Chapter 541 – The Pill and Degeneration

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How many hours had passed since the group returned to the mansion, after spending some time allowing Gonzales to fly freely.

Both Galatea, who fell asleep hugged by Caliburn, and Caliburn, the culprit, finally woke up from a long slumber and fully recovered her physical condition.

Then, Galatea immediately returned to her original form as an adult woman.

Instead, because of the education of the young children she was living with, she couldn’t wear the same clothes as her usual half-naked clothes, so she found an agreement with Quon by wearing a proper top and pants.

And, after she put Sasha and other young children to bed early, the remaining adults.

Lyla, Cleon, and Quon were talking in the living room.

When Cleon put the note she had received from Beauty Flames on the table and told her about her situation her, Layla nodded her head knowingly.

“Hmm. It looks like you’ve been searching for things since you came back from the park during the day. You’re ready to explore the dungeon.”

“Did you hear it even inside the studio?”

“What. To what extent? This house is already within Laila-sama’s barrier. You can notice everyone who enters and what is happening inside.”

As Layla says, she picks up Cleon’s note and looks at it.

“It’s a two-hour drive south of Asteris on horseback… It’s not that far, but it’s hidden in a fairly deep canyon. There seems to be a guard on the way there, too.”

“Yes. The story about me has been passed on.”

In response to Cleon’s answer to her, Quon looked at him for a while, then quietly opened his mouth.

“…Are you thinking of going alone?”

An expression of worry that came along with a worried voice.

Her concern was understandable.

Speaking of dungeons, they are generally small worlds in a realm disconnected from the outside world.

As the three of you who have explored the dungeon near Elesia would know, there are not only monsters in the dungeon, but also various traps and countless unknown threats.

Therefore, to go alone to the first dungeon you enter, you must be a person who is quite confident in your own skills—

Or, they are divided into ignorant idiots.

At the party of Albain’s time, how many times did he survive the danger of dying?

Of course, most of them were the latter of the two categories earlier, so it was also the result of repeating mistakes that went beyond the range that the party members could cover.

If it was a new dungeon, it might be a dangerous place even for Cleon.

It wasn’t Cleon who didn’t know that, so Quon had no choice but to worry about him.

But before Cleon can answer Quon’s question, Layla shrugs her shoulders and leans her back against the backrest, throwing the note onto the table.

She then turns to Quon and talks.

“Well. That’s right. If it wasn’t for that, he would have told us to prepare first.”

“Lyla…”

It was not only Quon who was reading Cleon’s thoughts, but also Lyla.

But he thought the opposite.

“If Cleon wants to go alone, there must be a reason he really wants to do that. No way, as always, we’re afraid we’ll be in danger… If it’s the same reason, he wants to hit me. Isn’t that so?”

“Ah, of course. The dungeon itself… They say it’s not that dangerous right now. After the hero Lesia finally cleared it, the core of the dungeon was destroyed, so the monsters couldn’t regenerate.”

At Cleon’s words, Quon’s face brightened as if he were finally relieved.

“So you’re saying it’s safe?”

“Yes. And it won’t take too long. So, I’m going alone. I’ll leave this place to Lila, and Quon has training as a shaman. Until the Five Elements arrive, let’s each do what we can. “

At that, Laila nodded her head knowingly, and she said, ‘Is it my turn now?’ And pulled out what looked like a white pearl from her bosom.

“Lyla, is this…?”

When Quon tilts her head and questions an object she has never seen before, Lila replies.

“The Elixir of Degeneration is an item that I have improved in my own way. If I were to call it a little differently, it should be called the pill of degeneration…”

“You’ve been researching in the studio since yesterday, and you’re making something like that? Did you do it yourself?”

As Quon speaks in surprise at her research achievements in her, Lyla spreads her left index finger.

“I slept. About an hour.”

“It’s too short! Sleep properly, eat well… Otherwise, pity the child in the belly!”

“Yeah. I agree with that too, Laila. I’m begging you, so take a good rest today.”

When even her Cleon joins Quon and makes a look of concern for Lila, Layla blushes with an ‘Ugh…’, Puts her chin on her chin and turns her head away.

“…Okay. Because I got it.”

Then, as if he had lost to the two of them, when he grumbled and talked, Cleon and Quon made eye contact and quietly nodded.

Anyway, Layla’s physical condition is important, but the next most important thing is how to use this pill.

“How is it different from when you were liquid?”

