Chapter 145
The fake cyan that Alpine defeated soon collapsed into a pile of reddish dirt.
“I thought the texture was strange, but was it a clay doll?”
Alpine muttered while touching his fists as if he was curious.
I averted my gaze for a moment and then explained.
“I was going to take care of it before the fake did something stupid… … . Well, thanks to you, the effort has been reduced.”
“Whoops! It is the duty of a saintess to see through lies!”
Somehow, an arrogant idiot saint.
It’s obviously a good job, but strangely, I don’t feel like praising it.
“… … Seeing a hole drilled in the torso of a guy who looks just like me makes me feel complicated.”
It overlapped with the scene depicting the words of ‘Xian’ in the game days, to the point where I stopped for a moment.
“By the way, is this the work of a student?”
“no. It’s made with alchemy, but it wasn’t a student who made something like this. Not even a professor.”
“What a wicked man!”
“Why are your eyes twinkling? … … Hey, did you think that the test would be fuzzy with this?”
“Yeah, that can’t be.”
Thought. This saint… … was wrong.
First of all, I explained to this guy what the head of the Lyole family is doing.
“ah… … okay. Was it a lyoleate?”
“What worries me a little is that you were originally close with the Elcia faction, right?”
“yes? Ah~ I guess it was to the extent that they followed me when I called them out saying that they had precious snacks.”
Anya.
Well, I’m not particularly offended.
“This is a story that shouldn’t be told in the first place.”
“try.”
“There was a message from Daesongnyeo to keep an eye on the members of the Liolet family.”
Well, the problem of the Liolet family should be known to all those in power.
However, since it is not revealed on the surface, it cannot be easily touched, so we can only watch it.
“In short, did you actually spy on Elcia?”
“well… … . As soon as I saw Elcia, I thought she wasn’t someone to worry about, so I stopped watching her after that.”
“Do your work, saint.”
After all, wouldn’t half of this situation have been prevented if the church had worked properly?
When I look at it suspiciously, Alfine averts my eyes.
“it’s okay. Anyway, it is true that there were uninvited guests in the exam.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Some guys have nothing to worry about. … … Probably most would be very dangerous to run into something like this.”
I said, kicking the pile of red dirt with my feet.
“It’s not like there are only fake drafts.”
“There will be more. Quite a lot of that too.”
“Do you have my fake one too?”
“No matter how much you do, you can’t even clone a saintess? Why are you disappointed?”
The reason I’m so sure is that Jaylen has done something similar before.
exactly in the game.
Jeilen subjugation episode.
“The purpose must be to trick you into causing something to happen in this test.”
The professors prepare subtle fakes in advance that even professors will not notice.
The rest is to move those fakes to achieve their goal.
“draft? So what are you going to do now?”
“That’s a good question.”
The reason I told Alfine the general circumstances was to get her help.
“I want to ask you one thing, but if you recognized my fake, Alpine, do you have any special abilities?”
“no!”
… … don’t you have
I was expecting a bit! She’s a saint too! Always betray expectations!
“As soon as I saw it, ah~ I thought this wasn’t Xian, so I got a little angry… … .”
“You pierce people’s stomachs when you’re angry. scared.”
“no! I thought it must be! whoop whoop… … . Originally, those who walk the sacred path can see through lies.”
“I heard you don’t have that kind of ability! It’s no use pretending to be there now.”
Well, no matter what, it didn’t matter.
“Alfine, we have one job to do.”
“yes.”
What can I do? I simply said to this girl who was waiting for my amazing instructions with sparkling eyes.
“Break it all down.”
“… … yes?”
“From now on, eliminate all the kids you run into.”
whether fake or real.
Smash them all.
easy to understand?
If you throw it all together equally, it becomes surprisingly peaceful.
“I think about it from time to time, Xian sometimes reminds me of Daeseongnyeo.”
“Is that a compliment? Or is it a curse?”
Are you sure you reach the great saintess?
Anyway, what I’m going to do now is interrupt what’s going to happen here.
Stopping the most important guy has been left to the lady, so I won’t even bother now.
* * *
Milian.
