Talent-Swallowing Magician Chapter 49

Episode 49

Cheongyeon’s Labyrinth

Tsutsutsu-

Elric could feel the icicle he was holding with his hand melting.

‘Fortunately… Did it penetrate the airway?

The plan was to pretend to fall and lead the guy to attack from above, and then stab him based on what he had read in his mind’s eye in advance.

If there had been even the slightest mistake, I would have suffered.

Anyway, if you keep getting kicked out like this, you’re still going to die, so it seems like the strategy that was tried in a different way was effective.

The weakened Dire Wolf buried his head in Elric’s chest.

Seeing it up close like this gave me a greater sense of how big it was.

“Ugh!”

Elric was barely able to get up by forcefully pushing the guy to the side.

“Kaaak, hehe! “It’s really heavy.”

But the problem was the wound on his hand.

I ended up getting frostbite because I held on to the rapidly frozen icicles with my hands without any protection.

In addition, the dire wolf’s weight was placed on it, causing a major tear in the grip.

I had been holding on with the thought that if I missed this, I would really die, so my hands were already covered in blood.

The pain in my wrist was throbbing, as if the bone had been strained.

Elric had no time to worry about such things.

Because there was still another one wandering around.

“… driving me crazy.”

Crrrrr!

The guy was probably alert to the fact that one of the animals was already dead, so he didn’t think about attacking it.

However, its red bloodshot eyes and mouth dripping with saliva were ready to pounce at any time.

‘That guy definitely won’t attack me in the same way… Then we have to find another way.’

It should never be done by force. Even endurance isn’t enough.

‘shit. ‘If I had known this would happen, I would have exercised harder.’

Gang body art.

I couldn’t have been more desperate for a skill that had already been perfectly restored in theory.

So far, I’ve been imitating the Gangseo technique through the expedient of using magic armament.

As magic power became impossible to use, he realized that he had been too complacent.

There may be another crisis in the future.

I felt like I needed to prepare a secret to protect my body somehow.

Wow!

At that time, the dire wolf, who had only been watching secretly, moved.

Instead of trying to move reflexively, Elric straightened his back as a thought passed through his mind.

‘for a moment.’

My eyes widened.

‘Anyway, you already know the main points of Gangseojutsu, right? ‘Then shouldn’t I just follow that?’

Strong body techniques had the greatest effect in strengthening the body, but some of them also included martial arts (fighting methods) that utilized them.

A small amount of magical energy can be drawn in through breathing, and the enemy’s weaknesses can be identified with the mind’s eye.

So wouldn’t it be possible to imitate as much as we want?

Even if your skill level is low, you might be able to deal with at least one dire wolf… Those thoughts came to me one after another.

and.

Faaah!

Elric also jumped forward in the same way against the dire wolf.

The king of the beast people, the Hojok, is of indescribable bravery, and due to that characteristic, they never shy away from showing off their martial prowess.

In my mind, passages from a paper I once wrote but never published passed through my mind one after another.

They have a world view that the body is ‘a world created very small by God.’ It is believed that the law of all things in nature is contained within it.

The dire wolf was surprised that Elric did not run away but directly confronted him, but he immediately snorted and ignored him.

It has already been confirmed that Elric has no other abilities.

If so, then this kind of rebellion was considered to be nothing more than simple resistance.

Just as the mana stream, the basis of life, flows through Mother Nature, breath flows through the body.

But Elric’s eyes were calm.

My mind was so focused that I wondered if it was the person who had been chased by wolves all this time.

Before he knew it, he was holding an icicle in his right hand.

I thought that the body also changed depending on how I breathed and how I focused my thoughts on it.

Elric’s eyes were clearly fixed on the dire wolf, but his mind was entirely focused on the icicle, or rather its pointy end.

And took a deep breath.

Whoop, haa… !

Just one breath.

However, the world depicted in the mind’s eye changed drastically in an instant.

The thoughts that are concentrated on one point end up drawing numerous unconscious thoughts at the base. The nobleman ‘instinctively’ chooses one of them and moves ‘intuitively.’

The mind’s eye was still drawing many textures, but for a moment, Elric was able to ‘instinctively’ know which one to choose.

widely!

So I followed the grain and stepped on it.

There was no particular sound, but my ankles tightened and my body rotated sharply.

The trajectory of the dire wolf’s attack here was unknown.

You could aim for the legs, bite the side, or draw a large arc backwards.

However, Elric just moved ‘intuitively’ without much anticipation.

Then, very strangely, the dire wolf’s snout narrowly passed by the spot where he was.

And the left side of the guy’s neck is clearly visible.

The dire wolf looked quite embarrassed, as he had never thought that Elric would dodge so easily.

‘now!’

As if he didn’t want to miss out on his chance, Elric stuck the icicle he was holding in his right hand onto the side of the dire wolf’s neck.

Breathing and intuition.

The fighting style created on the thin border between the two was the fighting style of the noble family.

Pow!

Kekeken!

‘this!’

However, perhaps because it wasn’t stabbed from the front, the icicle couldn’t bear the weight of the icicle and broke halfway through.

Blood splattered.

The dire wolf let out a cry of pain, but then turned around and charged again.

All he showed was his will to kill Elric somehow.

‘I knew it… ‘Intuitively!’

Even though Elric’s attack failed, he still didn’t look embarrassed and took half a step back, then stretched out his left hand forward.

