༺ Valhalla (4)༻
Until now the walls had been constantly taking a defensive stance. It was because there was no advantage in leaving the wall and going on the offense.
Actually, part of it was that they didn’t dare leave the gates due to the endless rocks and boulders that were being thrown by the titans.
“The titans aren’t throwing rocks anymore!”
“Now! Now is the time!!”
Thanks to Josephine and Erin stopping the rocks, and the countless supplies of men willing to fight, the wall was still firmly holding on.
Even though it should have fallen in its first encounter against 150,000 northerners, they instead became allies and added on top of that were the reinforcements from the capital.
The waves of monsters could not break through the thousands of knights and mages, and a hundred thousand soldiers, despite their numbers.
And…
“Jormungandr…!”Standing on their side and fighting with them was the traitor serpent.
Snake of Infinity, Jormungandr. World Serpent, Midgardsormr… The beast of Apocalypse was referred to with several names.
Originally, it was the ‘last resort’ that had been handed over to Miruam by Tates Valtazar as a sign of their alliance.
The baby Midgard Serpent that was hiding in her walking stick, which was originally supposed to devour its owner and fall along with the world, woke up without its destined prerequisites.
“Fuu… It’s eating up mana at a ridiculous speed.”
“Please don’t give up, Lady Dunareff. I will probably die if it’s just me,” said the princess.
“I am trying my best.”
Vampire Marie Dunareff was assisting with the power required to maintain the Snake of Infinity.
She was the child gifted by mana. Her ingenious talents in magic as well as the abundant capacity of mana allowed the serpent to awake and grow.
That was how she was able to control the serpent that was supposed to devour not only Miruam but everything else.
This was the result of two very-different people risking their lives hoping to save one life, and was perhaps a demonstration of his karma.
“It’s incredible. How much mana… Are you really human?”
“Yes I am. Hehe…”
“…Why are you laughing?”
“You are thinking of me as human, right?”
“Hmm…”
Miruam realized that she had unknowingly seen Marie the Vampire as a human like herself.
She had a strong hatred against demi-humans. She detested them; she loathed them and thought of them as demons.
Because they killed her mother, her loved ones and left an inerasable mark on her, she hated them so much… that she had stayed in the cycle of hatred.
[Let’s stop here. This… this isn’t right.]
That cycle was stopped by one man – a man who held her back with his own life on the line.
And she had a feeling this was his second time. Despite having a second chance at life after experiencing the death of his child and his loved ones, he was still risking his life trying to persuade her to stop.
Due to that, she let go of her sword of revenge and was able to confront it.
[My daughter died. She was brutally murdered and I couldn’t save a single bone.]
[I wanted to take my revenge. I hated the world, and cursed the humans.]
Looking at the nemesis who was similarly lost in the same cycle of revenge…
[I must have passed the end at one point… I had crossed the line.]
She realized she was no different from them.
“Hmph…”
It was funny how her lifelong hatred had dissipated just from the existence of a single man.
“Please continue pouring in mana. Leave the control to me.”
The serpent opened its gigantic mouth.
The Midgard Serpent, which could grow instantaneously and even devour the world itself, was biting into the neck of the Frost Giant, refusing to let go of it.
Meanwhile, after letting their Einherjars out to fight one another, the Valkyries were glaring at each other.
“…”
“…”
Brunhild, who decided to side with humanity, and Hlokk and other Valkyries who sided with Valtazar – although they were facing each other as enemies of different factions, there was no regret nor remorse on their faces.
“I didn’t think I would fight against a sister in a war.” Brunhild said in a calm voice while facing her opponent.
“Me too,” replied Hlokk. “Against Brunhild-unni at that. More importantly… did you escape your curse?”
Hlokk realized immediately that the curse of the God King had disappeared.
“Yes. Sir Korin overcame the Trial of Fire, but he did not remove my armor.”
“What? But right now you’re…”
“So I removed it myself and handed it over to the most qualified.”
“Hmm…”
Hlokk found it very surprising… and also tempting. The story of a hero who voluntarily let go of the chance to acquire the leader of Valkyries was intriguing after all.
“The ‘man with a spear’… I see, Skuld might have been referring to either one of the two.”
“I firmly believe that Sir Korin is the one prophesied,” Brunhild replied with certainty.
“We will see. Skogul-unni and the Spear Sisters are against him right now. Today will be his fall.”
