I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

33 – [Side Story] Richard

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A reddish light covered the sky.

The appearance of the sky, which had changed like the twilight of sunset, was beautiful enough to convey many meaningful impressions to the viewer. However, Damian couldn’t just think of the scene unfolding before his eyes as simply beautiful.

It was still too early for the sun to set.

The ‘light of hope’ created by the four great wizards freed them from the power of foreign powers that had imprisoned the world in darkness, and restored the time of the previous world, albeit locally. In this place, protected by such a ‘light of hope’, the sky now turning red was an obvious anomaly.

“Is it your fault, Richard?”

Damian asked the man standing in front of him.

The man with hair the color of twilight, like the changed sky, whom he called Richard, nodded his head obediently in affirmation at Damian’s words. Seeing Richard just nodding his head without saying anything, Damian didn’t ask for an explanation as to why he did this.

From the moment Richard nodded, a sword was held in Damian’s empty hand.

Richard Artuwen.

As one of only four archmages at present, he reached the state of transcendence and created the ‘light of hope’ with other archmages. However, this ‘light of hope’ is a confrontation system to remove the power of foreign media that has now covered the world, not to change day and night at will.

Even if Richard didn’t say anything, Damian already knew.

It is because the displeasure unique to the divinity of the foreign media that covered the world felt every time I left the barrier was felt more deeply than ever. Richard also agreed without much excuse, because he didn’t think that Damian would not notice.

It was enough to tear Damian’s heart apart that the trustworthy comrade who had been running along the front line until yesterday, even though he was holding the sword as if nothing had happened, had fallen into the main target of the enemy.

Questions about why he made that choice and what the hell had happened jumped up to his throat, but he swallowed them back and killed the emotions boiling inside him, gripping his sword. Regardless of what achievements he had made in the past and what position he had risen to, the man named Richard Ertuwen now in front of him was a traitor and an enemy of mankind.

That fact alone allowed Damian to bury his feelings deep inside.

Kwajik-

As Damian regained his composure, the sound of flesh bursting came from the space between him and Richard. The spear, from which it did not know where it came from, pierced something invisible that was precisely aiming at Damian’s neck.

When he was stabbed by a spear, the appearance of a heterogeneous being aiming at Damian with a bizarre-shaped blade embedded in his arm was revealed, as if he could no longer hide himself. However, it was swept away by a black flash that burst out of the window for a moment, and it disappeared from the world without leaving any traces.

Only then did Richard’s mouth, which had been silent until now, open.

“hahahahaha. It’s a pity. I guess I’m not shaking this much.”

Richard’s face was smiling, but there was no emotion in it. Damian also looked at him with emotionless eyes, but Richard said with a small sneer that he might have found the emotions he couldn’t hide even in Damian’s appearance.

“Don’t look at me like that. I can’t fight you head-on.”

“You know very well that these tricks don’t work. So, if you quietly lay down your head right now, I’ll make sure you don’t feel any pain.”

At Damian’s calm reply, Richard shook his head in response.

“That’s not possible. I definitely want to kill you.”

As he stepped out of his seat, the red-tinged sky began to move accordingly. Because this place under the red sky was his domain, the space within the realm was following Richard’s orders. The sky began to fall as Richard lowered his hand.

It wasn’t just a metaphor.

The red sky was descending towards Damian moment by moment, and everything around him was collapsing as it could not withstand the increased pressure. The ground went out and the mountains began to crumble, but Damian stood upright, facing Richard, intact and intact in a world where everything was collapsing.

“Did you become like that just to show this?”

Damian raised his sword high toward the sky descending on him.

then cut it

The red sky descending towards you. He cut down a collapsing world.

If Richard destroyed the world with magic that reached the extreme, he cut down the world with a group that reached the extreme. Like a broken mirror, the reddish sky of twilight shatters.

But that wasn’t the end. The debris of the sky scattered here and there soon became a door and began to attract things that were not of this world to this place.

Clink!!

Damian immediately threw the sword in his hand and broke the fragments.

However, a single sword was not enough to deal with the fragments scattered in all directions. In the end, Damian couldn’t break down all the doors, and as soon as the beings who came through the doors saw him, they rushed at him like a predator that found a prey.

Then, with Damian as the center, a storm of auras raged around him.

Those who came close to him exploded like balloons with the sound of something exploding. Even so, there were still many beings from the other world approaching Demian. Confirming that, Damian gave up destroying the remaining fragments and jumped toward the cause, Richard.

When the aura was poured into the ring, the dragon heart embedded in it took out the weapons made from its own body. The dead dragon’s body was processed into various types of weapons, and that type wasn’t just a sword.

A huge ax made from the skull of a dragon is in his hand.

Damian slammed the dragon ax at Richard with all his strength, as if to tear apart the space.