“That’s right. It’s the reaction speed. If the elixir of degeneration is absorbed into the body in an instant and takes effect, this one works slowly and leisurely. After feeding this to Lilim, observe the changes in the body and adjust it slowly. I have to get out.”

It was natural that the rate of absorption into the body was slower now that it had a solid shell than when it was in liquid state.

When there was no explanation as to why, Quon just tilted his head.

“You’ve seen it too. Poltuk’s magic armor we fought against. How did the evolutionary leap that he had react to?”

“Yes…”

It really happened in an instant.

From the moment the liquid touched the magic armor, Poltuk, and the corpses of the wyverns lying around them, the liquid woven them together, strengthening them, dissolving them and merging them into one.

It was a change too sudden to be called evolution, and it would have been more appropriate to call it transformation.

And the speed of change that was so fast, it was an absurdly short time for Lyla, Cleon, or Quon to do anything.

It took less than a minute for the change to end.

“Considering the reaction speed of the elixir of evolution, if the elixir of degeneration is used on Lilim as it is, all of the magic power and vitality it possesses will be lost. It will not die, but it will return to the moment of birth. Because I can’t write.”

“So… I think it’s necessary to make it into pills and adjust while watching her body change.”

Cleon nods as if he understands Lyla’s intention to her.

“Right. So … Cleon waits for the demonic power to disappear from her body her, then she wants the pill removed from her body her.”

“Is it possible? Something like that.”

“What… Somehow.”

Another thing she took out was a golden amulet, shedding her horsetail somewhere on her her.

“That-“

“It’s the talisman I used to seal the ghosts. I wrote it the day before yesterday, remember?”

To her words she as she gently shakes her amulet with her forefinger, Cleon replies.

“Of course. But… I thought I gave it back to Tamamo.”

“Even if you have it there, there’s no place to use it. I asked for one. With this, when Cleon needs to write something with an engraving, he doesn’t have to mix himself. We should use these things usefully.”

“I see…!”

As Layla spoke, raising the corners of her mouth her, Quondo raised her voice, brightening her face.

And when Layla passed the talisman to herself, Cleon took it and looked at it quietly.

Certainly, there was his own imprint engraved there.

“The order is this. First, after taking the pills, changes will occur in Lilim’s body. The demonic factors that are eating away at her body will gradually disappear. As if time has turned back. No, really. It ‘s good to think so.”

“It’s a drug that turns back the time of the body and soul.”

Lyla nods her head at Cleon’s words her.

“That’s right. And, after confirming that the demon factor disappears, that’s where Cleon needs to work hard. He needs to control Lilim’s body her with that amulet and make him spit out the swallowed pill again.”

“…To make me vomit?”

When Quon says he’s a little worried, Layla shrugs her shoulders and says it nonchalantly.

“Well, that would be it.”

“…Is that even possible?”

And, this time, Quon asks while looking at Cleon.

“Ah, ah… For now.”

Cleondo sheds her tail as she adds her words, “She’s never done it,” But Layla goes on, ringing her nose.

“What are you talking about? It’s Cleon’s imprint that makes it possible to control the magic nerves that are far more delicate than the stomach or intestines. You can extract drug substances from your body. Be more confident! You could fall down with blood spurting out of the hole!”

“No, I’m scared! I don’t do that!”

When Cleon raised her voice in awe of Layla’s encouragement her, which was not encouraging, Layla giggled and laughed.

“It’s a joke. It’s a joke. Well. You won’t be able to engrave an imprint on a target like that in the first place. Even this amulet won’t be able to be attached to an opponent with similar skills.”

“Haa… It’s not like a joke when you say it.”

Cleon shook her head at Lyla’s words and handed her pills from Lyla.

“Okay. I’ll start right away.”

“Ah- yes, then, Quon will wait outside the door and help out if something happens inside.”

“Okay. Leave it to me!”

When Quon ignites her morale, Lila rises from her seat.

“…Then, I’ll sigh as you said. I hope that the dark magic power felt in Lilim’s room will be gone tomorrow.”

“Yes. Good night, Lila.”

When Quon greeted Lyla lightly, she waved her hand and walked leisurely to her own room.

“…Quon.”

And when Cleon quietly called her name so that only Quon could hear, Quon would lean forward and answer quietly.

“Yeah. I’ll hang up the slip right after I enter the room.”

“…Because I’m never going to sleep… I have to force myself to sleep.”

While saying that, they nodded to each other and looked at Laila’s back her.

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When the door clicked open, Quon slightly pushed her face out and looked inside her.

There, Lilim was sleeping on the bed as if she was dead.

And Cleon was sitting on the chair next to him.

