Chapter 341 – Land of the Dead

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“You’ve done more than agreed. Alexios.”

The Warden—no, the girl whose identity was now known to be a member of the Exile Church muttered quietly.

In front of her eyes her, a group of people reminiscent of a group of zombies or ghouls.

Her eyes her were bloodshot, and she was advancing towards Solina, Lyla, and their companions with ridicule and hostility.

“In that case… I should prepare for it as well.”

As she said that, she pulled her own arm out from under her robe her.

On her finger was a ring with a powerful magic stone embedded in it.

At first glance, it was a simple accessory with an ancient pattern drawn on it, but inside it was a powerful magic that connects to the rift in another dimension.

She opened the space and disappeared right there.

Lila feels the unusual movement of her magical power in her, and she immediately turns her gaze to the place where the girl had been standing until just now.

Rather than caring about her disappearance of her, she had to do something about the danger that was right in front of her.

While gnashing her teeth at Alexios’ cowardice, as a cunning vampire, she observes the battle situation, thinking that she is poking at human weaknesses.

Wilhelmina succeeded in sucking Illenu’s blood her and removing the remnants of Alessios from her her, but Alessios’ plans her did not stop there.

He spread his blood his, which he had injected into Emma, ​​and his power mixed with Illenu’s blood her, to the villagers.

No matter how powerful a vampire, there was a limit to the number of humans she could control at once, so while she controlled Illenu, she couldn’t control others.

For all the villagers, including the guards, to be manipulated by Alexios and become their enemies, it was so difficult that even compared to dealing with Illenu, who was being manipulated, it was difficult to gain an advantage.

Unlike Illenu, who is basically able to heal himself due to his resilience to some degree even when injured, the villagers and guards are ordinary humans.

If severely wounded, it can die, and is vulnerable to attacks.

Killing them all to stop Alexios is unacceptable.

If he did that, how would he be any different from Alexios?

But even so, it is impossible to suck blood from all of them one by one and extract the power from within.

What was suggested was another method.

“You, daughter of Alexios, will once again draw his blood into you.”

Wilhelmina said, looking at Illenu with her terribly exhausted face her, adding her words, “It’s going to be difficult…”

In front of her eyes her is the real daughter of her her own enemy her, Alexios.

However, since she saw firsthand that she was also a victim of her Alessios her and a girl living her unfortunate destiny her, Wilhelmina did not hate her just because she was her blood relative of her Alessios her.

However, in order to solve the situation in front of her eyes, she also needed her strength her and, perhaps, had to push her once again into a job that could create another danger for her.

Layla, hearing Wilhelmina’s words her, exclaimed in bewilderment.

“Wait! I managed to get Alessios out of her and get rid of it, but you want me to collect the blood again?!”

“It’s okay. I’ll lend her strength her so she won’t fall under his control her…”

Wilhelmina talks to Laila as if to reassure her.

“…What can I do?”

Illennu, too, could not keep her eyes open to see this situation.

He said it was because he had n’t properly disposed of his father, and that it was his own blood kin’s job his to deal with it.

She thinks, and she must be feeling responsible.

No one else in this place had any intention of holding her accountable.

Dhampir Illenu is a kind person.

So, she finds the cause of the problem in herself and throws it away.

Seeing that, Cleon looked at Layla while holding the sword made of shadows firmly.

As if to ask her to speak instead of herself who couldn’t speak for her.

Layla catches Cleon’s gaze, and she shuts her mouth for a moment before speaking to Illenu.

“Cleon is asking you to put your mind at ease, is that necessary?”

Then, he spoke to Illenu in such a direct way that even Cleon, who had a dim ego, was embarrassed.

After hearing Lyla’s words, Illenu blinked her eyes and looked back at Cleon’s spiritual body.

When Cleon, who can’t make eye contact with her properly, avoids her head her, Layla grumbles at the two of them.

“It’s not right for one person to carry everything… Well, I understand. At least Cleon doesn’t have the right to say that.”

“…”

“Yeah, that guy. He knew he was dying, but didn’t he open his mouth only after he was about to die so that others wouldn’t care?”

