Episode 75. The Elderly Assassin (4)
There are not many who dare to make a ‘proposal’ to Yorick, the King of the Black Tower. Those who do are either outside the Black Zone or are all dead.
In that respect, Lionhead was the most daring applicant I’ve seen in recent years.
Yorick smiled, his lips wide enough to feel deformed. It was a grin that exuded sinisterness.
The next moment, Yorick waved his hand. Then, a dark diagonal line was drawn in the air. He was using ‘negative mana’.
Thump, thump, thump.
The diagonal line soon became a gap. A pile of bones jutted out. He swung his hand again, and the pile of bones clumped together to form a staircase for him.
‘This connexion… … .’
This is a 2-star black magic type shaping technique. As the name suggests, it is a bone connection. The magic itself is simple, but the strength, quantity, and complexity of the bones vary depending on the caster’s level.
‘He’s not an ordinary guy.’
Rubin immediately recognized that Yorick’s ‘Bone Connexion’ was of considerable skill. Although it was originally a simple black magic, it was capable of both offense and defense on its own.
Yorick, dragging his large body down the stairs, had a sly smile on his face.
“I will listen.”
His voice echoed loudly inside the arena again. Haughty gestures. Eyes hazy as if drugged. Yorick glared at the lion head with an expression of interest.
Rubin also turned his gaze to the lionhead. A proposal? Who would have thought there would be a candidate who would make a proposal to Yorick? It was a complete miscalculation.
“Only two of them will make it out alive?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
At that moment, Rubin remembered what Amret had told him. Yorick had once been a jester exclusively for the royal family.
Maybe Yorick is enjoying this situation right now.
It is a clown show where unexpected guests are invited and the residents of Black Tower are used as the audience.
‘The crowd is getting anxious.’
The residents of the Black Tower had been laughing wildly until just a moment ago. But now, they were more than solemn; they were anxious.
“What are you dawdling about? Tell me.”
“I want to take a high position in the Black Tower. Killing all the applicants here is not a problem for me. But it won’t satisfy you either.”
“You’re beating around the bush. What’s your business?”
“Add thirty more Black Tower residents. If they survive there, they will be eligible for high-ranking positions.”
“Oh.”
Yorick pursed his lips and exaggerated his surprise. How could he possibly throw a villager into a brawl?
But in the Black Tower, Yorick’s authority was absolute, perhaps even greater than Telmach’s here.
The residents of the underground city could never return to the surface. Yorick did everything as he pleased. He even held the power over the residents’ lives and deaths in his hands.
“This lion cub… is funny. Very funny.”
“You can’t be having fun already. It hasn’t even started yet.”
“Okay, okay. Hmm, do you see those guys standing behind me? Those are my lieutenants. I’ll give you a spot to stand next to me.”
Yorick pointed to the special viewing area where he had come down. Three captains, including Death Knight, were silently guarding their seats.
“Instead, I should have fun too. Even if I send in thirty more residents, the number of people passing through will be the same. Just two.”
“doesn’t care.”
At those words, an uproar arose among the audience.
Of course it had to be that way. For them, it was a paradise that they had barely managed to enter by shedding blood. But now they were being forced back into the stadium and could die.
“Hahahaha! It’s funny, it’s really funny!”
‘… … .’
Rubin and Kuze exchanged glances with serious expressions.
In fact, even if thirty residents were deployed, there would be no problem. Rubin and Kuze were confident that they would survive among them.
‘Except for one exceptional circumstance, that is.’
In a brawl where only two people would survive, there was only one way in which Rubin and Kuze could be eliminated.
It was Killian. What if Yorick included Killian among the thirty villagers?
Actually, it wasn’t a question of probability.
Because Yorick knows who Killian is.
If he wanted to kill that insolent lionhead, Yorick would gladly put Killian in. No matter how strong the lionhead is, he can’t beat his mother’s Roynenser.
“What are you doing? Choose quickly.”
The lion’s head urged, and Yorick waved his hand, laughing in amusement.
