Chapter 188 – Emperor (2)

000

“Cain…”

A final breath came from the dark room, as if the wind was escaping.

The empire was on the way to decline day by day, losing its past glory.

However, he opened the door of the national treasury, which was considered the last bastion of the country, and ordered it to help people livelihood.

For a man who was more concerned about the future of the country than anyone else, he had an undiscriminating gaze, and showed no shame as a national father of the empire.

It was a very embarrassing, powerless, and empty voice.

His face His was full of surprise, doubt, and fear.

It was only after his adoptive son’s sword pierced his body that he realized his true nature and original purpose his.

What is the father of the country, what is the emperor of the empire.

His vision his was covered in darkness, and accepting the young man he would entrust his future with his as his adoptive son his was no different from feeding a beast that would wreak havoc on the continent.

The emperor sincerely thought of Cain as his son.

A disease acquired by the royal family, the Regios family, who repeated useless incest under the stupid ideology of maintaining the purity of the royal bloodline.

As the emperor, after learning that he was unable to have children himself, he followed the idea that a new wind should blow in both the imperial palace and the empire.

He adopted a commoner named ‘Cain’, who was highly supported by the people, had no problems with his abilities his, and was recommended by the Duke as a person who would make the empire rich and strong again.

Unlike himself, who was sick, feeble, and hopeless, he thought he could entrust the dream of empire to him.

Not in a hurry, he said, and if he died, Cain would become the new emperor.

But Cain didn’t wait.

He didn’t wait and chose to usurp everything rather than ‘inherit’ the emperor of the empire.

There would have been no need for it at all, if it were not to go to war.

That is why the Emperor, when his adoptive son’s demonic sword pierced his body, felt the cold touch of the sword and amidst the storm of black magic.

After looking into his cold, burning eyes his, he saw the identity of his adoptive son his.

What he really wants is not the position of emperor of the empire.

For the sake of the enemy that must be surely destroyed, it is a position and power that can be consumed by pouring everything in the empire.

‘But, in that case, Cain. My stepchildren you will perish will be defeated.`

The last thing the Emperor of the Empire left behind were those worries.

Not a curse, but a worry about everything in the empire disappearing into ashes.

He was worried that the young man who had to set the country straight again had become a ‘firewood’ burning himself in the flames of revenge.

Soon, in the midst of such worries, the emperor’s thoughts completely stop, his body his cools down, and his soul leaves the body.

Cain feeling it is short, but after pulling the sword from the body of the Emperor who became the first being to call him ‘Father’.

His body collapsed onto the stairs in front of the throne.

When Cain looked down at the puddle of blood spreading across the carpet on the stairs, he turned his gaze to see ‘Otis’ looking at him with the same polite attitude as always.

“Your Majesty- No, all the guards who pledged allegiance only to the former emperor have been arrested. If you order execution, I will.”

“…Just killing is a loss of manpower. Poltuk wanted materials for a new experiment. He said he wanted a human with the strongest possible physical ability. Let’s say it’s a gift for him.”

When Cain spoke like that, a tall man dragged the hair of the female knight who was the only one who stayed by the emperor’s side and entered the throne room with a snort.

“Ha. Isn’t entrusting it to that maniac a loss of manpower? Captain. I don’t remember that he used humans as materials for experiments to create anything decent.”

“Rin her her Bey. I think her Emperor and Her Majesty her told her not to kill her.”

Like Otis, ‘Conquering Berlin’, one of the four dark giants who swear allegiance to Cain.

His body his, freely wielding an ax the size of his own body, was a giant incarnation of destruction that ordinary people could not possibly follow, thanks to his innate physical ability and violence his.

“Don’t worry. Life is attached.”

As he said that, he cut open the body of the female knight, whose armor had been dented and her armor dented, and threw it in front of Cain.

“Otis, bind her to her body and cast her healing spell to prolong her life to her.”

“I understand. Your Majesty.”

Turning away from Otis, who faithfully carried out his orders his, Cain pushed the fallen man’s corpse away with his feet and sat down on the throne.

How dwarfed the man who had become a cold corpse before his eyes his must have been, it felt so narrow to Cain, who wore black armor all over his body his.

“You’ll need to prepare a new throne.”

Otis also saw that, and shook his head, laughing at his weak ancestors.

The next moment, telepathy through imprinting flowed into Cain’s head his.

[All the regional commanders who were gathered elsewhere have come under our command… Although she had no sister.]

[Okay. I get it. Come here too.]

Cain, who had heard her story from Hugh Tina, quietly closed her eyes. The bloody wind that had been raging in her palace until just before her had moved her, and she could no longer hear her deafening screams of her.