The evil man who joined forces with Deolkin Reolelate to create a disaster here today quietly waited for the long-awaited time to come.
“Of course you were waiting too. Elcia Liolate.”
“… … There really was. How the hell did you get in?”
“I want to know?”
“It happened. It must sound trivial.”
Elcia shook her head and took out the spear.
obvious hostility.
However, Milian ridiculed him saying that he knew that.
“I will recommend you one last time, Elcia. help me Together we will avenge the imperial nobility.”
“… … If it meant anything else, I would have been happy to help. But not this.”
firm refusal.
Millian shrugged his shoulders, saying he was sorry.
“A tragedy? Why do you want that!”
“Because I want power. And because I was envious.”
“… … Are you envious?”
Elcia muttered with a devastated face.
I never imagined that I would hear these words from a close friend from the past, not from anyone else.
Milian quietly mocked her.
You seem to want to say that you are an immature child who knows nothing.
“Milian, what you want is about the Liolet family… … Wasn’t it the aristocratic revenge?”
“Not wrong. But Elcia, what do you do with only revenge?”
“… … what?”
“On that day, as your powers burned down, did you simply think that I was resentful?”
Millian shook his head.
“I thought I thought about it even when I barely survived and couldn’t speak.”
“… … .”
“This is what happened because I couldn’t have it. That’s why you’re sick.”
“you… … .”
“Elcia, what if it was the other way around? I belong to a family that is more special than yours, and I have outstanding talents… … And if you have the power Would it have been the same as it was back then?”
Milian asserts that it is not.
“Because I wasn’t special, because I wasn’t born with it… … . It happened because there was a class difference between nobles and commoners.”
All you want is power.
Milian emphasized that and looked at Elsia. But it will not be her who sees.
Its gaze is directed not at the human named Elcia, but at the talent she possesses.
“If I really hated him, would I have joined hands with that Deolkin? It is because we have mutual understanding.”
Milian, who hoped for talent and strength.
It doesn’t matter who it is, so the evil family head who wants the terrible power to be completed soon.
“Do you think that will happen?”
“It will be. It’s not a vague certainty. Elcia, I’m sure I can steal your talent.”
Milian takes off the half mask.
At that moment, Elcia forced herself to look away and stared straight into her face.
“… … Was it like that?”
The face behind the mask was not horribly scarred.
Black ashes.
Filling half of Milian’s face was a lump of black and ominous ashes.
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“Is that also your father’s work?”
“It wasn’t forced. I agreed, and it was the result of an experiment to confirm the possibility.”
As the ash falls to the floor, it burns black as if contaminated.
It was weak, but it was similar to the effect of Lyoleate’s authority.
“It’s as Xian said.”
“There’s no way I can take your talent without the blood of the Lyoleites. So you should get a body like that.”
“Are you insane?”
“You can’t be sane.”
Then, the prosthetic sword wrapped around her right arm falls off.
Likewise, there was no human body there. Filling the inside of the prosthetic arm is an arm formed by clumping black ash.
“It seems that the remnants of your powers were transplanted into the body and altered. … … That alchemist’s explanation.”
“alchemist?”
Milian shrugged, as if he had no intention of divulging that far.
“The important thing is that you can take it away. If I use this place to kill Elcia and meet the conditions here, your power will recognize me as a new evil.”
“… … It is miserable.”
“I mean?”
“no… … . will tell me Milian.”
Elcia closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again.
It’s like trying to open your eyes and look straight ahead.
“Am I the only one who was frightened and regretted the mistakes of the past?”
“I’m sorry. but i don’t blame you Elcia. Even aside from your incompetence.”
“If you’re going to do that, rather resent it.”
Although she ridiculed herself, Elcia’s eyes glowed with other emotions.
Determination.
“I have no intention of following the family’s instructions.”
“To fight? good. I’m not going to tell you to hand it over.”
Milian aimed her arm made of ashes.
“how is it? Aren’t you curious? What is it like to suffer from this?”
“No specifications. … … I don’t even feel the loyalty to you now.”
Elcia took out her spear and aimed it at it.
