Episode 382
Episode 125. Blue dagger and Jailgyo (1)
Yuma’s party was able to see the blue dagger’s tip and grass right away.
“Good! Please save me!”
“Please save me!”
Contrary to what I had imagined, the gangsters were all helpless humans.
They were the ones who crawled at the bottom of the lives that flowed into the Cobble Free Country.
A total of three people were caught by the junk boat in an hour. It was embarrassing to even call them unmanned, two pathetic mercenaries and one Miryak.
All of them had bruises on their faces, as if they had been beaten up while being captured by bastards.
“First of all, there are three of them, so should we catch more?”
The person who seemed to be the representative of the bastards asked Marlon. Their eyes looking at the party were full of fear.
Besides, he was constantly begging for his life, and for some reason he felt sorry for him.
“These people broker a request for a real blue dagger? Did you just catch a few weak people? Where are these puppies playing, where are their teeth?”
A pathetic face, frightened eyes, trembling hands. No matter where he looked, he did not appear to be an intermediary of a group capable of assassinating the Emperor of the Empire.
When Marlon made a stern expression, the janitors flinched and opened their mouths quickly.
“Oh no! Seriously, those things are mediating the request for the blue dagger! I swear on our honor and our lives…
“Where is the honor for you guys.
Bastards who started fighting with us and talking dirty to women are going crazy. I think my ears are still rotting. It was less right, yes.”
“Ha, but really, those guys are right!”
As Marlon raised his fist, the gangsters who had been arrested suddenly jumped to their feet.
“That we are right! We accept a request for a blue dagger.
I will answer anything if you spare me!”
“Hmm…
it didn’t sound like he was lying.
It was unexpected, but it was true that the three people who had been arrested were mediating the request for the blue dagger.
However, they were more afraid of junk ships than Yuma’s party, because they knew that they would have more time to spend in a country free from snoring with them than Yuma’s.
“Okay, let’s trust Marlon. If it’s a lie, killing it won’t stop, right? look at him Why does the blue dagger receive commissions from you and how do you contact them?”
When Yuma asked in a soft voice, the three of them let out a sigh of relief. Then they looked at each other and seemed to decide who would speak.
Miryak was the representative.
“Me too… I don’t know why they use us as intermediaries. Also, it is true that they are intermediaries, but we have only met them in person once.”
As Marlon was about to say a word, Mirjak suddenly rolled up his sleeves. Marlon couldn’t help but stop what he was about to say when he saw a strange pattern densely carved into his forearm.
If you look closely, the pattern is shaped like a chain. However, it was completely different from a tattoo as the flesh was carved in intaglio along the pattern.
Rakir and Ariel nodded as if they noticed something.
“that?”
“The first and last time we met them, they painted these things on our bodies. If you ask us for a request, it seems to be heard through this.”
[You guys, stop talking. That, lord, is the mark of warlocks. It’s similar to Maxor, but much less crude technology.] As
Rakir began to explain instead, the brokers lowered their heads.
“The mark of a warlock?”
[Yes, say the word or phrase set by the warlock, and the marker will start to glow. Then, from then on, he loses consciousness for a while and takes his body instead of the black magician.]
‘Mark’ wasn’t that high-level black magic.
It was a magic that mediated the life force of those marked with the mark, and was mainly used when people with very weak will and physical strength were used as puppets.
Of course, after the collapse of Haseo’s predecessor state, the Carthaizen family, which was the origin of black magic, I couldn’t find anyone using it in the world.
[When a mark is triggered by a sentence or word, the caster can take that body away and see and hear it. And each time, their lifespan will be shortened by several years.]
“Hey!”
“It’s a very safe way for them. What is the door that triggers the mark?”
Yuma asked, and the brokers hesitated. He was frightened by the saying that his lifespan would be shortened by about a year.
However, the sentence that activates the mark was not particularly secret in the snoring free country.
“I came to lean on the blue death. Just hold on to one of the three forearms and say that.”
An idiot standing next to him in an alert posture answered instead. Just as Yuma was contemplating which of the three to choose, the old man spoke again.
“By the way, the guy on the left of the naeuri is the worst. He pretended to be a mercenary and committed rape in the western fringes. If you choose him, you will feel the most comfortable.”
“Is it true?”
“Oh no!”
“Sir, the guys with the torn left ear in the Cobble Free State… all of them have rape convictions.
It’s one of the rites of passage here. A torn right ear is treason, and those with a cut off nose are infanticide.”
“Ah, that’s why all your faces are like that. I thought it was like that because I often messed around with fights.”
said Marlon, frowning.
Even among bastards, it was common to find guys with one ear torn off. None of them had their noses cut off, as their noses usually died from being struck or from excessive blood loss.
As befits a country full of dead people, meeting good people in a country free from snoring was no different from picking stars from the sky.
Yuma looked at the middleman on the left, and as the old man said, not only his left ear but also his right ear had been torn off.
“Among the garbage, only those weak enough to be used as puppets were selected and marked.”
Ariel said coldly and summoned an ice spear. Then, without hesitation, he threw a spear at a few bastards in sight.
