Episode 9: Shackles of Judgnt / Chapter 158: Awl (2)
TL: emptycube / ED: Oer
Fla-Rain didn’t rember her father.
She had been too young when Fla-Sky died in battle.
What she rembered was the mont the universe united, using Fla-Sky’s sacrifice as an opportunity, a few years later. She rembered how the Fla Wing Alliance had been established with cheers and how all intelligent lifeforms in the universe united under the identity ‘karmalings’ as they strode down the streets together. ‘For life and freedom, love for all.’ She spent her childhood wading amidst these heated cheers that swept the streets.
In other words, she was a part of the alliance generation.
While she was the symbol of monarchy and the very person who stimulated the nostalgia of those who grew up in the previous generation, the world she loved and only one she knew was the alliance.
She grew up receiving the best education. As she was no longer a princess, she was no different from a lonely orphan. However, everyone in the Fla Wing Tribe treated her like their child, and back then, even Fla-Hell treated her well.
This was why she had no reason to wish for the restoration of the monarchy.
What she hoped for was to beco an outstanding warrior who could contribute and return the alliance’s favor.
So, in one word, she was happy.
‘But... How did things beco like this?’
Everything beca a ss after she began completing missions as a warrior, having gone through childhood and youthhood.
This was because the true appearance of the alliance and the war were very different from what she had thought.
The cheer ‘Love for all’ had completely disappeared at so point.
She would scoff whenever she heard the alliance’s salute ‘For life and freedom’.
The alliance’s cause had changed from being victorious in the war against the monsters to safeguarding the key tribes.
If they could reduce the losses of the key tribes, then they could bear the extinction of species living on the outskirts. They even began slaughtering, calling it ‘mining’, and they justified this by saying they weren’t going to give the monsters resources.
Fla-Rain couldn’t adapt to this.
When she endured once, she would soon face a more severe instance. She beca more and more unhappy as ti passed.
From then on, her cris increased one by one.
Insubordination.
Mutiny.
Overstepping authority.
If it were others, they would have been executed multiple tis for this. However, she was released after receiving punishnts on the level of probation or serving in the common ranks every ti. Only then did she realize the influence she possessed.
The Fla Wing Tribe mbers always loved her.
Although the number of people who didn’t agree with her cause gradually grew, she was still loved.
‘Why does our princess worry about other species more than her own?’
‘I like the princess. However, I think it’s best to leave politics to Fla-Hell.’
‘My older brother died last ti! Because the princess ignored the order to retreat...’
The younger the generation, the greater the number of people who were saddened by Fla-Rain, which in return, strengthened Fla-Hell’s position, but that was all.
The older generation showed their unwavering support for Fla-Rain.
‘Hey! No matter what, you cannot show dissatisfaction at the princess’s actions!’
‘Even if the royal family has disappeared, the uniqueness in her veins hasn’t disappeared. You will know soon enough.’
‘She’s the princess. We’re not at the level where we can judge her actions as right or wrong.’
They had agreed to the abolition of the monarchy only because they were swept up by the whirlpool-like situation after Fla-Sky’s death. If Fla-Rain beca sufficiently strong and desired it, they were always willing to stand for the restoration of the monarchy. This was factor Fla-Hell was most nervous about.
In fact, even Fla-Rain and Fla-Hell’s political aims were largely different.
‘The Fla Wing Tribe is the most exalted species in the entire universe! Why don’t you understand that the life of one of ours is more important than the entirety of another species? If everyone else survives but our tribe becos extinct, then we have lost that war. But if everyone else dies and even one of our race survives, then that’s victory.’
Fla-Hell attempted to persuade Fla-Rain multiple tis, but she didn’t budge. In the end, Fla-Hell resolved himself.
‘I won’t say any more.’
He believed that if Fla-Rain ca to power, then their species would go extinct. He couldn’t back down.
Disciplinary actions and appeals continued, and the more he confird the influence Fla-Rain possessed and her true intentions, the frostier Fla-Hell’s expression beca – a dangerous on.
As she knew this, Fla-Rain resolved herself to be alone.
The fact that there were many people who would die for her because she was Fla-Sky’s daughter. The fact that she thought to oppose the alliance’s policies. These could be the troubleso seeds that could incite a civil war within the alliance.
If a civil war did break out, Fla-Rain’s side would lose. Since this would result in a huge loss in the alliance’s forces, this wasn’t good for both Fla-Rain herself and the alliance.
From then on, Fla-Rain didn’t return to her holand. She only traveled from one battlefield to another. She went to wars Consumables were participating in and beca friends with lowest-ranked warriors. She also saved those who might have died in vain. That was how she minimized her influence within her tribe and followed her own beliefs.
Then Fla-Hell began suggesting her more and more difficult missions, using her warm-heartedness so that she couldn’t refuse but also as if telling her to die there.
Fla-Rain endured everything. She believed that Fla-Hell would one day understand her sincerity. She grew stronger silently and persistently so that she could gain Fla-Hell’s acknowledgnt and beco an Exalted Wing. So that she could change the alliance even a little. That was her dream.
‘However, I won’t live like this any longer.’
During the previous expedition, she realized that Fla-Hell wouldn’t change.
Even if she tried to be by herself, she couldn’t, and those who followed her kept dying. Her thod had been wrong. If she wanted to prevent them from dying, she shouldn’t lower her head to Fla-Hell, but instead, she needed to display enough strength to prevent him from using her as he wished.
‘I need to burn everything blocking my path.’
Resolving herself to this, Fla-Rain’s body trembled subtly.
**
The monsters’ universe was filled with remains from ruined dinsions.
