Episode 158
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Silence fell on the battlefield where they had been clashing fiercely until the very end. This was because the knights, magicians, soldiers, and nobles of the church unit all stopped moving at once. They paid no attention to the blades that were slashing down on them.
There was a young boy there, leading a world of darkness that could not be described in words, and extinguishing the celestial light that had enveloped the area until just before.
There was no evidence to rationally confirm its identity. However, I could tell immediately. The Saxon blood flowing through Dale’s body, and furthermore, the tentacles of Shuve wrapped around his heart began to writhe madly.
How could I not know?
The being in front of Dale is none other than the other Saxon, the true ruler of the ‘Dark Land’, as his father, the Black Duke, had said.
“… … Give orders to the entire unit.”
That’s why Dale opened his mouth without a moment’s hesitation. Towards Sir Johnes and the Black Armor Company beside him.
“Retreat the entire unit to the rear immediately.”
“Oh, I understand, Captain!”
At the same time, the battle line of the church facing him began to retreat in step with Dale’s movements.
“Your Majesty Frederick of Saxony.”
The Shadow Lord continued, leaving behind the entire army on both sides who were retreating simultaneously as ordered.
In a scene where it seemed as if representatives of both units were coming forward and facing each other.
“Dale of Saxony, I dare to meet the progenitor of my clan, the Immortal Lord, here.”
“Hoo.”
Towards another ‘Shadow Lord’ in front of him.
“This is truly amazing, my child.”
“Another Saxon in the Demon Realm… … Is it the 《Eldritch》 that has finally broken the silence?”
“Ah, that day will come soon. But it is not yet the time.”
The Immortal Frederick answered with a smile.
“I just came to get back what is rightfully my own.”
It wasn’t hard to fathom the meaning. Dale glanced around. Next to him, as usual, was a girl with black goat horns.
“Shoove… … .”
“Ah, my lovely daughter.”
Dale called her name, and the Immortal opened his mouth softly.
The Book of the Black Goat, said to have been created by the Immortal Frederick by offering up his daughter.
“Please come back with me.”
The Immortal spoke, and Dale remained silent, waiting for Shub’s answer, who remained silent beside him.
It was not something Dale could decide, and at the same time, it was not something even the Immortal could be exempt from.
─Why should I go back?
Just then, Shuv tilted his head as if he couldn’t understand. Dale swallowed softly, and even the Immortal was no exception.
─ Yes, oppa. I like humans.
Just then, Shuv turns his head towards Dale.
─ Like a moth flying into a flame, I can’t stand the foolishness and ugliness of humans struggling until the end because it’s so lovely. So… … .
She stretched out both arms and wrapped them lovingly around Dale’s neck.
─ I have no further interest in a Saxon child who has abandoned humanity.
Suddenly, it was no longer a young girl who was there. A mature and dignified lady in a black dress, flaunting her large black goat horns, was there. She had a cold expression, devoid of even a hint of emotion.
Countless tentacles wiggle beneath the hem of her skirt.
“Is that truly your will, Mother of Black Abundance?”
The gentleness with which he had called his daughter disappeared, and the Immortal Frederick asked back.
“Are you… abandoning me?”
Like a young boy longing for his mother’s loving answer.
There was no answer. Shadows opened their eyes in place of his eyes, which were covered with black bandages, and what the Immortal Frederick saw was not a girl or a lady with goat horns.
The most horrific and disgusting thing in the world was there. An otherworldly monstrosity made up of a swarm of tentacles.
But what Dale was seeing was the usual Shuve.
“… … Was it supposed to be this way from the beginning?”
The Immortal Frederick understood the meaning and removed the black bandage that wrapped around his eyes.
As with the Shadow Saintess, there was nothing beyond it. There were empty, black eyes.
“Ignoring Shuve’s decision, are you trying to get the Book of the Black Goat back from me?”
“Don’t you dare take that name lightly.”
The Immortal Frederick answered coldly, and at the same time, pitch-black darkness began to swirl around his feet.
“That being was my daughter and my mother from the beginning, and the child and she will gladly understand me.”
Against him, the Shadow Lord’s avatar, the Dark Blood Armor, twisted its shape like liquid metal.
At the same time, the ‘black eyes’ of the Immortal Frederick were watching Dale.
Pitch-black pupil.
“This is your last chance. Give me what I deserve.”
“That can’t be.”
“How laughable, a fake who doesn’t know his own subject.”
The Immortal Frederick burst into laughter.
Before he knew it, the dark world he ruled began to be torn apart.
From the gaping rift in the darkness that had opened up, the eyes of the ‘one-eyed gods’ began to look down on the earth.
It wasn’t just one. Countless eyes were tearing through the rift of the heavens, looking down at the small, wretched beings beneath. They were blinking their large eyes like someone looking through a magnifying glass at a swarm of ants.
The celestial watcher.
