How the Reincarnation Seat Destroys the Original - Chapter 68



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Episode 68. Those who call death (4).

How much time has passed?

Kael and Tariq. Silence fell in the room where the two were.

Kael, whose expression still showed no sign of what he was thinking, and Tariq, whose eyes were red, looked completely different.

“I guess you all cried.”

“sorry.”

Tariq couldn’t raise his head even after his tears stopped because he had cried like a child in front of his master.

“If you’re sorry, then close your eyes.”

– Bam.

Letting the words slip away nonchalantly, Kael took a pouch out of the space and tossed it onto Tariq’s lap.

Despite the blanket on his lap, Tariq felt a coolness that made him realize that what had been thrown on his lap was an ice pack.

Tariq asked cautiously, feeling his hot, flushed eyes cool down as he held the ice pack to his eyes.

“You’re not asking… anything.”

“Should I ask?”

Tariq smiled slightly as his master’s seemingly sarcastic words somehow sounded affectionate.

“…I met Stella.”

“I see.”

“It might be my imagination, but… he spoke to me as if he had been by my side all this time.”

“I guess at least the soul was still there.”

“We, who can see souls, saw their souls every time humans came to visit us.”

‘soul’.

At those words, Tariq left for the Black Forest.

I thought back to the book I had read with Mabel and Lily.

“Were you worried about me and couldn’t leave? Because of me… .”

Tariq couldn’t finish his sentence because he was afraid of the truth, wondering if it was because of him that Stella was wandering around without finding peace.

“When a person dies, the soul escapes and returns to the embrace of God. All souls seek rest. However, it is said that there are rare souls that refuse to return to the embrace of God.”

Kael continued, recalling a story the dark elf Rim had told him long ago.

“The reasons they remain are varied. But it can be said that souls that reject the rest that is nothing but instinct value the reason they remain.”

“… … .”

“Did the younger brother you met regret staying by your side?”

“…no.”

“Or do you regret meeting your brother?”

“…I have no regrets.”

Kael shrugged slightly at Tariq’s answer.

“Then isn’t it okay?”

The conclusion was so simple and clear that it made my worries seem like nothing.

“I see. That should be fine.”

Tariq was able to smile, a little vainly but relievedly.

“By the way… I remember you saying this was the center of the Black Forest. Is that right?”

“That’s right. The center of the Black Forest. Shabat, the so-called village of rest.”

“I was lying down for two days?”

“Ah, yes. I was under the spell of the Dark Elf called the Mirror of the Inner Self and was bedridden for two whole days.”

The mirror of one’s inner self.

Tariq was puzzled by the name of the lower magic.

“What is the magic of the inner mirror?”

Kael soon told him about the inner mirror, and Tariq, who heard what kind of magic it was, immediately asked about it.

“Are you okay, sir?”

“I knew in advance so I didn’t get caught.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Kael raised an eyebrow at Tariq’s reaction.

Because the reaction I expected was a little different from Tariq’s reaction. If you knew in advance, wouldn’t you ask yourself why you didn’t tell me?

“That’s it?”

“What more could there be?”

“… No, that’s enough.”

Tariq, who had been looking at his master with a puzzled expression who seemed to have a lot to say, put down the ice pack that was almost half melted and got up from the bed.

Kael looked up at Tariq, who stood up with a somewhat solemn expression, as if asking what he had to do, and said with a sigh.

“It’s not bad to be motivated… but listen to the explanation and move. Sit back down.”

“yes.”

Kael opened his mouth as he looked at Tariq, who was sitting on the road bed at his command.

“There are quite a few people living in this town. But they are not people.”

There are people living there, but they are not people.

Tariq listened to his explanation, which began with a somewhat difficult story.

“Now that the God of Death has disappeared, the Dark Elves, without the Tree of Rest, are unable to guide souls to rest, and this village was created by gathering those souls.”

“Are you saying that everyone in the village now is a spirit?”

“To be exact, it is a soul that is inside an elaborate doll made in the shape of the person in life.”

Tariq’s gaze turned to the window next to the bed.

Those people walking down the street under the blue sky are dolls… .

He knew that there were dolls that looked like people, but the people outside the window couldn’t find the jointed spheres that were commonly seen in such dolls.

Even though I had heard that it was an elaborate doll, it was hard to believe.

“It might be hard to tell from a distance, but if you look closely, you’ll notice something strange.”

“Then, what I have to do is….”

“Finding the second victims who are hiding and living together with the villagers.”

