My Villains Episode 130
34. Soul Sorcerer (2)
After going down the steep slope of Donghyeol, a spacious cavity was revealed.
“Is it really a mine?”
“I guess so.”
It seemed to be some kind of mine, according to the whispers behind it. In addition to the fragments of the carts seen at the entrance, all kinds of boxes, pickaxes, ropes, cart planks, and wooden beams strewn about in the cavity added to the feeling.
A brief search that followed yielded an unexpected clue.
Looking closely at the chunks handed over from Archer Cole, he asked a question.
“…Gold? Gold?”
” maybe.”
“Isn’t it copper or something?”
It was Prosecutor Simos who answered my question.
“There are few minerals that are as yellow and opaque as this. There are cases like pyrite, but it is definitely gold.”
At her assertion, I held the lumps in the torchlight. There were dozens of random shards of gold, ranging in size from the size of a fingernail to the size of a finger.
“And if you can rip out a gold nugget of that size, it must mean that the profitability is ridiculously high.”
Simos continued when I looked at him asking for an explanation.
“At a cursory glance, gold ore often looks like a lump of stone. It’s absolutely not normal for such a gold nugget to fall in such a high number.”
I asked, returning the pieces of gold to Cole.
“Where did you find this?”
“It was hidden among the clutter in the corner.”
“Did the miner hide it…. The person is’?”
“There were some clothes and gloves, but no one.”
“…a corpse?”
“A corpse too.”
You seem to be involved in something complicated.
Suddenly, I remember hearing a meaningful conversation with Dionea… well, when I was hiding.
– Even considering the debt I already owe to the count, my back is about to bend. If you reach out any more than this, the mine and everything else will be taken away.
-Brother, this is not the time to be greedy!
-Isn’t this all about you! Do you want to live on a piece of land spanning a span? like me!
It was a conversation between Baron Mallory and another man. At the time, I had other things to do, so I didn’t think about it, but now that I think about it, it’s very suspicious.
Debt to the Count The man who calls Baron Mallory his brother…
I shook my head after thinking for a while. The important thing now was to follow the mysterious flow of magic, not to dig into the circumstances surrounding the mine.
Had it gone down an hour past the cavity? Thick beams and supports supporting the ceiling began to appear. Looking at the traces of artificially breaking rocks and digging down the ground, this place seemed certain to be a mine.
Not long after entering the tunnel, I encountered several forks in the road. But there was nothing to get confused about.
“Is it on the left?”
Ellen, who was following behind, quietly nodded.
Magical energy was flowing from the shaft on the left. It was so strong that even mercenaries who were unfamiliar with magic could feel it.
After entering the tunnel on the left, a very strange landscape unfolded in front of us.
“…what’s this?”
The tunnel, which had been as dark as darkness a moment ago, was filled with bright indigo. It was a beautiful but incomprehensible landscape, as if the sea was rippling on the ceiling and the sky was spreading on the floor.
It is natural that the light gradually weakens as it moves away from the light source, but the strange indigo color was cut off at a certain point. The pitch-black darkness of the tunnel and the bright indigo beyond were facing each other with a single line…
“It’s a crack.”
“Watch out Ellen.”
Ellen, who left my voice behind and flew away, stretched out her hand toward the line that separated darkness and indigo. The hand he reached out carefully touched something with a ‘pong’.
“0-0” — log .
“what’s the matter?” Ellen, who had been narrowing her eyes for a moment, opened her mouth.
“I read it in the palace.”
” what?”
“A method of artificially bringing in dimensions.”
The indigo world was surrounded by a water drop-like membrane. Ellen touched the curtain and continued her explanation.
“It looks like they took a branch from the spirit world and grafted it into the real world. The spirit realm is pouring in through the rift that was created.”
“It pours in? Like water?”
“okay. Like a river pouring through a crack in an embankment.”
“So you’re saying that the magical power of the spirit realm comes in?”
“No, the spirit realm itself flows into it. This is the characteristic of the other dimensions except the present world. Fluidity and instability…
Druid Zanavas stepped forward.
“This is the work of Akanku Karamek.”
“Why is that son of a bitch doing this?”