Tup-

But the ax did not cut Richard apart. From some moment, a huge giant summoned behind Damian’s back was holding the ax so he wouldn’t hurt Richard.

“No matter how you are, you can’t deal with the constantly appearing monsters alone.”

Richard’s voice from right in front of his nose scratched Damian’s nerves, but there was no time to waste his energy on it. Damian immediately let go of the axe, took the spear he had drawn out in his hand again, and threw it at the giant’s head.

The spear pierced the giant’s head with a flash of black light. Damian, holding the ax again, found Richard, but many summoned creatures had already been summoned to prevent him from approaching him. A group of monsters resembling a swarm of insects attacked Damian.

As before, there were too many of them to clear away just by invoking a storm of auras. Even if he tried to reduce the number by swinging the weapon in his hand, the number of monsters that constantly came like ants from all directions did not decrease even if he killed them.

The waves made entirely of monsters swept away Damian.

No matter how much he was a transcendentalist, there was a limit.

If it is possible to reach all people, you can press it with a larger amount than that.

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Moreover, all the monsters summoned here were strengthened by the power of foreign gods, so dealing with them alone was close to impossible, even if he was called a god among the transcendent.

Seeing Damian buried by the monsters, Richard started laughing like crazy.

However, just like the first time he laughed, that smile contained no emotion whatsoever, along with the sense of accomplishment that he had reached his goal. All that remained of him, who had been polluted by the divinity of a foreign god, was only the indelible lingering lingering feelings he had from the time his heart first collapsed.

Still, Richard didn’t stop laughing. If I didn’t do this, I felt like I would lose my mind at any moment.

“What are you laughing at?”

The voice he heard clearly in his ears immediately stopped Richard’s unstoppable laughter. Richard turned to look at the grave he had built. Then he began to doubt his eyes at the sight reflected in his own eyes. There, the light that should never be seen was leaking from the cracks of the monsters.

Before long, the mountain of monsters collapsed, revealing himself wrapped in golden brilliance.

“I am not dead yet.”

He was still looking at Richard with the same look he had at the beginning.

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“What the hell is going on…?”

Elena muttered as she looked at the sky, which was changing color every moment.

How can I feel the reverberation of foreign media in this place where there is a ‘light of hope’?

The great magic barrier ‘Light of Hope’ created by the four great wizards has never allowed an outside invasion. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is this ‘light of hope’ that has allowed mankind to survive until now, when they are on the defensive due to the fierce offensive of foreign media.

However, the power felt inside the barrier, which was thought to be unbreakable unless the true body of the foreign god descended, was undoubtedly the divinity of the foreign god.

In response to the sudden change, Elena hurriedly opened the barrier spell and checked it, but the ‘Light of Hope’ protecting the entire Merrohim was still intact and there was no sign of damage to the spell.

Because of that, Elena wondered if her eyes were wrong for a moment, but this unforgettable unpleasant feeling all over her body told her that what Elena was seeing was real.

Elena’s intellect, shining like a star, did not allow her to be swept away by the confusion, and she sorted things out with great speed.

it’s an intrusion

I don’t know how he managed to break through the barrier, but one thing was certain: the enemy had entered the barrier.

Perhaps this happened while he was away for a while.

If there is anything fortunate, is it the fact that he was the one who remained here now? Unlike before, even though the number of transcendents to oppose him was reduced by foreign media, his presence was very important in maintaining the war and making it possible to think of victory.

Fortunately, the sky returned to its original color while Elena moved to the place thought to have occurred, and the divinity of the foreign press that made her uncomfortable no longer felt.

But that didn’t mean he wasn’t worried. As it was a sudden change, there was a high possibility that he would have been hurt.

Unsurprisingly, as she expected, the place that seemed to be the location of the abnormality was not normal. Everything was destroyed and only traces of destruction remained.

“Damian!!”

Still, seeing him looking fine, Elena put a smile on her face and hurriedly started running toward him.

Until he saw a man lying in front of him.

The man lying down with his heart pierced by a sword had a very familiar and friendly face to Elena. He was a comrade who fought with them to the end in his previous life, and he was his oldest friend, so he couldn’t help but know.

“Damian, what is this…aha!! Is this a joke? Y-is that so? Richard stopped joking around and couldn’t wake up? I was surprised enough! Get up now!!!”

At Elena’s words, neither Damian nor Richard, who was lying down, said anything.

Elena, who was shaking Richard’s body, knew well what that silence meant. She also felt the reverberation of the foreign press on Richard’s cold body, so it wasn’t that she couldn’t guess what had happened here.

Even so, she couldn’t let go of Richard’s clothes until the end.

I couldn’t believe that the situation in front of my eyes was real, so I just turned my back and turned away.

It’s a nightmare.

It really is a very terrible nightmare.