The Protagonists Of The Novel Escaped – Chapter 59

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: TushChen
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The divine statuses known as Disaster Gods were primal terrors born from the numerous calamities that threatened humanity.

They mocked sacred creation,

And were like ferocity that mercilessly trampled on wondrous life.

As humanity’s fear of disasters grew, numerous Disaster Gods were born.

The fear of pain and loss was like shackles that eternally bound humans.

However-

The Disaster Gods born this way did not reach the level of ‘calamities that could destroy the world.’

Disasters born from humanity’s terror and fear were merely commonplace.

They did not possess divine status powerful enough to sever the continuity of humanity and the world’s lifeline.

The four calamities that could destroy the world.

Tyranny.

Famine.

Death.

And lastly, War.

The endless calamities that began with the birth of humanity.

The Disaster Gods born after these endless calamities were created as trivial imitations.

The original source of terror that humanity truly feared were these endless calamities.

“Kugh…!”

Seeing various firearms covering the air and moving simultaneously was truly surreal.

It was natural for the Fresh Blood vampire to swallow hard upon facing this.

Guns and cannons,

Mere crude toys that humanity had created to replace magic.

But these were weapons created by the blessing of the War God.

They were on a completely different level from ordinary firearms.

Ariel swallowed dry saliva as she recalled the bullets that had maximized penetrating power.

Undoubtedly, the shells loaded in the siege cannons would have corresponding destructive power.

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At last, numerous siege cannons roared with thunderous sounds as they spewed fire.

Pitch-black shells simultaneously targeted the Fresh Blood Disaster God.

It was like a storm striking.

A festival of hundreds of shells poured down all at once.

If she couldn’t block it, she would die.

An intense gale swept through, causing her blood-stained hair to flutter wildly.

‘How on earth am I supposed to block this!’

She responded to the bombardment shower by deploying offensive and defensive magic formations simultaneously.

However, the Fresh Blood blessing was torn like mere paper against the shower of falling shells.

She had been overwhelmed by firepower, which she had been so confident in.

It was not enough despite drawing out the magical power close to infinity and the Fresh Blood blessing to the maximum.

The blessing of War swept Ariel away as if mocking her desperate efforts.

“Kuhek!”

She tumbled to the ground as her last defensive magic formation was destroyed.

She had been utterly defeated.

The vampire, covered in dust, looked at the siege cannons, preparing to reload with terrified eyes.

“The Disaster God of War…! Of all things, it had to be the Disaster God of War!”

When she first faced the ranks of muskets, she had thought of them carelessly.

This was because gunpowder weapons, including muskets, did not have a long history of battlefield use.

It must surely be a third-rate Disaster God.

She had considered it an unknown divine status worshiped in some remote region.

However, the Disaster God she had carelessly regarded was a being beyond imagination.

She had come face to face with an endless calamity that encompassed all disasters of the universe.

Ariel stared at Edanant’s gaze, looking down at her with trembling eyes.

“Don’t be ridiculous! The Disaster God of War? Why would such a big shot be loyal to the empire?”

The Fresh Blood Disaster God sent a warning in her mind.

But Ariel shook it off and showed hostility towards Edanant.

“Edanant!!”

“……”

She was losing in firepower.

Even in close combat, her chances of victory were slim.

Facing an apostle who had summoned the Disaster God of War was no different from suicide.

Knowing this, the Fresh Blood Disaster God must have advised his devout apostle to retreat.

But even so, Ariel did not back down.

This was because the hatred to assassinate the ruler of the empire and avenge her brethren was burning madly in her chest.

“If War breaks out like this, it would be beneficial for you too! If the aftermath of War engulfs the entire continent, the Disaster God of War would even surpass the divine status of the Earth Mother!”

“I’m sick of wars where countless people die. Just because I serve the Disaster God of War… it’s troublesome to be treated as a war maniac blindly obsessed with War.”

Ariel and Edanant clashed head-on.

She raised her spear of fresh red blood.

He thrust his holy sword cloaked in pure white radiance.

Every time their weapons collided, a storm erupted.

The storm that spread this way turned the Luinong village into a wasteland.

Despite the merciless destruction unfolding, they did not stop.

“Kugh!”

Magic formations and muskets deployed simultaneously, firing at each other.

As fierce explosions spread, the apostles rushed at each other, unleashing sharp attacks and defenses.

