Chapter 44 – {The Whole Thing Was Just Played}
{Everything was just play.}
The past of the villain Lawton Bendision had an understandable story about going crazy.
I can’t forgive what he did, but I can understand why he changed like this.
But is this really the revenge play of his pure will?
No, was it all true in the first place?
“Who are you and how did you know this place?”
Seeing Lawton Bendision holding a sword, I looked at Aria Riverin for a moment and said.
“I’m chasing after the kidnapper who kidnapped Arya, so I’m here.”
“Is it?”
It was a face that did not fully understand what I was saying.
He must have used the stealth artifact, but he would have wondered how he knew he was kidnapping Arya and followed him.
To that extent, he was overconfident in the effectiveness of the stealth artifact.
“I used a stealth artifact, and you’re wondering how I figured it out?”
“I see. I’m curious about that, can you tell me?”
“Of course. I just have the power to understand it. I can feel the magic of Terenity in you especially clearly.”
Lawton Bendision’s gaze, which seemed to be joking at my first words, slowly changed to surprise.
“Surprising. Terenity, do you know his magical powers? No, you seem to know about him.”
Lawton Bendision looked startled at my words, but there was no hostility towards me in his eyes.
“I don’t want to see any more blood. Can you avoid the seat? After I offer up Princess Arya as a sacrifice, I’m either going to die or surrender myself to pay the price of being sentenced to death.”
He seemed sincere when he said that.
However, from the moment I arrived at this altar, I could feel the energy of Terenity in the room of this altar.
To be precise, the magic power that Terenity indirectly administered had its own will.
‘There are no villains.’
However, unlike the original, the villains were not visible.
Unlike the original work, Seo Moon-hyun stopped fighting Lawton Bendision, so it seemed like it was because all the villains who withdrew together remained on the scene and died at my hands.
Originally, what would happen after the villains ambush Lawton Bendision, at least here, I had blocked it in advance.
“I can’t leave. I can’t let Arya die.”
Having said that, I decided to get rid of this irritating mana.
‘Eternal Dragon, Terenity. It’s annoying to feel the magic up close.’
In the original work, it was a magical power that made those who reached the stage where they could sense the energy in detail rather feel fear.
The stronger you are, the more you learn about the nature of Terenity.
And the stronger they fall into fear because they know about Terenity’s true strength.
‘From the original work, even the heroines, even the famous heroes said they felt overwhelming fear.’
But now, Aria Riverin wasn’t that strong yet, so she couldn’t grasp this aura properly.
I just sensed something ominous.
Rather, it was a case of being weak and ignorant.
“You can’t leave. Then I’ll have to make you leave.”
When I saw Lawton Bendision with his sword drawn, I saw Aria Riverin, who was lying supine on the altar, with a nervous expression on her face.
She knows I’m strong, but she doesn’t know exactly how great I am.
So she couldn’t help but be wary as she had firsthand experience of the power of Lawton Bendision, who is quite strong among the villains.
“Get some sleep!”
In response to Lawton Bendision’s attack, who overlaid bladeless magic on his sword, perhaps intending to stun me, I simply cut his sword after endowing it with the elemental power of light.
“What?!”
At the sight of his sword cutting like tofu, Lawton Bendision made a shocked expression.
I made him fall to the floor with my magic power as he looked at my sword as if he couldn’t believe my sword, which was not just a sword, but a sword enchanted with magic and cut like tofu.
“Kuuk!”
Arya Riverin was watching with a surprised expression as Lawton Bendision collapsed on the floor, feeling like he was being weighed down by heavy gravity.
Seeing how easily I defeated an opponent I couldn’t even use my hands on, I was surprised that there was such a big difference in skill between me and him.
However, the level of power I was using now was roughly the same as the power Arya Riverin of the original novel showed when she was in her third year.
“Roton Bendision, you won because Arya was still immature. She would have been stronger than I showed her now, even if Arya had only been six months.”
