The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

458 – The path we must take

Not long after I started walking, Crona blocked my path again. With her tear-filled face, Crona, who had a small, child-like body, stretched out her arms and blocked her path, forcing her to stop.

“Whatever you want, I’ll give it to you! “Please don’t go up!”

Before I knew it, other gnomes came running and came behind Crona. Raelan asked in a low voice as they tightly crossed each other’s arms as if they would never let us go.

“What should I do? “I’m willing to lend a hand if you want.”

I know what Raelan means. Raelan has already sacrificed three cities. His extreme personality means he will not hesitate to clear away anything that gets in his way, even if his opponent has no will to fight.

“… There is no need for that.”

Even if the very act of us going up to the second floor was the same as death to them, we didn’t want to get our hands dirty with the blood of someone who didn’t have the will to fight.

When we used space magic to avoid the gnomes blocking the path and moved near the pillar, the startled gnomes chased us in panic.

“Please, don’t go up!”

“Please! Please protect our world!”

“If you’re going to do that, kill me now!”

I arrived at the pillar, ignoring the sounds coming from behind… The entrance was full of other gnomes. Most of the gnomes looked infinitely smaller and weaker than the gnomes we had seen. Young gnomes were gathered together.

The young gnomes who discovered us burst into tears and snot, but they didn’t seem to have any intention of opening the way. The number of gnomes trembling all over and fainting with every step closer increased, but the stairs inside the pillar were so full of gnomes that I could not ignore them and pass by.

“There’s nothing we can do about it now.”

Raelan looked at me, raising his staff as if asking for my permission. What is important to me is saving Luna. Although I would do anything for it, I hesitated to kill these young gnomes.

Why? Just because they look young and fragile? No, it’s not just that kind of pitiful sympathy. Even if you put a lot of gnomes on the scale, they still weigh less than Luna. But I was feeling a distinct hesitation.

“Ross.”

There was no way Ellie, who was quick to notice such hesitation, would not have noticed. Since she no longer had a reason to wear her mask, Ellie’s expression was clearly visible. For some reason, the expression on his face seemed disappointed.

“Why are you hesitating? “You want to save Luna.”

I opened my mouth slightly without realizing it, but bit my lip when I saw Ellie’s transparent gaze looking at me. Those eyes woke me up like cold water poured on her face.

As I erased the hesitation in my mind with a sigh, I felt an emptiness as something that had settled within me disappeared. That emptiness quickly turned into freedom.

“Get out of the way or I will kill you.”

Despite my warning, the young gnomes just squeezed their eyes shut with tears streaming down their face. I couldn’t hesitate any longer. Not for Luna. For me, and for her colleagues who believed in me and followed me.

Increased magical power. The young gnomes who felt the life and fighting spirit flowing from my body began to faint. However, there are too many gnomes blocking the way… I threw the spear and pierced everything in my path.

―――!

“Kwaaak!”

“It hurts, it hurts!”

“Ahh, please help me!”

“no! Koch, wake up!”

The road was made.

A path filled with torn flesh, blood, screams, and tears.

“Children… !”

Crona, who had been following us, was shocked by my actions and shouted.

“Killing children like that! “What on earth are you killing these innocent children to achieve?”

Ignoring Crona’s words, I walked along the created path. The sound of flesh being trampled is felt through the sole of the shoe. As I passed the young gnomes who were looking at me with fear and fear, I soon frowned at the sight of the young gnomes blocking my path again.

“don’t do it! “You b*stard!”

“Bad person! “Bad person!”

“Please, don’t kill us!!!”

When I tightened my grip on the spear pole to throw the spear again, Crona, who was standing behind me, shouted.

“Let’s all protect our world!”

Crona rushed at me with his bare body. As I was about to throw her spear, I turned her body and pierced the head of Crona, who was running towards me without hesitation. As Crona fell to the floor, her brain draining, the surroundings became quiet for a moment. It was silence like a flash of lightning announcing the coming of thunder.

“For the kids!”

“For our world!”

The weaponless gnomes threw themselves to stop us. Like bees rushing to kill wasps with their body heat, gnomes smaller than the waist of their bodies rushed to us to protect their paradise.

He kicked the gnomes that tried to cling to his body to death, and swung his spear to cut down all the gnomes that came close. He stomped on the head of the young gnome holding his ankle, kicked and pushed him, and continued walking.

