Talent-Swallowing Magician Chapter 147

Episode 147

Otto Hahn

‘Can we really call these people human…? ?’

Elric couldn’t help but think of this as he watched the war between the Mervingers and the demons.

It was as if I was watching a scene from the mythological Book of Genesis.

The demons were darkness itself. Every time the Great Demon Lords unleashed some kind of magic, the darkness stirred and they tried to forcibly turn the world into pitch black.

Mervinger’s side tried to tear apart the darkness again and again, each time dropping pure white light like a thunderbolt.

Fire, water, wind, earth… The four major elements, commonly called the foundation of physical properties, have repeatedly swept the earth in the form of disasters.

Because of this, the cliff where Mervinger first stood completely collapsed, and instead, large and small mountains that were not visible beneath it repeatedly rose and sank.

It was such a fierce battle that Elric couldn’t even think about it.

On the other hand, I also felt puzzled.

‘It’s somehow similar… do?’

I was overwhelmed by the scale of the magic unfolding and only realized it late, but if I looked closely, the magic of the two camps was quite similar in many places.

Mervinger’s magic seemed very different in nature from the magic of the general human system, and the magic of the four great demon kings also seemed far from the black magic practiced by ordinary demons.

On the other hand, the magic of the two places was quite similar.

Although the color and temperament are completely different.

Even though the mana arrangement and flow of resolution were different, the ‘shape’ looked similar!

If I had to express it… .

okay. It seemed as if twins born in the same family grew up in different environments and lived completely different lives, resulting in different personalities.

-At some point, out of my thirst for greater power, I became tainted by a demon and caused great harm to the world, and I was able to realize my mistake too late…

-We were created and our family was created to correct the wrongs and atone for the past.

The voice inherent in the magic sword had spoken.

They say they are making atonement.

Maybe that means… .

“right. “That’s it.”

At that moment, Otto Han’s voice was heard from behind, reading Elric’s thoughts.

His voice is much calmer and deeper than that of the young Otto Hahn.

Even though he was just a childish person when he was young, his scope of thinking seemed to have broadened as time passed.

Elric turned his head back.

Otto Hahn, who looked like an old man in his 70s, had somewhat sad eyes behind his glasses.

The emotions contained within were very diverse.

Longing, earnestness, sadness… .

The feelings of regret swirled around violently and then calmed down again.

It seemed like his feelings about the past could be condensed into one thing.

Regret.

“We are in the process of atonement. In the form of eating, swallowing, and drinking all the yam in the world. “They tried to eradicate and exterminate all human beings from this land.”

“Was Mervinger originally an outsider?”

Elric asked a question he had been thinking about for some time.

A question I wanted to ask but couldn’t.

However, the reason I buried this question all this time was probably because I had some fear in my heart.

If the beings we have been taught to hate and hate, the beings we were told were our enemies, were in fact our origins, it would have been a huge shock.

I avoided it on purpose.

but.

I was mentally prepared to some extent now.

Having seen this scene, I understood it to some extent.

But Otto Hahn smiled mysteriously and calmly shook his head.

“no. “It wasn’t like that.”

“then… ?”

“It was something more fundamental than that.”

Elric narrowed his eyes.

The question is what does that mean?

“It means that our Mervinger and the Inhoe, commonly known as Ma, are two sides of the same coin, originating from the same source.”

“… !”

“The source of magic that is now widely known in the world… “You can look at it that way.”

It was a category of territory that Elric could never have even thought of.

“Then the progenitor and the demon god… ?”

“You can think of them as two sides of the same coin. They started from the same roots, but ultimately ended up in conflict due to different directions they pursued. “We Mervingers are as guilty as letting strangers into this world, so we tried to get rid of them somehow.”

Elric was the flagship.

If so, doesn’t this mean that the progenitor is also a being who has risen to the same level of deity as a demon god?

It’s divine blood.

Elric somehow burst into laughter when he heard a word he had only heard in legends.

“Then what is the source of that magic?”

In an instant, Otto Hahn’s smile took on a familiar look again. A mischievous smile.

“It’s a secret.”

“… what?”

He spoke as if he would answer all my questions. Is this a joke here too?

“This is something you don’t need to know yet. If you reveal that information, it would be too much of a burden for you now. Unless we are fools, we will open them in turn, so don’t be too hasty.”

Even though he said that, Elric couldn’t say anything.

But somehow, I felt like I had a vague idea of ​​what the origin was.

Everyone ‘knows’ it, but it’s something we can’t help but miss.

“anyway.”

Otto Hahn continued his explanation again.

“Mervinger and Inoe started from the same roots, and because of that, a disaster occurred in which they were desperate to kill each other. And as the war continues to prolong… .”

Otto Han’s gaze turned to the four major vassals and the four great demon kings who were still fighting fiercely below his feet. Elric’s gaze automatically followed that direction.

“It ended in our victory.”

Kukukuk!

The situation was tilted in favor of the four major vassals.

First, the Demon King of Madness, Azazel, was torn apart and destroyed. Lilith, the Demon Lord of Orgy, plummets to the ground, losing all her beautiful wings, and Shaytan, the Demon Lord of Destruction, vents her anger with her limbs cut off before being stabbed in the head by Christina’s sword. flew away.

Mephisto, the Demon Lord of Original Sin, took advantage of the confusion and barely succeeded in escaping, losing most of his powers.

‘Did he aim for the Jewel Dragon to make up for the power he lost like that and was sealed away?’

The darkness that surrounded the Great Demon Lords was eventually completely washed away and disappeared as the window of light opened up a hole.

It truly felt like a passage from Genesis that states that the camp of light is victorious in the war between light and darkness.

No, maybe.

