Chapter 955 – 955.Yggdrasil (7)
King Baron suffered from the same nightmare every day.
It was a dream of killing his father, taking the throne, going to war, and massacring.
There wasn’t a day when I didn’t have that nightmare, and even once I went to bed, I had to watch the same scene hundreds of times.
At first, I dismissed it as just a dream.
And he thought that the dream was part of his weakness and tried to hide it as much as possible.
But in the end, there were limits.
King Baron gained immortality, but his mind and body began to rot due to the trauma of killing his father.
However, his mind and body only rotted, and he did not reach death.
I started having nightmares like this, a hell of endless rot, every day.
And I thought that today, he would be trapped in that hellish cycle and go through the trauma of killing his father again.
But…
Sigh! Suddenly!
“Kwaaaaa!!”
“Die!!!!”
After his father died, for the first time he was free from trauma.
But…
Ssssshhhhh! Suddenly! Suddenly!
“Kaaaaa!!”
He was able to experience pain he had never felt in his life.
Body parts that would normally be regenerated immediately after being cut…
Suddenly! Shoot!!
“Kwaaaaa!!”
Every time it was cut, blood gushed out and it fell to the floor like a piece of meat.
The moment my leg was cut off and I fell to the floor…
“Ugh… It fucking hurts…”
The man limped his body, complaining of chest pain.
And when Baron saw that, he thought it was an opportunity.
“If only now!”
King Baron extended his arm, which was still attached, to the man.
Paaaaat!
The blood flowing from his arm turned into a spear, and the spear sent the man flying.
A window full of life.
But Chang’s life is…
Chaeaeang!
“Ugh!”
It was thrown away in vain by the man’s light swing.
The spear that fell to the floor seemed to melt back into the pool of blood.
The man muttered in an annoyed voice as he looked at the spear melting into a puddle of blood.
“Did you trick a weak subject like this into becoming king?”
“This… This guy!!”
When he was young, Baron was never scolded by his father.
He was in no position to listen to someone’s humiliating remarks.
This was the first time in his life that he was ridiculed.
And to a person who doesn’t even know who he is…
However, despite being ridiculed like that, a fear greater than anger suddenly surged into Baron’s heart.
Cried the Baron, shaking his chin.
“Lord, I will kill you… !”
He once again became enraged and somehow lunged at the man, but…
Suddenly! Whoa!
“Ooooo!!”
His remaining arm was cut, and his remaining anger was swallowed up by fear as he was kicked.
Baron looked at the man and begged as he was pinned to the ground with both of his arms cut off.
“Buy… Help me…”
“…”
But despite Baron’s pleas, the man’s eyes were extremely cold.
A man standing like a reaper holding his father’s weapon.
‘Ah… Father…’
Strangely, the man who looked down at him like a grim reaper looked like his father.
His father, who treated him with laughter throughout his life.
It was only after seeing the man’s appearance that Baron could realize it.
‘My father wasn’t weak. My father… You were weak in front of me…’
As she thought so, she slowly began to close her eyes.
..
..
Darkness is death.
Death is yourself.
And the next death will be you.
That’s what my father always said.
And most of the people of Umbra, ruled by my father, followed him like death.
If so, it would have seemed like the late King was an object of fear, but he was definitely not like that.
For the people of Umbra, death was an object of blessing, not fear.
To them, death was like a knot that wrapped the gift of life.
And it was my father who beautifully tied that final knot.
I respected it.
A father whom all people regard as death, and myself who was born to such a father.
Definitely respect… Did.
That is, until greed arises in your heart.
Ironically, it was because of a ray of light that greed took root in his heart.
A ray of light secretly seeped into Umbra, which had been shrouded in darkness its entire life.
And the place where that light arrived…
“Who the hell are you?”
It was the Baron’s room.
A being whose face was difficult to see spoke because of the halo.
“I am here to teach you how to overcome the darkness.”
