Quaaang!!!

 

A flash of light filled the area, followed by a vast explosion with a deafening roar.

 

Ice thorns filled the icy lakes, and the ice blocks flooded ferociously.

 

I hid myself in the radiance and flew at Veronica with a frostscythe.

 

Wheek!

 

Swoop!

 

Veronica noticed my presence and dodged behind her, spurring her ground.

 

I saw the frost scythe she was holding. No, it was a scythe that looked exactly like the frost scythe, but with a slightly different shape.

 

Perhaps it is a replica made from memories of the past.

 

Damn it!

 

It rushed towards Veronica and drew a silver trail several times at high speed.

 

Veronica blocked or evaded my attack by using ice magic or spreading [Ice Emperor] Wings to quickly retreat.

 

‘Is the scythe too heavy for me to wield?’

 

It was worth it if he had such a bony body like that.

 

As if we had promised, we deployed ice magic circles at the same time.

 

Her magic circle poured out a wide range of [Frost Sparks]. I also countered with [Frostfire].

 

Roaring!!

 

Destructive ice magic tries to eat each other.

 

We imbued with ice magic and poured elemental magic on each other non-stop.

 

At the same time, I was using magic to talk to Veronica’s head.

 

‘Why were you here as a gatekeeper?’

 

‘… ….’

 

‘You said you would follow the stars. What did that mean?’

 

‘… ….’

 

‘What is the lie you wanted to shake off?’

 

Wow!

 

‘If you pass through this door, will you know everything? Separate, lies too!’

 

‘… ….’

 

Wow!!

 

No answer came back from Veronica.

 

Her mind was already broken. She was aiming for my life with her glamorous ice magic and only fired a series of attacks.

 

However, I wanted to awaken Veronica’s rationality.

 

“Answer me!”

 

I yelled at all.

 

“Isn’t it the monster inside me that sealed the evil god in the first place?! That didn’t go down in history! But how did you know that?!”

 

The final boss of , The evil god Nephid, is ‘resurrected’ after being sealed in the abyss.

 

Why is that expression used?

 

Even the original kings only prophesied the resurrection of the evil spirit, but they had no involvement in the sealing of the evil spirit.

 

It is still unknown who sealed the evil spirit.

 

However, in Dupendorf, Veronica left me a note when I came to find Whilang’s cloak, allowing me to guess who sealed the evil spirit.

 

I sealed the evil spirit, and if I want to live, I can’t believe it.

 

“Ozma!!”

 

That existence belongs to the first volume of the star fairy Stella, Ozmail.

 

Wow!!

 

The ice magic collided in series, causing an intense cold blast.

 

Damn it!

 

Breaking through the raging cryogenic cold, they reached Veronica’s nose.

 

As Veronica swung the frost scythe with ice magic, I swung a frost scythe wrapped in cold.

 

The target was not Veronica, but the frost scythe she held.

 

Kaang!

 

Veronica’s frostscythe bounced off. The superiority of power was on my side.

 

I grabbed her head with both hands and banged her head hard against her forehead.

 

Wow!!!

 

A dull sound like a head breaking.

 

Veronica trudged back, and I grabbed her by the collar, ignoring the bleeding head. No matter how much ice magic she throws at me, I counterattack with my ice magic.

 

I looked up close and stared into Veronica’s lifeless eyes.

 

“You waited for me here. Why did you do that… ?”

 

[…] ….]

 

Veronica pursed her pale lips as if she had realized something.

 

Her eyes finally captured me.

 

[Star….]

 

Finally Veronica put her words in her mouth.

 

Her voice cracked, no matter how many years she hadn’t spoken.

 

[…] Silver… , you… what… to….]

 

The stars are beyond.

 

Are you answering my question? Or is it just that she put the tenacity left to her in her mouth?

 

However, it seemed clear that it meant that you could find out if you went through the door.

 

He blinked softly.

 

‘Why?’

 

Why did Veronica come here and become a gatekeeper?

 

Since I told her to do it without hesitation, she must have already guessed her fate.

 

“Veronica. Why do you… Were you acting as a gatekeeper here?”

 

When I asked that question, Veronica’s eyes widened.

 

Soon, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

 

Her mummy-like face, devoid of life, shattered and cracked like pieces of ice.

