Chapter 472 – 16. Leriel, the Last Survivor of the Black Moon Clan Who Inherited Her Husband’s Legacy.
Haren wandered around the deserted prison and spread her spirit.
A black choker has already been placed around his neck.
It was a leash worn by Medea, the great wizard who came to interrogate him today, as she was wary of his power.
However, there was one thing she overlooked: she had no control over Haren, who had a body that went against reason.
If she had persistently studied and analyzed his body condition, the artifact she created could have shown its power…
It was an error that was discovered because she also became desperate after receiving an urgent communication from Oberon, who had already left for the border of the empire.
“Is it time?”
The man named Cassano, who was guarding the prison, had visited Haren only once.
She otherwise devoted herself to spending time with her wife, Lerriel, and guarding her prison. Haren, who knew what it meant to be alone, controlled her emotions by clenching her remaining hand.
Because now is the time to focus.
After looking around the prison, Haren opened her lock and escaped through the prison passage. Since she was an archmage and her security magic was excellent, it was essential to investigate her first.
Haren, who had a large prison floor to himself, searched countless rooms and walls for traces of Medea until her lips dried. When he found that there were no traces of Mana, he began his operation in earnest.
-Click!
She returns to the prison, stretches her bony arms through the bars, and locks herself.
A small trick to pull off since there was no room but a regular prison. Haren took out the two items he had prepared from his pocket, took a deep breath, and composed his mind.
‘Leriel, please wait a moment.’
Jiik, tearing up the scroll I had prepared and scattering the leaking mana all over the prison. An excellent magic that helps ensure that no traces of mana remain. If Medea had seen it, she would have figured out the magic unfolding in Leriel’s hideout right away, but here, only Haren was there.
The remaining object was a small stone with tangled black tentacles. Haren took out a red stone like a heart and placed it on the opposite wall, standing across from him and preparing.
-Wow…
An ominous mana that makes your skin tingle stirs and seeps into the prison where Haren is imprisoned.
Haren, whose whole body was trembling and weighed down by the immense pressure and the mana gushing out from the small stone, smiled bitterly as he looked at the gold engraved on his crisp, bony arm.
Haren regretted it.
He didn’t choose to die on his own right after being revived.
Haren had no regrets.
I made the choice to use everything I had to meet Leri El.
Haren regretted it.
There is no one left by her side.
Haren regretted…
If she found out that he made this choice, she would definitely take his hand even though there was no room for him in her heart.
Haren had no regrets.
If only she could be with her, she would give up her already dead life… Because I was able to give it over and over again, even to my enemies.
Crackling, crackling, zing-!
The mana that was greedily fluttering along the prison wall drew a small circle and connected into one. The mana that had been transformed into a small sphere, tangled and tangled like her blood vessels, quickly became a hole large enough for a person to easily pass through.
A supernatural ability that defies the laws of the world.
However, without Medea, no one in this prison could sense Haren’s supernatural abilities.
A small gap that pierces the absence of an absolute power.
Haren prostrated, bowing her head and praying as time passed until Mana took her form.
One second, two seconds, it was a short time, but to Haren, it felt like an eternity.
Paaa-! The ominous red mana completely dissipated, and an abyss-like darkness descended on the narrow prison.
[It’s quite early, are you ready?]
A grim voice echoed in her head, and Haren answered quietly without raising her head.
“Not yet.”
[… Was the warning not enough?]
The voice was overbearing, but Haren stood up to him silently.
“No.”
[Calling me doesn’t mean that it’s okay for that pitiful life to end right away…]
“We are conducting a thorough investigation as you instructed. The prince didn’t notice anything, and my wife doesn’t know that you and I are holding hands.”
[It sounds like preparations are going well. Do you know why I allowed you to save your wife?]
“… As you said, I have prepared with all my heart. “I searched my body several times, but no one realized that this heart was a means of communicating with you.”
As much as I try, you should respect me too.
The man laughed at Haren’s harsh words and spoke in a drowsy voice.
[Raising your hand, which is a simple chess piece, will be a little entertainment for me. The entertainment may be a dagger stabbing me, but do you know why I continue to entertain myself?]
“… Because I, the chess piece, can kill the king.”
[It’s like chess, you give up the king to a small piece that doesn’t care. A being like dust returns to me as a dagger! How absurd this would be.]
