Volume 6, Chapter 23 – Weakness Is a Sin

“Boring.”

The Elf girl pursed her small lips. Faced with the so-called “touching” scene between Julius and Orgum, the girl named Seles gave that evaluation.

Right after that, countless complicated magic circles began appearing out of thin air, and in the blink of an eye they filled the entire sky.

“Why do you people always have so much useless crap to say?”

“If you’re about to die, just shut your eyes and wait for death already, isn’t that fine?”

As she said that, countless magic attacks of different attributes, each carrying terrifying power, started lancing out from the magic circles that covered the sky.

Those countless magic attacks bloomed like fireworks, looking especially gorgeous on this battlefield.

But behind that splendor were all those living beings who had once been dismissed by players as “nothing but data.”

Facing these almost sky-darkening magic attacks, Julius did not show the slightest hint of fear. On the contrary, as if he had realized something, the look he turned toward Seles actually grew sympathetic.

“What’s with that look in your eyes?”

Seles immediately noticed the pity in Julius’ eyes. For some reason, that “pity” only made her mood suddenly and inexplicably irritable.

“I just suddenly thought you’re very pitiful.”

“Pitiful? You’re about to die and you still want to rely on your tongue?”

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Seles shot back at Julius in a vicious tone and, at the same time, that woven-net-like barrage of attacks formed from countless spells finally reached Julius’ position.

“Your life must have been very unhappy, right?”

In the end, Julius only straightened his back and faced that nearly airtight wave of magic attacks head-on.

“Honestly… I told you to break out. Forget it, this isn’t the time to blame you. After all, from here on out, I’ll never again be able to give my lord my loyalty…”

After Julius, Orgum also left behind that single line, and then he too was swallowed up by Seles’ magic attacks.

Flames, ice and snow, lightning, raging wind…

All kinds of elemental magic washed over Dawn’s entire position and, behind these spells, Seles continued pouring out magic attacks without stopping.

Right after that she simply continued the bombardment, without pause, for a full half hour.

“Ha… ha…”

After half an hour, Dawn’s position, which had originally been on high ground, had been blasted flat by Seles through sheer force.

Even for Seles, whose strength was comparable to Throne-tier, maintaining that kind of unbroken barrage for a full half hour was hard to endure.

With her small mouth open, panting heavily, Seles’ eyes were filled with a feeling called anger.

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“What… what the hell is that!”

“They’re all such weak little things… people that weak actually had that look like they already saw right through me!”

“Ha… ha… this is hilarious, since when do I, Seles, need other people to pity me?”

“Weakness is a sin, and the weak should just wait there to be ruled by the strong!”

While Seles inexplicably threw a huge tantrum over there, behind her, the hundred thousand Minotaurs could only stare at this Elf girl with looks of sheer terror.

In fact, there was a certain logic to what Seles said about weakness being a sin.

At certain times, this game world really was that cruel. The strong side could strip others of their lives at will, without needing to pay any price at all.

For the weak side, sometimes even having a choice in how they died became an unimaginably extravagant luxury.

So what if you were Legendary-tier.

So what if you were Throne-tier.

No matter what kind of person you were, in the end you could not escape that damned fate.

“Wuu…”

As soon as she received word that the armies of the Underground World had begun attacking the border, Tianyin moved out immediately, rushing toward the frontier without rest.

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On the way, Tianyin suddenly felt her heart clench hard, and a wave of pain that could not be put into words surged up in her chest.

「What’s wrong, Xiaoyin? All of a sudden you look like you’re in a lot of pain?」

As Tianyin let out a startled cry without meaning to, Samael, who resided inside Tianyin’s body, was the first to ask with concern.

『Wuu… I don’t know what happened either, I just suddenly feel really awful… Samael, I’ve got a bad feeling about this…』

「Something really must have happened, Xiaoyin. Didn’t the Fortress Emperor tell you before? Sometimes Throne-tier strength will also give you an ability somewhat like foreseeing the future… and if you suddenly feel this miserable, then something bad really must have happened…」

『Something bad… Just knowing that something bad happened doesn’t give me any clue at all… Wait, Samael, could it be that something bad happened on the frontline?』

As she hurried forward, Tianyin thought while running and very naturally linked it to the frontline.

「Yes. The foresight of a Throne-tier does exist, but it can’t show things with precision. However, what a Throne-tier can foresee will definitely be tightly linked to the Throne-tier themselves.」

「And since your goal this time is the frontline, this omen must be about something bad happening on the frontline…」

『Wuu… is it really the frontline, how can this be? I even sent Julius there to handle frontline matters and, with Julius’ ability, holding out for a day or two shouldn’t be any kind of problem, right?』

Tianyin felt that Samael’s reasoning made a lot of sense. Even so, she still found it hard to accept that something bad had happened to the frontline.

『Haa… it’s probably news that the defense line gave way, or that the casualties are really heavy or something like that… but no matter which kind of news it is, just thinking about it feels awful…』

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When she said that, Tianyin was actually indirectly admitting that Samael’s reasoning was right.

However…

At this moment, Tianyin had no idea that the so-called bad thing that had happened on the frontline was completely different from what she imagined.

Because the lines had been pulled back, the defense had not actually fallen.

As for the soldiers’ deaths and injuries, they had only reached a still acceptable level.

But Tianyin had never once considered that Julius, whom she had just sent over there, and Orgum, who had followed her ever since Dawn was first founded, would die at Seles’ hands.

After all…

Julius and Orgum, one was Legendary-tier, and the other was Epic-tier…

『Huff… looks like we have to speed up and get to the frontline, Samael. I originally wanted to hold some strength back so we could deal with Seles and the others on the battlefield… but if the frontline might already have collapsed, then I have to hurry…』

「Mm, we can’t hold back at a time like this. Let’s get to the frontline as soon as we can and try to make up for some needless losses…」

Samael was quite in agreement with Tianyin’s judgment and choice.