--Aha! Sadly, the light of life is going out.


　I'm not going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to get it right.

　The sigh that was let out became a gust of wind that blew away the demons (my child) hanging on the tip of their noses and sent them flying high into the sky.

　The body of the demon that was thrust up into the sky was twisted and crumpled by the wind pressure, and at this point it was doomed. The corpse is slammed into the dry sand as it is.


　--Oh, alas, how can life be so fragile?


　Huge feet, reminiscent of a castle, crushed the corpses of my child scattered on the sand.

　I didn't do this on purpose. I'm not going to be able to get a good idea of what to expect. I'm not going to be able to get the best out of it.


　--I'm not going to be sad, but life goes round and round. No mourning, if life is fleeting.


　This is a world-ordained truth, and not one that can be called into question.

　That is why it protects and nurtures life to the best of its ability. It grew up eating the enemies who rebelled against the world, and used the food it grew up eating to fill the bellies of the children who followed the world, according to its own role.

　It has been faithfully fulfilling its role to this day. It breathes a sigh of satisfaction when what it wants to do and what it has to do match.

　However, you can't stay in a sense of satisfaction forever.

　I can smell it. The stench of these foolish creatures who have rebelled against the world, the stench that makes your nose crawl.


　--This body is the fang of Providence. A broomstick that cleanses the world. And it's the broom star that purifies the world.　　　


　The next moment, the "it" opened its mouth wide.



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　--I didn't expect it to be so powerful.

　I was thinking about that inwardly as I kept my distance from the blowing ice storm.

　No, it was as expected until the pressure of the freezing air crushed the horde of demons. But the ice storm that followed was completely unexpected. It's true that I used the wind to move the freezing air, but the storm in front of me was clearly an unrelated phenomenon.

　The proof of this is that no matter how many demons fall, there is no soul in them at all.

　When eating souls with the mind-dressing (soul-eaters), the most efficient way to eat a soul is to slash the enemy directly with the sword blade. And although it wasn't as efficient as when he directly slashed, he was still able to eat souls when he attacked from a distance with his Keogi technique.

　In fact, the souls of the demons that were stopped by the River Flame that I had released earlier had entered.

　However, that's not the case now. More to the point, even before the ice storm, when I crushed a horde of enemies with the freezing air, I hardly felt an influx of souls.

　Apparently, you can only eat souls up to the point where you can kill your enemies with the power technique. When a natural phenomenon was triggered by a power technique like this one, it seems that you can't eat the souls of an enemy that fell due to that phenomenon.

　........The problem was that it was as if he didn't know what kind of natural phenomenon the ice storm in front of him was. I'll have to ask Lunamaria later.

　But if this kind of storm always happens when I use the Ice Hammer (Huzu), then I can't use this technique very often. Well, the value of this technique became extremely low once I realized that I couldn't eat souls, so it's not a problem if I say it's not a problem.

　I can feel Wisteria's gaze that seems to be talking to me around my cheek from earlier, but I pretend not to notice it. While causing so much destruction, I don't want her to notice that I'm in a cold sweat or something because I'm not expecting it. At best, I'll smile confidently.

　Anyway, this should have almost wiped out the demons that attacked the Alwet Oasis.

　There may still be others to follow, but the freezing storm is unlikely to subside for some time. As a result, this could be a good way to buy some time.

　Okay, I'll go back to the Leero Oasis and let them know what's going on. After that, I'll take another look up in the sky to see if the storm is going to subside - that's what I'm thinking.



　A shiver ran through my body.



　We're being watched. I felt it.

　The next moment I felt it, I was screaming.


"Klau Solas!


　I called out to the indigo (indigo) winged beast (wyvern) that was flying in the sky, avoiding the cold air. I didn't have time to give specific instructions, but it seems that Crow Solas correctly caught my intentions. He comes down to the ground as if in a hurry.

　Maybe he didn't take my intentions into account, but instead misunderstood that I was angry with him and told him to get down, but that's okay. It's called the merit of the injury.

