Chapter 200: 200

The captain’s expression shifted, a mix of determination and satisfaction. He barked orders to his men, and they began following the trail Roth had laid out, disappearing into the forest.

Roth allowed himself a small, satisfied smile. He watched as the soldiers reached the forest entrance and found the last trail. Roth noticed the hesitation they had on moving forward into the forest before ultimately deciding to head back.

Roth, seeing that knew things were handled, headed back to his castle. This encounter made him realize how bad of a move it will be for Ethan to suddenly nab a human out of the town.

Looking back to the town, Roth thought to himself “I will have to cast a strong mesmerization spell on these humans so that when one one them misses it won’t be easily noticed”

On the other side of this southern continent, Murmur with his new look in his underground kingdom sat on his throne while looking at the monster he sent out to find how Keles was able to make her way into the mortal world.

The huge humanoid monster with horns and wings knelt with it’s one knee not looking up to Murmur before speaking out loud “Our mission had proven to be useless my lord. There has been nothing on the goddess believer side that proves they have succeeded in shortly summoning the goddess”

“None of our informants has any idea on what has happened as nothing extraordinary has taken place” the monster said with a hint of fear seeping into its voice.

Murmur’s expression can be hardly read with his flaming head and no skin on his face. But his hands squeezing together showed that he wasn’t happy.

Waving his hand, the monster bowed before retreating from Murmur throne room.

Murmur sat in silent before stating out loud to himself “I can’t comfortably move to mark out new humans without knowing on what led to the goddess appearance”

This was an option that Murmur doesn’t like as the marked humans were a planned option he had for himself to quickly regain back his strength, the more he held off the more he loses the opportunity on doing as that as who knows how close the goldings and believers are close to figuring out a way to summon the gods back to the mortal world.

Thinking that, a look of conviction flashed on Murmur’s face “I have to try again, it it doesn’t work then that leave me with only one option”

So for the next few weeks, Murmur underlings were picking out humans who were going to be marked by him. At the same time he had one of his subordinates known for its ability to bring about sickness, affect a whole town.

Using his power, he made sure the town was off limits to everyone under his empire and those who dared get close were eliminated. It took some time before the sickness started killing people in the town and since there were no healers or doctors they couldn’t be helped.

Like before, as they die their souls are drawn to those marked by him and inhabit their body. Murmur in his throne room was overlooking everything but his throne room was looking a bit different this time as it was surrounded by a glowing magical circle that is to be activated in the slightest inconvenience.

Wardenwild, who has taken on the role of getting souls to their final destination which is the underworld, took notice of the anomaly as he was sleeping in the spirit world.

With no hesitation, he communicated with the spirit world’s will, as a portal opened before him with its destination being at the front of the town filled with sickness.

Wardenwild as soon as he appeared took note of the town’s unusual look and the current state of the mortals. A weird look flashed in his eyes as he walked into the town.

He noticed as the unusual sickness in the air tried to stick to him but they could hardly get through to him so Wardenwild continued his slow Journey through the town.

Wardenwild made a round throughout the whole town without being seen even though he was a huge deer the size of a building. Reason for this was that spirits can hardly be seen with mortal eyes, only in a special state can they be seen.

An example would be, a human walking with a crush while coughing heavily only to suddenly stop as he looked up to Wardenwild’s glowing form. Wardenwild looked at the human, waiting and soon the human fell to the ground dead as his souls left his body.

Normally with Wardenwild being in close proximity with a dead soul, they should move towards him like the guardian he was but instead Wardenwild watched as the soul was pulled into a building close by.

Wardenwild walked to the building, undisturbed he put his head through the roof to see a human who didn’t look sick like the others in this town, instead the only defect of this human was his deranged visage with drool leaving the corner of his mouth as he had a silly smile on his face.

Wardenwild’s pupils shrunk as he noticed how ten souls, male and female, were tethered to this human body. A look of recognition flashed in his eyes as he said “Murmur”

As soon as he said that, Wardenwild’s head pulled back from the roof with no visible damage to it as he looked at the street where a dark swirling portal can be seen opening up.

Out from the Portal walked out Murmur with his flaming skull as he looked at Wardenwild. He tilted his head to the side as he said to Wardenwild ” Have we met before?, it seems like you know me”

Wardenwild looking at the main consciousness which he was a part of before for some reason wasn’t as scared as he thought he would be instead he calmly took a huge step forward as his huge head got closer to Murmur before he responded “Of course I know as it was off recently that i became a being of my one”

Murmur looked at Wardenwild before his glowing eyes flashed a look of recognition as the flame on his head got hotter “A consciousness of mine willingly becoming a selfless servant is something I Murmur never would have thought would happen”

Not waiting for Wardenwild to speak, he said “Then, you were the one to summon and gave the goddess a short access to the mortal world”

Wardenwild hearing that took notice of Keles power present on Murmur flaming skull especially the part where the flames weren’t reaching.

A look of glee flashed across Wardenwild face which Murmur caught before Wardenwild responded mockingly “It seems my goddess has paid you a short lasting visit”

A huge Monstrous hand with dark nails appeared momentarily from the void as it swiped at Wardenwild throwing his Monstrous form into the buildings in the town.

Wardenwild’s colossal form crashed into the buildings, sending debris flying. The townspeople, already in a state of despair and weakness from the sickness, tried to scatter in terror but they were so weak that they all fell to the ground and could only try to crawl away from whatever unknown that was destroying their home. Wardenwild, shaken from the blow, struggled to his feet, his ethereal glow flickering as he faced Murmur.

“You dare mock me?” Murmur’s voice boomed, echoing through the desolate town. A heavy depressing aura covered the town as he began walking towards Wardenwild.

Wardenwild saw that breathed out as his form shrinked as he took his humanoid form, from the slight opening in his mouth ashy smoke began making its way out surrounding him.

Wardenwild’s eyes narrowed as he regained his composure. “Your thirst for power will be your undoing, Murmur”.

Murmur seeing the ashy smoke frowned as he said “Not only did you become the worlds’ servant, you also became the goddess of death envoy”

As he said that, it clicked to Murmur as he began laughing “Now it make sense why you appear here, You took on the goddess role on preserving the well being of this world soul”

Looking up to the void where he could feel the gods watching, Murmur with a clenched fist said “Well played”

Looking at Wardenwild, Murmur began chuckling as he cracked his neck with a satisfying crack “I have been on the passive when facing the gods, but you. You are nowhere near the gods so I will have a good time making sure regret your choice”

“I know the rule, so I won’t kill you but I can make sure you wish I did” Murmur said as disappeared from his position appearing at Wardenwild left side as he swung.

Wardenwild had a hard time reacting but the smoke around him had no such problem as they moved, blocking Murmur’s fist. At the same time from the ashy smoke a phantom of Björn people appeared with an ax as it swung at Murmur who swapped away the ax blowing away the phantom.

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