Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 387

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‘God damn it, I’m going crazy.’

Literally, that was Zion’s state of mind right now.

Using Shya, the highest-ranking Celestial, to create internal division among the Celestials.

Shiela said that she was the most moderate of the eight highest-ranking Celestials, so Zion thought that even a little coaxing would be enough to break away from the black-and-white logic that the people on Hispania’s side were guilty.

For that reason, he dug up and recited passages from the novel with a very sacred expression and a solemn voice, and soon he could see Shya wavering as he had expected.

‘So far, so good.

Everything was as I expected.

Even though I hate them, I was going to give them a chance to look at those who only thought of the Celestials and the Light followers as sinners, and at the same time, give the Union, who were shouting that it was a bizarre religion made up of fanatics, a little room to think positively.

But….’

But damn it, I never imagined this picture.

First of all, the moment Shya suddenly became urgent and called me the messenger of God, the gray light, was the beginning of this incomprehensible situation.

I thought it was strange from the beginning when she asked about my identity out of nowhere.

At first, I didn’t show it because I thought my coaxing had been caught, but rather, it seemed to have been conveyed to Shya as conviction.

With a glint in her eyes, as if convinced that her thoughts were correct, Shya kept asking me.

If I was the gray light, a messenger, or an agent.

‘That alone was enough to make my head hurt.

I need to think a little.

But….’

What happened next made Zion, who was already embarrassed, even more embarrassed.

Kim Yoo-hyun was waiting in case Shya took Zion hostage.

But suddenly, it wasn’t Kim Yoo-hyun who came in, but Lilith out of the blue.

I had warned her not to approach Shya beyond a certain distance, as a demon was absolutely impossible in a place to persuade the Celestials, even if others were possible, but Zion had no idea why she had entered despite his and Kim Yoo-hyun’s restraint.

“Lilith!

You abominable thing!”

And as Zion expected, Shya immediately showed tremendous hostility and stepped back.

With a look of great anger and confusion, she looked back and forth between Lilith and Zion.

As if asking what the hell was going on, as if asking if he had really fallen and joined hands with the demons.

‘No, why is this sister suddenly like this!’

Lilith should never be shown to the outside world in the picture he was drawing.

Our justification for judging the Celestials who recklessly run wild, claiming to be the light with misguided beliefs, will be blurred in an instant if there is a demon in it.

No matter how wrong the Celestials are, they are not erased by prejudice against demons.

Almost all beings on the continent instinctively hate demons.

That was partly due to the Celestials’ long-term brainwashing, and at the same time, it was possible because the demons were so negligent in managing their external image.

Even Lilith would have remained a protein 괴도 [protein predator], chasing after the dreams of many men and sucking their energy dry, if it hadn’t been for the contract of subordination.

‘I was going to gradually unravel the demons later, but why!’

There’s no way Lilith would betray him, and she’s not a woman who doesn’t use her head.

No matter how much I thought about it, Zion couldn’t figure out why Lilith would appear in this place, so he looked at Lilith as if to ask why.

“….”

Then, Zion suddenly noticed that the corners of Lilith’s mouth were subtly raised.

She always lives on the stage, and she is with the main character of the play, so she naturally needed to let Zion know whether what she was doing now was real or acting.

Therefore, Lilith always informed Zion when her actions or words were not her true feelings, but were just acting to overcome the situation or, conversely, to create a situation.

And now, Lilith’s smile was a kind of sign that the play had begun.

“Still foolish.

Too arrogant to be arrogant.

They are so intoxicated with their appearance that they call themselves the descendants of light, but in the end, they do not realize that light is not light without believers, and they try to turn everything in the world into enemies.

By doing so, they are admitting that they are not light but darkness, not good but evil, not justice but injustice.”

“Shut up!

I’ll kill you right now….”

As she said that, Shya had to grit her teeth at the burning pain she felt again.

Her physical condition is not normal, but rather close to the worst condition where she should collapse right away.

Fight Lilith, the succubus queen, the highest-ranking demon, here?

Ten out of ten will be defeated.

It’s impossible to escape because my body is a mess.

‘After all, everything from Hispania and Nudia were sinners!