If I taught her, Aria Riverin’s skills would improve much faster than the original.
And since her entrance grades were second only to mine, it would overwhelm Seo Mun-hyun, who was considered to be in second place, and give him another feeling of falling.
“It’s strong…Outside, I wouldn’t have a chance. But! Here, Terenity can give me strength!”
It seemed like he was thinking of getting stronger by receiving the power of Terenity, but unfortunately it wasn’t going to turn out the way he thought.
“Will that work?”
“No?!”
Lawton Bendision was horrified that Terenity’s power did not reach him.
If it was in this place where Terenity’s magical energy was imbued, the power given by Terenity should have been clearly conveyed.
However, no force was transmitted to him, and he fell to the floor, crushed by my power.
“Eternal Dragon, Terenity. The fact that the Riverin Kingdom suddenly moved into our world and fell into our world, and most of the bad things that happen in our world are related to this guy.”
Considering both the villains and the monsters, it was probably because of Terenity that I was not wrong in my words.
“A guy like that used a lot of energy here, but I wouldn’t have blocked him?”
“Blocked?”
“Yes. It’s blocking all of Terenity’s magic power. Well, it wouldn’t mean anything to you right now anyway.”
It really wouldn’t make any sense.
Now he just… He was just Terenity’s puppet dancing hard in a puppet show, not even knowing he was a marionette puppet.
“You are just a puppet of Terenity.
“What are you talking about? Terenity gave me the grace to take revenge.”
To my words, Lawton Bendision responded with an attitude that did not waver in the slightest.
“Even though I failed to get revenge on Princess Arya… With her help, I was able to avenge my family.”
“Revenge of the family…Really you think so? Was it really your own will?”
“What do you want to say?”
“The Yuchun Group already knew about Terenity and that the monster was preparing to invade this world. And they know very well about your past.”
Then I asked, pointing to the burns on Lawton Bendision’s face.
“Lawton Bendision. What are the burns on your face?”
Lawton Bendision couldn’t answer my question right away.
“The burns on my face…”
Lawton Bendision seemed to be thinking of something, but he wouldn’t.
However, after a moment of blank expression, his expression returned and he said.
“The investigation must have been insufficient. My burns were inflicted by Aijina. After killing all my family members, I glared at me with the force to kill myself, so she attacked me to save herself and even inflicted these burns on my face.”
Aria Riverin had a troubled look on her face for a moment.
It was as if he hoped it wasn’t true.
But this time, it would be done according to her will.
“Are you so distorted?”
“Distortion?”
“Yes. It wasn’t Aijina who burned your face.”
And first of all, I had something to tell you.
“The explosion of the magic bomb that killed Lawton Bendision’s family. The organization that caused it was Reverse Heaven, right?”
“…Yes. I killed all of them thanks to Teretini’s help.”
It was time to tell him the cruel truth.
“‘Aethernum Somnium’, ‘Reverse Heaven’, and ‘The End’. The three most powerful forces in the Villain organization. It is well known that these people oppose each other. But the beings they serve are the same. Dragon of Eternity, Terenity.”
“What? What nonsense are you talking about?”
“It’s not bullshit. It shows that the magic bomb that killed the people of the House of Bendision was also the work of Terenity.”
“Are you asking me to believe that?”
Of course I wouldn’t believe it.
No matter what evidence I showed him, he wouldn’t believe it.
At first, he believed he was real.
Even so, the reason he told me in advance was to judge him as he was.
It was because in order to free Arya Riverin’s heart, he had to be judged in his perfect state.
“You’d better hear it beforehand. Now if I free you from Terenity, you won’t be able to hear me again.”
Having said that, I let you know one thing.
“It was a coincidence that the location of the magic bomb and the movement of the magic bomb’s explosion to the center were accidental. Arya’s grandmother also thought it was a coincidence.”
“…Are you kidding me?”
“No, I don’t have that kind of hobby. Anyway, I know everyone like that… Could it be a coincidence?”
