Chapter 685 – 685. Disaster Prologue (6)
Erin’s rapier rushed in to pierce Marius’ neck.
However, it was not a sudden action caused by a runaway of emotions.
Although he exudes deep morale, his own judgment was made based on the results of confirming that Marius’ appearance was not a body specialized in combat.
In reality, Marius giggled and he just explained the heinous misdeeds he had been doing, not even noticing Erin’s attack.
The only time he noticed Erin’s attack was when her blade reached right in front of her eyes.
“Joy.”
However, even though Marius was in danger of getting his eyes pierced by a sharp rapier blade, he only snorted and showed no reaction.
There was no trace of fear or surprise on Marius’ face, as if Erin’s attack did not pose any threat.
Soon, parts of Marius’ body quickly turned into black mist and disappeared.
“Uh… ?”
When the entity that clearly existed became a black mist and lost its shape, the blade filled with passionate anger cut through the air, losing the object to be cut.
When the feeling of being cut did not reach her hands, Erin was slightly agitated.
Marius was clearly present in front of him.
However, only the part of Marius’ left eye, which was pierced by Erin’s rapier, has turned into fog.
Although it is said to be a powerful flame that burns away even non-substantial spiritual bodies, it is useless if it does not reach the target itself.
No wonder Erin was taken aback by the feeling of emptiness as if she were cutting through her clouds.
“Oh… !”
Even so, Erin is an adventurer of the gold ranks who has had many experiences crossing the dead line.
It was a habit she had trained herself as a disciple of Eunhyeon and an adventurer to deal with her embarrassment quickly.
In less than a second, Erin, realizing that the black spirit emanating from Marius’s body was about to cover her, quickly drew her body behind her and distanced herself from her necromancer.
She then flinched and brandished her rapier on the floor.
Because she felt something grabbing her own leg.
The procrastinating thing Erin cut off was a human hand.
“Eww… Uhh…”
It is a human corpse with no lower body and only the upper body that speaks nonsense like a mute.
“… !”
The corpse was clearly looking up at Erin with intent.
When her eyes met her still undead corpse, Erin hurriedly distanced herself from her body as goose bumps ran through her body.
However, the corpses that rose from all over the ground gradually increased in number and surrounded Erinn.
‘What happened?’
Even when she was surrounded by the undead, Erin still couldn’t forget her situation when she penetrated Marius’ eyes.
She has to figure out why her attack didn’t hit, so she can defeat the necromancer in front of her eyes, but she can’t figure out why, so it’s a confusing situation.
In addition to that, the dead summoned by Marius did not give her Erin time to think.
The moment she is about to swing her sword at the undead that Erin keeps charging at.
“Fat… Let me…”
“Wow!?”
The corpse, resounding from its half-crushed vocal chords, spoke to Erin with a clear intention.
It was something Erin had never experienced before.
Erin had no experience dealing with her undead, but it was that she had dealt with the corpses of dead demons.
This was the first time he had faced a human who had turned into the undead.
For a moment, Erin hesitated to wield the Levantine.
It was because the despairing voices that flowed from the melted skin and rotten teeth were so desperate for salvation.
Judging by their behavior, the summoned undead in front of their eyes are all innocent people living ordinary lives.
They had sympathy for the fact that they could not die with such a terrible look and were being played at the hands of the necromancer.
Unlike the Death Knights who just killed people without showing any intention, they know how to talk and ask for help.
Even though they are the dead who have already met death in a terrible form, what is inside are pitiful ghosts who have not yet reached maturity.
Such a small and insignificant difference had a very big impact on Erin.
Erin couldn’t possibly swing the Levantine at them.
The dead were already dead, but since she couldn’t cut them down, there weren’t that many options for her to choose from.
“Hmm?”
Marius narrowed her eyes as she watched Erin stepping back behind her and desperately avoiding the approaching dead.
Soon, Marius, who read her Erin’s psychology, opens her eyes wide and observes her Erin’s appearance in detail, and soon bursts into laughter as if she were laughing.
“Keuk, kukkeuk… Haha!”
The laughter of Marius, who spread her arms wide to the sides and made exaggerated gestures, was enough to get on Erin’s nerves as she rushed to deal with her undead.
“What… Funny!”
Exclaimed Erin huffing, realizing that she was being mocked and laughed out loud at her.
“Not funny. Don’t be funny! There are all these women! Haha!”
Soon, Marius looked at Erin as if she were really watching her enjoyable comedy, filling her with gleeful laughter.
“They are my servants who have already met death. But you now have sympathy for them?”
Treating them the same as humans, who have become non-humans and lowered into the undead, if this is not a comedy, what on earth is it?
In Marius’ eyes, Erin looked nothing but a false hypocrite.
“Ku-k-k-k! That filthy hypocrite mask! I’ll take it off!”
Marius waved her hand at Erin.
In response, dozens of corpses rose up and crawled towards her Erin.
These are all adventurers who died in this city, or the corpses of citizens the adventurers couldn’t save.
“Kuh… !”
As more and more undead swarmed towards her, Erin hurriedly moved her steps and distanced herself from the undead.
The group created by the corpses of helpless citizens with no aggression, just moved to close the distance towards the target the owner, the necromancer, pointed out.
The number itself was too much for Erin, who was hesitant to attack her.
Erin knew very well that grinding her teeth and disassembling was a vicious means to torment herself, but she couldn’t resist.
“Save… Give…”
“Do not come… !”
