Chapter 312 – 312. The Demonic Nature of the Dreamer (3)
In the dream world that Lily created, there were currently three categories.
“Ah!”
“Please! Please stop!”
The first is gangsters running away from a vicious group that rushes to bite them.
The second is the monsters who faithfully fulfill Lily’s orders in order to devour the flesh of such thugs.
The third is the appearance of a succubus observing from the sky the two groups being chased.
The beasts threatening the gangsters are absurdly ferocious.
It resembles the shape of a lion, with bat wings on both sides and a scorpion-like tail with a mace full of blunt thorns at the end.
The appearance of the Witchbeast was nothing more than the embodiment of the image of the ‘Manticore’ in the story Eunhyeon told us that such a Witchbeast existed.
For Lily, who had never seen the appearance of the monster called ‘Manticore’, it was impossible to reproduce the ability and majesty of the beast that actually existed.
Still, it is enough to create a frightening atmosphere by recreating the beast with a vicious appearance like this, hunting many people.
“Save me!”
“Quaaaaa! Leg! My legs!”
A grotesque scene was created when one of the gangster’s legs was ripped off by being ripped apart by the forepaw of the demonic beast, while another’s teeth were driven into the abdomen and all the organs and flesh of the waist were ripped off.
It is impossible to confront the Witchbeast.
Even getting out of this dream world is impossible.
Even killing the demons that brought them here is impossible.
To the gangsters, this world was hell itself.
To get out of this hell, the gangsters begged Lily, who was floating in the air.
“Kill me… Please kill me!”
What makes the gangsters the craziest is that in these dreams, all of them are just mental bodies that do not have real bodies.
Since the real body is already asleep, and only the mental body is trapped in the dream world created by Lily, in this space, no matter how much flesh is torn, bones are broken, and internal organs are ruptured, it does not die.
As gangsters, they could not die even if they wanted to die, and they only grew more and more crazy about the fact that they had to taste eternal pain in their rags.
“Stop… Stop!”
Even though the devil’s teeth were driven into his heart, blood gushed out, and even though his vital parts were ripped off as a man between his crotch, the head gangster who couldn’t die begged Lily to be released from this hell.
But Lily, floating in the air, answered coldly with her gaze of contempt and disgust.
“Your mother must have told you that. Please stop Please let me meet her daughter. She must have wished so. What would you do then?”
But what did the gangster and the other crowd in front of him do?
Just imagining it made the hatred in her heart swell.
“Oh, I couldn’t help it! I was the youngest among them at the time! Someone else said I didn’t…”
“Shut up.”
“Aagh!”
Because of Lily’s beckoning, the Witch Beast who received her command bit the head gangster’s neck.
Even his vocal chords had been ripped out, and he couldn’t even scream anymore.
“I’m not satisfied with just ripping off your dick.”
“Big… Heo Eo Eok… !”
Despair filled the eyes of the head gangster who couldn’t match the taste.
Even though his flesh was torn, his bones were broken, and even his vocal chords were torn by the monster’s teeth, he couldn’t die.
It is impossible to even resist the pain sensation felt throughout the body.
This pain was driving the thugs’ heads mad.
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Erin, who saw Lily taking advantage of the characteristics of a devil and controlling the minds of the people around her and dragging all the psychic bodies of gangsters into the world of dreams, realized that the ability of a demon called a succubus is a very frightening ability.
Erin looked carefully at Lily, who was soundly asleep in Eunhyeon’s arms.
“The demon I fought with… He didn’t use mind control like that… ?”
A succubus named Lyra was the culprit who provided some of the tainted mana that Lily directly transformed into a demon, and had previously been defeated in a skirmish with Erin.
Erin recalled once again that she was barely able to defeat it because she had drained her power while receiving Illyana’s high-digit magic several times.
For Erin, who had experience fighting a demon called a succubus, Lily’s wide-area control over her mind was very shocking.
She gets goosebumps when she thinks that if her demon named Lira had used her mind control on herself and Alex, whom she encountered at the time, then she and Alex might have been defeated.
“Because that demon was from a lower world. A low-level succubus can only interfere with the minds of others and show them the dreams they want.”
Eunhyun, who carefully arranged the disheveled hair of the demon in her arms, answered Erin’s question.
“Then… Lily sister, then, is she a demon with a higher rank than that demon?”
“For now, it is. Lily is a lieutenant, so if her mental barrier isn’t properly equipped, she can control the mind and give orders.”
However, there are limits to Lily, who was a human until recently.
The study of magic or demonic characteristics, which she had never used before, had only recently begun under Illyana’s leadership.
The downside is that once you use the devil’s demonic nature, it consumes a lot of mana and gets tired easily.
In Lily’s current situation, it’s not a power that can be used that often.
“Then… Sister then, is she stronger than that demon?”
“Well, abilities and rank aren’t all demons. If the assumption is made that Lily’s mind control doesn’t work on Erin, then who do you think is stronger, the demon or Lily?”
“Um… She feels sorry for her sister, but she thinks that demon is stronger.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Yeah, that demon’s abilities were really annoying, but he seemed to be very good at swordsmanship while fighting himself. Of course I would win now, but to be honest, at that time I couldn’t have won if Illyana-sama hadn’t stepped in.”
