Episode 600: The Fragile Thing (2)
The memories after that were not complete.
All I could remember was that he ran towards Ludger in a frenzy and was quickly overpowered.
Gariel tried to pour out a lot of resentment and anger, but couldn’t.
The moment Gariel saw the expression on Ludger’s face after he had subdued her, she became speechless.
The image of the young man who was sadder than anyone else under the moonlight remained vivid in my memory even in the midst of that confusion.
Maybe that’s why.
Even after 10 years, I still maintain a relationship with that guy I hate so much and move together like this.
“…So I must save her daughter, Linera, whom I loved. “This is all I have left now.”
“You don’t live for yourself. “You, too, were born with beautiful arms in many ways.”
Cravat said that and then raised his head.
A crow was sitting outside the window he was facing, staring at him.
“this. “It looks like I got caught.”
“yes? “What do you mean, you got caught?”
While Gariel was panicking, the inner door opened and Hwiron strode out.
“Did you notice that too?”
“okay. “There’s no way you wouldn’t know when I approach you with such ominous intentions.”
Whiron said that and showed off the biceps of his biceps.
“My muscles are shaking. “It’s proof that the enemy is approaching.”
Gariel couldn’t tell whether Huron’s words were just a jinx or if he had actually captured the enemy’s movements with his muscles.
What does that have to do with anything?
What was important now was that the enemies had come to the vicinity of this hideout.
Caw!
The crow flapped its wings and flew up.
Ludger, who had been studying inside, came out fully prepared.
“Gariel.”
“….”
“Please take Rine to a safe place.”
“…okay. okay.”
Cravat got the feeling that the relationship between the two men talking was somehow heterogeneous and precarious.
Gariel disappeared from the scene with those words.
The same thing happened to Line, who was inside the room.
Although direct contact with people is not allowed in frozen time, there are quite a few ways to move a person without touching them.
The remaining people are Ludger, Whiron, and Cravat.
“This is true. “You don’t give me any time to rest.”
Cravat stuck his tongue out at Nikolai’s persistence.
I thought there would be at least one more day of respite, but I never imagined they would send a pursuer so quickly.
As Berom told me, it is probably because he has obtained most of the authority of the surveillance system that covers the entire island.
No matter where you run or hide, it is impossible to hide as long as there is a surveillance device.
Still, it was funny to find a place on Isla Machina where there were no surveillance devices.
On this island made up of machines, where is there a place without machines?
There must be one or two in the gutter at the bottom.
‘But that doesn’t mean we can’t treat the injured in a place like a gutter.’
At least a basic environment is necessary, but most of those places have surveillance devices.
The fight itself had no choice but for the opponent to make a few moves.
“hmm. “My muscles are shaking more and more.”
Hwiron let out a strange sound with a serious expression on his face.
But his muscles were really trembling, as if what he said was not a lie.
Cravat couldn’t help but ask.
“What the hell is that? “Is that magic too?”
“Heh. “This is a new magic I developed called crisis detection.”
It was truly magic.
Ludger and Cravat stared at Whiron with absurd looks.
Meanwhile, Hwiron excitedly explained the principles of his magic.
“Human intuition. That unknown, unprecedented sensation is intentionally applied to the muscles. My mental waves stimulate the muscles and the muscles vibrate accordingly, a complex set of magic that looks easy on the surface but is very difficult….” “That’s the end of the story.
”
Ludger cut off Huiron’s conversation because the explanation seemed like it would be long.
“The enemy is coming.”
As soon as those words were finished, the glass window shattered and a red shadow came inside.
It was the pale-skinned test subject that Nikolai used.
Monsters created by combining cells of humans, chimeras, and the World Tree.
These guys were different from before. He had a steel mask on his chin and red blood was shining in his eyes.
Wow!
They seemed to be unable to speak like special entities, screaming loudly from inside their masks and rushing toward Ludger and the others.
“joy. “What are these guys?”
Hwiron snorted and gave a light jab.
As the words jabbed, his fist disappeared in a blur and the air exploded several times.
