Genius Warlock-Episode 395
395. sister (2)
━Bong!!
The sound of bones breaking and shattering rang out, and Oliver's quarter staff cut off the mouth of the opponent hiding in the basement..
Skin torn, muscles crushed, teeth and jawbones shattered.
Well, it was natural. It was an attack that shattered a butcher knife strengthened with black magic..
However, surprisingly, the flesh cook's disciple did not die..
No, it was more than just not dying..
Even though the lower part of his face was completely collapsed, he did not fall, but clung on with his unique vitality and resilience, holding on tightly to the quarter staff with both hands..
“Hehehehe!!”
He ordered an attack through his collapsed mouth, and other warlocks wearing bast cloaks all rushed at Oliver..
[Grind)]
Oliver chanted. Then, numerous small blades sprouted from the black suit wearing the quarter staff and began to rotate..
Jiiiiiiing!!
A terrible sound pierced the ears, and the face and hands of the human meat chef who was holding on to the quarter staff were torn apart..
“······!!”
The other disciples of the man-eating human meat chef stopped at the sight, which was more shocking than expected, and Oliver lowered the quarter staff he was holding and began grinding the opponent down..
Jeeeeee!! A thumping sound accompanied by a rustling sound. Wow. Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, painting the entire basement red..
Seeing this, the disciples of the human meat chefs around him were even more frightened and took a step back, but the person who was attacked tried to regenerate his body with the unique resilience of the human meat chef faction..
Even though he was unable to overcome the accumulated damage and collapsed.
dump.
The only remaining lower body fell to the floor and wriggled, and soon, just like the disciples of the other human meat chefs I had seen in the past, it began to bubble up and collapse as helplessly as wet tissue paper..
Everything, including bones and internal organs..
This seemed to be the weakness of the human meat chef faction..
Grinding them alive.
As evidence, the other disciples of the human meat chef surrounding Oliver hesitated..
Oliver suggested to them.
“If you promise to just leave, I won't hold you back..”
An unexpected suggestion. The flesh cook's disciples were momentarily agitated..
It was literally only for a moment.
“You fools! If you fail to carry out the master's orders, you will all die anyway! If you want to live, fight!!”
A warlock holding a large French knife shouted, and his companions attacked Oliver with courage and determination based on fear..
It was said that the human meat cook treated his students harshly, and it seemed to be true..
Oliver took out a quarter staff in one hand and a dark red tree branch in the other to deal with them..
The battle wasn't as long as I thought.
***
“Oh, that's ridiculous... This level of skill is······.”
The last remaining human meat cook student muttered in a mesmerized voice as if possessed by a ghost..
Shocked and frightened, he fell to the floor, losing both arms and one leg..
He concentrated his life force and tried to recover the severed body part with the unique resilience of the human meat chef faction, but recovery was slow due to the dirty wound that looked like it had been ground in a blender, and in the meantime, Oliver threw a dark red twig and stuck it in his neck..
Wow! With a sound, the branch stuck in the opponent's neck takes root in the host without any command, producing blood, vitality, emotions, magical power, etc. Energy sucked up all the energy..
It was so ravenous that the host instantly shrunk like a mummy, and soon its body began to collapse..
“I can't have this level of skill.······.”
The last human meat chef's disciple was like a broken alarm clock, repeating the same sound over and over again until he completely collapsed. Like other human meat chefs..
The end is more vain than expected. However, regardless of that, their skills were by no means lacking. Rather, their skills were excellent..
At least, they were similar to, or better than, the disciples of the chef who was the founder of the fighter crew they fought in the past and the human meat chef who attacked the auction house..
These are the people that Oliver had a lot of trouble with in the past..
They knew that and seemed confident, but the problem was that it was literally in the past..
‘It's somehow clumsy······.’
Oliver felt uncertain..
Compared to the past, Oliver's skills have clearly improved..
Thanks to fighting powerful people such as Bathory, Sheamus, and Theodore..
And the human meat cook didn't know that either. At least Gretel met Oliver once in Lake Village..
But, this is the end. It was very awkward considering that they even used my sister's house to ambush him. There could have been a much better way..
Oliver wondered why, and then decided to stop thinking..
It didn't seem like something I could figure out by worrying about, so I decided to focus on the task at hand instead..
