Chapter 349 – 349. Fallen Heroes (2)
There was no one to stop Illyana from striking the tombstone on the floor again and again, clenching her fists.
“… Bad bitch.”
Some people weep.
Some with a blank expression.
Someone with a face full of annoyance.
Someone is concerned while looking at the complexion of their colleagues.
Some people have suffered serious wounds in their eyes that cannot be repaired even with divine power and cannot wake up.
Each honored the hidden hero who guided them.
In the midst of that, the one who showed the greatest emotion was none other than Illyana.
“You said you would listen to me… What if I leave like this?”
“Sister…”
Looking at Illyana with her pitiful expression, Gerard contemplated whether to comfort her or not.
Eventually, realizing that what she needed now was not her consolation, she stopped thinking about him.
Until Illyana poured out all of her overflowing emotions, she chose to be left alone.
Not all of his other colleagues took the same path as Gerard.
“Hey. Stop crying.”
“…”
“Crying like this, does that child come back alive? It’s not.”
As if the lowest point did not exist, Agies was not very pleased with this atmosphere where he continued to fall into the abyss.
Even so, instead of curing Alice’s eyes, in order to prevent them from deteriorating, she had no choice but to take the hardline method of plucking out both of her eyes themselves, and was frustrated with her limits.
Seeing Illyana, who didn’t answer at all and looked down at Eunhyun’s tombstone without a slight movement, Agies frowned even more and was about to say something.
“Nu-sister!”
“Stop.”
When Eun-hyeon wasn’t there, it was always Riod and Gerard who would mediate the team’s discord or fight.
Raynan nodded her head in agreement and opened her mouth.
“Anies is right. Even if we do this here, the dead will not come back alive.”
They made a tombstone in honor of the hidden hero who led them, and the team members mourned Eun-hyeon’s death in their own way.
The sadness and sense of loss at the loss of a precious colleague was so great, and it was creating a great emptiness in the hearts of the comrades.
But even so, each of them had a place to return to, and they had to overcome this sense of loss and sadness and fill the empty heart with something new.
After killing the emperor of the Mirbabilla Empire and declaring the end of the war.
The six people who would later be praised as heroes revealed their plans.
“I will take Alice to the Holy Land.”
Agnes returns to her home country to improve and care for Alice, who has lost her sight and is in a coma.
“I’m going back to the kingdom too.”
Riod went to the kingdom of Pernias to succeed his family’s aristocratic line.
“I am… I want to investigate the remnants of warlocks that may still remain.”
Gerard decides to pursue the source of the danger that may remain.
“What are you going to do?”
To Leo De’s question, Ray Nann answered with her wry smile.
“I’m thinking of working as an adventurer again in the kingdom of Rendir.”
“Right.”
All that was left of her was Illyana, who had not been able to control her emotions until just now, pouring out tears.
But maybe thanks to her pouring out all those emotions, now she looks calm.
It looked like that from the outside, but it is correct to see it as being in a state of exhaustion close to exhaustion.
“I am… I want to live quietly alone in the forest for a while.”
All of her co-workers were concerned about her, but they didn’t object to her decision, because she was more of a sane answer than she thought, given her current emotional state.
“Meantime… Thank you.”
Her de facto leader was apart, but now that he’s dead, Riod bowed her head slightly in a final farewell to her comrades.
“What. It doesn’t suit you.”
“No. Older brother!”
“You suffered the most.”
Excluding Illyana, who was mentally exhausted to the extent that she couldn’t afford to think of others, and Alice, who was in a coma, the three expressed their feelings mixed with sullenness, relief, and gratitude in their own ways.
Just like that, Ray Nann said goodbye to her longtime mates and returned to the capital of the kingdom of Rendir.
After the war, the return of the man who was praised as one of the six heroes who ended the war was welcome news for the kingdom.
“I award the status of count to ‘Raynan Barfeld’ who defeated the emperor of the empire and brought peace to the continent!”
As a reward, Raynan’s rise was very steep as he received a title directly from the king.
He was able to start a happy marriage by sharing affection with a daughter of an aristocratic family who had her beautiful appearance, and he and her wife gave birth to a son and a daughter, one by one, and Ray Nann’s life after the war was very happy. Could.
It was the story of his success writing a story of success that could only be found in the fairy tales of Raynan, an adventurer from a commoner who lived day by day through adventurer activities.
However, not everyone was rejoicing at his success and success and supporting him.
He quickly rose to the top, and the more he received the king’s trust, the higher-ranking aristocratic forces within the kingdom of Rendir, who felt a sense of crisis, began to check him.
“Honey… The movements of the high-ranking aristocrats are unusual recently. Father too…”
“Are you okay. Everything will be alright.”
He smiled and reassured his wife, who was trembling with her anxiety, and Ray Nann did not give in at all despite the checks of other nobles.
Being from a commoner background, he was not used to politics or to stand above others or give orders, so Reynon always clashed head-on with high-ranking nobles at important meetings.
To the extent that he was impressed by his confident and confident appearance, and there were even forces to follow and support him.
If it was his own lonely fight, Raynan might not have been able to withstand it, but he was able to continue the fight because he had nobles who supported him.
The forces that naturally supported Raynon formed a faction, clashed with the hostile forces of the high-ranking aristocrats, criticized and slandered each other, took advantage of, and took away the endless fight.
“Pear, Countess! I’m really, really sorry! The mansion was attacked… !”
News came to Raynon like a thunderbolt from the blue sky that unknown men wearing black masks had raided Raynan’s mansion, raided the servants, and kidnapped the countess and her two children.
