I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 69

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69.

At my sudden and unexpected question, the man briefly stopped walking.

But he soon started walking again.

Since he didn’t answer, there was a possibility.

If I asked outright whether he was a dark sorcerer, he would probably be much more wary of me than now, so I changed my question.

“Where am I going now?”

“….”

“Is Her Majesty the Empress going to kill me?”

“….”

“Well, she said she’d spare me, but she’s someone who breaks promises so easily that I didn’t expect much.”

“….”

I pondered how to speak to make him properly understand that the Empress would never keep her promise, and decided to gradually hint at it by comparing it to my own situation.

The dark sorcerer was someone who had grown up reclusive from childhood and didn’t trust people easily, and though it wasn’t certain, the fact that he came to believe the Empress’s words must have been because she had spent a long time building his trust.

I didn’t have time to spend a long time building rapport, and since the dark sorcerer unconditionally harbored the desire to revive the Demon God and make dark magic into divine power rather than human power, it was better not to think about us becoming friends at all.

So all I could do was make the dark sorcerer understand the valid reasons why the Empress couldn’t be trusted.

Click.

The problem was that even that seemed difficult because of this guy who shoved me into some room and shut the door.

“Excuse me?”

I called out to the dark sorcerer since it seemed like I’d been left alone, but there was no answer.

I let out a short sigh and used dark magic to remove the hood covering my head.

The dark sorcerer must have thought that since I was someone who used dark magic, I could easily remove such a hood.

Seeing how he left without untying my bound hands for a moment, he definitely thought that way.

I removed the hood that had been covering me during the entire journey and also untied my bound hands.

“…!”

The dark vision gradually began to brighten and create faint shapes.

A warehouse, perhaps.

The room was larger than a prison cell but had many miscellaneous items.

Light flowing in from the window was entering faintly because of the objects blocking the window.

I slowly walked toward the window side and looked outside to figure out where this place was.

Through the window full of hazy dust from not being cleaned, I could see a forest.

“….”

He must have certainly blocked the surroundings with dark magic, so the door naturally wouldn’t open.

But since he must have heard that I possessed dark magic similar to the darkness attribute and had even defeated an ancient demon, he wouldn’t be underestimating my power.

Then did the dark sorcerer think I was weaker than him?

‘Elinea?’

Just then, I emerged from my absorbed thoughts at the sound of Theor calling me in my head.

‘Yes, Theor.’

‘Shall I summon Pandeum? I used the earth attribute to find your location, but I can’t seem to find you at all.’

I had thought that the earth attribute received from Elim could find everything connected to the ground, so even if hidden by dark magic, it should be found quickly, but it seemed that even after searching the entire Empress’s Palace, the place where I was couldn’t be seen.

So I reached out and grabbed the window blocked by objects and pushed it with all my strength.

As expected, it didn’t budge at all, so I tried to break the window using dark magic.

‘This room seems to have magic cast on it. I can’t open the window. I can’t break it either.’

‘Can you see outside?’

‘About the 4th floor, I’d say? I can see a forest.’

‘It must be a north-facing window.’

‘There are many objects and it seems like it was used as a warehouse.’

‘That’s strange. The 4th floor is where the Empress’s bedroom is located. Could it be that dark magic was cast on an entire floor? There might be a floor that can’t be found with the earth attribute….’

At Pandeum’s words, thinking that might indeed be possible, I bit my thumb with my teeth and drew a summoning circle.

‘I’ll summon Pandeum.’

‘Yes.’

“What is this place, Master?”

“I’m trapped. Do you know where this is?”

“Trapped? What were you doing stupidly getting caught instead of summoning me while being trapped in such a place? Don’t tell me your power weakened while coming to this place?”

“No. I had a plan of sorts, a plan.”

I had wanted to appear as cooperative as possible to the Empress while making the dark sorcerer realize that the Empress wouldn’t keep her promise with him, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought.

“It seems like this entire floor was made invisible with dark magic, right?”

“It wasn’t made invisible with dark magic.”

“Huh? It wasn’t?”

I asked again, startled by Pandeum who was looking around and muttering to himself.

“It’s not dark magic? Then what is it?”

“The Demon God is in this place.”

