EP.61 Ancient Lich, Skebal (1)
Knock, knock!
The dream that imprisoned Resty is cracking.
Platinum-colored mana engulfs the dismantled circuit. Just like that, dreams begin to crumble.
Crispy!
Soon, the dream was completely shattered.
After waking up from his dream, Resty immediately took control of his body. He had dismantled the spell beforehand, so it wasn’t that difficult.
“Tsk…”
I feel mildly dizzy.
Resty staggered and raised his head. I slowly opened my eyes. I see reality, not a dream.
‘···Where on earth are you?’
I couldn’t figure it out.
It is a landscape where everything is colored in gray. There is a tree there. There is a forest of grass. However, they did not have the color they should have had.
The endless, colorless landscape is desolate. What was that scenery? Resty searched through his memories to find the answer.
‘Colorless.’
I have never seen a scenery like this.
However, I have come across it in records.
‘A world with nothing but gray, that is, an intermediate dimension.’
Resty is a Summoner.
Also, there is a dimension that must be passed when summoning a familiar. Resty said it.
“Other world.”
That was the moment Resty pronounced it.
“…Being immersed in a dream was the minimum consideration.”
I heard a voice.
Resty turned his head.
“If I had stayed the same, I would have chosen the easier path.”
Her eyes look towards where the voice came from.
“Why are you awake, child?”
There is something black alone in a gray world.
It was a shadow. The edge of the shadow was connected to Resty’s toes.
“Were your dreams unsatisfying?”
A shadow approaches Resty.
It is disturbing to have color alone in another world. I feel an instinctive feeling of rejection.
“Tell me what you want. Let me start again from the beginning. “What, as I said before, I…”
“Summon.”
Resty didn’t listen to the end.
There is no reason to listen and it is not worth listening to. With a short cry, Resty waved his arms.
Kwasik!
A wolf came out of nowhere and bit the back of the shadow’s neck. The shadow’s voice cuts out.
“Summon.”
Continue ordering.
Every time she snaps her fingers, a familiar appears from somewhere. Biting the shadow
Crack!
There is no hesitation in summoning.
Without even giving them a moment’s time, the familiars began biting at the shadows.
Multi-Casting.
“Nesting-Summon.”
The wave of summons never stops.
Resty recited the spell a little faster. He draws circuits with one hand, pronounces spells with his mouth, and infuses mana into the circuits with the other hand.
Resty did it all at the same time.
Familiars pour out.
Even though the number exceeded Lesti’s original limit of ten, familiars continued to be summoned. The speed is also incomparable to before.
There is only one reason why this kind of eccentricity is possible.
This is because now, this place is a different world.
A summoning spell is the process of summoning a summoned beast from the other world to reality. Due to the nature of spells that must pass through the other world, there is clearly wasted mana and delay.
‘But not here.’
This place where Resti stands is another world.
Since you are standing in another world, the process is completely omitted. Mana consumption is reduced and delay disappears.
In other words, more than skill is possible.
Resty’s eyes assist her.
The other world is filled with close to a hundred familiars that she has worked for.
Crack, cluck!
Kwasik!
The sound of something scratching, biting, or breaking is heard. The shadows buried by the familiars cannot even be seen properly.
“·····.”
At that point, Resty stopped stacking orders.
It was not because I was confident of victory.
“···What on earth is this?”
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Rather, it was the opposite.
Nearly a hundred summons are biting the shadow, but the shadow stands up as if nothing is wrong.
Squeak, squeak.
The summoned beasts were dragged across the floor following the movement of the shadow. The shadow lightly shook its hands as if it was annoyed.
Hands raised up.
I just swung it down and swung it.
Poseok.
That was the end.
The familiar exploded. Crushed. One had its head ripped out. They have different shapes, but they are all disconnected from Resty.
“Compared to the apostates… it’s still disappointing, but it’s still not bad. “If it’s like this from now on when my talent hasn’t sprouted, it won’t be so bad.”
The shadow approached Resty, stepping on the corpses of his familiars. With each step he took, the shadows surrounding him collapsed.
“Oh my.”
A shadow stands in front of Resty.
Even the last remaining skin is completely peeled off. Resty looked into what was hidden in the shadows.
The first thing that catches your eye is the skinny bones. It has no flesh. There is no blood. A thin thing made entirely of bones looks at Resty.
“I will arrange a contract with you after the ceremony. I will arrange it myself. “Maybe he will choose you himself.”
It’s a strange skull that could hardly be considered human.
A black eye glows from inside the skull. Dark eyes look into Resty’s eyes.
The moment I encountered it.
An instinctive fear envelopes Resty.
Resty’s eyes are shaking.
‘ah···.’
Resty realizes what this dead man is.
It wasn’t difficult to recall it.
Because this dead man has been covered in numerous history books.
‘Ancient magician.’
A wizard’s nightmare.
A person who hates the living.
Those who come into contact with the truth through death.
and.
One of the four plagues that burned the kingdom in the past.
“···Ancient Lich, Skebal.”
“It’s called that.”
Skeval raised his hand.
The bony joint headed toward Resty’s forehead.
“Just sleep a little longer until everything is over.”
Tuk.
The bone touches Resty’s forehead.
Skebal’s black magic penetrates into Lesti’s mind. That is the moment when it is about to settle in the deepest place.
Pajik.
