Episode 616:
Ludger, who faced the God of Mechanical Devices with all his might (1), realized that he was faced with one question.
It wasn’t something that could be defeated with regular magic or aura.
The core is relic and the body is that of an iron-colored wizard.
In addition, it is a hybrid that includes the cells of the World Tree and the knowledge of black magic.
A mixture of all kinds of things is called a chimera, but if the elements are in harmony and create perfection as one, can we call it a chimera as a downgrade?
The god of mechanical devices was exactly like that.
‘I don’t think I can defeat him no matter how many 6th level great magic I throw at him.’
I felt something after fighting a few times.
First of all, the God of Mechanical Devices is not yet complete.
To put it bluntly, it is a newborn baby bird that has just come out of an egg.
Now that I’m using four mechanical arms, I have at least some fluffy feathers, but it’s still not enough.
‘And yet this kind of power.’
What’s more, the terrible truth is that it gets stronger over time.
As soon as you gradually adapt to your condition and accumulate knowledge and ego, it will become an irreversible disaster.
‘I don’t want to admit it, but as Nikolai said, I might become a being worthy of the name God.’
Before that, I had to kill that mechanical god by any means necessary.
To do that, first of all, time was needed.
In order to eliminate the God of Mechanical Devices, Ludger had to make his own preparations.
However, preparing magic in an all-out war against such a monster was essentially suicidal.
It had a tendency to react particularly sensitively to creatures that threatened its life.
‘We’ll finish it quickly before he notices.’
That was why I asked Berom and Loteron Huron to buy me some time.
Even though they are quite far away, it looks like they are holding on somehow as the aftermath of the fight still continues.
Ludger took out a pipe from the shadows.
He lit a pipe filled with all kinds of poisonous plants with his fingertips.
Write it. Phew.
The smoke coming out of the mouth was mixed with dark magical power and took on a blue color.
Magical fog created around the body.
Ludger controlled the magic fog and woven it into a single form of magic.
It is not ordinary modern magic, but ancient magic that is activated solely through faith and miracles.
Although he had dealt with all the enemies he had encountered so far using this magic, Ludger had a feeling that this one would be difficult.
‘We must go further.’
Relic, an object made by God.
In a way, the god of mechanical devices based on the relic could be said to be an alter ego of god or a being equivalent to it.
Did they say you have to become a monster to kill a monster?
Ludger did not agree with that statement, but he agreed with the statement that equal power is needed to defeat an equal being.
‘In the end, I guess I’ll have to use this power to defeat him.’
Ludger lamented that he had no choice but did not hesitate to act.
Tsutsutsutsu.
The air around Ludger became heavy.
It was a shame because there were no people, otherwise most of the people would have fainted and foamed at the mouth.
A small black hole was created above Ludger’s head.
“I will take charge of this. “Gariel, do what you have to do.”
* * *
Nikolai was irritated by the sudden appearance of the Buddha statue.
“What on earth is that?”
I had never heard of John Doe having such powers.
I thought that the cunning John Doe must be hiding at least part of his power.
But isn’t that kind of thing outside of the standards?
What is that gigantic golden figure shimmering behind me, and what is that gigantic presence that can be clearly felt even beyond the screen?
It was a gap that made his masterpiece, The God of Mechanical Devices, feel rather trivial.
On the other side of the screen, all of the subordinates he had sent were wiped out.
The men sent to kill Line became prey to a spirit beast that appeared from nowhere.
“…The guardian deity of the Ulburg family appears here.”
The person who came with the spirit was Freuden Ulburg, the next head of the Ulburg family.
I didn’t understand why one of the three major ducal families of the empire suddenly became involved in this incident.
The only connection is that Freuden and Line graduated from the same Seorn Academy.
Whatever it was, Nikolai wasn’t happy about the current situation where his plans continued to be disrupted.
If he hadn’t had eyes to see, he might have screamed and smashed things around him.
“What should I do because this is unfortunate? “What you were planning ended up failing.”
Gariel curled the corners of her mouth as she looked at Nikolai’s cold expression.