Erin spoke her candidly about her own feelings.
I wondered if Alex and Erin would have been able to deal with the demon if Illyana had not invaded her dream world at the right time.
“That’s right. In that sense, Lily now is only able to use her own demon traits. She has no special skills other than that. In the case of that demon, it is said that she covered up her lack of ability with her swordsmanship and other physical abilities.”
“Huh. It did.”
“On the other hand, no matter how high a hierarchy Lily is, if she encounters an opponent who does not work with Lily’s specialty, mind control, her power is inferior to that of a lower class demon.”
Eunhyun’s evaluation was quite cold.
Just as Illyana was able to crush the incubus called Bifrons because she had an artifact specially crafted by Eunhyeon because her mind control did not work.
The current Lily had a fatal weakness.
“By the way, Hyuna.”
“Huh?”
“Lily said she became a demon as she accepted some of that demon’s power.”
“It did.”
“But how can you be higher in the hierarchy than that devil?”
“…”
Eun-hyeon was speechless for a moment at Erin’s question that pierced her core.
The reason Lily rose directly up her hierarchy was because she absorbed her own divine powers while blending herself with her body.
However, telling Erin directly about this made me feel somewhat resistant.
“As I signed a contract of subordination of the soul with me, I purified all the contaminated mana inside Lily’s body. And she filled some of my strength. Maybe that’s the cause.”
“Ah-ha, I see.”
She didn’t lie, but Erin nodded her head in agreement with Eunhyun’s moderately vague explanation.
As she let out a small sigh inside her, Belldandi looked at Eunhyeon with pitiful eyes.
[The child is having a lot of trouble being evasive.]
‘… Mr. Belldandy.’
[But the child knows very well that it can’t stay like this forever.]
‘… Yes.’
From the moment Erin noticed her girlish mind, listening to her self-soothing she was doing in her own room, her Eun-hyeon mind was incredibly complicated.
However, Eunhyeon was well aware that continuing this condition would lead to a bad direction.
She had already received a confirmation similar to her permission from Illyana.
Perhaps Eleanor or Lily felt the same way.
Still, the reason she couldn’t make up her mind was none other than herself, her own heart.
[What’s the problem? Isn’t it just a matter of accepting and embracing her heart like other children?]
‘It is, but… As much as Erin… If you touch me, I feel like I’m becoming too trash…’
[By the standards of the children of the underworld, aren’t children already on that side?]
‘…’
By the standards of human society, he said without hesitation that he, who already had several wives and lovers, was no different from trash.
Even Verdandi himself is a member of such a women’s camp.
Eun-hyeon was at a loss for what to say at the straight-forward stone, which was so straight-forward.
The fact that the goddess blows is so painful.
Occasionally, her own goddess is relentless in her ways, in some ways receptive to her own wishes or all her indulgences.
She then placed her Lily in her arms on top of her own legs for a moment, then covered her face with her hands.
“Whoa…”
“What’s the matter? What are you worried about?”
“Now… I got a lot of heartbreaking attacks…”
“Go-attack!? Where?”
Her startled Erin watched as she looked around her, stretching the best sense she could of her own lines.
“No… It’s not that kind of attack…”
“Are you okay? For what?”
“…”
Eunhyeon couldn’t bring herself to say, ‘It’s because of you.’
She firmly resolved once again that someday she must give the answer to the girl’s heart.
She then patted her Erin’s hair, slightly avoiding her gaze.
“You too… There is no eye for people.”
“Huh?”
Unable to understand the meaning of Eunhyeon’s actions, Erin tilted her head, but she quietly enjoyed his touch.
“Yes…”
Just in time, Lily, who was lying on Eunhyeon’s leg, slightly frowned at her and tossed her body little by little.
It was a precursor that the mental body that had entered the ‘dream world’ was settling back into the body.
Lily slowly opened her eyes and met Eunhyun and Erin’s eyes, who were staring at her own face, and smiled slightly.
“I’m back.”
“Come on. Sister.”
“How are you feeling?”
“… I do not know.”
Erin’s welcome greeted her with a smile and a nod, and she answered Eunhyun’s question by slightly lowering her gaze.
“I did get my revenge… I think my mind is going crazy.”
Did she have the character to be so cruel to humans?
Or is she becoming more and more inhuman with her own reason, which was acquired and mutated into a demon?
Lily was unsure of herself.
“Ah… Ugh…”
The gangsters came to their senses one by one, drooling over her saliva and looking into the distance with widened pupils.
After the terrible experience of being tormented by witches in the world of dreams that Lily created, everyone’s mind collapsed.
Emilia used a rope at Eun-hyeon’s command, and she tied them to the tree.
“With this…”
Lily leaned her face against her eunuch’s chest and wept.
“Has your mother been a little more comfortable?”
That question is like a problem for which the answer cannot be known forever, and the right answer does not exist.
Lily’s mother, who could answer that question, did not exist in this world.
Lily began to sob softly in the arms of Eun-hyeon, who comforted her by hugging her.
“Sister…”
Erin held back her tears, wiping the tears from her own eyes.
“Mother… Mother… I miss you…”
Eunhyeon and Erin comforted Lily who missed her mother like that.
