Comprehensive: Beginning with the Killer Queen

The wind was blowing loudly, like the first cry of a newborn baby.

The sound was loud and noisy, as if it wanted to melt everything.

Whether it was the stars, the trees, or the church, the entire land looked as if it was about to melt.

This can no longer be said to be a level at which the situation has begun to change. It would be more appropriate to say that the world itself has begun to change.

Shadows that chanted terrifying words repeatedly emerged from the gap between the earth and the sky, and a black sandstorm covered everything in sight.

——Everything in the world is surrounded by the breath of death.

This was the only thought that came to Altruchi's mind as he watched the scenery expand before him.

As the heir of the Moon King and a dead apostle, the girl has always been proud of this. Even when facing a living saint who can easily subdue a primate killer, she can still maintain a humble attitude and negotiate.

But now, all that was left in her heart was a deep sense of uneasiness.

To most of the life in the world, she is an absolute monster, but when she encounters a more terrifying existence that deliberately and easily removes this halo, she will still show emotions similar to humans.

Behind Roland, the dark shadow had grown as tall as the surrounding trees. Although it was obvious that the other party was trying its best to imitate the human shape, in the end, it still appeared to be just a human-shaped mass.

"Disaster..."

Altluchi murmured to herself, and her ethereal voice no longer contained the firm determination she had before, only coldness.

However, this is natural.

Although she is the princess of the Dead Apostles, Kurohime is essentially a hybrid of a True Ancestor and a Dead Apostle. From her other half, she also inherited the unreasonable intuition that goes straight to the essence of things.

That's why she was able to understand this.

Even though no malice or hatred could be sensed from this creeping darkness.

Even the fluctuation of magic power could not be detected.

But there is no doubt that the other party is a disaster.

The fear and terror that was surging and resounding in the girl's chest were constantly repeating this overwhelming fact.

——In the past, the wind of the Black Death it spewed claimed 30 million lives.

——In the past, it claimed 50 million lives under the name of Spanish flu.

But these plagues, these disasters, these deaths are nothing to it.

According to a passage in a certain prophecy, the other party will never be satisfied and will never stop until it has taken away a quarter of the lives in the world.

But this achievement and the power it symbolizes are secondary.

What is truly shocking is the existence of this black shadow itself.

For a truly strong person, he can understand it with just one glance.

That is a system without any will, and it is the ultimate in the field.

It exists both in ancient times and in the distant future.

Although it has an extremely high status, it cannot be called a fantasy species, a deity, or even something like uo.

If we have to give it a definition, this is the only answer.

——The manifestation of the principle of the world,

"The embodiment of death... as the bearer of Pale Death among the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - the Pale Horseman?"

Altluchi suddenly read out the black shadow's real name.

Her lips trembled slightly.

This is not because of witnessing an extraordinary miracle, but because of the despair that has taken root in the heart.

——Monsters that were not supposed to exist in this world and were out of specification appeared one after another, completely crushing Heiji’s pride.

Artluci is not a timid person, on the contrary, her personality is quite radical and dangerous.

Because of this, in the ranking of the twenty-seven dead apostles, even though there are several characters who are so powerful that they cannot be shaken, Kurohime and her servants are still among the top.

But she still felt uneasy when she met someone like Roland, whose actions and performance were completely out of touch with common sense.

It was like talking to someone from another dimension.

Perhaps because she was too desperate, she felt angry instead.

"What a joke! Why would your servant be this guy?!"

You know, although it is also a member of Christian legend, it does exist in the world.

But there is no corresponding or similar historical figure to the level of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Moreover, unlike the doomsday disasters such as the beasts, although they are also disasters, they do not want to rebel or cause chaos on their own, but are just God's employees to carry out His will.

Therefore, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse exist as the concept of the 'end device of the world', and unless the activation conditions are met, it is impossible to summon them even if you want to.

As a result, Roland did not use any ceremony or medium. As soon as he said "come", the other party appeared.

Could this guy be the living Son of God?

“I am still looking for the answer to this question myself.”

Roland spread his hands innocently.

"I did plan to call a Doomsday Knight over, but I didn't really specify a specific person. The reason you drew the Pale Knight is probably because you're unlucky."

