Chapter 200: Traitor’s Ending

“…” I fall flat on my face, my mana has been totally depleted, [Ocean of Despair] is a very costly spell for the current self, my master had also warned me not to use it, since if my enemy survives, the current self would be unable to fight and would be killed.

And I’ve received many cuts, I didn’t notice in the fight, but now I notice that several of my vital organs have been destroyed and my condition is quite critical.

However, the spell worked perfectly. I glance up and see Thalor frozen, while the entire scenery around us becomes blood, but unlike me who is simply standing still as if the ground were solid.

Thalor is slowly sinking without being able to move, he can’t attack, speak or make any kind of movement, he just sinks slowly while his eyes tremble slightly.

I look down, this ocean of blood that is too complex to be described if not visually.

’There’s something down there…I wonder what it is.’ The ocean of blood doesn’t seem to have an end and there are slight ripples and movements down there, as if something is lurking around us, just waiting.

All I know about this spell is that whoever is captured by it will go through an unparalleled hell forever, trapped somewhere eternally without being able to die, only suffering.

This is probably one of the strongest spells I currently have, since it can affect opponents stronger than me, and if it weren’t for the many incantations, it could be more versatile.

However, due to the fact that I first need to have a lot of salt around and second, have a long chant, it ends up being bad to use against someone much stronger.

“You saw it too, right Thalor? It’s waiting for you, what do you think it is? Honestly, I don’t want to find out, I’m sure it’s something terrible,” I murmur with difficulty due to the extreme fatigue that has fallen upon me.

The sword that was at my throat has already been expelled and I’ve started to regenerate. I wanted to have killed Thalor with swordsmanship, but from the beginning I saw that I wouldn’t be able to do that.

Thalor is faster and stronger, so I was left with using magic, or else the fight would have spent most of the time with me defending until I exhausted myself too much and was forced to use my monster form.

’This reminds me of a portal…’ The ocean of blood seems in a way a portal that leads somewhere, although it is clearly a red liquid that really smells of blood.

Thalor has already sunk halfway, he looks at me with anger? I can’t quite identify, but he clearly doesn’t like it at all.

“…” The blood ripples more as if that thing down there is rising, soon I can see different variations in the blood, that thing is extremely close to the surface and is circling the area like a shark.

’I’m glad that seems unable to come up.’ I see something slowly approaching Thalor’s legs, which are now completely submerged.

’I can’t see.’ Even being closer, I can’t see it clearly, I can only see that this thing bit Thalor’s foot and then begins to pull him down, making him descend extremely fast.

I see how Thalor quickly disappears amidst the sea of blood, being dragged into the depths of this red ocean.

“…” The spell soon begins to fade, the ocean of blood simply begins to give way to the arena, all the salt that should have existed has been taken, in the end, like all the spells of chaos, this spell was confusing.

“L-Lilith, I need help…” I murmur without being able to speak loudly, soon Lilith Nix Kaos enter the arena and come to me in a hurry, using magic on me to help me.

“Your Majesty, are you alright?”

“…”

“More or less…” It wasn’t just the mana, the spell itself puts a huge weight on me, so I’m more exhausted than ever to the point that moving is not possible.

“T-This is s-scary,” Kaos says as she looks at me.

“Is there a problem, Lilith?” I question Kaos’ suspicious reaction.

“…”

“Let’s just say maybe yes.”

“…Explain.” This makes me anxious.

“Your Majesty, do you feel different?”

“No?”

“I-I see, well if you don’t feel bad, everything must be fine hahaha,” Lilith laughs with some nervousness.

“Elena, tell me what’s wrong with me,” I murmur to Elena, who is in the stands with the others. She quickly comes to me, along with Freya and Calypso.

“O-Oh, well…I think it’s better if you see for yourself, I have a pocket mirror,” he takes a small mirror from his pocket as Lilith and Kaos help me stand up and put my arms behind them so I don’t fall.

“Oh…”

“I-I see, it’s not that bad, I think,” I murmur, not liking it much.

’Remember, I’ve already seen this! It was in the book about my anatomy, but which part was it?’ Soon someone enters the arena.

“Pandora, Freya sent me a message to come see you since your duel is over.”

“K-Kyaa…P-Pandora, why is your body covered in black scales!”

’Wow…she’s GREAT at hiding what she sees…’ I’m not much of a beauty, my body is covered in black scales in various areas, especially in places where I was injured and where there are vital organs.

“Don’t worry, Zephyra, this is temporary,” I know that in the anatomy book there were two parts about this, and they are all temporary.

“Besides, these aren’t scales,” I remember this part, in fact, this is the black mud that forms my body, it’s just that in this case it’s rigid and hard like scales.

’I remember…’ These are a defense mechanism for children of my race, it’s similar to the Moro Reflex when the baby feels like it’s falling, it stretches out its arms and then pulls them back in. It disappears around 4 to 6 months.

My race also has this, in my case the child me generates plates to protect myself, it must have been activated because I’m very exhausted, it’s not just the mana, my whole body is tired and I can’t move.

So these plates are protecting my body in important parts, but I should be able to remove them on my own.

I try to take them off and they soon fall to the ground. Zephyra gives a sigh of relief, I guess no one here has ever seen this before.