Piles of bones formed in the direction he was going. He strode through the air, circling the entire audience.
And then he shouted like this.
“You! You! And you! Hey, you too! You… no, you! Yes, you! You! You!”
There was no need to worry. I went back and forth between the first and third floors and picked out the residents right away.
Every time Yorick pointed, a hand would shoot out of the air. The flesh had all fallen off, leaving only bones. The hand would roughly grab the spectator by the collar and drag them into the arena.
“Please, please save me… … !”
“I don’t want to die, Your Majesty!”
“Because of that lion cub… sob.”
There was an outcry, pleading, and shock, but Yorick showed no mercy.
“Hey, Lion Head. Alright?”
All thirty residents were selected. Those who were not selected were literally spared. The faces of those sitting in the stands quickly regained their energy as if they had never been terrified.
“What are you doing?”
The axe-wielding man’s curses towards the lion’s head ring hollow.
The stadium, which had been spacious enough for just ten people, felt cramped with the addition of thirty.
‘There are four old people… Is Killian among them?’
Rubin looked intently at the elderly people among the residents who were dragged out.
I had to find Killian so I could prepare for this Asura.
“Your Majesty. I can clearly sense the darkness… but I can’t pinpoint it.”
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“There are too many people. And Killian has scattered the smoke.”
“Maybe they don’t recognize us?”
That might be the case. Killian would have only known that Rubin had arrived at the White City.
As of now, only the mayor and his underlings knew that Rubin had entered the black zone.
“Yeah, yeah, this is what makes it fun to watch. I’m already looking forward to it.”
Yorick walked up the steps of bone. He touched his lips with his long, protruding fingernails as he returned to the special viewing area.
“And… wouldn’t it be more fun if we did this?”
I snapped my fingers. At that moment, the black magic manifested instantly.
The piles of bones that Yorick had stepped on and walked around in the stadium, and the bony hands that had dragged out the crowd. They all came together and gave birth to three monsters.
Kururururung.
One of the creation spells of the black magic series, ‘Bone Creation’. It involved gathering a pile of bones and breathing soul into them.
The piles of bones began to take shape. What was completed was a familiar-looking monster, the Bone Bear.
‘Is this the Bone Bear I know? I’ve never seen one that big.’
If we look at it in terms of magic, it is one of the basics of black magic, just like the original Connexion, but if the caster is Yorick, it is a different story.
As the name suggests, they are bears made of bones. However, the ones Yorick created were much larger than the average bone bear. Furthermore, each of them had three heads.
Krrrrrrkkaa!
The Bone Bear howled, its eyes burning with brimstone and madness.
The Bone Bears began to slowly herd the thirty villagers and ten volunteers into the center of the stadium. They didn’t rush in right away, so it seemed like they were following orders from Yorick.
“I’m going to lock you up, is that it?”
It seemed to act as a fence to keep the participants from escaping outside, but it is unknown when they will intervene in the fight.
“Kuje. Focus.”
“Yes, Young Master… … !”
“Because we might not be able to take care of each other.”
“What if Killian is mixed in here?”
At those words, Rubin drew the dagger from his waistband. He didn’t want to assume such a situation, but he couldn’t rule it out.
But if that happens… … .
“I guess I’ll have to kill him. I don’t want to kill my mother’s Roynenser.”
Rubin held the dagger in the form of a reverse sword and glared at the source of this situation.
A man with a lion’s head turned upside down.
“You’re smiling.”
Beyond the lion’s head, he was clearly smiling. Even though most of his face was obscured, the smile inside the lion’s mouth was clearly visible.
Rubin tightened his grip on the dagger.
“I wonder how long I can laugh.”
Soon, Yorick, who had returned to the special viewing area, raised one arm. Soon, the sound of a horn followed, overturning the crowd’s roar.
Phew hoooooo.
The stadium was extremely cramped with a total of forty people gathered. And then there was the Bone Bears.
Rubin exhaled with a serious face. And in the next moment, the whole place turned into a scene of chaos.
