Chapter 126 – 126. Queen of the Dead (3)
“Wait, Illyana, I have a problem to deal with.”
“… What? Tell me quickly.”
Illiana didn’t like Eun-hyeon’s restraint, so she urged him to answer her question.
It wasn’t Eunhyeon who answered her urging, it was Leo.
“We have to take the villagers. At least until the relief work is over, we must accept them as refugees.”
“What? Oh, sure. Okay.”
Right before the battle, the villagers had already been evacuated and there were no casualties, but as the corpse of a huge ancient dragon fell from the air, the buildings of the small village were completely destroyed.
Even the crops they were growing were ruined in the aftermath of the demons’ riot, so from the perspective of the village, they suddenly lost their homes and food, so it was a very difficult situation.
Illyana nodded her head in agreement.
“What is the number of villagers?”
“About forty people.”
“How is it? Do you think it will work with the remaining magic power?”
“Breakfast. Let’s take them all at once.”
“Can the princess step forward and convince the villagers?”
“I am… You mean?”
“Yes. Since you’re a priest, it’s easy for you to earn the trust of the villagers. If you can use the prayer of recovery, let’s use it on the villagers and let go of their guard.”
“There’s nothing I can’t do with a simple recovery magic.”
“Great. It moves right away. And princess. As you know, the story about Mediah is a secret. Externally, I’m just planning to make it public that I’ve dealt with the necromancer.”
“… Why? Are we just going to leave such a crazy existence alone?”
“I am not a woman at the level of being able to deal with it just because I am informed. She is a madwoman who single-handedly destroyed a nation 300 years ago.”
“… How could such a person leave no name in history?”
“I got rid of it. I wiped out all traces of her necromancy along with all traces of her necromancer. As if the woman called ‘Queen of the Dead’ did not exist from the beginning. At the time, she thought it was for the best.”
Eunhyun didn’t want to let go of even the slightest possibility, saying that someone like Mediah might appear through the fact in history that a real person called Mediah existed, and learn the black magic called necromancy and learn necromancy.
Therefore, all clues to necromancy have been erased and actions have been taken to prevent such a disaster from appearing on the continent again.
Just imagining that Mediah’s disaster would reappear on the continent made Eunhyeon tremble all over her body.
The cause was Mediah’s obsession with Eunhyeon, but the scariest thing was that she could make her army by making the people she killed into her servants.
In Mediah’s necromantic arts, the classification of human or monster categories is meaningless.
For all the spirits subordinate to her soul become loyal servants who kneel before her queen.
It was obedience inscribed with the instinctive precepts of the soul.
“However… Hopefully, the person himself is alive… Damn, I should have expected…”
The fact that she was the one who unintentionally helped and contributed to the revival, and the fact that a mad woman named Medea was once again confirming the love of Eun-hyeon who was heading towards her and making a happy expression, was her Eun-hyeon. Made it even crazier.
“It’s not your fault…”
“That’s right. It’s not your fault Don’t beat yourself up. Why are you like this?”
Eun-hyeon, who always showed a confident appearance and made a habit of hitting the back of the head in all situations by laying paving stones so that the back of the head would not get hit, was especially unable to achieve composure and was trembling.
[Ah, child. It’s fine now. Aren’t I there?]
‘Goddess… I have a favor to ask of you.’
[You mean the alchemist who created the door? If that is the case, he intends to go up to the divine realm sooner or later to find out.]
‘Maybe… He must not have died, right?’
[Probably so.]
Eun-hyeon was able to instinctively recognize that the woman named Renatra was of her own type.
So they cut her throat, stabbed her in the heart, and hung her limbs, doing everything they could to make her resurrection a bit of a nuisance.
Because there was a chance that she might be revived.
Eun-hyeon also had a history of dying and reviving once, so it was a reasonable doubt to try.
In addition to Eun-hyeon’s guess, Belldandy’s conviction was that the huge door in the air that Renat had created to summon the dead dragon wasn’t ordinary magic.
Then, the question that came to her mind the most was, ‘Who on earth made that woman her apostle and endowed her with power?’
Moreover, the fact that there is a mad stalker named Medea behind Renat who taught Marius, who seemed like her partner, the necromantic arts, makes her Eun-hyeon even more concerned.
‘Perhaps, if it’s Medea, it might be possible to revive the soul of that man named Marius.’
There were plenty of possibilities.
[I’ll find out about those necromancers and alchemists in the divine realm. The child, focus on resolving the situation now.]
‘Huh, I understand.’
Eunhyun gave her a small nod and opened her mouth while looking at Rio de and Eleanor.
“Come on, let’s go.”
“Okay.”
“Yes.”
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Convincing the villagers was very easy.
