Chapter 177 – My Love, My Eternity (3)

Slam!

“Adella! Louis is okay… !”
“…”

After a while, Erzsebet was speechless when she saw Adela who opened the door and came out.
The bright appearance she had seen so far was completely replaced by a cold expression.
Her exhausted eyes and tight lips took on a pale blue tint.

“Where are you going?”
“…”
“Adela, this war has nothing to do with you. “If you want to go to the battlefield, I can never allow it.”

Erzébet had to stop her as she tried to leave the place without saying a word.
Didn’t she promise Lewis?
At least I won’t let Adela and Liv go through war.

“I don’t move a single step, princess.”

However, the opponent was a wizard who inherited the blood of Count Rochear, the most powerful magic family in Penheim.
Having failed her second-tier spell and flooded her arena, she now pointed with her lithe fingertips out her window.

The highest floor of the lofty Lighthouse of Horus.
A huge floating island of plum was flying there.
Instead of the magnetite that laid the ground, a huge number of ice ducks, like a flock of migratory birds, were hovering over the island itself.

“I will protect you in my land.”

As soon as the window was opened, a strong wind came in and hit everyone’s hair.
Adela departed from her lighthouse aboard a large ice duck, and her island quietly moved northward carrying her.

Meanwhile, Caroline checked on Lewis’s condition.
She tried a few holy magic tricks she could use, but there was no improvement.

“It’s no use… It doesn’t seem to be getting any better. My pulse is weak and the internal bleeding is severe. “Even common healing spells don’t work at all.”
“Because it’s not an ordinary body. “It has the resistance to withstand quite a bit of magic.”
“I can’t fix it with my skills.”
“I will call a priest from the Temple of Light. “Bring all the potions from the store.”
“The potion will work, but there’s no need to go to the temple. When it comes to holy magic, there is no priest better than me, a saint. There’s probably someone who can cure this guy…”

Caroline trailed off, looking at Terra and Erzébet.
She was from Seongguk and wondered if she would get the answer she wanted if she said this, but she had no other choice.

“It’s just Eris Prashhra.”

Where is she now?

The two people’s reactions to that question were sharply different.
Hergé Bett shook her head with her eyes wide open, as if she did not know.
In fact, she had not heard anything about it when she stormed into the royal palace with her armored soldiers.
All Paul III said was that Louis also knew everything.
However, unlike Erzsebet, Terra quietly lowered her eyelids.

“Um, Eris.”

Her lips slowly moved as if she was repeating over and over again the name she had not heard in a long time.
And soon, a smile that swallowed bitterness was revealed.

“She went on a trip.”

***

— So you can just call it! Where are you now!?
— I can’t say that.
— Is it because I’m from Seongguk? Or is it because you never know when they might attack again?
— You could say neither. Anyway, you’d better not expect any help from that kid.

I was blankly watching the conversation between Caroline and Terra.
I felt like everyone was really worried about me, including Adela, who had just visited.
There’s no need to fight though…

It should have been in the Lighthouse of Horus, but the surrounding scenery was the basement of a canteen.
Of course, in reality, your body will be lying in bed without your eyes open.
Their images were reflected through the water surface of the caustic liquid contained in the small bucket.
I said, “I’m watching,” But to be exact, it felt like watching TV.

Is this also Terra’s magic?
Maybe so.
Because she’s the smartest wizard I’ve ever seen.

She was a woman who taught me many things as I was summoned to this world without knowing anything about it.
Everything from stories about magic and nobility to survival and way of life.
To put it bluntly, I didn’t even know how to tie the laces of leather shoes.
Nevertheless, I think it was all thanks to her efforts that I was able to adapt and live on the continent.

Hublett, who left with him, was useless except for swordsmanship, and Nova lacked even common sense.
Eris was born and raised in a religious order, so her head was cleaner than mine.

Throughout my journey through hell in the demon world, Terra stayed by my side like a friend and sometimes like a teacher, telling me many stories.
She often wiped her bloody hands when she couldn’t let go of the sword and hugged her at night when she had trouble sleeping.
That’s why she was very happy to see her again, but she was sad that she couldn’t say a word to her.

.
.
.

As a few days passed, I slowly began to adjust to reality.
It couldn’t have been any worse, since all he did was sit back and watch the women’s reflections in the bucket.
Slam! And every time I heard the door close, it was fun to see who was coming this time.
Of course, unlike my carefree self, their expressions were not that bright.

“It is the highest quality potion available under the name of the merchant. “It’s something that’s hard to find even in the royal capital, and hundreds of gold coins are worth a lot for one piece.”

All the ingredients that came out of my chattering mouth were things I had never heard of before.
It is an expensive medicine that looks like unicorn horn or ginseng.
Although the price had skyrocketed due to the war, Darling opened the lid of the potion and poured it into my mouth without any sign of wasting it.
She only feels sorry for herself.
Because he collapsed before he could respond to my confession that he loved me.

