135Th Chapter. Solara’S Choice (3)
“Save Kali! Save Kali! Oh my! Ah! aaah!!!”
“······?”
Cardinal Nicholas, no, the necromancer Luna, was holding the spider monster that had been cut in half and crying.
Solara stared blankly at the sight and tried hard to understand the situation.
In the end, she came to one conclusion.
‘I’ve been tricked!’
She was hit on the back of the head.
Solara hurriedly looked back, but the man with the sharp smile who had been next to her until just now had already disappeared.
He wasn’t one of the Four Heavenly Kings.
He had impersonated one of the Four Heavenly Kings and made her kill another one of the Four Heavenly Kings.
In the end, he was an enemy.
“Ah······.”
Solara’s vision blurred.
She had been tricked by the enemy and ended up killing her superior.
She realized it too late, but that wasn’t important now.
She had to chase after and kill the bastard named Mijung, who knew a lot of confidential information about the Four Heavenly Kings and had incited her to kill one of them.
No. The name Mijung was probably an alias.
The spider monster knew the name Mijung as another girl.
“I’m sorry, Luna. But the situation is urgent right now. Before the main force of the Holy Knights arrives, let’s find the bastard who tricked me first-“
“Shut up!!! I’ll kill you first! You first, you first, you first, you first, you first, you first!!! How dare you kill Kali! Again, kill! How did I resurrect her! She was about to be perfect! My Kali! aaah!!!”
“······.”
Thud, thud. Thud.
Cardinal Nicholas lost his mind and rushed at Solara, punching her.
However, there was no way that an untrained fist could do any damage to Solara.
Solara just stood there and took it.
She thought that in time, his anger would subside and he would regain his senses.
But that was Solara’s mistake.
Luna had already lost her mind a long time ago.
Lately, she had only been able to hold on to her sanity with her obsession with Kali.
However, now that Kali’s body had been completely destroyed, there was no way her sanity would return.
She had completely forgotten about her sense of purpose.
Luna was consumed by the desire for revenge against the enemy who had killed Kali.
“Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die!!!”
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“Luna. This is not the time for this. If the main force arrives and finds this scene, I’ll be dead-“
“Yes! Die! Die! No! Kill this traitor, Zeno!”
“Zeno······?”
Solara’s brow furrowed at the sudden mention of her brother’s name.
Why was Zeno’s name being mentioned here?
Just as she was about to ask, Cardinal Nicholas stepped back with a strange laugh.
And Solara’s pupils shook at the amount of magic power she felt in the sky above.
It was the skill of a beginner among beginners, who could not control their magic power and scattered most of it into the air.
However, the amount was too great.
If the amount that leaked out was that much, how much would actually be used in the spell?
She couldn’t quite figure it out.
“What?”
Solara’s mouth fell open at the sight of the magician flying over the building.
Solara’s precious, cherished, and painful finger.
Her brother Zeno was floating there with empty eyes.
“Why, why? Why are you here?”
A fierce red light was emanating from her chest where her heart should be.
He was using a flying spell that he shouldn’t have learned.
His complexion was unusually pale.
Solara’s lips trembled as she sensed something was wrong.
She knew that Luna had always wanted to make Zeno ‘perfect’ and had been drooling over him.
Surely not, she thought.”What have you done to my brother?!”
“I made him ‘perfect’ myself. Know that it is an honor to die to your ‘perfect’ brother!”
“No, how is that perfect… Zenon! Look at my face, Zenon! Come to your senses!”
Despite Solara’s desperate cries, Zenon did not give her a glance.
He was clearly not in his right mind.
He didn’t even seem alive.
By now, it was certain.
Zenon was in a ‘perfect’ state due to Luna’s sorcery.
He had become a body that could not die, no, could not be killed.
A puppet that would serve only Luna for eternity, without his body being damaged or decaying throughout his life.
In front of her brother who had returned as a tool, Solara collapsed to her knees.
Her life’s goal had just disappeared.
“Huh?”
At that moment.
Zenon’s lifeless eyes turned towards Solara.
Their eyes met.
For a moment, she harbored a glimmer of hope that he might regain his senses.
Zenon raised his hand.
With violent storm-like magic scattering around him, magic began to be cast from Zenon’s fingertips.
Kwang!
An explosion spell struck Solara.
Her armor shattered, and Solara’s body flew through the air.
“Keuk!”
Thick blood spewed from Solara’s mouth.
As she barely managed to get up, pieces of broken armor fell from Solara’s body.
But a storm of magic blew again.
Solara just watched as her brother aimed an explosion spell at her, and froze in place.
Bang! Kwang!
Two consecutive explosions threw Solara far away.
Before she knew it, Solara’s armor was completely shattered and scattered everywhere.
Her long blonde hair had been burned and torn in the explosion, and was now very short.
“Ah…”
She no longer had the energy to get up.
She couldn’t even muster the voice to beg her brother to come to his senses.
She no longer had the will to resist.
She didn’t want to live.
Her life, which she had dedicated to curing her brother’s incurable disease, had been completely denied, and now she wanted to die.
Magic began to gather at Zenon’s fingertips again.
She couldn’t take it anymore.
She had a hunch that if she took that, she would die, no matter how strong she was.
“Wait.”
At that moment, Cardinal Nicholas frowned and raised his hand.
