The Villain Has Gone Mad For Me - Chapter 81

The North. In front of an unbreakable wall.

Ice particles mixed with snow flew on the wind from the mountain range.

Edan’s black cloak fluttered as he stood with his back to the plains.

The place where the most monsters poured out in the Empire.

The plains below the mountains were wide open, with no trees to slow the monsters’ speed. Therefore, if the monsters broke through the wall, it was only a matter of time before they infiltrated other territories through the northern city center.

Past the northern city center and brushing by a few small towns was soon the capital of the Central region.

It was that dangerous a place, and thus guarded by mages with powerful artifact traps.

Such a wall had collapsed.

The wall, built high and perfect without even a gap for a sheet of paper, had been split in half and exploded as if precisely struck from top to bottom.

It looked as if a giant monster had swung its foot to destroy it, but monsters cannot target just one spot so precisely. Because they are very unintelligent and mostly in an excited state when fighting, they usually attack indiscriminately.

For monsters to reach the wall, they had to pass through two stages. First, they had to pass through the sharp ice mountains to reach the place called the gap.

The gap is a magic wall created by mages’ artifacts, a transparent barrier-like space. Normally, Edan would open this barrier at set times to fight.

He had fought an almost constant number of monsters every night to prevent too many from flooding beyond the wall.

While the gap in the wall had broken or collapsed several times before, it was the first time the wall itself had been damaged.

Especially now when monsters were decreasing and the end of the war was in sight.

Edan’s eyes narrowed coldly as he frowned slightly and clicked his tongue.

Edan’s sharp gaze, quietly staring at the collapsed area, shifted once to the left, once to the right.

And then it reached beyond the transparent curtain wall of the gap between the collapsed walls.

It was all bloody inside.

The ability knights were frantically swinging their swords and emitting blue light to fight, but they were all battered, overwhelmed by the number of enemies.

Monsters accustomed to darkness like bright colors and light and chase after them, but their eyes are that sensitive. So they couldn’t see well in strong sunlight like the sun and weren’t awake during the day. But for some reason, monsters were awake and raging at a time when the sun was up.

Even Edan, who had been fighting the war for quite a long time since he first started exterminating monsters, had never seen such a sight.

“Damn it. Monsters in broad daylight…”

Just as Edan muttered softly, gripping his sword tightly.

The curtain of the gap split and a monster jumped out.

“Ah, no!”

One of the knights fighting cried out urgently, turning to chase after the monster.

At that sound, Edan strode forward.

Like someone who knew no fear, Edan walked towards the giant monster rushing at him and swung his sword.

Slash-

The monster’s red blood poured over Edan’s cheeks and head.

Even without using his ability, Edan’s sword split the monster’s belly in one stroke.

The monster fell, spilling its contents.

Edan, without changing his expression, struck the trembling monster’s neck to perfectly cut off its breath.

“My lord!”

At that moment, Ruben’s silhouette was seen running through the split monster. Edan asked, shaking his sword up and down to shake off the sticky blood on the blade.

“Ruben, did you confirm?”

“Yes. The number of monsters keeps increasing.”

“What do the northern mages say?”

“Thanks to the good repair last time, they say the curtain of the gap can hold out to some extent.”

As he spoke, Ruben looked at the curtain of the gap. The curtain torn by the monster that had just jumped out was closing itself.

“But because there are so many monsters, it will only last about five or six hours.”

Edan’s hair fluttered in the blowing cold wind.

“My lord. This wasn’t done by monsters. Someone must have deliberately destroyed the wall.”

“I think so too.”

Someone who could use strong magic to destroy the wall’s trap.

It would be an imperial mage. The conclusion was obvious.

Because it’s impossible unless it’s an imperial mage. And there are limited people who can use such beings in this way.

“For example, Elder Brother Killian.”

“…”

Ruben thought so too. But he neither affirmed nor denied it.

Because he knew Edan’s heart, still calling the crown prince “elder brother” when no one was around.

Edan wiped the monster’s blood flowing down his cheek with the back of his hand.

It was a face completely devoid of laughter.

“Send a servant to the castle in the east to check if Latieana is well. And call Dante from the south.”

“The duke?”

“Yes. He’s the one who uses magic best in the Empire. Tell him the wall has collapsed and to find something that might help.”

If it was an incident caused by Killian as he suspected, he needed to quickly resolve the situation.

Thick veins bulged on the back of Edan’s hand holding the sword and on his nape.

And soon, an overwhelming blue light spread strongly around him.

