Possessing Nothing

[I struggled pretending not to know.]

"I never pretended not to know. ’

[You didn't even tell me yourself. Just pretend you don't know if you're keeping quiet.]

Lee Sung-min did not answer what Heju was saying. The feast is over. The blazing flames have turned into tiny fires and the noisy fairies have fallen asleep among themselves.

Chang is still sleeping crouched down. Teresa covers herself with a blanket and sleeps near the Black Dragon Strait, looking satisfied.

Throughout the drink, Scarlet returns to the Horse Tower and lies in a bed not far from the Saxogo.

Lee got up, removing the blanket from his knee.

I know, I can't possibly know.

The questions were blatant, and so were the actions I had shown so far. I did not react to the knowledge.

Like I said, I pretended not to know. I had to. I didn't think I deserved it, and I thought, why me?

“Osla. ”

Lee Sung-min came to the lake and called for the Fairy Queen. Even during the party, Osla neither talks nor laughs as usual.

I took a sip of wine and went back to the lake. I knew why. After all, Osla had known the Queen of Extinct Spirits a long time ago.

Even though there were few exchanges, the identity of the person who had lived together for thousands of years disappeared.

“I'm fine with it. ”

Osla grunts, her head sticking out of the lake surface. Her eyes were a little red.

“Just, a little bit, yeah. I'm... hopeless... and... I'm just having that thought. You left so easily. ”

If only it were a perfect clay fight. Fighting, struggling, killing someone, would it have been different?

The spirit queen's extinction was futile. After coming down with a power far below its original strength, it was not too difficult to fight, and in the end, the spirit intervened and completely obliterated the queen.

“I'm afraid of it. ”

Fear is greater than grief.

Osla mutters in a small voice. She sags her wings and hugs her shoulder.

“Even though it looks like this, I've lived a long time. I've been alive since the beginning of this world...... I don't regret my life now. But... it's too easy. I fear that a nation is too easily extinguished without knowing its existence. I'm too afraid of disappearing without doing anything. ”

It would all be the same. If the spirit intervenes, it will perish without resistance.

It is more unsettling that the spirit cannot guess why it does not do so. Because it's not harvest time? What more could he possibly want?

With you is a dog's death. I remembered Frau's words. I couldn't argue.

Frau was selfish and right. Even if the world does not perish, what does it mean if the world itself dies?

“And I'm nervous. ”

Osla comes out of the water and stands on the lake. She looks up at the sky and lowers her shoulder hug down.

“Sarahenne was extinguished by a spirit. But why don't I vanish? What about you? What about the others? Because you don't have to? ”

“There must be a reason. ”

It won't be pointless. There must be a reason. Osla grimaces and asks.

“Aren't you afraid? ”

“I'm afraid.”

“Then why don't you give up? ”

“If I give up, everything has become meaningless. ”

Can we face another day of drinking and laughing and chattering like today? Without the dead, everyone survives in a world where there is no end....

That would be impossible. Too much greed. It is absurd that no one should die.

If that were all, it would not be an end. Whoever it is, there will be sacrifices.

My heart ached when I realized it. Of course, Lee Sung-min wanted no one to die.

Knowing it's impossible.

Lee Seong-min approached Aine who collapsed near the lake. She was an easy prisoner to handle.

Ever since I brought her to this forest, she hasn't given me anything to eat or drink, but Eine was alive and well.

Overpowered by Osla's power, he falls into a deep slumber.

“What are you trying to do? ”

“I don't do anything. ”

Osla approaches and asks. Lee Seong-min touched the body of the fallen one with his feet and turned.

Aine's breasts were trembling. Osla looks anxious to see Lee Sung-min staring down at Eine's heart.

“... Don't think dangerous thoughts. ”

“Let's keep the possibilities in mind. ”

“You know that. Your body is the limit. I can't get stronger with a feast. ”

“It may not be the same as the original predation. ”

“The risk is too great. ”

“I'm not talented. ”

Now there was no bitterness in saying it. It was too obvious. It was because there was a fate that transcended talent, help, teachings, and many other conditions.

“The biggest reason I got here without talent was because I was destined to have at least this much power. And that fate died with me as I annihilated the massacre. Now that I don't belong to fate, it's impossible to grow along the course of destiny. ”

Of course, that does not mean that there is no room for Lee Sung-min to grow up.

As Hematoma said, the body of a rational person is imperfect. The hardness of the ball and the body are unbalanced.

Because the room for growth has been given forcibly, Lee Sung-min can become stronger.

Different cases. When I followed the path of fate, I was forced to become ‘unconditionally' strong.

I have always been challenged enough to overcome. I grew up to live in the face of trials.

Not now.

You cannot be favored by a comfortable fate because you have strayed from your destiny.

