Chapter 179 – 179. Subordination Contracts (2)
“Ah!”
The automatically activated shadow barrier was easily torn apart, and the silver sword pierced Randel’s shoulder.
In the first place, he knew that the source of Erwin’s imaging technique was the black magic book he had received from Randall, but there was no way Eunhyeon wouldn’t prepare for it.
‘There’s nothing to prepare for, though.’
At the time of the battle with Erwin, he showed a similar attitude, but Eun-hyeon, who was endowed with divine power and reached the level of a half-body, was already perfectly prepared to respond to the angiography.
A level similar to that of thunderbolt teeth, which Gerard achieved after consuming half of his magic power and the fruits of his bloody efforts.
The pierced shoulder ruptured and screams of indescribable pain filled the inside of the mansion.
He did not dare to cut his throat, but the reason he aimed for his shoulder was because Randell still had business to do.
When he pulled out the sword that had pierced his shoulder, blood gushed out of his body and soaked Eun-hyeon’s clothes as well as the floor and walls.
Eun-hyeon grabbed his head, pulled him roughly, and hit him against the wall with all his might.
“Big… Omg!”
“You made me wait a long time.”
“Uh… How to get here…”
“When I thought about the existence of a black magician, the first thing that came to my mind was Rampel, that nobleman. He never thought he would have a son like you.”
The magic book that helped Elvin acquire her imaging technique was the one that led Lira to fall into Elvin’s hands, but the black magic book itself is a book written by humans.
When Lira guessed where she got the black magic book, and when she thought about the connection with Lira, who was a succubus, the first thing that came to her mind was ‘Rampel, the imperial mage who was killed by Eunhyeon and her colleagues 20 years ago. It was ‘Maver’.
Eun-hyeon, who suspected that someone might be discovering and using the legacy left by Rampel Maber, asked Illyana to teleport him to the territory of the destroyed empire, and Eun-hyeon dared to set foot there again. , But in the end, Illyana accepted Eunhyun’s request.
Afterwards, Eunhyeon used the power and senses of the goddess to explore the imperial territories for a long time, and as a result, the place detected by the senses was this secret mansion covered with barriers.
Eun-hyeon lifts her knee and inserts a knee kick into Randel’s abdomen, who is struggling to somehow escape Eun-hyeon’s grasp.
“Kuheugh!”
“Jonber was too long. I need to finish it quickly and go to work. So stay calm.”
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Memory Opinion]
I tried to look right into Randel’s head and read his memories.
‘I can not see.’
As if a white haze is obscuring it, something is preventing you from looking into Randell’s memories.
Eun-hyeon realizes that something has been messing with Randel’s head.
The ability to read her memories is not a technology that Eun-hyeon developed on her own, and its source is the power of Urud, one of Eun-hyeon’s goddesses.
She did not have much difficulty conceiving of a being who had the means to resist the divine power.
‘Goddess. What do you think?’
[Your child is right. This… It’s the devil’s power That’s a pretty high-ranking demon…]
Belldandy hardened her face and answered her Eun-hyeon’s question.
‘The high-ranking demons were sealed in the void beyond the door and couldn’t cross over to the Arkena continent, weren’t they?’
[Originally, it is. However, it is not possible to prevent interference itself. That… Hasn’t the ‘Queen of the Dead’, who is madly obsessed with children, also crossed over from the void?]
Eun-hyeon frowned as she recalled the existence of Mediah, which suddenly disappeared with her subordinates Marius and Renat, as it was not enough to have left her body and crossed over to the Arcena continent with only her mental body.
In the end, it is possible for high-ranking demons to come across only with their mental body like Mediah and promote chaos on the continent, just as they used Randel.
‘Perhaps 20 years ago, the Empire was manipulated from the back and tried to summon a demon to the Arcena continent…’
[Hmm, the possibility of this high-ranking demon is quite possible.]
“Ah, ah! Father! No! I haven’t failed yet!”
“What?”
Randel, who had been delirious about halfway through hitting his head against the wall, hurriedly came to his senses and began to fight.
He clenched his teeth and looked at Eun-hyeon with a frightened gaze.
‘You are not looking at me. This… Am I hallucinating?’
Randall was looking at someone else through Eunhyun’s face.
Eun-hyeon was concerned about the word ‘father’ that Randell was putting in his mouth as he started the game.
“I am still fine! You can start over! Please! Please give me one more chance! Whew, Whack!”
Randall’s head, which is held in Eun-hyeon’s hand, trembles, and his eyes begin to turn over, revealing the whites of his eyes.
Eun-hyeon sensed something was going on in his head and hurriedly removed his hand from his head.
Immediately, he took a quick backward step and distanced himself from Randall.
“Kuuuuugh! Belphegor! Please just one more time… !”
Perong!
Randel’s head exploded as he begged for life and opportunity in a voice close to pleading.
As his head explodes, blood splatters all over his face and covers his face.
‘… Goddess. Is this the work of the devil?’
[It seems so.]
“… Tsk.”
After Randel’s futile end, Eun-hyeon was at a loss for words.
As if he couldn’t help it, he clicked his tongue and moved his steps straight away.
As long as he couldn’t extract information from the memories in his head, all he had left was death.
The only thing he got was a name that was presumed to be a demon named ‘Belphegor’.
In order to prevent his detailed information from being revealed, if you think about how he had manipulated Randall’s head, which he was using his hands and feet, so that he could explode at any time.
“I don’t think these guys are alone.”
It can’t be that Randall is the only one who is hiding and secretly working to summon demons to the Arcena continent.
