Chương 268: Chapter 251. Rescue Operation 2. Giving In

Giving In Franz Fracks's Point Of View I'm dying... I can feel my life leaving me through my chest. Maybe I can just drift away? I can meet my lovely Cindra on the other side. All of this pain, this hole in my heart, it could go away. I can be free. We can finally be together again." Is that really what you feel?"" Who is that!?" A voice came to me, it sounded so close, yet so far from me." I am what you seek. Now answer my question, Franz. Is that what you truly wish for? To fade away into the nothing?

Hoping to rejoin your hands with your wife's hands? Do you think it can be that easy?"" Then what am I to do? It has to be that easy, there's nothing left for me. I feel my life ending, she'll be there, she's always been there for me. What caliber of stranger are you to impose your opinion of where My Wife will be!? You know nothing of us!"" Hmhmmhm." The voice chuckles to itself. A cruel mockery meant to shame me for the dying embers of what strength I had left to yell at the voice in my mind."

Sure, I may not know your wife personally, but I know quite a great amount about what awaits on the other side, Franz. Your wife has lived well, despite the hatred she held towards certain peoples in this life, she was accepted above. But what about you, Franz? So much innocent blood on your hands? Do you think grief induced insanity doesn't weigh on your Soul during Judgement? The fact of the matter, Franz, is that the last time you'd have seen your wife was on her deathbed.

Unless you do as I tell you, then you can meet her again, you can hold her again, you both can love each other again." His words burrowed deeply into my mind. The faces of my victims started to return to me from the precipices of my mind. Why did I do all of that? Why didn't I stop before it went too far?" Because you wished to see her. Don't you want to see her again? All you need to do is listen to me, Franz. Then all will be well." Yes... My Cindra... My sweet sweet Cindra... To see her smile again...

I'd give anything..." What do I have to do?" While I can't see what this voice belongs to, I can feel it's smile as I asked what it would have me do." Just take that dagger and pierce your heart. Then just don't resist me. Then I'll solve all of your problems, I Promise, Franz. You've searched for me for so long, let me Reward your service. It needs to mean something after all. All of the lives, the lies, the sleepless nights filled with your tears, just surrender it all with the thrust of my dagger." Grip!

"..." Push! I feel myself grip the dagger... I feel.... Peaceful as I feel the dagger pierce my chest. The tip reaches my heart... That's when I heard the laughing." Hehehehe! Yes! Franz! Let me IN!" I do as I'm commanded. I feel it's embrace. I'm... Changing... I'm... No longer me....... Cindra... I... Love.... You.... John Ericsson's Point Of View" What the hell?"" HAHAHAHA!" My surprise led me to have a slip of the tongue. Fracks has transformed. Well, transformed is an understatement.

What I was looking at was no longer what looked like a frail old man with red eyes that filled me with a strange feeling I never felt before. Now, he was... At the top of what looked like a pile of black vines that were erupting out of his lower body. It was like watching an octopus have more and more tentacles tearing out of it. He's laughing hysterically right now. What the hell is going on with him? I thought he died? This novel is published on a different platform.

Support the original author by finding the official source." AHHHH!" The younger girls began to scream in terror. Princess Alice and Gasha tried their best to push the younger girls behind them." HAHAHAHA!"" NO!" A vine goes for the girls!" BARRIER!" I yell and channel a Barrier as fast as I can. A Double Barrier comes out. /CRASH! / The giant vine crashed into my Barriers, but it seemed to hold steady. /CRACK! / OR NOT! I start channeling my mana as I see the Barriers crack and nearly shatter.

Pain fills my arms as I raise them towards my Barrier... No, towards the ones I want to protect. PAIN!" AHHHH!" As my mana leaves my hands it feels like my muscles were being ripped off of my bones. I scream to let the pain escape, but I keep channeling my mana towards the girls. / DING! / NEW SKILL UNLOCKED!" NOT NOW!" I shout loudly as I finally feel a new Barrier form and see a text box in front of my face. My arms are screaming at me. The pain starts to travel from my arms and hit my shoulders.

Before long, it hits my chest, heart, brain, feet and everything in between. It's like when Aqua forcibly unlocked my mana for me. Before long though, the pain subsides. I must've done something wrong here. I think from forcing a new Barrier, I strained my mana.

