“Any last words?”

“I am a servant of Lord Saraph. I won’t die easily. Cough.”

“I’ll give your regards to your son Ruans.”

At the mention of Ruans, Daniel stopped his chatter.

“He’s not my son… hey.”

Teishar raised his sword high and plunged it into Daniel’s heart.

“A cold-hearted father who denies his son until the end.”

As Daniel died, the knights and soldiers following him began to retreat. Teishar intended not to let the enemies who had entered through the main gate with his knights escape.

But before that, he brought the blue crystal orb of Musila to Lorencia.

“Roa.”

“Ter.”

“I killed Daniel. And…”

Teishar handed the crystal orb to Lorencia.

“This seems to be Lord Musila’s crystal orb that Daniel spat out before he died.”

“He vomited it?”

“Yes. Suddenly he coughed up black blood and spat out the blue crystal orb.”

Lorencia looked at Musila’s crystal orb. She tried to hold back, but tears fell from her eyes.

“I don’t know why he spat it out, but Daniel lost his strength and collapsed, and I didn’t miss that opportunity.”

“Perhaps the white snake’s venom was purified by the pillar of light.”

Daniel was a human who had contracted with the white snake. Titania had said that the condition for maintaining the contract was to consistently consume the white snake’s venom. Perhaps the accumulated venom in his body was vomited out due to the pillar of light, and the swallowed crystal orb came out with it.

“That’s fortunate.”

Lorencia looked at the blue crystal orb with a very longing expression.

“Thank you for bringing it to me, Ter.”

Lorencia quickly wiped away her tears and smiled.

“Lorencia di Glosten, I kneel before you.”

Teishar knelt on one knee, looking at Lorencia.

“As a knight protecting the child of Goddess Ella, I dedicate the glory of victory to Lorencia di Glosten.”

His lips gently touched the back of Lorencia’s hand. After kissing her hand, Teishar raised his head and gazed at her lovingly.

Lorencia took the blue crystal orb to the pillar of light.

The blue crystal orb disappeared with a flash of light the moment it touched the pillar of light, as if it had been waiting for this. At that moment, Lorencia heard a voice in her head. She closed her eyes and focused on the sound.

[Was the power to see the future useful to you?]

“Yes. It was useful, but…”

Lorencia slightly raised the corners of her mouth as she continued speaking to the voice.

“Seeing the future meant seeing an end I didn’t want to know, and I had to bear it all alone. It’s a pain I couldn’t tell anyone about.”

Lorencia thought of Teishar. He had calmed her when she was afraid of the changing future and asked her not to use her power. He reassured her that the future could change for the better.

As he said, she thought it would be better if the future changed for the better depending on how she changed, rather than seeing a determined future.

She went back 10 years and twisted the present to change the future. In that way, the future was changing for the better for her. Now she couldn’t predict if it would change for the better, but that didn’t matter.

Because Teishar had taught her that she needed to work hard now for the future.

[So Lorencia, you don’t want the power to see the future?]

“No, I don’t want it.”

Numerous thoughts and feelings flashed through Lorencia’s heart. Even if the future were to worsen despite her efforts in the present, she wouldn’t regret the efforts she had made.

[Are you regretful about losing the power?]

“No. I don’t want the power to see the future.”

[Live happily, my child.]

With that answer, Lorencia opened her eyes. The blue crystal orb had completely become one with the pillar of light. The pillar of light spread even wider.

The people protecting the Polroid Empire cheered at the sight of the spreading pillar of light, but soon they covered their ears with both hands at an ear-splitting roar.

“I won’t forgive this!”

Once again, Pelena’s scream pierced their ears sharply, and people covered their ears again. It felt like their eardrums would burst.

“How dare mere humans… You are just insects to be kept in a garden!”

Despite covering their ears, people couldn’t bear the pain from the booming voice of the white snake Pelena, who spoke with a pale blue face. People started collapsing one by one, bleeding from their ears.

Lorencia also stared at Pelena with a pale face.

“Child of Ella. I will surely chew you up here, gnawing on each of your bones carefully. But before that, I’ll kill all the people you hold dear.”

At these chilling words that could freeze her heart, Lorencia bit her lower lip hard. Honestly, the current situation with Pelena appearing was worse than the war.

Dark and cold smoke gathered around Pelena.

Lorencia felt her heart sink. If she released her venom like this, people’s lives could be in danger.

“I’ll kill you all.”

