I’m a Villain, but I Want to Live a Long Life - Chapter 187

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Frater’s army continued to advance.

The places they passed through were completely covered in pitch-black ash.

Frater mercilessly cut down the necks of those who would not turn to him.

Amon looked at the black smoke rising from beyond the horizon and hurriedly quickened his steps.

His breath had risen to his chin, but he could not stop.

After running for who knows how long, he saw familiar faces in the distance.

It was Amicus and Fluma.

“Amasius!”

As soon as he collapsed to the ground gasping for breath, Amicus approached and supported him.

However, Amon kept his gaze fixed on Fluma and spoke urgently.

“Adam, the entrance to Paradise that Adam was guarding has fallen. His army is advancing toward this place!”

“….”

Fluma looked down at him with a somewhat lonely expression.

In her arms was an injured child.

Amon urgently added.

“Please go. You can leave, can’t you? This place is finished now. Please, at least you should leave this place….”

“Amon, I’m fine.”

Amon slowly closed his mouth.

Fluma carefully set down the child she had been holding in her arms.

The child hid behind her with a frightened face.

Fluma gazed into the distant sky and said.

“A conflict has broken out among humans in the north. There are countless injured.”

“….”

“So I cannot abandon Paradise. I have no intention of doing so either.”

Amon’s face gradually contorted.

“You have no intention of… abandoning Paradise?”

“….”

“Then you intend to remain here? Even knowing full well what will happen?”

Frater’s army was growing stronger even at this very moment.

He was recklessly distributing abilities to the humans who followed him.

The humans followed Frater merely to receive those powers.

“Traitors….”

A grinding sound escaped involuntarily.

He had never liked humans from the beginning.

It wasn’t just humans.

He hated everything that made Fluma sad and caused her anguish.

And now. In the end, hadn’t the cunning humans turned to Frater’s side?

Even though it was Fluma who had created, raised, and protected them all this time.

“…It’s bitterly resentful.”

Amon raised his head with reddened eyes.

“You should have cast out Frater.”

There had been countless opportunities before things came to this.

Amon had petitioned Fluma again and again.

To punish Frater.

That he should not be left alone like that.

That someday he would truly be someone who would stab you in the back without hesitation.

‘But what use is any of it now?’

The situation had already grown beyond control.

He felt pathetic for being unable to do anything in the midst of it all.

Amon asked again with the desperation of grasping at straws.

“Please, please… can’t you escape?”

Fluma was the Creator.

If she wanted, she could hide herself in another dimension or build up her strength.

Amon cried out desperately.

“I will try to stop them! I will try to buy time until my last breath. So, so please, can’t you leave?”

“….”

“Frater’s power has become too strong. We can no longer stop him here. So somewhere else, go to a place where you can be happy….”

“I’m fine, Amon.”

Amon bit his lips. His face was completely wet with tears.

“This is my home. You were my family. I could never be happy anywhere but here.”

Amon trembled with clenched fists and lowered his gaze.

Fluma’s voice resonated slowly above his head.

“Yes, you’re right. If I had stopped Frater beforehand, things wouldn’t have come to this.”

“….”

“But just as you are precious to me, that child was precious to me too.”

Amicus looked at Fluma with a worried expression.

Fluma said.

“Now there’s truly nowhere left to retreat. I’m the only one who can stop Frater now.”

Amon replied with a cracked voice.

“How exactly will you stop him? His army already numbers in the thousands, tens of thousands. Meanwhile, you….”

His words trailed off.

As he said, Frater’s army was continuing to grow in number even now.

Frater divided the humans who received his abilities into ranks based on their usefulness.

To those who proved their strength, he gave corresponding glory.

In the opposite case, a corresponding price.

What Frater presented was greed itself.

A world where the strong rise to the top and the weak are trampled.

But humans welcomed such a world.

“Now everyone is begging to join Frater’s army….”

Amon recalled the bizarre scenes he had witnessed on his way here.

The peaceful Paradise had become a war zone in the blink of an eye.

“Most of those who followed you have also turned away. Even the priests.”

The priests.

Among humans, they were the ones who communicated closest with Fluma.

