Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 210

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Chapter 210

When Dasha opened his eyes, the world was darkness.

It didn’t take long before he could recall his own name.

Dasha.

The proud tenth knight of the round table.

…a faithful bard who served.

He fought for… and sang of…’s great deeds. Ah, that was his calling. To fight and sing for…

Having regained consciousness, he tried to sing out of habit. But even when he opened his mouth, no song could come out. No, in the first place…

‘Ah.’

Where his trembling fingertips searched, there was no mouth to open.

No eyes to watch over the shining world, no nose to smell the fresh scent of life, nothing at all.

He had no head.

Despite having no head, there was no problem seeing and feeling the world. That fact shocked him even more.

‘Ah…’

He had awakened as a hideous Dura’han.

‘This terrible…’

Thrown into chaos, he raised his body. The place where he had opened his eyes was filled with the barren scent of death.

Around him, withered beings devoid of any warmth staggered about aimlessly without purpose.

Dasha realized they were skeletons. Their gaunt bones looked fragile enough to break with just a little force, rather than threatening.

Some couldn’t even maintain that much integrity and were crawling along the ground.

Standing on the dead land, Dasha desperately searched his memories.

Much of his memory was lost, but he remembered what was important.

The fact that…’s final wish had failed.

‘So this is how the world has changed.’

The defeated goddess’s servants became such terrible forms, while only the wicked god’s puppets enjoyed overflowing life in this world.

Dasha wondered why he had opened his eyes. Instinctively, he realized he should be waiting for someone, but he couldn’t remember who that someone was.

Surely he had praised someone.

But the place where… had been was cleanly empty, as if carved out with a blade.

The only certainty was that they had been defeated. They had failed at something they tried to achieve with all their heart, and death had been stolen from them.

‘We failed.’

And the world had become Birth’s. Since it had become Birth’s, he must have awakened in such a terrible form.

Dasha, who had been blankly looking up at the sky, took a step forward.

Not far away, he could hear the sound of abundant life’s pulse. What ignorant and cruel peace this was!

There was also an Agent of Birth there. The disgusting smell emanating from the threads of fate scraped at Dasha’s sensitively heightened nerves.

Dasha had only one choice.

‘Revenge.’

To destroy everything that Birth had accomplished in this world.

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“If I were Lilia…”

Looking down at Maxel’s schedule sent by Count of Ruewark, I spoke with a lukewarm tone.

“I would have left this place long ago. Instead of following around like this.”

Honestly, it was convenient for me that she was acting this way, but separately, it made me sigh. Why was she so short-sighted?

I was even embarrassed about my past self who had been jealous and angry at such a person, dying miserably. It was somewhat absurd too.

No matter how blinded I was by Maxel, had I really been so easily caught up in such a person’s schemes?

As I frowned while looking down at the schedule, Jeon, who had checked the contents over my shoulder, spoke in a nonchalant tone.

“They must be madly in love with each other.”

The old me would have agreed with Jeon’s words. But now I thought a little differently.

I folded and put away the schedule while clicking my tongue briefly.

“It’s not that, she doesn’t trust him.”

It was natural that she couldn’t trust him given how things had turned out, but even without the current situation, from what I could see, Lilia’s distrust had been going on for quite some time.

“Lilia doesn’t trust Maxel. That’s why she got involved in the succession struggle.”

I shrugged and looked back at Jeon.

“Right? Prophecy is about the ‘future.’ It’s seeing what will happen in advance. But even after seeing the future, she worked to make that future happen.”

Either the prophecy was incomplete, or she couldn’t trust it.

“And what Lilia needs now is Maxel’s victory. She’ll try to make that happen somehow this time too.”

The route shown in the schedule was longer than expected, but I had nine Dura’han. Dura’han who could even transform into animals.

Having identified the areas where Dasha was likely to appear through this schedule, it became much easier for the Dura’han to search the region.

“Then sending assassins like this must also be because they don’t trust the prophecy that they’ll win.”

Jeon muttered sourly while slamming the assassin he had been restraining with magic onto the ground.

There seemed to be some very dull and terrible… sound, but I decided not to check.

Instead, I decided to praise Jeon.

“Good comprehension. I see you’re applying it right away.”

When I decided to openly reveal my whereabouts, I had roughly expected this kind of situation.

Since Lilia had tried to find me and send assassins even when I was hiding, she couldn’t miss the current opportunity from her perspective.

It was just pitiful that she didn’t have the broad vision to look around her surroundings.

I glanced at the pile of assassins we had stacked up, then looked back at those rushing toward us from far away.

The Captain of the Guard and Holy Knights, along with several soldiers who had gone to fetch witnesses, were returning.

