Chapter 193 : Chapter 193
Chapter 193 : Great War (3)
The unexpected encounter brought many thoughts to my mind.
Why is Luna here?
No, why is she among the Demonic persons in the first place?
Dozens of questions and answers swirled randomly in my head.
Naturally, I couldn't know the answer, and only Luna herself knew the answer to that.
"Why are you here?"
"That is, well......."
An expression like a child caught by their parents while doing something bad.
Just from that, I could clearly know that Luna was not in this place without knowing anything.
Perhaps, Luna also made a choice.
"Let's continue the talk later."
"Yes?"
Even though I had guessed that fact, I postponed the conversation with Luna.
I don't know why I did that.
Maybe I just wanted to avoid coming to any conclusion myself.
Because if Luna ended up making a different decision from me, I still didn't know with what mindset I should treat Luna.
That is why I turned away.
From the present, from this moment.
Clack.
I passed by Luna and pulled the trigger towards a Demonic person who was continuing the slaughter while drunk on madness in the distance.
Taang!
Whether he was drunk on murder or letting his guard down, the Demonic person's head exploded just like that without being able to put up any plausible resistance.
Hududuk!
Luna's expression was dyed with shock amidst the scattering blood, but I intentionally avoided her gaze.
As soon as the gunshot rang out, the attention of the Demonic persons nearby turned to me at once.
"......Gun? Ah, were you that Plague Mask Gunman or whatever? Just in time, I had something to find out about guns anyway."
"That's the Plague Mask Gunman? I didn't know he would appear without the mask."
"That one is mine."
"What kind of rule is that? Finders keepers."
The Demonic persons giggled and revealed greed close to pure evil.
Lowered control over desires was one of the most common symptoms caused by Demonic person-ification.
Since I didn't feel the need to listen to that naked desire anymore, I aimed the muzzle again and pulled the trigger.
Taang!
Along with the pulled trigger, the bullet fired from the muzzle of the Colt Garrison B-09 rushed towards the Demonic person.
However, it wasn't a surprise attack, and there was no opponent who would just get hit by a gun fired openly in their face.
"This bastard rudely shoots a gun at someone's face?!"
The Demonic person was enraged and blocked the fired bullet with his palm.
Thinking with common sense, the idea of blocking a bullet with bare hands itself was absurd, but the Demonic person didn't care.
"Kya, did you see? Catching a bullet? But why is lightning sparking from the bullet?"
"Bullshit. There's a hole in your hand."
"Huh? Ah, fck."
"Puk-k-k...... What a retard."
"Why don't you try blocking it?"
"Watch closely. Hey there, gunman. Try shooting one more time. I'll try blocking it."
......What are these bastards?
I knew that Demonic persons were out of their minds originally, but the Demonic persons in front of my eyes right now were especially more out of their minds among them.
Since it felt like I would rather go crazy just by watching, I pulled the trigger in succession with the feeling of an exorcist performing an exorcism.
Tang! Tatatang!!
When the bullets fired in succession rushed towards the Demonic persons, the Demonic person who stepped forward extended his palm and then screamed in fright.
"Ah sh*t! You should only shoot one!"
Despite the fact that they were bullets containing the power of the Postponer of Ruin, the Demonic person blocked the bullets with ease.
To be exact, it seemed the bullets themselves didn't give a big blow to the Demonic person.
"Ah sting! Stop it, you son of a b*tch!"
‘Not an easy opponent.’
I recognized it from the moment they performed the bizarre act of blocking bullets with their palms, but the level of the Demonic persons in front of my eyes was substantial.
At this level, it was safe to see them as top-tier level even among Level 7s.
Of course, there were Level 7 Demonic persons among the ones I dealt with a while ago, but originally in the World of Justice, Level 7 was one of the levels where the difference in combat power was quite large even at the same level.
Some Level 7s don't have a big difference from Level 6s, but some Level 7s even stand against Level 8 players.
The Demonic persons in front of my eyes right now were clearly the type closer to the latter than the former.
Types more accustomed to fighting than anyone.
Furthermore, their number was not just one or two, so it had to become troublesome for me.
"Hey, are you out of bullets?"
"You acted up well until now......."
"Ugh...... Fck, it hurts a lot. Why does the bullet hurt like this? Even the armor was all pierced."
The Demonic persons approached me while bleeding from various parts of their bodies.
The number was only about five, but it was clear that it would be a much more difficult fight than the thirty Demonic persons I dealt with earlier.
‘Well...... I still have to do what I have to do.’
I still don't know where I should go.
However, one thing certain was that even if I don't know what is right, I think I now know what is wrong.
"You guys are wrong."
"What kind of laughable nonsense is that!"
The Demonic persons rush at me while holding their respective weapons and Demonic energy.
Now, it is time to make them pay the price for choosing the wrong answer.
***
Luna could only watch from afar the fierce battle Vell Blackwood was continuing.
She thinks she should help.
But at the question of whom she should help, her steps had no choice but to stop abruptly.
In a situation where she could do nothing and shouldn't do anything, all Luna could do was just blankly watch that fight.
"......."
She had once thought that maybe a day like this would come.
Because the choice Luna made was such a choice.
Because it was a choice where she had no choice but to harm others for her own greed and walk a path made of blood.
But, but still.
Luna never dreamed that the day she had been putting off and postponing would be this very day.
Tang!
