108. Leternia, the Dream Demon
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It was the voice of sliding ice.
“Have you ever wondered that the heart of an undead Death Knight has a beating heart?”
The ice slid towards Esilia and shattered.
Heart?
Esilia, the innocence of the saint, repeated the words in her mind in a daze.
A heart?
Her dizziness, which she had never experienced before, rushed towards her. She couldn’t even feel the strong arm of Zer Peed that was holding her. It feels like floating in unfathomable air, no, left alone in the world.
The voice of Leternia resounding throughout the space shook her spirit, which had been falling, rising, and floating at random.
“It’s Renaire’s child. Have you ever seen an undead?”
“Esilia! Do not answer!”
Once again the ice slid towards her saint. The saintess partly pursed her quivering lips.
“No… ….”
The saintess shook her head slowly. So helpless she looked, it seemed she was just letting her falter. She even wondered if the saintess had revealed her own feelings. Her mind was also random, not quite right, and she was just helplessly swept away.
She had never seen the undead. Never.
Leaving aside the fact that her undead were so shunned that they were considered taboo by her priests, seeing her undead was a far cry from her. Not just for her, but for everyone in the world.
1,000 Years ago. After the necromancer Blitod caused a life-and-death war, all races in the world were on the brink of extinction. Although the necromancer suddenly disappeared and barely escaped the crisis…….
That doesn’t mean the damage he caused can’t be repaired. They said they could move the body from the beginning, but since they dealt with magic anyway, they were not welcomed even by wizards who could be said to be of the same kind.
For those who have to explore the primeval period, the ‘age of transcendence’ after the world was born through the primordial nature of ‘chaos’ and ‘order’, moving the corpse had nothing to do with it. In addition, the characteristic of handling corpses was a difficult point to send a kind gaze to those who were unfamiliar with magic.
It was hard to say that they were welcomed from the beginning, but after Blitodd started the life-and-death war, they were never welcomed. Those who had the same job as the necromancer who tried to exterminate all living things, were virtually unable to operate in sight.
“Then you must have never seen Death Knight.”
It seemed that even her laughter could be felt in the voice of the goddess as she sat down softly. The saintess couldn’t even answer anymore. She just, helplessly, had to nod her head… ….
“Do you know what a Death Knight looks like? Do you really think Death Knight will have skin? Blinking, breathing, do you think you’d have a wildly pulsating heart that oozes blood? A Death Knight is an ‘Undead’, a moving corpse?”
She, now, couldn’t do anything. Seeing the face of the completely enamored saintess, Zerfied roared wildly.
“Stop! Stop! Leternia!”
Only then did Leternia reveal a pervasive smile in her voice. Her gentle laugh echoed throughout the hallway where the altar was located.
“It is up to Renaire’s child to decide whether to stop. You are the illegitimate son of a life that has abandoned us. This is a deal between me and that kid. The kid gave me a cool idea, so he’s giving it back. It’s up to him whether I stop or not.”
-Adduk.
Death Knight bit his molars to break them. The blood-colored eyes from the Death Knight’s helmet were burning enough to drip to the floor. Zerfied glanced back.
Dozens of new statues left their standing positions and stared at the Death Knight and the saint viciously from behind. Except for the position he moved to and his eyes, it really looked like a stone statue. They didn’t seem to have any intention of attacking yet.
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As if he didn’t want to interrupt the story of Leternia and Esilia. This made it clear. Those statues are not beings that automatically perform tasks such as golems and gargoyles.
The Death Knight moved his gaze forward. In the distance, the altar where Leternia was sitting caught my eye. They are the beings that Leternia, her dream demon, ‘made alive’ with her own ability.
‘Is it hallucination?’
Death Knight bit her lips roughly and muttered inwardly. Zer Pied whispered to Esilia, still glaring at her. Now that the actions of the gods had stopped, even for a moment, I had to try to get closer to Leternia a little more.
“Esilia. Hear no more Leternia is good at disrupting her thinking. She hold me tight She will jump right out.”
But there was no answer. Zer Pied looked down at him in bewilderment.
The saintess of innocence was looking up at him with a stunned expression.
“…… Ecilia?”
Zerpied muttered in a puzzled voice.
“Ah, ah…… !”
She tried to pull her body back, as if surprised that he had called her own name. But there was no room for her to subtract. Because she was in the arms of the Death Knight. Rather, the saintess was even more startled and shrank her body. In response to an incomprehensible response, Zerpied called out her name again.
“Esilia.”
“Really, really… are you… ?”
The crying voice of the saintess flowed from her arms.
“Really… Is it really… ? Undead, de… That the death knight doesn’t have her heart beating…… ?”
“…… Ecilia, that’s….”
“Tell me…… !!”
Death Knight bowed her head. Because she was so deeply bowed, even her saintess could not see the eyes of the Death Knight. After a moment of silence, a low voice crashed through the gap of the helmet.
“…… It is true.”
“Ah…… !”
For a moment, the saintess endured the feeling of fainting.
I didn’t feel anything. Even the Death Knight’s strong muscles. No, is this really a muscle fit? She recalled the time in the past when Jer Peed warmed her cold body in a rock cave after leaving Charcot Village. Was the warmth she felt then, really ‘warmth’?
Suddenly, the saintess of innocence went mad with a thought.
The knight said ‘really’,
Is it ‘Death Knight’…… ?
She seemed to be vomiting. Then what did she believe in herself? Who was the knight she relied on for peace of mind? Actually, it’s not like that, is it? Zerpied Lim Sedbaigal is a Death Knight. But Death Knight’s heart doesn’t beat……. When the basic premise was broken, the saintess had no idea.
Then…… Then, all the things she’s been doing all this time? Meet the knight at Mount Ethelbeyer, pass Charcot, fight the demons in Rephadam Forest, cross the sea…… Destroy the Magic Tower in the Eastern Continent…… From here in the Southern Continent to Ten Majeon, all of that… Useless… Are you saying it’s fake? … ?
“Esilia? Ecilia-!”
As the saintess trembled and could not lift her head, the Death Knight roared into the air.
“Leternia! What have you done to Ecilia!”
Soon after, a soft smile floated through the air.
“Well, I was just telling Renaire’s child the truth.”
-Slurrly…… !
Then, at the sound she heard, the Death Knight looked back at her. Dozens of statues of gods were moving again. No, it wasn’t moving. In the statue depicting Bazarak, one arm was really on fire, and in the statue of Lukast, wings made of thunderbolts swayed from his back. She couldn’t compare to moving.
In the statue of God, the qualities corresponding to each demon were really, embodied.
At that moment, the statues disappeared.
‘…… !!!’
At the sudden situation, Zerpied hurriedly turned his head forward. Then, the long space in front of him
It started to ‘fold’.
Like stairs.
-Dr…. !
At the top of the spatial stairs was an altar that now became a throne. On each step of the stairs in that space, the statues of gods that were just behind began to rise one by one.
At the top, Leternia’s gentle voice slipped through with a smile.
“Now that you have paid for Renaire’s child, it’s your turn to answer your question, Mr. Trespasser? As I have already said, I have no desire to give you the Ring of Revancalus. Now that the deal seems to be over between us, I want you to leave the child behind, the illegitimate child of life. I think I’ll have to check myself whether my new body is okay or not.”