Chapter 59 – Ah~ It’s Ruined~ (1)
After bringing the priestess Ellia to the front of the misty mansion, my mind was filled with thoughts of how to deal with this situation.
If I had to describe my current situation in one word, it would be ‘followed’.
It wasn’t just pursued, it was pursued very enormously.
In the past, when watching movies or animations, I laughed at the villains for being so stupid when I saw a scene in which the villains talked about important plans without paying close attention to the surrounding situation and were discovered by a person related to the main character. I didn’t know the line. It’s because I feel relieved and relaxed when I think that I’m almost at the end of what I’ve planned. Surely it will.
Well, it’s okay Because you can fix it right now.
“…Everything, you… What the hell are you?”
Elia stammered in fear of not knowing what would happen to her, but asked me if I could not bear to be curious. Maybe it’s not curiosity, but maybe it’s the last desperate thing to prepare for death. A normal villain would reveal all of his plans in a situation like this. Since it was discovered anyway, I will remove it, as a last gift before going to the underworld.
Of course I don’t think so Can you tell her that this world is a stage created by the gods and that you are the characters in a play? But… This is a very strange relationship. I just needed her help, but I was in trouble because I didn’t know how to approach it, but I never thought I’d be alone like this.
“Don’t you already know my identity? The actual ruler of Hermon Kingdom. The one who destroyed the Mage Tower. And the enemy you must defeat, Baron Ragna Armageddon.”
“Th-I’m not asking that… What do you mean, a hindrance, a promise with the goddess? What do you, what do you know…?”
“…”
What about this…? To get her help, you’ll have to divulge some information, too, but the question is where and how far. There is information that I must tell to convince her, but there must be some information that I shouldn’t reveal because of my circumstances. First of all, of course, I have to hide that this world is a stage world created by Goddess Luminus for a play, and that I am actually an ally of Goddess Luminous… I have to say it, but I can’t reveal it as it is.
“Well, okay. So let’s do this. On the condition that you don’t reveal what happened today and that you do what I asked you to do, I’ll answer up to three of your questions.”
“…Is that true?”
“I don’t lie. No, I can’t.”
I can’t tell a lie I heard that when you try to cheat someone, your face gets stained? So I don’t lie Instead, you can share limited information so that the other person can imagine, misunderstand, and misunderstand. You might ask how that is different from lying, but at least it’s not ‘telling lies with my mouth’, so there’s no problem. It’s just that this time too.
“As you all must have guessed to a certain extent in the beginning, I am the only one who kills or makes subordinates of those who seek my life, and I am the only one who does not deal with you. And that is the same now. It’s about killing you now, really. It’s not that simple.”
I waved my hand, and part of the mist that surrounded the mansion came and entwined my hand. And the enchanting fog soon turned into a sharp and dangerous weapon. As the sharp blade approached her neck, Elia began to tremble even more.
“If you lightly wave your hand once in a situation where you’re not paying attention, that’s it. But even so, I’m not killing you guys. Do you know why?”
“…”
“If you want to know, you can accept my deal.”
“What if you don’t agree?”
“I have no choice but to destroy the evidence.”
As I said before, I can’t lie. In other words, the threat to kill this priestess right in front of her eyes was not a lie. As this woman confides to her champion what she has heard, she cannot let the play fail, she can get rid of it if need be.
Of course, if the crown of the goddess that had been in harmony with the warriors for a long time disappears, the vacancy must be filled and the power will decrease accordingly, but even if the time to reach her goal increases, she cannot let it distort her goal.
“If I kill you, the aftermath is annoying. I don’t want to kill you if possible, so I’d like to come out cooperatively. If I can’t cooperate, I can’t help it…”
“Are you really, really saving me? Besides, if you do what you ask, you’ll answer three questions?”
“As far as I know, and as far as I can give you an answer. I don’t deliberately break my word.”
“…It’s as if I don’t have a choice anyway.”
Goddess crown, Elia sighed and nodded her head.
“Okay. I’ll accept your offer. However, since I’m not really sure you’ll keep your promise, let me ask one of those three questions now.”
“Yes, good. What are you curious about?”
“…What do you want?”
What I want? Thats what I want…
“All I want is for him to do his duty. For our proud hero to become stronger than I can, to destroy the immortal dragon behind me and bring peace to the world.”
I said that to Ayla, who looked up at me with her eyes in disbelief, and she released all her restraints on her.
*
As the mist surrounding her mansion turned into a sharp blade in his hand and aimed at her throat, Ayla was genuinely afraid. In the meantime, he hadn’t harmed them for some reason, but he couldn’t stop his body trembling in fear that he might be silenced as the self-talk he overheard was more important than the unknown circumstances. He prayed to Goddess Luminous in his head, but her faith was no longer the same as before.
‘A Promise with the Luminous Goddess’
There is no evidence that what he said is true. Rather, it would be far more realistic that he had some kind of psychosis, and that he arbitrarily mistook himself for an engagement with her goddess. However, originally, disbelief and doubt start from very small and uncertain doubts that are caught between consistent beliefs.
If he was indeed someone close and important to her goddess, enough to make a pact with her, she would be sure that the goddess would side with one of her many, many followers, or the humans with whom she made a pact. Can’t Her benevolent goddess could not take sides, but for her, her infinitely close and distant goddess-being had already carried through her own beliefs at the point where she had made a personal pact with a human being. It was too difficult to do.