“Oh, I’ll charge you all the money used later. “If it goes as I expected, even if you just lie down like this for a month, the market price of your small, shabby store will easily surpass it.”

No, I’m not really sorry.
Cold sweat naturally broke out on her body, unable to even lift a finger.
The amount she offered as a condition for transferring her former store site was approximately 50,000 gold, so it would not be wrong.
Just the amount of liquid that went down my throat was the amount that I could barely afford by selling bread at the cafeteria for a whole month.

Should I throw up?
Or, you could wake up and claim force majeure.
Under kingdom law, it would be a trial that would be infinitely more favorable to the nobles, but if Erzsebet was put at the forefront, extenuating circumstances could somehow be obtained…

“So stop getting up.”

However, Darling’s voice was full of tears as she closed the lid of her potion.

“Ruhilen… “I can offer something more precious than this.”

I wanted to bury her face in her chest and pat her as she sobbed, but her hands wouldn’t move.

“I’m so busy with the war, so I’ll just go.”

Before she left, she kissed me lightly.

“Next time, do it yourself.”

All I could do was not forget those words.

***

Her saint is hiding something about her whereabouts.
This was the conclusion Liv came to after watching Terra and Nova all this time.
Having glimpsed into her past through the Litweis exam, she remembered the situation immediately after the Demon King was defeated.
They left Lewis and Eris in the demon world.

It’s been 10 years since then, and the only thing I’m doing is traveling.
What excuse is that?
Anyone with even the slightest sense will know that this is a lie.
However, there was one part that bothered Liv.

She said she wanted to go on a trip. She said she was free to explore the entire continent.

Because Lewis also gave the same answer a long time ago.

Liv began investigating her woman named Eris.
The place I visited was the library of the academy, which was about to have its closing ceremony.
In the past, Liv received a warning from her iron dog for accessing documents with her security level, but her situation has changed a lot since then.
12 The League was now so distracted that it could not distract her from Parencia, and it was no longer possible to approach her with the same eye level as her archduke.

“All of these books?”
“Yes.”

Old documents with a security level of A or higher were piled up on her desk.
A normal student would spend an entire day just going through all of these, but Liv was different.
Without even turning the pages, she indexed the inside of the thick book, tracing the traces of her saintly maiden.
It was no exaggeration to say that by the time a few hours had passed, she had viewed almost all of her material recorded in the royal family of Fenheim.
However–

‘Doesn’t exist.’

There was no mention of her person, Eris, that could be used to infer the whereabouts of the saint.
If something was once recorded and then erased, at least a trace will remain, but since the Great War, not only the royal family and social circles, but even the military and inspection office have been clean.
Did you start a small war with the Holy Kingdom in this condition?
Even if it was a truth you wanted to fabricate, you had to have at least a forged document for it to be effective in information warfare.

Maybe the kingdom didn’t care about the life or death of the saint from the beginning.
That’s what I thought.

“Huh… ?”

At that time, an old document caught Liv’s eye.
Although it was not related to Eris Prashhra, it was a research record about the ‘Holy Wisdom’ that only saints of the Holy Kingdom have.
After examining it closely, she got up from her seat and ran out of the library.
She then returned to the Lighthouse of Horus and spoke to Terra.

“I found a way to wake up the boss!”
“So?”

She was hammering a curved iron plate in front of her in a large furnace.
The eccentric wizard, who had never written a single paper in his life, seemed to enjoy working with metal.
Liv paid more attention to Terra’s attitude than to her appearance.
Even when Lewis collapsed and even when she broke the news that she could wake him up, she was not at all fazed.
Since he was a wizard and not a prophet, it was the realm of prediction, not foresight.

“You knew? “The saint’s magic can bring the dead back to life.”
“If you are talking about 〈 resuscitation 〉, then no. Louis isn’t dead. And there is no magic that can bring the dead back to life. “Seonghwi is not magic.”
“Yes… ?”
“But it is true that if you have Seonghwi, you can heal your soul. The ninth, 〈 Goddess’ Kiss 〉, will be enough.”
“Then why…”

Have you been quiet until now?
In response to her question about it, Terra placed the iron plate she was holding in her hand on the floor.
It was a helmet blindfold called a vise.
Liv was surprised by the very familiar shape that she had seen once before, but Terra’s answer took precedence.
After wiping her sweat, she got into the elevator together.

“Don’t stare at me like that. “Louis is really important to me too.”
“…”
“But just because he wakes up doesn’t mean it’s over. I also need time to get things buried underground. And…”

Ding!

Terra arrived at the top floor and pointed to a woman sitting at the window.

“A person’s mind is not something someone can force, right?”

It was Caroline, smoking heavily.
Terra shrugged her shoulders, seeing that she hadn’t left her spot since Louis fell.

“I heard from Nova, it must be a lot of trouble to get nine Holy Spirits.”