626. The sound of the flute (5)
Kwahwahwahwahwahwaha …
In the heart of Randa, where numerous skyscrapers abound, an unexpected fire broke out.
Despite the scale of the fire, the city was infested with swarms of rats and corpses were resurrecting, and people were distracted by the fire.
It was no exception for city council members living in upper-class neighborhoods, city officials living in middle-class neighborhoods, or the director of a welfare organization living in lower-class neighborhoods.
Well, in a way, it was natural.
The fire boasted such overwhelming majesty that it reached the sky.
It was almost like a disaster.
A disaster that turns human-made social status and wealth to ashes in an instant, making it impossible to even approach.
However, in the midst of the disaster, there were two men, one of whom asked questions in his usual voice and intonation as if nothing had happened.
“I ask again. What are you?”
Oliver was quietly shocked at the sight.
Even though he used the entire forest as firewood for [Tamhwa (貪火)], a complex spell that mixes emotion and magic power, it did not reach the man playing the flute at all.
This was neither a joke nor a metaphor. It literally did not reach.
As evidence, the Pied Piper stood unharmed in the flames, without any effort on his part. Not a single hem of his clothes was singed.
It’s as if it’s from another world.
I thought it would have at least some influence······.
But that wasn’t something he could just let go of. Oliver immediately took the next step.
Black flames under control. Manipulating greed.
Oliver used his influence to prevent the flames from spreading outward, instead concentrating them inward.
Kugugugugugugugu······!!!
As the flame was forcibly compressed, the internal density increased, and the heat and pressure of the flame also began to increase exponentially.
It’s to the point where even the minimum magical power and emotions required to activate the spell are burned away.
Thanks to this, an environment was created within the flames where no magic could be activated.
‘I’m not sure about the Piper.’
Oliver wondered anxiously whether this would be enough to stop the Pied Piper.
However, I couldn’t just worry.
Oliver continued to press down on the compressed flames like layers of earth, restraining the Pied Piper’s actions, while also transforming some of the flames into the teeth and claws of a beast, which then physically attacked the Pied Piper.
The greed of his greedy nature tore at the Piper like a hungry beast, but the Piper created an invisible barrier and blocked it without much difficulty.
Oliver was able to hold out because he was somewhat resistant to fire and had control over his flames, but the Pied Piper was just holding him back.
A sight that is hard to believe even after seeing it with your own two eyes.
As if responding to Oliver’s thoughts, the piper spoke.
“I don’t think you have any intention of answering. Well, it doesn’t matter.”
A voice that seemed to have decided something. Oliver felt a tingling sensation on his skin, and the sound of the flute rang out without fail.
Phew!
As the sound of the flute rang out, the air······. no, the space itself was torn apart, and the treasure was shattered.
One of Oliver’s secret techniques was instantly neutralized.
Before I could even realize what had happened, the piper in the distance appeared in front of me in the blink of an eye.
“Because you have to make them answer.”
A thoughtless word. The piper waved his arm.
Hahahahah━!!!
He didn’t mean to swing his fist. He just reached out to grab Oliver.
But that light movement was met with a terrifying roar, as if the air was being torn apart.
Oliver had to dodge by activating one of the wooden sticks with spatial spells engraved on them that he had scattered all over the place earlier to gain some distance.
The power of the piper was that threatening.
Even though it was just a swing of the arm to grab hold, not a fist filled with life.
The Pied Piper immediately turned his head to find Oliver, who had opened up a distance, and instead of approaching him, he put the pipe to his lips.
No matter how I looked at it, it was an action that was incomprehensible.
Even if the flute helped activate black magic or amplified its power, no energy was emitted from the flute. And yet, he played the flute.
But whether Oliver thought so or not, the whistle sounded, and soon after, the scenery around Oliver began to distort into grotesque shapes.
Oh my gosh······!
The already ruined land shook and split, forming hills.
The building was reassembled into a shape similar to the legs of a kraken, striking the ground with such force that the ground shook.
A bizarre sight, like a nightmare.
Amidst the turbulent cityscape, dozens of blackened zombies surrounded Oliver, flashing like lights.
The Piper had strengthened the zombies, and they now had weapons in their hands that they didn’t have before.
‘A corpse······. A weapon made by processing a corpse.’
Looking at the weapon made of flesh and bone, Oliver instantly realized its identity.
Kagagagagagak!!!
The zombies surrounding the area swung their weapons in the blink of an eye and attacked Oliver.
As the giant sickles, tridents, longswords, and maces made of flesh clashed against each other, disease spread with a loud noise, and bone thorns rose from the ground.
Fortunately, Oliver was able to avoid the zombies by activating his spatial technique as soon as he saw them.
“Kyahahahahahahahahaha!!”
“Kurrrrrrrr!!”
“Hahahaha━━!!!!”
He said it was a relief.
As soon as Oliver dodged, the zombies immediately chased after him, screaming with resentment.
Then, countless hordes of zombies joined in, surrounding Oliver.
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An army of the dead suddenly appears in the city.
Oliver repeatedly used a wooden stick engraved with spatial magic to escape from the zombies, and the zombies pursued him using their enhanced bodies each time.
The sight was like a game of tag with light.
Every time the lights collided, powerful shockwaves, blue magic lights, and black smoke erupted in succession, destroying and burning the zombies and scattering them.
Oliver gradually reduced the number of zombies by destroying them as they approached.
However, as Oliver tried to reduce the number of zombies, new zombies appeared every time, putting pressure on Oliver.
