Elden Clergyman

After hearing Lord's words, Messermo frowned, and after looking around, his expression became even stranger.

Because he had been fighting with Lord, and after the fight he threw himself on his mother, he had no energy to pay attention to the surrounding situation.

It was not until Lord's words distracted him that he realized that the surrounding environment seemed a little strange.

"Where is this place? Is it within the border area? Why does it look so... weird?"

He didn't remember there being such a strange place in the border area.

In response to Messemo's question, Melina fell silent.

Because she didn't know how to explain this to her brother.

Unlike all other demigods, even the two brothers Markit who rushed through the sewers at the beginning, they could at least get some information about the outside world through some channels.

But since his jurisdiction was physically isolated from the border one day, he has basically not received any information from the border.

Not to mention the Broken War, judging from his various remarks and reactions, this person probably doesn't even know about the Fading Ones.

but now......

"You don't know about the Shattered War?"

Just as Melina was thinking, a voice that sounded a little excited rang out.

Melina turned her head and saw Lord's eyes shining, and suddenly a bad feeling arose in her heart.

And the next second, that feeling came true.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know, I can tell you!"

As the saying goes, everything goes around and around. In the past, others always gave me scientific explanations. Finally, one day, I grew to the point where I could give scientific explanations to others.

This made Lord feel that his hard work had finally paid off.

And opposite him, Messermo didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Although he is a lightless person, now that he thinks about it calmly, since he is so close to Melina, he must be from his mother's side.

As for not having the blessing, he still has an old general named Platinum Son on his side. His mother's personality and charm are so great, isn't it normal for him to have 4 followers who are not blessed?

So he nodded and agreed to Lord's help in explaining.

Melina on the other side opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but after seeing him nod, she swallowed her words back.

Forget it, let's just let Lord delay for a while.

She could use this time to organize her words and think about how to explain the situation here to Messemo.

Then......

......

after a while.

Messermo became the Lightless One.

Not the kind without blessings, but the eyes have lost their luster.

Originally, Lord's mental attack was already abstract enough, but this time, compared with what Melina described later, even Lord's mental attack seemed so mild.

The birth of the Faded One, the conspiracy of the Night of the Black Knife, the shattering of the Elden Ring, the Shattered War, and the current situation of the Borderland...

Although Melina only gave a general idea and tried to be as tactful as possible to take his feelings into consideration, she did not hesitate to give him a proper answer.

But Melina's euphemisms, well...

It’s just hard to say.

He was first intimidated by Lord's words, such as the company's employee structure, which he couldn't understand. Before he could fully recover and just breathed a sigh of relief, Melina on the side picked up the sharp knife called truth and launched a barrage of attacks at him.

"What on earth happened at the border while I was away..."

Messermo covered his face with one hand, feeling his head swelling slightly.

Even the little snake beside him was confused and twisting around, almost getting himself into a knot.

It's not like he hadn't suspected that Melina was lying to him, but even without considering the point of her lying to a person who was locked in an isolated shadow place and couldn't get out at all, just talking about what she had just said, even if you are lying, you should at least refer to reality.

Even if ninety percent of those words were lies, the one percent that was true was already abstract enough.

But these are not the main reasons for Messermo's headache.

After being stabbed by Melina, the biggest damage to him was not the wounds left by the knife, but the heavy bleeding caused by the accumulation of these wounds to a certain extent.

In other words, something that can be deduced from the background.

His mother, Malika, the gentle mother goddess, was probably really dead.

Otherwise, if she were still alive, she would never sit idly by and watch the border area become like this.

Then, after figuring this out, Messermo fell into confusion.

So what is he going to do next?

The border area has become like this, what is the point of his actions?

As for the situation at the border, not to mention that he couldn't even get out of the shadow land because of the barrier that isolated him from the world.

Even if he could get out, his treatment would not be much better than Dianhuo's.

The essence of the snake, the thing hidden in his pupils, was a heresy that even his most loyal subordinates could not tolerate and rebelled against.

To the people of gold, the treacherous snake is even more disgusting than the insane fire.

Messermo began to regret it.

I regret why I came here, why I didn't fight back, and why I communicated with these two people.

For the first time in his life, he longed for failure and death.

At least this way, when he returns from this death, he can hide in his little bedroom, hold on to hope, and pray to the icon of his mother.

but now......

"Let me just...calm down a bit."

Seeing him like this, Melina sighed and said nothing more.

As for Lord, after thinking about it, he grabbed a handful of shrimps.

"Want some? Spicy and delicious."

