Chapter 818 – 818. The Mirror’s Self (5)
After hearing the full story of the incident at the Magic Tower, Eunhyeon hardened her face.
“… I see.”
While she was asleep, the wizards of the Mage Tower sealed their magic and were helpless from outside aggression.
It was definitely a big deal.
At some point, Lily wiped her body dry and immediately brought Eunhyun’s clothes that she had prepared in advance.
A simple tunic, armor and black coat were his favorite equipment.
“The eldest lady has already said that she plans to set up a gate on the outskirts of the city.”
Illyana has already prepared everything so that Eunhyun can come to the Mage Tower immediately when she wakes up.
“It happens as soon as you wake up.”
Eunhyun laughed and muttered.
[Let’s go. Aye.]
“Are you strangely motivated?”
Belldandy smiled and responded to Eunhyun’s words.
[The child seems to be more motivated than me. Am I wrong?]
“No. Maybe.”
In fact, Eun-hyeon had not yet been able to measure how strong her body, now transformed into a metamorphosis, had become.
It was an unfortunate incident for the city and residents of the Mage Tower, but for Eunhyeon, it was like a stage where she could test her strength.
“Lily.”
“Yes. Master.”
“Let’s have a grand dinner after work.”
I wanted to feed the three wives who worked hard day and night for several days to help her metamorphosis, and Erin, who must have struggled to fend off external aggression in the Mage’s Tower.
Recognizing Eunhyeon’s intention, Lily smiled and said,
“If it’s the mistresses or Erin… Do you think you could want more than that?”
“What?”
Eunhyun tilted her head at Lily’s words.
When Eunhyeon heard her say that her wives really wanted something else, nothing came to mind.
“When work is over, I will wait for you in bed.”
“…”
“Not only me, but probably the mistresses and Erin think the same.”
“That, yes…”
Eun-hyeon didn’t know what to answer for the moment, so she just nodded her head.
She then donned her gear and headed for her gate, which Illyana had set up.
“Please take care of yourself.”
Lily bowed her head and waved her hand briefly to see her off, and Eun-hyeon climbed through her gate.
[You must have been very embarrassed like a child.]
“I am… Sometimes they are scary. How many times do you plan to kill me…”
Hearing Eunhyun’s small sigh, Belldandi burst into laughter.
Gentleness came out of Belldandy’s touch, stroking Eun-hyeon’s hair and placing his hand on her shoulder.
[Whoops, doesn’t that mean she cares for her child that much?]
Even Eun-hyeon knows that well.
However, sometimes the love of wives was too heavy to bear.
She resents that she can’t deny their demands and can’t control herself even though she desperately covets them.
[And… It is the same for me.]
“…”
Unfortunately, the goddess he was enshrining was also asking for it from himself.
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“Mylene…”
The current would have burned not only the heart, but also the internal organs, blood vessels, nerves, and even the vocal chords.
Ray Nann put her old wife’s name in her mouth.
“…”
Gerard immediately stiffened his body and observed his condition.
“He is dead.”
The burnt heart and internal organs had apparently stopped functioning, and Raynan was biologically certain to be dead.
But nonetheless.
“Lessa…”
Raynan muttered incessantly.
The voice that flowed through the burnt vocal cords was cracked and even grotesque, and it gradually lost its power as if expressing the embers of life that were dying out.
Gerard was certain that now Raynan was watching his family like a kaleidoscope as he crossed the threshold of his death.
“… Stupid child.”
Why did he do this, and why was he so engulfed in pain that he had to join hands with the devil and annihilate all humans on the continent?
It was impossible to understand the pain.
But if he had at least asked for help from himself, or even from other colleagues, wouldn’t things have reached this point?
Gerard did not know.
In the first place, when he was really struggling, could he and other colleagues be able to help Raynon?
He wasn’t sure.
Eun-hyeon was dead, Illyana was a disabled person, and Riod was concentrating all his efforts on stabilizing the internal affairs of his homeland, Fernias Kingdom.
Anyes was also busy serving the temple, Alice lost her sight and entrusted herself to the closed elven forest, and herself was wandering around the continent tracking down the remnants of warlocks that remained even after the war.
Gerard knew.
The misfortune that happened to Raynan was unavoidable.
But even so.
“You should have asked for help.”
Gerard gnashed his teeth and let out the irritability boiling in his chest.
He was frustrated and angry because he could not explain this feeling of having to kill his friend with his own hands.
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At some point, the faces of my family stopped coming to mind.
Just as the paint on the faces of his wife and family, who couldn’t even say goodbye properly and couldn’t even find his remains, gradually spread and fade.
But even so, the screams of his family did not stop in his head.
Screams desperately crying out for help, asking for help, saying the name of her husband and father.
It’s a nightmare
A nightmare that gnaws away at one’s reason and mind and encourages one to fill with anger and hatred.
In a world full of black and blurry vision, the images of the family that had been forgotten for a while came to the surface again.
