EP.62 Obsessive
Abyss A land that the Earth Mother declared she would no longer support. It is a hell that actually exists in this world where you can experience an infinite fall if you slip even by mistake.
A future that is only getting farther and farther away from the sky, the darkness that can’t be seen even an inch ahead. At the bottom, which may or may not exist, things that have sunk without a funeral for over a thousand years are glaring at this direction.
A terrible and strange land hundreds of years away from peace and stability. The bottomless pit is such a place.
‘Why aren’t there any problems?’
The only traveler who goes back in time through death.
Shay, alone in peace, was overcome with anxiety.
‘According to the Undead, something must have happened here. The instructor tried to kill someone, and the king of beasts howled and cursed the undead’s flesh, scattering it and causing the abyss to collapse.’
The future she was in was a gutter with dozens of sewers connected. Even if one was blocked, sewage that had not yet been disposed of somewhere burst out and polluted the world.
Shay was alone and there were too many variables. Even if you had a thousand hands, you wouldn’t have been able to stop them all. The world could not stand the collapsed balance and had to open the floodgates to the end.
The heinous event offered itself to be a harbinger of a terrible tragedy to come. Monsters that appeared out of nowhere devoured people, and entire villages disappeared without leaving a single body. The king of beasts howled and ran like crazy at the end.
Shay tried to find the source rather than stop it at the edge of the apocalypse.
The bottomless pit is the place to follow that trail.
Inside, they found the progenitor and the undead, the king of dogs, who would become the seeds of disaster in the future.
Contrary to expectations, they were peaceful.
‘It’s not like nothing happened. But compared to what’s to come… things aren’t too bad. Is it because I came here and the past has completely changed? Or is something incredibly large happening that can change this situation at once?’
Shay perched on the prison roof and looked down the yard.
A girl with dark blonde hair is confronting a man in an instructor’s uniform on a solid concrete ground.
In front of Aji, who kept flinching as if something was uncomfortable, the instructor smiled with a bad face.
“Kuk-kuk. Why didn’t I think of this until now?”
“Rurr.”
“Kyahahahaha! okay! I finally found a way Aji! You are no longer my match!”
If you look at the way he speaks, it’s no different from black magic, but Shay doesn’t cling to that attitude anymore. Because I’ve been fooled too much for that.
What the instructor shouted out from inside his chest was a thin disc made by hammering steel.
The instructor lifted the disc and swept it under his nose.
“Ah, this is the disk. It’s a round and wide plate made considering air resistance! The flight time is several times that of the ball! Kkeukkeuk! With this I don’t have to worry about my shoulders anymore! If you throw it right, it can fly for 30 seconds!”
“Growl! bruise! bruise!”
“okay okay. Write. He’s also quick-tempered. I tried to brag, but I can’t even do that. Now ask me!”
“bruise!”
He throws a disc with his arm wide open. The steel disk rotates slowly and flies away. Aji, who had been waiting for a long time, turned into a flower and chased after him.
A disc that floats through the wind does not come down easily. It rises gently and descends more slowly than that. Aji caught up with the disk in an instant and jumped from the bottom, waiting for it to fall.
In the meantime, the instructor sat down and laughed out loud.
“Quack-quick. In the meantime, I can recover enough physical strength! In fact, it is no different from a quasi-idle toy! Kiki Kick! I’m not afraid of you anymore!”
“bruise!”
At that moment, Aji leaped into the air and grabbed the disk with his mouth. The instructor’s face, who was watching, turned dumb.
“Hey wait. Ajay. Jumping and catching is against the law. I mean, let’s compete fair and square in the second dimension. And you jump 3 meters as a sergeant. Do I have time to rest?”
“bruise!”
“No.”
However, Aji brings the disc back and the instructor sighs and stands up.
When I look at it, I feel stupid for being nervous. Looking at Aji, who flirts happily even after staring at them, and the instructor, who seems to be annoying but continues to play, only a weak sigh comes out of his mouth.
