Sched gritted his teeth and moved his tingling arm to desperately defend against Dietrich’s attack.

A shockwave that seemed to split the earth and pierce the sky shook the world.

Every time he forcibly moved his cursed arm, he felt pain as if his muscles were being torn and his bones were being crushed.

But he couldn’t give up.

The darkness pouring down with the rain.

The blue light flashing through that darkness.

Thousands of blue lightning bolts seemed to strike and rip apart the pitch-black night.

The skeletons nearby were swept away and the forest tilted from the wind pressure bursting out where the two forces clashed.

Occasionally, the flow of air would mix roughly, and storms and waterspouts would swirl and then scatter again.

However, gradually, the balance of light began to falter.

Dietrich laughed as he saw the curse spreading over Sched’s body.

“I told you. You have an end.”

Blackened blood vessels began to bulge above Sched’s neck.

A pain like a steel thorn bush constricting his neck dug in.

And the moment a fleeting tremor occurred in the sword wrapped in aura.

“Cough…!”

Dietrich’s blade grazed his neck.

As Sched coughed out the pain gathered in his throat, fresh blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

The blue light scattered hazily, and the tip of the sword dipped into the muddy water.

His rain-soaked body trembled in pain.

The curse that grazed his neck accelerated further and sank black roots over his cheeks and chest.

He spat out his rough breathing into the cold air.

Sched spat out the blood pooled in his mouth and wiped his mouth with his blackened back of his hand.

Red spread in the puddle, and he lifted his eyes again to look at Dietrich.

“Trying to endure more?”

Dietrich laughed as he looked at the mortal who would one day be buried and rot in the dirt.

His breath had become shallow due to the curse that had permeated to his bones.

No matter how hard one tries, there are things that are impossible with willpower alone.

He even felt pity for Sched, who was struggling to go against his destined fate.

Also, he was so utterly fleeting that it was boring.

Dietrich leisurely picked up any sword from the mud.

“Let’s end it now.”

Playing with one who will eventually perish ends here.

Dietrich wrapped black magic around the sword.

Sched stood up on his two feet again as he watched Dietrich point his sword at him.

But the aura was already flickering dimly like the light of a dying firefly.

Blood flowed through his clenched teeth.

Dietrich lightly swung his sword at Sched, who had gathered his stance.

Dietrich, who had lived faithfully as a priest and scholar, had never properly used a sword.

But the pitch-black blade he wielded clashed with Sched’s sword and aura.

He mocked the fleeting resistance of the cursed one.

“How pitiful.”

The blackened veins in Sched’s eyes watching the enemy burst.

‘Damn it, my vision…’

His senses grew dull, and the curse that engulfed him gnawed at his organs one by one.

Clang!

In the end, Sched’s sword was deflected by Dietrich’s clumsy attack.

His stiffening body staggered and lost balance.

“Cough!”

Blood poured from Sched’s mouth.

His weakened knees buckled and slammed to the ground.

Dietrich finally laughed as he saw Sched kneeling on the mud.

Despite being the loser, Sched’s eyes with black blood glared at Dietrich.

As if he would aim for Dietrich’s neck the moment there was even a slight opening, his sharp eyes gleamed.

“I respect that tenacity.”

Dietrich brushed back his hair that had come loose in the rain.

Water droplets dripped from the ends of his long silver hair.

Because Lupus had endured for an amazingly long time, Dietrich was also quite exhausted.

A curse that had spread to the point where anyone else would have already had their breath cut off.

He had no choice but to acknowledge that the tough breed was special.

“I will make your death worthwhile.”

Your corpse will make quite good research material.

It will have value as an undead too.

Dietrich took a step closer to Sched, who was breathing roughly while holding his sword.

Sched tried to resist and put strength in his legs to lift his body, but his knees plunged into the puddle with a squelch.

No more strength would enter.

Dietrich raised a black sword toward his pitiful nephew.

At that moment.

“Stop.”

The black power swirled and entangled the blade like a vortex.

That power climbed up the sword and clung to Dietrich’s wrist.

“What the…!”

The moment Dietrich lifted his head, a darkness like a curtain draped over him crashed like a wave.

Crack, the blade withered and crumbled like a fallen leaf.

‘This is…!’

Black magic.

But it wasn’t Dietrich’s own power.

When he turned his gaze forward then, eyes that shone so chillingly in the darkness of the new moon moved.

In that instant, Dietrich quickly protected his body as if the scythe of death was aiming for his neck.

Boom—!

Dietrich’s body was pushed back, scraping the mud from the enormous collision that even raindrops couldn’t approach.

“Kuh!”

“…Dietrich, Lester.”

A low voice exhaled between the scattering black fog.

Dietrich saw the woman walking through the rain.

“Louise…!”

She, who had been comforting Eve, was now blocking his way.

She had an expression he had never seen before.