To the undead who repeatedly asked her to save herself, Erin tried to block her approach by wielding a Levante, but the undead, unable to disobey the necromancer’s order, approached Erin without paying attention at all. .
‘Hurry… I need to help them quickly…’
She wants to go support the adventurers of the lower world who are struggling against the undead, but to do so she had to fight her way through these undead hordes.
For a moment, Erin remembered what Marius had said while mocking her.
-Kuhk! That filthy hypocrite mask! I’ll take it off!
Dissembler.
Certainly it may be.
He had already experienced murder, and he had nothing to say even if what he was doing was hypocrisy itself.
He was only hesitant because he was keenly aware of how hard it was to take the life of an innocent person.
Erin had already followed her Eunhyeon and killed innocent women with monster seeds in their stomachs while exploring ant burrows with the Knights of Artia.
What a horrible and worst experience it was, she still remembers.
Even if the deceased has already died, the essence of the act of extinguishing the soul within him by burning it with his own fox fire is the same as giving death to others.
Marius’ intentions were also noticed by Erin.
He is having fun now
Will she annihilate the undead that she forcibly settled human souls and overcome this danger and throw away the mask of a hypocrite, or will she finally fulfill her will and die after being eaten by the undead?
He is forced to make an unreasonable choice and is watching what choice he will make.
‘It’s really the worst.’
A way of thinking that is so vicious, like a monster, that you can’t find a human mind.
However, Marius did not know that there was one overlooked fact.
Erinn’s mentality wasn’t weak enough to collapse just like this.
Now, despite her hesitation, she was trying to find an appropriate compromise in her own way of thinking to get over this situation.
“Kill me… Please…”
Hearing the corpse’s cracked voice begging for her salvation, Erin closed her eyes tightly.
For some reason, the image of women who conceived monsters in the anthill, desperately wishing for her own death, came to mind.
Like them, the undead now were hoping for salvation.
“… All right.”
Soon, Erin opened her eyes, and a firm determination settled in Erin’s eyes.
She wielded a rapier wrapped in silver fox fire and decapitated the undead who were hoping for a peaceful death.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“Kuk-kuk.”
The moment Marius, who was listening to the screams of adventurers complaining of pain from being eaten by the undead he summoned, was laughing happily.
“Hmm?”
He turned her head after realizing that the dozens of undead he had created had disappeared all at once.
There stood Erin, glaring at herself with her ferocious gaze amidst the corpses of the undead that were being consumed by silvery flames.
“Haha. You killed him!”
Marius was ecstatic.
However, Erin was completely different from her own expectations.
Far from breaking her heart, a look of rage that inflamed her hostility towards herself even more.
“Kuk-kuk.”
It was a completely different reaction than she expected, but somehow Marius really liked Erin’s appearance.
For some reason she couldn’t even figure out her reason.
Soon after, Erin leaped quickly and charged Marius.
“As much as you… !”
For a few seconds while Erin was chained up by dozens of insignificant undead, two death knights summoned by Marius once again stood in the way of Erin, protecting her master, the necromancer, Marius.
Marius stared at Erin, who was engaged in a battle with two Death Knights, revealing a passionate appearance.
It’s strange when you think about it.
Why is she so obsessed with the woman in front of her?
In fact, if you wanted to kill him, you could have killed him right away.
In the brief moment when Erin was hesitant surrounded by dozens of undead, if she had already summoned a death knight to ambush her, she could have dealt her a fatal blow, if not completely finished.
I was just curious about what choice she would make, so I didn’t.
‘Why?’
Marius pondered what the reason might be.
“Ah.”
As soon as she saw Erin fighting a fierce battle with the Death Knights, she remembered a woman.
“Ness.”
She was born and raised in a nursery school with her, and after she became an adult, she took over her nursery school and had the tolerance to embrace and raise many children.
Marius longed for Ness, who had the noble heart and tried to respect and cherish life.
Erin resembles Ness.
The reason she still reveals her anger to herself is that she herself uses her necromancer to play with people’s lives and play her way.
‘Then I can’t use it!’
If it were Ness she might look at her own now and admonish her with a slap on the cheek.
“But Ness is gone now… Oh, I see.”
Marius finally realized why he was obsessed with Erin.
He admired and loved Ness.
It was her own mind that she was unaware of until she met her unreasonable death.
And he realizes that he feels the same way for Erin as she does for her noble and beautiful inclusiveness.
“This… Is it love Kuu, kuk!”
There is only one thought in Marius’ mind right now.
‘Want to have. Want to break down I want to make it mine.’
I want to have Erin.
I want to destroy that noble heart that she has.
He wants to bring her corpse back to life with her necromancy so she can be by his side for the rest of his life.
“Now, I can understand a little how my goddess is obsessed with that human.”
Medea loves a man named Eunhyeon.
She says that Eun-hyeon is the only companion she will be with her for the rest of her life, and she whispers in her own ear dozens of times a day that she wants to meet him.
Marius, who was able to sympathize even a little with that maniacally warped obsession, looked at Erin without erasing a joyful smile.
“Ha!”
Soon after, Erin, who had organized the two Death Knights with a cheering sound, glared at Marius while stealing a sweat.
“Great. Very good! What is your name?”
“I don’t have a name to tell you!”
Erin shouted nervously and aimed the Levantein’s blade at Marius.
“It’s pretty sleazy. What good But won’t you let me tell you one thing?”
“… ?”
“A woman whose name I do not know. I am loving you. No. I fell in love.”
The first confession of the life of a necromancer who became aware of her own feelings was delivered at a very unexpected timing.
“What… ?”
