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The ice magic flew towards Gerard in an instant, but Gerard thoughtlessly blocked my shock magic with magic at the tip of his staff, and I bit my lip at the sight. It was true that there was a significant difference in rank. I’m sure if Gerrard attacks with sincerity, it won’t be long before I lose.

What if you lose? Seeing that Sharon was saved like that… … There is something waiting. What are you waiting for? What is this magic circle? As I was concentrating my thoughts in my head, I heard Gerard’s voice.

“You’ve become stronger.”

“I have no intention of receiving praise. Right now all I want to do is run away.”

“If you surrender now, I will spare your life.”

“Do you think I will believe that?”

“Anyway, since you came here, your life is as good as mine, and it will be difficult for even the academy seniors you trust to find this place. Reincarnation of Denatus? Frost Queen? Goliath of flame? Even if someone comes, it won’t be easy to break this barrier.”

“Don’t ignore your seniors.”

“You’re so bold, you can’t even figure out your own location.”

And at that moment, Gerard swung his staff and uttered a spell, and lightning was fired from Gerard’s staff. There was no way to quickly avoid the lightning heading towards me, so I swung my staff and deployed protection magic, and I heard the sound of the shield colliding with the lightning and breaking.

If I hadn’t stopped it, I might have died. As fear rose throughout my body, my hand naturally tightened my grip on the cane.

The eyes looking at me were still the same, and Sharon showed no sign of waking up. Then the only thing that has to endure here is me.

That’s why I focused.

“Ice, pierce the enemy.”

As soon as the spell came out of the corner of my mouth, ice arrows were created around me and flew towards Gerard. I then opened my mouth, gathering the cold energy surrounding my body into one point.

“Ice, crush the enemy before me!”

At the same time, a chunk of ice flew towards Gerard as the spell was shouted, and as Gerard saw the magic flying towards him, he took a step forward, pointed his wand at me, and opened his mouth.

“Tear it.”

A spell came from my ear. And a bolt of lightning moved towards me from the wand. The lightning moving towards me was dark white in color. The speed was such that it was difficult to even move one’s feet or deploy protective magic. The lightning aimed at me suddenly came close to the magic arrow and shock magic I had sent, split into several branches, collided with the magic, repelled the magic, and was quickly approaching me.

Must be avoided.

It must be stopped.

Two thoughts intersected. But it couldn’t be stopped, and it couldn’t be avoided. Still, if I allowed the attack, I might die.

Time seemed to pass slowly. Lightning moving towards me, my hand moving slowly, lightning approaching.

My lips were bitten. Can’t stop it. In an instant, the lightning that came in front of me split into several branches and headed towards me, as if trying to attack my body, and I shouted a spell with the tip of the staff I had managed to raise.

“Ice, protect my body!”

However, perhaps because the activation speed was slow, one of the bolts of lightning passed by his left arm. The pain and electric current spreading throughout my body took away the feeling in my hand holding the cane. If you don’t focus, you die.

If you drop your wand, you die.

If you don’t have a cane, if you don’t have a cane.

“That’s not important.”

I stretched my left hand forward, touched the already crumbling shield, and injected mana into it. The sound of ice breaking was heard in my ear. The strength in my hands was slowly loosening, and the strength in my entire body was draining away.

Soon enough, the shield will break. And, I didn’t know if I would die. This guy might kill me.

No, I might not die.

Suddenly, I felt a smile escape from such a trivial thought. I turned my gaze slightly and saw Sharon lying comfortably on the ground. Sharon, wake up. Your friend is in such danger right now, are you going to fall down like that?

If you are the main character, show your worth.

The shield was slowly being pushed back. The sound of ice crackling and ringing in my ears, Gerard’s gaze looking at me, and that moment.

The shield was broken.

I could see lightning penetrating through the protective shield. A white stem, like light, caught my eye. Die. It must be stopped. Mana no longer moved. There was no strength in the hand holding the cane.

The moment I saw lightning flying towards me slowly, no, quickly.

My eyes naturally closed.

Die.

But I didn’t want to die. In slowly closing eyes. Pain spread throughout my body.

The pain of being pierced somewhere, the heat spreading throughout the body. In that pain, I closed my eyes.

