Episode 105
General Dong
“From so far away… A pitch-black darkness was approaching. The bitter cold and snowstorm are coming… “Everything caught up in it froze.”
“It made a huge noise! The noise of a swarm of bees… ! “I couldn’t even see in front of me!”
“I ran away. “There was nothing else I could do.”
The refugees’ testimonies all had one thing in common.
darkness.
cold.
snowstorm.
And fear.
They all said that the moment they encountered ‘it’, they felt tremendous fear even though they did nothing.
And if you meditate there and can’t move, you’ll be trapped in the cold that ‘that’ gives you and you’ll quickly freeze.
The refugees currently flocking to Antromov were all those who had fled to avoid such damage.
They had to leave the place where they had settled down since the time of their ancestors, and in the process, they had to lose countless family members and relatives.
Because of this, the tribal leaders gathered at King Yulho’s large barracks were all indignant, but they also showed signs of fear that ‘that’ might strike here again from time to time.
[…] Is General Dong that scary?]
As for Elric’s experience as a general in the modern era, he did not suffer any significant damage as he passed by using his mind’s eye to determine the outcome or guided the path as instructed by King Velence.
But it seemed like what he saw was only a very small part.
[In the present era, everyone has become accustomed to General Dong, so various countermeasures have been created and his power has been greatly weakened. But even at this time, General Dong was truly a mystery.]
The camellia god crossed his arms and had a cynicism on his lips.
[It was a disaster that could never be avoided… It was King Yulho who successfully resolved the chaos, united the beastmen, and emerged as a hero. But it took even King Yulho a long time to do that.]
The camellia god quietly stared at Elric.
It means whether you can really do it well.
Elric quietly closed his eyes and opened them again.
“yes. I’ll do it.”
Those words were addressed to both King Yulho and the God of Camellia.
King Yulho nodded with satisfaction.
“good. We plan to gather the chiefs and fighters here and form an exploration party. “Departure will be at noon tomorrow, so get ready.”
[…] .]
on the other side.
The camellia god kept his lips tightly shut.
* * *
the next day.
As King Yulho said, the exploration party left Antromov.
There were many fighters from each tribe mixed together.
Most of them were complicated by resentment due to conflicts between tribes, but no one cared about that now.
Isn’t this a grave crisis that could lead to the extinction of not just the tribe, but the entire race?
There wasn’t even the slightest chatter as we all had to move around very nervously.
At the front stood King Yulho, the leader of the exploration team, and Elric, who served as a guide.
“【Shine】. And [rise].”
Elric floated a light sphere high in the air.
This was because the closer we got to General Dong’s territory, the temperature dropped rapidly and the sky became darker.
Fortunately, I had been wearing my winter clothes tightly since I left the city, but visibility was poor, so I had to secure it in this way.
And a few more were placed so that those following behind could also observe their surroundings.
‘Search Light’. It was a basic magic that was mainly used as a lighthouse in times of emergency. However, there were differences in brightness and duration depending on the amount and purity of magical power.
“That magic is so amazing every time I see it.”
King Yulho stroked his chin while looking at Gwanggu, saying it was interesting.
It was completely different from the other prisoners who hated Gwang-gu as soon as they saw him.
“Would you like to learn from the chieftain as well? “I think you can easily learn the basics.”
“Tsk! Why? “Why when you have a brother?”
“It’s too easy for you to say that you will manipulate me.”
“If you tease me, you’ll be the chieftain.”
“… .”
Elric sighed lightly as he looked at King Yulho’s confident attitude. He had been going through this for over three months, but King Yulho was truly ruthless.
[How about taking this opportunity for self-reflection?]
Of course, I just ignored Dongbaek Shin’s cackling.
“Anyway, brother, our tribe has changed a lot since we met you. “Sometimes I really wonder if you’re a piece of luck that fell from the sky?”
“… “Thank you for saying that.”
Elric couldn’t really say that he had suddenly fallen from the sky by the standards of this place.
“So, let me give you a gift.”
gift?
Suddenly on the way to investigate General Dong?
Elric tried to ask if it didn’t suit the atmosphere too well.
