Chapter 749 – Be Careful When Agreeing to a Covenant

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The reason why the Owl of the Exile Church handed over the forbidden book to Lyla was because the book was actually connected to one of the predators living in the gap between the two dimensions.

It was like a trap in which if you open it and seek the knowledge inside, your mind becomes connected to a predator, and you are slowly drawn towards it without your knowledge.

Lila barely noticed after she opened it and read the first page that she was in such pain that her eyes and brain felt like they were on fire.

What she connects to by reading her book is someone who burns her world and uses it as her own fuel, with heat hundreds – no, thousands of times more intense – than the flames she deals with.

It was Kthuga, a being whose existence had been vaguely handed down under names such as the Eye of the Sun, the Flame Vampire, and the World Incinerator.

Kthuga has no will.

He is simply a living natural disaster that burns everything he observes to consume it, and that is why some call him ‘God’.

Because only God can destroy humans and the world without any reason.

However, negotiation was impossible, and it may have been the predestined ending for Lila to spontaneously combust and die, burning from the inside of her body due to the heat of Kthuga that was connected to her spirit and flowing in.

However, Lila said she didn’t like that – she thought there was still so much work to be done and promises to be made and kept – and even though she couldn’t see clearly, she grabbed the head of Camilla, who was being processed into a familiar, and ordered her through an oath. .

Take your mind out of your body and move it somewhere else, since you need to get away from this place – at least, this mansion where Kuon and Sasha are.

At her command, Camilla thought it was right and dragged her mind to hell.

Of course, the reason is that when she dies in her hell, she absorbs his soul, cancels her oath, and she can obtain all of Lila’s enormous magic power.

Moreover, she thought that if her demons found out that she was dying because of something bad, they would naturally chew them down.

Camilla and Lila pass through the dimension in an instant through the opened hole and arrive in hell.

Lyla’s spirit was still connected to C’thuga, and her whole body was engulfed in flames.

However, despite the pain burning through her skin, muscles, eyeballs, flesh and blood, Lyla did not let out a single cry, and she felt that somehow, from here on out, she must sever her connection with C’thuga.

She laughs at her Lila, and when she dies, Camilla laughs loudly, declaring that she will take his soul for herself.

However, there was someone who was drawn to the otherworldly flames that burned her body, the primordial demon who controlled the flames of hell.

At first, it appeared in a shapeless form like a spirit and observed the fire of Cthuga on her body in front of Lila, but soon Lila felt the magical pressure of its presence and raised her head.

After hearing what she said, she became interested in the existence of humans for the first time.

“Devil…! If you don’t help me figure out what to do with this flame… I’ll burn the entire second dimension together with Donggui Jin!”

Surprisingly, what she said was a threat.

To no one else, but to the devil? And that too, to a demon of primordial fear who has no hesitation in burning his fellow countrymen or anything else for his own desires?

Although he spoke in a poisonous voice, two desires were born within the devil as he looked at Lila, who had already burned to ashes and was left with nothing but bones.

One is the desire to witness the beautiful sight of this suddenly appearing human being drawing the fire of Cthuga into this dimension and reducing all of Hell to ashes.

Another is the desire to make this cocky, small, and fragile human, whose spirit is somehow close to their own – who might be able to provide them with new entertainment – as their own.

If, while weighing those two desires, there is a direct reason for choosing the latter –

＂Be, Bell!? Please don’t listen to this woman! She’s just a lowly fire mage, but she’s a vicious bitch who made a pact with me and tried to drain her to her marrow! Hell is a burning place anyway, so what’s the point of burning it a little more? “

The next moment, Camilla’s head, which had been attached to her limbs as it was her mental body, separated again from the base of her neck and above her neck.

When Camilla’s head hits the ground, yea! A scream was heard, but Belle approached Lyla, and she began to absorb C’thuga’s flames from her body.

“Thank you to that succubus. The reason I tried to save you was because that guy ordered me ‘not to do it’.”