I want to sharpen my nerves, but I want to raise the blade of hostility.
I don’t even feel like it.
‘If I were asked to choose someone with such an influence in this place right now, that instructor would be the only one.’
I don’t think Aji with such a bright smile would give off such a malevolence. It doesn’t look like the calm Tyrkanjaka will suddenly go crazy and run amok.
At the same time, that man… the instructor whose name I don’t even know yet doesn’t look like he’s going to do anything.
‘rather. If nothing happens like this. If someone convinces me that’s the case.’
If so, she would be able to take a short break after putting down all her burdens.
However, the regressor saw the future and came. I know that something tragic happens in this abyss.
So she can’t be comfortable. You have to pay attention. Even if everyone else is relaxed, only she.
There can be no rest for those who came after seeing a terrible future. Even this isolated peace feels like a harbinger of disaster.
‘Since you’ve come this far. I have to get something from this episode…’
Sitting alone on the corner of the rooftop with one knee pulled in, I gaze at the disk flying below me. The disc that slowly grows and then decreases with a dog hanging behind it seems to symbolize a peaceful daily life. It rises and sinks according to the order.
When I was sitting still in an uneasy peace.
“Shay. Could you give me a moment?”
A calm voice spoke to her. Recognizing the owner of the voice, Shay hurriedly stood up.
Tirkanjaka, the founder of the ancestral tree coffin surrounded by dark red aura, was sitting on top of it wearing a black parasol. As Shay faced her, Tirkanjaka landed lightly on the roof.
“Tirkanjaka! uh long time no see? what is it Who was that guy who was hanging around?”
“Finlay? left alone for a while He won’t mind.”
There was a strange coldness in his tone as if he was nonchalant. Shay swallowed. Even for the sake of the future, I have to have a good relationship with the founder, but why is it strangely cold every time we meet?
Shay, who had become more complex, spoke cautiously.
“What is it? You didn’t usually find me. No, this doesn’t mean I’m sad. I just said that… I’m asking because I’m curious!”
Tyrkanjaka cut off Shay’s gibberish and answered.
“Didn’t you tell me last time? Inherent magic is more powerful than ritual magic. He boasted for a long time that his unique magic that manifests his own mystery is overwhelming compared to ritual magic that anyone can use.”
“uh. I did.”
“And you said that your magic is to recreate the energy of the sky. He said it was a mystery using the energy of the sword as a medium.”
“Ughhh.”
“then.”
Tyrkanjaka set up his parasol. The crisp darkness dissipated for an instant, revealing Tyrkanjaka pale in the light.
“You should be able to use thunderbolts as well. Is that right?”
“I can. why?”
“Write to me.”
At those words, even Shay, who had gone through all the hardships, couldn’t help but express doubts.
“what? why?”
“Can you just do it without asking why?”
“I need to know what your intentions are in order to help.”
“…that’s right.”
Tirkanjaka muttered something to himself and said obediently.
“Do you remember when Toin got up again?”
“ah. at that time.”
When the immortal Rashe first opened his eyes. At that time, the instructor had applied electric shock to the Undead’s chest and the Undead had risen.
“okay. I woke up again with an electric shock. If the immortal Toyin can do that, then I can too.”
“To get your heart beating again with an electric shock?”
Shay knew what Tirkanjaka was asking for.
Just as he made his heart beat by flowing electricity through Toin’s chest, he hopes to revive his own heart as well.
It must be a desperate wish that has been cherished for a long time in the coffin. Although he knew that, Shay had no choice but to express his disapproval.
“It’s a little hard to say this, but it will be difficult with my own strength. The foundation of magic is the manifestation of an image that a being has. One magic is one world. Invading and changing someone else’s body with it is extremely difficult and should not be done. It is an act that violates the dignity of others.”
“Didn’t Toin wake up with the magic he wrote?”
