Novel The Max Level Hero has Returned! - Chapter 404

Chapter 404

127. The twisted giant tree (2)

“Walk quickly!!”

Fuck!

A boy in rags rolled on the floor with a wild cry.

“Ugh…”

The boy who let out a painful moan was still young and in his age.

However, he could not be courageous enough to rebel against the one who brushed himself off.

The completely dead expression showed the boy how badly he had been through it all this time.

A world where humans have been defeated.

I never doubted that he would always be the owner of the continent, and I never predicted this situation.

I didn’t even know that I would live a painful life being treated like a slave to something other than human.

It was a terrible life.

However, the boy gritted his teeth and stood up as he saw the boy who was smaller than the boy who followed him with a dead expression as well.

The big boy’s name is Roxy.

It was Roxy Coronel.

People around him called him Roxy because his surname had no meaning now, but at one time he was the eldest son of a duke who was in the highest position in a kingdom, and he was also a promising boy in the future.

Unless you were born and spent most of your life swept away in chaotic warfare.

“hey! do you want to die?”

Aww!!

A sharp sound echoes with a cool voice.

“Ugh!!”

“Tongue bro…”

No one else reacted to Roxy’s painful moan, but his younger brother looked at Roxy with empty eyes.

please don’t look

When he went through a war before becoming a slave and built a small village with the help of the last resistance fighters.

He practiced the sword and said that to his brother every time.

He said that he would definitely end the war and create a better world to live in and show it to his younger brother.

But the results were disastrous.

Having no strength, he had no means to resist until the last resistance forces of mankind were annihilated, and he was helplessly captured and enslaved.

Those who captured them were the hateful blood elves who followed the Twisted World Tree.

Unlike fairies that can only be seen in fairy tales, their behavior was vicious and cruel, like demons themselves.

It’s already been 6 months since I was brought here.

It was Roxy that reminded me of the words of an old man from the same slave who said that the number of people who died here was as many as the stars in the sky.

slam!! slam!!

The blood elves mercilessly whipped Roxy, who couldn’t get up easily because she hadn’t had a proper meal for several days.

Roxy’s heart, which had no strength left to even scream despite the excruciating pain, was slowly breaking.

If reality is hell, wouldn’t it be better to die like this?

I have to protect my little brother, but I can’t see any hope.

Roxy, who had been flogged on the floor with a dazed face, thought that if she struggled in this pain a little longer, she might be able to let go of everything and die comfortably.

“Brother… brother…”

But his younger brother didn’t seem to like it.

Roxy’s eyes widened at the act of her younger brother walking slowly and wrapping Roxy’s body with a whip instead.

No matter how much he wanted to die, he did not want to use his younger brother as a shield.

“Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

The red-haired blood elves immediately frowned as they jumped up with incredible strength and wrapped themselves around their little brother.

“How dare you rebel?! On the subject of filthy slavery!”

Whippings flew incessantly along with furious shouts.

In the midst of that devastating attack, Roxy desperately defended her brother.

Even in the merciless beating that continued so that there were no unscathed wounds on his face, back, or legs, he hugged his brother almost madly and endured all the whippings.

“You bastard!”

Finally, an enraged blood elf drew a dagger from his bosom and held it high.

It is so common that it is not strange that a human slave dies in this place where humans have been defeated.

Roxy reflexively closed her eyes as she saw the sparkling white metal light.

coo!!!!

If it hadn’t been for the massive explosion that followed.

A huge shock wave rang out once, followed by a tremendous earthquake that hit the whole area, and screams in confusion from all sides.

The blood elf, who was about to kill Roxy, looked around in amazement at the sudden situation.

“what! what’s the matter!”

Of course, there must be someone who can answer such a question.

The moment when everyone was in doubt.

“Chi invasion…”

a blood elf hurriedly entered from afar and froze.

And everyone watched the situation with blank faces.

A blood elf with red hair and red eyes.

I thought that such a blood elf was really red because it was covered in blood.

However, such a cheap feeling was soon blown away by a person appearing behind him.

“The peace-loving tribe of the forest? What a spectacle! very.”

With a calm murmur, the boy who grabbed the hardened blood elf’s head and knelt down spoke calmly.

“A man with an openly dirty duality would be much more honest. is not it?”

The blood elf’s head caught in the relaxed voice trembled as if he had seen a monster.

Fighting!!

However, something intangible soon burst out of the figure’s body, and the blood elf seemed to be unable to overcome the fear and collapsed with foam on his face.

All that was awake were the bound humans who had been captured as slaves.

