◈ Episode 33 Steps towards the truth (2)
“Damn it! brother!”
As soon as Bruno confirmed that Veron’s head had been cut off, he reacted immediately.
Countless insects wriggled in the crevices of his clothes.
Bruno shook his head quickly.
‘What he used was a sound wave. And I even used metal.’
Attribute elements are divided into a total of 10.
<Fire> <Water> <Wind> <Earth> <Plants> <Electricity> <Metal> <Ice> <Darkness> <Light>.
And yet unknown properties.
In the case of sound magic, it was often seen as a derivative of the wind element because it uses the vibration of the atmosphere.
And what Rudger used to block the Tesla gun was <Metal> attribute magic.
‘Metal is an element derived from the earth. Usually, the attribute elements that can be handled consist only of similar series.’
Ludger’s elemental magic, judged by Bruno, was <Wind>, <Earth>, and <Metal> in total.
In the case of ordinary wizards, there are only two or three attributes that can be handled.
Up to 4 no matter how capable you are.
Starting from 5, it can be said that it is the realm of innate talent.
As a result, wizards basically lay down three elements that their opponent deals with.
Because that was common sense and it was natural.
‘When it comes to the wind element, small flying insects are not compatible. If that’s the case, I’ll have to use a bigger guy.’
Just in case, he didn’t rule out the possibility that Rudgar could handle the fourth element.
Protruding from Bruno’s sleeve was a giant centipede with a thick carapace.
It was a bug that could not be seen in the normal ecosystem, created through black magic and subspecies mating with an unusual individual caught in the southern jungle.
However, the head of the centipede that Bruno pulled out was cut off in an instant.
It took less than a second for that sharp blade to aim at his neck.
“Keugh!”
Bruno twisted his body and was able to deflect the blade that Ludger wielded.
Hard scarabs surrounded his body, hidden under his clothes, like chain mail.
‘A melee fight? Could it be a War Mage?’
Bruno immediately tried to distance himself from Ludger.
At that moment, a spell was engraved on Ludger’s front.
Bruno’s eyes widened.
‘That’s the [rocking flame]!’
A magical spell that resembles a blazing flame inscribed in a few seconds of a comma.
The 3rd tier flame elemental magic, Fluctuating Flames, engulfed Bruno in less than a second, spewing out intense flames.
“Aagh!”
With Bruno’s scream, the flames lit up and the surroundings lit up. The soldiers, who had been glaring at the entrance, looked back and widened their eyes.
“I am the enemy!”
“How the hell!”
But in the meantime, Bruno twisted his body in the scorching heat.
For those who handle insects, the most difficult magic is definitely the fire attribute.
To deal with an element completely unrelated to the other three systems.
It was unbelievable.
“Wait, how?”
All the bugs burned and barely survived, but Bruno’s condition was not very good either.
With his face half melted from burns all over his body, he stared at Rudger as he collapsed on his seat.
I thought I wasn’t careless, but I didn’t expect that it would be the best with this side.
“Who are you?”
“… … .”
pop!
Instead of answering, Rudger drew his revolver and blew Bruno’s head off.
At the same time, backup power is activated and light returns to the inside of the laboratory.
“Huh!”
“Burr, Brother Bug is dead.”
The soldiers in charge of guarding the inside were at a loss as to what to do when they saw the corpses of Brothers Bruno and Veron.
Even if they all work together, it is all cleaned up in the hands of one of the brothers, but the intruder has subdued them all alone.
The soldiers lost their will to fight.
Can you fight a monster like that?
Everyone backs away from Ludgar in fear, but a change has taken place in the decapitated Veron’s corpse.
Boo-wook!
“… … !”
Rudger reacted immediately. As soon as he threw his body forward, a huge hand raked through the space where Ludger had been before.
It was the forelimbs of an insect, with sharp spines attached to its smooth carapace.
All the others who watched the scene were also stunned.
“Wasn’t he dead?”
Ludger asked as he watched Veron move with excitement.
Veron’s decapitated body rose again. What attacked Ludger earlier was his grotesquely deformed right hand.
Veron held out his left hand, still in human form.
The palm had a mouth.
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“surprised. I never thought I would be attacked like this.”
“… … Is it wormy?”
“oh. Did you know?”
Bruno dealing with bugs.
On the contrary, his older brother, Veron, was big and didn’t even deal with bugs. But I wondered why they are called bug brothers.
‘Was it like that?’
Veron was a black magician whose body itself mutated like a kind of insect.
There was no way a body like that could change naturally, so in fact, he used his body as an experiment in black magic.