There was plenty to do with that alone..
Oliver first raised his head and looked at his sister and her group beyond the basement ceiling..
Fortunately, they didn't run away and just stood there. With a feeling of resignation.
There was no sign of running away, so Oliver walked over the crumbled flesh and retrieved the black branch that was on top of the pile of flesh..
This tree branch, which is straight and dark red to the point of being artificial, was made during a fight with none other than Bartholomew, an elder of the anti-development committee, and was broken off when leaving Area Z..
‘I left the rest in Zone Z as a moving gift... It's not something you should carry in the first place..’
Oliver thought of a huge dark red tree and looked at the dark red branches in his hands..
There was no change on the outside, but surprisingly, the tree branch contained considerable life force, magic power, and emotion..
In addition to the previous human meat chef disciple, I have absorbed many human meat chef disciples..
They had a deformed amount of vitality, magic, and emotions, but when they were stuck in this tree branch, all of their energy was instantly taken away and they collapsed..
‘Interesting.’
Oliver thought as he observed the dark red tree branches..
Even after absorbing a huge amount of energy, its appearance did not change at all. Rather, I craved more energy as if it wasn't enough..
That's because the absorbed energy was immediately used up..
Like Child, it is expected that significant maintenance costs will be incurred, but it seemed worth investigating..
‘First of all, it was something that Lee Wan and the anti-development committee requested, so there must be something interesting about it..’
Oliver observed the new research object and put it back in his arms..
They then stomped around the basement, which was everywhere painted with blood and flesh, and collected the loot..
The loot was the bast cloak worn by the disciples of the human meat cooks. Oliver shook off the flesh-stained cloak, folded it up, draped it over one shoulder, and piled it up one by one..
It seemed to be a black magic item that could hide not only one's presence but also one's emotions, and I was thinking of repairing it with a research and corpse doll item..
Concealment was an effective technique..
‘oh······. It's not like you guys were just playing around either..’
While Oliver was picking up the bast cloak, he saw a mechanical device placed in one corner of the basement and thought:.
The mechanical device looked familiar; it was none other than a blood elixir production facility..
Although it was an older model, inferior to the one used by Oliver..
After picking up all the bast cloaks, Oliver climbed the basement stairs to the living room on the first floor..
Step by step. Step by step. Step by step. Squeak······.
When the basement door opened, Oliver put his bast cloak aside and approached his sister and his group, making bloody footprints..
Then he stopped in front of them, took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood and flesh from their faces..
“Thank you for waiting.”
Orsho, Catherine, Andrássy, Pal and your sister... All remnants of the Bathory family remained silent..
Emotions such as tension, fear, determination, and resignation shine through..
“Can I ask you a question??”
Oliver asked, and they remained silent..
Nevertheless, Oliver didn't care and continued to open his mouth. He could have gotten a sufficient answer just from his emotional state..
“By any chance, did you bring in a human meat cook to kill me??”
“······So what are you going to do??”
My sister said. Although she seemed calm at first glance, she was showing considerable courage on the inside. The courage to risk death.
“No, I wasn't specifically asking what to do, I was just a little surprised..”
“······.”
“If I remember correctly, didn't you all come here to Landa after being attacked by the meat cook, or more specifically, Gretel, the meat cook's younger sister? To avoid their persistent pursuit and attacks..”
My sister silently agreed.
“In the process, you suffered great damage, including losing your base and your sisters. I don't know much about these matters, but aren't the meat cooks also your enemies? Bathory even fought the human meat cook longer, so in a way, he was stronger than me.-”
“-Shut up. Don't you dare speak ill of your mother.”
Although my sister was afraid, she expressed anger. Due to affection for Bathory and pride in the family that was once strong even though it was ruined..
Oliver was not offended even though his words were cut off, and nodded politely as if he understood..
After some time had passed, Oliver spoke again..
“······You broke your promise to me.”
“i know. And they said that if they break it, they will all be killed..”
Oliver nodded..
In exchange for money and a house to stay in Landa, Oliver asked for his own safety and not to cause damage to Landa, and his sister agreed. Even though he said he would kill everyone if he violated it..
But now it was violated.
The air became heavy like lead, and my sister and her sisters secretly drew blood into the air..
The Bathory family's specialty is blood magic..
