episode_0186

“… Wade… ?”

Mary opened her eyes and looked at Wade’s face in front of her in confusion.

His eyes were shaking, as if he couldn’t understand this situation or the scene before his eyes.

“… dream… ?”

In the end, Mary thought there was a high probability that this scene was a dream.

“It’s not a dream.”

Wade gently denied her illusion.

“… … ?”

At those words, Mary’s already large eyes grew even wider.

With those big eyes filled with overflowing questions, her gaze wandered here and there.

As if he didn’t believe what Wade said.

What made Mary’s eyes stop looking like that.

Sigh!

It was Wade’s finger that hit Mary’s forehead.

“Ah!”

At that short, stinging pain, Mary reflexively made a sound.

Holding her forehead with both hands, Mary looked up at Wade with still confused eyes.

“Because it’s not a dream.”

Looking into those eyes, Wade smiled softly.

At that, Mary’s already large eyes grew bigger than ever.

“… how… ?”

And then, the question that filled her eyes became a sound and flowed out of her mouth.

“I… For sure… ?”

Mary looked.

The scene where Wade’s sword is swung towards him.

And I felt it.

Something was clearly cutting me.

But why is he alive so well?

Mary couldn’t understand that at all.

However, Mary could not immediately solve the question.

“I’ll explain that later.”

Saying that, Wade put her down on the ground.

“Ah… … .”

Wade turned around, leaving Mary confused by the somewhat sudden movement and situation.

And glared.

The leader was looking at the two with shaking eyes.

The cult leader’s eyes were shaking greatly.

At first glance, it had some similarities with the look in Mary’s eyes, but it was fundamentally different.

Unlike Mary’s eyes, which were filled with pure doubt, the religious leader’s eyes clearly contained different emotions.

That emotion was anger.

“… What is it”

Along with emotions such as doubt and confusion, anger that could never be hidden was overflowing from those eyes.

“What on earth have you done! Wade Heblon… !!”

And that anger became a voice and flowed out of the religious leader’s mouth.

The expression on his face had suddenly become distorted.

As if I witnessed something that shouldn’t have happened.

His face and expression were stained with resentment and resentment.

From the religious leader’s perspective, it was natural.

The cult leader hoped that Wade would despair.

He had no choice but to kill his childhood friend Mary with his own hands, and in despair over it, he fell into the abyss.

And, in the end, it gets broken.

That was what the religious leader wanted.

The situation was created just to see that.

A situation from which you can never escape, from which you have no choice but to make a choice.

However, Wade left the stage he had prepared.

In a completely unimaginable way.

It was natural for the cult leader’s face to distort.

On the other hand, unlike the religious leader, Wade’s expression was infinitely calm.

Wade glared at the religious leader with a face that was infinitely calm and even felt a bitter coldness.

“Now it’s my turn to ask the question.”

And, I asked.

“How do you feel?”

A voice so cold that it reminds me of a snowy field.

“The stage I prepared to the best of my ability was a mess.”

With sharp eyes that look like they’ll cut you just by looking at them.

“In the end, your great cause has also come to a halt.”

It was as he said.

As soon as Mary’s rampage stopped, her abilities also stopped working.

All the cracks that had endlessly poured out monsters have now closed, and more than anything, the distortion of space that had worsened over time has now completely stopped.

“I wish you could kindly explain how you feel right now.”

At that cold whisper.

“Wade Heblon… !!”

The cult leader’s face became even more distorted.

“Now, what do you do now?”

At that time, a voice intervened between the two.

It was none other than Ethan.

“I think the situation is over.”

In his usual, characteristically annoying tone of voice.

“Are you going to struggle?”

Ethan asked, with a fierce smile on his face.

“That wouldn’t be bad either. I knew it was true when I saw it. You’re not normal. Even if you search the entire continent, there will be almost no one stronger than you. You never know if it’s that powerful, right? … Oh, isn’t that too?”

Ethan’s gaze began to move away from the religious leader.

The power of the mutated cult leader exceeded the standards.

So much so that even Ethan, who had the highest level of skill among the Ten Swords, was helpless.

It is truly a monster that can cause disaster with its single strength if it wants to.

That was the current religious leader.

however.

“It won’t work for that guy anyway.”

The cult leader and Wade had never fought yet, and Ethan couldn’t even properly guess Wade’s level, but he was vaguely confident that he had reached a superhuman level.

Wade is stronger than the cult leader.

