Episode 88
He seemed to have become quite accustomed to swordsmanship, and now he could swing his dual swords freely and apply them.
‘As expected, the Aura training method is not keeping up, so it seems to have its limitations.’
Iredem’s abilities depended on me, the spirit magician. Iredem’s abilities also changed depending on the quality of the magic I provided.
I tried teaching him the Ora training method, but spirits, whose structure was completely different from that of humans, could not even attempt the training method.
Even without the seniority law, Iredem was a greater threat than any knight in the current situation. At least in this area, it seemed difficult to find a knight who could match Iredem.
“Give me the ceremonial knife you used.”
It was an ancient sword that I had acquired from the black market. It had ancient language engraved on its surface, and when I deciphered the text, it was related to marriage.
-Pierces the bride’s black heart, and pierces the groom’s black soul.
This ceremonial dagger was used at a wedding. It seems that it was originally a pair, but the dagger passed down to the groom disappeared and only the bride’s dagger came into my hands.
Wooooow!
When I injected my aura into the ceremonial sword, it spat out a sword name that seemed as if it would break at any moment. However, the sword withstood my aura. Even though the years that had passed must not have been easy.
‘It’s pretty good, isn’t it?’
I ran into the forest.
Since this was a hunting ground, it wasn’t difficult to focus one’s five senses and find prey.
Phew!
He stabbed the dagger into the boar’s heart.
The sword was covered in aura.
There was a reaction from the ceremonial dagger.
The sword trembled slightly and magical power was concentrated in the sword.
At that time, the blood cell was squirming beside me. Because of the contract with me, the guy couldn’t talk nonsense, so he circled around me and let out a moaning sound.
-… … .
“If you have something to say, say it. Just keep it brief.”
-Blood is truth, power, and life!
“so?”
-Behold the true value of blood, the feast of blood!
The blood cell didn’t do anything special. He just shouted at the right time. At that moment, a smoky light emitted from the ceremonial dagger.
As I pulled the sword out of the boar’s heart, magical power burst out.
“It’s a skill that increases healing power by absorbing the blood in the heart. It’s great, but it doesn’t suit Iredem.”
The blood cells screamed in excitement.
-You! You write it!
“Why me? I have a serenade.”
In terms of sword performance alone, the Serenade and the ceremonial dagger were incomparable. I couldn’t properly use the swordsmanship I had learned with the dagger.
I tried to return the ceremonial dagger to Iredem.
I knew it would be useful, but I thought it would probably be better to give it to a slave soldier who had awakened Aura.
That was because the healing magic was activated only when the heart was stabbed while the sword was infused with aura.
That was when.
-… … Please write! Sword of Blood! Sword of Covenant! Sword of Healing! That sword will awaken my power! It will increase your power!
Blood’s speech became much more polite.
Now, for the first time, the relationship between the spirit and the magician seemed to be set straight.
“If it’s just to the point where you can stab your opponent to death, I can use it. But you can use it today. I’ll get you a better sword next time.”
He threw the dagger to Iredem.
The aura of death surged from the ceremonial dagger in his hand.
‘I guess it would be the same no matter what dagger you bring. It just has to be strong enough to withstand the aura of death.’
Creepy!
For a moment, I flinched without realizing it. I instinctively pulled out Serenade and injected aura into the sword, covering it with iron armor.
The scales of its armor rose sharply, and it looked like a hedgehog facing a predator before it could face my tail.
‘This energy… … what is it?’
I opened my eyes and looked around.
I couldn’t see anything. A black aura filled my vision.
‘Is it a mistake? Or am I just scared?’
I opened my eyes wide. I looked around with my naked eyes, not my eyes. I saw a forest that was no different from usual.
I went into the forest. There was no need to try to find the enemy’s location, because he didn’t hide his presence.
A confident predator was waiting in the forest with its mouth wide open. No, its eyes wide open.
The monster’s structure was simple. Countless snakes were attached to a giant sphere with a diameter of about 3 meters and wriggled like hair. The body was the pupil, and the flesh surrounding the eyeball was a mess, like mud. Every time the thing’s eyelids opened and closed, the surrounding creatures would harden and release repeatedly. It was similar to the BI that floated around and cursed and burned its opponents, but there were no snakes attached to the giant eyeball.
That being is not even recorded in Wizard Bake’s
But there it was in my memory.
‘That’s not B.I. She’s Medusa, the daughter of the cursed god.’
The story of Medusa is briefly mentioned in
In a distant time, not long after the creation of this world, the daughter of a god who was active on the battlefield was defeated. The opposing god killed her, but her eyes, which were filled with concentrated power, survived and fought to the end. It is not mentioned who her parents were.
Medusia was a divine being. If such a being had been branded with the Trickster’s mark, even Hebron and Zyleson would not have been able to hunt her down.
‘You should have asked the royal family for help, not me. Why did they give me such a precious armor so readily?’
As expected, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
At this point, the wisest option would have been to back off, return the armor to Zailson, and burn the Rainbow Bridge.
“Hoooooo… … !”
I took a deep breath, calmed my mind, and focused my aura on my head.
