Genius Warlock - Episode 26
26. joseph (3)
Is that why you killed him?·····?
Oliver asked, slightly lifting Andrew's upper body..
Maggots wriggled between the cut waist sections..
Joseph was silent for a moment, then opened his mouth..
“······. Are you curious about that??”
“hmm·····. yes. If the owner doesn't want to talk, it's okay..”
Joseph laughed quietly at Oliver's words, which did not fit the situation. And then said.
“Half right and half wrong. It is true that he murdered Andrew to receive a blessing from the devil, but that was not necessarily the reason. That guy... offended me.”
“It's unpleasant?”
“Yeah, unpleasant. Even though I was there, they thought my organization was theirs and even created their own people to challenge my authority. It's very unpleasant.”
Oliver nodded. Well, Oliver kind of knew that Andrew had those feelings..
“Um, I see..”
Oliver placed Andrew's body back on the altar. The maggots wriggled even more due to the shock..
“uh····. If you don't mind, can I say something??”
Joseph took out a pilgerette, put it in his mouth, and said:.
“good night····. Try it.”
“Have I offended my master??”
“····. no. I pointed at Marie arbitrarily, but I guess it was just to learn letters. I understand. Above all, you don't have the personality to do that..”
“ha···. I'm glad you understand.”
“But I can't save you.”
“I don't understand. Why??”
“There are no personal feelings. Just for a bigger goal... Answer me. what is my goal.”
Oliver remembered the first time he met Joseph..
“···. He said his goal was to raise outstanding warlocks... To survive and become strong. iced coffee·····.”
Oliver made a sound. Because he understood what Joseph really meant,.
“That's exactly what it says. My goal is to become stronger, and to do that, I have to offer a bigger sacrifice to the devil. Just like you.”
Oliver raised his hand..
“I'm just curious, how did you come across the devil?.”
Joseph looked at Oliver, then at the still half-formed Pilgerette, and said:.
“When I wasn't even a third-rate warlock yet. The devil whispered to me He said he would give me strength even though I had no talent, so he told me to do whatever he told me to do. I did what the devil told me to do and built this altar and dedicated my teachers and alumni to it..”
iced coffee. Oliver looked around again..
You seem to know something about this place, but it turns out that it was a dark magic organization that Joseph once belonged to..
Oliver wanted to ask what he was doing here and who Joseph's teacher was, but he suppressed his curiosity and focused on the situation at hand..
“Could you please allow me to say one more word??”
“Allow me just one word. It's all bloomed now.”
“thank you Could you possibly save me? Personally, there is something I want to do, and I am grateful to my master. You taught me many things. If you save me, I will serve you as my master for the rest of my life..”
Joseph threw the peeled pilgarettes on the floor and stomped them out, saying,.
“I'm serious, it's a good offer. But don't refuse. I can't imagine what kind of reward I would receive if I made an excellent sacrifice like you.····.”
“More than anything?”
“····. I don't think I can take you down anymore if it's not now..”
With those words, Oliver could see a flash of murderous intent for a moment..
As my instincts told me, I rolled to the side to avoid it, but a shadowy tentacle jumped out from where Oliver was..
Parrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr―!
If I had reacted just a little bit late, I would have been caught without a move..
“Even though I hid my emotions, I could see right through them. As expected, you have good eyes. More than anyone I've ever seen.”
Joseph took the emotion out of a test tube with him and shot Hate Bullet..
Oliver also took out a test tube and deployed a black shield to block the attack..
But, it's just a waste of time.
While Oliver paused, Joseph took out a test tube containing life force from his arms and chanted loudly..
[Revive]
According to the spell, the life force contained in the test tube was torn into dozens of pieces and entered the corpses and skeletons scattered everywhere..
Oliver observed the scene in silence..
One by one, a dull light came into the eyes of the corpses and they began to stagger out of their seats..
A terrible crunching sound echoed throughout the room, and Oliver asked whether the joints and muscles that had been stiff for a long time would move again..
“This····.”
“Manipulative black magic. Reviver. A corpse can be revived and moved for an instant. It's not my specialty, but I can do it to some extent..”
“Not really... It doesn't look threatening.?”
Oliver said as he looked at the reanimated corpse without any hostility..
“that's right. Not yet.”
With those words, Joseph opened a test tube filled with emotions and used a new black magic..
[OBJECT HAIT]
The feelings of hatred in the test tube, like the life force, were torn into dozens of pieces in the air and entered the reanimated corpses..