It was because of the fact that Riod and Eleanor had the status of nobles of the Kingdom of Pernias, and through Eleanor’s divine magic and the treatment of the residents, the vigilance began to be released little by little.
In addition, it was a big contribution that he looked like a benefactor who played a big role in saving the villagers, as Eun-hyeon and his party seemed to have defeated the corpse of a seemingly gigantic ancient dragon.
After receiving the promise of two nobles to give the kingdom a boost in the refugee procedure and the reconstruction and restoration of the village, the village headman took the villagers and asked them to accept them as refugees inside the kingdom.
The villagers decided to follow Riod for refugee procedures, and Eleanor immediately reported to her father, Abros, and said that she would rest.
“Erin will be kept by us until today.”
Both Eunhyeon and Illyana understood the meaning of Riod’s consideration.
Unlike Eun-Hyeon, who smiled bitterly, Illyana was annoyed, saying that she was useless, and then held Eun-Hyun’s arm and walked down the street, and the party was dissolved.
The evening sunset was bright and the vibrancy of the capital was gradually cooling down.
In the middle of the night when the lights disappeared, many lively stalls and customers disappeared, and Eunhyeon and Illyana walked hand in hand in the quiet square.
“Are you okay?”
“What?”
“You feel To be honest, I was dirty too. You were in a position to accept that crazy bitch’s obsession.”
“There is no way it will be okay. It should have been fine though.”
“Huh… Did you say 30 years? I fought with her.”
“Huh.”
“… It’s a long time.”
In response to Eunhyun’s calm nod, Illyana murmured softly.
Thirty years in this world was also the time for a young man to spend his whole life on the battlefield and retire with an old body.
It also meant that Eunhyun had lived a life of struggling to prevent the disaster of Mediah.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to live a life where I had to make many ties and let go of those ties, but survive and continue a life-and-death struggle against disasters.
“Don’t you have something to tell me?”
“…”
“A witch born, a person named Elysia. Who is this?”
– Are you Elysia’s daughter? No, the age difference is too big to be a daughter. Descendants?
– Huhu, Hyun really is. Because I am a being loved by witches.
Illyana remembered what Medea had said to her.
And Eunhyeon also seemed to know about the woman named ‘Elysia’ mentioned by Medea.
That’s why she had no choice but to ask Eunhyeon.
“Come to think of it, I felt strange from the first time I met you. You were very knowledgeable about the characteristics I have, and you presented training and education that suited me as if you were waiting. Like someone who knew from the beginning that he would meet me and prepared for it.”
“I wasn’t sure. But because Elysia and you are so similar. It wasn’t until I saw your magic that I recognized the characteristics of a witch. From then on, I guessed that maybe he was the descendant of Elysia’s child. But if Mediah made that assertion, then you must really be a descendant of Elysia.”
“… Who is that crazy bitch, can you say something?”
“Because Mediah was also a witch.”
“What… ?”
“Is it correct to say that she was a witch? Because she is now a transcendent species who has abandoned her human body.”
“… Please explain in detail.”
“You know that witches have magical powers that are stronger than those of ordinary humans right from their birth?”
“Huh.”
“Media used her own magical powers to dabble in her black magic and chose the worst quality necromancer among black magic. She then improved her necromancy little by little, devising ways to kill humans and absorb the souls and magical powers of humans, increasing her own powers.”
It was a survival principle according to the law of the law of the weak and the weak, in which she absorbed the lives of others and increased her own power.
“The reason I got into black magic was revenge.”
“Plural?”
“A nation that began to lust for the power of witches began to engage in crazy acts of capturing witches, raping them, and forcing them to conceive children to test whether the resulting babies could become powerful human beings who would inherit witch traits. I did it.”
“… Witches were strong. You didn’t resist?”
“At least at that time, I believed that witches could coexist with humans. It was stupid. And the witches had a very strong sense of kinship. Mediah’s ability to feel Elysia’s magical power from you is one of the abilities created by the bond of strong kinship consciousness. The country of humans who took advantage of that fact took advantage of the witches they caught by tricking them to look good and kept them hostage, and threatened other witches so easily that they could not resist and began to capture them.”
“… Dog X meals.”
“Media personally destroyed the country with the necromantic skills she had learned and improved, and from then on, Mediah, who was addicted to fraud, gradually became not a human, but a monster and started to go crazy.”
“It’s a fucking ending.”
“Elysia is one of the surviving witches, and she is the teacher who taught me ‘jewel magic’.”
“That expensive magic?”
It was a magic that cost a lot of money to consume jewels of great value every time it had to be used, but it was a magic that had excellent performance.
