Chapter 496

In the center of Rizai is the village hall, where the villagers gather for celebrations and gatherings. The elderly would chat and children would play, making it a popular meeting place. When the protagonist was leaving in the middle of the night, the residents gathered to say goodbye and some expressed concern. The children made a fuss and the protagonist had played with them before, but didn't know how to handle them. After saying goodbye to everyone, the protagonist stood in front of Arta and Lena. Arta wished the protagonist well and Lena expressed sadness at their departure. Lena had accompanied the protagonist for a while and wondered why Ellen didn't come along. Despite the uncertainty, Lena believed that everything would work out in the end. I stayed in Rizai for a long time, but the farewell was brief because it shouldn't be long. Luna packed only the essentials in my backpack because the villagers gave me too much. I put on my travel clothes and Luna had washed them clean. The only ones left were Luna and Ronan, who asked if I had the ability to make Ellen happy. I didn't know what the future held, but I promised to find a way to make us both happy. After saying goodbye to everyone, Luna and I crossed the outskirts of Rizai and she looked at me from the mountainside. On a night wandering through the Soren Mountains, like the night when I met Luna in the moonlight, even at this moment of leaving Rizai, I was facing Luna in the moonlight of some night. "You won't have to step foot in Rizai anymore." "......Yes." Even if I could live that lifetime, it would probably be a luxury to even consider whether I could return to Rizai. I stayed here not as a demon king, but as a guest. The only thing to fear is nature. Rizai was a comfortable place for me, who had lived a life with too many things to fear and too many things to worry about. A place where I could just do what Luna told me to do. I even thought about living this kind of life someday. Even if it wasn't Rizai, I wanted to live a life where I only had to worry about today and tomorrow's weather and food to prepare for the long winter, leaving behind lives where I had to worry about too many things. But this place is not the world given to me. There is a world I have to live in. That's why I couldn't be a resident, just a guest of Rizai. I have to leave. "Is there anything you want to say as your last words?" There are many things I want to ask and say. What is the Ilwoldang? Who are you? Why don't you interfere in the affairs of the world even though you have such a mysterious power? Many complicated thoughts came to mind. But there was only one thing I wanted to say. "I'm sad." "...?" It seemed like a ridiculous thing to say, but that was my honest feeling right now, that I wanted to cry because I was really sad. Wait a minute! I've been here for months, and as soon as I confirmed that I had been promoted to the Master Class, they're sending me away like this. That's really sad! People have no affection? Luna looked embarrassed at my sudden words. "Um, you're sad. So...what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do for you?" "It's not about what you can do for me, you asked me what I wanted to say. So I said what I wanted to say. I'm sad. That's all." "You know how to say that kind of thing, and you have a cute side even though you don't seem like it." "I know that too." "Ha." Luna looked at me blankly at my answer. "I thought I was going to ask you about the secret of Ilwoldang, but...I think I overestimated you." "I'm a person too." Honestly, I'm curious about that too. But now, I wonder if that's really important. Whatever I ask or say, Luna is a being bound by rules. Even if my questions can satisfy my curiosity, they won't change anything in reality. Honestly, I can't even imagine what Ilwoldang is. "I just think Ilwoldang...might be related to the vampires of Sunday and Monday that disappeared a long time ago." Translation:

It was inevitable to guess that the Ilwoldang was related to the protagonist's previous discoveries, such as the Flame of Tuesday and Eleliris being an ancient demon. Luna asked if he wanted to know more about the Ilwoldang, and he expressed his curiosity. Despite knowing that satisfying his curiosity would not change anything, he followed Luna to a familiar location, a frozen waterfall. Luna asked if he thought their hidden existence was bad, and he admitted to feeling a certain cruelty despite knowing that they had no reason to sacrifice themselves for the world. Luna explained that there were certain rules in the Ilwoldang that prevented them from interfering with the world's affairs. She then used her power to reveal a hidden path behind the waterfall, leading to a previously unknown space. The protagonist followed her inside. "When she snapped her fingers, pale white magical lamps began to light up in the dim hallway. I wasn't even sure if they were magical lamps. Luna walked through the dim light of the magical lamps, which were spaced evenly on the walls of the gloomy hallway. What kind of space is this? But I knew I was approaching the secret of Ilwoldang. 'As you said, Ilwoldang is a group related to the ancient Lord Vampires named Sunday and Monday. How much do you know about them?' I nodded my head at her words. 'They disappeared a long time ago, and even the Lord Vampires don't know what Sunday and Monday were.' Monday and Sunday. Like Eleris didn't know what they were, I didn't know either. 'The desire of mortals for immortality is inevitable.' She walked quietly through the hallway. 'It has been so for a very long time.' After walking through the hallway for a while, we arrived at a huge chamber. There was something like a hook in the middle, but there was nothing hanging on it. She passed through the chamber and continued walking. The hallway continued, and I could see strange patterns engraved on the walls of the hallway. 'Even before the era was recorded in writing, mysteries such as shamanism, runes, rituals, and forbidden magic existed before the beginning of human history.' 'Fear of death.' 'Longing for eternal life is a universal desire of mortals.' 'Even before magic was systematized, before the method of enhancing physical and mental strength through magical reinforcement became universal, attempts to gain immortality through such research and attempts have existed countless times in the distant past.' 'Such mysteries, things that are truly unknown, but many things that evoke powerful forces.' 'The end of such mysteries.' Soon, Luna and I arrived at another chamber at the end of the hallway. This chamber was much larger than the one we had just passed through. There were two sculptures in the chamber. The one on the left was emitting a yellowish-red light, and the red and yellow lights were mixed together and raging. The one on the right was shining blue, white, and light yellow. It wasn't difficult to figure out what it was. The sun and the moon. It was a representation of them. 'The origin of all beings that lend strength to those who believe and perform miracles, and the ultimate destination of mysteries.' The pinnacle of mysteries. 'God.' She approached the sculpture of the moon and placed her hand on it. 'In a very distant past when the gods had no names, those who served the moon prayed for eternal life.' 'The moon granted them the blessing of eternal life they desired.' 'However, they did not pray to the sun.' 'Living in a world where the sun and the moon coexist, they prayed only for one power.' 'The sun may have hated such people.' 'The reason was complicated, but the result was simple.' " "I had to pay a worthy price to gain immortality."

"Blessings to the moon."

"There was a tribe that received a curse from the sun."

"They were immortal but unable to walk under the sun and had to continue their lineage in a barbaric and stubborn way by taking the blood of other beings."

"Do you understand what I mean, Reinhardt?"

Luna looks at me.

"Monday was the first vampire."

Vampires were beings created by God.