I Come From the Abyss to Save Humanity Today - Volume 1 Chapter 24

24. Annihilation

“Little Sil……”

The girl in front of me had a face full of sorrow, showing a heart-wrenching expression.

I collapsed in Aria’s arms, gently wrapped my arms around her waist, and smiled at her thinly.

“I’m fine, why did, you guys come back, it’s dangerous, cough cough…”

Specks of blood stained Aria’s chest, and Aria raised her trembling right hand, trying to wipe the blood from my face with her sleeve, but she couldn’t clean it. The nerves that had been tightly stretched were gradually falling apart, she opened her mouth and cried until she lost her voice, she couldn’t even speak, just holding me tightly, as if she was afraid I would disappear at any time.

“Why are you still… worried about others…”

The girl’s intermittent words came out.

Don’t be like this… I’m not used to it, I’m really fine.

“Aria, don’t hold her like that, put her on the ground first!”

The boy named Barry’s voice trembled, as if suppressing some kind of emotion that was about to erupt.

“Uh… okay…”

Aria responded, but she didn’t dare to move rashly, afraid of hurting me again, and she seemed helpless for a while.

“Let me take a look. Barry, help hold her shoulders, Aria, support her waist and legs, and put her down gently… Yes, just lay her flat like that. Sister Sil, can you hear me?”

Allen, after all, came from a hunter’s family and had experience with such things.

“Cough cough, I can. I’m really, cough cough, fine…”

This sentence was not to comfort them, I really knew I would be fine. No one knows better than me the strong recovery ability of this body, just need to rest for a few days, and these injuries will heal quickly. Even if I want to, running to the forest and devouring a large number of animal lives… let’s forget it, let’s not do this unless it’s a last resort.

But understanding is one thing.

Seeing me constantly coughing up blood from my mouth and speaking softly, it had no persuasive power for Aria and the others.

“……There’s a gap in the head, a fracture in the lower leg on the right leg, a large area of abrasions on the body, and symptoms of excessive blood loss have begun to appear… The most serious is in the chest, the ribs are probably broken a few… Looking at her like this, it might have pierced into the lungs…”

Allen’s voice became lower and lower.

Such a serious injury, in a world where even typhoid fever can be fatal, death is just a matter of time.

This is a truth that everyone understands.

“Woo ah——”

Aria finally collapsed and cried loudly.

“Brother Allen, there must be a way, right, please save her…”

Barry’s eyes were red, looking at Allen who was silent, his chest seemed to be crushed by a boulder, so painful that it suffocated him.

“……Maybe, the bishop of the Holy Church will have a way…”

“But where can we meet the bishop…”

“Even if the bishop really comes, there’s no time…”

“Cough cough, you don’t have to. I just need to sleep…”

Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by Aria’s heart-wrenching words.

“Don’t sleep, Sister Sil, please, don’t sleep at all!! Ah——”

Watching Aria open her mouth and cry loudly, the big tears fell on me, and I suddenly wanted to laugh a little.

“Hehe, okay, I won’t sleep. Help me, go over there, to Big White…”

I turned my head, wanting to see how Big White was doing. There was no movement for so long, and I was a little worried.

The next moment, the smile that had just risen on my face disappeared.

I saw the monster move a little.

Before I could figure out whether it was an illusion, the devil’s whisper sounded in my ears again.

“【Abyssal Language】…Slay, kill.”

The situation changed in an instant, and the black smoke swept in.

“Boom——”

“Bang kakakaka——!!”

“Ahhhh——!!!”

With a hoarse shout, icicles, ice shards, ice walls, black flames… all the powers that could be used were thrown forward without regard to the cost, trying to block the deathly black smoke that was coming.

It lied to me! This thing lied to me! How did it do it!

No wonder its resistance was so weak at that time, because it had to land where there were people.

At this moment, I understood the monster’s trick.

Even though I was on the verge of death, I never had the emotion called despair, which gradually poured into my heart.

I almost jumped up from the ground, first blocked Aria with my body, then pulled Barry next to me behind me, and with all the remaining strength in my body, I forcibly tore a gap in the black smoke.

“Allen, hide behind me…”

The words that should have been said were never finished, Aria suddenly turned around and opened her arms to block in front of me.

The girl’s figure was as weak as ever, and she looked particularly thin in front of the overwhelming black smoke.

A moment of astonishment.

“Aria——”

“Whoosh——”

The impact of the black smoke came in an instant and ended in the next instant.

The smoke dissipated.

White mist rose from Allen’s body.

“I……”

He looked at his hands somewhat blankly, raised his head to say something, but never managed to speak.

His body turned to ashes.

“Allen……”

Aria spoke softly, took a step towards where Allen was.

But she fell to the ground.

“Aria——!!”

The moment the girl fell, I held her soft and warm body.

Very light.

“Sister Sil, Allen he…?”

Aria was a little confused, her little head didn’t seem to understand what had happened.

“Aria, hold on, you’re fine, you’re fine…”

Drops of water fell on her face, and Aria’s confusion grew.

“What’s wrong with me? Uh… ah… it hurts…”

Her body began to tremble violently.

“Aria, I can save you… you’re fine…”

“Uh… uh… Sister Sil… it hurts… it hurts so much…”

“Sister!! What’s wrong with you!! Sister!!”

