The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

468 – Red Lion

Ellie, who had been pushed by Ross and fell to the floor, shouted urgently when she saw Mormot, whose body had inflated like a balloon, hugging Ross from behind.

“as-“

Eli’s words were not finished. The mortar that had reached its limit exploded. It wasn’t an explosion of flesh and blood. As if the human called Mormot had originally been a doll, he turned into numerous pieces of paper and wrapped them around Ross’ body.

“… ah.”

Before the bitter smile on Ross’s mouth could be erased, his eyes became blank and his body leaned forward, face first, defenseless as if he had lost consciousness. Ellie, who quickly came to her senses, threw her body and caught Ross.

“Ross… ? Ross!”

No matter how much Ellie shook his shoulders and slapped him, Ross didn’t come back to his senses. Without any injuries, he was just like a vegetable with a dead soul. Ellie saw that countless pieces of paper that were mortar were stuck to Ross’ body and she tried to remove them somehow, but she couldn’t use her hands as if they had become her skin.

“Ellie, it’s a vain effort. That guy is already done-”

“shut up!”

The cult leader, who blocked the magic fired by Ellie, tried to speak again, but was immediately attacked by Lycan and had no choice but to turn around. Ellie felt an unfamiliar fear in her. It was similar to the fear she felt one day when Ross completely forgot about her.

I was barely able to regain my friendship, but now I have to lose Ross again. Ellie was scared of that more than anything. While she was looking at Ross, who looked like he had fallen asleep, Ellie came to her senses when Raelan yelled at her.

“Come to your senses! Ross wouldn’t have died. Even if the alliance with the Demon King has ended, the cult leader still needs Ross, the apostle. Whether it’s in suspended animation or sealed… “Even if he’s unconscious, Ross isn’t dead!”

“… that’s right.”

Cassis, who fought with Ellie, planned to kidnap Ross and take him to the cult to confront the cult leader. If he had just wanted to kill Ross in the first place, Mormot’s body would have exploded and that would have been enough. Clearly, the cult leader has a purpose for the body of Ross, the ‘apostle’.

Ellie, who lost one arm, thought for a moment as she grabbed her cane. And she realized how she could save Ross. There is only one person in the world, an archmage who has received a special [power] from God.

Ellie shouted to everyone.

“Coordinator! If we want to save Ross, we have to take him to the Orchestrator!”

「… As expected, Ellie is smart. “She immediately finds a solution.”

The leader who pushed the Lycan away nodded and said with admiration.

“But this time you won’t be able to escape my hands. “Ellie.”

The condensed energy of chaos formed the shape of a sword blade and flew towards Ellie’s limbs. Ellie immediately counterattacked with her magic, but the blade containing the energy of [Destruction] extinguished her magic. Ellie, who reflexively hugged Ross’s body, immediately raised her head at the sound she heard in her ears.

Kang-!

Rakar, who barely managed to block the onslaught of sword blades with his dual swords, shouted over his shoulder.

“What are you doing? He said he would save the manager! Somehow take Ross upstairs. If you go from the top of the tower to the 6th floor of the labyrinth, you will be able to meet the principal outside!”

“It’s just a pile… !」

“Kane, Aria! “Leave this to me and you, too, protect the manager!”

Kane urgently responded to Lakar’s words.

“Rakar, you are with us too… !”

“I’ll be with the professor. “Don’t worry, just go!”

As Rakar shouted like that, he drew magical energy to his entire body, and the tattoos on his body became red as if on fire, setting his shirt on fire.

Kane knew that no persuasion would work on Rakar, who was in a berserker state, so he grabbed the wrist of Aria, who was still looking at Ross awkwardly. Looking at Aria’s watery eyes, Kane spoke as if pleading.

“Arya, I know you hate Ross to death. But Ross really cares about you. So, for now… Let’s save our friends. huh?”

Aria, who was confused, nodded slightly at Kane’s request. I hated her to the point of killing her, but on the other hand, Ross was a friend who was so precious to me that I hated him just as much.

“Thank you, Aria!”

When Aria agreed, Kane smiled happily and approached Ellie. Ellie, who was holding Ross, had lost a lot of blood and had used her magic too much, so it looked like she was going to collapse at any moment.

“Let’s get first aid first. “If this continues, you will die before Ross.”

“… I’m okay.”

“How is this okay?”

Kane took out a bottle of special treatment reagent that had been prepared in advance and poured the contents onto Ellie’s torn arm. Her missing arm did not grow, but the torn and tattered flesh grew new, leaving the tip of Ellie’s left arm blunt. Kane, who not only gave Ellie a medicine to relieve acute fatigue, said as she knelt down on her knees and turned her back to Ellie.

“Okay, now give Ross a piggyback ride on me.”

“… okay.”

Ellie put her staff down on the floor and, with Aria’s help, placed Ross on Kane’s back. As if that wasn’t enough, Kane took out a long string from the reagent bag and tied it tightly to prevent his and Ross’ bodies from falling apart.