Nikolai clenched his fists at the sight of Gariel.
Nikolai, who was about to get angry, soon calmed his anger and smiled softly.
“Maybe this too is going according to nature. No, rather the opposite. “It is proof that my actions are beginning to change the world.”
“What kind of bullshit is this again?”
“Not everything in this world was created according to the will of the device keeper. The appearance of a being who threatens his position would be a development that even he could not have predicted, so wouldn’t he be subjecting him to all kinds of trials like this? So how could I not be happy?”
“You crazy guy.”
Gariel glared at Nikolai, who instead burst into laughter, with a look of disgust.
Nikolai stopped laughing and looked down at Gariel with a creepy, cold gaze.
“I tried to show you a wonderful sight, but unfortunately it all ended up being useless. “It’s not worth investing any more time in, so just die now.”
Nikolai stretched out his hand and aimed it between the eyes of Gariel.
He is a person who manipulates others behind the scenes, but he did not rise to the position of First Order solely due to his political skills.
Nikolai was also a wizard of considerable skill, and of course these skills supported his position in the First Order.
“Even before you die, blame your poor fate. “Because that’s the life of a rat like you.”
Gariel, seeing the magic gathering at her fingertips, opened her mouth with a meaningful smile.
“Then you’ve never heard of that story? “Even a rat will bite if it gets cornered.”
“what?”
“This is it.”
Gariel’s appearance disappeared from his seat for a moment.
Immediately after that, Nikolai couldn’t help but be embarrassed by something black blocking his vision.
I quickly tried to remove the cover from my head with my hands, but it wouldn’t come off as if someone was pulling it from behind.
Rather, it was pulling hard and putting pressure on this side of the face.
Nikolai urgently stretched his arm backwards and fired a spell.
It wasn’t a threat as it was a hastily created magic, but it was still enough to shake off the person holding it.
Nikolai, who pushed Gariel away and urgently removed the piece of cloth covering his face, could not hold back his anger.
“How dare you, this rat!”
Magical energy fluctuated around Nikolai’s enraged body.
Nikolai’s head quickly turned as he thought about chewing Gariel up.
‘How on earth? You must have inhaled paralyzing gas?’
What solved Nikolai’s doubts was Gariel’s whisper from behind.
“Do you wonder why I came out of paralysis?”
Without asking or questioning Nikolai, he looked back and dispersed his magic power.
Damn it!
The ice pick was stuck in the blank outer wall of the laboratory.
“I was poisoned once. “I felt so helpless at that time that I received manual therapy from Mr. Huiron before coming.”
“You bastard!”
Nikolai thought that Gariel was making fun of him when he heard about manual therapy.
Nikolai, who was about to fire magic toward the place where Gariel’s voice was heard, stopped.
‘damn!’
Unfortunately, I ended up trapped in the same space as the time wizard.
Nikolai immediately changed his ways.
“No matter how much you are, what if I fill this space itself with my magic!”
Disadvantages of Time Wizard.
We decided to target areas that are vulnerable to widespread attacks.
“Yeah, I know.”
At that moment, Gariel appeared right in front of Nikolai.
‘If you’re activating magic now, rather than running away, are you approaching me?’
Nikolai felt sorry for his unexpected behavior.
Given Gariel’s tendency, I thought that if I scared her like this, she would back down.
The plan was to gradually take over the space itself and push him into a corner, but things went astray from the start.
“I didn’t come with a half-hearted attitude either.”
Crash.
Nikolai turned his head when he felt a foreign body in his arm.
I don’t know when, but his wrists were tied with strong wires and connected to a nearby table.
As if a vein was cut, the flow of magical power was cut off and the activation of magic was cancelled.
“You bastard!”
Nikolai lifted his foot and kicked Gariel in the stomach.
It was a reflex action taken upon realizing that the rat was close to him.
Nikolai shouldn’t have done that.
There was a slight delay between Gariel disarming the time magic and using the next time magic.
In that moment that could no longer be given, Nikolai had to use magic that could definitely kill the opponent, not kick.
