174Th Trap (14)
‘I’m going to die! I’m going to die! I’m going to die! I’m going to die! I’m going to die! I’m going to die!’
The great demon’s head was ringing with alarm bells.
The great demon, who had been roughly seized by Yerina’s arms and thrown to the ground,
had to be crushed by an overwhelming force that he couldn’t even flinch.
It was useless to cast magic.
If he tried to cast magic or sorcery, Yerina would burn the walls and breathe out her killing intent.
The moment he showed any sign of aggression, his testicles would be cut off.
With that premonition, the great demon had no choice but to remain bound and docile.
‘Luna, that damn bastard······!’
Meanwhile, the inside of the dungeon where the undead army had disappeared was deathly quiet.
They had only lost a few undead to the bright flash, but they had turned around and retreated so hastily.
He wondered for a moment if they had any sense of camaraderie.
He thought that he would have abandoned his comrades without mercy in the same situation, so he could understand it a little, just a little.
-Kuaaak! Come back and help me, Luna! Or I’ll spill all the secrets!!!-
“Give it up. They’ve already given up on you. They probably figured the information you know is worthless.”
-Th, that can’t be······!-
Come to think of it, Luna always tended to move in a sinister and secretive manner.
What if he had anticipated the betrayal of the Four Heavenly Kings and had deliberately hidden some information on his own?
If that was the case, it would explain why Luna hadn’t come out even though he was shouting at the top of his lungs that he would betray them.
-That damn son of a b*tch······!-
“Oh, shut up! Shut up before I rip your vocal cords out!”
-Un······-
“We’re retreating. We’ll hold the great demon’s arms and slowly retreat, murderer.”
“Got it.”
Yerina and Transylvania slowly retreated to the entrance of the dungeon, holding the great demon captive.
Soon, the two of them had completely exited the dungeon.
The stone door closed, and the inside of the dungeon was once again filled with pitch-black darkness.
The great demon, who had been dragged outside, was met with an unexpected face.
-Saintess?!-
“Whew. Two shots was the limit. I’m glad they got scared and retreated after just two shots.”
“If two shots is the limit, it won’t be easy to use it deep inside the dungeon. The enemy still doesn’t know the limits of the flash magic, so we have no choice but to use that to our advantage······.”
-······?!-
Saintess, Jill Diner.
The great demon’s head moved back and forth as she exchanged words with the Frost Lord and Transylvania.
It was hard to follow the flow of the conversation.
The flash that had just been cast inside the dungeon had ended after two shots?
If that was the case, then the undead army didn’t have to retreat.
-Luna! The flash from earlier–
“This isn’t going to work.”
-Ughugh?!-
The great demon immediately raised his voice to inform them.
However, Yerina’s hand struck with a vengeance, and before he could finish speaking, she grabbed his throat and tore it out.
Blood and magic gushed out uncontrollably. The great demon weakened in real time, and he had to use all his strength to stop the bleeding from the wound around his neck where the magic was leaking out.
Of course, the great demon’s physical structure was different from a human’s, so he shouldn’t have been unable to make a sound because his throat had been torn out.
However, the great demon had already been so terrified that he had completely lost the courage to make a loud noise.
“Hmm. Hey, we don’t have much time, do we? So, how about we have a nice little chat while we’re at it?”
-D, don’t come near me!-
“Don’t worry, you won’t get hurt if you cooperate.”
It was a lie.
Even if the great demon obediently spilled everything, Yerina intended to cut off an arm or two.That is more convenient than creating fear.
The Great Devil got scared and fell asleep.
Just as Yerina slowly approached him and stretched out her hand.
Suddenly the fur on her her ears and tail her her stood up.
“······What?”
I don’t know what’s going on though.
Her animal senses she were telling her something was wrong.
In the distance, a flock of birds flies away, making cries.
It was so simple, ants crawled out of the ground, lined up, and headed for somewhere as if they were running away.
“Everyone get down-”
The moment Yerina shouted urgently.
Spurt.
The world went dark.
Only infinite darkness and pitch black unfold before her eyes.
The vision remains unchanged even when the eyes are closed or opened.
Even when her arm clenches its mouth and screams, no sound comes out.
Everyone in Elvengard was taken aback and froze in place at the phenomenon that seemed as if light had disappeared from the world.
‘I don’t know what this is, but I’m thankful for it!’
Taking advantage of that opportunity, the Great Devil quickly broke free of his bonds.
It seems that humans cannot see anything or make a sound through this darkness, but they are not the Great Evil.
The identity of the darkness that descends here is none other than negative energy.
Because the atmosphere of the Underworld was thickly covered, the Great Devil could see and hear even within it.
Feeling at ease as if she had returned to her hometown, she was about to exact revenge on the frost lord and the murderer.