He was trying to fight Oliver, but even so, his appearance was more desperate than solemn. Like a prey facing a predator.
It wasn't too much of a stretch. My sister and her group have already fought Oliver twice and lost both times. And that too with their specialty, blood magic..
They already knew better than anyone else that they couldn't win..
Oliver looked at them and opened his mouth..
“······But I don't want to hurt you. You broke your promise, but fortunately it didn't cause any harm to Landa..”
Oliver was sincere. If Landa had been harmed, the city would have intervened, but if they were targeting Oliver, all they had to do was get over Oliver..
However, my sister felt anger and resentment and gritted her teeth..
“Are you saying that we aren't even worth killing??”
“It's a misunderstanding. I apologize if my tone of voice was offensive. I just meant that I don't want to fight with you and I don't want to hurt you..”
I meant it this time too. because······.
“······Bathory, I'm sorry about what happened, but I also like you guys..”
It's good too... Everyone in my sister's group froze at the completely unexpected words. Feeling disgust, anger, and contempt.
“Are you kidding me??”
“I'm serious. As I said before, you guys are amazing. Even though we are a warlock family, you all get along well like real sisters... It's very rare..”
My sister and group had no idea how to react to Oliver's emotions, which were so far from common sense..
He was so crazy that I wished he would just pretend to be crazy..
“So it is also questionable. Did she really join hands with another enemy and risk the lives of her sisters to avenge her mother? I think this is unbecoming of you..”
“You're telling me what you know about me earlier.?”
“I know that you cherish your sisters. Because I've seen your actions and emotions. At least I don't think he's the kind of person who would put people around him in danger because of something like this... Am I doing something wrong??”
My sister was agitated by Oliver's innocent question, but eventually told the truth..
“······We didn't call it.”
“So, what happened??”
“······The meat cook found us. I don't know how we knew we were in Randa, but we used smell to find this house..”
The smell... It was a very possible story. The black magic that develops the sense of smell actually existed, and Oliver had used it once in the past when he was with Cant..
It didn't make sense if it was narrowed down to a certain range..
“And he said he would help us. So that she can avenge her mother. They told us to just help out..”
“Is that why you accepted it??”
“A little bit.”
“Can I ask what the rest of the reasons are??”
“······To live. They said if we refused, they would kill us all..”
My sister said with humiliation and resignation. She seemed to have some idea of how she felt when she accepted the offer..
Actually, I didn't even have the means to protect myself and my sisters..
“It may sound like an excuse, but weak people have no choice but to be like this..”
Sincerity.
“We are now very weakened, and we have enemies back and forth. You and the meat cook. And you can kill us whenever you want. Well, there isn't much you can do. The only way to avoid death is to be used by the enemy and kill other enemies..”
It sounded like too much for Oliver to hear. Plus, I felt a sense of déjà vu..
A similar story in the past....
Oliver shouted to himself. It wasn't just a feeling of déjà vu..
I've actually heard a similar story in the past. From the anecdote of Forrest and Cant.
Money was raised during the redevelopment boom, but one lost his family, one lost his partner and his conscience..
What Forrest said came to mind..
‘Probably because it's weak. If you are weak, you will be tempted... No, that's just an excuse. It's just because I'm an asshole.······. ’
While Oliver was thinking about that incident, his sister asked a question..
“······But even so, it is true that he broke his promise. What are you going to do with us now??”
“well.”
“I know it's shameless, but... Please, can you move on to that one??”
The other sisters tried to say something to her sister, but she raised her hand to stop them..
It wasn't a calculated action, it was sincere. she prepared to die.
“hmm······. Can I ask you something??”
“······What is it?”
“If I just let it go and let you go, what do you plan to do next? I saw the machine in the basement. A machine that makes blood elixir. Looking at that, it seems like you all have your own plan, to avoid me and the human meat cook who are your enemies.-”
“-That's impossible. never.”
A third voice intervened during the conversation between Oliver and his sister..
A charming voice with a soft mid-low tone. It was just like a radio drama actor..
Oliver reflexively turned his head toward the basement, the source of the sound..
Surprisingly, in the basement, the flesh of the disciples of the human meat chefs came together like clay, forming a huge lump of flesh with a mouth..
The moment I wondered what kind of harmony this was, my sister muttered..
“human meat chef······.”
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