To Baron, who was proud of death and darkness, the words of light were no different from the whispers of the devil.
Baron answered, glaring at the light.
“Go away.”
After hearing the answer, Light immediately disappeared without hesitation.
But Baron didn’t tell anyone that he had seen the light.
To my father…
This was because he felt as if he had committed a sin simply by seeing the light.
But…
“I have come to save you from the darkness.”
The light appeared again the next day, as if to deepen Baron’s sin.
The second answer was the same.
“… Go away.”
But this time the light did not go away right away.
1 second.
He stared at Baron for a second and then walked away.
After that, the light continued to visit every night.
However, there were facts that gradually changed during the repeated process.
Baron’s answer is…
“… Go away.”
There was more and more hesitation, and the angel’s stay…
“… .”
It became as long as the time of his hesitation.
As Baron spent more time with the light, he began to suffer from guilt.
Every day felt like hell.
If he had told his father from the beginning, he wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.
And Baron, who was suffering from such guilt…
“… “What is your business?”
In the end, he gave in to the temptation of light.
..
..
He had a conversation with Light after that, but strangely it wasn’t memorable.
But…
“And… “The throne must be taken away.”
His nature was completely transformed by the light.
He criticized his neutral father behind his back and criticized the people who respected the darkness.
He persuaded those around him that he should accept the light and go to war.
Baron was able to build his own power in the process.
And by using the power that was built like that…
“At las!!! “It’s finally my world!!”
He was able to kill the previous king and take his throne.
The Baron looked up at his father’s face, who had been pierced through the chest by his own arm.
However…
‘… ‘I can’t see it.’
He could not see his father’s face looking at him at all.
Even the father who died like that slowly disappeared like smoke, leaving no body behind.
The face of his father, who had been smiling at him all his life…
‘… Uh, what did it look like?’
He didn’t remember anything at all.
It’s as if the face was forcibly erased to erase the guilt.
“Joy! Great! ‘Because I didn’t even want to remember in the first place!’
Baron rationalized it that way and usurped the throne of Umbra.
Afterwards, following the guidance of light, he started a war and invaded the divine world.
Light obviously did everything as he wanted.
But…
“You are your father’s assassin!!”
The reward he received was immortality, which was worse than his death.
My mind was rotting because I dreamed of killing my father every night, and as my mind rotted, my body naturally also rotted.
He had become a monster who couldn’t even say his own name properly.
There was no future for him, who lived like hell every day and had nightmares about killing his father.
No, it shouldn’t have been there.
Cracks began to appear in the dream due to the sudden appearance of an unidentified man.
Crackle!
No, it wasn’t a dream crack. It was the crack of a hellish nightmare.
Crackle!
Due to a man who looks exactly like my father…
Clink!
Finally, the hellish nightmare was broken for the first time.
..
..
The first thing Baron saw when he woke up from his nightmare was…
“Did you sleep well so far, son?”
He was a father supporting him.
After killing his father, he strangely could not remember his face.
It appeared in my nightmares every time, but each time it appeared, its face was not displayed.
The face of my father, whom I thought I would never see again…
“Hey… Ah, father…”
It appeared right before my eyes.
The Baron trembled with fear and covered his face with his arms.
An arm that has already rotted away and looks like it might break.
His father, who was looking down at him, slowly touched his arm and whispered.
“It’s been a while since I last saw you, but I want to see your face.”
“Ah… Father… I-I… I am…”
His miserable face was filled with fear, as if he was about to melt.
However, despite seeing that face, my father did not lose his smile and slowly stroked Baron’s face.
Then he spoke in a voice so kind that it relieved the fear in Baron’s heart.
“Even as you get older, you still have a beautiful face.”
But despite such a friendly voice, Baron could not completely shake off his fear.
All he could do was cry, his shriveled chin shaking.
“Yo, please forgive me. Me… Forgive me.”
Baron no longer had the strength to move his arms.
