Should have killed him

“Kyaaaaak!”
“Lilac! You bastard!”
“Save me! Please save me!”
“Your Majesty, I will move you!”
In the end, only the Emperor’s people survived the courtroom that day.
Many people who had gathered simply to watch the execution were torn apart and eaten by the monsters from the Demon King’s army.
A powerful nation called the empire was destroyed in a single day.
The emperor abandoned the country and fled, and the weak countries bordering the empire bore the brunt of the attack.
The royal family and nobles were busy saving their own skins, and although the Sword Masters were good at surviving on their own, they were not enough to protect a group.
In the end, a month after the appearance of the Demon King ‘Tilted Nebula’.
The only ones who survived were the Yellow Magic Tower and the White Magic Tower that had clung to it.
Daisy, the head of the Yellow Magic Tower, spat on the ground and muttered grimly.
“Damn it. To be destroyed so suddenly.”
“The Sun God did not mention a specific time.”
A young man in a white robe muttered apologetically.
His appearance was the very picture of piety, befitting a priest who had become a precious resource now.
“It is just a pity that the hero is dead.”
At the priest’s added words, Lilac, who had been living off them, flinched.
It was true that a prophecy about the hero had come down.
But it was not confirmed whether the hero was truly dead.
Because all of Seonibaek Lin’s crimes were a ridiculous frame-up that he had created.
“Yeah, that hero. The White Magic Tower Head killed him, right? I mean Seonibaek Lin, not that trash Lilac.”
“That’s what I heard. It wasn’t directly from the source, but a rumor that spread around…”
“I think that’s nonsense.”
Daisy was close with Seonibaek Lin.
She didn’t know what Seonibaek Lin thought, but Daisy thought she had built a considerable friendship with her.
The proof was that Seonibaek Lin, who ignored everyone else’s words, would only nod at Daisy’s.
“No matter how little interest that girl had in the Demon King and the hero. She’s not the type to kill someone herself. And she would always extend a hand to a dying person.”
She had fainted when she succeeded in the dimensional jump magic.
And when she came back from her first dimensional jump, having saved a handsome human, I thought my head would explode from the headache.
Anyway, Seonibaek Lin liked children.
She was not a person who would experiment on those children.
If anything, it was her disciple, Lilac, who was a cold-blooded bastard.
Daisy’s vermilion eyes turned sharply to a corner of the camp.
There, with a grimy face, was Lilac.
Lilac, who was living off the survivor camp with the keepsake made by his teacher and family, Seonibaek Lin.
“Hey! She was your teacher, don’t you have anything to say?”
“I don’t.”
Lilac had become quite depressed in the past month, and his magic staff had also been taken away.
It was because of the order given by the emperor of the Lexas Empire, who had survived alone in the center of the camp.
Although it was ridiculous to talk about an emperor and all that now that everyone was dead.
“It’s a fact that she conducted human experiments.”
Lilac’s sullen voice still held a stubbornness.
Contempt flickered in Daisy’s eyes.
“The world has come to this, and you’re still…!”
“Magic Tower Head, please calm down.”
The priest stopped her.
The black monsters that had poured out of the black tower in the sky were sensitive to emotions like anger and mana.
The more Daisy, who possessed a large amount of mana, was agitated, the higher the possibility that this camp would be discovered.
“Be satisfied with confiscating his staff.”
“…”
Although Daisy looked at Lilac with eyes that said she wanted to chew him up and kill him right now, Lilac was also a high-ranking magician.
Though his skills were mediocre now that his staff was gone.
Lilac’s magic staff was a priceless item with jewels containing the essence of magic made by Seonibaek Lin when she was alive, embedded in it.
And now that the only people who could use large-scale attack magic were the high-ranking magicians of the Yellow Magic Tower, the value of the staff, which could increase their combat power by even one person, was needless to say.
That magic staff was in Daisy’s hands.
She had to be satisfied with that and not kill their combat power.
“Yes. Surviving is the priority.”
All life is connected to life.
Even if death is all around, the living must live, even if it is a miserable life.
But Daisy would soon regret it.
That she should have killed that damn bastard Lilac as soon as she saw him.