-Ah······?-
The Great Devil’s body stiffened.
This mass of vagina.
The Great Devil’s black pupils shook as he seemed to know its identity.
-Kiyaaagh!!!-
Soon, the cries of nobles rang out from all directions.
Only then did the Great Devil notice.
This is not just a simple sound.
It only looks like a dark dark energy because so many of the nobles that make up the Underworld are gathered together.
-This…-
It wasn’t like a large amount of negative energy was pouring into this world.
-It’s the Underworld…!-
The underworld itself.
The God of the Underworld, the King of the Underworld, has come to this world.
It must have ended up like this because his body covered this world.
When he noticed this, the Great Devil’s body collapsed from exhaustion.
It was a little okay when I didn’t know, but when I found out, I started to feel intimidated.
The Great Devil trembled under pressure that was incomparable to when he faced ‘him’.
Other humans were blindfolded and confused by the Emperor’s arrangements.
The great devil, who could see everything through the darkness, soon came face to face with the precious things that covered this world, namely the body of the Lord, and slowly began to go crazy.
-aaah! Oh no!-
The Great Demon hurriedly mobilized all the demon energy in his body and began to penetrate his dimension.
Anywhere was good.
Anywhere you can escape this world!
Because he had consumed so much of his demonic energy, it would take quite a long time for him to return to this world, but that was of no concern to the Archdemon.
He just needs to run away.
-Heeek!!!-
At that time, a huge hand flew towards the Great Devil.
The hand made by combining precious objects came toward the Great Devil with a roar.
Without asking or questioning, the Great Devil, who had no power left and had become virtually harmless, hurriedly flew to the other side of the dimension.
-Has one already run away-
The dimensional gap closes in an instant, and the hand made up of precious objects just tears through the air.
In the dark.
The king’s regretful voice rang out.
***”State your names. I will capture those you have created as long as your manpower allows and judge them with certainty. However, if they are not worthy of condemnation, you will not be free from misfortune.”
“Luna! Necromancer Luna! And Kali! Archdruid Kali!”
“The names of the present world are always unfamiliar. But that’s enough. If there are no namesakes, I’ll find them soon······. Hmm. Why is one of them hiding here like a rat?”
“······?!”
The voice of the underworld god became cold.
Only then did I feel a stir inside my clothes.
A creepy sensation like a bug crawling on my body.
······No, it’s actually crawling.
“······.”
I put my hand in and pulled it out, and a baby spider was caught on my finger.
For a moment, I thought it was an unknown person.
But the way her eyes shone and trembled, no matter how I looked at it, it was Kali.
When I dropped it on the floor, it quickly transformed into a human form and fell over as a small girl.
With her blonde hair scattered, the girl trembled and looked back at me.
“It was my fault. I didn’t realize you were hiding by my side.”
“Mi, Miso? What’s going on now? Huh? What’s going on······?”
“What’s going on. I’m trying to make you a Buddha.”
“······!”
-Kali. Archdruid Kali. It’s definitely a soul with such a history-
“aaagh!”
At that moment, as if the ‘gaze’ was concentrated, Kali grabbed her head and groaned.
A scene so pitiful that it was hard to watch.
But when I think about what the guy inside her did, my mind is washed away as if it had been washed away.
-Archdruid Kali. Tell me all your sins-
“Wh, Underworld God?! Wh, what?!”
-Archdruid Kali. Tell me all your sins-
“Can you explain what’s going on-“
-Archdruid Kali. Tell me all your sins-
“Ugh······.”
The voice of the underworld god, which was repeated every time, became more and more grotesquely distorted.
Only then did Kali seem to grasp the situation and freeze.
She was simply overwhelmed, looking up into the darkness and watching.
“Sin, sin? I have no sin! I lost my memory-“
“You’re lying in front of the underworld god. Your liver is out, Kali.”
“Miso? What are you talking about? A lie! You checked it out too. I lost my memory!”
“I definitely lost it. But not all of it? Except for the relatively recent memories, you remember everything you did, don’t you?”
“······!”
Pasasak.
The crystal ball in my hand crumbled and fell into my fist.
If I had a chance, I would have awakened Kali’s memory with the video in it, but now I don’t need it anymore.
Kali was lying from the beginning.
I didn’t lose all my memories.
At least I remembered the atrocities I had committed.
For some reason, I kept it a secret from me.
Maybe she realized with an animalistic sense that she would be in big trouble if she found out that she remembered.
Anyway, it made things easier.
“Memory is human history. Your history is in that body, Kali. And your history proves your evil deeds. Stop thinking about excuses and think about how to reduce your sentence.”
“What, what?! I’m doing evil? What the hell is that! How can what I’ve done be evil!”
