◈ 582. [STAGE 35] Bow
[Excarnival]’s nickname is a cannibal sword.
But in reality, it’s a knife that doesn’t cover anything and eats well. The former user, the King of Fallen, was a cannibalistic hungry demon, so that name was attached.
‘Anyway, the fact that it’s a magic sword doesn’t change.’
It is a very vicious Ego Sword that actively tries to pollute the user’s mind.
I don’t know if it was like this from the beginning or if it was because I met the wrong owner… … .
Anyway, in principle, this knife can eat ‘anything’. It was a crazy weapon that started with arrows and consumed magic and even castle walls in the game.
If so, wouldn’t that magic barrier be edible?
I took it out with this idea, but I can’t rush at those flies with this. My swordsmanship skills are too low to go in with a single sword and shoot unmatched… … .
That’s why I can’t give this kind of magic sword to my precious subordinates.
Ultimately my choice.
“Body bag! Throw this.”
Blow your nose without touching your hands!
Bodybag’s chubby cheeks trembled as he hesitated at my call.
“Oh, you mean this sword… ?”
“okay. To those flies with your telekinesis. Jump in and throw. Is it possible?”
“possible… I do. yes. It’s possible but… … .”
Body Bag looked at X Carnival with slightly fearful eyes, perhaps reluctantly.
A long sword with a bloody blade wrapped in a black aura that trembles alone as if possessed by a ghost… … It’s a little like that to me.
Still, if you pulled out your sword, you wouldn’t have to cut at least a fly!
“Ugh… .”
Body Bag carefully lifted the X Carnival with telekinesis, closed her eyes tightly, and threw it at random.
Wedge love!
Contrary to the insincere action, X-Carnival flew towards the flies at a furious speed.
The mutant flies calmly raised the barrier and tried to defend it, but
Chow ah!
As soon as the tip of the thrown X-Carnival’s sword touched it, the magic barrier disappeared as if it were sucked into the sword.
The X-Carnival, which flew into the arms of an empty mutant fly without a guard, was mesmerized as it was! Then he was stuck in the arms of a fly… … .
Kwajik! Kwadeuk! Kwajijik!
He ate it up as if he were crushing a fly.
As if being sucked in by a vacuum cleaner, the fly stung by the X-Carnival was crushed and compressed again and disappeared somewhere inside the knife.
“… Woo-wook.”
It wasn’t a very nice sight. Right after that, I heard the voice of the demonic sword in my head.
‘It doesn’t taste good-‘
Shut up, you bastard man-eating sword. I’ll let you be punished by eating flies as much as you’ve committed.
Anyway, it definitely worked. I nodded to Body Bag, and Body Bag quickly retrieved the magic sword with telekinesis and threw it again.
Kwajik! Quadduk! Kwajik-!
The mutant flies were quickly killed by successive throwing swords.
Once hit by Excarnival, they were all swallowed up inside the sword. This demon sword guy complained that it was not tasty, but he continued to eat it, probably because he was hungry.
“… This battle has a lot of particularly horrific sights.”
Junior, who had been watching, muttered with a pale complexion. I answered quietly.
“You will see more in the future.”
Not just this defensive battle. All remaining battles will be brutal and terrifying.
This ‘game’, on which the fate of the world is staked, is now steadily heading towards its final stage.
Lately, I’ve been meeting monsters one after another who kidnap, eat, and steal people’s power.
If the enemies judged this part to be my weakness, it would not be strange for monsters to come out one after another to touch my weak part.
‘It can’t be helped.’
I have no choice but to be prepared, grit my teeth, and fight.
Quadd Deuk!
It was after more than 10 mutant flies were caught and eaten by the Excarnival throw.
Is it because the war situation is rapidly unfavorable? The flies retreated in unison and rumbled through the ceiling.
“What are you running away from? … ?”
To be honest, I thought I was fortunate because I was struggling a lot.
The magic wall was half destroyed, and most of the captured monsters suffered minor or major injuries. There were also quite a few dead objects.
The heroes aren’t seriously injured, but they’re pretty exhausted. A break was desperately needed.
It was a time when everyone breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a bit.
《Ash.》
The sudden hum of the voice resounded heavily in the stomach of the wide fly.
Confused, everyone raised their weapons and looked around. I also looked around sharply, but the voice continued slowly.
《Why don’t we stop fighting for a while and have a chat.》
Immediately after
, T-ring!
[The enemy corps commander ‘Baalzebub’ requested a ‘commander meeting’.]
A system window appeared before my eyes.
It was the commander’s meeting that was sometimes used when talking with the enemy corps commander while declaring non-aggression. It came from Lord of the Flies.
“… .”
I hesitated for a moment when I saw this message.
Did White Night succeed?
If not… … ?
“hot.”
What can I do, I’m already inside the tiger’s stomach.
I’ll have to go and check it out for myself.
“Everyone prepare to retreat.”
I looked around at my subordinates and nodded.
“I won’t go away for a while.”
***
After calming the subordinates who were worried that it might be dangerous, I agreed to the commander-in-chief meeting.
The summit itself is an inviolable conversation that has been held so often. It won’t be dangerous.
‘I’m just worried about the result of putting in the midnight sun… … .’
Anyway, as soon as I accepted the commander’s meeting, my consciousness was transferred to a white space I had never seen before.
intuitively noticed.
This is the inside of the collective consciousness of the flies.
I don’t know the principle of how I, a human being, can enter this place… … Could it be that the Lord of the Flies invited me to come in?
