I Became a Prisoner in the Game After Defeating the Final Boss Chapter 87

Great Stone Mountain, Mogron.

One of the seven kings who once ruled the Demonic Realm, his whereabouts became unknown after the appearance of the Destruction Dragon, but now he was a being who had brazenly settled on top of my temporary warehouse.

For it, which had been asleep until now, to awaken would cause a very difficult situation in many ways.

Among those, the first thing to come would, of course, be a threat to my safety.

Kugugugugu!!!

As the Great Stone Mountain, whose size was staggering just to look at, began to truly raise its body, the surrounding earth began to shake violently.

If I stayed blankly, I would clearly be swept away by this massive flow, so I urgently threw my body.

Great Stone Mountain Mogron, who had finally raised its body completely, cried out with a bizarre sound.

Gooooooooooh───!!!

It merely cried out, but an energy wave rose as if the Magic of the Celestial Sound had exploded.

I couldn't just be swept away by the energy wave, so I deployed the Orb of Water and Nak's Legacy at the same time.

Kwakwakwa!!!

As Mogron's energy wave crashed into the lightning-wielding water barrier, water droplets scattered in all directions.

I tried my best to block it, but due to the shockwaves I couldn't fully block, my ears went numb and my whole body tingled.

“Ugh…….”

A living disaster.

It was such an overwhelming sight that no other expression came to mind.

‘If so, where is he?’

I quickly looked for the Twilight Troupe member, but he had already vanished completely, and I couldn't feel his presence at all.

At first, I thought he was watching for a chance to ambush, but even when I awakened and focused my senses, there was no sign of that.

What this meant was clear.

‘Did he run away?’

Causing trouble and running away was truly like the Twilight Troupe.

However, the problem was that the shit he had left behind was still here.

‘I have to get out of this place.’

At my current level, I couldn't even inflict any decent damage on Mogron, let alone catch him.

Great Stone Mountain Mogron's hide had a strength and hardness incomparable to ordinary rock, and no matter how many Demonic Bullets I had, confronting Mogron with a few guns was literally no different from hitting a rock with an egg.

‘On top of that, Mogron is extremely resistant to the Magic of Blazing Fire. It’s right to assume the Magic of Blazing Fire won't work either.’

Of course, there were Magic of Blazing Fire spells that could melt even rock, but such magic required an enormous price.

To burn Mogron while paying such a price, it wouldn't be enough even if I burned alive a hundred times.

In other words, with the means I currently possess, I couldn't even leave a scratch on Mogron, let alone any real damage.

‘First, it's better to change into these.’

I took off the shoes I was wearing and changed into the Hermes's Gale Boots I had just grabbed from the temporary warehouse.

A moment ago, the situation was what it was, so I didn't have time to change, but from now on, I really needed the mobility from Hermes's Gale Boots.

Because I would have to run until my feet sweat.

That moment.

Kuuuung!!!

As soon as Mogron moved slightly, the ground collapsed, the earth shook violently, and a thick cloud of dust rose.

I wasn't sure, but my temporary warehouse that was down there was probably completely buried by that movement just now.

‘Tsk.’

It was a bit of a waste, but I had packed everything I needed to take anyway, so there was no great regret.

‘The problem is something else.’

Now that Mogron had started to move in earnest, the ecosystem in the Demonic Realm was bound to change completely.

The demonic beasts will move.

Not just one or two, but a vast number of demonic beasts, so many that they couldn't possibly be counted.

And those repercussions will inevitably reach the Winter Castle.

‘I have to go back as fast as possible.’

One of the seven kings of the Demonic Realm.

The fact that one of the kings, of which only three remained, had moved, held such a meaning.

Kugugugugung!!!

In the meantime, with Mogron's movements, the earth's surface was overturned and the ground shook.

‘……Hm?’

And I momentarily felt a chilling sensation, as if my blood was turning cold.

It wasn't just a feeling.

[Grooooooooo!!!]

Great Stone Mountain Mogron.

He was looking at me.

Kugugugugu──

As the ground trembled, Mogron's body began to move violently.

There was no need to even think about where he was heading.

Especially if I considered who the owner of the shadow that covered me in an instant was.

Mogron was, right now, trying to trample me.

‘At this rate, I'll be crushed.’

With the mobility I currently had, I couldn't get out of Mogron's range.

‘If so…….’

I just had to obtain mobility greater than that.

And as it happened, I had a new friend who could grant me that mobility.

“Let’s do this.”

Along with that, as if it had been waiting, wind wrapped around from Hermes's Gale Boots.

[‘Hermes's Gale Boots’ activates its blessing.]

[‘Gale Step’ is activated.]

My steps were light.

Not only that, but every time I took a step, the coiling gale guided me forward.

‘Just as I thought.’

Hermes's Gale Boots faithfully filled the mobility that could be considered my greatest weakness right now.

‘That's not all.’

As the curse dwelling in Haima's Pendant exerted itself more strongly, my whole body began to heat up.

[‘Haima's Curse’ is active.]

[The wearer's blood is rampaging due to ‘Haima's Curse’.]

[Physical abilities are enhanced by 30% due to the ‘Haima's Curse’ effect.]

[Resistance to the ‘Bleeding’ status effect is reduced due to the ‘Haima's Curse’ effect.]

My blood flow increased explosively, and the veins all over my body bulged.

Sss-sss─

The Demonic energy, which had grown stronger after absorbing Yohan's Demonic energy a while ago, also rose, supplementing my physical abilities.

‘With this much, I should be able to get out of Mogron's sphere of influence.’

Before that thought could even finish, a huge shadow cast over my head.

Kugugugung!

As soon as I narrowly escaped the shadow, the energy wave from Mogron's steps trampling the earth struck me from behind.

