Chapter 623 – 623. The Encroachment of Evil (2)
Hearing the words of Marius, who became chilly, the king trembled.
Bishop Venter of the Holy Kingdom of Erenia.
It was because there was a story in my head the moment I heard that name.
“How did you get that name… ?”
“What’s the point of answering a question with a question?”
Marius once again grabbed Princess Arya by the hair and slammed her to the ground.
“Kyaaak!?”
The King shuddered at the sight of Arya as she violently slammed her head into the floor.
“Aria!”
However, dozens of blades were already embedded in his body, and he was unable to move.
“Keugh… !”
Marius asked again as he violently trampled his head on the floor, giving him the most humiliation possible.
“I ask you again. What did you do with Ness?”
“…”
The king bit his teeth hard and glared at Marius.
Even though her daughter was being humiliated right in front of her eyes, she could do nothing but stare at her with a hateful gaze.
A trickle of blood flowed from the king’s mouth.
His teeth trembled with anger, his teeth clenched and his whole body trembled.
It wasn’t just because of the pain of the blade cutting through bone and flesh.
A hatred deep enough to cover the pain was directed at Marius.
“Ugh…”
Marius let out a moan as Marius braced her legs and choked Princess Arya, who had her head slammed into the floor.
In response to Marius’ indirect action to answer quickly, the king responded with gnashing of teeth.
“… What you say… I don’t know who Ness is.”
However, the king had a part that he guessed in his head.
Bishop Venter, whom Marius spoke of, had no connection with the king at all.
Not exactly himself, but a connection to one of his sons.
The current king had a total of three children, and there was no problem with the first crown prince who was to inherit the throne sooner or later, and the youngest princess, but the real problem was the second prince.
He did not have the right to succeed to the throne, but he was a madman among fools who had to achieve whatever he wanted by using his status and power as a prince.
It was a fact known to all the key figures in the kingdom that the second prince had vicious hobbies while hanging out with Bishop Venter, who was located in the far-away Holy Kingdom of Erenia.
Relations between the Holy Kingdom of Erenia are good, and if the relationship goes wrong, she won’t be able to receive the support of the faithful priests and paladins who worship the goddess Vesta, so it was better for her to pretend she didn’t know.
For the sake of the country and their own interests, the royal family and high-ranking nobles ignored the evil deeds of the second prince.
One day, the second prince told the king that there was a problem.
Beginning with the death of Bishop Venter, who looked after him in Coloras in the Holy Kingdom of Erenia, he confessed all the evil deeds he had done with him.
Stealing the temple’s support money and sharing personal gains, inviting women to have promiscuous relationships, and all of the low-level and trivial evils.
The king, who was fed up with the second prince’s foolish behavior, went into a fit of rage and scolded him, and investigated the death of Bishop Venter to find out the details.
The content of the case was horrifying.
It was shocking to hear that not only Bishop Venter, but the entire city of Coloras was suddenly attacked and destroyed by the undead.
It is even more shocking that the holy country, which can exert relatively strong power against the undead race, has been damaged by the undead.
Upon hearing this information, the kingdom immediately questioned the Holy Nation of Erenia.
Even if it was not a city in the center, but a city on the periphery of the countryside, how could the city be destroyed by the undead so easily?
Since the city of Coloras is on the outskirts of the Holy Nation of Erenia, there are not a few foreigners visiting from abroad heading to the central capital, which is the center of the Holy Nation.
Since the number of merchants and foreign aristocrats was small, the Erenia Holy Nation needed an explanation for this, but the Holy Nation continued to investigate the cause, but only an irresponsible answer saying that they had not properly revealed the facts.
The king couldn’t connect what kind of danger the second prince of the kingdom felt in this incident, in which not only the death of Bishop Venter, but the destruction of an entire city.
First of all, the king’s priority was to deal with the second prince’s problem.
The first thing to pay attention to while investigating the destruction of Coloras by the Holy Nation of Erenia is probably to uncover the whereabouts of Bishop Venter, who was the manager of the city.
If the existence of his kingdom and the second prince are mentioned in the process of digging up the history, the authority of this country will be lost and it will be impossible to buy a lot of ridicule from around.
The king was in a hurry to erase all the relationship between Bishop Venter and the second prince, which was entangled in many corruptions and evil deeds.
However, it did not take long for the accumulated karma to come back.
One day, the head of the second prince, who was under the order of probation from the king, fell in front of the palace.
Starting with that, this catastrophe happened.
“No matter how much you ask, they say they don’t know. So I just wanted you to know, just in case.”
It was none other than Marius who cut off the head of the second prince he had killed and threw it openly in front of the soldiers guarding the entrance to the palace.
After being put on probation, he eventually became impatient and went against the king’s order and sneaked out, and as a result, he encountered Marius, who had infiltrated the country.
Naturally, the second prince did not remember the woman he had been fooling around with.
It was because it happened so often to him that it was nothing more than a simple, ordinary day.
“I see. If you don’t know, that’s fine.”
Marius withdrew his eyes, which had expressed fierce anger.
The bloody hatred that seemed like cutting off the head of the king who had been imprisoned with a blade stuck in his body at any moment disappeared in an instant.
Ness’ whereabouts could not be found, but Marius was calmer than expected.
Was it because he had already anticipated and prepared his mind, or was it because his mind was broken?
I couldn’t tell.
Suddenly, Marius’ eyes were full of maddening laughter again.
He removed the foot that had trampled on Princess Arya’s neck, grabbed her by the hair, and dragged her again.
“Ah, ah!”
Regardless of whether Princess Arya screamed at her or not, Marius turned his back and tried to leave her throne room.
“Hey, wait! Keugh!?”