Messermo hesitated for a moment, but finally reached out to take it.

"......Thanks."

Later, after the golden wood covered with thorns of rejection, there was a piece of autistic shadow wood beside him.

Then, the exploration begins.

Because he was obsessed with his own troubles, Messermo didn't care about what was happening on Lord's side at first.

But gradually, as he saw more and more corpses in the corner of his eye, he realized that something was wrong.

"Well, Melina."

Looking at Lord who killed everything he went to, from monsters to soldiers, and even small animals, and even looked excited, Messemo was a little overwhelmed.

"Isn't your companion a bit, um... extreme?"

As Queen Marika's black glove in the Shadow Land, even responsible for carrying out such sinful tasks as massacre and cleansing, Messemo felt that he was cruel and extreme enough.

But compared to the man in front of him, he suddenly felt that he was a little too kind.

After all, even for him, the cleansing was not done out of his own will but as his mother's task, and he also knew his own task objectives.

While feeling guilty, they will also try their best to rescue their persecuted compatriots. Even if the hope is slim, they will send as many people as possible to try to heal them.

But Lord...

There is neither a mission nor a goal, it's just a matter of going wherever you want and killing wherever you go.

There was no communication, no distinction between camps, and any moving thing, whether it was a monster, a soldier, or a civilian, had to die.

Even if those who were not in front of him, but were quite far away from him and were staying quietly, he would take the initiative to go over and take a look, and then slaughter the entire camp.

And throughout the entire killing process, he had a faint smile on his face, and people could clearly feel that he enjoyed the killing process.

Even when asked why, he would just smile and answer, "I have to play with my new toys."

After listening to Lord's words, Messermo fell silent.

He now began to suspect that there was indeed something wrong with what Melina had said to him.

But it’s not that she lied to him, but she said less things to take his feelings into consideration.

For example, this strange lightless person in front of him, with his strength and mental state, feels more suitable for working in the Shadow Land than him...

After thinking about this, he suddenly realized another problem.

Looking at Melina who was silent in front of him, he frowned.

"What is the relationship between you and him?"

They were together the last time we met, and they're still together this time, and it seems like they're still in a relationship, um...

"It's nothing, I just agreed to help him fulfill his duties as a missing finger witch. In exchange, he led me to the foot of the golden tree. That's it."

"......real?"

Messermo looked at his surroundings.

"But as for Galide's side, I remember it being the farthest from the Golden Tree."

This does not mean that the straight-line distance is far, but that there is a sea to the north of Gallid. If you want to go to the golden tree, you have to make a big circle from the west, almost across half of the map. If you want to go to the golden tree, you should go in the opposite direction.

"this......"

Melina was about to explain when a small ball of soul was suddenly handed to her lips.

Then she lowered her head out of habit, stuck out her tongue, rolled up the soul on her fingertips, and after swallowing it, she realized something was wrong.

"Wait, this is—"

Looking at the two people in front of him who were feeding the snakes skillfully, Messermo had a subtle expression, and even the little snake on his body started to spit out its tongue.

"It's okay, you don't have to explain."

"I know."

------

Chapter 60: Gaileed

Messermo left with a subtle look on his face.

Because the remaining power of this incarnation was too little, and because it received a bunch of messy information, he needed some time to digest it. For some reasons that he couldn't explain, after following Lord for a while, he dismissed this incarnation and returned to the Shadow Land.

Before leaving, although Melina repeatedly tried to explain to him, her relationship with Lord was really just a companion relationship of mutual benefit.

But the more she explained, the more subtle Messemo's expression became.

Because in his impression, if it was just some boring misunderstanding, Melina would probably ignore it, let alone explain it, but now...

He couldn't say.

As for what you think about the relationship between these two people?

To be honest, until I left, although I had no opinion on Lord's mental state and ability, after all, although this guy looks crazy, it can be seen from various details that this guy is really good to Melina. In fact, if you look at it comprehensively, this can be a plus point.

However, although there was no problem in other aspects, he was somewhat hesitant about his identity as the 'Lightless One'.

Again, although he himself has no prejudice against the Lightless Ones, cleaning up the Lightless Ones is the task assigned to him by his mother, and he himself is a bit stubborn about his mother.

Well, it's okay for this person to be at the border, at least it's not his jurisdiction, he can still find a reason to deceive himself and turn a blind eye.

But if one day we enter the Shadow Land, then whether we clean up the enemy or not, something seems a little wrong...

This dilemma continued until Lord had a few conversations with him before leaving.