Episode 363
Episode 120. Traces of the Warlock (3)
“Ah, what is this all about? Isn’t it Shelob?”
“Did you beat this all by yourself? It was kind of late.”
Marlon and Zecca, who came down together, threw a word each. Ariel also transformed into a human and descended with them.
Yuma nodded while leaning against the stunned cellove.
“How is your shoulder already healed?”
“Ah, Ariel treated me with the Dragon Eye. I also brought some herbs from the Balaur land.”
“Give me sickness, give me medicine. You’re very good, Ariel.”
“noisy.”
“Don’t be so mean. I gave you this much cigarette. So I decided to forgive my sins. isn’t that Yu Ma Now it’s your turn to beg for a cigarette. Please come and pray.”
“It’s a big decision.”
Ariel frowned, disapproving of something. Yuma smiled lightly at the friends who appeared at the right time.
“Anyway, I’m glad that your shoulder is completely healed. I just needed something to do.”
“hmm? What’s the point?”
“We need to move this cellove.”
Yuma said, patting Cellov’s head with his fist. Then, the stunned Selove shuddered and let out a low cry.
“I thought this crazy dead, but why did you keep it alive? Can you make stuffed animals?”
“By the way, there was a demon cave like this in the Rochshires? While you were in the east, there was no time when I led the cellove unit and checked, and there was no separate report.”
Zecca’s expression hardened after realizing the seriousness of the situation a beat later. Managing the empire’s demon cave is actually his job as the captain of the cellove unit, so the back of your head is tingling.
“It was a position I had no choice but to know. I was lucky enough to find out. And this is also an artificially formed demon cave.
While Yuma explained how they entered together and Shelob’s unusual regenerative ability, Ariel summoned an ice spear and drew something on the floor. It was a magic circle made of geometric patterns.
Soon after, the completed magic circle began to emit blue light, and the characters of the demons drawn on all sides of the common area began to be erased as if washed in water.
Yuma, who tried to have the magicians investigate this place, couldn’t help but be surprised.
“Oh Ariel! Why are you deleting this? The investigation team will have to confirm it later.”
The letters were not completely erased. Yuma looked back and forth between letters shared with Ariel.
“You seem to be good at anything, but your magic is really bad. Even if these idiots don’t know, I thought you wouldn’t even notice anything.”
“yes?”
“There is detection and eavesdropping magic all over the place. The flow of magic power is not straight.”
It was the text that Ariel erased.
In the first place, this joint was a secret space in terms of location and atmosphere. That’s why the magic in preparation for intruders was spread.
However, unless you were a high-level wizard, it was hard to feel that the common magic flow was strange. Of course, it was impossible for Yuma, a raw soldier without Hort.
“So someone was listening to everything that happened here?”
“I guess it depends how far away he is. They should have figured out for sure that there was an intruder here.”
“her.”
Ariel, who had erased the detection eavesdropping magic, strode forward as if she could see something again.
Then, for a moment, he returned to his true form and chewed and swallowed a chunk of rock.
Seeing the dragon eating rocks like candy made me feel absurd for some reason, but that wasn’t meaningless either.
“I even made it so that ‘encroachment’ would unfold on this rock when the detection magic was dispelled. He must be familiar with mixing magic and black magic.
It’s crude but powerful magic.”
“Ecstasy?”
“okay. If it’s enough to dispel the detection magic, only a dragon or an excellent wizard would be able to do it. I turned my head on my own. Cheeky…
Ariel, who had transformed back into a human, looked very unpleasant.
It seemed simple to crush and eat the rock, but digesting the magic hidden in it was not an easy task for her either.
In fact, dark blue spots briefly appeared all over Ariel’s body. It was as if he had a plague. It was the price of swallowing sleep.
But soon the spots disappeared.
“Are you okay?”
“I don’t think it’ll be all right until we find and kill the guy who made this. Very very. Uncomfortable. More than when I gave you cigarettes.”
“Shiram the Warlock, probably his fault.”
“I have heard from Chrisa. It is said that he is an apostle of Hwa.”
As far as Yuma knew, there was only one other person who could use black magic like this.
Of course, Galos would also be fluent in black magic, but if it was a device made by him, the demon’s senses would have reacted first.
“You said that Cellov was kept alive because of his ability to regenerate?”
It was a brusque tone, but as soon as Ariel arrived here, she already found several problems that Yuma had been missing.
She was actively helping Yuma. Because I feel sorry for him and Marlon Zecca.
Yuma seemed to know why the dragon lord gave the test through Ariel.
She didn’t know how to communicate with other races, including humans, and her pride as a dragon was excessive, but her temper wasn’t bad either.
“yes. He had almost the same level of resilience as the demon lords he fought before. I’m going to send it to the magician’s lab.”
“…That’s why I was thinking of carrying this by force. Cellov Le ”
“That’s right.”