“How many people?”

“Two. But there is a time limit. As soon as the sun starts to set, you will return here immediately.”

Tariq blinked.

It was like… yeah, it was like a test.

It was a conviction that blossomed under the belief that if I could find it, my master would be able to find it, and my master was the mirror within me. The reason he didn’t tell me about that magic in advance must have something to do with it.

Two. And they’ll be right back as soon as the sun starts to set.

Tariq sat up, recalling once again what his master had told him.

“I’ll be back soon.”

“okay.”

Tariq nodded at the short reply and left the house. After about ten minutes, Kael also got up and headed outside.

However, unlike Tariq, after he had hidden himself with magic, he headed up to the roof of the house. The house they had been given was quite high, so when he climbed up onto the roof, he was able to look out over the entire village.

Kael, sitting comfortably on the roof, looked for Tariq first. Following his movements with his eyes, Kael recalled the original.

“Is it true that there are those who call for death here?”

Lars only found it strange that the townspeople acted as if they only knew good intentions. It was strange that the day never ended. It never occurred to him that there would be those who called for death in such a peaceful town.

Of course, it was also true that at times, they felt strangely like living people. The villagers that I had seen during my two-day stay in the village were ‘people’ who had red blood flowing through them like themselves and whose body temperature felt warm.

However, Lars, who had thought that way, was able to face the true face of the village on the third day after arriving at Shabat Village.

The sky that seemed like it would never set began to turn into a sunset color, and in an instant, the village was covered in darkness like the black forest they had wandered through.

– Bam!!!

“Lars!!! People…!!!”

Cloris let out a scream-like voice and hurriedly opened the door. Lars, who had been staying in the house provided by the kind villagers, saw her and headed out with his holy sword in hand.

The sight he encountered when he came out of the house was… like hell.

“Give me your living, living body…!!!”

“That body. If I just have that body…!!! I… can go back-!!!”

These are in the form of completely damaged skeletons, broken and broken in many places.

These creatures, whose flesh was rotting and whose bones were exposed here and there, were tangled together and rushing at Adrina’s body.

“Me… Can’t I give you that body?”

Those who had an unbelievable appearance, recognizing Lars and Cloris, approached the two.

Lars, who had drawn his holy sword, cut down those who approached him without hesitation. And among them, he could see those with black skin that shone softly in the moonlight. Eyes that shone with a light yellow and blue light, and pointed ears that were revealed through hair that was darker than their skin.

He realized that they were ‘the callers of death.’”

“Phew… .”

Kael let out a long sigh.

Shabbat night comes every three days.

When night falls, the dolls here shed their outer shells, revealing their true selves. Their souls, unable to find rest, yearn for a living body with only their instincts remaining.

This was a village maintained by the magic power of two dark elves. No matter how good a race of dark magic they were, their magic power was not infinite.

“Don’t be foolish. If you can’t give it rest, just ignore it.”

He muttered coldly to himself.

Now that the god of death has disappeared.

The only remaining dark elf was unable to guide the soul to rest. The only ability engraved in the blood was inherited in a vague way, allowing the soul to see and feel, but the problem was that it could not help them find rest.

As the gods disappeared, those with divine powers also gradually decreased, and even the Tree of Rest, the only way, withdrew its seeds.

?Gift. Did you see how much other humans paid for it? You take the items in this space with you when you reincarnate, right? Sell them when you need them later. Keep them as emergency funds.?

It was by chance that I came to possess the seeds of rest.

I never would have guessed that it would be used like this.

Kael, who noticed Tariq chatting with the villagers in a creaky manner, slowly focused his magic into his eyes.

Gradually, the scenery of the village he saw changed.

Red threads connected to people’s bodies. The threads were gathering in one place, and there was a person in the place where the threads gathered.

“one?”

Kael muttered in confusion.

Where is the other one?

Thinking he hadn’t found it, Kael looked around the entire village again, but there was only one place where the red thread was heading.

In that case, there was only one possibility.

Feeling the energy of the Tree of Rest and heading out of the dark forest.

?There’s nothing I can do since Kael says so much! I’ll make the Tree of Rest grow really big, so Kael and Tariq should be careful!!!?

“I guess you made those big promises and you actually did them. Anyway… .”

The magic that two people maintained.

Kael disappeared from the rooftop, thinking that night might come here earlier than expected since it was currently maintained by one person.

The time was approaching when the magic of the village would be broken for those who had not found rest.