"Besides, is now the time to dwell on this issue?"

"You already know the names and details of my servants. Basically, we have reached equality. After all, there is no absolute fairness in the world."

Roland raised his head, a playful smile on his face.

"That means... it's my turn now."

"As a reward for your kindness, I will give you one last piece of advice."

"——Run, Altruci, run."

There was no need to be reminded at all. When she realized that the round had changed, the red moon light that had been waiting around Heiji for a long time suddenly merged into her body.

Her body grew in the light at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her figure became fuller and her originally immature and tender face became mature and charming.

In the blink of an eye, the petite girl turned into a noble and cool queen.

From Roland's perspective, it was just like a magical girl's transformation.

Because Arteluqi's clothes also grew with her body, becoming more gorgeous and dazzling.

Considering the principle that pets follow their owners, it is hard to say that the primate killer on Yue Ji's side has grown fully, but usually deliberately maintains its juvenile state, which has nothing to do with Altuluchi.

After the second stage transformation with all her strength, Heiji's figure shot out like a high-speed train and plunged into the forest in front like a fish entering the sea.

When Roland looked over, the other person's figure was about to disappear in a corner of the forest.

"You run really fast, but unfortunately... this won't change anything."

Roland turned his head to look at the darkness standing beside him, smiled slightly, and responded with the same words as Altluchi had said before.

"'Death', kill her!"

The next moment, a gust of north wind suddenly blew up in the windless night, and the dark death, without any words, stepped on the wind and poured down the mountain like running water.

at the same time.

"...?!"

Artluqi suddenly looked at the devastated forest behind her. Her ferocious pupils, erect like a beast's, could not hide the shock in her eyes.

In her perception, the suffocating death that was several kilometers away in the previous second became like a thorn in her back in the next second.

But there was clearly nothing behind her... Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, the girl directly inserted her slender feet into the ground, forcibly stopping her own momentum.

Then, without caring about her manners, she quickly turned her head away.

Sure enough, the black mist was already in the sky ahead, circling in front of her like a falcon ready to pounce.

Even in her perfect form, Kurohime's movement speed is even faster than that of the Fantasy Species of the Age of Gods. The Pale Knight is not activated as a perfect form of a world-destroying device, but appears as a phenomenon similar to a heroic spirit. It is impossible to reproduce the gray horse that it rides in the myth.

But such an increase and decrease cannot make up for the absolute gap.

Riding EX.

The world often uses the ability to control dragons and fantasy species as the standard for judging whether a rider is good or not, but as an existence that brings destruction with this term, this obviously does not apply to the Pale Knight.

Ride the wind, ride the water, ride the birds, ride the people.

Even the distance of a city is just a moment for it.

The distance that Heiji had gained in advance seemed to it to be just a clever trick that could be used to catch up with her by taking a big step.

That's so unreasonable.

Totally out of the norm.

Until now, Altluchi had experienced countless enemies, but never had such a frustrating moment.

Because she wasn't even qualified to fight him.

Although he possesses superhuman thinking abilities, the Pale Knight has no concept of self and is just a natural disaster like storms and earthquakes.

Even if you attack the opponent, it is just like drawing a sword to cut water.

The only thing she could do was to run away.

This is a game where running to the city means victory.

Although in the history of the Dead Apostles, there have been many cases where the Holy Church has used bloody actions to implicate an entire city in similar circumstances, the Living Saint is not the scum that the Dead Apostles of the Burial Agency would call heretics.

Roland would not sit idly by and watch other innocent people get hurt because of his own willfulness, right?

As the girl was running and thinking this, suddenly, her pupils shrank.

At the junction of the forest and the night sky, at the end of her sight, many animals stood there safely.

Wild dogs, deer, squirrels, wolves, and even a bear.

Regardless of carnivores or vegetarians, race or size, they stand together in harmony. It is like a gathering of a big family of fairy tale animals.

The premise is... you have to ignore the black spots on their bodies and the incongruous feeling that makes them look like puppets with their strings cut.

Although it appears to be extremely similar to the power of another colleague, Plague, this is actually just the basic ability of the Pale Knight.

