chapter 10
In fact, there is nothing more terrible in the world than eating darkness.
The rotten stench coming from afar stung my nose and just putting it close to my face seemed to make my stomach juices go back up.
Still, I had to eat.
The only thing I could do when I was a child was to put on a blanket because I was scared by the sound of thunder every day.
The only thing I could do was struggle with fear while waiting anxiously for my mother, who didn’t know when she would come back safely.
“Uh… uh…”
Every day, holding my breath and trembling in the corner of the haven, my mother, who had returned from a great battle with the gods, greeted me with limping feet.
“Mother… What are those wounds… Again today, we have an unfavorable battle with the gods…”
The never-ending battle, seeing her exhausted day by day makes her heart warp and painful.
Still, all I could do was hide so as not to be a hostage… that was all I could do.
Wow!
Every time I greet my mother with a sad expression on her face, and when I try to ask a question filled with worries, she hugs me like this every time.
“It’s okay, baby, don’t worry, we can drive out the gods soon.”
A gentle smile calms my heart, but this is just a lie to support my spirit.
cunt…
But… I couldn’t deny that my pounding heart calmed down as I felt my mother’s body temperature even though I knew it.
“I love you, my daughter… I’m really short now, so even if it’s uncomfortable, would you like me to stay like this a little longer…”
When I received such kind words from my mother and held her in my arms, I was able to get a good night’s sleep in a heightened mood.
“It’s okay, go your way.”
As you sink your consciousness to the depths of the abyss, the words of your father, who died long ago, flash through your mind.
Now, his face is fading and he remembers his father’s forgotten loving arms, holding back the tears that are still piling up.
I can’t remember because I was too young… but I definitely remember this.
My father smiled at me even to the moment that the spear was pierced through my body and I died.
The powerless smile and the red blood that leaked from the corners of his mouth were entrenched in his mind like trauma.
I can even remember what kind of expression he made at the end… but why isn’t his face blank…
He asked himself such a question and looked for an answer, but in the end, he lost it and fell asleep.
One day, when I was trembling with fear, a turning point in my life came.
“Heh Uk…! Heo Uk…! Heo Uk..!!”
He was running across the forest that had left his shelter and burned to the brim with only ashes.
His wings were already damaged and he couldn’t fly.
I prayed that my body would hold on to me, and I only depended on my stamina and ran frantically.
The gods got information about the location of the resting place and the existence of me…. In order to dry out at least one of the seeds, they had devised a sloppy plan.
It was to assassinate me by raiding the vacant sanctuary during the great void my mother was away for battle.
“That’s it!!”
“I will never miss it!”
bang!! bang!!
The deafening sound of thunder seemed to put a strain on my heart, and even a little closer, my skin was covered with burns.
“Uh… huh?!”
As I ran endlessly, at some point I was pushed to the front of a cliff.
“I was driven down the cliff road, I won’t miss it this time!”
bang!!!
Thunder resounding once again, and the thrilling pain that comes at the same time drives the mind.
“aa!!”
He tries to hold on with his teeth clenching his vision that is rapidly disappearing, and a pain that cannot be expressed in words begins to dig into his brain.
“Ah …”
However, the wound was so great that my body could no longer be used, and I fell down the cliff after not being able to focus on my body.
“What should I do? Should I go and do a confirmation kill?”
“Leave it alone, I’d be dead because I was struck by lightning traditionally”
“Don’t waste time, let’s go to the next area.”
But fate didn’t let me go to death… and miraculously survived.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
If it had been a healing fountain at the bottom of the cliff, an ordinary river, or a hard, bare floor, he would have surely died.
“It hurts so much… Mother…”
He called for his mother, whom he had always depended on, but he could not reach him… Only a cry of pain echoed up the rock.
However, the body was so damaged that it was irreversible…. As long as it was still breathing, it was just a small spark of life.
So cold and lonely… As he was dying, a strange substance caught in the corner of his vision.
Scratch… Scratch…
A black mass that gradually gained influence over a certain corpse.
“Is that… the corpse of a god?”
An evil aura coming from afar… Pure darkness that even the gods hate was struggling in the body.
At the same time, an idea flew in.
“Eating that darkness… and absorbing its power…”
That’s crazy… I know that once done, it’s irreversible.
Squeezing out the remaining power, it crawls toward the darkness, and the pain that burns the cells with every movement eats away at the mind.
“Wow…”
I just picked it up, but the creepy sensation at my fingertips instinctively rejects the material I’m holding.