Why warlocks are so full of crazed madmen, Veron gave a clear example of that.
“Even so, I thought he would be fine even though his head was cut off.”
“My body is no longer a normal person.”
At the same time as saying ‘Kudeudeuk!’ With a creepy sound, Veron’s body changed.
The black robe that covered his body swelled, and countless thorns came out.
Rudger backed away.
The already gigantic Veron turned even bigger and was looking down at Rudger.
A hideous monster that looks like a mixture of several insects.
At this point, I couldn’t tell if it was a warlock or a cryptid.
[To kill my younger brother. I’m not sad, but I still have to take responsibility for that.]
Veron’s arms pulled back, and then they were shot at Ludger like arrows.
Rudger immediately flew upward using the wire launcher.
Veron’s stab passed under Ludgar’s feet, and the soldiers behind him were pierced by it.
“Aaaagh!”
“Run away!”
Even though his subordinates screamed and died, Veron didn’t care.
[this. I’ll make one move. There really are no flying insects.]
Veron looked up and tried to find Rudger.
Kugu Palace!
At that moment, the steel structure of the ceiling collapsed and fell on top of Veron’s head.
Cookie light!
Even though a considerable weight of rebar fell, Veron was fine. There were minor scratches on his carapace, but no injuries.
[Did you intend to draw attention with something like this?]
Veron turned his huge head and looked at Ludger, who was sitting on the ground on a wire.
It was clearly a provocation, but Rudger showed no reaction.
‘It’s become a nuisance.’
Veron’s body has already gone beyond the realm of an ordinary insect.
The carapace surrounding her body was also hard, so it was no wonder that she was called a monster beyond a warlock.
‘This is why warlocks.’
Rudger tried to fire his revolver, but stopped and retrieved all weapons.
It was because I realized that no matter how many times I shot it, it wouldn’t get eaten.
[oh. Are you giving up?]
Veron laughed at Rudger’s behavior, but Rudger reached out to Veron instead.
[What are you trying to do?]
Rudger’s action of stretching his arms toward this side not only aroused Veron’s curiosity, but also aroused displeasure.
Are you trying to use some kind of magic?
However, it was virtually impossible to hit Veron now unless it was a 4th tier or higher magic.
In his judgment, Ludgar was a third-tier wizard.
The speed at which the spell developed was bizarrely fast, but that was all.
He didn’t think that such a Rudger would be able to deliver a proper blow to himself.
It wouldn’t hurt to be a little generous and watch what this cute intruder is trying to do.
Baron judged so.
“I didn’t want to write something like this in this situation.”
[hmm?]
“Well, I can’t help it.”
Rudger’s words were scarcely finished.
A pure white light filled the inside of the laboratory.
* * *
“Write. Whoa. It’s still chilly.”
Waiting for Rudger outside the abandoned factory, Hans trembled with his hands in his pockets in the still chilly night air.
It’s already been half an hour since Rudger went inside.
‘It’s almost time to end.’
Ludgar didn’t show it, but Hans realized he was quite angry.
Well, that’s what I would have done myself.
They are the ones who kidnapped a 7-year-old child and his parents and used them for human experimentation.
No matter how dishonest he is, there is a law called ‘goodness’ that must be followed even for those who do such things.
That Shamsus school crossed that line too badly.
‘It’s a bit late. After all, was it difficult to have two warlocks?’
Especially if the black magician is a bug brother, a guy with a name in his own way.
But Hans didn’t think Ludger would die.
How many years have we known each other?
If Rudger was dead, he would have died long ago.
There was only one thing that didn’t happen.
That’s how strong he is.
‘I don’t seem to show off much, but.’
Wasn’t he the one who single-handedly hunted the monsters of Jebodang when he was active as a hunter in the first place?
The number of knights the monster ate was over five. Rudgar hunted it alone.
Even Ludger’s identity wasn’t just a hunter called ‘Abraham Van Helsing’.
private detective.
thief.
crime consultant.
mercenary.
artists and so on.
He has many faces, and the masks he wore in the past always made a big impression.
Flash!
Just when I thought it was the right timing, an intense light that made my eyes hurt came out from the entire abandoned factory.
Roaring!
At the same time, the light turned into flames, turning the abandoned factory into a sea of fire.
A terrifying power that blew up a large factory.
Hans knew very well whose work it was.
‘I wrote that.’
Hans himself referred to it as that, but in fact, even Hans had no idea what kind of ability it was.
I once asked Rudger
At that time, the only thing that came back was the strange answer of ‘real magic’.