Lilac lit a fire at his fingertips.
The flickering purple flame suited him very well, but instead of the sound of a burning flame, a thin scream was heard.
It was a forbidden black magic made by killing many people.
This camp was now heading for White, the city created by Seonibaek Lin.
To find the dimensional jump magic that Seonibaek Lin was said to have researched and succeeded in during her lifetime.
Daisy, the head of the Yellow Magic Tower, planned to use that magic to jump through this ruined dimension and save as many people as possible.
Lilac did not like that.
‘Someone will definitely die.’
He was the one who had celebrated Seonibaek Lin’s first dimensional jump.
Seonibaek Lin’s mana in her lifetime was enormous enough to cover a continent, and even with that mana, the dimensional jump magic was extremely difficult and hard to execute.
It takes a huge amount of mana just to jump one person, the caster himself, and to cast it on the entire camp.
Ten magicians would die from mana exhaustion.
And one of those dying magicians would surely be himself.
‘That can’t happen.’
He recalled a short while ago.

[The Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, asks if you want to live.]
A mysterious black window appeared before his eyes.
A new god, not the Sun God, had chosen him.
So he answered.
“If I can’t live…”
A moment of silence.

[You will contract with the Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins.]
[The contractor Lilac acquires the ‘unique skill: The Worst Scream’.]
Lilac snatched the contract with the new god.
And today.
The flame containing the black magic flickered with negative emotions.
And soon, it was shot up into the sky.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaak! Aaaak, haaaak! Hahaha! Aaaaargh!”
A sharp scream was heard.
It was a scream of despair containing a desperate cry to live, and the magic that exploded like a firework informed the monsters of their location.
“No one can live.”
At first, he had simply wanted to become the Magic Tower Head.
But now that things had come to this, only a sense of injustice washed over him.
A twisted heart in an extreme situation was expressed as magic.
Madness flickered in Lilac’s black eyes.
“If I can’t live, neither would anyone else.”

The Silent Calamity, Lee Seonbaek, who had learned all of this, briefly commented.
“I raised a calamity.”
It was a voice filled with a deep sigh and dry tears.
“What I touched was a calamity…”

Daisy tried.
Even though the monsters flocked to the camp and broke the shield, he did not give up.
He wanted to save as many people as possible.
And that’s why he first killed the source of the problem, the crazily laughing Lilac.
Daisy tried.
Very much.
But the world is full of things that cannot be achieved with effort.
The only one who survived the camp was Daisy.
“I should have killed that bastard.”
Stanching the bleeding from her bitten shoulder, Daisy barely walked.
A ruined city and a collapsed white tower were visible.
The city she had arrived at alone, White, was once said to be the most prosperous of the Magic Tower cities, but now, with monsters occasionally roaming around, it exuded a gloomy aura.
Daisy moved calmly and succeeded in entering the collapsed White Magic Tower.
But that was the end.
She found the dimensional jump magic, but she did not survive due to mana exhaustion.
That was all.

“What are you doing?”
I ignored the Nebula and scanned the world with my Sun’s Eye.

“This is just a history that happened.”
“You can’t change it”
“Fool.”
“Fool.”
I know too.
But I was not a person cruel enough to just let someone I knew die.
So I will try to do what I can.
I will also try.
My Sun’s Eye burned and I searched for the soul fragment of the Constellation that was trapped in this gate.
The soul fragment, which was flickering endlessly like a firefly, soon flew into my hand.
I should not take this soul fragment.
If I were to absorb the soul fragment that had fallen off when I became a Constellation, my rank could become impure and I could be demoted to a mid-rank Constellation.
But even so, it is the soul of a Constellation.
I could ‘use’ it.