Tatatrang!!!
The gunshots and roars that rang out in succession were conveying the fierce fight between Vell Blackwood and the Demonic persons in place of words.
"Kkueueuk!"
"Surround him from all sides, you retards! That bastard keeps running away here and there!"
"Then you try catching him!"
"Fck, move aside! I'll show you."
Even from Luna's standard, the Demonic persons were absolutely not ones whose level was low.
To the extent that if those five rushed at once, Luna would also have to risk her life.
However, Vell Blackwood was toying with such five Demonic persons too easily with just a few guns.
Vell Blackwood, whom she saw after a very long time, had become stronger to the extent that he couldn't even be compared to the past.
No, in a way, it might be a natural story.
Because Vell Blackwood's identity was none other than Cain.
To put it differently, it also meant that Cain, who hadn't revealed his appearance to the world until now, revealed his fangs towards the Hall of Subjugation.
And that was absolutely not good news for Luna's purpose.
Luna knew well about the person called Cain.
Cain was not a character who let the target he turned into an enemy live, and once designated as an enemy, escaping from his grasp was impossible.
Cain, Vell Blackwood, will continue to become stronger in the future as well.
Just as Cain did.
Perhaps, to the extent of surpassing Cain.
Even in the midst of that, the fight between Vell Blackwood and the Demonic persons gradually intensified.
"Declaration of summary contract."
One of the Demonic persons declared a summary contract, and the Magic of Blazing Fire soared.
The flames that bloomed from all sides attacked towards Vell Blackwood.
"I'll roast you to a crisp! You bastard!"
The very moment the Demonic person giggled and raised the blazing fire.
Chwaak!
Before anyone knew it, a red dagger pulled out from Vell Blackwood's hand cut through the flames at once, and he escaped from the flames.
"This crazy─"
Even if they were Demonic persons, their understanding of magic was not necessarily high, so they couldn't hide their astonishment upon seeing the Fang of Blazing Fire.
And, that astonishment of a moment stole the Demonic person's time that should have moved originally.
Naturally, Vell Blackwood was a hunter who did not miss such an opening.
Peoeong!
At some moment, one of the Demonic persons' heads was blown away by the double barrel shotgun that appeared in Vell Blackwood's hand.
The move that Vell Blackwood had saved until now shone for this one time.
"Fck! What is it!"
"It's a shotgun!"
"He had something like that too?!"
They were Demonic persons who were responding reasonably well to firearms until now, but they couldn't handle the firepower of the double barrel shotgun fired from a blind spot.
No, if it was an ordinary shotgun, there was no way it could damage the bodies of Level 7 Demonic persons protected by Demonic energy, but a fundamental power that destroys the Demonic was imbued in Vell Blackwood's attack.
As one person was reduced in an instant and the balance of the tight fight collapsed, agitation arose among the Demonic persons.
"This fck...... At this rate, we'll all die."
"Just what is that bastard to appear suddenly and act up!"
"Motherfucker."
Amidst the Demonic persons' agitation, Vell Blackwood moved again.
Whether he exhausted all the bullets he had, what was held in Vell Blackwood's hand was just a single red dagger.
Seeing that appearance, color returned to the Demonic persons' faces.
"Hey, this bastard ran out of bullets!"
"You acted up fcking lot until now!"
A gunman without bullets could no longer be an object of fear.
That was the same for Vell Blackwood as well, and the Demonic persons regained their momentum and rushed towards Vell Blackwood.
"Contract declaration."
The Demonic persons did not let their guard down even if Vell Blackwood had only a single dagger.
Even paying a substantial level of price, the Demonic persons raised the Magic of Blazing Fire, and that blazing fire was more powerful than any blazing fire that had existed until now.
"Dieeee!!!"
But there was one fact they were forgetting.
Vell Blackwood was not a simple gunman, and the weapon held in his hand was not only the Fang of Blazing Fire.
"Uh?"
Just before the Demonic persons and Vell Blackwood collided, a blue halo of light spewed out from Vell Blackwood's empty right hand, and a sword blade revealed its appearance.
Although it was a bit translucent, that sword resembled the appearance of a sword so famous that if one was a World of Justice player, one couldn't not know it.
"......Levatein?"
The Demonic person's astonishment couldn't last very long.
Because as soon as the sword called the Divine Sword, Levatein, was swung, the white light that soared destroyed the existence called the Demonic person along with the activated magic in an instant.
The sword that cuts magic and destroys the Demonic.
Divine Sword Levatein.
It revealed its appearance in this world again.
"Cr, crazy...... How is the Divine Sword there......."
Not long after, the Demonic persons recalled that the place where the Plague Mask Gunman appeared was Akiro's Labyrinth.
Also, even the rumor that the Divine Sword Levatein appeared in Akiro's Labyrinth recently.
Soon, a very natural deduction was completed that the Plague Mask Gunman was selected as the Guardian of the Labyrinth in Akiro's Labyrinth and became the owner of the Divine Sword Levatein found there.
"This fck! How do we win this!"
The Demonic persons screamed and fell one by one to the Divine Sword Levatein.
At that time, the eyes of a retreating Demonic person and Luna met.
"You there, woman! Why are you just blankly watching there! You're on our side! Come quickly and do something about this bastard!"
"......."
Luna felt that the time had come to face the reality she had been turning away from until now.
Now, she could no longer avoid it.