< 65. 21st Century Robin Hood (19) >
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Changcheon screamed desperately.
The electricity that rode the shadow and penetrated her body boiled her blood and burned her flesh. Although it was only for a short moment, the damage she suffered was greater than Jenkinson’s. Because it was an electric shock that struck her defenseless body.
The dragon struggles, tearing through the wind. The lightning has already been collected. Then Jenkinson, not missing his chance, rushes in. Minjun also hangs on to her, having planted a cone of shadow on her body. It even continues to spin and dig into her flesh.
Thud!
I thrust my two arms deeper through the skin. As the charred flesh split and scattered, a layer of moderately cooked meat emerged, and as I went in a little further, blood gushed out again.
Minjun knew. If he went in just one more inch from here, the spine would appear.
Blood spurted out like a burst fire hydrant between the shadow and the wound. It poured out like a hole had been drilled in the embankment. As his arm went deeper, his upper body tilted and Minjun’s head got closer to the dragon. Minjun’s face was soaked by the blood flow like overflowing stream water. Dragon blood continued to flow out of his parted mouth. I tasted it once more.
It was sweet.
It was certainly a dragon that lived much longer than Jenkins, perhaps over 3,000 years old.
In the rippling consciousness, reality and the past mixed together to create a resonance. A sense of foreboding. Minjun judged based on memories he had not experienced. He muttered.
At this point, it’ll probably sell for quite a high price, right?
That judgment was not based on his experience as a prisoner. Common sense tells us that there would be no market for the blood of the ancient dragon. Nevertheless, Minjun was ranking the meat and blood of the Changcheon in his head.
Covered in blood, he felt tipsy and drunk on strong alcohol.
A thick, almost suffocating scent. But it wasn’t a bad feeling. Rather, it was a little exciting. It felt like the boredom that had been weighing on my chest was melting away.
It’s been so long.
Feeling alive.
Kyaaaaah!
The thoughts that were trying to deepen were interrupted by the dragon’s struggles.
Krrrr!
As Changcheon shook his body violently, Minjun was almost thrown into the air. The drill that had dug deep into his skin also fell out.
As the foreign substance that had infiltrated disappeared, the dragon’s body showed miraculous recovery powers. Keratin, calcium, and magical compounds coagulated and crystallized in the torn muscles, fat layers, blood vessels, and outer skin. It took only a few seconds for the deep wounds to be filled with solid red crystals.
Minjun clicked his tongue when he saw that.
You threw away all the meat.
An unfamiliar muttering continued in my head.
If you put stress on the meat for a long time during the slaughter process, the quality of the meat will inevitably decline. In particular, if you injure the body in several places before cutting off the airway, the damaged areas will harden and become hard and tasteless, making them inedible. Therefore, they are all cut out and thrown away, resulting in losses.
Minjun changed the shape of his arms again, worried about someone yelling at him. The two arms that had been entangled and knotted together to form a drill separated. This time, he also changed the overall outline of his body. The shadow that had completely covered him took on a clearer shape.
at that time.
Kyaaaaah!
Screaming, Changcheon makes a sharp turn. Then, as if trying to escape, he starts flying in a strange direction. It seems like his reasoning has become clouded by the pain. Instead of killing and destroying the two in front of him, he tries to escape this place for now.
=Oh my!=
Jenkinson follows.
The dragon, having lost its sense of reason, raised its head and flew towards a higher place. The pursuing red dragon bombarded it with various spells. Some of them hit the target, and the old dragon screamed but did not stop running.
Changcheon was flying at an incredible speed. Minjun instinctively knew that this flight was beyond what he could catch with levitation magic. So he tried not to fall off Changcheon’s body. He created beast claws with his shadow, pierced through the scales, and grabbed the dragon’s flesh.
Now he was flying along, clinging tightly to the outer shell of the sky.
Hurrr!
The prisoner covered in seething shadows took the form of a four-legged beast. He was not content to hang like a flea. He continued to climb, step by step. Using all four legs, he climbed upward. He looked like he was climbing a cylindrical rock wall.
As he climbed the body of the sky, a mountain of clouds approached him, colliding and breaking apart. This assault of the cloud layer was only temporary. After a little more time had passed, nothing could be seen around him anymore.
But the sky continued to rise. A bitter cold air swept over him. The fierce pressure and gusts of wind struck his shadow as heavily as a rock.
Minjun continued to climb while enduring air resistance that would crush steel. The climb that started from the dragon’s chest was heading towards its head. With each step, a hole was made in the dragon’s outer skin and blood flowed out. Jenkinson flew behind him, but he could not keep up. In many ways, he was less mature than Changcheon. He was not yet old enough to be shipped to the market.
But Changcheon is just right.
Minjun reached the nape of the dragon’s neck amidst a strange sense of elevation and excitement. The target he had been trying to drill a few minutes ago was originally here.
