The Shadowed Legacy of the Soulless Messenger [EN]: Chapter 116

“Did you see that?” The orc wizard Walter said, boasting.

“What are you doing?”

“That woman summoned that Wendigo and failed to control it. We need to kill her to seal the Wendigo, but she has half of the Divine King’s Scripture copy that we used as a magical source for the ritual. I have the other half.”

“You have a copy of the Divine King’s Scripture? How many pages do you have?”

“I have two pages, and she has two pages.”

So, there are four copies of the Divine King’s Scripture here right now.

‘This is awesome!’

Azadin currently has five pages of the Divine King’s Scripture. If he adds four more, he’ll have nine. With that many, it’s impossible for the curse of servitude to kill Azadin.

“What’s a Wendigo?”

“It’s the name of that giant Nether monster.”

At that moment, Lady Liz became furious.

“That’s a blatant lie! That you have to kill me to seal that monster! That’s nonsense!”

Azadin stepped forward at her outcry.

“Lady Liz?”

“Who are you?”

“A woman named Fran is dead. By Sir Brock’s hand.”

“Is that so? Tch. What a pitiful wench. She went and did something stupid. It’s her own fault, but Brock killed her himself? So what? Is he asking for forgiveness now that he killed her with his own hands?”

“Before that, let me ask you. Why did you make her an Atla minion?”

“Why? Because she seemed so interested in beauty and love, so I had her dedicate everything to the goddess of beauty and love!”

“If it’s because of an affair, shouldn’t the husband be more at fault?”

“Do you think I’m a fool? That I should back down because of some dreaming wench? Don’t make me laugh! I don’t want to go back to the B’tuma jungle!”

If Fran was a bit empty-headed and innocent, this Lady Liz was a much more cunning and terrifying person.

“Ugh…”

Sir Brock was terrified by those words.

“Do you understand? If you make another new woman, I’ll kill her and put her in a stew for you to eat! But I won’t kill you! I’ll make you live and tremble! You’ll live remembering the disaster your desires brought for the rest of your life!”

‘How could he try to have an affair with a woman like this? Is he brave or stupid… or both?’

Azadin was once again amazed by Sir Brock’s foolishness and asked,

“Well, putting your marital problems aside, what about that giant monster outside? You said you summoned it, but did you really summon it?”

“Summon? Do I look that great? That I could summon something that huge? That Wendigo was originally sealed here. It’s a being that the Kurt gods sealed a long time ago with great sacrifice, and even that connection was severed by the Light of Kingship, so it’s a being wandering without being able to manifest in this world.”

The story is different from what the orc said. The orc said she summoned it… She claims it was originally sealed here, and having seen that majestic giant, her words seemed more credible.

Perhaps because of that, Walter immediately corrected his words.

“To be precise, the Wendigo wasn’t sealed here, but banished from here. Since we’re calling back a banished being, it’s correct to say it’s a summoning. It’s just a matter of terminology. I wasn’t trying to deceive you. If I were trying to deceive you, I’m a half-orc. A half-orc.”

This orc named Walter is trying to prove his truth by insulting humans in front of them.

‘What do these orcs think of humans?’

Azadin felt repulsed by the orcs’ arrogance, but both the orc and Lady Liz were too excited and talking too fast. If they were allowed to talk as they pleased, this place would turn into a marketplace.

“Okay, just be quiet for a moment. So, whether it’s a summoning or a release, why did you do it?”

Azadin asked Lady Liz.

“I didn’t originally intend to release the Wendigo’s seal. Would anyone in their right mind want to release that? I was just going to make a light minion contract to draw some power.”

“Lightly?”

Drawing power from a Nether being? That alone is enough to be executed as a terrible black magic user. But the person who used that black magic, Lady Liz, didn’t seem to think much of it.

“But these Kurt followers had different ideas. They thought that if this huge thing was released, the Eight Kingdoms would expend a lot of national power. If the Yaegas god followers depleted their national power, their world would come. They interfered when they saw me performing the ritual and caused the seal to be released! It’s not my fault!”

Those who were listening were dumbfounded by her words.

Of course, from Lady Liz’s point of view, she didn’t try to release it and was just trying to get some power from the Nether monster, but things turned out this way, so she could be considered wronged.

‘Even if your words are true, isn’t this a crime that the Church of the King would immediately burn you at the stake for?’

Paladin Zibeck realized that he had recently been in complex situations. He had joined a group of heralds, an orc necromancer, and a naga agent, and now he was dealing with a noblewoman who was messing with a Nether monster.

However, to resolve this situation, her knowledge and information were needed, so Azadin asked again.

“So, how do you think we can solve this?”

Azadin asked Lady Liz, but the orc named Walter answered.

“Kill the medium, that woman, and return the copies of the Divine King’s Scripture to the Light of Kingship, and use the Light of Kingship to banish and seal the Wendigo again!”

“Don’t make me laugh! That’s a trick to kill me!”

Lady Liz was furious.

“But why are you two facing each other?”

“My magic and the orc’s magic are clashing right now. If either of us lets go, the one who lets go will burn to death.”

