Episode 54
Demon King Hyul(獝)
Elric said nothing for a long time.
A refiner who followed the Demon King to the West Station.
And a school that sought to avenge its vengeance somehow by accepting knowledge from the western region and leaving its legacy for generations to come.
It was amazing that it continued for over a thousand years, but how deep the resentment was… As Elric, it was difficult to even guess.
‘If you harbored that much resentment, it wouldn’t be strange at all to touch upon an external power.’
I also vaguely understood why Augustine had a dark elf arm transplanted onto one of his arms.
『He who tries to catch a monster becomes a monster, and he who looks into the abyss begins to resemble the abyss. Deer fields can be seen as being like that.』
[Do you want to say that Nokya is closer to Humanity than to Magic?]
『If you have to make a distinction between madoni and in-laws, it would be so. But is it really possible to divide it so clearly?
It is the border between the devil and the outside world.
If I had been Elric before receiving the family arrangement, I would have proudly said, ‘I am different.’
I couldn’t do that at all now.
Because there were two seals containing demons on his right hand.
Elric quietly looked up at the Demon King, who was leaning his back against the common wall.
If it weren’t for the swirling demon energy, it was so large that even if they said it was an extinct race of giants, they would have believed it.
Even though he had his head down, he felt so alive, as if he could stretch and get up at any moment.
“What is the name of this demon lord?”
“I don’t know the exact details either. From the East to the Empire, each time it appeared, the name it was called was different. But in our deer field, this is what we call it.”
Augustine’s eyes were deeply sunken as he looked at the devil.
“It’s called ‘Hul (獝).’”
“what do you mean?”
“It means a vicious beast.”
“Ferocious beast… .”
“What can you do? Will you make this old man’s new wish come true?”
Elric was lost in thought for a moment.
Actually, if you think about it, it was right to answer ‘I will.’
Hyul is a demon lord that even Mephisto recognizes. It is possible to absorb the seal of such a being? It was something he would welcome with open arms.
In addition, the teachings of Augustine, the powerful man who defeated such a demon king, begin now.
There is absolutely no reason to worry in a situation where even if you kneel down and ask to be taught, it will not be enough.
However, Elric had something to worry about.
A request to determine superiority and inferiority.
“What would you have done if you didn’t know I had a way to absorb seals?”
“What should I do? “They just force you to learn it.”
“Are you saying you would have taught me black magic? But then… .”
Isn’t there a high possibility that the opposite s*x will be affected by magic?
Elric wanted to ask that question, but Augustine cut off the conversation and spoke firmly as if there was no problem.
“Didn’t you tell me? It is said that Nokya will do whatever it takes if he can become stronger for generations. But if I just ate whatever I could find, would I end up like nothing more than a beggar? “He didn’t have to worry because he had some means of protecting his mind.”
Elric was a little relieved.
“But because there are bound to be limits to learning Hul’s power, it would have been a very difficult task to determine the winner or loser of the two arts.”
Elric nodded quietly.
“But even though I don’t know what talent you have, now that I know that you can accept the demon seal intact and use it without any problem… This old man can no longer miss you.”
Elric somehow felt that there was too much life and vitality around Augustine’s eyes.
No, at that level it was almost on the verge of insanity.
“And with the genius you have shown so far, you will be able to achieve great success in both the Nokya and the Seal.”
Augustine held Elric’s hand tightly.
My wrinkled hands were full of strength.
“So please help this old man’s wish come true.”
Since the request was so earnest, Elric couldn’t refuse.
‘I’m also curious about Hyul’s power.’
Still, I couldn’t just take it.
“All right. “I will do my best to make your wish come true.”
“then… !”
“Instead, as I said before, there are a few things I would like to receive confirmation from.”
“What?”
Augustine seemed ready to pull out his own heart.
Elric held up three fingers.
“There are three in total.”
“Try to tell me.”
“First, before being the heir to the deer field, my identity was the head of the Mervinger family. “I want to make this point firmly.”
“Are you saying that your family’s secret wish comes first before you fulfill the secret wish of the green field?”
“yes.”
“Isn’t the story already over? For this old man, you can either melt Nokya into Mervinger, or you can get a separate successor. Just make sure the pulse doesn’t break. “Anything else?”
“Don’t bully me out of the blue like this. “I thought I was going to die from such hardship.”
“Hehe! Don’t pay attention to that either. However, all of Deokya’s skills are for practical purposes, so how can we not bother them?”
“… Then please at least give me some caution or warning. “Shouldn’t we strengthen our mindset?”
Elric sighed briefly.
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No matter how much progress has been made, even just the labyrinth was difficult. How could the difficulty get any higher than this?
“good night. If that’s the case. So what’s the last thing left?”
“I’ll tell you later.”
“huh?”
“I don’t think it’s time to tell you yet.”
Augustine narrowed his eyes and laughed.
“I guess I’m planning on using it later when I need it. Well, good. “I’ll give you anything as long as it doesn’t save this old man’s life and the life of his family.”
“I will not make such an unreasonable request.”
“Then it’s done. “Shall we get started?”
Augustine spoke with great excitement.
Elric nodded quietly and slowly approached Demon King Hyul.
Whihwihwi!
Although the vortex of demonic energy still swirling along the cavity was rough.
“【Push out】.”
Elric unleashed his magic for the first time in a while, pushing the magic energy away with a transparent membrane to prevent it from harming him.
