Chapter 622 – 622. The Encroachment of Evil (1)
Oh dear!
Loud, high-pitched cries filled the interior of the Duchess of Olivion’s mansion, as if announcing an earlier morning than usual.
The people in the mansion who heard the cries of a newborn baby, as expected, all made an uproar.
“Duke! Congratulations!”
“I heard that you are a lady!”
All the servants, including the butler and servants who worked in the ducal residence, welcomed the birth of the youngest daughter of the Duke of Olivion as if it were their own business.
It was evident how good relations Lyod and his family had with the manor servants.
With everyone’s congratulations, Riod finally reached the bedroom where Theresia was lying.
“Theresia!”
No matter how urgent he was, a line of cold sweat broke out on his forehead as he ran quickly.
It was clearly showing how urgent the kingdom’s best knight, who always had a calm attitude and didn’t show emotional agitation, was now desperate.
“Yes. Honey.”
It had been a very long time since I had seen my husband so agitated.
Theresia, who was lying on the bed, let out a cheesy laugh.
Perhaps it was because she had exhausted her stamina in childbirth as she went through long labor pains, but her face, Theresia, looked very emaciated.
But she also appeared to be in a very stable condition.
Perhaps it was because Eleanor continued to bestow blessings on her upper world, Theresia looked emaciated but still had some leeway.
Naturally, Liod’s gaze moved to the baby Theresia was holding.
“Ah…”
Lyod let out a small sigh at the sight of the tiny new life, with its tiny head poking out and carefully wrapped in a luxurious cloth.
She can’t keep her mouth shut and can’t take her eyes off the baby with a blank look on her face.
Then she slowly moved her steps and approached Theresia.
When they finally reached the bed she was lying on, Terizia smiled and asked Lyod.
“Would you like to hug me?”
“… Okay.”
Lyod responded immediately.
In the first place, the option of not hugging her youngest child, who was born to her and her wife, did not exist from the beginning.
Cautiously bending over at her Theresa’s invitation, she took her own baby in her arms.
“It’s light.”
“Huh, of course.”
Beyond being light, it is too delicate.
Riod, who was not used to handling his baby, who seemed like it would break with even the slightest effort, was unusually flustered.
It was the third baby after Ayla and Elion, but she couldn’t get used to holding a newborn baby no matter how many times she tried.
Even so, he continues to want to hold and look.
“Father.”
Ayra smiled and held out her hand to Leo de.
Recognizing that he wanted to hug him too, Leode gave her a small nod and carefully placed her youngest child in Eira’s arms.
“Sister. I want to see you too.”
Ellion’s behavior in showing her interest in her own little brother, her baby, was rather surprising.
“Okay.”
As Ayra lowered her into her chair, Ellion brought another chair and raised it to her eye level.
She wondered at her terribly tiny face and her baby’s palm the size of her own fingers.
“This baby… Are you my brother?”
“Huh. He’s my brother Mother or father would be particularly concerned, but Elion is now her brother, so he should take good care of her brother, right?”
“Huh. I’ll keep that in mind.”
Elion responded with a lively answer from the morning, which is rare.
“Sister. Can I touch you too?”
“Of course. Ruler.”
Erin, seeing her newborn baby for the first time, also looked curious as she cautiously reached out for her baby in Eira’s arms.
The two pupils of the small face met Erin’s gaze.
“Ugh… !”
Seeing her newborn baby’s face soon giving her a bright smile, Erin clutched her own breast as if in great pain.
“Cute… !”
Her tiny hands are soft and soft, and the bright smile of a newborn baby reaching out to her makes her heart beat as if pounding.
Will Illyana’s soon-to-be baby be this pretty and lovely?
Obviously it will.
And naturally, she imagines what her baby will be like.
“… Thanks.”
When Ayra, Elion, and Erin were fussing about their newborn baby, Riod immediately thanked Eleanor and Eunhyeon.
“No. Mr. Riod. All I did was bless you.”
“That played a big part.”
