Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 127

Chapter 127

It was a marvelous scenery.
The spring water of the Echo Forest started to create a vortex at the tip of Sirka’s foot and grew in size to completely envelop her body.
Gush-
At that exact moment, the hot steam of the spring and the cold blizzard mingled and resonated with each other.
Crack!
With Sirka as the center, the steam above the hot springs turned into frost within a blink of an eye.
That scenery painted a marvelous picture of a frozen world.
……which occurred literally.
Ding.

[Activating ‘the holy area of the snowmen’.]
A new message appeared in front of Suho.

[Activating the passive skill ‘(Unknown)’.]
The time froze.

»»————-　★　————-««
A world of perfect void.
Suho stood alone at the end of the empty horizon.
‘……I’m here again.’
Suho calmly examined his surroundings.
And searched for the entity that called him to this place.
‘Found you’.
At the end of the empty horizon.
An old and feeble ice elf sat beyond it.
Suho stepped slowly towards them.
‘Did you call me here?’
[…….]
The old ice elf turned towards Suho at his question.
What got revealed was an aged expression and tired, void eyes.
[The king of snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch, is looking at you.]
The system message that appeared confirmed their identity.
‘As I thought, you’re the king of snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch, Sillad.’
[…….]
Despite Suho’s attempt at conversation, Sillad did not reply.
They just stared at Suho with a tired appearance.
‘What’s going on?’
Suho was confused by their appearance, drastically different compared to the other monarchs that he met.
He recalled the moments that he made contact with the other monarchs.
The king of beasts, Fang Monarch exuded with the charisma of a leader despite death.
The king of insects, Plague Monarch attacked him with countless poisoned insects after death, filled with vengeance.
But this blizzard monarch before him was somehow….
Just an old, tired old person.
[……Right, so you’re his son.]
After a long pause, Sillad, the Blizzard Monarch finally spoke.
[What an interesting ability you have. You managed to rescue my soul that was drifting across the sea of afterlife. As expected of the Shadow Monarch’s son.]
‘Sea of Afterlife?’
[Are you not aware of it? It’s the place that the souls of the deceased go to. Oh well, what’s the use of the description……?]
Sillad spoke with a remorseful expression to look at the empty skies.
Of course, there was nothing to see there.
Nothing.
[……opening my eyes to the world of void. What an experience this is. Tsk Tsk.]
Sillad laughed at themselves mockingly.
[Right. Death is futile. What was I so desperate for when I knew this is how I’d end up?]
‘…….’
Suho wordlessly looked at the monarch muttering about like a madman.
[Did you know? I don’t know about the other monarchs, but I fought because I did not want to die. The darkness within me continued to whisper in my ear to destroy everything, but I knew that it would only lead to destruction.]
Sigh-
[Yes, I knew that this is how I’d end up eventually.]
They let out a sigh.
The sigh that they let out turned into frost and created a mirage mid-air.
In front of Suho’s eyes, illusions of countless ice elves emerged.
[Do you know? From the moment of our birth, we’ve been continuously imposed with war. From the beginning till now, perhaps until the rest of eternity. After all, that was the reason that god created us.]
Aaaack-!
Within the mirage of illusions, the ice elves were fighting.
No, they were running towards their certain death.
And among them…….
Was ‘Sillad’.
[Did you know? We ‘almost’ won at the end of the battle. I killed your father with my two hands.]
‘……!’
Suho’s eyes widened at that.
An illusion of a young man.
The man that looked so similar to him was definitely his father, Sung Jinwoo.
And…….
Stab!
[I stabbed your father’s heart with my own sword.]
In that illusion, Sillad was stabbing Sung Jinwoo’s heart with a frozen blade.
‘Father……?!’
Suho glared at that scene.
[King of Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch is using ‘SKILL: Echo’.]
At that exact time, the conversation of the illusion traveled with the frosty wind to pass by Suho’s hearing.
-I’ll return your weapon. Now, can you regenerate like before?
The Sillad of the mirage was whispering inSung Jinwoo’s ears.
With the most villainous voice.
-Is this it, human? Then you won’t be able to witness it. The moment that our army steps on this land. The corpses of humans will form mountains and your blood will form rivers at that time.
Sillad was pouring out venomous courses to Sung Jinwoo while he was dying with a sword in his heart.
-But this world that you were born and raised in will be different. I will personally freeze all the humans on this land to torment eternally. They will exist until the end of time without being able to live nor die.

