I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines - Chapter 85



85 – Flame-12

Wilhelm felt great pain.

“Ah, ah, ahhh!!!”

A terrible, painful pain that seems to pierce the soul.

I couldn’t understand. I couldn’t admit it.

I could not accept that someone who lived that faithfully and sincerely was treated as a ‘sinner.’

However, the light was stubborn. He was burning his body calmly, as if he was rebuking him for not being able to accept his sins.

“Uh… When?”

The Holy Knight in front of me was also on the verge of death.

It is an unavoidable wound. From the moment the paladin used ‘Condemnation’, it was certain that he would die by Wilhelm’s sword.

However, he was smiling.

“I didn’t have any ill feelings towards you, but it ended up like this.”

“How come…”

“How about taking some time to reflect on yourself, Wilhelm? You are the kind of person who can do anything.”

That was his will

The paladin who cast condemnation hung his body like a doll whose strings had fallen.

“Ugh, uh, ugh… “

Wilhelm clenched his lips tightly, holding on and holding on.

It wasn’t a fatal wound. However, he couldn’t stand still.

Through his fading mind, his eyes, which were very slightly opened, grasped the situation.

The warlock ran away. Wilhelm collapsed, and she had no strength left to chase him.

That gave a huge shock to the perfect paladin.

Even after his body recovered after months of recuperation and treatment, the wounds in his heart still remained.

The firmness of faith has disappeared. He could still use the minimum divine power, but God did not respond to him.

Confusion, pain, endless questions and repeated doubts tormented him.

‘Me, why?’

He prayed with a desperate heart. But his divine power did not return.

He also could not use ‘condemnation’, which he had previously been able to use as if it were natural.

Amid the pain that left his body broken and his mind endlessly confused, Wilhelm prayed and prayed. However, nothing was accomplished.

Wilhelm fell into contemplation. He had to analyze the cause of the problem.

‘…Have too many battles polluted my soul with demonic energy?’

There was no basis. There was no research data showing that such a thing could happen, and no one had experienced such an event.

In the first place, there were not many situations in which ‘condemnation’ was used. There were few Paladins who could use it, and even if such Paladins existed, there were not many situations in which they would use that skill against evil enemies.

Just using it does not destroy life, but using such technology in wartime was no different from a soldier on the battlefield taking off the shield in his hand and the armor covering his body

If it was a clumsy villain, there was no need to take that risk, and if it was a proper villain, the Inquisition should have made appropriate preparations and started to subdue it.

Moreover, the possibility of a ‘paladin’ using it on another paladin was a major incident for which it was difficult to find a precedent even when searching through any literature.

No matter what happened, it wasn’t strange.

‘But, if that’s true… Is it possible to eliminate evil in the first place?’

Not fighting evil was cowardice. An ordinary person wouldn’t know it, but there was no way he could tolerate someone who serves God turning himself into such a coward.

‘In the first place, is it possible to erase all evil from the world?’

Until now, I believed it was possible. I thought it was not impossible.

More prayers, more believers. I believed that if you have an unwavering will and strong faith, a miracle will happen.

But, I didn’t believe it now. I couldn’t believe it.

‘Or, because of the people I killed…’

There was no possibility of that happening. Most of those judged for ‘condemnation’ were those who massacred numerous people.

And if you’re just looking at ‘the person who killed’, Wilhelm was just as good as most murderers.

But he couldn’t do it. Running away in the face of clear evil and the possibility of harming countless ‘innocent and good people’ was tantamount to indirect murder.

‘Were we running for the impossible?’

The world was much more hopeless than he thought. It was painful.

His beliefs continued to waver. No matter what decision he made, his divine power did not return.

‘Destroying evil. Other than that, you shouldn’t think about anything.’

His calm heart burned slowly.

‘Even if I become stronger, even if I drive out all the warlocks with more faithful power, evil will not disappear from this world.’

Even though he knew it was impossible, his eyes could not help but look at that goal.