Then, hatred bloomed on the faces of the dead bodies, and they soon turned their heads to look at Oliver. She hissed with him..
“Kuuaaaa!!!”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!”
“Kyahahahahahaha!”
A bunch of zombies, probably about 30 in number..
After checking the approaching zombies, Oliver extracted the minimum amount of emotion from the test tube and used it on his shadow..
[Vine Shadow]
The black magic that Joseph used for the first time. Oliver imitated it, but he didn't just imitate it exactly..
It was made thinner than Joseph's Vine Shadow and caught zombies pouring in from all directions at the same time..
Hordes of zombies that can't move.
It screamed and struggled to free itself, but when Oliver pulled both hands as if strangling, the shadow tentacles that were tying up the zombie dug into its flesh and eventually cut the zombie into pieces like cutting cheese..
After taking heavy damage, the remaining vitality was scattered into the air, but Joseph did not miss the timing and launched an onslaught..
“As expected, it's amazing! I picked up something really great!!”
Bullets of hatred pouring down. Oliver expelled only the minimum amount of emotion and deployed Black Shielder..
However, as if expecting this, Joseph forced a war of attrition by shooting Hate Bullets, each with a different emotional density, and even used attacks from different angles to further amplify Oliver's emotional consumption..
[Quiet Snake]
Four venomous snakes appeared at Joseph's feet and crawled silently toward Oliver..
Oliver blocked Joseph's attack, but as soon as he caught the snake, he shot Hait Bullet one shot at a time..
Probably, anyone who saw Oliver would have been impressed..
Joseph, who was attacking with countless test tubes, was blocked with just one test tube..
But that's just it.
While Joseph's emotions were still full and overflowing, Oliver's emotions had already reached the bottom after half to a third..
[black javelin]
A black javelin, incomparable to the one used by Andrew, flew out and pierced Oliver's black shield..
The broken Black Shielder and the Black Javelin that had fulfilled their role disappeared like fog in the air..
Oliver, who narrowly escaped a penetrating wound, observed the scene in silence. It's as if time has stopped.
“It's over now.”
Joseph said as he looked at Oliver's test tube, which was at the bottom. At most, it's enough to use one Hate Bullet.?
Oliver looked at the test tube in silence and suddenly stretched out his hand to extract Joseph's emotions..
For a moment, I thought it would be pulled out, but when Joseph waved his hand strongly, the extraction was cut off, and the attack came again..
Even the extraction, which was the last hope, failed..
But Oliver didn't give up. I collected less than a drop of emotion to create a bullet of hatred, and then shot Joseph's hat bullet as he flew in..
Bullets of hate collide and disappear in the air.
At that moment, Oliver reached out and focused all his attention..
Suddenly, time passed slowly, as if it had stopped, but I didn't mind..
Increased concentration.
What was important now was the feeling that was disappearing from one's hands and into thin air..
Surprisingly, when he exerted extreme concentration, the emotions that had tried to disappear like smoke gradually condensed and came into Oliver's hands in small amounts..
Oliver cried out as soon as he got the feeling..
[black shielder]
A thin black curtain appeared.
The tent really narrowly blocked Joseph's attack..
Of course, he broke down at the end due to lack of emotion, but it was undeniable that Oliver barely survived..
And that's it!?
Oliver, who had learned the sense, extracted the remaining emotions of the broken Black Shielder and the blocked Hate Bullet again from the air and stabilized the emotions in his hands..
Joseph looked at this in silence..
“············. what the hell are you?”
Oliver pretended to be tired and manipulated the emotions in his hands..
Joseph noticed this and extracted all the emotions from the test tube and launched an attack..
Raining bullets of hatred, black javelins, poisonous snakes, black flames.
Oliver shot the Hate Bullets in the order in which they flew, deployed the Black Shielder to desperately block the attack, and collected emotions by re-extracting the emotions that were trying to disappear..
Extremely dangerous and risky work.
Missing a single beat could have resulted in death, but strangely enough, Oliver felt joy at this moment..
Even when I thought about it, it was strange..
If I die here, I won't be able to see that beautiful light again or find out the secret..
Still, Oliver enjoyed this moment so much that his head began to spin..
Oliver blocked the attack and chanted at the same time..
[Shadow Spike]
While Joseph was busy attacking, a sharp stake in the form of a shadow emerged from beneath his feet..
A large scar was inflicted on one side of Joseph's face using black magic that was a reinterpretation of Shadow Vine..
Maybe, if I had been a little faster, I could have pierced it from the bottom up..
