The NTR Hero Knelt Before the Demon King – Chapter 147

“Gyaaaah!!!”

The horrific sensation of having one arm gruesomely bitten off.

Eileen let out a scream as she felt Terra gnawing on her arm like it was a piece of meat, threatening to send her mind spiraling into chaos.

In truth, she had lost consciousness several times already due to the sheer horror of the pain. However, in this moment, even though she yearned for death, she found herself unable to fully faint or embrace that longed-for release.

Each time her life teetered on the brink, Amelda’s Restoration Magic sparked to life.

Other than her chest, which had been severed by Ellen, all of Eileen’s wounds were healing almost instantaneously due to Amelda’s magic, allowing her to endure unfathomable agony without reaching a life-threatening level.

Originally intended to alleviate a person’s suffering and provide a sense of calm, at this moment, Restoration Magic felt to Eileen like the touch of a devil crawling out of hell.

“Please… don’t… just… kill me already… please… please put me out of my misery!”

In this unbearable situation, where she was overwhelmed by pain, Eileen repeatedly begged for a merciful death.

Yet despite her pleas, Terra’s relentless attacks continued, akin to a dog tearing her apart, while Amelda’s healing never ceased, showering her with horrific torment.

And then, how much time had passed?

When Amelda’s magic finally ran dry, Eileen’s flesh that Terra had been devouring abruptly ceased.

In that moment, when the excruciating torment that had persisted all this time finally came to an end, Eileen, barely clinging to consciousness, crawled across the floor with her newly regenerated arm.

With tears streaming down her face, she desperately began to plead with Ellen, who was sitting in front of her.

“Wah… wahh!!! … Please… please, Ellen… just… just kill me now… please… just a little… just a bit… have mercy on me!”

Eileen, bowing her head and repeating her plea.

And then,

As she witnessed this scene,

Ellen wore a disturbingly kind smile.

He slowly reached out to pat her head.

“Don’t say such things, Eileen. No matter what, there’s a bond between comrades; how could I ever kill you?”

“!! E… Ellen…?”

Ellen’s words dripped with a chilling sense of extreme kindness.

At that, Eileen began to tremble at the thought of suffering the same horrifying pain again, like just moments before.

To her, Ellen continued to stroke her head, as if petting a dog, all while speaking in a calm, unperturbed voice.

“Don’t worry, I’ll never kill you with my own hands. But still, don’t you think you need to pay for the lives of our comrades you’ve crushed?”

“! Th-that… that was… just moments ago…”

“That’s not nearly enough. Unlike you, who’s been restored, we’ve had our lives twisted beyond repair. Can you set us back to how we were now?”

“…”

At Ellen’s words, Eileen could only close her mouth in defeat, unable to refute him.

While it may feel coercive, unlike the brief torture she just endured with the ability to recover, she clearly had no way to restore their lives at all.

At the same time, Eileen became aware.

According to his words, she could foresee the situation waiting for her next…

These guys were planning to put her in an irreparable state, just like themselves.

“What… what are you planning to do… to me?”

With her voice shaking from the grip of overwhelming fear, Eileen asked.

And towards her,

Ellen began to pull something out from his pocket, wearing a smile filled with intrigue.

“Well, it’s nothing too grand. Honestly, while coming this far, I thought about various methods of revenge on you, and I felt something like this would suit you perfectly.”

“!! N-no… that’s…”

The item Ellen revealed to Eileen swirled with a dark purple light, emitting an unsettling magic.

The moment she recognized what it was, squirming inside the bottle as if it were alive, Eileen’s face contorted into despair.

“You’ve been an adventurer before taking on the role of Vice Minister, so you must have heard of this at least once, right? It was tough to retrieve, but I’ve got ties with some really high-ranking folks.”

As Ellen slowly approached Eileen with the remark, she found herself overcome with a primal fear, desperately trying to recoil, unlike when she had crawled forth begging for mercy just moments ago.

However…

“Where do you think you’re running? If you’ve done wrong, you need to be punished, don’t you?”

“Grgrgrrr….”

Amelda and Terra blocked her path, their voices ominous and chilling.

Forced into a corner with nowhere to escape, Eileen began to plead with a trembling voice as she watched Ellen draw closer.

“P-please! Don’t! That… not that! Please don’t! I’ll do anything else! If it’s anything other than that, I’ll do it! So, please… please, not that horrid thing! I don’t want to become something so disgusting!”

“Yeah, I know. That’s why I’m preparing this. You need to be punished by doing the thing you dread the most.”

With that, Ellen forced Eileen’s mouth open.

Then, the horrific liquid began flowing into her mouth.

Eileen had no choice but to swallow it despite her intense repulsion.

If she were her normal self, she might have been able to summon her Holy Magic to resist it somehow.

However, after the tortures she had endured, she had no magical energy left.

Thus, Eileen could only accept the terrible sensation of it spreading through her entire body, feeling helpless.

“Cough… Hahhh…!!!”

An excruciating pain overwhelmed her, feeling as if her whole body was melting away.

In that moment, Eileen felt each alteration taking place within her body in vivid detail.

The first apparent change was that all of her treasured hair began falling out—every single strand.

Then, at an astonishing rate, the flesh that constituted her body began to dissolve with an agony that could drive one mad.

Her smooth skin, her flawless beauty—they all crumbled away, as if melting like ice under the sun.

-Thud.

In the next moment, the only thing that fell to the ground was her once jewel-like eyes, now dully colored, barely maintaining their shape but soon after, they too melted away to nothing.

“A…ah…”

Yet, even as her body disintegrated horrifically, Eileen remained alive.

No,

Rather, at this moment, her mind grew clearer, and she felt an unholy, yet exhilarating power flooding through her body like nothing she had ever sensed before.

And so, acknowledging the horrifying reality of undergoing such a grotesque transformation,

Eileen gradually directed her gaze to her hands in a spiraling despair.

‘N-no… how… how could this be… me, as the Vice Minister, how could I end up… like this…’

Even though she no longer had her eyeballs, her vision became clearer than before, capturing the sight of her hands.

The bones of her hands, devoid of any flesh, becoming a ghastly spectacle.

As Eileen watched, confirming what had happened to her, she fell to her knees in utter defeat.

-Thud!

Her body felt unbearably light.

Simultaneously, the hard sound echoed against the ground as she fell.

In all this, despite being gripped by an immense sorrow, Eileen found herself in despair over her inability to shed even a single tear.

And then, towards her, Ellen spoke with a cold tone—a voice imbued with the power of the Summoner restraining her soul.

“Now, rise and greet me.”

The man’s words stabbed into Eileen’s heart, filled with horror.

Yet,

Even amidst her deep hatred for this man, she recognized that in her current state, she could never defy him and, thus, stood up and, bowing her head, said:

“…Yes. My Lord. Lich Eileen. At your service. Your humble Summoner.”