Episode 89
But White, who felt no pain, took revenge by swinging a longsword made of the breath of death.
In the pitch darkness, I revealed my abilities without reserve.
“Iredem, in the name of Louis de Hebron, I command you. Primordial Death, Blessing of the Dead, do your duty. Raise the dead and reverse the course of nature. Arunasdapiradiem!”
The lifeless monster rose up.
It was a zombie that was the weakest among the undead.
It was the limit of my necromancy magic ability. Necromancy absolutely depended on the help of spirits, but at the same time, I had to learn spells.
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“Blessed be the dead. Even if life deceives you, death will protect you. I declare to you a deeper death. Abrakanatakaana!”
I poured the aura of death on those who were resurrected as zombies. Although they were transformed by Iredem, their essence was my aura. As I gave them more power, my aura decreased.
The snake turned into a zombie and raised its head stiffly. Every time its tongue flickered, a thin thread-like substance flowed out like saliva and fell to the floor.
It was a kind of parasite, called a ‘parasite’.
It sucked the death energy from the host and created an entity similar to the host.
One snake zombie grew into seven. Instead, the time I could enjoy as an undead was drastically reduced. Even if I didn’t provide an aura, sooner or later, there would be a lot of them rotting and dying on their own.
Snake bit snake. The living ate the dead, and the dead ate the dead. While they were eating and being eaten, six or seven snakes appeared. They were parasites.
Death spread like a plague and killed the snakes of Medusa, and they all died together.
“Open the way.”
The spirits draped a flower path before me. In the darkness, Inferno flew low with his wings spread wide, followed by a horde of Iredem and Wights. There were still snakes left that had not been dealt with, but they could not withstand the spirits’ onslaught.
Medusia’s huge eyes bulged. With all of its hair gone, its body was lumpy, as if covered in boils. A new snake was about to be born from the bulging, translucent area.
Hwaaaaah!
The light that exploded from Medusia’s eyes engulfed Iredem and White. The Iron Knight was frozen solid along with the treasure of the Jaylesons, but Inferno fought the beam with flames.
Even petrification magic and flame magic were ultimately just a collection of magical powers.
They collided and influenced each other, and a transparent fight began between Inferno, who had no solid body, and Medusa, who was left without the protection of the snakes.
Whoosh whoosh!
The giant eyeball was engulfed in flames. It was a terrifying sight, enough to make one say that it was indeed a high-level fire spirit. Inferno burned so fiercely that it seemed as if it would burn the eyeball completely.
‘I can hold out for that.’
Medusa saw her opportunity.
It was clear that he was crouching down until new hair grew in, then trying to counterattack by spitting out snakes all at once.
I wasn’t stupid enough to wait even after realizing the enemy’s intentions. I approached Medusa. Several snakes lurked underground and jumped out to bite my ankles, but I easily dodged their teeth.
I could run faster than anyone without much effort, thanks to the ability I gained by killing a branded goblin assassin.
Swish!
As I lightly swung the Serenade, which was imbued with an aura, I felt something catch on.
‘Okay.’
Medusia instantly leapt back, avoiding the fatal blow. The creature was flying through the air at a fairly fast speed, trying to fly high into the sky to dodge my attacks.
Medusia was only hit with a scratch on her cornea at best. However, the true value of my attack this time was not in the blade itself, but in the aura that was embedded in the blade.
A handful of aura settled into Medusa’s eyes.
The chilling energy moved fiercely and did its part well.
Antaria Sword Skill 10 seconds of frenzy.
The aura that moved from the tip of Serenade’s sword to Medusia’s eyeball branched out like lightning.
Bam!
It happened in an instant.
Compared to her solid body, Medusia’s pupils were rather weak. My aura tore them apart, and Medusia, startled, covered her pupils with her eyelids and vomited out the undeveloped snakes.
Baby snakes smaller than the palm of a hand wiggled to protect their master.
“It’s over.”
I was ashamed of the fact that I had been scared of Medusa.
I held up Serenade. There were countless swordsmanship techniques in my head, but I focused on learning Antaria Swordsmanship. I mixed in other swordsmanship techniques little by little and transformed Antaria Swordsmanship, and as a result, I completed a single style.
Louis Fencing 1 second vertical slash.
It was a perfect swordsmanship that did not allow even a single inch of error, from the gaze to the movement of the tips of the feet.
The moment the aura was distributed, Serenade traced a smooth trajectory across the space, drawing Medusia’s tightly shut eyes.
Phew!
It felt like I had cut through the air. I couldn’t feel anything at my fingertips, but I didn’t doubt my swordsmanship.
Oh my god!
The situation, unlike the feeling, was as if a rock had been split. The eye socket had split open, and the sphere that had filled the inside had split in two.
In the meantime, the trickster’s symbol emerged.
‘omg!’
It felt like something was entering me. It happened so quickly that I wondered if it was an illusion, but there was nothing wrong with my body.
The only thing that had changed was that I could feel the heat on my forehead. I touched my forehead with my fingertips. The V-shaped scar was still there, but I could feel something bulging out between them.