“Oh my...! dog···!”
Joseph was embarrassed and lost his composure. The sight told me how fatal the attack was, but there was nothing to regret..
This wasn't a real attack.
“huh?”
Joseph shouted as he looked at the dartboard that had formed on his body..
With that, I saw a black dart curve sideways and fly toward the dartboard..
“B, Black Shielder!”
Joseph panicked and deployed his shield..
The Black Dart, an improved version of the Black Javelin, could not pierce the shield and only got stuck in it, but that was enough..
“uh?”
Joseph looks at the black dart with a sense of strangeness..
As the owner of a family, he immediately recognized the cause of the heterogeneity..
“Mr. Geese····!”
Boom―――――!
The lath boom planted inside the black dart exploded..
The power itself wasn't that great, but thanks to its surprising timing, it not only shattered the Black Shielder, but also blew off one of Joseph's shoulders..
The test tube in Joseph's arms fell to the bottom and broke, and Joseph grabbed his arm and screamed for the world to go away..
“Wow! Wow! Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee――――!”
Red blood flowing on the floor and the smell of burning meat.
Joseph could not stabilize his emotions and let them fly into the air..
Oliver re-extracted those emotions and approached Joseph, but he was in a frenzy of pain and fear, screaming and crawling on the floor even as he was bleeding, and ran towards Oliver's other side..
“Fuck! Fuck!! Shii haircut-!! Do not come! Don't come!! Do not come!!!”
Oliver observed Joseph..
I was able to see persistent emotions that went beyond simple fear and pain..
It was something more than a simple need for survival, but Oliver didn't know what to call it right away..
The only thing that is certain is that the light shines more and more beautifully.
Excited. Excited. Exciting.
Oliver felt his heart beating slightly and looked for an intact test tube that had fallen on the floor..
“master. Please wait a moment, just a moment. please.”
Joseph crawled on the floor, feeling even more afraid of Oliver..
While the red blood left a trail like a snail, Oliver found an intact test tube..
“ah!”
Oliver approached with a test tube, and Joseph crawled away, muttering:.
“I···. I'll just die here····.”
At that time, I felt a strange energy from somewhere..
There is an unusual energy that can surprise even Oliver, who is soaked in anticipation, and Joseph, who is about to die..
When I turned my head, I could see the strangely and horrifying sight of corpses clumping together..
The corpses were stuck together, forming a crude shape..
Oliver instinctively sensed that this was something similar to black magic, but on a higher level..
“under··. haha···. hahahahahahahaha! also! There’s no way you’re going to leave me like this!!”
Joseph started laughing like crazy, probably forgetting that one of his arms was blown off..
Rather than being a metaphor, his appearance was that of a madman himself. Forgetting pain and fear, bursting into laughter.
Oliver saw in Joseph a sense of relief and a faith that was close to faith..
When I turned my head again, the pieces of meat tied together had a more realistic appearance.····.
“Riding a horse... old man?”
Oliver tilted his head and muttered..
The zombie's rotten flesh and skull were woven together to form a small horse, and the arms, legs, and intestines were woven together to form the shape of an old man..
In particular, the beard and hair made from internal organs looked shaggy rather than abundant..
Under normal circumstances, it would have been right to attack quickly, but Oliver instinctively realized that it was pointless..
Joseph suddenly screamed at this bizarre image..
“Please save me! An old man on a horse!! Please help me just once! Then more offerings from me! to you····!”
Did Joseph's wind reach me??
A lump of corpse, an old man on a horse, approached Oliver..
Oliver watched the scene in silence, and the old man on the horse slowly raised his hand, placed it on his chest, and bowed his head toward Oliver..
A polite greeting no matter who sees it.
Joseph, who was in even greater shock than when his arm was blown off, tried to say something, but before he could say anything, the mass of corpses collapsed and disappeared..
Guts and maggots rained down at his feet, staining Oliver's shoes and one side of Joseph's face..
Oliver asked Joseph politely:.
“master····. What was that just now??”
But Joseph seemed not to have heard what he said and only muttered in despair..
“It can't be like this... This can't be... I can't admit it...! My life...!! admit·····!!!”
Joseph is making louder noises as if he is being attacked by evil..
His emotions shone beautifully with him, and Oliver was excited and extracted them..
Although it was only a small amount, I was very happy..
As if to prove his joy, Oliver patted his owner Joseph's chest in a friendly way and said thank you..
Even though Joseph had passed away.
“Well, this or that... thank you so much. master.”
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