My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone - Chapter 256

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Chapter 256
Beneath the colossal rift, something pitch-black surged upward with terrifying speed. It resembled a demon’s claw.
Kanna Adis recognized what it was.
‘The World Tree.’
The World Tree was contributing to the destruction of that wall.
‘But Raphael said he had eliminated the World Tree?’
How was this possible?
Kanna Adis stared into the Black Rift, seized by despair.
The Black Mist crept forth like a living thing, and from within it, something fell like hail. Monsters.
‘It’s all over.’
Now the world’s wall would shatter completely. Like a broken plate….
That was the moment.
Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light streaked across my mind.
【A spell formation to mend a broken plate.】
Kanna Adis sprang forward like a coiled spring. She bolted toward her room at full speed.
‘Perhaps.’
That spell formation given by another Alexandro, the one who claimed to have come from the past.
‘Yes, perhaps.’
Seon-hee was involved in this.
Working in concert with Alexandro, striving with all her might to prevent something.
Perhaps it wasn’t merely my death she sought to prevent.
In a situation like this—perhaps it was to prevent the world’s end.
Which meant perhaps it was alchemy to mend a shattered wall!
Crash!
I kicked the door open and rushed into the room. Breathing heavily, I rummaged frantically through the drawers.
‘Here it is!’
I immediately drew blood from my finger. With the flowing blood, I traced geometric patterns in the air. The moment the spell formation was completed.
“…!”
A sound of shattering came from somewhere.
“Ah.”
From within.
From a place so deep, so profound, it could be called the origin.
“Ah, ah.”
Fragmenting, shattering piece by piece. The pain was slow yet vivid, cutting through her. One, two, three, four—a sensation as if her body was being severed one part at a time.
Kanna Adis clutched her chest. Struck by an agony she had never experienced before, her vision flashed with blinding white light.
Beyond the flickering white haze, Kanna Adis saw it.
Black light flowing from the spell formation she had created.
The alchemy was activating.
Kanna Adis walked forward with labored, shallow breaths. She opened the window and gazed up at the sky.
‘I succeeded.’
The Black Rift was slowly, gradually sealing itself shut.
With each moment, my breathing grew more ragged. Waves of shattering pain rippled through my entire body.
‘This is not a power I can bear.’
This incantation to mend the fractured wall demanded far more than just my blood. It demanded everything from me. And it was devouring me with relentless hunger.
My strength, my vitality, my life force—all of it.
‘No, even this isn’t enough.’
I could sense it instinctively. This alone would not suffice.
Even if I maintained this incantation until my dying breath, it would still fall short of completely sealing that colossal chasm.
‘What do I do?’
My vision darkened. I alone was insufficient. I needed something more. Something far more powerful….
“Kanna?”
At that moment, hearing the voice, I turned around. It was Orsini.
“Orsi….”
In that instant, I couldn’t endure the searing heat that twisted my insides and coughed.
“Cough!”
A torrent of crimson blood spilled forth.
“….”
The silence was devastating.
Orsini froze as if struck across the face. Then, in a single motion, he rushed to where I stood.
“Kanna, what’s wrong with you?”
His voice remained perfectly calm. Yet the hands that caught my collapsing form trembled uncontrollably.
“Orsini, the mana stones.”
I coughed up more blood, barely managing to speak.
“What?”
“The mana stones—bring every one from the estate.”
In the next moment, blood began trickling from my nose as well. Seeing this, Orsini’s lips hardened. His face drained of all color as he shouted.
“Bring the mana stones!”
Orsini supported my collapsing form with trembling hands.
“Now!”
Moments later, the Servants dragged the Valentino Estate’s mana stones together. I reached out and placed my hands upon that dark pile of stones—rocks saturated with the power of another world.
‘Ah.’
I would survive.
It was a possibility I’d grasped on instinct, but it was correct.
Mana stones. The power of another world was transfusing its mana into me.
Yet it was merely a temporary measure. The mana from these stones was being drawn into my body, while my life force was being drawn into the incantation circle.
“Orsini, listen carefully.”
Still, I had recovered enough to speak now.
“I am currently breaking the Black Rift.”
Orsini quickly grasped the situation.
“Stop.”
He spoke with firm resolve.
“That’s not your burden. I’ll destroy the Black Rift.”
“How? Do you have the ability to fly?”
Kanna Adis wiped the blood trickling from her nose and laughed.
“Do you know what happens if we leave that Black Rift alone?”
The Black Mist flowing from the Black Rift.
It was only a matter of time before it descended to the surface. When that happened….
“Everyone dies.”
….
“Either infected and dead, or devoured by monsters.”
“…Damn it.”
Orsini cursed. He knew it too. Having fought the Black Mist his entire life, he couldn’t possibly be ignorant of this.
