I Picked Up the Abandoned Hero

128. The light that does not reach

“B, but you said I am the heir of a hero… I inherit the blood of the hero who defeated the evil demon king. “I will become a new hero…”

I asked the queen in a trembling voice.

Morian could not understand the queen’s words at all.

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t say that what the voice told me to do was something a warrior should do.

“To be exact, I inherited the blood of a warrior. “I’m not a hero anymore anyway, so why worry about that?”

“Yes? But I’m sure you are-“

Furthermore, the queen said something strange that Arcel was no longer a warrior.

Of course, Hermod no longer calls her her dragon, but there is no doubt that she is still her warrior.

“Oh, are you mistaken? “You may be stupid…”

Then the queen looked down at Morrian with her pitiful eyes.

“You do not inherit her blood, but you are the warrior from before. “To be exact, she inherited the blood of the Demon King.”

Arsel is still a warrior.

It’s just that the blood you inherited is not that of a warrior.

The queen said so.

“Well, that can’t be…”

It was a strange statement.

This world felt strange, and the queen also felt strange.

She clearly resembles Arcel.

Is that all? Even her magical power has the same nature as hers.

So, it would be natural for her to say that she inherited her blood.

“It was just my preference. It’s easy to just adjust your appearance to your liking. “Magic power is supplied from magic stones, so of course it has the same properties.”

“Ah…”

“So what you need to look at is not your magic power or appearance, but the characteristics of your body. Not falling down from any attack. “That is also the power that the warriors and demon kings of the previous generation had.”

Morrían broke free from her queen’s embrace and backed away from her.

She was not the queen she knew.

The Queen has always embraced her warmly and lovingly, so there is no way she would say something like that.

In the first place, she was the one who always said that she was the heir of a hero and that she had to act like a hero.

“I’m not lying. Anyway, it was made with the blood of a warrior. Because he possesses all the power that the hero had.”

But should we consider this a blessing?

The Queen once again comforted Morian with her benevolent smile and warm voice.

“Oh, don’t come…”

However, now her voice and her hands felt creepy.

Morrían backed away from her and tried to run away.

It was once a warm and safe place like her mother’s arms, but now it feels like a bad place, colder than ice and darker than a cave.

I felt as if I had been thrown into the deep sea where not even a ray of light could reach.

“Ah… This poor, stupid, useless child.”

Looking at Morrian like that, the queen smiled brightly.

“Don’t come!!!”

Morian desperately runs away without even looking back.

Soon, the queen’s body turned into black liquid and melted.

The melted liquid turned into a shadow, and the shadow stretched out like tentacles toward the fleeing Morrían.

“Please, please help me!”

Morian desperately asked for help, but no one came.

There was no way there would be help in this world full of despair.

She runs away, believing that there is still hope.

Boom!

“Ah…”

But soon, when the shadow passed by the legs, they turned into blue particles and dispersed.

In the end, even though the Morrían crawls across her floor, she runs away.

She couldn’t run away even if she ran, so would she be able to run away by crawling? The reason Morian wasn’t caught right now is because she was enjoying the situation.

Even though the shadow could catch the Morrigan right away, she deliberately kept her distance and let her escape.

“Please, please…”

At that time, Morian saw a ray of light.

In this world of silence, there was a blue light that alone illuminated the darkness.

That light does not give up and continues to move forward toward her, even on the hill stained with her blood.

“Please help me-“

Morrían stretched out her hand toward the blue light.

“Ah, I caught it.”

However, it was not light but shadow that held Morian’s hand.

“…!!! …!!!!!”

The shadow blocked Morrían’s mouth so that she could no longer even voice her voice.

Morian’s eyes were stained with despair.

The shadow slowly devours what remains of her body.

Is this what it feels like to be strangled by a snake and die?

“hehehe, you’re cute. “No matter how much you call, my voice cannot reach.”

The Queen made the Morrían pursue her hopes, but she deliberately ended them in front of those hopes.

Before she knew it, even her outstretched hand turned into her particles and dispersed.

With only her head left, the Morrían shed tears, but even those tears disappeared before they reached her floor.

Soon there was nothing left there.