Other than that, the blood elves were all unconscious.

what the hell did you use

Roxy, who had been dazed, opened her mouth slowly as she saw the magic circle made of huge lights spread across the sky.

When humans lose the war.

Due to the addition of traitors and races who betrayed humans, the policy of exterminating humans unfolded, and humans lost everything they owned.

weapon powerlessness. Magic in every way.

The boy looked human.

But since the Last Resistance was wiped out a few years ago, I hadn’t seen a single human use magic.

Is that all?

I’ve never seen those who casually use magic on a scale like that.

Roxy, who had seen firsthand that even when she was helping the last resistance force conduct a siege, the only thing left to do was to gather dozens of wizards and make a magic circle that was much smaller than that.

Is the boy walking slowly in front of Roxy, who was absent-minded, really human or something wearing a human mask?

if that’s not the case.

Could it be the incarnation of a god who took pity on humans who suffered miserable conditions?

Whatever it was, Roxy met the boy’s gaze and instinctively hugged her sister as if they were about to break.

The emotion in the boy’s eyes was a familiar one.

ghastly madness.

Recognizing the madness, Roxy feared that the black-haired, red-eyed boy might not be simply a savior.

* * *

Madness consumes me moment by moment.

Perhaps because of the synchronization after a long time, the fact that the madness that had been well controlled came back into the picture was quite refreshing.

This happened to me when I used the gem before.

It was a reaction that was nothing new, so I used to suppress madness and save my strength.

Great power comes at a great price.

I didn’t know how far the level of madness would erode, so I adjusted my strength a bit at first, but it was ironic that [Uld]’s power of encroachment seemed more dangerous than if it was such an ambiguous encroachment.

Even if I couldn’t completely get rid of it, most of the madness had been removed, so the only change that had happened to me was this lingering smile on my lips.

Of course, there are some that have changed quite impulsively.

The blood elves who guarded the Holy Tree cannot return once they have changed.

Exposed to the instinct of destruction, they were literally demons, and I cut them down without regret and entered the forest.

The holy ground of the divine tree is huge.

That’s why there are still many blood elves left, but they weren’t my concern anyway.

It’s time to come out, but it’s still not coming out, are you holding on?

I thought Yggdrasil, the world tree that I thought would show up right away if I made a fuss like this, became silent, and a slightly annoyed expression came out.

In the first place, I did not come to this place to save the humans who were caught here, nor did I come to obliterate the world tree of another world, even taking the risk.

It was simply to find clues about this unpleasant gaze looking at me, and to find out if there was any element that could put a brake on Aria’s memory erasure.

In the first place, time was too small for me to try anything in this world.

just over three days.

What the hell should I do in that time?

It’s better not to pamper yourself that you can’t fully take responsibility.

‘I’m actually violating that.’

There is a prisoner girl who is suffering such unfair treatment in the nearest place.

I had no intention of doing anything to this little boy who expressed his fear towards me.

Instead, she gathered her holy power like drops and indifferently splashed it on his face.

Eat some recovery magic.

When something like pure white water splashed onto his face, the boy looked startled and embarrassed.

However, the drops of divine power that permeated the boy’s body, emitting clean light, soon had a quick effect.

The wounds that had been raised to the point of being terribly began to heal slowly.

Since he was still a young boy, the recovery speed itself was quite satisfactory.

Before long, I poured the drops of holy power on the little boy he was holding in the same way, and I ignored them without regret and moved on.

It was then.

“Wait a minute!”

A cry from behind made me pass among the human slaves and stop.

All eyes of the human beings diverged like a miracle of Moses so as not to obstruct my path, and turned to me and the boy.

“…”

Looking at the boy without saying a word, the boy asked, erasing the eyes that looked like a dead child from a while ago.

“Are you human?”

“Can’t you see?”

In response to my lackluster answer, the boy asked another question.

“You let us…”

“I won’t do anything more than this.”

“yes?”

“Isn’t there a reason I’m saving you guys from here?”

The boy’s expression turned black at my cold reply.

This guy’s madness and impulsiveness make him speak more harshly than usual.

“…”

Silent boys and desperate human slaves.

A human with strong power who suddenly attacked this place.

When such a human appeared, they must have thought that they could be saved even for a moment.

But I can’t afford to care for them, let alone save them.

“That’s right.”

“But there’s no reason to hold you or anyone else, right?”

At my words, a question appeared on the boy’s face. And then, after a while, he groaned.

“Clever people are those who catch opportunities when they have them. And in this funny world, the smart ones live long.”