No-one could beat the Spear Sisters by themselves. They were the strongest elites among Valkyries who hunted down countless Frost Giants and Flame Giants. There was no way that they would lose to an individual who wasn’t even a giant—
“They did lose to him, Tates Valtazar. Didn’t they?”
“…He doesn’t count. He is not an existence that mere demi-gods like us can fathom.”
Everyone saw the radiant light he had demonstrated – the intense heat ravishing the ground with its might.
Brunhild understood why the sisters had turned away.
They were entranced by that power.
They were so charmed by it, that they even discarded their belief towards the King of Gods whom they had been serving their whole life.
“Being strong is different from being right… Human lives are always the most valuable.” Brunhild declared.
The value and conviction Korin Lork pursued was instilled even in the heart of Brunhild, who had been in countless battles.
“…But conviction alone can’t win a war.” Saying that, Hlokk turned and looked the titans that were slowly walking their way.
They were enemies whom the Valkyries had detested the most. Although the resurrected titans were nothing but empty shells of giants, it was still hard to swallow the disgrace of receiving their assistance.
“I am sure the reason behind this reckless attack to our encampment is to get a hold of me for putting Korin Lork inside the gate, but you guys alone won’t be enough.”
That was how powerful these titans were, let alone the countless horde of demons standing behind the Einherjars.
“You’re right,” Brunhild replied. “We alone wouldn’t be enough.”
“What do you mean?”
It was then that Hlokk witnessed light approaching from behind Brunhild.
A radiant and divine light of heaven.
The owner of divinity, whom they had been longing and praying for this whole time.
****
Geiro Skugol.
She, who was always leading the troops at the vanguard, had witnessed countless warriors.
Fighting, killing, winning, losing and winning again.
The long history of war sometimes had unique turning points.
A superhuman.
One ‘unique’ existence who could change history.
The pinnacle of a generation.
‘To think there was another being of this level… apart from Tates Valtazar.’
The combined attack of 7 valkyries had been blocked by a single human. In the long annals of history, Tates Valtazar had been the only one to do the impossible.
Skogul turned to her four sisters who had fallen to the ground – her long comrades had met their end gloriously as a warrior.
There were only three of them left. None of them were in a good shape but the same was for their opponent.
“Huu…”
Their attacks had been fully offset, but what shredded the Valkyries and crushed Korin Lork was the aftermath of their attack.
The dimensions were cracked… and a hole had been created in the sky.
Looking at the hole in the sky, Skogul wondered how a human being could possibly do such a thing.
It wasn’t in the realm of being powerful or fast – it was an impossible feat unless one was a transcendent, but what was most surprising was that he reached that level during the fight.
A technique that he shouldn’t have been able to manifest, was awakened in the heat of battle.
That truly was the uniqueness of a superhuman.
“But he is also greatly hurt. He won’t be able to do the same thing again. We must end it now before he recovers with his mysterious regeneration.”
The leftover sisters all attacked at once, thinking that with their long experience in battlefields that they would be able to defeat an exhausted foe.
“That’s a mistake.”
The first to attack was always Geiromul with her lightning-fast stab.
– Kang!
Facing off the sharp and menacing stab was the Secret Art of Ominous Snake.
When the two spears collided, Korin’s Silver Spear slithered forward like a serpent.
“Huh?”
Immediately after that, he added a little twist to his wrist. The spears intertwined like magnets and before long, Geiromul’s spear was digging into the ground.
Lan:
After deflecting the incoming attack,
Na:
The Silver Spear pushed down on Geiromul’s spear,
“Ugh?!”
Zha:
And following that was a piercing stab.
“Kuhuk…!”
It took 0.3 seconds for all that to happen and for the Silver Spear to end up in Geiromul’s chest.
However, when Korin tried to retrieve the spear, he realized it was stuck.
“…”
In spite of the spear piercing through her body, the female warrior was holding onto the shaft, refusing to let go of it.
“Korin Lork!”
Continuing the legacy of her sister, Geiravor stabbed towards his head. Korin dodged the spear by pulling his head to the side, and after letting go of the spear threw a quick jab at Geiravor’s nose.
“Kuhuk…!”
He then reached his palm out towards Geiravor’s chest and erupted his aura at once.
Eight Trigrams: Mixed Origin
His aura created a turmoil in her body and Geiravor soon collapsed powerless.
