Chapter 647 – Escape and the Culprit

000

Alvein’s clone fell helplessly to the ground like a puppet with a broken thread, occasionally flinching as blood flowed from his broken head.

As a woman who moves under her mechanical command, she would stand up on the spot and try to attack Schrödinger no matter what her own body condition is, but it is not for her to move her own body as she wants after being beaten by her brain. It was a virtually impossible story.

Aisha looks at her with her eyes filled with a little compassion.

She was born because of Darwin’s need, and she died at the same time because she was used by Darwin, so she had no will.

However, Aisha knew very well that if she didn’t do that, it would be them who would suffer, so she shook her head as if she was letting go of that sympathy.

“Keugh…!”

And, after one scream, Darwin, who sat down on his seat with his injured shoulder wrapped around him, raised his head with an angry face.

Looking down at her Schrödinger and Aisha, she had a face that seemed like she couldn’t admit her own defeat.

“Finally… I succeeded in giving him a shot… Damn old man…”

Schrödinger knew that her best choice would be to finish her off right now, so he tried to approach her as she was, applying strength to her nails.

However, Schrödinger, too, must have used up all his body magic in the attack just a moment ago, and the magic stone in his chest was completely turned off without even blinking with a tired face.

“Ugh…!”

Then, Schrödinger immediately made a painful face, and sat down on his knees on the spot.

“Mo, my body…”

As if he was paralyzed, Schrödinger, unable to move according to his will, could barely make out his voice.

“Schrödinger!”

Aisha, running towards her Schrödinger, supported her and raised her body in the opposite way.

“Are you okay?”

“I feel like my magic has run out… My body has become a humanoid… But I guess I’m still like a homunculus… It’s okay. After a little rest, it will be back to normal. Than that-“

Schrödinger glares at the motionless Darwin as if he must finish what he was about to do.

“It’s not just me or that clone that can’t move. Right darwin? When you attacked my body, I poured out the remaining magic power and cast a binding spell on your body.”

“Schrodinger… On the subject of this failed work…!”

Even at Darwin’s words, which seem to provoke him again, Schrödinger sneers and treats them as words of a loser.

“Under. Call it at will Failure and success, because Maxwell… Is the standard you set yourself. …Please, Aisha.”

And then, when I said that to Aisha, Aisha was silent for a moment, then nodded, clutching her power in her hand holding her hammer.

Darwin, the person involved, must have been well aware that this was an expression of her determination.

And, having her Schrödinger seated, and watching her approach him with her hammer grasped, Darwin was somehow trying to get behind her while staggering back to her motionless body in her numbness.

When that didn’t go the way she intended, it seemed as if she was crawling on her ground, which made Aisha feel even more miserable.

To a woman like this, she herself has been deceived so far, and thanks to her, she has helped to make the lives of countless people hell. I said.

If possible, I didn’t want to do anything like killing people.

However, if her death was necessary to prevent what happened to him, he would not hesitate to get his hands dirty.

With that in mind, with the hammer in her hand, use even more force than when you hit the clone earlier.

The moment she swung her arm at her head with power that shouldn’t be wielded against people.

Bang! A sound was heard, and the ceiling shattered.

“!?”

Aisha and Schrödinger were startled by the sudden explosion, and when they looked up at the ceiling, a disgusting pink mass of flesh stretched out from there at high speed and grabbed Darwin’s body in a straight line.

The chunks of flesh seemed to be trying to protect Darwin from the two.

“Stop, please. This…”

When Aisha saw the grotesque masses of flesh constantly wriggling and moving, she involuntarily guessed what they were.

Because the information was already given.

“I wonder if he was inside this mansion… Darwin’s son…!”

She was obviously unable to speak and had been told that she had a body that had changed to the point where she could not move on her own, but it seemed that she could interfere with the inside of the mansion by moving her swollen flesh.

Then, that lump of flesh wrapped around Darwin as it was, and carried her up to the top of her ceiling.

“Damn it, wait!”

Looking at it, Schrödinger tries to get up, but his body still needs more magic power.

If it were her nails, it would be possible to cut through her flesh and steal Darwin, but Aisha’s hammer was too much.

Ayesha looked at Darwin as she was being lifted up in silence, then she shook her head and went over to Schrödinger to pick her up and support her once more.

“…Let’s go, Schrödinger. Now that it’s like this, I think it’s impossible to finish Darwin.”

“Kuh…”

Schrödinger knew that Aisha’s judgment was correct, but she bit her lower lip, wondering if she was resentful that she had to miss Darwin.