The Blood Elves who were supposed to watch over the slaves everywhere fainted, and some of them cast magic as soon as they found me, but the mana flowed back and they died.

It was a natural result since he had not put mercy in his hands in the first place.

“Ha, but we have restraints on our bodies…”

In the meantime, a woman cautiously asked.

“They know how to freeze the restraints.”

After saying it coldly, I licked my lips and passed casually between them.

I could get angry at my pretty harsh attitude, but no one stopped me, perhaps because of my mood.

Ting!!

It was then.

The metal restraints that restrained the limbs of a slave cracked and shattered.

At the same time, the restraints of dozens of slaves there were broken all at once.

The slaves, unaware of what had happened to them, soon seemed to realize who had smashed the restraints and looked at me with astonished eyes.

However, I had already passed the place where they were and was moving into the shrine of the divine tree.

No matter what the humans did, I did not bother to stop the blood elves who stopped me and continued to advance.

Maybe because they saw what I had done once, the blood elves couldn’t attack easily, even forcibly killing the ferocious temper.

Having entered the center of the sacred tree in this way, I was soon able to see an enormously huge tree whose entire body was dyed red or, no, dark red.

And I could see three crosses hanging in the middle of the great plaza in front of the tree.

“…”

I looked at the cross without a word and slowly drew my sword.

“Me and the damn bitch.”

The surroundings fell silent at the sound of my voice resounding quietly.

hold on for a while

A man slowly walked out of the blood elves, who were all focused on me whether or not the slave had escaped.

“Who are you? You don’t look like a demon, but I’ve never heard of a human like you.”

I remained silent in response to the man’s question, who speaks quite casually.

“I don’t know how he broke through his mother’s barrier, but he’s so fearless. This is a place protected by mother power. In particular, this central sanctuary is also the place where the mother’s power is maximized.”

A man who explains without even asking.

I knew his identity.

Even if he became a blood elf, his entire face would not change.

saint of divinity.

He is the person who brought Yuria Helishana and Aina Helishana to that point, and he must be a very funny guy who showed how ugly elves can become by collaborating with Yggdrasil.

“The saint of the divine tree.”

Then, slowly, a voice came out of my mouth.

“hmm? You… do you know me?”

‘Yes, you know me well, don’t you know me? i know you

I murmured softly and slowly dropped the cheongdan on the ground, inserted it, and stretched out my finger.

Then he pointed to the figures hanging on the cross and asked.

“Are you having fun?”

“what?”

“Are you having fun tying up an elf who hasn’t yet reached adulthood like that?”

At my words, before he could even shout, his body froze as his eyes met mine.

His eyes, which met mine for an instant, opened wide like a tray and instinctively began to tremble.

It was [Pier], the 8th circle black magic.

“You’d better explain what Mew has to do with your war.”

The elf tied to the three crosses was someone I knew.

Medith, who was Aina Helishana, Mew, and Yuria’s teacher.

In order to prepare for the war with the demons, the World Tree was wary of the existence of the demon king Perserk and tried to achieve something by sacrificing Yuria.

If it were Aina, she would have rebelled because she would never see her sister sacrificed in vain.

So I understand why you’re hanging over there.

what’s wrong with mew

That innocent, young child.

The elf named Medith, who was Yuria Helishana’s teacher, was unfamiliar, but the other two were different.

Even if it was a different person, the person who had built up a face-to-face friendship was murdered like this, and even the corpse was tied up for a long time without returning to nature, which ignited the impulse and madness that had been suppressed.

Just a little bit…

Let’s play on impulse just a little bit.

Whatever it is, if you see something like this, the thought of just going over will disappear.

It’s the gaze that looks at me, and it’s Nabal.

Unsaintly cruelty is professionally mimicked.

Having made my decision, I immediately moved toward the sacred tree without hesitation.

At the same time, Cheongdan-i, who was stuck on the floor, trembled, floated up into the air and returned to my hand. Every time I took a step, dozens of layers of circular magic circles were overlapped under my feet and began to form.

Each piece is an elaborate magic circle, which overlaps several times to form something gigantic.

It’s about being ferocious, not stupid. The blood elves were astonished at my eccentricity and fell silent.

Soon after, they were astonished at the changes that occurred in the sky.

As the sky begins to turn black.

It was because dozens and hundreds of pure white light bulbs from the sky began to fall rapidly toward the entire area around me, including the giant tree Yggdrasil.

An 8-circle counterspin magic, each with overwhelming power.

It was a white nova, a fireball of the heatwave system. They would have to accept that they were out of luck that it was different from the previous one, where it used only one shot and stretched out.