Episode 136. Nameless Ruins (5)
“senior! Senior Xian!”
Despite Lunav’s anxious calls, no answer was heard beyond the falling rocks.
If you are safe, it would be nice if you could at least reply that you are safe.
Runab finally got up, took a step back, and began to manifest mana.
-Wooow.
Charon, who watched this, quickly grabbed her hand.
“Calm down. Lunav! Are you planning to tear down the ruins?”
“Let go.”
It was a short and concise answer, but Lunav’s eyes were full of uncontrollable anger.
Embarrassed, Charon let go of his hand without realizing it.
“Please explain.”
“What do you mean?”
“The reason why an otherwise intact ruin was suddenly destroyed.”
Charon frowned and responded to her sudden questioning.
“How can you say such nonsense?”
Lunav looked at Charon without any sign of agitation and spoke quietly.
“Aziz Pereira… … .”
“… … ?”
The owner of the name looked puzzled at the untimely name.
“A 7-star rating holder belonging to the Earth attribute research department from the Arg region in the western part of the kingdom… … .”
This was his identity information recorded in the academic society.
“While you were distracting Prince Set by asking him questions, you used magic behind his back, right?”
“W-what do you mean? I just keep quiet… … .”
“Shall I hug your body now and check it out? “Did you use magic or not?”
The wizards who participated in the tour were all of a certain level or higher in magic and had a certain position in the society.
In other words, they couldn’t have known about the unique abilities she had.
Aziz, who could not bear to nod his head, ended up avoiding his gaze.
“It is not right to have pointless doubts. Lunav. First, let’s leave these ruins. “I will go out and ask the rest of the academy for help.”
Calming his voice, Charon suggested that Runab go outside.
“Help?”
At this, her face suddenly became cold.
“Is this help for those of you who are talking about magic development and are abusing nonsense that doesn’t work?”
Except for Charon, the faces of the other academy members turned white for a moment.
On the other hand, Charon looked at Lunav with straight eyes without any sign of embarrassment.
A fierce fight between a man and a woman in an unknown space where you never know when or what will happen.
“No matter how much you do this, nothing will change. Lunav… … .”
Finally, Charon raised his eyebrows and spoke with pity for her.
“Don’t you know this well, Lunav? What is truly for the Society, for the Kingdom, and for you? Paying attention to unnecessary things like this is of no help… … .”
“That’s what you, who don’t know anything, think.”
She showed off the blue mana she had secretly created.
“I am not your puppet.”
-flashing
In an instant, a bright light appeared in the darkness and covered their eyes.
The members of the academy, whose view was instantly blocked, turned their eyes away in pain.
She quickly came to her senses and returned her gaze, but only dust was already flying in the place where she had been.
Lunav was running away in a different direction where the rock had not fallen.
“Damn it!”
Charon gave instructions to the academy members with a distorted face.
“Two of us will stay here and observe the situation, and the rest will go to catch her. “If he appears again, be sure to capture him alive!”
“What will those inside there do?”
“Kill me.”
It was a concise answer without even the slightest hesitation.
“I don’t think there’s any way to escape, but… … .”
The lives of Xian and Set were already out of their minds.
We cannot let the golden opportunity given us by heaven be thrown away in vain.
Charon quietly muttered while looking in the direction where Lunav fled.
“Everything is for human development… … .”
After making a promise that was like a spell, they headed deep into the ruins, unknown where it led.
* * *
I thought it would be split in half and one side of my body would fall forward, but the blow was truly unexpected.
Of course, there was no difficulty in avoiding it.
However, when I took my stance again and looked at him, I couldn’t help but doubt my eyes.
“What is that?”
The two bodies that had been cut by Kayram joined together rapidly without falling apart, and eventually they were slowly regenerating at a rapid pace.
It felt as if I had cut into the middle of a mud pile or swamp, not the body of a living creature.
The Balrog I knew was not a magician with such outstanding regenerative powers.
This is not the magical beast’s unique ability, but the person who summoned the magical beast placed a regeneration spell on it.
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What kind of hybrid is this?
[What kind of idiot created something like this?]
As if he didn’t like the feeling of being cut, Kayram also expressed his displeasure by squinting his eyes.
The Balrog looked at me in confusion, but once again manifested mana from his hands.
It wasn’t the same attack magic as before.
Rather than for the purpose of destruction, a limiting barrier was created to prevent damage that would occur in battle with me.
As they are said to have power comparable to that of dragons, Balrogs are also one of the races that can use magic.
However, compared to humans or dragons, their intellect was not that outstanding, and as they were a race whose pure instinct for destruction and destruction took precedence over their intellect, they were notorious demon beasts even in the demon world.
The Balrog set up a restrictive barrier to protect the ruins.
It appears that the person who summoned this beast had it protect the ruins by instilling in it an instinct for protection rather than destruction.
Well, that doesn’t mean it’s something you can communicate with.
No matter what your instincts are, there is no change in the fact that you have to kill this guy.
First, I kept my distance for a while and checked his movements.
If that Balrog is really a demonic beast called Remi Haram among the locals, there is a high possibility that it was eventually summoned through the power of the demonic book.
If so, there must be a core where magical power is concentrated somewhere in that Balrog’s body.
Summons created through magic have a magic core that acts as a heart, compared to humans.