Whenever I hear the screams of helpless people, what comes to my mind is the voices of children who heard Abel die when he was a child.

The struggle of the weak in despair, as if pleading, not knowing what to do.

Even now, decades later, hearing such sounds gives me a headache.

More than anything, she seemed to hear all the screams she had made up until she was here.

She wanted to erase them all.

“It’s five years.”

Quietly, Cain opened his mouth and Otis knelt in front of him once more.

Both Berlin and Houtina, who entered the throne room at some point.

As she knelt before Cain, she looked up at him.

“Within 5 years, we will finish all preparations and attack the kingdom. The target is the king, ‘El Cerdo,’ and the prince of the kingdom who will be hiding there… ‘Lucius Chaldearis’ and his family.”

[And. Adam.]

As Pandora whispered, Cain looked down at the three with black eyes.

“Destroy and trample on everything they hold dear. Let them know that death is the only salvation they can find in the world of lies.”

Otis trembled as if delighted by Cain’s instructions to his, then raised his head excitedly as if he had received a revelation from God.

“Your word will soon become the law of the Empire. But, Emperor. Now, everyone in the Empire sees you as the personification of death, as the performer of the Great Will. No one will call you by name.”

Saying that, Otis rises from his seat, using exaggerated gestures and tone.

Hutina and Berlin looked at him with an expression as if he was starting again.

“Therefore. Your insignificant limbs, I dedicate a new title to Your Majesty. Everyone who hears this name will feel your power… The new name that will be engraved in history is the ‘Emperor of the Demonic Sword’!”

“…”

“This title is appropriate for a legendary figure who wields a majestic and beautiful demonic sword and commands the entire continent as an empire!”

[Isn’t it too simple?]

Cain ignored Pandora’s words and spoke to Otis.

“You can use the title and how to call me however you like. But don’t let them forget their fear of me.”

The new emperor of the empire was ‘Sura’ who abandoned the human mind.

If so, it was only natural that the empire ruled by him and spread his providence would also become `Sura-do`.

001

The prince’s room in the imperial castle of the empire.

After Cain forced the three of them to retreat, he led himself alone and slowly, with heavy steps, returned to his room.

A bleak scene, with minimal furniture.

The scenery was too shabby for the prince of the empire to live in, but Cain, who did not feel pleasure in luxury in the first place, had enough to have a bed to lie down on and a closet to store his clothes.

And, on top of that bed, as always, a young girl with eternal innocence with her eyes closed.

He was waiting for his own companion to return.

“Mr. Cain.”

“…Lilim.”

The difference in body that started to appear even during the cadet school days has now completely widened like an adult and a girl.

“I’ll take off your armor.”

When Lilim quietly opened her eyes and approached Cain standing in front of the bed, the black armor that was holding him down-

One by one, loosen the fasteners that weave the armor made of ‘Soul Eater Metal’, an ancient rare metal that is said to eat human souls and increase their hardness.

What was hidden behind the armor in the shape of a monster falling to the ground with a clicking sound.

Although he had the soul of Sura, he was still a young man in human form.

The armor of Soul Eater Metal has the power to strengthen the wearer’s dark magic as well as defense, but as a side effect, it tries to gnaw even the wearer’s soul.

Although Pandora intervened between the armor and Cain, there was no direct damage to the soul.

Ever since he started using this armor, Cain could feel his expression his slowly disappearing and his emotions his draining away.

However, that would be a good thing.

If you think that feelings other than ‘revenge’, ‘hatred’, and ‘resentment’ might mess things up, it wasn’t bad to rule them out in the first place.

He cut off all the weak parts of himself and wanted to say goodbye to fear.

But, Cain also had one fear.

That-

“…”

When Lilim’s hand loosened the last fastener, Cain’s body his, completely freed from the armor, was covered with sweat.

However, Cain’s hand instinctively pushed Lilim’s hand away.

“…Sorry, Lilim.”

The only thing Cain feared was contact with Lilim.

Brushing your hair like you did when you were a kid.

Washing each other’s bodies in the bathtub.

Giving arm pillows and telling stories.

Saying good night and kissing the cheek.

All of that was just a scene from a long time ago.

“If I stay in touch with Lilim, it feels like the things I tried to throw away will come back… As if I’m trying to fill in my incomplete parts…”

Saying that, Cain stepped back from her and distanced himself from Lilim.

“Perhaps, as Lilim said. Lilim and I may be trying to become complete by becoming one… But, right now, that’s not the case yet.”

What I threw away on my own can be retrieved with Lilim. It maybe… It may be a ‘place to return’ to Cain after everything is over.

