episode_0186

Melum couldn’t hide his astonishment.

[I never thought such a soul could exist..]

I muttered in awe at the ultimate being before my eyes.

A woman tied to her own experimental table with all parts of her body restrained.

Tattered legs and arms. A stomach with a large hole in it.

Her body was covered in traces of experimentation.

It’s been an hour since he kidnapped her to his lab.

It may have been a short time, but it was enough time to dismantle her body piece by piece.

‘I wondered how those forces could coexist…’

As any living being grew up in this world filled with mana, its original soul contained its own unique mana.

So even if someone else’s mana enters your body, you can only borrow it and use it. You can never absorb it into yourself.

What if you empty your entire soul?

But this woman shattered that fantasy powerfully.

How surprised I was when I first saw it.

The dragon’s mana, called a natural disaster. The life of a goddess. Even the soul of a monster that is no different from the sun.

It would be difficult to contain even one of these wild and violent spirits.

However, in this woman’s soul, these three forces coexisted as if maintaining peace.

Something I absolutely could not believe until I saw it with my own eyes.

After cutting open the woman’s body and examining it, I was barely able to find out the answer.

[The original mana is gone,]

Even a tiny insect is a mana that must be kept in the soul.

However, there was no mana in this woman’s soul.

It’s as if I grew up never having come into contact with mana.

But, as long as it exists in this world, that is impossible.

Although he had finally found the reason for the coexistence of powers, Melum’s head was pounding with another unsolved question.

[…There’s no way to use it like this.]

What if I was reborn and grew up in a place without mana?

In his state where mana is already filled deep within his soul, no one else’s power can be received as perfectly as a woman.

‘Tsk. I betrayed the Demon King to obtain this test subject.’

The current situation is that there is no income.

If this were the case, there would have been no reason to betray the Demon King.

[What should I do..]

Melum began to ponder, tapping the bench with his bare fingers.

While I was agonizing over it for a while, an idea occurred to me.

‘….Now that I think about it.’

[You didn’t scream even once.]

No matter how deeply you sleep.

The pain of having your flesh torn and your insides dug out must have been unbearable.

But the woman never screamed even once in that situation.

When he turned his gaze to the woman with such curiosity, Melum couldn’t help but be surprised.

It was because his eyes, which had been tightly shut even when his body was being torn apart, were now open.

And it was glowing a much more sinister red than before.

[Oh..! What happened!]

“…….”

A woman looking around with blank eyes.

Melum spoke to her with a big smile.

[I dissected your body. You have quite a peculiar soul.]

At Melum’s words, the woman still looked at her body with a blank look.

His own body, torn and tattered to the point where there was no place left to heal.

But the woman just stared blankly at those places without any change in expression.

Okay then.

Ki-ki-gi …

The woman’s body began to deform along with a strange sound.

The bones are aligned, the flesh is growing, and the body is restored to its original beauty.

[Is this really the power of the Demon King?]

“Who are you?”

The woman tilted her head and looked at him.

‘Are you out of your mind?’

Well, that would be much more advantageous for me.

For a moment, he felt embarrassed by the woman’s appearance, whose atmosphere had changed considerably. Melum looked at the woman with a mean smile.

[I am your collaborator who will help you with your revenge.]

“My revenge?”

As the woman opened her eyes wide and looked at him in wonder, Melum began to gather his thoughts as he approached his study.

‘It’s not a very good situation.’

She was a test subject who betrayed the Demon King. There was nothing that could be practically obtained from her.

There’s no way a mere Lycan can stop the Demon King. Soon, she’ll start searching for me with fire in her eyes.

Originally, I was going to take the test subject to the laboratory I had secretly created, but…

This woman was now of no use to him.

In that case, I should use her to reduce the possibility of the Demon King coming to me.

Melum approached where his research materials were and injected mana into the carefully packed box, opening the lid.

And inside it is a tiny bottle containing a medicine that he had painstakingly created over the course of a hundred years.

Melum picked up the bottle and approached the woman again.

[Don’t you want to take revenge on the Demon King who made you like this?]

When the Demon King was mentioned, the eyes of the woman who had been completely blank suddenly became filled with murderous intent.

