Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 371

People everywhere were talking about the war between the Empire and the Holy Kingdom. At the same time, a new name started to be whispered in secret.

“The Black Serpent? What is that?” someone asked.

“I heard they are wizards,” another person replied.

“Wizards who control souls and call monsters? That sounds more like demons, not wizards!” a third voice said, sounding scared.

“Maybe…” the first person mumbled.

People who lived far from Noviens and were not affected by the war were even more interested in these Black Serpent wizards. They started making up all kinds of stories about them.

Also, both the Empire and the Holy Kingdom said the Black Serpent wizards were enemies. So, many of the rumors ended up being the same.

People called them demon worshippers! This was not true, and the Black Serpent wizards would be angry to hear it. But for someone who really knew what they were like, it felt almost right.

Even though the rumors were spreading fast, the Black Serpent wizards had disappeared from the Holy Kingdom. They were gone without a single clue.

“Grrrr,” growled a huge black wolf with two heads. It was as big as a house! It looked angrily at the small thing that had suddenly appeared in its forest.

The wolf tilted its heads, confused. It was growling, but it didn’t attack right away. Something felt wrong. In the Forest of Demonic Beasts, things were often not what they seemed. A smarter monster might have listened to its gut feeling, but this wolf was not so smart.

It had been chased out of its old home recently. In this new place, strange things had happened. Other monsters that seemed stronger had run away from it.

This wolf didn’t know that other monsters were afraid of it because they thought it was related to the ‘Eastern King,’ a powerful monster that looked like it and had vanished. Because of this confusion, the wolf had stopped trusting its own feelings.

So, even though it felt uneasy, it swung its big paw.

But then, it screamed!

“Screeeech!”

Instead of hitting the small creature, the wolf felt terrible pain! Its own paw was broken.

Even with the pain burning in its head, it tried to bite the creature with both mouths.

“Go away,” a cold voice said.

With just a wave of a hand, both of the wolf’s heads were cut off.

*Boom.*

The monster fell to the ground with a loud *thump*.

The old man had defeated the wolf easily. He just tilted his head, looking at the dead monster.

“This kind of beast shouldn’t be this deep in the forest…” he muttered.

From far away, other monsters smelled the blood. Their eyes glowed red in the shadows as they watched the huge dead wolf. *Growls and howls echoed through the trees.*

It was a dangerous situation, but the old man didn’t care. The demonic energy he was letting out on purpose would feel like a threat to the weaker monsters, keeping them away.

The wolf that attacked was strange.

“Looks like I’m almost there.”

The image is getting clearer.

The old man closed his eyes and muttered. He looked like he was taking a walk in the park, not in the Forest of Demonic Beasts. Fierce gray magic flowed from his body, pushing back the forest’s thick demonic energy and reading the recent events in the area.

This was something amazing, even in the Forest of Demonic Beasts. People said that even the best earth mages couldn’t do this here, because magic power was supposed to be weak in this forest.

But for the old man, it was as easy as breathing. The problem was, the more he used magic to check the traces, the more worried he became.

In the images that even his magic couldn’t fully read, strange things started to appear.

‘Wait,’ the old man thought. ‘The face… it’s not quite right. It’s different from the reports I read.’

Because of the Forest of Demonic Beasts’ thick demonic energy, he couldn’t perfectly see the colors or the shape. But the face he could see was a bit different from the rough face he had been told about.

‘He’s acting carefully, and he doesn’t seem crazy.’

Of course, since he had been following such clear traces, it was very unlikely that it wasn’t him.

‘I’ll know more if I follow him a little longer.’

Luckily, the person seemed to have fought hard as they entered this deep area. The signs of strong power and thoughts were getting stronger.

Because of this, finding the Holy Sword was also getting easier.

There was also a chance that a monster had eaten him along with that crazy guy…

“It’s the Holy Sword,” the old man muttered to himself, his voice full of confidence. “Made of Herion Steel. No monster can eat *that*.”

He said this to reassure himself, and he started walking faster.

But when he walked past the bones of a Twin Head Ogre and saw the body of a giant snake, even the old man felt uneasy.

The trail had disappeared.

‘He wasn’t eaten. He ripped open its stomach and ran away. Is that crazy guy really this strong?’

The uneasy feeling grew stronger.

‘I have no choice.’

*Woooong.*

The magic he had practiced for his whole life flowed out of the old man. It became a huge wave, spreading out across the entire Forest of Demonic Beasts from where he stood, searching for something.

He had to stop hiding his magic, which he had been using to avoid attracting monsters. Of course, the huge amount of magic caught the attention of the monsters nearby.

– Kyaooo!!!

– Grrr!?

– Kueeeck!

The monsters smelled the magic. The giant monsters felt that it was similar to demonic energy but also different, so they stood up and headed towards it.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

Even as he felt the danger coming closer, the old man was busy sorting through the thoughts and information that the magic had gathered.

Luckily, there were results.

‘Running through the air… It’s that way!’

The thoughts left by the target were very strong.

It was probably right after he had been pushed to the edge. Even so, the power that ran through the air was surprising.

‘It must be an artifact. It has to be an artifact.’

Ignoring the bad feeling, the old man floated into the air. He flew like an arrow towards the traces left by the thoughts.