 

Because I managed to capture a smile.

 

[Me… Kill… , This… the door… To pass… Qualification… second… !]

 

Wow!

 

A sharp flash passed by, and her tremendous magic power spread like a wave.

 

One after another, strange wind noises were heard from the sky.

 

Unable to keep her eyes off Veronica, she activated [Clairvoyance] To see what appeared above her.

 

‘What is that… ?’

 

The light blue crescent moon with a large amount of magic circles emitted a dazzling light beneath the bloody clouds.

 

The ice crescent moon that was connected to Veronica and her magical powers.

 

It was ice magic I had never seen before, but it wasn’t hard to notice that the magic consumed to create it was more than the [Ice Ice Hell].

 

Dive.

 

Dive.

 

Something gradually rose to the surface of the ice lake.

 

All sorts of naked creatures carrying heavy loads.

 

Since everyone stayed in the fierce cold, their bodies were frostbitten and shivering.

 

Coughing, begging for help, crying.

 

They all knelt down and cried and looked at the icy crescent moon.

 

It was a bizarre sight.

 

Only then did I know the conditions for submerging in the Ice Lake.

 

‘Death…. Only the dead fall into the ice lake.’

 

I couldn’t fall into the ice lake because I was alive.

 

Because I am alive, the ice lake has sent out many monsters to reject me.

 

The rock sticks made in the elevator were also made with the magic of the living, so the ice lake wouldn’t accept them.

 

It was such a realizing moment.

 

Wow!

 

There was a tremendous impact on the side of my face, and my body flew like a ball.

 

‘What… ?’

 

Rolled around the ice lake relentlessly.

 

I almost lost my mind for a moment, but I used [Ice Generation] To stop my body from rolling further.

 

[Please die… !]

 

[Die… !]

 

[I want to live… !]

 

[Get me out of here!]

 

[That body, to me… !]

 

The dead run at me. They were all weak. The fears they harbored were also read.

 

I immediately raised my head. A barrage of ice magic was pouring towards me.

 

[Keep it!]

 

[Mom, Mom… !]

 

[Save me… give… !]

 

I extended the wings of [Ice Emperor] And flew upward to avoid all of Veronica’s attacks, but dozens of dead people who ran towards me were struck by ice magic and turned into gray powder and disappeared.

 

I checked the situation.

 

“Cool… !”

 

Blood poured from his mouth. He had bruises all over his body.

 

My cheeks were tingling the most. It felt like being hit hard by someone.

 

The dead rushed in, opened their mouths so that their cheeks were torn, and tried to drink my blood as if it were holy water.

 

[Ah, no… !]

 

[The blood, the blood of the living… !]

 

They wept and became frustrated as my blood seeped into the icy lake.

 

Meanwhile, in front of the still huge door, Veronica picked up the frost scythe and stood still.

 

‘What was that? Wait, it’s gone….’

 

Veronica vanished from my sight just before I was hit hard.

 

And when I felt her shock, I caught Veronica’s figure in my eyes for a moment.

 

It was clearly the posture of swinging her fist at me.

 

And unbelievable speed… Even the expression, “It was so fast that I felt a sense of discord.

 

‘It felt like I was fast-forwarding a video….’

 

Why do you feel that way? Too late?

 

She knew just how weak she was when their frost scythes collided earlier.

 

It was hard to believe that such a weak woman, that she had dealt such a powerful blow to my body.

 

Is this a phenomenon related to the ice crescent moon floating above her head?

 

‘Hwirang’s cloak didn’t work either.’

 

Hwirang’s cloak deploys an ice barrier when it senses a crisis.

 

However, it was unable to respond to Veronica’s mysterious attack.

 

‘A speed that even this cloak can’t react to….’

 

Whee Woo Woo Woo!

 

As her distance increased, Veronica stretched her arms up again and created a chill sun. She was a 9-star ice elemental magic [Hangbing Hell].

 

As the dead panicked, they sank back to the bottom of the icy lake.

 

‘Kill me to pass through this door… , did you say Is the next word ‘prove it’?’

 

I remembered what Veronica had managed to convey to me.

 

I refined my reasoning. I have something to check.

 

I also built the [Ice Hell]. We threw the chill sun at each other again.

