EIITAB - Chapter 137 < How to Kill Again >
Even if it is Trampled and Broken
In his head, information about the Great Wave and the endless winter were already forming a puzzle.
In the end, Anette was the problem.
It wasn't just human life that she absorbed.
Mountains and fields, rivers and weather.
The life force of all those things was being taken away and breathed into that long-dead bull beast, and the North was facing a desolate winter.
"Saintess Hestia."
Anette, who had been stroking her mother's fur in silence for a while, stumbled and stood up.
She walked unsteadily without taking her eyes off Hestia.
Aslan stood with his sword drawn as if to protect Hestia, but Anette stretched out her arms regardless.
"Give me your divine power."
Her fingertips were pointing exactly toward Hestia's forehead. Just like when she was about to give Hestia her blessing in the capital.
"With your divine power, even if I touch other people, they won't die."
Hestia gritted her teeth at Anette's words.
'As expected, the blessing was an excuse.'
Every time Anette's fingertips touched her forehead, she felt drowsy and her body became heavy.
However, the reason she foolishly could not refuse it was because of her self-destruction, 'I am a Saintess, but I am losing my divine power!'
In her last life, Anette had been contacting herself periodically.
And in this life as well, she tried to reach her every chance she got.
Unable to explain the reasons for coming back in time, her instinctive reluctance caused her to reject Anette's blessing and twist her body.
Every time she saw Anette look at her with that strange expression, she could now read her emotions that she had been unable to read back then.
It must have been nervousness.
Since she could no longer take Hestia's divine power away, she must have been heartbroken and very anxious.
'This is why she left on the pilgrimage sooner than she expected.'
However, almost as soon as she understood it, another question lingered in her mind.
'Then why didn't she take it all at once?'
There must be another reason for being so busy for such a long time.
Hestia thought, swallowing her sigh.
'I have to figure it out.'
Only then would she and Aslan be able to emerge victorious in this fight.
Hestia let go of Aslan's hand.
"Just stay here."
But as soon as she did that, he grabbed her hand again.
Hestia raised the corners of her mouth as if she fully understood his feelings.
Aslan tried to smile, but his mind was so confused that all he could do was move his muscles.
After whispering that she would be okay, Hestia took a step forward.
Hestia, facing Anette, took a short breath and let out her strong voice.
"No."
The essence of her divine power is life force.
As she was with Aslan, Hestia's power, which made her yearn for life more than ever, could not help but be pure and clean.
If this power of hers were to flow to Anette, she might run wild even more than before.
"You can't take anything from me anymore."
Hestia shook her head once more, slowly but with a large movement of her own.
"It's my strength. That means it's not yours. So I won't give you anything."
Hestia spoke slowly but clearly as if speaking to a child who was having a tantrum.
Then Anette's eyes suddenly changed.
As she clenched her teeth, the blood stood out on her skin, and her limp red hair floated in the air, defying her gravity
"Give it! I ask for it! I need it!"
Her sharp voice echoed off the cave walls.
It was extremely creepy, but Hestia did not flinch.
" I can't do that. I won't give it to you."
Anette, who glared at Hestia for a while, longer at her firm refusal, let out a sharp laugh and relaxed.
"Good. If you won't give it to me, I'll take it from you."
Anette put both her palms on the floor and made an action to lift something.
Then black and red tentacles, like the roots of a dead tree, protruded out of her, randomly tearing through the ground at her feet.
It had the shape of a giant earthworm.
Hestia whispered quickly and softly so that only Aslan could hear.
"Aslan, you cut off that bull's head while I deal with Anette."
"It's no use."
Since this had already been tried several times with the generals, he immediately gave a negative opinion.
However, Hestia spoke firmly, as if she had confidence.
"No. It will be possible this time."
Her voice gained strength again and again.
"When you dealt with it, that magical beast was almost as thin as a mummy, with no vitality whatsoever."
"That's right."
"But now, it has received vitality from Anette and its body is alive."
At that moment, Aslan's eyes turned strange.
He seemed to have figured out what she wanted to say.
There is no way to kill someone who has already died, but if the body is alive, the story is different.
Hestia met Aslan's gaze, nodding her head briefly as if his guess was correct.
Sreung.
With a chilling sound, Aslan's black sword appeared.
He aimed the tip of his sword at the corpse of the demonic beast that was Anette's mother and began running at high speed.
For now, he had no choice but to try something.
The sharp sword cut off the beast's horn, followed by cutting off its skin.
But his sword only drew long scars.
"The skin is thicker than I thought."
Aslan clicked his tongue, not hiding his displeasure.
When Anette found out later that he had attacked the bull demon beast, she became furious.
"Where!"
She turned her tentacles that were about to attack Hestia and pointed them at Aslan.
"No!"
Hestia gritted her teeth.
All she could think was that she shouldn't let those tentacles touch Aslan directly. If she left it that way, it was clear that all of his strong vitality would be absorbed by Anette.
Hestia instinctively blocked Aslan's path and used her divine power to ward off Anette's power.
Meanwhile, the skin of the bull demon beast that had been wounded by Aslan's sword healed.
It seemed like Anette had infused all of the vitality she had gathered into the mother's body.
"Things are going to be troublesome."
Aslan tsk and clicked his tongue.
It seemed like there would be a chance of victory if he attacked repeatedly and exhausted all of its vitality.
That's not a problem.
However, he was worried about whether Hestia would be able to hold out while he was concentrating on this magical beast.
Hestia smiled as his golden gaze filled with concern fell on her.
"Don't worry about me."
Anette will never be able to harm herself, who is fully clothed in divine power.
In the first place, her power could not pollute or hurt Hestia.
Because she was unclean, she was immediately purified.
Even without explaining these details in detail, Aslan nodded silently, as if they could clearly understand each other's intentions now.
For Hestia's sake, he needed to end his own fight quickly.
He took a deep breath and gripped the handle of his sword tightly. Then again he began to rapidly stab and slash the bull rider.
The demon beast's wounds were healing like the first time, but the speed was clearly slowing down.
'It works.'
Aslan took a long breath and swung his sword again without getting tired.
Hestia quietly watched the scene and then glanced back at Anette.
She thought she would be furious, but she was smiling softly as if she had come to some realization.
The moment when Hestia hardened her eyes at a completely different appearance than expected.
Anette's blue eyes contained.
She opened her red lips as she stared at Hestia, her smile deepening a little more.
"Your weaknesses are so obvious."
A clear ridicule followed, leaving no need to even doubt the intention.
Before Hestiq had time to think about what she meant, Anette swung her arms.
Googoo googling!
The inside of the cave began to shake with loud vibrations.
The stalactites hanging from the ceiling were shaking precariously, making an unsettling rattling sound.
Hestia's face turned pale as she glanced up.
The shaking of the ceiling was stronger than that of the ground.
Even the tentacles created by Anette kept poking and digging into the cave walls, adding to the vibration.
She hurriedly wrapped herself in layers of divine power, further strengthening her strength.
However, the moment she saw the stalactite shaking and something like a falling stone falling through the barrier and falling on her head, she had a hunch.
'I can't stop that......!'
Her divine power could only purify evil or unclean things that Anette had intentionally created.
The physical force of naturally occurring objects such as stones and stalactites could not be blocked.
After continued shaking, one stalactite with a very sharp end suddenly broke off.
What she saw, there was no way Aslan couldn't have seen it.
"Shit!"
He fiercely cursed and moved quickly.
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