72. I Am Willing
Elena let out a long sigh, looked up, her hands behind her back, her cheeks already wet with tears.
“From the very beginning, I was deceiving the Crimson Priest. You should know…”
…
I attracted their attention by forging a strategy, analyzed the composition of their members, analyzed their psychological factors, their goals and achievements, and their expectations… In the end, I didn’t even need words to obtain enough information to disguise myself as one of them. For me, it was very simple.
“You are very outstanding, Elena,” Reina praised.
“I don’t need your praise, Teacher Bud.”
“Although I was deceiving them, there is one thing I did not deceive them about.”
…
Elena’s voice was almost inaudible, but her eyes conveyed a kind of hysteria. She seemed to be questioning Reina.
“And that is my almost fallen and angry obsession with you.”
When she said this, Elena gasped for breath.
She grew black dragon wings and a tail that tore through her clothes, pure black horns, and her eyes were like the abyss. And the surrounding black mist seemed to have become her best stage.
“Teacher Bud, before the end comes, can you answer some of my questions?”
“Yes,” Reina nodded. She knew that Elena was making preparations.
“Did you approach me from the beginning just to use me?”
“Yes.”
“At that time, did you completely treat me as a tool?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“You… want to kill me?”
“Strictly speaking, yes.”
Reina didn’t lie. She admitted everything.
Hearing these words, Elena was on the verge of collapse. She knew these were all facts, but she just couldn’t accept them. She knelt on the ground, and although she didn’t roar, her power surged out like a flood. Now, as Reina’s vassal, countless images of Reina appeared in her mind and she, relying on her obsession, had become a level 137 existence.
But this power, in front of Reina, was like a child’s.
“I knew it all along, but why… Teacher Bud, your gentleness, your ideas, I agree with every step you take. I… although we are not related by blood, but I… I just see you as my teacher, my mother…”
Elena was on the verge of collapse.
Reina walked forward and began to stroke her head. And with just these simple actions, Elena began to cry uncontrollably.
“It’s fine to kill me, Bud… kill me.”
“Elena, you often talk about the past. Why don’t you ask about the present?” Reina interrupted her.
She was silent, and then began to sob, tears dripping down her cheeks like rain into the black mist.
“From the beginning, I did think so.”
“You are a very potential existence, an existence that agrees with my ideas. You are the key to my control of this world, and I can effortlessly treat you as a tool of my rule.”
“But gradually, as I communicated with you, I discovered that you could look at my works with a single-minded focus, read and recite them. You could draw every detail on my face. You understood me so well, as if we had spent a period of time together. And yet you received no reward, and were hurt by my indifference.”
“Your soul is so pure that it cannot tolerate betrayal, and you even see me as an existence that can be relied on.”
“…Just like my child.”
After Reina finished her last sentence, Elena completely broke down. Her breathing became chaotic, and her eyes and throat seemed to be in a spasm at the same time, letting out a miserable sob. In the black mist, the young woman’s heart-wrenching cries became the only music.
“Sob, sob, sob, sob, sob…”
“Sob, sob…”
…
For a moment, Elena’s heart died, and then it came back to life.
The Goddess of Light, the Dragon Queen, Teacher Bud… the mother she had imagined had acknowledged her.
But she was still very sad.
Especially before parting, to have learned such an important thing, something that had kept her thinking all night.
And what she wanted was not a sleepless night, to fall into a deep sleep and never wake up again.
So, the moment her heart came back to life, her cries rang out again, but this time it was not a desperate hysteria, but more like a plea and a spoiled act.
Reina extended her other hand, lifted her chin, and then began to wipe away her tears.
“What beautiful eyes, Elena. You are a very beautiful girl. In the future, your wife should be very happy. I am happy for you.”
“Sob, sob…”
“Why don’t you dare to say it? The words, ‘I want to live’?”
“I…”
She couldn’t say it at all.
In front of an existence that was so much stronger than her, and even made her submit and even have faith, Elena couldn’t say those words. She lowered her head again.
“Don’t you want to be my child?” Reina found it funny. “Since that’s the case, why don’t you dare to speak~”
“I… I…”
“Are you a good child?”
But even with her earnest words, Reina’s eyes were so gentle that she couldn’t look directly at her. For a moment, it would only make the mischievous death illusion become more of her tears.
As if she had been locked in a black room, and then a window was opened. Through the window, she saw the boundless golden wheat waves and the warm little home behind her.
By the time she stopped crying, five minutes had passed. She was a little stronger than Reina had imagined.
“Ma…”
Although the tentative voice was almost inaudible, it echoed in Reina’s mind.
“Yes, Elena.”
“Ma… Mama~”
If the previous one was a test, then this one was acting spoiled.
How cunning.
She opened her blurry eyes and looked at Reina, smiling as if a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
“Are you willing to be reborn as my child and then be completely used by me?”
“I am willing~”
“Mm-hmm.”
The same method as usual.
Ever since she had found this method, whether it was Angelis, Guangying, or Mura, she could do it.
The method was exactly the same.
In a gentle way, to destroy or even decompose their bodies, and then to take their souls into her own belly, which had been changed by Calysia.
Similar to vassalization, but more complex, only Reina could do it.
Except for Guangying, whose soul was highly compatible with her own, everyone else needed a pure and obedient heart to become her “vassal.”
It was a little different from Calysia’s method, but they were largely the same.
The bond between the child Elena and herself as a mother had just begun.
“Really, just after laying a dragon egg, I have to give birth again.”
Looking at the boundless black mist, Reina could disperse all of it with just a snap of her fingers.
Having children, raising children, was even more difficult than managing the God Slaying Society. The Battle of Eisentapha was no comparison.
But…
Thinking that she was creating a beautiful world for Little Cal, peach-red hearts appeared in Reina’s pupils. She gently caressed her belly, her intoxicated voice melodious and pleasant:
“I’ll just have Little Cal get me pregnant ♡”
