Chapter 985 – 985. Original Evil (2)
“Ah… !”
Erin, who was running towards the palace following Eunhyeon, let out an exclamation.
On Es’s side, where she was supposed to be alone, she felt the presence of thousands of people.
And among the smells of so many people, she found the scent of the person she liked.
“Hyuna! Eleanor! Eleanor has arrived… !”
“Huh. Know. “You came earlier than expected.”
“Hyun-i helped us in advance so that we could come!”
It was only then that Erin realized what she meant by saying that she had no intention of leaving Eunhyun or Es to fight Marius alone.
Separately from this expedition, Eunhyeon was preparing the forces of the Holy Kingdom through Eleanor.
This expedition, which was operated by a relatively small number of people, had a short preparation period and moved quickly, so it was natural that they would do well.
Considering the time it took to gather and organize approximately 2,000 paladins, priests, and soldiers, there was no doubt that this was the best move.
“Amazing! Hyuna!”
“Thank you.”
“Concentrate. “You never know when and where the enemy will pop out.”
Elvin lightly cautioned Erin, who was making a fuss and praising Eunhyun again and again.
“I know! What!”
She puffed out her cheeks and glared at Elvin, then ran in front of her again.
Quaaaaang!
After hearing the distant roar, Erin assessed the situation.
A large army made with extremely dark morale and necromancy.
And to oppose it, thousands of Holy Kingdom troops who came through the gate began a fierce battle.
The ground trembles and the tremors of the air can be heard as far away as this place.
But Erin was slightly relieved.
The participation of Eleanor and the Shinseongguk troops was such a reliable ally.
“If it’s like this… Uh?”
Erin stopped running.
He seemed to have felt something and turned his head to look in the direction they had run from, to be more precise, towards the distant location where Anies, Eleno, or the Holy Kingdom soldiers were.
“What happened all of a sudden…” .”
Elvin, who was in the vanguard, realized that Erin had stopped and looked behind her.
Elvin could not continue speaking.
Not only Erin but many others, including Eunhyeon, were almost all looking backwards.
“Hyuna. Excuse me…”
Erin’s face hardened and he pointed there with his finger.
“There’s something over there.”
Where Anies, Eleanor, and the Holy Kingdom’s troops were gathered, something appeared.
I felt the presence of morale that was gradually weakening, and I thought that the Holy Kingdom’s side had won the battlefield.
That unidentified power appeared in this world so suddenly and without any warning.
“That…”
That was a power that even Eunhyeon knew.
To be exact, a long time ago, we fought a lot.
“Berdandi.”
[Okay. At last…]
Verdandi groaned briefly.
He looked somber as he realized that something that should never have come had revealed itself.
[I finally end up crossing over here.]
“… Tsk. “Why is that thing here?”
The nine-tailed fox that was looking up at it also frowned.
He openly showed his irritation, as if he had seen something that made him feel sick.
“What the hell is that… What is it… ?”
Gerard, who understood the nine-tailed fox’s feelings, stiffened his face and asked.
Although she had a prickly personality, this was the first time she had shown her disgust so blatantly while serving her.
Looking at the nine-tailed fox’s reaction to looking at the disgusting filth, it was clear that something was not unusual.
“… “It is evil.”
“… “Evil?”
“Okay. “An evil that causes harm simply by existing.”
“… ?”
It was an explanation that I couldn’t quite understand.
“When you say evil, do you mean demons?”
“Maybe so.”
“… Yes?”
“To be exact, I’m talking about the state before becoming a devil.”
“What is that…”
The nine-tailed fox clicked his tongue and continued his explanation in order to help Gerard and Dasu understand.
“Didn’t all living things in this world start out in their current state from the beginning? I also existed before I became a divine beast, Gerard. “You, too, must have had many processes and starting points to get to where you are now.”
“…”
Just as a newborn baby gradually grows over time and becomes an adult through various experiences.
