Chapter 277
After Camillo disappeared, the situation was quickly resolved.
The Count, who had awakened from the magic stone, was captured before he could cause any trouble, and Ernst confessed all of his and his father’s crimes. Those who had shamelessly sold out the country, including Neilla’s father, could not avoid trial.
Neilla, who faced her father, seemed to have slightly wavering eyes, but she said with a firm face, ‘Please make him pay the due price for his crimes.’
Her family was thus deprived of all its property, and her father was imprisoned. Nevertheless, she remained composed. Neilla said that she would rise again with her own strength.
Mana and the women he had been protecting all came out and helped to detain them, and it was Ethan who directed and cared for them. He soon became a king who atoned for his sins by saving the country. The women soon became an order of knights who would protect the kingdom, carrying on Camillo’s legacy.
The healed World Tree soon disappeared to a place beyond human reach. It was probably trying to merge with the ‘real’ World Tree. A huge oasis was created in the place it had disappeared, and the small Airas that had been hiding returned and properly moved and stored the magic stones.
The people rejoiced, calling it Aiha’s blessing, and vitality returned to the faces of the Castrello Kingdom’s citizens.
The terrain, which had been desertified over a thousand years, would not change, but the vitality of the people who organically interacted with the magic beast Airas, which had been created by the influence of the magic stones, and lived near the oasis would never cease.
Roina was pleased to see Castrello being put in order, but on the other hand, she couldn’t hide a bitter feeling.
Amidst everything being set right, she realized that her magic was again the problem. If there was a problem, it was the humans who misused it…
‘If this enormous power didn’t exist, would humans have been greedy?’
There was nothing as futile as a hypothetical question about the past, but it was a thought she couldn’t help but have.
And the great mage who had come to save Roina collapsed again.
She hurriedly looked back at Yoseph for an answer, but he shook his head with a meaningfully dark face.
‘It seems he has been somewhat… consumed by Ryuhyeon.’
The words that followed were about Ryuhyeon’s dark intentions. Roina’s eyes shone with anger.
Roina knew instinctively.
‘South.’
The last piece in the south that she had not yet found. If she found only that, she would also gain the power to fight back. She would no longer be helplessly victimized.
‘There seems to be a way to do something… I will continue to investigate as well.’
With those words, Yoseph turned back.
Roina no longer had the energy to properly deal with him. She was terribly distressed that the great mage had overexerted himself for her sake and that she had been helplessly played by Ryuhyeon’s plans. Whatever it was, she had to leave.
Knowing that about her, Ethan approached and placed a thick shawl over Roina’s shoulders.
“…Are you leaving?”
Roina placed one hand on Ethan’s hand and answered.
“Yeah, I have to.”
Ethan’s gaze became heavy. Even knowing that, Roina looked away.
“…When will you come back?”
Ethan couldn’t leave this place. But Roina was the person he had a contract with, needing him. No, even without that contract, he needed her.
She had no choice but to return.
But Roina shook her head slightly.
“I don’t know.”
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