The Return of Apocalypses Tyrant

Episode 206

“Why… Why…!!! “I didn’t stop you!!”

It was an expected reaction, but Namgung did not say anything to Roxanne, who was crying while holding [Druid’s Tears] with both hands.

Because he knew that no matter what he said, it could not comfort her.

“It was Kuhuran’s will.”

I just calmly convey the facts.

“Do not be ridiculous…!! “You must have forced it!!!”

“You would know. Those tears can be said to be the essence of a druid. “You can never get it through forced death.”

Namgung looked at the shining gem.

“There are two ways to refine Druid’s tears. “It is created when a druid sacrifices himself to the Wicker Man and extracts the essence from the burned corpse, and when he returns to nature of his own choice.”

“….”

“And I don’t have to tell you which of the two methods results in purer tears.”

Sigh –

Roxanne bit her lip.

“In his past life, he became a sacrifice to the Wicker Man and left behind the tears of a druid. And of course you were the one who shed those tears. “Your power was needed to stop the monsters coming out of the door, and it was an inevitable choice.”

Namgung recalled the scenery at that time.

“But in his previous life, he didn’t kill himself; he became a sacrifice. I guess I didn’t want you to cry. “Why?”

“I don’t know. “I haven’t lived a past life, so how can I know?”

“No, you know. My previous life was a more terrible situation than now. Even though humanity needed power, Kuhuran was against it. why?”

Roxanne’s eyes trembled.

“…I guess I lost my qualifications as a druid.”

“that’s right. “At that time, you did what he hated most for saving the world.”

Murder.

She killed one person at that time.

In this situation, you may wonder if killing just one person is such a big deal.

However, for the druids who worshiped nature, it broke a great taboo.

“I will now take on the test of Avatar. There are a total of six remaining incarnations. They are all also bosses of the Hell Gate.”

“…what? “You want to hunt the boss monster alone?”

“okay. If I can kill them all… the number of doors that will be opened will decrease accordingly. If that happens, the order of inquiries will naturally change.”

Roxanne looked at him with wide eyes, as if she had forgotten Cuhuran’s death for a moment at his shocking words.

“Perhaps, if my prediction is correct, the likely monster for the next gate will be Gainas.”

“…Gainas?”

“She is the wife of the Thunder King and a monster called the Snow Queen. The frigid areas she uses are full of cold that humans cannot withstand. “If she comes, we’ll probably have to give up at least a few cities.”

Gulp –

Roxanne swallowed dry saliva without realizing it at his words.

“But what’s even more terrifying than that is the scale of ice she holds. “The balance has a block of ice on one side, and as people trapped in the cold zone die one by one, the weight tilts to the other side.”

Namgoong spread out two fingers and wiggled them.

“And if it tilts completely toward containing human life, everyone in the zone will die.”

“Crazy…”

Roxanne ended up swearing without realizing it at his terrible story.

“The way to weaken the queen’s magic is, of course, the power of the natural world. A cold zone is literally an extreme area where no life can survive. “If life can bloom there… her power will also be weakened.”

“This is something only a druid can do.”

“that’s right.”

“But it’s strange. If Kuhuran listens to you, he will have no reason to object. Rather, I think he would have told you to do it even if it meant giving up your own life.”

“The queen has one child. “He is the only son who is also of King Thunder’s bloodline.”

“…Something like a monster?”

Namgung smiled bitterly at her words.

“A monster or something… Well, you might think so, but didn’t you feel that when you saw the people of the tower or the proxy clan? They too are one clan and have a self. The same goes for monsters.”

From the demons that were summoned earlier, to the demons that ran away from the tower to survive…

it is difficult to conclude that they are simply monsters.

“so? “Why is that monster’s bloodline?”

“Because you killed it.”

“…I?”

“That child had both the power of the Thunder King and the power of Gainas. Lightning and snow. “It possesses the greatest power of the natural world than any monster I have encountered so far.”

“Are you saying I was so blinded by greed that I killed that child? “Stop talking nonsense!!”

“Yes, no one can call that greed. “Because you were the only one who could kill Gainas’ child.”

“Then I didn’t do anything wrong!”

“If there was a problem, it would be that they killed him in front of the queen, who said she would close the door herself and disappear if she released the child.”

“what?”

“Choi Hwi-soo, who was the revealer of the Master of the Seven Snakes, received a revelation about the monster that would appear after the Snowflake Queen. “He was Ouroboros, the incarnation of a powerful snake called disaster.”

His voice was quiet, as if he was remembering a memory he didn’t want to remember.

“To kill an Ouroboros biting its own tail, you must separate its tail and head. But it wasn’t possible with normal attacks, and only Gainas’ cold could freeze and cut him down.”

“Are you saying that I killed her child… to gain the Queen’s coldness?”

“that’s right. But it can’t be helped. Even if Gainas disappears, if we cannot stop the next monster, humanity will end.”

Namgung lightly tapped her trembling shoulder.

“It was a difficult choice, but it was one I was forced to make. Kuhuran knew that too, so he didn’t blame you. “It was probably just a will to not forget the Druid’s beliefs and an effort to demonstrate that in person.”

“I…murdered…”

Even though she had not committed it, she kept muttering the same words as if she was shocked.

“When I tell you about this, I don’t mean that you should use the events of your past life as shackles. Look at the difference between then and now. Cuhuran himself gave you the Druid’s Tears. “What does that mean?”

