What did I tell her again when she asked me to kill her?
Fight. I told her to fight with her own will, didn’t I?
“Re, shia…”
So, what am I doing losing heart?
Standing before her and me is the will of a god.
But, even if… Even if I’m just a monster, isn’t there something I can do to save her!?
“Reshia!”
Out of my parched throat, I uttered her name, a name I’d forgotten, then before I knew it, I was standing before the sword around which the snake was coiled.
I stretched out my hand in the darkness, and I pulled out the sword.
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“GA, AaaA aAGAAaaA!”
As the death crystal emitted a faint light, the king’s body started convulsing. The king that should’ve died cried out in pain, and the pain seemed to be beyond anything any man could imagine.
His crushed right arm, his emboweled body, his creaking legs, sounds resounded from them as his body began to fix itself.
Yet the king continued to convulse even as his wounds finished healing.
His convulsing right arm reached out to the sky.
“GAaaUuuGAaAaA a.”
Drool flowed out of his mouth, and the pain that shook his body was so intense his eyes couldn’t focus. Then like a puppet pulled on string, his body stood up.
“GU, uRUuuAaGAaA.”
His eyes were like those of the dead. Tormented by pain, he was someone who was forcefully brought back from the land of the dead. There was no way he would come back with his sanity intact.
“GURUuuUaAaAA!”
The heavens and the earth trembled at his cry.
That was the wailing cry of the dead.
Kuzan knew what she had to do. The death crystal could resurrect the dead, but the resurrected would lose his sanity. It is only when the caster gives up his own life that the resurrected could walk a sane man again.
An unquenchable hunger torments the dead. They must feed off the life of a living lest they wish to find themselves dead once more.
Which is why they must eat the flesh of the one that resurrected them.
This spell has been passed down for generations. But, amongst the many generations of Kuzan, the first one to use it is the founder, and the second is the current Kuzan.
The now insane goblin that was resurrected was horrifying. Though that might actually be the true nature of goblins, but it was not the king that Kuzan knew.
She reached out her hands to convey her thoughts to the king.
“Take my soul and overcome death.”
Like a beast, the king bared his fangs at her.
“…O king of goblins.”
“GU, RUuuAGAa… I…”
The king was about to consume her flesh, but when she called out to him, he stopped.
“Who, am I…”
She couldn’t believe her eyes. Pangs of savage hunger tormented him, an unimaginable pain coursed through him, and yet, he was actually able to speak.
“…You are the king. The one who shall save us and rule the land. Now, come. Take my flesh and leave the land of the dead.”
“I am the king…? Tch!?”
As his body convulsed, he fell down on his knees. He forcefully stopped his body from trying to eat Kuzan.
“…If you hold it back, you will lose your sanity. Please give in to your desire.”
If he forces himself not to eat, he will lose his mind. That was the case when the founder used the spell.
“Do you, understand… What will, happen to you?
The price for using the death crystal is death. She used that knowing full well the consequences.
“You are the king. You are our king.”
“…If I, am the king, then I shouldn’t have to yield over something like this!!”
The small Kuzan was proud enough to sacrifice herself to save him.
And yet, he, the king, would actually try to eat her to escape death?
The pride of the king won’t forgive something like that.
“I am the king! I yield to no one! I am he who will rule the world! Yielding to something like this (pain), that’s unforgivable!!!”
The king howled. And as if to wring every bit of strength from his body, black flames spurted out of the snake coiled around his right arm.
“NUUuoOAOAAAaOOO!”
He forcefully pulled out ether from Verid.
“No way… Are you alright?”
“You should know, you resurrected me, right? I won’t sway anymore. I’ll show you just what sort of man your king is!”
The king was able to grasp the skill and ether that should’ve been sealed by the fortress.
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Level has risen
24 -> 72
[Skill] <<Insurgent Will>> to <<Defiant Soul>>.
–––Mental attacks greatly mitigated.
–––Damage and defense against higher races is greatly increased.
–––Can steal the power of the god you represent.
[Skill] <<Eyes of the Blue Snake>> and <<Red Snake’s Eye>> will become <<One-Eyed Snake’s Evil Eye>>.
–––You can read the status of people with classes lower than yours.
–––If the number on your side is greater than the enemy’s, then the enemy’s weakness will be revealed.
[Skill] <<Household of the Gods>> For having stolen the power of Verid, you will gain the power of the Household of the Gods.
–––Mental resistance against gods other than the goddess of the underworld will increase.
–––Resistance to the goddess of the underworld’s charm will decrease.
–––Charm toward members of the same race will greatly increase.
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