At that moment.

“Kroooar!”

A Behemoth, a monster with the body of a lion, a snake’s tail, and bat wings, which now only appeared in legends, opened its huge mouth and tried to swallow him.

Of course, it was no threat to the old man.

“You’re just a bug that eats the leftovers of the Demon King!”

The bad feeling turned into anger, and the anger became a flood of gray magic, tearing apart the Behemoth that had tried to swallow the old man.

Crack! Crack!

Whoosh.

“Kkii…”

One of the strong monsters that had been trying to take the Eastern King’s place was torn to pieces, leaving only a scream. The other monsters that had been rushing towards the blood stopped in their tracks.

“Come at me if you dare. I’ll turn you all to dust!”

The monsters couldn’t understand the words, but the strong murderous intent and cold magic made them hesitate, even though they were drawn in by the scent of magic.

In the meantime, the old man found the last trace in the chaotic space.

A trace that seemed to have flown through the air for a long time, as if it had crossed space.

But maybe because he felt his life was in danger, there was a strong sense of thought.

“Show yourself!”

He shouted even though it wasn’t necessary, because the bad feeling had become even stronger.

The thoughts that the target had in the face of death gave him even clearer information than the images had.

Even with colors that he hadn’t seen before.

And the result was shocking.

*Woooong.*

“Golden Force……?!”

That can’t be. There can’t be more than two people who change fate in one era.

Did he mistake the target? That doesn’t make sense either.

Then…….

The old man’s brain quickly came up with the answer.

“Hehe, is that guy Gair the one? He could change the color of the Force?”

It was a good thing that the common sense he had believed in was broken and changed. That in itself is a valuable experience and helps to improve the soul.

But what if that’s proof that someone has been completely betrayed?

“Not only was I robbed of the founder’s relics, but I was also tricked with them?!”

The rising anger became a flood of fierce magic, sweeping around.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa.

A gray vortex appeared in the depths of the Forest of Demonic Beasts without using any special magic.

– Kyaooo…….

– Kroar?

– Kyaaa…….

All the monsters nearby looked at the vortex and held their breath.

“You dare play with me when you are just a sacrifice!!!!”

A thunderous voice.

Inside the Forest of Demonic Beasts, which is known as the second largest demonic region along with the Southern Mountains, a human was showing a presence stronger than any monster.

But soon, feeling that it was pointless, the old man gritted his teeth and landed on the ground.

“Hoo……. Well, if you’re someone who changes fate, you can do this much. Yes. That’s right.”

Crunch.

The old man forced himself to calm down, remembering the behavior of those who ‘change fate,’ which he had learned from studying ancient data for a long time.

The old man, who had barely calmed his anger, raised his gray eyes and looked at the ground again.

He wasn’t just looking at the ground, but at a past version of the person who had fallen in this place.

“If he’s someone who changes fate, he wouldn’t have died here.”

The Holy Sword was still in his hands.

There was no way that a king would have returned with such an obvious sword.

That means.

‘He hid it somewhere here, inside the Forest of Demonic Beasts.’

No, it didn’t matter if he secretly hid it and took it to McLaine. He was just a sacrifice anyway. He would just take it back along with the Holy Sword when the preparations for the great work were finished.

But right now, he was just being stubborn.

“Show me what you’ve been up to.”

If he hid the Holy Sword here, he would find it first, and if not, it would help him figure out his plans.

First of all, he had to figure out everything that the guy had done in the Forest of Demonic Beasts.

But the moment he tried to look back at the memory of his thoughts again.

– Grrrr.

The old man didn’t see him, but a giant monster with 12 eyes.

– Kroooar!

A rough roar made in thought.

The voice, which should have just been a memory, completely blew away all the remaining thoughts.

An strange thing. Normally, he would have been happy to study this as a wizard.

But he wasn’t happy at all right now.

“What son of a bitch!!!!”

The old man exploded with the anger he had been trying to hold back.

“Woof!!”

“What’s wrong, Tir?”

Stella, the child who was playing with Tir in the palace courtyard, tilted her head.

“Is there something over there?”

“Woof! Woof!”

She was confused by her friend, who suddenly stopped and barked at the north, but the child couldn’t see anything special.

But far away from there, in the center of the palace, the contractor of the divine beast was hearing Tir’s cry.

– Enemy. Friend. Chasing.

“Hmm?”

“What’s wrong, Your Majesty?”

“No, it’s nothing. Continue the report.”

“……Yes.”

Unlike his words, Logan listened to Dwayne’s financial report with one ear and drifted off into thought.

‘An enemy is chasing me?’

Usually, communication with Tir was quite clear, but it was too simple, making it hard to understand.

But in this case, the answer was easy.

Because it was one of the things he had already expected.

‘The Kassel Magic Tower……. It’s probably the Forest of Demonic Beasts. If they’re chasing Gair’s trail, how far have they come? Did they find it?’

A mischievous smile appeared on Logan’s face as he remembered the prank he had played in the Forest of Demonic Beasts. After all, the Kassel Magic Tower wouldn’t get anything from there.

Moreover, now was the time to focus on a much more important event.

“If a war actually breaks out between the Holy Kingdom and the Empire, the aftermath…….”

Logan’s eyes shone again, and he focused on the meeting.