As the pain burning her body slowly subsides, Lila watches the living, fiery demon before her slowly begin to take shape.

And when she saw that her appearance was exactly like her own, she instantly frowned and raised her body.

“What are you thinking? “I can’t believe you have the same appearance as me.”

“I just thought I’d like to understand more about you. “You humans are so obsessed with appearance that there is a saying, ‘start with form,’ aren’t you?”

‘You are absolutely wrong.’

Although Lyla’s expression was bitterly cold to such a demon of hers, she expressed her gratitude to her in a formal way, feeling the heat of her C’thuga disappear from her own body thanks to her.

But before doing so, the devil called She-Belle speaks as if she is hitting her player.

“Okay then, next time. Right now, I’m just temporarily absorbing Cthuga’s heat from you. If I quit this, you will be captured again by that undignified flame and slowly dragged away, and you will die a death more painful than immersing yourself in the planet’s core.”

“… So, what do you want me to do?”

When the devil gives something, he always demands something in return.

As it was a fact that she naturally knew, when Lila, who had somewhat expected her to come out like this, asked what she was asking for, Belle answered with a bright smile.

“You are a flame wizard, right? Among humans, they have considerable skills… It’s been so long since I’ve met a human that I can’t remember the last time I made a contract with you humans.”

Belle’s slender fingers – fingers identical in shape to Lila’s fingers – reached out to her.

It reaches Lila’s chin, travels down her neck, and soon stops near Lila’s heart.

The heart of a wizard is the most common magical organ.

There, numerous spells engraved with magic were engraved in Laila’s heart.

In fact, for her, it can be said to be the source of her magic, or even her magical power.

“Show me the greatest fire magic you have. If that’s what I like… I’ll tell you how to get out of this heat.”

＂…＂

At the unexpected spell, Lila blinked for a moment, but then-

‘This guy… Seems to be a pretty strong demon that even Camilla begged for… He wants to see my magic?’

When I thought about it, it didn’t feel that bad.

Rather, if your fire magic works even on demons –

Wouldn’t this also be something to be proud of for her grandfather, who will be watching from the afterlife?

“Okay… If you want to see my magic that much, I’ll show you.”

That’s why she forgets her past pain and draws out all the magic she has left in her heart.

And – among the magic she can use, she stretches out her hand toward the ultimate, most powerful, most beautiful, and most perfect magic.

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＂Haa… Haa…!＂

As Lila was breathing heavily, she saw the demon Camilla burning to ash and then melting away before her eyes.

Unless her firepower was so high that it was on a completely different level from the fire magic she used before, it would be impossible to burn her demons like this.

Since coming to her country of the East, having barely gone outside, what she has been studying is to understand the concepts of her magic that have come down to her country and incorporate them into her own magic.

During this month, when she thought she had succeeded in demonstrating the results of her training, she was half-exhausted as she had poured out almost all of her magical power, leaving only enough magic power to make a hole in the barrier, but even so, a smile appeared on her face with pride. It was.

＂What do you think… This is a new magic I developed… ＂

If it is simply destructive power, it is much higher than avatar (incarnation) magic.

Although it has the disadvantage of consuming a large amount of magical energy, it will be able to melt most things once the spell is complete.

Moreover, since the spread of the heat can be perfectly controlled, it does not cause any damage to allies.

In fact, it can be said that she is at the highest level of destruction-type fire magic that she can use.

If this is the case, no matter how great the devil Bell is, he will have no choice but to admit it.

With that thought in mind, Lila looks at Belle, and Belle folds her arms and closes her mouth for a moment with a sour expression, then looks back at Lila, and she answers.

“Is that all? I was expecting it because it was a new magic…”

＂Well, what is it? It was truly a new magic, wasn’t it?”

Belle knew most of the magic she could use.

Because she asked to be shown.