‘no way…….’
The monster’s mark commonly had a round dot in the middle of the pattern. It was similar to a human fingerprint, and the feel of it on my fingertips was similar.
‘… … disappeared.’
I felt again, but I felt nothing.
The moment the slit-shaped eyeballs fell to the floor, the snakes struggled to escape the main body and were helplessly burned. The flames of Inferno had engulfed them.
“Burn it to the ground.”
The spirits, except Inferno, returned.
Because I could have sorted this out without their help.
Black smoke rose from the forest where the half-baked corpse of Medusa and the traces of snakes remained.
After a while, the ground boiled. Trees fell over on the blackened dirt floor with their roots burned, and the grass was so dry and twisted that it was completely blackened.
-It’s finished.
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Only after hearing Inferno’s answer did I sit down and practice Aura.
‘Oh!’
The amount of magical power flowing into me was more than I had thought. I thought Medusia and the snake were one body, but the snake was another life form that coexisted with Medusia. They each sent me a large amount of magical power. In particular, the magical power from Medusia was more than any other branded monster I had ever absorbed.
Kwakwakwakwakwak!
In the past, you had to grit your teeth every time you absorbed the magic power of a branded monster.
Now, I could receive magical power steadily even without much determination. This was because the amount of magical power I could store in my danjeon and veins had increased, and my aura rod had become stronger.
-It is time to end this long-standing curse, my daughter.
It was Medusia’s memory. But the voice that popped out from the fragmentary memory was Trickster’s.
It was a short sentence, but the trickster’s voice sounded familiar to me.
‘Medusia was the daughter of a god? And the daughter of a trickster? Was I a being arranged for Medusia?’
However, it was an overly complicated and inconvenient method. The process of transferring the soul of Luis de Breyot to Luis de Hebron, strengthening it by pouring various abilities, and having it meet Medusia seemed elaborate, but it was simply based on coincidence.
‘If this is happening in the palm of God’s hand… … .’
I made a fuss.
If there was only one god in this world, then I wouldn’t understand, but in a world where countless gods appeared and were then forgotten, I couldn’t understand the situation where a trickster ran wild all by himself.
If that were possible, the Trickster would have to be comparable to the ‘Demon King’ who throws this world into chaos.
There weren’t many memories I read from Medusia. Excluding the Trickster’s warm words, all I could remember was her looking into every corner of the world with her big eyes.
“Dina!”
I jumped up from my seat in surprise. It was Dina that I saw in Medusia’s memory. No, it wasn’t Medusia’s memory. It was the situation that was happening at that moment.
Dina was breastfeeding in her mother’s arms. Now that she was big enough, she could hold up her head and even crawled around, causing minor accidents.
He was faster than his peers, but he also had extraordinary strength because he had awakened his aura.
Dina’s figure disappeared into thin air.
“Wow, this is Medusa’s ability!”
I closed my eyes. I concentrated, and this time I saw my father. He was in the studio of the Lord of Hebron, working on a new piece. He had a pen in each ear, his hair was disheveled, and he was circling around the room, trying to come up with ideas.
I touched my forehead with my fingertips.
As expected, I felt something that had never been there before.
“Have I developed a third eye? It seems similar to the three-wheeled eye of the Brecha sect… … .”
The god of truth, Brecha, granted her priests the unique power of clairvoyance, a divine magic that allowed them to see far away places, and the Pope of Brecha was granted the ability to use the ‘Three-Wheel Eye’.
This meant the third pupil in the ancient language.
It was two centuries ago that the last triumvirate of the Brezza order appeared. From then on, the archpriest acted as the papal vicar.
The Brecha Order quickly lost its power due to the absence of the Samryunan, and was reduced to a small order.
‘According to the doctrine of Brecha… … .’
My head was filled with doctrines of all kinds of denominations. That was Luis de Breyot’s hobby. He compared and analyzed the doctrines of various denominations to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Haryanism.
The exact identity of what appeared on my forehead was not important. None of the living Brecha priests had seen the three-wheeled eye directly, and none had heard the voice of God.
‘I have to have them.’
Meeeeeee.
Syang cried softly. As Medusia was defeated, the curse of petrification that had been placed on him was slowly being lifted.
I placed my hand on Syang’s body and let my aura flow through it.
When a little stimulation was applied, Syang started to stretch and shake his body like a dog.
Meeeeeee!
We rode the Swan and headed to Zielson. We didn’t have to go far. There were outposts set up along the road from the rainbow bridge to Zielson’s castle, and Zielson’s soldiers were stationed there.
“The branded monster has been defeated. The corpse is over there. Contact the lord.”
“Oh, I understand, Your Majesty. I will contact you right away!”
The soldier tried to ride away on horseback. He would report to the knight in charge, who would then relay the message to the lord.
“Count Jailson is inspecting the southeast wall.”
“yes?”
“Send a messenger to the southeast wall. It’s near Hans’ bakery.”
“Yes, your highness.”