“…I’m really sorry, Lilim. But someday. When it’s all over—”

“It’s okay, Lord Cain. …I’ve waited 5,000 years to meet you. Several years, even if it’s decades, it’s like a fleeting moment for me.”

As if to comfort Cain, Lilim opened her mouth.

Toward the young man with a small smile, bemoaning her inability to respond to her own admiration of her.

“Besides, it doesn’t feel too bad to be treated differently than other women.”

Baal said that the fact that her body did not grow was a defect in her ‘Eve Unit 1’ that created her.

Thanks to this, there is no such thing as a `lifespan` for her, and she can wait forever.

Until the day comes when her own half her will look back on herself.

“So. Please, you finish your work.”

For that day to come.

002

That day never came.

Cain. Cain Lupus Regios. Demon Sword Emperor.

Half of Lilim was defeated by the hero Lesia.

Lilim, who did not have the strength to fight on her own her, was forced by Cain to hide in a place where even the warriors could not find her just before her final battle her.

Until the time when her other half her will return after clearing away everything that gets in her way her.

Quietly, quietly. Even in the terrible solitude, holding your breath.

[───…]

When I heard a voice pass by my ear.

Hot tears flowed down Lilim’s cheeks her.

Slowly, she raised her body and moved out of her hiding place.

And. Follow the voice that calls her, walk through the woods, down the mountain road-

There she leaned against a tree, cracks all over her body.

There was ‘Pandora’.

“…Lilim.”

“…”

Pandora looks at Lilim, who has come to visit her, and takes a deep breath. And, as if indignant, she speaks with a dark face she has never seen before.

“Cain is dead.”

“…”

What was lacking? The Holy Sword of Light, ‘Kaladbolg’, was definitely a sword that wielded overwhelming divine magic. It could also be called the incarnation of light.

However, when it comes to her pure output of her, she was definitely on top. Even with her physical abilities her, Cain was able to overwhelm the hero.

But no matter how much I think about it, the result doesn’t come out.

And, her dying body her.

The end of the magic sword that lost her owner was approaching.

“Cain is not dead.”

“… Well… That’s right. That guy is a ‘reincarnation’.”

I don’t know when that will be. Pandora’s body her, which left the same words, now slowly turned to ashes from her fingertips her and began to disappear.

Lilim walks slowly and grabs Pandora’s arm from her.

Pandora’s collapse is delayed when Lilim begins to inject the dark magic necessary to sustain its existence her.

“…It’s useless. Without Cain, I-“

“I am Cain-sama’s other half. Make a contract with me to maintain your existence.”

At Lilim’s words, Pandora looked up at Lilim.

“I thought you hated me.”

“…”

“Cain’s touch that you don’t receive, his affection his… ‘Cain’ who treats me as if he’s your substitute… You just look at it.”

Pandora twitched the corners of her mouth and stood up.

“We hate each other, don’t we?”
“…Someday, when Cain-nim returns. I need your strength.”

At Lilim’s words, Pandora sighed.

“Don’t worry about that. Every time he reincarnates, he gets a new demonic sword… Speaking of which, should I say I’m reincarnated as well?”

“It has to be you. If it’s not you, you can’t make Cain-sama Cain-sama. You’re the only one who can make him the ‘Demonic Sword Emperor’.”

When Cain is reincarnated, he loses all his memories of him as Cain.

And, I will have a new demonic sword that is not Pandora’s.

It was ‘Cain’, but it becomes an existence that is not ‘Cain’.

In order to carry on what Cain could not achieve, it was necessary to be ‘Cain’ next.

Only when he finishes everything will he and he be able to connect.

The next moment, a large amount of black magic that Pandora possesses bursts out and covers Pandora.

“You…! If you interfere with me disappearing here and now, the next Cain- reincarnation will not have a demonic sword! Then he might die helplessly!”

However, Lilim started absorbing Pandora into her body as if she could n’t hear it.

“Kuh… You annoying woman…!”

When his own body her was half swallowed, Pandora changed his own body her into the form of a sword.

Returning to the form of a sword with a body that was collapsing was an act that would strain the soul, so I didn’t want to do it, but-

`Jjoeok-!`

At the same time, what was left of Pandora scattered and disappeared as ashes.

However. Half of it had already been absorbed into Lilim, and had half the power within it, but nested as a new Pandora.

Lilim, who had absorbed Pandora, stroked her belly like lovingly rubbing a baby in her belly her.

Her eyes had already turned empty.

“…Whoops. Cain-sama. I will wait for you forever.”

“Ah. That’s right, when we meet again, she needs to be at least a little bit more attractive.”

“You’re sure, even in the next life, you won’t hug me with the body of a child like this.”

