Frondier stopped at a distance from Hela.
If he got any closer, she would probably attack him without question.
“Hela, aren’t souls the inhabitants of this world? To think you would make them like that. Isn’t that a bit much?”
“They’re just stray spirits. They didn’t have egos to begin with. And they’re not even the real deal. Like, say, your hair that will eventually fall out.”
“……You’re telling scary stories.”
As expected of the Goddess of Death. She knew exactly what humans were afraid of.
“Hela. Do you really want to fight me?”
Frondier asked.
Belpheghor told him to give up, but for Frondier, the help of even a single God was precious.
Especially Hela, Loki’s child.
“……Sigh.”
But all that came out of Hela’s mouth was a sigh.
“Frondier, I’ll tell you this much.”
“What is it?”
“You can’t be on the same side as me.”
Kooong—!
As soon as Hela said that, a heavy sound rang out from all directions.
Frondier looked around at the sound.
There were ships.
Giant ships floating in the sky. Ships painted in cold, gloomy colors resembling this Niflheim rose from all directions.
‘……Those are…….’
Giant ships that Hela created in Niflheim.
Frondier knew their name.
“Naglfar.”
As he spoke the name, Hela’s eyes widened.
“How do you know that name?”
“Just, I know.”
As he answered, Frondier realized.
This knowledge wasn’t something taught at Constel. It was simply knowledge from his previous world.
‘Well, Constel only focuses on teaching about heroes and Gods related to monster battles. To begin with, most of humanity now wouldn’t even know about Hela.’
Frondier looked at the ships again. He focused his gaze on their surface.
“If you really know about Naglfar, you should also know what these ships are made of.”
“…….”
Frondier’s eyes darkened.
“……The fingernails and toenails of humans, right?”
“You really do know.”
Hela shrugged nonchalantly.
“Even dead people feel pain. I made these ships by pulling out all of their fingernails and toenails. With their screams as my accompaniment. The dead, their bodies regenerate endlessly. No matter how much you pull out, it grows back. So I can pull and pull endlessly, and they scream until their throats are hoarse. Well, their throats don't actually get hoarse.”
After saying that, Hela looked down at Frondier.
“That’s what I’m saying, Frondier.”
“…….”
“Do you really want to be on the same side as me?”
Frondier fought for humanity.
To protect their lives, he was willing to sacrifice himself.
There was no way Frondier, who was like that, could accept the existence of a ship like Naglfar.
Hela seemed to be testing him.
“……Good grief.”
Frondier closed his eyes and scratched his head roughly.
“There seems to be some misunderstanding, but well.”
His eyes, when he opened them again, were cold.
“I understand your will.”
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Dozens of ships surrounded Frondier.
Countless weapons aimed at them, spread out in the air.
The weapons seemed to be protecting Frondier, while at the same time, ready to pierce through the enemies at any moment. They shone with a fierce light.
“I was wondering how strong Gods without the penalty of the human world would be.”
“……How arrogant.”
At Hela’s words, Frondier smiled brightly.
“You knew it all along, didn’t you?”
Shushushwoosh—!!
Along with his words, hundreds of weapons shot out in all directions.
Hela raised her hand above her head. At that, rattling sounds came from the surrounding ships.
Skeletal soldiers rose from the ships, charging towards the weapons.
Crack, crack, crack!
Hundreds of weapons, against a number of skeletons several times greater. The bodies of the skeletons that threw themselves at the weapons were torn and shattered, but their bones were not.
The skeletal soldiers, even if shattered, simply became bones. The bones clung to the weapons, binding themselves together.
‘……!’
For perhaps the first time, Frondier felt resistance against the weapons he controlled. It was akin to ‘weight.’
‘She’s deliberately not destroying the weapons, just suppressing them.’
If he destroyed the weapons, it would be a simple matter for Frondier to shoot them again. However, that would create a gap in his defenses, and if the enemy exploited that opening, the forces on the ships would crumble in no time.
But if he didn’t destroy the weapons, Frondier had to cancel them himself. In other words, it gave Hela a few precious seconds.
‘She’s clever.’
Next, Hela waved her hand, and this time, skeletal archers took their positions on the ships.
“Fire.”
A volley of arrows came flying at once.
Frondier captured them all in his sight.
Khryselakatos, Lokhiera.
A rain that would surely hit its target.
He quickly created a bow and arrows and fired.
One arrow became hundreds, thousands.
The art of blocking arrows with arrows.
Ddddddddd—!
Arrows collided in midair, creating a sound like a forest fire.
Even though the enemy had more soldiers,
Thud—!
The same could not be said for their arrows.
Lokhiera’s rain, even after blocking all the enemy arrows, continued on, piercing the heads of the remaining enemies.
‘One more shot.’
As Frondier grasped another arrow in his hand,
“?!”
Right before his eyes, an enemy suddenly appeared, seemingly out of thin air.
A bizarre female figure, naked, with bat wings for arms.
‘What kind of monster—’
Before Frondier could finish his thought,
Caaaaaaaaw—!!
An earsplitting shriek erupted right in front of Frondier’s face.
An ordinary person would faint on the spot just from hearing this sound. At such close range, it was guaranteed to be fatal. It was truly the scream of the dead.
However,
“Shut up!”
Crack!
Frondier plunged the arrow into the bat woman’s neck.
This kind of attack had no effect on him.
But he was surprised, nonetheless.
‘That’s right. My sixth sense was obtained by acquiring the mana of Helheim.’
Helheim was a place within this Niflheim. In other words, it was mana from the same world.
‘So my senses are a bit dull here.’
It wasn’t that his sixth sense wasn’t working, but against a monster with that level of stealth, it meant his senses allowed her to get this close.
“……! That’s right! Selena!”
Realizing this, Frondier looked down at the ground.
Selena was different from him. She would be directly affected by this kind of attack.
With that worry, he looked down to the ground and found,
“……?”
A group of walking corpses guarding Selena.
He had seen those corpses in Manggot.
“Yo.”
As expected, next to her was Belpheghor, the master of the corpses.
Belpheghor looked at Frondier with a leisurely demeanor.
“Don’t worry about this and do what you have to do, Frondier.”
Frondier was speechless.
Belpheghor added one more thing, just to rub it in.
“I’ll protect the princess.”
“……I’m going to kill you later.”
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