“That woman was trying to escape, so I cast a binding spell to prevent her from escaping. She reversed the spell, and now we’re both stuck.”

In other words, the orc and the noblewoman are like male deer who have locked horns while fighting during mating season and are about to die.

“Kill that orc! Then I’ll deal with the Wendigo.”

“That’s ridiculous. Everyone, don’t trust that woman. She’s an evil woman! I can handle the Wendigo.”

“How dare an orc say that!?”

“You’re a witch too!”

Watching them, Brand suddenly apologized to Sir Brock.

“Uh, um. I apologize for speaking harshly earlier. Of course, the affair is not something to condone, but your wife is quite scary.”

She’s a scary woman who would turn the person her husband had an affair with into a monster. Of course, Sir Brock was the one who was wrong first, but perhaps he thought that he had been too harsh in criticizing him.

“What are you talking about? Oh, come to think of it, you’re Secretary Brand, and that person over there is Prince Guillaume Valt?”

“That’s right. It’s been a while, Lady Liz.”

“Haa.”

Lady Liz lowered her head.

“What will happen now that it’s been revealed that I use Nether magic?”

Even if she survives here, it will be known in noble society that she is a sorcerer who uses dark magic. Moreover, not only does she use Nether magic, but she has also been in close contact with the nagas here from the beginning.

She is colluding with the Kurt gods behind the scenes, and even though she is a rival, she has forcibly turned the people of Hybris into minions of the Kurt god, so this woman is also guilty of a great crime.

“Anyway, from your point of view, you can’t keep a woman who colluded with the Kurt gods as a noblewoman, right? Let’s make a deal.”

The orc named Walter grabbed his axe-spear.

“I’ll open a path, so kill that witch! If the summoner is lost, the Wendigo’s existence will fade, and if the copies of the Divine King’s Scripture are returned to the Light of Kingship, the Wendigo will be sealed again!”

“Wait. So, what happens when we use the Divine King’s Scripture? Does it disappear?”

Azadin asked about that point.

“It disappears. Well, it doesn’t completely disappear, but the Divine King’s Scripture merges with the Light of Kingship, and it will reappear later when the conditions are met.”

“……”

The copies of the Divine King’s Scripture disappear. There are four pages here, and losing them is a pity.

However, considering the Wendigo’s massive size, if it can really be sealed, it’s not the time to weigh the pros and cons. The problem is, what if the Wendigo isn’t sealed even after returning the Divine King’s Scripture to the Light of Kingship?

Additionally, Azadin might have to add the Divine King’s Scripture he has, and if that happens, Azadin will lose the material to negotiate with the heralds and the Aragasas.

‘The reason I’m at ease even with the curse of servitude is because I have the Divine King’s Scripture, but if I lose it… Even if that’s not the case, is it really right to return the Divine King’s Scripture to the Light of Kingship now? The nobles and kings are corrupt, and the Light of Kingship is only getting weaker.’

As Azadin hesitated, Lady Liz noticed his intention.

“I can fix it without losing the Divine King’s Scripture. Kill that orc!”

“That woman is a Nether mage, worse than a black magic user. Even if humans are low-intelligence creatures, they wouldn’t be stupid enough to trust a Nether mage, would they?”

Everyone was dumbfounded to see the orc, who should be begging for his life, insulting humans as stupid.

Meanwhile, a sound like a wolf’s howl echoed through the underground passage.

“This is bad.”

“It’s a baby Wendigo.”

The corpses in the underground passage transformed into small Wendigos and began to rise and rush towards them.

“I was told not to use necromancy, but… in this situation, there’s no other choice!”

As the situation became serious, Scott McGreene made a hand seal and stomped his foot on the ground.

“Arise! From beyond death!”

His shadow flowed along the shadows of the light cast by the light stones, running along the ground and touching the corpses under the ice.

The sewer rats broke through the ice and rose as undead. Even though they were sewer rats, they were about the size of small dogs. The corpses of the rats, plump with nutrients from the garbage coming from the sewage, trembled with ominous glints in their eyes.

“Go!”

The rats, resurrected as undead by Scott’s magic, ran along the ground towards the Wendigos. The Wendigos ignored the rats and tried to rush at the humans, but the moment the rats clung to the Wendigos, Scott changed his hand seal and crossed his hands.

“Corpse Explosion!”

The rats’ corpses exploded, scattering their fluids and flesh on the Wendigos.

“Undead Control!”

Scott fired black magic bullets at the Wendigos covered in the rats’ fluids. About two of the Wendigos that were hit twisted their bodies and instead jumped at their own companions, starting to fight among themselves.

“Hmm. Only controlling two. Considering the amount of magic I used… the magic isn’t working well?”

Scott put a water bottle to his mouth and gulped down water, then stepped back and made another hand seal.

“I warned you not to use necromancy!”

Zibeck was furious, but Scott cheerfully retorted.

“Is that so? Did I just desecrate the dignity of the death of a rat? Is the paladin of the Church of the King getting angry at me on behalf of the rat because I used necromancy on a rat?”