“If I stop, the Black Rift will tear open even wider. Then the speed at which the Black Mist pours out will accelerate.”
The moment the words left her lips, a searing pain shot through her abdomen as if it were being severed.
‘Damn it.’
Kanna Adis clenched her teeth. She tried to endure it. She didn’t want to appear weak. So she tried to hold it back, but.
“Cough!”
Yet again, she coughed up blood.
Orsini’s face turned ashen at the sight. He looked as though he might lose consciousness at any moment.
That was somewhat amusing.
Orsini frightened. Orsini trembling. This expression was entirely new.
Kanna Adis wiped her lips and murmured.
“Orsini, there’s something you need to do for me.”
I alone am insufficient. No matter how many magic stones I scrape together, they would be woefully inadequate to seal that chasm.
So I needed the power of something far more colossal and foreign.
“Take me to where the World Tree is.”
“…The World Tree?”
“Yes. Only by using the World Tree can I completely eliminate that Black Rift. Please, Orsini.”
Orsini reached out. His large palm, stained with blood, cradled Kanna Adis’s face. And he spoke.
“You?”
His low voice emerged fractured and strained.
“Say you destroy that Black Rift. What about you? What becomes of you after?”
Orsini’s lips twisted.
“Will you die?”
Kanna Adis leaned her face helplessly against his palm. And she smiled.
“No.”
Perhaps.
“Do I seem like the type to make such a losing bargain?”
That could be true.
“But if we leave things as they are, death is certain.”
Even now, I could vividly feel that colossal hand draining away my life force.
I had already lost far too much strength. Even if I withdrew the spell formation now, I would not survive long. It was an instinctive realization.
‘Damn it, who could have predicted dying such a pathetic death?’
Since things had come to this, I would at least destroy that rift thoroughly before I died. Yet I concealed all of this truth and spoke.
“Thanks to this magic stone, I’ve recovered somewhat, but I won’t last long. So if you want to save me, take me to where the World Tree is.”
Orsini—this man was the spitting image of Alex in his youth. If he learned that I might die, he would abandon everything else and rush to save me.
Just like Alexandro.
‘Alex, you fool.’
What were you even thinking?
If you truly wanted to protect me, you should have prevented this from happening in the first place.
You failed. The other you from the past apparently has no interest in saving me.
In that moment, I couldn’t help but laugh.
The only person I could trust and rely on in this moment was Orsini. The man I had despised and hated to death….
“Understood.”
Orsini lifted me into his arms.
“Just don’t die before we arrive.”
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Raphael opened his eyes.
‘Kanna is coming.’
Soon, she would discover everything.
That I am the World Tree.
That I had a hand in destroying that wall.
That I could not grant her request, that I was defeated by the World Tree, that I am useless, that I failed to become the perfect servant….
Everything would be exposed.
“What’s wrong?”
Argon asked with a puzzled expression.
“You look like a frightened hamster. What are you so afraid of?”
But his eyes already knew the answer. Argon laughed heartily.
“Are you so terrified of being hated by Kanna?”
This one has an unexpectedly cute side. Argon tapped Raphael’s shoulder lightly.
“Don’t be afraid. Kanna’s love was never yours to begin with. So wouldn’t it be better to receive her hatred instead?”
Argon looked up at the sky. From the massive Black Rift that had split the heavens, dark mist was flowing out.
Whatever scheme Kanna had devised, it was slowly closing, but….
‘It won’t matter in the end.’
The rift had already begun. Soon, the world’s wall would shatter completely.
Then, at last, I could meet Seon-hee.
Seon-hee. Mine—no, Largos’s, and therefore mine—my one and only love.
Cooperating with Arzenian, destroying the world’s wall—it was all for Seon-hee.
To meet Seon-hee.
Argon had no lingering attachments to this world, no interest in anything. Not the throne, not power, not anything at all.
Because Seon-hee doesn’t exist in this world.
But if the walls of this world shatter and merge with another, I can meet Seon-hee. Finally, I’ll be able to live in the same world as her!
‘If Kanna Adis hadn’t interfered, everything would have been destroyed by now.’
Argon clicked his tongue.
He’d anticipated this. Suspecting she would obstruct him to the very end, he’d ordered Kalen to confine her—but that fool ignored the suggestion and chose death instead.
Kalen had not been dominated.
Argon found that fact deeply displeasing.
“Orsini Adis is approaching with others.”
It was then that Raphael spoke casually. His eyes closed, he gazed down upon them.
“Orsini…”
Argon pondered for a moment, then let out a low chuckle.
“Leave that one to me. I’ve killed him before, after all.”
Argon withdrew a vial from his breast. It contained Lucy Adis’s blood.
“If I’ve killed him once, why couldn’t I kill him twice?”

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