“I don't want to do this right now. ”

Eating Eine is too risky. This body, which has reached its limit, may collapse.

It is dangerous to take such an adventure already.

‘Not yet.'

Yeah, not yet.

* * *

Where is she now?

Maybe they're marching into the Fairy Forest. What Lee meant to do was to attack Geniella during the day, not at night.

However, as long as we know that Janiella's last ability is to make the full moon rise, such an attack becomes meaningless.

I could choose a place even if I didn't have time. The Fairy Forest is Osla's territory.

As Xeniella, who doesn't give up Eine, she has to come to this forest. If you fight here, you will have the least chance of winning.

‘Not enough.'

every means available to you. It's not enough to leave room for Eine to eat. Lee Sung-min is overwhelmingly better than Geniella.

That's speed. No matter how fast Xeniella moves, she's no better than a reasonable person with a fairy horse.

The next day.

Lee headed to Travia in collaboration with Lloyd, Scarlet and Baxogo who suffer from hangovers.

All he wanted to do was clean up Travia. When she came to Mount Wudang, she didn't bring the other vampires from Trabia.

All that was moving with her was Gemini, Chen and Kun. That means the rest of the family remains in Trabia.

It was good to aim.

“Oh, my.”

The voice disappears from your head. Xeniella stands at the top and takes her finger to the temple.

She sees the bloodlines that are connected to her disappear one by one. It's not just death.

In that case, the power of the dead blood should be restored to Geniella. She raises her hands and covers her eyes.

Her vision connects to another vampire in Travia. Soon, the vampire's vision was darkened. That was enough.

‘Seal... Yes. There was a way. But you'd be better off eating than sealing. ’

You don't mean you don't want to come and eat now. Does that mean there's a reason we can't eat? The voice is continually disappearing. Xeniella chuckles, her hands wrapped around her eyes dropping down.

“What's the matter? ”

Gemini tilts her head toward Jennifer, smiling.

“Travis is under attack. ”

“Earrings?”

“Yeah. It really annoys me in a lot of ways. This will stop us from negotiating. ”

You never wanted to do that in the first place. Gemini shrugs, thinking like that.

“Are you okay? ”

“My children are being slaughtered, and there's no way I'd be okay with that. I'm very angry. ”

“Seems peaceful to me. ”

The master who was silent opened his mouth.

It was a few days ago that the principal joined. Joo, who was trapped in the deep forest to the south, left the forest following Geniella, who came all the way here.

Once upon a time, I thought I'd be with Brooke, the powerful werebear of the House of Representatives. By the time she met the Master, Brook was already in the Master's ship.

“They were all destined to die anyway. ”

Xeniella stops listening to her disappearing voice. It was a pity, a pity, a sad, that feeling.

But it was also inevitable. As long as I feel a terrible anger at their deaths, it's impossible to travel from south here to Travia.

However, it will take months for us to come to North Korea now.

“Better than that, are you okay? Maybe next to Travier, it's Cephad. There are Lycanslopes there for you to rule. ”

“Of course.”

The attendant nods.

“We must avenge him. ”

Joo-won mutters, gazing far north.

Once upon a time, an escort was the head of Lycanslope.

The Master who challenged the Archdiocese became Lycanslope's new leader by defeating and eating him.

Then Brock, the servant and old friend of the guard, leaves the herd and goes far away.

Neroman remained by the Lord's side and became an underling.

The master trusted Nero. So, I left Cephed with Nero before I went to find Brock and kill him.

Nero... will never leave the city. Joo-won smiled bitterly.

“Aren't you more motivated? ”

She smiles and says. There are few voices left in my head. She turns around on the deck.

As she smells the breeze of the sea, she slowly raises her arms, her palms above the sky.

“You make me want to kill you. ”

Kuang...!

The red magic wraps around your stomach. The ghost ships that left the western sea remained even after Volander vanished, and the Desknights who survived the Battle of Germoud were with them.

Xeniella reaps the Ghost Ship and the Desknights. It's not just them.

On the way down south, I put some of the predators' monsters, especially powerful ones, aboard the ship, and drove across Arbes and Kim Jong-hyun to the now unowned Reaches.

‘It's me.'

In the center of the roebucked rich, Preskan places his hands on his chest and makes a resolution.

"Save you and Marie in exchange for my life. ’

A ship wrapped in Jennifer's magical power rises above the waves. She slowly turns her hands forward to assess the direction of the fairy forest.

“Will it take five days? ”

In the past, it took Seong-min a month to board the boat and head to the Fairy Forest. If it's a simple ship, it should take that long.

But this ship is not just a ship. It was a ghost ship that had nothing to do with the waves or the wind, and it was added to Jennifer's endless magical power.

A ghost ship in the sky crosses the sea.