“You have a bit of an ignorant side of you…. There’s no need for that. Do I even have to research this cat thing? I am here.”
It was like that too. The research of wizards is ultimately based on magical knowledge and experience, but it was nothing compared to the dragon’s abilities.
Embarrassed, Yuma cleared his throat.
“Hmm hmm. I didn’t think that the noble Ariel would help me with a trivial human task.”
“Do you think I have no conscience? Still, I hurt him, and it’s not that difficult for me, so I’m just telling him. It is also the duty of a white dragon.”
Ariel sighed and thrust an ice spear into Selove’s torso.
Quyiyet!
Then the half-dead Cellov suddenly had a seizure. He also wielded his eight legs at random, and one of them, a sharp forelimb, barely passed over Yuma’s head.
Yuma was about to punch out reflexively, but stopped when he saw something protruding from Sellove’s muzzle.
Procrastinating…
“Ugh! What is that!”
What Sellove spat out was a translucent lump.
It was shaped like a lump of rotten oil, but it was very disgusting to see it crawling on the floor. It was a completely different feeling from Mak Sor.
The object just lingered, but Yuma felt a strange sense of déjà vu and took a step back.
Ariel’s icy spear shot a chill as the strange object curled up as if it were about to jump.
The object froze in an instant and did not even move.
And a strange thing happened.
As soon as the movement of the object stopped, Cellov, who had seizures, also froze.
Except for Ariel, the party only looked at each other’s widened eyes without knowing why.
“What is this?”
“Slime is a kind of side effect of ancient black magic.”
“side effect?”
Ariel used magic to float the frozen slime into the air. The group stood in a circle with a mysterious yet ominous feeling, waiting for Ariel’s explanation.
“Yeah side effects. Black magic usually ends with the blood of a living being, but in some cases of black magic, these cursed objects are born.”
“What is it used for?”
“This is something that should never be used. Getting rid of it unconditionally is a good thing for the world. It’s like rust and mold, to explain it for you Malone-brained bastards. It is dangerous enough to be compared to those things.”
Yuma, who was quietly examining the slime, opened her eyes wide as if something came to mind. It was to figure out the cause of the slime’s déjà vu.
“Is this slime thing related to Hwa?”
“Yes. How did you know that?”
“In the East, I went to the dimension of the void through a dragon named Soluto. The energy of Hwa that I experienced there for the first time and the feeling emanating from the slime are similar.”
“I have heard that the exiled man is acting as emperor in the East. Seeing that he immediately recognized that sensation, it must be a human outside the realm.”
“Then it must have something to do with the God Tree.”
“I saw it right. Slime is an object created by Hwa to punish humans and other races for damaging the God Tree. It is set to be created if you use a higher level black magic that borrows the power of the void.”
The slime was like an insect that ate all dimensions. It is created whenever someone desires excessive power of the void, and its role is to loosen the boundaries between each dimension.
Yuma was well aware of what would happen if the dimensional boundary collapsed. It was because he had learned the concept of ‘dimensional collapse’ in the Mage’s Tower of Dempir.
-A dimension distorted in this way…
causes an explosion when collapsed. That’s why those bastards also cried out that the tower shouldn’t collapse.
-explosion? How much?
– It seems that about half of the central desert will be blown away. Even if you think of it minimally.
-what…? is that possible?
-The reason why the continent of the human world was split into several pieces like now is because of the dimensional collapse phenomenon.
It was a conversation I had with Rakir when I was dealing with Dempir’s tower.
Even if that mage tower collapsed, half of the central desert would be blown away. Not to mention the explosion that would occur when the gap between dimensions disappeared.
And if such an explosion occurred, the one who benefited the most was, of course, Hwa.
When Ariel explained these things, Yuma couldn’t hide her frustration.
“This is one of the few objects in the world that cannot be completely destroyed. That’s why excellent black magicians use this habit to strengthen monsters. Just like the cello you dealt with.”
“You say complete destruction is impossible?”
“Because of this, when the God Tree was polluted by humans, all dragons were said to have been in an emergency for a while. Back then, these cursed objects were common in all dimensions. At the time, I was not even born, so I hadn’t experienced it myself.”
“How long does it take for interdimensional collapse to occur?”
“It should be enough to cover at least half of the human continent. So there is no need to be so nervous that one has been found.”
The reason Ariel knew about slime without experiencing it herself was no different.
It was because the role of the white dragon Ariel’s spirit family was to manage the slime that had spread throughout the dimension when the Tree of God was damaged.
All of those slimes were piled up deep in the lands of the dragons, frozen, just like Ariel had done. Under the watchful eye of the White Dragons.
“Anyway, you guys are lucky. Even if he sent Selobe to the human wizards, he would never have known this fact. With this, the debt that hurt your friend is gone.”
said Ariel, opening a portal and throwing frozen slime into it. At first glance, inside the dimension door, countless slimes were piled up to form a mountain range.
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