Chapter 383. The King and the Warlock (6)
“Thank you for your help.... But it won't do you any good to stand out any more than this. Louis Rayna, you should stop avoiding it.”
“Ernesia? What are you trying to do?”
“I will take the survivors and escape.”
“Looking at it, it doesn’t look like the Empire will accept it anywhere.”
“I will try to seek asylum even in the Kingdom of Damaniel.”
All that remains is that way.
Even if he visits the imperial castle now, he won't be welcomed.
He is not clumsy enough to be loyal to his country even after receiving such humiliation.
“But will I accept it? I am not familiar with politics. But that's to be expected.”
“Kuk”
is the right word.
No matter which kingdom he goes to, will he accept many refugees, let alone him now?
“Aren’t you thinking of fighting? If there is an unacceptable wall, it would be natural to stand up to it, right?”
“Stop talking nonsense! Not a few have already died! This ideal...
He couldn't bear to speak. He trembled with his fists clenched.
“They lost their lives… if you’re hesitating because of them.”
“Louireina… what the hell are you talking about?”
“...From now on, only you, Ernesia, should know. I recommend never asking and never telling.”
Louis Reina ignored Raychen, who stared blankly at her, and approached the brutally murdered villagers.
After tidying up their bodies, she suddenly cast a spell.
what kind of magic is that?
For some reason, Raychen had an ominous feeling.
But now I had no choice but to watch what she was doing.
“Turn around..
“What are you doing?”
“Go through the cycle of reincarnation and break out of that cycle.
Poor soul, stay here forever.”
After she finished the spell, the light pouring from the magic circle she opened covered countless corpses.
And what is this!
Those who were just corpses that had been mercilessly rolling around a little while ago, wriggled their bodies one by one and rose again.
“What?! Could it be undead?! What terrible things are you doing!”
“...It's not just that. Take a good look.”
Louis Rayna glared as if her pride had been hurt by his actions, which made her wary of being the undead.
“Don’t worry. because they are alive Check it out if you don't believe it. Because no one was left alive and saved.”
“That is absurd...
But, just as Ruireina said, the people who were brought back to life definitely felt a sense of vitality.
“Has the dead been raised? Is that even possible?!”
Even Raychen, who doesn't know much about magic, knows that this isn't normal.
Bringing the dead back to life... is that possible?
Or is it a miracle that only warlocks can do?
But Louis Reina doesn't teach.
He shook his head resolutely as if to recall the advice he had given at the beginning: don't ask and don't even try to find out.
‘What about her?'
He looked fearfully for the first time at Ruireina, who had done this casually.
At that moment, our eyes met.
Raychen was startled and tried hard to hide her thoughts.
“...No, that's fine.”
He shook his head and set aside other thoughts for now.
After all, she is the one who saved people's lives.
It was not good at all to cause needless friction with that power. More than anything else, it was important that the people of the territory saved their lives.
In any case, it is true that she helped me, so I decided to recognize only that point for now.
“...In any era, humans are unable to overcome death and become frustrated....
As long as they overcome that.”
I decided to just pretend I didn't hear the meaningless words that bothered me for now.
“From now on, Ernesia will take care of it.”
“Ummm… Thank you.”
Leaving him answering in a daze, she just said in an attitude that she had nothing to do with him and then disappeared on her own.
His handwriting was cut off here once.
After that, a record of what happened later follows.
As far as I know, after this, the first king, Raychen, gathered the surviving territories and resisted the empire by enticing support from neighboring countries with the intention of checking the empire.
Afterwards, it would have grown in power and created a small country that is the cornerstone of the present Ernesia Kingdom.
Originally, those who could not withstand the tyranny of the empire were gathered to build a nation.
It undoubtedly corresponds to the founding background of the Kingdom of Ernesia as it is known.
First of all, I thought about it based on what has been described so far.
Konkuksa is really good.
The problem was the warlock Louis Reyna described here.
“It brings the dead back to life... and even great power. It’s like anyone.”
“Certainly, isn’t that the woman who now refers to as the religious leader?”
“I see. It seems to be the same person.”
A few doubts were left, but the described appearance and behavior were unmistakably consistent.
Most of all, it would be rare for a human to write magic to revive the dead so simply.
“I am surprised. I never thought I would have such a deep relationship with His Majesty the first king.”
I smiled wryly and glanced over the contents afterwards.
What follows is only a brief description.
founding the kingdom.
And even after that, I was hit by various state affairs and was distracted.
There are no notable corners.
