Wish 14: Void

After the girl officially became a Virtue...

She discovered the answers she had been seeking...

However, despite finding those answers...

She was not satisfied with what she found.

She wanted to know more and more about the young man she loved,

But she couldn't.

She admitted that she had committed a sin.

And to pay for her sin,

She had to fulfill the wish of that young man...

To guard his upcoming awakening.

She didn't understand the meaning of those words, but she knew what she had to do.

She created the church...

Where the first church beliefs were the worship of the Virtue of Pride...

But with time, that changed and was forgotten with time.

And she established the system of the saints to pass down to the future Saints the duty of guarding the church altar, which held her only secret.

Then she disappeared after that.

Where did she go?

Why do I feel like I've seen her?

Yes, I saw her before...

She appeared in my dream...

But she was unclear, so I didn't notice her before.

Things became a little clearer to me...

But...

That won't change anything.

Yes, everything I had built during this long period has vanished...

And it will never return.

.....

I opened my eyes...

And I confirmed that I had awakened from those long memories.

When I looked around...

No matter how hard I tried...

I couldn't find the body of the Saint.

Then I felt something different...

That cursed mana within me had been released and caused a significant change in my body.

I approached a lake of toxic water and looked at my reflection.

I found that my hair was no longer pink but had turned into a dark blue shade mixed with silver.

Meanwhile, my hands and feet had turned into black bones.

I started to feel a void in my emotions...

That void began to feed on my despair, growing larger and larger.

I stood there and went to the cliff in front of me...

I began to get somewhat used to my new form .

For some reason, I felt like this body suited me more.

"Ah... the pain still continues..."

The pain hadn't stopped since it began before my fall into despair.

I stood on that cliff...

And I gazed sadly at the horizon, watching the sunrise.

After a few seconds, even that sadness disappeared.

.....

Weeks passed...

I spent those weeks trying to understand more about my new power...

But all my efforts were in vain.

No matter how hard I tried to use my skills, I couldn't do anything.

In the end, I only had one skill and one job.

And they were ⟦Virtue of Despair⟧ and 〔Black Wish〕.

So, I wondered...

Why doesn't the poison in this place affect me?

I tried to drink the toxic water in that place...

And I even ate the poisonous insects...

But it had no effect on me, even slightly.

Could it be that my new body is related to this?

However, all I feel from my new body is the presence of a dragon's aura.

Although it's very faint to the point where it's hard to sense.

But it's there.

Then I remembered...

Aren't I now an incomplete Virtue?

Doesn't that mean I'm not bound by the laws of this world?

I tried to recall the feeling around the Virtue of Pride.

But I couldn't do anything...

I just felt like I was restrained.

Then I tried to recall the feeling around the Virtue of Greed...

The same thing happened again.

So, I came to the conclusion that I can't do anything because I'm an incomplete Virtue.

So, I must master my paths first if I want to find the answer.

If we talk about despair...

Generally, it is the loss of hope in something specific...

For me, I have lost hope in everything...

There's no point in anything I do.

So why do I still want to try?

What is the reason that makes me want to do something even though I am desperate for it?

Yes!

It's my mother!!

I have lost everything I had...

But I'm sure I still have my mother.

But after thinking about it...

Won't my mother abandon me if she finds out that I am no longer a Dryad?

Doesn't this mean that I have lost everything???!!!

Why am I the only one who must endure despair until death?

Yes...

I will spread despair and witness despair to understand despair...

This is my way, and this is what I will do!