◈ 510. [Evil Side] White Night
Siehst Vater du den Erlkönig nicht?
Father, don’t you see that Demon King?
Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif?
The demon king wearing a golden crown and wearing a cape?
***
My first memory of the Midnight Sun was of the world burning.
In my father’s arms, riding on a boat that swayed in the waves.
The Midnight Sun watched from afar as her homeland—the land once called the Eastern Continent—was engulfed in flames.
It was a terrible fire. The whole world was burnt to black, turning to ashes without leaving a trace of anything.
the earth and even the sky.
It was covered in black smoke, and it seemed as if even the sky had turned to ashes.
The white night, who had been watching this scene blankly, whispered in a small whisper.
“Why is our hometown burning?”
The father, who was holding such a daughter tightly, answered calmly.
“Our emperor granted his wish.”
“To whom?”
“To ‘the wish-granting devil’. You stopped being possessed… … .”
In the sky over the Eastern Continent, a blurry black shape floated.
《Your wish came true.》
The existence that looked like a human shadow tore its white blank mouth open and laughed horrifyingly.
《This is the result of that wish!》
The white night blankly examined its existence.
That’s a demon that grants wishes.
The source of the evil that destroyed his hometown.
The people who survived on the boat pointed to the devil and whispered another name for the devil.
– It’s called the Demon King.
“What kind of wish did our country’s emperor wish for?”
“I don’t know about that. But this is the result.”
What kind of wish should I make to bring about the burning of the entire continent?
And why did the ‘wish-granting devil’ do such a cruel thing?
The young white night couldn’t understand it at all.
Baekya, who was staring blankly up at the burning dark red sky, widened his eyes in surprise.
“Father’s eyes… ! There is a lot of snow in the sky.”
It was as it was said.
Thousands of huge eyes were open in the sky, and those eyes were still watching the perishing continent.
With a focused gaze, as if examining something very interesting.
“Why are those eyes watching our hometown burn?”
“That’s them… … It is because it is a game of great foreign gods.”
To the innocent child’s question, the father answered with a trembling voice.
“A game of destruction over the destruction of a world… … They enjoy watching this play.”
“Like pouring water into an anthill and watching it?”
“Yeah, that must be the feeling, to be watched by a being one level higher than us… .”
The father held back his tears and stroked his daughter’s hair.
Fire poured from the sky. The boat right next to it was engulfed in the flames and smashed to pieces.
Fragments and boat fragments of what had been a man sprang up in seawater foam. A roar and screams filled the surroundings.
The father screamed and hugged the white night, but in his arms, the white night was still looking up at the sky.
Thousands of pairs of eyes engraved in the fiery sky.
And the existence of the ‘Devil who grants wishes’ – the Demon King, who seems to have prepared this dinner for those eyes.
“… I will not forgive you.”
In the midst of the inferno that had arrived, the white night had a clear will and brainwashed.
“I will never forgive them.”
My father was surprised and looked down at the white night. Baekya clenched his small fist tightly.
“We shed our pain… I will definitely punish those wicked beings who use them for entertainment.”
“Stop talking nonsense, baby! They are from another world. We can’t even touch… … .”
“There will be a way. Just as they burned our world, we will have a way to reach them.”
The boat made a knocking sound as it moved forward.
All that touched the ship were corpses. Burnt corpses littered the water below.
In the middle of this hell map, the Midnight Sun faced her father and declared.
“It doesn’t matter how long it takes. I must reach out to them.”
“… .”
when the rain of fire stopped.
At first, only a few small boats remained in the group, which was a fleet.
Homeland burned and collapsed into the sea. Now, even the fact that this place once had land felt like a lie.
All that was left was the fire on the sea.
“I will help you too, baby.”
And then the father said to his daughter.
“Our clan… And this father also did research to reach them. I will pass on that study.”
“… .”
“Make the long-cherished wish of our clan come true. So that tragedies like this never happen again in the world.”
In her father’s arms as he rowed forward toward the boat, Baekya continued to look up at the sky.
Thousands of pupils floating in the sky.
That cruel gaze, as if looking down at a fun toy.
I will never be the target of those gazes again. I will never be in a position to look down again.