The barely surviving employee gave Raynan a black letter that the attackers had left behind.
Then, after hearing the shocking news, he received the letter with trembling hands and checked the contents.
-If you want to save your wife and children, give up your nobility.
Raynan gave up his title of nobility without hesitation.
What mattered to him was not the ambition to rise to the top of the country from the beginning, nor the desire for power or wealth.
As long as I could live a happy life with my beloved wife and children, that was enough.
The faces of the factional aristocrats who had supported and supported her so far and the faces of her father-in-law who had provided a lot of support came to mind, but it did not become a factor that could cause her to hesitate.
After officially declaring that he would return the position of nobility, another black letter was delivered to Raynan through someone.
– 9 o’clock at night. Come to the sailboat moored at the port of Portena.
Following the instructions written in the letter, Raynan rode his wagon and drove for three full days until he found a sailboat moored at the wharf at the southernmost tip of the kingdom.
Since he didn’t even have time to think about the possibility of a trap that might have deceived him, he got on the inside of the sailboat without a single thought or hesitation.
“Move!”
He searched the interior of the cabin in search of his wife and children, knocking down all the sailors and soldiers who tried to hinder his entry.
“Honey! Guys!”
However, even in the cabin of the sailboat that was written in the letter, no trace of her wife and children could be found, and when the last room was opened and flipped.
“Keugh!? This…”
Reynon, who was attacked by the sleeping scent that filled the room, ran for three days without a break and fell asleep helplessly due to the accumulated fatigue after the desperate struggle of the soldiers and sailors.
And he came to his senses in the middle of the sea.
“… !”
Realizing his condition as he continued to sink under the depths of the sea, he hurriedly struggled with his body to rise to the surface.
His hands and legs were restrained, and the heavy iron ball attached to the iron armor that restrained him thwarted Raynan’s efforts to rise to the surface.
‘Like this… Will I die like this?’
Does it mean that his wife and children are taken away, and his own end, where he is helplessly beaten like this, can only be such a miserable end?
Why do these things happen to you?
It wasn’t the title and achievement he wanted and wanted, but he was a hero who ended a war that caused many casualties.
He just lived a happy life with his family, fulfilled the lack of knowledge to live up to the ‘responsibility’ given by the country, and acted as an aristocrat to help many people.
If God exists in this world.
Why is he giving himself such an ordeal?
I wanted to ask, why are you forcing me to face this end?
As he sank into the depths of the sea, in the dim consciousness of dying from suffocation, Raynan finally came to a conclusion.
‘There is no such thing as God in this world.’
If God exists, he cannot force himself to such an end.
The moment he denied God, a sinister voice spoke to his soul.
[Do you want to live?]
Even as he was dying, somehow the voice reached Raynan’s heart and became clearer.
[Do you want revenge?]
The moment he denied the existence of the god he was looking for, it was the devil, not the god, who came to him.
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“I found out too late. That the high-ranking nobles of the Kingdom of Rendir chose your organization as a means to deal with me secretly.”
Ray Nann looked down at the number of vacancies in her confinement and opened her mouth.
“…”
The vacancy did not answer, but it was the correct answer.
The fact of his death was not announced to the world.
This is because the fact of the death of the great hero, Raynan, was a serious matter that could cause the entire continent to fall into great confusion and cause a stir.
The fact that the hero died is a sensitive issue that not only Rendir, but also other countries, can’t help but be interested in.
In addition, if it is revealed that the high-ranking nobles of the kingdom of Rendir treated him as an eye thorn in order to preserve their status and power, they will be criticized and criticized by other countries on the scale of the entire continent.
Duke Saviros was already at the center of the high-ranking aristocrats to deal with Raynan, and it was the best person to entrust the work to the Brodia Mafia, who did not hesitate to do all kinds of dirty work while maintaining a secret connection with him.
At that time, 15 years ago, it was the vacancy that Federica’s father, who was the boss, entrusted to deal with Raynan and his family.
“That was a really good idea.”
Raynan was genuinely praising the vacancy.
Fuck!
As the praise began, Raynan’s fists also began to act.
As I punched the vacancy chief’s right cheek with all my might, his head turned wide to the side and teeth protruded from his mouth.
“Nice…”
Due to accumulated fatigue, the physical condition is the worst, and the mental condition is also the worst.
“Because he kidnapped his wife and children, made him give up his nobility, and drove me mentally.”
Raynan, 15 years ago, lost the ability to judge what was right and wrong, and had only one thought: to save his family.
“And the attempt to put me to sleep with sleeping incense, restrain my whole body, and drown me in the sea was also good. He really almost died.”
Raynan’s strength is his overwhelmingly strong body enhancement based on his greater amount of mana than others.
Reynon, who possesses superior strength and defense than others, cannot use normal attacks.
The method of killing he chose to kill him was drowning.
In the water, no matter how great the strength and defense are, if a person has a blocked airway and cannot breathe, he has no choice but to die.
“How… Your guy…”
“I was lucky.”
“I dropped it in the middle of the sea from a ship! It wouldn’t be strange if I became the food of the sea monsters!”
“Because I met ‘God’ who gave me another chance.”
“…”
Reynon’s response to the question of the vacant prisoner who lost his cool was close to a meaningful remark that could not be understood.
But now, for the vacant seat, there was a more important problem than thinking about it.
“My lady… Where is Miss Federica?”
“Of course it is in this ship.”
“Right now, my lady… !”
“You want to see it?”
Ray Nann sneered at the vacant count’s face as she lost her cool.