The wound inflicted on her was certainly deep, and considering the location of her regressors’ mansion and what Darwin was doing now, it couldn’t be said that there was no harvest…

Besides, a lump of flesh protecting Darwin.

I didn’t see her hostility, but if they pursued her any longer and tried to kill her, the chunks of her flesh would also attack them.

He couldn’t move properly, and he couldn’t see an opponent he could defeat with Aisha.

“Yeah… Let’s go. Aisha, let’s go back to Asteris.”

As if he couldn’t help it, Schrödinger nodded her head and proceeded with her towards her exit.

001

Lilim, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes at the sound of someone opening the door and entering.

A presence I’ve never felt before.

However, since she didn’t feel any hostility, she stood up and looked towards the door, where she witnessed a dark-haired woman in a white coat entering.

“Hi.”

She smiles at her as she shakes her hand in her welcome.

Receiving the smell of tobacco that wafted from her a little further away, Lilim opened her mouth while slightly squinting her eyes while making eye contact with her.

“You… Don’t look like Cleon-nim’s group. I don’t even remember.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Because I’m not with him Although this Asteris is a cooperative relationship.”

As she said that, she came right next to the bed she was lying on, and she-Artis put her hand in her pocket and took out her lollipop.

Then he handed it to Lilim.

“Now, it’s a sign of friendship and affection.”

Lilim didn’t say anything and accepted the lollipop she gave her, but she didn’t put it in her mouth and just kept making eye contact with Artis.

“What. Am I on guard?”

Artis scratches her head, realizing that in Lilim’s attitude, the way she is looking at him is not particularly friendly.

“Yeah, that’s right. I haven’t heard your name yet.”

“Ah, what. Yes. I am Artis. Is that Lilim? I heard from Cleon.”

After she said that, she took out from her pocket the candy identical to the candy she gave to Lilim, peeled off the wrapper, and put it into her mouth.

Then, while leaning back on the back of her chair, I would talk while looking at her.

“Beside the Demonic Sword Emperor, there was a girl he had with him even before he became emperor. Many said that she was a demon who made a pact with the sword emperor and took away his soul instead of giving him her incredible power.”

Then, straightening her stance, Artis continued her speech, pointing the end of her lollipop at Lilim.

“Is that your story?”

“…”

Looking at her talking with the same attitude as she herself knows everything, Lilim doesn’t say anything for a while-

Soon, she let out a sigh and talked to Artis.

“That is not wrong. Because I met him, his fate changed greatly.”

“Also. Well, I already knew from Cleon that you were related to the Empire. After that, she asked me not to talk. For a scholar like me, you have to solve the riddle on your own to get it right.”

“Yes. I guess so.”

At Lilim’s cold reply, Artis only laughed.

“So? What does that scholar do to me? Are you trying to ask me about what happened in the Empire?”

“I’m glad the story is fast, actually, there’s something I’d like to find out.”

As if asking what he wanted to know, Lilim silently made eye contact with Artis, and Artis carefully brought up the story.

“Past. When the kingdom and the empire started a war, the first target for the empire would have been the ‘kingdom’. Even if the front line was expanded unreasonably, the empire’s troops had a limit. Destroying the kingdom, the center of the alliance, must have been the top priority.”

Even from a strategic point of view, it would not have been necessary to unreasonably stimulate neighboring countries to wage an escalating war.

Of course, even if the empire didn’t want it, allies centered around the kingdom would have fought against the empire all at once in order to prevent the empire from running rampant.

If so, it would have been better to stick to ‘defense’ except for the border with the kingdom.

The offensive is focused on the kingdom, and the other parts take as much time as possible.

If he had established a strategy like that, he would have been able to push the kingdom in a short time using a surprise invasion and an overwhelming power difference.

However, the Empire did not do that.

“The Empire tried to send some of its troops to the East as well. In order to go to the Eastern country, there were several kingdom territories in the middle, so we did not send large-scale troops, but dispatched a small operational unit to the rear of the Eastern country. I mean secretly.”

“Do you know that?”

“Yeah, there is a situation that says that part will be like that. In terms of location in the past, the empire was in the ‘south’ of the eastern countries, but the place where the battle between the empire and the soldiers of the eastern countries took place was in the north of Asteris. In other words, it is a position that is backwards to the Eastern countries. The imperial army didn’t move much after entering the eastern country, and they were moving as if they were secretly looking for something. And in the process, they killed the residents of the Eastern countries who noticed their existence.”

The soldiers who crossed over from the Empire to the Eastern countries must have been quite excellent in the Empire.

However, if the tail is long, it will be caught.

