108 – Fallen Hero
Deep inside a huge underground tomb.
In the gaze of Envy, who was sitting on a chair made of skulls.
– Slurp, slump.
I saw a man covered in a black robe walking across the floor filled with black sludge, trampling his military boots as if he were angry.
Seeing such a man, the corners of Envy’s mouth naturally reach his ears, and a coquettish voice flows from between his lips.
“Hmm. Who is this? “He’s our great warrior.”
Morte.
For Envy, in the past he was a man who freely took what he wanted and wanted.
He was jealous and envious and wanted to collapse, but he did not collapse, but was a friend who continued to win and arrogantly looked down on himself.
He was a heartless warrior who drew his sword and tried to swing it at himself when the seed of evil was planted in him.
The warrior was corrupted. On that subject, he was a hypocrite who detested Envy, who had become a complete sin, and looked at him like he was looking at dirty garbage.
I said so. He certainly did.
“No, should I call him Pride now instead of Hero?”
The warrior who was like that has now become corrupted and has become as sinful as himself.
Envy’s sin of envy and hatred toward him and feeling an overwhelming emotion was a very natural thing, like nature repeating and circling.
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“I don’t know what trick you cunning man is trying to play…”
It is quite possible to be shaken by mocking words.
Mort still maintained his arrogant appearance and attitude, waving his hands in the air.
-Smurf.
A black haze blooms, a black sub-space opens, and the two women who had fainted inside fall gently to the floor.
“This is the end of your clowning.”
After saying that, Mort extended his hand towards Rose, who had her eyes closed.
Then, the necklace hanging around Rose’s neck suddenly fell off, splitting the air between her, and soon ended up in Mort’s hands.
“What are you doing?”
Envy asked, tilting her head as if curious, and Mort turned away, ignoring those words.
“Hmm.”
Envy, who was watching the scene closely, soon realized why Mort was acting like that.
“Oh, I didn’t know. It became a sin that our warrior hated so much, and I never thought that even an imperfect halfpun would become a sin. Fu, fuhahahaha!”
“···.”
“Our hero, who used to pretend to be noble, has changed a lot, hasn’t he? With the intention of committing a complete crime, they kidnapped him and lured him in an indecent manner with a necklace with a tracking spell… Huh, heh! It’s so funny. A guy like you was also a warrior. Is not it?”
Is it because there was something that had been accumulating over the years?
Envy continued to use his tongue like a snake, and Mort, who was listening to this, ended up turning away again.
At the same time.
-Crash.
Mort took a stab, and Envy chuckled and snapped her fingers.
-Chaaa!
-Chrrr!
A black line was drawn in the air, and the raised black water covered the line.
-Quaaang!
With a loud explosion sound echoing in the underground tomb.
Mort suddenly leapt at lightning speed and thrust his sword towards Envy’s neck, and Envy, who was smiling grotesquely, caught the tip of Mort’s sword with his fingers.
“···Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Why? Do you think you’re going to go crazy because I, the person you hated, is mocking you? Or are you so disgusted with yourself that you can’t stand it when they make fun of you? So, are you trying to vent your anger on me?”
“···.”
“I’m sorry, but I wish you would realize your situation of being only half a penny. You’re in a position where you can’t go now if I don’t. Is not it?”
“···.”
“Fu, fuhahahaha! Isn’t that facial expression really worth seeing? I never thought I’d see you make that expression. Yes, I feel it! Do whatever you want. “This sister will take special care of me this time.”
As Envy whispered like a snake in Mort’s ear, Mort frowned at her and tried to move her sword.
“Still, there is a gap between you and me. Do you think you will become me? Even though you are an imperfect half-penny now?”
“···.”
“If you understand, will you please leave? “Before I change my mind.”
Mort gave an angry look, showing ugly tendons on his forehead and forearms, but when Envy whispered again and moved her hand, Mort’s sword slowly entered the scabbard.
“Looking at your expression, I think you’re thinking of seeing it later, but do whatever you want. If you can. “
“···.”
“Well, I don’t know if you become a complete sin. “I hate to admit it, but it’s true that you were far superior to me in the past.”
Envy said with a smile, and Mort turned around, biting her lips roughly.
When Mort disappeared from Envy’s sight.
“Ha, hahahahaha!”
Envy thought with a grin.
Can that stupid hero really handle that child?
Honestly, it didn’t matter what happened.
If that hero lost to that kid, it was good because he wouldn’t have to see the ugly Mort guy again, and if he won, it was good because he could achieve his goal without having to use any effort.
“If that happens, you…”
Envy looked at the collapsed Seiji and Rose and muttered with a sad smile.
There is no need. That kind of backstory.
****
A deep night with the moon hanging in the sky.
I was climbing the mountain, following the magic flowing from Rose’s necklace.
Rose’s necklace is an artifact I gave her as a gift when she was young, and was imbued with various magic, including tracking magic.
“You’ve come a long way…”
I always think about it, but Adenia tends to be unnecessarily wide.
Look at it even now. I’ve been running for firewood for three hours, and there’s no end in sight yet.
