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Chapter 434 – The Non-Existent Road to Salvation
“Six-Winged Seraph?”
When Bob heard her ravings, he couldn’t even ridicule her naivety and just silently stared at her trembling spiderweb wings.
Seraphs were said to be messengers of god who specialized in the administration of punishment, they had six wings and held flaming swords.
They were cynical, punished evil and promoted good, and advocates of justice, but they were also powerful, autocratic, and feared.
Seraphs represented the purest goodness, but also the purest evil, because only evil can bring justice and help the gods punish the sinners!
“So, are you that feared seraph? You want to punish us sinners in stead of the Goddess, so you learned black magic? Snow, you…”
Bob finally saw through this little girl, she wasn’t a high and mighty Saintess, nor a seraph that eliminated evil and promoted good, in Bob’s eyes, she was but a scarred child hiding in the corner.
When Bob thought about that he suddenly laughed out loud and didn’t hide his disdain at all.
“Hahaha, Snow, don’t make me laugh! A Seraph? I can’t believe you said that! Who do you think you are! You’re but a precocious little brat! You want to represent justice? And punish the sinners? Don’t be foolish! But seeing how cute you are, I’ll see you as an angel… but not a Seraph, more like a fallen angel!”
“What did you say? Bastard, try saying that again!?”
“Haha, did I hit your sore spot?” Bob laughed and shook his head, “Snow, let me ask you, have you heard of this… if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you!”
“… Hah!?”
“I don’t know what you went through, or what obsessions you hold, but… even if you’re blind, you should take a good look at yourself to see what you have become!”
“I-I don’t understand what you’re saying…”
Snow clenched her fists and trembled, which lead her winglike spiderwebs to tremble nonstop just like her inner turmoil.
“Do you really not understand? No, you’re just feigning ignorance, just like how you’ve been lying to yourself and others all this time… Okay, since you can’t see, then let me tell you. Snow, even if you were once an angel, you’ve now fallen! Look at yourself, your fingers wrapped in spiderwebs, how are you anything like a pure Saintess? You’ve already become an evil witch!”
“Shut up! I’m not! … Shut up!”
Snow covered her ears and didn’t want to hear any more of his nonsense, but she couldn’t help but reflect on how she got to where she is…
How did she initially become a Saintess?
That’s right, she racked her brains, made large accomplishments, caught demon spies, and brought down the pedophile bishop with her own power and finally obtained the prophecy to obtain the power and status she dreamed of.
At the same time, her hands were stained with fresh blood.
She killed sinners, but also sacrificed innocents.
She wasn’t weak anymore, she got power, status, and authority, but she wasn’t that initial likable cute girl anymore. She became a feared witch and even learned black magic and became a black magician that the Goddess was disgusted with.
She became mature, cold, calculative, and could easily deal with any situation and even lay traps playing with her enemies within her palms, but she forever lost that valuable innocence and holiness.
She walked too far on a road without darkness, but what was waiting at the end of the road wasn’t light.
“Snow, you who walked onto the evil path are the true heretic! You’re a fallen angel, a hideous monster, you’re the sinner that needs to be punished!”
Every single one of Bob’s words struck Snow’s heart.
“N-no! I’m not a monster, I’m not!!!”
Snow couldn’t control her rage, her hands formed claws and her veins bulged. At the same time, the webs surrounding her shout out towards that bastard in the sky!
But it was too far, Bob only needed to move a bit to avoid most of the webs and since Snow couldn’t see, she couldn’t accurately shoot it at him.
“Snow, don’t you regret it? Do you have anyone you care about? Do you want them to see how you’re now? Look at how hysterical you are now… do you think they’ll still like you?”
“Mind your own business! Die!!! I was showing mercy earlier, now I’m going to crush you!!!”
Snow hollered and then used all her power to throw her webs again, which were still easily evaded.
“Snow, are you still obstinate in your ways?”
“I already told you to shut up!”
“Don’t be foolish Snow, you can’t continue on like this! At this point, you have only one way to go, the only road to redemption.”
After firing off his mouth, Bob finally threw out the bait when Snow’s mental state was at her weakest.
“Road to redemption?”
“Ah! that’s right! … The goddess doesn’t welcome heretics, but we do!”
“W-what do you mean?”
“Hehe, don’t ask when you clearly know. You’re a Saintess, trusted by the pope and proficient in black magic, an outstanding talent!”
When he got to the point, it was hard for him to suppress his anticipation. If it wasn’t due for him being afraid of Snow suddenly throwing the webs, he would surely jump down to hug Snow and get intimate with this outstanding little girl.
“Snow, you don’t even know how much potential you have! Within the church, you don’t dare reveal your true fallen angel side, but if you come with me, I’ll give you a spacious stage so that you can become the most dazzling angel!”
When Snow heard that, her rampaging heart calmed down. She wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and took a couple of deep breaths and finally understood what he meant.
“So you… want me to join the enlightened society?”
“Precisely! Is there a greater calling than saving the world? The original sin is upon us, whether it’s you, me, the hero, or the holy light church and the four kingdom alliance… none of us can stop it, only the enlightened is humanity’s last hope!”
“Oh, is that so, you guys were that powerful, huh.”
“Don’t believe me? No problem! As long as you are willing to join us, with your strength and talent, the apostle will surely give you a rank that won’t be lower than mine… no! That won’t be enough! If you join, Snow… you will be the next apostle!”
“Then I really have to thank you.” Snow snorted disapprovingly.
“Hm? What, you don’t want to?” Bob was confused at her response.
He was indeed truly trying to get Snow to join them, when he knew she was a black magician, he knew that she was a rare genius. Being a Saintess was a waste of her talents, if she could join them, not only could he successfully retrieve the black ore, he can even rope in a genius!
But at the last minute, Snow’s attitude suddenly changed.
He didn’t understand, his words clearly got through her defenses and she was on the verge of a breakdown, so why did she suddenly change?
“Hehe, I’ll admit, you almost got me.”
“Then why did you…”
“Because I suddenly realized that you don’t understand, you don’t know anything.” Snow smiled like she was ridiculing him or herself who wavered.
It was true that his words got to her, it was like she was naked in front of him. Bob pierced through her pretense and exposed the darkness within her.
The only road to redemption.
How pitiful and cowardly Snow is, with how many failures she had, how could she not look to a road to redemption that was filled with light? So when Bob tossed the bait, she almost got hooked.
But unfortunately, the road Bob gave her wasn’t the one she wanted.
Completely falling into the darkness and joining traitors wasn’t true redemption, even if she’s already a fallen angel and will one day meet the Goddess’s judgment, she still had to complete her mission!
“I once talked about this with one of you, archbishop Anderson… do you know him?”
“That gluttonous fool Anderson… he once tried roping you in?”
“Hm, he also said crazy stuff like saving the world and asked me why I was moving in the darkness alone if it was to become a god or a beautiful angle like you mentioned.”
“Then how did you respond?” Bob nervously gulped and awaited her answer.
“I told him that I don’t want to save the world, and I want to be the god of the new world even less. There’s only one simple reason I’m doing this.”
“What’s the reason?”
“Hehe… do you really want to know?”
“Of course!”
“Okay, I’ll tell you… but, I immediately killed Anderson after he got the answer.”
Snow laughed and silently controlled her spiderwebs and looked up to respond.
“So, I’ll definitely tell you before you take your last breath!”