“Bal (發), cancer (暗), Tao (渡), light (勁). “Pa(波), Jang(場), Jip(集), Hae(解), Pok(爆).”
Suddenly, King Yulho narrowed his eyebrows slightly at the words he spat out one after another.
Something… I think I know, but it’s hard to know. Just hearing it made my heart tingle.
“this… “What is it?”
“Did you remember?”
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“Shoot, quietly, cross, hit? Scatter, fix, collect, release, explode… Right?”
“also. I always feel this way, but brothers are really smart, right? “I understood it right away.”
“So what is this?”
“The final chapter of the story.”
“… !”
Elric walked forward, but suddenly stopped midway.
Bottom line.
This was the reason why Elric approached King Yulho in the first place.
But you’re bringing it up?
For a moment, a shiver ran down my spine. Her fingertips trembled as if they had received an electric shock.
[Hoo. I didn’t even think of this?]
While the God of Camellia looked at Elric and King Yulho alternately with a strange gaze.
Perhaps because Elric’s reaction was amusing, King Yulho’s smile became even more comical.
“flaw! “Did you think I didn’t know?”
“… Uh, since when did you know?”
“From the beginning.”
“… !”
“Learning Gangchejutsu from a retired master from Goa? There are some questionable corners here, but let’s say it could be possible. But magic isn’t like that. I don’t know much about other beastmen because they look down on magic, but I’m different. “That’s almost impossible to learn on your own, right?”
“… .”
“Besides, the reason you deliberately visited the tribes that were hostile to the Antromorphs was to see me in the first place. “I just thought it would be fun so I left it there.”
Elric was so embarrassed that he scratched his cheek with his index finger.
In fact, even if you think about it, everything he did was reckless and unreasonable.
“Then, as I hung out with him, I realized that he was very interested in my strong body technique.”
“… Then why did you leave me alone? “Why did you teach me this trick?”
“Even though your intentions were shabby, it is true that you were loyal to our tribe. It’s all like that, right? Whether you are a human or a beast, you pursue your own interests. I only left you alone because it was in my best interest. Well, it was fun to watch.”
Elric had to smile bitterly when he heard that he had been in the palm of King Yulho’s hand all this time.
“Still, I don’t understand why you taught me the main chapter of Yogyeol.”
“Survive.”
“… ?”
“General Dong, if you go in there, you don’t know how many people will die here. But I’m giving it to you because you will survive somehow. “I worked hard to figure it out, but I can’t die unjustly, right?”
Elric knew that this was King Yulho’s consideration.
No matter what twists and turns you encounter after joining Dongjanggun, you are encouraged to overcome them based on your strengths.
It’s probably because I don’t know how to rewind.
I was so grateful for that feeling.
“Of course, this won’t be the last. The main chapter is divided into two parts. “I’ll give you the back part when you come back alive.”
At those words, Elric thought that somehow he shouldn’t rewind this time.
It wasn’t simply to get the last part of the chapter.
It was because King Yulho was grateful.
[really? Do you really think so? I don’t think so.]
[…] Please do not break my impression.]
Elric ignored the scolding from the camellia god and stopped mid-step.
Far away.
Tsutsutsu-
Kyaaa!
The darkness was coming this way like a tidal wave.
The sound of the wind created by the cold and sharp wind blowing there sounded as eerie as a ghost.
* * *
Elric’s impressions after first seeing General Dong’s true form were very simple.
Demon.
That was truly ‘Ma’ in name and reality.
‘Ma’ itself cannot be defined by anything else.
What was inside was full of raw, unprocessed malice and evil thoughts, and it felt like my soul would be stained by it and wither away just by being exposed to it.
and.
‘It’s the same temperament that the Dongbaek scene exuded in the movie. If there’s anything different… Should we say that there is no center?’
Elric thought that if the central element of the camellia god was removed from the woman of the ice throne, that would be what was left.
‘The shell that the camellia god lost… fault… Well, can I think of it like that? What on earth is the camellia god doing, the devil? With that kind of power, it would almost be at the level of the legendary Great Demon King, right?’
I thought that perhaps the skin lost by the camellia god had evolved alone over time, or that it had degenerated after encountering the curse of the demon god.
Whatever the reason.
