◈ 265. [STAGE 10] Tyrant
Puck! Fuck! Wow-!
The two entangled monsters swung their fists with the momentum to kill each other.
The two fists that cut through the air were oddly similar in shape.
Even though they were in the form of twisted monsters, the two were using the same martial arts.
Fain!
Throw away each other’s attacks with a counterattack
!
Cross the fists imbued with red energy with each other
and say-!
Spreads red energy all over the body and makes it dwell.
“… .”
Quylan opened his mouth and watched blankly as the two monsters performed a feast of martial arts several times higher than himself.
“What is it, man? Isn’t it pretty even with the limbs like that?”
Lunared laughed contentedly.
It was the first descendant to use the martial arts he had invented to such a high level. Lunared was genuinely happy.
Then the wolf monster- Kureha let out an incoherent voice.
《Because I am a long writer.》
《What?》
《Because I am a long writer in the 43rd generation of the Maple Area.》
Chuck.
Kureha clenched her fists and bowed briefly.
“It is an honor to see the great master,”
he added right after.
“this… I didn’t know you were a garbage monster.”
“… .]
Lunared, who had been absent-minded, eventually puhahaha! It roared and ran forward.
《Why don’t you look in the mirror and say forty-three!》
The two wolf monsters frantically exchanged fists and feet, and at the same time, as if they had promised, they distanced themselves from each other.
And – take the same posture.
Stand firmly on the ground with both legs, lower your body as much as possible, put your left hand forward in a dangsu position, and your right hand clenched into a fist in front of your chest.
The two monsters glared at each other with momentum that seemed like they would be shot at any moment.
Quylan, who watched that it was a deadly stance, noticed without difficulty.
It was then. Wolf monster- Kureha glanced back at Kuylan.
Then he nodded softly.
It’s like watching and learning… … .
Tuhak-!
next moment.
The two wolf monsters, stepping forward and stepping on the ground, disappeared in an instant.
They charged at each other so fast that they seemed to disappear from the world.
The two wolf monsters rushed through space and thrust their fists at each other.
Lunared’s fist aimed at the center of Kureha’s chest, and
Kureha’s fist aimed at Lunared’s left chest.
Misconception.
Single-hearted storm.
Pereouk… … !
Both of them didn’t dodge and put their deadly fists into each other’s chest.
Blood poured out of the mouths of the two wolf monsters at the same time.
However, unlike Kureha, who frowned and suffered, Lunared smiled triumphantly.
“You stupid bastard! You’ve learned the wrong way! Single-hearted Storm is a skill that hits the opponent’s spirit core, not the body! Aiming for the heart, not the spiritual core!”
《… .”
“Besides, I’ve already lost that heart! The other heart is on the other side! Your fist is wrong from the point of aim!]
Kureha’s body, which was staggering with a painful face, collapsed as if it were being overlapped by Lunared.
Lunared was sure of victory and smiled
«… no. I aimed straight.]
Kwadeuk!
Kureha opened her mouth wide and bit Lunared’s neck.
Black blood gushed out. Kureha desperately clung to it and swallowed Lunared’s blood into her throat.
《What is this bastard doing?!》
Lunared annoyedly took off such a Kureha and threw it away. Kureha slumped awkwardly.
《It’s been a while since we had a high-level martial arts showdown, and he did such a lowly thing… … .]
Lunared clicked his tongue in displeasure as he saw the black blood running from the nape of his neck to Kureha’s mouth.
This is the final outburst… … .
《… ?”
Soon after, Lunared saw an incomprehensible sight.
A clot of black blood continued to flow from the wound on Lunared’s nape.
Embarrassed, Lunared tried to catch the escaping drop of blood, but the blood continued to rise between her fingers and flew across the air –
sucked into Kureha’s mouth.
“What is this… ?!”
《Now that I’ve become a werewolf, I understand.》
Kureha lifted her mouth and laughed even as she died from the half destruction of her spiritual core.
《As the intestines twisted and rearranged, the human heart was pushed to the other side and a new wolf heart was formed.》 《
… ?!”
“The left one belongs to the wolf. The right one belongs to a human.》
Kureha pointed to Lunared’s left chest.
“I tried to break your wolf heart. It doesn’t matter if it’s already broken. Just in case, I would have punched the same way.”