However, from time to time, notes mention a black magician named Ruireina.
Of course, after that, he never got help from her.
After the founding of the country, all adversity was overcome only by the strength of the first king.
More than anything, it seems that she herself did not want to get involved.
However, it seems that he did some consultations from time to time.
If you look at it as counseling, it seems that all of it was that he unilaterally stormed in with alcohol and all, and made a one-sided noise.
“It seemed that His Majesty the King regarded her as a close friend... no, just a deep relationship. Well, in reality, he seems to have gained at least some advice during the training process, so he might be a teacher.”
“...Ummm.”
Jeil Hyung-nim didn't readily confirm that point, as if he didn't agree with it.
Well, I can't easily accept that my ancestors knew black magic.
But I just accepted the truth as it was.
‘Come to think of it, Cressel also said that the old Dark Church had a very different disposition from now.'
It may be the black magician he spoke of before he was transformed.
Perhaps the reason he easily trusted a warlock named Ruireina was because of his perception of warlocks at the time.
At that time, the crime rate of black magicians was surprisingly low.
It's just that they're ostracized because of the hatred that arises from the research they do.
So he might have thought of her as a close friend or something more.
Or rather, reading the memoirs, it seems that he sometimes flirted with her.
Although everything was dumped.
goddamn grandparents?
I was a little impressed with his discernment, which even put warlocks in the defensive range.
Well, the looks weren't bad.
No.. Rather, if it weren't for the magic wizard, I might have put in the work?
Also our ancestors.
Of course it should be like this.
As a descendant, I was convinced.
Well, I guess it's just me.
“Well, looking at it this far, she can only be regarded as a little unusual warlock.”
“Um, I can’t believe it.”
“I can’t believe it either.”
Of course, what I couldn't believe was the reaction of the newly resurrected religious leader when he saw me.
Then, when she heard the name ‘Ernesia', she got very angry.
If you think you've read this far, it doesn't make sense.
Did the first king misunderstand something and write it down?
In fact, we weren't close friends, but I thought we were close friends.
We're not friends, but the feeling that it's you who misunderstood it?
“A warlock cannot be a good person. It must have been tricked by him.”
Dia doesn't understand it completely, but her expression shows a feeling of displeasure, which is rare for her.
“Isn’t there still more content left in that memo, Arel?”
“Yes, well. Let's read some more. After that, these sentences are written before the actual content.”
I read it aloud again.
『I've been misunderstanding all this time.』
『I didn't think that all warlocks were evil. And on the other hand, I might have just blindly regarded her as a close friend and an exception
. ”
Is it as crooked as it is? What kind of disaster is she trying to bring about?”
“But that doesn't mean she's evil. just what i want to say 』
「She was completely out of sync.」
My eyes narrowed after reading that far.
It seemed that we could read what we were looking for from now on.
“Rather than that, wouldn't it be better to stop coming to see me?”
Louis Reina said those words without taking her eyes off the old book she was leafing through.
“What is that disappointing sound?”
Raychen just smiled bitterly, assuming that her words were just the usual.
But today, her reaction is a bit odd.
For some reason, she closed the book she was reading and looked at him seriously.
“Today is a little different.”
“I heard that Ernesia, you became the king of a country a while ago.”
“I think it’s been three years since we talked about that… but
this woman’s concept of time is strangely loose.
‘Is it really worth it?' It's been 10 years since he first met her.
And it was only three years ago that he built the cornerstone of Ernesia Kingdom by gathering forces in anger at the imperial violence.
A whopping 10 years.
During that short and not long time, her appearance did not change at all.
Come to think of it, she once told him with the nuance that she had lived quite a long time.
Maybe that wasn't a joke, I was thinking recently.
do not age
I only recently understood that.
“Whether it's three years or three days, that's a good thing.”
“No, that's not it.”
“Anyway, your position is that you shouldn't associate with a so-called warlock like me. Wasn't it?”
“Hmm...
At her point, Raychen kept her mouth shut and pondered.
Certainly, the reputation of warlocks is not very good.
The mage tower of the empire and the group of mages deny their existence every day.
Recently, it seems that there is even an opinion that it should be designated as public.
“I thought about it from the position of a king, but are warlocks that evil?”
“What do you want to say?”
“I’ve been thinking. Maybe it's just prejudice that warlocks are hated.”
For those who don't know anything, warlocks are just the right thing to be feared.
From necromancy to manipulate corpses, even infectious diseases can be controlled depending on one's mind.
Undoubtedly, they are difficult beings for ordinary people to understand.
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