I’m Trying to End This Possession - Chapter 340

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Chapter 340

Dana’s shout echoed thunderously throughout the cave.

Fortunately, they didn’t act any more foolishly than this.

“Everyone retreat outside the castle!”

When Commander Godfrey gave the order, the Holy Knights moved into action.

“Hurry!”

“Cardinal Dominic, please follow us quickly!”

“Sir Leo, what are you doing! Come here at once!”

She could hear them fleeing behind her. As the sound of footsteps grew distant, Dana looked back with difficulty.

Fortunately, no one was there.

She had worried that Cardinal Dominic might stay behind and go berserk, but it seemed even that fanatic had some survival instinct left.

“Ugh, urgh…”

It was hard to even stand anymore. Her vision became hazily blurred, and strength left her toes.

‘No.’

I can’t do any more.

I can’t push myself any further-

‘No. I have to do it.’

If this corruption spreads, it will extend vastly to the Northern Continent and Western Continent. If that happens.

‘Everything will rot.’

In that moment, their faces flashed through her mind. Those who couldn’t resist this corruption. Lumiere, Viego, Noah, Lete, perhaps Ignis who might have been revived, and.

And, Diane.

Though she had only met her for the first time today, still.

She wanted to have a little more conversation with that girl, and couldn’t let her rot and decay like this.

Dana glared at the corruption pressing down on her. Then suddenly…

‘Wait a minute.’

She suddenly remembered.

Come to think of it,

Couldn’t I also control the corruption inside the black core?

Why didn’t I think of this?

She extinguished the light from her hands. As she lowered her arms, the corruption she had been struggling to hold back poured down powerfully over her.

Her entire body became soaked with corruption.

Dana closed her eyes and exhaled deeply into her lungs. Then slowly drew it in. Into me, into my body…

‘See.’

It works.

It’s all seeping into me.

Dana devoured all the pouring corruption into herself. She could tell without looking. That her hair and eyes must have been dyed pitch black. Dana inhaled all this massive corruption, and while inhaling it…

She washed and purified it all, completely, entirely from within.

How much time passed as she repeated accumulating corruption in her body and purifying it?

Finally, she could see the end.

‘It’s all done…’

Dana had somehow collapsed into a sitting position.

She looked ahead with blurred vision. The place where the Black Lake had pooled was now just deeply hollowed out like a huge crater.

Dana saw something in the center of that crater.

There, faint corruption was still flowing.

She had to perfectly purify even that to finish.

Feeling it instinctively, Dana crawled staggeringly inward.

The closer she got, the more she doubted her eyes.

‘That’s…’

In the middle of the deeply hollowed round ground that had been covered with corruption until now.

A human form was lying there.

And corruption covered its entire body like armor.

‘What on earth is that?’

She wasn’t sure, but that was the very source of the corruption.

Dana crawled over and reached out to purify even that corruption. As light swept through the black darkness, finally a human face was revealed.

“…”

It was human, but the corpse of someone who had died long ago.

A corpse with only bare bones remaining.

Mysteriously, what remained on this corpse old enough to become bare bones was only hair that held a brilliant golden color.

‘This kind of golden color… is the hair of the Grants Imperial Family…’

Her mind was dizzy. She felt like she might collapse into darkness at any moment. Only her reason remained cold in the midst of it.

Below the bottom of the Black Lake of corruption.

There was the corpse of a Grants Imperial Family member who seemed to have died very long ago.

Black corruption had been spewing from this corpse.

In other words, the corpse of the Grants Imperial Family member was the source of corruption.

‘Yes, just like Lyos…’

Like Lyos, who had been the source of the Corrupted Land, spewing corruption from his own body…

Unable to muster any strength, Dana collapsed beside those bare bones. She couldn’t understand.

‘This corpse of a Grants Imperial Family member who died long ago was the source of corruption?’

That’s when it happened.

Creak creak… the sound of hard things grinding against each other could be heard.

Dana blinked weakly.

The skeleton was moving.

Was it because her head was foggy?

It didn’t feel real.

What had once been a human face, that white skull face slowly turned sideways and rotated toward her.

Finally, the skull’s face met hers head-on.

The pitch-black eye sockets were like an abyss.

Its lower jaw moved.

“Do not try to fathom God’s will with human thinking.”

A sound like scraping metal…

At that moment, the skeleton began to crack and split, then eventually crumbled into dust.

What kind of nonsense was that…?

‘I don’t know…’

Dana barely breathed, like a fish thrown onto land. Her consciousness was gradually fading, and now even thinking was difficult.

Rumble.

Then a roar came from somewhere.

Rumble rumble rumble.

As if an earthquake had occurred, the ground shook and the ceiling trembled.

The cave was beginning to collapse.

Even though the earth was splitting and stones began pouring down like rain…

‘My body won’t move.’

Her head was also hazy.

She just lay there and vaguely speculated.

Probably when that skeleton – the corpse of the Grants Imperial Family member who was the source of corruption – disappeared, this castle was also designed to collapse.

It would be to eliminate this bizarre crime scene and evidence.

‘So I’m going to die here.’

And at that moment, with a deafening roar that seemed to tear her ears apart, the floor of the cave where Dana lay collapsed completely.

And the fall into deeper underground began.

Falling.

Her pure white hair fluttered wildly like torn wings.

Downward, falling.

Cruelly, that terrible sensation of falling downward jolted her mind wide awake.

‘No, I’m scared.’

The most primal fear, the primitive terror, was just as overwhelming.

It awakened her fading consciousness, awakened her vision, awakened every single cell. Dana trembled in terror as she fell endlessly, without end, to a place without end.

Falling.

I’m truly terrified of falling.

Where am I falling to right now?

How long will I keep falling?

I’m so scared right now.

‘I just want to lose consciousness instead…’

Tears flowed down her cheeks. No, they flowed upward. Her body was falling so rapidly that the tears appeared to be rising upward.

I am a filthy witch falling to hell, yet only my tears, solely my tears are pure and seem called to heaven.

Dana, soaked in despair, looked up at the trajectory of her ascending tears.

And above them, she discovered another man who was falling.

No.

He wasn’t falling.

He was descending.

The man who descended very quickly in perfect form stretched out his long arm as he approached her.

“―!”

He seemed to be shouting something to her, but the sound shattered in mid-air and didn’t reach her.

However, the moment she saw his hand reaching toward her—his hand that had once lost fingers because of her—she forgot her fear as if by magic. Mysteriously, nothing was frightening anymore.

‘Why are you so late…’

With the embrace that pulled her close as the last thing she felt, Dana’s consciousness faded away.

Finally, sleep.

Perhaps it could be death…

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Crash!

A tremendous roar came from behind.

Holy Knight Leo, who had been fleeing from the corruption, stopped in his tracks. And he turned around with a dazed expression.

“This can’t be.”

He wasn’t the only one who turned around.

All the Holy Knights stopped and witnessed that scene, groaning and lamenting.

“This can’t be.”

The Red Castle they had escaped from was collapsing from the top down.

The collapse seemed like the end of the world, and all expression disappeared from everyone’s faces. Even Cardinal Dominic turned pale and stood in a daze.

“Oh God.”

Because that woman was in the underground of that collapsing castle.

The woman who had saved all of them and remained alone.

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