It was unclear whether her own wife, who was already over forty, would have the stamina to withstand the prolonged struggle with her natural childbirth.
The factor that made it possible must have been the blessings of the upper world that Eleanor constantly gave.
“It is not enough to thank you several times for coming right away after receiving my call from early in the morning.”
Lyod bowed his head again and expressed his sincere thanks.
“Lee, Mr. Leod…”
Eleanor was taken aback when Riod, who was regarded as the kingdom’s best fighter and the best knight, bowed his head without hesitation.
As a daughter of an aristocratic family, she was well aware of the impact of his actions, so she felt burdened.
If this seat had been vacant rather than private, he must have caught the attention of many aristocrats.
“Raise your head. We are in a similar position, so it helped a lot.”
Eunhyun spoke on behalf of Eleanor, who was flustered.
Soon, Illyana will also give birth to a child.
In preparation for that time, watching and helping Theresia’s childbirth up close will be of great help when Illyana gives birth to her child.
“… I don’t know if there’s anything I can do to help you and Illyana, but if there is, I’ll do my best to help.”
“Okay. That’s enough.”
“We’ll go back now.”
“Are you leaving already? It would have been better if we had breakfast at least.”
Lyod suggested breakfast, but Eunhyeon and Eleanor smiled bitterly and refused the favor, perhaps because it was not clear why Eunhyeon, Eleanor, and Erin, who had helped a lot, were not sent.
“Because we also have a family waiting for breakfast.”
Lily, who had already woken up early, was preparing breakfast and was waiting for the three of them to arrive.
“… Right.”
Riod nodded his head as if he couldn’t help it.
“Sooner or later I’ll come to your house.”
“Okay. Erin. Let’s go.”
“Ah, yes!”
The morning at Olivion Mansion greeted the day with a very lively start.
Erin immediately approached Eunhyeon.
“Hyunah. The baby is really cute.”
Eunhyeon and Eleanor laughed when they saw Erin expressing her impressions of seeing and touching her newborn baby with an excited expression.
“We will be there soon too.”
“Huh. Really looking forward to it. Because it’s Iliana-sama and Hyuni’s baby… You must be pretty and handsome, right?”
Even though they were worried about how far she had fantasized about her newborn baby, they didn’t have the heart to dampen Erin’s mood as her expectations were skyrocketing, so Eunhyeon and Eleanor just laughed and listened to Erin’s excitement.
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The capital of a kingdom that has been disrupted by war.
The wreckage of collapsed buildings and gray smoke rising from them.
The smoke gathers and gathers, and at the end, the sky is dark with dark clouds as if to illuminate the country’s future.
“Help me! Help me!”
“Mom… ! Dad… !”
Some are begging and begging for their lives, while others are crying sadly looking for their parents.
“Kuk-kuk.”
Marius giggled as he walked leisurely in the middle of the catastrophe.
Clap clap clap
The black armor walking after him are all death knights made up of the corpses of non-living dead.
They were Death Knights made from the bodies of the strong that Marius personally collected.
In the Kingdom of Rendir, Ray Nann smashed her head, and she collected the corpses of strong people who were equivalent to him and made them into Death Knights.
All of the rattling heavy iron armor boasted formidable defense and sturdiness, and at first glance seemed like an entity with mass, but the reality was different.
The iron armor and the black aura that shimmers throughout the body are formed from the morale of human corpses.
Inside the energy and iron armor, in the center, there was a human corpse that had already stopped working and decayed.
Even after death, the soul cannot ascend to the underworld and is bound to the underworld, and is destined to obey the necromancer as a slave for the rest of its life.
Countless souls, including vacant prisoners, who have been turned into Death Knights, cannot disobey Marius’ orders.
Led by those Death Knights, Marius moved his steps towards the palace of the kingdom he had destroyed.
Originally, entry and exit was prohibited due to the strict guards guarding the entrance to the palace, but the guards guarding the entrance and the soldiers inside the palace were all dead.
All of them are horrible.
Some died less than a few hours, but as if several days had passed, the decay progressed and insects began to entwine, and some had countless bite marks from having eaten body parts here and there.