When the spiritual body heard that, he could only freeze as if he had nothing to say.

When Beatrix and Emma heard that, they also looked at Cleon with sad faces.

“So. I don’t say anything like a good kid. It’s not your responsibility, if we all work together, we can definitely solve it… It’s not my personality to say things like that, right?”

As Layla said, she used her wand to lift her limp body up.

Then she looks in Solina’s direction.

Solina, she somehow, with her bare fists, was in the process of knocking down the villagers and guardsmen who were coming towards them.

Reese: Of course, the psychological shock she received after losing her last remaining blood relative and most precious person would have been enormous.

Somehow, she took over her brother’s will and defended her village her, even putting down her sword to stop them.

Of course, there must be a limit to that, but she is not a superhuman.

Compared to the enemies who had no hesitation in aiming for their lives while holding weapons and being controlled by Alexios, the penalty this side lost was too many.

“To say something to put someone’s mind at ease, I’ll utter one more word, or even one syllable, of the incantation of magic.”

“Lyla…”

Illenu muttered if he felt something while looking at Layla.

“It takes time to get things going according to Wilhelmina’s plan. Be grateful to be able to use this academy chief to buy time.”

She had a painfully bright face as she put a smile on her lips that seemed to be unmatched by anyone.

And, just before walking towards it to help Solina.

Right before the party talked about a specific operation. Layla suddenly stopped and turned her body around-

“Cleon.”

She summoned Cleon, and turned her face toward her own her.

Next moment, poo! There was a groan, and Layla’s hand her, stained red with her magical energy her, slapped Cleon’s face her.

No, it would be a bit insufficient to simply say that it was a hit.

“Lyla!?”

Beatrix’s Scream.

With a clean hit, a powerful shockwave exploded, causing Cleon’s body to roll over and over again on the ground.

And Layla, having her hair styled in a ponytail on one side, locks the other end as well.

She finally became the twin-tailed woman Cleon was used to.

“I never thought I’d do this hairstyle again at my age…”

Laila tied her hair up, but now that she’s over 20, she says it’s a little annoying that she has to do this hairstyle, but she blows away and she smiles at Cleon.

Inside her smile her, as before, there was sadness mixed in.

“Because I killed everyone first, I haven’t forgiven you yet.”

After saying that, Cleon somehow stood up from her seat and looked at Lila.

Cleon’s spiritual body of hers, which has only his shining eyes of hers, gradually regenerates, but his face of hers is always close to a shadow.

Even though the expression would n’t exist, in Cleon’s eyes her, he looked at Layla, who turned behind her and headed towards her her enemies her.

Somewhere, even longing was felt.

In her absence her, has she become weak or strong.

And is the standard based on ‘mind’, ‘magic ability’ or ‘body’?

‘A question like that would be meaningless.’

He is a dead person, a being whose time has stopped.

However, even while she is not confident, they change.

Growing up is a natural thing to do.

Please, like Layla, Illenu may not remain tied to herself.

“…Emma, ​​Beatrix. Take care of Illenu.”

“Clue, Leon…?”

“—Senior.”

His voice his, which had not been able to convey his own intentions his, was clearly audible to the two of them.

The next moment, Cleon goes in the opposite direction from Lila and throws away his sword her to stop the people coming towards them and starts blocking them with his bare hands.

Both Emma and Beatrix saw Cleon like that and soon started helping others in order to buy Illenu some time.

Because of that, Illenu couldn’t stay still.

She makes eye contact with Wilhelmina and appeals to her.

“…What am I supposed to do?”

The resolution was stronger, but the shoulders of her were a little lighter.

Wilhelmina looks into her eyes her, then nods her head and slit the wrist of the rich body of her picture her.

Then, a large amount of blood gushed out of her wrist.

That appearance was a sight a little unbearable to Illenu.

In the first place, the reason she was weak was the loss of her Cleon her and the fact that she didn’t drink her blood her after that.

The more she drinks blood, the stronger the vampire part of herself becomes.

It was because the monster inside her felt like it was about to become stronger.

That monster, Arleios.

Although it was only on the verge of her finding out that he was her own father her.