‘If magic is magic, what is real magic?’
Anyway, the fact that Rudger used it must mean that the opponent was not formidable.
And to that extent, it means that Rudger was sincere.
* * *
Rudger put the materials in the laboratory and the experimental drugs used on the test subjects in a suitcase and came out.
Hans, who was waiting outside, greeted him.
“Are you here? Let’s get off the ground first. Even if the factory is abandoned because it’s done so flashily, the police will come. inside?”
“Everything was taken care of.”
After defeating Veron, Rudgar checked the depths of the laboratory.
Horrible test subjects trapped in iron cages in the dark.
All of them were ordinary people enjoying their daily lives.
However, their daily life was eventually broken.
Those whose bodies mutate, lose their reason, and suffer as they cross the boundaries that make it difficult to call them human anymore.
The only mercy Rudger could give them was to let them go without suffering.
Rudger blew up the lab, killed the scientists, and took their research reports and experiment results.
“Is this it?”
Hans asked as he looked at the ampoule containing the red liquid inside the suitcase he had received from Rudger.
“okay.”
“The world has become very scary. I never thought there would be guys doing human experiments on people in a place like this. I never imagined that scientists and inventors would team up with warlocks.”
“Not only that.”
“yes? What else do you have?”
“How do you think they got a secret lab that big?”
“that… … .”
“There is someone who has provided a huge amount of money behind the scenes.”
“… … I don’t think that’s normal.”
It wouldn’t normally take money to build a laboratory like that without anyone knowing.
It was said that the people behind them who supported them were strong.
“Don’t worry. Because I already know who you are.”
“Is that true?”
“okay.”
Rudgar’s answer made Hans feel uneasy.
“Brother, please.”
“why.”
“that… … Isn’t it?”
Rudger didn’t ask what it was. I just stared at Hans once.
ah.
I will never dry that out.
Realizing it right away, Hans accepted the suitcase.
“I will go to the hideout first. If you are going to stop by after work, please come.”
Hans left without listening to Ludger’s answer.
Rudger stood still for a while.
The bright red flames of the factory burning in the distance lit up the dark abandoned factory area.
It was like a candle burning most splendidly just before it went out.
* * *
“Did you bring something like this for rice!”
Clink!
Inside the splendid mansion. Bellbot Rickson, the rich man, tossed the plate with the food the maid had brought him.
The maid who had been hit by it collapsed into her seat, bleeding from her forehead.
The food on the plate stained her clothes and face.
But no one supported or helped her.
An old man in his 60s with a long white beard looked at the maid in disgust and clicked his tongue.
“Did you serve this as food? Even if you give them money, they’re like scumbags who can’t pay for it properly.”
Bellbot got up and left the restaurant.
He was a man who stood tall as a highly successful capitalist in a changing era.
But when he achieved success, it was an old man full of wrinkles who greeted the bell boat in the mirror.
In the end, he dedicated his youth to come to this position.
So I wanted to get that youth back.
That’s why I supported the black magicians to conduct some kind of experiment.
Recently, I heard that some of the test subjects escaped and the experiment was disrupted.
damn! Fools! Garbage bastards!
How much money do you think I invested in you guys!
Belvote returned to his room with such anger inside.
‘Still, the experiment itself was not meaningless. Sooner or later, proper results will come out.’
A medicine that restores a weakened human body to its prime.
The leap of youth was not far off.
It’s not just about getting younger, it’s about getting healthier and stronger.
Thinking so, it was the moment when he was about to turn on a light in his large room that had been turned off.
“Belbot Rickson.”
“What, what?! Who are you!”
There was someone in the middle of the room.
Bellbot tried to turn on the magic lamp, but for some reason the light did not turn on.
In the darkness without moonlight, Bell Boat is trapped in a room alone with an unidentified intruder.
“Wait, guard! guard!”
“You won’t hear me even if I call you.”
There was already a sound barrier in the room. Of course, since this is the house of a wealthy man, an alarm will go off immediately if you use this kind of magic.
Ludgar’s magic was so secretive that he couldn’t even be affected by the warning spell.
Rudger, who was sitting in a chair, got up.
And slowly approached the bell boat.
“Belbot Rickson. I will ask you one thing.”
“What, what is it? Who are you! Reveal your identity!”
“A 7-year-old child is desperately trying to survive in this terrible reality while seeing herself and her parents turned into monsters.”
Kwaduk!
Rudger reached out and grabbed Bellbot by the collar and brought it close to his face.
His eyes glowed red in the dark.
“How do you think a person who knows that but has no choice but to burn to death feels?”