He was quietly gazing at Lilim with his back her to the moonlight.

There seemed to be a mixture of various emotions in that expression.

“Cleon.”

“Ah, Quon. How is it? Is Layla asleep?”

After Layla entered the room, Quon carefully spread a sleep enchantment throughout her room.

If it’s Lila, she’ll find out along the way, but she won’t be able to resist.

“Yeah. As expected, he was sitting on the chair in front of the desk. So, I brought him to the bed.”

“Okay… Then, let’s start this way too. It might be dangerous, so please wait outside the door.”

“Yeah…You have to be careful, Cleon.”

Nodding her head at Cleon’s words, Kuon carefully closed the door once more and left.

Then, after taking a deep breath, Cleon turned magic power into his eyes her and activated his magic sight her.

Then, what caught his eyes was the thick concentration of dark magic that wrapped around Lilim’s body like an animal’s chrysalis.

Within this, Lilim’s body must be gradually changing into something similar to that of the devil.

In fact, the magic density felt in her body was so thick that I had never felt it while living together.

In the darkness where even her face her could not be seen properly, it was difficult to find her mouth her, so Cleon canceled the spell in his eyes her first.

“…”

What I’m holding in my hand is a pill of degeneration and an amulet of imprint.

And there, Cleon thinks.

If, after giving her these pills, much earlier than Layla said-

For example, if you go back to the time when you were born from a broken Eve and went into frozen sleep.

How will she change?

And with what eyes do you see yourself?

If her body her ‘s time was turned back that far, she might lose all her memories of them.

Because of the past life factor that Cleon no longer has, he won’t recognize him.

Perhaps, it may be to erase the very existence of ‘Lilim’.

She had never met Cain, she had n’t parted with him, and had no memory of the many evils she had done to be reunited with him.

That might be the most ideal ending for her.

To return to the innocence of the moment in which she was made.

But- Cleon shook his head as expected and slowly got up.

Then, bringing her hand her to her mouth her, he carefully opened the small mouth her.

For Amelia, whose appearance is similar to that of Amelia, Cleon’s hand her was too big in comparison.

I opened the gap between my slightly open teeth by grabbing his jaw and lowering it.

She puts the pill in one hand into her mouth and uses the golden amulet to move her body to her.

Mouth, throat, and esophagus.

By controlling the simple part, she swallowed the pill well even with her parched mouth her.

As soon as she heard a gurgling sound in her throat, the confirmation flowed down into her and slowly began to melt the surface.

It will start to take effect.

1 second… 2 seconds… 3 seconds.

Slowly, feeling the passage of time, a change occurred about a minute later.

The black magic that spread around her body her began to show even if she was n’t using magical poetry.

The mana gradually made the air flow faster, and it became sharper like a raging blade, and began to touch the area around the bed and Cleon’s body her little by little.

The chest of drawers and chairs started to rattle.

And the legs of the bed.

Thinking that he heard a creak, Cleon realized that the sleeve of his clothes her had been slightly cut off.

Then, there, Cleon spreads her magic barrier to protect her amulet her and begins to protect her body her.

‘It’s quite a resistance… This is, rather than her will her, the devil’s element trying to disappear from her body her.’

Kagagagak! And, as the blade clashed against the barrier, Cleon frowned at her, wrinkled her brow in order to somehow catch the changes taking place in her body her in the torrent.

[Uh…Uh…]

Then, the next moment.

A voice slightly different from hers echoed throughout the room.

It was a groan, like the voice of a mature woman somewhere.

From Lilim’s stomach her, her black arm her protruded.

“So…!?”

It was a human arm.

It obviously looked like that.

Slowly, slowly, like crawling out of a well, it rises as if trying to break free from the shell of Lilim’s body her.

However, his body was like a slime-like liquid that melted all over his body.

From the black mud-like body, the glowing red eyes protruded from it, judging by the curvature of the body, it was something feminine.

[Cain…]

And, the moment it called the name of ‘Cain’, Cleon knew the identity of that existence.

“…Pandora, huh.”

[Ka, in… Cain…]

The demonic sword of Cain, the emperor of the demonic sword, and the demonic sword with the same mark as Galatea.

The great sword of Myeong-dong, which is said to have the power to break down the walls of an impregnable fortress single-handedly.

‘Pandora’.

When Cleon’s thoughts are finished, Pandora’s body attacks Cleon as it is.

It unfolded like a black curtain and wrapped around Cleon’s body her-

It was to drag Cleon’s consciousness into that darkness.