How many people died in this city today?
The problem wasn’t over. As the chase with the zombies continued, the scattered wooden sticks were gradually consumed, making evasion increasingly limited.
To make matters worse, the surrounding terrain, which moved to the beat of the flute, also worked against Oliver.
Kwakwakwak!
The terrain warped and formed a gigantic wall, disrupting Oliver’s spatial path.
The speed naturally slowed down. Then the zombies screamed and rushed towards Oliver.
Pavababak!!
Oliver immediately took out a large amount of paper from his bosom, threw it, and embedded it into the zombies’ bodies before activating his spatial technique.
Wheeeeeeeeeeee······!!
A small but clear sound like the flapping of an insect’s wings rang out, and a purple portal formed. It tore apart the approaching zombies.
“Kuaaaaaaah!!!”
“Goooooooooooo!!”
“Kurrrrrrrrrrrrrr━!”
But the endless zombies kept coming. But it didn’t matter. Oliver now had troops.
“Kyaaaaah!!!”
“Taktak-! Taktak-! Taktak-!”
“Khuhhhhhhh······!”
A large number of the dolls Oliver had made emerged from the purple portal embedded in the paper.
These were not dolls that contained the children, but dolls made for practice, and they were all under the control of creature-blood dolls made with [Memory of Blood].
A creature blood doll that controls a corpse doll based on memories accumulated in blood.
The dolls summoned by Oliver each hold guns and pour firepower on the zombies that approach.
He took out the chainsaw hidden in his body and cut up the zombies.
They use the magical power contained in their blood to fight zombies, or use magic and black magic to instantly reduce zombies to ashes.
A scene that could be called a war of the dead without any exaggeration.
Just as Oliver was about to use the corpses to perform his magic, a shadow appeared above his head, and the reconstructed building, resembling the leg of a kraken, began to strike the ground indiscriminately.
As the huge mass struck down, the surface of the earth was turned upside down, and the interior shook as if an earthquake had occurred.
Oliver barely managed to avoid it, but the horde of zombies and corpse dolls he was fighting couldn’t, and in the end, the corpses, which were comparable in mass to superhumans, were trampled like ants and destroyed in vain.
The battlefield was reduced to ruins in an instant. A man playing a flute suddenly appeared among the ruins.
“That’s strange.”
The Pied Piper swung his fist, and Oliver drew his dagger and swung it.
Choaak━━━━━!
A sharp sound cut through the air, barely able to offset the piper’s fist.
“I don’t think you don’t know who you are.”
The Pied Piper continued to swing one hand at Oliver.
Oliver had to swing his dagger every time and use various attack techniques to twist the trajectory of the Pied Piper’s attack.
Shock, heat, cold. The ironic situation where you have to attack to defend.
Meanwhile, the man playing the flute continued speaking calmly.
“Ah······. Are you trying to deny it? Who you are?”
“······.”
“Well, I understand. My situation was different, but it was similar.”
In an offensive where one wrong move could cost him his life, Oliver found the words of the Pied Piper the most painful among the numerous attacks.
“I thought it would be okay, I really thought it would be okay.”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“That’s right.”
A piper who jumps to conclusions on his own.
As soon as he heard that sound, Oliver activated all the wooden sticks with spatial magic engraved on them that he had scattered around.
The spell began to pull in everything within its spatial range according to the spellcaster’s command.
Bam!!
The Pied Piper was no exception.
Thanks to Oliver’s fatal lure, the Pied Piper, who was standing at the point where several spatial spells overlapped, stopped for the first time as the forces pulling him in all directions.
It was a natural result, since it was moving space itself.
‘Originally, I was trying to tear it apart, not press it.’
Although the ultimate attack was only enough to temporarily hold him back, Oliver was not discouraged and tried to attack again, but at that very moment, the ground began to shake and the surrounding terrain began to move.
Despite being physically confined to space, the Piper was able to exert control over the surrounding terrain. I thought I knew what he was thinking.
If the terrain itself is distorted, the points (coordinates) where the wooden sticks are stuck will also be distorted, so the constraints can be naturally released.
Not panicking in the face of sudden strange phenomena, but responding by understanding the principle.
As the piper was trying to gain physical freedom, several of the zombies and corpse dolls lying around began to clap their hands.
············!!!
He let out a strange sound that was neither a scream nor a prayer.
The human sacrifice technique [Wailing] used by the Swan Prince, which Oliver imitated, caused the surrounding terrain to stop moving when the technique was activated.
It got to the piper.
At the very moment when Oliver had subdued the Pied Piper’s body and technique, he adjusted the dagger in his left hand and swung it.
The target is the neck of the piper.
The dagger’s blade, which exposed one to tens of thousands of diseases with just a touch, flew in a bloody line and stopped the moment it hit its target.
Wah, wah, wah… Bang!
The Pied Piper broke the confinement that had bound him and grabbed Oliver’s hand.
“Is this your last move?”
As Oliver dropped his dagger in the face of the powerful blow, the Pied Piper asked,
Oliver answered.
“no.”
At the same time, Oliver swung his bandaged right arm. The bandage was messy because he had touched it beforehand.
Through the gaps in the disheveled bandages, severely burned skin was revealed, and pure white flames formed over the skin, and then a huge white flame flashed-
Cheeeeek!!
Just as it was about to burst out, the Pied Piper grabbed Oliver’s right arm and extinguished the flames.
I mean the devil’s flames.
As Oliver paused at the horrifying sight, the Pied Piper’s fist struck him in the face.