’Damn…’ This just reminds me that I’m a child, when I’m in the adolescent phase I won’t have this defense anymore, but for now I have this, it’s just never been used.

“Anyway, today is my birthday! Where are my gifts?” I say to divert attention from my relatively naked body, since the armor only covers the minimum.

’These plates…’

“Violet, can you eat this to recover your mana?”

“…”

“Yes,” Violet just answers yes, so I squat down and pick up the scales, putting them in the palm of my hand. They soon disappear, so I put them all.

“Pandora, are you really okay?”

“Yes, I’m fine, I can even move now,” I’m still tired, but I recover quickly, so I can already move.

This defense of rigid plates is interesting, but not very useful, in monster form, flexibility compensates more than rigidity, so it’s really something only useful for a child who needs to defend itself.

And I must say that they didn’t suit me at all, I looked strange with them covering my body, especially because they stood out on my pale skin.

“You know, Lilith, I wouldn’t be mad if you said I was ugly…” I think they think I care a lot about my appearance, that’s why they were reluctant to say I wasn’t pretty.

I wasn’t extremely ugly, but the irregular scales clearly didn’t favor my appearance, especially those on my face.

“I’m not 100% tyrannical, if you said I looked ugly, I would have accepted it without problems.”

“…Well, Your Majesty seems to care a lot about appearances, so it’s kind of hard to say that, especially after you’ve had the disappointment of having to eliminate a traitor.”

“Okay, anyway, they come off if I want, see, I’m completely normal now.”

“Yes, I guess healthy children recover quickly.”

“…”

“…Let’s hurry up and celebrate this before I really get mad, I want to forget this fight.”

“And Freya, why did you call Zephyra! I didn’t want her to see me in a slight moment of ugliness!”

“She is the queen, so I thought she should know…” Freya responds with some fear, but Zephyra intervenes.

“Pandora, I don’t think you’re ugly, it was just a moment of surprise, and besides, I also have scales that can grow over my body, would you think I’m ugly for that?”

“N-Never! I’m sure you’d look gorgeous with some scales.” What bothers me is not having “scales” all over my body, but still being a child.

“Zephyra, I really hope you’re being honest, but know that I’ll always be beautiful to you and I’ll get even more beautiful in the future, so just forget about it and give me a cool gift.”

“In the end, this was just a defense mechanism of my race, it’s nothing to worry about like a magical disease or parasite of some kind.”

“If you say so, then okay. Freya told me what happened, aren’t you really sad about that?”

“Sit on the floor and let me use your thighs as a pillow.” Zephyra obeys as I lie down on her thighs and close my eyes, fixing the changes I had made like extra eyes and mouths.

“I…I’m not sad, I’m not sure how to say it, but feeling sadness is difficult, I just felt disappointment, but I wasn’t sad.” Since I was reborn, I think I’ve never been sad.

Even when Elena “died” and revived, I wasn’t sad, just full of anger and shock. Of course, if she had really died, I would have been sad after the anger, but what happens is simple, I just can’t get sad easily.

“Pandora, you’re a child, you should act more like one, you know?”

“…”

“If I acted like a child, I’d be raping girls and killing and torturing other beings.”

“…Forget what I said, you’re a prodigy child, you should stay in line.”

“I never thought the day would come when you’d try to console me, even though I’m not sad…is it because you were a child without that?”

“Maybe…” Zephyra murmurs.

“Don’t worry, Zephyra, in a few years we’ll have children and you’ll have lots of them to give affection, comfort and attention to.”

“Hahaha” Zephyra gives a gentle laugh.

“Do our conversations always end up with children that so much makes you want to impregnate me?”

“Uh-huh, I really want to.” I agree with this.

“Then you should grow up first, don’t you think?”

’Grow up…’

“When I’m an adult…” I murmur. I think that when I’m an adult, I’ll have already dominated the world or be close to it.

“Zephyra is right, I’m a child, so I guess I should enjoy it, right?” I squeeze her breasts.

“!!!”

“Why the shock? I’m just a curious child who wants to touch this soft fruit to test it.”

“…I don’t have a gift, but I think I can give you something you want?”

“Sex!” It couldn’t be anything else, with a cute wife like her, the answer is definitely sex.

“…”

“Your cute little head is just full of sex? Okay, I’ll give you that, but could you at least be gentle with me?”

“My dear wife wants a little gentleness? Then I guess I can make you go to heaven in a gentler way today, I’m feeling very generous!”

“Pandora, I…watched your fight with the hero.”

“…”

“I…I don’t know why you were so cruel, but I was worried that you would lose.”

’Stockholm Syndrome…seems to have acquired it after suffering and receiving kindness…’ I don’t care if she only loves me because she’s practically sick, I’m satisfied in the end, any form of love is irrelevant as long as it exists.

“Thank you for worrying, but I won’t die.”

“I want to ’sleep’ a little in your lap.”

“Okay, you can sleep.” She agrees.

’I still can’t sleep 100% close to her…’ It means I don’t fully trust my life to her. I wonder when the day will come that I will acquire this trust, but I’ll leave that for later.

For now, I’ll enjoy this lap pillow and sleep to rest.

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