Chapter 94 - Chapter 94

With the hourglass showing its presence, the time started to flow backward, and Elvire saw what was happening in the village."Nooo! You, you traitor! You won't ruin me! I will come back!" The demon howled as it gets smaller and smaller in every second that passed by.Elvire watched how the villagers started to turn into undead and how the priest saved and escaped by the others to the church.She also saw when the villagers sacrificed without caring and ignoring the crying and pleading of those victims. Elvire then saw how the demon manifested from one man.It was like a play to her as she saw every moment like she would have been there by herself. Finally, when it stopped, there was a small imp in the ground sniffing around."My master plan and all of my strength was gone because of you! I will get my revenge! Yes, I will get it and grow to mighty demon once again!" The imp declared madly. It seemed to have gone crazy. It continued to repeat how it was mighty and how everyone should fear it."Now, my job is done, and my last powers were used. However, my child, remember you cannot use this power without sacrificing yourself as it needs an equal exchange." The voice said one last time before fading away."It's just a small imp now? Did this just really terrorize the whole village and us?" Tam said mockingly before he pierced his sword straight through the imp without any mercy. Despite the imp being small, it was still a being from hell an archenemy to him and to the humankind. So he didn't want to take any risks anymore and let it go."We are finally free. We can finally rest and live once again." The wisp said in relief, before it slowly faded away."As a reward, there is a secret basement under the last bench near the door on the right side. You are free to take anything you want from there or from the church and this village." The old priest said with a calm smile as it slowly starts to fade away as well. They had done their jobs guarding the humans and other races from an invasion, but no one would know it, and now they were rewarded by an afterlife. So they embraced it calmly as they had waited for it for a very long time already. Jaana and Levin went towards Elvire and hugged her. This woke her up and realizing that she couldn't see her parents lifespan, and she was glad about it. It was a cruel ability. Knowing when your family or friends would die was always heartbreaking, especially if you couldn't do anything to stop it. All you could do was watch in pain. It would slowly drive you in sorrow or that you would become a hermit that you wouldn't see and feel it again. But, despite not liking the hourglass, she still thought that it was still within her. Elvire could feel the faint feeling of a time that was flowing through because of it.She gave a massive hug to her parents before slowly giving a small prayer that the dead could find their happiness in the afterlife. After hearing Elvire's prayer, the others joined to it. When Elvire was done, Levin asked, "Should we check the basement out and loot everything we can from here?" Everyone agreed to it. They didn't have horses anymore nor that much of money left, at least they had food. However, horses were expensive, and the same was with the carriage. With that being said, if there would be something to salvage and sell, they could use it and at least pay to someone to take them to their destination.When they came inside the church, they saw that it wasn't changed at all. It just looked the same as always, despite its god and followers were all gone now. They went to check the spot that the old priest had mentioned, and they saw one of the tiles was a little loose. When they lifted it up, they saw a small basement where you would need to crawl to get in, or one needed to be child to fit.There wasn't much room and nothing to go down with, and after debating whether to check it out or not, they left the exploration for Elvire to handle.Levin kindly lowered her to the basement and gave Elvire a torch. After that, she then looked around the basement that was about ten meters wide or even less. She saw five barrels in a row, and she firstly pushed those to the entrance that Levin and Tam could lift them up after that was done she saw that the room was actually larger now. There were at least twenty or so additional meters of space when the barrels were moved, and there were twenty crates behind the barrels.Some of them were really heavy for her. She then asked a rope that Tam or Levin can pull them out. She was slowly carrying and wrapping the rope around the crates that they could open them and saw what they were holding in them.