Raelan and Ellie also used magic to endlessly kill the gnomes that approached them. But the gnomes did not give up. Even though they died in vain without even being able to swing a fist at us, they threw away their lives like straw to protect their world.

However, I passed through all the gnomes blocking my path. Like a blender, he endlessly repeated killing hundreds of gnomes at once until he reached the pillar and ground all the countless gnomes blocking the stairs.

As I made my way to the second floor, the blood flowing down the stairs reached my ankles. We finally climbed the stairs, trampling on the torn flesh and intestines of the gnome, and arrived at the end of the pillar, on the second floor.

Raelan said, wiping the blood off his staff.

“It’s night here.”

As I left the pillar, I saw a clear night sky with numerous stars and the Milky Way. I saw a pillar reaching into the night sky. Around the pillars were huge trees shining brightly as if gathering starlight in the night sky. When I looked closely, I saw that a structure had been created naturally inside the tree.

“It seems like elves live together here. It seems they knew we were coming and were waiting. “Unlike gnomes, they are armed.”

After finishing the vision expansion spell, Raelan looked in my direction and frowned.

“Everyone is desperate to protect their paradise. We are like a disaster to them, so we will try to stop them even if it means risking our lives. “Hehe.”

“… Just as there is a reason to somehow prevent it from going up, we also have a reason to go up.”

Ellie smiled slightly at my answer and put our shoulders together. I felt Ellie’s warmth through her clothes, and I immediately pulled away from her as if I had touched something hot. Ellie said, looking directly at her as if she didn’t care about my reaction at all.

“But since I’m holding a weapon this time, I won’t hesitate.”

As I stared at Ellie in silence, she smiled secretly and turned her head to me.

“Are you angry?”

“… no.”

I’m not angry. Because Ellie didn’t say anything wrong. Above all, she had the feeling that Ellie would not care at all that I was upset. If she knows that yelling at a wall won’t change anything, she won’t bother putting her emotional effort on anyone.

“let’s go.”

*

He dodged the flying arrows and used space magic to pierce the elf’s head. He moved his body without stopping, pushing back all the arrows pouring in through space distortion, and threw himself at the elf swinging the sword, knocking him down, piercing his head, and throwing a spear at the elf who appeared behind the tree at his head.

Pow–!

With the sound of his head exploding, he again created a spear of shadow and killed the elf who was running towards him with a sword. The huge explosion created by Ellie and Raelan caused the tree to burn and the elves to fall to the ground, with the sound of their bodies exploding continuously being heard.

“Shoot!”

He created a dimensional passage to where the voice was heard, moved backwards, and cut off the heads of the elves who were aiming their bows at once. An elf who appeared to be the leader suddenly appeared and hurriedly swung his sword at me, but I, who was already expecting a response, did not even turn around and stabbed the spear between my armpits, piercing his head.

All senses in the body awaken. A simple massacre did not give any satisfaction, but the endless flying arrows and swords were enough to excite the sense of battle.

“They keep coming.”

Raelan, who was swinging his staff and burning the elves to death, shouted at me after hearing the warning from his familiar who had spotted elf reinforcements approaching from afar.

“Is there a need to relax in a place like this? “Let’s wrap things up and go to the third floor!”

At Raelan’s words, I raised my magic power and threw a javelin at the elves who were blocking the path to the pillar. The shadow spear, which seemed to grow as it flew, rushed like a flash of light, piercing the barricade and killing all the elves behind it.

The road opened and we ran straight to the pillar. Arrows rained down endlessly, but due to space distortion and Ellie’s magic, the arrows did not reach us at all and only scattered around.

The elves who realized that arrows did not work against us and tried to block us with their swords were all burned to death by the flames caused by Raelan. Just like on the first floor, there were elves blocking the stairs, but no matter how many there were, they couldn’t stop me with the Shadow Spear.

When we climbed the stairs and left the pillar, the elves seemed to have given up and stopped pursuing us. They may have thought that since they had already ascended, further fighting was pointless.

This time, I took a short break because I had fought quite a bit of battle. When I took food out of the space storage room and distributed it to everyone, and I also took out a drink and drank it… Someone came to where we were resting.

Ellie and Raelan, who sensed an approaching enemy through warning magic, grabbed their wands, but I drank the rest of my drink after checking the face of the person walking languidly from afar.

I never thought we’d meet here.

“Hello, I arrived later than expected.”

A woman dressed as a witch with gray hair and black eyes.

“I waited for you.”

Mormot gave me an unexpected smile.