Overgeared

Grid’s fusion sword dance was a chained form. It was a fusion sword dance by combining two or more sword dances and it was difficult to expect a complete skill effect unless all parts of the sword dance hit the target.

The beginning and the middle—this was the basis for the Specter easily withstanding the bombardment of the six fusion sword dance. She blocked most of Grid’s sword dances midway through.

Even at the moment when the Pinnacle sword dance trajectory was allowed, the next sword trajectory would be read and evaded or defended against in advance. The opportunity for Ultimate Martial Art to manifest was suppressed. It was possible because of the power of an Absolute to stretch the concept of time and ignore the laws of physics. It was done with ease due to her power weakening Grid in real time.

Yet at this moment, their positions were reversed. Grid regained his status due to Blockade’s effect, while the Specter weakened rapidly. It was the aftermath of feeling threatened by Grid and the trump card she used becoming useless due to Muller.

“...You. Please bear it by all means.”

Eventually, the voice squeezed out by the kneeling Specter contained her last will. Her thousands of years of hard work seemed to have become futile.

Surprisingly, the Specter was calm. It was because she acknowledged the man in front of her, who had ruined her plan. There was a vague belief that it would be good to leave behind the rest of the work. She also felt relieved that she could finally rest.

It was a fact that the Specter herself had been trying hard to ignore. She had been exhausted for a long time. It was natural. Did she endure the years of eternal life with such a huge fate alone?

‘Just... I just feel it is regrettable.’

The Specter recalled the existence buried in the deeper part of the No Offspring Tomb.

God—a part of the only god she served was locked here. He never woke up, as if ignoring reality.

‘The price of the sin of not reclaiming the world you loved... I will soon die and receive a punishment I will have to endure forever.’

Cracks started to form in the Specter’s hard soul. It was to prepare for her imminent death. The Specter planned to tear her soul to shreds and weave it into chains. They were chains that would be the force to bind the being who would take her soul. It was a technique learned from Beriache.

Hundreds of years ago, the Specter went to Beriache. It was with the intention of taking her body and soul as she was about to die due to giving birth to Marie Rose. She believed that Beriache would naturally cooperate. Beriache gave birth to Marie Rose out of the intention of getting revenge on Baal, and the Specter was one of the few beings who understood it.

Unexpectedly, she was rejected. Beriache didn’t give up her soul, which was more important than her body. She said it would become a tool to restrain Baal, even if it was imperfect. As a result, it became a tool to bind Amoract... in any case, this was what the Specter learned. Maybe if she failed one day, she could also help bind Baal.

‘Baal. It is my death that you have been wishing for, and it will be a terrible curse to you.’

The Specter’s soul was on the verge of being torn apart. Just then, the six fusion sword dance that was mutilating the Specter stopped like a lie. It was just before the final step of decapitating the Specter. Due to this, doubts formed in the eyes of the Specter who had escaped death.

“Why... did you stop?”

Grid affirmed that the Specter’s ideology was wrong. He declared that he would stop her plan, even if it meant killing her. The reason for the pause was unknown.

“......”

Of course, Grid couldn’t explain it either. It was the system forced by the Duke of Virtue.

‘No, is it really forced?’

Maybe the Duke of Virtue just responded to his hesitation. Grid thought from a new perspective and slowly opened his mouth. He spoke honestly so that the situation created by the Duke of Virtue wouldn’t be in vain. “I feel sorry for you.”

“......?”

“It is hard being alone. You have reached this point because there is nothing you can do.”

alone is great. You would’ve gone this way after repeated agony. There was no

elite of the Overgeared Guild. His figure was ragged

due to the great responsibility he shouldered, was somewhat similar to the Specter. He understood why Grid was showing mercy to the Specter. Thus, he was able to grasp the

me? The condition is that you

your burdens

“......”

just once or twice. From a long time ago, Huroi had always represented Grid’s will at official events. His will was heavily packaged and spread. Even if Grid barked loudly, Huroi would paraphrase it to the level where

to it. However, Grid felt the

is enough to affect the epic. It is right to leave it entirely to

hard to identify physically, just like Lauel and Skunk. Ever since the past, Grid had actively utilized this type of talent. He identified and acknowledged his own shortcomings, and borrowed the strength of

have abandoned your ways doesn't mean you are denying yourself. You have lived for a long time, so you must know? Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone lacks something. In order to overcome mistakes and fill in our shortcomings, we need to cooperate with others or seek help.

“......”

his mouth. It was because he saw Jishuka with a happy smile on her face as she proudly looked at Grid. Grid, who was even more embarrassed, hesitated and scratched his

at him and opened

‘Look at this stubbornness?’

frowned and his

mistake. I just

who shouldn’t die—it wasn’t just Iwata. The Specter had arbitrarily judged

that they would surely die one day and become Baal’s nourishment, so she usurped their authority. She wanted to create a second

and with others... a new... start? Huhu... No one... starting from myself. It

her face, which had been expressionless the whole time. It wasn’t a smile. She was

this entire time—it was because she believed her ideology was right. Then today, she was terribly denied and admitted that she was wrong. All the weights that had been binding her strong heart fell off and terrible self-loathing filled

She couldn’t move on.

the moment when the

will bear the sins you have

“......?”

made of Greed bent while making a strange noise. Grid became eye

You have to live. If you

continued even after the phrase about how the Specter couldn’t handle the divine punishment and collapsed. It caught the

lot of people. There were many causes where

“......”

“I’ve done despicable things.”

“......”

I came all the

“......”

that says you can’t do the same? I think you will be much

why Grid had taken on responsibility from a certain point was simple—it

the time he became aware that he shouldn’t wield his power recklessly. He went through several situations where he had to step up. Then he reached the present. Thus, he believed that even the Specter could change. It was because

“Now, let’s go together.”

It was a hand containing so many calluses that it could be compared to the hand of the greatest swordsman in human

Rebecca, the Goddess of Light. The beautiful, sacred face was twisted again. It was due to a lot of intense

“I can’t... do this...”

have only

did she grab this

forgive you for your