Chapter 125 - 122- The Denouement
"...So, the Nian Beast’s nervousness and desperation to keep his identity increased. How else was he going to devour the children in the Alvian Realm without this powerful Deity knowing? Filled with desperation, the Nian Beast acted before Su Moon could react. Su Moon was more powerful, and he was suspicious all along, but this monster had the face of this son. How complicated his emotions must have been to not even be able to raise a hand against someone with his son’s face, despite seeing his incoming death? The Nian Beast jumped up from his seat knocking it over and successfully slashed Su Moon’s throat.
"However, at this time, the real Su Jin entered the office and a fight broke out. It ended with the Nian beast winning. Then hoping to make this look like a planned assassination, the Nian beast went to the little girl’s room and killed her while she was still smiling having seen her older brother’s face. He then went to the mother’s room and sneak-attack her from behind, before killing her on the bed too."
Sol’s explanation was extremely lengthy, but he suddenly paused here and then looked at Yoon-Jae.
"After everything you did, perhaps you then realized that not everyone would believe that you were the only survivor of an assassination attempt like this. Or something occurred that made you change your mind to go through with this. You wanted to start over, maybe in a completely different place so you can continue eating. So, what did you do? You restored Su Jin’s original appearance and your own from all those years ago, you then swap that appearance with the first servant’s own. After that, you killed the first servant and set it up to look like he killed Su Moon and then Su Jin in this office. With your new appearance as the first servant, you went to leave, but you had no idea that Su Moon had placed a Grand Formation around the palace that traps his murderer. Or perhaps you knew. Maybe you also knew the same thing would happen if you killed Su Jin, so that’s why you only imprisoned. You thought that with your abilities to switch appearances, you could fool the Formation Array and easily escape."
Sol paused once again and looked up at Yoon-Jae, but seeing that he showed no change in expression, he continued.
"Frustrated, you waited for someone, anyone to enter this palace. If there was more than one person you would disguise as someone in that group and wait for someone to pass the trial because if the trial is completed, the Formation Array will be released. You couldn’t do it yourself since the Formation Array still recognizes you as the killer despite changing your identity. But humans are greedy. After many years of waiting, an influx of people suddenly started entering this palace. However, those people, who were likely from the Great Clans and Holy Sects in the past, only fought with each other for a chance to complete the trial. They fought until time ran out and they were trapped in here with you."
After saying all of this, Sol looked at the ceiling in silence.
"Are you finished with your crazy talk? I must still be asleep, are you even thinking straight Sol?"
Yoon-Jea finally said after a while of not speaking, and he looked angry.
Sol looked away from the ceiling and smiled at Yoon-Jae, no, the Nian Beast.
"In order to make this look like an assassination attempt at first, you switched appearances with Su Jin, so the Formation Array recognizes both Su Jin and you as the killer. Your ability is pretty strong, but that has become a problem for you in this situation. Your first switch with Su Jin confused the Grand Formation Array to believe he was the killer, but your second switch with the first servant caused the Grand Formation Array to catch on to what was going on, trapping you here. So, do you want me to dip my finger in Su Jin’s blood and complete this trial so I can escape?"