They were deceived by the demons and betrayed the light, abandoned the good, and justice….’

Suddenly, Shya noticed something was wrong.

The highest-ranking demon, the succubus queen, Lilith, is still kneeling at the feet of a human.

The highest-ranking demons, whose pride is so strong that even the highest-ranking Celestials would go away.

I couldn’t even think of it as a trap or acting by a demon woman.

It is already a well-known fact that demons despise other races more than Celestials think.

No matter how much they play around, just as they cannot imagine crawling naked in front of animals and licking the floor, there is no way that demons who play with humans would do such humiliating things.

‘W-What the….’

Just as Shya was trying to figure out the situation and racking her brains, Lilith stepped up her acting again.

“Shya, the highest-ranking Celestial.

Why could you remain as descendants of light and be called light, good, and justice?”

“What did you say?”

“Why were we demons called darkness, shadow, and evil?”

“Isn’t that obvious!

You are evil and ugly!

And….”

“No, you’re wrong.

It’s just because the world thinks so, and because it calls us that.

That’s all.”

Lilith’s words that the world thinks so, and that’s why it is so.

Listening to those words, Zion was finally able to realize what his woman was trying to do and how she was trying to help.

Instead of simply dividing the enemies to weaken their power, let’s make the game bigger and play.

Let’s completely cover ourselves with the light that they boast about and judge them.

Until now, it felt like a symbolic meaning, that they called us sinners and we called them sinners in return because we had no sin.

From now on, let’s drive them to the point where they are the ones who should receive God’s judgment and the wrath of heaven, and suck up all their power without leaving anything behind.

‘…Come to think of it, it’s a bit strange that they’re talking about gray and agents.’

Lilith once said that her inside was a huge cavity.

The place that should be filled with mana is empty, but the size is bigger than most people.

It’s as wide as if there were two people in one.

‘Was it just to make me suffer that you put me in a body without mana, 작가놈 님! (TN: Author dude) [Author dude] Is that your deep meaning!

No way.

If he was such a good thinker, he wouldn’t have ruined the story so much from the middle.

Anyway, I have to use anything I can if possible.’

If this is a privilege limited to me, I will gladly use it whether it is inevitable or accidental.

If even the existence of the highest-ranking Celestial is mistaken and hesitant, I have to make a big hit.

That’s how I can say that I am an extremely ordinary human being who was once a villain and is now a hero, but in the end, the core is working hard to find my way to survive!

“Lilith, you’re too loud.

Shut your mouth.”

“Ah.

I’m sorry, agent.”

Judging from the fact that she deliberately said agent, she seems to have heard everything from her conversation with Shya.

I heard that she accidentally heard various information about the Celestials while seducing Ru, the highest-ranking Celestial in the past, so it seems that she has found a breakthrough this time as well.

“?”

Meanwhile, Shya was so distracted by the sight unfolding in front of her that she even forgot her hostility towards Lilith.

Not only is the highest-ranking demon kneeling in front of a human, but she is even saying sorry and bowing her head?

I would know if a fairy or a Celestial showed such a 모습 [Korean word for appearance or figure].

For a demon to be doing this, for those words of lowering herself to come out of her mouth!

“Shya.”

“Yes, yes?”

At the voice that seemed to scratch her heart coldly, Shya reflexively answered that way.

He’s human, clearly human, just a very weak human without even a single grain of mana.

I, who am a strong person with almost no one to compare to in this world, felt very pathetic.

“If you really don’t understand what Lilith said, the Celestials will no longer be qualified to be called the descendants of light.”

“…?”

“As this woman said, in the end, light, good, and justice all depend on the believer.

What was light yesterday may become darkness today, and what was evil today may become good tomorrow.

The reason is simple.

Like two sides of a coin, the two are ultimately one.

It just depends on which side you look at it from.”

“I don’t understand what you’re saying at all….”

“Until now, the descendants of light, the doctrine of light, have been walking a relatively right path.

However, as they thought that light was taking root in the hearts of others, they became arrogant and arrogant, and eventually, like now, they even had the delusion of burning everything dark, ugly, and wrong and starting anew.”

At Zion’s words, Shya showed a reaction that she could not understand and could not accept.

