Kill the Emperor Chapter 127 : Chapter 127

Translator: AkazaTL

Pr/Ed: Sol IX

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Chapter 127 Foolish Days (2)

I, Hein Reichart, had already known that Zephyros had a natural talent for magic.

However, even so, Alexar could not easily respond to Zephyros’s wish to learn magic.

A flicker of anxiety was seated in a corner of his heart.

‘Has the wound Zephyros suffered from the Kaltuara Apostles completely healed?’

‘What if a wound that has not yet healed guides Zephyros’s soul into the darkness?’

‘If Zephyros’s natural talent grows in an incorrect direction, would I truly be able to handle the consequences?’

However, in the end, he ended up accepting Zephyros’s request.

“Brother, I want to beco like you too. Just like how you saved , I will beco a great mage and ‘save’ many people.”

The mont he saw Zephyros’s eyes sparkling as he vowed to beco the light of this world.

He felt certain that he had been worried for nothing.

“I understand. I will make you into a great mage. Instead, it is very dangerous at first, so you must follow exactly as I teach you, okay?”

After the full-scale magic training began.

Zephyros absorbed the knowledge Alexar passed on at a terrifying speed, like a sponge eting water.

Natural talent and effort regardless of day or night. With the addition of a capable teacher nad Alexar, he continued to grow at a literally formidable speed.

A foundation was established within 1 year of practicing magic.

In the 2nd year, he beca a respectable mage in his own right.

On that day it beca 3 years.

“Congratulations! Zephyros. You have finally entered the territory of the 7th Circle! You are truly a genius.”

“Hehe. No. Soone like is nothing compared to you, brother. You have been researching the 8th Circle since a long ti ago. Just watch, I will definitely catch up to you soday!”

He had reached the territory of the 7th Circle, which an ordinary mage finds difficult to reach even if they spend their entire life practicing.

Alexar could say with confidence.

That no one except himself would have achieved such a rapid accomplishnt.

And Zephyros also looked very happy.

The sight of Zephyros truly liking and respecting Alexar, and striving to resemble him, was also a source of boundless joy for him.

Another 2 years of ti passed from then.

“There is no need to be impatient. I’ve told you several tis. Ti is still more than enough!”

“For a genius like you, brother, ti must be more than enough! Since you are the genius among geniuses who achieved the 8th Circle easily at my age!”

As the ti Zephyros was blocked by the wall of the 8th Circle grew longer, Alexar’s worries deepened.

Zephyros began to show an unusually neurotic appearance frequently.

An inferiority complex, and the sense of despair that the distance from the object of his admiration was widening, made Zephyros anxious.

And around the ti Zephyros’s anxiety reached its peak.

The two discovered a small village hidden in the mountains.

A village of hermits where those with disabilities due to innate or acquired pain gathered together to take care of each other’s pain.

Zephyros, who happened to build a friendship with them, would often visit their village to treat illnesses or spend ti helping with village work.

The existence of a 7th Circle mage was a great strength to them, who were barely living while hiding in the mountains.

As the ti spent mingling with them grew longer, a smile returned to Zephyros’s face again.

Was it because peace of mind had found him?

Zephyros’s magic training, which had shown no progress at all for a while, also began to show results little by little.

And seeing Zephyros find a path forward in the process of helping the poor, I finally felt certain.

That my younger brother Zephyros had finally succeeded in completely gouging out the seeds of darkness that had been planted in his heart.

Feeling deep relief at that fact, Alexar decided to go on a trip for about 3 months to handle work he had postponed for a while.

“It won’t take more than 3 months. Even without , make sure to eat well, and don’t overdo it with your studies. Understood?”

“Don’t worry. Brother, look forward to it. By the ti you return, I will prepare a truly surprising gift to show you.”

“A gift? Haha, what could that be?”

“It’s no fun if I tell you in advance. Hehe, if you’re curious, co back quickly.”

After exchanging farewells with Zephyros like that, Alexar left the village for a while.

