Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

149. Return

#149. Return

A splendid radiance covered the sky.

The ordeal is over, and Langrut is free from the bonds of the Watcher.

“…The sky is bright.”

Just like the sky seen in the sanctuary, the sky of Langrut was regaining its original color. The planet that had been swallowed by the Watcher was facing complete destruction and liberation.

The souls that were trapped inside will be reincarnated into the afterlife, and will be reborn with new bodies and their memories erased.

Cynthia slowly reached out her hand, looking at the place where Irina had been. There was a fragment of subtle divine power left there. The divine power made of illusions had materialized and remained in the real world.

“This is… a ring?”

The last thing Irina left behind was a small ring set with a blue gem of all colors. It was a one-of-a-kind ring created by the power of fantasy.

Cynthia held it tightly in her arms.

The ring wasn’t just one, it was a pair. There were two in total. I could guess what she meant by leaving me these rings.

“…I will write well.”

Cynthia walked towards Irina, who was leaving for a new journey with Cain, and said goodbye. Langrut was slowly falling apart.

The ordeal of death triggered by the goddess Heron has now come to an end, and Cynthia has been freed from the karma of chaos.

Kukugugu- The surface of Langrut has completely collapsed, and the mantle and the core within it are also crumbling and disappearing. If you stay here, you will be destroyed along with the planet.

Cynthia looked around, summoning up her divine power.

“It’s over there.” The portal that would allow her to return to her original dimension was faintly glowing. The karma of death was extinguished, and according to the law of causality, a portal was formed that would allow Cynthia to return to her original location.

“I have to go back as soon as possible. Yeah. I don’t have time to be lost in afterglow.”

I wanted to see the end of the planet from Langrut, where Irina’s traces were, but the situation on Earth was not good. That place was also facing destruction due to the Watcher.

But Cynthia was confident.

Now that she has become a higher transcendent being and an apostle of the foreign gods, there won’t be many beings who can stop her. Although she doesn’t want to, with the help of the gods of the Pantheon, she might be able to drive out the end of the universe she exists in.

“Whew… I’m nervous.”

It wasn’t that I was nervous about crossing the portal.

However, I was a little nervous about meeting Han Sung-jin again after such a long time. Things ended sooner than I thought, so the age gap still hasn’t narrowed down… But whatever.

“I will go see you now.”

Cynthia walked into the portal, thinking of him who might exist beyond it.

***

-CA – Crack found at coordinates 10672. We will begin the removal process.

– New substance administration complete. 3. 2. 1. Crack disappearance signs confirmed. I will step aside.

“Hoo, okay. You worked hard this time too. Check around the scene to see if there are any survivors and then return to the tower.”

-All right.

Song Cheon-jin, the elder of the Black Tower, gave orders to the dispatched magician and then cut off the communication with the crystal ball.

This closed a total of 31 cracks.

Although he didn’t say anything, most people, including him, were secretly amazed. This was the discovery of the century. Now, not only in Korea but also in other countries, there were reports of cracks being closed with the new material they had discovered.

To be exact, it was closer to a person named Han Seong-jin discovering it rather than ‘themselves’ discovering it. But still, since the invention was done by the Black Tower, I thought they should share some of the credit.

“Mr. Song Won-ro. What is the current situation?”

Han Seong-jin, who returned from a meeting with other elders including Cheon So-hye, asked Song Cheon-jin, who was in charge of command, about the situation on the ground.

“All the cracks we have discovered so far have been closed, and we are currently investigating whether any additional cracks have developed. It is estimated that there are approximately 50 more undiscovered cracks.”

“… Good.”

31 were closed, and there were still 50 more undiscovered cracks, but the situation was not bad. No, it was good. At least there were no monsters currently roaming the city. Naturally, this result was because there were no monsters pouring out of the cracks.

“Please continue to explore the undiscovered cracks. If possible, close them all before the monsters burst out of them.”

“yes.”

“Let’s go to sleep. Everyone is in a good situation, so cheer up and work harder!”

Han Seong-jin’s face was smiling, but his feelings were different.

‘… You’ve held up well so far, but this is where it gets real. A terrifying monster will emerge that will tear apart even the highest level heroes as it rips through the cracks.’

These monsters did not appear in every crack, but they appeared in at least one out of ten. Each of them was a monster with a strength that could stand up to ten high-level heroes.

‘… … I miss Sia.’

For some reason, Han Sung-jin couldn’t help but think of Cynthia’s face today. He briefly recalled Cynthia’s smiling face, then took action with the energy he gained.