As if there was nothing wrong with erasing the dark, ugly, and wrong things from the world.

“I said it’s one.

I said that it is the world that distinguishes between light and darkness.

Just because it is different from your will does not mean that you become light by burning it.

In the end, you will be called evil by that burning world and be cursed to the end.”

“Nonsense!

If you’re trying to seduce me by colluding with demons….”

“Here, there is the gray that you want to reach.

Will you push this gray, me, into the darkness?

Will you let me fall into temptation as this demon woman wants?

Or, as you truly want, will you lead and save me with light, prove that you are truly the descendants of light, and spread light widely in this world?”

Clearly, this woman, Shya, the highest-ranking Celestial, was talking about gray and agents to me.

That’s clear evidence that there’s something related to that in the beliefs she believes in.

Instead of seeing those who are wrong and don’t believe as unconditional enemies and burning them all, Zion was saying that if you guide and guide them with a more faithful heart and lead them to where you truly want to go.

It’s okay even if there are only a few people who think that way, including Shya.

No, it’s much better for Zion himself if there are only a few people.

If there are people shouting light from all directions, the same thing will happen again.

“As you said, I may or may not be gray or an agent.

However, what is certain is that I am someone who knows, hears, and thinks more than you Celestials think.

So I ask again.

Is this really right?”

“….”

“Those who shout light but swallow it like darkness, who act like evil while claiming to be good, who call themselves justice but ultimately follow injustice more than anything else.

They are thinking of burning everything and creating something new on top of it, but no one in that world will call you light, a truly ridiculous and foolish world.

Your fellow tribesmen want that, but you, who are at the top, are not stopping it, but are being swept away.”

The reason why the Celestials didn’t openly massacre humans and other races from the beginning.

That’s because there were clearly those who were skeptical of this purification project, even if the number was small.

To persuade them, they have been using all sorts of tricks to show that the world is corrupt, that demons are trying to gain power, and that purifying this chaotic world to gray is the only way.

And because of such efforts, or rather tricks, the moderate faction of the Celestials eventually judged that there was no hope and agreed to the current all-out war, pushing their bodies in without regret and offering their blood and flesh.

“Is that light that only you are shouting lonely really light?

In my opinion, this darkness that is helping us seems to be the true light.”

Zion is about to reach out to Lilith as he says that.

Then Shya urgently stopped him and made a very fierce expression.

“Demons are evil beings.

Even if they help you now that they are on the verge of extinction, they will eventually push you off a cliff.

To try to believe in such people, it is so foolish that it cannot be more foolish….”

“So, you.

The descendants of light must guide us.

As you said, you must illuminate those who are foolish, pitiful, and so pure that they are foolish with bright light to the end.

Not just burning the world because there is no hope.”

Zion was sure that this woman named Shya was not a 선민사상 (TN: Chosen people ideology) [Chosen people ideology], but a woman who pitied everyone.

So she must be unconsciously feeling resistance to the will of her fellow tribesmen.

Shiela had already directly mentioned this woman, who is the highest-ranking Celestial.

If she is persuaded well, she may be able to help this side as a mediator.

And a mediator of a force could go further and become a new wave, sweeping away the rotten things that had been stagnant and heralding a new beginning.

‘If I attack the doctrine of light to the end and completely erase it from the world, there will be a lot of noise later.

But?

But what if someone shouts that the doctrine is wrong, mentions a comprehensive revision, self-reflection, and self-reflection, and exposes everything about them?

What if we can make people think that light was really light, but it was only being defiled by those with wrong thoughts.’

The world, which is already angry enough, will completely explode.

Light had not betrayed them!

Rather, the ugly ones were defiling the light!

Light was suffering inside, and we will be the ones who save that suffering light!

The picture after that is perfect.

Just like they have been doing, they are putting everything on them.

‘Winners don’t bear risks or burdens.’

The reserve force of Hispania has arrived, and the soldiers of Nudia are being replenished.

The allied forces of beastmen and fairies are also leaving Hispania and coming here.

At that very moment, in that very place where all the eyes, ears, and mouths of the world are gathered, I will declare.

‘Light is right here.’