“My wolf heart… ? why… ?”
“So… Because you will lose control of the wolf’s blood… … .》
Thick black blood poured out of Lunared’s neck like water.
All the strength went out of the body. Lunared trembled in bewilderment at the first phenomenon.
“do… What the hell did you do?!”
“I’ll carry it instead.”
Kureha laughed bitterly.
《Your curse.》
《What?》
《I… … It is a vessel that holds the curses of all members of the clan.]
Kureha slowly closed her eyes.
“You are my ancestor, so you are also my clan, and of course I can take the curse of the wolf you own.” “
… ?!]
This was the strategy Ash suggested.
Taking the wolf’s curse away from Lunared.
Kurehara, a container that holds the curses of all members of the clan, should theoretically be able to contain the curses of the ancestors as well.
Kureha herself was dubious, but the operation was successful.
It breaks the wolf’s heart and loses control of the wolf’s blood.
Swallow the blood of Lunared, which will act as a catalyst, with your mouth to activate magic.
saaaa… … !
Not only Lunared, but all the Werewolves who were still alive and attacking the Crossroads.
The wolf’s curse was pulled out and forcibly transferred to Kureha’s body.
Contaminated black blood from all over the crossroads flew through the air towards Kureha.
Kureha willingly swallowed the seething black blood.
As if he had all the curses of his family in his body.
The curse of the revived ancestors was also carried in Kureha’s body.
“Stop that! Stop it!]
Power disappeared from Lunared’s entire body.
He tried to protect his curse somehow, but he had already lost the wolf’s blood and the wolf’s heart that condensed the curse.
The moment I lost my heart as a punishment to the devil.
From then on, Lunared’s curse was no longer her own.
“This is how it ends? Me?]
Lunared was the first to be cursed with a wolf curse by sucking the blood of a different god, but there was no means to counter Kureha’s magic.
This is the last means of escape his descendants have found after suffering for hundreds of years.
A secret technique devised by descendants to escape from wolf blood.
Even though it was a twisted direction of sacrificing one person for the sake of the many, it was the cutting-edge wisdom enriched with hundreds of years of descendants.
It is impossible for him, a distantly ancient being, to be able to destroy it.
《Stop it!》
Lunared urgently wanted to completely kill Kureha to cut off the sorcery, but
hey!
Quylan, who intervened, blew off Lunared’s jaw with a fist.
With her whole body shrunken, Lunared knelt on the floor in a disgrace.
“No, oh… no… !]
The curse of the wolf’s blood that made Lunared one of the strongest and the commander of the nightmare corps drains from his body.
Eventually, all curses will be removed from the body and the wolf’s power will disappear.
“iced coffee… Aaaaaa… … !”
In its place remained a thin old man with a graying beard and graying hair.
***
I was thinking as I walked toward the north gate.
‘Look above the rules of the game.’
by all available means.
Detours, bends and twists – find the weak spots in the rules.
A werewolf is a being that became a monster because humans manifested a curse.
if so, vice versa.
… If only I could remove the curse and turn them back into humans.
The difficulty of the game plummets.
Skirmishers poured in reports from all sides.
“The werewolves that remained outside the southern wall are said to be mutating into humans!”
“Even the werewolves holding citizens hostage in the city! Suddenly human… … !”
“Defeat the humans who were werewolves in the central square!”
“We captured two more alive in the alley behind the market!”
“majesty! Report!”
A skirmisher who ran from the north wall reported panting.
“The enemy corps commander is also said to have mutated into a human!”
“… .”
“The only monster left in the area is a grotesque wolf monster that has suddenly appeared outside the northern wall! If you dispose of him, this defense will be over… … !”
“Your Highness, what shall we do now?!”
“Give me instructions!”
“majesty!”
I didn’t answer and headed for the north gate. The skirmishers followed me in bewilderment.
outside the northern wall.
“… Oh senior.”
Evangeline, who was leaning against the open gate with a tired face, looked back at me. His complexion is pale, perhaps because of his injury.
“Wolf King… Grandpa, who was, was tied up over there. and… .”
Evangeline’s hand moved to the side, pointing at the old man tied up over there.
“The last remaining monster is over there, and Quylan is covering it up as his older brother… .”