“He was the best soul shaman in the plains. Among them, he handled the spirits of beasts very well.”
are the spirits of beasts. I’ve been to the summoning shaman.
“Caramek has violated a taboo as a shaman.”
“A taboo?”
Utequai, wearing a dolma over his shoulder, answered instead.
“Captured the human soul.”
“Did you catch it?”
“It made me not leave. She couldn’t be in her mother’s arms.”
“she?”
“Karamek’s wife.”
“…catch your wife’s soul?”
Haha, what kind of nonsense is this?
“So you’re saying you used the necromancy with your wife’s soul?”
At my question, Zanavas shook his head.
“It’s a little different. Karamek tried to turn his dead wife’s soul into an elemental.”
Ellen burst into laughter.
“Make a soul into an elemental? There’s no way that could be possible.”
“Caramek would have believed it was possible. He has experience turning the spirits of beasts into spirits.”
Ellen’s mouth opened slightly.
“…So you made a soul that was not chosen by nature into a spirit? artificially?”
” yes.”
“How can that be nonsense…
” I told you. He
was the best soul shaman in the plains.”
Utequai added to Ellen, who was at a loss for words.
“right. He has been the best shaman ever since my mother made the meadow.”
…Wait, the best soul shaman of all time? This makes me kind of anxious. Come to think of it, when did I raise a soul shaman?
When I was silent as I was rolling my head, Atalanta asked Zanavas.
“So, why did he bring the spirit world here?”
“Six years ago, Karamek failed to animate his wife’s soul. In the process, the fact that he was holding the spirit was exposed and he was banished from the grassland.”
“So?”
“Maybe he didn’t give up. Since it is difficult to turn a human soul into a spirit in the present world, I think I will try it in the spirit realm.”
“Then what will happen if I leave this alone?”
“There are three cases. Either the status quo remains as it is, or the point where the dimensions meet is cut off… Ellen, who was lost in thought, opened her mouth.
“Or the dimensions completely overlap. That’s what dimensional collision is all about.”
Atalanta, who was listening, scratched his cheek and expressed his doubts.
“Well, what if the status quo is maintained and the dimensional connection is severed?”
“Nothing will happen.”
“Then, if that Karamek turns his wife into a spirit and severing the dimensional connection again, it won’t matter,”
Ellen cut off Atalante with a frown.
“Nonsense. It is impossible for mere humans to control the dimension. Besides, even now the power of the spirit realm is growing little by little. You will soon lose control.”
“O uh”
— The .
It was around the time Atalanta fell silent and fell silent.
that’s it
The strange sound came from the party behind the mine shaft.
“……what?”
“Are you a person?”
Strange cries that burst out in succession began to echo in all directions. As the party finished preparing for battle, the torches held by the mercenaries began to cast shadows on the other side of the shaft.
turn it off!
A ferocious cry broke out and the shadows began to attack. What seemed blurry was the shape of a person.
“come!”
“Shoot arrows arrows!”
Amias roared at the apparent hostility.
Ellen’s frost awl and Atalanta’s purple spear the archers’ arrows cut through the shaft.
Geug-
I caught a glimpse of several figures falling to the floor and pulled out the bloody blade. As Hrunting scattered the red sword light, their figures were revealed.
It was something resembling a human that was charging at it with its mouth wide open .
The head, torso and limbs were clearly human, but there were traces of animals and plants sprouting all over the body.
Those with leaves sprouting on their chins or nails bent like hooks were at least good.
There were all sorts of horrible looking monsters, such as those with tree roots sprouting from their shoulders, those whose entire bodies were covered with stiff hair, and those with wet rocks hanging instead of their heads.
turn it off!
“Ugh, what are these again?”
I was terrified with my mouth, but I moved my body instinctively. Every time he raises his shield and swings his sword, a monster resembling a human is knocked down.
It didn’t take long for more than 30 monsters to fall down. Contrary to that terrible look, they weren’t very strong.
Druid Zanavas looked over the corpses and turned his face pale.
“It is terrible. They are people who have been eroded by the spirit realm.”
“You mean this is a person?”
“It must have been a person. once.”
Zanavas looked back at the party and spoke cautiously.