The Mass of Madness has begun.
Screams echoed from all over. Those who were mentally broken by the presence of these beings began to appear one after another, crying and screaming like children. Some of them were exhibiting infantile regression, curling up like fetuses and sucking their fingers.
Just as people do not love ants… …he was a god who did not love people.
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And the god had countless tentacles.
Dale, too, raised his head toward that celestial crevice. The absurd pressure that made it seem like he would lose his mind just by facing it.
In it, there was only one thing Dale could do.
“He said that he couldn’t stand the ugliness and foolishness of people struggling in the face of destruction because it was so lovely.”
He opened his mouth softly to the girl next to him.
─ Yeah!
Shuv laughed as if he was enjoying himself, oblivious to the madness unfolding at the hands of the Immortal.
“Then let’s make a promise.”
Dale turned to her, quietly steeling his resolve.
“Protect me and my people.”
─ At what price?
Shuv, who had grown into a lady, asked back. As the mother of the old darkness and black abundance.
“I swear here that I will not stop the ugliest and most foolish struggles a human being can show until the very end.”
By simply making himself available to her for entertainment.
“Because I will never give up on humanity until the very end.”
Dale said.
“I am Shub-Niggurath (I am Shub-Niggurath).”
─ Ah, how lovely! How can humans be so noble, so foolish, and so lovely!
The Mother Goddess of Darkness smiled as if in ecstasy.
Shuve’s arm gently wrapped around Dale’s cheek, and she turned her head away.
At the same time, the celestial watchers who were looking down on the earth… …the tentacles of the one-eyed gods rushed toward Dale all at once.
It would be like a person crushing an ant to death with his finger. Circles and auras would be meaningless in the face of that cosmic horror.
It was just then.
─ Step aside, you ancient things of heaven.
“Shub said, waving the black fan in her hand as if showing off.
─ This is not a stage that is permitted for you.
At the same time, tentacles began to sprout from within Shuv’s skirt.
Black tentacles rose up like swirling waves, striking down at the celestial watchers all at once.
As the mother of darkness, an overwhelming sense of oppression that could not be compared to anything before swept over her.
A power that can even nullify the madness and fear that the onlookers are spreading.
The tentacles of the Shuv dug into the retinas of the one-eyed gods, and their pupils began to glow and bleed. The pupils swung wildly left and right, and soon, one by one, the eyes fled and disappeared into the gaps of the other world.
Dale just lowered his head.
“I guess… … .”
Immortal Frederick laughs coldly at the sight, moving his countless eyes that are glaring in the shadows.
The Immortal waved his hand, and darkness swirled around.
And before that dark vortex, the avatar of the Shadow Lord that had been enveloping Dale vanished into thin air.
The Dark Blood’s armor shattered into pieces, revealing Dale’s body underneath.
“I understand your will, Mother, but your ‘human vessel’ seems too small and insignificant to handle your entertainment.”
The Immortal taunted, and at the same time Dale fell to his knees, seemingly collapsing on the spot.
To stop him, Shuve unleashed his powers, and the only thing Shuve needed to use his powers was Dale’s black magic.
Dale, who was on par with the white magician of the 7th circle, exhaled painfully while squeezing his exhausted circle.
That’s why Dale, as he was now, didn’t have the strength left to even block a single gesture that the Immortal had just shown him.
“But I am not like that.”
The Immortal spoke to the otherworldly monster before him, mocking the kneeling Dale.
As an “Eldritch”, a being that abandons people and even cheats death.
─ … … .
“Not yet, Shub.”
Shubu remained silent, and it was at that moment.
“Now it is my turn to fulfill my promise.”
Dale sat up.
“I promised to show you the ugliness and foolishness of humans struggling in the face of destruction.”
The Shadow Lord opened his mouth, desperately moving his heart’s circle and heat engine, as if squeezing a few drops of water from a twisted rag.
“Nothing will change no matter how plausible you talk, usurper.”
As another Shadow Lord, the Immortal Frederick sneered.
“Even if you steal my blood, steal my thoughts, and steal my official position to cover yourself with… … you are ultimately nothing more than a fake, an imitation of me and a deteriorated product.”
Hundreds of blinking eyes, following his shadow, began to convulsively twist, madly, without regard for left, right, up, or down.
“I will prove it to you here, Mother. And my daughter.”
At the same time, the Immortal’s empty ‘black eyes’ stared at Dale.
“How fleeting and insignificant is the existence of humans in this world, and how fragile they are as vessels.”
Once again, pitch-black darkness began to swirl around the Immortal’s feet.
At the same time, Dale raised his body using the Peacemaker as support, and Shub’s tentacles wrapped around Dale’s body.
The avatar of the Broken Shadow Lord, the Dark Blood Armor and the ‘Black Death’ began to envelop his body once again.
He claims to be the ugliest and most foolish being in the world.