Is that all? This ‘Mountain of Repentance’, located at the northern end of wide Adenia, was full of dangerous monsters and was a mountain where access was restricted.
-Chaaa!
-Boom!
When the sword is lightly swung upward, the troll’s body, cut in half, falls to the floor.
This is already the fifth time. After entering this mountain, I cut down the monster that attacked me with a single sword without even knowing what was going on.
“Are we almost there?”
I can feel it.
The magic emanating from Rose’s necklace is becoming more intense.
And the intense magic energy is being released violently as if it has no intention of hiding.
I arrived at the top of the mountain following the magic, and when I saw the scenery unfolding in front of me, I had to mumble quietly.
“I didn’t expect this…”
Rose and Seiji, who came to rescue him, are nowhere to be seen.
All I could see before my eyes was a dark-colored sword stuck in the ground, and a man with dull skin sitting on a wide rock holding the handle of the sword.
Thoughts turn quickly in unexpected scenery, and a frustrating conclusion is soon drawn.
‘You lured me in.’
Anyway, Mort, that guy seems to have figured out right away that Rose’s necklace had a tracking spell implanted in it.
After that, she gave Rose and Sage to Envy, and came out with only her necklace and waited for me here.
When I realized this, my expression suddenly crumpled. It was worth it. The reason I ran all the way here without stopping was to save Rose and Seiji, not to play tiki-taka with that grayish man.
Also, I didn’t expect Mort, a former warrior, to stab me in the back like this.
“···Are you here?”
The man’s dead eyes turn to me, and his purple lips slowly open.
“A vessel of sin… First, I want to talk to you…”
Morte looked like he wanted to talk to me about something.
It felt quite awkward and strange.
The important thing was not the story of that dull guy, so naturally thick words came out of my mouth.
“Last time I tried to talk to you, you swung your sword first, so why are you being so damned now?”
“···Let’s make a deal.”
“Deal? This filthy bastard is talking sh*t. Hey, it’s okay, just answer first. “Where are the kids you took away now?”
“···.”
“Aren’t you going to answer?”
As I pulled out my sword and growled, Mort slowly got up from his seat and continued speaking.
“Envy, since she was taken away, it would be correct to say that she doesn’t know now. However…”
Morte frowned as he raised his drawn sword towards me.
“If you hand over that thought to me… I will help you. “We’ll find her together, and we’ll fight together.”
“Oh, this? Okay, let me ask you this. “Why on earth do you need this?”
I looked down at the bead embedded in the sword of good and evil that I had drawn and asked.
“I want to return to being human. For that, you need that bead. What is it like? “You save your loved ones, and I return to being human.”
Mort quietly pondered with his eyes filled with greed.
Is it because I know that it is impossible?
Or maybe it was because Mort, holding on to an impossible hope like a string, felt pathetic.
“What an idiot.”
A curse came out reflexively.
It was natural. That’s because I already knew Mort, having encountered it countless times in games.
Even if we get this orb, there is no way for Mort, who has already become so corrupted, to become a complete human again.
And even if such a thing were possible, the current Mort would never make such a choice.
Also, even though Mort said he would help me, he couldn’t have meant it.
“I hate people like you the most in the world.”
Saying that, I raised my mana and started taking her stance.
I’m still clumsy, but at the same time I’m getting used to it while applying ‘Mana Burn’.
“They have a lot of inferiority complex, but they use that as an excuse to do various stupid things and harm others. “You’re just that kind of person.”
“I have an inferiority complex… I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Morte’s pupils begin to shake little by little.
“You don’t know what, you idiot. “I know everything.”
“What do you know?”
“The real reason why you fell while fighting evil and pretending to be a victim of a seed planted. Actually, it was because of your inferiority complex and greed, right?”
“···.”
“Aren’t you embarrassed? “To your colleagues who you secretly killed because you wanted to steal their abilities and because you wanted to always be the best.”
Are you very angry at what I said?
The pupil, which was shaking little by little, begins to shake violently as if there was an earthquake, and the ground around it begins to shake violently, as if there really was an earthquake.
Morte responded as if he had been chewing his lips roughly, with black blood dripping onto the floor.
“···You who say that don’t seem to value your colleagues. Aren’t you worried? “You treat me like that…”
“What can you do? Even if you want to kill kids, you can’t. Because it’s incomplete, it’s low-level, so I can’t even challenge Envy. And above all…”
I dismissed Mort’s words as nonsense and hung up and refuted them.
“I can save my colleagues without the help of you snake.”
This is true. Envy will never touch Rose and Sage until he completely takes over Dian.
Of course, there are still some troubling issues to worry about, such as Dian’s safety and the safety of the academy.
It’s enough to solve it. All you have to do is save it and kill it.
So I don’t have to follow the words of this snake-like guy.
“So stop being a dick and start attacking me. “Of all the warriors of all time, you were the ugliest and most idiotic person.”
I thought so and said so.
“K, keaaak!”
Perhaps that was the trigger, and Mort began to rush towards me, releasing black magic energy indiscriminately.