What kind of expressions do the wife and children looking at you have?
When the kingdom of Rendir, which was the starting point of this bloodbath, was destroyed and humans were slaughtered, someone said to himself.
– Just because it’s like this… Do you think your family will appreciate you?
Rather, wouldn’t you be sad to see Raynan, who is gradually falling into the mire of evil and degrading?
Raynan was funny.
I couldn’t understand why he was talking about his family.
He doesn’t know who he is, who his family is, and he’s never seen him face to face, but he’s trying to convince himself by talking like it’s normal.
It was absurd and funny.
Would their families, who went to heaven first, be sad if they saw their evil deeds?
Their question of asking if they were afraid of God was laughable.
If there was a God, the world wouldn’t be this crazy.
Because the wife and family members who existed in the memories of his head were begging him to kill at least one more person and release their grudge against him.
Whether the family’s dream, which was like a nightmare in reality, was real or fake, didn’t matter too much to Raynan.
What mattered was what she was left with and what she wanted to do.
So Raynan chose to avenge her.
In addition to her will, she vowed to dedicate a requiem to her family who could not even find her remains.
The dead don’t speak.
The only thing that mattered was, ‘What does she want to do for the girl who was left behind?’
In that sense, Ray Nann and her witch had an understanding.
Because the two people who lost someone precious are somewhat similar yet different.
Raynan wanted the world itself to be destroyed, and the witch wanted to have the man she had been searching for so much in love.
‘Even if I die, my aspirations will not end.’
Raynan sincerely hoped that this hateful continent would come to an end.
Even if her own ruin is determined at the end of her life.
It was something she had been determined to do from the beginning.
As he slaughtered tens and hundreds of thousands of people and accumulated karma of becoming a monster, he also had an intuition of his own end.
Since he knew the outcome from the start of this revenge, he had no regrets again.
The whole body was burned by the magical power of the divine beast, and the tattered body of the demon (魔人) announced the end at some point.
So now was the right time to move on to the next step.
‘… Belphegor.’
[What.]
In his fading consciousness, Raynan called the name of the demon he had contracted with.
Belphegor also asked him indifferently, as if sensing intuition that the end had been predestined from the beginning.
‘Take it. All of me.’
His tattered body and his soul that was on the verge of extinction were the endings that were planned from the beginning.
A catastrophe that Raynan provided, a witch intervened, and the devil would bring.
[Kuh, kuh… ! Haha!]
Hearing Raynan’s declaration that he would hand over everything to himself, Belphegor laughed that the moment he had been waiting for had finally arrived.
[Good night! Your wish! Let me make it happen!]
A huge magic circle spread around Raynan’s dead body.
“Gerard!”
“… !”
Gerard, who felt the shaking of unusual magical energy, was startled by Eleanor’s cry and distanced himself from his corpse.
“What happened… ?”
Do you want to earn?
Gerard couldn’t tell.
She only noticed that something was about to happen in the body of her former colleague, who had already died.
It wasn’t just Raynan’s body that changed.
It was just a starting point.
“Aagh!”
The screams of the invaders spread throughout the city, and the vitality and spirits extracted from the corpses scattered all over the city rose to the sky and condensed into one place.
To the body of Raynan, who had already died, the souls and magical powers of the invaders and corpses were gathering one by one.
“That…”
What the hell is going on?
Even Eleanor didn’t know.
But I could tell that something unusual was about to happen.
“… We have to stop it.”
Eleanor tried to perform a miracle of divinity towards the corpse of Raynan, whose souls were gradually condensing, but her miracle did not go as she intended.
“Ah…”
The divine power stored in the tears of her goddess just now revealed her bottom, and the miracle of the ‘Kangsin’ she was spreading lost its effect.
I really just wanted to grab someone and complain about how it could be ironic.
Can’t I stop that ominous energy from gathering like this?
It was a time when I was feeling resentful of my own powerlessness.
[Six digit top magic]
[Dispel]
Illyana came running to notice and respond to the changes that occurred within the city.
She hurriedly deployed her magic, scattering the mana and souls of the corpses that were condensing into Raynan’s corpse.
“… Tsk.”
Illyana frowned and clicked her tongue.
The hastily deployed dispel did not completely cancel the magic.
The magical energy gathered around Raynan’s corpse reacted with the spell developed on his floor to activate magic.
Kwajik!
The black magic power that started devouring Raynan’s body swelled up like a monster reminiscent of a living beast.
Finally, despite Illyana’s interference, the black magic activated her magic.
[Witch Unique Magic]
[Dimension Leap Door]
It emerged from the slowly opening door.
[Kuhk…]
It was a demon with a pair of goat horns sprouting from above its head.
The demon of indolence that finally manifested in the underworld.
Belphe Gor glared at Gerard, who had interfered with his work, with those vicious red eyes, and raised his lips.
[As much as you… I said I would definitely kill it with my own hands!]
