Episode 88.
The end has come.
The limits of the body began to come.
I couldn’t wait any longer.
I decided to make the biggest attack I could.
‘I’ve never shown the maximum strength to a person.’
Maximize RBI by using the technique of strengthening the body.
I thought the Exorcist Sword might break.
But I can’t help it.
With all my strength, I exploded my mana the moment I reached Veles.
The backlash threw me back.
“Unbelievable···.”
Even my greatest attack was of no use to Veles.
I decided to accept the inevitable approach of death.
‘Is this the second death already…’
I thought about it before, but death was a really unpleasant thing.
I never thought I’d be able to go back again.
I was living without regrets, but it was a life with regrets.
Veles slowly approached me.
“All your desperate efforts have gone to nothing.”
“Shut up and kill me.”
I was going to wait quietly for death.
But a strange thing happened.
Someone shouted from behind me and threw something at Veles.
“You filthy devil!”
Veles broke something thrown by someone.
and pouring liquid.
By seeing Veles frowning, he was able to infer the identity of that something.
‘Holy water…but who?’
I wanted to look behind me, but I couldn’t.
There was no strength in the body.
I don’t even have the strength to turn my head.
But it was someone who reached right behind me as if there was no need for that.
“I’m here to help!”
Are you here to help?
me?
whoever?
“Who are you?”
“For now, let’s avoid the body and talk.”
I wanted to shake my head.
There is no way to escape from that Veles.
In the end, both I and this person will die.
“It’s a crowd.”
“No, it’s not a bunch.”
The man’s words that it’s not unreasonable.
There was the sound of paper tearing.
A bright light shimmered, and a great mana whirlpool struck.
“This···?”
“Goodbye, devil!”
Veles just looks at it with interest.
“Hmm… it wouldn’t hurt to leave you for entertainment. Become stronger and come to me!”
And in an instant, the landscape changed before my eyes.
I immediately realized what had happened.
“Teleport scroll.”
Paper with magic.
It was also a piece of paper containing movement magic.
very expensive stuff.
The moment he was convinced that he had run away from Veles, his entire body lost strength.
“Now let’s talk again…”
I could see a man’s figure in a blur, but I lost my mind.
***
Ephinia went to where Suhar was, but no one was there.
“what? Where have you been?”
I looked around, but I couldn’t even see Suhar’s shadow.
Then, a person approached Ephinia.
“Oh, I have a group.”
It wasn’t once or twice that the man talked to her, so Ephinia naturally assumed that the man was interested in her.
However, despite Ephinia’s words that the party was there, the man did not back down.
“By any chance, what is the name of the person in the party…?”
“Why is that?”
“Are you Suhar?”
“uh···? That’s right.”
Ephinia, who heard Suhar’s name through a strange man, couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
“He suddenly went somewhere saying he had something urgent right now, and he asked me to tell him.”
“yes? Is it really?”
Ephinia’s expression suddenly darkened.
The man did not miss this time.
“So, if you have time…”
Epinia left without listening to the man’s back story.
Suddenly, the man left alone scratched his head and moved to another place.
Epinia sighed.
“Something happened all of a sudden.”
How urgent is it that he leaves without even seeing his face?
It was Ephinia who felt sorry for Suhar.
“Ah, what can I do?”
Ephinia guessed that there must be a reason for leaving so quickly.
“then···.”
Epinia was troubled.
Whether he should continue to visit the ruins or return to the imperial family.
Ephinia, who finished her thoughts, spoke.
“Let’s just go back.”
Ephinia was obviously happy just walking around the ruins, but since Suhar was gone, Ephinia had no more desire to visit the ruins.
“When can we meet again…”
Anticipating the day they would meet someday, Ephinia moved to the imperial palace.
***
Veles is suddenly alone.
“It’s strange anyway.”
Veles has risen to the level of a half-god.
As high as the realm was, he was also sensitive about the presence.
But I couldn’t feel the presence of a man who suddenly appeared.
“Ah… that’s how I see it…”
Prior to the destruction of the branch, members of the organization sometimes went missing.
Veles also thought that Cassias had done that.
“I thought it was Cassias, but were there other guys?”
Anyway, Veles remembered one thing.
“I wondered how he found the branch, but if he had that level of skill…”
A demon came to mind.
Compared to himself, he was a demon with a very low level.
That demon was the book demon, Kboo.
“It must have been taken after defeating Kubu.”
But I did come up with one curious thing.
“But defeating Kubu wouldn’t have earned the book.”
If that were the case, Veles would have killed Khbu and taken the book long ago.
That would mean that Kubu played the game.
“To beat that biased game. Cassias… that’s really amazing.”
With no reason to be here anymore, Veles decided to return to the organization.
“I have to change everything now.”
The book must have caught many places in the branch.