“It seems that the spirit realm is closer than expected. People without magical powers can be dangerous.”
“What does that mean?”
“If you don’t have magical power, you can’t resist erosion.”
Zanavas pointed to the indigo-colored world on the other side of the tunnel.
“Especially in the cracks, it will be worse. It will probably not last even an hour and turn into such an eroded body.”
Amias’ gang’s faces turned pale. Well, who would want to become a monster without reason like that?
“Anyway, you have to enter the rift, right?”
“…to stop Karamek, yes. I have to go in.”
“Only those with magical powers should enter.”
“If you were born with even a little bit of magical power, you would be able to last much longer than normal people. In particular, those with vast magical powers like Ellen-sama are very unlikely to be eroded.”
As everyone’s eyes gathered, Ellen shrugged her shoulders with a calm expression.
“What you looking at?”
As my gaze diverged from the road, I sighed and said,
“Then there is nothing you can do. Those without magical powers remain here.”
There was no objection.
A total of eight people decided to remain. It was the Amias gang and the warrior Agos Vittorio.
As the rest tried to enter the rift, leader Amias smiled bitterly.
“…Hmm, that didn’t help in the end.”
When I was silent, Utequai, with combat makeup on her face, tapped Amiis on the shoulder.
“Keep your back.”
“You mean behind?”
“right. If someone breaks down the mine, we will be buried alive.”
” ah.”
Amias smiled and nodded.
“Please go.”
“okay.”
I laughed and entered the rift with seven party members.
In a word, it was a different world inside the rift.
At first, it was like walking on sky. The sky was full of light under the transparent floor, and when I looked up, the sea was rippling above me.
It is a dreamlike landscape that can never be found in reality.
“This is the spirit realm…
“To be precise, the spirit realm fills the space in the present world.”
Ellen’s explanation suddenly made me think.
Originally, the spirit world could not be experienced during the campaign. It was a dimension that I was lucky to meet while playing the content called ‘Expedition’ after clearing the campaign.
The scenery I saw then was similar to what was unfolding in front of me now. Of course, the piece of graphic floating on the monitor and the reality unfolding in front of us were incomparable.
By the time you slowly get used to this bizarre scenery after walking for a while, “Look at that!”
What Atalanta was pointing at with a screeching sound was none other than the sky.
Shoot –
The sea that was filling up overhead was pouring down!
“Crazy is this-”
“Heo Eok”
We froze at the majestic scenery of the falling sea, unable to resist.
Gooooo!
However, contrary to the expectation that we would become rats or be swept away by the fierce waters, the sea split on both sides with us at the center.
Kwa-kwa-kwa!
The water split like a burst just above the head and poured down in all directions in a waterfall. It was as if an enormous amount of water was being poured over a plastic umbrella. Looking down, the blue water was filling up where the sky used to be.
The bizarre scene of the pouring sea and the overwhelming roar made us unable to move and froze in place.
“Po Poi.”
Before I knew it, Ellen was trembling like a baby bird in my arms.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.”
I stroked the boy’s arm with a trembling hand.
Gooooooo.
After a while, the roar finally stopped. We floated slowly through the depths of the sea, as if enveloped in air bubbles.
And at last the air bubble we were carrying rose above the sea.
shoot it
Standing on the blue surface of the water, we looked around with a confused expression.
“…He’s out of his mind.”
“Marta’ae.”
As we slowly came to our senses, another air bubble rose nearby.
“That-”
“What is it?”
The seawater splashed around and what appeared was a man whose skin was painted all white.
“Gear no, finally, finally.”
He was wearing an ornate cloak decorated with stars and bones. The hem of the white cloak hung over the water as if it had folded its wings.
“You guys are here.”
Earrings made of bone and a pendant sparkling in iridescent light caught the eye of the slate held in the left hand.
“My first foresight.”
The man slowly turned around. He was a beautiful man with a broad forehead, thick eyebrows and a slim jawline.
“Those who will bring back love.”
Eyes, black to the whites, were directed at us. They were eyes that looked into the soul, as we had ever experienced.
” nice to meet.”
The man, soul shaman Karamek, smiled at us.