He felt a heart-wrenching pressure on her white face that had hardened coldly like an ice sculpture.

‘I feel fear from that mere woman…?’

Dietrich shook his head.

“I’m perfect now too.”

He repeated to himself that he was an immortal being.

Since he wouldn’t die, there was no reason to feel the fear of death.

Moreover, he knew black magic better than Louise.

He had a thorough understanding of all knowledge related to black magic and ancient sorcery, and it was he who had created Louise.

“You, who know nothing about this power, are no match for me, Louise.”

Dietrich regained his composure and twisted the corners of his mouth.

At the same time, Dietrich’s body turned black.

Black magic wrapped around his body like armor, and his fingertips flashed with a sharp power like the claws of a beast.

“I’m the one who made you, Louise! Show reverence before your creator.”

He charged at Louise, emanating a massive power as if he was on a rampage.

However, she stared straight at Dietrich rushing toward her without blinking an eye.

Massive booms erupted one after another like thunder.

A huge crater was dug and blackened around the spot where the two collided.

Dietrich smiled crookedly as he saw Louise standing unwaveringly across from him.

Because Louise’s body was also dyed black.

“If you were going to use black magic like this, why did you hide it until now? Huh?”

You acted so noble, but in the end, you need this power too.

At Dietrich’s mockery, Louise bit her lip tightly.

He was right.

In the end, she had no choice but to rely on this power.

It was so terribly disgusting that she wanted to deny this power she had wanted to reject all her life and that her beliefs she had tenaciously kept were being broken.

Louise Ideana had become an undeniable demon.

She clenched her black hand tightly.

Although she had put on the crown of thorns of sin that she had wanted to deny and run away from all her life, she had no regrets.

Because now she had someone she had to protect no matter what.

Dietrich sneered at the firm will reflected in Louise’s eyes.

“See, in the end, you’re the same being as me.”

She seemed to think that unlike him, she had kept her noble goodness.

However, from the moment she used black magic, she had crossed the line.

Now, she was outside the line, just like Dietrich.

Is one who kills to prevent murder innocent?

No, they are just the same murderer.

“So don’t act so noble and admit it.”

Then, at his provocation, Louise bit her lip tightly.

Red blood spread at the end of her lips and soon healed and stopped.

“…Yes, that’s right.”

I’m so disgusted with myself that I want to kill myself too.

But if there’s something I can do with this terrible power,

“So let’s go to hell together.”

She decided to willingly accept being a demon.

The two powers clashed again, shattering the cold air to pieces.

However, Dietrich leisurely countered her power.

A power he fully knew. Attacks he fully knew.

The black magic he had researched countless times was in the palm of his hand.

Moreover.

“You don’t even know the spells for black magic, right?”

Dietrich, who had been fighting with heretical powers, showed his white teeth and laughed, then recited a sentence in an ancient language.

Then, huge bones rose up behind Dietrich’s back.

What had dug through the mud and risen like a huge whale breaking through the sea was none other than the corpses of magical beasts.

The rotten and decaying magical beasts howled with an eerie sound.

That sound spread to the point of piercing the ears of those defending the castle far away.

“You know too little about this power, Louise.”

At Dietrich’s signal, the huge magical beasts charged at her simultaneously.

Furthermore, Dietrich did not let his guard down.

To completely subdue the undying Louise, he poured attacks on her along with the undead.

Under the relentless barrage of attacks, Louise was completely buried and out of sight.

No matter how immortal a body Louise had, she would not come out of this attack unscathed.

‘If her heart was pierced, she couldn’t move for ten to several minutes, at most for dozens of minutes…’

With the recent attack, not only her heart but her body would have been completely crushed.

It would take a long time to fully regenerate the body even with this power.

‘So if I use brainwashing spells and binding spells again in the meantime, she’ll be quiet for a while…’

At that moment, as Dietrich was calculating the statistical time, the undead magical beasts that had pounced on Louise screamed, and a pillar as black as pitch soared into the sky from their midst.

With that power, the magical beasts exploded and were torn apart in all directions, and even the thick ink-black clouds that had draped the sky dispersed, creating a huge hole in the sky.

And.

“Cough!”

Kwang! Louise, who had pierced through the shattered magical beasts, grabbed Dietrich’s neck and slammed him into a huge rock.

The rock that received the impact cracked, but Louise did not let him go.

“That I don’t know much about this power…?”

A cold voice settled in his ear.

Dietrich looked at Louise in front of his eyes, gasping for breath.

Her body was covered in blood.

But Louise was calm and chilling as if she felt no pain.

“You’re the one who doesn’t know this power well, Dietrich.”

A blade shone at Louise’s fingertips.

The Ideana dagger that Sched had given her was gripped in her hand.

There was no hesitation in her eyes.

“Have you forgotten how many people I killed with this power?”

At Louise’s question, Dietrich’s eyes widened and his pupils contracted.