For some reason, I felt pain as if my whole body was about to break.

When I instinctively embraced the painful areas, more pain came.

“Ugh…”

I groaned instinctively and opened my eyes.

My vision was blurry and my eyelids wouldn’t open well, so I had to blink several times before I could see in front of me.

And there was Ivy in front of me.

“Hello, my friend. My dear Latieana.”

Ivy, standing with her back to the sunlight coming through the large window, greeted me affectionately.

“Ivy…!”

I quickly got up and backed away.

That was it. With nowhere else to retreat, my back hit something.

Looking back, the bed post was blocking me.

I quickly scanned my surroundings.

It wasn’t Ivy’s bedroom that I had entered when I came to the temple last time.

It was a smaller room with a large window, and a long sofa placed under it.

And one bed was all the furniture.

Is this one of the rooms in the temple? I definitely fainted after seeing the black-haired man.

I remember that much…

‘It was red eyes.’

The same eye color as Edan. He had handsome features with jet-black hair. Could that man have been Crown Prince Killian?

Damn it, Ivy. You even dragged in the crown prince.

Seeing my expression darken, Ivy smiled as if satisfied.

“What’s wrong, Latieana?”

Are you crazy? Ivy was acting shamelessly as if what happened between us last time never happened.

As if she had really met a precious friend she hadn’t seen in a long time.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t you happy to see me? We finally met again, why are you reacting like that?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. How can you say you’re glad to see me?”

I staggered to my feet.

Then, as if confirming that the pain I felt earlier wasn’t an illusion, my whole body ached again.

It’s true that I collapsed as if fainting when I faced Killian, but even if I hit the floor then, would it hurt this much?

Just as I was trying to endure the strange pain in my body while grimacing.

Ivy sat down on the long sofa and smiled.

“Does it hurt?”

Although I frowned, I didn’t say a word about being in pain, but Ivy seemed to know what pain I was feeling.

“What did you do to my body?”

“I didn’t do anything. Not yet.”

Ivy looked me up and down, and I rolled up my sleeves to check my aching arms.

What is this?

Both my left and right arms had blue bruises as if they had been hit by something.

Since there was also pain in my calves and thighs, I lifted my skirt.

“…!”

Sure enough, there were bruises here and there on my legs as well.

I hadn’t looked in a mirror, but judging by the pain in my shoulders and back, it was obvious those areas were in the same condition.

Biting my lower lip tightly, I raised my head and glared at Ivy.

“You didn’t do anything? Ivy, you…!”

Ivy clasped her hands and burst out laughing.

“Why are you so surprised? It’s natural to have that much injury since I beat you.”

Ha. This is ridiculous. What did she say?

Is she saying she beat me while I was unconscious? To the point where my body is in such a mess? How?

I examined the wounds on my body again.

The bruises were too severe to have been caused by beating with a frail woman’s body. Looking closely, there was a reddish tinge, clearly blood bruises.

“Latieana, do you know? I’ve learned to do a lot of things since coming here.”

Ivy got up from the sofa and took a step towards me.

“The position of grand saint is amazing, isn’t it?”

I stood firmly on my trembling legs, gripping the bed post to avoid falling.

“I can make you not feel pain at the moment of being hit, but make it painful like this when you open your eyes.”

Ivy, who had suddenly come close enough to be right in front of me, pressed the tip of her finger on my bruised shoulder and smiled.

“Even if you’re beaten thoroughly with a hard wooden stick, you don’t know anything. As always.”

She’s out of her mind.

I grabbed Ivy’s hand pressing on my shoulder and roughly shook it off.

“Ugh!”

Ivy’s expression, which had been looking down on me with a sense of superiority, crumpled as if she hadn’t expected me to react this way.

I didn’t stop and pushed Ivy’s shoulder hard with my palm.

No matter how weak my physical strength was, when I pushed her away aggressively with malice, Ivy staggered back.

“You! Are you crazy? How dare you…”

Ivy raised her hand towards me in surprise, but before that, I slapped Ivy’s cheek.

With a sharp sound, Ivy’s head turned. After a moment of silence, Ivy slowly straightened her head.

Ivy looked at me with a bewildered expression as if she had received a great shock, then suddenly began to scream.

“You crazy bitch! How dare you hit me? Who do you think you are to hit me! Latieana! Are you crazy? You must be crazy! Do you know who I am?”

I stood straight looking at Ivy and said.

“I know. You’re a witch.”

At that moment, Ivy rushed at me like a madwoman.