Episode 353 ‘Damn it!’
I had no desire to look at the internal organs of a monster snake whose size I could not even guess.
At that moment, Logan activated the trait he had saved until the very end.
The heart’s force core spewed out the ninth core, and golden light poured from its red eyes. In an instant, I felt my soul’s level rise, and the entire structure and surroundings of the monster snake that had just swallowed me came into my mind clearly.
Force, which had been depleted, also rose past its limit. Along with the feeling that my soul was greatly elevated, a great power began to flow from within my body.
It was a change so different from before that it felt unfamiliar even though it was a feature I had used countless times before.
The ‘power to interfere with space’ that I realized through splitting the sky and thought I had definitely attained by reaching the highest level.
I was confident that I would be able to exert that incredible power as naturally as breathing. Not only that, I gained confidence that I could cut down even non-existent things.
And what it means….
‘Auror Master.’
It meant that I had stepped into the realm that only exists in legends, even if just for a moment.
Ugh.
Ugh.
A space that vibrates just by focusing your hand on it.
I vividly felt that the power of force derived from my own life force dominated all space around me.
I wanted to enjoy that feeling of omnipotence and engrave it in my soul, but now was not the time.
– Crrrrr.
The red wall, no, the inside of the snake’s mouth.
Because the priority was to get out of this annoying space.
Skag.
It started with a small sound.
Logan’s sword swung lightly.
Soon, a huge piece of flesh split along its path, and the sunlight from outside shined in like a lie.
– Kyaoooo!
A monster’s scream that seems to be coming from the sky, which is close but feels far away.
Logan ignored the screams and jumped out of the skin of the monster he had cut down.
‘Now about 3 minutes.’
My whole body was full of strength, but my mind was urgent.
I had to find a place to lie down and rest my soon-to-be-exhausted body.
In this area full of demons.
Logan, with a nervous face, stepped on the dead body of a monster snake that had fallen before he knew it, leapt, and raced through the empty air.
Aura Master.
The legendary state of being able to control space with little effort has been recreated in the middle of a demonic area where no one can see.
however.
A pillar of dark red light suddenly passed in front of Logan, who was racing through the sky.
Quaaaaaaaaaaa!
Jiyiing.
The beam, which was thick enough to have a radius of over 1m and possessed bloody destructive power at first glance, left an exhilarating wave and blocked his run.
‘this!?’
Logan frowned and looked at the ground, and a truly absurd sight came into view.
A gigantic body with a height of over 20 meters, with four pillar-like feet standing on the ground. The tight muscles extending from the four large, sharp claws to the tip of the head looked agile despite its size.
On his shoulders were three wolf heads, each with two pairs of glowing eyes.
For a moment, the giant three-headed wolf stared at Logan with a total of twelve eyes.
Ssssssssuk.
Soon, the imposing monster’s appearance shrank as if it were a lie, and a silver wolf the size of a calf appeared in its place.
It’s still bigger than a normal wolf, but it’s incomparable to the monster from before. The ‘normal wolf’, which even had one head, stared at Logan in the air with a pair of eyes and howled loudly.
– Awwwwwwwww.
It was not a roar with such force that it overwhelmed the son-in-law.
However, through Logan’s expanded senses, he could feel the trembling demonic beasts moving away from all directions all at once.
The entire process was truly amazing, but now was not the time to simply admire the sight.
For some reason, the wolf’s howl had a different meaning to Logan.
‘Follow me?’
He was laughing at his own thoughts, but the wolf, who glanced at him once, turned his head as if there was no need to say anything more and started moving somewhere.
A wolf whose noble and arrogant attitude strangely suits him.
Logan looked at the wolf with bewildered eyes and then moved towards the direction the wolf was heading.
‘The strength…’
The feeling of exhilaration began to fade.
The force that escapes.
The characteristic up period was coming to an end.
So for now, I have no choice but to trust this uncertain intuition.
With that thought in mind, my body, which had been strained to its limit as I landed on the ground, exacted the price sooner than expected.
“Ugh!”
Pingrrrr.
