I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 70

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70.

While I was trapped, the plague was gradually purified by the sacred relic fragments we had distributed in advance, infused with light attributes.

So unlike in the original story, there weren’t many casualties.

However, in my absence, the false rumor that the plague would disappear gradually gained credibility.

I didn’t particularly think that part would threaten me.

The Emperor, the Crown Prince, and through Perioze’s Sister and Theor, countless nobles knew that rumor was false.

Moreover, within the Imperial Court, thanks to Caroline and Greim’s efforts, it was gradually splitting into factions – those who considered me a wicked dark sorcerer and those who believed it was a false rumor.

I just needed to achieve the original purpose for which I had willingly let myself be captured here.

But the Empress, who had asked me to decide whether I would be on her side or not, never came to see me.

Thinking it might be because I had been summoned to the space where the Demon God was sealed, I decided I needed to escape from this place first.

Since I could no longer achieve my purpose of showing the Empress maximum cooperation, making contact with the dark sorcerers, and sowing discord and suspicion among them, I thought I should use all my power to escape from here.

‘Elinea, are you alright?’

Thanks to Theor constantly talking to me, I didn’t feel the slightest bit of fear about being isolated and alone.

After hearing from Pandeum that I was in a different space, he kept talking to me so I wouldn’t feel lonely or scared, helping me think of other things.

I was so grateful for that, my chest felt warm below my heart.

‘So this space is only deceiving my eyes?’

With Pandeum joining the conversation, I racked my brain to find a way out of the warehouse-like room.

‘If it deceives your eyes, it can deceive your body too. Even though you already know that room is an illusion, you hit the walls and can’t escape from there.’

‘That’s why I’m looking for a way to get out.’

‘If there was a way to break an illusion you’re already caught in, wouldn’t it have been broken the moment you realized it was an illusion?’

‘…Whose side are you on anyway?’

When I pouted at Pandeum’s deflating words, Theor reassured me, saying there surely must be a way out.

‘Try using both dark magic and earth attributes. If that doesn’t work, calling the divine beasts might be a method. Since the divine beasts are birds, there might be a space to escape upward.’

‘Oh! Are you a genius?’

‘I thought of that too. I was just about to say the same thing.’

When I exclaimed in admiration at Theor’s words, Pandeum snorted, claiming he was about to say the same thing.

‘Anyway, try calling the divine beasts. I’ll look for evidence that the dark sorcerers used the High Priest to revive the Demon God.’

‘I’m sorry for making you work alone, Theor.’

‘I’m here too, me too. I’m handling all the troublesome work…’

‘Please take care of yourself, Elinea.’

Cutting off Pandeum’s words and with Theor’s warning to be careful behind me, I visualized the divine beasts in my mind, hoping they would come to where I was.

Shortly after, Shin and Su clearly appeared before my eyes.

[Did you seek us, human.]

[Why are you in this wicked place?]

“I’m trapped. I want to get out of here, can you help me?”

I told them I had tried tremendously hard to find an exit using my dark magic and the earth attribute magic I received from Elim, but couldn’t find one, so I called them wondering if I could go up through the ceiling.

Then, Shin spread its wings and shot up through the ceiling.

The illusory warehouse ceiling twisted for a moment, and instantly the warehouse disappeared from my sight.

“Wow…”

And what filled my vision was a completely black space.

“At this rate, I won’t be able to go home.”

The entirely black space seemed to have no entrance or exit at all.

Forget an entrance, I couldn’t even sense which direction to go, so I stood there dazed for a moment.

“It’s close by.”

Then, Pandeum muttered while looking somewhere.

I looked once at where he was looking, then back at Pandeum, asking who was close by.

“The owner of this space.”

The Demon God?!

I quickly looked again at where Pandeum was looking and said.

“Will it come here? I’d like to meet it.”

“Probably not.”

Pandeum shook his head a couple times and pointed at the divine beasts flying above my head.

