124 – lost
Will you give up the perfect finish based on your desire and prolong your life? Or would you allow your body to use your holy power here and end your life as it is? Ereon’s head rotates at high speed in a situation where there is no pleasure whatsoever, just before death.
An escape method was devised, but not perfect. In the end, the body will also suffer considerable damage. However, it was an obvious fact that one could know without even looking at which one was better: losing one’s life to the holy power or being able to return alive despite receiving massive damage.
Blocked the magic associated with the illusion. It was like a lifeline to the virtual image, and the moment it is disconnected from the main body, the main body suffers from extreme pain, unable to breathe properly for several minutes.
“Kuhak.. Heouk..”
Ereon repeated dry coughing and labored breathing. At the same time, on the other hand, there was a feeling of anxiety that he might come to this place from that side.
The original plan was to leave Solar and Ron alone. In this situation, if they came, there was a high probability that he would be neglected and only three people would come. I can’t elicit their reaction because I don’t have Ron.
Avoid. But given their abilities, there must have been a way to find them wherever they fled. It’s better to run into this judge’s board…
‘Let’s think about it after sending Adrian Colson as bait…’
Thinking that first of all, he had to recharge the mana and demonic energy that had fallen to the bottom, Ereon moved his feet. Where Adrian Colson left to carry out his mission.
..
As soon as Ereon arrived, what he saw was a small man trembling and a bloody scene. She approached him, probably the only survivor. He was sitting on his knees, playing with the seven gold coins in his hand and smiling broadly.
“What happened?”
The thing that hid demonic energy and created a human form asked him. As soon as the small mercenary looked at her, he was mesmerized by her beauty and opened his mouth, imprinting her appearance in his eyes. Stunned for a moment, he hurriedly answered her question.
“That’s… The Continental Shield completely tore the people who attacked us…”
The flow of words was somewhat awkward, but I could understand.
“Where did the continental shield go?”
“He went to another place. He said he was closing the dimensional door separately.. So why are you asking about that…”
Without answering the mercenary’s words, she took a gold coin out of her pocket, flicked it, and threw it at him. Although the mercenary was taken aback by the sudden gold coin, he accepted it. It seemed that he could not take it away even if he tried to take it again.
“Please keep quiet.”
“all right!”
There is nothing easier to deal with than a money-crazy person. After easily shutting the mercenary’s mouth, she ordered him to leave the scene, then found Adreon’s bloodstain and placed her hand with demonic energy.
As soon as she touched it, the blood began to spurt in the opposite direction of gravity, creating the shape of Adrian Coulson. It was a magic created by combining magic and magic to revive the dead.
“Uh.. what..”
Embarrassed by the sudden return of his mind, Adrion immediately knelt down after realizing the existence of the devil in front of him. The sound of a knee being smashed against a protruding boulder was an attitude that seemed to be okay.
“Are you ready to work for me?”
“My life has been subject to you… since I was born.”
He paused in the middle of his speech, as if there was something he was unwilling to do, but soon bowed his head again to show his respect.
“Be imitative.”
I was imitated by his words. It was a form that radiated the charm of a man as it is, different from the image that met complete death by Odrox’s hand.
“You are now an adventurer who has been attacked by some kind of demon. You are a golden adventurer from Fortress. Your role is to seduce the first hero and the saintess and move them to another place. When I went there, Al Sola and that person Try to create a situation where only you can remain. Right now.”
At the words of Eron, who showed a look of urgency, Adrian immediately got up from his seat and ran there.
..
“Help me!!”
Their eardrums, who were sitting with melancholy faces, picked up the soft and beautiful voice. Has anyone else been attacked?
At the questionable continuous request for help, Lane stood up and glanced at the source of the voice.
A young man appeared with the sound of breaking through the bush. The appearance of a boy with gasping breath, distorted and blood-stained armor, and artificially perfect facial features.
Still, their expressions did not change at all. It was Adrion in disguise who was taken aback by such an attitude.
I remembered what Ereon had said. ‘Beauty has become the best solution anytime, anywhere,’ she said. They’re human too, so they’ll have no choice but to be possessed in the end.’ As if preaching, this sentence was imprinted in his mind.
I acted more confidently with faith in it. Immerse yourself in an adventurer who has been attacked. Because he’s an adventurer…
“uh..?”
“Tell me your business.”
He looked up at the face of the Rain Guard-on who had approached him before he knew it. Deep inside Adrion’s head, the memories that were blocked from accessing his self-consciousness began to leak out little by little starting from her eyes.
“Your job? Your rank? What happened to you? When, where, and for what purpose did you come here?”
“That..”
Son, Prion Coulson, Death, First Hero, Mage Tower, Devil Worship…
Memories leaked out begin to eat into my head. The meaning of what he had done and the consequences it brought, which he had forgotten due to the number of others, came to mind.