Namgung told her.

“It means living as a druid. I will catch Ouroboros. So you don’t have to worry about the next door and commit unwanted murder. All you have to do is use the druid power given to you by Cuhuran to stop Gainas.”

Grumble….

It was then.

A single tear flowed down Roxanne’s cheek.

Even though he didn’t say anything, that single tearful drop contained a lot of meaning.

“I told you to give up being a druid, but Cuhuran will want you to support him. “Running away from the power given to you is not the answer.”

Namgung smiled bitterly.

“Roxanne. The stronger the soul, the stronger the druid is, right? Then it will give you more strength than anything else. Because Cuhuran was the strongest person I knew.”

“It’s obvious.”

Roxanne pursed her lips and put [Druid’s Tears] into her arms.

“Even if you didn’t say that, Kuhuran was the best. “How many real-life items can receive Legendary status at Carnival?”

“yes.”

“Would you please call Park Hyo-joo and So-min? It’s impossible for me to store the druid’s tears inside my body alone. “Because we need the powerful forces of the natural world.”

It’s ironic, but at this point, Park Hyo-joo, who is the best at handling spirits than her, and So-min, a contractor for the fairy tribe, have stronger powers in the natural world than she does.

“It’s not a difficult task, but please accept it well even if Somin swears at me.”

“hmm?”

“The Octagon War will end soon.”

“Ah…”

Roxanne nodded as if she understood his words.

“You too have a path of thorns.”

“Because that’s what it means to be a parent.”

He shrugged his shoulders and said it was no big deal, but Roxanne could see Kuhuran in his appearance.

“Parents…”

Roxanne said, wiping the tears from her cheeks.

“Win. Regardless of whether they are Avatar or something else, kill them all and come. “I will stop whatever happens here while you are away.”

“This is my favorite look so far.”

Namgung thought that she would be able to prevent the carnival in the future even if he was not confident in her determined appearance.

‘Now all that’s left is…’

It was something I didn’t really want to do.

* * *

“I didn’t expect you to find me. “A while ago, a strange demon came to visit me and blabbered your name, so I got his head blown off.” “

I guess

it was the devil when I saw that it came back to life even though its head was blown off.” “Why do you know that guy?”

The old man, who was chewing beef jerky while roughly wiping away stuck flies with his hands, looked at Namgung and said.

He was none other than Nam Gung’s father, Nam Ki-cheol.

“Instead of that, let’s eat something real.”

“Seeing how obedient you are, I guess you came because I had a favor to ask.”

“…Let’s do it like before.”

“What? “This isn’t bad either.”

Nam Ki-cheol smiled and looked at the food Namgung brought.

Ttukdeuk-

gulp-gulp-

“That’s great. “Even though it seems common, it’s hard to find here.”

Among the foods in the food box, he first took out a bottle of soju and drank it down in an instant.

“How many days has it been there?”

“Well, ever since we sent the devil away?”

“…You’re hell-bent on dying.”

The place where Namgung found him was the entrance to a dungeon created in the Sahara Desert.

[I told you. That human is not human.]

“What are you, you devil? Were you there too? To humans, we are not human. “There’s nothing more stupid than that.”

An emaciated Nam Ki-cheol threw away the soju bottle he was holding and stuffed the remaining food into his mouth.

[Anyway… You asked where the black route was open, so I found it for you, so now I’m leaving. No matter how greedy I am, I don’t want to get involved with that old man.]

Carlos shook his head as if he didn’t like the energy Nam Ki-cheol was giving off, then flapped his wings and disappeared.

“There is still a long way to go. “You experienced the black route first, but you couldn’t sense its energy, so you asked someone like that?”

“It’s not that we can’t detect it, it’s that we try not to detect it.”

“okay?”

Nam Ki-cheol chuckled at his words.

“Good job.”

“….”

“If you had come alone, I might have scolded you. “If you abuse this power, you will be expelled.”

“Do you do this knowing that?”

“Don’t you need this?”

What Nam Ki-cheol gave to Namgung was a small dagger.

“This is a sword that can kill Hydra, one of the seven incarnations of snakes. Well… I don’t know if using this can really kill you.”

“…How did you get this? Or rather, how do you know about the seven serpents incarnate?”

“Didn’t you hear what the devil said? “They say you’re not human.”

“Are you telling me to believe such nonsense?”

Namgung licked his lips as if he was at a loss for words at his words.

“Don’t try to understand, don’t try to think. Because you can’t open the black route for nothing. Please do me a favor. “I have to pay for the food my son brought.”

“…We need a way to strengthen souls. To be precise, I plan to turn dead revelers into soul soldiers through war heroes.”

“Dead Revelators… the ones who messed up the pantheon?”

“you’re right.”

“It won’t be easy. “Isn’t it only possible for friendly souls to do ministry?”

“That’s why we need a place where we can summon the spirits. Not only those two, but also all the war heroes.”

“So that’s why you came to see me.”

Nam Ki-cheol opened the last bottle of alcohol and drank it in one gulp.

“If there is a place where the soul can be free, there is no place more perfect than the Black Route.”

Sigh –

At that moment, Namgung took out the items in the bag and poured them out in front of him, as if he had been waiting.

“Heroes from all over the world have gathered here.”

Nam Gi-cheol said with a bitter smile as all the relics that should have been in the museum fell into the desert sand.

“Let’s begin.”

Tung –

he said, throwing the empty liquor bottle.