Lyla said she didn’t understand why she had to show all her cards, but she had said that she would return C’thuga’s fire if she didn’t want to. 〉

＂… Laila, you seem to be misunderstanding something.＂

Then, Belle sighs, shakes her head, and waves her hand to restore Camilla, the melted victim, to her original form.

Then she returned to Lila, putting her hand on her shoulder and speaking with a somewhat disappointed look on her face.

＂What I wanted to see wasn’t just this… Simple magic that simply increased the temperature than before. The emotion I felt when I first saw your incarnation magic… I felt that this kind of magic was not enough.”

＂What’s the problem…? Didn’t you just want to see stronger, more spectacular fire magic?”

When Lila responds as if she doesn’t understand Belle’s words, as if her direction is wrong, Belle sighs and speaks to her again.

“Obviously I like that kind of flame too. But, Lila, I can do that too.”

She said that and stretched out her hand towards Camilla.

＂Oh, well, something is getting hot again… Ugh, ah! Hot, hot, hot, hot!!”

Camilla, whose body had finally regenerated, once again felt the temperature around her rise instantly, and then a haze like a fire was created around her body.

The body appeared to be melting and collapsing due to the heat, just like Laila did earlier.

＂…＂

When Lila saw Belle’s power, she closed her mouth for a moment.

She could only activate her magic by memorizing three or more lines of chanting, and she reproduced it by simply extending her hand and using her magic power.

No – it can’t be called magic; it’s just an act that requires a little bit of skill, like picking up chopsticks correctly or standing on your head.

Even though demons are more friendly to magic than humans – this difference was a bit shocking.

“Did you see it? Simply ‘making the fire bigger’ ‘increasing the explosive power’ ‘raising the temperature’… These simple changes are of no interest to me. What I saw in your flame was not like this.”

Come to think of it… When she showed off her Fire Myth magic, her eyes definitely lit up, and she returned the favor to Laila in an unbelievable way.

Instead of stopping at just absorbing C’thuga’s fire, he suggested a method of processing Camilla into a grimoire to block its effects, and a method of keeping it under control by using it to contract with a part of C’thuga.

In addition, he gifted a twig imbued with his flames to a hellish plant, which helped him create a new staff for Laila.

“I want to see the flames that I cannot create, Lila. Incarnation magic is a magic that can be used with feelings for ‘the human you love’. It is your own spark that we devils can never understand or imitate. … I thought I would see a new spark today, but I’m disappointed.”

As Belle said this, she clapped her hands once more, regenerating her Camilla before her remains seeped into her land.

And, when Lila doesn’t respond to her words for a while, she speaks as if she has lost interest in Lila.

＂Is it okay now? If you don’t have any new magic to show, you can go back. Oh, of course, I can’t tell you about the imprint of the sacrifice.”

When Lila’s reaction is completely different from when they first met, she clicks her tongue while speaking to Belle.

“That’s troublesome. There are colleagues waiting for me to come back with the answer, so are you telling me to go back empty-handed?”

“It has nothing to do with me.”

When Belle answered, the atmosphere between Lila and Belle suddenly lowered.

Of course, it would be Lila’s side that was at a disadvantage in her fight, but that didn’t mean she could just back down.

＂Yeah, that’s right… Lila, you should do it in moderation… Master Belle is not a leisurely person like you. No matter how much I want to impress Cleon, it’s like that—”

And the moment Camilla, who was revived again, spoke with her breath, the bucket that covered Camilla’s head fell to the ground along with her head.

＂Why, why again…?＂

When Camilla made such a bewildering voice, Belle thought she would apologize and say it was a mistake because she had done it out of reflex, but she thought there was no need to and spoke while looking at Lila. Br〉

＂Cleon… Now that I think about it, was it him? Lila, I want to protect you at all costs – the wedge in your heart.”

＂…＂

It was quite unpleasant for the devil to speak the name of a precious person.

Perhaps because of her facial expression, when Lila’s forehead wrinkled, Belle looked at Lila like that and made a sound of ‘hmm’ as if she was thinking about something.