The new Skill might have something to do with it... /CRACK! SMASH! SHATTER/ With the sounds of glass shattering, my train of thought stopped. I look up to see a black vine finally motionless as it rests against a 3rd Barrier. It stood strong. Meanwhile, I was kneeling in rubble. Now that the girls were safe for a moment, I could look around. Sarah and Anna were at the top of my mind now. Where are they? I look to my left and my right. Nothing, just stones... Rubble all around me. Wrap! Wrap!

Finally, I notice it, I feel hands wrapped around my torso. It's them. I turn around and it all make sense. I'm not unconscious right now because they protected me. They wrapped their arms around me and took the brunt of the impact. They seem to be okay though. Beat... Beat... Beat... Beat... I check their pulses, they're just sleeping. Even though my mana was so discordant and strange before and I should save it for Fracks. I can't help but cast Holy Heal on them. Just for my peace of mind." GAHAHAHAH!"

That bastard is still laughing. Vines of different lengths are swirling around. The girls are safe now though. Sarah and Anna are okay. Silver linings. But I'm the only one who can still fight. I stand up from the rubble, I pick Sarah and Anna up and carry them over to the Barrier that the girls were in. I wondered if I would need to use any Spells to help make it work... But." HAHAHAHAH!" It seems that we're not even on his radar right now. Again, this begs the question...

What the fuck is happening to Fracks right now? Maybe it doesn't matter? I just need to cut through him. Then this nightmare will end." Are they okay!?" Princess Alice was clearly panicked. I nodded my head and began to speak as I walked into the Barrier." They're okay. They... Protected me. They took the brunt of the impact on the wall, I checked over them, they were fine, just in case I healed them. How about your side? Are any of you hurt?" Shaking heads greeted my eyes as I placed Sarah and Anna down.

I'm glad my Barrier did what it needed to. While I had a sigh of relief, I began to look at Fracks as he was losing his mind and seemed to be getting consumed by those vines. It was during this moment that Princess Alice approached me and began to speak to me." Are you going to fight him?" Seems she could guess what I was going to do." Of course I am. This needs to end." I answer without much of a change in my voice. Right now, I'm currently thinking of the best way to go about it.

I wondered why she asked something that was so easy to tell." Let me fight with you!" Princess Alice seemed to already have an idea about how to tackle fighting this guy. But I need to refuse her. I look at her and answer her request as gently as I can." No." I looked for something that I could say, but in the end... All I could think of was that one word. Princess Alice didn't want to accept it." Why not!? We need to do this together!""

No, we don't, I need you to do something more important than dealing with Fracks."" And what is more important than destroying that monster!?"" Getting my Wives and these kids out of here. I want you and Lady Cindy to carry Sarah and Anna out of here when I have his full attention with our fight."" No! You need to let me fight with you!"" STOP BEING SELFISH!" My yell scared everyone around us. Wendy and Ellie in particular seemed more scared from me raising my voice than the monster that we were dealing with.

Princess Alice was right there with them. I take a deep breath. Then I begin to explain." Fracks is most likely borrowing the powers of a God right now. The only 2 people that could really cause any damage to him are Anna and me. Our powers are good match ups against whatever God it is. Do you have the Favor of a powerful Deity or the Nature Goddess or something similar? If not, quite frankly, you'd be a handicap instead of helpful." Princess Alice's eyes became watery as she shook her head.

I made my voice even gentler since I didn't want her to be too upset." That is why, I'm trusting you with a job that I find more important than fighting that. Do you think I'd rather fight that thing than bring my Wives to safety? I want them safe, it'll make the job of fighting that thing easier for me. So please, Alice, save them for me."" You... Used my name...?" I must've slipped up while I spoke. This is a pretty emotional situation.

I know I could use Holy Mantle to cover her so she could fight, but I'd rather her get everyone out of here first. Hopefully, she doesn't charge me for Lese-Majeste for using her name. However, maybe that was too negative a thought? For whatever reason, after Princess Alice spoke, she gained a new look of resolve in her eyes and nodded her head as she spoke again." Okay! Matthew! What's your plan!" She used my name without my Title as well. Since I did it first, I'll let it slide.

Regardless, Princess Alice as well as the rest of the girls all huddled around me. I began to tell them my plans before I stepped out of the Barrier, finally ready to end this whole ordeal.