Genius Warlock-Episode 346
‘Why did this happen??’
Theodore thought as he looked at the javelin stuck in his arm and the huge bean stalk that grew from the javelin..
No matter how much of a being is outside of this world, I am also a being who has met and fought against such a being several times and absorbed some of them..
But I couldn't understand why I was increasingly being put on the defensive. I wasn't letting my guard down, but I wasn't paying attention.……
‘Is it because it is an unusually rare case? … … No, it shouldn't be like this though. It can't be like this. I am just a kid like this……!!’
Theodore raised his arms, denying his situation of being pushed out by Dave, who shows endless talent and potential despite his young age..
Numerous arms grew from his arms, forming huge tentacles, and Theodore attempted to swat away the flies with one blow..
Although he broke his magic barrier with a surprising combination, in the end, that was his limit..
I was confident that if I knocked it out with one blow and ripped off the bean stalk, I would be able to win again..
The reason we were pushed back for a moment was because of Dave's unexpected move. Now that the foundation was visible, there was no longer any possibility of victory for him..
Just as I was thinking that and was about to swing my tentacled arm, Dave came forward without any defensive magic on his body and cast a black spell..
[Parasite)]
As Dave chanted, the bean stalk changed..
It wriggled like a living creature with will and sucked all kinds of energy from its body with its protruding mouth..
Regardless of Theodore's will.
Although Theodore had been given a magic to suppress pain, he experienced extreme pain, and not only that, he experienced the fear of the unknown gnawing at his body from the inside..
The body created to catch up with Merlin, to escape death, and to lead humanity through the apocalypse collapsed due to the same black magic..
But Theodore was even more shocked by what happened next..
Dave immediately absorbed his emotions, vitality, and magic that the bean stalk had stolen and attacked himself with them..
"Wow! ......gagging!"
Shock and pain, different from before, spread through my body..
‘Why this much... … . Because it’s my emotions and vitality? But this is one thing’
—Sigh!
Before he could gather his thoughts, Dave slapped himself again..
Theodore lost his cool due to the raw pain he had felt for the first time in a long time..
No, it wasn't about losing my cool. I was in fear.
Fear that you might lose, that you might die.
‘no… … . no… … . Nonsense!!’
Fear stimulated Theodore's desire for survival, and the desire for survival stimulated the genes of countless wizards, warlocks, and magic users injected into Theodore's body, causing his power to run wild..
Numerous arms sprouted from all sides of Theodore's body and fired magic indiscriminately at the surroundings..
The result of the combination of Theodore's desire for survival and the survival desire of the genes in his body..
Thanks to this, we launched a random attack without any distribution of power, but there were no major problems..
Although a significant amount of energy was lost to the bean stalk that penetrated the body, the body still contained emotions, vitality, magical power, etc. Because there was a lot of energy left.
In fact, it could be said that the situation has improved..
Thanks to that attack, Dave and the corpse dolls, who had been attacking him like mad dogs, hesitated and retreated..
As soon as an opportunity appeared, Theodore gathered all his strength into his fist and swung, hoping for victory again..
Oriental medicine that turns the tide.
At that moment Theodore saw.
Dave, who took his emotions, life force, and magic power, combined the three powers to create an artificial soul again..
He succeeded twice with both hands in tasks outside of Providence that he had not yet succeeded in even in the Magic Tower. He strengthened the black magic gloves he wore and swung the quarter staff with all his might..
The sound of the world disappeared for a moment, and Theodore's arm was torn to pieces and disappeared, along with the torn void and the lake split in half..
Only one word remained in Theodore's mind:.
death.
overwhelming and absolute death.
Death renders all human efforts and achievements in vain and ultimately turns them to dust..
A curse given to humans by God.
‘no.’
A corpse doll - thought Theodore as Bathory pierced him with a bloody stake..
‘no.’
Corpse Doll - Theodore thought as Duncan destroyed his body with the tonfa..
‘I don't like it.’
Corpse Doll - Theodore thought when Sheamus crushed his face with a fist filled with the power of nature..
'I don't like it!’
Theodore screamed inwardly as the puppet-sniper blasted a huge hole in his body with a sawed-off shotgun..
I didn't want to die.
Then, among the genes transplanted into Theodore's body through hundreds or thousands of surgeries, only those that Theodore believed were the most core flowed into Theodore's center, reaching a higher level than the previous fusions..
A fusion that goes beyond the fusion of many into one and the same fusion that has been one since the beginning..
In order to increase the size of the force, the remaining impurities absorbed were expanded outward..
Similar to removing impurities and quenching to temper iron..
Theodore leapt to a higher level at the age of over 80, experiencing the ecstasy of his youth and exploding..
Vivid pain that explodes your body alive.
However, Theodore did not lose consciousness despite this. Rather, I could feel it more clearly than before..
Although he could not exert control over his torn body, Theodore was able to move the fragments of his true body, filtered of impurities, as if the ecstasy of growth he felt earlier was not a lie..
Theodore concentrated his increasingly clear consciousness and slowly brought his true body together, and when it was almost complete, he belatedly noticed it and stabbed Dave in the back..