And after a while, Belle looks at Lila and speaks while smiling.

“Good. I will tell you how to resolve the stigma of sacrifice.”

“… What? Why suddenly─＂

Lila, who was about to speak as if she did not know Belle’s intentions, quickly shook her head.

Here, she decided that all she had to do was except her favor.

“I just wanted to check it out. What on earth was that person named Cleon that became the spark in your heart? If you know that, Lila, maybe you can understand your flame.”

＂─What is that…＂

The next moment, Belle’s hand reached out and placed the tips of her index and middle fingers on Lila’s forehead, and her magical energy flowed towards Lila.

＂Ugh…!＂

When Lila flinches away from the sudden sensation of something going on inside her brain, after a moment her Belle pulls her hand away and speaks to her.

“It’s a contract, Lila. Since I have given you the knowledge of the stigma – Laila, I must fulfill the following contract with you.”

＂A contract…?＂

Lila wondered for a moment whether it was a type of oath, but she raised the corners of her mouth and spoke.

“From now on, I’m going to put a part of myself inside you. It doesn’t usually have any effect on you… But just once. The moment I said ‘Ignition’. Your body allows me to temporarily stay in that dimension. In that case, you will temporarily ‘lend your body’ to me.”

＂Wait a minute. If I did something like that… There’s no way I could let a great devil like you descend into reality…!”

As Lila speaks in protest, Belle responds with her sigh.

“Then let’s add a condition. As long as I borrow your body, no one can harm you. How about this?”

It is a condition to fall into the category of oath. If you break it, no matter how much you are Bell, you will face irresistible destruction by the laws of the world.

Is there a reason why they want to descend into reality like that?

However, for Lila as she is now, I haven’t prepared any special magic to satisfy her, so if I can’t find a way to deal with her ‘brand’ other than this –

A parchment of magic suddenly appeared before her eyes.

All the conditions written there were consistent with everything Belle had just told Lila.

If there was a condition that no one got hurt – it might be okay, Lila thought.

That is, if there is a life that can be saved with that.

That’s why Lila nodded her head.

That served as a signal to accept the oath, and as soon as Layla’s name was written on the parchment, it burned, engraving evidence of the pact on both Bel and Layla.

Then, a little more of Belle’s magic flows into Lila’s head, along with information about her stigma.

＂Okay… With this, the contract is completed. Well, don’t worry. Like I said, I just want to check a little.”

Belle said that, stretched out her hand, opened the same hole that Lyla and Camilla had passed through, and threw them through it.

“See you on the other side, Laila. Next time, show me the flame I really like.”

Otherwise, my patience might run out.

Looking at her with her devilish smile, Lila fell down the dark passage.

When a very brief moment of dizziness hits her, her next moment.

When she suddenly opened her eyes and looked around, her consciousness had returned to her original body.

＂Lila!＂

＂Ku, Kuon. Because it’s okay.”

Immediately, her Kuon, who was close to her, approached her and looked at her body here and there as if checking her condition. Lila smiled as if she was okay, relaxed her numb leg and stood up.

“Well, I’m really glad you came back safely.”

And the one who supported her was Sasha, who was standing close to her and observing Laila.

＂Of course… Where is Lilim?＂

“She went back inside the barrier. I will also tell Mr. Cleon about Mr. Lila…”

＂Useless things… Worry for no reason.＂

Although Lila thinks that her Lilim’s actions may have made Cleon uneasy, she approaches the barrier and raises her hand.

And she raised her voice towards Cleon and his group beyond.

“Listen carefully! Because I have been gathering information about the stigma of sacrifices…!”

The information about the stigma that Belle gave her has already been sorted out.

＂The way to remove the stigma of sacrifice… That is─＂

And, the information she put into her mouth was being passed on to where Cleon and his group were located beyond the barrier.

Lila’s heart is pounding… Pounding… Inside the magic organ.

Except that for the first time, the essence of dark magic, like filth, has penetrated and is waiting to be awakened.