Adopting the Male Protagonist Changed the Genre - Chapter 242

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Chapter 242

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Cerberus ran swiftly even while carrying two people. It was so fast that the wind hitting my cheeks felt painful.

Though it was a dark night, fortunately the bright full moon made it not difficult to see the night road.

However, that was only until we entered the Barrier Forest. As soon as we entered the Barrier Forest, everything around us suddenly darkened and fog that made it impossible to distinguish even an inch ahead obscured our vision.

If we continued running recklessly like this, we would crash into a tree. The moment Cerberus hesitated, sensing such danger.

“Lady Belinda, we can continue forward like this.”

Leo, who was positioned behind me, pressed his body close to mine.

Then the fog melted away like snow and a summer night forest that was eerily peaceful revealed itself.

An illusory forest that deceived the senses of those who entered.

However, even that forest lost its power before the bloodline of Baluashten.

I leaned forward and gripped Cerberus’s fur tightly while speaking reassuringly.

“Cerberus, it’s okay. Just keep running forward like this.”

And so Cerberus traversed the forest without stopping for even a moment.

About 90 seconds remained.

The forest exit began to appear in the distance.

Since the forest’s shadows didn’t fall there, the pouring moonlight looked almost like a spotlight on a stage.

‘I can do this!’

Hope settled like snowflakes where anxiety and impatience had left their dark footprints.

I can stop Chaser. I can change the future five minutes from now.

It was when I straightened my upper body, unable to bear the impatience.

Thud!

Cerberus, who had been running vigorously, fell backward as if hitting an invisible glass wall.

“…!”

My body was thrown forward by the sudden stop and floated in the air.

However, instead of rolling messily on the ground, I was able to land lightly like a feather thanks to Leo’s levitation magic.

As soon as I took Leo’s hand and set foot on the ground, I surveyed the forest. Cerberus had crashed so violently that he lay collapsed in the forest, unable to regain consciousness.

“Cerberus, wait there!”

Did my voice reach him? Was Cerberus okay? Worry surged, but I forced myself to push it aside.

“Leo, one minute left! Within one minute, Chaser…!”

It was when I turned my head urgently while checking the remaining time. My words were cut short by the vast land spread before my eyes.

The Far North, called the Demon Beast’s Domain.

When viewed from the Northern Castle’s watchtower, it had been a small battlefield like a toy decorated with miniatures.

However, the battlefield I faced directly was like a monster whose size couldn’t be measured.

‘I have to find Chaser here?’

It would have felt easier to find a needle in a haystack.

Though I wore Suga’s blessing, I instinctively knew that even pouring out millions wouldn’t help me find Chaser through luck alone.

“Hold my hand! If we look from the sky, we’ll be able to find him faster!”

Leo grabbed my hand and pulled me up, stepping through the air like climbing stairs. Each time, small magic circles sparkled like flying sparks beneath our feet.

40 seconds remained.

Even though it was only about the height of a building’s third floor, my legs trembled. It wasn’t because of fear of heights.

It was because I realized there was no way to find Chaser on a battlefield where people and demonic beasts couldn’t even be distinguished.

Time remaining: 39 seconds

I tried to borrow Cao’s vision to find Chaser’s location, but it was useless.

Everywhere was a blood-splattering battlefield.

Every time Cao tried to emerge from the shadows and fly up, his body was repeatedly cut by human swords and demonic beast claws.

Time remaining: 35 seconds

“Teacher! Where are you!”

Unable to bear the impatience, Leo raised his voice to call for Chaser, but like being drowned out by a massive waterfall, there was no result.

Time remaining: 31 seconds

Every time Cao, whose vision I borrowed, died, my mind went dark. Still, without stopping, I searched and searched for Chaser….

Time remaining: 25 seconds

‘God, please.’

When I unconsciously sought God, hoping for a miracle.

Something like a lamp’s flame flickered in my chest.

“…?”

I cut off my synchronization with Cao and clutched my chest.

Some image began to appear hazily on my retina, as if something was forming there.

It looked like the Milky Way, or countless fireflies.

Every time I blinked, the clusters of light that sparkled like starlight became clearer, soon drawing a clear path and beginning to point somewhere.

A marker like the Milky Way that had descended to earth.

I pointed with my fingertip toward where its end was directed and whispered.

With more conviction than ever, as if some great being had given me the answer.

“…Found him.”

“What?”

Leo’s eyes widened as he turned to look at me while surveying the battlefield.

“Lady Belinda, there’s divine power in your eyes….”

Leo said that much then shook his head. He realized that wasn’t what was important right now.

I put my hand into the leather bag I had brought.

As if I had seen the future, Suga’s blessing placed what I wanted in my hand.

“Leo, we’re going to traverse the battlefield in one go.”

“Yes!”

Feeling the familiar weight of the revolver, I quietly murmured.

“Lili.”

Dense black smoke flowed from the orb stuffed in one corner of the bag and took Lili’s form.

Black lace covering her face and the hem of her pitch-black dress enveloped Leo and me like mist.

With the Queen of a fallen nation behind me, I commanded.

“Lili, curse everything that approaches Leo and me.”

Immediately, we ran through the air toward where the path of light ended.

Cardinal Lionel’s voice that I had heard sometime before slowly rose like water mist in my mind.

“When the Marquess feels lost, that blessing will help you find the right path.”

The blessing of guidance that Giuseppe had supposedly given me.

I thought of that man whose true intentions I could no longer fathom and quietly murmured the prayer I had heard from him.

“May light like a lamp always illuminate your path ahead.”

As soon as I did, far in the distance, the back of Chaser, whom Leo and I had been searching for so desperately, began to appear hazily.

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The man who felt the familiar remnants of divine power raised his head to look up at the sky.

Two silhouettes were racing down from the night sky where a full moon hung.

How long had he been looking up at it?

“Giuseppe.”

At the voice calling his name, Giuseppe turned his head.

Lionel, wearing armor dirtied as proof of having fought through countless battles, was looking at him with an expression of disbelief.

“Why… are you standing there?”

Giuseppe quietly gazed at her face, which even carried traces of tears, then looked around his surroundings.

A pack of vicious demonic beasts surrounded him.

However, none of the demonic beasts showed any killing intent toward Giuseppe. This was because their king had commanded them not to harm Giuseppe.

“I didn’t expect you to come here. According to the original fate, Lionel, or rather, I hear you’ve become a Cardinal now. Your Eminence should have been in the Holy Empire right now.”

At his monotonous words that contained no emotion whatsoever, Lionel gritted her teeth.

Only after seeing Giuseppe standing in the middle of the pack of demonic beasts on this battlefield could Lionel accept reality.

That he had truly betrayed humanity, his beliefs, and God.

Clang.

Lionel pointed her sword at Giuseppe and spoke quietly.

“Step aside from there.”

“That’s impossible. My role is to guard this place so that no one can reach the Ascetic.”

To face the surprise attack force striking at the rear, Giuseppe joined the right flank while the Dark Mage who had been a mercenary joined the left flank.

But to think he would end up facing Lionel of all people.

“It seems I’m rather unlucky.”

He had only realized this after his divine power became completely useless.

With a lonely smile, Giuseppe summoned the Meteor Spear.

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