　Wisteria was originally close by, so there was no problem.

　As I hurriedly worked out my jade, I felt a small glimmer of light on the other side of the ice storm that was still brewing on the horizon.


　---- coming.


　The pressure is so heavy that my throat dries up. A chill ran up and down my spine. I've been feeling the presence of death for a long time since I learned to wear a heart outfit.

　As if kicked away by them, I deployed the refined jujin in front of me. Not for attack, but for defense.

　There's no time to think about the names of the techniques, and before that there isn't even a shred of sophistication to call the techniques, creating such an awkward defensive wall. That was when I thought now that I should have polished my defensive techniques if this was going to happen.

　Kubo," he said.

　It was like pulling a cork stopper out of a corker's mouth, a light sound that shook my eardrums.

　Immediately afterwards, all the scenery in my field of vision disappeared.




　It was a rush of light.

　It was a muddy stream of silver.

　If someone had been looking down on the Catalan Desert from the zenith at this moment, they would have been able to see the shooting stars running across the surface of the earth.

　Even the ice storm that had annihilated the demon horde earlier was blown away by the breath of the stars. Horrifying heat and destructive power. This blow, which can bring all lives to nothing in an instant, is sure to cause death to people, cities, and even the earth.

　That's right. No matter how lush a forest or how humble the land may be, once it is exposed to this breath, it becomes a barren wilderness where no grass grows.

　Isn't this how the Catalan Desert, which has never seen the end of humanity, was created?

　This is what I was thinking about as I poured all the strength I could muster into its defense.

　It was a question that hadn't even been spoken, but it was answered.


　--but.


　The unfamiliar and yet unmistakable voice was that of the soul eater, the anima.

　The first time I heard the soul eater's voice so clearly was since I acquired a heart outfit in the Lord of the Flies' nest.

　As I was startled by the suddenness of it, the next moment a strange scene appeared in my mind.

　A swarm of turrets (behemoths) filling the horizon. And the countless lives extinguished by the star fire they spit out.

　Neither the solid walls of the city nor the strong wards were of any use. The millennia of history and golden culture built up over the millennia are suddenly trampled by the gods and beasts that appear.

　A scene that had never been seen before, a memory that couldn't possibly exist.

　And yet, I know for sure. This is a scene from the past. The battle of the gods that led to the appearance of the Catalan Desert.


''...Is this your memory, Soul Eater?''


　This time there was no answer. But there was a hint of affirmation.

　Why did he show me this? I was about to ask such a question and stopped.

　I didn't need to ask. The Soul Eater is telling me to fight. The Soul Eater tells us to fight and devour the King of Beasts.

　Of course, there is no denying it.　

　I've always been after the behemoths from the start. And after receiving such a rousing welcome, there was no other choice but to fight.

　It's probably because the behemoths have been in the world for quite a few years, unlike the hydra, which had only been in the world for a short time. If we were to talk about humans, they are like babies and adults, and even if they are the same species of illusion, they are far more formidable.

　But there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I'm more than welcome to it. I'll get my soul uprooted along with the horns, and I'll go higher.


Oh, yeah. I'm going to take this opportunity to reach the realm of the void.


　When I said something like that in a good mood, I now felt a hint of denial.

　Goz had said that Kuu was the essence of the Illusionary One-Two Style, a state in which all of the power of the same source being (anima) was drawn out. In other words, I thought that if the Soul Eater was in the mood for it, even I could reach it now, but the response to that was a mild shock to my forehead. I felt like I was poked by something I couldn't see.

　Apparently, it's a "that's it, that's it, this is it" thing. Tsk.


'Oh well. If you find out that your opponent is a blunt artillery unit, there are plenty of ways to fight it.


　Saying that, he turned his gaze to the behemoth that was still spitting out breath (breath) from beyond.

　The amount of heat is the same as the previous day, on the contrary, it seems to be increasing in power little by little, but - I no longer felt any heavy pressure or chills.