Just putting it in his mouth makes his stomach churn, and his reason is desperately alerting him that it is crazy to swallow it.
Still… if I could absorb this power…
Wow! Wow!!
The darkness parasitic on the corpse of the god shoved through his throat, and it seemed as if he would vomit everything inside at any moment in the instantaneous amplified nausea.
“eww…”
I barely felt my stomach and looked up at the sky where only darkness could be seen.
“Ugh?! Ahhh?!”
And the intense pain that comes
My mind began to be distorted by external and internal pain, and I struggled madly, unable to overcome the pain, repeatedly pounding my head on the floor.
I’m in pain… I’m in pain, I’m in pain, I’m in pain, I’m in pain, I’m in pain
Only those thoughts filled my head and I couldn’t stop the negative thoughts.
The pain that I couldn’t express enough to make me want to die was constantly suppressing my mind, just repeating meaningless fluff.
I wondered how much I struggled…. At some point, I didn’t feel any pain.
“uh..?”
Rather, I feel lighter than before, I feel strange, and I touch my body…
All wounds were healed.
The body, which had been damaged to the extent that it was impossible to recover until recently, had been completely restored.
And the enormous power that seemed to overflow raises my confidence, and I felt like I could win against anyone in the world.
“This is… the power that absorbed the parasitic darkness…”
It was so amazing, it was a power that I couldn’t control myself to the extent that I could surpass my mother, who was stronger and stronger than anyone else.
At the same time, the black desire that welled up within me whispered to me.
Let’s eat darkness and increase our strength endlessly.
Then we can end this long war…. Mother won’t have to get hurt anymore… We can get revenge on Father…
Through endless self-rationalization, more and more I give legitimacy to devour darkness.
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“Baby!! Mir!!! Where are you?!”
When I returned to the sanctuary that had barely survived the ruins, my mother was calling me sadly.
A destroyed nest and a lost daughter… I can’t help but feel anxious.
“Mother! Here I am!”
I raise my voice and call my mother. If you feel this strength that has grown stronger, your mother will surely be delighted.
What expression would you like to make? Proud that your daughter has become stronger? impression?
“Mir?! Where have you been! I’ve been looking for a while-“
As if to shatter such a happy imagination, my mother found me and smiled until the moment…
“My daughter… what’s that power…?”
Soon, a contorted face of astonishment was made upon me.
“mother?”
The reaction was so unexpected that I was taken aback with a trembling expression on my face.
Contrary to me, who kept making a blank face, my mother approached me with a grim and determined expression on her face…
match!
My heart was broken with the bitter heat I felt on my cheeks.
“to…?”
She has not yet been able to face reality and is ill, but her mother’s screams continue as if to calm her down.
“Where the hell did that power come from?! It’s dangerous to absorb pure darkness! It’s a power that even the gods fear when their minds collapse and they forget who they are!”
To be honest, it didn’t hurt…. After eating the darkness, the pain became dull.
However, the fact that she was scolded by her mother makes one cry.
“I… I…”
“I don’t want to talk to you…”
He looked at me with contemptuous eyes, as if disappointed, and then flew away.
I could chase enough, but my feet didn’t come off the ground.
I had no face to see my mother, whom I had never seen in my life, and I did not have the courage to face it in person.
My mother disappeared and I looked up at the dry sky for a while…
bang!!!
A familiar sound of thunder makes my head pound.
“This…”
With that sound, it flapped its wings and flew away.
I don’t know where you’ve gone, but I’m chasing the faint traces, drawing out the limits of what I can do, and flying away.
“mother!!”
But when I found my mother, everything was late.
“Ah… Ah… Mi… Le…?”
My mother, who was cold with burns all over her body.
And the characters of God who brighten up such a mother look at me as if they were surprised.
“That little boy… isn’t he that dragon earlier?”
“I’m sure, but the atmosphere is different, that’s…”
“It’s pure evil!!”
The beings who struck me with lightning earlier, making me an irreversible choice, reveal my hostility to me.
“Baby… run away… hit…”
Squeeze out your voice and speak earnestly to me.
“Ahh..!!”
Seeing that scene, something springs up inside me.
It’s very similar to darkness, but it’s alien… A feeling that forcibly raises my strength.
“aaaah!!!”
Already unable to make a rational decision, I was running away screaming and roaring at the three gods.
When he woke up, the area around him was covered in blood…. The bodies of three divine beings were scattered on the floor.
I, too, suffered from an inability to recover, but it was healed like a lie within a short time.
