The Gamer's POV Chapter 307: The End

Chapter 307: The End

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Seconds after plunging the blade into Lim’s neck, Cedric felt a flood of energy surge through him. But the young samurai was so tired that he barely noticed the screen flashing in his peripheral vision.

’Finally...’

He wrenched his blade free, then took a few steps from the corpse before finally collapsing onto his knees, breathing heavily.

’...I killed him.’

He had barely basked in the thought when the katana in his hand changed to Aika standing beside him.

"Why do you look like shit?" she muttered as she crouched beside him. She wasn’t looking at him, but was looking at the quieting battlefield. "He was just a Grade Four. Tsk. I can’t believe he managed to rough you up this bad. It’s so embarrassing. You even lost an eye."

She finally looked at him and smiled.

Cedric’s mouth twitched. He then gestured for her to shift closer. "Co."

Aika shifted closer. Then he said, "Closer."

When she got really close to his face, he mustered all the energy he had left, then headbutted her with the uninjured side of his head.

"Why didn’t you take him out if it was that easy?!"

He clicked his tongue and looked away. "Tsk. Aisshh."

Aika frowned as she rubbed her head and pouted. Then she turned to the side and activated a portal. "I had Athena go gather so daffodils after you died."

Cedric looked up to see daffodils flow out of the portal. The flowers began to circle around him, then dissolve into a bright mist that flowed into his body, sealing his wounds and knitting his broken bones back together.

The process was still ongoing when Cedric shot Aika a look and asked seriously, "I thought I told you to look after Alicia?"

Aika exhaled. "She’s already got her bond looking after her now. So, I left."

A frown suddenly ran across Cedric’s face as he looked away from her to the battlefield.

’So many people have died,’ he thought as he scanned the field. Then, he joined his perception to his ravens to get a better view.

By now, there were not a lot of people fighting any longer. The Nagas on the shore were less than fifty and their numbers were dwindling fast as they were currently being slaughtered indiscriminately by the hollow ones.

The only other people still fighting were Princess Aurora, Glazier, and the many cadets she had brought with her to the shore. They were all fighting the androgynous Lord who had taken the shape of a woman. Cedric could see that the lady could unravel her body into strings, which she used to lash out like a hundred razor-sharp whips or weave into defensive cocoons.

However, since she was fighting more than a hundred cadets, alongside a powerhouse like Aurora and her summon, she was being overwheld and looked to be in a bad way. In fact, it wouldn’t be long now before she would be put down.

After confirming that, Cedric shifted his consciousness into the eyes of another raven, then he heaved a sigh of relief as he saw that Evelyn and her unit had killed the female Lord she was engaging with. Apparently, many cadets who had co to shore had joined her in overpowering and putting the woman into an eternal slumber.

Among the dozens of cadets who were recovering near her corpse, Cedric could see Evelyn currently tiredly demonstrating sothing to Dion.

’Thank goodness... they are alive.’

When Cedric saw them, he felt a warmth bloom in his chest.

’Where is Audrey?’

His eyes widened as he imdiately searched for her. Then a smile ford on his face when he finally saw her not too far from where the shore began. She was stuffing at into her already filled mouth with her left hand, while Toki was tying poultice-soaked linen bandages around the fingers of her right hand.

He was still observing her when sothing suddenly hit him.

’Wait... there were more Lords who didn’t co down from the cliff.’

He suddenly rembered Hana and a small boy who had not joined the fray. Quickly, he sent his ravens towards the direction of the cliff, while having them zoom in on the jagged listone ledge where the observers had stood.

But then, a look of confusion crossed his face, when he couldn’t see the Lords.

’Where are they?’

He pushed his perception further, the ravens’ eyes darting across the empty plateau. But there really was no sign of them. This made Cedric suddenly go on high alert.

’Could they be planning sothing?’ he thought as he moved his eyes to the map.

’Bring up the location of all the Lords who are still alive.’

Almost imdiately after he gave the instruction, the map zood out and showed only two red dots in the whole territory. Both of the dots were dimming on and off as if they were both on the verge of dying out.

As he tried to determine their exact location, he discovered that one of the dots was the lady Princess Aurora was currently fighting across from him on the shore. The other dot was sowhere deep inside the territory itself.

’Huh?’ Cedric’s heart skipped a beat. ’I don’t understand...’

Confused, Cedric sent three of his ravens deeper into the territory.

After a few minutes, he frowned because he felt sothing was off. The territory was so quiet and desolate. It was almost as if sothing had completely killed everything in this territory.

But what was even more concerning was that he could see hints of decay around. It was the sa kind of decay he wielded.

’What is happening?’

He watched through the eyes of the leading raven as the landscape below turned into a graveyard of grey ash. The trees were crumbling from the inside out, as if they were being hollowed by rot. There was also a green miasma flowing out of so of the listone oikoi and flat-roofed stone villas around.

As the ravens banked low over the village, Cedric could see the once-grand porticos and fluted columns of the larger estates now pitted and scarred by the corrosive fog.

Eventually, the ravens reached the top of the hill where the palace was located. What Cedric saw near the white stone walls of the castle made him freeze in place.

Lying on the ground were the two Lords who had been left on the cliff. The young boy was dead. His small body was curled in a fetal position, his skin turned a translucent, sickly grey. His eyes were wide and milky, and where his chest should have been, there was only a hollow, blackened cavity that looked as if it had been scooped out.

Several ters from his corpse, Hana was in an equally grisly state. She was still alive, but barely. A long, jagged pike had impaled her chest, pinning her body to the stone floor. From the knees down, her legs were simply gone, leaving only jagged, cauterized stumps.

She kept choking, and her teary eyes were fixed on the sky. It didn’t take long for the light in her pupils to flicker out, and she died with her eyes still open, reflecting the cold moonlight.

Cedric swallowed, and the expression on his pale face was one of utter disbelief.

When had they gone there?

What or who had they fought?

He wasn’t sure whether to be happy or utterly terrified. The Lords were his enemies, but seeing them slaughtered like cattle by an unknown force felt less like a victory and more like a warning.

’What the hell happened?’