“You’re here.”
Then a voice came from behind. I glanced back at it.
“… !”
There was a mountain there.
It was a mountain of corpses piled high. Most of the corpses were flies, but all were headless, with only bodies remaining.
In front of the mountain of grotesque corpses, there was an old fly sitting cross-legged with a stooped back.
“I’ve been waiting for you, Ash,”
whispered the fly in a strangely unpleasant voice that sounded like giggling.
“One of the imps I ate had a very high opinion of you. He is the protector of public interest and the undefeated commander. I was looking for a way to defeat you, and in the end I even excavated my existence from the unconsciousness of my species.》
“… .”
“That’s why I wanted to meet you.”
The compound eyes of the old fly gave off an eerie red light.
“However, the way I see it, you… You don’t look much different from other weak humans.》
“… .”
“It looks like nothing more than a piece of meat that will soon rot and become food for maggots.”
I stopped at a distance and chinned my chin.
“Are you the Lord of the Flies?”
“You can say ‘I’ or you can say ‘we’. I am the representative of the collective consciousness of my race. anyway yes This is Baalzebub. In your language, it is the Lord of the Flies.”
The Lord of the Flies looked at me intently. I looked around.
“Nice to meet you, Paris. By the way, have you seen my friend? It’s a wizard named White Night.”
“white night… ? Ah, that lich wizard who intruded into the body of my kind?”
The Lord of the Flies let out a sneer.
“He ate clean. It has already been digested and has become one with me.》
“… !”
“It looks like you thought you could eat me, but you were mistaken. Because I am not simply the sum of the flies gathered here.》
gigg gigg gigg… . The low laugh of the Lord of the Flies flowed. I asked in a cold sweat.
“What if it’s not just the sum?”
《All the souls and bodies of the race called flies that have existed for a long time, both spiritually and physically… . In other words, even the souls of dead flies. They are all elements that make up ‘us’.”
I frowned.
“What nonsense is that… ?”
“Literally,”
the Lord of the Flies pointed at himself with his ugly hairy legs.
«I am an existence sealed as the guardian deity of the race called flies. I can twist the fortunes of my tribe at will.”
I swallowed a dry saliva.
Are you saying that this guy is also a being who has attained divine status as the representative of his tribe?
《And I broke the circle of reincarnation granted to my race with my own hand.》
“What?”
“It is for our cause to kill everything in this world and reborn as Paris. Only when reincarnation is stopped will a person who has become a fly once reincarnated in the next world will continue to be a fly. If you repeat this process, eventually all three thousand worlds will be filled with flies.”
It wasn’t a bullshit that I could understand well, but let’s summarize it roughly.
Are you saying that the souls of dead people are captured and held by force?
“Are you crazy?”
《Kick-kick-kick-kick… … .]
The Lord of the Flies let out a terrifying laugh, as if he wasn’t offended by my swear words.
“There were some of my people who didn’t agree with this.”
The Lord of the Flies pointed to the mountain of corpses piled up behind him.
《However, resistance is only fleeting, and the will to go against the group is digested.》
I looked up at the mountain of corpses piled up far away in the collective consciousness.
“… Don’t you mean you ate Sohwaji after all?”
《Even if you accept it that way, it is not much different.》
Really, this is all… Are you saying that the Lord of the Flies is the same people he ate with his own hands?
《And they stuffed the bodies and souls of those who died in this way and used them as bricks to build this body.》
“… So, the flies that make up this huge body of yours… … Do you mean all of your own people you killed with your own hands?”
《In terms of human understanding, that’s what it means.》
In the name of the ‘group’.
He kills those who oppose his will, steals their souls, and uses them as structures to form his body.
Only those who follow his will are alive, fed, hatched, and used as subordinates.
Only then did I understand the insane size of Lord of the Flies.
If the spirit bodies of all the flies that were born and died were dragged and used as structures, it would be able to maintain this scale.
“… I thought it was some kind of monster.”
And at the same time as I understood the structure, an unknown collapse passed through me.
I muttered with a sneer.
I couldn’t understand everything the Lord of the Flies was saying, but one thing was beyond my understanding.
“In the end, you were just an ordinary crazy monster, no different from other monster lords.”
This monster, which seemed infinitely incomprehensible, suddenly tumbled into the realm of understanding.
I glared at the Lord of the Flies and chewed it up.
“After all, you are just such an unscrupulous monarch who plundered the people who did not agree with his will and used them to the end of their souls.”
《… .》
“A king who truly sees his people as the lives of flies.”
anywhere in the world
such a trashy king.
Displeasure crossed the Lord of the Flies’ voice as I scolded him.
“You sound funny. The me you have grasped is but a small fragment. The truth I realized and the cause I want to carry out… … .》
“I’m not curious about your cause.”
After I stopped talking, I raised my index finger and pointed at the Lord of the Flies.
“You are an ordinary dictator who claims to represent the will of your tribe, but in fact obliterates the will of your own people and only pursues your own selfish desires.”
“no! The weightless and inexhaustible law of all things in the universe that I want to spread in this world-》
“Stop the bullshit and shut up. I see you… … .”
I returned exactly what the Lord of the Flies had told me.
“You don’t seem to be much different from the other idiots who believe that you are different and special.”
At the Lord of the Flies, who was glaring at me as if it were ridiculous, I chewed and spat it out one by one.
“The midsummer dung fly that will soon be eradicated and will soon be forgotten. You bugger.”