* * *
A severed arm is tossed around, and a sword stuck in the back of the head tears out the eyeball.
The mouth that had been screaming until just before is now open and rolling around on the floor, and the life disappears from the eyes that were once full of life.
Blood and urine spurted everywhere, soaking the floor.
And all these things mixed together gave off a terrible stench.
Twenty people died in the first five minutes. Of the twenty who survived, ten more died in less than twenty minutes.
Yorick, looking down from the special viewing area, let out a satisfied smile.
In one hand he held a goblet made from the actual skull of an animal, filled with a special wine that reeked of blood. In the other he picked up a chunk of unidentifiable meat.
Wagjak wagjak.
He started to stuff chunks of meat into his mouth and laughed bitterly again.
“Hoo, hooah.”
The stadium entered a brief lull. The ten who had survived so far took a breather, keeping their distance from each other.
“Hey, that won’t do. Where’s the time to think? It’s too soon to just crack open someone’s skull.”
Yorick muttered and snapped his fingers.
The three Bone Bears, who had been motionless since the melee began, howled loudly. From now on, the Bone Bears will join the melee.
“What if we all die to Bone Bear? Should we add thirty more?”
At the same time, a bone bear rushed in, snatched a man, and tore his body in two.
On the other side, someone was crushed by the Bone Bear’s jaws. The Bone Bear’s ashen body was stained red by the blood flowing from the human body.
“I don’t think so.”
“okay?”
Yorick turned his head to the side.
Pkin, one of the four captains and the only wizard, was watching to one side.
“That little kid is amazing.”
“Who? Oh, that guy?”
Yorick nodded. He agreed.
The only child in the midst of the carnage. The child had been catching their attention since the melee began.
His movements were perfectly calculated, as if he was looking down from the sky. He blocked and dodged attacks coming from all directions, and even counterattacked.
Even Yorick and Pkin, who were not skilled warriors, could clearly see that it was a clean, uncluttered movement.
“It’s a shame, it’s a shame. It’s a shame to leave only two people alive.”
It wasn’t just the black-haired child. The man who appeared to be the child’s colleague also showed a surprising appearance.
And there was a lion’s head too.
Yorick licked his meat-stained fingers and watched the mastermind behind this delightful spectacle.
The lion’s head’s movements were similar to those of the black-haired child, but with the addition of experience.
He had killed so many that the mane on his lion head was already dyed red. Just like a real lion that was preying madly.
“It’s fun, it’s really fun!”
Yorick laughed so loudly that his upper body shook. What a long-awaited slaughter this was.
Yorick, excited again, rose and leaned over the railing where the brimstone fire was billowing.
At that moment, a new scene was unfolding in the stadium before my eyes.
Swoosh.
A bone bear swinging its front legs wildly behind a black-haired child.
As if he had expected everything, the black-haired child flipped his body and climbed up Bone Bear’s front leg instead. Then, he stabbed the dagger into Bone Bear’s waist.
Crack!
The eerie sound of bone breaking. A huge crack opened in a bone that seemed unbreakable.
The black-haired child quickly increased the number of gaps by continuously stabbing the daggers.
Krrrrrrkaa!
Bone Bear tried to move his body here and there to push the child away, but the black-haired child did not stop.
Soon the gap became large enough for a child to fit through. The child immediately entered the interior of the bon bear.
“Ugh… … !”
Yorick laughed and clapped his hands like crazy.
Tt …
The child who entered the body of the Bone Bear. Soon, the monster’s mouth shattered into pieces and the child burst out.
A normal sword would not have been able to cut through the pile of bones of a Bone Bear like that.
The child’s sword, rising up and tearing through the bone bear, was covered in a layer of black lacquer. Heat radiated from around the dagger.
fault.
Kwakwakwakwang.
The child landed on the ground. As the child walked, the Bone Bear that seemed to have stopped behind him collapsed in an instant.
“It’s an aura. And it’s a very solid aura.”
Pkin said with his eyes wide open. Yorick clapped his hands again like crazy.
“It’s fun, it’s fun.”
