39. After Exile (5)
Dungeon of Elijah’s Mansion where Narcissus is imprisoned.
Three shadows appeared at once.
A young man and a woman.
And a wizard.
The woman, Sarah, held onto the bars and shouted.
“Mom-!”
In it, the Duchess of Narsisi was tied up with her arms and legs bound.
“Mom, what should I do….”
Sarah stomped her foot.
From the side, Achan nervously tapped the bar.
“Quickly open this door!”
The wizard complied.
I opened the door by melting the lock on the grate with flames.
Achan and Sarah hurried to Narcissus.
“Mom! It’s me, I’m here!”
“Open your eyes…. My God, what is this body….”
Narsisi’s body was so dry that his bones stood out.
It was like a maniac to see him writhe, drool, and groan in pain from time to time.
There was no focus in the narrow eyes.
I couldn’t even spot Achan and Sarah right in front of me.
Just muttering in a blank voice.
“Elijah…. I want to see you just once, just once…. Sorry….”
Sarah gritted her teeth.
“That crazy b*tch is really… !”
“Let’s take him out of here first. Wizard! Move it…. Creepy?!”
Achan collapsed, coughing up blood.
“Brother?!”
A sword protruded from the front of his neck.
Sarah looked behind her, startled.
There, there was a wizard with a sword stuck in Agan’s throat.
The person who brought them.
“You, you…. What, what are you doing?!”
“Consider it an honor. It has become a sacrifice for the new century.”
“You, from the beginning… ? Huh… ?!”
The wizard’s sword stabbed Sarah this time.
“Oh, um… mind….”
Soon after, Narcissus’ neck fell off as well.
The wizard smiled viciously while holding the sword.
“This is the beginning of killing Bevel.”
His figure disappeared from the prison along with the sword.
Shortly after that, someone rushed down to the prison.
A wizard who failed after sniping Judas at the behest of Gaston five years ago.
It was Balls.
I hired him because it was easy to handle, but I didn’t like the incident at that time, so Elijah sometimes notices it.
Anyway, he sensed the aura of someone using magic and came down.
“There must be some kind of magical phenomenon…. Yes?!”
And I had to see the scenery of the prison.
Dead Narcissus.
Her children, Achan and Sarah.
“I-I can’t believe it… ! Hurry up and tell the lady!”
However, Elijah was not at the mansion.
It happened just as she left in search of her most precious tooth.
*
Bethany.
In the place where all kinds of heinous criminals were driven, a group appeared out of nowhere.
A woman who appears to be their center has a golden glow in her eyes.
She said.
“Scatter and find.”
In the voice that had subsided as much as possible, the blade stood firm.
The crowd scattered all at once and wandered all over Bethany.
Meanwhile, the woman acted alone.
Approaching a person sleeping in a crouching position on the side of the road and asking questions out of the blue.
“Where is Judas?”
“… Yes?”
The man blinked his tired eyes several times.
The eccentricity of waking up a sleeping person was unrealistic.
“Where are you, Judas?”
“What….”
“Black hair, golden eyes. Tall….”
The man listened quietly and scanned the woman’s body up and down.
Then he laughs evilly and says:
“If you play with me, I might tell you….”
Took.
The talking man’s head separated from his body and fell.
A golden whip rising from the floor cut his throat.
The woman passed her body indifferently.
Hold on to the next person and ask.
“Where is Judas?”
If the desired answer is not returned, she strikes her neck again.
She didn’t bother asking twice.
That happened several times.
It took an instant for the news that a magician called the Second Coming of the Age of Myth had appeared in Bethany.
*
“Where is Judas?”
“Mo, I don’t know… ! I know nothing!”
After Elijah killed the frightened man, he walked again.
She was not guilty.
Anyway, the only ones left in Bethany are the vicious humans.
The man he just killed isn’t much different either.
He was eating human flesh over a bonfire and touching a female werewolf that he had imprisoned with unclean hands.
I didn’t have time to worry about that.
You only need to figure out the safety of Judas.
Bethany is a labyrinth of old shacks.
It’s like a garbage dump.
It’s quiet as if the bodyguards haven’t found a trace yet.
When you’re trying to find the next subject to interrogate.
Deng, Deng, Deng.
The sound of the bell shook Bethany.
It was a warning about the invasion of monsters.
Elijah ascended to heaven.
A wide field of vision.
Something like a black cloud is coming from the barren lands of the north.
A group of about 100 werewolves were on the way.
Someone is shouting busily from below.
“Everybody wake up! Time to kill and die, you scumbags!”
“Ha ha ha! f*ck, let me catch some females this time too!”
The knights, intoxicated with alcohol and drugs, were standing up.
Mad people who live in an environment where they cannot survive with their sober minds.
‘… It’s annoying.’
I need to find Judas, but a troublesome thing happened.
Kill anyone who gets in the way.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a human or a demon.
Elijah decided to get rid of them with magic.
Looking at the pack of werewolves filling the ground, he raised one hand to the sky.
Slowly lower the open hand as if to support it.
Point at a herd of werewolves with your index finger.
It’s been a few weeks since I broke up with Judas.
She refrained from using magic as much as possible, but the fire, once lit, did not go out.
The violence grew and went rampant without rest.
It was the most suitable environment to free him.
You cast that much magic.
A light appeared above the pack of werewolves.