Midnight Sun, the final successor of the shaman of the Eastern Continent, made a pledge at this moment.
***
The survivors of the Eastern Continent who reached the Western Continent headed for the Lake Kingdom.
The most powerful magic kingdom of the time, with a huge city floating in the air above a clear turquoise lake. lake kingdom.
The wizards here welcomed them willingly. The spells passed down only in the East had sufficient research value.
Baekya, who set up her own magic tower research center in the corner of the Lake Kingdom, inherited and clung to her clan’s research.
The research that the shamans of the clan had been doing to reach out to foreign media had resulted in a clue.
origin of magic.
Originally, mankind could not use magic. However, someone brought the spark called magic from the other world and passed it into the hands of mankind.
And the foreigners are the beings of the other world… … .
The process by which magic was transmitted from the other world to mankind for the first time. Uncovering this would lead to clues to the beings above the constellation.
Baekya devoted her life to research.
… .
However, the lifespan of the Midnight Sun was quickly worn out before a lifelong study could reach a conclusion.
Although she was an excellent shaman and wizard, she was naturally weak. And this was no different for the rest of the clan.
When she was not even 40 years old, all the people from her hometown who had escaped with her had died, including her father, and she was left alone suffering from various illnesses.
“Cool!”
As he coughed up blood, he realized that his death was near.
‘Do not be ridiculous… .’
The midnight sun trembled with his dying body.
‘Can you close your eyes like this… … !’
Let alone reaching out to foreign media, he did not even reach the final stage of his research. At this rate, I couldn’t die even if it was unfair.
So, the white night decided to try its hand at the taboo.
‘Lich.’
He decided to become an undead himself.
Even if I become a dead person, I will complete my research.
definitely- someday definitely. I must uncover the origin of magic and touch the malice of the other world.
The magic of reviving the undead was difficult to obtain even in the Lake Kingdom.
After casting the Lich Resurrection Magic she had barely saved, the white night swallowed dry saliva.
In order to use this magic, he had to die once, and he had to die now while he still had the power to use the magic.
In other words… had to commit suicide
‘It’s to save this world.’
Shivering, the white night brought the tip of the wand loaded with offensive magic to her temple.
‘In order not to repeat the tragedy of my hometown, to punish those devil-like foreign media… … !’
White Night closed her eyes and used her loaded magic.
Taang-!
Blood splattered in all directions and the wizard’s body fell forward.
So the white night died.
***
The half-rotten skeleton lifted its half-missing eyelids as well.
“big… omg!”
It was only after he took a deep breath and stood up that the white night realized.
That you have become a body that no longer needs to breathe.
‘success… Did you do it?’
Baekya, who managed to get his creaking body up, faced the dust-strewn mirror.
Half-decomposed, but his own corpse was visible.
Lich Resurrection Magic takes time to respawn. Even though he had cast embalming magic on his body beforehand, it seemed to have rotted away.
‘This time… how long has it been… … ?’
After checking the hourglass magic that had been cast in advance to check the time that had passed after the resurrection, the midnight sun sighed.
‘It’s been 10 years… … ?’
It took much more time than I calculated, but I was able to escape death anyway.
Holding on to her tattered, rotten body, the white night stood by the window of the magic tower and looked down. It was to see the streets that would have changed in the last 10 years.
“… ?”
And I found something strange.
Took. Fighting.
It was pouring rain.
But the color of the rain falling on the window… … Something was strange.
‘What is this?’
The white night looked up at the sky, puzzled.
‘black… rain?’
no. It wasn’t raining.
Astonishment flashed in the eyes of the midnight sun as he looked around.
Shoot Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Black waves were pouring like tidal waves from outside the Lake Kingdom. The flooded lake water was covering the city.
Unfortunately, the day the Midnight Sun succeeded in reviving as a lich was the moment when the Lake Kingdom perished.
***
Boom! Kwagwagwang!
The levitation magic that allowed the Lake Kingdom to float on the lake stopped all at once.
Soon after, the entire city-kingdom floating on the lake sank into the bottom of the lake. The great city began to sink slowly.