“… We will prepare without any disruption.”
[What is your brother’s chess piece?]
“… It’s easy once your wife is ready. “No matter how far I’ve reached, it would be difficult to compare the two.”
[I guess I’ve finished persuading you.]
Not so. While Haren was in contact with her master, she let go of her last regrets and fell into Cassano’s arms.
But Haren had no idea. She’s just her self, and if it’s just her heartbreaking request, she’ll be able to change her mind, but she can’t go on even now. It’s just her complaining… Because I think so.
[What I want is not a big thing, just to make a small change so that she can break her brother’s chess pieces and dare to point a blade that she doesn’t even know where she is aiming at my neck. You know what I mean…]
“Yes, that’s why I need help. I hope you completely block the wizard’s movements. He seems to be under her protection… “
[Ah, Medea. Even now, my followers are holding on to her ankles, but is it still not enough?]
“Yes.”
Hehe, yes, I will take responsibility for her and tie her up, so there will be no problem with the plan, right?”
“… “I would like to confirm my promise once again.”
[Are you doubting me?]
“No, please, please understand the desperation of my miserable life.”
Haren bowed and banged his head, and the man with the bug-like appearance scratched his chin with interest.
[Yes, I will save your wife and grant you my grace so that you can live as long as she lives. All you have to do is the two I mentioned above. If you successfully complete that… I paid the price I hoped for.]
“Thank you, thank you.”
Haren spoke to Leriel. I can’t remember properly, and I don’t know anything.
From the beginning, he never once gave her a true answer about his actions.
Why did he come back to life, whose hand was on the leash, who did he throw on his back and hide in order to rescue Leriel, and what preparations were made to kill the prince’s dog-
He never showed his sincerity.
“Thank you, Crown Prince… “
Haren made a deal with Prince Royman. Just as she was about to use her hands to dispose of Leriel, who held her information, the rag-tag Haren came with his men.
Even after he became dead after dealing with the former crown prince, the current emperor Heidenrich III, he held the hand of that bloodline again.
It was clear that if Prince Royman’s information was received by Oberon, a big storm would blow in the empire. There was no such picture in the future that Royman hoped for, and he tried to end his miserable life, but a better tool came into his hands, so he took full advantage of it.
Even though she was being used and abandoned, Haren was desperate, and she traveled throughout the empire to carry out Royman’s orders.
The empire was in such disarray that even Royman smiled in satisfaction. When the picture he had hoped for was drawn, Royman decided to give the bug a favor, and Haren, who had hoped for that favor, was captured by Oberon himself to complete his final mission. 〉
‘We can be together again, again… ‘
From the beginning, I infiltrated to kill Cassano, but now I have one more reason.
If you kill him, Leriel’s bonds will also be released. She was thinking wrong now, Haren thought.
She was a wife who loathed and rejected physical relationships. She must have fallen for his tricks and been ruined.
For her own sake, it is her husband’s duty to treat him.
Haren made her excuse that it was her job for her to lie and hide, and she deceived herself.
‘This is not wrong, and it is especially not a betrayal… ‘
She is just in the process of reclaiming what is hers. When the time came, Haren planned to explain everything to Lerriel.
Why did he join hands with the crown prince and trick you? It was clear that she would feel betrayed by Leriel’s nature, but that was the only option she had left with Haren.
‘How could I give up on you…? ‘
Leriel turned away in tears, saying that she had been defiled, and thought of her former fiancee, but Haren immediately grabbed her and held her in his arms, promising her eternity.
‘How could I give up on you, my benefactor who saved me even if I was tainted… ‘
If Haren had shown her true feelings from the beginning and asked her to be together, would she have been with Lerriel?
Haren didn’t know. But I’m sure she will follow her, but right now she’s just wandering around.
Haren, who had come to that conclusion, said wow, and before she knew it, she picked up her heart, which had returned to a small stone, and shoved it back into her chest.
-Gurururuk!
Her black tentacles devouring her heart, the touch of the cultists was always disgusting, but without this, Haren would immediately turn back into a cold corpse.
‘Everything is going according to plan.’
Haren smiled happily as he looked at her completely destroyed mana.
The eyes of a pigeon sitting on an old tree in the distance, watching the prison, turned purple.
The dove slowly flew up and headed towards the prison, but Haren, drunk with her joy, did not notice until the end.