There, he could see Quylan wrapping his body around the fallen monster and shouting something to the soldiers who surrounded him.
“… .”
“Seniors. if you really… … .”
Without saying a word, I lightly stroked Evangeline’s crown and walked forward.
God Hand, who had been tying up the old man with chains, looked at me and politely bowed. I made eye contact.
“God Hand.”
“majesty.”
God Hand quietly stepped aside.
“I will say goodbye to the reunion later, so let’s talk about more important things first.”
“thanks.”
I passed God Hand and stood in front of the old man.
He was a skinny old man with gray hair.
He looked like an ordinary human, but his two ghostly red eyes were still as ferocious as those of a monster.
“Are you Lunared?”
I laughed.
“You’re out of sight. Wolf King.”
“… .”
Lunared, who kept her mouth shut and looked up at me, said,
“Save me.”
I said so out of the blue.
I frowned.
“what?”
“I told you to save me.”
Being dumbfounded, I glared at him.
Lunared roared with a voice so loud that it was unbelievable that it came from such a skinny body.
“Now that the wolf curse is gone, I am fully human!”
Lunared tapped his skinny chest with his hand.
“The ‘human heart’ beating in this proves it.”
“… .”
“If you are the commander of the front lines here, killing monsters and protecting people! Kill that monster next to you! As a human being, I must protect you!”
Lunared saw the monster lying there… … He chinned Kureha and exhaled desperately.
Kuylan, who was hugging Kureha, could be seen clenching his teeth.
“… .”
Lunared continued to speak to me who was silent.
“I am also a ‘human’ that you must protect! player! save me!”
“… That makes sense.”
Although he died and was resurrected in the darkness of the Lake Kingdom.
Obviously, this old man, freed from the wolf’s curse, is biologically a perfect human.
however.
“But you are a monster.”
I asserted
“I guarantee it. tell me with confidence Luna Red. you are not human You are a complete monster.”
“Why?”
Lunared wrote an evil.
“Because what is the criterion that separates humans from monsters on the front lines here?!”
“There are very clear criteria.”
Slowly lower your back and stare into his eyes.
I chewed it up and spit it out.
“grow.”
“… ?!”
“I am the rule on the front lines here.”
I thought about it for a long time.
hesitated for a long time
However, there are things I learned from going through this defense battle.
principle. rule. standard. rule.
I was a kind-hearted player who faithfully moved along the line that had already been set.
It was the same this time too. I set principles and standards rationally and tried to fit myself within those standards.
not even stupid
Like an innocent sick bastard.
“Thanks to you, I realized it, Lunared. Seeing you bypassing the rules and attacking, I finally realized the essence of this game.”
There is a famous saying on the floor of a certain card game.
The reason why a game needs rules is to use things that are not decided by rules.
“I will stand above the rules.”
“what… ?”
“I am the principle. I am the principle. i am the standard I am the law.”
I will no longer dwell on the rules of the game.
I will circumvent the rules, twist the rules, enact the rules, and rule the rules.
“I will change the world according to the rules I have made. So I also decide who is human and who is monster.”
I was coldly brainwashed.
“You are a monster. Lunared.”
“… .”
“You die.”
Right after that,
“Fu puhahahahaha-!”
Lunared held his stomach and laughed.
Shaking like crazy, I smiled and let the world go away. At the terrifying madness, the heroes around them flinched and retreated.
I asked frowning.
“Why are you laughing, monster?”
“Do you not understand even if you speak by yourself, human?”
After barely stopping the light that had been pouring out for a long time,
the old man who was the wolf king glared at me.
“Because that is the attitude of a tyrant!”
“… .”
“Are you saying you want to be the standard? Are you going to be the law yourself? Many rulers wanted to be like that! Even if the circumstances and reasons were different, everyone had good intentions and tried to rule the world by becoming iron men themselves! Believing then that Utopia will arrive!”
“… .”
“But the ending was tyrannical! There has not been a single exception! Not a single one from ancient times until now!”
“… .”
“Seriously, are you going to be like that too, human?!”
“okay.”
I answered immediately.
“If you call someone who stands above the rules to win a tyrant… .”
I
took a deep breath and made up my mind .
“I am willing to become a tyrant.”