Barry seemed to finally come back to his senses, completely hidden behind me, not eroded by the black smoke.

He saw the blood-covered Sister Sil holding his sister, with an unprecedented look of grief on his face.

“It’s okay… she’s okay… she won’t be… anything…”

My eyes were dull, and I muttered to myself.

Aria in my arms, most of her body had turned charred black, and the Abyss was eating away at her withering body like a virus.

“Ah… it hurts… Sister Sil… what should I do… it hurts so much…”

Her body began to convulse.

“Aria… sleep, just sleep. If you sleep… it won’t hurt…”

I patted Aria’s head gently, as if coaxing a crying baby.

“It hurts… hehe… pain… uh… grandma…”

The girl in my arms gradually lost her voice.

She fell asleep.

Barry behind me trembled his lips, his face pale.

I stood stiffly holding her body, as if I were a fool.

Until the ashes obscured my vision.

A wisp of pale blue smoke drifted away from my embrace.

I wanted to reach out and grab her, but I only touched nothingness.

She slowly floated into the sky, joining the dozen or so lights that rose around her, flowing towards the struggling monster not far away.

“Hiss hiss——”

The monster absorbed all the pale blue smoke, its body trembling uncontrollably.

I seemed to be able to feel its joy at the moment.

“Howl——!!!”

The monster roared excitedly to the sky.

I looked at it blankly, my mind blank.

This image circled in my consciousness for a long time.

The black smoke killed Aria and the villagers hiding nearby.

Suddenly, the facts came crashing down on me.

“Barry, go further away.”

“Sister! What about her!!”

“Go. I’m going to kill it.”

I pushed Barry several meters back with a push, tears sliding down my cheeks uncontrollably.

The weak face showed an extremely ferocious expression.

I’m going to kill it.

Kill it kill it kill it kill it kill it kill it kill it…….

“Ahhhhhhh——”

The black smoke whipped up a violent hurricane, wrapping around me like an apocalyptic tornado.

It obscured my small body.

“Boom——!!”

The next moment, a cyan arm stretched out and slammed into the ground.

“Bang——!”

The huge force cracked the ground, and countless black flame fireballs suddenly rose into the sky, sweeping towards the monster from all directions.

“Boom boom boom boom——!!!”

“Howl howl——” The monster howled in pain.

Although devouring didn’t work on it, the intense explosions could still injure it.

“Crack.”

I quickly jumped up, the huge hand pressed against its dog head, and pressed down hard.

“Boom——!!!”

The monster’s head was pressed straight into the ground, smashing into pieces. Then I moved the hand that was pressing the dog’s head down quickly, and caught it at the neck.

Another cyan arm extended from the black tornado.

Fist clenched, swung down.

“Bang——”

The dog’s head was smashed into the ground.

Another punch.

” Bang——”

The dog’s head was smashed into the ground again.

Another punch.

“Bang——” “Bang——” “Bang——”

One punch after another, the ground had been smashed into a pitch-black abyss.

“【Abyssal Language】 We are of the same kind, why must we… slaughter each other so.”

The monster’s tone was still calm.

I stared into its eyes, now oozing black viscous liquid, and said word by word.

“I am not… the same as you.”

I brought down another punch.

“Boom——!”

“Enough, little one, stop.”

A strange voice arose.

“Who!!!”

I looked up fiercely.

A silver-armored bearded swordsman stood to the side, with pale-faced Barry huddled in his cloak.

“…Leave the rest to me,” he said to me.

Hearing this, a complex emotion suddenly surged in my heart.

Sadness, pain. Grief, anger.

“…Leave it to you?”

I laughed.

“You, say that again? Leave it to you?! Where were you, earlier! Huh… My sister, she’s dead! Killed by this damned monster… I am also, a damned, monster… woooo, a damned… monster… Aren’t you, supposed to kill me… sob… then do it, kill me!!”

My frail voice was a hysterical scream.

Carlos looked at the girl in front of him, who looked like a demon but had a face full of sorrow.

Not long ago, he thought she was a terrifying monster.

But at this moment, the words shouted by the girl were like a sharp knife, deeply piercing his heart.

He had actually gone to communicate with the Church’s higher-ups about the girl’s situation because only he knew best that the girl in front of him was not a simple monster.

Carlos had tried his best to save her, to get the Pope to agree to the solution he provided.

He had succeeded.

But none of this could be used as an excuse. The situation had reached this point because of his negligence. If he had been here, maybe things wouldn’t have turned out this way.

Why did it end up like this?

“Crack, crack, crack——”

The air suddenly turned cold.

He saw a pale blue blade appear in the girl’s hand.

As the temperature dropped, the color of the blade deepened.

“Howl——”

The monster seemed to sense something and struggled, but it could never break free from the grip of the cyan hand.

The girl controlled the giant hand, driving the blade towards the monster’s head.

“Thrust——”

The deep blue blade pierced through the monster’s skull, nailing it to the ground.

After a series of violent convulsions, the monster’s huge body began to disintegrate, turning into countless tiny dust particles that scattered.

A stream of blood-red smoke entered the girl’s body.

“Boom——”

The black aura around the girl surged for a moment, then along with the cyan arm, quickly retracted back into her body.

“Thud.”

She collapsed to the ground.