# 15
Helmut
Episode 15
– Finally, my life has come to an end.
“Did Elaga know too?”
-We talked a while ago. But what is that expression on your face? If there is a meeting, there is also a separation. He lived his life as he should and went without suffering, so there is no need for him to suffer death.
Speaking like an old man, Elaga dropped something in front of Helmut. Tuk.
“What is this?”
-That’s what you were wearing when I first saw you.
Helmut looked suspiciously at the tattered piece of cloth covered in dirt.
-I forgot where I put it, so I had a hard time finding it. Take a look. There might be something there, right?
For some reason, I felt like things were not good. But for now, this was the only clue to his birth.
Helmut picked up a piece of cloth and lifted it up. Although it was old and dirty, it felt meltingly soft against my fingertips.
As I rummaged through the piece of cloth, a round object with a thin golden chain attached to it rolled out from inside.
widely! Elaga quickly snatched it up with her tail.
-I’m not very good at it.
Helmut stared intently at the object shaking before his eyes. It was a pendant with a tree vine-like pattern engraved on its surface.
Neither Helmut nor Elagan had any idea what it was used for. Elaga pretended to know.
-It’s an object made of gold. It’s an expensive metal. I guess you were the child of a wealthy family?
Helmut, remembering that Darian had said that he was of noble status, nodded.
-Is there a line on the border?
After examining it for a moment, Helmut was able to open the pendant.
Click. With a small sound, the pendant opened like a clam.
“What does it say on the inside?”
Helmut, who had learned to read from Darian, tried to recite the writing.
“May your path be filled with only light, Marguerite Ireine.”
-Does it sound like a woman’s name?
“It must be my mother’s… name.”
I felt like I knew it intuitively. An item that would have been made as a blessing for a newborn baby. That was the only clue given to Helmut.
A faint feeling came over me. Helmut played with the pendant, then tied the string around his neck and put it in his arms.
-Are you going to look for your parents when you go outside?
“That’s right. “It’s something to think about after I leave.”
Just as there is no time to be immersed in sadness, there is no time to think about anything else.
As Darian said, there is no perfect time, but now was the right time.
From now on, you have to be alert. There are still steps that are risky enough to risk your life before you can get out of the forest of digging.
-Naho is in hibernation, so he won’t show up unless there’s quite a bit of commotion. During this time, other guys also sneak into Naho’s territory.
“Then human farms will also become more vigilant.”
-Yes, because humans are good prey. There are quite a few people who only target this time. If you get the timing right, you will be able to easily take control of Erugo.
Elaga asked as if confirming.
-Are you okay? I can’t watch your back. Because if I enter the area, Naho will notice.
“don’t worry. “I can do it alone.”
It is not groundless confidence or arrogance. Helmut knew how to instinctively gauge the strength of his opponent, as if he were half a monster.
I watched from afar, but unlike Darian, the humans on the farm didn’t feel anything. There is no strong one among them who have lived comfortably within Naho’s enclosure.
‘You can do it if you don’t let your guard down.’
Helmut was Darian’s disciple. He is probably the strongest human among those who fell into the forest of Pahe.
Even immature wild beasts have no fear of flocks of sheep.
Helmut spoke decisively.
“I’m ready.”
*
‘From here, Naho’s territory begins.’
After taking a deep breath, Helmut took a step forward.
Just because it’s a snake’s territory doesn’t mean that the ground under my feet suddenly sinks into a swamp, but I felt my body being pulled down.
My sensitive nerves were on edge. Four years ago in this area, Helmut felt the fear of death deep in his bones.
‘I am different now than I was then.’
Knowing how to use vis means being able to control your energy.
Helmut’s presence, which suppressed his energy as much as possible, was difficult for even sensitive monsters to notice.
Unless you see it with your own eyes, you won’t even know he’s there.
‘It feels like hunting.’
The most dangerous hunt you’ve ever done. There are no helpers. Holding its breath, it waits for an opportunity and snatches its prey with its claws.
There is only one chance.
‘If I fail, I might die.’
That’s not pessimism, it’s a fact. My heart was pounding. A tingling sensation passed through the back of my neck, and I couldn’t tell if it was excitement or tension.
Because Elaga deliberately drove out the monsters in his territory, several of them entered Naho’s territory before Helmut.
It would be difficult not to drool when Naho is sleeping and sees the human farm in front of her. Erugo’s nerves will also be scattered.
