I Became the Wrong Race

68 – Reunion (1)

The fight is over.

I knew it in the silence that fell over the great cavity, but I could not move.

It wasn’t that I was particularly tired. My body was definitely limp from the hard fight, but it wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t move.

The reason I couldn’t move was because of the words I had heard and the status window that popped up.

I always had good intuition. Even on the day my sister disappeared, didn’t I feel anxious because my heart felt tight all day long?

It was still like that now. I noticed something was wrong.

But I didn’t know exactly what was wrong or how, so I just stared blankly at the status window.

Two levels went up.

The enemy is a level 20 blood wizard, perhaps because it has a deep connection with the DLC’s story.

So I should have been happy, but I wasn’t that happy.

Rather, the last words the Red Beast said were eating away at me.

‘Beware the emperor.’

Emperor. In this world, there was only one being worthy of being called an emperor.

A being that is the safest in the Old Continent under the protection of the Protectorate and supported by the Council of the Five Grand Dukes.

Master of the empire.

At the same time, he was the most direct collaborator of the Heresy Inquisition.

Maybe that’s why I turned my eyes from the status window that popped up and looked at the melody.

She flashed her sword and put it in her scabbard, then smiled shyly at my gaze.

A thought I had stopped thinking about a while ago came back to me.

She was in the port city of Marcy.

Marci was owned by the Empire, and agents from the Inquisition were helping her to make her city a full-fledged Empire property.

She probably got that ax and the screamer still stuck in the ashes from there.

However, the questions that arose were not easily erased.

“Melody.”

A melody that turns a shy smile into a bitter smile when your name is called. She rarely opened her eyes and made eye contact with me.

“How did you manage to get here?”

The place I am now is a place I cannot get to right away unless I go through the pantheon.

At first glance, this city was underground, and it was hard to guess that I would be here unless I came through the pantheon’s teleporter.

No matter how good a spy you are and how great a melody is at gathering information, there are limits.

She had a great ability to synthesize countless pieces of information and come to a conclusion, but she wasn’t making something out of nothing.

“How did you know I was here?”

Isla and Lorian approach. Lorian’s face was pale with a tired expression, and her armor made of blood was dripping from her body, staining her clothes red.

Isla was better, but she was only ‘good enough’.

Looks like he wants to collapse and fall asleep at any moment. But I looked serious, so she yawned, covering her mouth, and gripped her crossbow tightly.

The escaped vampires slowly gathered in, and I tried to straighten my messy hair with my back to them.

There were too many dead people. Before I became a monster, I would have thought they were not human because they were mixed-blood vampires, but I couldn’t do that even after seeing them talk, think, and move.

Even the red beast that killed them could not hate them. Although the murder committed under manipulation was murder, it had a bitter aftertaste.

But I knew that this question was more important than everything else.

A melody sweeps my arms while looking at me. Her eyes were full of confusion.

And I was impatient, not stupid.

“What happened to the Heresy Inquisition, or Marcie?”

Melody laughed at my last question. She smiled and sighed and said.

“I got caught.”

A somewhat familiar expression. That was the face of a person who had almost lost everything.

Sure enough, she said.

“The empire betrayed me.”

*

Isla and Lorian did not follow.

Because someone was needed to collect Edilum’s body, bury the dead mixed blood vampires, and talk to the mixed blood vampires about what to do next.

I left immediately after thanking Lorian, who said he would take care of it and pushed me to go and have an important conversation.

Because there was something I needed to hear.

After all, it was worth it. Didn’t they say the empire betrayed them?

Isla was not interested in whether it was the Inquisition or the Empire, and Lorian was her her blood her relative to her, so even if she heard about it, she had no use for it.

Naturally, what remains is me and Melody. I forced my creaky body to sit on the chair, and Melody looked at me blankly.

“You can rest a little. “I’m not going anywhere.”

“If you have something to worry about, you can’t sleep, and a homunculus doesn’t need to sleep in the first place.”

“Men who push themselves too hard are my type.”

“Don’t pass it off as a joke. “Tell me.”

As I leaned in, Melody laughed quietly.

If it had been last time, I would have been embarrassed, but the situation was so serious that there was no sign of it.

Still, he seemed to be bothered by the proximity, so he gently pushed me away, and even the hand that pushed me away was warm.

“What do you mean the empire betrayed?”

But my question was bold. It was such important information that I refused to even clean it up, so I was anxious.

Melody knew that well.

“I know it’s urgent, but if you listen in haste, you’ll only misunderstand. So calm down… Take a deep breath.”

Please. I stopped to argue with his brief afterword and took a deep breath.

“That’s right. “Good.”

I was a little concerned about Melody being treated like a child, but deep breathing definitely helped.

When my heart seemed to have calmed down a bit, Melody leaned forward in her chair where Dilum had once sat.

“That vampire from earlier. Did she know someone?”

“I don’t really know. We were just about to become allies.”

“It’s an alliance… What happened?”

How much should I explain? After thinking for a moment, I told him everything.

Because hiding it doesn’t suit my temperament.

The pantheon I found, my face engraved on that pantheon, and my relationship with the existence of my father.

The three clans are looking for their father, and my existence is something they are trying to retrieve.

What happened after that could be easily inferred.

After guessing the melody, her expression darkened.

“Father… I’m sure I’ve heard it a few times. My sister too… He was seen investigating its existence a few times. She even asked me for a favor.”

“… Protecting the country?”

“There wasn’t much of a harvest, but I could tell that it was related to the three clans, just like you said.”

A melody that quietly places its hands without speaking for a moment. Her golden eyes were drenched in fatigue.