Kwakwakwakwaka!!!

At the same time, the barrier created by the Orb of Water blocked the energy wave Mogron raised, but my body, unable to withstand the shock, was thrown forward and rolled.

How many times did I roll?

Amidst the feeling of my mind going blank, I barely managed to stop my body.

“Ugh…… damn bastard.”

After spitting out the blood that had pooled in my mouth, I immediately got back up.

My current situation wasn't leisurely enough to just lie down and rest.

Krrrrrrng!!

As soon as I threw my body forward, a dizzying roar echoed from behind me.

And the energy wave that rose rushed me again, but this time, perhaps because the distance had widened quite a bit, its power was a little less.

“Mindless bastard.”

I had no intention of dying easily.

Several crises where I thought I would be crushed to death at any moment by Mogron, who possessed an agility unbefitting his size.

After overcoming such crises several times, the distance between me and Mogron gradually widened.

“Hoo, hoo……!”

I barely dodged the rocks flying from above my head, and I crossed the earthquakes rising from the ground using the gale as a foothold.

Kwang!

Kwaaaang!!─

I ran, and ran, and ran again.

As I dashed like that, entrusting my body to the wind, the roaring sound that had been coming from behind me gradually grew distant.

‘Did I get out?’

When I stealthily looked back, the massive form of the Great Stone Mountain, which had just looked impossibly far, came into view at a glance.

It meant I had gotten far enough away to see that giant body in one go.

At this distance, I would barely be affected by the energy waves from that mindless bastard's steps.

“Hooah…….”

Only after I was certain I was safe did I let out a deep sigh.

If I hadn't been wearing Hermes's Gale Boots, it would have been really dangerous.

So dangerous that, in the worst-case scenario, I would have had to consider a formal contract with the Demon of Blazing Fire.

‘Is it a relief I was able to get out with just this?’

Although I lost a lot, I took solace in the fact that I had survived.

Still, if there was one more regret, it was that if I had been wearing these when I ran into the Twilight Troupe member earlier, the result might have been a little different.

Although I had no choice but to miss him because I didn't have the leisure to change shoes in that situation, if I had just a little more time, I wonder if the outcome would have been different.

‘I won't miss you next time.’

I didn't know what the Twilight Troupe's goal was, but it was almost certain that the Winter Castle was involved in the process.

This was because provoking the King of the Demonic Realm, who had been asleep until now, would inevitably have repercussions for the Winter Castle.

‘They must be aiming for the Winter Castle.’

The Winter Castle is the Empire's core front line.

Naturally, if the Winter Castle fell, the Empire's defenses would collapse in a chain reaction, and the Empire would soon face the threat of the demonic beasts in the Demonic Realm.

What would happen to the Empire if it had to face the demonic beast horde without the Winter Castle?

It was an obvious story.

‘I have to hurry.’

Something is happening.

***

Unnamed Shrine.

Beatrice, who was peacefully doing cross-stitch in that place now forgotten from the world's memory, opened her eyes wide.

It was because Pierce, a member of the Twilight Troupe who had gone on a relatively easy mission, had returned in a near-death state.

“What, did you get crushed by a rock mountain or something? What's wrong with your face?”

Looking at his appearance, it wouldn't have been strange if he were dead.

Setting aside the loss of his musical instrument, which was as good as a symbol of the Twilight Troupe and an alter ego to the members, Pierce had sustained a severe injury, with half of his face practically torn off.

“……There was an uninvited guest.”

“Uninvited guest?”

Beatrice's face is colored with bewilderment.

The location of the mission Pierce was assigned this time was a place that didn't suit the words 'uninvited guest' at all.

That was understandable, as Pierce's mission was to awaken one of the kings sleeping in the middle of the Demonic Realm.

Normally, it was a mission where he couldn't possibly get injured unless he did the crazy act of clashing directly with the King of the Demonic Realm.

But an uninvited guest in the Demonic Realm…… What words could be more absurd than this?

“What kind of person? What the hell does he do, to make your face like that?”

Beatrice felt her heart turn cold.

Long ago, after the Twilight Troupe was on the verge of annihilation due to their arch-enemy, only a few members remained.

As if losing precious members recently wasn't enough, he came back with a face like this?

Especially in the case of Agni, who died a while ago, he was a guy who wouldn't have been strange to die at any time, as contractors of blazing fire usually were, but Pierce was not.

For Beatrice, it was unacceptable.

“It was someone who used magic I've never seen before. The sound was like thunder, and the power…… as you can see.”

“Lightning? Don't tell me you mean the Contractor of Thunder?”

“No…… It was different from that. I'm certain of that.”

Beatrice's expression hardened.

He wields lightning, but he isn't a Contractor of Thunder……. It was because it sounded like something she had heard somewhere before.

“Hmm…… I understand for now. I'll look into that mage. First, treat your wounds. What happened to your handsome face?”

“……Understood.”

As Pierce staggered into the shrine, Beatrice watched the spot where he had passed with a heavy expression.

“Someone who wields lightning, but isn't a Mage of Lightning Magic……”

As it happened, Beatrice had heard a similar story from the Winter Castle.

The Mage of Thunder, was it?

Considering Demian also returned seriously injured not long ago, it seemed she would have to properly look into the Winter Castle.

Because the Winter Castle's existence kept being bothersome to be left alone like this.

“That's why we made a move this time, and even that was splendidly interrupted……”

Could it be that the troupe's plan was exposed to the Winter Castle?

The possibility was almost nonexistent, but if not, it was also true that such coincidences wouldn't happen consecutively.

“We'll have to move the plan forward.”

Beatrice's gaze fell on the image of the Winter Castle depicted in the cross-stitch.