Seeing Marius dragging his daughter outside, the king called him.
He hurriedly tried to move his body, but the more he moved, the dozens of blades that penetrated his whole body writhed more and more at the king’s torso.
“Arya… As much as my daughter please… !”
“Kuk-kuk.”
But Marius just giggled and didn’t stop dragging the princess along.
Anyway, the king soon dies of excessive blood loss.
All major organs were intact, but the amount of blood flowing from both limbs was by no means small.
The more she struggles to somehow save Princess Arya, the deeper her wounds and the greater the amount of blood shed.
The king’s urgent voice only pleased him more.
“Ah, Obama! Help!”
Princess Arya, dragged by her hair and being dragged across the floor, asked the king for help, but in front of her eyes was her own father, unable to move with dozens of blades stuck in her body.
“Aria!”
Leaving behind the king’s voice filled with despair, Marius left the palace again.
“Ah…”
Arya, who had been dragged by his hair and dragged her across the floor, stared out of the palace with her blank expression.
At the age of 20, she grew up like a flower in a greenhouse inside the palace, and the outside of the palace she had never experienced was horrendous.
Crumbling buildings and gray smoke rising from them.
A thick cloud of dust clogging the air.
The horrendous corpses scattered on the floor and the smell of blood stimulated Aria’s stomach.
“Whoops!”
Arya, who eventually spilled gastric juices on her floor, glared at the culprit behind her creating this disaster.
“How… Do this… !”
Marius, with tears in his eyes, smiled at Arya’s gaze of mixed contempt and disgust.
“Why?”
“How can a person do such a terrible thing!”
“Horrible? Oh, that is terrible.”
Seeing Marius tilt her head and put on an expression of momentary incomprehension, Arya despised him even more.
I can’t understand.
Something is twisted.
Is it true that it has something called the human heart?
Arya wanted to deny that it was not.
If you have a human mind, there is no way you can do this indiscriminate massacre.
That’s not human
“You are… It is a monster.”
“Kuk-kuk.”
However, despite receiving such contempt and disgust, Marius giggled and did not lose his smile.
For him, this process, filling this entire continent with death was a ritual to bring his goddess, Queen of the Dead, Medea, to this place, but it was also the same as the purification of the world.
As people die, the despairing screams that express the pain they feel as they approach death, the ghastly corpses that can be described as disgusting, and the smell they give off are like a process of purification for Marius.
On the contrary, the more Arya stared at him, the more he enjoyed it.
“God… I will definitely not leave you alone.”
“What?”
Marius, who was laughing, looked up at him and looked at Arya, who was glaring at him.
When Marius’ face, who had been enjoying himself without caring what she said, turned cold for the first time, Arya continued to stir up his feelings.
With no powers of her own, that was all she could do.
“God will definitely punish you! All the karma you’ve built will come back to you… Kyaaak!”
A death knight by Marius’ side grabbed her by the collar of her aria and roughly raised her up.
“Big… Black!”
Her legs couldn’t reach the floor, and the tight collar twitched and blocked her airway, gradually tightening Arya’s throat.
It’s very pathetic to see her slender legs struggling to get out of her somehow.
“Please, I would like you to do that.”
Soon, Marius and Arya’s eyes met.
Marius’ expression was the same as before, smiling, but it was not a smirking smile, contented with the calamity he had created.
The emotions contained in his laughter were passionate anger and resentment toward someone.
Arya, who has nothing let alone power, successfully provokes Marius.
But, at least in front of him, mentioning the existence of ‘God’ was a huge mistake she should never have made.
“You always look for the existence of God first when something happens.”
When faced with an unreasonable situation that they cannot cope with or solve, they all seek a transcendent being called God and pray for their salvation.
Marius had been like that before, so he was well aware of how great that earnestness was.
That’s why the present Marius was well aware of how ephemeral and rubbish that earnestness was.
“But does that god really save you guys?”
“Nice… Ugh…”
Arya couldn’t answer because her breath was choked by the Death Knight’s violent hands.
“If you believe so, offer your prayers right away. And call on God! Me! Punish me for slaughtering 10,000,000 people! I wish so much!”
Marius is also one of those who long for the existence of God to appear here.
The reason was because there was something I definitely wanted to ask.
Why didn’t you hear my prayer?
Why didn’t you save my family?
Why didn’t you save me
He was so earnest and prayed, but the sky and the god he prayed for did not grant his wish.
Marius, who had no way of knowing the restrictions that the gods could not interfere with the underworld, or the complex circumstances intertwined between the gods and the underworld, hated the existence of a god who provided miraculous power called divine power.
No, in fact, even if there were things he didn’t know about, Marius had no intention of understanding them.
In the process, he wondered why he, his family, and the villagers had to face an unreasonably gruesome death.
He can’t understand
This world is so unfair and unreasonable.
So, Marius is doing the work of purification to make this world ‘fair’ with the ideals and values he created.
So that what happened to his own family and the villagers he cherished would be fair and reasonable, not unfair and unreasonable.
He intended to bring the same calamity to all humans in this world.
And Medea, who gave her the power to realize those ideals and values into reality, was the ‘goddess’ herself who reached out to her for the first time to save her.
Mediah, the goddess of Marius, has only one wish.
-Come on, I want to see Hyun.
They want to see the man they love, hear his voice, and touch and feel him.
Before long, the Death Knight threw Arya to the floor.
“Cheuk! Coke! Coke!”
Leaving Arya wriggling on her floor and coughing up her cough, Marius once more prayed to his goddess.
“Not long. You are a goddess.”
As such, the disaster gradually engulfed the surroundings, and Marius’s ideals were encroaching on the continent.