Logan let out a painful groan as he felt his soul shrinking along with the power flowing out like the ebb of the tide.
In his blurred consciousness, Logan saw red eyes staring at him.
‘Oh, no. Damn it.’
Dying like this? I?
Logan screamed inwardly at the ridiculous situation he had never even imagined.
That moment.
– Awww!
With the wolf’s howl ringing again, the approaching red eyes all started to run away in fright as if they were scared.
That was Logan’s last memory of that day.
* * * Tuk.
“Ugh…”
Tuk.
“Hmm…”
Tuk.
“…Rick. Just a little more….”
A feeling that reminds me of a time in my distant memory.
Logan smiled and tried to push away the servant who woke him up.
‘hair?’
But the feel of it in my hand was a little strange.
The moment I thought it was as fluffy as an animal’s feet.
Bah!
“100 million!”
With a blow that seemed to split his head, Logan fell over on the ‘stone floor’.
Logan suddenly came to his senses from the tingling pain and the cold feeling, and hurriedly got up.
Swish.
“Who are you?!”
He quickly took his stance and drew his sword, but in front of him was a silver wolf the size of a calf, glaring at him with disapproving eyes.
It was certainly strange to feel that the wolf was staring at me and that it was disapproving, but strangely, I didn’t feel any discomfort.
Perhaps that’s why Logan was a little late in remembering that the wolf in front of him was the full body of the monster he had seen before he fainted.
And the situation after that as well.
“You…”
Logan’s conscience did not allow him to criticize the person who saved his life for waking him up a little roughly.
But it was also ridiculous to talk to the wolf separately.
“…grunt.”
In the end, Logan, unable to do either this or that, narrowed his eyes, but the wolf suddenly snorted and stood up, turning his head.
Then, I walked into the cold stone room.
‘A stone chamber?’
Only then did Logan realize where he was and belatedly looked around.
A gray, solid stone room.
However, the high ceiling, which seemed to be well over 5 meters, was trimmed into a gentle sphere, and the floor and left and right sides were also a clean space with no uneven surfaces.
Logan was puzzled by the sight, which clearly looked like it had been touched by human hands.
‘Wasn’t it Masurim…?’
Logan, who was looking around the neatly made wall of the stone chamber, felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.
It seemed like the wall I was holding was not just an ordinary stone.
thud.
When I lightly clenched my fist and knocked on it, the feeling became even more evident.
I knew this because I recently experienced a stone room with a similar feel.
“ruins…?”
A wall of unknown material that made up the ruins of Zibrik Kassel.
A strange building that was able to withstand the power of the 7th type of root splitting of the new sword.
It felt similar to the walls of that building.
‘Are there similar ruins here?’
It was definitely smaller than the ruins of Zibrik Kassel and had no special patterns or murals.
But the feeling was very similar.
Ugh.
thud!
“As expected…”
I was even more confident when I lightly shocked him with auror.
A wall that is not even scratched by the auror called the power of destruction.
There was no way objects of this material were common in ancient times.
Feeling anxious again, I looked around again and heard a sharp sound from somewhere.
“Kk!!”
The wolf, which had disappeared into a corner inside the stone chamber, reappeared and howled.
Both the barking sound and the facial expression seemed somewhat nervous.
While I was thinking that it was amazing to feel human-like emotions from the wolf again, the wolf narrowed its eyes even further, shook its head, and pointed towards the inside of the stone chamber with its paw.
“Follow me?”
“Kung!”
The wolf howled again as if in response to Logan’s words.
No matter how much you look, it is a space filled with only plain gray walls.
The wolf who saved me even though I had never met him.
‘What on earth is this?’
To solve that question, Logan had no choice but to follow the wolf.
The truth is that the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
The stone chamber, which I thought might have been an ancient ruin, only had a slightly larger space inside.
In terms of the house, the place where I woke up earlier was the guest room, and the place where I am now is the master bedroom.
The only other thing was that there was something resembling an altar, unlike the previous stone room, which had nothing.
And on top of it was an object that looked like a book.
“Kung!”
The wolf howling in front of him again.