Therefore, it was necessary to move the branch in a hurry.
“I’ll have to hide it so I can’t find it again.”
Cassias, who will become his nemesis, is alive.
Perhaps after recovering, there is a possibility of raiding another branch right away.
“Because it is advantageous to have a lot of numbers.”
Veles decided to keep his men alive for his own plan.
***
The situation in front of me seemed unfamiliar to me.
A man I had never seen before was grinding herbs for me and treating me.
This man even saved me by using an expensive teleport scroll.
“excuse me···.”
“Oh, are you awake?”
“Who are you to help me like this?”
I couldn’t feel any malice from this man.
He didn’t even feel the intent to kill, so he probably wasn’t even related to the organization.
“nice to see you. First of all, self-introduction should come first. It is called an ode.”
Odd?
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No way… No, there was a possibility that it was someone with the same name.
I asked for confirmation.
“Do you know Patrick?”
It was Odd who looked surprised at the name Patrick.
It was clear.
This is Odd, Patrick’s former teacher.
“How do you know that name…”
“He is my disciple.”
“yes?”
“And through the disciple, I came to know the existence of the former master.”
Odd smiles pleasantly.
“hahahaha, that child still remembers me.”
“That’s right. I was missing my teacher who suddenly left… kuh!”
As I was speaking, I felt pain and my expression naturally frowned.
Odd came up to me and said.
“The wound hasn’t healed yet. Please refrain from talking.”
“Ugh… I see.”
I had a lot of questions, but now was the time to recover from my wounds.
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Not once did he get hit by Veles’ attack.
To be precise, Veles only made one light attack.
These were all scars I got as a side effect of the power I used.
‘For now… I need to sleep again…’
Perhaps because of the efficacy of the herb, he could not bear to fall asleep.
“I will close my eyes for a while. Thank you very much.”
“I’ll tell you everything after the wound heals even a little.”
“yes···.”
Right after that I fell asleep again.
***
A week has passed.
The wound has improved a lot, and I learned many things through the conversation with Odd.
In fact, Odd’s reason for leaving Patrick had already been revealed.
It was as I heard before.
“Actually, I found a ruin while serving as a mercenary.”
“A ruin?”
“Yes, it was an ancient ruin. I learned about the past there.”
The past that Odd came to know was the past that I also knew.
It was said that only those with mysterious abilities sat in the seat of nobility.
But I didn’t understand a bit.
“Then why did you leave?”
As far as I remember, Aud said he would see the world with his own eyes.
Why did he leave behind such words?
“Is that because of the diary found in the ruins…?”
“The weather?”
I can understand why he found the diary.
But there were two things I didn’t understand.
One was interpretation.
“If it was a ruin made in ancient times, it would be an ancient language… How did you interpret it?”
The second time I couldn’t believe I left because of the weather.
“Besides, I don’t understand why you went on a trip because of just one diary.”
Odd answered my questions one by one.
“Actually, I think I was born with a special bloodline.”
“yes?”
“If I had been born in ancient times, I would have been an aristocrat.”
that is so.
“Aud also has special abilities?”
“yes. The ability I had was the ability to decipher any text.”
“That’s really…”
It was a useful ability.
However, I had a question.
“Then, who are Aud’s parents…?”
Usually, at least one of the parents must have the ability to manifest the ability.
so i knew
It was probably for sure.
“That… I don’t know. My parents had the ability and didn’t notice it, or was it just me who was born this special.”
“is that so···.”
However, a more important question remained.
“Then what was written in the diary?”
The reason Odd went on a trip must have been in that diary.
Odd, who paused for a while, spoke.
“The diary contained the life of only one person.”
“Whose life was it?”
“I had no idea who it was. But it was someone who knew the details of what was happening on the continent.”
what happened to the continent?
“What happened to the continent?”
“It’s a large-scale rebellion after the Empire’s conquest of demons.”
I know that.
When Cassias returned, the rebellion had successfully ended.
“But why?”
“The owner of the diary speculated that someone was behind the mutiny.”
“If it’s someone…?”
“For example, demons…”
Asmodian!
Hopefully that is.
“Anyway, why did you think he was behind the rebellion?”
“Um… I don’t know.”
“Even if only nobles without fighting ability remained, could commoners without any ability drive out the nobles? And these things happened simultaneously.”
Simultaneously…?
Isn’t that possible?
“It happened simultaneously, and they communicated freely despite the distance.”
“Well, if you use magic even if you don’t have the ability…”
“Magic wasn’t that advanced at this time. Even more so, he is a commoner. It is difficult to learn magic properly.”
“That means…”
It was said that there was an outstanding magician on the commoners side.
Besides, magic that was unthinkable with magic at that time.
There was only one person behind it that could be identified.
“If it’s a non-human demon, it’s possible.”
There were only demons who used magic far superior to humans.