All he could do was look up pitifully at his father who was hugging him.
And a single voice flowed from the mouth of the loving father.
“Don’t worry… Because I understand everything.”
“Ah… Father…”
A father who hugs him tightly.
A warmth that he thought he would never feel again began to surround him.
In that warmth, his father’s voice flowed into his ears.
“I forgive you everything.”
Baron hugged his father tightly and asked him.
“Why… “Why are you forgiving a guy like me?”
He committed a terrible act.
You are an immoral person who killed your own father with your own hands.
He even dragged the country his father had founded into destruction with his own hands.
I couldn’t understand my father forgiving such an immoral child.
But with that last word, he understood everything.
“Isn’t it obvious? You… “Because he is my son.”
“Ah…”
I understood everything.
Baron slowly closes his eyes…
“My father…”
He was able to smile the smile he had forgotten all his life.
“You were a much stronger person than me.”
***
“My father…”
Baron closed his eyes with those words…
“You were a much stronger person than me.”
I was freed from the hellish bondage of the curse of immortality and entered into a happy eternal sleep.
And the gravedigger looked at him until the end…
“Ugh…”
He hugged his son on the bed and began to sob.
I slowly closed my eyes while listening to the gravedigger’s sad voice.
‘… Seeing you sad like that. ‘It seems like Baron’s soul never made it to Neo Niflheim.’
As I closed my eyes thinking that, Armonia’s voice came through the communication.
[What happened in your dream?]
‘… It was a nightmare.’
I explained everything I experienced in Baron’s dream.
The identity of the gravedigger, the Baron who usurped the throne, the war, and even the murder…
‘Gravekeeper… ‘He was strong.’
Finally, with the help of the gravedigger, I explained everything, including what killed him.
And as soon as he killed the Baron in his prime…
‘… ‘Baron wasn’t a villain from the beginning either.’
In Baron’s dream, he was able to find the root of all evil that created this situation.
A ray of light.
‘It happened like that because of an unidentified light.’
[The identity is…]
‘I do not know either.’
Unfortunately, I didn’t know the identity of the light or even what the conversation was about.
So, I tried to maintain a deep dream in order to somehow find out the identity of the light.
But…
‘I couldn’t stay in the sleep any longer.’
After seeing that truncated dream, I was forcibly thrown back into reality like a gravedigger.
‘It seems that he was forcibly released from the sleep because he was on the verge of death.’
I looked at the bed again.
I looked at the gravedigger crying as he held his dead son.
“Sorry… Son… Because of this ugly father… !”
“…”
I couldn’t keep watching.
Although I have no children, I was able to see through the gravedigger how painful it is for parents to watch their children die.
‘Let’s leave him alone for a while.’
With that thought in mind, I was about to leave the bedroom.
〈Wait a minute… Please wait.〉
“Huh?”
A girl’s voice suddenly came into my head.
I asked over the phone with a puzzled expression.
‘Did you hear a voice?’
[What voice are you talking about?]
‘It was a girl’s voice…’
[… There was no separate voice transmission.]
[I haven’t heard anything either.]
‘What…’
If I didn’t hear Armonia and Kang Han-na, I’d be mistaken.
With that in mind, I tried to leave the room.
But…
〈If you continue like this… No.〉
“…”
I heard it clearly.
I looked around with a wary expression.
However, the only person in the bedroom was the gravedigger and the dead Baron King.
It was the moment when I was about to open my mouth for something.
〈Please help that child.〉
“… Kid?”
Aside from telling me not to go out, do you want me to help the child?
But regardless of those questions, I quickly approached the bed without realizing it.
“… !?”
On the bed is King Baron, who gradually disappears as fog…
“Huh…”
A gravedigger’s body gradually fades away as he embraces his disappearing son.
Even though I don’t know anything about death, I could tell what state the gravedigger was in.
“Hmm…”
The fact that the gravedigger is about to die…