 

Quaaa!!!!!

 

Covering the entire body with an ice shield, he tried to swing the frost scythe at Veronica across a huge blast of cold.

 

An early moment for her.

 

Wow!!

 

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“hehehe!!”

 

Veronica disappeared from sight, and I was thrown back with an unidentified blow that was strong enough to distort my strong body.

 

I rolled over the ice lake again. The dead crawl back to the surface, screaming, and attack me like zombies.

 

Challenge!

 

Veronica’s ice magic poured in without a break.

 

I managed to hold on to her spirit, which she almost lost again, and flew up to avoid all the attacks. Only the dead were destroyed by Veronica’s attack.

 

Suddenly, I remembered the time when I fought against the floating island. Even then, the creatures of the underworld attacked me, believing that they would revive if they ate my body.

 

They must be the same. They must be trying to hold on to me with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw to escape this hell.

 

When the distance got farther away, Veronica built the [Ice Hell] Again.

 

The dead returned to the Ice Lake. No… , rather than going back, it felt like being forced out.

 

“Heo Eok, Heo Eok….”

 

I wiped the blood from her mouth and observed Veronica.

 

‘The [Ice Hell] Has become a bit smaller….’

 

Her first time Veronica felt and grasped her magic, and her [Hanging Hell] 3 Times was not too much for her.

 

In other words, there was no doubt that he had used a lot of mana to put a burden on that ice crescent moon.

 

But that crescent moon did me no harm. Why do you keep something like that?

 

‘I guess….’

 

Force is the product of mass and acceleration, and acceleration is the amount of change in velocity over time.

 

As the target’s time slows down, the power of the attacker’s impact increases. This is because the ‘time taken’, which is the denominator of acceleration for the target, is less than the ‘time taken’ when the attacker attacks.

 

No matter how weak Veronica was, the reason she was able to deal a huge blow to my body was because my time slowed down.

 

But it was after I had already been attacked that I noticed Veronica’s movements.

 

‘At first she stopped time, she moved by herself…. And if time gradually returned to its original state….’

 

Veronica was teleported, and when she hit me, her appearance looked like a fast-forward video.

 

The point that Hwirang’s cloak was unable to respond.

 

That she took a toll on me with her weak strength all explains it.

 

‘Is it the ability to stop time?’

 

It’s ridiculous to stop all ranges of time.

 

It would be understandable if the effect of that mighty ice crescent moon was limited to this place.

 

It was difficult for me to see that time had stopped. The background was fine without any sense of incongruity, and only Veronica had disappeared.

 

However, assuming that time has stopped in the first place, many problems arise.

 

As air does not cause convection, it will have absolute defense power, and even if it succeeds in forcibly moving its body, its body will disintegrate into particles.

 

Even if there is no air problem, gravity or all kinds of physical force problems will occur.

 

But if Veronica hadn’t moved as soon as she stopped time, my eyes, with her excellent reflexes, would have caught her no matter what.

 

In that case.

 

‘It’s not just the ability to freeze time.’

 

While the exact effect was difficult to determine, what was certain was that there was no means to defeat Veronica in close combat.

 

Is what I’m suffering right now the limit of that crescent moon’s power?

 

No, I’m sure it will be more than that.

 

‘Perhaps, that power….’

 

It must be the ultimate ice magic I must learn.

 

‘Veronica’s pattern seems to be standardized too.’

 

I felt it repeated twice. It was like she was testing me.

 

When it approaches, it unleashes an attack that I cannot deal with.

 

When I fly far away, pour ice magic and use [Ice Hell].

 

Anyway, it seemed as if he wanted to prove himself worthy to cross the door by jumping over himself, who had raised an unknown ice crescent moon.

 

‘How do I pierce it?’

 

I’ve already exhausted a lot of my magical energy dealing with King Myung.

 

If I repeat this with Veronica, sooner or later my magic power will run out first.

 

This means that I have to avoid melee combat unconditionally, and even if I use long-range attacks to waste time, I have no choice but to lose.

 

It feels like an outsider.

 

“Keuk! Cool! Ha….”

 

He splattered blood and coughed and drooled.

 

My body was in a mess.

 

‘No… , I’ll find it before my magic power runs out.’