Rather, it is the moment when Gariel is pushed away with a kick.
Nikolai, who saw the distance between them widening, realized his mistake too late.
As soon as Gariel’s appearance disappeared, a thick wire was wrapped around Nikolai’s neck.
“Geugeuggeuk!”
Nikolai’s eyes widened as he felt the pain of the wire tightening around his neck.
Bright red veins appeared like cracks in the whites of the eyes.
When Nikolai tried to resist, Gariel kicked him in the kneecap from behind.
Nikolai’s body fell forward as his legs lost strength, and Gariel pulled harder on the wire strangling Nikolai.
‘Just stay like this a little longer!’
The moment Gariel was confident of victory, a wave of mana erupted from Nikolai’s entire body.
Gariel, who was hit by the shock wave, lost sight of the wire in her hand and was thrown away.
“Cough! Cough! You rat! “I will definitely kill you painfully!”
Nikolai, who could barely breathe, let out a cough mixed with spit and glared at Gariel with murderous eyes.
The moment Gariel saw that, she jumped up.
My legs were still trembling due to the effects of paralysis, and my bones were throbbing as if they had been broken in some place due to the impact a little while ago.
But once he got this far, he couldn’t stop.
‘Run in!’
Gariel shouted in her heart as if she was brainwashing herself.
He cuddled closer to Nikolai, making fun of his legs that were not moving well.
‘I do what I can!’
Before Nikolai could cast his magic, his body collided with Gariel.
Craddangtang!
The two people rolled around on the floor.
Gariel clung to Nikolai like an anglerfish.
‘This is all the fighting I can do.’
Gariel has lived a life of fighting and isolation.
There was no way that Gariel would be able to fight on equal footing with Nikolai.
That’s why Ludger’s advice was helpful.
-You are not suited to fight in the first place.
Ludger spoke harshly toward himself to the point of being cruel.
-He has no experience in fighting either, and his temperament is closer to that of a coward. It’s not an ability suitable for fighting.
Gariel was unable to refute those words.
The fact that he couldn’t fight was something he himself acknowledged.
-So take advantage of everything. Don’t hesitate to get in the mud with your partner. At least there is a chance of victory against an inexperienced wizard like you.
Nikolai struggled to get away from Gariel.
Magic is impossible.
The distance was close, and the moment I tried to use my magic, Gariel kept swinging my fist and getting in the way.
Pow!
A simple, not-so-heavy punch lands in the cheek.
Nikolai felt the scar on his pride much more painful than the pain he felt on his cheek.
‘What. What the heck?’
This was my first time in a fight like this.
It’s not like a fight between children in the countryside, but a grown wizard fighting while rolling around on the floor?
No pride, no style, no honor, no pride.
It is a miserable and sloppy struggle that can only be seen at the bottom of the rock bottom, similar to how a factory worker might look drunk in a bar.
Ironically, such messy fighting drove Nikolai even further into confusion.
I felt like I had fallen to the same level.
Nikolai felt an intense sense of crisis like never before.
“You rat!”
Nikolai’s palm was engulfed in flames and he pushed Gariel’s face.
Chii Iik.
With the sound of burning skin, Nikolai smiled in remorse.
How does it feel to have your skin burned alive?
But Gariel did not scream.
Rather surprisingly, it was Nikolai who screamed.
“Aaaahhh!”
Gariel had bitten his finger with her mouth.
Even in the pain of being burned, Gariel’s twinkling eyes glared at Nikolai.
“Let go! Let go of this!”
Nikolai felt that things couldn’t go on like this, so he forced the use of magical power.
Pow!
He forcibly continued the flow that was about to break and, although imperfect, unleashed pure magical power and hit Gariel’s solar plexus.
A ball of blue magic blew Gariel backwards.
It must have been a significant blow, as Gariel rolled several times on the floor and hit the wall.
“You damn…”
Nikolai stumbled and tried to get up, but without realizing it, he vomited blood from his mouth.
“Uweeeek!”