In other words, like the heart, it can be a weakness that can be exploited.
If you destroy it, no matter how excellent your regenerative ability is, it will disappear in an instant.
After checking the path, I immediately unleashed the power of the fog.
“Dark dance type 4: Death detection!”
I fused magical power with the manifested fog and checked the inside of the Balrog.
A tributary of magical power that flows throughout the body like human blood vessels, divided into tens of thousands or hundreds of millions.
Just as the rivers that spread out in all directions converge and lead to the sea, the entangled and read flows of magical energy were also gathering in one place.
head.
Exactly in the middle of the crown of the head.
We must destroy that black, condensed core of magic.
With the limit barrier created, there is no reason for me not to go wild.
The energy of black fog slowly flows towards the tip of Kayram’s sword.
Without having to wait long, the moment you are ready to destroy the core,
-fault
I immediately jumped out of my seat and sprinted away.
Sensing that there was a threat, Balrog spread his degenerated wings and created a gust of wind.
-Wheewooung!
There was a sharp wind that threatened to crack the stone wall, but to me it was just a gentle breeze.
I jumped lightly like a bird flapping its wings in flight.
“Mugeom (舞劍): The root of a strong tree!”
-Kwasik
The moment the sword that penetrated the thick skin came into contact with the swaying core of magic, the energy of the fog surrounding Kayram quickly spread into the Balrog’s body.
“… … !”
The Balrog didn’t even scream, let alone resist.
-thud!
Finally, the body of the guy who was on his knees fell forward.
Since the core is destroyed, regeneration like before will not occur.
As if the extinction was about to proceed, smoke soon began to rise from the Balrog’s body.
hmm.
Something feels futile?
Although we handled it without any major problems, it is somewhat difficult to say that we achieved anything.
In the end, haven’t we found out anything about what this magical beast has to do with the magician?
Since I couldn’t capture and torture a summoned beast that couldn’t speak, the best thing I could do was just kill it.
I wanted to search the body to check for something, but the summoned beast with a shattered core had already completely disappeared and was disappearing in a translucent state.
I thought it was just dust blowing in the place where it disappeared, but
“… … !”
At that moment, I discovered something small and yellowish, the size of an adult’s fingernail.
It was the only remaining piece from the Balrog, which had lost not only its body tissue but even a single hair.
I quickly picked it up like I was picking up a dropped coin.
A thin, rough surface that seems to be covered in dust.
It is a fragile material that feels like it will tear if you apply force and will become mushy if it comes into contact with water.
Without further ado, this is… …
It was paper.
[Hey, give me that!]
At some point, Kayram materialized and instantly snatched the paper from my hand.
After looking around with confused eyes for a moment, her face immediately became noticeably distorted.
[What was this idiot thinking when he let this go?]
Looking at the atmosphere, it seemed like he knew what the paper was.
Let’s ask what this is,
[This is what you were looking for, master.]
She threw the paper she was holding towards me again.
“What is this?”
[What is it, a piece of magic?]
Kayram looked at me in a dazed state and continued speaking with an uncomfortable expression.
[He is here now.]
* * *
Contrary to the expectation of a maze-like structure, there was only one path ahead of Lunab.
No matter how old it may be, it cannot be this simple.
At the very least, I needed to buy some time by installing a trick at the crossroads, but this vulgar ruin didn’t even help me with that.
In the end, if things continue like this, he will soon be caught by the members of the academy who are pursuing him.
Then the meaning of following Xian will be lost.
It was something Lunabro didn’t want to even imagine.
“Aaaah!”
I was running so out of breath that I lost my footing and fell.
She quickly got up and tried to run away again, but as soon as she raised her head, she ran into something that wasn’t very good.
“It’s not good… … .”
It was a dead end road with no place to return to.
Runab gritted his teeth in exasperation.
However, I was not frustrated, and after standing up, I immediately took my stance.
-Wooow.
If there is no way forward, just break it down and build it.
Even if it is impossible, it is a hundred or a thousand times better than sitting down and shedding tears or crying.
If I were my old self, I wouldn’t even try to run away like this.
I always thought that my life was short and that whether I was swayed this way or that way would have no meaning.
But not now.
A small path appeared at some point in the seemingly daunting future,
This was a path just for me, one I could take on my own, rather than being led by others.
I don’t know now what’s at the end of the road, but just to find out what’s at the end,
He could never fall in a place like this.
The moment I put that firm resolve into the mana gathered in both hands and finally tried to shout a spell to destroy the wall,
“… … ?”
An unfamiliar black sphere suddenly appeared in front of her.
Runab lowered her hand in embarrassment and made eye contact with the sphere.
Then, the sphere that was the size of a small ball suddenly grew large enough to embrace her body, and eventually a small hole was created that looked like she could go inside.
Inside the hall, an unfamiliar energy that I had never encountered before flowed out, and it was emitting a light of temptation as if inviting me to come in.
Lunav put herself into it without realizing it.
“… … .”
The inside of the sphere was no different from before.
A space similar to the passageway of the ruins you ran through.
One thing that was different was that there was someone else besides myself.
A man with long black hair is squatting in the center of the aisle and looking at her intently.
“… … .”
The half-downturned eyes seemed to contain some kind of interest.
(Continued in the next part)
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