‘I don’t know if this is what Genesis, which is being adopted by the Protestant Alliance at the same time, really means.’

It was clear that if they heard this idea, they would object and call it heresy. It seemed like Elric wouldn’t be able to erase this thought for a while.

And perhaps, if he remembers correctly, the content of the latter verse was as follows.

“The darkness that shook the world disappears, and the grace of light spreads throughout the world.”

“Darkness brought the unknown and distrust, but from this time on, the light brought civilization.”

“From the seeds of that civilization, humans were able to develop and prosper.”

“But here a problem arose.”

Heavy tone.

Elric narrowed his eyebrows.

I think everything ended well. Was there any mistake?

“What if you say it’s a problem?”

“Even though the war was won, the battle was lost.”

Words I never thought of. Elric felt ominous for a moment and opened his eyes wide, then turned his head in the other direction.

There, the progenitor and the demon god were engaged in a fierce battle.

I don’t know when it was summoned, but dragons were spouting flames in the sky and giants were running wild on the ground, cutting down the demon’s servants again and again.

Anyone can clearly see that the demons are being pushed out.

I thought I just had to remove it now… Didn’t the demon suddenly burst out laughing and aim something at the founder?

Flashing.

It was really at that level.

There was a flash of darkness, and dragons and giants began to fall to the ground, bleeding out one after another.

I didn’t know what had happened.

However, all they could know was that the shadow curse had deeply ingrained into the wounds of the dragons and giants, putting them in danger.

And it was the same with Sijo.

He had already suffered many injuries here and there while dealing with the demon god, so he had to bleed a lot.

He looked so seriously injured that it was clearly different from his usual smiling appearance.

『I guess you were human too. Did you ultimately choose that path?』

The Demon God laughed out loud when he saw such a poem. The guy’s shape was becoming blurry. Even though Sijo obviously won the fight, somehow it seemed like he was the winner.

And what he said… It was the same as what Mephisto said to Otto Han before Elric accessed this place.

『But such an arrogant choice ultimately brought about your death. Even if I disappear, I will eventually remain somewhere, but you will never do that.』

The demon god said those words and suddenly disappeared.

The corners of Sijo’s mouth, slightly exposed beneath his pulled back robe, were smiling bitterly.

Only then did Elric understand Otto Han’s words.

“Does losing the battle mean that the progenitor lost to the demon god?”

“okay. In the end, the wounds suffered at this time… No, because he ended up dying due to the curse. On the other hand, there is a possibility that demons can be resurrected anywhere. “Because outsiders are like that.”

secret.

Unusual phenomena that cannot be expressed in words become the basis for the birth of humans.

It wouldn’t be impossible for a demon god, who could be said to be the origin of humanity, to be resurrected somehow.

Just as Azazel, who was thought to have disappeared, is preparing for his second coming.

“And in fact, the founder made several predictions before he closed his eyes. “I don’t know how long it will take, but as the human beings gain strength again, the demon god will eventually be reborn.”

Elric tried to say that the demons had already made a big fuss about 30 years ago.

Hemp war. The terrible war in which countless kingdoms collapsed and even empires almost fell… In the end, didn’t it end at Mervinger’s hand?

but.

‘no… all.’

Elric couldn’t open his mouth for a moment.

That thought suddenly occurred to me.

perhaps.

The idea that the Great Demon War may have been nothing more than a preliminary battle.

“And in the process, the family will experience a downfall and then come back to life like a miracle. “There will be one descendant before him.”

Elric came to his senses.

prophecy.

Because it was only possible to know for sure who the target it was pointing to was unless he was an idiot.

“That is why he left a message for those of us who remain to help his descendants walk the path properly.”

The world surrounding Elric began to fast forward.

Sijo, who was lying in a hospital bed, closed his eyes. The four retainers who were guarding the spot burst into tears all at once.

Otto Hahn stepped forward and spoke. First of all, he has to continue the family that seems to be collapsing, so he says he, the youngest, will take charge first.

Instead, he asked the other three to make preparations so that the founder’s instructions could be properly carried out.

The three vassals, including Christina, nodded and dispersed to make different preparations, and Otto Hahn, who had newly ascended to the position of head of the family, comforted Gasol and led the family down the path to prosperity.

That was its own preparation.

Preparation to carry out the founder’s instructions.

He knew better than anyone else that in order for a family to survive for over a thousand years, the foundation must be solid.

At the same time, other arrangements for ‘winter’ were also made here and there.

The tomb of King Seolsan.

Black snowy field.

Temple of Flowers.

His touch was visible everywhere, and the tradition of this was left in the family.

And again as time goes by.

Otto Hahn looked like he was in his 40s, which Elric usually saw, and then slowly entered his 60s. Wrinkles appeared around the eyes, and the pupils became deeper. The immature appearance disappeared everywhere, and only the image of a dignified great sage leading the family remained.

He could have gone against time if he wanted to, but he didn’t have to.

Rather, I had a strong feeling of hoping that time would come.

like that.

Otto Hahn became what he is now as he entered his 70s.

After sending Sijo away, his noisy and noisy world turned upside down and became lonely and lonely.

It was a lonely and lonely road, just like the ‘winter’ that symbolized him.

How could it be that I couldn’t achieve it with my lover?

Severe winter cold.

In the deep snowy winter, the cold that swept the earth could not have been that chilly.

People say that Otto Hahn lived his whole life to keep the teachings of his founder, but he was also struggling to hold on to the fleeting happy memories of his youth.

And now.

The maintenance was finally coming to an end.

I no longer had to picture my lonely youth.

“Yes.”

Because I finally met the descendant that the founder had been talking about, and was able to pass on everything he had.

“You are the ‘child of prophecy.’”

Wizard who swallowed talent