As Elric, the head of the Mervinger family at the time, he could not just leave that alone.
‘My skin is so stinging it’s killing me.’
The anglerfish was screaming several times.
We have to escape from there somehow!
However, as Elric, he only felt the desire to win.
“Our goal is to get inside that black thing and find out its exact identity. So everyone be careful… Let’s rush in.”
And when King Yulho’s order to force the operation was given, he was the first to lead and forcibly dragged away the hesitant members of the exploration team.
So one by one, we entered the darkness.
Hwaaah-
The cold was so extreme that it was incomparable to what I felt outside, and the snowstorm completely blocked my view.
“f*ck it!”
“I can not see! nothing… !”
The prisoners were all quite perplexed.
Even if they can somehow drive away the cold by using their magic power, most of them tend to rely more on other senses than sight.
However, General Dong’s darkness was disturbing all of those senses, so much so that it felt like my hands and feet were tied.
Fortunately, things were okay for Elric.
All you had to do was walk along the path indicated by your mind’s eye.
Of course, the grain was tangled up like a skein of thread, and because the location kept changing in real time, you could get lost at the moment of a miss.
As a result, Elric had no choice but to focus even more on his mind.
At some point, too late, I realized that I couldn’t see anyone else around me except myself.
Even Dongbaek’s god, who was always with him, had disappeared.
‘Where has everyone gone?’
Elric had to shiver with an eerie chill.
Trapped alone in a world filled with darkness, only a blizzard rages around. Regardless of magical power, unless one’s physical strength and mental strength were infinite, one had no choice but to die in the end.
There was also a limit to the food we had.
If things continued like this, he and the entire exploration team, including King Yulho, had no choice but to be annihilated!
‘You will only be able to get to the center if you use another method that goes beyond the mind’s eye.’
When that thought occurred to Elric, his gaze naturally turned to the seal of the cold wind.
The seal of Sakpung also fell from the god of Dongbaek, just like General Dong.
No, to be precise, General Dong was simply a skin, while Sakpung’s seal could be said to be a root.
If we used this, we could somehow pave the way.
However, Elric only caught a glimpse of the karma of the Seal of the Cold Wind, and did not ‘understand’ everything yet. Because he had not completed the trigger, he could not activate the seal yet.
So I was still waiting for the fifth restriction to be lifted.
‘If there is no trigger, I have no choice but to create it myself. What better way could there be? If there is any hint… !’
At that moment, something crossed Elric’s mind.
-You will learn how to take the Donggun.
What Otto Hahn said.
‘take it… Goes?’
When a thought occurred to Elric, he quickly stretched out his hand into the air.
“【Absorb】.”
Following Elric’s command, the seal of cruelty and the seal of evil spewed out a cold light at the same time.
The shadow, which had been invisible due to being engulfed in darkness, opened its mouth wide like an animal, trying to somehow move across the ground.
Kwasik!
Kwasik!
Every time the mouth moved, General Dong’s darkness was torn away, even if just a little. Of course, it was full of demonic energy.
The old Demon King’s magic power is very pure!
Kikiki kick!
The seal of the Hungseong must have been happy because the surrounding area was full of food, so a bizarre sound of laughter was heard.
and.
There was also a seal of cruelty in it, and it sucked away the cold from General Dong at a furious speed.
‘I’ve only used the seal of cruelty to erupt outward, and I’ve never thought of pulling it inward.’
The properties of the ruthless seal are ice and cold.
Of course, General Dong’s cold was also an extension of the same situation. It was an object that could be easily ‘overcome’ if backed up with the magic of the Magic Stone.
And if you use it with the seal of the evil star, you can ‘take’ it as much as you want!
The more I absorbed General Dong’s cold and demonic energy, the more the cold light emitted by the seal of cruelty continued to grow. The lines became clearer, and the shape changed slightly.
Then.
Whoa!
The seal of cruelty finally took its full form, emitting a clear sound.
10 stars.
It meant that the level of achievement had reached ‘completion’.
and.
Wiggle!
As the magical power emanating from the seal of cruelty naturally connected with the seal of the cold wind.
For the first time, the seal of the cold wind responded.
Wizard who swallowed talent