At those words, my eyes widened to the point of popping out.

“The, the Demon God?!”

That was the final boss villain that appeared in the latter half of the original work, the god that the dark sorcerer would conspire with the Imperial Court to kidnap Caroline and use her as a sacrifice to revive.

“Why is it already out?!”

I screamed in shock without realizing it, and Pandeum raised his eyebrows and said.

“Well, this faintly felt energy is definitely the Demon God. The problem is that the revival method seems to be wrong.”

“The revival method is wrong? How?”

Originally, Greim, who heard the god’s voice and was closest to the god, should have become the sacrifice, but in the original work, the dark sorcerer who misinterpreted the ancient text used Caroline, who had light attributes, instead of Greim as a sacrifice, reviving the Demon God with most of its power sealed.

Then now too, the sacrifice was chosen wrongly in that way.

“Then, the Demon God is blocking this floor right now?”

“To explain precisely, it didn’t block it but moved this entire floor to the Demon’s Land.”

“What?! But outside the window…!”

“The implementation was done with the original space, and the reason the window won’t open is because the implemented space is just an illusion.”

My goodness.

Then the space I’m in now is the Demon’s Land.

“Then how do we get out of here?”

“Since the Demon God bound the space, we can’t get out unless it opens it.”

“…Gasp!”

“Of course, I can get out if another master summons me….”

“Go out and find out how the dark sorcerer revived the Demon God!”

I hurriedly asked him before Pandeum could finish his sentence.

Pandeum slightly frowned as if annoyed, but soon muttered that if the Demon God had been revived in this world, Pandemonium would become noisy soon too, and said he should cut it before the sprout grew.

‘Theor, you heard everything we said, right?’

‘I heard. Then, are you in the Forest of Monsters now?’

‘I don’t think so. Since he said “land” not “forest,” probably….’

‘Master knows exactly. This place is where the Demon God was sealed.’

So this place was also another dimension.

It meant that no matter how much Theor and the others searched for me, they couldn’t come to this place.

Pandeum was summoned to Theor’s side, and I sat down in a corner and began organizing the situation that had been moved up much earlier than in the original work.

Certainly the plague would start, and as Caroline and Lloyd purified with light attributes, when souls to use as sacrifices didn’t gather as easily as expected, disasters would be caused.

After that, the Demon God would be revived using the sacrifices gathered enough for revival and Caroline.

But the Demon God, revived by Caroline instead of Greim who possessed the divine power that should have been used as a sacrifice, couldn’t properly display its true power.

So it would strive to regain its sealed true power, and the protagonists would subdue such a Demon God and save the world.

This was the content of the original work, but the Demon God had already been revived even though no disasters had occurred yet and Caroline, the sacrifice, hadn’t been kidnapped.

“Then, who was used as the sacrifice…?”

My thoughts spilled out of my mouth without realizing it.

Certainly the most important sacrifice for reviving the Demon God was someone with divine power.

Because a body imbued with divine power had to become the sacrifice to destroy the sealing stone and perform the revival ritual.

Not Greim and not Caroline either.

“Who on earth did they use as a sacrifice… Gasp!”

Suddenly, one thought flashed through my mind.

“The High Priest!”

That’s right! It’s the High Priest!

The original High Priest in the source material did have the setting of being weakened from using too much divine power, but it wasn’t to the extent where he couldn’t function at all like now.

Of course, he did delegate minor High Priest duties to Greim to give him experience as the next High Priest, but he always personally handled major events like coming-of-age ceremonies and the Hunting Festival.

But now…

“I couldn’t even catch a glimpse of the High Priest’s face. Not even at the prayer meetings.”

With that thought, I began to suspect that the foolish Dark Sorcerer of This Place had thought the High Priest was a sacrifice with divine power and used him as an offering to resurrect the Demon God.

If that were true, then the current Demon God would have less power than the original Demon God from the source material.

Since the current High Priest is no different from the ordinary High Priests who have continued in succession, possessing only meager divine power and unable to even hear the voice of the gods.

‘Theor, Pandeum! I think the sacrifice the Dark Sorcerer used when resurrecting the Demon God was probably the current High Priest. Please look into that for me.’

I quickly asked them mentally to investigate this matter.

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