Chapter 49

Chapter 49 – 12. The End is An Open Door (5)

In a forest outside the Deventer estate.

Three people were sitting together around a campfire. Karnak’s party had gone deep into the forest to avoid people’s eyes. Looking up at the night sky, Barros asked.

“How much longer do I have to wait, young master?”

“It’s not yet. It’s most effective when the night is at its peak.”

“Looks like the moon is already high enough...”

“It wasn’t long before.”

Serati made a blank expression. The story she had heard earlier was so shocking that she was still distraught.

‘Oh my god...’

Conquering the world or doing poetry was grandiose, but it was ‘someone else’s story’ to the end. But, this was a situation that was now in reality.

“Is that person the cause of all this?”

It was unlikely that it would be false under the circumstances. If Karnak had no reason to cheat on her, and if he was indeed a god-like being (albeit a death god) and a transcendental figure who even ruled the world, it wouldn’t make much sense to have caused such a situation. It was just unreal how an ordinary human like her got involved in such a thing.

‘In my opinion, I thought I was on a special axis......’

Even the title of a prodigy beauty prosecutor who awakened her fighting spirit in her 20s had become an ordinary person compared to them. It was just a sigh coming out.

“Hahh.......”

A little more time passed like that. Karnak, who was sitting by the campfire, got up.

“It’s about time.”

Serati knew very well what he was going to do from now on. She asked cautiously.

“Are you closing the dark door now?”

When the door of darkness is closed, the darkness of the end will no longer descend, the world will no longer be muddled, and tribulation will cease. Would she be able to sit down? Karnak snorted at her hopeful question.

“You want me to close the door? What kind of power do I have right now to intervene in time and space directly?”

Manipulating time and space itself required tremendous power indeed. He didn’t know when he was the King of the Dead, but he now had no guess. There was no sound.

“Then what is the story of the end?”

“You’re trying to figure out how to close the door.”

Making projectiles unaffected by space-time and exploring them was an area of ​​skill. It was possible even for Karnak today.

“I’m thinking of figuring out a way and secretly handing it over to the Seven Goddess Church.”

He didn’t need to close the door of darkness. No matter who will complete it will do just fine. It was relatively easy to pass on information.

“I got the relevant information by chance while dealing with Straf. It’s annoying to forge old books, so I can pass it on as a manuscript.”

“What if the 7 Goddess Church ignores it?”

“The Goddess Church isn’t that stupid.”

He knew the potential of the Church of the Seven Goddesses because he had dealt with them himself. He was sure they would figure out the truth and realize it was a trick that worked.

“Wouldn’t you like to take care of yourself after that? It will be okay to gather all the strength of the 7 Goddesses and call the three archmages.”

Karnak spread both hands. Black energy rose and began to create strange shapes. It was an object that could cross space and time, the eyes of darkness. Before long, dark eyes began to rise high into the sky. The sky shook. Dark clouds whirled and opened the gates of time and space, vomiting emptiness. Heavy rain poured down, and thunder erupted in all directions!

......Things like that didn’t happen at all.

The dark eyes just floated up silently and disappeared without a sound. Nothing happened to the point of being chilly. Serati, slightly disappointed, murmured.

“How are you quiet?”

“Of course.”

Karnak spoke up.

“Because there is no change in space-time.”

He didn’t open the door of time and space and blow the eyes of darkness. The eyes of darkness itself had the property of going in and out of time and space.

“If you fly a kite in the sky, a storm won’t blow, right?”

“Ah, it’s like that.”

The eyes of darkness safely entered the other side of time and space. Now, it was time for Karnak to concentrate as much as possible.

“I’ll be out of my mind for a while now. I’ll be keeping this up.”

Nervously, Barros and Serati drew their swords.

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

With his eyes closed, Karnak shifted his senses toward the Dark Eye.

»»————- ★ ————-««

A vast void spread out in front of him. Outside of this world and beyond time and space. There was an infinite realm that was so wide and so far that it was impossible to measure the end. Even the world in front of this void was just a speck of dust.

“......up!”

“......Master Karnak!”

It was the voice of Barros and Serati. Karnak struggled to open his eyes. Little by little, his sight was returning.

“Are you out of your mind? Can you see me?”

“Are you all right?”

Moaning, he barely got himself up. Then he looked around and asked.

“What happened?”

“What’s going on......?

They were guarding Karnak diligently, but suddenly his body trembled and collapsed. Surprised, he quickly laid down, and his arms were numb. He was rubbing his legs. This was Barros’ explanation.

“Is it a bad plan?”

“It doesn’t go well or whatever......”

Clearing his confused mind, Karnak turned to Barros.

“What did the cultists say was the name of the god they believed in? A god of death or something.......”

“Yes? Uh, that’s......”

Barros hesitated. It was such an absurd story that he couldn’t remember it properly either.

Instead, Serati opened her mouth.

“You mean Tesnarak? The god of death and darkness worshiped by the Church of the Black God.......”

“That’s right, Tesnarak.”

He checked again. The voice was calling itself ‘Tesnarak’.

“I met him.”

“Huh? Is it Death?”

“Oh, yes. That.”

Barros blinked his eyes. Did he meet? The tesranak? A god of death and darkness?

“...Could a Tesranak exist?”

Karnak frowned and looked up at the sky.

“No, it can never be.”

It was still an ordinary night sky. But, what happened out there was anything but not ordinary.

“But why does that exist?”

»»————- ★ ————-««

A subspace where there is only darkness, no up or down. Three people–two men, and a woman, their faces covered with dark veils, stood in the air—the Pope of Death, the Emperor of Darkness, and the Saint of Destruction.

They were the three saints who led the Church of the Black God and served Tesranak. The world dismissed them as the leaders of cults and evil demons who disturbed the order but to the members of the Black God, they were worse than they were. The man’s voice echoed through the darkness.

“There is something wrong with the Sanctuary.”

“How could that be?”

Another man raised a question.

“A sanctuary is a sanctuary because nothing can violate it.”

“I don’t know. But it happened.”

The woman spoke in a calm voice.

“I’ll have to check.”

The darkness was gone. The shapes of the three men and women also melted into the darkness. The surroundings had changed. The woman woke up in an elegant private room decorated with pure white marble. It was a beautiful woman with blue eyes, brown skin, and rich blonde hair hanging down to her waist.

Rising, she murmured, “The sanctuary was invaded? How peculiar.”

The woman raised the magic bell. Soon after, a young maid ran into the private room. Shivering, the maid lowered her head.

“You called, Miss Eleazar....”

Seeing that, the woman, Eleazar, laughed. She was going to have to call her confidant, but she seemed overly nervous because she was a new maid. Eleazar soothed the maid with a gentle smile.

“You don’t have to be so nervous.”

“I’m sorry!”

Of course, the maid couldn’t relax. On the outside, she looked like a beauty in her early 30s, but she was already over 50. The magical power that far transcended human limits slowed down even the body’s aging, so it just looked younger.

One of the three great wizards who had reached the pinnacle of all magic and the royal mage of the Laceanian Empire. Pursuer of the 10th circle, Eleazar de Reflacion.

How could a mere maid relax against her, one of the strongest people in the world? Seeing the maid still trembling, Eleazar gave an order.

“Can you go and call Hudel for me? Just tell him that I’m looking for him.”

“Yes, Miss Eleazar.”