“Huh… huh…”
By the time I was able to come to my senses, everything was already over.
“mother!!”
She caressed her mother’s cheek, who was lying on the floor, and she was slowly losing focus, but somehow she was happy.
“I was so excited that I spoke harsh words… Are these the words of a mother who neglected her daughter…?”
“No, mother… please come to your senses…”
Wiping her blurred vision from tears, she hugged her.
A pleasant smell permeates her nose, but the smell she always felt in her mother’s arms was also transmitted.
“Daughter… the powers of darkness are too tricky to deal with… they can be dangerous for you…”
“Please don’t tell me… just like this… if you relax…”
That’s what I said, but my mother and I knew that it was already irreversible…
“Connect with a strong man… A strong and kind person who can control your power…”
With those words, the strength holding my hand begins to loosen.
“No! Please…!! Don’t leave me!! It’s all my fault, I didn’t force the darkness… If it wasn’t for it, it would be like usual…”
Recalling this former life that I can’t go back to now, I hug him tighter.
“Ah… I love you, my daughter…”
At the end of those words, the focus of his eyes completely disappeared, and he released the hand he was holding tightly, and his head loosened and fell.
“Mother?! Mom!! Oh.. no, baby!!!”
cried for a while.
He hated the gods against the sky and vomited out all his emotions.
When I cried for a long time, my mother’s body had already cooled down, and the bodies of the gods lying around were…
“uh…?”
Darkness was growing.
Everything rots, when food rots, mold grows and the body of a normal animal is returned to the soil by the worms.
The gods also decay…. Where they die and are left behind, pure evil, dark powers multiply.
This is the only proof that even the gods are not just as righteous… It was the truth the world left behind.
After burying her mother’s body and examining the body again, it multiplied more noticeably than before and dyed the surrounding area black.
“The power of darkness…”
He mumbles the word and picks up the dark clumps.
Just once… eating a small amount of darkness provides the power to kill three gods with ease.
But what if it is a huge amount to suffocate the ground…? What if you continue to eat darkness infinitely by harming God and other lives?
By the time I was thinking about that, I was already throwing darkness into my mouth.
It still smells fishy and stinky, but I force it away thinking about my mother, who died horribly.
“ah….”
I also consumed darkness, an endless force that encouraged me and commanded me to devour all things.
At the same time, I felt that my reason was fading, as my mother said, this power is dangerous…. I was drunk with it, and I felt like I would one day forget who I was.
“Connect with a strong man… A strong and kind man who will control this power…”
I close my eyes, remembering my mother’s last will.
Will there be a man who can control this level of power?
After all, I won’t show up until I lose myself and run away.
With that thought in mind, I’ve been wandering for eons.
I struggle to gain strength by eating darkness to live, and at some point the gods stopped killing me.
But instead, he sent mortals to kill me.
Such abominable beings…. They are so afraid that they pass the work on to beings much weaker than themselves…
History is written by the victors, the war that ended in a time of frantic wandering…. They portrayed us wickedly.
I was so pissed off…but it was dangerous any more.
My body is getting more and more exhausted… As I ate more darkness to fight, I slowly reached the limit of my mind.
Madness continued to eat me and forced me to retreat, until someone appeared to calm this increasingly divided spirit.
But again, such a person did not exist.
All gods hate me… mortals fear me too, and there is no one strong enough to hold back this power.
After all, there is no such thing in this world… There is someone who can calm me down and restrain my power…
A man who does not appear even after several thousand years… waiting for an existence that may not exist in the first place, a man caught my eye.
An ordinary-looking human race man belonging to the expedition that was trying to subdue me…
When everyone was wasting time with frivolous attacks, only you gave me the pain I had forgotten.
I didn’t want an innocent person to get hurt, so the man who deliberately hid his power and seized the opportunity to subdue me in one shot continued to annoy me.
found.
Those words ran through my mind.
A person strong enough to subdue me at once… Mr. gentle heart who spared his strength for others…
finally showed up
After a long time, he transformed into a human race and appeared in front of him, and while spending time with him, his heart jumped, but on the other hand, he supported his spirit.
I knew right away that this was the person I was looking for.
I tried to tempt him, but he refused…because I serve a god I hate more than anyone…
So, I tried forcibly to bond, but failed…. Still, I didn’t give up and tried to get him.
The man I was lucky enough to find again… I was walking with a strange man.
Then he entered a certain temple and disappeared, and he was identified with detection magic, and now he…
She is lying in bed with a goddess.