Chapter 501: It works? (2)
Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
- You shouldn’t have thoughts like destroying the entire maze's ceiling!
The Super Rock raised his voice in shock.
Cale listened quietly as his gaze deepened while quietly focusing on the high ceiling.
The Super Rock sensed danger while looking at this action.
‘This punk is about to cause trouble again!’
- I have no idea how long you will faint for if you destroy something that large! You got that?
The Super Rock's voice quickened.
- Cale. We suspect that the White Star made a contract with the Demonic race or has some type of connection! We can’t have you faint for a week, no, at least a month in such a situation!
“Mm. It does seem like too much, right?”
- That’s right! That is absolutely the case!
The Super Rock emphasized his agreement.
Cale looked away from the ceiling and looked at the black tree.
‘The chances of the palaces above us also crumbling are high if I destroy the ceiling.’
This maze was said to be as wide as the palace grounds.
That meant that the foundation of the entire palace grounds would break if the ceiling of the maze was destroyed, which would naturally destroy everything above it as well.
‘Then the people inside the palace will get hurt.’
It was too much to do that for the fake World Tree.
- S, save...
The black tree was shaking as it started to speak at that moment.
- P, please save me.
It sounded even more scared than earlier. Every branch other than the one Cale was holding was curled up and shaking.
‘Why is it like this?’
It seemed to have been scared about the situation until a moment ago, but it seemed to fear Cale now.
“What is w-?”
“Cale Henituse!”
Cale who was starting to ask the black tree what was wrong turned around having heard a sharp voice calling his name.
“Huff, huff.”
Elisneh who had cuts all over her body was floating in the air while clenching her bleeding right shoulder.
“...A horse?”
She was riding a wind horse.
‘Where is Choi Han?’
As Cale looked for Choi Han who had been fighting against Elisneh...
Baaaaaaaaaang!
He heard a loud explosion and saw a red tiger attacking Choi Han.
It was the fire tiger.
Choi Han slashed that tiger with his black aura before stepping back.
“I'm sorry.”
He then slightly bowed toward Cale.
An old shaman on another wind horse appeared as well. Two more horses appeared with a shaman riding on each of them as well.
“Young master-nim!”
“Commander-nim!”
Cale's group started to arrive one by one as well.
The Dark Elves who were nearby were the first to arrive.
Tasha looked toward Cale and urgently started to speak.
“Mr. Jeet tried to stop them, but he couldn't do anything once they ran away through the air!”
There was an obstacle for Cale’s group in this battle.
The ceiling.
The maze walls.
The fact that getting on top of the walls would make them fall into a hallucination was making Cale’s group fight as if they had one hand and one arm tied down.
On the other hand, the aerial battle was extremely beneficial for the enemies.
They just needed to escape to the air, and nobody could chase them.
However, the old man who should be elated did not look happy.
In fact, he had a look of urgency on his face.
“...You bastard!”
He was shouting toward Cale with such force that the veins on his neck were showing.
“You cannot do that if you wish to save your comrades!”
‘Hmm?’
Cale found the old man's response to be a bit odd.
It was the same for Elisneh and the other shamans on wind horses as well. They did not dare to enter the flower field with the World Tree and were just observing Cale with serious gazes.
Their gazes seemed to be saying that they would not miss any movements Cale made, but they were not making any movements to match those gazes.
‘I wonder what is going on.’
He recalled what the old man had just said.Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)
‘You cannot do that if you wish to save your comrades!’
He didn't like how they were threatening him with his comrades again, but it was something else that caught his attention.
‘I cannot do that? What am I doing? I'm just talking to the fake World Tree.’
Cale's gaze slowly moved down to his body. He wanted to see what he was doing.
It was at that moment.
“Everybody, capture the evil leader of the enemies!”
The people who were the closest after the Dark Elves and Mary appeared.
They were the fifty knights.
Clang!
The Knight Captain immediately pointed his sword at Cale who naturally looked at him.
“Death to the rebel! You bastard who lured former Princess Jopis and brought chaos to the Molden Kingdom, are you not afraid of dying with your limbs ripped off?!”
The Knight Captain sounded full of dignity.
“Ruff!”
However, his shoulders flinched once he heard a dog bark. A few knights around the Knight Captain urgently started to speak.
“They're here!”
A man wearing a servant outfit arrived with two puppies and started to speak.
"Surround them.”
The assassins who had been hiding in the shadows of the maze walls popped out and started to surround the knights after Ron gave the order.
Their actions made the knights who were starting to surround the Dark Elves, Mary, Choi Han, and Cale stop moving.
“You bastards! Are you not afraid of death?!”
The Knight Captain still sounded honorable.
“Everybody follow her majesty's will and raise the sword of justice toward those evil rebels!”
He sounded very heroic.
The knights bit down on their lips and clenched their swords with stiff expressions.
However, some of them were looking at the black tree with shaking eyes. Among them was the knight who had gone to report about the intruders and Jopis to Elisneh the First.
He was someone who had guarded the entrance by the statue in the central plaza for many years.
‘...This disgusting tree is what I was guarding?’
The knight had found this eerie maze to be weird as he came to save Elisneh.