“I need strength… You can sell your soul to the devil. Next time, so that I can protect Cain-sama…”

“No- at all, I’m going to become the devil itself…”

Staggering, Lilim’s steps headed toward the imperial palace.

There must be ‘defective products’ born between the devil and Cain’s wives.

If you use those children…

003

A young man’s arm protruded from the ground like a black swamp.

The fact that she managed to finally return from the space of thoughts connected to her own soul her under her deep and deep consciousness her.

It was Cleon who relived all of Cain’s life in his.

Staggering out of the swamp and taking a deep breath, Cleon’s head is a complex tangle of memories and the result of seeing 20 years of life as it is.

She got to the point where she couldn’t tell whether she was Cleon or Cain.

“Lesia… Lilim… Kwu… I…!”

“It doesn’t matter which one you are. Your role is to stop the rampage of mankind created by ‘Adam’.”

At that time, in this space where only she should be, she heard a voice similar to her own.

When Cleon raised his head, there stood the ‘dark horse clan’ wearing black armor, holding a familiar greatsword and looking at him.

Its appearance was almost identical to that of Cleon himself.

“Demon sword, Emperor-“

Cleon unwittingly referred to him by that name, but soon he stood up, shaking his head at the other presence he felt inside him.

“No… It’s different. You, the previous life factor inside me… Are you an illusion created by that?”

“My existence. Either way doesn’t matter. My purpose is to enable the reincarnated Dark Demon to complete its own mission.”

The Demon Sword Emperor said so, and Cleon pointed with the tip of the great sword.

“For him. It’s an irregular situation, but it’s also possible to revive the summoned past self. If that side can counter Adam more effectively.”

“What…?”

Cleon listened to him and doubted his ears her.

“What, how effective…! No matter how great the cause was, how many people the Empire sacrificed…! How many people had to mourn because of that…!”

“It’s a necessary sacrifice.”

“There is no such thing as sacrifice required in this world! Sacrifice is not forced by others!”

When Cleon cried out in anger, Cain closed his eyes and shook his head.

“As expected, this reincarnation is an irregular one. What is the cause…? All of the past reincarnations, when they reached a certain emotional line, wielded powerful power for the purpose. If you can’t do that… It doesn’t fit.”

Cain, who had finished speaking up to that point, swung his greatsword at Cleon.

Although Cleon quickly rolled his body and tried to borrow Lyla’s magic from the imprint.

“The imprint connection…!”

“This is a space within you. It is impossible to bring in an outside force… Be replaced by me.”

Cain increases the output of his black magic and rushes towards Cleon.

Compared to Cain, who has a great sword shaped like Pandora’s, Cleon’s bare hands.

They say this place is inside them, but if they get cut and lose consciousness…

“Do not be ridiculous…!”

Cleon quickly raises his arm and digs into Cain’s arms his.

And, the hand holding the sword he was wielding caught and prevented it from falling down.

“Accept the mission…! Reincarnated person!”

Cain oppresses from above, and Cleon supports and blocks it from below.

“Mission… Destiny… Significance… Everything like that was decided on its own, right…! I decided to wield my sword only to protect what I wanted to protect, to save what I wanted to save. ..! This world she protected and … Colleagues…! And, even Lesia…!”

At Cleon’s cry, Cain’s face contorted. It was like looking at a monster.

“Are you under the illusion that you’ve become a hero…! Your ego is unsuitable for that of a ‘reincarnated creature’…! I banish you! From this world… From this body!”

The next moment, Cain’s sword pressed against Cleon with the feeling that it had become many times heavier.

“Kuh…!”

More than this, it is difficult to endure. The moment Cleon thinks so, but somehow tries to stop the enemy in front of him-

[Cleon!]

Through space, a beautiful yet familiar sword flew into Cain’s hand his.

“Galatea…!”

When Cleon calls her name her, a wave of magic power bursts out from Galatea’s body and pushes Cain away.

Cleon, who quickly took his distance and stance, looked down at Galatea who suddenly appeared.

[… Are you going to fight without a weapon?]

“… No. No way.”

Cain was still glaring at Cleon with cold eyes.

[…

“It seems like it’s not just ‘Adam’ who went crazy.”

Saying so, Cleon aims Galatea at Cain.

“Adam blocks it. But, I have no intention of throwing everything away for that. My relationship with my colleagues, and myself…! Just like ‘Lesia’ did in the past…!”

Dark magic flowing from Galatea covered Cleon’s body with her.

Soon, between the helmets of magical power that hardened like black armor – eyes like flashes shone.

“I’m not giving up on anything…! I wield my sword with my convictions…!”