“That’s a level 0 bounty magic spell. It is an extremely trivial magic that only causes phenomena that originally existed in the world. If the true intention of magic is to change the world, level 0 sorcery is the most distant skill from magic. With it, you can only create beings that can be created.”
Shay finished her explanation calmly. I thought that this would have been a rude rejection.
No matter how mysterious magic seems, its limits are clear. Shay didn’t want her rejection to be an expression of annoyance.
Unfortunately, the vampire was used to these expressions. This was almost no different from direct speech.
“I know that too. It would be next to impossible for my heart to beat again. I understand your feelings of not wanting to touch on useless things.”
Fearing that there might be a misunderstanding, the regressor hurriedly protested.
“Oh no! I’m just afraid you’ll get sick!”
“Pain is no big deal. I have suffered all kinds of pain in my 1200 years of life… although that, of course, wasn’t real pain either.”
Tyrkanjaka, laughing self-deprecatingly, approached Shay. As if not resisting, he stretched out his arms and hung them down weakly.
“Please, Shay. Even if your magic is only pain, if it is real pain, I will gladly accept it. I also do not believe that this will revive my heart. I just want to feel it.”
Tirkanjaka was stubborn and Shay was puzzled.
I didn’t understand why he wanted to be struck by lightning, but I couldn’t refuse if he begged me so earnestly. After all, isn’t Tyrkanjaka the one who bears the pain?
It’s not even dangerous to Tyrkanjaka. Shay’s magic is powerful, but it’s at the level of a magic swordsman. If it had become dangerous with this much power, Tyrkanjaka would not have survived until now.
“Ugh. It doesn’t seem like a big problem…”
After thinking for a while, Shay took out the cherry blossoms that were floating above her head.
Chen Angel Shei wields it like a sword, but its essence is an extremely compressed space. This is why it has neither weight nor thickness. The cherry blossom that cuts through space is sharper than any other sword in the world.
Shay explained, shaking the cherry tree into the air and infusing it with magical power.
“My magic uses angels as a medium. Since the medium is such a powerful object, it has the disadvantage of clearly taking on the properties of the sky, but since the sky itself contains numerous phenomena, all of them can be reproduced if prepared.”
Wind blew from the sky. As the compressed space was released, it gradually began to expand its presence. A space that suddenly expands. When the cold air from growing my body touches my skin, the steam that was trembling in the cold touches the warmth of my skin and sticks to it.
Of course, vampire skin is an exception. Because their bodies are as cold as the puffed air.
“Permanent thunderbolt due to wind and rain. The wind makes the clouds, and the clouds make rain, and the dew rises from the ground and forms on the drops of grass. An ordinary daily life that gets wet with small invisible water droplets.”
and after that
The air vibrates ominously.
The wind vibrates as if it were engulfed in fear. The space that noticed the omen of the flames scattered in a fuss.
In it, Shay’s hair stirs. Exciting, regular movement like a heartbeat, not because of the wind.
Shay released her mana while holding the cherry tree tightly. The mana that spreads from the whole body surges up and flies into the air, gathering in one place.
Its shape resembles a cloud. A piece of cloud floated like a still life in the abyss where the sky did not even exist.
“Frost and snowflakes and thunderclaps. They are more than twisted. If the droplet neglects its role as a messenger, the conflict between earth and sky reaches its limit and drops the twisted thing. What I will call is Noho. A solemn rebuke from heaven upon the world.”
Thunderbolts flashed in the black dark clouds that flowed from the cherry blossoms. A cloud containing enormous power slowly moved over Tyrkanjaka’s head. Feeling an ominous portent, Tirkanjaka just stared ahead without saying a word while he stood up with his clothes and hair lifted.
“Tell me if it hurts. I will stop.”
Tyrkanjaka did not answer. Shay sighed deeply and inscribed her magic into the world.
“The Sky Sword Thunderbird.”
A flash of lightning immediately followed.