The sound of water drops came from my ear. It was the sound of small water drops falling. Is it an underground waterway? The sound of water drops continued to be heard in my ears. I wanted to open my eyes, but the pain that had not yet gone away was preventing me from doing so.

Slowly, I took a breath. And then slowly exhaled. I felt like the pain was fading away as air circulated throughout my body. As the pain slowly disappears, I carefully open my eyes and become aware of the sensations that fill my surroundings.

What was reflected in front of me was a large door. A large stone gate, several times my height. The stone door had a strange pattern engraved on it. Is this the door to the afterlife?

I slowly got up and walked towards the door. Where is this place, is it dead?

I asked questions, answered them myself, and continued to watch the door. The pattern that started from the ground was heading somewhere like a procession of the dead. I looked in the middle of the gate, and the pattern there was that there was a large wall built, and the dead people climbing the wall were engraved on it.

I looked at the top of the door. There, a woman was looking down at the ground. The veil on her head, the crescent moon carved on her head, who is this woman?

The moment I continued to ask such questions, the door opened.

And when the door opened, what appeared was a strange being whose entire body was covered in a black robe.

“… … Who are you?”

I searched my pockets, but the wand was not in my pocket. When I concentrated, I couldn’t even feel mana. The afterlife, that possibility could not be ruled out.

“Follow me… … ”

A voice came to my ear. It was a voice that made my whole body feel scared. It’s like Gerard’s voice. But it didn’t occur to me that it was Gerard.

Where is this place?

Without saying a word, he slowly began to follow the black robe that told him to follow him. Maybe it’s the Shinigami? With that in mind, I followed the being forward and another door appeared.

Black flames were fluttering around. The moment I made eye contact with the flickering flame as if it was tempting me, a feeling of fear naturally came over me.

“Go in.”

He stood next to the door and looked at me, and I nodded slowly and carefully opened the door and stepped inside.

When I opened the door and went inside, what I saw was a large throne room-like place. There are candlesticks with flickering black flames making a path as if telling you to move forward, strange-looking stone statues, and an inexplicable screaming sound that can be heard when you step forward. A feeling of fear came over me. I thought about closing my eyes and walking, but I had no intention of doing so.

I just walked along the road carefully and absent-mindedly, and at the end I saw someone sitting on a chair. Although I couldn’t recognize her presence because I was far away, my subconscious thought that she was the goddess of death.

All beings meet Denatus when they die.

As I slowly moved forward, I saw a large staircase, and there was a being sitting on top of the stairs. The moment I raised my eyes and looked, that image caught my eye.

Her black short hair, like the deep night sky, was covered with a black veil. White skin smeared with the cold light of a dead person. The clothes she was wearing were elegant dresses that seemed to have been made by skilled craftsmen, and there were many decorations on the dress.

Crescent moon, teeth, skull, dry tree. The woman sitting on what looked like a throne had her eyes closed.

And when I faced that being in front of me, I naturally got down on my knees.

As I was just waiting for that being’s action, I heard a voice in my ear.

“You’re a more interesting kid than I thought.”

The moment I carefully raised my eyes and looked at the person who heard the voice directed at me, her eyes caught my eye.

It had black eyes that sparkled like stars, as if they were made of obsidian.

“I never told you to raise your head.”

And as soon as her voice ended, a tremendous pressure immediately pressed down on my body. My breath escaped from my mouth. It was an enormous pressure that felt like it would dig into the ground if I didn’t apply any force.

It’s like gravity is weighing me down.

“But, it’s interesting, so I’ll give it permission.”

At that moment, the pressure that had been weighing on my whole body disappeared. When I let out a strong breath from the corner of my mouth and carefully raised my eyes again, I saw that being walking towards me.

“Do you know who I am?”

“I meet the master of all life, the one who fears even God, the master of eternal sleep.”

“I have a better sense of it than I thought. Usually, there are many people who don’t understand me even when they come here.”

The sound of the being’s footsteps stopped, and she was standing in front of me.

Denatus, the goddess of death, was looking at me.

“Okay, so I’m curious, how did this interesting child appear in front of me? Even when I look, I see nothing… … ”

At that moment she smiled.

“A child from another world?”