episode_0221

“Ugh!…”

“Hey! Snap out of it! You can’t lose consciousness! Hurry and bring holy water and cloth!!”

“Priest! There’s someone here who needs urgent treatment! Hurry and treat them!…”

When Revia arrived at the grand cathedral, the first thing that caught her eye was the sight of countless paladins and ordinary citizens groaning in pain, and priests frantically tending to them. As if to prove the fierce battle that had taken place, most paladins were covered in blood, and in severe cases, had lost body parts like legs or arms.

“Mom? When is Dad coming?”

“Well, you see… Dad is…”

“Excuse me! Has anyone seen my son?! Deven!! Deven where are you?!”

Among the evacuated ordinary citizens, excluding those with serious injuries, many had lost their families, swept away by the sudden impact of the war.

One can see a mother shedding tears, unable to tell her young child that the father sacrificed himself to buy time for his wife and child to escape.

One can see a father crying out his child’s name, searching for his child lost during the evacuation.

Amidst the tragic scene, Revia trembled and barely managed to speak a word.

“It’s too much…. Too…”

“That’s what war is.”

Tamiel, standing next to Revia, added a word.

Having lived for countless years and acted as a ‘Fragment of the Demon King’, she had seen such scenes many times, so Tamiel looked around without much reaction, glancing up at the sky.

Meanwhile, a priest saw Revia and rushed over.

“Re, Lady Revia?…. Is that Lady Revia?!”

“Ah, yes!… Well…”

“I am Sister Seren! Lady Revia, have you returned!? H-happens… Did the Hero come with you?”

“The Hero went directly to the battlefield.”

At Revia’s words, the sister sighed in relief and said.

“That’s fortunate… Since Hero Leon has come, the battlefield situation won’t worsen.”

“Excuse me… The situation here is…”

At Revia’s question, the priest’s face, which had slightly relaxed, darkened and he said.

“It’s not good… The enemy’s army is too strong, and their numbers are also large. Because of that, the paladins blocking the enemies on the front lines are suffering too many casualties… At least in the initial stages of the war, thanks to the activity of the , it wasn’t this serious… But as the fell, the tide of the battle was overturned in an instant.”

“The, the Sword King?!…”

“That child, died after all.”

“The evacuation of the believers hasn’t been fully completed… Blocking the enemies who keep trying to enter the grand cathedral is also overwhelming, so it’s expected that there are still citizens remaining throughout the city…”

Revia’s complexion darkened rapidly at the situation, which was worse than she had expected.

At that moment, a voice calling Sister Seren was heard.

“Priest!!”

“Understood! I’ll be right there!! Anyway… Given the situation, His Holiness the Pope is also busy tending to the injured. Lady Revia, please…”

“Ah, I understand. I’ll do whatever I can if there’s something I can do.”

Before Priest Seren could finish asking for help, Revia nodded her head.

Seeing her reaction, Seren seemed a little relieved, let out a deep sigh, and said.

“Now that I think about it, there’s something I need to tell Lady Revia. It’s about Hero Leon’s party members…”

“Party?… Are you talking about Sister Baekryeon and Sister Seollin?”

“Yes. The two of them also fought bravely against the enemy invasion, but…”

“?”

* * *

After hearing the story from Priest Seren, Revia hurriedly headed to a tent.

Entering inside, there were two women there.

One person was lying on a makeshift bed, and the other person was silently staring at the one lying down.

A common point between them was that both people were covered in large and small wounds.

“Se, Sister Seollin?!…”

“Ah… Revia…”

The green-haired woman covered in wounds.

Seollin looked at Revia with eyes that were half-dead.

“Ah…”

And the moment she saw that sight, Revia instinctively realized. The one in front of Seollin’s eyes was…

“Sorry. I tried to somehow hold on until you… and Leon came… but our strength wasn’t enough…”

Was alive.

Meaning…

“Did she… pass away?…”

“…We could handle the mages themselves. But… from the moment those shadow monsters appeared, we gradually started to get pushed back… and while trying to protect me from a shadow monster ambushing from behind, she…”

“…”

It must have been unavoidable.

The large and small wounds etched onto her body proved how fierce the battle they fought was.

“…Where is Leon?”

“Th, the Hero rushed to the battlefield… Given the situation…”

“…Right, if Leon is there, this situation will be quickly resolved.”

Seollin, who had nodded, turned her gaze back to Baekryeon, who was lying down.

And since she didn’t say anything more, Revia carefully stepped out of the tent.

“You’ve come?”

“…”

Outside the tent, Tamiel was waiting.