On the contrary, the terrible pressure emanating from Demon King Hyul has become even more intense.
It was so bad that the closer I got, the more I thought I was going to suffocate.
When it reached a position of about 1 meter.
Elric had to raise his head and look up at Hyul.
Hyul’s presence was bigger than it seemed from afar.
[Mephi.]
“why?”
Mephisto was standing a few steps ahead of Elric, looking up at Hyul, as if he was not affected by the magic at all.
A face that wants to say something or has a lot of thoughts.
It was similar to the one seen when facing the Snow Mountain King.
[Seal, how do you absorb it?]
Mephisto’s serious face became distorted.
『Did you get so embarrassed by absorbing the seal without even knowing that?』
[How? You speak as if tensile absorption is quite natural. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if I said I didn’t know?]
Elric grinned.
You’re going to tell me anyway, so why bother saying that?
『Such a crazy person… !』
Mephisto was extremely irritated, but as always, he sighed and pressed his temples.
“ha! Even the king who saw it doesn’t know.』
[What are you saying? I heard that there are many cases where demon lords steal seals from each other and lose them?]
『When you eat, do you learn ‘how’ to eat before eating?』
[…] Who learns that?]
『It’s the same for us. Just kill the same demon king and demons and extort the seal. This is a completely natural thing for us, just like you eat when the time comes. How do you teach that?』
[We’re in big trouble.]
Elric scratched the back of his head.
I thought it would work out somehow, but no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t figure out how to get Hyul’s seal.
It was said that it was only when extorting the seal of cruelty that Anbae helped him, so it happened automatically every time he killed a yeti.
Since Hyul had already been dead for a long time, I couldn’t think of a way to do it.
‘There is no reaction even from the magic sword.’
Elric was lost in thought for a moment as he smoothed the heirloom around his neck with his hands.
Then, a sudden thought occurred to me, and I stretched out my hand to Hul, just in case.
“【Be absorbed】.”
A word driven by a low voice.
Since the seal is linked to Eonryeong magic, I tried it to see if it could be absorbed in the same way.
The result was even more amazing than expected.
Faaaa!
As Hul’s body vomited out a lot of dark radiance, a violent storm of magical energy raged.
Flutter!
Tsutsutsu-
The body broke apart like a sand castle and began to be sucked into Elric.
‘done!’
Elric realized that this was a phenomenon that occurred when absorbing a seal, and his eyes widened.
“her!”
Augustine, seeing such a scene for the first time, just let out an exclamation.
like that.
A piece of Hyul touched my fingertips.
Paaaat!
For a moment, Elric arrived in another world with the feeling that his vision was filled with a cloud of black light.
Image world.
No, to be exact, it was the world of residual thoughts left behind by the Demon King Hyul.
‘Do I always have to get some kind of test or qualification to get a seal like I did during the time of the Snow Mountain King?’
Perhaps it would not be easy to absorb the true name of a being of such high rank.
“But what are you asking me to do here?”
The place where Elric was was a jungle completely covered with trees.
The trees were so numerous and dense that you could not even see the sky because of the trees, which were tens of meters tall.
In addition, the floor was so muddy like a swamp with all kinds of debris that it was difficult to even walk.
It was a dangerous place where wild beasts such as leopards and anacondas could come out of nowhere.
‘I don’t feel anything.’
Elric tensed up and his senses sharpened.
In a place like this, you couldn’t even hear the sounds of birds or even small insects.
There was no sign of any beast.
It didn’t seem like it was simply because it was a world of thoughts.
‘It’s as if the whole place has been eaten by something… !’
Elric opened his eyes wide.
It was clear that there was a predator somewhere here that could not be overcome by any other being in the jungle.
“【Magic Armed】.”
Elric took a deep breath and forcibly channeled his magic power.
According to the unique circulation method of the deer field, the strong body and magic martial arts were activated simultaneously, creating resonance.
“【Opening】.”
Hwaaah-
A much more powerful and massive magic field than before spread out at once, creating ripples.
Countless pieces of information poured into Elric’s brain from all over the place.
This was the result of the senses becoming much more sensitive than before, the cognitive area broadening, and the amount of information that could be accepted also increasing.
As a result, the number of resolutions in the mind has become much greater.
‘Where is it?’
Based on this, Elric quickly scanned the surroundings.
The sound of the wind passing by.
The sound of the swamp spewing foam.
There was also the sound of leaves crashing against each other… Beyond it, I felt something dark and fierce.
A ferocious person with intense hostility toward all living things.
It was clearly looking exactly this way.
Elric was very nervous so that he could activate the magic right away, but he couldn’t find the guy’s location, so he had to look around constantly.
‘Even in the forest… Not even in the sky. What’s clear is that he’s lurking around here, staring at me. ‘Where on earth are we?’
I carefully looked at every area within 100 meters in all directions, but I couldn’t detect anything.
They even searched under the ground. There was only hard ground.
I was shivering, thinking that something really big would happen like this.
Suddenly, he remembered that there was only one thing he had not noticed.
‘shadow!’
At that moment, Elric looked down at the ground he was standing on.
Sigh!
At that moment, the jagged teeth were revealed in a vague shadow created by the light shining through the leaves.
As if he had found some delicious food.
『An interesting person has appeared.』
Wizard who swallowed talent