It’s time to unlock the scrolls and artifacts you have.

‘If I strengthen one of them to be able to do the work of 10 high-level heroes… I should be able to handle the monsters in Korea.’

I was planning to distribute scrolls and artifacts to dozens or hundreds of high-level heroes, strengthen them enough to do the work of 10 people, and send them out to various places.

***

“Fuck… I thought wrong.”

I was blankly berating myself as I watched the monster appear out of thin air and tear the heroes apart.

“Can 10 people deal with something like that?”

The monster’s strength was much stronger than what was described in the novel. For some reason, it was clear that the monster in front of me was much stronger than the one in the novel.

That would be the case, since seven high-level heroes armed with scrolls imbued with the great wizard’s strengthening magic and ancient artifacts were torn apart by that guy… It seemed like he was twice as strong as the guy in the novel, but not as weak or similar.

“Ms. Cheon So-hye.”

I threw away her awkward title and called her by her name.

“…yes.”

“Is there a solution?”

“… I have to find it. Somehow.”

She somehow showed her determination not to give up, but it was a disaster. I don’t know why such a monstrous guy appeared in Korea. However, if such a guy appeared in other countries as well… It seemed like the Earth would end before it could even reach the end.

Even though he was dozens of kilometers away, the shockwave from his attack reached here. Naturally, the area nearby was completely devastated, and the civilians who were there disappeared without a trace.

‘That b*stard, who is this god or something… still has no sign of showing up. Damn it.’

A fragment of the god that I encountered while I was with Grace. He said that his true form would descend to Earth when the time came. He gave me something and said that it would be useful to me.

However, the thing showed no signs of being activated, and the author, Musin, had not yet descended to Earth. It seemed as if he would descend only when Earth was about to end.

Oh my gosh-

A strange, eardrum-busting noise rang out periodically at regular intervals. It was the noise of the monsters fighting the hero.

“Right now… a monster is coming here.”

“…What did you say?”

Cheon So-hye continued speaking, looking at the scenery outside with an expression of disbelief.

“Twelve… no, thirteen?”

“Thirteen… you say?”

Are there thirteen of those monsters coming here?

I rubbed my eyes and looked outside the tower again. I searched the surroundings with the expanded field of vision artifact, and soon I could see several small figures gathered together.

A body that is significantly smaller than that of a giant monster.

They were walking the streets, hiding incredible power within their small bodies.

“Fuck, this is fucked up.”

“yes?”

“I said it was fucked.”

I packed my bags, spitting out rude words that had absolutely no dignity whatsoever.

“… I’m sorry, Ms. Cheon So-hye. I think we’ll have to move our base.”

“No, that… If it’s around thirteen, it can be resolved with the power of the Black Tower?”

“It’s not thirteen.”

“yes?”

Cheon So-hye listened to me and used her vision expansion magic again to look around. I told her to look at the sky, and she looked at the sky far away.

“Those monsters… dozens more…?”

“I don’t know about twenty. We can never deal with all of them with just the power we have here. Even if we intercept them with the Magic Tower’s turrets, or pour all the resources inside into using elemental magic, we can’t kill them.”

If it had been the normal Black Tower, it might have been okay, but now that the tower’s resources had been used up like crazy to close the cracks, it was no match for them.

Cheon So-hye also witnessed the battle between the high-level heroes and monsters, so she couldn’t completely deny what I said. Each of them had the power of dozens of high-level heroes. But they were advancing in a swarm, destroying the surroundings like crazy.

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The heroes who were fighting around them met their deaths as a handful of flesh and blood in their hands. Even if the best heroes came forward, it would take two or three to handle one of them. Those who appeared to be soldiers also met a terrible end while trying to intercept them.

“Uh, uh… crazy!”

While I was checking the monsters’ movements, I noticed that they were suddenly running madly in the direction of the Black Tower.

At the same time, Cheon So-hye’s complexion also turned pale. She also saw it.

“I’ll issue an emergency evacuation order. But, I have nowhere to go….”

“… New song.”

“Are you new?”

“Let’s go to Kwon Seong-shin’s house.”

Cynthia’s home.

Her only blood relative, Shin Dong-baek, and the place she could return to. She couldn’t let that place collapse.

Although it was a thought filled with personal desires, Cheon So-hye could not refuse. Even if she went to another prestigious family at this moment, it was clear that they would not accept all of this many people.

“Okay, let’s go there.”

“As fast as possible. Grab only what you need, and use a wide-area teleportation spell… to escape.”

I don’t know why the monsters were coming here, but I had to run away before they got here.