Chapter 225
The pale cheek, drained of blood, was slammed against the cold floor of the underground laboratory.
“Grrk… kuh…….”
Lintelln's end was far more miserable than he had imagined.
For nearly thirty years, he had assisted Kacherto Rienz and achieved countless magical accomplishments.
Yet now, he could not even curse properly.
Thick blood merely forced its way up his throat and spilled over his lips.
All he could do was bitterly reflect on how ugly his final moments were.
‘This is all… because of that human……!’
With his dying eyes raised upward, Lintelln glared at the two humans walking away.
The man with ash-gray hair and the woman with pure white hair were overwhelmingly strong.
They had annihilated not only him, but also all the eight-star-level experimental subjects in G Area that had been prepared to stop them.
In other words, either one of them—or perhaps both—seemed to be powerful beings who had reached the Ninth Realm.
But according to everything Lintelln had heard until now, their existence made no sense.
If there were powerful humans who had reached the Ninth Realm, there were only two.
The Pope, who remained seated in the capital until the Demon King appeared.
And the inexperienced Saintess, who was practically useless because she lacked experience.
‘Where the hell did people like these come from…?
Wait… could it be…….’
A strange light appeared in Lintelln's eyes.
—The First Legion Commander has been defeated.
The legion is currently returning together with the Legion Commander, but we have received no word since they crossed the border.
—What?
That monstrous woman lost to humans?
Did the Pope appear?
—No.
He is someone who has recently appeared in various places along the front lines.
I don't know the details, but I believe he is a noble heir from the Wordsworth family in the northern Wordsworth territory.
Wordsworth.
It was a name even the Legion Commander had taken notice of.
—Tch.
Understood.
I'll be careful.
Now, could you get lost?
My mood has been bad lately because experimental subjects keep disappearing.
‘……Could that be him?’
The variable on the battlefield, which had paid not the slightest attention to the situation there because he had been busy with his experiments, had come here.
But Lintelln was even more puzzled by the fact that he knew about this highly classified place and had come looking for it than by his strength.
‘And they're heading toward the deepest part of the laboratory… they're moving as if they know what's there… How… how did they know?’
But dying Lintelln would never be able to resolve that question.
‘Dangerous… those bastards are far too dangerous!’
With his fading consciousness, he desperately stretched out his remaining arm.
‘I have to tell the Legion Commander… Otherwise, his research… his materials…….’
But his vision went dark as if everything had been swallowed by darkness.
Lintelln's trembling hand fell into the void without grasping anything.
Glenn finally broke through all the way to G Area of Angrelzer's underground laboratory.
“We're almost there now.”
“I see.
You've worked very hard.”
“It's thanks to your help, Saintess.”
“Hehe… thank you for saying that.”
Luceria smiled as she used her holy power to restore Glenn's stamina.
She humbly waved her hands as if refusing the praise, but without her support, even Glenn would have consumed a great deal of his strength fighting four or five eight-star-level experimental subjects at once.
‘I would have had to use the first form of the Overlord's Wrath.
That would have put quite a strain on me.’
Of course, the new artifact Glenn had obtained had also greatly increased his combat power.
When he turned his head, a translucent knight was looking at Glenn.
It was Graham Wordsworth, the founder of the Wordsworth family, summoned through the legendary hero Graham's armor and its legendary skill, Ancestor's Descent.
“Ancestor, you worked hard as well.”
“Ah… thank you for helping us.”
“…….”
At Glenn and Luceria's words of gratitude, Graham gave a faint smile and nodded with a satisfied expression.
Soon, his body scattered into tiny particles of blue light and returned to Glenn's armor.
Luceria opened her eyes wide and stared at Graham's armor with fascination.
“An armor that can summon the founder of your family… it's really amazing.”
“I don't really understand it myself.
Still, I can't summon him again for an entire day.”
The effect of Ancestor's Descent allowed Glenn to summon a nine-star Holy Knight.
However, the summoning lasted for less than a minute, while its cooldown was a full twenty-four hours.
‘Still, I'm glad I was able to save one use of the Gray Ring.’
If Glenn had not possessed Graham's armor, he would have needed to use his second Gray Ring to deal with the many experimental subjects in G Area that were close to the eight-star level.
‘If that happened, I'd have no choice but to rely on Luceria for the remaining battles.’
Of course, Luceria had become absurdly stronger compared to when Glenn had first met her.
Unlike her former self, who had merely been a tank of holy power, she could now use her holy power in actual combat.
‘Her speed at creating Spears of Light isn't bad, and neither is her sense for using them.’
‘Her combat instincts are a little lacking, but her firepower is so overwhelming that experience should make up for that.’
Luceria, the Saintess who had once been protected by Roderick and everyone around her, had now become the greatest combat priest in the Holy Empire.
‘Still, my own combat endurance is a problem.’
With Wild's Favor and the Primordial Mirror added together, his combat duration had increased to a full forty minutes.
Even so, once a battle dragged on like this, it was clearly not enough.
Moreover, if the enemy's strength was greater than what Glenn knew, as had just happened, the problem would become even more serious.
“By the way, the Demon King's army is much stronger than I expected.”
Luceria's expression darkened.
“Yes.
They're probably even stronger than you think.”
“If Brother hadn't moved, they might have crossed into the Holy Empire…….”
She was probably thinking about the experimental subjects they had just defeated in G Area.
In the Holy Empire, even someone at the seven-star level could become the head of a respectable family.
Meanwhile, the Demon King's army was using most of such powerful beings as experimental subjects.
“Well, it's fortunate that we dealt with them beforehand.
There shouldn't be anything to worry about anymore.”
Glenn said that, but his thoughts were rapidly accelerating.
If the enemy was stronger than he knew, it clearly meant that something had changed compared to the original story.
‘Originally, there were two experimental subjects in G Area.
But the number we fought just now was much higher than in the original.’
It seemed that Kacherto's magical achievements had progressed much further than in the original story, just as his curse had successfully affected Rowen.
‘At this point, I can practically consider it confirmed that Kacherto Rienz has received a Lunatic boost.’
“Saintess.
We'll soon be entering the deepest section.
From this point on, things could become truly dangerous, so you must be especially careful.”
“……Yes.
I understand, Brother.”
At present, Glenn still had one use of the Gray Ring, the Overlord's Wrath, holy demonic power, and Luceria.
He was still in a fairly comfortable position.
‘But I don't know what might appear ahead.’
Keeping that thought firmly in his mind, Glenn crossed H Area of the underground laboratory and headed toward its deepest section.
H Area of the underground laboratory was empty.