Of course, this is a story under the assumption that what he said is true, but it was impossible to doubt his sincerity at the point where he was trying to deal with himself sincerely. If what he said wasn’t true, he wouldn’t be so serious about dealing with himself, who had almost neglected them all this time.
A promise made with the goddess in the first place, what the hell does this mean? There are so many followers of her who believe in her and follow her, so why does Goddess Luminous have her own followers and make a pact with such an evil man? If he really did make a pact with the goddess, what the heck is he? What exactly is that promise?
My brain is so confused. In the meantime, he brought up an unexpected story.
“If you lightly wave your hand once in a situation where you’re not paying attention, that’s it. But even so, I’m not killing you guys. Do you know why?”
“…”
Really, why? Why did he deliberately let them go without killing them, even though he could kill them? Could it be that the promise made with the goddess has something to do with it?
“If you want to know, you can accept my deal.”
“What if you don’t agree?”
“I have no choice but to destroy the evidence.”
To kill How could he spit out the evil act of taking people’s lives so easily? The assumption that he might be a pervert deliberately playing evil was erased from her mind. He has already taken the lives of countless people, and he has no regrets or guilt for it. As much as he is accustomed to killing. A man like this can’t be a good person. He is clearly evil He is an incorrigible, terrible evil with no remedy.
“If I kill you, the aftermath is annoying. I don’t want to kill you if possible, so I’d like to come out cooperatively. If I can’t cooperate, I can’t help it…”
Ayla could feel that those words were absolutely not bluffing.
“Are you really, really saving me? Besides, if you do what you ask, you’ll answer three questions?”
“As far as I know, and as far as I can give you an answer. I don’t deliberately break my word.”
“…It’s as if I don’t have a choice anyway.”
Yes. There are no options. I don’t know what he’s going to do, but even if he recklessly refuses, the only thing that comes back is death. Then he has no choice but to accept it. Even if his weakness is caught, Luke and his allies will surely save him…
“Okay. I’ll accept your offer. However, since I’m not really sure you’ll keep your promise, let me ask one of those three questions now.”
There’s a possibility that he’s just cheating and using himself, so he needs to dig up a bit more information. Fortunately, he readily accepted his offer.
“Yes, good. What are you curious about?”
“…What do you want?”
The only being that can be called an enemy in this world is Queen Violence, the ruler of the kingdom of Elheim, and even she, who was said to have the strange power to completely dominate people, collided with him once a long time ago, was defeated, and withdrew to sign a mutual non-aggression pact. He’s strong enough to make it.
Some people gossip saying that everything he had was borrowed from outside rather than built by himself, but Elia was rather appalled by that.
Power that can be obtained easily, rather than accumulated over a long period of time, comes at a high price.
If so, how much did this man sacrifice to obtain this power?
In the church’s old texts, there are many records of warlocks who gained strength by giving up what was precious to them, but among them, there was not a single one who, like Rag or Armageddon, accomplished feats that other people would not dare to dare to do, such as destroying the Mage Tower alone. There was no That’s why Ayla needed to make a decision.
What on earth did this man in front of him want to achieve, and how did he acquire that much power?
But the story that came out of his mouth was so unexpected.
“All I want is for him to do his duty. For our proud hero to become stronger than I can, to destroy the immortal dragon behind me and bring peace to the world.”
At that moment, for the first time in her life, Elia almost uttered vulgar words to people.
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His monologue overheard by Elia was a very small stone. However, the accidentally thrown stone caused ripples in the little spring of her heart, and the clean water became dirty with dirt from the bottom.
The slightest doubt destroys trust and confuses the mind. And a man who loses himself reveals his inner self as it is. The side he doesn’t even know himself, the part he wanted to hide from others, everything is revealed.
And, of course, the man named Rag or Armageddon standing in front of her is a man who is very good at reading and manipulating people’s minds. Among them, the human heart that he understands particularly well is desire. Human desires, one of the most basic human emotions, have the power to move people forward. At the same time, the mind that pushes the owner to ruin if it is excessive. He was very good at reading people’s desires, from what he thought he wanted to secret desires that he was not even aware of. He was of course very accustomed to using it the way he wanted.
For him, it was very easy to read the desires in the heart of the priestess who had lost faith due to all the confusing information. There is no one as easy to read as a person whose mind is disturbed. Just…
‘…What is this?’
I knew that her heart was shaken, but it was an unexpected situation even for him that her own answer became the decisive blow and her heart was exposed. While Baron Armageddon insured her in case she didn’t keep her promise, which should never happen, she checked her desires as well, given the opportunity. And he unknowingly frowned.
Although this was the first time he had faced the desires of a god-servant, for the first time Baron Armageddon was offended by the desires of others. The secret desire he faced with her was very… Unusual, to the point that he wondered if all religious people had such strange desires. He had seen something similar to this one before, though not exactly the same. And even the result of the person’s dark desires being revealed.
Originally, he intended to leave room for corruption like Hochna in preparation for an unexpected situation, but Baron Armageddon had no choice but to give up his mind. Instead of fueling Elia’s dark desires, he turned his eyes back to her inner self, leaving only insurance in case she didn’t keep her bargain with himself.
After sending Elia away, Baron Armageddon looked up at the darkened sky and sighed.
“…I’m sorry, but I’m not your taste. I like how it looks, but I can’t use Whispers of Corruption. I’m also an ally of the Hero in the first place. It’s not a word, but he’s… Uhh, not really.”
