Chapter 245 – Gaiden – Part 0, Chapter 19
All the long, long preparations were finally over.
Baron Rag or Armageddon reigns over the Kingdom of Hermon as a true evil in name and reality, and there are plenty of reasons for warriors to define me as evil and wield the blade of justice, such as massacres and the collapse of the magic tower. At the same time that the hero was chosen by the goddess, the promotion test of the goddess of drama and luminous began to be watched by many gods, and I was informed that the hero would participate in the first trial, the operation to subjugate Serberk.
In the meantime, I was preparing to take her ‘her girl’ from the basement of her mage tower as her last confidant.
“Hmm, this is more serious than I thought.”
“Ahhh…”
A woman with her hair as white as an eighty-year-old, although she is still in her twenties, sits down on her knees in front of me.
Her name is Leanne.
This is a woman found in a facility hidden underground when the Magic Tower was destroyed. Apparently, a manica or a minicar or something, imprisoned me, and the plan to permanently establish magic, the project ‘Infinity’, was committed earlier to prove that it was feasible. It seems that he was a victim of the sub-project ‘Unlimited’.
Even the magical power she originally possessed was not enough, and most of her vitality, memory, and knowledge as a living being were extracted and eaten as her power source, so she had nothing left, a woman with a pale impression, no different from an idiot.
If it hadn’t been for the ‘script’ given to me by the goddess Luminous, I would never have recognized that she was one of her fellow candidates for Hero.
Yes, she is also one of the candidates for the Hero’s companions. To be precise, it was ‘one’.
Even so, her script clearly introduces her as her ‘very lively and cheerful sorceress Les Anne’, but she was already this way when I discovered her. In other words, it was a situation where it would not be strange if someone accidentally hit it wrong and would fall down and never get up again.
How much does it take to squeeze a person to this point? Her hair, which should have been a passionate red color, all lost its vitality and turned white. It wasn’t silver hair reminiscent of starlight, but rather the powerless curly hair that was created when all of her hair’s pigment was lost.
Crispy hair that has lost its vitality, pale skin, and a skinny body that looks like it would break if touched wrongly… Let’s just think that that crazy bitch was planning to do this to me too, I wondered if she had killed me too finely. I was about to regret it.
This time, I can’t even guess where and how the snowball flowed and this result came out. Originally, she, a mage who went out on business trips like Viola, but will lose her place to go because of the collapse of the Mage Tower, what kind of process did she have to go through to be trapped in the basement when I destroyed the Mage Tower and was subjected to an experiment to extract magic power? Of course, the mage tower in question had long since disappeared from my hands, so there was no way to find out.
And this woman, like Ray, is too late to revert to her former self.
In Rey’s case, she went through such a traumatic event that she was unable to return to her normal life because of her memories and trauma. Not. Of course, if I plant mana, it will rise again, but compared to Rey, Mars, and Gentleman, the amount of mana to be injected is far too high.
It doesn’t mean lack of magic power. Anyway, there is no limit to magic power, so you can put in as much as you need. It’s just that when I infuse her magic power, she will never be able to live a normal human life.
The power of darkness is over-injected, and it is inevitable to live a life like a vampire, suffering and weakening just by standing in the sun.
To be honest, it is not possible for me to check and care for all of her hero’s companion candidates, and even if I belatedly fix her in a situation where her hero has already started her journey, I will join as her hero’s companion. There was no possibility at all. But that doesn’t mean you can’t just leave someone in such a terrible state.
[Can you hear me, Leanne?]
Thanks to a lot of mental research while torturing the royal knight Ange, ‘Whisper of Corruption’ has now become a fairly powerful and sophisticated technique. It means that I have reached the point where I can try to communicate by conveying my intentions directly to the mind of an opponent who has difficulty communicating properly, such as this woman who has turned into an idiot, beyond simply putting pressure on the opponent.
[I don’t know if you know, but your condition is quite serious right now. If you leave it like this, you will stop breathing in less than a week, and you will meet such a lonely and lonely end.]
…There is a reaction.
[If I use my strength, I can restore some of the body’s functions, albeit in a limited way. Or you can simply close your eyes. The choice is yours. Will you quietly fall into an eternal sleep, or do you want to come back to life at all costs?]
‘…’
Light slowly returned to her empty pupils, as if to prove that her attempts were not in vain.
And Les Anne moved her parched lips with difficulty and spoke a word towards me.
“…”
It did not form her language, but as I was using her whispers of corruption, I could understand what she was trying to convey.
She wanted to live But at the same time she wanted to die.
I was afraid of death, but I didn’t want a painful life.
Those conflicting feelings were by no means strange, so I didn’t deny her intentions.
[I won’t save you. Through my hands, you will forget your previous life and be born anew. The new name I will give you is ‘Mormot’ in the sense of forgetting the hardships you went through, but not forgetting at the same time.]
I put my hand on Leanne, no, Mormot’s bony shoulder. The turbid magic power emanating from the fragments of chaos hanging around her neck rides on my body and flows into her body, which is empty of vitality.
The color of her hair, which had turned white, did not return, but she regained her vitality.
The white discolored skin did not return, but the blood returned, albeit weakly.
Her bizarrely skinny body gradually gained weight and recovered to a slightly skinny body.
Still empty, but not completely empty eyes looked up at me. She stared at me, then lowered her head and spoke in an awkward tone.
“New name. Mormot. New master. Loyalty.”
Umm… The technology hasn’t been fully refined yet, and it seems that there is a bit of a problem in the process of returning it. Apparently, there seems to be a little problem with the language skills… But there are no major problems with the memory or thinking skills, so I can gradually fix it later. Besides… It seems that there are unexpected advantages along with unexpected disadvantages.