Infamous Scans

Translator: Anom
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[……Abhor me eternally in your death.]
At some point, the voice of Sillad from the illusion and reality merged as one.
-That too will become my enjoyment.
[That too will become my enjoyment.]
Crumble.
And at that moment, Sung Jinwoo’s body crumbled into flakes of ice.
While Sillad sat there to watch the flakes of ice float away, they looked towards Suho with an unrecognizable expression.
[Did you see? I murdered your father mercilessly, and planned on cursing every living being related to your father. My reason was simple, so I will not die.]
Sillad did not bother showing Suho of the afterevents.
Sung Jinwoo revived afterwards, and Sillad was the one who lost their life and war in the end.
In the first place, why did it matter?
Their existence in this place proved every result.
‘……Why are you showing me this?’
Suho’s eyes were blazing from seeing his father crumble away.
His two fists were clenched as if to attack Sillad right this moment. But he did not act rashly.
It wasn’t certain that the illusion had been real or fake, but his father was currently alive.
Sillad was the dead one here.
So it was even more confusing.
Why was Sillad showing him this illusion?
Were they trying to get a rise out of him?

[……So once my consciousness awoke at the sea of afterlife, and realized that the one who awoke me is the son of the Shadow Monarch.]
The empty eyes of Sillad suddenly got filled with freezing killing intent.
[I planned to kill you immediately. ]
That flash of killing intent felt like the compression of extreme cold and sent a shiver down Suho’s body.
[I’m not sure of the extent of my powers, but I planned to drag your soul into the sea of afterlife no matter the cost. However,]
……They could not.
After all, it was not Suho alone who woke them up.
Ice elf Sirka.
Sirka, the protector of the Baruka tribe.
Sillad was curious.
Just who was the heir that found the holy area of the monarch hidden within the Echo Forest?
Will they be a worthy vessel to receive their powers?
So they took control of Sirka’s body to read through her memories.
And truly regretted it.
[……I should’ve not read it.]
Sillad saw.
The aftermath of the war that Sirka herself experienced.
Sigh-
At that moment, Sillad’s sight created another mirage of frost.
And in that illusion…….
Were the surprising appearance of Suho’s mother, Cha Haein.
‘Mother…….’
Suho also saw that illusion.
Within that illusion, Cha Haein was…….
Together with the ice elves that survived the war.
Protecting the weak and vulnerable children, and helping laughter bloom in those faces, frozen like the cold of the blizzard.
Just like a mother.
[……She was like a mother.]
Suho finally understood the expression on Sillad’s face.
Sillad had been speaking words of curses during the moment they were stabbing through Sung Jinwoo’s heart.
-I will personally freeze all the humans on this land to torment eternally. They will exist until the end of time without being able to live nor die.
-Abhor me eternally in your death. That too will become my enjoyment.
Sillad who spoke so proudly, was sitting here, in death.
And the tribe that survived the war…….
Were being taken care of by the wife of the victor.
And the expressions of ice elves were full of mirth and joy.
Tsk.
Sillad’s expression contorted with shame.
Ironically, Sillad, their king and monarch never saw the warm and bright expressions of the ice elves.
It was natural.
They were merely pawns of the endless war after all.
They were beings created for that purpose in the first place.
But
[So they can make those expressions.]
They lamented and turned towards Suho.
[Yes, you’ve won. I acknowledge my defeat even after my death.]
In Sillad’s regretful expression, tears were flowing.
[Now in death, I can only feel endless gratitude towards you instead of hatred. But even this humiliation…… I am thankful.]
Yes.
Eternally grateful.
To the point of tears.
Sillad, who remained seated slowly, started to get up.
[Son of Shadow Monarch.]
Fwoosh-!
The energy of a monarch coming from that old body filled up the world of void.
[The king of snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch, is looking at you.]
That proud gaze fell on Suho.
[I ask one thing of you. This is the cowardly servile will of the monarch that lost the war and the last remaining regret left on this land.]
‘…….’
[Please…… thank your mother on behalf of me.]
Yes.
That is enough.
[And just as your mother cared for my children, I too will protect you.]
Swooosh-
At that moment, the energy of frost that was filling up the world of void blessed Suho.
Ding.
[‘Blessing : Blizzard’s Blessing’.]
Suho’s frozen time started to flow again.
And the last voice of the departing Sillad, the Blizzard Monarch, reached Suho.
[Your mother is in danger near here. I will send you there immediately.]