Episode 44
EPISODE.22
“You were there.”
Russell, who had traced back the flow of magical power and found the cultist’s location, murmured coldly.
A cool glare poured from both eyes.
A terrifying explosion erupted as I kicked the floor with my toe.
bang!
Moves that are unbelievably fast for an ordinary wizard.
Overlord and Wizard Body.
Assisted by two ancient magics, Russell’s movement was comparable to that of a cannonball.
Hwaaak-!
The distance between the cultist and Russell quickly shrinks.
In the meantime, the guy shouted in an urgent voice.
He commanded with force.
“Don’t stop!”
The undead created by necromancy responded to that command.
It rattled its accessories, forming a barrier of bone.
Dalgrak Dalgrak.
Tadadadadadak-!
However, Russell had already predicted that far and prepared for the next move.
‘Tilting the wall of flame, adding motility, and the radiation range-.’
It is to change the form by adding several formulas to the existing magic and attaching it.
What spreads is the Fire Wall.
No, it’s a wave of flame, so it would be correct to call it a fire wave!
Roaring!
A huge wall of fire slanted and swept all around.
Right after that, it splits into two sides and opens the road leading to him.
Tadadadak!
In the meantime, Russell’s model ran without hesitation.
Jumped several meters in one leap.
He broke the head of an undead that was not swept away by the flames with his shoe.
bang!
Using that reaction as a stepping stone, he made a leap forward.
I flew towards the place where the cultists were.
Not at the bottom of the cavity, but higher up, I could see several openings.
The height is about 4m from the floor.
I’m guessing it’s a corridor connected to the other entrances you saw on your way in.
If not, there was another entrance that he didn’t know about.
He was hiding in one of the aisles.
“Heh heh!”
The guy who met Russell’s eyes vomited embarrassment.
Then, he tried to escape by using the passage that stretched outward.
I tried to widen the distance.
but.
chin-.
One beat faster than that, Russell held out his hand.
“Caught.”
With a flashy hand movement, I grabbed the guy by the back and immediately threw it outward.
To be precise, towards the cavity where he was standing just before!
bang!
With an explosion, a thick layer of sand and dust rises.
“Cool cool cool.”
A few skeletons shattered instead, shocking that if it hadn’t served as a cushion, the bones in the pelvis might have been shattered into pieces.
“Cheer. Coheh.”
Cultist Xavier trembled at the shock that made his bones tremble.
But there was something more frightening than that.
jerk jerk.
It was the sound of footsteps approaching him.
The sound of his footsteps coming from the dust that has not completely subsided feels like that of a god of death.
Was it to destroy the undead that stood in the way?
The sound of magic being cast and the sound of bones being shattered echoed one after another.
Kwajeok Kwajeok Kwajeok
Gwarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-!
The hot air created by the prominence pushes away the sand and dust in an instant.
In the midst of that, a pursuer appeared.
Daria Snowwhite’s apprentice, Russell Raymond, coldly snapped.
“I don’t think there will be any trouble with each other if we surrender and end it now. how is it?”
Unlike himself, who rolled on the floor miserably and even had his mana circle shaken, his breathing was not disturbed.
No matter how much there is a difference between a necromancer and a war mage, isn’t this really different?
Cultist Xavier let out a grotesque sound at that fact.
“Kuh heh heh heh heh heh. Whoops. flaw.”
Like howling a beast.
He spoke in a voice that was difficult to tell whether he was crying or laughing.
“Damn you bastard. that would be nice I envy you!”
“…?”
“In order to obtain this meager power, I pledged my soul, and even that was not enough, I even sold the lives of my sister and parents!”
He glared at Russell with his eyes full of resentment.
“But thanks to your great talent, you have already acquired that skill without paying the price I did!”
Russell responded coldly to the man’s wrath for talking about the unfairness of the world.
“gibberish.”
You said you were born with great talent?
No way.
If he had been born with something like that, his life before returning could not have been so messy.
Of course, you cannot say that your current skills are entirely the result of your hard work.
However, it was also true that he worked tirelessly despite this.
“You said your soul was mortgaged because you lacked talent, and that wasn’t enough, so you sold your parents and brother’s lives?”
furthermore.
“Don’t say anything that isn’t even funny.”
“…!”
“Just because you’re not born with that doesn’t mean everyone makes the same choices as you.”
I’m not crazy because I became a cultist.
It’s just that a madman became a cultist from the beginning.
Even if it wasn’t black magic, he would have willingly sold his family if there was another way.
Because that was the cult in front of me.
“That is just an excuse and a rationalization. Self-justification for walking on the wrong path! No matter what the package is-”
You were the only human being from the start.
Russell sentenced him like that.
“nice-.”
The boy’s body swayed violently on the spot.
“Kuh. Hehehe.”
He slowly got up and glared at him with hateful eyes.
He said, bringing the story back to the beginning.
“Surrender?”
No country on the continent embraces cultists.
They mocked not only their own souls, but also the spirits of others and made fun of death. They were not welcome anywhere on the continent.
Even if he surrendered meekly, those words would lead to a result.
As a result of being interrogated, tortured, giving out all the information you know, and being killed.
so that.
“That doesn’t even sound funny!”