When it appears as a heroic spirit, it uses its virus-like clones to infect other creatures, thereby dominating them and expanding its own territory.

In this way, it can not only absorb some magic power, but also use such control to fulfill the master's wishes.

Such as now.

Because Roland was looking forward to a one-on-one duel, before Altluchi escaped, the Pale Knight infected all the lives in the forest in advance and controlled them to run to the border of the forest to avoid being affected.

As for why he only controlled the life in the forest, it was certainly not because the Pale Knight could not control more.

In the original work, although the lower limit has not been shown, it still shows the performance of blocking a city or controlling 120,000 people to act together at the same time.

It does this simply because there is no need.

——The night is being quietly eroded by darkness.

Although it may seem strange to describe the night as being engulfed by darkness, this is undoubtedly the truth.

It's like the sight of an old, dark-colored roof when it rains.

Because it was soaked with raindrops, the original color of the roof was as deep as if it had been dipped in ink.

The change slowly grew larger, spreading at a steady and sustained pace, and soon engulfed the entire sky.

Altluchi, who witnessed the whole process, turned pale.

"Inherent barrier?"

This ability to change the physical laws of the Earth to suit one's own preferences simply by existing seems like one of the supreme mysteries of magic.

But the girl immediately denied this guess.

"No, it's different..."

While the atmosphere has changed, the elements and environment of the surrounding land have not.

Because she had experienced a great battle with a mortal enemy, Heiji was able to realize that this was more like a direct interference in the world, like the materialization of a fantasy.

Although the two seem similar, there are actually huge differences between them.

To put it in an analogy, it is the difference between a barrier phantasm and an anti-boundary phantasm.

The former's changes to the laws can be broken and restored if enough effort is put in, but the latter creates a virtual space based on the real world.

There are no time or size limits.

Even if you use a treasure like the Sword of Separation to fight, it can only serve as an alternative tool for digging the earth.

Therefore, after realizing that she was being pulled in, Artelucci gave up the idea of ​​breaking through by force.

She observed the world around her carefully.

The Pale Knight has no personality, and the changes in the barrier he creates depend entirely on the master's image.

But it seemed that because his master was the living saint, this place was not a typical heaven or hell, nor was it the kind of space that shattered the soul with the emptiness of nothingness, but just the same forest as before.

But no matter what the image is, the foundation of the barrier itself will not change.

"He rode on a pale horse, and Hades followed him, and authority was given to him..."

The girl murmured a memorized motto, her eyes as cold as a knife.

Hades.

This is the nature of the world within the barrier that has been eroded by the other party, and it is the real thing.

If preparations are done properly, it would even be possible to have Ishtar's sister, the mistress of the underworld, appear on the scene.

In this space where only the dead can survive, lives infected or killed by the Pale Knight will also reappear in the underworld, just like the ability of the spirit Akado that Roland once swallowed, called the River of Death.

Even if it is a Noble Phantasm like the Pegasus summoned by Medusa, as long as the Pale Knight is willing, he can directly take away the Noble Phantasm by eroding the spiritual base.

No matter how many means of resurrection are left, no matter what abilities are possessed, as long as it is not a complete resurrection that represents a miracle in the true sense, one will fall into the sleep of death.

For the Dead Apostles, this is undoubtedly a natural enemy.

After all, apart from strength, powerful immortality is one of the important foundations for the Dead Apostles to wreak havoc on human history.

This can be seen from the fact that after reaching the level of ancestors, even the professional counterparts of the Holy Church can only be forced to seal them in many cases instead of directly executing them.

But in this underworld, this kind of cheating will obviously not be allowed to happen.

The thunder that replaced the sky and the echoing shouts were the best proof.

{I am the sword}{I am the beast}{I am thirsty}{I am hungry}
{I am the one who brings death}{I am the one who plays death}
{I am dead}{I am dead}
{death}{death}{death}
The words of the Pale Knight began to hack at Altluchi's ears like a roar, and the sound was like the concentration of fear.

In those emotionless words without a trace of hatred, just to bring death to the opponent.

In front of the black fog that fell from the sky like a torrential rain.

The girl had never realized one thing so clearly.

——When a person is killed, he will die. (End of this chapter)