“At that time, as Mediah’s nickname of ‘Queen of the Dead’ became a buzz, other countries started suppressing witches, the origins of Mediah. No matter how much time passed, Elysia, whose aging did not progress, eventually earned the jealousy and suspicion of the villagers. Due to the residents’ report that she was an evil witch, she was captured by the kingdom’s military, who strongly insisted on the suppression of witches, and she was executed. I got hit.”
“… Couldn’t you help?”
“I persuaded them to run away together. But Elysia refused my offer, and instead of letting me escape, she chose to be captured and executed herself. Then she left me the child of her widowed husband, Elicia. In hindsight, she wonders, maybe she wasn’t caught on her own to let the baby run away. I could have helped, but… I couldn’t.”
She rebelled against the kingdom’s forces, and she had no choice but to keep her goddess’ command that she not reveal her true identity.
It was this world she had to save, not Elysia.
You must stand at the center of the flow of the world, change it, and do not interfere.
That was the restriction the goddesses placed on Eunhyeon.
Her mission is to save the world while she can’t protect even the closest person.
A mission to lead and induce a flow that can reverse the outcome of the world’s destruction, while placing restrictions on not changing the flow of the world.
It was a very contradictory and nonsensical mission.
That’s why Eun-hyeon always had to make the heartless choice of ‘sacrificing a cow for the sake of her generation’, and Elysia’s treatment was one of those heartless choices.
“I left Elysia’s baby in an orphanage in a country far from the country where her witch oppression was strong, and she moved on again. Raising a baby was not my role.”
Eun-hyeon had to give up her baby, whom Elysia trusted and entrusted to her.
Making an emotionless and even heartless decision, Eun-hyeon had to shed tears as she remembered Elisia, which filled her with guilt.
Eventually, she left her baby in her nursery and went to war against Mediah’s command corps.
This is because Mediah, which destroyed a nation and gradually increased the number of legions, was already a disaster itself.
In order to suppress her directly, her Eunhyeon directly confronted her corps, and the war between her Eunhyeon and Mediah continued for 30 years.
In a fierce war where Eunhyeon and Mediah cut each other’s lives, only Eunhyeon and Mediah were always alive after the fight was over.
Medea indiscriminately slaughtered her humans and created her own army, and Eunhyeon burned her own body to suppress and kill such Medea.
At the end of her story, Medea, feeling her love for her Eun-hyeon, killed more and more people to get Eun-hyeon’s attention.
It was a vicious cycle.
“It’s not even funny. As a result, it became a form to help the kingdom and humans who captured and executed Elysia.”
Didn’t Elysia resent herself in her underworld?
Eunhyeon didn’t know.
“So, it was strange and complicated that Elysia’s baby, whom I had neglected so much, made her child again, and that her descendants formed a relationship with me.”
“… The reason you taught me and accepted me was because of guilt and responsibility.”
“Illyana, I’ll tell you in advance, I didn’t propose to you out of that feeling.”
“Know. I know you well At least I don’t think you’re treating me with such sympathy, guilt, and responsibility right now.”
As she developed into her lover, having a relationship and making love, as well as in her daily life, there was obvious affection in the feelings that Eun-hyeon sent to Illyana.
To the extent that she didn’t feel it, she wasn’t an idiot either.
It can’t be denied that he felt sad and mixed emotions while hearing her truth, but Illyana shook it off.
“…”
“And I chose you. Stupid In addition, the story about my parents, whose faces I can’t remember properly, will never get in the way. This is just you and me.”
She avoids her gaze and is shy, but her attitude of only saying things is very cute.
“Are you a pretty boy somewhere? Why are you so cool?”
“Joy. Uh… ?”
Eun-hyeon, who was very happy with her words, took out the ring with her jewel from her bosom and carefully put it on Illyana’s ring finger.
“This… Case?”
“It is a wedding gift. You only proposed and didn’t give me anything.”
In a daze she lifted her finger and gazed at her blue sapphire-encrusted ring.
At the same time as the splendid sapphire light twinkled, Eunhyun continued her words.
“I chose a ring that matches your blue eyes. And this is mine.”
He took out a ring with a bright red ruby from her arm and handed it to Illyana, and she naturally took out the sapphire ring from her finger and took it.
“Why are you taking mine and giving yours?”
“I’ll put it on later at the wedding. At each other’s fingers. How is it?”
“Huh, good. Ah…”
And Illyana’s whole body shuddered at the sudden rumbling in her stomach.
Filled with joy, she becomes aware of a switch in her body.
“… I can’t.”
“Huh?”
“I’ve been patient for a really long time. But no more.”
“What… ?”
“Follow me.”
Grabbing Eunhyeon’s wrist, Illyana led him without hesitation, and he led her toward an unpopular alleyway.
