Chapter 294

Chapter 294

Because it was so obvious and mundane, Exchetra said I was just entertainment to her. I, too, had the same thought.

Maybe I read too many novels.

Whether it was a reincarnation novel or a comic, it was all the same. I thought I had to do the same. I thought I had to follow the original story.

As if it were a rule or something.

“Are you insane?”

“I don’t know, damn it. I told you to release it today…”

“Would she survive if you do?”

“That’s why I said do it in moderation!”

“Did I?! Am I the only one who did it?!”

Their words, which had been murmured, gradually became more apparent.

“First, let’s untie her arms and legs. If we just dump her anywhere, who’s going to come and rescue her?”

“Tsk… this woman has no luck.”

After all, I was taken by their leader. I couldn’t help but sneer at that.

What if they were knights of the imperial palace? I felt whatever conscience I had left, which I thought would be challenging to deal with, disappear entirely.

My suspicion that it was a hideout was correct.

The gruesome things tightly bound on my hands and feet fell off with a clatter.

“…Ah… cough!”

When I tried to clear my throat, something hot surged up. It was blackened and charred and came out along with bloody phlegm.

I stared at it in a daze.

For the first time, I was thankful that I had learned magic from Kaichen. If not, I wouldn’t have known what the blackened and charred lump that I had vomited up was.

“Ah… haha! Amazing.”

I was filled with pure admiration. Since I had nightmares whenever I closed my eyes, all I could think about was what Exchetra had done to my body while I was unconscious.

“What is this?!”

“Are you dying?”

The men exclaimed as if in disgust. I ignored them as they took hesitant steps backward.

I took a deep breath and flexed my fingers. Fortunately, I could move reasonably well except for my left leg, which I couldn’t feel.

My trembling body brought me intense pain even when I breathed, but I was able to endure these three days because it was nothing to the pain when I spent a century suffering all kinds of torture.

I slowly got up and grabbed the charred lump I had vomited out. The squishy lump seemed to wriggle, making it look grotesque.

How long had I been carrying this in my body? To the point of it being this charred.

Kaichen said that he had completely removed all the toxins from the venom using the antidote.

But since it was an extremely toxic and a special poison with five venoms mixed that could turn any man insane, he repeatedly emphasized that I had to keep taking the antidote.

‘Fool, you could have just told me honestly.’

Kaichen knew about the presence of the black lump in my body. He knew it needed to be removed for my body to completely return to normal.

But he couldn’t remove it.

It’s not that he didn’t know how; he probably didn’t remove it because it might risk shattering my sanity. He chose to detoxify it as much as possible and keep it a secret from me because he valued me.

But after Exchetra found out that it was still in my body, she used her hand again. Hoping for the horrific poison that tormented me for a hundred years to seize me again.

I knew she was a terrific woman, but I couldn’t help but admire her anew.

You don’t miss a single detail.

Kwaack! Pow!

Without hesitation, I clenched my fist tightly, and the blackened lump burst.

I had wondered from the beginning why I couldn’t use magic properly. I could sense my mana, but it wouldn’t move as I wished.

Looking back, Kaichen said that for magic to work, a wizard’s mental state had to support it. You couldn’t use magic with a shattered mind.

My mental state was so wrecked seeing Kaichen’s death. Despite having the magic to run away, I had become a fool who couldn’t use magic.

Exchetra bound me up like this without even using much force.

‘Haha… What’s all this?’

There was no point in cursing myself, although I was indeed a d@mn idiot. I blinked my eyes slowly.

I glanced at the black lump that had splattered everywhere, looking like black blood. This thing was inside my body for a century and even a few more.

I don’t know how I was able to spit it out on my own, but at least there was nothing left in my body that would devour my sanity.

My body hurt terribly, but my mind was clearer than ever.

I took a deep breath and exhaled. I felt the pain as my lungs shrank, but the corners of my mouth naturally curled up due to the clear mind.

I raised the hand covered in black blood. A pleasant breeze swept through, and I casually wiped the blood off my clothes. I stuck out my tongue and licked my lower lip.

“Isn’t it too princess-like to wait quietly to be rescued at a time like this?”

As I whispered, black rose petals fluttered in the wind.

—

Asta sensed Turbuea’s time magic was broken and returned to the hideout to free Dalia Alshine.

It was a shabby house set up by the Momalhaut faction to deceive the onlooker’s eyes.

Although it looked run-down on the outside, the vast underground space connected to it was, in reality, the largest Momolhot hiding place in Huelin.

There was only one entrance in the form of a dilapidated house, but there were several exits with imbued teleportation magic that allowed you to leave.

Asta opened the basement door and walked through the hallway to carry out her given orders, and Asta felt strange. Almost eerie.

He should be dragging Dalia Alshine out with him.