There was just silence.

Without salvation or hope.

†††

“The situation has become even more strange than before.”

Arcel spotted the Morrian who had flown away and frowned at him.

Morian, who had grown to resemble himself a little while ago, was slowly becoming distorted due to the influence of the Demon King’s remnants.

It reminded him of the devil he had seen in the past.

When everyone fell and Arcel was the only one left, the nightmare-like demon king revealed his true form.

It seems like that nightmare has become reality right before my eyes.

‘There is no other option.’

Still, we have to face it.

This is a process to stop the queen’s plan.

If we stop here, it will end up in an even worse scenario than the Queen’s plan.

This world will soon become a world of terrible apocalypse where no one can survive, not even a dystopian world where even humans remain under dictatorship.

“Ugh…”

“…Are you suffering?”

“Please, please… Help… Ahhh!!!”

Morian groans in pain.

Due to the aftermath of the battle, all of Morian’s clothes and armor were destroyed, and magic crystals were wrapped around his body like carapace.

As a result, Morian no longer looked like a human.

The body with the magic stone sprouting from it took on a strange shape, with the image of Morrigan barely remaining in its center.

You have to hit it well like that.

To be honest, it would be more appropriate to call it a monster rather than a demon.

The former land of the elves and the past companions of Arsel were consumed by the blood of the demon king and their reason was paralyzed.

When the Demon King was a former warrior, his ego was paralyzed due to the brainwashing he received and the Demon King’s own will, and as a result, he became extremely violent and turned into a monster.

Morian is a more annoying case.

Beyond being consumed by the remains of the Demon King, a new Demon King is about to be born based on Morian’s body.

It had to be prevented at all costs.

Everything will be destroyed.

[Can you hear my voice?]

At that time, Alfred’s voice came into my head.

It looks like it uses telepathy or something.

“I can hear you. “What business is it?”

[Okay, that’s a relief. First, we need to buy as much time as possible. I don’t know how long it will take to separate the remnants of the magic stone without it exploding. And if possible, you shouldn’t make him use magic power.]

“Why?”

[Even if the magic stone is not overloaded, it receives magical power and naturally absorbs the remains of the devil. The queen may have created a safety device, but we cannot use it.]

The queen has already died.

In other words, there was no one who could control Morrigan anymore.

[If he continues to absorb the remnants of the Demon King while being supplied with magical power, eventually, after some time, his body will be completely consumed and a new Demon King will be born.]

“…But we won’t be able to control his use of magical power from here.”

[I figured out the pattern for that. Just stay away from him. I was running away into the sky earlier and that guy shot something like a beam at me? But not up close. How about it, isn’t it simple?]

“It’s easy-“

Boom!

The ground shook and Morian rushed towards Arcel.

Pointy and sharp crystals formed on the back of Morian’s hand.

Kaang-!

Strength that cannot even be compared to steel.

After receiving the attack, Arcel was pushed back tens of meters.

Although he was able to block Morian’s attack, Arcel’s hand holding the sword was trembling.

It doesn’t seem like a good idea to attack it head on.

‘This power… Is also similar to that. No, I guess I’m still weak at this level.’

It is still less powerful than the Demon King, but it is only a matter of time.

The more he is consumed by the remnants, the stronger the power of Morian becomes, and it ends the moment he awakens as the Demon King.

“aaahhh…!!!”

Morian then screamed in pain.

Pajik!

At the same time, crystals grow from Morrian’s body and begin to concentrate magical power in one place.

“That’s-“

[Oh, and if it shoots that beam, you better not even think about dodging. It even has an ingenious guidance function.]

I think that’s the beam Alfred was talking about.

‘It is not something that can be avoided. ‘We have to get it from here!’

At first, I tried to avoid it, but after checking the amount of magic power gathered, I sensed that something was unusual.

Until now, Morian had wielded his magic power through the Holy Sword and had made refined attacks of his own, even if they were brutal, but that wasn’t even that, it was just a pure explosion of magic power.

In that case, we must respond in the same way here.

Arcel immediately infused magical power into the holy sword and opened his eyes wide.

Not long after, a red light is shot at Arcel.