Like the universe karmalings inhabited, there were planets and stars. However, there could be a planet floating on an endless stream of water, perhaps a dead turtle below that water, or even a thin two-dinsional universe hanging over it like a rag. Ripped spaces and objects from various universes were mixed together creating a surreal image.
Fla-Rain collected her breath alone in this space.
Fla-Hell assigned her two missions: checking a possible location of the queen and destroying the unborn demise-ranked monster.
Between the two, she completed searching the queen’s potential location first. There wasn’t anything there. The enormous power she had felt previously had seemingly been washed away. Although it felt sowhat ominous, she had no choice but to move on.
In front of her was the Kahur Kabkun in which the demise-ranked monster was located. There were no subordinates who ca with her. It was because she ca alone to covertly search the queen’s possible location.
Fla-Rain counted the ti as it passed. It was almost ti for her subordinates to arrive. Her plan was to launch a surprise attack against the demise-ranked monster when her subordinates arrived and gathered the monsters’ attention.
‘I wonder how many gathered.’
As it ca closer to the ti of the operation, Fla-Rain’s body constantly trembled due to nervousness.
‘I’m past the proficiency stage of the transcendent level. I’m at the peak of the transcendent level. I won’t lose out too much against the Exalted Wings.’
At the ‘Brain’ last ti, her flas turned white and her power increased by another level. Still, she was scared.
Even though she resolved herself to no longer avoid things and to face everything with all her strength, she was scared that she would collapse here and that it would end in the deaths of all those who believed in her.
‘I have to win no matter what.’
Fla-Rain got a grip on her trembling body. Then, a strand of excitent perated her fear.
‘I can win. If I win this ti, then I can use this victory as a foothold to change everything.’
Fla-Rain took a deep breath. The light emitting from her body dispersed, leaving only heat behind. In this state, she infiltrated into the mouth of a gigantic, coiled snake that was floating amongst the remains of various universes. This place was the Kahur Kabkun where the demise-ranked monster was growing.
**
“Kuaaah!”
{Kiyeeeeh-!}
It was utter chaos within the Kahur Kabkun. Warriors and monsters tangled amongst each other as they fought intensely.
Seeing this, Fla-Rain was surprised.
‘Wow... There is a lot.’
The number of warriors gathered in the Kahur Kabkun greatly exceeded her expectations. They didn’t lose out to the black swarm of monsters.
‘So many...’
She felt moved and burdened at the sa ti.
This plan was different from before in many ways. She, who had always gone around on her own with a passive heart, personally requested for help this ti. Fla-Hell? Political position? She decided to ignore them.
She had sent ssages to the Fla Wing Tribe households who still followed her and to those whose thoughts aligned with her and whom she was close with, mainly from the top four tribes. She said,
‘Help . To end this tedious war, I will create a new force.’
And they replied.
With numbers larger than she expected.
The ti she spent on her own at the lowest places doing the most dangerous missions wasn’t for naught. She obtained friends. Those who saw her fight and those who received a favor, they all gathered here.
All Fla-Rain had to do now was win. A great victory where she could preserve her allies.
She saw a black hole in the distance and the large lumps of flesh next to it. In order to face the advancing warriors, the number of guards near them was low.
Blaze!
Still not emitting light, Fla-Rain was hiding in her heat-only state, but her temperature kept rising.
Drip.
Due to the extre heat, the space around her lted like ice cream. She penetrated into the lting space.
When she reappeared, she was right in front of the lumps.
{Ahh?}
{Sothing approached.}
{Annihilate.}
While the number of monsters guarding the lumps was low, they were all elites. There were three highest-ranked monsters and nurous high-ranked ones.
However, Fla-Rain felt sothing was strange.
‘Is this all?’
Fla-Rain revealed herself. In her hand was the Weapon of Conclusion ‘Fla-Rain’s Glory’. A Weapon of Conclusion was the symbol of warriors in the late stages of the transcendent level. It was a weapon that beca a fate on its own. A supre weapon, the most powerful amongst karma weapons.
Blaaaze!
She had only revealed the sword’s appearance, yet white flas shot out everywhere like a sudden shower where one couldn’t see in front of them.
{Kaaaack!}
A highest-ranked monster lted instantly and disappeared while the other two fled with half-burnt bodies. While their duty was to protect the lumps of flesh, they didn’t dare approach the flas pouring out like a waterfall.
“Let’s end this quickly and leave.”
She took aim and swung ‘Fla-Rain’s Glory’ at the lumps of flesh, making a great arc. The sliced area burned as white flas rushed out. The enormous lumps of flesh were ripped apart by the flas and turned into ash.
Even the vicious vigor of the demise-ranked monster disappeared as if it was washed away.
‘...Huh?’
But Fla-Rain felt sothing was odd.
‘Is this really the end?’
Even though she had broken up the enemy forces with a feint operation, it was still too easy.
Just as she tilted her head-
Pshhh...
The white flas that covered her surroundings suddenly went out. A reddish-brown miasma rose out from the place the lumps of flesh had been and completely surrounded Fla-Rain.
She felt like she could faintly hear a voice.
{... Everything... Will... End... Even... Your fate of glory...}
Then the monster’s vigor that had disappeared occupied her surroundings and tensed sharply.
Only then did Fla-Rain realize why the great power she had felt from the queen’s potential location had disappeared.
“With that power, they forcefully completed the monster... It has already awakened.”
All she saw was the reddish-brown miasma surrounding her. Fla-Rain couldn’t asure her opponent.
The tips of her fingers trembled. She asked herself, ‘Fla-Sky, who was known as the strongest warrior in history, died killing a demise-ranked monster. Can I handle a monster like that?’
There was only one answer.
‘I have to. Believing in my fate.’
There wasn’t anyone who could help her anyways. She bit her lips, and ‘Fla-Rain’s Glory’ erupted in white flas once again.
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