You are the stain of this world. You are an impurity that harms innocence.”

“…”

“I used it reluctantly because of an emergency, but in the end, it is like a germ that must be eliminated. To that, you are such a being.”

“…”

“Everything given to you will eventually lead you to ruin. It must have been designed that way from the beginning so that it would collapse when it was used up. Have you not realized that?”

“…”

“Give up hope. It will never grant you a miracle. You will end up frustrated and screaming.”

“…therefore.”

Ray’s voice was calm.

Despite the woman’s terrible rebuke, Rey’s voice did not contain anger, passion, or hostility.

Rei was already vaguely aware of it a long time ago.

He knew that he was more of a puppet that had fulfilled his role and had been discarded, and that such a puppet could not be assigned a miracle.

Even though he knew it, Ray didn’t care.

If I could keep my childhood vows, if I could protect the future of my people, I thought that was enough.

“So, what do you want to say?”

“…”

The woman looked at Rey quietly for a while and then got up from the throne.

It rubs against the ground full of black water.

A woman with long blonde hair took a step closer to Ray.

“There have been countless beings born with the same fate as you in the past.”

“…”

“You too will follow the terrible end they met…”

“I’m not curious about what happened in the past.”

Rey forced the woman to stop talking.

“I will go the way I want to go, and do what I can. Anything else is secondary.”

“…”

The woman’s eyes twinkled softly.

Ray regretted not belatedly pleasing the woman.

It was impossible to know whether the woman’s true identity was an artificial intelligence created by Lisilote or the thoughts she left behind, but her superiority in this ‘illusion’ was absolute.

There was no need to go against the stomach.

But Ray didn’t want to know anything close to the truth the woman puts in her mouth.

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Now that I’ve heard of it… worthless anguish has only tossed my bed.

So Rey cut off the woman’s horse, gave her neck strength, and pretended to be strong.

The woman scoffed.

“You’re stupid.”

“…”

“It’s disgustingly stupid, and it reminds me of him.”

The woman turned her back.

At the same time, the black rain falling from the sky stopped suddenly.

As the woman turned her back and started walking to her throne, rainwater that had stopped in the air began to flow back into the sky.

In a wonderful landscape that is possible because it is a welcome.

The woman informed Rey in a voice full of sorrow.

“If you are so confident… Experience the end you will face for yourself.”

time goes back

The black rain flows backwards, and the cracked earth and sky are sealed.

The black blood that runs through the ground seeps into the corpses of the terrifying beings, raising them again.

Rey stood in hell and raised both hands.

In both hands, at some point, a sword was held.

The shape of the sword held in his right hand was familiar. It was Moros.

Rey stared blankly at Moros and looked down at her own body.

Blood overflows from the pierced chest.

Blood overflowed and wet the ground, and the irresistible fear of death filled the void in his heart.

Rey raised her head, dripping tears of terrible regret and despair.

Harsia.

The final battlefield where he stood was unfolding before his eyes.

Rei raised her sword as he did and began to march through the blackened earth alone.

“Even if I spend the rest of my life… I won’t be able to catch up to half of you.”

Rey recalled the scars she had seen when she first stepped into this vision.

I remembered the countless scars on the earth, the sky, and the corpse and pondered it.

Rey knew he wouldn’t be able to get there.

Still, Rey picked up her sword and started moving forward.

That was Ray’s decision…

It was also a tribute of his own that Ray could pass on to him, even if it was late.

*

The simulation device in the underground plaza of Aegis was guaranteed to be minimally safe.

Over the past hundreds of years, thousands of people have experienced various battlefields in illusion, and although they may suffer from aftereffects, they have not lost their lives.

Even after Lisilote’s death, excellent wizards have reinforced the simulation device by repeating research and experiments, so the frequency and severity of the aftereffects also tended to decrease significantly.

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Now, the aftereffects had to be so serious that I felt dizzy for a day or two.

So the wizards waiting in the underground plaza were relaxing and having a boring time.

However, about 5 minutes after Ray started the simulation.

A problem suddenly occurred in the simulation device, which was so confident in its safety.

Beep! Beep!

“What’s up!!”

“Overload? Why all of a sudden?”

“Reduce the output supplied to the barrier and prepare for shutdown!!”

The wizards were still optimistic about the situation while they shouted among themselves.

Although an unexpected problem occurred, the simulation could be safely ended if the power supplied to the magic barrier of the simulation device was cut off in sequence.

Of course, the wizards thought that they could solve the problem without going there.

However, despite the efforts of the wizards, the simulation device consumed more mana than the original set value and rapidly overheated.

When the situation did not calm down easily, the wizards eventually attempted to shut down.

However, the simulation device did not listen to the wizards’ control at all.

Even if the main power source was physically cut off, the simulation device continued to draw mana from the auxiliary power source, strengthening the barrier that interfered with Rey’s mind.

The wizards hurriedly moved in bewilderment, and the cadets who watched it were frightened.

The instructors, who were watching the situation, were about to get the cadets out.

Another change occurred at the center of the barrier.

Tweak!

Rey’s momentum, which had to sit quietly as if sleeping, changed completely.

The instructors, who felt the alien cold that is difficult to describe, reflexively drew their weapons.

Rey was still sitting in the middle of the barrier with her eyes closed, but the air current of mana surrounding Rey swayed greatly.

In an emergency that had never existed before, neither the wizard nor the knights immediately decided how to respond and looked at each other.

at that moment

Power entered Rey’s grasp, and the mana around Rey began to gather and form.

Whoops-!

“…you crazy.”

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Nelson mumbled involuntarily.

Mana condensed in the air intertwined, repulsed, and flashed.

Before long, two swords embodied without a medium appeared on either side of Rei.

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Nelson clenched his teeth in front of the sight of the sword resonating and distorting the space .