Chapter 275 The Hoarder (15) (1/2)

Team: HH, thursdays, Yahiko (4/12)

Yeon-woo’s expression hardened. He was wearing a mask, but his expressions could still be seen.

‘It’s…..Jeong-woo’s necklace.’

Yeon-woo examined the necklace as he approached the skeleton. It was a necklace of red rubies.

Though it was damaged, it was still recognizable.

Jeong-woo had presented this to Lana while practicing his metallurgy skills.

It almost lost all its function as an artifact, but the corpse was still gripping it tightly like it was precious.

‘What happened?

Lana was extremely powerful, enough to make his brother see her as his teacher. Also, this was the Quartz Palace, which not even the Eight Large Clans could find. He couldn’t believe that she had been assassinated in a place like this.

The problem was that it had been a long time since the corpse was left alone.

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He wondered if there would be a vestige left. He needed to find out what happened as soon as possible.

Yeon-woo pulled black energy out to blow it into the corpse.

The black energy didn’t enter it, most likely because the river had corroded it too much.

Just when he was wondering what he should do, something occurred to him.

‘What if I force it?’

He activated the 3rd Spirit to the extreme. He knew that its functions had increased quite a bit with the Blessings from Azrael.

However, he had never tested it out, so he didn’t know what would happen.

Black energy was energy that came from death. He thought maybe it would be possible to somewhat reverse the time of a corpse, even if it had been a while since its death.

Fortunately, he was right.

The black energy that kept on being flicked away was absorbed into the skeleton. Then, a whitish human-like image stood up.

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Blue hair and black, burnt skin. She looked weary, but she was still the same Lana from the diary.

『Lana, do you know where you are?』

Yeon-woo spoke to her through Consciousness. However, Lana didn’t move in the slightest, her head looking down. Her eyes looked dead.

‘Only her vestige woke up. I suppose I can’t completely revive her consciousness.’

The Vestige Body was only made up of the pieces of the vestige that were left in the corpse. It was merely a collection of her memories.

He would be able to know what happened more clearly if she could talk.

Not having any other option, Yeon-woo put his hand on Lana’s Vestige Body.

Then, it scattered, and all its memories poured into his head.

Even the last desperate emotions that she had – all of it.

Hwak!

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-Benteke! How could you…..!

In the memory, Lana was sobbing at someone. She was once called the ruler of the River of Souls, and if all her subordinates were gathered, they wouldn’t fall short of the Eight Large Clans. But that was not the case in this memory.

She had done whatever she could to revive her forces.

She had sold all her precious treasures to gather forces and allied herself with enemies of the Eight Large Clans.

At first, she had thought it would take about 10 years, but things progressed faster than she thought.

Not only could she revive all her past forces, but she could grow them bigger than before. Then, she would restart the war.

She would make those who destroyed her precious disciple wander around the River of Souls, unable to move onto the Beyond, and avenge her disciple by also destroying the Eight Large Clans.

However, one incident ruined all her plans.

The subordinate that Lana cherished the most had mutinied. He was a likeable guy, so there were many who followed him, and the coup he had organized killed all her guards.

She could see the cracking barrier, the river water pouring in, and her subordinates suddenly being attacked.

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Lana grit her teeth and shouted at the person who had caused all this.

It was the first time she looked that furious since her disciple died.

However, he calmly walked down the hall that was littered with corpses.

Even though he had broken the necks of his comrades whom he had just been drinking with, he didn’t bat an eyelid. There were no signs of sadness or happiness on his face. He looked cold and apathetic, like he had never been the amiable person she thought he was.

-My king, Lana. My precious fiancé. You’ll never know that this was all caused by what you did.

-What kind of bulls*** is that!

Benteke. He was Lana’s right hand. Also, he was her lover.

Because he also knew Jeong-woo well, they had had some drinks together, too. They weren’t comrades or friends, but they were definitely acquaintances.

Also, he was Poseidon’s apostle.

The 12 gods who symbolized the godly society, Olympus. There was great meaning behind being the apostle of one of the most powerful gods.

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In the higher floors, Benteke was more famous than Lana.

He had been a great help in the Blue Rose establishing their power on the 28th floor.

However, he had caused this coup. Lana hadn’t been able to do anything because it was something her most trusted advisor had done.

She never would’ve imagined that Benteke would do something like this.

Even though he always had drinks and women around him, despite them being lovers, and caused the occasional trouble, Lana was also a free-spirit, and she didn’t care about those aspects. Rather, this was the reason why they got along better.

But why had such a person done this?

-Look. Things have gotten to this, but you still don’t know.

Benteke didn’t have the warm face that he always had when he looked at his lover. Instead, he looked completely expressionless and growled like a lion.

-Cha Jeong-woo, Cha Jeong-woo, Cha Jeong-woo! You don’t see that your subordinates are tired every time you say his name—that I’m tired. You’re pushing us all into hell.

-What…..!

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-If you don’t know, just stay ignorant like that your entire life. If it’s easier for you to think that way, go ahead.

Benteke continued, crinkling his eyes.

-No. If you can’t even think about it, accept it like this. You always used to say that. ‘The strongest takes all.’ Right now, I’m strong, and you’re weak. What would happen if I take everything you have?

-Bentekeeee!

Lana couldn’t suppress her anger and ran at Benteke.

It wasn’t widely known, but Lana was the apostle of the goddess of the sea, Ceto. She was as powerful as Benteke.

Kwang!

With a rough explosion, half of the Quartz King Palace was blown away.

Then, like the vestige was cut off, Yeon-woo saw a new scene.

In the ruins of the battle, where all the fighting had stopped, Lana was left all alone on her throne. The river water had filled up to under her chin, and her body melted from the acid. She had used all her magic power in the fight with Benteke and didn’t have any strength left to stop it. It was horribly painful, but she didn’t care.

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She just quietly pulled out the necklace that protected her, even though everything around her was destroyed, and gripped it in her hand.

-…..Jeong-woo. I’m sorry.