Chapter 36

Chapter 36

The garden was beautifully arranged, so Jaeha, who was curious about the statue, happily answered. When we arrived with Marie’s guidance, there were seven marble statues that can be seen in places like ruins and museums.

These were the statues of the seven Gods worshiped on this continent.

“Oh? Isn’t this the God Magia called the God of Magic?”

Jaeha asked, recalling the memory of seeing a similar picture in the textbook Hisran gave her.

“Yes, that’s correct.”

Curious, the moment she approached the statue, her back was pushed.

“Huh…?”

She didn’t suddenly feel dizzy or stumbled or lose her focus. Jaeha reflexively grabbed the statue of the god Magia in order not to fall to the ground.

At that moment, the statue began to shine.

“What, what?”

The dark red light pouring from the statue swallowed her in an instant. In an instant, she glanced back and saw Marie smiling at her.

“Why…?”

However, there was no reply from her.

After a while, only after Jaeha completely disappeared from the garden that Marie’s mouth slowly opened.

“I’m sorry, but they promised. If I put it in Miss Elena’s food and this time help them kidnap you, they’ll cure my mother’s illness and change my horrendous fate…”

Her mother’s illness and her arduous life, which exhausted all her County’s paycheck, made it easy for Marie to succumb to the temptation of the warlocks.

After her lust was aroused by the dazzling tricks by the warlock who aimed at her as they came into the town, Marie half-willedly obeyed the warlock’s orders. Her brainwashing was so weak that neither the priests who stopped by the County nor Hisran noticed the strange flair in her.

Marie quickly escaped from County Gloria and disappeared.

Jaeha, who lost her consciousness, finally arrived at the holy land of black magic after going through several moving magic. When she opened her eyes, she could see people in black robes and huge statues. Although she didn’t know much about this world, as soon as she saw them, she could guess their identities.

‘Warlocks! Marie was with them…!’

The problem was that it was not caught in the eyes of the priests.

It was clear that Marie, voluntarily or involuntarily, was cooperating with the warlock to feed Elena with rigor. When she remembered the last smile on her face, Jaeha felt goosebumps again.

…As expected, did Marie aim for her?

‘Because I seem friendly with Hisran, the tower master of the red tower? Or, do they think I could be used as a special sacrifice because I came from another world?’

There were surprisingly many reasons to point out even though Jaeha had no contact with them.

Jaeha stared at them with a tense look. A man believed to be the head of the warlocks stepped forward a couple of steps. A man with gray hair as if snow had fallen, blue eyes resembling a lake, and a good impression as if he could not kill an ant.

Outwardly, he was not a warlock, but rather a priest who served the goddess of justice. That was why there seemed to be a saying that you shouldn’t judge people by their outward appearance.

“Welcome, you from another world. To set foot in our holy land.”

“Why did you kidnap me here?”

Even though she wanted to swear at him, Jaeha thought it would be better to be careful about irritating the kidnappers too much.

“Because you are the one who will fulfill our long-cherished dream.”

Even though it is the same word, ‘you’ coming out of Hisran’s mouth and ‘you’ coming out of this man’s mouth have a different feeling. She could feel goosebumps welling up on her arm.

“…Dream?”

“Let it be known with glory. You will become the vessel of the God Tumor.”

Vessel…?

Jaeha’s eyes widened at the unexpected sound. Blinking her eyes, she came to her senses and cried.

“Crazy! Hey, are you crazy?”

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She didn’t know how to turn herself into a vessel for the Gods, but she knew all too well that even if she died, she wouldn’t die well.

“It’s a more aggressive vessel than I thought.”

Debrandt enjoyed watching Jaeha’s face grow with little fear. The fears of the creatures were the energies and emotions their God was most pleased with.

“I am not interested in your intentions. Everything will go according to the will of the god Tumor.”

Debrandt, who approached Jaeha and grabbed her chin, spoke in a reverent voice.

At the moment when his blue eyes, which were like a lake, turned red, she felt a whisper seeping into her head.

— You have a lot of dissatisfaction with this world.

— Your family, your inferior relatives, the men who tried to take you by force, and the people who witch-hunted you. Are you going to get scared and walk away like a dog with its tail between its legs? Don’t you want to get revenge on them…?

After arriving in this world, the painful memories that Jaeha struggled to bury came to mind as if it had just happened yesterday. This is obviously a joke from the enemy. Even after repeating this, the flames of anger and resentment that began to engulf her heart did not subside.

— Reconciliation and forgiveness…? That’s funny. The person who got beaten trembles, although it is the world’s law for the person who does the beating to sleep with their feet outstretched.

— God Tumor is a representative of those who got injustice. Believe and follow the God Tumor. Give your wrath, your life, and your soul, and bring down the mace of the god on this greedy and ugly world.

Her other self, who resented and hated the world even though she thought she should not be swayed by the warlocks and their God, was shaken like a reed at the whisper.

Because Jaeha enjoyed reading fantasy novels with an apocalyptic worldview and often imagined the end, as she suffered from a heartless society with her family and relatives, and men. It was a matter of course.

In fact, if she had been captured by them as soon as she arrived in this world, she would have listened more to the whispers of the warlock. However, now she couldn’t.

It was because Hisran, the man she fell in love with without realizing it, existed here.

At first, she didn’t like his arrogant and light-hearted behavior.

Maybe, it was because he kept smiling at her with his handsome face. Or, perhaps, it was because he treats her with unexpected kindness even though he’s sly. Or, was it that he didn’t ignore her as a foreigner or a woman, but respected her opinions and expressed gratitude as if it was natural…?

Hisran appeared in her life like a midsummer night’s dream. He slowly seeped into her heart like a drizzle, and like a wizard, he did a real miracle. It was the seed of love that sprouted out of a heart that hated this world and hated people.

‘If I had known it would be like this, I would have told you last night.’

Hisran Ephesion, I like you.

She didn’t want to admit her heart openly. If she confessed quickly, he would think she was an easy woman because she was not 100% sure of his love yet. There were many reasons why she swallowed the word that she liked him.

Nonetheless, in this situation, all the reasons were meaningless. It was simply because of her useless pride.

‘…Will I ever get another chance to say this to him?’

The whisper, which had weakened when she thought of Hisran, struggled to get stronger again when she showed her lack of confidence.

Jaeha shook her head.

If it is Hisran, he would surely come to find her and save her. Until then, she had to hold out as much as possible.

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“Tower Master?”

“Huh?”

“You didn’t hear me at all, did you?”

“No, I heard.”

“What did I just say?”

“That is…”

Hisran clouded his words.

When Elena saw that, she smiled as if she couldn’t help it.

“Since the Tower Master’s spirit has gone to a completely different place, further conversations will be impossible.”

“Well, how about coming to the red tower of the Capital later? In that case, Zephiroth would be able to advise you better. He’s also the best water wizard in the red tower.”

“Yes, I will.”

Hisran, who had been spacing out at the thought of Jaeha, was able to get up from his seat by ending the conversation early with Elena’s consideration.

At that moment, a presence of black magic was felt from the County’s garden.

“This…!”

He used Haste magic and ran to a place where he could feel the presence. Remnants of black magic remained on the statue of the God Magia, which was opposite to the God Tumor.

Hisran’s expression, filled with anxiety, hardened. His heart was beating like crazy.

“…No way?”

He then began to scour the County’s mansion, including the garden. Still, he could not find Jaeha anywhere.

The golden eyes fluttered violently. Fear fell on his face who was born with everything he would have and nothing to fear in this world.

It was the fear of losing a loved one forever.

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