With a look of awe, Payne asked Charlize carefully.
"That. No. Did you even awaken Ehyrit's power?"
"…Can you see the fairy?"
"A fairy? Do you see it as a fairy?"
Charlize's face hardened.
It was a story that Charlize didn't know.
Payne was in a very serious atmosphere.
Payne said.
"That's a low-level god. Fairies. They're not that soft."
"What?"
Low-level god?
Charlize was shocked by the unexpected story. God? What do you mean?
"To be exact, they are ancient gods who serve Ehyrit. How in the world… As expected, you, Ehyrit's."
Payne, completely convinced, kept his mouth shut.
As far as the word 'real piece' is concerned, he won't say it even if he dies. As a master, it was the appearance of protecting Charlize thoroughly enough to even put a ban on it.
But
'An ancient god?'
Those who have been by Charlize's side for 9 years? Then. What is the reason?
Why do the gods serve Charlize? Charlize?
Charlize hardened her expression.
***
Charlize, who returned, called out the fairies, no, they first.
"You guys. Did you serve me because I'm the evil god?"
Payne said they live on God's mana.
Therefore, even the evil gods who carved Ehyrit to pieces, the low-level gods will follow.
<…>
Twisting their bodies, they flew through the air.
Again, they don't answer properly.
Charlize put her hand on her scabbard. No matter how low-level gods they are. Because there was nothing that could not be cut off from Charlize's sword.
They mumbled in surprise.
"Me?"
When did I say that?
She wants to ask them coldly. At the moment. She was trying to remember.
'This.'
It felt familiar.
Because Charlize has already experienced this situation once.
During a conversation with Payne, when she realized that Kiera was actually an evil god.
"Now open your eyes."
"Kiera, my evil god."
The feeling was the same as back then.
The moment of realization. The world seemed to have stopped for a while.
And the vast universe wrapped around Charlize.
There is a saying that humans can only use part of their brain. It's impossible to awaken and use all of your senses.
But Charlize was feeling it now. The imperial castle, empire, overwhelming nature, and countless people are all one. It's connected with everything.
The moment she realized herself, it was a contradictory experience of losing herself.
Who am-
'I'?
As if the seal had broken, everything obeyed Charlize. It wasn't just an empire built by humans. Even non-human things.
The fairies. No, the ancient gods reached out to Charlize.
The ancient gods seemed to be trying to stop Charlize from recalling her memories.
But. It's already late.
Things that had been blocked like a barricade were poured into Charlize's mind at once.
That world.
It's hot and cold. Fast and slow. It's dark but shining.
'This is the memory right after I became Kiera for the first time.'
Charlize became a sword and tried not to see that reality.
Because she couldn't believe it. Because she suffered beyond being shocked by herself who became a sword.
The essence was broken. When she couldn't be a human anymore.
'It's like an extension of the memories I've regained before.'
Maybe it was a memory she had forgotten.
"We must worship the Birth of the Evil God."
The wizards were delighted to see Kiera reacting to the evil god.
Kiera could see the faces of the wizards drenched in joy.
Charlize's body has now become a sword god.
"It will be our guardian sword."
"It would be right to have a toast tonight."
"It didn't fail! Success, success."
Something inside Charlize was broken.
Charlize's will and thoughts were not considered important at all.
Beyond being completely ignored, she was coerced and oppressed.
She becomes a sword while she is alive.
'I'd rather have gone through all the pain I would have suffered as a human being.'
It may be painful, but it would be the pain of 'humans'.
If there is a God, it was right that Charlize cursed him. If human dignity is received from God. It was right that God had to punish the magic tower.
But, it wasn't. The magic tower said Kiera was the new god. There is no God who can save Charlize. The magic tower did the right thing.
– Evil god? Evil god you say?
Charlize laughed and sobbed.
But she can no longer cry like a human. Even after being shocked, she realizes that she can collapse completely.
Charlize was shattered. No one will see Charlize as a person any more than the consciousness that she perceives for herself.
'Why can't I even be a human?'
What she already had. What everyone enjoys for granted. It was taken away and stirred with a newly established essence.
Forced, not voluntary. A dark wall with no path to turn around.
Charlize cried desperately. Charlize somehow said over and over again to know.
-I'm a human being.
She's human.
She's not like a sword. She never wanted to be something like an evil god!
She cried. She suffered. Reality and consciousness were completely separated.
Charlize was desperate and furious.
The magic tower, who couldn't see any guilt, still smiled with joy.
'I have to kill you.'
The murderous intent toward the magic tower was intense.
But wasn't even the murderous intent injected? Is it mine?
How far is yourself and where is not yourself?
When she saw the magic tower smiling blankly with a confused feeling. The whole world rocked.
At that time.
'Fairies.'
No. 'Transcendent bodies with the energy of Ehyrit' appeared.
Because it was Kiera, she could sense it with a different sense than the human eye and other senses.
