The Life of a Wise Cult Leader - Chapter 205

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Chapter 205

The three demons watching the battle from the void were troubled.

“The Widow doesn’t seem like she’ll die quietly… Hmm…”

“Where did that power to control time come from? Eris, was it you?”

“Well. Once I give power, it belongs to the contractor, so I didn’t interfere.”

“She’s an inferior species with a decent brain, so she won’t die easily. She even killed Apate.”

“Giman was too impatient and made mistakes… Even the newly created god is dying, so how could something so tiny kill a demon?”

“I’m anxious…”

The other demon bit his nails. Eris spoke indifferently.

“Don’t make smoke, I can’t see.”

“Hmm…”

At that moment, light exploded and Erendor burst out.

“Oh. Won’t that be a bit difficult?”

“That much is fine. She has the sacred relic of time, so she won’t be pushed back by just two Transcendents. They’re not even gods.”

“Why can’t the Savior move like that?”

“Because she’s a god. She receives the greatest restrictions. Smart woman, isn’t she?”

“As expected, the weak ones are good at using their heads.”

Then, suddenly the Widow clutched her head and collapsed.

“Wait, if this happens…”

“Oigis. Block the Transcendents.”

“M-me?”

“Then will you let her die like that?”

“That’s… not right, but…”

“Fight while appropriately healing the Transcendents. We need to drain the Widow’s power.”

“…I understand.”

Oigis trembled with anxiety and entered the barrier with a crying face. Eris subtly pulled the Widow back.

“Why is the Widow like that?”

“The Savior must have done something. Even if tired, she’s still a god, so she can do that much.”

Eris explained while roughly guessing what method was used. And on one hand, he was annoyed that his brother was too stupid to know even this simple fact.

He hated his brothers. Beasts who didn’t even play with their toys and just coveted possibilities while loving to devour most.

The only thing superior to humans was their power, yet having just a bit more power than humans, they could only use them in such pathetic ways…

Originally, brothers and sisters or family members get along worst, and they had lived together for thousands of years since times they couldn’t even remember…

So it was natural in a way that they didn’t get along.

Anyway, Giman’s death was quite a good thing.

Didn’t she kill that disgusting thing so easily? That’s why he liked the Widow a bit more.

Wasn’t it pitiful? Watching her struggle to survive by trampling everything, using even that small brain to somehow stand in the same position…

He thought it wouldn’t be bad to give that one more power than his own brothers and make her new blood.

It would be nice if the Widow killed two brothers while she was at it.

Since he and his brothers couldn’t kill each other.

Tap, tap.

Geras tapped the void with his staff.

“I’ll go wake her up.”

“…You weren’t planning to pull any tricks, were you?”

“Of course not.”

*

I looked behind me with bloodshot eyes.

A demon. It was Geras…!

The staff that Geras always carried had pierced my heart precisely.

There was a loophole in the contract.

Since he was a demon, I thought contracts would be absolute.

Was that a miscalculation?

Swoosh-

“Kugh…”

The staff was pulled out.

If I lose consciousness like this, I’ll die. That can’t happen.

I tried to fill the hole in my heart, but here I was just an ordinary 24-year-old woman. A powerless being who couldn’t even hammer a nail into a wall.

Then through the gaps in my consciousness, a strange buzzing voice seeped in.

[Oh my! Geras, it’s troublesome if you break my toy.]

“Lord Eris…”

[My goodness, Arachne… I can’t let you die.]

Sticky laughter entwined around my ears. A chilling shiver rose on the back of my neck.

[Just think that you want me. Then I’ll save you.]

[Come on, just think it.]

I considered various thoughts, but there was no other way.

[Then, I’ll fulfill your dream…]

Red light filled the hole in my heart. As warm energy spread through my blood vessels to my whole body, I could finally breathe.

I shattered the staff that had pierced my heart.

Geras with his flat face and only a mouth grinned wickedly.

“Eris, you bastard. Stabbing me in the back like this?”

I easily subdued Geras. Power overflowed throughout my body, and I was superior to him in compatibility from the start.

Geras’s most frightening aspect was aging anything to death, but I had no remaining lifespan to begin with.

“Hehe… It’s a bit awkward for me to say this, but girl. You’re being deceived.”

“I know.”

“Eris will stab you in the back too. Here, let’s do this. Make a contract with me and Eris…”

Crack.

I didn’t even need to hear the rest.

Geras’s burst head stuck wetly to my hand, but soon disappeared as if nothing had happened. That’s how aging works.

“Now… it’s time to raise the curtain.”

*

When the Widow opened her eyes again, the atmosphere had changed. As if she had become a different person.

She pressed my comrades more sharply than before with a blunt expression.

‘I can’t enter Teacher’s mind…’

I was suddenly bounced out in the middle.

It shouldn’t have been something she could release by her own will… Could it be a being of higher rank than me…

‘A demon?’

I looked at the being floating behind her.

The one looking down at us leisurely.

Eris.

That guy must have bounced back my interference.

It was unexpected that he took the Widow back when he seemed to be abandoning her.

Even the Widow seemed to have risen in rank compared to before. Eris must have really done something…

I should try approaching with my mental body again.

I’ll probably fail even if I try, but that’s the only way-

Suddenly, red ether began rising from the Widow’s body and started bursting out explosively.

It seemed like power too immense for a human to handle. Her skin cracked like pottery creating patterns, and red light leaked through the torn skin, beginning to draw bizarre marks.