The biggest reason he sold himself to the devil is…
“Lane guard on…”
“Yes. I am listening.”
“It’s because of you..”
At his words, Lane narrowed her brows very slightly. It wasn’t because he suddenly changed his expression and muttered that it was because of him while approaching him asking for help. Rather than that, he was even more concerned about the man himself.
It is changing. The voice, the skin on his face, the shape of his body were changing his appearance, wriggling inside as if something were trying to get him through. Like kneading clay, his body is reassembled repeatedly. Sometimes it collapses in half, and sometimes it stands upright again to create its original shape.
Lane looked back and recalled the past.
What happened when he first cut down a human who was not a monster, a human who had left his own will, and the past when he suffered and struggled with it. I decided to be a little more calm so that it would not happen again, so that he would not suffer.
Rayne raised her arm without hesitation and grabbed him by the neck.
“Uh… ugh…”
fast.
He gave strength to the hand that gripped his slender neck. A young man who showed only signs of wriggling from the inside of his body without much resistance to such pain.
A resistance doctor born of pain begins to find a way out of the current situation by retracing his life so far. In a short time of less than one second, his head ran through his entire life. And the memory of a moment that had disappeared like a fog came back.
At the same time, the boy’s skin completely peeled off. The neck in Lane’s grasp became thinner, and the firm body began to elongate.
A human male, Adrian Coulson, was held in her hand.
Of course, they couldn’t recognize his changed appearance. Based on the aura he felt from the devil worshipers, he recognized Adrian as the devil’s nephew and thought only of suffocating himself.
“Lane guard on. Because of you… you ruined… my life… and my son’s life…”
Lane didn’t even blink an eye at such a cursed resentment. This resentment had already come in countless times, so I knew very well how to deal with it. Thinking of him as the only person she could lean on, reassuring herself that it was for him and justifying her actions.
But for some reason, his appearance was not drawn well today.
I tried to draw his face smiling at her, but all I could think of was the last time I saw him treating me like a monster.
Instead of his voice saying ‘thank you’, there was only a voice rejecting him.
The eyes that looked like stars in the night sky were wrapped in bandages to disappear, and blood was dripping from his hands.
There has never been a moment like this. His existence itself was a pillar and foundation for her, so she didn’t even think that he would disappear.
Shaked.
The memory of his lament became a dagger and pierced her heart. Although he did not suffer any noticeable internal injuries due to the accumulated experience, it was as painful as being scratched by a splinter.
Should I say I’m lucky? Adrian did not utter curse words at Rian. He only knew that the Rain Guardon and Al Sola had killed Prion, and he didn’t know that Rian was involved.
fortunately it was Since Lian has no tolerance for swearing at herself, if even Lian were shaken here, a bad situation would come.
The strength in Lane’s grip loosened a little. Adreon, noticing the subtle change, began to raise the volume of his voice as if now was the right time.
“You’re the one who put up the creed of equality and discriminated more than anyone else! What is that bastard covering up so much!? What’s the reason for defending him so directly..!”
he was crying It wasn’t because of the pain from being strangled. The reason for this was the frustration from not being able to obtain certain information due to intermittent disconnections and the frustration from not being able to recognize which of the emerging memories is real.
He didn’t even know what he was talking about. The blood flow to his brain seemed to be blocked and he couldn’t filter out the right words for the situation.
“Devil. I gave my body and soul to the devil. In the magic tower, my son, Prion Coulson. You killed it. What did you do wrong? I am Ereon-sama’s subordinate. Kill everything she wants. For those who killed my son. .. You’re a freak. You don’t care about the others. You’ll slit limb from limb and pierce your throat without batting an eye. You freak. I-“
The information is jumbled together and becomes uninterpretable. Adrion began to spit out the mixed information, rolling his eyes here and there as if expressing his jumbled brain.
With the pillars and foundations collapsing, Lane listened blankly to what Adrian was saying. It was fortunate that the strength of the grip had not completely loosened.
Feeling strange about her condition, Lian hurried over. I didn’t know that Lane would be affected so much by a lump of sophistry that was just like spitting it out. Even from Lian’s point of view, he couldn’t understand why Rain was falling apart like this. I knew that Lane liked Ron rationally, but I didn’t know that Ron was a pillar for her.
Adrian’s two memories are confused and fighting. In the fierce battle, the final victor was the devil’s magic side. He remembered Ereon’s order and looked at the current situation.
Two people’s nerves are focused on themselves. If you run away in this state, they will surely come after you. This time, I must fulfill Ereon-sama’s order.
Adrion, whose personality had completely died, cut off Lane’s hand. As soon as Lane’s grip, which had been let loose, cut through the air, he disappeared into the forest.