It was a magician’s secret technique that stimulated the brain with magic power. In order to catch up with the genius of Luis de Breyot, I used the secret technique whenever I had time. I also improved it little by little to increase its efficiency.
‘It’s already too late.’
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The eyes were opened.
I decided not to avoid it. No, I decided to face the truth.
The curtain that had been blocking the view was soon lifted.
It was a kind of camouflage. It was a tactic to intimidate enemies above a certain level by simply releasing magical power.
‘A truly strong man does not puff himself up.’
It was the truth I learned from the Duke of Breyo.
Black Breyo never puffed up his body or showed off. People bowed down just by his presence. In contrast, the influential people who visited the Breyo dukedom all puffed up their bodies.
It was to catch the Duke’s eye and was an expression of an instinct to protect one’s pride.
The pupils rose to a height of ten meters. The thing had also discovered me.
‘This is petrification… …!’
Without realizing it, my body was stiffening. No, the aura inside my body was stiffening. I couldn’t sense that slow change.
But I could see it with my bare hands.
-My blood! It’s mine! How dare you, you worthless eyeball, aim for what’s mine? My blood! My blood! Blood! Blood! Blood! Blood! Blood!
The petrification also broke away due to the blood cells running wild.
At that moment, I exhaled deeply. I practiced my aura and released the turbid energy that had penetrated deep into my body.
Unlike me, Syang was completely frozen. He wasn’t dead. If we left him like this, he would eventually die.
I picked up the javelin that was hanging on Syang’s saddle. There were several javelin techniques that I remembered, but the most effective technique was the javelin technique of the Monolith Spear.
Phew!
Just before the spear, which had risen in a slashing motion, could hit the eyeball, a group of snakes moved to block the spear. The sharp blade pierced the snakes’ heads and split their bodies, but unfortunately, it was only able to knock down five snakes.
The snakes that fell from the scalp-like eyeballs rotted as soon as they touched the ground. The parts of the eyes where they had been pulled out bulged out. It seemed that they were producing an infinite amount of snake hair in this way.
The snakes looked back at me.
It seemed as if the dark ones’ gazes were focused on me, and then red rays of light poured out from the snake’s eyes all at once.
Kwakwakwakwang!
It happened in an instant. A hot heat enveloped my whole body.
‘A ray of destruction following the petrification? If we send the knights, they will be annihilated.’
The heat didn’t reach me.
It was thanks to Inferno, the superior spirit that ruled over fire.
Inferno, who had been embracing me, spread his large wings wide and turned his head to look at Medusa.
“Burn it.”
-joy!
Inferno flew without flapping his wings and pounced on Medusia. The fireball that spewed from its mouth struck Medusia’s snake hair.
Kwakwakwakwakwang!
The explosion of the grenade tore the snakes apart. They squirmed and covered each other in an attempt to protect their bodies, but despite their efforts, dozens of snakes fell to the ground or lay limp, blackened and charred.
“Blood, bring that guy down.”
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the ability to fly.
Even with the help of Inferno, it was difficult to deal with Medusia in the sky.
-Drink blood! Get drunk on blood! Smell my scent! Get drunk on me! I am the spirit of blood, the primordial life! Hahahahaha!
The blood cells sprayed my blood everywhere. It stimulated the monster.
Not only Medusa, but also things that had been huddled around here started popping out one after another.
“Dimes, I need your help.”
Demes was the darkness of the beginning. His mere presence suffocated the light.
Light and darkness were supposedly complementary, but Demes broke even that unwritten rule.
The darkness that came down from the sky in broad daylight was like an aurora. The pitch blackness that hung like a silk curtain obscured the light and blocked the vision. Any living being who could only see something through the light had to give up their vision. They would be forcibly deprived of their vision before their will could even work.
There were snorings and exhaling sounds here and there.
Those who rushed at me, lured by my blood, only lost their eyesight, not their appetite. I was the only being in this space who did not lose their eyesight.
I killed the monsters that had rushed in without fear. Their blood turned into mist and sprayed out again. The more this happened, the more Medusa could no longer hold back and rushed towards me.
‘It’s like being dragged by the hair.’
Medusa had no nose. Instead of hair, the snakes had a keen sense of smell. They were drunk on blood and ran wild.
Medusa descended slowly.
The mark of the trickster was discovered in Medusa’s eyes, which were blinking and coming down.
Thud thud thud!
Once again, the hair fell out. As soon as they laid their bellies on the ground, they did not rot, but shook their bodies like loaches. Hundreds, thousands of snakes slithered toward me. They had lost their eyesight, but they could still find me.
“It is time to sentence him to death, Iredem.”
The spirit of death took possession of Durahan’s skull, which was clad in the armor he had received from Viscount Zailson.
After that, three whites followed, trudging along.
Death brought fear to the living. But on the other hand, death tempted the living. It tried to drag them into a unique world that the living could not enjoy.
Chomp chomp chomp! Ss …
Iredem swept the snakes away with his Vinos Throwing Sword. They occasionally fired destructive beams, but Iredem held firm thanks to the defensive magic engraved on his armor. Thanks to that, my aura did not decrease.
White was also active. The beams of light shot from the snake’s eyes did not extend more than a meter, but they pierced through White’s half-rotted body.