“Not evil?”
For a moment, I couldn’t help but frown.
Determined to face the darkness, I raised my head and met Kali’s eyes.
Then Kali flinched as if she was a little surprised.”For four years, you spread the plague and killed innocent people.”
That day, the one who confronted Mijung was Kali.
Just because Mijung picked a flower, Kali spread the plague in the village.
All the residents except Mijung were cut and burned by the paladins.
“You usurped the World Tree and tried to spread the plague to the entire continent.”
The plague of death, which I thought was an unavoidable event.
That was also Kali’s doing.
She tried to use the worst weapon that kills an unspecified number of people, regardless of gender or age, on the entire continent.
“In addition, you committed murder and deception without any justification or revenge. Isn’t this evil?”
“Yes! The great nature is a world of the survival of the fittest! It is a natural structure for the strong to eat and exploit the weak! The strong die and become nutrients for the weak to be born, and the weak are eaten by the strong again. This is the cycle of nature! How can what I did be evil! Rather, isn’t your human civilization the evil that interferes with that cycle?”
“What······?”
I was speechless at the absurd words.
Kali, furious and blushing.
This guy is serious now.
She’s really talking like this.
That’s the most surprising thing to me.
“What drives human civilization? Desire, desire. Human civilization revolves around fulfilling desires and obtaining low pleasures. But I burned this body only for my beliefs! And I won’t stop! Until the day I kill all humans and lead the great nature to the ‘right path’!”
“······.”
I was speechless.
I never thought there would be a person in the world who thinks like this.
My lips tremble as I am shocked.
-Wow. You have an interesting story. It certainly makes sense-
“Right, King of Hell? What I said is right? If it’s evil, this guy is the one who’s doing it! He lied that he was one of the Four Heavenly Kings and that he was my lover!”
“······.”
-That is also evil-
“hahahahaha! I knew you would say that! See, Mijung? No. Isn’t Mijung your real name? Of course, good! Your justice doesn’t apply here! Do you think a god of the underworld would have the same morality as a human? Never! The King of Hell has a sense of justice based on the cycle of nature, just like me! Unlike your shallow and hypocritical morality!”
Kali, who became more and more arrogant, poked my chest with her finger.
I felt scared and trembled.
My head goes down on its own, and I stare at the floor.
‘Doesn’t this crazy woman understand the situation now?’
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It’s not Kali that I’m afraid of.
The god of the underworld has been acting strange since a while ago.
But Kali still didn’t notice it, and her shoulders were raised high.
Kali turned around curiously.
She looked into the darkness and shouted.
“Then please punish this guy, King of Hell!”
-No. That’s not my job-
“Yes?! What is that······.”
-Have you ever heard the story that the gods of the underworld rule over the conflicts between parents and children? Is there a story that the gods of the underworld judge the broken friendship between close friends? I don’t get involved in petty quarrels and fights. I am only interested in those who have committed serious sins-
“W, well, you’re not talking about me, are you? I just did what was natural as part of the great nature······.”
-That’s right. You functioned well as part of the great nature-
“Right? That’s······ right······?”
Kali, who finally realized that something was wrong, her face turned strange.
Her face gradually turned pale, as if she had sensed her fate.”It seems that you, as an intelligent and civilized being, feel greater joy when you function as a part of the great nature. Well, I shall bestow my grace upon you and allow you to frolic upon the flames of karma in the underworld as an animal.”
“Wha······?!”
“Do animals displease you? If so, I shall gladly send you to the Mountain of Swords hell, where you will be repeatedly sliced by blades as your body grows.”
“aaah! No! No! That’s not what I meant······ Ah! No! I was wrong! I apologize! I will admit my sins! I will repent!”
It was too late to grasp the situation.
Only then did Kali prostrate herself, rubbing her palms together and sobbing.
“I will reflect on my actions! Because of my shallow beliefs, I have killed so many people! Please have mercy and forgive my sins······.”
“Do not worry. It will be fine. First, let us start by making you feel the pain of the innocent people you have hurt. Hmm······? Oh my. After reviewing your history, it seems that it will take thousands of years just to get started.”
“aaah! No! No!”
“hahahahaha! I told you, you do not need to thank me!”
Darkness enveloped us along with a spine-chilling laughter.
At that moment, Myeong grabbed control of my body, and his terrified gaze turned into a sleepy one, as if he were bored.
Myeong pulled a crimson soul out of my chest and began to mold it into a round bead in his hand.
Finally, the bead was complete, Kali’s soul.
It was covered in a pitch-black abyss for a moment, and then it slipped out of Myeong’s hand and was sucked into the darkness.
Kali was dragged into the underworld.
I could only watch the scene, my mouth agape and trembling.
**
note to self don´t piss off gods