Pelena roared and screamed. Lorencia watched as Pelena transformed.

It was exactly like the white snake’s appearance reflected in the amethyst orb before.

People’s faces were tinged with terror at Pelena’s transformed appearance. Some people fainted, choking as if a knife had been stabbed in their hearts.

The white snake moved slowly and struck the ground with its massive tail.

As soon as Pelena saw the pillar of light, she heard a forgotten voice.

[Saraph. I’ll give you a chance to return to the tree roots.]

“No. How could I have come this far!”

She vented her frustration.

“This world was built on the grave of my life water. This world is mine.”

[Even knowing that, you intend to kill the world built on your life water?]

“It’s just that I become the god instead. I’m asking you to give way.”

[No more. Nahash has also transplanted his life water to this world.]

She didn’t want to hear anything. The growing pillar of light was visible. The pillar of light is originally the light emitted when life water grows.

She realized from the current pillar of light that the life water of this world had fully grown.

“Foolish Nahash.”

Nahash had given his life water as fertilizer for Ella’s life water. Without that, the complete growth of the life water was incomprehensible.

She couldn’t just stand by. At this rate, she would surely be forced back to the roots. So, at least she would tear Lorencia to pieces before returning to the tree roots.

An eerie chill continued to flow around Pelena, who had transformed into a giant white snake. Small vipers emerged from the snake’s mouth, sticking out their long tongues and attacking people.

“Everyone be careful.”

Teishar shouted as he cut down the vipers with his sword.

The magicians burned the severed bodies of the vipers. A sweet fragrance surrounded the area.

Pelena spat out even more vipers. Lorencia prayed with her hands clasped in front of the pillar of light.

The pillar of light sparkled, and the vipers turned to ashes and disappeared.

Lorencia recalled how the pillar of light had purified the fairies who had turned into monsters due to the white snake’s venom. Now, the pillar of light was the countermeasure against the white snake.

Pelena looked at her disappearing soldiers and vipers, and Daniel’s lifeless body.

Everything she had achieved over long years using Ella’s temple had collapsed. She even felt a sense of futility.

She wanted to ruin everything of Ella’s, but instead, she was the one ruined.

“Let’s end this today.”

As soon as Pelena said that, she moved her body. She opened her mouth wide with all her might and headed towards Lorencia.

The sharp and ferocious fangs and the bright red, long tongue were chilling.

Teishar shielded Lorencia. And he gripped his sword tightly.

But Pelena couldn’t approach Lorencia. It seemed as if an invisible wall was blocking her.

Pelena was taken aback. She tried to break through the invisible wall, but she couldn’t muster any strength. She absolutely couldn’t break through. She had intended to kill at least Lorencia before returning to the roots, but even that seemed to fail, and her body went limp.

Teishar didn’t miss this moment. He charged towards Pelena with his sword. His sword emitted a black light like obsidian. That light grew larger and larger.

Pelena roughly swung her tail at the approaching Teishar, but he dodged nimbly and cut her body with his sword.

Although she was a divine being who couldn’t be wounded by human swords, she felt Nahash’s power in Teishar’s sword.

Pelena gathered the rising anger at the tip of her tail and struck at Teishar again. Watching Teishar approach her while dodging here and there, Pelena screamed.

“Don’t come near me.”

This wasn’t the scene she wanted. Where and how had it gone wrong?

“Die, white snake.”

Teishar’s sword pierced the white snake’s head.

At that moment, Pelena recalled a forgotten memory.

Why had she forgotten that leaves and flowers protect the tree trunk and roots from strong light?

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The capital attacked by Pelena, who had transformed into a huge white snake, was overflowing with destroyed buildings and corpses. It couldn’t be helped. The white snake had attacked suddenly, and there were people who couldn’t evacuate in time.

Some people managed to hide quickly and save their lives, but in the places where the white snake had passed, there was a stench from water and food that had quickly rotted due to the poison.

People were stunned by the sudden attack of the white snake.

All the empires in this world provided various supplies to help rebuild the Polroid capital.

Although everyone was shocked by the sudden war with the white snake, people cheered at the news that Lorencia, the child of Goddess Ella, and Teishar, blessed by the black snake, had defeated Pelena.

“The evil witch is gone.”

“Now I’m too scared of white snakes.”

“Still, it’s fortunate that the white snake Saraph is dead. Surely it won’t appear again, right?”

“We don’t know about that.”

The existence of Saraph inevitably came to mean the most evil being in this world.