Playing the Perfect Fox-Eyed Villain Chapter 223

Episode 223. Eradicating Evil (2)

To achieve complete identification in the dark, two elements must be present.

One is excellent ‘mana management’.

Another is whether the target to be detected has 'mana'.

Naturally, all beings possess 'mana' and if they have the 'method of operation', it is not that difficult to detect an object even in the dark.

'Where are you?'

Still, Hemmel could not 'detect' Yurian in the darkness.

'Where the hell are you!'

A primal emotion began to boil from deep within Hemmel's chest.

horror.

The fear is seeping out of me, thinking that I might be affected anytime, anywhere.

“Ugh……!”

At that moment, a sharp blade cut through the wind and passed over Hemmel's waist.

Yurian's sword swept past.

'How does this kid know my location so well!?'

I tried to remain as calm as possible and used my 'Mercury Magic' to direct the wind towards where it had blown, but this time too, it only cut through the air.

“fu*k!”

Hemmel, who had been swearing, had no choice but to cast the 'Lamp' magic to light up the darkness.

– “Kururururuk…….”

At the same time, the identity of the 'pupil' begins to be revealed.

The monster with the 'eyes' all over it was something in the shape of a pitch-black shadow. Something with an ominous aura, like a 'demon'.

“Hoooooooooooooooo!”

Of course, you can't help but be surprised. That such a monstrous thing arrived with the 'lantern'.

Hemmel raised his staff, breathing in and out repeatedly.

– “Kikki-kick!”

The demon's creepy laugh was heard.

It wasn't just him who had his vision illuminated by the 'Lamp' magic. As he was able to see the monsters, the monsters were also able to see him.

“Ugh, euaaaah!”

As Hemmel swung his staff with flailing hands, the mercury surrounding him flew towards the demon.

Crunch.

As the 'mercury' touched the demon's body, its pupils began to flinch.

"ha ha ha!"

Monster's.

Although Hemmel could not understand the demon's emotions, he could still tell one thing for sure from the crumpled expression on his face.

That monster is feeling pain.

“Even if you say it’s a demon, it’s just a low-level demon! I can’t even see its horns in the first place… Ugh!”

If we push now, we can win easily. As he was thinking that, Hemmel began to feel a hot pain behind his back, like a boiling volcano.

“Ugh, ugh ugh…… U, Yurian!”

I turned around slightly and saw Yurian's face with a faint smile on his face, stabbing the sword into his back.

After quickly recovering the 'mercury', I tried to counterattack.

“Ugh, ugh……!”

“You’re lucky. Someone with three colors is so timid.”

The magic doesn't work.

This is because his sword pierced through the 'mana blood' exactly.

“You, Yurian……!”

“Please stop calling my name.”

Somehow, he tried to overcome the pain and fight back, but the moment he was caught by the 'Knight', and by 'Yurien' at that, the possibility of a fight back was nil.

“If anyone saw you, they would know you were my friend, Sir Hemmel.”

Hemmel knows this better than anyone.

***

I let out a sigh of relief after successfully stabbing Hemmel in the back with my sword.

'Whew.'

It is difficult for me to look into this darkness without even 'mana'.

The reason it's possible is because of the color of the 'emotion' that is visible above the guy's head.

It is thanks to the “color of negation.”

'I deliberately created a scary atmosphere.'

The color of 'fear' visible above the guy's head was clearly visible even in the deep darkness. Thanks to this, I was able to easily determine Hemmel's location without even 'sensing mana'.

“Ma, Mana…….”

Hemmel, who couldn't properly use his mana because of the stabbed area, had a look of bewilderment in his voice.

Even if you can't use 'Mana' right now, it's not difficult to check the location of 'Mana Blood'.

“Unless you have a special constitution, everyone has the same number of mana points.”

So it wasn't difficult to find a place to stab with the sword.

“What do you think? Don’t you think you won’t be able to use mana at all?”

“……Idiot, I have another way……!”

Hemmel waved his cane in the air with an excited voice.

As if by some trick, mana began to flow from his body.

“Ugh!”

However, when the direction of the sword that was thrust into his back was twisted, Hemmel let out a groan filled with excruciating pain. At the same time, the guy's special organ, 'Mercury', sank to the ground.

“Uh, how?”

“Change the allocation given to the main blood vessel and exclude the damaged ‘mana blood’. Who wouldn’t know that?”

I'm also pretty good at this.

“You, Yurian.”

It's completely out of the blue. As if that thought crossed his mind, Hemmel's voice became quite cowardly.

“Save me. Why, why did I come looking for you…? Shouldn’t you know the reason!”

“I know.”

"what?"

“There must have been a deal with Orn. No, Orn alone wouldn’t be able to move you this far, so there might be someone else behind you.”