“…”
Without even feeling out of breath, Korin gazed at Skogul. The beautiful red-haired shield maiden was looking straight back despite her falling sisters.
“You seem tired. Let’s end it in one strike.”
The two of them clenched onto their spears. There was no room for any petty tricks – no runes or magic.
There was only thing they had to show each other.
Their fastest stab and the quickest step forward.
Ominous Snake—
Korin Lork entered the black world and unleashed his quickest stab. Only a few were permitted to tread in this dark dimension.
“Don’t look down on me!”
Skogul, however, was the pinnacle of spears among Valkyries and took the same step forward. She treaded through the Domain just like Korin Lork.
Kak—!
Their Domains collided as the dimensions cried out in pain. Physical matter disintegrated and only the most resilient of metals were able to hold on.
Inside the Domain of destruction with everything disintegrating to nothing, Skogul witnessed it.
Korin retried the spear before stabbing again. Between those two attacks there was—
‘No gap?’
When Skogul came to herself, a spear tainted in black was penetrating through her chest.
“…”
“…”
What kind of fallacy was this? There was not a sliver of gap between the retrieval and the second stab. What was she supposed to do against such irrational and illogical attack.
Skogul didn’t bother questioning whether that was possible or not. There was no meaning in denying what she saw with her own very eyes.
Unbeknownst to her, what she witnessed was the final move of Six Ways of the Spear, Void.
The pinnacle of spearmanship that Erin Danua reached had been demonstrated by her disciple.
This ‘Void’ as well as ‘that thing’ he used to overcome the final attack of the Valkyries. This man…
“Remarkable… You combined two truths into one…”
Not only one but two… How was that even possible?
“They’re not my originals. It’s all thanks to a great master and a hero who gave everything he had.”
“Even then…”
Putting that to action was a different matter altogether.
Erin Danua and Sebancia Duke. The profound truth reached by those two people had been combined by this young man. Who could be called a genius if not him?
“Perhaps… You really are the one prophesied…”
Did they make the wrong choice then?
Regardless, that didn’t matter to her anymore. Skogul decided not to worry about something that was already too late.
– GURAAAAAAAA!
The cries of the dead echoed from all around. The souls of warriors were crying after witnessing the deaths of their respected skjaldmaers.
“Sorry but… you’re too dangerous. You really might… be able to defeat that man.”
“…”
Skogul crumbled down after taking out the spear digging into her chest. She was throwing up blood but was still looking straight at Korin’s eyes.
“You will die here today. The era of gods… will return.”
The reason for their betrayal and their obsession was all because of the warriors under their lead.
As such, Korin Lork had to die here, whether the Frost Giant or Tates Valtazar wanted it or not…
“Please die here. For my glorious warriors… who I couldn’t save until the end.”
“Sorry. I can’t do that.”
The legion was fast approaching. All Korin Lork had was a powerless jiangshi girl and his dying body, but even then, there was no giving up in his dictionary.
“I have vowed to save the world, you see.”
He lifted his spear.
Despite losing the Sun and his arms shaking from injuries… he knew no retreat.
“A thousand Einherjar huh. Let’s give it a shot.”
——!!!!!!
That was when the sky opened above the Valhalla.
The sky opened as light descended onto the darkened world. Her light was so radiant that it certainly wouldn’t be insufficient even when compared to the Sun or Light.
“I, Erin Danua, Divinity of Justice.”
It was the Light of Justice.
“Am the one enraged by injustice, follower of rules, and the teacher of what is right. You shall all kneel before righteousness. And most importantly—
“For my beloved disciple.”
The final Ard Ri, the Queen of Paradise descended into Valhalla.
****
Meanwhile, as the Valkyries under the lead of Brunhild were fighting against Hlokk,
Josephine was able to open Hlokk’s ‘gates’ with advice from Brunhild. It was because her dimensional spell operated under the same principles as the Valkyries’.
“We need to send reinforcements this way as well, but we can only send a small number inside.”
“In that case…”
Everyone turned their eyes to one person. Due to the ongoing war with the titans and the hordes of monsters, they had to rely on someone who could fight at their full potential even when fighting alone.
They turned to the strongest person in their group, who soon opened her mouth.
“I will go inside alone. I will leave the outside in your hands.”
Erin Danua threw herself into the fissure heading into Valhalla.
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