“The reason I made a lich, of course, was to deal with Aleus, but… By separating the body and mind, I was reversed by the power of the vampires that I and Van had collected so far, remaining inside the body . It’s because it doesn’t.”

She said that each person’s ability to control the souls of the vampires they absorbed is different.

At least, for that part, he says that his lover his, who is a natural vampire, was better than his half his.

Some of the vampires absorbed are not easily eliminated even if the true name is known.

In that case, there is no choice but to dissolve it in your own blood and seal it.

The blood that fell in front of her eyes had those seals melted into it.

“…You are a vampire and a human. An existence with the characteristics of both. If it is possible to obtain only that power while suppressing the will of a vampire with the will of a human…”

In other words, Wilhelmina passed her vampire powers that she possessed to Illenu, after strengthening her powers her.

The purpose of her was to gather the remaining Aleus’ soul inside her and suppress Aleus’ego with the vampire power she absorbed.

If that happens, next time Wilhelmina should once again suck blood from Illenu’s body to completely erase Alleus from within her.

Besides, Aleus and Illenu are physically father and daughter, even though their minds are not connected.

After all, Illenu was the one who could best adapt to his blood and power her, and if she wanted to, she could share the same blood with the people-

In other words, even among the villagers in front of her eyes, she should be able to attract the presence of Aleus.

“… But be careful. Obviously, the power of the vampires within me will target your body at first.”

“… What if I lose?”

“So. We must have created two dangerous vampires in this land.”

After hearing Wilhelmina’s story, Illenu didn’t even think about it and asked her for it.

“…I will. If there is a way to protect this village together with everyone. I will do it.”

“…Okay. Then, this blood-“

When Wilhelmina stretches out her wrist, Illenu approaches her white wrist her, lightly touches her lips, and drinks the blood.

It’s ‘throbbing’, and so many things mixed in the blood come flooding into you.

‘It’s the body’

‘It’s a new body’

‘Finally freed from the corpse’

‘Let’s rule’

‘Let’s destroy’

‘Let’s kill’

All sorts of bad thoughts, all arrogant, cruel, and foolish souls, can be silenced just by Illenu imbuing them with magical power and saying ‘be quiet’ in your head, even if you don’t tear off your strength.

It suppresses the appearance of vampires that have spread out in Illenu’s head her and emerges from the space inside her her, and collects only that power to make it her own her.

A total of 37 vampires. Some of them looked strong enough to be called simple food for most wizards in the academy, but Illenu lightly absorbed even the power of those souls into her own.

“Kuk… Kuk…!”

However, there are limits to both the body and the mind.

Illenu somehow accepted the thoughts of the vampires, but she almost lost her mind with a distressed expression on her face.

The voice in her head her only grew louder and louder.

Soon, the villagers, who had been gathering toward the party and even engaged in battle, stopped all at once and

She was looking at Illenu.

Momentarily, Illenu and Wilhelmina felt goose bumps.

Right after that, Alexios’ followers were rushing toward them.

However, She-Illennu immediately stretched out her hand to the sky.

Then, Alexios’s followers slowed down little by little on the spot and then came to a complete stop.

“…Well, hey… Is this… An illusion of something?”
“I don’t know. But if you’re looking at the same thing, at least now is your chance, gather the blood of Alexios’ soul…!”

Upon hearing Wilhelmina’s words, Ilenu clenched his fists with his hands extended towards the sky.

Both the villagers and the guards vomited blood.

However, that blood was not theirs.

Right away, beings like parasites with darker blood escaped from the bodies of the villagers and headed for her—Illenu.

Illenu senses that Alexios, who left him immediately, is trying to interfere with his will once again.

But she was different from before. She had already gained the strength to not be weighed down by other souls.

“…If this is it, father… That bastard…!”

The existence of Alexios, who calls his father a damn child and somehow builds up within himself.

[What, what… The power of this vampire is… No way, Wilhelmina. Did he surrender all his vampire powers his…?]

“Come on, Alexios… Let’s go to hell with me…!”

When Wilhelmina, hearing the words of Alessios, who had borrowed from Illenu’s mouth her, showed a smile like that, Alessios felt goosebumps for the first time in a long time.

