IMPORTANT:
Edited Chapter 3
“……your heart is like the dead swamp where the deceased of the dark resides though”
to
“……your heart is like the dead swamp where hellspawn resides though”
Tenacity
Approximately 200 years ago, a certain house amidst the wheatfields that stretch across the rural town, Jezemaksiria, back then. The one who was born in the ordinary peasant farmers’ house was Asch＝Dahl.
His mother was a beautiful and cheerful woman, but she died from a wide-spread disease in the summer eight years after Asch was born. His father had apparently loved his wife very much; his alcohol consumption increased after that, and he died after falling into a lake drunk.
Asch, who lost his relatives, imposed on Hazen＝Heim, who was touted to be the number one Magician on the continent back then. There were tons of people who hope to apprentice under him, but Hazen, who saw through Asch’s talent, happily welcomed him.
When Asch turned ten years old, he came to attend the prestigious Lessarm Magic Academy back then. With the continent’s number one Magician’s recommendation, he became the youngest Magician of common descent. It was only natural, that the innocent and cruel students persecuted him.
At that time, the one Asch encountered was a girl called Liana, who’s three years older than him. The bullying he received was quite something, but she alone was different. She protected, scolded, and laughed with the crying him. Asch loved such her.
Before long, she was afflicted with an incurable disease. A disease that not even Hazen’s Healing Magic can cure. Asch’s Magic Element is Dark. He couldn’t use Healing Magic, which is Light Element, and a high ranking one at that. However, Asch loved her. Hence, he wanted to save her no matter what.
Perhaps one can call that, a miracle. Asch’s talent was, a Magic that staked and consumed his everything. It’s a Magic that trumped even Hazen’s by far. At the territory that one won’t ever reach even after consuming their entire lives, Asch at this time arrived.
And then……hell began.
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“……aah, morning”
When Asch opened his eyes, the Aristo religion’s adherents held their breath with pale expressions.
“Yo……you monster”
“Aah, are you talking about this body?”
His bones shape, and his flesh forms from the tip of his arms that turned to ashes. Before long, the skin quickly regenerates to cover them. Who knows how many times the Aristo believers killed Asch last night. Without leaving a trace, over and over again.
“……Julia died in vain because of your actions. Had you considered sealing me without killing me, you might have possibly achieved your goal”
While moving his body that finished regenerating before long, he stares at Julia and laughs softly.
A dark light was covering his fingertip.
＜＜Oh The Dead Of Sheol, Devour, The Living’s Soul＞＞ーーDance Of The Dead(Zeno・Dance)
The black light that emitted from the symbol that he drew sinisterly, made the girl’s eyes open widely all of a sudden. It’s a Dark Magic that moves corpses as though they are alive. It varies depending on the caster’s level, but one can bring out the abilities the target possessed before death.
“No, no way……Ju, Julia!?”
A single Aristo believer rushes over and holds her shoulders. It’s the man who was crying at her death just now. He shakes her over and over again, but those eyes of hers remained vacant.
“Is, who she was. It has been said that we, Necromancers, listen to the grudges of the dead, but that’s mistaken. It’s no more than materialising and putting to use the energy of the remnants of the cognisance that the dead left behind. That’s why, she’s no longer her……just like this”
Gusa.
Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa. Gusa.
Julia stabbed the man’s heart with the pocketknife she had prepared over and over again.
“……guwaaaaaaaah”
“Fufufufu……even a ruthless act like this that Julia-sensei wouldn’t do, this corpse will perform it for me without hesitation”
While laughing, Asch looks to the other Aristo believers.
“……kuu, you hellspawn”
“If you ask me, you people feel similar as well though?”
“Wha, what did you say!?”
“Julia……she was an Aristo believer up until the very end. Just to seal the Magic of me, whom she hates so much that she wants to kill, she ended that life of hers. And……what about you people? You strayed from the creed you believe in, and how many people have you killed without hesitation?”
“……sh, shut up”
“You want to kill the Dark Magician, right? The light you believe to be right ought to be placed before all else; you won’t have mercy for anything that strays from that. You people sure aren’t beautiful. Absolutely ugly……I think I shall give the best present of all to you people”
Asch casts a seal at the collapsed man. That was, the identical seal that he cast at Julia. A dark light envelops the man and permeates his skin. Before long, the man gets up like nothing happened and stares at the Aristo believers with vacant eyes.
“……”
“You don’t have to be that afraid. I will kill you people, now, in the best way that I can think of”
The Dark Magician curved his lips and laughed.