All of them had their left ears torn out, and they died by being pinned to the wall without even being able to scream.
“Because it’s unpleasant to be in the same room, those who have their left ears cut off should get out of here.
Even killing with my own hands is disgusting.”
This time, Milina was in the same position as Ariel. Milina had already drawn her sword and started killing bastards with a torn left ear.
In the meantime, Yuma expressionlessly grabbed the left broker’s forearm.
“I came to lean on the blue death.”
As soon as he spoke the language, the pattern on the broker’s body turned black.
And the middleman answered with a voice unique to the demons, not the frightened voice he had just heard.
[Tell me the request…]
“No. I called you to let you know in advance. Know that there is no point in running away.
I’ll be back soon.
The black magician who borrowed the middleman’s body didn’t answer, and suddenly let out an unpleasant laugh.
[Hehe…. even your teacher, Duran Jacques, couldn’t protect Asuka Rosé. But do you mean you can do anything about us? Yuma Drake Are you stronger than him? It’s hastening my orders.]
It wasn’t Shiram’s voice.
The moment Yuma was about to retaliate, darkness suddenly fell over the inn.
At the same time, the junk boats and brokers gathered inside began to wither rapidly. As if their time had passed by in an instant.
Another black magic using their vitality was unfolding.
Although Yuma and the others didn’t know it, it wasn’t just the bastards gathered at this inn who became the medium of black magic.
Excluding the party, about 5,000 people in a 5km radius were drying up all at once. It was a type of black magic that even Rakir and Ariel did not know about.
Unlike ‘Mark’, it was the highest level of black magic and had the name ‘Gluttony of Vargas’. It was black magic that even Rakir and Ariel did not know about.
[I’ll borrow his mouth and eat you guys!]
Jjouk…
Strange-shaped cracks spread all over the inn, which had turned black. Thousands of pure white fangs sprung irregularly between the cracks, and they slowly squeezed the party like a fist clenched.
“what’s this!?”
“crazy!”
Marlon and Zecca shouted at the same time and drew their weapons. Sibelin emitted a more intense brilliance than ever before, and Zecca opened her eyes wide, realizing that it was a sign of a crisis.
Kaching!
The two men swung their weapons at the creeping fangs. However, the fangs seemed to be harder than Seruka steel and did not even scratch.
It was the same with Rakir. Rakir amplified Quitel’s magical power, transformed into a similar shape to the underworld, and fired a breath, but even that had no effect.
The Warlock’s voice was no longer heard. There was only the ominous noise of thousands of fangs grinding against each other.
“I have never heard of this either.
It’s like black magic borrowing the power of the top level demons or demons in the lower world… The magic you can feel from all sides is so huge. I can’t afford it.”
A level of magic that Ariel described as ‘unmanageable’.
That meant that it had stronger magical power than those of the highest level Balaur, such as Chrysa Ainu and Eullando.
Ariel gritted her teeth as if she had made up her mind.
“I… will open the dimension. You guys run through it.”
[I’m the lizard demon king, and it’s difficult for me to open a dimension in this magical power.] “If the heart explodes, it might be possible. You should help too.”
[If you can save your lord, you can throw away your human body. But you have only one life.]
“What do you mean by that? Are you saying that Rakir and Ariel will sacrifice themselves to save us?”
Marlon asked harshly, and Rakir nodded.
[Kyahak! I guess that’s for the best, kid. I can’t lose my lord in a place like this.]
“Are you saying those teeth are that dangerous right now? Are you kidding?”
[No way. This is a magic borrowed from the power of at least the General of the Summer World
.
You got it.]
“No, wait. Maybe I can stop.”
said Yuma, walking between Rakir and Ariel. After Vargas’ gluttony began, Yuma continued to watch the fangs as if lost in thought.
“I understand why Ariel said that magic flows through my body.
I can clearly feel the magical energy that forms them.”
Sureureung!
Yuma took out the Ascalon and took a stance.
“It’s impossible to get rid of all of them, but if it’s a space the size of a door… For now, Ariel-sama, please stop. To survive in a place like this with Ariel-sama as a shield is worse than dying.”
Ariel was already gathering magic with her heart. A few days ago, it was a flow that Yuma could never feel, but not now.
Originally, the quantity and quality of Yuma’s auras are at a level that is in no way inferior to that of a grandmaster. If the aura was mixed with magical properties, there was no reason why Yuma couldn’t cut through this black magic space.
“Marlon Zeca and Milina. If I can’t cut that, stop Rakir and Ariel. Even if you hit me. Even if we die, we all die together, and even if we live, we all live together.”
“You madman! What does that mean? I’ll open the dimension, so go ahead!”
[Master! Lizard is right. You have to buy
it, even your master!]
In fact, I don’t have a sense of crisis these days, so I’m not very inspired by this bizarre magic. So I made up my mind a bit.”
Whoa..!
Ascalon was surrounded by a blue aura.
And just before the sword was fired, the aura around the sword god turned into flames and spread widely, attacking the fangs.
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