Then, the heads of the five experimental subjects that were rushing towards me flew away cleanly and disappeared.
A melee attack that strengthens the body to the limit.
Even if the test subjects had superhuman reaction speeds, they had no talent to react.
Headless corpses lying on the floor.
Something surprising happened next.
Jump up!
Even though the head was gone, the subject wriggled and stood up again.
“What?”
Hwiron could not help but be astonished at that sight.
Surprised, the headless test subject rushed forward, looking for an opening.
Long nails had grown on both fingers and were oozing red energy.
It was Ludger’s magic that repelled the body of the rushing test subject.
The current shield protected Hwiron from the test subjects.
“Don’t let down your guard. “The guys who came this time will be much more strengthened than before.”
Ludger was able to respond quickly because he had never faced a headless enemy before.
‘It feels similar to the bug brothers. The body itself has already been strangely modified, so even if the head is removed, it can survive and move.’
In other words, for them, the head was simply a part, not the core that gave commands to the body and made it move.
Just in case, Ludger quickly fired light magic and pierced the chest of one test subject.
Sigh!
The test subject, who had a fist-sized hole in the heart and a blackened cross section, stumbled for a moment but did not fall.
“You can move without a brain or heart. “What on earth did you make?”
Cravat clicked his tongue as if he was fed up.
“I guess you’re saying that the brain and heart are meaningless organs to those guys.”
It was safe to say that it was a living single-celled organism.
So how do I remove it?
It was Hwiron who gave the clear answer.
“How about this!”
Hwiron punched harder this time.
A straight punch, not a jab.
His twitching muscles unleashed enormous force and launched a storm in front of him.
The wind mixed with magical power pulverized the bodies of the test subjects to pieces without leaving a trace.
It is an attack that destroys the defenses of the War Mages of the New Magic Tower and even crushes their artifacts.
Like scattered puzzles, the completely fragmented test subjects never rose again.
It was fortunate that we realized how to deal with them, but the expressions on the group’s faces did not change.
Beyond the broken glass windows, red eyes appeared everywhere in the steel buildings.
A number that makes the few guys we just defeated look laughable.
“this. “I think there are too many people to deal with.”
As soon as Hwiron finished speaking, the test subjects rushed towards him with red eyes shining.
Wow.
Their jaw masks opened, revealing long, dense serrated teeth reminiscent of deep-sea fish.
It was such a bizarre sight that it was hard to believe that teeth were sprouting from the mouth of a human-shaped test subject.
Huiron swatted those guys away like flies, and Cravat also blocked them by creating a curse like black smoke.
Seeing the test subjects falling off more easily than expected, Ludger felt more suspicious than relieved.
‘There is no way the newly sent test subject could be this weak.’
Of course, it was unexpected and quite threatening that the head and heart could move even if they were blown away.
If I hadn’t fought a similar opponent, it would have taken a considerable amount of time to get my momentum back.
But isn’t there something lacking for it to end here?
There was no way Nikolai, who was strangling me so persistently, would have sent only this many test subjects.
Ludger’s misgivings soon became reality.
Shoo shoo shoo.
Something pure white cut through the air and flew towards Huiron.
A surprise attack that came before anyone could even warn.
However, Hwiron raised one arm and blocked the white object.
Tea tea. Pow!
Hwiron’s steel-like muscles repel most attacks.
Not only is his skin tough and his muscles are strong, but it is also because his body is constantly strengthened by a large amount of magical power.
“hmm?”
However, part of the attack that came a little while ago got stuck in Hwiron’s skin.
It was surprising that he was injured, so Hwiron quietly looked down at his forearm.
“Is this a bone?”
What flew out was a sharply forged bone.
Hwiron pulled out a piece of bone stuck in his forearm with his hand.
What was stuck was about the size of a little finger, but the problem was that it penetrated the defense.
“Isn’t this black magic?”
I looked around, but there was no warlock in sight.
The only ones surrounding this area are red-eyed test subjects.