‘Fortunately, it didn’t completely collapse.’

[Let me help you get revenge.]

“How?”

As I looked into the woman’s bright, shining eyes, I felt as if something was being sucked out of me.

Melum was momentarily taken back by the strange sensation that was washing over him.

‘what.’

It was only a brief moment, but I still had a strange feeling because of the strange sensation.

He devoted his entire body and mind to black magic. Thanks to that, all that was left for him was the endless desire for learning.

All those unexpected feelings would have disappeared.

But just now, when I looked into the woman’s eyes, I felt other desires that had clearly disappeared stirring deep inside me.

‘….That’s dangerous.’

I felt an instinctive aversion to the girl whose identity I could not identify, but who clearly had a strange and alien aura.

But that’s okay.

Anyway, this girl will end up destroying herself at the hands of the Demon King.

It would be even better if I could kill the Demon King.

[This is poison. The ultimate poison that I have put everything I have into researching for a hundred years.]

“Poison?”

[Yes. It’s a poison that can even make the Demon King stop breathing. Although it’s impossible for anyone to get near her… maybe you can.]

A woman smiling brightly while looking at the bottle handed to her by Mellum.

It was the kind of expression a child might make upon receiving a birthday present.

“Yeah. Okay.”

[Kuhehe.. I hope you succeed in your revenge.]

That way, the Demon King won’t be able to find me.

As I was leaving those words and slowly gathering up my materials, I was about to leave.

The woman grabbed his hand.

[Huh? Why is that?]

As Melum turned around, the woman, still with her dazed eyes wide open, pointed to her own neck.

“This.”

What she was pointing at was a large, circular leash.

It was a magical tool with the power to seal all sources except magic.

[Ahhh..yeah. He’s the Demon King. I have to give it my all.]

As Melum poured mana onto the leash, the leash began to glow for a moment.

It soon split in half and fell limply to the floor.

The woman, freed from her chains, clasped her hands together, then looked at Melum with a beautiful smile.

“Thank you.”

[Okay. Good luck.]

This time, I was really going to leave.

He was unable to move because the woman still did not let go of his arm.

[Is there anything else you need?]

“Yeah.”

As the girl’s words gave off an ominous feeling for some reason, Mellum took a step back.

The girl smiled brightly, revealing her sharp teeth.

“I’m hungry.”

And with a short word, she bit Melum’s shoulder blade hard.

Woodduck-

[What is this!]

Melum, who felt a stinging pain, tried to kick the girl, but her body did not move at all.

“Hehe..it looks like candy.”

She chews on Melum’s body again, smiling faintly.

Melum reached out his hand urgently and shot a powerful blast of black magic at the woman’s arm.

but.

Blue. Gold. Black. White.

Each and every one of the gorgeous colors mixed together, wrapping around the woman’s skin like a protective shield, protecting her.

[This…this is..]

In my panic, I tried all kinds of black magic.

Still unable to break through those endless manas.

There was no way to interfere with the woman.

Ugh-

A piece of his own bone being torn away again.

[It’s useless! This body is immortal! No matter how much I eat, it will only regenerate!]

As long as you have mana left, that is.

However, only the Demon King knows that.

Most people would just give up in frustration after seeing themselves revived hundreds of times.

Surely this woman is the same-

“Really? I’m happy. I can keep eating it.”

The woman’s bright smile filled Melum with an instinctive fear.

[Hey..let go of this!]

“I’m hungry.”

I have to run away.

I could feel it instinctively.

This woman is a monster.

A monstrous, horrible monster that should never have been born.

More dangerous than the Demon King.

And maybe.

More than what I drank.

[Let go…let go!! I’m telling you to let go right now, you bitch!!]

Woodduck-

But no matter what he did, Melum was unable to take his hand off the woman.

[Ah..no!! This can’t be happening!]

Woodduck-

[My…my ambition! My immortal black magic can’t end like this!!!!!]

Such a miserable death.

A being that had lived for hundreds of years and was called the immortal king and spread fear.

Slowly experiencing the pain of bones being torn apart.

In a state of terrifying horror that I have never experienced before.

His life ended miserably.