Just like he did with his grandson..
“I am… … . i don't die!”
Theodore, confident of victory, burst into laughter and shouted..
And then I saw the guy's face. Because I wanted to see his face filled with the embarrassment and fear I felt..
"......."
However, contrary to expectations, his expression was insensitive..
There was only a faint glow of curiosity, and no sense of embarrassment or fear at all. Like, eyes that see something one level lower than themselves..
With that, Theodore experienced again the inferiority and absurdity he had felt in the past..
When his friend Merlin beat him to become the archive.
Afterwards, he stopped conducting human experiments and saw Merlin looking at him with pity..
The archive and the wall that can never be filled.
The years passed in vain without even achieving half of the goal..
Absolute death is just around the corner.
The fate of mortals given a finite life.
The absurd and contradictory fate that will come to the human world.
The overwhelming absurdity and injustice I felt at that time felt compressed into one..
For a moment, Theodore even thought that the culprit was the being in front of him, and through intense anger and hatred, he attempted to infiltrate Dave's body with his emotions and vitality and absorb his mind and body..
Just like he did with his grandson..
I was really curious as to whether he would be able to maintain that poker face even after his consciousness was consumed..
Even beings outside the world like you eventually reveal their ugly bottom in the face of death..
In order to absorb Dave, Theodore infiltrates his inner self, delving into his memories and further accessing the essence beneath him..
In a pitch-black space with no end in sight.
The darkness was eerie, but Theodore soon realized that there was something even more creepy in the deepest part of the darkness..
It opened its eyes and looked at itself..
I opened my eyes and looked at myself..
I looked at myself as I floated..
looked at myself.
I looked.
I saw.
.......
***
"......!!"
Theodore, who had stabbed Oliver in the back, suddenly released his hand and began to scream silently..
His emotions, which had been tinged with an intense desire to survive, were quickly consumed by fear and fear, and he lost his rationality, and the vast magical power, emotions, and life force within his body separated and struggled to separate from each other, as if returning to their original form..
“Bent……!!"
Oliver looked at Theodore, who was glowing, and felt his own chest, which must have had a hole in it..
There wasn't a physical hole like when Theodore swallowed his grandson, but he still remembered the feeling from before..
Theodore attempted to infuse Oliver with high-quality, refined emotions and vitality, thereby absorbing not only his physical freedom but also his spirit..
Just as Theodore interfered with Oliver's mind, Oliver also knew because he had a glimpse into his mind..
In the process, Oliver was able to partially understand why Theodore did what he did and glimpse into some of his knowledge and memories..
As if quickly skimming through a book.
short but useful time.
The more he read Theodore's memories and knowledge, the more Oliver was sucked into his inner self, his deepest memories. Just as he was about to reach the essence beneath him, he withdrew his hand and retreated into that state..
The emotions, magic power, and vitality absorbed so far are separated, shaking, losing reason, and going crazy..
I didn't understand why it was like that. What on earth did you see?.
I wondered if it had something to do with beings outside of this world..
‘The problem is I don't know what it is…….'
Oliver thought about asking a question, but after seeing Theodore's glowing expression, he quickly decided that it would be difficult..
Since I couldn't communicate, it seemed like it would be difficult to resolve my curiosity even if I had to pull out my teeth..
More than anything, I wanted to continue observing that state..
‘That state of madness... … . Where have you seen this before? Have you heard? I think there is…….'
While Oliver was observing Theodore's abnormal condition, he noticed something unusual..
Theodore's body, which burst and then recovered, is about to be torn apart by the emotions, life force, and magic that run rampant..
Like the body of the puppet that fought in the basement under the contaminated area in the past, some chunks of flesh from Theodore's body took on a human shape and tried to come out of Theodore's body..
However, perhaps because the fusion state was long, or because only part of the gene was inserted, most of it could not escape, and even if some did escape, it simply collapsed like a lump of flesh and sank below the surface of the lake..
Then Oliver could see a familiar figure trying to get out..
Theodore's grandson, Carl, who was fused together before Oliver's eyes..
Like his grandfather, he lost his senses and instinctively struggled to get out of Theodore's body..
“Ouch… … consideration… … Save me……!!”
The corpse dolls, who had already returned to their original places, announced their intention to attack, but Oliver thought for a moment, raised his hand to stop them, and approached Theodore alone..
He then activated Ptah's Assistant, a mechanical arm created with magical power, around Theodore, put similar gloves on his hands, and attempted surgery on the joint between Theodore and the sword..
Using the knowledge I learned from Theodore earlier,.
Because it was the first time doing this, the method was somewhat rough, but numerous mechanical arms moved with precision to gradually separate Theodore and Carl's bodies, which were tangled like lumps of flour. Eventually, although it wasn't perfect, I was able to separate the two..
The dolls all tilted their heads as if they couldn't understand Oliver's unknown behavior..
It wasn't just the corpse doll that didn't understand..
“Why did you save me??”
Oliver turned his head towards the direction of the sound. There was Gretel floating in the air using magic power..
“I'm going to hit you... … . There's something I want to say.”
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