As soon as I saw the light, I felt as if I heard people screaming.
A light bright enough to blind you.
Actually, the light source was smaller than a little finger.
Light as small as a flying insect fell very slowly.
Everybody stopped and looked at the light.
No werewolves, no chivalry, no SS.
Looking at the light as if possessed.
A small light that illuminates Bethany in the dark evening like midday.
It falls slowly, as if it came from another world, and then touches the ground.
A discreet collision like a drop of rainwater.
Immediately after that.
Kwaguagua-!
The explosion spread from the light source.
The ground shuddered, and a storm exploded, covering all directions.
The knights nearby fell to their seats or were blown away by the wind.
The sun rose where the light source exploded.
The sun buried in a hemispherical shape in the ground.
A huge mine orb burned on the spot and burned hundreds of Werewolves at once.
Beep!
Every creature in the area suffered from sharp tinnitus.
It is the foundation of the magic system honed in preparation for fighting Balak someday.
‘Solar embodiment, small.’
Bethany as bright as daylight.
Elijah did not bother to check the effect with his own eyes.
As if nothing had happened, I went back to Bethany with my back to the light.
Holding onto the knight of Bethany who was blinded by the light, he asked in a voice like a machine.
“Where is Judas?”
*
“This way.”
The body of Judas was found.
Richard guided Elijah.
Elijah’s steps became faster and heavier.
If.
If Judas is really dead, what should I do then?
“Over there….”
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Where Richard pointed.
Another bodyguard guarded the corpse.
Everyone has a dark expression.
Some people couldn’t stand it and covered their faces.
Ttogak, Ttogak.
Elijah approached the center.
Her knees trembled.
A lying corpse.
It is difficult to identify because it is charred.
It’s a human-shaped charcoal rather than a corpse.
However, there are a few clues to infer.
A male as seen by the skeleton.
And he is quite tall, and his body is spread out to the side.
Just like Judas.
And the crucial clue.
A sword lying next to it.
The pupil of the moon.
It was given by Elijah on the day of Elijah’s coming-of-age ceremony and Judas’ ordination.
Dylan explained in the calmest voice possible.
“There is a stab wound on her chest. As a result of checking, poison was detected, and it is said to be Ramek’s deadly poison.”
“… ….”
“After killing in Ramek, it is assumed that he was caught in a fire. I don’t know that it was poisoned, and I’m guessing that the fire started while trying to eat human flesh.”
Indeed, burnt marks were left on buildings around Judah.
The pupil of the moon was also found far away from Judah.
Like someone tried to steal it and missed it.
Elijah knelt beside her body.
The eyes glowing with mad fire scan the corpse up and down.
The moment I saw the corpse, my heart, which had been beating wildly, became quiet.
Unlike her bodyguards sniffing at her or sighing in frustration, she was calm.
A conclusion is drawn after a short observation.
“This is not Judas.”
“… Yes?”
Dylan asked in surprise.
All of her bodyguards turned to her in unison.
She checks her corpse once again and says it as if it were a guarantee.
“It’s not Judas. This.”
There is no material evidence.
Nevertheless, I was sure.
She knows the realm of intuition because she has been hanging out with him for a long time.
Sensibility, not reason, speaks.
Not Judas.
She slowly raised her head.
She muttered while staring somewhere in the distance.
As if asking the subject.
“… Judah. Where are you?”
*
Elijah returned immediately to her mansion.
She sits on Judas’s bed and she thinks quietly.
She holds the pupil of the moon she brought with her in her arms.
She is amazingly calm now compared to before she left.
She is unfamiliar with herself.
She feels like a different person.
‘That wasn’t Judas.’
So what is it?
I came up with clues easily.
The words spoken to Judas. She
She stabbed her with a knife engraved with the sentence “I wish she was dead if possible.”
‘… So, it’s disguised.’
The exact intention is unknown.
She herself might one day really find and kill her, so she might have run away.
Or maybe revenge.
I told you to die, so I would really show you that.
Or else, never look for it in the future. Such a grievance.
Maybe not both.
I don’t have any emotions or thoughts left, so maybe I just left the corpse there to make sure I escaped.
‘In the end… It’s because of me.’
Elijah stroked the pupil of the moon with a slow hand.
Ride gently along the smooth side of the sword.
Why is my heart so calm?
I don’t know.
Rather than calm, it’s more like emptiness.
The hole in her chest got bigger and bigger and seemed to eat her whole body.
So empty and calm, as if there is no existence left in this world.
But what is the reason for the unsophisticated laughter?
Her shoulders shake.
Even Elijah wasn’t sure if he was laughing or trying to cry.
But one thing was clear.
He left himself perfect.
You won’t be able to see it anymore. Never….
Smart. Then someone knocked on the door.
“Come in.”
A woman enters through the carefully opened door.
Hermis.
“My lady. Did you call?”
Elijah looked at her gently.
Mad fire eyes blaze beneath her tousled hair.
After a while, Elijah opened her mouth.
“Sir Hermis.”
“Yes. Miss.”
“Before you left, what did Judas say?”
“It was a greeting to say goodbye.
“… Okay?”
Elijah tilted her head slightly at her.
In a passing tone, he says it as if it’s not a big deal.
“There was a time when I was away for a while without a report a few days ago. Why did you do that?”