A spark flew out.
Skebal’s fingers snapped out.
“···what?”
The ancient lich narrows his eyes.
Resty lowered his head, following Skebal’s gaze. The place where the gaze is directed is the inner pocket of the school uniform. There is something there that emits light.
“why?”
The ancient lich asks.
He stands in place, unable to approach the light. Resty put his hand in his inner pocket.
Tuk.
I caught something at my fingertips.
Resty took it out. It was a neatly folded note. The material is familiar. This is a circuit record sheet I wrote a while ago.
‘···Why is this?’
I have doubts.
However, the moment you see the circuit engraved on the recording paper, your doubts disappear. There is a circuit that fills one side of the recording paper.
Incredibly sophisticated circuitry.
A circuit that strikes you as beautiful the moment you see it.
That infinitely elaborate circuit… had belonged to only one person for as long as Resty could remember.
‘···Professor Rania?’
There is no mana contained in that circuit.
What flows along the circuit is Resty’s mana. Resty understood what the circuit was at a glance.
“Do it right now…!”
The ancient lich screams.
The howl is like that of an animal. A strange voice shakes my eardrums. Amid the shouting that shook even his spirit, Resty held up the note.
“really.”
And then, out of character for the situation, he burst into laughter.
“You were watching.”
Resty immediately loaded mana into the circuit.
Platinum-colored mana fills the circuit. The circuit diagram emits light. The light engulfs Resty.
“iced coffee! Ah ah ah ah ah!”
Seeing this, Skebal’s eyes shake with anger.
“Star! Fulfill your contract! Due to external interference, the shaking of the contract means the leadership…!”
Skebal asks the stars.
The answer to that question comes back.
-It is not external interference.
It wasn’t Resty who carved the circuit.
However, it is Resti who puts mana into the circuit and activates the spell.
-There is nothing wrong with the phenomenon.
The star asserts that there is nothing wrong with it.
The gray world begins to crumble. The door from this world to reality opens.
“Ashen!”
Looking at it.
“Abominable gray!”
Skebal scratches his skull.
Skebal’s scream echoed through the sound of sharp bones clawing at his skull.
“It’s you again! Again!”
Crispy!
Dreams and the other world are collapsing.
What comes back is complete reality.
“AA AA AA!”
Skebal cries out and clinks his palms together. Break his bones and smash them into the floor. The demonic energy extending from the bone joints forms a barrier.
Just before the barrier imprisoned the forest.
The gaze of someone far away pierces Skebal.
“ah.”
She said.
“found.”
2.
“Whoa.”
Kalt took a deep breath and raised his head.
The eyes were red and bloodshot.
“The location was specific. Can you see it?”
“Oh, thank you. great job.”
As promised, Kalt pinpointed the location in less than 10 seconds. I engraved the specified location into the circuit.
As I was doing that, I suddenly felt eyes on me.
“·····.”
Kalt was staring at me blankly.
“···What are you doing?”
“Is there anything else I can do?”
There’s more to do.
“You go down and help the knights. “The demon beasts will appear soon.”
“…Are you okay alone?”
“What are we going to do with you? You haven’t gotten better from your Magi addiction. If you just cross that barrier, you’ll be in trouble, right? “I have no intention of fighting while carrying a pile of luggage.”
For the past few years, I have been fighting with two piles of luggage.
‘Do that again?’
I shook my head.
It was terrifying to even imagine.
“Just go down, dude.”
“…If you say that much, well.”
Kalt shrugged and curled his knees. He looked like he was getting ready to jump off the rooftop.
Then suddenly I thought of something to say.
“Limme Raniel.”
Just before jumping off, Kalt looked back at me.
“what. “Tell me you called me.”
“Just, well… come back safely. “After work, let’s have a drink for the first time in a while.”
“Sigh,” a laugh leaked out.
I said, waving my hand.
“Okay, see you later.”
I rolled up my sleeves as I watched Kalt jump. Kalt did its job. Resty also did better than I expected.
“What’s left.”
It must be my role.
I twisted my wrist and glared at the barrier.
The barrier continues to grow in size. The barrier that covered the forest extends beyond the forest.
Squeak, squeak.
The barrier is gradually approaching Aplia.
I opened my mouth while calculating the distance to the barrier.
“Liberation.”
The circuits stocked in my forearms burned one after another.
Plant your lifted foot into the rooftop railing. The tiles on the rooftop crack with a cracking sound.
Accel.
Increased strength (Muscular).
Enhance-Strength.
Raise your arms.
Fold your fingers one after another.
Spell-Boost.
Spell-Enhance.
Triple-Spell.
The circuit continues to burn.
A burning circuit crackles and makes a sound. Sparks flew onto the circuit. I reached out and grabbed it. Because I had no intention of wasting even a single bit of mana.
Eventually, the barrier comes within reach when you extend your hand.
The approaching barrier is like a black wave.
With the black waves in front of me, I clenched my fists. I pulled my arms behind my back. I bent my elbows.
Smash.
A strengthened spell is in your hand.
Clutching the fluctuating mana, I look at the barrier. More precisely, the cowards hiding within.
“hey.”
I said while looking at the ancient lich, Skeval.
“Stop hiding, come out, you damn thing.”
I shook my fist.
The overlapping spells emitted light.
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*A paragraph has been added to episode 58 with a brief description of the time period/situation.
