My Illusion Is Survival - Chapter 46

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Chapter 46

 

“Where is sheeeee-!”

 

The first thing I heard was someone’s bizarre scream.

 

‘Is that even a human voice?’

 

Despite speaking human language, the hoarse and cracked voice contained multiple voices mixed together like a demon from a movie.

 

“Where is sheeeee! Where is she! Ahhh! Aaaahhhhh-!”

 

The owner of the voice was desperately searching for something.

 

Then a word I shouldn’t have heard reached my ears.

 

“Du, Duchess?”

 

Duchess?

 

That thing is the Duchess? I hurriedly tried to remove the hand covering my eyes, but he refused and pulled me into an embrace.

 

“Don’t look.”

 

“Azel?”

 

However, Azel’s efforts soon proved futile.

 

Thud! Whoooosh!

 

“Kugh!”

 

The sound of someone being sent flying made me finally push away Azel’s hand.

 

“What is that thing…?”

 

I immediately regretted it.

 

There was something in front of me that shouldn’t exist.

 

‘How is that supposed to be the Duchess? That’s just a monster.’

 

It was different from when Kazen’s subordinates had turned into golems that day. The bumpy blood vessels wrapping around the entire body, as well as the black smoke flowing down through the mouth along with blood, made it hard to see as human anymore.

 

“Where is sheeeee. Where is she. My daughter, my baby! Where did you hide her-!”

 

Then the monster suddenly uttered incomprehensible words.

 

“Daughter…?”

 

When I unconsciously muttered the question to myself, pitch-black eyes turned toward me.

 

‘Daughter? Wasn’t she just bound to the female Duke through a political marriage? The Duchess has a daughter too? What’s the story behind this?’

 

And this was probably the problem.

 

“Where is she?”

 

“…Huh?”

 

“My daughter… where is sheeeee!”

 

The monster that spotted me suddenly began running toward me like crazy.

 

“See. I told you not to look.”

 

In this situation, Azel was calmly saying such things, and only then did I realize why he had covered my eyes.

 

He had been considerate in his own way. So that I, who hated the occult, wouldn’t see that scene.

 

These crazy bastards.

 

‘You said this was Ropan, you fucking bastards…’

 

Of course, it was too late to complain.

 

*

 

After confirming Elpis’s pale face, Azel quickly organized his thoughts.

 

‘I’ll have to push through the formation even if it’s a bit much.’

 

No matter how much the Holy Maiden’s divine power was mixed in, he could break through something like this.

 

‘The problem is the scale of the explosion.’

 

However, since the formation surrounding the entire manor was quite large, it was difficult to gauge the extent of the explosion.

 

“Dekan, take care of Elpis. Linoa, cover those two.”

 

But the situation was more complex than expected.

 

“Master…!”

 

“Kugh! Cough! Ahhhhh-!”

 

Changes appeared in the knight who had been hit by the Duchess’s attack and sent flying earlier.

 

His skin was turning purple around the pitch-black wound.

 

“…Don’t joke around, seriously. What is this, some apocalypse zombie movie?”

 

Leaving behind Elpis muttering incomprehensible words, Azel had to make a quick decision.

 

“There’s no time to delay. Move.”

 

“Yes!”

 

As he drew the sword from his waist, mana gathered in Azel’s red eyes.

 

‘There it is.’

 

Every formation was no different from a completed puzzle in itself. But since they had forcibly inserted unnecessary pieces of divine power between those puzzle pieces, cracks were inevitable.

 

Therefore, once he found the location of the cracks, what came next wasn’t difficult.

 

“The scale of the explosion will be larger than expected. The entire manor will collapse, but it’s better than confronting that thing.”

 

“What? The manor will collapse?”

 

Azel quickly whispered to Elpis and finally swung his sword.

 

But a variable occurred immediately.

 

“Stop!”

 

Zing- Clang!

 

An arrow flew from somewhere, interfering with the sword’s path.

 

“Who gave you permission to bring down the manor?”

 

“Are you sane? What do you think you’re doing?”

 

Crexio Egmunde was now standing behind the Duchess.

 

“If this manor collapses, we won’t be able to stop Vanessa anymore.”

 

“That doesn’t seem to be my concern.”

 

The Duke’s condition was miserable, as if she had been rolling around somewhere.