And that wasn’t just limited to Ethan.

Wade and even the cult leader himself knew and felt it.

Who is stronger?

That’s why Wade was calm, and the leader’s face didn’t show signs of relief.

“… … .”

The leader moved his gaze slowly.

He saw people surrounding him.

Wade and Ethan, Beluid and Alexis, Rachel, Ira, Cedric, Chris, Wilhelm, and even Mary.

The eyes of everyone standing here were focused on him.

And their eyes seemed to be speaking in unison.

Now, everything is over.

In that situation, the religious leader.

“… Ha.”

Instead of despairing, I laughed.

“Hahahahaha!”

It wasn’t at the level of laughing out loud.

He was laughing so hard that the people around him were shaking with laughter, to the point where the words “laughter” or “crazy laughter” would be more appropriate.

However.

The laughter didn’t last long.

The brightness is enough to make you frown.

In an instant, it suddenly stopped.

Like that, neither the smile nor the distortion disappeared, with a cold, expressionless expression.

The leader looked at the group again.

“You don’t know anything.”

Then he said:

“Is the situation over? Try struggling?”

The words continued in a hard, cold voice that didn’t seem to contain the slightest emotion.

“Really, I don’t know anything.”

The leader shook his head lightly.

“What do you think my purpose is?”

The cult leader’s eyes moved towards Ethan, who had been laughing at him just a moment ago.

“Putting Wade Heblon into despair? Or, killing you all?”

His voice was still calm, but his eyes were burning like a volcano ready to explode at any moment.

“No, everything is wrong.”

The leader decisively interrupted the conversation.

“My goal was to achieve a great cause from the beginning, and that was the only thing.”

The cult leader spread his arms.

“For a long time, so long ago that you can’t even guess, that was my sole purpose. The creation of the religious order, the numerous operations carried out across the continent, and the standing here like this were all done to complete a great cause.”

Contrary to his still cold expression, the leader’s eyes gradually became more intense as he continued speaking.

“Think about it.”

Now, even the eyes are shining, the religious leader said.

“If Wade Heblon had killed Mary Bluenoa, the distortion would have stopped.”

For the first time, a smile bloomed on that face that had always been stiff.

“Do you think I didn’t prepare for something like that? If that happens, the progress of the great cause will come to a halt?”

“… … !”

At those words, Ethan’s expression hardened.

“Wade!”

Ethan immediately drew his sword and shouted Wade’s name.

It was because he sensed that the religious leader was about to do something unusual.

But his shouting was unnecessary in the end. Wade was already moving before he could.

At a speed that no one could notice, Wade rushed towards the cult leader with his sword drawn.

The speed was beyond the human realm, and even the cult leader, who had the power to play with the Ten Swordsman, could not properly perceive the speed.

and.

Suddenly─

Wade’s sword mercilessly cut into the cult leader’s body.

It was only then that the religious leader realized it. That his body was cut.

however.

“It’s no use.”

Even though I got cut myself.

Even though it was torn in two.

The cult leader laughed.

“It’s already too late.”

He smiled with the brightest smile I’ve ever seen on his face.

and.

Whoop─

The cult leader’s body, cut in two, instantly turned into powder and scattered.

“What… ?!”

Everyone held their breath when they saw that strange sight.

Because it was a sight that could not have occurred according to common sense.

A person cut in two speaks calmly, and his body is instantly reduced to dust.

However, as if he did not even care about their reaction, the pulverized body of the religious leader began to move as if it had will.

The speed was so fast that I could only watch in a daze.

Soon the powder arrived.

In that distorted space that has stopped.

And at the same time.

Sigh─

The powder disappeared in an instant.

As if it never existed, without a trace.

Right after.

Kuung─

The space began to vibrate.

At first it was at a minimal level.

However, the shaking rapidly became more severe as time passed, and by the time I blinked a few times, it had become strong enough to shake the entire crater.

“What… ?!”

Even on top of the crater, which was shaking so much that it was now difficult to even stand on two feet, the group did not take their eyes off the space that had begun to distort.

It was because I felt it.

Something unusual is happening.

Even though he didn’t have superhuman senses and intuition like Wade or Ethan, he felt it clearly.

Their instincts were screaming.

Something scary is happening.

Something will happen that no one can stop.

Without even knowing what it was, they felt scared.

A heavy, thick fear that can never be escaped.

In those gazes, fear began to creep up and start to shake.

Squeak─

Finally, the ‘door’ opened.