Oh my.
Minjun’s mouth opened and the shadows coalesced into a long tongue. The tongue was much thinner and longer than the drill that had crushed his chest. It spun around and…
Wheeing!
Phew!
Stab the dragon in the back of the head.
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Minjun reviewed the knowledge he had learned a long time ago.
Dragons move around for a long time even when their central nervous system is damaged, and if the slaughter time is long, the meat tastes terrible due to stress. They are animals that require a lot of care in many ways.
So what is the most efficient slaughter method?
The prisoner reproduces the optimal movement according to memory. The thinly condensed shadow penetrates the scales and digs in like an endoscope equipped with an electric drill. Thanks to his long experience, Minjun can tell just by feeling where the tip of the shadow awl is and what is at the end of this direction.
He muttered, intoxicated and feeling a sense of accomplishment at having done something right.
They all came.
It is very difficult to sever a dragon’s skull or spinal cord with such a small ‘extension’.
But in this position, at the nape of my neck, there was a gap to dig into. I felt something hard on the tip of my tongue. I pushed without stopping.
Phew!
Instead of breaking the head, it went up through the neck and reached the brain.
At that moment, Jenkinson and Minjun didn’t see it, but Changcheon’s eyes became blurry.
Despite the destruction of the lower part of the skull, the medulla oblongata connecting the brain and spinal cord, the dragon did not die. Its flight speed remained the same, and its angle did not change. The survival magic surrounding its body did not collapse either.
However, he was unconscious.
Minjun thought.
If you leave it like this for too long, the meat will become a bigger mess.
As the endocrine system continues to work, stress hormones are secreted like crazy within the muscles.
So Minjun had no intention of leaving it alone for too long.
The reason why they specifically targeted the lowest part of the brain was because this was the entrance. It was a gateway leading to the inside of the dragon’s skull, a secret room where six brains were stored.
The shadow awl that Minjun had created went through Yeonsu and deeper into the brain. Towards the place where the nerves connecting the six brains were gathered.
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So, what’s next?
Even if I try to clumsily stir and crush it from the inside with those thin strands of shadow, it will take a long time until it suffocates.
Instead, there was a way to do this.
Hurrruk!
Minjun used the tongue he had inserted into his brain as a passage to condense more shadows and pour them into the dragon’s body. The principle was similar to attaching a thin hose to a balloon and then turning on the faucet to pour water into it.
And what if the balloon is filled with water?
The contents will burst out at the weakest point.
That’s what Jenkinson and Minjun saw.
puck!
With a dull explosion, a pink waterfall poured out from Changcheon’s two eyes.
***
“Oh, my! How the hell do I do this!”
Ha Eun-seong was embarrassed.
His plan was simple. Changcheon had started all this to revive the ghost, so if that ghost disappeared, he would have no choice but to give up his plan.
He was trying to dismantle the exorcism and release the ghosts into the outside world.
however···.
“Ah! Seriously, it’s not moving at all!”
The cause of the problem was that I underestimated the exorcism that could be freely penetrated in the spirit state.
Unless Changcheon and his subordinates were fools, they would not have ignored the possibility that a living person would intervene in the exorcism. Therefore, there was a physical barrier surrounding the exorcism, and no matter how hard they tried with their elf bodies, they could not break through it.
‘What should I do?’
The thoughts continue.
And when the excitement died down, he realized his mistake.
‘Wait a minute, can you really consider releasing that ghost as solving the problem?’
The Dragon’s Ghost has not yet attained Buddhahood and has not evolved into a Ghost.
Would things get any better if such a ghost were released into the world?
‘Yeah, I was wrong. I feel sorry for that ghost, but…’
This isn’t something that can be solved by releasing the dragon’s ghost.
That ghost must be exterminated.
Perhaps it would be better for that ghost to help it disappear rather than allowing it to continue to suffer in spiritual karma.
He changed his mind and concentrated outside the exorcism zone.
“Disappear… Disappear… Disappear!”
But it was no use.
It originated in a similar form as before, and the talent also emitted light in response to the will. The magic circle that trapped the ghost also seemed to resonate.
And yet the ghost continued to be there, still tormented by the burning spiritual heat.
Ha Eun-seong muttered to himself.
‘Should I discard my elf body and enter that barrier in spirit form? But it’s too hot there.’
Change your mind again.
There was a better way.
‘or not!’
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to create an environment similar to the one used when Ji Seon-gyeong’s soul was destroyed.
It is a state where two souls are trapped in one body… that is, it is a state where they maintain a kind of ‘contact’.
But in the current situation, two conditions had to be met in order to do so.
Anyway, I have to break the exorcism and get that spirit out, and find a suitable body to possess the ghost.