“She’s a demon contractor!”

The Demon King shouted.

“Long battles are disadvantageous, so if we endure and drag it into a long battle-“

The blood-red thread extending from her fingertips aimed directly at Erendor’s heart first.

“Kugh…!”

The noble white flame that had been obtained by burning the most precious thing flickered out helplessly with a single indifferent gesture from the Widow.

The sacred white light of Pieta that Erendor had barely grasped through a lifetime of anguish turned into a cold lump of metal and rolled across the floor as its owner’s life was extinguished.

“…!”

The Widow’s gaze turned toward the Demon King.

“Oh my, my power-“

Even the Demon King, who had twisted the very laws of heaven, was no match for the Widow who had received Eris’s power. He was slammed to the floor without even being able to scream.

‘What is this…’

Both of them were dead.

I couldn’t feel the flow of life at all.

The two strongest were subdued in an instant like this?

‘I’ll approach once more as a mental body. I have to somehow break this stopped time… Celestia and the Commander should be able to do it.’

I tried to delve into Teacher’s mind again, but I couldn’t.

‘The rank…’

It’s higher than mine.

I kept trying to rummage through and peer into her mind, but it felt like ramming my entire body against a tightly blocked wall.

Did she raise her rank by making a contract with a demon at that moment?

As the last variables that had been moving outside causality disappeared, all that remained was simply watching the results.

The disheveled Widow staggered toward Yelena.

She languidly grasped the throat of the one she had considered her daughter.

“My daughter, farewell.”

Crack—.

With a bizarre snapping sound, Yelena’s head was twisted in an instant.

The Widow plucked the necks of the remaining party members one by one, as if picking rose buds from a garden or harvesting ripe red strawberries. The way she killed without causing unnecessary pain seemed indifferent rather than merciful, and looked tired.

Then, Oigis, who had fought the Transcendents in place of the unconscious Widow, rushed forward.

“Geras, you must have devoured Geras…!”

The Widow lightly flicked her finger at the charging demon.

Snap—!

“Huk-“

Before the demon could even scream, the air surrounding its neck transformed into tens of thousands of red threads and strangled it.

It was unbelievable power for a human who had just been fighting desperately against the Transcendents moments before.

Oigis’s crushed eyes looked at Eris. It had realized that Eris had betrayed them.

“You…! Eris, you… Really…!”

“Isn’t it a bit late to notice~?”

The demon tried to resist, but a fish already skewered on a harpoon could only flop around a bit more. The indifferent angler put the fish down and split its neck open to kill it.

She stared into the void with numb eyes.

No one was left standing…

Looking out at the vast earth, the Widow stood quietly, reminiscing about her previous life that no one could remember anymore.

As if reciting what had happened in a nightmare.

*

A menial worker who had married as if being sold off, living as an Imperial bureaucrat’s wife and doing nothing but supporting her husband.

Among those menial tasks, the Imperial forbidden books and magic circle diagrams she had glimpsed gave her brilliant mind the opportunity to see the truth of this world.

What she discovered within the intricately woven structure of the world was an ‘error’ that someone had maliciously planted.

That error revealed that this world was a ‘second round’ that had already been destroyed once and reborn.

And this world was being destroyed.

Then, what should I do first?

Crunch—!

The demon’s essence poured into her body like a waterfall through the red threads.

‘So this is what possibility tastes like.’

The sensation of the gods’ nectar flowing through her veins. No wonder those arrogant demons abandoned their pride and coveted human possibility.

“I hate lives decided by others. I’m sick and tired of it now…”

The spider’s life playing on the threads of fate ends here.

-“For the family’s sake, there’s no choice… You have to marry. You can’t stay a maiden forever, can you?”

I’ll leave this dying world behind and live in a new world.

‘A life bound to no one. A life where only I am my own master.’

A smile bloomed.

My friend would surely be pleased with such an ending, wouldn’t she?

In the end, everyone has fallen at my feet, and I’m the one truly standing tall.

She lifted up Oigis’s corpse.

The demon hanging limply in the air, having died without even being able to scream, looked lighter than the wet clothes she used to hang on the drying rack at the Imperial bureaucrat’s mansion.

The parents’ voices that had pierced her ears, the shackles called being a bureaucrat’s wife – none of that exists anymore.

How much effort had she put in just for this.

“Haha… Hahahaha…!”

I danced in a circle, swirling my skirt over the corpses of my enemies and foes.

I felt like I could fly.

I was free!

The collapsing world fluttered like confetti in rhythm with it.

Eris slowly clapped in celebration of gaining a new sibling.

“Congratulations. Now you’ve truly stopped being human…”

“Thank you, Eris.”

“What for, I was more ashamed that such things were my brothers and sisters.”

“Will you take the Savior, Eris? I ended up devouring all of your siblings’ possibilities…”

“My brothers, well, that was the condition I contracted for, so you took what was mine anyway. The Savior is…”

“If it’s not rude, may I devour the Savior?”

The Savior who had collapsed on the floor unconscious was slowly melting, covered in his tattered robe.

“Strictly speaking, he was a child I raised and made into a god… If possible, I’d like to take his life myself.”

The demon agreed.

“Go ahead. Don’t let it all drip out like before, you have to chew it up properly. There’s no delicacy left that contains that much possibility.”

The Widow’s hand moved toward the Ascetic’s head.

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