Although small, they were huge beings with transcendent energy.
'The only thing that looks like a fairy is to stay temporarily in the human world.'
-What?
Charlize asked back blankly.
Like God's almighty, Charlize really recognized their essence as soon as she saw them.
Beings who genuinely rejoice in the birth of a god and feel proud of serving God.
'The ancient gods.'
That they're lower-level gods.
She found out that the ridiculous fact was true.
At that moment, Charlize felt like she was going to lose her mind by the pouring information.
The laws of the world that people cannot and should not know. Digs into the mind and breathes vividly in the mind.
Humans do not recognize it, but even a third sense that is clearly felt has been awakened.
A complete insight that transcends human genius.
The perfection of noticing everything. Unimaginable strength. The climax, the apex, the extreme that is terribly fascinating and captivating.
She was not afraid to even fall from a dizzying height. It was a world that humans should not feel.
-Am I, am I a god?
The question came back to the question.
It is pure and clear, but what lies below her are the clear faces of the ancient gods.
In an instant, Charlize's emotions exploded brilliantly. These were ideas that could not be described in human language. It was no longer a simple human emotion like anger or resentment.
The emotion of God, which was unrealistic and certain, spread like a wavelength and took over the world and overwhelmed it.
It overflowed without being able to cover it. It soared and burned completely.
-Don't stand by the rules! No one deserves it from me.
It wasn't what Charlize wanted.
What she wanted is a sword that can be held in human hands. To become a vessel for the evil god and to be reborn as a god.
She never wanted it.
– Please leave me alone!
Charlize shouted to them. But it also permeates firmly like a prophecy. It shakes everyone up.
It was spitting out the weight to change the world.
-I! I'm not Kiera! It's not like that!
A desperate cry.
Charlize's words were firmly engraved above the world like the absolute laws of nature.
That is the will of the newly born God.
Thus, Charlize herself was in excruciating pain and buried with her memory of the evil god Kiera.
The ancient gods, called fairies, followed Charlize's will.
"…"
Charlize, waking up from her memory, remained silent heavily.
Still, the ancient gods wandered around with their wings twinkling like fairies.
'There are more memories that I haven't found yet.'
Charlize was enlightened.
Even though the ancient gods didn't wake her up, Charlize herself brought out her senses.
Integrity to Saint, because it brings power. It was possible because Charlize became more perfect.
Suddenly. If you put together the pieces of missing memories like this, isn't that the completion of the evil god? She thought.
Then.
'I shouldn't look for memories anymore.'
The thought that Dylan was still unharmed was that Charlize had not yet recovered all her memories.
Charlize was cynical.
"Why are you kind to me?"
'So, then, the low-level gods avoided answering.'
About Ehyrit's piece, a subject that she was constantly looking for. She didn't even see it in front of her.
The ancient gods who read Charlize's mind laughed.
They get bigger as soon as they talk and help Charlize completely.
But Charlize shook her head.
"No."
But.
'There's more useful cards.'
Because Dylan didn't even notice the existence of the ancient gods. Charlize had the upper hand.
"You."
Charlize pointed to the one with the most beautiful purple wings among the gods.
"Can you pretend to be me?"
"I'll be back in three hours. I'd appreciate it if you could make a perfect alibi that Charlize Ronan didn't leave the Empress Palace."
That's enough. Before Dylan noticed, that was enough.
Of course. Because the power of the low-level god comes from Ehyrit. Now that Ehyrit is fragmented, it will be destroyed and unusable as soon as Dylan finds out.
'Even if the ancient gods are destroyed.'
She would be more than happy to have been of any help to Charlize.
Charlize left immediately.
***
There was nothing Kiera didn't know about this empire.
And eventually, she arrived.
'Here, the forest of monsters.'
It was a forest called Rapine.
It was a place where ancient warriors lived together. Charlize came here to recruit those with the necessary abilities.
Although it is a primitive village, it has achieved considerable civilization development.
She expected Dylan wouldn't have swept it all away. As expected, this place.
'Dylan's control hasn't been reached yet.'
The forest of monsters was very large.
There was no reason to touch the crowds who had settled down and lived here.
Because they don't commit immorality like the dark world, and the only difference is that they live with monsters.
But as soon as she stepped into the forest, Charlize felt a strange energy. A bloody, wave of evils.
This is.
'It's a magic tower.'
Charlize's eyes became as cold as a sword blade.
Why is the magic tower here?
What did they come to the monster forest for?
It was unexpected, but Charlize decided not to think about it. Now that she saw Kiera's past, she had a strong mind to go wild.
'Kill.'
That was all.
Rustle.
The wizard of the magic tower stopped. The sound of leaves being trampled on.
Charlize made eye contact with the wizard and greeted him brightly.
"…Hi."
Charlize smiled while holding her sword.
It was a bright smile.
Alperier's Death Knight, still. Existed.
***