It seemed to continue in a deadlock.

However, the one who had the upper hand was naturally the Apostle of War.

Aldebaran’s sharp slashes targeted Ariel multiple times.

The Fresh Blood vampire demonstrated nimble reflexes to avoid them each time, but it was too close.

How long could this acrobatics continue?

Even Ariel couldn’t be sure of that.

If she was swept up in the holy power of the holy sword, she would die.

Recalling the Strategist’s advice, Ariel urgently kicked off the ground, trying to create distance.

“……!!”

It was a wise yet foolish decision.

She escaped the threat of the holy sword.

But by creating distance herself, she entered the range of the bombardment shower.

Numerous siege cannons had been surrounding the area, having prepared from who knows when.

Seeing the dazzlingly bright muzzles of the siege cannons, Ariel turned pale and raised the Sage’s magical equipment.

“K-Kugh…!”

At that moment,

A single bullet flew in.

Bang!!

The bullet accurately struck the platinum ornament.

Ariel raised her head in shock.

And upon seeing Edanant, who had pulled the trigger of the gun, she gritted her teeth.

───────!!!

She was not given a chance to attempt a counterattack.

This was because a bombardment shower was unleashed simultaneously with a brilliant frenzy erupting from all directions.

“Aaaagh!!”

She hurriedly deployed defensive magic formations, but it was a futile resistance.

The shells that flew in at a ferocious speed mercilessly tore the vampire apart.

She could have easily endured if it had been just one or two shots.

But the siege cannons targeting Ariel now numbered in the hundreds.

Successive bombardments flew in, turning the Fresh Blood Apostle into a tattered mess.

The bombardment continued without pause as if unwilling to allow even a shred of resistance.

Her skin burst, and her bones shattered.

She raised her hand, but the shattered magical equipment had fallen.

Thus, Ariel was mercilessly thrown about with a grotesquely damaged, bloodied body.

“Kuhuk…! Cough, cough…!!”

A chance of victory?

From the start, the vampire never had a chance of victory.

The descent of the Disaster God of War had taken away even the slightest chance of victory.

After being one-sidedly ravaged, she would disappear as a corpse on the battlefield.

The Disaster God of War never shows mercy to foolish groups that try to oppose her.

“Die, vampire.”

The Apostle of War, clad in pitch-black armor, raised his hand.

As if responding to this, the siege cannons surrounding the area finished reloading.

Splat.

The vampire, who had become almost crippled, coughed up blood and raised her head.

She tried to say something as she opened her mouth, but it wasn’t audible.

Edanant had no intention of granting even the final mercy of listening to her last words.

He looked down at the tattered vampire with cold eyes, intending to cut off her breath decisively.

Crack-

Just as a moment remained,

The sound of the barrier surrounding the fairies’ paradise cracking was heard.

It must not have withstood the bombardment shower.

Edanant regarded the change in the barrier as insignificant.

But,

The anomaly that occurred from the crack in the barrier shattered Edanant’s composure.

This was because fierce flames rose from the crack, and a woman with flowing golden hair appeared.

“……!”

It was an all too familiar face.

Of course, it was.

They had spent over a month together.

He had encountered her in the worst possible situation.

Edanant felt his heart beating wildly as if he had been injected with a stimulant.

Time around him seemed to flow very slowly, as if his life flashed before his eyes.

‘Did the Luinongs open the barrier? No, that’s not it. She broke through the barrier to enter.’

Why?

Why at this moment of all times.

Numerous disjointed thoughts invaded his mind.

Edanant froze in place, caught in unexpected embarrassment.

“You. No…, Edanant.”

Although she was somewhat disheveled, unlike her usual self, it was undoubtedly Ludmilla.

He desperately hoped that she wouldn’t recognize him because he was clad in full armor, but it was a futile hope.

Ludmilla Dreg Valtaria.

The Second Imperial Princess of the Valtarian Imperial Family and the Red Dragon protecting the empire.

Ludmilla, who had suddenly intervened at the scene, recognized Edanant immediately with her sharp intuition and perception.

“Could it be that you were… the Warmonger I had been searching for all this time?”

“……”

Ludmilla, hesitating to speak as she moved her plump lips, finally opened her mouth.

Her voice trembled greatly as if showing the turmoil in her heart.

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