Moreover, it is very unpleasant that Randall’s death was carried out by the devil rather than himself.
[What are you going to do now?]
‘There are people held in the dungeon of the mansion. And… It seems that other beings are also mixed in.’
When Eun-hyeon first discovered this secret mansion and secretly infiltrated it, through her senses, the number of humans imprisoned in the dungeon had been figured out from the beginning.
The reason why they didn’t immediately rescue them was because they prioritized finding out who was behind Pernin by leading them behind Priest Ashton and Bark.
Under the circumstances, Eun-hyeon, who had figured out that the purpose was to use humans as test subjects, was a calculated conclusion, judging that it would still be okay to leave them alone.
Now that Randel, the owner of this secret mansion, has died, Eun-hyeon was slowly heading to the dungeon to check the beings trapped.
Drooling! Chunk!
After pushing the steel sliding door and entering the dungeon, Eun-hyeon saw the young children shivering in the prison beyond the iron bars.
“…”
Eunhyeon slowly scanned the various races who were looking up at her with fearful eyes.
“Hee, hee… !”
Seeing Randall’s blood-stained black coat and sword, a child screams in terror.
“You… Who is this…”
Hiding her frightened child behind her, Eunhyeon narrowed her eyes as she checked the woman standing in front of her, glaring at her hostilely.
From her woman’s point of view, Eun-hyeon, who came to the prison with blood on her clothes and sword, was like a reaper who came to take the lives of herself and her children.
But the goat’s horns on her woman’s head make it straightforward that she is not human.
“Is the devil wrapped around a human?”
“Your sister is not a devil!”
“Wait a minute! Don’t shout!”
A boy screams in a fit of rage at Eun-hyeon’s muttering with a strange gaze, and a demon with goat’s horns, a succubus, hurriedly grabs the boy’s arm and hides it behind his back.
“…”
It’s not enough that the devil is trying to protect the child, and the situation where the children who are imprisoned are also defending the devil and trying to protect it is an absurd and incomprehensible sight.
Eun-hyeon reverse summoned his blood-stained sword and walked slowly toward the prison.
“Oh, don’t come.”
As Eun-hyeon got closer, her shoulders were shrunken and his eyes were filled with fear, but the succubus was in the forefront of protecting the children.
It was like a mother protecting her child.
“This is the first time in my life that something like this has happened.”
After muttering that, Eunhyeon stood in front of the iron bar, the boundary between the prison and the outside, and activated his magic.
[Single digit normal magic]
[Slip]
“Uh… ?”
As soon as they fall to the ground one by one, the succubus looks puzzled at the sight of the children who have fallen asleep.
Excluding the succubus, the young children had accumulated fatigue from living in a barren environment prison for a long time, and their physical strength was not perfect because they could not take in proper nutrition.
A very small amount of weak magic was enough to put the children to sleep.
Eunhyun sat down on the cold, hard stone floor.
“Now, do you think we should talk?”
“…”
The succubus couldn’t help but be even more flustered because Eun-hyeon’s attitude as she calmly sat on the floor and spoke to her was so carefree.
“Name is?”
“Lily.”
“Last name?”
“Doesn’t exist. Because I was a commoner.”
It’s as if he wasn’t a devil, he was originally a human.
“You shouldn’t be here like this. This is the evil warlock’s…”
“If it’s that warlock, I’m on my way to kill him.”
“What… ?”
It wasn’t exactly Eun-hyeon’s death, but even if the demon named Belphegor hadn’t messed with it anyway, it didn’t change much because Eun-hyeon was going to kill him right away.
“That means you and the children are free. But you, the devil… It’s a bit different. You don’t have to tell me why, do you?”
“… Know.”
Lily nodded her head and obediently understood what Eunhyeon was saying.
The world does not tolerate the existence of demons.
This is because there is a strong fixed perception that it is a being that harms and brings disaster to humans.
In general, it wasn’t wrong, so neither Eun-hyeon nor Lily, who was involved, had any thoughts of denying it.
“I’m asking just in case. Were you originally human?”
“Huh.”
Lily confided her own story, beginning with her Eun-Hyun’s question.
Lily is a resident of the Lindewald Territory, and was executed when the lord’s family was discovered to be heretics.
Afterwards, Randall, the owner of this secret mansion, was used as an experimental subject to artificially turn humans into demons, and eventually became a demon, Lily told Eun-hyeon about her story.
In the process of her becoming a succubus from a human, Eun-hyeon guessed that she had a relationship with a succubus named Lira Baranoff, who formed a cooperative relationship with Randell and attacked Pernin.
“But… Was there a way to turn humans into demons?”
“That man… I said everything was due to Belphegor’s grace. I am… Receiving his grace, he is the only individual who evolved into a demon among countless test subjects… Such a monster… I didn’t even want to be…”
With the fall of Lindewald, there was no way that Lily was the only experiment subject that was passed over to Randel.
Lily was indeed the only one among the many test subjects that successfully transformed into a demon.
[What a pitiful child…]
After hearing her story, Belldandy looks at Lily in the air with a sad expression.
“Freedom? There’s no way something like that could exist for me. How can I, who am no longer a human, live hiding among humans… ?”
Lily, who has become a demon, cannot live among humans.
The reason the children imprisoned defended Lily was because Lily was the eldest in the prison and was the adult who was desperately taking care of the children.
Also, there may have been children who were too young to know about the existence of the ‘devil’ and unable to discern between themselves.
“…”
Eun-hyeon was in trouble.
