The Strongest Daughter-In-Law Of The Black Lion Family [EN]: Chapter 176

#176.

‘Divine Beast! Why, why are you suddenly doing this…’

Evensev sensed something was wrong and trembled all over. But the Divine Beast was adamant.

‘Why? Isn’t this what you wanted?’

‘I…!’

‘It is my intention to give you the position of the Saintess that you so desired.’

With those words, Evensev’s body slammed against the cave wall, stretched out in an insulting manner.

‘Divine Beast!’

‘You will never leave this place for the rest of your life. You will watch Hebel from above this cave to your heart’s content and wait for your time.’

‘Let me go! Please!’

‘Larien died because of your heinous actions, and Basilius said he would follow Larien to his death.’

‘Their deaths have nothing to do with me! Whether they die or not… Ack!’

Evensev screamed before she could finish her sentence. It was because the Divine Beast had struck its fist near her.

‘The only way you can get out of here is when you have obtained my power that Basilius abandoned.’

‘…….’

‘Until you spend your whole life chasing after Larien, envying her, and eventually taking away even that power. Forever.’

It was a brand and a shackle. It was what kept Evensev trapped in that wretched cave for a thousand years.

As the Divine Beast said, Evensev lived in the cave, only looking up. Above, the cave was connected to Hebel, and Hebel’s power became light and sky, letting her know the time.

Until she no longer knew how much time had passed. Until she went crazy inside and wanted to die.

As time flowed, only one thing remained in Evensev’s mind.

To find the power that Basilius had abandoned and escape from this place.

Before she knew it, Evensev became obsessed with taking Zabishee’s power.

She kept Zabishee in check through the heads of Hebel who worshiped her as a Saintess.

And she constantly searched for the source of their power.

That’s how she found out about the Secret Garden.

But it was a mysterious space that only Zabishee’s direct line and his partner could enter.

She tried to enter it several times but couldn’t even find the door. That meant it was hidden in a very deep place.

Then, 100 years ago, through Zabishee’s rampage, she learned that the source of that power was Frenzy Bloom.

Because she saw flowers blooming all over the body of Basilius’s descendant who had gone berserk.

After that, she waited for a long time, holding her breath, to get that flower. The Frenzy Bloom, which she finally faced, was as beautiful as she had imagined.

She could strongly feel the power of the Divine Beast in the brilliant colors.

“This is it……”

Evensev trembled and reached out to the flower. Then Zerachiel said, holding the flower.

“So this is what you wanted.”

Zerachiel’s eyes were no longer golden. They were blood-red.

A terrifying color that reminded one of Zabishee, who had fallen into madness.

Normally, he should have been going crazy, but he was perfectly fine.

It was thanks to Cersia fully blooming the Frenzy Bloom that he was no longer consumed by madness.

Now, there was no longer any power of the Divine Beast left in his body. In the first place, Zabishee was a strong beastman even without the Divine Beast’s protection.

It had been a thousand years since he had forcibly taken on that power. It was time to completely let go of that power, which was like a curse.

Zerachiel looked at the white Frenzy Bloom. The flower containing the power of the Divine Beast was shining brilliantly.

This flower was a token of the deal with the Divine Beast and the beginning of all tragedies.

If there was a beginning, there had to be an end. Zerachiel knew that this moment was the perfect opportunity to end this tiresome relationship.

There was no need to ask her why she had deceived him.

After all, the woman in front of him was someone who would deceive and take anything if she wanted it.

Then he would give it to her as she wanted and let her destroy herself.

She probably didn’t even know that this was poison to him and would swallow it without hesitation.

Zerachiel handed the flower to Evensev and sneered.

“Did you want this that badly?”

“Give it to me. That’s mine.”

Evensev glared at the flower and growled with a crazed look on her face.

Zerachiel, who looked at her with pity, threw the Frenzy Bloom, the Opal of Nothingness, on the floor as if it were dirty garbage.

“Take it if you want it that badly.”

“No!”