Work proceeded smoothly, and on the day it beca 3 months as promised with Zephyros, Alexar was able to return to his dear ho.

-Brother, when you return, co to the village in the mountain valley. I will be waiting.

However, the house was empty.

All that was waiting for Alexar was a single mo placed on top of a table where a chill was circulating.

“…….”

From this point on, Alexar received a feeling that sothing was going wrong.

There was nothing in particular that could be called a sign, but a mage’s intuition close to instinct inford him that the situation was turning out to be unusual.

“Since I will prepare a truly surprising gift to show you!”

While struggling to suppress the ominous voice echoing in his head, Alexar dashed toward the mountain valley village.

And the mont he discovered that the entrance of the village he had run to in one breath was hidden by a concealnt-type barrier.

Alexar’s anxiety reached its peak.

Hummmm-

Alexar, who stepped inside the barrier, was able to confirm that his ominous premonition had beco a reality.

“Aaah…… sa…… save . Ugh!”

“My baby…… that mage…… my baby and…… wife…… into the test tube…… sa-save……”

That too, in the worst form imaginable.

Alexar dashed like crazy toward the village hall where Zephyros was said to be, and seeing the village hall that had turned grotesque, he received another shock.

Glug-glug.

“Ugh…… uuuuu……”

There, giant test tubes large enough for three or four adult n to fit in were lined up in rows.

And Zephyros was examining the test tubes with an expression that said he was literally dying of curiosity.

“……Zephyros…… you…… what on earth have you done……”

“Brother! You’re here. Was your trip good?”

Zephyros, who realized that Alexar had co, welcod his brother while waving his hand.

“Ah, what a sha. If I had finished the work just one day earlier, I could have shown the gift in ti for when you arrived!”

From Zephyros’s voice and expression as he pointed to a boiling test tube emitting strange smoke, a pride he could not hide seeped out.

“Brother! Do you see? The fact that I am saving these insect-like lives! These fellows are no longer those incomplete and abnormal lives from before! They are being reborn as perfect organisms without any flaws by my hands!”

Yes, it was clearly visible to Alexar’s eyes as well.

The lumps of flesh that were floating while not yet fully dissolved.

The lumps of flesh that were tangled and mixed into a single mass, wriggling while having lost the ‘human form’, were opening their mouths with difficulty and constantly muttering.

“Pleas…… e…… ki…… ll…… m…… e……”

The mont he heard that blood-soaked scream, Alexar was able to realize everything.

Exactly what Zephyros had done.

“Cough!”

“Brother, are you okay?! What’s wrong!”

And what kind of horrific results his choice to believe in him had brought.

Alexar, unable to overco the extre shock, hung his head and coughed up a handful of blood.

“Zephyroooos!”

And from the eyes of Alexar, who raised his head again, red tears of blood were dripping down.

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Leaning on the mories of my past life, I was finally able to reach the intended location, the underground sanctuary of the Kaltuara Great Temple.

Because the underground sanctuary was located in such a deep place, it maintained a relatively intact form even in the enormous great fire during the ti of the subjugation battle.

“Achoo!”

Dust rose as I rummaged through the floor and walls covered in soot, and Sherazade repeatedly burst into coughs.

However, I carefully examined the walls of the sanctuary without caring about becoming covered in dust.

However, the item I was looking for was not discovered.

‘As long as this sanctuary did not completely collapse, those things wouldn’t have been completely burned away either……’

What I was looking for were the stone slabs on which the formulas for the experints perford by the Apostles of Kaltuara were written.

Since these stone slabs were made of a special material in case they were subjected to fire or impact, Alexar had destroyed them in the past by applying a special magical impact.

‘Even if the subjugation force discovered this place, they wouldn't have taken the stone slabs. Because to soone who doesn't know Ancient Holy Language, they are rely ordinary lumps of stone……’

In other words, if ‘soone’ ca here and took the remaining stone slabs.

He must be a person with profound knowledge in both ‘Ancient Holy Language’ and ‘the experints of the Kaltuara Apostles’.