 

How to do it.

 

How can I defeat Veronica?

 

“… Uh?”

 

Suddenly, I looked around and realized.

 

The pouring rain of blood had turned into red eyes before I knew it.

 

I looked up at the reddish clouds of an unfathomable area.

 

The fight between me and Veronica seemed to have a significant effect on the bloody cloud.

 

‘I didn’t freeze even with the coldness of the ice lake….’

 

I froze.

 

The snow was proof of that.

 

“… ….”

 

Suddenly, the memories of my life passed through my mind like a panorama.

 

Looking ahead, simple, ignorant, terrible, just running, my life was about to be projected into my ice magic.

 

Poof. Extend the frost scythe up.

 

Cryogenic cold air rushes through the sky and white light pours in.

 

[Keep in the Sky – White Night]. I made the sky mine.

 

[Owner?]

 

I didn’t answer Ice and Snow Dragon’s call that resonated in my head. Because I wanted to focus.

 

Chara la la la rock!!!

 

Ultimate elemental efficiency. The extent to which I can channel my mana is beyond imagination.

 

He poured a large amount of ice magic toward the sky, rapidly freezing the cloud of blood. It was much easier thanks to [Rules in the Sky – White Night].

 

Intense cold air filling the clouds. The multiplication of [Dark Winter Blue] And [Ice Generation] Combined with the coldness of [Ice Agent].

 

As calculation formulas overlap, overlap, overlap, the difficulty of calculation increases exponentially.

 

I was ignorant. But it was straight. So, this was the trick my life had reached.

 

The cloud of blood could not withstand my magical power and froze.

 

[Element Synergy]. A combination of elemental magic and elemental magic that enhances the effect.

 

In between the components of a cloud. Expanding the area of ice, connecting and continuing.

 

The cloud made of someone’s blood sublimated into an extremely large block of ice.

 

The shadows that fill the ice lake.

 

There is no place to escape.

 

It lowers the frost scythe and stops the shedding of mana.

 

[The sky….]

 

The sky is falling.

 

A heavy pongong sound echoes the heavens and earth.

 

Ice elemental magic that I arbitrarily created. It suppresses and devours everything in the area.

 

If I had to name it, this technique should be called [Sky Drop].

 

Veronica looked up at the sky.

 

As if he had realized that even if he poured [Cold Hell] On me right away, it would be useless.

 

Quaaagh!!

 

There was a wide-ranging explosion, but only one area was replaced with a hellish scene full of ferocious cold.

 

The sky of falling ice was unmoved.

 

Unmeasurable weight and consequent gravitational acceleration.

 

Intense cold magic that gradually increases concentration riding on him, and high magical density that forms a block of ice.

 

This is… Even Veronica couldn’t handle it.

 

Breakfast!

 

Quaaang!!!

 

A huge block of falling ice destroyed an unknown force, the Ice Crescent.

 

A daunting sight.

 

The way to avoid the enormous pressure to suppress everything without discrimination was simple.

 

Chararak.

 

A [Freeze Block] Was put around Ice and Snow Dragon-Heeld and me.

 

We are initially immune from the effects of my magic, but that block of ice was created by freezing a cloud of blood. We couldn’t be free from physical force.

 

So if you put [Ice Barrier] On it, it will eat only the ice where it collides and nullify it. Even if a cloud of blood drenched me, there would be no particular harm.

 

Whee Woo Woo Woo!!

 

Veronica transformed herself into elemental form. A cold wind like a blizzard blew at me at breakneck speed.

 

With nowhere to run, I felt the tenacity to defeat me first.

 

‘I’ll lose if I’m close, so I won’t allow access.’

 

She stretched out her arm towards her.

 

Challenge!

 

It pushed Veronica away with a powerful cold blast. It was a 6-star ice elemental magic [Severe Winter’s Blue].

 

It transforms into an elemental form and becomes helpless when moving. She regained her true form and was pushed through the air by the [Dark Winter Blue].

 

She spread her [Ice Emperor] Wings and charged me again, unleashing a large-scale series of ice magic like crazy.

 

That much was worth stopping. I also used ice magic to block or counterattack.

 

“It’s over. You can’t reach me.”