Ha Eun-seong looked at the research team that he had possessed. Could the elf’s body withstand the dragon’s soul?
‘rather···.’
He turns his head.
The room I had just passed through. I stared at the huge glass chamber and the dragon’s body sealed inside.
That dragon, whose name he doesn’t even know and for how long he’s been held captive, isn’t a telepath. Ha Eun-seong could tell just by looking at it.
‘But Changcheon tried to possess the dragon with his spirit. And he said that the possession itself had succeeded briefly before. The problem was that it didn’t last long.’
What is the secret?
Were all the dragons that had been kidnapped before then telepathic? Or…
‘Changcheon may have known a way to forcefully possess even those who are not psychic!’
I could only think of one reason why.
Changcheon said this.
– Talent can interfere with the soul in various ways. It can extract the soul from the body of the living, or put it into another body. It can completely destroy the soul, or if its strength is slightly weakened, it can cause the soul to collapse and split.
I’ve done it again.
‘Can you put it in another body?’
What if that body isn’t necessarily a clairvoyant?
‘Let’s try it!’
If Ha Eun-seong can subdue that dragon’s body, many things will be solved.
He went to the next room and looked at the dragon submerged in liquid. He could tell that the soul was weakened by what it had been doing. It was barely able to control its body, barely able to maintain its life.
The plan was simple. First, take over the body for a short time in exchange for the weakened soul. Since it was a dragon’s body, its strength would be incredible, and wouldn’t it be able to break the exorcism?
Then, the ghost is absorbed into this body, and the three of them temporarily live together in one house… no, live together in one body.
Of course, it won’t stay that way for long.
‘I’m going to call you here, lock you up, and then just destroy you. Just like Ji Seon-gyeong!’
Then, the original soul will leave this body and the person will leave.
Of course, for him to succeed, all of his assumptions must fall into place.
But either scenario would be worth a try.
After making his decision, he emerged from the elf’s body.
“Coolook!”
As he left, the elf regained control of his body and slumped down, coughing and gagging.
Ha Eun-seong, who returned to his spirit state, jumped into the dragon’s body.
‘Hmm? But that won’t work.’
The physical body, which has no astral sensitivity, has difficulty accepting other astral bodies. This is true even when the true master’s control is weakened.
But when Ha Eun-seong started to resonate with Dal-tan,
Whoa whoa!
=Huh? Huh?! Okay!=
I felt the resistance that had been pushing him away gradually weakening.
Bubbling!
The dragon in the glass case opened its eyes.
Boom!
Shhhhhh!
As he swung his limbs and tail, the glass shattered and broke into pieces, and the water that had filled it burst out in an explosion.
“Quack! Quack!”
Ha Eun-seong, who had taken over the body of a young dragon, staggered.
It seemed as if it had no strength left, and it walked on the broken glass while its body was soaking wet. Of course, if the glass had crumbled like sand, it would have crumbled, but the dragon’s body did not have even a small scratch.
And there was an elf lying beside him, shaking.
“Eek! Huuugh!”
He was terrified when he saw the ghost that had taken over the dragon’s body.
Ha Eun-seong was having a completely different level of difficulty controlling the bodies of orcs and other species. Everything was unfamiliar to him, including how to keep his center of gravity and how to move parts that humans didn’t have.
WHEEK!
Boom!
The craziest part was that it was so hard to control the tail and wings. Since they were things I had never seen before, they moved on their own, regardless of my will.
Even now, I was just trying to lift it slightly so that it wouldn’t get in the way, but its tail flew like a whip and struck and destroyed the equipment all over the lab.
“Ugh… ugh!”
Ha Eun-seong eventually fell once again.
bang!
The ground he had hit cracked and split as he fell. And a meter away from his nails digging into the concrete, an elf with wet pants was staring at him with a pale face.
‘Oh, shit! I’m speechless!’
The dragon’s tongue and vocal cords were not originally suitable for pronouncing human language. But at that moment, Ha Eun-seong, who could not use magic, became irritated.
=Ah! Mr.! ······Huh?=
Ha Eun-seong realized that he had sent telepathy.
‘I don’t know what it is, but it’s good!’
This made me think that there was no need to break the exorcism with my body.
He asked the trembling elf.
=Please get rid of that exorcist!=
“······yes?”
He shouted mentally as if he was being pressured.
=Please get rid of that exorcist!=
“Huh! Yes… Yes!”
The elf walked towards the next room with a gait that seemed as if his knees had given out and he might fall at any moment. And then.
Boom! Crunch!
=Oh, shit! Seriously!=
A dragon possessed by a ghost followed along at a distance, its movements as if it was just learning to walk.
One side was trembling with fear, the other with irritation, and they walked awkwardly. Their comical gestures were reminiscent of dancers dancing the cripple dance.
So the elf and the dragon staggered towards the wraith.
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