Or the state of a pure gemstone before being smelted into weapons, metals, or smelt.
Like a child before establishing an identity.
“That is the original malice itself that has not gone through the process before being born as a devil.”
“…”
Not only Gerrard, but also Riod, who was listening silently to the explanation, also had a hard look on his face.
Alice and Derkin also looked there blankly with darkened faces.
Could something like that really exist in this world?
It was a question that was useless to ask.
Because it has already appeared in this world.
The nine-tailed fox glanced at Eunhyeon.
“Anyway, it seems like you have quite a bit of connection with ‘that’.”
“… “Please don’t call it fate.”
It was an incredibly bad relationship that I desperately prayed and prayed for to end.
The body that was wrapped in that evil intent.
The woman who was called the transcendent and the queen of the dead was the most terrible woman in Eunhyeon’s 400 years of life and the woman he never wanted to see again.
There was nothing crazy about her.
What was questionable was that power that had become corrupted.
Eunhyeon thought she was completely dead.
It was several years ago that I learned that she had abandoned her body, purged herself of ‘her death’ in her soul, and was reborn as a transcendent person.
I didn’t know at the time.
Because she only communicated her thoughts through the state of her spiritual body.
So, I couldn’t understand how she built up her status as a transcendent person and unleashed original evil.
Medea was someone that Eunhyeon couldn’t understand, even if he thought about all the possibilities and squeezed out all the possibilities.
She is the starting point of that crazy woman, the process by which she reached the transcendent status she is now, and what she will do in the future.
A monster itself that is unpredictable.
“Hyuna…”
The tip of Erin’s finger pointing there trembled slightly.
Erin may have sensed the existence of that power and the nature of the enormous malice that resides within it without her knowledge.
She was the first to understand that the senses of a divine beast were extremely sensitive, unlike those of ordinary humans.
What it was, its identity was unknown, and it was impossible to explain or even describe it, but there was only one thing Erin could understand with her reason.
“Dangerous.”
The only thing Eleanor and Anies could say was that the Holy Kingdom’s 2,000-strong army was in danger.
“Hyuna! Right now! “I have to go help Eleanor!”
I couldn’t figure out what that was.
However, this was a dangerous variable whose outcome could not be guaranteed, to the extent that Erin, who had no doubts about the victory of the Holy Kingdom until now, insisted that support be sent immediately.
Eunhyun thought.
‘What should I do?’
In his heart, Eunhyeon also wanted to go back immediately to save Eleanor, Anies, and the Holy Kingdom’s troops.
But is that right?
If I were to return from here, who would be responsible for handling the Void Stone located in the palace?
If the Void Stone is left alone, demonization will progress starting from the palace, and numerous demons will come over here.
Once that happens, there is no turning back.
In a dilemma where she could neither go forward nor backward, Eunhyeon had to make a choice.
“Hyuna! Eleanor… !”
“Immature. “Don’t rush me.”
“But Miho… !”
Erin couldn’t understand.
Eleanor is in danger right now, and there is no way anything could be prioritized more than this.
Eunhyeon’s thoughts stopped.
No. The decision is overturned again and again, and the process is repeated again and again, leaving no answer.
The expression that it came to a halt because of that is very contradictory, but it fits this situation perfectly.
[Oh my!]
“Ugh… !?”
Eunhyeon was startled for a moment and looked up into space.
The goddess next to him, Verdandi, hit him hard on both cheeks in her spirit form.
Eunhyeon, who was so shocked that she came to her senses, looked at Verdandi, feeling as if her soul was being touched.
“Ber, Dandi…”
[Calm down. Hey kid. Don’t hesitate. No matter what choice I make, no. Everyone here will understand and respect the child’s choice. So…]
Verdandi smiled and removed Eunhyeon’s hesitation.
[Do what your child wants to do.]
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“Shit… !”
It was a complete misjudgment.
Dozens of stems stretched straight into the sky, dispersing all at once and rushing towards the retreating soldiers.