‘Should I have co here a little earlier even if it ant taking so risks……’

The reason I did not look for this place a little earlier was not just because of the unpleasant mories.

Since the sanctuary of Kaltuara was a place with a high possibility of dangerous things occurring in many ways, it was necessary to recover a minimum amount of power in order to visit this place directly.

So after completing the 8 mana rings, I headed for Arias as soon as a bit of leisure arose, but.

It seed I was one step late after all.

‘If soone visited this place in the last two or three years, even a minute trace would have remained. In other words, the bastard who took the stone slabs visited this place before the point I regressed.’

I tightly bit my lip.

When I threw a question so ti ago, that fellow answered as follows.

“Since when have I served the 4th Prince? Well. I would have to calculate for the exact ti, but wouldn’t it be about 5 years?”

Even if I had taken a more active interest in the Kaltuara Apostle subjugation battle as soon as I regressed, nothing would have changed the result.

The subjugation battle was concluded 6 years ago from now.

Because everything had already been finished at the point I regressed.

However, despite all these facts, realizing once again that the situation was flowing regardless of my will.

It could not be helped that a dirty feeling surged up.

‘Dammit……’

I, who felt a similar emotion to what I felt when I received Zephyros’s letter in Akrishion, clenched my fist until blood ca out.

“Master…… are you okay?”

Sherazade, who saw my unusual expression, asked in a cautious voice.

“Of course I’m okay. What is there not to be okay about?”

However, I imdiately regained my composure and showed the sa expression as usual.

Then I imdiately moved into action.

“From now on, stick close behind and move only as I move. If you move wrongly, you will see a quite interesting sight.”

Now that I had confird Zephyros was in a realm where I could not take action for the ti being, I could not hang onto that matter forever.

Now was the ti to put possible things into action.

What I chose as the first action was to turn this cursed place into a pile of ash.

‘You managed to survive, but this ti I will blow you away completely.’

After ticulously installing the magic bombs prepared in advance in various places of the sanctuary, I checked the detonator and the fuse.

Tick-tock, tick-tock.

Soon, as I injected mana into the fuse, the sound of the clock hands of the tirs built into dozens of magic bombs turning echoed from all directions.

“Hurry. We can’t watch the long-awaited fireworks from a basent like this.”

The two of us hurriedly escaped the underground sanctuary.

Squeak!

“Hey, get lost!”

There were several attacks while escaping the underground passage, but thanks to the staff of Sherazade, who stood at the front, doing its job well, we were able to escape outside without great difficulty.

And when we had moved far enough that the desolate landscape ca into view all at once in the field of vision……

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The entire vicinity of the Great Temple ruins shook as flas sprouted out in all directions.

The montum of the flas was fierce, but it did not last long.

The flas that sprouted violently over several minutes greedily swallowed only the vicinity of the ruins and then rapidly lost their montum.

“If…”

I, who was staring blankly at the temple that had already been in ruins turning completely into a pile of ash, asked.

“If a person you believed to be family betrays your trust, and if there are people who suffered irreversible wounds because of my foolish trust…… what would you do?”

“Huh? That question…… are you asking ? It’s too difficult……”

At that ti, Alexar begged for forgiveness from the people of the valley village in the only way he could.

However, even so, Alexar’s heart never beca light.

Because those who had the qualification to forgive his rash belief, that sin, had already beco lumps of flesh.

And in the end, Alexar was not forgiven by anyone.

“……Ugh, Master, you see.”

I hadn’t asked the question to Sherazade expecting a specific answer.

Perhaps I just wanted to confess about the mistake I had committed in my past life to anyone.

“Sorry, it’s too difficult so I don’t really know.”

Perhaps that was why even this kind of answer from Sherazade beca a great comfort to now.

“Yes. It’s a good answer. Living without knowing such things is the right answer.”

I, after confirming that the flas had completely subsided, tidied the collar of my shirt once and spoke.

“Shall we return to the lodging? After returning and eating breakfast, this ti we will truly depart for Veradora.”