 

“You already failed trying to deal with that thing. Then don’t you know? Keeping it trapped in here won’t solve anything.”

 

At his words pointing to the torn wound on her forehead, the Duke’s eyes grew dark.

 

“Even if I die here, I can’t endanger the entire North.”

 

“Was it because of useless sense of justice? It seems you have affection for this land despite being abandoned in exile?”

 

“Shut that mouth of yours!”

 

Elpis’s voice interrupted between the two who were having a heated exchange.

 

“Fight later and do something about that thing first!”

 

It was because the Duchess had approached within arm’s reach.

 

“Stop, Vanessa!”

 

With the Duke’s shout, Azel’s sword rushed toward that direction this time.

 

Crash!

 

“Ahhhhh!”

 

Despite the ear-splitting scream, no trace was left on the purple skin. Still, it wasn’t completely ineffective as the body that had been charging recklessly staggered.

 

“Vanessa!”

 

Swoosh- Thud!

 

“Ahhhhh!”

 

Soon after, the Duke’s arrow also struck the purple-stained shoulder hard.

 

Although it failed to penetrate the skin and only increased the opponent’s rage.

 

“Why! Why are you interfering!”

 

“What are you doing! Stop Vanessa!”

 

However, there’s always a troll in every crisis situation. This time too, this formula proved correct.

 

“What are you saying! Capturing the Duke is the priority!”

 

The voice of the cunning traitor shouted toward the knights.

 

“You can see for yourselves, can’t you? Crexio Egmunde knew about the Duchess’s condition of being tainted by demonic energy, yet she protected and hid her!”

 

“Brio! You bastard, how dare you-!”

 

“What did I say that was wrong? Your Grace must know as well! This is clearly a grave crime!”

 

The traitor’s deception didn’t end there.

 

“That’s…!”

 

“Do you recognize this? His Highness the Crown Prince gave me this precious thing to expose your crimes to the world.”

 

In the bottle he pulled out and waved triumphantly, traces of black ash-like demonic energy remained.

 

“When you add high-purity demonic energy to someone already tainted by it, it causes a rampage, doesn’t it?”

 

“You said there was a new treatment medicine brought in – don’t tell me you fed that to Vanessa?”

 

“Please don’t resent me too much. You shouldn’t have hidden such a monster from the beginning.”

 

It was revealed that even the Duchess’s sudden rampage was an artificially created result through demonic energy.

 

“What are you doing? Quickly capture that criminal!”

 

Finally, the knights’ swords turned toward the Duke.

 

And Elpis, who had been watching all of this unfold-

 

“What the hell are those idiots doing right now?”

 

She was so frustrated that she was on the verge of going insane.

 

“Can’t you grasp the situation?! Is this really the time for you all to be fighting each other?!”

 

The problem was that the situation was already heading toward the worst possible outcome.

 

“Why… why is everyone ignoring what I’m saying?”

 

Because the ‘monster’ who had been beaten senseless and ignored finally exploded.

 

“Why does everyone ignore what I’m saying?!”

 

“Oh, dear god.”

 

Elpis called upon a god she had never sought in her life.

 

*

 

‘Damn it. I must have been crazy to come here.’

 

I should have just stayed home!

 

I’m sure I had similar thoughts recently, but I don’t know why I’m in this mess again.

 

‘How is it that there are nothing but trolls here! No wonder the North fell to ruin!’

 

While I poured out criticism in my mind as naturally as breathing, Azel’s worried voice reached me.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

Of course I’m not okay at all.

 

“No, I’m not okay. I shouldn’t have watched. It’s going to haunt my dreams. It’ll definitely appear in my dreams.”

 

To be completely honest, I still hadn’t recovered from the visual shock the Duchess had provided.

 

“Don’t worry too much. I can at least protect you.”

 

“…That comment just made me feel worse. If you keep saying things like that, I’ll misunderstand.”

 

“I’m being sincere.”

 

“The sincerity you think you’re showing and the sincerity I’m receiving are different.”

 

Azel naturally didn’t understand what I meant. But now wasn’t the time for this.

 

As expected, black smoke burst out from the Duchess’s body as if it had been waiting.

 

“This is driving me crazy, seriously.”

 

My wistful voice echoed mournfully, but this place was still reality.

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