They served as mediators between humans and gods, contributing greatly to maintaining Paradise peacefully.

However, when Frater rebelled, the situation changed.

Some of the priests had turned to Frater.

Amon let out a bitter remark.

“Your power… must have weakened.”

Fluma was an absolute being, but since being with humans, she had been subject to the constraints of ‘faith.’

Faith was the power of humans following and believing in her.

The stronger that power, the more absolute and infinite Fluma’s omniscience was.

But due to Frater, most humans had now turned their backs on Fluma.

Naturally, the faith directed toward her was also crumbling.

“Frater’s power only grows stronger….”

The moment Amon bit his lips.

“There, there she is!”

Behind them, someone revealed their face from among the reed forest.

I opened my eyes wide at the sight of those who suddenly appeared.

[Ahhh, you’re safe…!]

From elderly old men,

[We were worried! Frater’s army is advancing this way, so you must evacuate immediately.]

To young men.

[My goodness, little god! I wondered where you went, and here you are. Lord Fluma, thank you for treating the child…]

Even a woman who embraced the young child that had been hiding behind Fluma.

They were all wearing similar white robes with black sashes.

Amon, who had been frozen with surprised eyes, asked.

[…How did you get here? And where are the other ‘bridges’?]

Then the old man at the front of the group answered.

[We’re sorry… The other priests have left.]

Bridges.

That was the term for priests who served as mediators between gods and humans.

The priests continued speaking without lifting their heads.

[Velma, Iroshen, and Kidiel are the same. They betrayed us, so they’re probably under Frater’s command by now.]

[Wait. Kidiel?]

Amicus asked back with an incredulous voice.

The oldest priest among them nodded his head.

A cold silence settled between them.

Amon, who had been silently holding his forehead, stepped forward.

[Then, for what reason have you come here?]

The priests lifted their heads.

[That’s…]

[To protect.]

At that moment, someone pushed through the priests and revealed themselves at the very front.

Under jet-black hair, red eyes shone vividly.

I found myself unconsciously holding my breath.

People parted like the Red Sea, revealing countless crowds lined up behind the man.

[…Dias.]

Amon called the man’s name with a surprised voice.

The man turned his gaze to Fluma without avoiding Amon’s eyes.

[Please accept us into your army. We vow to protect you from Frater.]

Others who had been behind Kelnis also began stepping forward one by one.

[Please allow us, Lord Fluma. So that the Rian Family can be together at the end of paradise.]

[The Anesa Clan will also walk together. Wherever your path may lead.]

The people were endless. More and more people flocked toward Fluma.

Fluma quietly watched the humans offering their names without hesitation.

Then he gazed at Dias, who had been the first to step before him.

Behind him, a woman was walking forward.

With her full-term body, tightly holding Dias’s hand.

[Lord Fluma. Though I am humble… please let this Saira come along as well.]

Her bright blue eyes shone vividly.

I drew in a short breath.

Because Saira resembled my mother from my memories to a chilling degree.

“You noticed.”

Just then, a voice came from right beside me.

I slowly turned my head.

Amicus, who had appeared the moment I infused holy power into the bracelet, was looking at me with a sad smile.

“Your parents are the same in ancient times and now. Perhaps because their souls are the same.”

“…”

“Dias was an outstanding warrior. He was the strongest among the priests, and deeply loyal. He fought to the end, sacrificing his life to protect The Man.”

“…”

“Saira was the same.”

I turned my gaze back to the ancient scene.

I could see Dias and Saira tightly holding each other’s hands.

Saira had placed her other hand on her full-term belly.

‘The connection between Fluma and me…’

I had continuously investigated that connection for the past two years. But there hadn’t been much gain.

All I had discovered was that my mother Hemera’s maternal family were descendants of the Sorad Clan, who remembered the god Fluma until the very end.

Then Amicus spoke.

“You know how this battle ends, don’t you?”

I nodded my head.

“…I know. In the end, everyone dies, and Fluma saves the souls of the humans who died for him.”

“That’s right. And you…”

Amicus smiled faintly.

“You were the very last soul The Man saved.”

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