“Ugh.”

Hemmel groans slightly at being caught off guard.

“Was it real?”

Actually, I wasn't really sure, but seeing this guy's actions, I think it might be true.

Gulp.

I could hear Hemmel swallowing nervously.

Begging for his life didn't work either. When cornered like this, even a mouse would bite a cat.

“Kuaaaah!”

Hemmel began to chant his magic again, accompanied by a terrible scream.

Even though the 'Mana Blood' was sealed, the act of forcibly squeezing it out. The resulting backlash caused blood to spurt out from every orifice of Hemmel.

Phew──!

Before that action could bear fruit, he raised the 'Moon Jang Geum' he had stabbed, killing Hemmel.

“Phew.”

I let out a sigh.

Since I had no mana, it was impossible to use the 'Moonlight Sword'.

The 'Moonjanggeom' used in that state was nothing more than a sword that was easily broken.

'It's possible to use other people's mana while stuck in.'

It was a gamble, but somehow it paid off.

"Angelica."

After confirming Hemmel's death, I called Angelica's name.

The guy came to me, squirming, tears welling up in his eyes.

'Were you sick?'

He seemed to be in pain after being hit by Hemmel's 'Mercury'.

Normally, I would have made her stick to my feet like a shadow, but the manners issue was not resolved yet. When I opened the scabbard, Angelica came running into it as if she was being chased.

“Master.”

As the situation settled down, the second person who had brought Hemmel here approached.

I called out to the fallen Hemmel once. When there was no answer, the guy shook his fist.

Aside from that, he slowly raised his head and looked at me, as if he knew it was his turn now.

The color of 'fear' appeared above my head.

“Please go back.”

I spoke to Number 2 in a sharp tone.

Now that I've killed 'Geumseong' with my own hands, I don't really feel any great emotions towards 'murder', but I still want to avoid bothersome things.

Besides, these guys didn't even harm me.

“With other colleagues.”

As I said that, I turned my gaze in the direction I had come from and felt the presence of the other disciples, except for No. 2.

Perhaps the guys noticed something happening in the dark and just stood by until Hemmel died.

"thanks."

Number 2 headed towards his colleagues with a word of thanks.

“I will definitely repay this debt someday…….”

Making promises that cannot be kept.

***

As I held the 'Ring of the Snow Rabbit' and headed inside the dungeon, the spell contained in the relic began to point in the direction.

Thanks to that, I never got lost.

“……Is this a dead end?”

I thought so, but a dead end appeared right in front of me.

If I were to go back, it would be a long way back. Just as I was starting to feel dizzy and my head was starting to hurt, a faint light began to leak out from the 'Ring of the Snow Rabbit'.

Drrrrrrrr──!

As if in agreement with that, a path appeared beyond the dead end.

"hmm."

It didn't seem wrong. I started to walk towards the open door.

The road that continues forward.

Soon, I reached the end of the road and bit my lip at the sight I saw.

“What is this…….”

Through the 'Ring of the Snow Rabbit', the place we arrived at was definitely a laboratory where the 'Northern Shamans' would have studied 'Demons'.

The surrounding area was filled with laboratories and experimental supplies, just like Aiden's lab.

The problem was that it was all broken.

'What is this… … .'

The lab was in shambles, as if someone had swept through it a long time ago. There seemed to be nothing to be found here.

That is, even though we've gone through all the trouble to get here, there currently seems to be no way to resolve the situation with 'Angelica'.

“I have a headache.”

It's okay if all the effort you put into getting here was for nothing. That wasn't the only time that happened.

The problem is that I can't think of a way to go back to how things used to be with 'Angelica'.

'This was the only way.'

I felt a headache coming on for no reason, so I pressed my temple with one hand.

Dalgrak.

At that moment, 'Angelica' began to squirm and flow out of the scabbard.

“Where are you going, Angelica?”

As if possessed by my call, Angelica squirmed and headed inside the laboratory.

What on earth is going on?

Even right after absorbing the 'Mashinseong', it was Angelica who listened to me.

I started following the guy to call Angelica.

'Is there anything?'

As I was wondering about that, I discovered a place where a ray of light was coming in from inside this dark dungeon.

Could it be that Angelica was drawn to the light because of the darkness around her?

'no.'

Angelica seemed uninterested in the light pouring down from the ceiling.

Rather, in the place where the light reached, there was something pure white and thick.

'bone?'

That's a bone.

A gigantic bone that is far larger than a human.

And then I started to get a sense of what those bones were.

'Drink… … Barbatos' remains!?'

These are the remains of a demon god who scattered 'remnants of evil thoughts' across the continent of Rosenda, causing the demons, the arch-enemy, to run rampant.