If you had tried to avoid that light, you would have been swallowed up in an instant.

When Morian’s magic tried to devour him, Arcel also swung the holy sword in response.

Light and light.

A ray of blue light cuts through the earth toward the red light that rages like a storm.

Kwaaa-!!!

When the two lights collided, after a moment of silence, a tremendous roar and a gust of wind engulfed the Kingdom of Hermod.

‘As expected, precision has decreased further than before.’

Arcel won the clash just now.

Unlike Morian, who simply explodes and tries to devour, Arcel efficiently concentrates his magic in one place.

As a result, the blue light broke through the storm and reached Morian.

When Morian’s vision returned, most of the crystals that had grown on her body had been destroyed.

As it was a crystal made with her magic, it seemed to be less durable than her Morrían body.

‘Still, there are no special blows.’

Of course, it didn’t mean much.

Morian’s body was only covered in a little dust, and she didn’t even have a single small scratch.

“Ugh… Ahhh…!”

Morian moaned even more painfully, as if in pain.

In the end, as long as her body was intact, the crystals grew again, and as Alfred said, the demon lord’s energy became stronger in Morian than before.

Even her strength and speed have become stronger than before.

Boom!

“Ugh-!”

Her decisions grew, and when the Morrían charged at Arcel again, this time she felt pain in her arms and shoulders beyond the trembling of her hands that had deflected her attack.

‘The more she is consumed by her remains, the stronger her power becomes.’

If her power is strengthened two more times with this momentum, it will be impossible for her to attack from then on, and if she goes beyond the third time, she will become stronger than that demon lord.

It is also the birth of a new demon lord.

As evidence, the magic crystals that covered Morrigan had changed into a more terrible form than before.

Arcel bit his lip and adjusted his holy sword.

†††

“Ah, even if the real demon lord dies, he won’t be of any help.”

“That’s what I think. “If I’m going to kill you, I’ll destroy you without a trace.”

“That’s what I said. First, slowly cut the bottom of the magic stone. “From then on, little by little, we remove the remaining pieces of rotten meat.”

Alfred was removing the remnants of the Demon King from within the magic stone by multiplying his body.

However, the magic stone is very large and its condition is also unstable, so it can explode if touched incorrectly, so it does not gain speed well.

More than anything, it was even more annoying because the magic power in this magic stone was that of a hero who was extremely different from Alfred.

“So, how much longer can our hero hold out?”

“I don’t think I’ll be able to last even an hour if I leave it like that… Should we at least send some support from our side?”

“Don’t talk nonsense, this is a very precise work that goes beyond lifting the curse. “If you try to use other magic, your concentration will be scattered.”

“No, in the first place, even though our body expands, our ego remains one. But why do differences of opinion arise?”

“It’s because from the moment of separation, another me emerged. “They will get back together in the end anyway.”

One head wasn’t enough, so I added several heads.

But still, there is no sharp number.

If enough time is given, the remnants of the Demon King within the magic stone can be removed, but it is unclear whether Arcel will be able to endure until then.

If Morian were a complete demon lord, he would be able to do more due to the compatibility between the holy swords, but the problem is that in that case, there is a huge difference in power that cannot be helped even with the compatibility.

This is the only opportunity to not be completely consumed by the Demon King’s remnants, but even now, he is struggling greatly with his near-invincible body reminiscent of the Demon King of the past.

“Should I just close my eyes and call my mother and attack her? Honestly, it’s none of our business what happens to the world.”

“Actually, calling your mother will not lead to destruction. “The average temperature just increases into the hundreds of digits.”

“It’s not as big a deal as you think, right? “Why don’t you just close your eyes and sing?”

Probably, even if that wasn’t the case, it would have been dealt with sufficiently on his own terms.

“Actually, I think that’s a good thing too. First, let our hero sleep for a while and then send him to the castle-“

Taaak!

“Ugh?!”

Just as Alfred was getting tired of the work of separating the magic stones, someone suddenly hit Alfred on the head with a cane.

“…Whew, how is it that our goby stays the same no matter how many heads he grows?”

Shion was standing behind Alfred with his eyebrows raised.