Evensev threw herself after the discarded flower. Evensev barely managed to prevent the flower from breaking and glared at Zerachiel.

The Frenzy Bloom, emitting a brilliant light, was sparkling in her hand. Even after seeing that dangerous color, Evensev still did not let go of the flower.

Zerachiel went down below the altar and said.

“Get lost.”

Then he picked up Cersia in a flash, as if to protect her from Evensev.

Zerachiel, who slowly came out of the barrier, found Ella. Ella blocked his way and rebuked him.

“Why did you give it away so easily? That’s the flower they wanted.”

“Because this was how it had to be from the beginning.”

“What?”

“From the beginning, that flower had to go to that woman.”

“……”

“So, unless you want to die, leave Hebel now.”

Zerachiel did not explain further and left Mishre leisurely. In just a few minutes, he seemed like he was no longer the Zerachiel she knew.

Ella was staring blankly at his back, noticing his unfamiliar attitude.

Bang!

A violent explosion occurred inside the barrier. When she turned around in surprise, Ella doubted her eyes.

“That’s……!”

Suddenly, the bottom of the Mishre altar was blown open. At the same time, the cave that should have been in the north was connected.

And the next moment, Evensev’s body, which had been tied to the cave wall for a thousand years, rose above the altar. At this, Yanu quickly placed the flower on top of that body.

The moment the flower was placed, the chains that had been binding Evensev’s body were broken.

Thud, thud, thud, thud.

Yanu burst into wild laughter when he saw that all the shackles that had bound the main body’s limbs had been released.

“Ahahaha!”

Evensev, who had achieved her long-cherished wish and finally gained freedom, felt joy, but that joy was only temporary.

“!”

Suddenly, Yanu staggered. It was because the severance blade that had stabbed Cersia earlier was causing the soul to return to the body.

In the end, Evensev, who had returned to her original body, looked at the flower in her hand with a dazed expression.

She had to take Cersia’s body quickly. She could no longer separate her soul from her body.

“Eek!”

Evensev, who had a resentful look on her face, suddenly gasped.

It was because black pheromones were suddenly blooming from the flower.

The flower was still beautiful, but the poison that the flower emitted was too deadly.

“Uh……”

The spot where the poison touched was burning.

Before she could do anything, Evensev’s body burned black, and she screamed, unable to let go of the flower.

“No! No, no, no!”

As if that flower was everything.

Meanwhile, the poison of the Frenzy Bloom began to engulf Evensev’s entire body.

Even so, Evensev did not let go of the flower. No, she couldn’t let go.

As a result, her entire body rotted.

“Your Holiness!”

Devon, who saw this, entered the barrier.

The fact that the barrier did not stop him meant that the barrier was set up by Nabi and his group.

Ella stopped Heathcliff, who was trying to follow him. It was because she remembered what Zerachiel had said.

Before she knew it, Zerachiel was nowhere to be seen. Ella said.

“We have to get out of here.”

“But those people……!”

“Hurry! There’s no time to explain!”

With those words, Ella took Heathcliff and left Mishre.

When they were halfway out of Mishre, Mishre, which had been completely blackened, began to overflow into Hebel.

And wherever the Mishre water touched, Hebel’s fog was eaten away, and the ground began to rot.

“Tch.”

When the fog and Mishre water met, they gave off a terrible stench. Heathcliff picked up Ella in a flash and ran.

At Ella’s speed, she would soon be consumed by the stench.

Hearthcliff and Ella, who had safely escaped Hebel, turned around and shuddered.

Before they knew it, Hebel was all scorched black. Not a single drop of Mishre’s water fell outside of Hebel.

Rather, the flood stopped only after it had swallowed Hebel whole, as if it had been targeting Hebel from the beginning.

“W-What on earth……”

No longer could the Divine Beast’s protection be felt in Hebel, which had been turned into a wasteland.

Only the smell of death lingered.

That day, the last trace of the Divine Beast disappeared from this land, having swallowed a woman who was obsessed with the Divine Beast into eternal death.