The Imperial Army, which infiltrated the Eastern Country, roamed around the north of the Eastern Country as if looking for something.

“And the party of warriors who obtained that information – the golden warrior Lesia found this country with her companions. Of course, stopping them wasn’t the only reason, but in fact, they succeeded in driving out the imperial army that had infiltrated into the Eastern countries. Yes?”

“Don’t keep trying to check with me. You already know that, don’t you?”

“Yeah, the one who reacts isn’t boring to talk about…”

Artis looked a bit morose as if that was the only reason.

Then, inevitably, Lilim nodded and replied.

“Haha… That’s right. The soldiers dispatched by the Demonic Sword Emperor fought there with a group of warriors and were annihilated as a result. It’s just as you said. Not everyone was killed by Lecia’s party, though. There were just those who took their own lives the moment their defeat was confirmed, so as not to spill information.”

As if it wasn’t a very good story, Lilim replied with a dark face, and Artis nodded her head in reverse.

“Yes? Then, I also have a question…”

Artis questioned her, showing her index finger.

“What was the purpose of the Imperial Army entering the Eastern country?”

If a small number of people entered the Eastern country, it would normally have been an invasion aimed at shaking the internal situation of the Eastern country with terrorist activities aimed at paralysis.

Set a city on fire, assassinate a high official, or assassinate soldiers.

Just by destroying the East from the inside like that, he would have been able to seize friendship in the war with the kingdom.

But they didn’t.

Instead, he was just exploring the north of the Orient, investigating something unnoticed.

If caught, they even kill civilians to cover up their existence.

“If you were an aide to the emperor, you would know, right? The Imperial Army- No, what the Emperor of the Empire was trying to find in the East.”

With her meaningful smile, Artis, who seemed to want to answer her, looked at her lilim with the corners of her mouth raised.

At her attitude of saying that, she pointed out that Lilim was a little dumbfounded.

“Isn’t it true that riddles can be solved only when you solve them yourself?”

Hot! Artis trembled and shrugged.

“Ugh… But no matter how much I searched, I couldn’t find out, so it’s a problem. Because the people of the empire who knew that were all dead.”

“… Well, that’s right. Right after the investigation failed, they were all executed.”

“…”

On her dark face, she could feel that she was carrying a part of her guilt for what the demonic sword emperor had done at that time.

“What they were looking for was a weapon.”

“…Ordnance.”

At Lilim’s words, Artis changed his gaze.

“Yes. The emperor’s purpose was not simply to destroy the kingdom, but the existence that had been manipulating the kingdom behind the scenes – a maddened machine called the father of all things. Because it was to remove ‘Adam’. In order to fight Adam, I thought I needed any kind of power, so I searched through ancient documents and nominated artifacts that might be useful.”

Even as Lilim continued his story, he was reminiscing about things from a long time ago, so he paused a little and paused in between.

It was Artis who felt like her grandmother was telling her childhood stories, but if she told her about it herself, she might get upset and not tell her any more.

“It was calculated that once the weapon was in hand, it would not be necessary for soldiers to kill each other on the battlefield. It’s just that the weapon must have had the power to unilaterally overrun the ‘state’ without any problems.”

Artis, who had heard her story until then, was quiet for a while, then raised her mouth and asked her another question.

“Are you referring to the Leviathan by any chance?”

“…! …I was surprised. Someone would know that name.”

When Lilim looks at her as if genuinely surprised by her Artis’ words, Artis covers her mouth for a moment.

Under the covered hand, the corner of her mouth was raised.

“What Cleon and I are looking for is that Leviathan. When the Five Elements Festival is over, I’ll go find it.”

“…”

Hearing Attis’ words, Lilim didn’t say anything for a while, then shook her head and answered her.

“Why did you ask when you already know?”

“Because I thought you had more information about Leviathan.”

“…”

Lilim meets Artis’s eyes once again while being silent.

When a subtle air flows between the two of them, Artis stutters a little embarrassed and makes an excuse.

“Ah, it’s not like I’m going to do something dangerous using Leviathan… I have to say that it’s a goal I have to achieve, but I shouldn’t have thought about what to do after finding it…”

“Leviathan is…”

Lilim, who noticed that he was a little reluctant to say something.

However, she soon answers her by shaking her head as if she couldn’t help it.

“Leviathan is one of the weapons called ‘apoptosis’, which is the main cause of the destruction of the original world in the past. No matter where you want to use that power, there is only one result left by that weapon.”

Lilim talked at one tempo, breathing while looking at Artis.

“Leaving nothing behind, nothing but overwhelming destruction.”