 

Whee woo woo. Veronica stopped coming towards me. She must have realized that it was too late.

 

In the shadows filled by the falling sky, we looked at each other quietly with the wings of the [Ice Emperor] Outstretched.

 

For some reason, her face seemed to show a lot of emotion.

 

“… May you be at peace.”

 

Finally, the huge block of ice ignored me and Ice and Snow Dragon-Heeld with the [Ice Barrier] And swept away Veronica.

 

Soon, the entire area was swallowed up.

 

Kuuu!!!!!

 

An overwhelming impact landed, and a roar resounded as if tearing the eardrum.

 

Ice blocks collapsed and ice lakes sprang up like geysers between the cracks.

 

Surely.

 

I solved the block of ice.

 

The huge block of ice turned into light blue powder and scattered splendidly.

 

The figure of Veronica Aslius could not be found.

 

Only the beautiful gray powder was scattered in one place.

 

[Veronica….]

 

I can feel the sorrowful feelings of Ice and Snow Dragon.

 

I came down to the spot where Veronica had disappeared and took up three pairs of cold wings.

 

I calmly meditated in silence and proceeded toward the huge door.

 

I don’t know exactly what purpose Veronica was here for.

 

You will know the truth once you pass through that door.

 

“Hild, get some rest.”

 

[Owner?]

 

“I don’t have much magic left.”

 

[…] I get it.]

 

After a light conversation with Ice and Snow Dragon – Heald, I reverse summoned him.

 

The remaining magic power was on the verge of depletion. Veronica suffered a lot of damage in the fight, so her physical condition was not perfect.

 

My vision is shaking. It was dizzy. I was relieved that the battle was over, and I felt like I would lose my mind any moment.

 

I had to put up with it. You can see Dorothy now.

 

“… Huh?”

 

I could feel a lot of people from behind.

 

I turned my head back. Many monsters and the dead in the ice lake were staring at me.

 

When I read the psychology, I read awe. They seemed to be watching Veronica and I fight from the bottom of the lake.

 

And they also felt that they were envious of me walking through the door.

 

“… ….”

 

I had nothing to say.

 

I was just moving on.

 

Wow!

 

The huge doors began to open on both sides, and light poured in through the cracks in the doors.

 

I turned my head forward to face the light.

 

This is good.

 

A door wide open.

 

Squinting my eyes, I stepped into the radiance without hesitation.

 

As I crossed the light, I felt a warm feeling in my chest even in the intense cold. For a moment, I even felt as if I had come to heaven.

 

As I accelerated my steps, the light gradually faded and I heard the sound of the door closing.

 

Soon, a new landscape came into my blurred vision.

 

This place was still hell.

 

“Here, beyond the door….”

 

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A scene as if day and night were dramatically split in half.

 

It was bright where I was, and in the distance there was a starry sky and a view of a lake reflecting that beautiful sky.

 

From afar, I saw a black orb floating in the air. It contained many stars and galaxies as if it reflected the universe like a mirror.

 

I felt the familiar magic. It was Dorothy’s magic.

 

“Ha ha ha….”

 

He took a deep breath and trudged his tired body.

 

In silence. The changgeuk (蒼極) of a distant ice lake that can be seen even with blurred vision overwhelms me.

 

It was a sight that made my head stir with useless thoughts about how insignificant I am. Fortunately, that skepticism held me back on the slope of consciousness.

 

Move.

 

Even if the cool air of the ice lake eats away at my spirit with every step I take.

 

Ignoring the pain of broken bones and the cries of twisted muscles, I just moved forward.

 

No matter how much you stumble, stay straight.

 

‘… It’s all here.’

 

I stopped at the boundary between light and darkness.

 

A sphere floating in the sky noticed me and opened many eyes.

 

Soon the sphere cracked like clay, and a woman curled up in it, asleep, caught her eye.

 

A being that embraces the beautiful starry sky.

 

I see you.

 

She opened her eyes little by little, found me and pulled herself up.

 

A cosmic ring engraved with many eyes perched behind her. All those eyes were looking at me.

 

My heart seemed to be about to collapse. Tears welled up in my eyes at the overflowing emotions.

 

But with a smile on his face, I said.

 

“Long time no see, Dorothy.”

 

I’m here.