He couldn’t admit to himself pursuing anything other than that. He could neither approve nor imagine such a way of life.

‘In order to destroy all evil that exists in the world…’

I wanted an answer. He asked and asked again.

His fading mind eventually found a conclusion

‘Everything must disappear.’

A strong belief and a blind faith that did not look back filled his heart.

His body shined brightly with divine power again.

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“Keuuuuuck!!!”

Wilhelm let out a loud scream as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Why, why! Why on earth-“

The sword of condemnation he created was clearly piercing my body.

That was it. A little blood flowed from my mouth, but no fatal damage was inflicted.

“Just because I’m a good person?”

Although ‘condemnation’ was a tactic that could not be used unless one was prepared to die, he really probably had no intention of siding with me.

If you are a truly evil person, you will feel the pain of being torn apart from the moment that light flashes.

In the first place, once I have demonic energy in my ‘hand’, I cannot continue the attack any faster than that. No matter how much I strengthen my body with magic, it is impossible to win against a proper knight in close combat.

Not only can you not stab him properly, but Wilhelm’s attack is faster. Wilhelm was expecting that. It was the right decision.

Wilhelm’s ‘condemnation’ struck me first.

“How… With that kind of power… You can’t commit a crime-“

“In the first place, what is sin?”

In fields where sufficient data cannot be accumulated, people cannot clearly distinguish between cause and effect.

“Magic energy? It’s vaguely true, but it doesn’t fit in with the legend. There are records of people like the ‘Barbarian King’ dying due to ‘condemnation’, but you’re not the one who uses magic energy, right ?”

The vicious and evil warlocks who achieved tremendous achievements through black magic all met death as a ‘condemnation.’

However, the only people that the technology could judge were not necessarily black magicians.

“…”

“You have experience too, don’t you?”

There wasn’t much data available to analyze Wilhelm’s past. However, through some information in short sentences, the general situation could be guessed.

About why such a strong and faith-filled paladin came to share the violent ideology of ‘Kazot’.

“Good and evil are relative. There may be a general tendency, but it is humans who determine it.”

“Such…!”

God exists in this world, but he is not a person. It is nothing more than a well-organized system that was pre-programmed by ‘God with good intentions’.

A pre-established system that imbues divine power into those who have made a pledge according to the procedure, and instills stronger power into those with deeper beliefs or who have a good compatibility with divine power.

“Condemnation. It’s a good thing to say, but… It’s just a technique whose power changes depending on how many people the person who used it killed. That’s all.”

Condemnation was also nothing more than a ‘system given to the Paladins’ designed according to clear standards. If you know the cause and effect, you can be confident that ‘I will never get hurt by that.’

After falling into this world, I couldn’t say I didn’t kill a single person.

From noble mtl dot come

But it didn’t kill enough people to be worthy of that technique. It was a bit sore to my stomach, but it was bearable.

“Ugh… “

And my hand, filled with demonic energy, had pierced his chest.

I won.

‘Whoa…’

To Wilhelm, it would have been a technique with the confidence that he could 100% defeat me the moment he used it.

But I was proud. I knew very well that he could never kill me with actions like this.

“You mean you were able to become stronger?”

Wilhelm looked at me with eyes full of sadness.

“A warlock who hasn’t committed a crime can exist?”

“If I were to be honest, I’m a bit of an exception. I don’t think there are more people like me. Still…”

With a bitter smile, I slowly nodded.

“There might be. Without going far, there are warlocks being raised in the empire right now, right?”

His body slumped down. Blood flowed out.

“Why, like this…”

His empty eyes stared blankly at the sky covered in darkness.

‘It would be nice to hit Wilhelm’s head now, but…’

It takes time. I have already spent more time than necessary, and there is no chance of him surviving in this state.

Rather than going through unnecessary trouble, it might be better to take care of urgent matters right away-

“Ah.”

It’s late.

The darkness cleared. A huge fireball was emitting heat and light.