The barriers surrounding the Lake Kingdom operated and pushed the overflowing lake water away, but that didn’t last long either.
The whole city, with its barriers, sank beneath the lake, and cracks appeared everywhere on the barriers that couldn’t withstand the water pressure, and the water from the lake began to pour into the city like a flood.
“Kyaaaaaa!”
“what?! What happened?!”
“Everyone calm down! The royal mages will solve the situation soon… … !”
The distance was an abyss.
People screamed or ran away, believing in the power of the royal family and the magic kingdom in this situation and trying to reassure the surroundings.
But the end to them all was the same.
Quaaaaaaaa!
The black lake’s stream of water poured like a bombardment.
The streams of water that smashed through the barriers and fell into the city rushed from the outskirts of the city to the inland area in turn.
People who were caught in the waterway disappeared into the black water without even being able to scream.
And all those who had not yet died ran desperately toward the resistance.
The resistant area had its own high-performance barrier. Black water rose from all sides, but the barriers in the inner area were still holding up well.
People running from the outside pounded hard on the castle gate.
“Open it! hurry!”
“Can’t you see the water coming from behind?! We are all going to die!”
“Save me please! Help me… !”
However, the guards at the inner checkpoint did not open the door even in this situation. The captain of the guard shouted loudly.
“Even if the entire Lake Kingdom is submerged in water, no one without permission will be allowed into the castle!”
“These crazy bastards… !”
“Is the permission a problem now?! Even under this circumstance, do you consider rank!”
“It’s because they’re all going to die! Open the door!”
The people who knocked on the gate could not wait any longer and started climbing the walls of the castle. Then the captain of the guard gave a fierce order.
“Put down those who climb the wall! No matter how emergency it is, it must be dealt with according to the law! It’s all a summary judgment! summary judgment… … !”
However, the guards did not have to use the weapons in their hands.
Shoot Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
It was because the spray had reached outside the walls before that.
A black wave with a terrifying mass came crashing in, and countless people filling the streets were literally swept away like sand and disappeared under the black water.
The captain of the guard, who was staring at this scene, let out a laugh.
“Ha, those non-citizens look good… .”
jump. Damn it.
The smile slowly faded from the guard’s lips.
The barrier surrounding the immunity compartment was also slowly cracking.
And after just a few seconds.
Kwajik! Kwagwagwang!
The walls of the fortress were shattered and the walls surrounding the fortress were also swallowed up by the waves.
The inner sanctuary here, where the royalty and nobility of the Lake Kingdom live, was also quickly swallowed up by black spray.
Both the guards and nobles were covered with water without discrimination.
The entire Lake Kingdom was swept away. Finally, when the inner and outer barrier magic that endures is completely turned off, the city will be completely submerged in water.
“… .”
Baekya, who had been watching all this from the top floor of the mage tower, lost her senses, suddenly sensed something and looked up.
It was there.
Completely sunk at the bottom of the lake, on the black surface of the water that can be seen instead of the sky… … Suddenly, thousands of eyes were open.
They were the foreign gods of the other world who were watching when the midnight sun’s hometown was destroyed.
And beneath it –
《The wish came true》
was also there this time too.
《And this is the price.》
With a white smile on the shadow-like body of the Demon King – the devil who grants wishes that destroyed the hometown of the Midnight Sun.
He looked down with satisfaction at the destruction of the Lake Kingdom.
Knock!
White Night gnashed his teeth with his exposed jawbone.
“okay… Are you again… … !”
The tragedy of the underworld must be a very enjoyable game for those damn foreigners.
The Midnight Sun shuddered and used magic with a body that had just been resurrected and groaned.
“I am the one who survived that inferno. I will definitely survive this water hell.”
The Midnight Sun poured all of her magic power and cast a protective spell on the mage tower.
The pouring waves hit the mage tower. The tower was shaken violently, protective magic was removed, bricks were shattered, and windows were shattered.
Water poured into the tower. Countless drops of water splashed on the rotten skin of the just-resurrected lich.
However, White Night gritted his teeth and repaired the mage tower.
The white night roared in the water of the black lake that poured endlessly and filled the surroundings.
“And I will definitely reach the same height as you… !”