There was no plan or reason.

I just thought it was right.

Kwasik!

Of course, the dire wolf could not miss such an opportunity and bit down hard on his left arm.

Elric was clenching his molars in the terrible pain of his flesh and bones being crushed, and before he knew it, he was holding the icicle in his hand and smashing it into the guy’s eye.

Wow!

The dire wolf opened its mouth again and tried to fall backwards.

However, Elric pushed his left hand even deeper into the guy’s mouth, preventing it from moving, and then started cutting icicles at random.

puck!

puck!

Pow!

Icicle took several pictures of the guy’s eyes and face.

Every time, blood poured out and flesh splattered. The icicle broke several times, but soon froze again.

There was a lot of red blood on the sharp end.

Kaekkeang, kkakegaeng!

The dire wolf was unable to offer much resistance and retreated back.

Whoa!

In the final blow Elric swung with all his might, his skull was shattered and he fell to the floor.

“Huh, huh, huh… !”

Elric also sat down on top of him and was breathing heavily.

His left arm was completely tattered below the elbow, and his right arm, which was still healthy, had its grip torn as he was forced to use icicles.

And yet, rather than being in pain, he was smiling heartily, as if… .

“mi… You’re the real guy.』

Mephisto, who was quietly watching what Elric did, defined it that way.

I originally thought it wasn’t normal, but it became more and more abnormal as time went by.

『Have you finally realized the ‘image of your nature’? Even so, since beastmen are originally wild creatures that have not received the benefits of civilization… How did you become human?』

Even if you open your mind, it will be difficult to do so unless you sharpen your senses and go beyond the realm of ‘instinct’ and ‘intuition’.

Mephisto questioned a situation that he could not understand with his common sense.

『No. That guy might be able to do it.』

I was soon able to get the answer very easily.

Because it’s Elric.

Crazy people shouldn’t be held to average standards. That was the conclusion Mephisto came to right away.

And it seemed like Augustine had the same thought.

[her! haha! It’s different, it’s different. I thought I would just run away. I never thought I could catch them both in one day.]

Mephisto grinned while hearing Augustine’s praise.

『I don’t think that old man is normal either? They drive people into such a dangerous place and then laugh it off. Have you done something wrong to that old man?』

Elric waved his hand in this direction as if he didn’t even have the energy to respond.

[But if you continue to leave it like that, it will become really dangerous from the next day. Originally, it was a fact that you had to find out yourself while exploring the labyrinth… Still, since you have achieved such high results, I will give you a hint as a reward.]

All while listening to Augustine.

Elric’s face showed all kinds of irritation.

[If you look at the cliff, you will see a lot of moss growing in the shady area. Let’s take a close look at it.]

Augustine’s words ended there.

“… “They won’t say anything about releasing it or lowering the difficulty level.”

Elric gritted his teeth, saying that he would get revenge no matter what if he left this place, so he straightened his left arm and cast a freezing spell.

First of all, the bleeding had to be stopped.

Of course, this wouldn’t make it better, but at least it would provide first aid.

“What a dog-like old man.”

Elric cursed Augustine as he forced himself to get up from his seat.

If I didn’t do this, I felt like a fire would break out inside me.

Of course, I didn’t forget to squeal for Augustine to listen.

Perhaps because the canyon was narrow, the echo rang loudly.

“A fraudster, a person with dementia, a person with a broken personality, an old man like Mephisto… !”

『Why did the king I saw there go in!』

Of course, Mephisto’s protests were not listened to.

“Ugh! “I’m pissed, I’m pissed, I’m really pissed!”

But what really annoys him even more is that he doesn’t want to listen to Augustine at all.

The point was that in order to survive, I had to eat the rice cakes he threw at me.

“What on earth is in the moss!”

Along the high cliff, there was a lot of moss on the lower part of the protruding stone beak.

But I couldn’t figure out what to do with them.

Seeing that there was a lot of dew on it, I thought it could be used as a drinking water substitute, but I couldn’t figure out how to treat wounds with this.

Is it even a medicinal herb that works well? She narrowed her eyebrows as she thought about it.

‘Oh, I don’t know what it is.’

The problem was that none of the classes he had ever taken was on herbalism.

Because the Department of Elemental Studies and the Department of Magical Medicine were completely different departments.

So I wondered if I should try an experiment by pulling out different types of moss one by one.

“hmm? Why is this here?』

Suddenly, Mephisto touched the moss with startled eyes.

-why? Do you know?

Elric couldn’t muster up enough magical energy to use a telegraph right away, so he scribbled letters in the air.

『It is called the ‘flower of the Anaxunamun’.』

-Oh, what?

『Flowers of the Anaxunam phylum. You probably don’t know. Because it is a demonic creature that grows by eating demonic energy. It would be barely known to humans… Can this grow so much that it forms a colony like this?』

Mephisto looked at the black moss growing thickly along the shade and tilted his head as if he couldn’t understand it.

Only one sentence rang in Elric’s ears.

Grow up by eating Maggi!

-If demonic energy is two parts, then it must also contain demonic energy or magic power?

“joy! No way.”

-uh? Then there is nothing?

“no. That’s not it. Rather, the problem is that it contains too much pure magical energy.』

For a moment, Elric forgot the pain and his eyes sparkled.

That means one thing.

All this moss is elixir!

‘I saw it!’

Wizard who swallowed talent