Chapter 417: Hero or Villain
Eren had single handedly brought down the Kiel Family, saving the heir of the family, who now worked for him.
Through Ruby, he had made inroads into the Northern Continent. More importantly, he now has backing to drag the Western Continent into mud.
Despite everything working out for him as he planned, he still felt a little restless. Everything had gone a little too smoothly.
He still hadn’t forgotten the author’s warning. His trip to the Northern
Continent was going to lead to his death. There was moving in the Kiel Family Estate that could threaten his life, so which part of the future was the author talking about?
Was he looking even farther into the future than he had assumed? Eren wasn’t sure. The only thing that could threaten him in the Northern Continent was the
Necromancer Tower.
“Was that warning related to the opening of hell?” he wondered, gazing at his inventory which still had the Hell’s Pass.
The pass had no description. The only thing it stated was that it could only be activated when he was within the right proximity of Hell’s Door.
Even though he wasn’t informed about the whereabouts of Hell’s Door, he had a rough estimate about its location. It was at the Necromancer Tower.
“Was that a warning to keep me away from hell? Just what is inside hell that could
threaten me to this extent?” Eren
wondered, rubbing his shoulder which had the mark of the Emperor’s Sword.
“If I get scared now, will I ever be able to conquer that fear? Even if I don’t go to hell; hell will come to me. Will I be safe if I stay in the Eastern Continent?”
Even though he asked himself a question, he already knew the answer. If he didn’t pave a war forward, he was going to be no different than Fey who only relied on external factors to protect him.
“I have destroyed the leaders of the main
families of the Northern Continent,
weakening them. I hope this is enough to
draw the Necromancer Tower out. But if it
doesn’t, should I try entering the Necromancer Tower myself?”
Eren was still lost in contemplating when
he heard the sound of footsteps and rubble
being moved under someone’s feet.
“You are alright,” a girl’s voice came, sounding extremely relieved.
“If these people were able to kill me, then what face would I have left?” Eren calmly answered, looking at the corpses littered around the surroundings.
He had been leveling up, stealing abilities and strengthening his Dragon Tongue Comprehension. If even after all that, he could be defeated by a few family heads that were weaker than the Cardinals, then
he could only die in shame.
Ruby didn’t know what to say. If these
people were insignificant in front of Eren, then how strong was he?
“Is hesitant. She couldn’t see her father’s
my father…?” Ruby asked, slightly
corpse anywhere. Even if there was a corpse, it was beyond recognisable now.
She didn’t want to offend Eren by blaming him for her father’s death, so she appeared hesitant to even ask about it.
“I am sorry. I tried to save your father, but his soul had been completely tainted by that man. I had no other choice but to kill him.” Eren apologetically answered. Even though he had promised the girl that
he was going to save her father, that was when he didn’t know about Fey’s upgraded abilities.
He couldn’t save his slave like he had freed
his mother, because their minds had been completely corrupted. There was no resistance left in them.
The only thing he could do was kill them as swiftly as possible.
Ruby grew silent. She knew that she
couldn’t blame Eren for it. If he couldn’t
save her father, then it was most probably impossible from the beginning. Was she
the fool who had been under false hope? “The third corpse on the left is his. You can arrange a burial for him…” Eren informed the girl before she could even ask. Silently, the girl turned around and walked over to the corpse of her father.
Eren momentarily looked at the girl who was crying in front of her father’s corpse. She quickly shifted his attention to another
direction.
“Do Eren who stood up and started walking
you feel bad for her?” Felona asked
away.
“Why would I feel bad for her? If I start
feeling bad for her, should I also feel bad for the families of the people I have killed before?” Eren responded, but it was clear that his tone wasn’t as firm as before.
Even Eren was coming to realize that so many families were destroyed because of him. However, he couldn’t change his
direction. For survival, this was the only path. “There is a saying,” he added after a brief period of silence. “Being kind to your enemies is no different than being cruel to
yourself. I am not the Main Character. I will not have a false sense of morality.” consider yourself a villain?” Yelen
“Do you
asked Eren.
There was only silence for the next few
minutes. After a long time, Eren’s lips parted as he uttered a few words, “I am
neither a hero, nor a villain. I am just an ordinary man who wants to survive in this foreign world.”
“Just an ordinary man who wants to
survive?” Yelen repeated Eren’s sentence, feeling as if a lot of hidden meanings were
hidden beneath his ordinary sounding
sentence.
Once again, a long period of silence
arrived. The silence was only broken when
a portal opened in front of Eren. From the portal, a bloody figure came
falling out. With a thud, the figure which
looked like it belonged to a bloodied young man fell at Eren’s feet.
“I left him alive, just as you wanted.” A woman stepped out of the portal, dressed in a yellow dress. She was being accompanied by Spirit Queen Felona who had opened the portal.
“It seems like you had a lot of fun already.”
Eren went down on his knees, taking a
closer look at Fey whose eyes looked lifeless. It was as if pain had completely destroyed his sanity..
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