It seemed like he meant to come closer, but his expression was full of disapproval.
‘I can’t believe I can read the wolf’s emotions. ‘Is that guy weird or am I weird?’
It was absurd, but looking at that guy’s expression reminded me of the pain that felt like my head was splitting when I woke up.
“…Are you dissatisfied with me?”
I didn’t say it thinking you would understand.
However, seeing him turn his head while making a ‘sniff’ sound like a snort, I seemed to understand why.
I was so embarrassed that I was staring at him blankly.
“Kung!”
He barked again as if he was frustrated and repeatedly pointed to the booklet with his nose.
It seemed like it meant reading it.
It was a series of absurd situations, but Logan was already full of questions, so he smiled and approached the altar.
The book placed on the altar looked unusual at first glance.
The booklet, bound with an unknown leather, was very thick, and even the string that tied it had a strange luster and did not look like ordinary thread.
When I brushed off the dust that had settled down, I saw that what was written on the cover was one short word.
A classic style even among ancient languages.
It was a style used in a time that went back much further than the ancient language he had learned.
Considering that the ancient language spoken in modern times refers to the script from the time of the Great Migration a thousand years ago, one could guess that this booklet was created much earlier than that.
‘Luckily, the writing style and words are a bit awkward, but the letters themselves aren’t that different.’
What was even more fortunate was that he had already deciphered an old book from a similar era perfectly once.
‘okay. The writing style is similar to Shingeom Vision. Now that I think about it, the handwriting…? No way. ‘It must be a coincidence.’
Complicated thoughts arose in his head, but from the moment he opened the book, Logan couldn’t help but be immersed in its contents with his eyes wide open.
The content of the booklet that started like that was a biography of a person.
A child who was weak from birth.
However, the child miraculously survived even in infancy, when even a healthy child could easily die from illness overnight. Despite suffering from various diseases, he repeatedly recovered.
And the reason was rooted in the force that his father had learned by accident.
Following the experience of his father, who was an excellent monster hunter, he trained his body, hunted, and fought monsters.
After countless crises, he awakened to the Force and became a hunter, following in his father’s footsteps.
Hunters at the time were people who protected humans from monsters.
He was the guardian of a tribe, or rather, a village that was just beginning to emerge.
But the crisis came quickly.
No, the young man who had now become a warrior fought and fought to protect the village. The village was defended several times from invasions by different races.
However, the attacks of higher races that were superior to humans from the time they were born with powerful magical powers gradually became stronger.
Villages and villages united against attacks that became more intense day by day, and soon huge cities were created to continue efforts to protect their homes.
The young man rose to the honorable position of protecting the city under the name of Daejeonsa.
However, even so, the crisis could not be defeated.
The story of a man’s struggle to protect his family and tribe in ancient times.
Up to that point, it was ‘just’ that kind of content.
However, Logan’s eyes widened at the sentence that immediately followed.
Logan’s hand holding the booklet trembled slightly.
I tell you.
Force, which was buried under magic and the Holy Law that was just beginning to emerge and was treated as a strange trick. It saved my life. Naturally, I had no choice but to focus on that strength in order to continue living.
As the Sorcerer’s disappearance exceeded 50 years, other races that had escaped their fear of him began to put pressure on the humans. And it became the worst crisis for the human race that had just begun to settle down and develop.
It wasn’t enough. The union of a few tribes was too powerful to block even a single faction of a different race. They managed to block the dwarves’ attack and defeat the lizardmen, but the city was destroyed by the orc shaman and only one hundred orc warriors who came next.
That was my first death.
In an era when the dragon race disappeared and the dragon race went into seclusion, the human race reached its greatest heyday ever with the emergence of a magic saint who united all the humans.
Elves, Dwarves, Lizardmen, Orcs. Even those who dismissed humans as a lower race were in awe of the Magic Saint and his royal guard, and the fear of other races toward them became the source of maintaining the prosperity of the human race even after the Magic Saint disappeared.
I was born in that era of change, a time when humans, who had been wandering to avoid monsters and other races, began to settle down and start farming.