Meanwhile, something pure white was shot like a bullet towards Hwiron through the gap between the test subjects.
Huiron saw a white object that was larger and longer than before and threw it away with his fist.
“The test subject used black magic…?”
Cravat was also aware of black magic.
“Besides, bone magic? “That’s the magic used by the previously disappeared school of warlocks.”
As if that anxious imagination had become a reality, the test subjects began preparing for the next attack.
The red flames wriggled as if they were alive and surged like a tidal wave.
Ludgar and Whiron Cravat retreated quickly, thinking that this could not be avoided.
“That magic…”
Ludger, who flew into the air with his cloak of shadow spread wide like wings, narrowed his eyes as he recognized the unique fluttering flames.
“Hell magic.”
If regular flames are scarlet, this one is as bright red as freshly spilled blood.
Although it was different from the green flame used by the Hell Magic School, its form and attack method were surprisingly similar.
‘Wait a minute, that means…’
Before Ludger could even warn, the test subjects used black magic.
The red flames moved and rushed as if they were alive.
Sulfur-filled rain fell from the sky, corroding the surrounding area, and sharp bone spears flew out, explicitly targeting vital points.
“You guys! “Do you all know how to use black magic?!”
Hwiron was astonished as he unfolded his magic barrier.
These non-human test subjects were all capable of using black magic.
“That guy Nikolai. “I was wondering what they did with the warlock school they swallowed up, and they ended up creating something like this.”
Either they used warlocks as material, or they used the knowledge of their school and applied it to the test subjects.
I thought they were inferior to the special entities I had seen before, but that wasn’t the case.
The test subjects evolved and developed further.
Even if this side’s strength was two 6th rank wizards and a master of the warlock school, it was not an easy situation to see.
“But that’s okay.”
When Ludger stretched out his arm, a steel spear appeared and pierced the test subjects.
Even if the test subjects evaded at high speed, it was no use.
Doo doo doo doo.
Countless steel spears were fired as if surrounding the test subjects, forming a huge fence.
Cravat stepped in and stopped the test subjects from escaping through the gap in the fence.
“Where?”
[Threadweaver’s Curse]
Cravat squeezed out a long black curse energy from both hands like a weaving machine.
Long and wide black lines stretched out like threads in the air, wrapping tightly around the fence that Ludger had created.
The test subjects who tried to escape through the gap in the steel pillar quickly melted from that area as soon as they touched the black energy.
The test subjects quickly assessed the situation and immediately attempted to break this barrier using black magic.
If more than a dozen black magics were used at the same time, there was a high possibility of breaking through.
Of course, it wasn’t Hwiron who would wait for that.
“Hahaha! “I’ll crush them all at once!”
Hwiron burst into laughter and clenched his fists.
The air was compressed around the fist, and air currents were sucked in like a whirlpool.
Hwiron’s fist burned hot with blue magic.
The magic power gradually increased in density and shone brightly in a color that was almost sky blue.
Whiron raised his right fist and unleashed all the magical energy he had gathered.
A huge fist, incomparable to the size of the fist thrown out, fell like a meteorite, drawing a long tail on the heads of the test subjects trapped inside the fence.
The test subjects who were trying to escape by breaking the fence were confused as if they thought this was inevitable, but it was already too late.
Coooooo!
The sky-blue meteorite hit the ground, causing a hemisphere-shaped explosion and sweeping the surrounding area.
It was an explosion made of enormous magical power. Even if it was a sturdy test subject, it had no ability to withstand it.
“Haha! That’s cool!”
The moment Hwiron was happy that he had gotten rid of all the troublesome guys in one go, Ludger’s warning struck his ears.
“There’s still some left!”
Still left?
Hwiron’s gaze turned to where the test subjects were.
These are the ones that only have traces of a crater and a lump of meat around it.
Before I could even think about what those guys could do, something strange happened.
The blood-red flames of hell’s magic slowly rose up and eventually began to take on the shape of a human being.
A black skull engulfed in blood-red flames stared at Hwiron.
That’s five.