Tamiel’s appearance and the chains hanging here and there on her body drew a lot of attention, but she didn’t seem to care, and seeing Revia come out of the tent, she smiled faintly.

“…Please.”

“I cannot hear you.”

“…Please stop. You… you can do it.”

At Revia’s words, Tamiel turned her gaze.

The place she was looking at was the battlefield where a strong destructive light was flashing.

Perhaps that was where Leon was.

“I’m sorry, but it’s already beyond my hands.”

“What do you mean by that?… You… Weren’t you the ‘Fragment of the Demon King’?… Everyone who came here… they came looking for you.”

“Half right… but perhaps half wrong. They seem to have already found the ‘vessel’ to replace me.”

“Vessel?…”

At Tamiel’s words, which she couldn’t understand, Revia trembled and bit her lip slightly.

“What… What do you mean by that!! You!! Because of you!! Sister Baekryeon!!!…”

“…I’m sorry about that.”

“Saying you’re sorry now…”

Throb

Her head was throbbing.

With a strange headache as if she had a fever, her mind started to become hazy.

Tamiel’s memories, which had sunk to the surface, began to rise.

“Ah…”

Along with that, the feeling that came to mind was a heart-wrenching sorrow.

The feeling of anger that arose from the death of someone she loved.

Revia recalled that Tamiel had already experienced something like this once before.

Because of that, though one might say her heart was weak, Revia felt the anger she felt upon seeing Baekryeon’s death had somewhat subsided.

Tamiel, confirming that Revia had calmed down a little, carefully stroked Revia’s head and said.

“…I won’t say anything about asking you to forgive me, who is already stained with sin. My qualification as a ‘Fragment of the Demon King’ comes from two demonic beasts. But the prince killed one of them, and the other… seems to have found a vessel to replace me, who was sealed for a long time. As I am now… I am merely an empty shell.”

“Being merely an empty shell means…”

“What they want isn’t me. They merely want me as a tool to make the ‘Witch’ they newly found more complete. Even if I tell them to retreat, they won’t. Even if I return to them, they will make their ‘Witch’ more complete and invade this place again.”

At Tamiel’s words, Revia lowered her head.

At that moment, Tamiel’s ‘magic’ flashed through Revia’s mind.

The magical knowledge Tamiel had accumulated while acting as for a long time.

Among it was research on the ‘resurrection of the dead’. Though she ultimately concluded that complete resurrection was impossible…

The fact that she had desperately researched to revive her ‘Prince’ was deeply etched in her memories.

“…Perhaps…”

Coincidentally, Tamiel, who had taken over Revia’s body, had used magic before.

Perhaps because of that experience, Revia’s body was in a state where all preparations for using magic were complete.

“If that method…”

“?”

Revia turned her body.

And she stretched out her hand, painstakingly weaving the pure white divine power thread by thread.

“Revia?…”

Tamiel, who possessed knowledge of magic superior to anyone else, immediately understood what Revia was trying to do and trembled.

Revia had enough magical knowledge thanks to Tamiel’s memories.

Furthermore, the magic circuit for using magic had also been optimized while Tamiel used Revia’s body.

The most important magical power… is replaced by the divine power of a saintess, closer to a god than any other power in this world.

The ‘Divine Magic’ that Tamiel used to push Leon back is now being reborn from Revia’s hands.

Whirrrrrrrrr!!

“W-what’s happening?!”

“Th, that’s… Lady Revia?!”

“This is a magic circle… but the power I feel is divine power?…”

Incredibly complex magic circles appear.

They appear one, two, three, four… and soon, large and small magic circles appear, beginning to spread throughout the entire grand cathedral, and further, throughout the entire Holy Kingdom.

“…Truly, how amazing. I knew it from the moment you weren’t swallowed by my memories…”

Tamiel, looking exasperated, shook her head and gently placed her hands on Revia’s shoulders, synchronizing her magical power with Revia’s body.

“?!…”

“Don’t resist. Using those memories as they are doesn’t fit the current situation and circumstances. You want to save the ‘people of the entire Holy Kingdom’, don’t you? I’ll make the fine adjustments, so focus as much as possible.”

“Yes, yes!… Thank you…”

“There’s nothing to be thankful for. As you know from seeing my memories… I am a ‘monster’ who has killed countless people.”

That is certainly true.

Perhaps… she killed several times more people than those ‘being revived’ here now.

But… at least for now…

“Just for now… Thank you for helping.”

“…Truly. You seem too kind. Is that why you are a saintess?”

The pure white magic circles covering the entire Holy Kingdom finally activate.

The ‘Magic Circle of Soul Revival’, which had never been activated before and originally didn’t even exist, activates.

Kieeeeeeeeeeeng!!!!