A spear she wields often.
“What do you think will happen with that?”
“It can’t be. After all, it is just a spear suffering from a single slime.”
“… … ?”
As if feeling a sense of incongruity, Milian frowned, but soon clicked her tongue and ran towards Elcia first.
Because in order to achieve her goal, securing Elcia was the priority.
Elcia did not run away.
Even though I understand what happens when I touch that power… … . No, because I know it well, I don’t back down even more.
“Milian, I will take responsibility and deal with you.”
“If you can!”
Milian jumped in at once, raised her arms wide and slammed them down.
Likewise, Elcia lifted the spear and swung it with the momentum to cut off that arm.
‘How stupid! This arm is equal to your ability!’
Millian was confident of his victory.
Her ashen arm has the same effect as the blood of demise, the power of the Lyoleites.
Although it was only a fragment and had to be touched directly, and the effect was weak, it was not a force that the human body could endure.
It’s enough to destroy the spear wrapped in an halfway aura at once, and destroy Elcia’s arm by burning it as well.
‘It’s difficult to kill, so I’ll make you regret it by burning your limbs. Old friend.’
It was the moment when he was about to grab the spear with his arm, with an evil smile on his half-remaining face.
“You are stupid. … … old friend.”
“… … !!”
Milian, who noticed it belatedly, tried to take his arm, but it was already too late.
The moment the spear and the arms of the ashes touch, a bizarre repulsive force and heat spread in all directions.
“Kuk!”
Millian gritted his teeth and withdrew.
“It was me who underestimated you. Elcia.”
I had to admit this.
It wasn’t because Elcia was recklessly blocking it from the beginning.
An aura wrapped around the tip of Elcia’s spear. Because that blue aura contained black heat.
“Are you able to write? What kind of whim did you do?”
Elcia couldn’t properly control her abilities.
The only thing I could have done was to barely forcefully squeeze it and hit it in front.
That kind of Elcia is now mixing it into her own aura and producing as much power as she wants.
unique skill. Doom’s bloody control.
“Because I have good friends.”
“… … After all, that warlock was the biggest obstacle.”
Knowing that it meant cyan, Millian gnashed his teeth.
“It seems like you couldn’t say much to Xi’an about that, didn’t you?”
“Unfortunately, there was no gap. … … I took chances several times.”
However, I did not think that it would affect Elcia in a short period of time. Millian too. And Deolkin, who was giving orders behind him.
“Don’t ask the same thing the other way around. Milian, can you stop me with your poor arm?”
“… … .”
Ironically, he took back exactly what he had said in disdain.
“Yeah, it won’t be easy. Elcia.”
I’ll have to admit
However, the ominous malice revealed in Milian’s expression did not disappear.
“Then shall we change our priorities?”
Milian’s gaze turns to the surroundings. It’s not like I’m digging my eyes.
“We have no choice but to try to secure those kids first.”
“… … .”
Alice doesn’t say anything. But there was no way I wouldn’t care.
“As you may know, we have already put a useful ambush in this forest. I mean, if you put your mind to it, you can subdue that kid.”
“… … Don’t do anything stupid.”
“Do you think I will listen to you?”
I had no intention of staging a frivolous hostage-taking. Milian activated the artifact he received from his collaborators in advance.
“You’ll regret it. Elcia.”
“… … Will it be so?”
With a cold face, Elcia lamented the foolishness of her fallen friend.
“I also left it to him. I’m sure if it’s Xian, I’ll easily stop your trivial acts.”
“What the hell can that warlock do!”
“Even I haven’t heard of it, but strangely enough, he is a man who can do what he says.”
So there is no need to worry.
Confidently, Elcia asserted.
and… … .
“You better realize!”
The moment I declared my trust in Xian.
aaang!
The whole forest shakes with the explosion.
What soared was flames and explosions.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Both are silent. That scene now would have nothing to do with either side’s intentions.
With Milian holding her breath.
For some reason, Elcia is breaking out in a cold sweat.
“Hey Xian, what the hell are you doing!”
Elsia cried out, putting her trust-filled declaration a moment ago to shame.