Zenon retracted his magic.
A crow was flying in from afar.
A strange light appeared in Cardinal Nicholas’ eyes, which had only been filled with the intention of killing Solara.
Soon, the crow landed on Cardinal Nicholas’ shoulder.
Cardinal Nicholas took out the note tied to the crow’s leg and read it, then frowned.
“Save her unconditionally…?”
A message from the Great Demon.
The content was simple.
– Solara must be saved unconditionally.
– However, if it seems that Solara has completely turned to the enemy’s side, she must be killed.
It was a simple and clear instruction.
It seemed that he had sent it after hearing that there was a problem in Cologne across the sea.
At this, Luna, who had been thinking only of killing Solara without any reason, regained her senses.
“Save her? The one who killed Kali? Kwaak! Kwaak! Damn it… It’s Belphegor’s words…”
Originally, there was no superiority or inferiority among the Four Heavenly Kings.
However, Luna had no choice but to obediently follow Belphegor’s instructions.
It was inevitable.
The one who became fond would lose.
With his madness somewhat subsided and his reason returned, Cardinal Nicholas glared at Solara, who had become a blood clot.”I would like to kill you now and send you to Kali, but… I will give up since the lovely Great Demon told me to. Instead, you will have to obey me for the rest of your life.”
“Ugh, gulp. Cough…”
Sola finally exhaled after clearing her airway that was blocked by blood.
And when she looked up, Cardinal Nicolas was caressing the cheek of Zenon, who had come down to the ground.
She had no energy left.
Sola just knelt down, letting the blood mixed with her internal organs flow out of her mouth and wept.
“Zenon’s heart is beating because of my spell. That means I can stop the spell and stop his heart whenever I want. Do you understand?”
“……”
Nod, nod.
Sola barely nodded twice.
“If you behave, I will remove the spell from Zenon’s heart. Of course, if you like your current ‘perfect’ appearance, I will leave it as it is.”
“……”
Sola shook her head rapidly.
She hated that.
She didn’t want her brother to be a puppet of the necromancer for eternity without being able to die.
“Zenon… I… I’m sorry…”
Sola clenched her trembling fists while shedding tears of blood.
She had been too greedy.
She had reached out to the forbidden realm, trying to overcome the fate given to her brother.
Sola’s wish was granted.
Zenon was freed from his given fate and did not experience death.
However, this was not the form that Sola wanted.
Zenon would not have wanted it even more.
“I, I… was foolish…”
She regretted it to the bone.
Maybe I had been turning away from the truth.
Like the paladin and the Four Heavenly Kings who held her hand, she believed that they were on the side of justice.
No. She wanted to believe it.
But that couldn’t be the case.
She had a hunch about where her necromancer superior, who experimented with corpses every day, got so many corpses.
But she didn’t wonder.
She didn’t wonder why the seemingly noble Great Demon was called the ‘Great Demon’.
She didn’t try to find out.
She closed her eyes and ears and focused only on saving her brother.
The price for that has now come.
She was paying dearly for the price she didn’t want to know, the price for the sin of ignorance.
By taking away my brother, whom I valued more than anything…
“Zenon… I… will let you… die… Since it turned out like this because of me… I will take responsibility… and let you sleep peacefully…”
Sola gritted her teeth and swore.
She would kill her brother with her own hands.
Until now, she had devoted herself to saving her brother.
But from now on, it was a journey to kill her brother.
Since she had unknowingly given herself to evil.
From now on, it was a path towards complete堕落.
There was no turning back.
Sola was no longer possessed, but she was effectively a puppet.
Now she felt like she could kill anyone, whether they were children or the elderly.
If only Luna gave the order…
“Lady Luna. Please, give me an order…”
“Okay! Okay, okay! The main force of the Order of the Holy Knights is approaching! I will heal you right now, so destroy the Order of the Holy Knights and-“
“Sola.”
Thud.
At that moment, a large hand was placed on Sola’s shoulder.
Sola’s body trembled at this.
A man named Misung was now standing next to him.
He had definitely been shivering from mana exhaustion just a moment ago.Somehow, she was now full of magic power.
“If you bow your head here, you will never come back. Then I have to kill you.”
“After all······ you, the Four Heavenly Kings······ weren’t you······.”
“Of course not, you idiot. You’re sick to be fooled. Now choose. Do you really want to go over there?”
“I can’t help it······.”
There is no other way.
Only her younger brother was the reason for Solara’s life.
Her younger brother, who was more precious than her own life, made her live a terrible life that was worse than death.
It seemed that she could commit any evil for the dignified death of her younger brother.
“You can’t help it. I’ll give you a hint. I broke all of Luna’s puppets left in Cologne now.”
“What are you talking about now? Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down!!!”
“What this means is that if you kill the cardinal, the medium will disappear and the sorcery will lose its effect.”
“······!”
Solara’s eyes widened.
Doesn’t that mean that if you destroy the body of Cardinal Nicolas, Zenon will die?
As soon as he saw Solara’s eyes, the man smiled as if he knew what choice he had made.
“Recover and follow me. I’ll hold you back so you can’t run away.”
An advanced potion was poured over Solara’s head.
Then the man immediately picked up a black sword and began to move forward.
In the midst of an explosive magic of incredible power being aimed.
Confidently head-on.