“These creatures have invaded its territory, so it’s trying to send them away. So meeting it would be…”

That’s when it happened.

My vision instantly changed with a whoosh, transforming into the corridor with the Audience Hall of the Empress’s Palace.

“Elinea!”

“Eli!”

Hearing welcome voices from behind, I turned my head to see Theor, Perioze’s Sister, Caroline, Lloyd, and Greim running toward us.

“Sister!”

I ran to Perioze’s Sister, whose face clearly showed how much she had worried about me, and embraced her.

Then I reached out to Caroline beside her and pulled her into the embrace too.

“Nothing happened to you? Are you okay, Eli?”

Caroline asked me with tears welling up in her eyes.

“The Empress didn’t harm you, did she? I heard about you from the Etheran Duke, but I couldn’t put my mind at ease.”

Perioze’s Sister also looked me over from head to toe with moist eyes as she spoke.

“I’m really fine. More importantly, you all heard the story from Theor, right?”

At my question, the expressions of Perioze’s Sister, Caroline, Lloyd, and Greim darkened.

“Is it really true that the Demon God has been revived, Eli?”

Caroline asked me with an incredulous expression.

Having light attributes, she had maintained close ties with the Imperial Court from childhood until now, so she seemed unable to easily believe that fact.

And understandably so, since matters regarding the Demon God’s sealing and potential revival were managed exclusively by the Imperial Court, so if the Imperial Court hadn’t leaked information about it to the outside, no one would know.

“The Empress must have heard that story from the Imperial Court and asked the dark sorcerers if they had a method. The dark sorcerers wanted to make the dark magic they had protected all this time as respectable to learn as other attribute magics, so they would have gladly agreed to help the Empress.”

Or conversely, the dark sorcerers might have learned about the Demon God that the Imperial Court was keeping secret first, and tried to revive the Demon God by borrowing the Empress’s power.

“Whatever the case, what’s important is that the Demon God has already been revived.”

It was also important that because there were flaws in the revival attempt itself, they failed to fully restore the sealed power, so the current Demon God wasn’t very strong.

Everyone nodded at my words that we could definitely defeat it with our current power.

“There’s something you’ve overlooked. The revived Demon God continues to devour human souls even now. So soon it will be able to unseal part of its power on its own, and by unsealing its own power that way, it will expand its influence.”

Well, that’s true too.

At Pandeum’s words, I changed the subject with a serious expression.

“The plague has been mostly contained, right? How much damage was there?”

The Demon God’s power would have grown as much as the plague’s damage, so depending on how extensive the damage was, I’d have a lot more to worry about.

“About 120 casualties. For something that spread at such tremendous speed, the casualties are relatively few, but…”

“All 120 lives would have been absorbed into the Demon God’s body. Pandeum, does the Demon God also absorb souls like dark magic to use them as a medium for its abilities?”

“No. Human souls are merely food. It eats them because it wants to eat. Just like how I casually consume your abilities like snacks.”

Pandeum shook his head at my question and answered like that, then continued.

“Rather, the more human souls the Demon God devours, the stronger the dark magic used to revive it becomes.”

“Is, is that really true?”

At my worried question, Pandeum calmly nodded and answered yes.

“The one using dark magic would have already noticed that the dark magic they’re creating now is much stronger than before. And like humans naturally do, they’ll strive to gain even greater power.”

“…!”

“Without knowing how dangerous that power is.”

Since Pandeum had always been stingy with his evaluation of people, I understood why he said such things.

And being human myself, I understood the desire to gain greater power once you’ve obtained some.

“Then, the souls of people who die in future disasters will all be devoured by the Demon God too, and that will make the dark sorcerers’ power even stronger?”

“That’s right.”

Pandeum nodded.

I looked at Theor seriously and said.

“We need to set up defensive barriers around villages where disasters occur. And we need to think of ways to prevent artificial disasters in advance.”

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