Thanks to learning the basic knowledge of magic from Mystrina, I was able to confirm that a strange magical field was formed around the body of the mormot.
There are several types of magic.
Mana floating in nature is natural mana. This is pure, unprocessed magical power, and humans cannot use it carelessly. Instead, in the process of breathing in, a person absorbs this natural magic into the body, and after going through several complicated processes inside the body and going through a purification process, it becomes refined magic that can be used by people. The magic that most wizards use is this refined magic.
In fact, if the mana floating in nature could be freely used, there would be no need for mages to suffer from the chronic problem of lack of magic.
And the black mana I use is the mana refined in the body of the immortal dragon, the mana specialized when the immortal dragon breathes, absorbs natural mana and dyes it with its own color, and performs evil acts such as destruction and confusion.
During the restoration process, the mormot’s body absorbs black magic and uses it as its own vitality, and at the same time, it has a unique characteristic of distorting the refined magic and natural magic around it.
As for what effect it has… This is not a game, but reality, so when I use wide-area attack magic, allies in that range are of course also damaged. However, Mormot recovers his physical strength after receiving my attack in the wide area attack, and at the same time nullifies most of the magic used by the magician who appeared as an enemy, and just by standing there distorts the flow of natural magic so that the magician can use natural magic blocks the process of absorbing and refining into usable magical power.
To put it simply, a subordinate who does not take damage from allies’ wide-area skills and is no different from a thug was born only for wizards.
“This is… Um…”
It’s honestly a bummer.
How the hell did the Luminous Goddess design the balance of this world so that these unexpected variables keep popping up? What is this, what is the difference between a programmer messing with something during coding and it running fine?
The best melee dealer in interpersonal combat power, Mars, the beast trainer Ray, who pushes the quantity comparable to that of Zerg, and Shin Saha, who secretly targets and assassinates important people in the enemy, are now called wizard-only gangsters…? If Mia, who has better command and management skills than me, takes my side, this is a game that a warrior can never win.
However, my mission is not to defeat the hero, but to be defeated by the hero, and in the end I felt the need to adjust the balance.
Mars-ya, if you think it’s too strong, send an expedition for a while, and Ray only has a very large number of magical beasts, but unless you have tamed ‘that individual’ in the north of the territory, it won’t be that much of a threat to the hero. And Saha is also very good at assassination, but not strong in person-to-person combat.
However, this woman, Mormot, is different.
The ability to forcibly turn a wizard into a eunuch and at the same time recover the magical attacks of allies. If I went all the way to Mormot, the difficulty would be Korean Hell rather than Hard, so I decided to give Mormot the guard of the dungeon that stores and manages the Immortal Army.
Yeah, well… If you leave the front door open, the hero and his companions won’t be annihilated by encountering mormots while attempting to infiltrate the inside of the mansion through the dungeon where this immortal army resides. If that happened, Mormotra would not be able to escape responsibility for creating power outside of her standard.
…Does it make you angry just thinking about it? Why should I be held accountable? Wasn’t this woman originally destined to be locked up in the basement of the magic tower? With this script, how far can it go wrong? Is this really credible information?
Everything about the topography, history, weapons, magic, etc. Is fine, but why the hell does the information about the person keep getting so many errors… My head hurts. I’ll have to report this to the Luminous Goddess later too. Anyway, I’m going to make an excuse saying ‘Uh… Actually, I made it based on the world of a senior I know, so I don’t know the details…’.
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About two months have passed since Mormot came in as his henchman. I have been continuously getting information about the hero through the assassin Shin Saha, who has become a completely faithful confidant since I took it.
The information that the hero who successfully defeated the destroyer Serberk and the madman Sillip is now heading to the Hermon Kingdom as its next destination.
Compared to the fact that all sorts of problems arose during the preparation stage before the hero was chosen by the goddess, the hero’s schedule itself seemed pretty smooth. I would have to go on like this until the end…
While waiting for the hero, in the meantime, Mystrina wanted independence, so she made a residence in the kingdom of Elheim, and attacked the mansion to make sure that the 3 princes could succeed the throne in place of the 1st prince. All of them were killed, and he spent time implementing a training plan that seemed to have a brain attached to the lower body to first corrupt the body in order to get Mia’s heart completely.
And finally, the protagonists of this play, a group of warriors, reached the kingdom of Hermon.
Luke, the warrior of light chosen by the goddess, Elia, the priestess of the Luminous Church who started the journey together with Luke, the sorceress Viola who joined to avenge the Mage Tower, and the elf ranger who was in charge of guiding the group to their destination at the end of the hero’s request. Until Hokna.
A truly harem party, with all but one heroine being female. And, including the fact that the hero was a young eunuch who had no intention of laying a hand on his colleagues, it was a party that really stuck with old fantasy clichés.
“Finally… The warrior is coming to me.”
It took too long to prepare. And finally, the time has come to fulfill my role faithfully!
A contract with the Luminous Goddess in exchange for the right to wish!
As the villain of this play, as an evil villain who has no way to be saved, he was defeated after a fierce duel with the heroine full of justice, and gave the audience (god) a cider that justice defeats evil and wins, Bringing catharsis of justice!
I, who had come all this way to be defeated by the hero, was finally ready to leave the stage as a villain.
According to the news delivered through Saha, it is expected that the warrior party will come to my mansion in about three days.
So, let’s get ready.
As a villain, prepare to be defeated by a hero!