The knight's eyes headed toward the skeleton monster. He could see the royal children glaring at Elisneh from the tree nest the skeleton monsters were guarding in their arms.
‘...They were the ones who followed her majesty the most. Something is weird.’
The fact that something was weird filled his mind.
That was why he slowly released his grip on his sword.
It was at that moment.
“Your majesty! Please leave it to me! I will kill that evil bastard!”
The Knight Captain shouted toward Elisneh who was in the air with a more reliable expression than ever before.
He then pointed his sword toward the man by the black tree.
But Choi Han had destroyed her medium which had been a bracelet.
What could be going on?
However, Choi Han realized the identity of that black staff before he could question what was going on.
‘That’s the fake World Tree!’
He was certain that was one of the fake World Tree's branches.
It was his intuition. That staff was pointed at Cale.
“Cale-nim!”
Choi Han subconsciously turned his body and looked toward Cale.
He just realized that neither he nor Raon were by Cale’s side right now.
Everybody was currently away trying to protect Jopis or attack Elisneh.
That meant that currently, the only things next to Cale were the imugi, the fire...
And lastly...
Choi Han realized something at that moment.
The last thing by Cale's side...
That was the fake World Tree.
“F*ck!”
Cale realized that fact as well.
His hand let go of the fake World Tree's branch.
He faintly heard the black tree’s voice at that instant.
- ...Control...this is not...my will...I'm sorry...I don't want to die...I don’t want to burn......
The timid voice that was full of fear and despair became faint.
Elisneh who was looking toward Cale moved her staff as her eyes turned red.
“Move.”
She was not looking at Cale nor Jopis.
All of that had been an act.
Booboboboooooooooom-
The large black tree charged toward the human covered in fire without any hesitation.
The fake World Tree that was being controlled and moving according to Elisneh's will showed no hesitation.
“Shit!”
Cale had let go of the branch the moment Elisneh had taken out her new medium, but he could not avoid the branch that had already been close to him.
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzle-
The branch started to burn.
The black tree branch turned into rose gold ashes.
It definitely looked like a tree that had absorbed dead mana.
- Hey, hey. What do you want me to do? Should I burn it up? Isn’t it being controlled?
He heard the anxious voice of the Fire of Destruction.
“Ugh! Damn it!”
Cale couldn’t help but groan at the branch that was persistently trying to tie him down without being afraid of burning.
It was at that moment.
“Cale-nim! I will cut it!”
- Human!
Choi Han and Raon had instantly returned toward Cale.
Raon had already created a large mana hand to rip apart the branch that was imprisoning Cale.
However, Cale started to speak.
“Move! Step back!”
He did not let Choi Han or Raon approach him.
He shouted toward the confused Choi Han and Raon.
“It’s not the tree!”
Elisneh had not been looking at Jopis, Cale, nor the tree.
All of those were tricks.
“It's the sky!”
Cale raised his head as he shouted.
Choi Han raised his head and realized something at that moment.
The maze’s ceiling. That distant ceiling was the trap that Elisneh the First used to place people under illusions.
That ceiling was her territory.
No matter how much they moved inside the maze, they were all under her territory.
He realized this fact too late.
“Ah.”
Choi Han gasped.
Elisneh had not told the tree to move.
She had told the sky.
Choi Han saw a flashing light.
That was the end.
That light shot down as soon as he saw it.
“Get them away!”
Choi Han heard Cale shout at the same time and saw the stone imugi push him and the invisible Raon away.
He saw the light, the thunderbolt strike down while being pushed away by the imugi.
It was so white that he could not see anything for an instant.
However, that light accurately landed on Cale.
Boooooooom-
A large explosion occurred.
He heard Elisneh's voice at that moment.
“No matter how much you run around on the ground, you are still underneath my sky.”
He saw her smiling leisurely as if this was her true expression.
However, Choi Han's expression did not change at all at her sneering.
- Choi Han, did you hear it?
It was a quiet voice that only Choi Han and Raon had heard the moment the white light struck down.
“Elisneh cannot use magic. I'm sure it is an illusion. I'll snap out of it soon.”
It had been Cale.
Choi Han was waiting for Cale to show up as the explosion and the white light disappeared.
He just needed to wait a few seconds.
“...Cale-nim.”
He then saw an unconscious Cale.
The world had turned white before it turned dark.
“Ugh.”
However, Cale had to open his eyes as someone was shaking him.
He then saw a white light.
‘It’s a lamp....Hmm? ...A lamp?’
It was a fluorescent lamp.
He then felt someone shaking him.
“Team leader-nim, team leader-nim! Are you not going to get up?”
“...Who the hell?”
‘Why are you here?’
Cale touched his neck.
“Why else?! I came here because someone whose vacation was over didn't show up for work!”
“What?”
Cale turned his head.
There was a book next to him.
< ‘The Birth of a Hero Volume 5 >
Cale looked at his subordinate who stopped shaking him and started to clean up the room as well as the calendar on top of the table.
It was the next day after he had read, ‘The Birth of a Hero.’
What Cale faced was his life he should have continued as Kim Rok Soo.