[Am I feeling fear?]

Although it was Alexios’ words, the truth was close to confirmation.

Because Illenu had already overwhelmed him.

As the villagers collapsed one by one, the influence of Alexios disappeared from their bodies.

Layla, Solina, and everyone else turned their heads toward Illenu.

“Okay. With this-!”

Right before Illenu declared victory.

“Looks good…!”

The moment Laila let out a sigh of relief—

If you think you heard a clanking sound like a door opening with a key in it.

Suddenly the ground opened up and everything fell underground.

No, it wasn’t underground. It was an infinitely expanding space.

Illenu and Layla looked around in bewilderment, and only Wilhelmina seemed to know what this space was.

“A gap in another dimension…? So many people at the same time…? No way, the Exiled Church!!”

When Wilhelmina screamed and raised her head, the girl from the Church of Exile fell with her and looked at them.

“What are you doing!!”

When Lila says so and tries to catch her with her magic her, her girl her also responds by using the power of her dimensional rift to block it.

“How come… It’s almost done…! I could have defeated Alessios…!”

And, when Illenuma and I talked to her as if crying, the girl answered without changing a single expression.

“Illenu. You, a vampire who could threaten the world, absorbed all the vampire powers that Alesis and Wilhelmina harbored. That… Is ‘violation of the rules’. …”

She shut her mouth for a moment, then—

“You have no choice but to be like that golden warrior. So, let’s purify this land. By banishing you and everything related to you to the dimensional rift.”

A space where even the voice does not come out properly.

As soon as that sentence was passed, the girl disappeared.

“No, ugh, ah…!!!”

“Illenu! Quit…!”

Illenu thought in his head. The magical power of another dimension was slowly eroding his body.

Inside of him, Alexios was still there. If it went on like this, Alexios would be able to wake up again as everyone died.

Before that, he had to find a way.

[Foolish girl… Do you think you can run away from me…? I, Alexios, will surely reclaim your body and resurrect… Even one, as long as he remembers me… My soul and being. I will always be in your shadow…!]

As Alexios’ voice pierced his head painfully, Illenu grabbed his body.

Having entered the gap in another dimension, abnormalities began to occur in the body.

‘I can’t do anything like failure. If I don’t keep everyone. Even with the power of a vampire, by using anything’

The moment she made that decision, a power too great to be contained in a single human vessel spread out in all directions.

It was the aura of death.

An aura that instantly leads everything it touches to death, after which it turns into an immortal (undead).

Vampires exist at the pinnacle of the immortals, and the current Illenu is a state in which many pinnacle souls are gathered.

Even if he was called the god of the immortals, he was in a state of no inferiority.

Lyla, Beatrix, and Emma. In an instant, it was eaten by the black energy and disappeared.

“Illenu!? No! Control the power!”

[Tell me what you want. Ruler of a new realm]

A voice that overlaps with Wilhelmina’s voice hers.

“…If anyone remembers him, the being bound by the blood contract can reconstruct him. Erase everyone’s memories…”

When she snapped and something jumped out of her, her aura radiated from her and swallowed up the villagers, the guards, Lyla and Beatrix.

“…So that memories won’t be recovered due to unexpected stimuli… A world where emotions, egos, and nothing change…”

[Your wish grants you a new realm. You will rule over death and the dead to create a world that will never change. ‘Until the existence that breaks that eternal immutability appears.’]

The memories of all the living except for the already dead Reese and some guards are erased, and they are turned into the undead alive.

That was the condition for survival in this realm that the goddess of death had set for them.

Soon, a village and all its inhabitants disappeared from the real world.

Only traces of the battle were left in the ruins.

In the name of the Exiled Cult, the threat of the New World is gone.

The girl who returns to reality confirms that she has succeeded in pushing a village and countless people into the dimensional rift.

She knelt down, feeling desperately that it was she who had created the catastrophe.

Then, in a place where there was nothing, she took out her dagger and—

She cuts her own throat with it and she collapses on the spot.

It was to solve the karma accumulated by banishing countless lives with suicide.