Helmut began to walk quietly in the ominous forest. His appearance soon disappeared into the shade of the trees without a trace.
*
Sometimes there are people in the world who are more like monsters than monsters.
Erugo was an evil wizard who shocked the world before being banished to the Forest of Pahe.
Aside from his magical talent, Erugo had something special about him. The point is that you were not born with moral sense and conscience!
However, it never became noticeable until he grew to a certain level as a wizard.
Erugo realized that his talent was not enough to become the best among many wizards, and he thought that in order to become a stronger wizard, he had to take a path not taken by others.
For example, the path of coveting forbidden or evil powers.
Stronger power, stronger magic.
Wizards are so consumed by their desires that they often cross lines they should not cross.
Being evil by nature, he crossed the line without any resistance.
Black magic. A special power that can easily and quickly bring powerful power to even a humble wizard.
That was the path Erugo found.
Human emotions of a negative nature, such as pain or sadness, were the main prey of black magic.
The method of eliciting pain and sadness from humans was simple.
At first, they bought trafficked people, tortured them in hideouts, and used them as material. Not surprisingly, the job suited Erugo well.
By torturing and killing those who cried out in pain and fear, Erugo fell into the mood of the absolute.
The sadistic pleasure of one-sidedly trampling on the victims! The sensation became more and more intoxicating to him. The surging dark magic awakened my true nature.
Erugo became increasingly bold and cruel. He personally went down to the village, kidnapped people, subjected them to all kinds of torture, and killed them so painfully that the hostages begged for death instead.
The cycle gradually narrowed, and the bloody smell never left his hideout.
Erugo was cunning and careful, but his actions did not last long.
Frequent disappearances and traces of black magic. A wizard who noticed Erugo’s evil nature became suspicious.
The suspicion was immediately directed at Erugo. People secretly tracked down Erugo, and his terrible hideout was soon revealed to the world.
People could not hide their vomiting after discovering a bloody torture chamber and a laboratory full of tattered corpses of both men and women, as well as glass bottles containing human heads and severed limbs as specimens.
‘How can a human being do something like this!’
‘You’re out of your mind!’
‘We must kill him!’
The sentence that fell upon him in captivity was death or banishment to Pajero. Of the two options he had as a noble and a wizard, he chose to lose his magic and be exiled to the Forest of Pahe. This is to avoid being burned at the stake right away.
A forest where I lost everything and fell. However, life here suited him quite well.
The magic energy that filled Pahe’s Forest matched well with black magic in its properties, so it returned some of the lost magic.
Of course, Pahe Forest was not an easy place to be safe with just a little magic.
However, Erugo decided to pioneer a new path again.
‘If you take me as your subordinate, I will periodically offer you human food.’
The two-headed snake hissed and laughed at Erugo, who calmly offered to sacrifice the human subordinates who followed him.
‘What an interesting human being.’
‘Okay, I allow you my territory.’
Erugo, who settled in Naho’s territory, tracked down the humans who had fallen into the Forest of Pahe and gathered them up at random.
Those who fell into the Forest of Pahe were either villains who did not live up to Erugo’s notoriety, or those who were driven out politically.
There are only a few humans who can protect themselves in the forest of Pahe. In order to avoid being eaten by monsters right away, they had no choice but to follow Erugo.
human farm. Erugo was a shepherd and king here, the only human population in the Forest of Pahe.
This is the castle he has built, and the humans are a flock of sheep. As long as the sacrifice was properly offered, Naho did not interfere with human farms.
There was some resistance, but Erugo easily took control of the farm.
If those who rebel are thrown to the monsters and eaten alive to set an example, they will tremble and obey Erugo.
It was the fate of the weak and inadequate to be raised to suit their purpose in the hands of someone like Erugo who stood at the top, and then meet a fitting end. Like cattle, really.
Erugo’s new life was satisfactory. But sometimes crises came to him too.
If the time when a man named Darian appeared and destroyed the village was a once-in-a-lifetime ordeal, this was a juncture that was faced periodically.
During this time when Naho was hibernating, he couldn’t relax his nerves either.
Humans are weak herbivores and desirable pieces of meat in the forest of Pahe.
Not only does it have no strength to resist, but its legs are too slow to run away, and it is bitten on the back of its back and dies.
During this period when the owner was absent, attacks occurred every day, like a fox stealing chicks from a chicken coop.
In the meantime, Erugo’s job was to protect the village with as little loss as possible.
However, this winter was particularly problematic.