At that moment, the Lycan and the cult leader collided, making a huge roar.

Kwaaa!

Through the roar, the voice of Raelan, who was holding on to Confsion’s ankle with all his might, was heard.

“Ignore everything and run to the gate!”

At that cry, Kane, carrying Ross, began to run blindly toward the tightly closed castle gate. Aria and Eli also followed after Kane.

The cult leader, who was unable to chase Kane because of the lycan’s persistent cling to him even though part of his head was crushed, gave an order.

“Vice leader, stop it!”

The vice-principal immediately followed the order.

“Arz! “Ignore the wizard and follow me!”

“Tsk!”

Arz, who had cut down the demon beast summoned by Raelan, tried to chase after Kane with the vice pontiff, but Rakar suddenly appeared next to him and swung his dual swords at Arz, so only the vice pontiff had no choice but to chase after Kane.

“Stop!”

The pontoon leader swung his staff and collapsed the ground leading to the castle gate, but Ellie immediately used magic to create a bridge made of ice and continued running towards the gate.

Although they had almost reached the castle gate, Kane spoke urgently as he looked at the castle gate, which was still tightly closed.

“The castle gate is still closed. If we really go on like this… .”

Kwaaa!

“It’s open.”

Kane closed his mouth and quickly moved his legs as he watched Ellie’s synthetic magic, which had an enormous destructive power, blow away the entire gate.

*

Raelan knew very well that if he was outnumbered in a situation where he was outgunned, his odds of winning would drop overwhelmingly as time passed. So he unreasonably sacrificed an arm to deal with Confsion’s 5th Annihilating Carters first.

“But the numbers aren’t right yet.”

Now there are four enemies left on the battlefield, including Arz, Mesmer, Nero, and the cult leader. There were only three people here: Raelan, Lycan, and Rakar. Lycan, who faced the cult leader alone, was already on the brink of death, and Rakar was unable to hold his dual swords.

Raelan’s plan completely failed. The only way to deal with the cult leader, other than using the main character Roel, was to use the Demon King… It was a big mistake not to include the calculation that the other person would have already experienced something in another world. The price of failure is life.

“The question is how to die.”

Raelan was not afraid of death at all. Rather, he was endlessly racking his brain over how he should die so that he could bother the cult leader as much as possible. Although the cult leader forcibly cut off the connection with the Demon King using Shinsal, the Apostle’s abilities were still intact.

Thanks to the fact that the demon king descended on Raelan’s body not that long ago, half of the life force of the approximately 700,000 people who were sacrificed was still left in Raelan.

In the end, you have to buy time. If the vice-principal is alone, Ellie’s power is enough to stop it, but if the sub-principal and Confsion join, they will quickly be caught up.

After deciding that it would be difficult for everyone here to survive, Raelan erased the Lycans that were clinging to the cult leader like leeches from his mind and made a plan to use Rakar to deal with Arz.

Ignoring the realistic sensation that Mesmer had created as a hallucination of the sword swinging by Nero splitting his body, he walked up to Rakar, who was rolling around on the floor after being kicked in the chest by Arz, and whispered to him.

“I don’t know what might be on the 9th and 10th floors of the tower… If we can hold off the enemy here for at least 10 minutes, Ross and your friends have a better chance of survival. “How about you, are you willing to give up your life for them?”

Rakar, who was about to attack Arz again, heard Raelan’s words and the light of reason returned to his eyes. There was nothing to worry about. Because Rakar will choose everyone in the Messiah club at any moment.

“Why are you asking the obvious?”

In response, Raelan twisted one corner of his mouth and said.

“Then swallow it-”

Raelan could not finish his sentence. Arz approached in an instant and cut off Raelan’s head without time to react. Raelan’s face, floating in the air, was still smiling.

Between the blood gushing from Raelan’s cut throat, a bead that was almost completely black stuck out. Realizing what Raelan was trying to say, Rakar opened his mouth and swallowed the black orb along with blood.

The black bead that entered the stomach was instantly melted by Rakar’s magic, and the power contained in the hundreds of thousands of lives contained within it was all transferred to Rakar. The red-hot tattoo became a flame, melting the skin and producing smoke.

[―――――――――!!!]

Arz, facing the fierce fighting spirit and hostility that seemed to explode from Rakar’s body, said as he grabbed his sword.

“… “It’s amazing.”

At that moment, for the first time, Arz could not keep up with Rakar’s speed.

Kwaaang―――!

“Ugh-!”

Arz’s body, unable to even react, flew backwards due to the tremendous impact. Arz was missing, as if part of her thigh had been torn off by an animal.

The smoke flowing from Rakar’s body, which passed through Arz, was unable to keep up with the speed of the flash and left a long afterimage that looked like the fur of an animal.

Lycan, who was confronting the cult leader, burst out laughing when he saw this.

“haha! “This guy also can’t lie about his bloodlines.”

The true dance of the red lion was born today in the face of death.