“That’s the Monster Hunter! The person who caught monsters for our village before!”

The witness brought by the Captain of the Guard vigorously nodded after confirming the face of the dead assassin.

“Are you certain?”

“Yes! He said the Crown Prince personally hired and sent him…”

At the villager’s testimony, the Captain of the Guard’s face stiffened subtly. The word Crown Prince must have made him uncomfortable.

Having already been on high alert after receiving reports of an attack on the Reviver last night, and seeing that the situation looked serious, he would probably report this up the chain of command immediately.

While the Captain of the Guard hesitated to continue speaking, a Holy Knight from the Temple who had been dispatched for investigation interjected with a serious expression.

“Regardless of who’s behind this, if the Empire cannot properly protect the Reviver, the Temple will immediately form an expedition force to eliminate these heretic bastards.”

“Let’s start with the investigation first…”

“Look at these assassins!”

Faced with the Holy Knight who was outraged that the Reviver had been exposed to danger, the Captain of the Guard looked troubled.

“Of course they look vicious, but we haven’t properly confirmed these guys’ testimony either…”

“What testimony would assassins give!”

“Still, one guy…”

The Captain of the Guard started to point to one side but stopped.

In the spot he was looking at, the assassin who had been subdued by Jeon just moments ago was lying limp.

“…Didn’t you say one was alive?”

Noticing the Captain of the Guard’s gaze, Jeon subtly avoided eye contact and spoke innocently.

“It was self-defense.”

I generously offered an apology toward him.

“I was worried about major damage, so I tried to subdue him forcefully, but he ended up dying. I should have kept someone alive for interrogation. Sorry about that.”

“No, it’s fine!”

The Captain of the Guard waved his hands apologetically instead. With this, he had to continue the investigation based on my testimony as the victim and the villager who knew the assassin’s face.

Of course, it wasn’t a coincidence that a villager who knew this assassin’s face had suddenly appeared.

I had simply made use of the rumors that Monster Hunters were going around eliminating monsters while mentioning the Crown Prince’s great magnanimity.

Jeon had always shown excellent skills in illusion magic among all types of magic.

‘I wonder when the news will reach Lilia.’

Lilia probably never expected me to officially report the assassins to the security forces like this. Assassins are typically dealt with secretly, after all.

But I wasn’t in a position where I had to hide and deal with assassins, so why would I do that?

‘I’m just an innocent Reviver whose life was threatened, so I deserve official protection.’

I defeated the assassins and reported them all to the nearby security forces as soon as dawn broke the next day.

The estate residents, who had been paying attention to my every move, were naturally shocked and pressed the security forces to conduct a proper investigation. As if that wasn’t enough, someone even reported it to the Temple.

It saved me trouble. Thanks to that, even the Holy Knights were now frantically searching for those who had threatened me with their eyes rolled back.

“I found out that the monster hunters belong to a merchant guild.”

“A guild? Do you happen to know which guild it is?”

“I don’t know that much. I just happened to overhear that it’s been talked about among merchants recently.”

When Samuel casually passed along the information while pretending not to know, the Captain of the Guard and the Holy Knight busily gave orders to their respective subordinates.

Glancing at them, I muttered as if talking to myself.

“The atmosphere already seems bad because of the Dead Land nearby, and now they can’t even control people properly.”

“We will drastically strengthen the security of the estate. I apologize for causing you concern.”

I casually waved my hand toward the guard who kept bowing and turned around indifferently.

Jeon cursed the mastermind behind the assassin in a voice loud enough for all the estate residents to hear, and Samuel also freely spouted about how evil energy was spreading across the entire Empire without batting an eye.

This charade had apparently started small in the Imperial Palace, but somehow it had grown to this scale.

‘More importantly, it’s about time our paths started to overlap.’

If Dasha was targeting Lilia, this area seemed to have the highest possibility of her appearing.

Moreover, it wasn’t far from where the Dura’han was last spotted.

“When I checked the places that Dura’han attacked, it was following the locations His Highness the Crown Prince had visited regarding the expedition force matters.”

Count of Ruewark had said that. And coincidentally, the Dura’han had stopped its activities when the Crown Prince returned to the feudal lord’s castle, which was far from the Dead Land.

That was when I had appeared, claiming I came to stop the Dura’han.

If that was true, I could understand why the Dura’han didn’t reappear in places it had already destroyed.

‘If it wasn’t hiding from me, but stopped its activities because Maxel and Lilia temporarily moved away from the Dead Land.’

Then things became simple.

I just needed to lure Maxel and Lilia back near the Dead Land.

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