The purpose of that black finger tree is not just itself, but all humans within its range.
Because it meant that everyone but themselves could be targeted.
It was okay to protect those nearby, but it was impossible to protect all the troops scattered in all directions.
There was a clear limit to the range that could be protected due to the miracles of the goddess.
Just before dozens of fingers transformed into thorn awls tried to pierce the soldiers’ torsos.
Kwasik!
“Ugh!?”
The soldier, who had a premonition of his own tragic end, rolled on the floor miserably.
“Uh, uh… ?”
The soldier felt strange.
There was no pain from the thorn awl that should have pierced his body at any moment.
“I lived… All?”
Rather than feeling relief at having survived, the soldier looked up into space, wondering why he was able to survive.
The black shield held up as if to protect the entire person was blocking the fingers that had turned into thorn picks.
“How did this happen…?” ?”
The soldier looked around him in confusion.
“Shadow… ?”
Just like himself, the shadow rising from the ground is protecting the soldiers in the shape of a shield, as if it moves with its own will.
[What.]
[What. Also?]
[What else?]
[Why are you disturbing me again… !]
Numerous feelings of irritation expressed at being interrupted in the hunt for prey.
The thorn awls of the Black Finger Tree repeatedly attacked the shadow shield that protected the soldiers who attempted to attack.
Boom, boom! Coo!
As if to counter it, an even bigger shadow surrounded the shadow shield, creating a solid castle wall.
[Elvin Unique Spiritual Art]
[Shadow Fortress]
A strong one-man fortress covering the front, left, right, and top was built to protect dozens of soldiers.
“This…”
Eleanor suddenly saw the shadow that protected them and immediately grasped the situation.
First, it was Elvin’s elemental art that had been organized into Eunhyeon’s expedition team and departed.
“You look unpleasant.”
Riod arrived a moment too late, frowned and drew his sword.
It is made up of thousands and tens of thousands of fingers that writhe and form the trunk and branches of a tree.
It was so horrific and beyond common sense.
“… That’s right. “Can I have a proper dinner tonight?”
“If you have time to complain, think about getting rid of that first.”
“… Yep.”
The nine-tailed fox scolded Gerard, who sighed.
The blue flames fluttered in time with the shaking of the nine tails, scattering an overwhelming heat and presence around them along with their size.
“Are you okay?”
“Uh, why…”
Eleanor was embarrassed.
Not only Elvin, but also Riod, Gerard and the Nine-Tailed Fox, Alice and Derkin.
This is because all of the expedition members who went on a previous expedition came here.
Not only that.
“Elenoa!”
“Erin?”
For some reason, even Erin came here to help.
“Why did you come here… ?”
“I came to help Eleanor!”
“But the away mission… Wait a minute, that person…”
Eleanor instinctively looked around her.
As if reacting to Eunhyeon’s actions to find her, she called Eleanor.
“Are you looking for me?”
“Ah…”
Eleanor sighed softly as her hands gently hugged her from behind.
Without even having to turn her head to look, she immediately knew who it was, but wanted to make sure.
Eleanor asked Eunhyeon with a complex expression filled with trouble.
“Why, why did you come…”
“You don’t like me and Erin coming to help?”
“You know that’s not what I’m saying.”
Of course I was happy.
But at the same time, her mind was complicated.
For her, leaving the Void Stone currently located in the royal palace alone is the same as leaving the danger that demons may come over as the demon world progresses.
I was very grateful that Eunhyeon put herself first and came here, but Eunhyeon shouldn’t have done that.
He, Eunhyeon, is a very responsible person.
Therefore, he must have thought and pondered over and over again for a short period of time.
“Hurry to the palace right now…” .”
“Are you okay.”
“Yes?”
“Hehe, that’s right! Eleanor! “You don’t have to worry about that at all anymore!”
Erin said cheerfully.
Because the most powerful wizard in the world has already headed there on behalf of Eunhyeon and the expedition team.