They attacked the kingdom’s capital and turned all the humans they killed into ghouls, covering the entire capital.
It is unbearably gratifying that the terrible spectacle now before Marius’s eyes is not only here, but elsewhere, the whole capital is draped with the same despair.
“Haha. What a proud feeling.”
The fact that it was the result of his achievement filled his heart with an indescribable satisfaction.
Enjoying that satisfaction, Marius entered the inside of the palace where no one was guarding.
Marius’ steps were unstoppable as he walked down the hallway, which was empty of people, no, full of human corpses.
From the moment he entered the palace, he had already decided where he was heading.
It was very easy for him to find the only place where there was life in this harrowing spectacle of death he had scattered.
“Kick-kick.”
Marius couldn’t contain his laughter.
No matter how far away, the fear and trembling of fear felt in the soul was intact.
Exciting pleasure dominates the whole body just by feeling that emotion.
While giggling, he finally arrived at his destination, leading more than 10 Death Knights.
What he sees in front of him is the wall of the palace, which looks nothing special.
However, the feeling of fear felt beyond this point definitely told me that someone existed.
It was like a sixth sense possessed by a necromancer, which can only be described as a very sensitive sense of life and death.
I even held my breath for fear of leakage, but I couldn’t bear the trembling of my body.
Marius grinned and waved his hand toward the wall, and a Death Knight came forward and carried out the necromancer’s command.
Quaang!
The Death Knight’s sword swinging forward shattered the walls and exposed the secret spaces hidden inside.
“Kyaaak!”
The heavy impact shattered the walls, and the screams of a delicate woman burst out from inside the wreckage.
“Found.”
This woman is a member of the royal family, the owner of the kingdom, and the daughter of the king, that is, the princess of this country.
Marius laughed and grabbed the woman’s hair.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
Despite screaming as she was dragged to the floor, no one came forward to save the princess.
This is because the humans inside the royal palace were all killed by the undead created by their necromantic skills, except for a few specific humans.
This woman, whom Marius was dragging by her hair, was one of a select few humans yet to be killed.
“Keugh… ! Aria!”
While dragging the hair of a princess named Arya, she arrived at the audience room with a throne where the king, the owner of the palace, sat.
The king of this kingdom was sitting on a chair at the center of the innermost part of the throne room.
“Ah, Obama… !”
Princess Arya was shocked.
It was because the face of her own father, her king, was terrifying and terrible.
His appearance could not be said to be that of sitting in a chair.
His arms were resting on both armrests, bleeding profusely with dozens of swords embedded in them, and both of his thighs were also pierced with swords and pinned to a chair.
“Haha! As expected, you decorated it well!”
When Marius saw the work of the Death Knights who followed his orders, he clapped in admiration.
Seeing her father’s face, which would not be strange even if he died of excessive blood loss soon after, Princess Arya glared at Marius with a hateful gaze.
“How… How could you do such a cruel thing… !”
“Cruelty? Haha, is it? Is it cruel? How cruel!”
However, despite receiving the gaze of the hated princess Arya, Marius laughed it off.
What made him so happy, he already looked close to the state of a half-mad man.
I’m not insane.
May not be human.
That’s the devil
Ignoring Princess Arya’s gaze, Marius looked at the king and opened her mouth.
“Come on, Your Majesty the King. This lowly necromancer will take the risk of rudeness and ask only two questions.”
“… Turn it off.”
The king glared at Marius as if he were going to kill him as his teeth gnashed from the pain of the blade piercing his whole body.
“The Temple of Vesta of the Holy Nation of Erenia, Coloras Branch.”
“… !”
“Do you know about Bishop Venter?”
When the completely unexpected name came out of Marius’ mouth, the king flinched and opened his eyes wide.
The emotion in his eyes right now was more agitated than the gaze of hatred glaring at his mortal enemies.
“That reaction means you know. Then, the second question.”
Marius’ face, which had been grinning, turned cold.
“How did you do Ness? You trash bastard.”
