Chapter 1385 Wounds From Myths Part 2

「How is it? You think it will work?」

「Maybe…… No, it’s probably going to be okay.」

The light heat that erupts from a huge gaping wound in the ground is also irregular, but if you were to look into it hard enough, then you could easily see the signs of the attack incoming. And it actually turns out that those energy eruptions are taking place quite often.

Normally, you would think that it wouldn’t be possible to withstand something like that if it was fired right in your face, especially since it is a force so ridiculous here…… but when I look back on it, it’s just around the surface level of the crevasse that the energy was almost completely diluted, resembling more of a trail of smoke, kind of like the same thing you could see coming from the volcano. So how is it going to behave when approached from another angle?

Then, Rei-san was hung from the edge of the cliff, facing inside of it towards the bottom. Perhaps her mechanical horse also knows that it is supposed to act as a lifeline for its new master, because it did not rampage at all or tried to run away or do anything similar to that.

Okay, I think that this should be more or less enough for now. Besides, I think that it should be right about now that the white and black light was starting to swell at the bottom of the crevice. And lo and behold, just as I was starting to think that, the light actually started t swell down there, ready to erupt once more.

「Here it comes!」

「–––––– I sing a song about the Black half of my body.」

Ooh shit, this isn’t good! Speaking of which, I just happened to remember that “Zend Avesta” is a skill that needs chanting in order to be cast! And a full chant at that, the one that cannot be abbreviated by any means! No, this is bad, this is seriously really bad! And if my memory serves me correctly, this particular chant is rather long, isn’t it!? So this will either be a close call, or Rei-san won’t be able to make it in time at all……

But even though she must have realized that herself, Rei-san did not stop her chanting, not even for a single moment. Rather, she started to chant the incantation even faster than before, without biting her tongue or misspelling anything, each and every single word being pronounced correctly and beautifully……!!

「The destination that I dream of is the root of the abyss itself, the Black God imprisoned in loneliness due to its own arrogance. There is only one throne, and there is also only one single truth. That is, that my right half is pure black.」

The light starts to swell violently, and the battle between black and white intensifies even more. While we are on the topic of wounds, it would seem that it was this white malice that was able to hurt the Black God and it continues to do so even today.

「I sing a song about the white half of my body. The destination that I dream of is the Supreme Heaven, the White God who was branded a tyrant because of its immense greed.」

The light fast approaching already, so does that mean that she is not going to make it in time after all!? If Rei-san would desire as such, I am all but ready to try and bail us out of here on the double, but as I was just standing right behind Rei-san, I could sense that she had no intention of backing away or trying to run from here. Which was even more impressive since she was handing from the wall just like that, a situation that you would rarely find to be advantageous to you. But still, Rei-san was looking forward with no hesitation in her eyes.

「The right side of my body and the left side of my body, the Antinomy of the two contradictions. But I am the only one who bears it all together. My right side is the reason of Erebus, my left side is the reason of Aether. The Origin, the ever-present manifestation, I am the boundary point of the Demonic Sword. I am the one who shows the reason and guides it towards the distant world.」

And it was precisely at that time ───

「Devour myself! the myth of Antinomy!」

No, not yet!! Just a little bit more!

「Rei-san!!」

「ZEND––––––」

The light is fast approaching a place where the clash would be unavoidable. But right before the heat of black and white light is able to swallow Rei-san, the human Lunar Dragoon turned out to be faster than that, stabbing her fist into her own sword and causing it to be thrusted against the wall, lodging it firmly in one place!

「AVESTA!!!」

At that moment, the torrent of black and white light is struck against another torrent of black and white light.

One torrent of mixed light is the erupting wound of the ancient gods, while the other mixed light is the polar opposite of that —- the light of a modern myth created by the storyteller!!

Both are black-and-white and monochrome, but the spiral-patterned light rushes forward as if to break through the marble-patterned light. It pierces the light like a drill that cuts rocks, breaks through the light, entrains the light and pushes forward 「Zend Avesta」.

「…… Hmm, I see, so that’s what that thing is! Sigma! Wait just right there together with that horse and don’t go down here!」

As we go down the sight of the mixed white and black light that was previously gushing out from inside of the crevasse in the earth is being pushed away. And what I saw right there beyond that actually gave me the answer that I was looking for inside of my mind all this time. While making Sigma stand by just outside of the crevasse just in case, I admire the image of the sword that we would need to extract from there in the shortest time possible.

「Huh……」

「I’m sorry for being rude, but please bear with it for now.」

「Hehyeah!?」

But time is a luxury in here that we cannot sadly afford right now. If my expectations are to be correct…… Rei-san should go even deeper below the surface. But the way she is right now that won’t even be possible.

So I do just the thing that we needed to do —- I pick up Rei-san who was still down after her fall and I start running on the wall.

I knew it…… If there was ever such a thing as the “truth” about this world, it awaits us “below”!!!