He refused the offer and screamed out loud.
“Kill it!!”
screaming scream.
The undead unit, which had been slow for a while, rushed toward Russell.
Tadadadadadadak-!!
.
.
What followed was a one-sided war of attrition.
It was also a war of attrition with a clear outcome of Russell’s victory.
Unless the cultists have other options, what’s left is only a matter of time.
Thinking so, Russell moved his body.
Blaze staff.
He wrapped his shoes in flames and rotated his body like a top.
Kwajeok kwajeok kwajeok!
The heads of the three undead caught at the end exploded one after another.
Most war mages have a way to deal with close combat, but Russell was special among them.
The proof of this is the fighting method that makes it impossible to distinguish whether you are an Auror practitioner or a magician at first glance.
“Great!”
The undead’s wall gradually faded from repeated attacks.
Cultist Xavier quickly moved his hands to repair the wall.
He deployed necromancy.
Marionette.
Adjusting the bones like a puppet, they replenished personnel where they exploded.
Chop Chop Chop!
Right after that, he threw a new model behind him and tried to pull himself out.
The destination is one of the common aisles!
Russell reached out.
Kwaz, that is, thump!
A huge ice awl slams down and blocks the guy’s path.
To be precise, he used a huge ice pick to block the entrance to the passage through which he flew his body to escape.
“Damn it.”
A situation that has already been repeated several times.
At the thought of being chased by a rabbit, the swear words rose up involuntarily.
Seeing Xavier like that made Russell’s stomach boil.
‘Without even the slightest hesitation, putting the lives of others into the abyss of death-.’
How obsessed are you with your own life?
It was a disgusting look.
No, beyond disgusting, it was even ugly.
In fact, most of the people killed by him were civilians.
Real civilians, not civilians swept away by unavoidable interests such as war.
I moved my hand.
I cast Fire Arrow.
Roaring!
The air around them heated up in an instant.
Convection from the heat. A few hairs stood upside down, and the robe flapped wildly.
Fire.
The number of fire arrows cast was about fifty.
If you concentrate on one point, it’s a number that can pierce through the few remaining undead walls.
‘good.’
Russell lightly snapped his fingers.
Fifty fire arrows spewed fire at once.
Beep!
Whee-ae-aek Wah-ae-ae-ae-aek!
Dozens of fire shadows swayed randomly.
The arrow of flame transformed into a red arc and collided with the undead wall.
Beopbeopbeobung-.
Kwurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!
Kwagwagwagwa!
A loud sound rang out, as if a volcano had exploded.
Bone fragments of the smashed Undead ricocheted in all directions and stuck to the ground.
Bubbubuck!
“Gagging!”
A few of those fragments lodged in Xavier’s body, randomly cutting off muscles and tendons.
Anger-.
The air parted.
No, the flames split.
There was something messing around in it.
Pababat!
It was Russell, who was wrapped in shield magic all over his body.
He crossed between exploding flames and pouring bone fragments while wearing only one shield magic.
To catch only one at mercy.
“Crazy!”
No matter how confident one is in shield magic, an act that is usually impossible without a big fence.
Besides, when did the ice wall block the escape route again?
“Kuh-!”
It’s too late to run away!
‘This is how it happened anyway-!!’
That moment.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Something smashed into the cavity.
black whip.
Dozens of fingernails with tips that glow greenish yellow.
Two spells pouring in hit Russell.
Kwagwagwang!
* * *
Deflagration filled the hall.
It was a deflagration made of sand powder and bone powder.
Half a beat later, a pair of men and women entered jointly.
Although the costumes and appearances were different, what was clearly flowing through their bodies was the aura of dark magic.
cultist.
“Beth! Lavigne!”
Xavier shouted in a relieved voice, and the two men and women.
Beth and Lavigne snorted.
“joy. I thought how great he was doing because he sent a request for support…”
“I can’t believe he’s having a hard time with one kid. Even a necromancer does. You’ve gone as far as you can go to mercy.”
giggle giggling.
A mocking laugh Xavier clenched his fist at the attitude of the two men and women who completely ignored his skills.
protested against them.
“Not that!”
“…?
Also warned.
“That young bastard is the disciple of that bitch to burn!”
The one to be torn apart, the one to be dried, the one to be cut open, the intestines to be killed, and so on.
There were cultists with many enemies, but among them there was only one enemy called a bitch to burn.
“Sweet Tower Master…”
Labin, the man, muttered in a hard voice.
Woman Beth asked in disbelief.
“Really, that kid is that bitch’s disciple!?”
“okay. The youngest student that bitch just got this time! You guys must have heard the rumors too!”
The man and woman immediately looked away.
He stared at the very center of the explosion, where the dust had not yet settled.
Come to think of it, it seems that the kid’s hair was black.
‘If that kid is really that bitch
‘s disciple…’
As if to support their thoughts.
“after-.”
The accumulated dust receded.
Russell slowly raised his head from the pit that collapsed to a depth of 1m.
The text of the light was distorted.
[Mission]
Battle with cultists.
Capture at least one of the 3 cultists alive (or kill all of them)
[Reward]
Intermediate Magic Stone (Edible) x1 Lesser Magic Stone (Edible) x5
The contents of the mission have been changed.
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