“But that’s not the point. What’s important now is… “Why am I here, and what does it mean that the empire betrayed me?”

“Yes.”

“I will tell you in order. “If you’re confused or don’t understand something, please let me know.”

A melody chattering with a small mouth. However, the words he spoke out now were far from his usual lively and relaxed appearance of her.

“Ho Kuk-gyeong, your sister has been dismissed.”

“… Loss of office?”

“They say they plotted treason. It was written so in the edict issued by the emperor himself. As a bonus, she said she would disband the Heresy Inquisition that her sister had created and captured all of her affiliates.”

Everyone involved. Of course, that includes me and Melody. As I stared blankly, Melody laughed.

“You don’t have to look at it with those eyes. Because that’s me.”

“Okay then.”

“Servan also betrayed me, but I was able to escape somehow. “I thought I should find you first.”

Are you worried about me? I quietly waited for her to speak, and she turned her golden eyes to her ground and then spoke.

“I looked for traces and found the pantheon you mentioned. The mourning vehicle you left behind during your search… I also found a monster used as a . Thanks to you, I was able to come here.”

Did you do well? He forced a smile, but he didn’t look that happy.

I looked at her blankly, and she smiled awkwardly.

“It seemed safe, so we set up camp around that structure. “The mourner said he was very worried that he didn’t come back.”

“Thank you.”

“Thank you. “I am a good boss who takes good care of his subordinates.”

I tried my best to joke, but I didn’t have the energy to laugh.

“Then… What happens?”

Melody looked away from my question. She pretended not to hear it and seemed to want to move on with the feeling that she didn’t hear it.

But I couldn’t leave it like that. It was an important issue.

Perhaps more than any problem I face right now.

I grabbed her wrist, and although she was shocked and surprised, she did not shake off her hand.

Regardless of the fact that I didn’t have the strength to do so, I didn’t even try. Instead, he slowly approached me and buried his face in my arms.

I didn’t mean to do this. A melody that you stick close to, sigh deeply, and then drink in.

She fell after a while because she couldn’t say anything because she felt like something was tickling her. Her face was slightly red.

“Her sister is not the person to plot against her. There is no such thing as a desire for power, and sometimes they do things that are incomprehensible, but it usually brings the best results.”

Know. My older sister was that kind of person.

“There is no way my sister would have plotted against her, and even if she had plotted against her, she would have had a reason for it.”

And Melody’s eyes roll and look at me. The eyes looking up were clear.

“She was that vampire, a pretty strong vampire. I don’t think such a person would have said anything in vain. She told me to watch out for the emperor. That’s why I said the empire betrayed me.”

I thought so too.

Actually, if you think about it, there were quite a few strange things.

It was a place where major incidents occurred one after another that could not be resolved unless the player stepped forward.

Five grand dukes were murdered, a civil war broke out, and something happened that shook the entire empire and plunged it into chaos.

Nevertheless, the empire survived. The aftermath of such an incident was minimal.

There was no intention to resolve the issue until the player stepped forward.

However, there were many people inside the empire who betrayed themselves due to the influence of the three clans.

Doesn’t the man-eating baron’s coat I’m wearing prove that?

Above all, the attitudes of the three clans were also strange.

They were not united, and although they were united to some extent by the purpose of the Father’s second coming, they were not in an atmosphere of truly cooperating with each other.

Like Lorian, Hertol, and Edilum, he could have turned his back on his clan for the sake of his father’s second coming.

It was also strange that such beings treated the empire so aggressively.

It wasn’t something that could be explained by simply wanting resources or something like that.

In fact, when it comes to resources, there would be more resources from the Northern Tribal Alliance, which has a longer history than the Empire.

There was something strange about the empire.

So what should we do?

What should we do with the ‘protagonist’s colleagues’ who are still part of the empire?

Above all, what about Lucilla, the most important person in the world?

As my worries deepened, I made eye contact with Melody.

“First of all, it would be a good idea to bring in Lucilla, the Guardian. I don’t know how, but…”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry about that.”

Melody smiles and says it’s okay.

When I saw her expression, I realized who I was worried about.

Actually, Lucilla was level 20.

He’s not just a level 20 character, he’s the main character and the only homunculus with magical powers.

Still, I thought it might be difficult to swim across the continent, so I thought I might have to prepare something like a ship.

“Oh, I didn’t tell you.”

Melody smiled slightly as if she had finally remembered it.

“You’ve already arrived.”

“… Yes?”

Melody searched her arms and took out something of hers.

It was something like an elongated steel checkerboard, and each square of the checkerboard had letters engraved on it.

Darker’s letters, a picture whose translation appears above the status window the moment you look at it.

[Arrival in the New World. Please resend the location of the campsite.]

The letters have a stiff feel, perhaps because the spaces are limited. As I stared at Melody blankly, she explained.

“It’s a magic item that only my sister and I have. “I couldn’t use it when we were on different continents, but now that I’m here, I can use it.”

The saying that my older sister came to this new continent.

Then I closed my mouth and closed my eyes tightly.

I guess I wasn’t mentally ready yet.

I didn’t know how to act when we met.

I haven’t seen my sister for almost two years. No, has it been more than 2 years? Even the calculations don’t work properly.

It felt like we were meeting for the first time in almost 10 years.

Moreover, I wasn’t sure if it was really my older sister.

Otherwise, I’ll be disappointed, but I’m not ready to endure that disappointment yet…

It was when I barely opened my mouth amid all these thoughts.

The melody ended with a refreshing attitude.

“He will be waiting for you at the pantheon now. Let’s meet and talk about the details.”

I closed my eyes again and took a deep breath, feeling like my vision was getting dark.